Lambie to the Slaughter

In for the Chop like Shane is Lambie.

G'day Possums,

 after a five week sojourn trying to think up something that approaches policy The Happy Clapping Liar from the Shire, devotee of Mammon and The Rapture, bogan prime miniature, Scummo has again assembled his motley collection of corruptible mediocrities together in Canberra to see what other havoc they  can bring down on the nation with their collective incompetence and blinkered adherence to  C19th IPA ideology .

Fresh from applauding Potato-Head Dutton's iron will in not being swayed by anything resembling humanity as he continued to torture a Tamil refugee family with their two Australian daughters by incarcerating them in the Christmas Island Concentration Camp after the courts stymied his plan to have them forcibly returned to the place they were escaping from, Scummo announced that forthwith all welfare recipients will be treated as druggies and tested for such and that they will also be forced to use the much maligned Indue Card where 80% of their welfare is retained on the card to be used only at prescribed stores.

Near Tyldon.. 

As a distraction tactic so that our supine nation will not notice the depression we are sliding into, it worked a treat. 

A whole lot better than hyperventilating about dodgy donations in Aldi shopping bags from dodgy Chinese types to dodgy Labor ones; as drawing too much attention to that practice just might end up illuminating some of the Ruling Rabble's own very murky operations.

So successful in fact, that Independent Tasmanian and balance of power Senator, Warrant Officer Lambie marched nay, paraded around in circles spouting her support for both of the patronizing, anti-social and de-humanizing "trials" of the proposed legislations.

After all, she had the info. She had talked to people (supplied it seems, by the financially involved architect of the Indue card venture, Shifty-Twiggy Forrest) and just like the concentration camp performers provided to the Red Cross by the SS during WW2 they were very convincing about what a great thing it was. W/O Lambie then on reflection made one concession: if re-hab facilities are not supplied prior, then it would be, no-go!

Having been thrown a bone earlier on The Apple Isle’s housing debt by Horse-Shite Cormann  (a devious ultra right-winger not even trusted by own party) for passing the Ruling Rabble's tax package W/O Lambie thinks she has the measure of the place and so, is also demanding that CFMMEU union secretary, Biffo Setka stand aside or she'll pass the newest draconian anti union legislation the Ruling Rabble are proposing.

Now, disliking someone on a personal level as “a meat-head” and threatening the introduction of far reaching neo-fascist anti-union legislation as the lever to remove them indicates a political and social intellect of rank quality similar to the Red Terror from the Deep North.

Like-wise, expressing support for the Indue card… something owned and managed by the Ruling Rabble’s country cousins, “The Nationals” is giving effect to privatising welfare and with it, the opportunity to use the unemployed’s taxpayer’s funding for profit and, should we mention it, possibly “donations” back to the benefactor a’la Parakeelia ...not a wise or socially responsible move....seeing as Horse-Shite has admitted that un and under-employment with lower wages is their economic model.

 Besides, when the Rabble treat each other like sharks in a frenzy nothing about them can be trusted.

Speaking of sharks, The Happy Clapping Liar from the Shire, devotee of Mammon and The Rapture, bogan prime miniature, Scummo has named his $250,0000,000.00 upgraded aircraft, “Shark 1”. 

Stooping into banality lower than a used car salesman would and naming it after the football team he follows when a fire-bombing water tanker might have been a more timely and appropriate purchase is perfectly understandable.... particularly when you don’t believe in climate change, but the Rapture instead!

Does it all seem like smoke and mirrors?

Hoo-roo Petals

Shane.

The Ship of Fools or All at Sea on the Foundering Rustbucket, SS Ruling Rabble

G'day Lorikeets,

We've been to and seen a few performances this week, two spirit lifting, the others seen only from afar, wholly dispiriting as you witness how completely bereft of moral and ethical behaviour the Ruling Rabble have become and how any concept of ministerial responsibility is utterly foreign to them and just how parlous our democracy has become.

Squawking like a demented Sulphur Crested Cockatoo aloft the crows nest at sunset, The Harpy Cash demanded that Labor apologise for questioning her honesty because she withheld knowledge from the police about the staffers who admitted they criminally leaked the AWU raid to the press. Then incongruously denied that it was in order to get Willy Shortstuff into trouble ("...who's this Shorten bloke..?" she was alleged to have muttered) as she and the Retiring Keenan flapped away from the tender ministrations of Senator Penny Wong who also wanted to discuss the failure of the Unfair Work Commission in cutting penalty rates to hospitality workers which hasn't meant, as they promised, an increase in working hours.

And if ever a Knight was errantly named it was this new Paladin. Born in a shack on Kangaroo Island with shonky partners, with no experience and with Home Affairs Minister, Potato-Head Dutton's sister on staff, the Ruling Rabble have said privately, much like they did to the Barrier Reef Syndicate, "Here ya go, mate... have a measly $423,000,000.00 go and run the concentration camp on Manus.... and don't forget "good practice" .... sack the workers, re-hire them on lower wages and make a bigger profit!"

In what seemed an audition for the Melbourne International Comedy Festival the alleged Attorney General, The Un-xtian Porter when queried by Barrie Cassidy on Insiders that Paladin's accommodation bill for a concentration camp bed was costing at $1600.00 per week sans food, a lot more than a top Sydney hotel, The Unxtian strait facedly replied with something like, "....we try to do the best for our concentration camp inmates.!"  Later, in a Tsunami of appearances inaccurately blaming Labor, he announced that there were loopholes in legislation big enough for a whale to jump through (I know, I know, whales broach...but it's not me speaking) It was the legislation parliament enacted to provide a semblance of kindness to the Manus and Nauru detainees but like Joe McCarthy in the 50's, The Un-xtian declined to offer the evidence.

Then just when you thought the weather couldn't get worse, Double Dipping Joe Hockey sails in from his taxpayer funded double-dip holiday camp in Washington to not offer advice to the godfather of his children and WA Ruling Rabble treasurer and Helloworld travel business owner on how to facilitate a billion dollars in government travel contracts. "Nor Sir, not me, grinned the ever ebullient Joe the Double Dip..... and I didn't advise him to about the Fisherman's Bend redevelopment either, that was probably Matty Thug, The Lobster Guy.... we're all mates here, we (wink, wink, nudge, nudge) share  everything."

Mates-rates also caught his other friend, Horse-Shite Cormann out when he decided to go-to-the-top instead of the sales desk, to the same Helloworld travel boss and book a family holiday flight... which seven months later still wasn't paid until a journo asked... and even then, amid the flurry of salty excuses, $2700.00 for a family of four for return flights to Singapore and unlikely to be "cattle-class" is very cheap. But then, cheaply treating the public suits Cormann: he billed the taxpayer $37,000.00 for an RAAF flight to Adelaide to unsuccessfully woo some Centre Alliance opposition rather than take a very cheap commercial flight for say $1200.

But as Primed Miniature de Jour Scummo says..."Nothing to see here.. "Ooooh, look Boats , boats and more boats, terrorists, rapists, naughty brown people on the horizon, batten down the hatches, man the cannon!"

And then the polls turned ...well they did if you believe The Ugly American's comics. But if you believe them you also probably think "John and Betty" is classic high literature.

It is interesting to note how consistent all the media have become in their word placement, the tenor and projections of what they are saying... it's not actually news, it's propaganda designed to obscure the truth of just how corrupt and incompetent this Ruling Rabble is, was, and shall always be. Amen.

Now the nice stuff ... I commissioned a ring for Mrs Wombat, a replica of one from the C12th-C13th  from jeweller friend Paul (APS Jewellery) and it made us all very happy.

Then later, at the Sidney Myer Music Bowl we all attended a wonderful concert featuring the incredibly talented 11 yo Christian Li playing Saint-Saen's Introduction and Rondo capriccioso, 

Max Bruch's Scottish Fantasy with the superb playing of Veriko Tchumburidze  and a really good band, The Melbourne Symphony beautifully conducted by Benjamin Northey......

which makes all the political stuff more evil, more wastefully negative, pointless and culturally debilitating than it has ever been in Australia.

May we soon be rid of these irrelevant but costly pricks.

Hoo-roo, Kookaburra's

Shane. 

..... singing the Internationale?

G'day Possums,

it's nearly Spring.....

Faux Finance Minister, Matty Horse-Shite Cormann whose second language is English and third economics, has painted a desperate doomsday scenario of Australia under a Willie  Shortstuff  Labor regime, claiming that he is "cocky" and relying on the politics of envy to propel him to the Prime Minister's Lodge as people forget the failures of, "shock-horror", that word which should never be uttered:  socialism. 

Ludicrously likening the Labor party to a East German Stasi cabaret, The Cuban's Beuna Vista Social Club, and St Petersburg's Mariinsky Ballet, Horse-Shite, in a mixed language rant to Father Gerard's Sydney Geriatric Institute, claimed that by being socialist  and not giving tax breaks to big business, curbing excessive executive payouts and paying fair wages there will be a terrible brake on "aspiration" in Oz and the entertainment of widening class division!

Also, conveniently ignoring not only Australia's faltering economy, increasing debt and rampant Ruling Rabble corruption, this salient member of the Lying Nasty Papists, in reprising the "Reds-Under-The-Bed" scenario from the 50's also avoids  mentions of  the economies of Sweden, Norway, Finland and Denmark who are highly successful social democracies.

He prophesied that our most innovative  entrepreneurs with imagination and creativity will  flee the country to their Cayman Island tax havens leaving the light on thus causing all those renting these refugees negatively geared properties on their reduced wages without penalty rates not to be able to afford the rising electricity bill, smashed avocado and forced to eat cat food in lieu of real mince.

Disaster!

Seeming never in his life to have had a job other than one sucking off the public teat, this neo-fascist Belgian expat is well qualified to be concerned about the politics of envy, cigar smoking and the dismal failure of neo-con theory as his Lying Nasty Papist cabal fails to govern effectively; and because of its policy bereft status is even being pilloried by those whom you might think, at other times, would be supporters.

A perfect storm is brewing too, as the eligibility crisis, the stupidly divisive marriage equality postal vote  and Pell-Pot's historical child abuse case all head for judgment in October and there seems to be a drip feed of damaging historical malfunctions like Rabid-the-Hun's alcoholic stupor and sleeping through important votes in parliament and the potentially internecine stoushes between the LNP and the Nats to make the ruling rabble a total shambles.

Nationals deep-north senator Matty, Thug Canavan and Noe Notion senator Mal-Addled Roberts have changed their tune on key details of their citizenship status, as the High Court begins hearings on a case providing ample evidence of the honesty, ethics and integrity of ruling rabble and its affiliates. Happy to lie to the people they say they represent Thug Canavan has conceded to the court that he has been an Italian citizen since he was 2 - when he previously blamed a 2006 application on his mother - and Mal-Addled appeared ( I say "appeared" as his empirical evidence enunciations are always in a deep-north dialect quite foreign to the rest of the country) to admit that he had not filled in his British citizenship renunciation documents until after he was elected, to which, there was weeping and gnashing of teeth by 77 sack-clothed and ashed deep-north voters. 

Some of Australia's most senior politicians have been caught out not declaring a free pay television subscription worth up to $1,600 a year. No wonder The Ugly American, Murdoch needed another, no strings, $30,000,000.00 of taxpayers money to play with.  He will also be having stern words with his son who lackadaisically  has been gazumped again, this time by CBS flying under his radar to buy Channel 10, thereby stalling The Ugly American's ambition of having almost total control of Australia's media.

"So comrades, come rally
And the last fight let us face
The Internationale unites the human race".

Hoo-roo comrades,

Shane

Rotten to the Core

being a basket case

G'day Petals,
what times we live in.

With the booting of Sussan Ley from her position as Health Minister because she was an embarrassment to the Ruling Rabble, Prime Miniature Truffles  has appointed an even bigger shonk to the position.

 Arfah Da Spiv Sinodinas.  Arfah, you might recall was severely memory challenged at the corruption investigation in Sydney a couple of years ago when asked about who gave what to whom when  he was fundraising treasurer for the Liarbril party.

That he was also working at the time for outstanding remuneration, vis-s-vis hours worked, for the now jailed Labor Party shonk, Eddie Obeid should ring alarm bells but this is the new Australia where political corruption is just about the only growth area of the economy.
Bronnie, Kero/Chopper Bishop came to Ley's defence arguing that Socialism was to blame and to a certain extent she's correct. The failed and most biased Speaker of the Parliament was certainly assiduous in distributing taxpayer funds for her own entitled benefit before she too was dumped as an embarrassment  and presently shows no sign of being coy in taking $200,000.00 of taxpayer money each year as her parliamentary pension.

Australia : Before and After or Rotten to the Core 

Slit-Her-Throat Ciobo, a very nasty piece of Liarbril work, chimed in too, opining that we taxpayers "expect" that we should pay for these entitled people to attend sporting fixtures and other social events, drink the free booze and to schmooze with the "A" list whilst sorting out future employment opportunity's.

But not so our Foreign minister Jules, Asbestos Bishop.  Mindful of her propensity to make very expensive RAAF travel arrangements with her current B/F Asbestos this year bailed out of attending the Portsea Polo extravaganza, probably assessing it too unseemly that she should pay with her own money to talk matters equine as she did last year. No wonder the Chinese said she was a fool.

Capn Catlic, Andrews hit us for $2,000.00 to attend a prayer session with other right-wingers in the US forgetting that his christ allegedly threw the money lenders out of the temple not invited them in.

Horse-Shite Cormann has spent $23,000.00  taking his family on holidays to Broome at our expense whilst as finance minister he strips back welfare, medicare, education, pensions because we're too expensive to run.

Apparently, 650 big companies pay no tax at all and Truffles is trying to give them all a $50,000,000,000.00 hand-out!

Time for the tumbrils to roll eh, Possums?

Shane

gagged in a fog

In a Fog

Now week four and the DD (Delusional Duo) are spending gazillions of other people's money zipping about the country gagging journalists (mostly from the ABC) and obfuscating with foggy half truths and often in the Liarbrils case, outright lies, which will not be picked up by the "fact-check" 'cause it's been cut from the budget (all $100,000:00 worth)  and will not be re-instated by the new Murdoch appointee Michele Guthrie as it would not help the Liarbril cause if people actually knew what was really planned..... if they did they really might start to riot.

Hmmm... "Horse-Shite" Cormann praising Willie Shortstuff, Chwissie "The Whyning" Pyne telling us we don't really need fast broadband and "Barnyard" Joyce conflating the surge in boat arrivals under Labor with their decision to halt live beef exports to Indonesia...and another of their candidates bailing out, citing no help from a "divided party on a knife edge."

Barely three weeks into the election campaign and it seems the ruling rabble are a trifle rattled and are showing a lack of capacity for the hard work of disciplined and focused campaigning.

Perhaps because their right-wing IPA driven agenda that offers the majority of the electorate nothing except social divisiveness and disadvantage is becoming more apparent that they are confused as to what to say.

One of the Liarbril candidates "crashed" one of "Willie Shortstuff's" meet and greet sessions and made a complete "dick" of himself by rounding on the journo's when he couldn't answer to his party's policy on health. Not willing to "fess-up" that it's "Stay Healthy and Wealthy, 'Cause We Don't Care," candidate Chwissie "Vermin" Jermyn, stuffed himself into his vehicle and drove off to escape the publicity that his poor minder then had to contend with. His car was later photographed parked on a "nature strip" next to a sign saying "No Parking," so you can see he seems the perfect Liarbril candidate. Rude, stupid, self centered and un-electable!  Eat your heart out, Jamie Diaz, you're no longer a solo act! 

Where do these people come from and how in dog's name do they get pre-selected?

Labor's "Big Red's captain's pick," Nova Peris has bailed out of the Senate, too...only to cop a barrage of racist criticism, particularly from those intellectual minnows Greg "Toady" Sheridan and "Blot-on-The-Landscape" Bolt who opined that she had "....gone walkabout...!" 

All class, those two!

Oh, my goodness... haven't this ruling rabble done us proud on the world stage.... onion eating prime miniatures, in-bred tomato deputy's, innumerate treasures, sick health ministers, immigration ministers who incarcerate refugees in concentration camps where they self harm and suicide, finance ministers who think "back-handers," (if they ever remember), are only found on the tennis court and "innovative technologies" which sack world renowned scientists and waste billions on an internet that's useless.....what a f*****g shambles this untalented cabal of Liarbril mediocrity have made of a great nation in just three years...

"But the IPA’s article today merely repeats the same old tired misconceptions about the NBN that we’ve seen a billion times already, with a handful of outright inaccuracies thrown in for good measure. It’s almost as if the IPA merely reprinted an article on this topic from the 2013 Federal Election … or even the 2010 poll."

https://delimiter.com.au/2016/05/23/ipa-publishes-anti-labor-nbn-attack-riddled-grievous-errors/

Standard, "Coots-With-Queer-Ideas-From-a-Parallel-Universe" "research" quality!

Well, when Clive Palmer tips a bucket, it's a good one. Loathe him or love him you have to admit he knows where a lot of the skeletons are buried in the fetid financial swamps of the Liarbril Party and it seems he's quite prepared to disinter them....but why does it gets no airplay after ?

"All mentions of Australia were removed from the final version of a Unesco report on climate change and world heritage sites after the Australian government objected on the grounds it could impact on tourism."  "Guardian"

 Will Steffen, one of the scientific reviewers of the axed section on the reef, said Australia’s move was reminiscent of “the old Soviet Union”.

https://pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/reality-versus-rainbow-world

"Truffles Turdball " who not only thinks that Dodo Dutton is an "outstanding" Minister for Concentration Camps and that "Ozone-Hole" Hunt is perfectly suited for bleaching what remains of the "Great Barrier Reef" was slightly bested again by "Willie Shortstuff" in the second of the so-called "leaders debate."

Debate? 

They didn't.

Truffles verged on the histrionic with his patrician set-pieces that generally went nowhere near answering the questions put whilst Willie sounded somewhat more convincing after he left the script and became more animated. Moderator (Interrogator?), Chris Uhlmann couldn't help his bias emerging by questioning Willie himself ( I don't recall Truffles being subjected to this) and interrupting Willies' answers.... and the little synopsis scripts at bottom of screen were often quite misleading or biased..... it seems that "The Ugly American's" woman now running what's left of the National broadcaster was on the job and that "balance" like privacy, honesty, ethical behaviour and humanity is soooo last century!
 

I think the Liarbrils are almost in tatters.... their policy vacuum is becoming more apparent day by day and even their "chosen one" "Horse-shite" Cormann is failing in his robotic deliverance's. Labor's Feeney's mess is a pinprick compared to the "own goals" this ruling rabble have kicked....particularly as it has now come to light that "Eleventy" Hockey, failed Treasurer and now Ambassador of Embarrassment to Washington,  looks as though back in 2012 he was fiddling his "cab-charges" whilst telling us the "Age of Entitlement is over" and calling for the sacking of "Slippery Pete" on a similar, though smaller matter. I'll bet the AFP wont be investigating Eleventy's alleged rorts! .....  the next two weeks will be very interesting... probably with Mandy "Il Patrone"  Vanstone with Little Johnny-Who-Lost-His-Seat again trotted out as "the nearly believable" Liarbrils as the press don't have to ask them about where the money came from...and who sent it and was it Chinese this time, not that Italian mafioso from Brunswick and doesn't Cory B still equate marriage equality with bestiality and does Stevie "Slit-Her-Throat" Ciobo really stand up for Women's Rights?

Oh, dear!

And lest you think I'm making this all up here's a little serve from someone on FB: 

Peter Visser Biggest,longest commodity boom in our nation's history and our coffers are empty, our young people left unskilled and unemployed, students face a lifetime debt, pensions, healthcare and education funding cut , and still they try and tell us trickle down economics works?

Replicating the street stoushes between the Nazi's and the Communists of late 20's early 30's Germany, the misnamed United Patriot Front brazenly attended a rally in Coburg that was supposed to celebrate multi-culturalism and tolerance in the hope of harassing and disrupting the march. Confronted with opposition by anti-fascist activists, a brawl broke out and it seems the fascist got the worst of it.  Although claiming "victory,"( i.e. "...we started a fight") the over-steroided front man for the UPF only succeeded looked like the dim-witted school-boy bully he is. "Blah," as some call him, would have been naively happy though, that one of his hysterically inept video's made after the fracas, was given 15 seconds worth of  fame on TV news and where this sad creature was further exposed to justified ridicule.

Not wishing to confront the fact that Australia is becoming a xenophobic, racist, ugly and insular country, commentators are concentrating on saying how naughty it is for the "antifa" boys and girls to wear face masks and belt the fascists with flag poles while the police pepper spray photographers as the fighting goes on around them. Missing the point or blind to reality?

Hoo-roo fellow mushrooms,

Shane.

It's on

G'day Possums,

It's on .....

So, the Liarbril ruling rabble after two investigations, have admitted that Border-Farce was incorrect in labelling the nine Save-the-Children workers as agents in promoting and assisting self-harm amongst the refugees in our concentration camps at Manus and Nauru. Whilst admitting their guilt by their confidential payment to the nine concerned for the reputational damage done, the Border Farce, it's boss Roaming Quisling, and his boss Pelluzzo and the Minister, Do-Do Dutton, were at pains not to issue an apology.

Isn't this just the penultimate hallmark of this ruling rabble?

Wrong, just deflect. Incompetent, blame someone else. Corrupt, ignore. Rort, ...it's our due. Lie.. so what?

What a painfully low and sorry level these IPA office-boy ideologues have dragged the nation down to.

It has been revealed that former Prime Minister Tony Abbott spent more than $7000 on alcohol in just his last two months in the top job.  Then, Rabid-the-Hun in a moment of rare candor, opined in "the House" that "Chain-Saw" McFarlane who is retiring should be "...looked after..." by the fossil fuel industry he did so much for as a parliamentarian. Hmmm by following this gem with an anecdote about how he was handed an envelope with $5,000.00 in it after a function by a "...well known millionaire..." soon after he entered parliament, this Jesuit trained ex-priest said he had to seek advice on what to do!   PM material.... NOT!

But remember: Unions are corrupt and Labor governments are wasteful. 

"Kero-Bath-Pompador" Bronnie has also fouled parliament for the last time as did another hypocrite, Phillip "Anti-Amnesty" Ruddock. Bronnie sneered a parting remark that there would be more to come in her pay-back for being dumped both as the worst speaker parliament has ever experienced, her Helicopter rides and as a liability as a candidate. The amount of venom and bile these Liarbrils exude is quite amazing. They are psychically very unwell people.

Michaelia "Harpy" Cash went to ABC 774 to spruik her $4.00 ph wage for the dole-and-rort program, lying to Faine that it had all the safeguards of a normal job... it doesn't!

The harpy squawked her way through the interview... well, it was more of a monologue than interview, sounding in her strident efforts to override any criticism like a gaggle of Sulphur Crested's at sunset, only less mellifluous. Responses immediately after on talk-back were less than positive but that means little to the ruling rabble who only listen to their own ilk.

There are rumors that she might be dumped further down the Senate ticket to 5th or 6th spot where she would get less than the 350 odd votes she got last time... if that's the case then it's bye, bye Harpy.

The next day it was the turn of Prime Miniature, Malcon "Truffles" Turdball-fop to warn us of the grievous sin of making home ownership affordable for all rather than just the wealthy investor. Perhaps channelling the warm inner glow he had when he'd shelled out a couple of Million for his daughter's penthouse apartment with harbour views a few years ago, Truffles blithely advised Faine who had said that his children were priced out of the housing market to do the same. Hmm... remember Eleventy Hockey saying  "Want to buy a house? Get a better job?" Well, now it seems you have to have wealthy parents, too.

Scummo "The Innumerate" Morrison announced that "Hard-working-Families" would have "Jobs-and-Growth" many, many times and that he had a plan and not a budget, which was sort of true. It was a revision to the "Trickle-Down Economics" of the 70's where the majority of us get piddled on from a great height by the wealthy who get wealthier. He also said it was a classless budget as all of that stuff is now old hat. That was sort of correct too, for as someone pointed out, the ruling rabble have no class! Scummo also revised the mathematical definition of "small business." Now, for tax purposes a business that makes a Million is a small business. And black is white, too.

All, except the "Ugly American's" propaganda sheets were diffident in their analysis of this non budget plan, which withheld figures from scrutiny as a ploy to make Labors budget reply look as if it had the proverbial "Black-Hole" in its funding. Horse-Shite Cormann was even criticizing Labor's budget the day before it's release which was rather prescient of him and then he was embarrassed to have Treasury admit they had costed the ruling rabble 's effort which made the assertions of Truffles, Scummo and Horse-Shite that they hadn't, just what they were: Lies!

It is one thing for this ruling rabble to be incompetent economic managers but it seems they are just as incompetent politically. Perhaps it's their overweening sense of entitlement and hubris getting in the way of common sense?

Willie Shortstuff's budget-in-reply was pretty good... at least it seemed to have the country as a whole balanced for a future.... and from the head-down attitude and glum faces of the ruling rabble opposite, was hitting more marks than missing.

The Polls are 50-50....it's a long campaign to July 2nd,  yes Petals, the election is on....and there is a lot of anger about... this country really is at a cross-roads, will Australia begin to grow up or will it blindly follow The Ugly American's bullshit?

Hoo-roo,

Shane

being judged and found wanting

G’day Possums,

Shane with Award.

Well, we’ve been judged… at Lens Mist that is and “honourably mentioned.”

Which, I might say, is not  lunch at “Jules Verne” … 

....not even a baguette.

Some more pics from the venue

 Lens Mist Photo Award 2015

 Mordiallic

And the winner…

 

Kim Croker: "Fishing for Fog"

Next year in Jerusalem?

  

Wombat Droppings

The chronicle of the inexorable slide of an egalitarian nation into Fascism.

Senator “Bookshelves” Brandis has been censured by the Senate as unfit to hold the office of attorney general and “refusing to fully account for his conduct when appearing before a committee of the Senate, undermining Australia’s commitment to upholding human rights, and being unfit to hold the office of attorney general.”

The Greens senator Penny Wright said Triggs, in her report on children in detention, had done nothing more than “embarrass an acutely sensitive and vengeful government.”

“It’s a frightening thing when our government believes it can attack the very institutions that are designed to hold it to account and that is why we must show our censure and take action,” Wright said.

"..Chris Moraitis, (Brandis’ Public Servant secretary) denied specifically asking Triggs to resign, but said he had told Triggs during a meeting in Sydney on 3 February that she had lost the confidence of the attorney general, George Brandis." and “the government would be prepared to consider positively a senior legal role for her”.

Hmmm.... Geez mate, yer not sacked and we'ze not askin' fur yer resignation... but there's a nice little earner over there if ya see it our way.

What, with this translation, is wrong?

The problem with these "gents" is that it seems that they've never had the opportunity see how limited they are except when confronted with someone as civilized as Triggs and

that's when the visceral libertarian-child-hate-tantrum kicks in because they know they're completely out of their depth and not in control.

To read the transcript of the trial of Jeanne d'Arc is interesting as a comparison.

The C15th churchmen treated this peasant girl with due regard as they actually appreciated her as a formidable foe.

David “Floater”Johnston, ex defence minister was censured too a couple of months ago, before the incompetent was dumped and sent to the back-bench.

These censures are unfortunate parliamentary “firsts” for this remarkably inept ruling rabble.

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/feb/26/triggs-was-attacked-for-defending-the-powerless-and-one-day-another-pm-will-apologise-for-it?CMP=soc_567

Even that nest of anti-socialist Vipers, the Business Council of Australia now is saying there’s no “Budget-Crisis” whilst “Horse-Shite” Cormann still stumbles around in mumbling a patois of slash and burn, being unable to admit, even to himself, that the social insanity of his and Joe “Cereal-Toyota Killer” Hockey’s still to be passed, budget of fiscal game-playing has been as disastrous on the ruling rabble’s public standing as has Rabid-the-Hun’s “captain’s picks.”

Captain Rabid has, rather oddly, picked up in the polls. Whether this is real or is a propaganda dis-information effort of a new polling group will be seen in coming months;  but Rabid’s propensity to shoot-himself-in-the-foot particularly with an economy turning sourer than milk left in the Sun, unemployment growing at the same time as more jobs are being off-shored and with no-one left to blame except the Aliens with three heads, indicates it just might not be timely for a rabble celebration.

“Le Jongleur” Roskam  (lead Clown of the “Coots-With-Queer-Ideas-From-a-Parallel-Universe” and prize eunuch of the Liarbril Party) thinks it is better to be working poor rather than poor on social welfare benefits. This pathetically socially limited, theoretical libertarian doesn’t mind poverty: just the state of poverty you exist in.

It really makes you wonder which bit of his alleged idol’s most salient aphorism “Love One Another” he consistently fails to understand?

Le Jongleur has a competitor to his IPA in the CIS; another “Right-Wing, Libertarian, Free-Market,” thought bubble factory which judging from what I saw last night on QandA, is  staffed as well by loquacious 11 year old proto-fascist theorists in life. This mob too, tout themselves as the best thing since sliced bread which is par for the course with these seedy-minded hypocrites.

The storm will break soon.

Hoo-roo, Petals,

Shane.