The Miasma of Scummo of Marketing and an Escape Method.

Shane escaping...

G'day Possums,

Geez, a month is a longer time in politics with a virus insidiously lurking, so this little missive is in two parts. 

Part A: How Covid-19 fulsomely exposed Australia's real character

and     

Part B: How I decided to escape reality.

Part A: Exposed to Sickness. 

Labor won it's by-election and the Nasty Party Ruling Rabbler who lost took over a week to concede she had... which was better than Scummo of Marketing who,  par for the course for narcissistic and unimaginative mediocrities and never one to miss an opportunity to be banal.....  said nothing at all.

Daniel Dan-the-Man, Andrews, Vic. labor Premier was gaining much kudos for his demeanor and his handling of the virus. 

This was far too much for the bitchy school-boys of the Ruling Rabble opposition. One, who in an effort to replace his non-entity of a leader, backbencher and complete twat, Timmy The Dim, Smith started a campaign calling for the virus lockdown to be lifted by "Dictator Dan" and protested vociferously for ignoring what discipline was being asked for. 

This interference was also picked up by our Happy-Clapping, Liar from the Shire Prime Miniature, Scummo of Marketing who busied himself castigating not only Vic but both Queensland and West Australian premiers (both labor) for keeping their borders closed to limit infection spread whilst hypocritically ignoring Tasmania and South Australia (both Ruling Rabble) who were doing exactly the same. 

Fanning the flames, the Murdochracy of the Ugly American (70% of Oz's press and of which other media is 90% right-wing) went into overdrive when word started to filter out that allegedly, the private security guards contracted to supervise people quarantined in hotels were less than assiduous in their duties.

Andrews immediately called for and set up an inquiry.

But the Genie, c/o the said, ill trained and ill disciplined private security was out of the bottle and the virus took off.

Now, the Murdochracy and Dim Timmy and others of similar small mind were in full flight and having a field day.

Why did Dan open up so early (?) they hypocritically breast beat. How hopeless is Dan, they ranted and even the so-called balanced,non partisan ABC began heading its news promos with "the chaos/ catastrophe/ shambles spreading in Vic, with Weasel Willingham in the forefront with snide comment and opinion.."Is Dan's Brand Damaged" and other irrelevant nonsense. 

One AFR shill, who  used to be a decent journalist opined I suppose facetitiously, that the Murochracy "...had given Dan a "fair go"..."

Of course, Andrews was criticised for using private security which was very funny coming from the bastions of "free-enterprise-can-always-do-it-better" cabal and then the "Masks in Public are Mandatory" promulgation brought out the most asinine comments, muddying of waters and creating confusion where none really existed.

The right-wing is this country is quite feral in its lust for destruction.

What really transpires is that capitalism doesn't function in a crisis like a pandemic. 

Actually, it doesn't function socially at all. 

People scared of losing pay or their job by not turning up for work will attend with the virus... people are irresponsible, ignoring medical advice to stay home after testing positive......hello Dim-Tim.... your message it seems, got through. 

People were giving false addresses so tracing cannot work effectively....... and with a phone- app that's an expensive tracing dud (but profitable for certain Ruling Rabblers), hands-on is time and manpower consuming.

 Anti-vaxxers like that stupidly selfish woman who laughed as she bluffed her way through a check point...idiot chefs with spurious claims and body builders offering medical and legal advice...all aided and abetted by "social-media":....it goes without saying that supermarket shelves began to be stripped again...

Then we come to Scummo of Marketing's response...huge, huge spending...after waving his scarf around at the footy like a loony bogan...and with a only the merest hint of a slightly embarrassed look (as they have no shame at all) when their constant 10 year carping criticism of Labor's fiscal management in saving the country during the GFC is shown to have been as totally false as it always was... They are liars of the first order.

 

But they are using this crisis to get what their IPA managers have always wanted: Kill the ABC, CSIRO, Superannuation, wages and conditions, public education and the environment and unionism.

Head accountant, Fiction's Frydenberg says he will follow his path to do that .. that of Thatcher and Reagan's discredited, 40 years old trickle-down economics instead of finding a new way.

Which only proves that ideology really does precludes talent and imagination.

It's not Covid -19 which is the terminal virus, Petals... it's the mindset and actions of the Liberal Party... The Ruling Rabble!

Part: B  The Escape.

For JS .....and other's like mine of Boy's-Own mind.

Congruity is charming. 

Not long ago I was checking the finesse of the cut of a new bench-saw blade and tested it on some 4mm strapping of Tassie Oak... hmmm.... very nice were the 10mm strips made. 

Some 18 months before, Mrs Wombat and I became grand for the first time to our No#1daughter and whilst Mrs W has been busy sewing, knitting and being practical I indulged in a making a wooden cattle truck and trailer to put dinosaurs dogs and sheep in, designed and started a scaled down version of a Mini-Moke as pedal car and resurrecting a yacht hull I fashioned many many years ago as a pond yacht but never finished. 

The grand is a gel btw!

Around the time of the saw blade test Mrs Wombat and I were down by the sea in Queenscliff and wandered into a bric-a-brac / antique / second-hand / junk shop and down the recesses of the rear came across a flotilla of second hand boats.... amongst which was a 4-500mm long wooden cabin cruiser... hand made, poorish condition, probably a 60's production looking at the hull design but attractive enough as a by-the-sea, holiday-house mantlepiece object-of-interest and frightfully over priced.

Hmm.. that's interesting... gee, those Tassie Oak strips were nice. Hmmmm.

Serendipity.  

No 2 daughter likes retro fashion... No2  might be feeling a tad left-out  hmmm.. "Stephens" circa 1920's -30's wooden planked hull.. got it!

Searched the web and this attracted....

searched further... and "Compadre"  was the model to be the basis of a first time scratch build...  and the blog was not only entertaing but informative for detail and proportions... so thank you ....   

http://compadreclassic.blogspot.com/2018/02/ 

 I haven't contacted the owners as the blog has been dormant for a couple of years but hope they are not embarrassed or insulted by my antipodean mimicry.

Transposed the design, modified its shape a tad then started on the formers in ply, 'cause that's what I had. This was to be not a "scale" model... with what all that implies.

beginnings....

Then came the making of the strips of Tassie Oak.. for the reader other than a "Skip," Tassie Oak is not really an Oak but a Eucalypt hardwood  durable and good for a wide range of uses. I bought 2.400 x30mm x4mm strapping and cut it into 1200mm x 10 mm strips for the hull. Steamed it... that was fun... and pinned and glued it on.

Cabin is in ply but you can see stains from the clamps in the wood which scotched the idea of having a varnished hull. 

Lessons learned: be more careful in checking hull former proportions, pre wet wood before steaming as it's Kiln dried, be more assisduous in placing formers & shape/contouring edges for planking.

First float... sits well, no leaks and looks pretty.

There's no radio gear or motor in at this stage  just a bag of stones replicating their weight.

and

So it's nearly done, most of the gear has arrived,  tender on deck is clinker-built.. (Ta for the books Tony..) there are a few little things to do but the big lesson is in the planning ...like discovering that "Compadre" had twin screws & rudders... hmmm.  So with one motor I had to devise a geared system and work around what had already been built.

Deck is planked Tassie Oak, too. Trim on edges, Red-Gum and Australian Cedar around top edges of cabin.

Now, to find a suitable pond.

Which has engendered an interest in these acqua things... soooo... next one... will be a C1890 Windermere Lakes Steamboat, "Bat" is the model for this exercise. Scratch build plans are being drawn up as I write with much more foresight as to where things go where and what it does....also there's a 25cc brush cutter engine crying out to be either a Polikarpov I-16 or a Fokker D-XX1, the only fuselages that will fit it at a reasonable wing span and be a looker. ...'cause it's really all about the aesthetics isn't it?

And its the lack of aesthetice which make the Ruling Rabble so intolerable... they are uniformly BOGAN!

So this is the escape.

Cheers Petals,

Shane.

A Surplus of Lies

G'day Possums,

C5th Greek dramatist Aeschylus, was the first to say that "In war, truth is the first casualty"  anticipating in great measure the creations of our current Ruling Rabble, its faux intellectual base, "The-Coots-With-Queer-Ideas-From-a-Parallel-Universe," aka the IPA and its propaganda wing led by The Ugly American, Murdoch and also aided and abetted by various other media cabals like Channels 7, 9 and 10 who all deliberately trivialize and mis-inform the public as to the state of the nation.

Or should that be, a satire of a country?

Following the filming of the farcical misadventures of The Red Terror's No Notion Head Clown, 

Ashby The Sleaze and the Deep North's Miniatur-Fuhrer, Dropkick Dickson embarrassing the nation

with their clumsily inept attempts to ingratiate themselves with another fascisit organisation in the

Un-united States,  the NRA and the Koch brothers praying that filthy lucre would come their way by 

promising to water down our gun laws, their dictator Poorlean-Please-Explain, Hanson garbled her 

way through a presser with much misplaced righteous anger by shooting the messenger 

(because that's what you do with Al-Jazzeera Mussies, inn-it?) and boringly, again played the innocent victim 

with claims it was all a "set-up" and although Dropkick evinced all the emotional intelligence of an 

11 year old fantsist thug by wanting to "....Machine-Gun bathers from a beachside mansion ..." 

and The Sleaze admitted to "...no emotion at all..." (and for that matter, should have added, intelligence), 

they were mostly innocent and Scummo Morrison "...was a fool..., the ABC was without morals.. 

for running the programs..." and the Port Arthur Massacre which forced the restrictive gun laws 

was "..a government conspiracy..." because she'd read it in a blue book, which unlike herself, 

wasn't very thick. 

Unbelievably, all this said by a Senator for Queensland and her staff, proving that 

shit, also rises to the top.

"We're in the black, we're in the black" chorussed the Ruling Rabble "...and we've lowered 

taxes, too..." responded Fiction's Frydenberg, their pretend Treasurer.

Dominus Vobiscum... Et cum spiritu tuo.

Thus, in the beginning began the budget surplus. Not, as many are saying, on the underspending of 

billions of dollars on welfare services but on "prudent, careful" economic management, giggled and 

smirked the Ruling Rabble. 

That government debt, six years on, is now twice what it was when Labor "...had a debt and deficit 

disaster..." how can we now have a surplus? 

"Simple", say the Ruling Rabble "You're wrong or You're a liar. Our surplus starts next year so we 

have announced it now to make you feel good."

"You're wrong or You're a liar... that $180,000,000.00 we wasted on Christmas Island was a saving."

"You're wrong or You're a liar, all those roads and fast rail plans in knife-edge electorates is not 

Pork-Barrel bribery it's prudent economic management to save our skins."

"You're wrong or You're a liar, of course we can make financial forecasts 15 years ahead?"

"You're wrong or You're a liar... the NBN is a beautiful set-up ....and we don't need electric cars, 

but we do need more coal-fired power stations... and we're saving Medicare.... from itself and who 

cares about the environment or the Arts? 

And so it goes Petals... their "surplus" is perfection whilst Labor's bigger projected surplus is derided 

by the Ugly American's comics as The Magic Pudding... time will tell which "truth" this war will kill.

Hoo-roo Possums,

Shane.

Portrait 1

G'day Possums,

Back in the 60's German Historian Joachim Fest published his literary portraits titled "The Face of The Third Reich," an important work analysing not only the main protagonistsof the Nazi plan but the functionaries, wives and mothers and the intellectuals who supported this regime and I thought it timely given the recent dog-whistling of the far right and its tacit approval of neo-nazi "demonstrations" to pen a few myself. 

This portrait came from an earlier blog entry from 2016 when I was commenting on works from the Archibald Prize being exhibited in Ballarat with the Title "The Art of Lifting and Leaning"  which came from juxtaposition of the over life-size and cunningly adjacent portraits of Annie Smithers and Josh Frydenberg.  

Smithers is the chef/owner of du Fermier restaurant just up the road from our burrow, in Trentham; and in admirably succinct and honest utterance declared to artist Daniel Butterworth that,  "...the bottom line for her was that all her hard work ends up down the toilet." 

Camillo De Luca: "Polymath"

But no such profundity from Frydenberg. Smugly comfortable, depicted as artfully dishevelled in blue-tied banality, Camillo De Luca's portrait aims in its materials of charcoal and wood with copper frame to indicate this  faux Treasurer's ministerial position of that time, Resources and Energy with a white halo apparently symbolising his outstanding achievements.

Just what these achievements were or are I couldn't think then, and can't now which perhaps, is why as a large work, it seems so small.

Frydenberg, belongs to the Ruling Rabble which is systematically destroying the country's economy and degrading its social contract so effectively that we are becoming a pariah nation. This "rising star" of the Liarbril Party is painted on two sheets of plywood making a square which suitably approximates his ineffable dullness and by being split down the middle it asserts a closer truth of his real aspirations than the artist probably intended. 

Trees, Alice Springs

The rawness of the ply was to signify a work in progress though I think it more roughly indicative of the conceptual abyss and policy vacuum that Frydenberg's rabble are forcing Australia into. That De Luca considers him a Polymath is more cynical than I can bear. This is a person of achievements: utterly minimal. A public functionary flaccidly supporting  the most nasty, brutish, right-wing rabble of faux xtians this land has ever seen including those ex-IPA members who even advocate dismembering the arts and halting any funding; who mutely condones anyone offering frank advice being attacked, sacked or publicly denigrated and on hearing evidence of the only actions of excellence practised by  the Ruling Rabble: their near collective criminality of rorting their entitlements, lets the sounds glide by unheard.

That's pretty much what I wrote then..... and see little reason nearly three years on, to alter it. 

Hoo-roo Petals,

Shane.

Trees, Alice Springs

A Time for Reckoning....

Shane Wombat....Vanitas

G'day Possums,

I've been a trifle busy recently and very late with this posting which, in a way is not such a bad thing as it has seen much of the shrapnel from the explosive Tardis-State election result to fall back to earth as well as the smoke and fog of its politicking dissipate enough so that can see more clearly how the landscape has altered and who's left standing.

Not too many of the Ruling Rabble, Petals.

Matty, Thug Guy vacated the leadership and as an indication of how the talent in this cabal is very thin on the ground was replaced by O'Brien, the Vapid. Their primary anointed and Le Jongleur, Roskam's nemesis, Pesutto had had his safe seat kicked out from under him  and Finn, the Pious Lieutenant,  then did a "Henderson" moronically announcing that If the Labor Party and the Greens want to have more women in the Liberal Party, what "... they should have done, is not defeated them," and that, "...it would have been a very good thing if they hadn't run against our women."  

And they still wonder why they lost?

Greendale Landscape in Fog

Even veteran right-wing spruiker, Morticia Savva was dully quiet on "Insiders," but in trying to explain why the Ruling Rabble really loved women, she seems to have forgotten that the only women Liberals ever spoke for wore twin sets, pearls, hounds-tooth pleated skirts, sensible shoes and blue gingham blouses, with a nice little blue scarf, a pink pullover draped over the shoulders and their "sunnies" propped up on their blonde coifs.

Greendale Landscape in Fog

Definite smells of panic are emanating from Canberra as real funk sets in and this Ugly American Murdoch's IPA construct, this ruling rabble, this petty-minded, nihilistic right wing cabal of the most untalented dullards ever to soil parliamentary benches are now achieving the dysfunction of which they had falsely accused Labor since 2011. Their adherence to "Tea-Party" Republican political terror tactics has backfired stupendously well as they had neither the imagination nor wit to carry it off successfully. And for all those jumping ship like the "I-could-live-on-$40.00-a-day" Banks gel or the rorting Asbestos Bishop: they are all still tarred with the same damned brush of being the most incompetent, corrupt and damaging neer-do-wells ever to have office in Australia. Good riddance. It will take a generation to remedy the destruction they have wrought.

Greendale Landscape in Fog

Scummo hastily announces that a "Federal Integrity Commission" is no longer a "fringe issue," but one that doesn't investigate pollies and their staff, which promptly, is howled down by all and sundry. Then Trump-like, says confusingly that the Oz embassy is to have its plaque in Jerusalem but office in Tel Aviv and to show what good guys we really are, we'll return a little of the funding ripped from health and education in the past years and hit the energy market "with-a-big-stick" (made of Balsa wood) to stop their profiteering.... a policy directly at odds with Ruling Rabble capitalism in being willing to ditch their IPA version of "free-market", free enterprise greed, in order to stay alive politically.

Greendale Landscape in Fog

Fiction's Frydenberg shows he is willing to rip up pristine wetlands for 30 Schekels of donor money... whilst Mummy's-Boy, Canavan praises Adani's "...we'll go it alone" announcement of its Galilee Basin coal mine, as "True Aussie Battlers..."

....what he really meant to say is that he's Adani's Little Aussie Butler!

Then a couple of F-35's arrived... at $25,000.00 per hour to fly and a range of only 1500 Km... we seem to have bought very, very expensive home defence fighters.

Who is going to pay for this corruption, this incompetency and damage?  Who will be brought to book? 

Do we start with The Ugly American or his lieutenants like Roskam ?

I wondered the other day how such a destructive Brit turd like Farage would have fared in the C16th. I doubt his damage to "The Crown" and its peoples because of his Brexit push would allow him to sail off unscathed into the sunset... I rather think that Hang, Drawing and Quartering might have been the order of the day.

There has to be a reckoning.... a severe one.

Hoo-roo, Petals

Shane.

The First Wave…

Shane with election results

G’day Petals,

“Tsunamis generally consist of a series of waves, with periods ranging from minutes to hours, arriving in a so-called "internal wave train".”… (Wicki)

I believe Victorians have this past weekend, just experienced “the first wave.” and unless an unlikely turnaround occurs very quickly in the culture of The Ruling Rabble a Tsunami on a scale rarely seen is likely to swamp the entire nation next May.

Has a Ruling Rabble campaign ever been so sloppy, so full of gaffes, faux pas, misstatements, dirty pool and outright lies and dodgy robo-calls?

Shadow ministers failing to “front” media opportunities, candidates not understanding their supposed policy's, unseemly point-scoring, inappropriate politicisation of tragedy, dog-whistling and race-baiting and the now standard right-wing religious assaults on gender issues it was apparent that things were not well in the ruling rabble cabal.

 

Entrance

It has been alleged that The Ruling rabble were so desperate for people to hand out “how-to-vote” cards at pre-poll stations that students were being offered $20.00 p.h. “brown-envelope-cash-in-hand” to cover what volunteers normally assist with and that students in Indonesia were employed to produce “attack-ad” videos, all of which which gives a flavour of a 1945 Fuhrer-Bunker mentality prevailing.

Party President Mick, Bruiser Kroger managed to set off brush fires whenever his pugnacious presence ventured too far from his native tribal areas of a merchant bank or Toorak and he was the butt of some very entertaining television when Ruling Rabble ex-premier, Bully-Boy , Foot-in-Mouth Kennett publicly told him on election night to resign by midnight over the electoral debacle unfolding.

I might add Petals, that it is Kennett’s disastrous reign and wholesale selling off of the state from1992-99 from which Victorian infrastructure is still recovering and which makes his call on Kroger all the more piquant.

 

Entrance

Kroger for his part is unrepentant of his divisive presidency, the fiscal malfunctions and his promotion of ultra right-wing religious nutters to control essential committees at the expense of a more balanced centrist policy. He also arrogantly thinks that Victorian voters “got-it-wrong” on election day and in the company of some of his deluded federal colleagues sees nothing wrong in the direction his party is travelling in.

Federal Ruling Rabble Money-lender, Fictions Frydenberg oddly, and perversely persisted that there was nothing in the federal Ruling Rabble civil war that had an effect on the Victorian result and that Potato-Head Dutton’s race-baiting wasn’t a factor, that neither was the loss of Truffles to the factional assassin’s knives or that his replacement turning into a Trump-Lite fake in the incompetent Scummo Morrison was not a problem either.

And of course, a Ruling Rabble branch in NSW wanting Truffles ritually de-frocked is an indication of sanity prevailing, isn’t it?

Sarah Henderson (federal, Corangamite) opining on the fact that only five women remain in the state parliamentary branch said that if people wanted more women in the Ruling Rabble then Labor members should vote for her!

This quaintly bizarre political notion was possibly induced by her utter distraction at her parlous electoral margin of 0.3% ....meaning she is “gone” as soon as the polling booths open!

Tommy Silly-Boy, Switzer (Centre for Independent Studies, right-wing echo chamber) and Danny Pussy, Wild (IPA propagandist) both ranted their penny worth on the shellacking and of course deliberately missed the whole point. A point being, that implemetation of their theories have caused this  reversal.

People rejected trickle down economics. People rejected race-baiting. People rejected Matty Thug Guy’s appropriation of their right wing cant of rampant individualism and “market forces” which have  in the energy market as in education and services, shown not to be in the community interest but against it. That cutting wages, penalty rates and medical services creates dissension not stability.

This is perhaps a seminal moment when people realised that acting in building a positive future for the majority, developing broad based inclusive programs and providing essential infrastructure across the state is preferable to carping criticism, jobs for the boys and wholesale rorting by a select few bankers. That building is better than tearing down, that owning is better than renting, that looking forward is better than seeking the past, acceptance  better than rejection and collegiality is more productive than divisive fear-mongering.

Some zoologists think that some animal species have an ability to sense subsonic Rayleigh waves from an earthquake or a tsunami heralding its arrival. …. it is fairly apparent that the Federal Ruling Rabble lack this capacity and talent, too!

Hoo-roo, Possums,

Shane

Leprosy or Herpes... Your Choice.

G'day Petals,

It has transpired that The Ugly American's minions led by Sydney-sider radio Quislings Toilet-Boy Jones and the Gutter-Mouthed Hadley have had marginal success with their machinations bent on destroying the tenure of prime miniature Truffles.

Unfortunately The Ugly American being now geriatric and his far right supporters in the Ruling Rabble (Rabid-the-Hun, Cap'n Catlic, Andrews, Tarantella Fascisti-Wells and the Mindless Torquemada, Sukkar ) being at any stage less than able, had their preferred candidate, Potato-Head Dutton outflanked by Truffles in, for once in his political career, some deft footwork and Scummo Morrison was elevated to be the right's next sacrifice along with his altar-boy Fiction's Frydenberg. Instead, the Potato-Headed patsy and his creepy little running mate, the Dickensian Ozone-Hole Hunt were left out in the cold.

Scummo's Running mate, Asbestos Bishop must have been out jewellery shopping when the vote was held as she only garnered 11 votes other than her own and more embarrassingly, none from her Far West rabble "colleagues".

Truffles' ineptness was on show earlier in this shambolic week when he bizarrely rose to second the Willie Shortstuff no-confidence motion in his tenuous rabble as Plibersek was arriving at the despatch box... to wit, she quipped "You may second it if you wish".

Chief wrecker, Rabid-the-Hun emerged from the party room meeting saying “....we have lost a prime minister, but there is still a government to save”.... meaning that getting to the right of Genghis Khan he thinks would be a tolerably good position and that he hasn't yet finished destroying any semblance of "centre" in the now fatally fractured Ruling Rabble.

So our new prime miniature is the Happy-Clapper and dog-botherering hypocrite,  Scummo Morrison. The bloke fired from Heading Tourism Australia for bullying and abusing staff, the same bloke unable to win preselection to the seat of Cook (lost 80 - 8) and then mounted a vicious and untruthful campaign against the winner to gain it, the same bloke who has been in charge of our concentration camps for refugees and had people die under his "care" and as treasurer, tripled the country's debt, flat-lined wages, increased under-employment, presided over growing inequality and says that the current Royal Commission into banks "...will be a waste of time ...nothing to see there..." and a climate denying, coal wielding aficionado bloke who thinks that by giving $60 billion in tax cuts to those who pay no tax, particularly banks will solve all our problems.

So this Possums is "the new  generation" of Ruling Rabble "leadership":  a generation likely to accede to the far right, be in the thrall of the putrid IPA and tell that "they're there for us..."

A right-wing coup by any other name, eh....Leprosy or Herpes... Your Choice.?

Hoo-roo Petals, fight on

Shane.

How Putrid is My Valley?

G’day Possums,

How putrid is my valley?

Just when you thought these ruling rabble types couldn’t get any worse, there they go, demonstrating once again that “lower than a Snake’s belly” is for them a pinnacle of achievement.

The Great Barrier Reef Foundation has confirmed one of its board directors Stephen Roberts, an investment banker has been charged by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) for allegedly playing a part of a criminal cartel during a $2.5 billion deal and will step down as he faces criminal charges for cartel conduct.

One Marine biologist Charles Veron (the godfather of corals) has lost $60,000.00 from American donors who saw that the ruling rabble were being so munificent to private organisations and was perversely told when he applied to the GBRF for ¼ of 1% of what they hold for research that they had no money available.

Sniff, sniff… Truffles on-the-nose...Fictions Frydenberg…..inept..again!

With growing public anger at electricity prices providing windfall profits to energy companies and ruling rabble incompetents feeling electorally insecure, Notional Party Leader, What’s-his-name, announced that plans are afoot to force these privatised electricity companies to lower their prices or face Truffle’s wet-lettuce wrath as the bankers did before the RC set to excoriating them.

In a move decidedly opposite to “free-market” theory What’s-his-name has also inadvertently admitted to what most of us knew all along….privatisation of essential services is a failure-bound certainty for commonwealth.

Katherine Murphy on the Drum made it clear too, that the claim of cheaper power was actually a $150 fall if your lucky, not $500 as Truffles has, like his predecessor Rabid, wrongly claimed.

The outgoing public service chief, John Lloyd, breached the public service code of conduct by “failing to uphold the good reputation” of his agency when he passed research on to the Institute of Public Affairs, the right-wing think tank, which he used to lead.

The merit protection commissioner, Linda Waugh, has concluded that Lloyd should have considered that his action would look like “a political action … to build a coalition of support for his views” when he passed the document to the conservative

Waugh submitted the report into Lloyd’s misconduct to the parliament’s presiding officers on Wednesday, his last day in the role as Australian public service commissioner, but the conduct was not considered as being of “sufficient gravity” to warrant a recommendation that a sanction be imposed.

Golly, isn't it nice to know, in reality how venal these IPA apparatchiks are.....where are the sanctions against their continued erosion of democracy?

Head of the trustee responsible for NAB's super funds told the royal commission she never thought stealing from customers was a crime.

Really, sweetheart…oh, really?

Desiring nothing but solitude, privacy, understanding and money Barnyard Joyce has released a ficion book about the travails of a poor white country accountant who becomes victim to an evil woman... err, women and who subsequently loses the glittering prize of credibility.

Finding that his TV spectacular, “On Remaining Private” was enormously successful in that no-one watched and that his current squeeze is possibly a little demanding, Barnyard is back out harassing the public presenting as a pathetically misunderstood has-been who will surely be investigated by a Federal ICAC over the Murray/Darling shambles, ministerial clumsiness and other dubious dealings when removed from office.

Justice looms for the Beetroot!

Alan, Toilet-Boy Jones, Sydney loud-mouth, has suggested that both Barnyard and Rabid should be made special ministers for drought and natural disasters… Where did Toilet-Boy get that idea, the urinal wall?

“That's two horsemen of the apocalypse…” quipped one wit.

Do Dodo Dutton and Asbestos Julie make the other two?

So many candidates, so few positions.

Fraser The Arse-hole, (he defecates from both orifices) Anning unknown 3^rd candidate on the Noe Notion senate ticket who achieved a grand total of 19 out of a possible 3,000,000 votes and subsequently replaced the hapless Mal-Addled Roberts who fell foul of citizenship rules has provided compelling proof for a vetting system for political candidates be introduced.

Arshole subsequently jumped ship after refusing his leader, Appalling Hanson’s demand he stand aside for Mal-Addled to continue spewing his odd empirical wisdom’s over us all and slithered off to frolic with Katter The Cracked in the Deep North.

Well, he has given his maiden speech to the senate.

Politically, factually and historically inaccurate but more importantly, ethically bereft, Arse-hole’s fetid offering have appreciably lowered the bar for Australian political discourse continuing a trend begun by the Ruling Rabble’s Little Johnny Howard some 30 years ago and salaciously grubby enough for The Ugly American’s Murdoch gutter press to have paroxysms of joy in “reporting” their faux outrage whilst promoting his ideas.

Effectively, his anti-intellectual desire to gain notoriety, recognition and possibly 38 votes at the next election, has further opened the window to race-hate, gay bashing and misogynist rants being normalised as “free-speech” and countering his vile simplistic fascist ravings will just be viewed as “political correctness.”

Isn’t amazing what so called “conservatives” destroy to gain individual power?

The ruling rabble are the speed humps to progress, the boom gates to reform, the unmade road to the future.

Hoo-roo, Petals,

Shane.