With Galahs,
Ning-Nongs and the Fascist Poltroons all running amok it might be time to gird
for the forthcoming havoc.
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| Shane at John Curtin Hotel |
G’day, you three…
Been for a bit of a wander around the town... and today it's all Wombat Droppings (or the chronicle of a once Egalitarian nation sliding inexorably into Fascism).
We’ve
had the G20….. all $500,000,000.00 of
it.
Obama
and Chinese leader Xi Jinping spiked “Rabid the-Hun’s,” We-will-not-mention-the-Weather”
cannon by announcing a climate change deal and Australia announcing that that
our territorial sovereignty is up for sale particularly for Chinese
workers.
Andrew “Reboxetine” Robb, Minister for Trading Off the
Nation, denied that paying Chinese wages to Australians was also part of the
deal and that Chinese investment in industry probably would not override O H and S, and
environmental standards. “Look how we are caring for the Barrier Reef “ he
said, “Besides you can’t make Popiah and not break eggs….I think.”
Rabid–the-Hun then enthralled the assembled 36 of the G20
(gate-crashers?) by bemoaning just how recalcitrant we all were in not wanting
to fund private medical research out of our own pockets, or wanting to retire
at 95, or not turning the ABC into another Media psychological Basket Case like
Foxtel or let his Pretend Education Minister Chwissie “The Whyne and
Perfect-Prat-of-a-Prefect” Pyne charge $100,000.00 for a degree in
barista-ology.
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| Busker with Sulphur-Crested Cockatoo |
Which shows about as much sense as this picture....
How do you get a Busking Licence to have a bird spread it's wings?
I mean, that's all it did.
The mural is by Mirka Mora: born in France she arrived in Australia as a young woman and the French Romanesque influence is very apparent in her work.
Lordy... if this government were a horse you'd
have to put it down.... but at least “Rabid-the-Hun” came close for the first
time, to admitting to the "free-market" agenda they never want to
discuss publicly...and was forestalled in repeating that ”…. Climate-Change is
crap.”
"The Ugly
American," Murdoch and his minions,
“The-Coots-With-Queer-Ideas-From-a-Parallel-Universe” at the IPA must be
apoplectic at his incompetence in "selling" their message and
instead, exposing it to the full glare of public ridicule for the selfish anti-social
medievalism it is. They even went to the ludicrous extent of allowing Rabid's business advisor and trenchant climate-change denier Maurice "Addled" Newman to quote some wacky American Senator called Inhofe who thinks that the bible refutes climate change.... all together now: Place finger on lips, wobble up and down quickly and blow!
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| John Curtin |
This is John Curtin a Labor Prime Minister who led Australia through WW2.
He took over from the founder of the present day Liarbril Party, R.G.Menzies, one of whose claims to fame were his nick-names: "Pig-Iron-Bob" and "Ming."
The first was because as PM he was trading Iron to the Japanese at the beginning of WW2. Which apocryphal legend has it came back to us as bullets and shells! The second was based on the Flash Gordon Cartoon character "Ming-the Merciless."
See the similarity with the present Liarbril rabble?
Curtin was born just up the paddock from the Wombat's burrow.
Two
mares from “The Ugly American’s” stables, Janet Albrechtson and Amanda Devine
were showing an unusual lack of confidence in their ability to stir an audience
by refusing to be panellists on Q and A. which was a pity. Granted, it may only inspire people to
throwing rotten eggs, tomatoes, cow-pats and such like but it still is a
genuine response. Perhaps if these women could only come across as
intelligently civilised as Ms Wong or Ms Plibersek do and of whom, they
feel they can’t compete, things might be different. But then, spitting
vitriol from the Murdoch Bunkers and paddling in the bile of those who share
their one-dimensional view of the world like
Andrew ”Blot-on-the-Landscape” Bolt is far safer.
In their opinion anything
other than their view is “left,” and wrong. And like “The-Coots-With-Queer-Ideas-From-a-Parallel-Universe”
at the IPA who falsely espouse free-speech and libertarian views; speech is
only free when it agrees with them. Everything else is biased … and bias is
wrong unless it’s their bias. These Neanderthal thinkers from the IPA have yet
to discover the value of a pluralist society.
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| Memorial to a notion that is sooooo C19th. |
Although pluralism and fairness is what
Senators Jackie “Bogan” Lambie and Ricky “Diff” Muir have been practising.
With other cross bench Senators they voted
to repeal legislation thought up by the partially disgraced Arfur ”Da Spiv”
Sinodinas and Matty “Atwerp-Horse-Shite” Coormann.
It was bad legislation made for corrupt
people but at least there are some in Parliament who are thinking of “The
People!”
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| People assisting refugee kids in Oz Concentration Camps |
This is another interesting read
as the ABC’s budget is being cut to ribbons and comes under quite furious
attack from many sides for being impartial and pluralist thinking.
One of the funniest criticisms was
one bloke on radio bemoaning how the ABC wasn’t “…lateral thinking enough” and
…“we should all listen to Macca!”
For you three overseas readers, Macca is a
quite Right–Wing Bumpkin who travels by phone to rural areas to let them vent
their hatred of anything smelling vaguely socialist.
Except of course for Farm subsidies, Fuel
Subsidies, and other agrarian socialisms. I’m not sure the caller had any real
idea of what lateral thinking really means… perhaps he could ring Foxtel or" Le Jongleur" Roskam and ask them for a definition.
"Le Jongleur" doesn't think the Government should fund the ABC as not all use its considerable services. But when a caller suggested reimbursement for the "Tax" he pays in advertising fees on the products he buys which fund commercial stations he doesn't use ... "Le Jongleur" went a bit quiet for once.
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| David Wilson Sculptures |
These are sculpture by David Wilson in the grounds of the old Melbourne Jail. (DW was my tutor at Art School)
His "Romantic Brut"works look rather good in this setting.
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| Bar, Curtin Hotel |
And this is the bar at the John Curtin Hotel, now known as just "The Curtin" and not really a place for Unionists from Trades Hall, opposite, any more but a live music venue...
Hoo-Roo Possums,
Shane.
PS, before we go one more graphic to put our conservative, right-wing government in its real perspective...
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