How Deep is The Black Hole?

Shane in a Black Hole

G'day Possums,

it's been a couple of weeks of depressing news as we here on Oz are forced to contemplate the policy bereft Ruling Rabble not only stumbling their inept way through the minefield they laid out in expectation of a Labor electoral victory but increasingly doing their faltering best in trashing "Brand Australia" to a saner world's eyes.... the pics this week give architectural equivalence to the prevailing Oz "Kultur" found on a trip to the Fleurieu Peninsular in South Aussie but the landscapes provide what passes for hope for a future.

 Back home from giving another horsy picture book to Betty Windsor and for all the world looking like an over excited bogan school-boy as he did it, the Liar from the Shire, Prime Miniature Happy-Clapper Scummo, Hypocrite in Chief, has had to face up to some unpalatable facts other than his partner's dress sense..

Hindmarsh Island

The Economy which he touted during the election campaign as being strong, stable and growing is doing the opposite and sliding inexorably into recession.

Unemployment is rising in place of "jobs, jobs, jobs". Even with the overly generous at 5.4% stats on which the Ruling Rabble rely some analysts place the figure more realistically at double 10.5%....and the further cutting of penalty rates for 800,000 low paid workers whilst giving yourself a 2% pay increase will surely alleviate the floundering retail sector... wont it?

Carbon emission targets which he said  would ".....be met in a canter..." have also gone in the other direction leaving his irrelevant Energy Minister Angsty Taylor with not only Egg on his face but more problems with his $80,000,000.00 worth of non-existent water and to answer the question...just who besides besties banks in the Cayman's?

Hindmarsh Island 

Providing a possible solution to the water problems was failed real estate entrepreneur and current contemporary manifestation of an Australian Environment minister, Suss Ley who spouted that "...farmers could borrow water from the drought ravaged and cotton drained Murray/Darling River as they need it, as the river and its slowly asphyxiating fish, don't!

How said farmers are to repay on the borrowing was not explained as it was rumoured that Suss was too busy checking mortage rates.

 

Hindmarsh Island

HMAS Perth was not the only one not there to greet three Chinese warships on their milk run into Sydney recently.  It has been dry-docked for two years after an extensive re-fit. Good sailors it seems are awfully hard to impress these days.

The responsible minister at the time, the Pugnacious Payne is now off with foreign affairs and the current excuse for defence minister  Lazy Lindy Reynolds, like most Ruling Rabble apparatchiks when faced with their own incompetence, was "unavailable for comment."

The Chinese, on the other hand, said,  "Ta, for the milk".... and that it was just co-incidental that they arrived unannounced on the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massacre.... which never happened!

 

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It is assumed that Mickey The Prince, Pezzullo made the Ruling Rabble's enforcement gang, The Australian Federal Police, an offer they couldn't refuse. So they dropped their investigation into who was named Potato-Head and leaked classified info to the press in order to advantage the Ruling Rabble's electoral chances. Instead, they turned their kinky attentions for seven hours to Ugly American journo Annika Smethurst's home and undies drawer looking for exposed secrets and then to the ABC's Sydney offices. with  a warrant which ominously allowed them to "copy, change, delete or alter" any material they sequestered.

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Having not smashed their way in I suppose we can't call it the AFP's  "Kristallnacht" but as the economy falters and the police state grows, an episode like that is probably not too far off.

ABC's Chair, Ita Buttonhole said, "I will fight ..on the beaches...any attempts to muzzle the national broadcaster or interfere with its obligations to the Australian public. Independence is not exercised by degrees. It is absolute." And promptly announced she was going to chat with the other media media players...all two of them, to see what apart from their detestation of the ABC and like the IPA wanting its demise, they had in common.

Feeling safe that the AFP were looking the other way, The Harpy, Cash re-emerged from behind her whiteboard to dementedly squawk, "Jobs mean A.D.A.N.I, Jobs mean A.D.A.N.I.. " a few time before scurrying back to her hairdresser.

And then to show what a united nation we really are, everyone, but everyone spent the week piling into unionist John Setka who allegedly (he denies it)  made heretical comments about the saintly Rosie Batty to add to his list of misdemeanors.

Unfortunately for the mob, Setka is made of sterner stuff than say Sam Dastyari or Emma Husar and is refusing to wilt (as yet) and provide another trophy for the Ruling Rabble's games room.

Hoo-roo Petals,

Shane.

PS ....It must be Time to March on Canberra, mustn't it?

 

Gulf of St Vincent.