Showing posts with label Grand Prix. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Grand Prix. Show all posts

Monday, 4 August 2014

......Best served cold




G’day Petals,
It’s been quite cold around the burrow this past week as the pics will show and some more images from Queenscliff and 
Wombat droppings; the chronicle of this Wombat's country's demise and of it becoming nothing more than a hole in the ground provider of raw material to the lowest bidder.


There is a tourist rail line at Queenscliff and this pretty little 0-6-0 Tank Engine is one of the workers. Built in Kilmarnock, Scotland in 1919 by Andrew Barclay and Son's Caledonia Works its name Pozieires resonates this August in memory of the conflict begun today 100 years ago.
0-6-0 tank Engine Pozieres, Barclay Works 1919
"Pozieres" Queenscliff 
As I said it has been cold...

Frost, Greendale
Greendale, Frost

Greendale, Snow
Greendale, Snow

Wombat Droppings


Slippery Pete, remember him?  Well he was finally found guilty of defrauding the Commonwealth of around $1,000.00. 
As a dish best served cold, revenge is what the Liarbrils excel at…it is wonderful how they, Caligula like, eat their bastard offspring.
Of course “Rabbutt-the-Hun’s” rortings various of nearly $100,000.00 from the public purse was allowed to be paid back, incurring no penalties once the “error” was made known….ahhh, the age of entitlement…not yet ended...... let’s not look at their air-fares either!

Door, Queenscliff.
Door, Queenscliff
Although it’s odious to compare human suffering, between “Rabbutt-the-Hun’s” reaction to MH17 and the recent reports of life, in particular the children’s on Christmas Island  there is an appallingly large gap.
It’s a bit of an ask to play the “statesman hero” for sending children mad.

Julie “Death Stare” Bishop whilst basking in the praise coming her way for her mostly sober demeanour in her handling of the MH17 murders has been silent on a number of other fronts, not just  “… Labor’s extravagant UN Security Council bid… has distracted from core foreign policy interests…” Which she babbled about back in 2010 but a position that is now giving her a platform of some gravitas.
She has been silent on Gaza, the piracy by Morrison of the 157 Tamil asylum seekers, the death in detention on Manus Island of Reza Barati and has said nothing about Australia’s flouting of International law.
It is interesting to note that Peter ”Rottweiler” Reith and Andrew ”Blot-on-the-Landscape” Bolt both thought that the shooting down of MH17 “…was a positive for Abbott.”
Liarbril charm at work again.


Garden of St Erth, Blackwood
Garden of St Erth, Blackwood

The saddest part of "Rabbutt-the-Hun's" sycophant's over-strident extolling of his "leadership" on MH17 was just that, their pathetic stridency.
His first 10 months Prime Miniature-ial performance has been so abysmal that anything that looks like coming within coo-ee of a normal person's response is deemed worthy of the most fulsome, ranting praise.  If anyone needed a clearer example of the metaphor of the "Emperor having no Clothes", then this episode must be it.

It is also a sad but timely reminder that institutionalised cruelty to refugees is a bi-partisan activity primarily led by a nation whose core values are those of the selfish Aspirational Bogan. Liarbrils led by the IPA, rejoice in there being no social contract and Labor hasn’t the balls to stand up to the Murdoch fuelled Bogans with real leadership.

It is difficult to see a happy future for this selfish, myopic, divided country.

A couple who had paid a Thai surrogate $16,000.00 to bear them a child, on discovering that one of the twins born had “Down’s Syndrome” decided to return to Oz with only the “good” one. Baby as commodity… not 100%?  Leave it in Thailand….Selfish Aspirational Bogans?
 
another Brick in the wall..Queenscliff
another Brick in the wall..Queenscliff

“The Ugly American” Rupert “Phone-Hack” Murdoch’s rag in Oz “The Australian” was working itself into a righteous lather because they allege a left wing group, “New Matilda”, hacked into the computers of design school to get info on Frances Abbott’s dodgy scholarship … No-one’s sure if they were just miffed at being copied in their info gathering techniques or just pissed-off that they hadn’t done it first.

Senator Erich”Vichy” Abetz has had everyone, including the Business Council of Australia, rolling in the aisles with the floating of yet another brainless and unworkable theoretical thought bubble from “The Coot’s–With-Queer-Ideas-From-a-Parallel-Universe,” (IPA). This one had the 700,000 unemployed making 40 job applications a month for the 165,000 jobs available.
 Abetz saw nothing idiotic in this.
Neither did John Roskam, Head Plonker at the IPA.  He thought it socially responsible and that $0.50 per hour would be a good pay rate, too.
La-la, la-la, La-la, La-la, Laaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.

And let’s not mention their “ideas” for higher education…. or Health … or shipbuilding, …or cars… or alternative energy… or environment… or law…or financial rectitude or industrial relations because that way only invites deep depression.
 
Old Post Office, Queenscliff
Old Post Office, Queenscliff
The Tardis State “Where-All-Goes-Backward” is rolling along Grand Prix like (around in circles) toward an election…offering to bring in legislation (possibly in the near future or by “The Rapture”, whichever comes first) banning outdoor smoking in eating areas. The Liarbrils had voted this down a year ago because a ”Green” had thought it up.
Louise “Dozy” Asher woke long enough for the Grand Prix contract re-signing to give Bernie Ecclestone and Ron Walker, Squillions of dollars of taxpayer monies to pollute the air and ears around Albert Park for another five years thus keeping the Bogans sated and not thinking about the $8,000,000,000.00 Tunnel to No-Where without a business plan they are going to pay for.
Pretend Premier Dennis “Do-Do” Naptime, (Genus: Inutilus Rusticus), has been kissing horses for their birthdays hoping they will vote for him and forgetting that this Vet thinks Jumps Races, are a good thing like shooting protected wild-life and clear-felling forest to make bushfire so much more devastating…..
 “Do-Do” is also proclaiming “We have a Vision, Liarbril Good, We have a Vision…. Labor,Bad ” a lot!
It might be looking backward but you have to concede…. it is a vision… isn’t it?




Hoo-roo, Possums,
Shane







Thursday, 31 January 2013

..saying "It's all about Trust"


Shane on Straya Di

G'day Petals,
here are some shots from BTA'S recent Summer School ....
Olivia and Jack

Jack and Mia

Laura and Jack

Mark Brinkley with repertoire

Bethany and Jack

Ben Davis choreographing

Position, Position, position

 Hope you enjoyed these .....



Wombat Droppings


Senator “Bestiality” Bernardi (associate of Dutch Ultra–Right winger, Geert Wilders) thinks his involvement with the American Legislative Exchange Council is not a conflict of interest and that we don’t need more gun laws and that it’s all-right to have tobacco sponsorship and apparently it’s all-right too, to dud your divorced partner by hiding money from them…and multi-culturalism..?.. that sucks, too!

It’s all about trust isn’t it?

Bernardi has been reported as having "ratted" on one of colleagues who allegedly said that he only joined the Liabril party because he lived in a Liarbral held seat. If it had have been a Labor seat he would have joined the Labor party!  
What a friend!

It’s all about trust isn’t it?

The ALEC was also involved in a High Court challenge against the Gillard’s and Roxon’s anti-smoking legislation last year and has financial ties in the U.S. with big tobacco and the NRA. It is assisting them to counter any moves President Obama might try in getting gun reform.
I wonder if Bernardi views Rush Limbaughb as the intellectual role-model for commentators and radio journalists?

Whilst Mr “Rabbott” is no-where to be seen on these issues (but seething with his own ambitions, probably understands) he and Joe “Oh what a Feeling” Hockey are calling confusingly different “motherhood” shots on whether the Liabrils can post a surplus if they get into government.
But “Rabbott” “did-a-runner” again! Rather than face media scrutiny about policy after “Big Red” pulled a “swifty” in announcing the election date for nine months hence, “Rabbott” ran away …like he tried to in Parliament!

It’s all about trust isn’t it?

Oohhh… look over there! A rabbit!

Not that any of this really matters.

What matters are the decoy tactics employed…..stir up a little “shit” here, another little bit there…continually creating a sense of crisis, bang-on about how much better you will be, how much more stable things will be (although you’ve got few policies worth mentioning)… the electorate is so stupid they’ll keep watching the football, tennis, grand prix’s and cooking comps where over-feted “chefs” actually work at paying their staff less and less ….whilst we bask in the glow of their sophistication
Release your policies a week out from the actual election so that they can’t be adequately scrutinised and claiming that you haven’t the resources but constantly slip in the word “audit” so that you can tell the electorate when you’re in power that all the money’s gone and you’ll have to slash everything.
But you were warned about an audit!

It’s all about trust isn’t it?

Jeff “Bully-Boy” Kennett, (the Dorian Gray of Tardis State Politics) got all wound up this week when it was revealed (again) that Bernie Eccelstone milks the Tardis State (Where All Goes Backward) out of $30,000,000 for his fee for each Grand Prix!
“You can’t expose commercial-in-confidence” he shrieked, “We’ll lose the race”
Eccelstone didn’t agree with Jeff’s analysis ‘cause, Why-look-a-gift-horse???
That it also continues to make whacking great losses that we are contracted to pay for whilst there are no credible figures for attendance, takings or the dubious quality of its “branding value” is a testament to Mr Kennett’s business smarts in setting all this up and costing this State around $500,000,000 in lost revenues.
But we shouldn’t forget the lack of balls in subsequent Labor Premiers in not flipping this monstrous waste of resources away when they had the chance.

It’s all about trust isn’t it?

Cheers Possums,
Shane