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Saturday, 9 June 2018

Roll Up, Roll Up, Roll Up…




Shane in King Valley


G’day Possums,

Mrs Wombat and I took a little sojourn to the King Valley so the pics are from there but the dog is for a sculpture so they have nought to do with the content.


Wow, what a fortnight…. the circus is in town!
In topping off his exposition as how his grand project of creating concentration camps for genuine refugees was really a good thing, (as only those who understood knew), the cadaver looking for a corpse, Senator ”Fallujah” Molan positively revelled in his shallow justification of bureaucratic cruelty dressed up as strength on QandA last week.
Around the same time one of the ex Major General’s “finest”, ex SAS captain and now Ruling Rabble member, Handy-Andy Hastie was dumping on his leader Truffles Turdball by telling all and sundry that Chinese born businessman Chau Chak Wing was a threat to our Never-Never Ozland of Pretend Democracy. Handy-Andy, who was investigated and exonerated (cough, cough) for allegedly allowing his troops to sever hands of Afghan dead as trophies (he never inhaled) and who thumbed his nose at the military hierarchy by utilising his uniform in his political advertising may well be suffering a sort of pay-back. It seems a secret report into SAS brutality has been leaked and there are calls for investigations to be widened and also for the findings to be made public. Given Handy-Andy’s exhibited propensity for arrogance this enquiry may have interesting ramifications for his political career.
Feelin' The Serenity, near Moyhu
An implosion of another sort took place too… Noe Notion’s President for Life, The Red Terror, Apoorlin Hamstrung contorted her visage and spat fury at any media she could find after another of her “party” broke ranks and defied her fiats on Ruling Rabble policy. Reprising all the anguish, anger and vileness that historically she is made of The Red Terror presented, perhaps too graphically, a fine illustration of the abject stupidity of some 10-12 % of the electorate. It is interesting to note that Section 44 offender, The Malfunctioning Mal-Addled Roberts famous for his 77 senate votes and marginal grasp of reality has again recently been polluting screens and air-waves with his mindless meanderings and musings almost as if he knew that a dumping was on the cards and that he had “the-sit” for a possible return as scourge of our political life.
Fortunately, a further diminution of the senate’s IQ scale has not, as yet, taken place.
Feelin' The Serenity- King Valley
Demonstrating just why the commercial networks hate the ABC, Chunder Seven put on The Barnyard and Floozie pantomime in a serious attempt at exploiting the “couple’s” newly discovered relevance deprivation syndrome.
At $150,000.00, allegedly for the “grey area” sprog’s education, Barnyard and Floozie individually gave evidence to an inept interviewer as to why our political system in such a parlous state.
Barnyard, with no hint of shame, told that he only went into his section44 bye-election “out of spite” knowing that he would lose his Deputy PM position as soon as his affair was known, and that his fellow Hayseed Party members were “..the absolute scum of the earth.”
For her part, the Floozie showed no interest in the dog’s dinner she was making with this Panto and had nought to say as to how much more talent she brought as media adviser to three ministers, or was paid or whether the affair and its travel were at taxpayer expense….although its existence was perhaps a role model for the insinuation advertised against Barnyard’s potential electoral nemesis, that Tony Windsor was “doing-the-rounds!”
She was certain though, that she was the ‘adult” in the room, contradicting Barnyard when he asserted that he was, thus leaving the viewers with the impression that neither were.
Of course there was no mention of his ministerial disasters: the Murray/Darling, the live sheep trade, and the shifting of the Ag Dept, his fortuitous land purchases , his religious hypocrisy, the expense accounts etc... that could all be left to the ABC to explore... to then be criticised as left-leaning!
It is gratifying to report that the Chunder 7 Panto “bombed.”
Feelin' The Serenity, Bonnie Doon
Then in senate estimates up popped the clown from the south Vichy Abetz who language mangled an attempt to have a DFAT mandarin agree with his assertion that Xtianity is the most persecuted religion on earth. The mandarin treated Vichy with requisite kindness by not pointing out that historically, Vichy’s family “has form” in the religious persecution stakes and that 65% of the population ignoring religion is not a measure of persecution but simply sanity preservation.
It seems that Vichy’s distraction might be either a preemptive “sounding” for the results of the enquiry into religious “freedoms” which will soon be announced or a cover for his colleague The Harpy Cash whom the AFP are taking an interest in but either way, anything this Ruling Rabble indicates an interest in, is doomed!
Feelin' The Serenity, Bonnie Doon2
Playing the Pipe Organ in the back row of this circus were the Neo-Feudalists of The-Coot’s-With-Queer-Ideas-From-a-Parallel-Universe, aka the IPA. Fronted in one instance by the overly loquacious but vacuous, Simon The Simple Breheny and in the other by Bunter Berg, these intellectually pre-adolescent libertarians babbled along in the background that denying donors to university courses selecting their own paths and lecturers, a denial of free speech and that taxing the rich was akin to the oppression of racism.
They did!
Full, as usual, of straw-man arguments, these contraversialists of limited depth have also been banging the drum louder on the selling off of the one serious news source, the ABC.
How do they fit into a democratic state...like Quisling did in Norway!
Hoo-roo petals,
Shane
Feelin' The Serenity, Nillacootie


Saturday, 3 May 2014

From Kafka’s concepts to the world of Hieronymus Bosch

G’day Possums,
the “insanity” is spreading like a Middle Ages plague; this one of the mind  but soon to hit the body … more of that later in Wombat Droppings.


Shane and Hieronymus Bosch
Shane pondering visions of our future
Last week at the prompting of its affable publican, Kathleen I took myself off to Hudson’s Great Western Hotel in Ballan to hear a Cajun band strum, squeeze, bow, tap and sing its way through some medleys and take some photos.
 
Hudson's Hotel, Ballan
Hudson's Hotel, Ballan
The crowd was a good-natured mix of locals and others from further afield… and of all ages, too who were not afraid to put their dancing shoes on.

Hudson's Hotel, Ballan
Hudson's Hotel, Ballan
It was a fun, enjoyable evening; attendance details can be seen in last pic.

Hudson's Hotel, Ballan
Hudson's Hotel, Ballan


Hudson's Hotel, Ballan
Hudson's Hotel, Ballan






Hudson's Hotel, Ballan
Hudson's Hotel, Ballan

Hudson's Hotel, Ballan
Hudson's Hotel, Ballan

Hudson's Hotel, Ballan
Hudson's Hotel, Ballan

Hudson's Hotel, Ballan
Hudson's Hotel, Ballan

Hudson's Hotel, Ballan
Hudson's Hotel, Ballan



Hudson's Hotel, Ballan
Hudson's Hotel, Ballan


Hudson's Hotel, Ballan
Hudson's Hotel, Ballan

Wombat Droppings or Low-Down Politics in Oz.

Oh, where to start in this so-called “audit”, this foetid mire of right-wing Business Council of Australia anti-social ideology.
Laughingly presented by Assistant Treasurer (and Part-time Stand-Up comic to the Chief Office Boy “Rabbutt-the-Hun”) Joe “Cereal-Toyota-SPC-Killer” Hockey as blue-print for future growth and prosperity, but lacking detail and keeping us in suspense till the poll samplings are done to see which bits are the least offensive and which bits can be snuck through later; this shit-laden “audit”, is being fronted by a business man of dubious quality, Tony “Shylock” Shepherd who takes notions of egalitarianism and Federation and turns them on their head. This “Audit” presents not a vision for a nation but a business case for asset stripping and eventual enslavement and sale of the population to the highest foreign bidder.
There in no nation in profit.
Aiding and abetting this right-wing frolic was one James “Plonker-too” Paterson whose high-pitched whine announced (and timed to coincide “Shylock” Shepherd’s rantings) that abolishing the minimum wage would advantage the poor….. hmmm... as conceptually tenable as is the idea of a flat earth being more efficient as a round one?
Poor James, he does seem to get stuck with all the seriously silly gigs the “The Coots-With–Queer-Ideas-From-a-Parallel-Universe” invent. Perhaps this is a “Hazing” ritual within the IPA fraternity to “prove” him. That, like the more senior of the IPA Asylum, “Plonker-one” Roskam and “Badger” Berg, that you can say repetitively in public, the most inanely ludicrous, anti-social things with a straight face and still call yourself human.

Stop Press… here is a picture , allegedly of three of the “Faceless-Men” who back the IPA…Apparently taken at the crucifixion of a socialist type chap; these willing three were selling off what assets he had left.
Alleged IPA Donors at Crucifixion
Alleged IPA Donors at Crucifixion
Liarbrils in NSW are imploding under the weight their own fundraising corruption being exposed publicly. “The Spiv” Sinodinas just might take a few of his Federal colleagues with him as the net in the ICAC enquiry tightens. What is wryly funny about this is how “Rabbutt-the-Hun” has banged-on and on and on about Labor corruption and is now watching only two Labor people being investigated; whilst whole branches of the Liarbril Party and people very close to himself are feeling the heat …justice might exist. 


In the Tardis State “Where-All-Goes-Backward” Liarbril Pretend Premier, Dennis “Inutilus Rusticus” Naptime has taken to going around in election mode without a tie. This, I think, is meant to look relaxed and “cool”. Dennis….NOT… you look more like a dork than ever!
They are having a flurry of activity putting a little money back into things they have previously gutted and which for the main will mostly be privatised (and therefore in the long run cost the public more)… there is a real whiff of desperation in all this sudden activity… and trying to avoid presenting a business case for their concreting of public parks and destroying homes to build a tunnel of little effect is not a good look either.
Just when the real Premier, Geoff “Fiddles” Shaw seems to have been sedated, up pops Bernie “F***WITTED” Finn telling us that the “social media” is dangerous and should be
Bernie Finn
A Bernie Finn
censored as “… a campaign on face-book could in the long run could bring down a government”…and “people”, he said “..wake up in the morning and they are faced with this information that may be totally libellous, false in every way, but a lot of people will be influenced by it.”  Poor Bernie… sounds more like “The Sun” and “The Australian” and “Blot on the Landscape” to me.
 Not content with those gems of media wisdom, Bernie then goes off on a rant… "In this day and age I don't think there is any acceptable reason for having an abortion,"
"In years gone by when they needed to kill the baby to save the mother then it might have been acceptable but in today's world I think that's a very 1950s argument."
The Liarbril MP, said abortion in cases of rape was like being raped a second time and was being used as defence by paedophiles and rapists.

Is he a member of the IPA, too?

Closer to the Wombat Burrow there was a very sad letter in the local rag from a Jim Stewart of Smeaton who is one of those “gullibles” sucked in by the tobacco business’ campaign style..  a style deliberately concocted to divide and discredit environmental campaigns. He quotes with very shonky figures and psuedo-scientific assertions by the fully discredited NIPPC, a shonky group backed by Heartland Foundation in USA. Heartland’s funding over the past decade has included thousands of dollars directly from Exxon Mobil and the American Petroleum Institute, but a large portion of their funding ($25.6 million) comes from the shadowy Donor’s Capital Fund, created expressly to conceal the identity of large donors to free-market causes. The Koch brothers appear to be funnelling money into Donor’s Capital via their Knowledge and Progress Fund.
It is exquisitely sad to see people denigrating science and some even claiming that scientists have a vested interest (though in what, is never stated) when the truth of the matter is that they are quoting the views of the real vested interests who have only profit as their motive not the health of the planet nor that of its inhabitants.
 Curiously, there was another climate denier letter in the same rag… from Queensland… so thoughtful of someone in the “Far North” to think of writing to Ballan in Victoria. Hmmm is this propaganda from the owners of this rag…? Oohh, Shane you are cynical!

And if you think the illo up front is a bit over-the-top it may be time to wake up …just a little….
Cheers Petals,

Shane

Monday, 9 December 2013

Gonski Trolls and Talentless Lickspittles


 G'day Possums,

Shane the Socialist Wombat
Shane the Socialist Wombat
You'll notice that the "implements" above are a trifle old and rusty so the metaphor should be clear.

We went to  a little party, party and watched the Balloons go up...

 
Labor Party
Labor Floating by...
 and had some good conversations....
Labor Party
Party, Party
 
The Fish and Chippery
The Fish and Chippery, Sturt St. Ballarat
 ..and attended what looked like  the Women's Collective at the Fish and Chippery in Sturt St Ballarat, who do a fine job. So if you're going through from Melbourne and feel the need for a Flake, Scallops and chips... look out to your left....just before the city proper.
La Carillon, Paris.
La Carillon, Paris.
A different sort of party....Canadian Bob Eames on Sax which segue's to...

Tuilleries, Paris
Tuilleries, Paris
...a pic I'm pleased to say appears on The ABC's website, a feature about the 100 most popular pieces of French Classical Music... Ta.. Daaaaaa.


Wombat Droppings or  lowdown Oz politics

Many of us were postulating more than 18 months before these 100 days that the Policy-Free-Zone the Liarbrils inhabited whilst hurling their putrid invective at all and sundry could not possibly be reversed once in power. 
And so it goes.. or should that be Gone-ski?
Freud could only have seen their actions as “Projections” where the worst of themselves are cast onto others…incoherent, sloppy, shambolic, lying, dis-organised, biased, poor economic managers etc.
Once, I used to think of the Liarbrils as managers only, but they have given over so much to the likes of the business council and the IPA that they've reduced themselves to little more than posturing office boys…. and don’t the Chinese and Indonesians know it! 
Actual leadership, vision and sense of Nation is not in their political lexicon.
..and the proof of the pudding is here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJTGX-k7LC4
also check the spelling at top of page  "A message form our ......"
Listening to Eva Cox debating with Ian Hanke and Chris Berg on RN's Sunday Extra's "Outsiders" when travelling back to the burrow; (a ménage-a-trois of two right-wingers and one lefty...) which should keep the Trolls who are constantly complaining of ABC’s “left” bias, happy, the debate being mainly, you guessed it, the “rights” thought-bubble-of-the-moment: the dismemberment of the ABC.
I don't like offal in cooking and Berg’s recipes (one of "The Coots-With-Queer-Ideas-from-a-Parallel-Universe" aka IPA)with the narrow, myopic economic views he concocts were particularly not to my taste. Views which fail miserably to account for that variable in humans that Trolls can't quite equate for: talent and creativity.
Annabel Crabbe’s “Kitchen Cabinet” gives clue and insight to this species social limitations.
Responses are guarded, wary; as if they are way out of their comfort zone and can only feel “at-home” Ya-yaaing and Haw-hawing with their own ilk.  Note too, that apart from painter Bill Leake, comedian Barry Humphries and the cartoonist Larry Pickering, I can’t think of another artist who is avowedly of “the right.” It’s as if most of the conservatives seem to have had a personality short circuit with the creative modality turned off.

Senator Cory “Bestiality” Bernardi who is at the forefront of ABC bashing is a good example….

Cory Bernardi
he wrote an opinion piece in 2010 calling for a ban on wearing the burqa in public and in 2007 published an essay questioning whether global warming was caused by human activities. “Von Ribbentropp” Turnbull removed him from the Shadow Ministry after he reportedly made unsubstantiated claims regarding a fellow Liarbril (allegedly Pyne “The Whyne”) in his blog. Recalling an encounter about 14 years before:  In response to my question of why he joined the Liberal Party, he blithely responded "I live in a Liberal seat so I had to be a member of the Liberal Party to get into Parliament. If I lived in a Labor seat I would have joined the Labor Party". Frankly I was aghast at this response. Where was the conviction, the beliefs, the values that I believe should motivate our political leaders? Several follow up questions disclosed that the only motivation for his own political involvement was for him to become Prime Minister. Pyne “The Whyne”, denied the allegations as "preposterous." 
Christopher Pyne

Although other evidence suggest that “Whyne” and truth seem rarely to correspond.
Bernardi has been associated with Dutch politician Geert Wilders and in 2012 “Bestiality” resigned from his position as parliamentary secretary as a result of  arguing that permitting same-sex marriages will lead to legalised polygamy and bestiality. Bernardi said that the campaign for same-sex marriage was "another tear in the fabric of our social mores." "Time and time again the same characters seek to tear down our institutions that have been built and have sustained our civilization for thousands of years. The time has come to ask: when will it end? "The next step, quite frankly, is having three people or four people that love each other being able to enter into a permanent union endorsed by society or any other type of relationship." And then went on to say accepting gay marriage could lead to accepting bestiality. "There are even some creepy people out there and I say 'creepy' deliberately who are unfortunately afforded a great deal more respect than I believe they deserve," he said. "These creepy people say it is okay to have consensual sexual relations between humans and animals. Will that be a future step? "In the future will we say, 'These two creatures love each other and maybe they should be able to be joined in a union'."
THIS bloke seriously thinks that limiting free speech by selling the ABC is a good thing?

Tardis State (Where-All-Goes-Backward) Fellow Traveller and conceptual equal, Geoff “Fiddles” Shaw has had the 24 charges against him dropped because:                
A/ he’s a good bloke and God loves him?                                                                                                      
or
B/ The Tardis State “Where-All-Goes-Backward” Liarbrils, were “Packin’-their-Daks” over a by-election?
or
C/ To provide upward mobility within the Department of Justice?
Or
D/ Abortion Law needs to be “re-formed”?
Or
E/ It was the Vultures of the press, the magistrate, the privileges committee, the speaker, and his wife who were all guilty?

Also in the “Tardis State”…..It’s been decided that that there’s no need to re-regulate pollies perks….Or that the proposed waste of money on the East-West Link is really a waste of money but, Shhhhhhhh…..and fining Knitting Nana’s for protesting the extinction of a species $8,000.00 is a good thing and that our wonderful privatised transport systems guardians are gentle souls…
Thanks, “Bully Boy” Kennett for stuffing that up, too.

Cheers, Petals,
Shane.






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