Pell-Pot... Beckett, you are not!

G'day Possums,

well, it seems that one of the last edifices of Australian civil society, the Catholic Church has been shown to be rotten from the top down, too. Joining the finance and banking sectors, treatment of the elderly in nursing homes,  endemic violence against women, the appalling conditions for incarcerated indigenous youth, the anti-environmental stupidities in the Murray-Darling. 

The Royal Commission into Child Sexual Abuse has claimed Cardinal George Pell, who has been convicted on 5 counts over two boys, as a paedophile and is awaiting sentencing.

"It's a sad story and it wasn't of much interest to me" said Pell-Pot (*2) when asked how much he knew of his priests paedophile activities, betraying his dismissive clerical arrogance and also, as parents of his victims have told "....his sociopathic lack of empathy" as he didn't seem fazed by the fact that 7% of his clergy were serial perpetrators.

 Le Thoronet

Shades of... “You do not, have the power to command bishops.”* railed Beckett to Henry 2 in 1162 as the king attempted to pull the clergy into judicial line on similar matters.

The enraged howls emanating from The Ugly American Murdoch's shills over his Pell's conviction had ex prime miniature, Little Johnny Howard in the lead, and Miranda The Mad, Devine followed by Blot-on-the-Landscape, Bolt both frothing at the mouth over this alleged miscarriage of justice..."...he's a good bloke", "...a witty conversationalist".. "...he couldn't have done it" claimed all three, not in possession of the facts of the case, but seeing perhaps truly for the first time, in this "...disgraceful decision.." (by 12 jurors) that one of their apparently unassailable conservative, nay, fascist pillars, had suddenly fallen, disgraced and more importantly, was forever impotent.

Silvacane

Did it occur to them that their political commentary and lying might now come under closer scrutiny and that Little Johnny who was so keen to kill Iraqi's on a hunch about WMD's and send troops into indigenous camps on falsified information, be racist to the very refugees whose plight he had helped cause were now exposed and didn't have the moral cover they once assumed through association?That they were justly being clearly seen as craven paedophile apologists and protectors?

Le Thoronet

Fractured is the glass of benign paternalism and the isolation of "truth" troublemakers that had worked for centuries as had, "You do not have the power to command bishops"... as when Bernard of Clairvaux did a family take-over of the Cistercian monasteries set up by a rather gentle Englishman, Stephen Harding (which was probably the last time the French saw anything gentle in the English), which became in the so-called, "Middle -Ages" a prototype multi-national organization, calls up the Crusades, castigates Richard the Lionheart's mum, Eleanor for being a little fiesty (and too fun loving) and then he helped set up the Templars who were a multi-national business (before Phillip IV tried a terminal take-over of his own a few years down the track)...and shooed the peasants off their land and out of their villages in the godly pursuit of larger profits and more land for their "Lay-brothers" (serfs) to work whilst they discussed how many angels could dance on the head of a pin!

The Forge, Fontenay

"Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest" said Denis Diderot, who is one man who would have heartily applauded Julia Gillard's setting up of this RC into child sex abuse. Who, as Prime Minister was so consistently and foully abused by those now singing the praises of a convicted paedophile cleric and who hypocritically think the law is what they say it is but doesn't apply to them.

End times? What a mess has been made of this country.

Hoo-roo petals,

Shane

Silvacane

* Ackroyd, History of England… Foundation. Macmillan 2011

*2Pell-Pot: the nickname given Pell by staff at the Catholic Education Office when he became Archbishop of Melbourne (when the convicted offences occurred) and halted all new appointments that had been made, particularly those of women.

Like Our Standards..The Autumn Leaves are Falling.

 

Shane in Autumn Leaves

G'day Possums,

It's been an extraordinary week in which right-wing parties various, have eloquently demonstrated the nadir of their pathetic moral standards and as well as their utter contempt for a civil society.

Starting with the Royal Commission into the finance sector … very much "The Magic Pudding" (it just keeps on giving) we discovered  that "celebratory Financial Guru"  Sam Henderson dismissed a complaint made by a potential client that his advice was "risible," painting her to the Financial Planning Association to whom she complained  as "…nitpicking and inflammatory…"  and asking them to keep it all a bit quiet as his reputation and business might suffer from advising someone to lose half a mill of their superannuation. 

Of course, your staff impersonating clients on the phone and not having the       qualifications you claim, is also not a good look either. 

Other peccadillos from financial advisors were signing documents for the client and creating clients initials  to approve modifications. 

"The banking industry royal commission hasn't uncovered bad behaviour that the government didn't know about, Piggy-Bank Controller Scummo Morrison said, raising doubts about the usefulness of an inquiry that could cost the economy half a billion dollars and said government agencies had already started dealing with the problems identified by commissioner Kenneth Hayne, which include low-level corruption, kick backs and poor lending standards."

Which begs the question, "Were you Scummo, complicit in their corruption because of their election funding?"

Daniel Wild-One a shill from the Coots-With-Queer-Ideas-From-a-Parallel-Universe, (IPA) in supporting the ruling rabble's insanity of tax cuts to big businesses who don't pay tax (including the banks presently being eviscerated at the RC) opined that the reason they, the banks, should get a tax cut is because it would help halt their present "nefarious practices."

Now, with that logic Danny-Boy has told you all you need to know about the ethical levels at the IPA....and the sort of intelligence you need to become a "research fellow".

But then, his boss Le Jongleur, Roskam put on a show as a panellist on QandA Monday last.  And what a display it was !

If a face (like Dorian Gray's) can expose in its meanness, eye-flickering attention- seeking, pinched lips and dull eyes what lies beneath in what he thinks is his Catlic soul, Le Jongleur fully displayed his threadbare social and political consciousness in a Mr Bumble-ish hand wringing parody of Dicken's Beadle from David Copperfield... an economic state he wishes us all to exist in…. ."....hard work makes you free…" he intoned seriously. Indeed!

As soon as Le Jongleur uttered those words I saw them in a German Gothic font....Arbeit Macht Frei. And now you don't have to wonder why Danny Boy is such a prat!
Rosakm is a devious rodent, blaming the ruling rabble for its policy's... policy they have adopted from the IPA's wish list... he really is evil.

A recording done secretly in 2016 apparently has another rat-brained ruling rabble oddball living in another universe. Mickey Sukkar had warned back then that the Vic branch of the ruling rabble was being infiltrated by "socialists" saying, “The last bastion, the last vestige of conservatism, which is the Liberal Party, is the last institution that they’re trying to get their way into.

“And, like termites, they’ll get in and they’ll eat us from the inside out unless we do something,” he told the meeting.

Hmmm... too many communion wafers?

What is it with these right-wing catlics who don't see their saviour's life lesson as "socialism" and seem to prefer the money-lenders of a fascist state.

Then came Anzac Day and dawn service at Gallipoli. There, Dodo Dutton, Commandant of Australia's concentration camps for refugees  farted to the assembly remembering the Anzac landings "… that the Turks, just like us, stopped the boats, too!"

No-one is quite sure why he left his little bit of brain at home.

At Villers Brettoneaux  Prime Miniature Truffles officially opened the Sir John Monash Centre (all $100,000,000.00 of it and started by Rabid -the-Hun when he was telling us Labor had broken the economy ) with a very prosaic speech.

Better was to come with the French Prime Minister Eduoard Philippe delivering a very moving eulogy to the Australian fallen.

I recommend a read here:   https://www.theguardian.com/news/commentisfree/2018/apr/25/the-earth-is-his-only-friend-french-prime-ministers-anzac-speech-in-full

Well there ya go, Petals, standards all over the place even Dipsy Mandy Devine, an Ugly American Murdoch shill  blaming the banking corruption for their "inclusiveness" of LBGTI  agenda... what a bloody fruit - cake. Off living in the IPA's parallel universe as well. 
And I almost forgot...there's a move afoot to create a monument at the War Memorial in Canberra to the navy personnel involved in "stopping-the-boats"! When you feel you have to honour actions against refugees fleeing wars and strife mostly created by your actions then you know that your sense of humanity is so diminished as to be non-existent.
Lest we Forget... what Australia used to be.

Hoo-roo Petals,

Shane

...as the Ship of State Founders

Shane with Falling Pieces

G'day Possums,
Well, what a few weeks we've been having here in Straya!
What probably was the most biased, partisan and incompetent Speaker of Parliament (Bronwyn "Kero-Pompadour" Bishop) to ever to besmirch the Office has resigned, (been pushed, dragged) from the Chair, over her rorting of parliamentary entitlements. 
The already fragile Ship of State, the rustbucket SS Liarbril is again adrift, with no leadership coming from Cap'n Rabid-the-Hun.

rustbucket SS Liarbril

 Three years ago I was warning that this policy bereft ruling rabble would cause mayhem  by tearing down all that has made us such an enviable country in which to live . We are now seeing the grim results of their slavish adherence to the ideological flat-earthers of the IPA (the Coot's-With-Queer-Ideas-From-a-Parallel-Universe) unemployment is up, wages for the lower paid are under attack, medical services are being privatised, pensions are being eroded  the environment is being fracked, concentration camps are seen as good and racism is being promoted.
There has been a concerted racist campaign, one that has developed since the time "Little Johnny" Howard failed to deal with the rantings of Pauline Hanson and her xenophobic stutterings 20 years ago.  Now we have the tri-partite ravings of Miranda "Septic Tank"Devine and Andrew "Blot-on-the-Landscape"Bolt and Alan "Toilet-Boy" Jones virtually joining forces with their intellectual equivalents, the moronic nasty Nazi-Boys of "Reclaim Australia " in blaming an Aboriginal footballer who has suffered constant booing for 18 month that it is his own fault because he "outed" one of the rancid people who had called him an ape!

Andrew "Blot-on-the-Landscape"Bolt

 The appallingly low levels that these people, mostly employed by the "Ugly American," Murdoch stoop to, is a tactic to constantly target a subject in order to seemingly get the repeal of section 18C of the racial vilification act. It's almost as if their rabid intensity is to make 18C unworkable and therefore, useless. 

Brandis as Napoleon (with apologies to JL David)

But their chief supporter George "Bookshelves" Brandis is having his own problems, coming under attack not only from the Arts bodies he seems intent on destroying but also for his sloppy incompetence as Attorney General and inability to read and understand mail.

You could say that the recent Australian Cricket Team's efforts in the 3rd Ashes Test in England is symbolic of what a state this nation is in....and if you think I'm exaggerating here's one Graeme Henchel's ode on it...


 Graeme Henchel August 2, 2015 at 12:09 pm

Why is Abbott a Dead man Walking?

Was it justice, was it Karma?

Was it Murdoch, was it Palmer? Was it lying and conceit? Was it backbenchers fear of defeat? Was it Mathias and Joe’s cigars? Was it because we’ve stopped making cars? Was it climate change denial? Was it putting Julia on trial? Was it the daughter’s scholarship prize? Was it debt and deficit lies? Was it removing the Carbon Tax? Was it trying to give the RET the axe? Was it cutting Foreign aid? Was it being so retrograde? Was it the Minister for Women joke? Was it all the promises broke? Was it Brandis’s bigots rights? Was it prancing around in lycra tights? Was it cutting the SBS and the ABC? Was it costing more for university? Was it imposing a GP tax? Was it the disregard of facts? Was it the ridiculous Dames and Knights? Was it the threats and talk of fights? Was it Joe’s “lifters and leaners”? Was it cutting the pay of parliament’s cleaners? Was it punishing pensioners and the unemployed? Was it the total moral void? Was it the embarrassing G20 address? Was it the ongoing budget mess? Was it the book-launch travel rort? Was it knighting the Queen’s consort? Was it use of the sham inquiry stunt? Was it the weasel words of Hunt? Was it the 800 Million given to News? Was it longer unemployment queues? Was it a budget most unfair? Was it too much body hair? Was it nobbling the NBN? Was it lying again and again? Was it exploiting terrorist threats? Was it job applications of Eric Abetz? Was it the sex worker wink? Was it being too slow to think? Was it Joe’s “poor people don’t drive” Was it the polls taking a dive? Was it the surprises and constant excuses? Was it asylum seeker abuses? Was it the work of Peta and the IPA? Was it repeating slogans day after day? Was it the dog whistle of “Team Australia”? Was it the pungent smell of failure? Was it wimping Putin’s shirt front? Was it because Christopher Pyne is a pain? Was it Arthur’s memory at ICAC? Was it giving Mr Burns the sack? Was it ever declining polls? Was it funding Internet trolls? Was it Newman’s election loss? Was it the submarine double cross? Was it saying the “Adults are in charge”? Was it making the deficit more large? Was it the whole damn useless crew? Was it the ties of bogus blue? Was it the hubris and the swagger? Was it Malcolm and Julie’s dagger? Was it saying he would change? Was it becoming even more deranged? Was it eating an onion raw? Was it the data-retention law? Was it exploiting Dr Karl? Was it frequent smirking snarls? Was it the daughter’s low rent at Kirribilli? Was it “Fixer” Pyne being silly? Was it acting like a bar room yob? Was it offering Bjorn Lomborg a job? Was it saying “I suppose we must grieve” Was it the constant attempts to deceive? Was it ditching his gold plated PPL mess? Was it then making Labor’s PPL less? Was it saying the deficit is no longer trouble? Was it increasing your own deficit double? Was it a second budget based on deception? Was it threatening to call an early election? Was it trying to get Gillian Triggs out? Was it Dutton acting like a Brussel sprout? Was it “get a good job that pays good money” Was it laughing at things that just weren’t funny? Was it all the talk of double dipping? Was it cabinet leaks a constant dripping? Was it denying marriage equality? Was it Brandis reading poetry ? Was it paying people smugglers to turn around? Was it the dead cat bounce the polls have found? Was it saying how much he hated wind farms? Was it lying each day without any qualms? Was it Brandis controlling the Arts? Was it the emission of smelly brain farts? Was it the false outrage at QandA? Was it telling ministers to stay away? Was it Bishop’s ride in a chopper? Was it cos Abbott did nothing to stop her? Was it Shorten’s conference revival? Was it party room fears for their own survival? Why will Abbott get the shove? The answer is, all of the above.

Hoo-roo Petals,

Shane