The Other Side of The Coin....

G'day Possums,

I decided that this week to illustrate the anecdotes emanating from this floundering excuse for a federal government with what I think are apposite Still Life images; or Nature Morte, as befitting a moribund ruling rabble. 

The other side of the coin, to lift the skirts to be exposed. It's not looking very good for for the ruling rabble.

Well, is the merde hitting the proverbial or what? And as various ruling rabble non-entities run hither and thither to avoid the stinking spattering fallout from the Royal Commission into the banks and financial services they keep tripping themselves up in the most ludicrous ways.

One side of the coin...

There was Kelly, Shadduppa-Yo-Face O' Dwyer sort of recanting on her silliness with Barrie Cassidy and admitting, sort of, that they well, might have got the political timing of the RC possibly wrong. Echoing her leader, Truffles Turnbull's lines she was then eviscerated by actor Peter Capaldi reprising his foul-mouthed bullying political advisor character from "The Thick of It"  on "The Project" calling her all sorts of deliciously nasty things and that, "...she was all over the place, like shit in a paper bag." It's interesting to note that even the conservative media are now finding it impossible not to treat this flailing rabble with the contempt it deserves.

...the other.

Following a complaint from the last failed prime miniature, Rabid-the-Hun at being called by ABC's rhyming political rapper Andrew Probyn, "...the most destructive politician of the generation." Rabid said,  "... he wasn't looking for an apology ...but should get one," Michele, The-Gutless Guthrie, MD of the ABC, promptly slapped Probyn's wrist for telling the truth and issued an apology and correction to Rabid, further genuflecting to the right-wing of the ruling rabble and further diminishing the standing of one of the last credible news sources in Australia.

Many others also amended Probyn's unusual eruption of truth, correcting his statement about Rabid to read: " The most destructive politician in Australia's history." Which is pretty accurate.

ABC

Macron of France has been here and told Truffles to find some balls re: climate change and to do more to address Global Warming also saying that Truffle's wife Lucy was "delicious."  I think Macron must be short-sighted and had confused Lucy with Julia Zemiro... who is.

 And deliciously talented to boot.

IPA policy statement

Macron must have been bemused with the news that The Pussy Grabber, Trump is sending climate-denier environment chief  Scott Pruitt to have a two hour "round-table" with "excellent people" from the IPA who, according to the IPA's Roskam, would teach the American's a thing or two.

Le Jongleur Roskam's fantastical parallel universe had him touting the panel's Jennifer Marohasy, as “Australia’s authority on temperature and climate variability”(....a person who has accused the Bureau of Meterology of corrupting the temperature record.... I kid you not, Petals), but revelling in his self-appointed king-making and anointing, Le Jongleur suggested too that Maurice, "Global-Warming-is-a-Delusion" Newman would be a kindred spirit!

It has not been announced whether all attending will be wearing costumes from the Bar scene in Star Wars.

IPA thoughts on Civil Society

Truffles lost one of his Financial Sector Advisory Council members when disgraced departing AMP chief exec Craig Mellor stepped away because he has been less than honest with the federal regulator about charging customers fees for no service.

But we've not done anything wrong, bleat the AMP board as the council assisting calls for criminal charges to be laid....and the public sees clearly that not only are the banks and financial advisers in it for themselves and not their customers but that the gene pool for Board appointees is as shallow as the talent pool for the ruling rabble.

J. Banks foot

That that pool is exceedingly shallow was evidenced by four brain farts erupting late  this week. One by (the currently unfortunately named) Julia Banks who in rejecting calls for the dole to be increased, opined that although her parliamentary salary is around $200,000.00 and owning five properties, she could live on $40.00  per day. 

Now, there's stupid, there's really stupid and there's also the mind-numbing social irrelevance and blinkered greed, common to ruling rabble types. I dare say her Victorian electoral seat has already suffered the 2% margin reversal it needs to return Labor at the next federal election if the Twitter/ Farcebook storm is anything to go by.

clear thinking in Queensland

Petals, I really have never known what's in the water in the Deep North but apart from lately having multiple councillors of the conservative ilk up on criminal and fraud charges, up popped the Lame-Brained Andy Laming to pontificate on education. Saying that teachers should work the same hours as everyone else, should only have four weeks holiday a year, not be doing any prep or marking at home Andy Lame-Brain also intimated that the new Gonski proposals were a sell out to the teacher unions. These idiocies were generally supported by ex ruling rabble senator Suzie Boyce who on "The Drum" said dismissively that people only became teachers as it was a simple job with good holidays...or some such merde.

It should be noted that neither of these has taught in a classroom and one surmises that their contempt for the profession at least in one case, would come from a private education and ability to rort entitlements!

Rather than look to country's like Finland as exemplars these ruling rabble types prefer the divisiveness of a fractured system, as it suits their political agenda.

A construct ( Sanchez Cotain)

Fourth and last fart off the rank was Tony Shepherd, railing against the Business Council of Australia being effectively questioned in Senate Committee; accusing questioners of a "witch-hunt" and that they were driven by political self interest in wanting to know what the BCA members would do with 65 billions of taxpayer money they may be given.

Now, self-interest... I think Tones knows a bit about that.... social responsibility... not as much.

A movable Feast.

The BCA btw, are wanting to put together a "donation" fund of $25,000,000.00 to "educate" the  taxpayer whom they say will be well served by giving them $65,000,000,000.00 and which, they assure us, will trickle down .... eventually... perhaps...sometime.  It's a pity that many of those donating cannot afford to pay tax in the first place and BCA's  Westacott expresses surprise that anyone could possibly question the motives and intentions in such a fulsome propaganda fest.

Hoo-roo Possums,

Shane

Darkness we are heading toward.

How low can they go?

G'day Possums,

 today some pics from the RAAF Museum at Point Cook where we, Mrs Wombat, daughters and son-in-law repaired to after a scheduled gift flight in a Tiger Moth was cancelled due to inclement weather.

Golly, the Ruling Rabble are not only just office boys to the IPA. Now, with Tardis State opposition leader Matty What's-a-Green-wedge Guy, they are also foot soldiers for the Mafia mob.

Tiger Moth Point Cook

Having supped the cray and sipped the Grange with what Vicpol term "a senior mafia figure" who's been banned from racecourses and the casino, Matty has spent three days refining his account of not really knowing or wanting to take election funds in discreet amounts to dodge electoral law from the Dodgy Bros and after sacking his too locquacious staffer organizing the deal has referred himself to IBAC for absolution. Given that this body, due to when the ruling rabble were messing the state up, had over-watered the plant turning it into a toothless tiger, the ploy is just a cynical bit of window dressing attempting to avoid the obvious. 

Matty, like your party, you're bent: and if you think you can continue to run a Laura Norder election you will look more like a character from Komedy Kapers than a seriously valid candidate for premier.

Avro 504, Point Cook

Interestingly, the mobster with the lobster is the same Maddaferi who was allowed into the country by the then immigration minister Mandy, Il Patrone Vanstone back in 2005 on "humanitarian" grounds. Noted, not only for his alleged involvement in murders, drug running and stand-over tactics he apparently was also a generous donor to a ruling rabble slush fund called "The Millenium Foundation."

Now, if you're taking money from the Dodgy Bros what are you giving in return?

How low can the ruling rabble go?

Supermarine Walrus

Pretty low actually ..... federally, they have instigated a non binding, voluntary postal survey that is going to cost $122,000,000.00 ( where's a budget emergency when you need it?) so that those not the least bit interested in marriage equality will have a say in who can and can't, rather than the parliament doing what it's paid to do and voting on it, because the ruling rabble are hopelessly enmeshed in internecine factional warfare.

As the rules pertaining to elections will not apply, open slather has been accorded to the haters, trolls, homophobes and other narrow minded fundamentalists to spew forth without fear of litigation.

First cab off the rank rank was the alleged xtian, Lyle, Sleaze-Mind Shelton who was fairly drooling over the opportunity to vent his putrid medieval religiosity on a national stage. He was backed up by failed priest, and failed Prime Minister Tony, Rabid-the-Hun Abbott who was overjoyed at being able to conflate freedom of expression, political correctness, safe schools, and marriage equality into his negative and venomous three word slogans of bilious hate. He was following by Bronny Kero/Chopper Bishop (she who should be but is not, dead yet) alerting us to the real dangers being faced by cats, dogs, horses, sheep and possibly Kangaroos, and hades forbid, Wombats if the vote is "Yes" .

This shonky postal vote is just another weapon in the arsenal of dissension fostered by the right-wing to obscure their real agenda: capitalist domination.

 

FB2 

Adding to this little distraction are a swag of other improbity:  the rampant corruption surrounding the National's leader Barnyard Joyce's Murray-Darling water theft, the stinking mess of dishonest EPA officials and their response to re-cycling practices, ministers being paid monies by firms they are going to work for when they leave parliament, before they leave parliament, corruption from the top in our nascent SS, the Border Farce, the failure of some parliamentarians to rescind dual citizenship and then ignoring convention and not stepping down, more blood on ruling rabble hands from the concentration camp on Manus Island, banks aiding and abetting the illegal transactions of criminals and terrorist groups and the ongoing rorting of parliamentary entitlements... all of which strongly indicates that this nation is falling apart under this ruling rabble and Truffles then has the temerity to tell us he's a strong leader!

Perhaps he was referring to his odour?

Hoo-roo Petals

Shane

...and a horse on a skate board with a pupil makes as much sense, too.