...and there was weeping and gnashing of teeth...

House of Cards

G'day Possums,

The air was being rent with wailing, gnashing of teeth, garments being shredded, ashes thrown and sackcloth worn following the failure of the Lying Lyle's Oz Xtian Lobby "No" campaign against marriage equality when up popped the young grim faced IPA senator, Unterscharfuhrer Paterson with a solution to their woes. Well, as it was apparently written by Lying Lyle, the un-elected senator was really only the delivery boy attempting to foist a set of apartheid-like discrimination acts on the country in an attempt to "improve" and stymie the passage of the marriage equality bill  through parliament. Using the furphy of "religious freedom" Lying Lyle's epistle suggested that flower and cake purveyors, church ministers and civil celebrants be allowed to refuse their services to anyone they thought might be LGBTQI and that parents can take their children out of school and not be taught to use a strap-on. 

This caused such consternation that Chwissie the Whyning-Perfect-Prat-of-a-Prefect, Pyne whom many think is still in his closet, had to deny sending a "like" to a gay porn movie on his Twitter account and Matty, Thug Canavan uncrossed his eyes long enough to chime in with a coal-smoke induced offering that Xtian Rock Groups be included in this discrimination, too.

Poor Thug, he certainly is a blockheaded, Deep Northern hetero with little understanding..... to assume that any Gay would want be seen doing the wedding waltz to Xtian Rock, wholly underestimates their verve and taste.

The postal survey in 5/8 time and at a cost of nearly $100,000,000.00 only proved that the polls of the past years were correct and that the ruling rabble's Little Johnny Howard's malicious mangling of the marriage bill nine years ago was just another example of his nastiness and further; the Catlic right wing rump of the rabble have cost the people more than money, they have cost parliament its integrity.

Not that they care.. their only role is to push their own personal agenda's and those of either the Catlic run IPA or their donors/bribers.

Agendas, which as the survey has amply demonstrated, are so out of kilter with common thought that we may come to see this postal survey folly as the real breach in the dyke of neo-liberalism and its further crumbling to eventual destruction.

Prime Miniature Truffles took the survey result as a personal victory but the hollowness of his reality was betrayed by both his body language and bombast.

The disloyal Bestiality Bernardi was his usual graceless self, intoning that the "Yes" side shouldn't gloat and that a 38% loss wasn't that but a victory and he would win in the end.

Poorlene, Please-Explain, Hanson of the Noe Notion Party whose paucity of affection to all ethnic groups not white, Xtian and stupid is legendary was thoroughly confused with the result.  All those she rails against, Chinese, Muslims, Xtian Arabs, Asians, and Afghanis etc  tended to vote that way she did.

Oh, the irony!

Ex Premier, Christine "Eddies Gel" Keneally has rattled the net in the Bennelong by-election taking ruling rabble dual citizen, Backhander Alexander to deuce in the first week of the campaign. Ruling rabble first serves have started down in the clay but might become ineptly unproductive as their constant chipping on the Obied factor could just draw his over remunerated worker with the shocking memory, Uncle Arfah Sinodinas into the unwanted glare of public view again.

You couldn't make this stuff up, could you?

Pics are from the Nutcracker.

Hoo-roo Petals,

Shane

Penny-wise and Pound Foolish

Shane on a Zucchini plant

G'day Possums,

today's pics are of some produce from our garden and from the Community Garden, Ceres, Mrs Wombat and I visited in Brunswick.

I've never been really keen on eating Zucchini, finding it somewhere between bland and completely tasteless but these are very different; sweet, flavoursome and a nice texture even when baked.

The tomato was grown from seed which originally arrived here from Northern Italy around 70 years ago.  Flavoursome? You bet... and beautifully complimented by the most fragrant Basil and Parsley crop! 

And the Strawberries this year have been outstanding in their delicate sweetness.

All of which is more productive than what now follows.

 

Zucchinis

The hilarity caused by Bestiality Bernardi jumping the sinking Liarbril pontoon so soon after being re-elected on the Liarbril ticket could perhaps only be equalled by Pyne-the-Whyne announcing he was joining a convent but his pathetic mumbling justification for his act of fraud on his electorate should have him watching very carefully for rogue buses.

 

First of Home Grown

Coming as it did after Sussan The Suss Ley got dumped from the ministry for being too publicly loose with the taxpayers purse and another round of poor poll results, Truffles in response to some needling from Willy Shortstuff decided to have a hissy-fit in parliament.

It was a spray quite within the tolerable range of Liarbril "ethical" standards, pathetic... and what was more pathetic was the rancid cheer squad behind him. What else have they got? No policy , no idea... just schoolyard invective!

The question is ...how long can Truffles maintain being such a bitch?  I mean, won't Chwissie-the-Whyning Pyne get his knickers in a knot at being superseded... or is it just a ploy by Truffles to gain public sympathy at having Barnyard Joyce suffer a stroke on the front bench during one of his ruddy-faced sycophantic manifestations of support and why on earth did the ABC persist in calling this "a blistering attack?"  It was a pathetically bullying rant aimed solely at and for  the benefit of the ruling rabble's recalcitrant right-wingers and performed as a distraction from their daily exposure as the most incompetent and corrupt cabal to ever pretend to be a government.

It was their born-to-rule anger on show, directed at anyone daring to call them for what they really are; would-be emperors with no clothes.

 

The Ruling Rabble masquerading as Isa Browns

The next day, pushing their ideological idiocy of  stalling the growth of re-newables,  pretend Treasurer Scummo Morrison did a kindergarten-like show-and-tell by waving around a lump of coal. This was intended to embarrass as "Coal-a-phobes" the Labor members opposite. On a day when weather conditions in NSW were extreme (next day bush and grass fires destroyed 36 homes) there were torrential rains in WA and Tassie was having snow, all this little charade pointed out was that our climate-change denying cretins in parliament have really lost the plot.

Ceres Community Garden

There was Fictions Frydenberg, still peddling the ruling rabble's energy myths to an unconscious  Sabra Lane on 774....bashing the South Australian premier by pretending that another power blackout was caused by wind farms and solar panels rather than the energy regulator suspiciously not turning on a back-up gas plant because  there wasn't enough profit in it  ...it's a wonder he didn't say that children were being thrown overboard as well. This was followed at night by a David Lipson "interview"  on Lateline... the program that could be more aptly named "The Dorothy Dixer Hour!" 

ABC no longer reports news... it's now almost un-watchable in its passive tabloid regurgitation of ruling rabble propaganda; and the bias of not showing much of any opposition material indicates just how far The Ugly American's mole, Guthrie, has gone in nobbling what was once the best independent news service around. 

 

Ceres Community Garden

Expecting "the-Adults-in-Charge" of this ruling rabble to offer the nation anything but the tired cant of free-market, trickle down economics proselytised by the cancerous IPA is a hope too far.

Never before has this country been subjected to such an thorough onslaught of regressive stupidity and financial corruption as we have had for the past four years; never has a country been so degraded of its moral and ethical base so quickly and assisted by an electorate too boorish and mean spirited to meaningfully respond.

The brand is being well and truly trashed and the penny-wise, pound-foolish economics being imposed will take, if ever allowed, years to recover from.

Hoo-roo Petals,

Shane

Little Malcolm and His Struggle Against the Eunuchs

G'day ,

 with apologies to playwright David Halliwell for purloining the title of his play...

...geez I dunno know about youse Possums but hasn't this last fortnight been a one bonza-you-beaut of  a drongo-swamp of madness?

Quite apart the Orange Frump in the Un-United States giving Truffles the old heave-ho over our people trafficking plans and scotching the Pacific Trade deal and then having a "alternative fact" name change to "President Trumble," poor old Truffles just hasn't seemed the same since the Ugly American and his current Floozy had a sleep-over at our expense.

But about one thing he's correct, he's "....not a political hack!"  No, he bought himself the most senior position going and asked at the Press Club, in relation to the transparency and rules tightening, something he said he was all for; and mainly brought about by-the-way, by the rampant corruption of "entitlements" by his Liarbril colleagues; when asked to be transparent and honest about how much it had cost him; he balked!

 

Approaching Storm

Remember the Godwin Grech farce?  

Experiencing the bowdlerized NBN?

Enjoy the stuffed up debacle of a census? 

Owe any money to Centrelink? 

Time's nearly up for automotive manufacturing, what's another 200,000 unemployed?  

Enjoy paying more going to the doctor or specialists to get essential tests ?  

Finding that free education is now a misnomer and what jobs are available are only for 457 visa entrants or are part-time? 

Enjoying the new tabloid-style-right-biased ABC?  

Not getting paid your real wage?

No, Truffles is no political hack... he's a political, social and economic disaster!

 

back-lit Vine leaves

At the same press club address, in attempting to set an agenda for the next couple of years, Truffles began channelling The Coal Council's  propaganda about "clean" coal and how renewables are too expensive and can't compete with base load by coal etc.  In a pure "I'm-not-a-hack" moment Truffles said: "We've invested $590 million since 2009 in clean coal technology research and demonstration and yet we do not have one modern high-efficiency low-emissions coal-fired power station, let alone one with carbon capture and storage". Now, if that's not an admission of failure and money wasting, I don't know what is?

When he says, "... we, the coalition stand for cheaper energy.." he's talking populist bullshit!  Wind, solar and wave energy have fallen in cost and are now cheaper than coal facilities and under Liarbril policy we are selling our gas overseas with no reserve for domestic use and making very little from its sale.

All that these mongrels really stand for is that their future employers are being well looked after before the electorate actually wakes up!

Truffles has destroyed himself......exposed himself to be a weak, cynical, self-serving elitist as well as incompetently stupid and vainly irrelevant in policy.... his reluctant admission of his personal electoral donation to the Liarbril Partry of $1.75 Million and the attempted talking-up of "Clean" coal only prove the point. 

How many of the retarded liarbril voters applauded Rabid-the-Hun's cynical rejection of the "Malaysian Solution?" We are now witnessing where abrogation of responsibility leads.  The press knew the whole time that Rabid-the-Hun was an idiot; they were just towing the party line and only when their editors saw the tide of discontent eroding their profits and an electorate awakening to their spurious credibility did they slowly change their tune. And now it's Truffles turn; whatever potential they thought he had, it's evaporated!

Likened to the Black Knight in the Monty Python scene "It's only a flesh wound.." in attempting to ignore the incompetence of billions of dollars wasted with no record of who authorised the payments to our refugee concentration camps; with his onion eating farce of a predecessor and The Obese Christensen as well as Vichy Abetz yapping at his heels, Truffles now has to deal with Bestiality Bernardi jumping ship funded by our Biggest Miner, Rinehart, to found his own mad, xtian brand of backward looking intolerance.

No, wrong again Truffles, it's not a flesh wound. You survive flesh wounds! 

 I think the level of interest in the Orange Frump may be having consequences here.  People more easily criticize another country’s leader but the parallels between Frump's blatantly dictatorish modis-operandi and our ruling rabble are too obvious to ignore, particularly as corruption is about the only thing the Liarbrils are actually good at.

 Frump’s “outside ” factor make him a potent symbol of the rampant and corrupt capitalism which is being overtly practised here and it may be, he will be the agent of its demise.

Whatever the liarbrils say publicly about Frump, the opposite is true.

Their utter displeasure in having to even pretend that democracy is about negotiation and that the nation comes first only compromises their born-to-rule arrogance and that it will ever be questioned is anathema to them.

Although, no matter how angry an electorate can get read, this link and be rather scared....

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/how-our-likes-helped-trump-win

 ...and if that doesn't worry you then reflect on the notion that "entertainment" is the dominant medium today, not facts. That news has become entertainment and the proliferation of information is at levels where there is too much to take in and digest. The overload allows "alternative fact" to be distributed as quickly and more easily than real ones because in the confusion the appeal to prejudice becomes more pronounced and more easily digested than having to deal with analysis of fact.

Fact: CSIRO has been gutted, particularly in climate science.

Fact: Alternate Energy sources have been stalled in favour of dirty energy.

Fact: ABC has been slashed to the bone and science programs downgraded.

Fact : Public education is being de-funded and University fees are wiping out whole cohorts of bright but disadvantaged and impecunious students.

Fact: Public Health is being whittled away piece by piece ..e.g. Pap Smears costing more will make people avoid tests and where will the disgraced and corrupt Sussan Ley be when oddly, the first clusters of cancers appear in the same years?

Fact: nearly one quarter of Christian and Marist Brothers were paedophiles.

Fact: Two Thirds of all abuse cases came from the Catholic clergy!

Fact: The majority of the Front Bench of the Liberal Party are either Catholic or pretend adherence to a Christian Faith.

When did you last hear them criticize the churches?

Does a "Christian"representative like Cory Bernardi really reflect the diverse Australian society of the C21st or just his own fantasy's and those of his wealthy patron?

Rather,  Brandis a Catholic, has secret meetings in Rome with Cardinal Pell who refuses to front the Abuse Royal Commission in Melbourne in person and whom it's strongly alleged was himself not only a paedophile but also covered up the actions of others.

Have you heard the so-called Christians denigrate Muslim women for their scarf practices?

Has noted Catholic, Kevin Andrews spent time at taxpayer expense having "prayers" with "Tea-Party" Christians of extreme bent?

Are these people acting in the best interests of the nation as a whole?

Let's go no further down the American path!

Hoo-roo Petals,

Shane.

Idiots Anonymous Imploding Everywhere

Shane being strangled by Tinsel

G'day Petals,

Mal-Addled Roberts, One Notion's chief clown has addressed a cabal of other right-wing nutters and climate change deniers in the Un-united States just before it was announced that under the ruling rabble the country's emissions are rising.

Birds and feathers, getting up with fleas, bent twigs, Kangaroos loose in the top paddock, sandwiches short of a picnic and pots calling kettles black-bum immediately come to mind.

"A leader who personally sees off drug dealers? And the problem is?" said the Obese Far North MP,  Titanic Christensen, demonstrating his moral and ethical base by praising Philippine murderer and President, Duterte's direct action model of drug mitigation.

Yep, the malaise this ruling rabble has fostered and is furthering is eating the heart out of the nation. Troubling times ahead as this feckless country implodes on itself unless a group with an articulate vision can inspire change.

 

Hay Bales, Myrniong

Happy-Clapper God Bother-er, hypocrite and incompetent Treasurer  Scummo Morrison delivered the news in childish language that there is good debt and bad debt and that being  8 times more in debt than Labor was in 2013 wasn't a "Budget Emergency"  but sound fiscal policy if you didn't look at the details and the AAA ratings.

 I loved his little rant on Hissy-Fit Sales' propaganda-for-the-right, platform "7.30" when he called Labor's stimulus package which sailed Australia through the GFC undamaged as "burning down houses and erecting unnecessary school halls..." What an ugly, incompetent, bullying piece of work he is... and a clown, to boot.

Right-Winger Lyle The Martyr Shelton, front man for the dubiously named Aussie Xtian Lobby has smirkingly blamed left wing MP's and their "incendiary language" for a cars exploding gas bottles that slightly damaged his Canberra offices. Notwithstanding that ACT police had found that the injured driver  "...was not politically, religiously or ideologically motivated," The Martyr Shelton who was obviously feeling that Christ was getting too much attention for this time of year chose instead to beat-up the story into a hate crime and wasn't heard in interview to express any concern for the vehicle's driver who is in a critical condition; which is pretty funny as this faux Xtian thinks that marriage equality and the Safe Schools Program are comparable to the horrors of the Holocaust!

In a word, a WANKER!

 

Hay Bales, Myrniong

Another wanker, Matthew Boofhead Canavan  went on what has been called "a bizarre rant" about the ABC spreading fake news about the proposed Adani Coal mine. Although it's not unusual for this pot-headed Far North Catlic (another one in the ruling rabble) to make silly statements, when the news services are calling it bizarre it must have been a beaut.

Apparently attempting eight times to get Senator Canavan to answer questions on the Indian government's investigation into the company behind the controversial project  Senator  Boofhead instead opined that the view from his North Queensland domicile is one that "makes you thank God that you were born in Queensland".

(?)

The only questions not asked of Boofhead were whether it was true his vehement rant defending Adani and his slagging off at the ABC were proportionate to the amount of monies his Far North chapter of the Liarbril Party and the ruling rabble had received from Adani and whether the house is negatively geared?

Notice, that all mentioned above are what are erroneously termed, Xtians?

Upstanding Xtian yep, one more;  "intellectual" Bestiality Bernardi (read: total boring wanker and deluded nincompoop) from the far, far right of the ruling rabble and "leader-in-his-own-mind," is being touted as going to jump ship from the foundering rust-bucket, SS Liarbril to start his own cabal of "Rightness, Uprightness, Goodness, Niceness" all wrapped in the calming quality of a 1950's ultra-Conservative miasma.

The malodorous rise of The Red Terror's One Notion stocks in opinion polls is terrifying the ruling rabble who see their constituency of deplorables ebbing away by finding the solace of being racist, sexist and stupid far easier in the values bereft One Notion.  Which, is to say that the ruling rabble pretending to have values is really not much different, only more confusing.

Faced with a united Labor, a fairly solid Greens movement and being seen by all as mishandling what they historically but mythically believe their core attribute, financial acumen and beset by internal division, the ruling rabble have been for a decade a visionless policy vacuum except for the input of thought bubbles from the pretend Ayn Rand club, the IPA and have now been hoist on their own Petard, sinking into the mess they for years have falsely projected onto others.

Truffles is being seen by some as incompetent as Big-Ears McMahon was in the early 70's and there is not one of his ministers who seem to have a handle on what they are doing.

So at the end of 2016 Australia is adrift financially, a laughing stock morally and a bad joke environmentally.

Hoo-roo Possums, enjoy Saturnalia,

Shane

Pulling the Pin on Baubles of Bodgie Cheer

G'day Possums,

'Tis the Silly Season and the insanity surrounding us is becoming worse.

In the Un-united States a Happy-Clapper nutter (is there any other sort?) has foretold of the Apocalypse happening at the end of the year when Jesus is to return. 

Given that the Anti-Christ seems to have recently arrived early in the fractured States and that Death, Famine, Conquest  and War have been their stock in trade for the past 70 years, I don't think he's much at prophesy... but just in case the nutter is correct, I'd advise Jesus to A/ get a nose job, B/ blonde his hair and C/ bleach his skin a tad as people of Middle Eastern appearance are now less than welcome in Western Democracies and he might well find himself  banged-up in Guantanamo Bay doing a re-education course for having the temerity to think he could ever compete in the god stakes!

Belonging to  the Party of Individualism and Libertarianism, Liarbril, Stephanie Ross (a Pro-Life campaigner ) has announced that there are limits to others freedoms and that women should not be allowed abortions, even in cases of pregnancy through rape ... that the raped women "will-get-over-it-through-the-love-of-the-child".  How this childless young woman knows this apart from "divine conversation" as she prepares to knock off the sitting member of Narracan, is anyone's guess but it is nice to see the Liarbril Party eschewing it's C19th attitudes and returning to its more natural home of C12th medievalism.

With Australia about to lose its AAA credit rating due to the deficit growing eight-fold under the incompetent "stew"ardships of  Eleventy Hockey, Horse-Shite Cormann, Kelly Shadduppa-Ya-Face O' Dwyer and Scummo Morrison  many are asking why there is no longer the "Budget Emergency"?

Well, there is but it's not being reported with the same rabid fervour in the Ugly American Murdoch's media that we saw when Labor were in charge. 

In fact, most attention seems to be on a couple of Labor premiers who are actually "doing things" for their respective states instead of the shambles we see in the ruling rabble at a national level. 

Apart from being the most practiced of liars the ruling rabble's other finely honed skill is the "Look-over-There" diversionary tactic.

With Fictions Frydenberg, Minister for Coal-Mines and Banning Alternative Energy making the mistake the other day of announcing that a Carbon Tax might be looked at again and after copping the ire of Bestiality Bernardi, he looked even more foolish in his pathetically craven retreat when it was announced that a carbon tax would lower electricity bills by some $15 billion over the next ten years and when a Dr Ottaviano from a pioneering wave power company in SA said that because of the climate policy chaos and bumbling from the ruling rabble they would not provide the predictable power available from tides but build their first commercial plant off the coast of Cornwall in England where the policy support for renewables is more solid. 

No wonder this IPA led Australia has become a joke internationally.

Truffles', You-Beaut-3rd- Rate-Copper-Wire-NBN is about to miss it's promised targets of being finished by the end of 2016 and being cheaper than Labor's state-of-the-Art  Fibre model. In fact there is talk that, against the advice of their own expert panel they are going to slug another tax onto regional districts in order to defray costs on this world ranked, 60th in broadband speed.

Ahh... are we seeing examples of how shit rises to the top? 

Liarbrils who constantly spread the myth that they are a low tax party.

People ask what they have done in 5 years other than destroy?

Awww... come on, be fair. They have set remarkable new lows morally, ethically, economically and artistically that would be really difficult for anyone else to emulate other than having Rabid-the-Hun back with Bestiality Bernard or Vichy Abetz as deputy.

Another of Truffles more idiot choices being Michelle Guthrie, who is dismembering and disembowelling the ABC... the other day in response to journalists who wanted to know how they would do "hard" news with all her cuts Guthrie responded that she would have liked the piece on refugee children in the Manus concentration camp to have shown more "... happy children!" ??????

Isn't the Parallel-Universe of the IPA a wonderful place?     Guthrie's Gotta Go! 

And this is not fiction

Hoo-roo Petals,

Shane

With Santa to the Barricades

Shane with the Eureka flag

G'day Possums,

a few days ago I ambled up to Ballarat for the Eureka Stockade commemorations. 

Hosted by Joe Toscano since 2002, the Eureka goldfields rebellion of 1854 was the first and last insurrection against the then colonial government of Victoria and although bloodily put down, eventually achieved many of its aims and is now noted as a seminal event of Australia's then developing democracy.

Anne Beggs-Sunter 

Arriving with others at the site on Bakery Hill I met one of the speakers, local historian and lecturer Anne Beggs-Sunter who as a primary activist 20 years ago was responsible for the preservation of the facades of the Victorian edifices opposite the Hill which now house that arch nemesis of healthy eating, a well known hamburger purveyor who was eventually stymied in building its standard visual pollution.

Attending too, were Garry from Brisbane and Melbourne City Councillor Jackie Watts as well as a sprinkling of Australian Indigenous, West Papuans, Unionists and Black flag wielding Anarchists. 

Like the miners of 1854, a motley crew, but still welded to the same Chartist values of solidarity, representation and the principle of a fair go for all.

Garry

These values are still being threatened with extinction by the addled libertarian devotees of individualism and particularly from malign cabals like the Coots-With-Queer-Ideas-From-a-Parallel-Universe, (the IPA) one of whose prime mentors, Gina Our-Biggest-Miner Rinehart is apparently suing the Victorian Government and thence the citizens of the state for loss of potential profit because the insanity of "Fracking" has been banned in what was once the Tardis State, Where All-Goes-Backward.

The attacks by these Dinosaurs on the Premier Daniel Andrews and his Labor crew are increasing week by week because unlike the previous Liarbril mal-administration infrastructure that is actually useful is being built, social justice issues are being addressed, education, Law reform and health are also being prioritised and there is a palpable sense of the state generally moving forward: a situation of positive community development which the right-wingers mentioned, hate as it's the antithesis of their selfish individualism.

Eureka, Joe Toscano

Federally, the Ruling Rabble of Truffles Turdball  is in such a shambles it's almost impossible to know where to start.

The Attorney General, Bookshelves Brandis made another monumental mess of his portfolio when it was revealed in a West Aussie paper that he had allegedly directed the since resigned Solicitor General to usurp the Law and "not mention" certain facts to the High Court, having allegedly "done a deal " with the financially struggling WA Liarbril ruling rabble to advantage them instead of the Commonwealth. 

Ahh... For Whom Bell Tolls.... it was fascinating looking at the face of Horse-Shite Coorman sitting behind Bookshelves in the senate who was droning on about his brilliance and legal purity attempting to divert attention from his "bentness".  Horseshite's  eyes darted furtively around all the opposition benches with that worried look of "Have they got the killer question coming soon?"

This mongrel ruling rabble are a bloody disgrace.

 

Garden

Then there were the verbal gymnastics attempting to "contextualize" Dodo Dutton's racist rant that previous PM Mal Fraser was wrong to let Lebanese refugees emigrate here some 30 years ago; Truffles  showing as much spine as a jelly fish in not slapping this Far Northern moron down.

Others from the Far North went swimming to "prove" that the Great Barrier Reef  is in good health. 

Why The-Red-Terror Hanson and others of her feeble minded One Notion Club would want to pollute almost pristine waters is beyond me but unfortunately they were all dog paddling 1000 km south of where the very next day marine scientists announced that between 30 - 50% of the Northern reef is dead or dying.  With  Mal-Addled Roberts of One Notion always wanting "empirical" evidence of global warming having an effect on the planet, one assumes that this might be it?

 

Garden

In a minor Eureka moment  members of Whistleblowers Activists and Citizens Alliance super-glued their hands to the visitor gallery railing in parliament House.  WACA spokesperson Kat Moore said. "We are here today to tell the Australian Parliament they are all complicit in the murder, rape, torture and child abuse of refugees."  They also turned the water feature in front of parliament into a bloody pool, representing deaths from turn-backs at sea, with signs reading 'Turn-backs Are Murder' and 'Blood On Your Hands' and turning up again the next day abseiling down the front of parliament  with banners saying ,"Justice for refugees."

Needless to say the right-wing went hysterical, frothing at the mouth hypocritically about respect for democracy, parliament and the sanctity of our borders whilst ignoring the values of free-speech and ordering a 2.5 metre fence to surround the lawns which encircle the parliament  building.

Well known human non-rights activist and ex Liarbril Mandy Il-Patrone, Vanstone (remember Vivian Solon and Cornelia Rau?) print mangled yet again another comment piece condemning such behaviour and how it somehow discredits democracy, makes life uncomfortable for supine aspirationals to consider others and that she prefers to keep company with the IPA mafia... or something like that!  The snarling, negative and destructive utterances of this IPA controlled ruling rabble are indeed a far cry from the "elite" standards Liberals once pretended to embody, now they decry and vilify, anyone who opposes them. They will lie, spread false information and muddy the waters of any contrary view calling it un-democratic and a threat to stability when their selfish, limited, individualistic world view is threatened.

"It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most
intelligent, but the one most responsive to change."
Charles Darwin

 

Garden

And therein lies their demise. Faced with the inevitable on climate change and that their "policy"  bastard of paying/wasting money paying big polluters, Josh Fictions Frydenberg  (another IPA apparatchik masquerading as a democrat) had the temerity to announce that a Carbon Tax should be looked at again!

Well, colleague Cory, Bestiality Bernardi, recently arrived back from his "born-again" experience of Trumpism exploded into a rabidly frothy rant  worthy of a canine Vesuvius at this arrant bout of sensibleness. How dare anyone think a scientist knows what's going to happen in Dogs world? What an arrant presumption to limit the march of capitalist expansion by husbanding the planet for all and not for profit!

Fictions, next day pathetically climbed back under his rock where both he and his leader Truffles denied ever expressing  such heretical sentiments.

 

Garden

Remember when the press  well, the majority press, the Ugly American's Murdoch press howled about the dysfunction of Labor under Rudd/Gillard/Rudd?  Well Possums, it was nothing, absolutely nothing like the shambles we have at the moment. Policy free since Rabid-the Hun in 2013; we now have an economy about to enter recession, these self proclaimed economic gurus have increased to debt 8 fold, the AAA credit rating is on the brink of going south, Oil and Gas companies are paying a pittance of $800 million in tax when Qatar receives $28 Billions in revenue for the same amount of product, the mis-management of the education system bearing its alarmingly poor fruit, millions of dollars being rorted by our politicians, every social benefit like the Arts and the ABC under attack (as per the IPA wish-list) monies are being promised to overseas miners to destroy what's left of the Barrier Reef, Tax breaks for big business that will do SFA for the economy as a whole whilst real tax reform is just a conversation topic and a wink and a nod is given for banks to continue over-exploiting their customers.

Remember Eureka, bring out the Tumbrils, and sharpen the guillotine blades Petals,  2017 is going to be an interesting year.

Hoo-roo,

Shane

...Spring is Boing

G'day Petals,

Wombat Kinder 2 and I took a trip to the State Library in the city t'other day to see an exhibition of colonial artist William Strutt. 

"Black Thursday" and "Bushrangers on St.Kilda Rd" being amongst the visual descriptions of colonial Melbourne's life, manners and costumes he meticulously recorded.

State Library, Bunyip and St Joan.

Strutt's drawings are delightful and although their anecdotal detail is engaging, one of the Bushrangers being I believe, local lad Capt. Moonlight, the paintings are less memorable because of their histrionic Victorian sentiment.  We followed these with a wander through the building and its display of the history of printing with some very beautiful examples of Audubon and Gould illustrations as well as the more salacious covers of pulp fiction from the early 60's.

State Library Reading Room

Wombat Kinder2 is a keen dressmaker who wanted to peruse some vintage material so we trotted off to the Mitchell Building in Lonsdale St which has a startling Art Deco foyer only to find the material shop closed but after meeting up with Mrs Wombat we tried the Phillips Shirt Factory with more success. One of the last Australian firms to manufacture shirts, Phillips' has a huge amount of material and clothing for sale in a visually interesting but derelict workshop.

Phillips Shirts

I was surprised to see an industrial material cutter that was manufactured in Oz.... and found that they still are... how rare!

Time for a drink ... so we climbed through a very visually busy and quite disorienting series of floors to a rooftop bar in Hardware Lane. It was interesting to note that the "busyness" became more muted and spaced the higher we went so I think it would be correct to assume the artist started on the lower levels.

Things then took a bridal turn.

 

Triple Grooms with Fries

Leaving Hardware Lane I discovered three groomsmen who had temporarily escaped the focus of the photographers and were snacking before the reception at a fast food place.... then the vintage cars with sundry drivers and others of the wedding party all lined up having a smoke and.... Voila... the full frou-frou shebang at the old Post office!

The Princess Carriage, by-the-way is not from this bridal party, it's tourist transport. 

More important frou-frou happened this week with the return of Federal Parliament after a four month break and Truffles-in-a-Muddle's near death election result.

Ex Freedom Boy and IPA clone, Timmy Twat Wilson teared-up during his Maiden speech. Which will probably be the last time he will do anything in that place which seems genuine. Irrelevant but genuine, he avoided calling himself a hypocrite in supporting the wasteful $160,000,000.00 plebiscite and repeal of 18C so that the minority group he's a member of will be vilified and treated unequally for years more to come.

It's no wonder then when "intelligence" like this abounds at The-Coots-With-Queer-Ideas-From-a-Parallel-Universe that one of the IPA's past directors, Roger Neave has tipped a bucket on them and put on record his disgust at how far-right the organisation has become. In an interview for The Saturday Paper, Neave charts the demise of this once liberal group and says at article's end that, "...because of the surge of the right in the demonising of refugees/asylum seekers, of "children overboard" and (that) we imprison them...I want my pride back in being an Australian." 

Hmmm... too late methinks!

 

The Mitchell Building

Bestiality Bernardi has been gathering signatures of other feeble-minded fascists (when not asleep on the job) to repeal 18C and who, excited by their newfound solidarity are ignoring Truffles-in-a-Muddle's exhortations not to fragment what's looking like a terminal adventure for Ruling Rabble Mk2.

Ex IPA mediocrity, Wunderkind Paterson having been in parliament for fully five minutes and who probably wouldn't know truth if he fell over it, is one of the worst offenders in seeming not to realise that destabilising an already rickety rust-bucket like the S.S. Liarbril may have consequences beyond his instant gratification in seeking notoriety.

Phillips Shirts

Bestiality has also been having a fine time railing against the poor judgment of Sammy Halal Dastyari who had a Chinese business type (with links to Chinese Gov) pay for some trips and a couple of bills. In his muddled incoherent tirade, Bestiality really only exposed what a simple minded buffoon he appears to others and even to his some of his own side, to be. An intellectual pygmy would probably have made a better fist of it but at least Bestiality looked happy in his role of chief assailant; his Easter Island faux impassiveness occasionally breaking into smirking as he found pleasure in firing blanks at an embarrassed Dastyari.

Then on Day two Senator Jacquie Lambie rounded on Bestiality with this: "I think it is important to make this point around the debate about Australian political donations to the Chinese communist government. Liberal senator Cory Bernardi lecturing this parliament and displaying mock outrage regarding Labor senator Sam Dastyari and Chinese political donations is like an angry prostitute lecturing us about the benefits of celibacy.

And before I receive unfair criticism from the sex workers, I apologise to them profusely in comparing them to senator Bernardi. I know that is a really terrible low down thing to do because I can tell you prostitutes are far more honest, sincere, humane, compassionate and better bang for buck than senator Bernardi will ever be able to deliver."  

So there!

Silly Sammy Halal's proto-Liarbril  financial blunderings managed to divert attention from the ICAC findings in NSW where two Liarbril shonks will probably be referred to police for charging and Arfuh Da Spiv Sinodinas got a Scottish verdict from "not sufficient evidence," proving that early onset dementia, temporarily, is not necessarily a bad thing.

 

Funky Art in bar  Hardware Lane

Horse-Shite Cormann vibble-vobbled with shonky figures as he and his innumerate treasurer Scummo Morrison attempted to bully Labor into supporting their 2014 budget. It's hard to know whether like Scummo's predecessor they too, think that cruel, anti-social, neo-liberal penny pinching is a sure way of getting to Washington and double dip at entitlements or either that "thinking" was never really part of this fiscal equation.

According to Rabid-the-Hun and Chwissie The Whyning-Perfect-Prat-of-a-Prefect, Pyne their  well regarded whistle-blower and "Lion-of-the-Union-Movement," Kathy Jackson, has finally been referred to court by police on 70 charges of being a very naughty and selfish gel with $1,400,000.00 of her Union's money.

Craig Thompson was not heard to respond and is probably certain not to ask for visiting rights in the future!

 

The Bride to Be, Hardware Lane.

I watched Parliament question-time on the first day back and it was interesting to note the body language and facial expressions on the Ruling Rabble minions behind the front bench. I think they of the Ruling Rabble Mk 2 know they're well and truly f****d!

An address for those interested....

Phillips Shirts 274 Little Lonsdale St, Melbourne VIC 3000.

Hoo-roo, Possums,

Shane