A State of Disease.

 

G'day all...eerrrr....you two,

Alpha and Omega

it's been a while between drinks.... the year opened with the nation in crisis and at closing, is as started but with the crisis deepened, ‘though it's re-assuring to know that one thing has been constant... our Pentecostal excuse for a Prime Minister, Scummo of Bunning's Marketing is again, nowhere to be seen during the crisis.

But more of that later.

 Being in a regional area the lockdown was not as harsh as it was in the Met. areas and we had limited travel. Patience was in the mood of things and people were more accommodating… the roads were nearly vacant , masks were awkward and uncomfortable but I could remove it regularly, not like many workers who were sentenced to hourly use.

Life was quieter and I began to enjoy the clearer bluer skies as I turned away from what I had been doing as global Covid had limited certain areas of work.

So it was on with the boat.. which I can happily report was well received and has led to other projects….and onto 

The Cruiser...

The Steam boat …. around 1200mm Tassie Oak planked hull, Aussie Cedar planked deck and brass and copper fittings... radio controlled ..should make smoke, too.....for my shelf.

Steam Launch 1889

The Pedal Car …. for the grand,, Madeleine.  Lights, rack and pinion steering, chain drive, disk brakes and speedo plus windscreen... aluminium body, steel and wood chassis...in the process of assembling the bits....

Moke...

and the Fokker DXX1…20CC engine  ply with some aluminium, 2.5 m wingspan.. hopefully telescopic undercarraige will provide suspension, canopy will slide and intruments operate... just need a pilot small enough to read them....

which, now that the en-suite has been renovated (that took a bloody sight longer than I anticipated) and the studio re-jigged and organised, well nearly organised.. I can get on with it.. whilst keeping an eye on this corrupt and incompetent ruling rabble which is inflicting so much damage on the country.

The Covid lockdown of Victoria (or Hookturnistan under our "Dear Leader", Dan-the-Man) produced some really hilarious moments: as when Wine student turned Murdocratic feral, Rachel the Blatherer had Dan Andrews explain the nature of "intimate" relations in answer to another of her asinine questions during his 100 days of continued press conferences…. Or other journalists laughing at the pretensions of Peta, Drink-Driver, Credlin the Credulous in her quest to “get” Dan.

 Content (on the surface) to let the bile coming at him from all sides wash around him Andrews gained much support from the public through awful times by being there and answering all that was put to him and being responsible. A demeanour not lost on his critics particularly when Covid was effectively suppressed with no cases for 60 odd days due to the strictures put in place and much to the rabid anger of the right-wing shills who had been braying that that couldn't be done.

 One of the saddest things to see was how the Vic. ABC has been bastardised into a bilious opinion service not a news one with Dicky the Wanker Willingham leading the chorus with anti labor diatribes whenever he opens his mouth. But why so very quiet on ex police commissioner (and Liberal member) Ashton who didn't want Vicpol involved in hotel quarantine or Scummo who suggested the firms involved?

 Congruent to this, the beatification of Gladys the Gormless was taking place in NSW. The premier had according to Scummo of Bunning's Marketing, (making one of his rare appearances after surfacing from under a pew at 7 Stapleton Ave.) made her State the "gold standard" for all things Covid....which was in contrast to her putrid performance in lying to ICAC, her cosy-ing up (Rachel Blatherer now knows what Dan means) to a disgraced colleague and funding his errant ways, rorting the public purse, mismanaging infrastructure deals, holding pressers only with selected Murdocratic propagandists and running away when things get a bit hairy. She's given herself away about the depths of her ideologically driven premiership. Her "pressers" are a wonderful example of how not to run anything.... but she's a "shoe-in" to best Jacinda Adern in the popularity stakes... according the what used to be a reliable newspaper but now just a tripe-fest of Ruling Rabble talking points owned by 9.

 As with most of Scummo of Bunning's Marketing announcements spin preceded reality and Covid's taken off again mostly due to Gladys the Gormless no doubt taking advice from Scummo who is probably only looking forward to the "Rapture" not the welfare of the nation.

Needless to say the same vituperative questioning which greeted Andrew's every presser was not to be seen....Gladys can make a real shambles of her "gold standard", she can make medically wrong statements, give conflicting and confusing advice, contradict her own CHO (whose a very tame Pussy) and the attendees I cannot say journalists, say nothing.

This resurgence of the virus has because of the incompetence in NSW, all the hallmarks of being even bigger than Vic's nasty episode. I'm sure Peta the Credulous, the Drink Driving One will be there to find the answers for her devoted ....follower.

Such a year: The Priapic Tudge, “I am honoured to be appointed as the Minister for Education and Youth in the Second Morrison Ministry.” The swearing-in ceremony was virtual – a fitting end to 2020. Ooohhh.. thinking of all those svelte first-year-out graduate teaching gels.. ?...Phoaaaooooaaaah!

Virtually every system failure can be sheeted back to privatisation. Aged care, employment services, NDIS, vocational education, hotel quarantine, refugee detention, MDBP, electricity generation, ports, private health, private schools, banking & finance...the list is endless.

The private operator set to take over Adelaide's train network in January will not have enough staff to operate a full service, and will rely on taxpayers’ money to fill the shortfall.

Cyber bullies and online trolls could be slapped with huge fines of up to $110,000 under world-first laws to be introduced by the Federal Government.

The Online Safety Bill will make it illegal to post “seriously harmful content” on websites and social media, such as death threats, revenge porn and comments that intentionally “menace, harass or offend’. … which may make it hard for The Ugly American’s rags to feature their very offensive front pages during elections….

Given the chance to find “a new way” because of Covid, the Ruling Rabble / IPA / Hellsong cabal have instead “doubled-down” on their regressive and anti-social neo-fascism.

It will be an interesting year because they have set and are continuing to set agendas which will blow this country to bits… they have blown up trade with China, blown away tertiary and secondary (state) education, gutted and cowed the only once independent news service, mangled MediCare. They have shown criminal cupidity in financial matters and now are widely seen as the most corrupt federal government in Oz history.. they will reap what they sow… it’s not the rapture they will face.

Hoo-roo you two,

Shane.

The Miasma of Scummo of Marketing and an Escape Method.

Shane escaping...

G'day Possums,

Geez, a month is a longer time in politics with a virus insidiously lurking, so this little missive is in two parts. 

Part A: How Covid-19 fulsomely exposed Australia's real character

and     

Part B: How I decided to escape reality.

Part A: Exposed to Sickness. 

Labor won it's by-election and the Nasty Party Ruling Rabbler who lost took over a week to concede she had... which was better than Scummo of Marketing who,  par for the course for narcissistic and unimaginative mediocrities and never one to miss an opportunity to be banal.....  said nothing at all.

Daniel Dan-the-Man, Andrews, Vic. labor Premier was gaining much kudos for his demeanor and his handling of the virus. 

This was far too much for the bitchy school-boys of the Ruling Rabble opposition. One, who in an effort to replace his non-entity of a leader, backbencher and complete twat, Timmy The Dim, Smith started a campaign calling for the virus lockdown to be lifted by "Dictator Dan" and protested vociferously for ignoring what discipline was being asked for. 

This interference was also picked up by our Happy-Clapping, Liar from the Shire Prime Miniature, Scummo of Marketing who busied himself castigating not only Vic but both Queensland and West Australian premiers (both labor) for keeping their borders closed to limit infection spread whilst hypocritically ignoring Tasmania and South Australia (both Ruling Rabble) who were doing exactly the same. 

Fanning the flames, the Murdochracy of the Ugly American (70% of Oz's press and of which other media is 90% right-wing) went into overdrive when word started to filter out that allegedly, the private security guards contracted to supervise people quarantined in hotels were less than assiduous in their duties.

Andrews immediately called for and set up an inquiry.

But the Genie, c/o the said, ill trained and ill disciplined private security was out of the bottle and the virus took off.

Now, the Murdochracy and Dim Timmy and others of similar small mind were in full flight and having a field day.

Why did Dan open up so early (?) they hypocritically breast beat. How hopeless is Dan, they ranted and even the so-called balanced,non partisan ABC began heading its news promos with "the chaos/ catastrophe/ shambles spreading in Vic, with Weasel Willingham in the forefront with snide comment and opinion.."Is Dan's Brand Damaged" and other irrelevant nonsense. 

One AFR shill, who  used to be a decent journalist opined I suppose facetitiously, that the Murochracy "...had given Dan a "fair go"..."

Of course, Andrews was criticised for using private security which was very funny coming from the bastions of "free-enterprise-can-always-do-it-better" cabal and then the "Masks in Public are Mandatory" promulgation brought out the most asinine comments, muddying of waters and creating confusion where none really existed.

The right-wing is this country is quite feral in its lust for destruction.

What really transpires is that capitalism doesn't function in a crisis like a pandemic. 

Actually, it doesn't function socially at all. 

People scared of losing pay or their job by not turning up for work will attend with the virus... people are irresponsible, ignoring medical advice to stay home after testing positive......hello Dim-Tim.... your message it seems, got through. 

People were giving false addresses so tracing cannot work effectively....... and with a phone- app that's an expensive tracing dud (but profitable for certain Ruling Rabblers), hands-on is time and manpower consuming.

 Anti-vaxxers like that stupidly selfish woman who laughed as she bluffed her way through a check point...idiot chefs with spurious claims and body builders offering medical and legal advice...all aided and abetted by "social-media":....it goes without saying that supermarket shelves began to be stripped again...

Then we come to Scummo of Marketing's response...huge, huge spending...after waving his scarf around at the footy like a loony bogan...and with a only the merest hint of a slightly embarrassed look (as they have no shame at all) when their constant 10 year carping criticism of Labor's fiscal management in saving the country during the GFC is shown to have been as totally false as it always was... They are liars of the first order.

 

But they are using this crisis to get what their IPA managers have always wanted: Kill the ABC, CSIRO, Superannuation, wages and conditions, public education and the environment and unionism.

Head accountant, Fiction's Frydenberg says he will follow his path to do that .. that of Thatcher and Reagan's discredited, 40 years old trickle-down economics instead of finding a new way.

Which only proves that ideology really does precludes talent and imagination.

It's not Covid -19 which is the terminal virus, Petals... it's the mindset and actions of the Liberal Party... The Ruling Rabble!

Part: B  The Escape.

For JS .....and other's like mine of Boy's-Own mind.

Congruity is charming. 

Not long ago I was checking the finesse of the cut of a new bench-saw blade and tested it on some 4mm strapping of Tassie Oak... hmmm.... very nice were the 10mm strips made. 

Some 18 months before, Mrs Wombat and I became grand for the first time to our No#1daughter and whilst Mrs W has been busy sewing, knitting and being practical I indulged in a making a wooden cattle truck and trailer to put dinosaurs dogs and sheep in, designed and started a scaled down version of a Mini-Moke as pedal car and resurrecting a yacht hull I fashioned many many years ago as a pond yacht but never finished. 

The grand is a gel btw!

Around the time of the saw blade test Mrs Wombat and I were down by the sea in Queenscliff and wandered into a bric-a-brac / antique / second-hand / junk shop and down the recesses of the rear came across a flotilla of second hand boats.... amongst which was a 4-500mm long wooden cabin cruiser... hand made, poorish condition, probably a 60's production looking at the hull design but attractive enough as a by-the-sea, holiday-house mantlepiece object-of-interest and frightfully over priced.

Hmm.. that's interesting... gee, those Tassie Oak strips were nice. Hmmmm.

Serendipity.  

No 2 daughter likes retro fashion... No2  might be feeling a tad left-out  hmmm.. "Stephens" circa 1920's -30's wooden planked hull.. got it!

Searched the web and this attracted....

searched further... and "Compadre"  was the model to be the basis of a first time scratch build...  and the blog was not only entertaing but informative for detail and proportions... so thank you ....   

http://compadreclassic.blogspot.com/2018/02/ 

 I haven't contacted the owners as the blog has been dormant for a couple of years but hope they are not embarrassed or insulted by my antipodean mimicry.

Transposed the design, modified its shape a tad then started on the formers in ply, 'cause that's what I had. This was to be not a "scale" model... with what all that implies.

beginnings....

Then came the making of the strips of Tassie Oak.. for the reader other than a "Skip," Tassie Oak is not really an Oak but a Eucalypt hardwood  durable and good for a wide range of uses. I bought 2.400 x30mm x4mm strapping and cut it into 1200mm x 10 mm strips for the hull. Steamed it... that was fun... and pinned and glued it on.

Cabin is in ply but you can see stains from the clamps in the wood which scotched the idea of having a varnished hull. 

Lessons learned: be more careful in checking hull former proportions, pre wet wood before steaming as it's Kiln dried, be more assisduous in placing formers & shape/contouring edges for planking.

First float... sits well, no leaks and looks pretty.

There's no radio gear or motor in at this stage  just a bag of stones replicating their weight.

and

So it's nearly done, most of the gear has arrived,  tender on deck is clinker-built.. (Ta for the books Tony..) there are a few little things to do but the big lesson is in the planning ...like discovering that "Compadre" had twin screws & rudders... hmmm.  So with one motor I had to devise a geared system and work around what had already been built.

Deck is planked Tassie Oak, too. Trim on edges, Red-Gum and Australian Cedar around top edges of cabin.

Now, to find a suitable pond.

Which has engendered an interest in these acqua things... soooo... next one... will be a C1890 Windermere Lakes Steamboat, "Bat" is the model for this exercise. Scratch build plans are being drawn up as I write with much more foresight as to where things go where and what it does....also there's a 25cc brush cutter engine crying out to be either a Polikarpov I-16 or a Fokker D-XX1, the only fuselages that will fit it at a reasonable wing span and be a looker. ...'cause it's really all about the aesthetics isn't it?

And its the lack of aesthetice which make the Ruling Rabble so intolerable... they are uniformly BOGAN!

So this is the escape.

Cheers Petals,

Shane.

Ooh..Look Over There!

G'day Petals...

it's been quite a while between drinks... and watching the abyss we're falling into with Scummo of Marketing and his corrupt Ruling Rabble with their destruction of education, ABC, CSIRO, the judiciary ...any form integrity, responsibility or convention is depressing beyond belief.

And now with a bye-election due next week which looks like favouring Labor, there is not only the obligatory interference from the electoral commission over signage (which was deemed suitable for the Ruling Rabble but not Labor), spurious emails of false information about the Labor candidate but the creme de la creme, an ASIO and AFP raid on a Labor state parliamentarian!

This is blatant fascism!

so Petals...it's all too much....

 I'll go and get another one.

 

Hoo-roo 

Shane.

Watching the Demise of The Lucky Country

G'day Possums,

just when you thought our corrupt Ruling Rabble couldn't get any worse along sputters Covid-19  to show once again just how incompetent they are and their whole raison d'etre is, in practice.

Running out of medical gear like masks and testing kits because we now manufacture very little, and our chief medical research body the CSIRO has been financially gutted to keep Our Biggest Miner, Gina's and The Ugly American, Murdoch's play-thing The IPA happy in evolving an uncivil society, The Ruling Rabble are now concerned that the public hospital system will not cope with the numbers of sick being anticipated. Of course this has nothing to do with the fact that since their ascension in 2013 the public system has been relentlessly drained of funds and the slow dismantling of Medi-Care by increasing "on-costs" to "out-of-pocket" expenses for patients is causing people to avoid seeking attention as they cannot afford it and viola.. not getting tested.

Now, dilly-dallying over whether to allow students to stay in school and after calling for no public gatherings of more than 100 people, Prime Miniature Scummo, the Happy-Clapper from Marketing attended one of his Plastic Religious Concerts of some 3000..... Oh, hang on... that was the day BEFORE this particular dictum came into effect and the school students, well they might as well stay in school, as this Rabble have managed to mangle the broadband network so badly that it ranks 65th(?) in the world now (down from 4th) and would probably collapse if they all went home to use it together, if they could get on it. But the private schools, particularly the Catlics are giving him a single finger salute on that one as the parents of the Pricilla's and Bamber's are  keeping  their darlings safely ensconced in their middle class bubbles.

Home Grown

Once upon a time,  a very good Prime Minister, Paul Keating, said that governments can alter society and how it operates.

Well, for the past 30 years the relentless proselytising by the Ruling Rabble and its IPA propaganda wing that the aspirations of the individual are paramount has finally created its malignant actuality.

Hundreds of people stripping supermarket shelves bare, panic-buying multiples of white-goods, meat, canned and packet foods with altercations breaking out and in one instance, a stabbing occurring. Bus-loads of people vulture-like, descending on regional towns 100 km from their homes to do the same there, literally saying to those in the regions, "Fuck you Jack, I'm ok!"

We witnessed some of this locally, so went home and picked home-grown.

Scummo has the hypocrisy to then, like a school master say, "Stop it, just stop it, It's un-Australian." But as he was responsible for sports-rorting $300,000,000.00 of taxpayer monies to buy an election 12 months ago...... and since 2013 the selfish overspending, rorting of entitlements and travel allowances from this parliamentary Rabble has been nothing short of appalling in its unethical behaviour: so it's a complete farce that the scribbling minions from the Murdochracy praise his "straight talk" from one presser!.

But then, what other action can you expect from a population supinely fed the rightwing Murdochracy's  mantra that "socialism-bad capitalism-good" and also understanding that the law only applies to them and not those in power?

Since 2013 we have been witnessing the dismantling of a civil society and this week, the first large cracks appeared and chunks fell off... the IPA must be so pleased with their handiwork.

Hoo-roo, Petals,

are we just to sit back and watch this country's demise?

Shane

How did we get into this Shit?

Shane Hoarding

G'day fellow serfs,

There's an irony of monumental proportions in the alleged Chinese aphorism: "May you live in interesting times".

The  Australian economy, perilously entwined in China's grip has now been presented with their latest innovation, the Covid19 pandemic and its corollary, the shutting down of supply lines, disruption of  commerce and reduction both populations and pollution in a most direct manner: death!

This has thrown up some interesting Antipodean behaviour; behaviour which hasn't been seen here for a long, long time.

People have been panic buying toilet paper and paper-towel rolls, some, thousands of rolls of it, leaving bare shelves and little to nothing for those who have immediate needs and can ill afford even single packs.

Hospitals, both public and private are being pilfered of bottles of alcohol hand sanitizer from hallways and wards:  visitors are stealing material meant for staff hygiene and patient safety, and these ill-disciplined, mongrel acts are now accurately defining, in depth, what we really are as a nation. 

 How did we get into this shit?

 

A visitor

Think: ex-Liberal Party candidate removed for racist comments, Pauline Hanson.

Think: Liberal Leader Little Johnny Howard refusing to criticize her after she won her seat as an independent.

Think: Channel Nine promoting the misogynist, racist and brutish Sam Newman to an audience of the lowest common denominator in "The Footy Show" and giving it voice.

Think: Little Johnny, again,piggy-backing on Hanson's racism, refusing refugee entry from MV Tampa and Peter Reith policizing the Navy and lying about "refugees throwing their children overboard".

Think: Pacific Solution" devised by The Butcher of Fallujah, now Senator, Molan.

and think too: it was all eventually acquiesced to by Labor!

Think of the union-bashing, the increase in a police state, the dismantling of Medi-Care, (people are not getting tested for the Corona Virus as they cannot afford the out-of-pocket costs) think of the growing inequality of the education system, the gutting not only of the ABC and CSIRO but the stackings of the AAT and Fair Work with Ruling Rabble apparatchiks.

Think: of The Institute of Public Affairs and its 100 Point Plan, much of which has been at least, partially implemented.

Think: Capitalism, Dog-Eat-Dog, and a return to a feudal state.

We have the most incompetent and corrupt government the country has ever seen and a Murdochratized media who will not report the truth plainly before them, journalists just being a vehicle with which to have Ruling Rabble talking points repeated and not questioned.

A Federal Police Force which itself is lead by a corrupted officer whose only role it seems, is to do Ruling Rabble bidding.

We've seen and heard their gross incompetence during the Bushfires. We know they still pathetically deny the reality of Climate Change and we are now experiencing their confusion and incompetence all over with this Corona Virus and yet are still allowed to refuse to answer for what they have done and are doing even though we are now fully aware of their fiscal mismangement and corruption. 

 

Excellent camoflauge.

Trust has evaporated with the rise of the aspirational bogan, a species well nurtured by the Ruling Rabble but who now are demonstrating where the selfishness of libertarian policy leads.

With wage theft ignored, poverty increasing, and systems breaking under relentless right-wing, neo-liberal pressure, a perfect storm is about to descend on this country.

We have just seen the first manifestations of a broken society and  have no-one else to thank for it but The Ugly American, Murdoch, the Liberal and National Parties and of course the IPA or, as I prefer to collectively call them, The Ruling Rabble.....it's the first wave of the tsunasmi about to break over us

Hoo-roo, peasants,

Shane

 PS something nice and something I'm quite proud of having produced.

https://au.blurb.com/bookstore/invited/8592587/0515d4fc915b318bd1ee8f2a48dbc76a11a3133f?fbclid=IwAR1ehPOkkdSJ4pr7nN-J30cJ3LKggphJovEOtUDWt8zLW0mSoP0SVvPrdJM

The Raping of Australia

G'day Petals,

It’s been a while since posting. Renovations in the burrow being one excuse although again, the real truth is that it’s depressingly difficult to keep repeating a constant mantra detailing the incompetence, malfeasance, cupidity and abject corruption of The-Liar-From-the-Shire, The Happy-Clapper-Prime Miniature Scummo from Marketing and his criminal cabal of the Ruling Rabble who continue debasing the nation.

But with weekly gaffes, revelations, leaks and stumbles it would be remiss of me not to chronicle just how the country continues to be violated by these mongrels.

Fresh on the heels of his disastrous empathy lacking displays during the bushfires (still ongoing, despite current torrential rains and flooding) and his overtly bullying demeanour came the double whammy’s of Barnyard and the Joycettes getting their band back together by trying to upstage Deputy PM, What’s-’is-Name for the main gig and an enquiry from the outgoing independent member for Indi Kathy McGowan to the Audit Office as to why Fishnets-that-Batter’s daughter, the hapless Gorgon Downer of-the-IPA was, as an aspirant candidate, handing out thousands of dollars of taxpayers money in novelty cheques to sporting clubs with no parliamentary member present?

And hasn’t the Auditor General’s report “stirred the Possum,” eh?

But firstly, Barnyard and the Joycettes.

Mummy’s Boy, Canavan and Ploddy O’Brien decided that preferring the noise Barnyard made was stridently better than the muffled mouthings of What’s-’is-Name so formed their own trio and made a failed audition attempt to wrest the main gig from him. Failing, Barnyard then lurchingly and leeringly fronted cameras to warn What’s-is-Name that he was loyal but dangerous and What’s-’is-name responded by wishing Mummy’s Boy, Canavan a good rehearsal and giving his job to Pitts...where it has duly gone ...and saying too, what no-one believed; that he was in full control of his rump of a group.

Concurrent with this fracas of rural non-entity, ego bashing came news that under pressure, Annie Oakley McKenzie was forced to jump under the bus driven by Scummo from Marketing for her “non-illegal, eligible” spending of hundreds of Millions of public money to not aid the “miraculous” election result and that the Federal Police, admitting that An-us Taylor was too canny for them dropped investigation of a forged document emanating from his office in order to advantage his wife in Sydney’s council elections because it would

A/ take too much time….

B/ too many resources and

C/ It hadn’t caused much harm!

But they added, research into The Murdochracy’s Annika Smethurst’s undie’s drawer and the ABC’c journo’s is ongoing after 18 months…

Of course we will not see the Feds investigating the rorting of nearly $500,000,000 of public money for Ruling Rabble election bribes, will we?

We will not see any serious queries from the MSM as to why $4,000,000,000 is to be given for a “study” for a new coal fired-power station which will never be built or why another $12,000,000,000 is being given to Ruling Rabble donors to shore up their ageing power station either?

Scummo from Marketing has lied to Parliament as have his criminal henchmen but there will be no resignations. They have not the honour for that, they have a lust for power and control which overrides any semblance of decency.

As a nation we need to grow up. For too long we have acquiesced to this born-to-rule bullshit and blithely ignored all that is good being trashed, debased and besmirched by what has fast become a fascist regime.

The Ruling Rabble are at their most vulnerable assailed now on every side as incompetent, criminally negligent environmentally and fiscally repulsive.

It’s Time…..to knock their collective head off.

If we don’t then worse is to come.

We need to reclaim what Australia once was.

Hoo-roo, Possums

Shane

PS pics are from Clunes W Central Vic. And Greendale in fog….

Comes the Moment.....

G'day Petals,

as the bushfire crisis engulfs the nation, possibly wiping out entire flora and fauna species in its constant  expansion, one other thing has become all too apparent:  the abysmal lack of leadership from all members of the Ruling Rabble, particularly from the Happy-Clapping-Liar-from-Hillsong, Prime Miniature Scummo from Marketing.

".... Australians must always come first", he once said. He was "...not going to sign up to destroy our economy because of the extreme views of some..." Look around you Scummo....and repeat that hollow phrase, now.

Your and your Rabble's lack of preparedness and complete pig-ignorance in not accepting the scientific reality of climate change may not have created but have certainly exacerbated this destruction.

An ecological and economic disaster which will take years if ever, to rectify; a disaster accurately forecast by the Garnaut report 12 years ago which is presently being estimated as $3.5 Billion hit to the economy.

But at least you didn't bring a paltry "Woolies" bag of groceries to Kangaroo Island residents or tell them "there's always something to look forward to," but then anything might have been better than not knowing that two of their  own, a celebrated father and son, had just died after fighting fires.

You're a small man Scummo. You haven't even the morality to apologise for your boorish insensitivity but instead lie and lie and lie in response.

You might still be supported by the Ugly American's Murdochracy as well the Stokes media but the gap is widening between the reality people are experiencing and what is propagandized, as the NY Times article on how corrupting the Murdochracy is, shows.

You have, like you predecessors, had 18 high level expert warnings linking climate change to worsening bushfires since 2013 and you've done nothing!

"Australians must come first," eh?

No wonder you ally yourself to a shonky, hypocritical money-grubbing cult because honesty, integrity and truthfulness you discarded long ago, if indeed, you ever had them.

If the moment makes the man you have been fully exposed as the tawdry excuse for a leader and the pathetically weak one that you are.... and it's a moment of your own making and your continued marketing spin is only compounding your failure....but you can notch up another bit of the Ruling Rabble's IPA agenda to dismantle Australia, Scummo.
How much lower can you take us?

Hoo-roo petals,

Shane.

PS pics are from a little local conflagration quite near the burrow which was dealt with very efficiently and promptly.

The National Disintegration

G'day, this year marks the tenth Shane's been ranting ......

Shane and a Burning Nation.

and he wonders if things could be any worse than they are at the moment?

Our Happy-Clapping, Liar from the Shire and Prime Miniature of Smirk, Scummo from Marketing is making Nero look positively benign as he avoids the obvious and prepares to holiday(again), this time in India where no doubt, he'll be stitching up a deal with Adani about exporting his favourite substance, coal and finishing off what's left of the country as he welcomes the "rapture."

Shane's 2019

As Richard Flanagan wrote, Scummo (who pretends to be Xtian) "....wanted three things for Xmas, to stop doctors deciding the medical treatment refugees receive, to reduce the power of workers to organise for better wages and to make sure Australia could cheat on its Global Climate Crisis exams."  Well,  two out of three made it look like a win but the biggest winner probably was the wit who posted this on social media..... "I'd like to thank Scott Morrison for uniting our whole family this Christmas. Not a single argument about politics at the Christmas table because everyone agreed he is shithouse."

The increasing absence of  goodwill and the Ugly American's media Murdochracy's attempts to normalise Scummo's plastic money-cult religion (more akin to the "Cargo-Cult" which developed in New Guinea after WW2) has I think, made people begin to feel like the tolerated but not loved companion in a relationship that's foundering.

And therein lies the problem... to be disengaged because you dislike politics in one thing but to disengage because all feels hopeless.... that there is no future is very dangerous....Scummo may believe his fantasy cult's millenarian "end-times" bullshit but it may actually be closer for him than he thinks.

Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition?

But who in their right mind gives flying fuck over what Scummo thinks any more? Time after time he's proved himself incompetent, serially dishonest and brutally cruel. His purported "faith" is a business scam and his ethics are as shallow as his empathy which has to be "coached." But then, he is the leader of his party...which speaks volumes not only of their "talent" base but also of their appalling culture.

 

On Edge

A petition is being gathered to send to the Governor General to have Scummo and his Ruling Rabble removed .....a faint hope as the GG and his wife attend the same cult's tax-dodge house as Scummo; and as we have seen even the High Court will rule in his favour over electoral fraud.

The nation is not only burning but its institutions are tainted and democracy itself is slowly being dismantled.

The chaos is starting.

Perhaps if he is stupid enough and attends the Sydney Test he will be loudly booed, hissed and jeered in a display of the beginning of a revolt?

Hoo-roo,

Shane