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.

Going from bad to worse...

G’day Possums,,, here’s a shot of where I live… taken early this morning…

Greendale Landscape

Random Wombat Droppings …or how we are going from bad to worse and to hell in a handbasket

It has always struck me how angry the "right" are. I think it's born of the frustration that aspirationals must feel in that that which they aspire to is unattainable because of the political and social structure. Greed, selfishness and short-sightedness combine with their aspiration to engender fear of any "social" contract which might limit their individual advancement and at the same time they are constantly reminded  that the system of their aspiration is stacked against them.

But then, by the same token the hate I feel toward the likes of the clowns from the IPA, Blot-on-the-Landscape, Rabid-the-Hun, Loopy Leyonhjelm et al, is born a similar frustration that these mongrels get their way at the expense of society as a whole, most of the time.

The “Coots-With-Queer-Ideas-From-a-Parallel-Universe”…the IPA is running the show. Malcon Turdball-Fop will be kept as the Ruler of this Ruling Rabble because electorally he’s safe… but otherwise he’ll have to tow the Murdoch, Rinehart, Miners and Bankers line. What sovereignty Australia had will be finally eliminated and every single public service will be privatised.

 Le Jongleur Roskam will the Chair of the Board and Malcon will become permanent faux PM.

“Far from deserving praise, the half-reversal of CSIRO and NICTA funding cuts simply highlights the need for the Turnbull Liberals to review all of their cuts to science, research and innovation which include:
$107m from the Cooperative Research Centres (CRC) program
$75m from the ARC
$27.5m from ANSTO
$7.8m from AIMS
$16.1m from Geoscience Australia
$20m from the Bureau of Meteorology
$120m from DSTO
$174m from the Research Training Scheme"

Triggs is “Woman of the Year” A beacon of sanity in a nation fast losing its way in an IPA thought bubble.

Ahhh... Liarbril sagacity, management and innovation... myths that make the Dreamtime look like scientific fact!

Buggered the NBN, blown the budget and rorted the parliamentary entitlements  like there was no tomorrow. With the biggest leaner, Joe “Eleventy, Cereal/Toyota Killer “ Hockey getting a job in Washington…. I didn’t realise we hated the Yanks that much…but at least it will limit his potential for ongoing damage to Australia.

The Paris Climate talks have shown that Oz is now third last in the world in our emission targets…. From leading the world to third last of 128 Nations in just 2 ½ short years is quite a Liarbril achievement….everything they touch they destroy…

We need Rabid-the-Hun to continually remind us just how dysfunctional the thinking in the Liarbril party is in selecting these anti-social mongrels.

He is still talking delusional nonsense about being leader again… and making stupefyingly silly remarks about the need for a Muslim “reformation” and that we good xtians are the culture to emulate…. Hmmm… right!

Cardinal “The Graceless” Pell-Pot is allegedly too ill to front the Royal Commission into child abuse….fearful perhaps, of his own crucifixion?

Mal “Chicken Thighs” Brough and fellow mongrel conspirators, Pyne

”the Whyne” and now Wyatt “The Boy” Roy are smelling like the shits they are over “Slippery” Pete’s political assassination….criminal charges, anyone?

Bronnie “Kero-Bath-Chopper” Bishop has decided that she is going at 73, to stick around in parliament to help fight terrorism … which terrorists, she didn’t say but it could be her own party…. Or it may be to match her colleague of same name, Jules “Asbestos” Bishop’s rather extravagant $30,0000.00 flight from a party with her B/F for a meeting in Canberra….Jules hasn’t heard of video-conferencing.

There ya go… how Oz is going to hell in a hand-basket care of the IPA.

Hoo-roo Petals

Shane.

...a Final Fringe with Sliced Onion

Shane at BIFB

G’day petals,

 My third and final stint around the Ballarat International Foto Biennale on its last day was a bit of a “Fizzer”.

Julie Hough’s show venue, Soldiers Hill Gallery was closed, due to a funeral… Jeff Moorfoot’s was closed again;  I had tried earlier in the week but Mr Redes was closed then as well. 

As was Inexterior at the Foundry showing Donna Crebbin’s nocturnal landscapes.

I had more luck at Seymors on Lydiard where John Alcock’s “The Stages of Being-Going Forward” was showing.  Mostly stridently coloured landscapes under the pseudonym of “Bushie John”  I must admit to preferring his more subtle works like this, Titled: “Dressed by Pure White No. 2”  than the garishly coloured and crumpled canvas printed landscapes.

“Dressed by Pure White No. 2”

Then onto Trades Hall to look at Kristen Diemer’s, “Ways of Seeing “ (paraphrasing that delightfully bolshie 70’s Art Historian, John Berger) and her Lumen Prints.

Lumen Prints

Lumen prints are made similarly to photograms where objects are placed directly onto photographic paper and exposed to light. Except in this case, sunlight is used for exposure and there is no chemical development only a “fixing” bath if you wish to use that.

Lumen Prints

I remember many years ago when working as a Darkroom Technician that we occasionally did contact prints onto Printing Out Paper or POP prints under direct sunlight. After watching the print “develop” in the sunlight, we then stabilized it in Hypo and washed it as normal. Very Old-School but a lot more fun than looking at the back of a digital display.

Kristin’s works were delightful in their nuances and concept of using photography in its most primal and basic sense. These are travel photos literally light years away from the prosaic “scene” or the egotistical and narcissistic selfie.

For those of an old fashioned bent here is some further information.

http://www.alternativephotography.com/wp/pop-printing-out-process/printing-out-processes

As written in the first “post” on the BIFB, Silvi Glattauer, Michelle Williams and Raquel Betiz were the “Fringe” stand-outs for me in this 2015 biennale. It was interesting too that I think that the Fringe was possibly the strongest it has been for the past 10 years.

Most, if not all exhibitions being presented well in their chosen venues although some explanations on the didactic boards verged on art-wank most were explanatory rather than philosophical meanderings.

 2017? We’ll see.

Wombat Droppings

Or the chronicle of the inexorable Aussie slide from egalitarianism to fascism.

Well, “Von Fop” Turnbullsnob has politically assassinated Rabid-the-Hun.  So although denying the bleeding obvious, the Liarbrils really do sing to Labor, “Anything you can do, I can do better,” but feel less guilty about their mongrelness and we have a new Prime Miniature; but with five of these in five years we are rivalling Italy in being ultra democratic in the Warholian sense of everyone having their 15 minutes of fame…. or otherwise.

True to their genetically hypocritical form many of the “Brutii” were quick to expunge their pragmatic bastardry and guilt by extolling “what a decent chap/visionary/ humanitarian/ seer/ saint” Rabid-the-Hun was even though, at the same time, he was tardy in calling the GG to officially relinquish his office, and then only by fax, his staff were being very slow to leave the building, he was blaming the press for his demise and those who leaked to the press, and his official diary of events went missing as he said he would be no bother, and he has yet to have the Balls to sit in parliament! Oh, well… bully does as bully is.

Shane with Sliced Onion

”Von Fop Turnbullsnob has made much of the bright future we will have under his benevolent dictatorship where all will benefit from the Chinese doing the work, and where technology will blossom like a thousand imported plastic lotuses.

It’s a pity Von Fop was the Communications Minister who said his  downgraded National Broadband Scheme was to be, "Fast, Affordable, Sooner" but it turned out to be the equivalent of two tin cans with copper wire between and at an extra of $15,000,000,000.00,and now also 4 years behind schedule.  His “vision” also included all of the budget settings that made Rabid and Eleventy so reviled and the country more like the banana republic Keating warned of 30 years ago.

But the Sheeples love a smiley face and think, all’s right with the world.

Except none of the IPA's fascist elements developed in the past 2 years such as Anti-terror laws, Data retention, legislation against protests, The SS- like Border Force (or Farce), attacks on the independence of the ABC and Freedom of speech, attacks on the environment, the privatisation of the health services, the cruelling of the Arts; Environmental policy not worth the paper it’s written on, the maintenance of the concentration camps for refugees, the secrecy in most government departments and the attacks on welfare, the unemployed, the mentally ill and the elderly…. None of which, you can be sure will be re-mediated or altered.

But the Sheeples love a smiley face and think, all’s right with the world.

Mal Von-Fop Turnbullsnob

So with Rabid gone and sulking, Hockey spitting the dummy and leaving, Boofy Bilson losing his guernsey and probably spitting the dummy, too;  rather than call for three separate by-elections Von Fop, if the polls are good, will manufacture a double dissolution of both houses of parliament, win that and get on with the fascist takeover of Australia.
Remember, Hitler won an election, too.

But the Sheeples love a smiley face and think, all’s right with the world.

Baaa, Baaaaaa, Baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

Hooroo Possums,
Shane

….once more

Shane travelling

G’day Possums,

It’s time for a change of scene.

With the little Wombats looking after the burrow, Mrs W and I are off to France again.

After some time in Paris we perambulate to Rouen then across Normandy into Brittany following a sort of reverse ‘44 Invasion route. 

From there we waddle onto a boat to visit one of Mrs W’s “rellies” in Cornwall for a few days, wend our way to London and on the way, probably see every English garden ever planted.

The Bayeux Tapestry is one of the “must’s” listed, as is Caen, Camembert and Calvados.

 It will be interesting too, to compare the solid spatial harmonies of the French Romanesque to English Norman







and some of the Parisienne Art Nouveau architecture of Jules Lavirotte


with buildings like






the Watt Chapel in Kent and to visit the village in Kent that allegedly my C17th Wombat ancestors came from.

 ....and one more from the last shoot….

Dancer: Naomi S.

Wombat Droppings..

Or

the demise of Egalitarian Oz and its morphing into Fascism.

On the listing rust-bucket SS Liarbril, Captain Rabid-the-Hun has become 3.5% more popular.

Rarely venturing from the newly fortified bunker of his parliamentary cabin, Rabid’s lack of sightings has seemingly pleased the crew no end. This and the bonus of “Cereal-Toyota-Killer” Eleventy Hockey speaking positively about the worsening economic forecasts has lulled the Aspirational Bogan crew into a comfortably dull miasma with words like "... it's better to make a profit than to make a loss because ultimately you make more money out of a profit than you do out of a loss".... just like an anaesthetic.

Content at no longer having to think, the crew of SS Liarbril drowsily ignore the sounds of the bashing of the President of the Human Rights Commission, Gillian Triggs emanating from the engine room. Captain Rabid, “The-Drone” Morrison (he with blood on his hands), “Bookshelves” Brandis and Neanderthal Senators various, are bullying her over her recommendation that a refugee from Indonesian occupied West Papua who has spent nearly eight years incarcerated after completing his seven (?) year sentence on being convicted for manslaughter, be compensated.

It was felt that because of his involvement in the “Free West Papua” movement he couldn’t be repatriated back to West Papua without fear for his life and Triggs has recommended that compensation at a rate equivalent to $50,000 per year of his incarceration be offered.

Inconveniently coming at the same time as the Moss report which showed that “Bloody” Morrison lied about his allegations that aid workers assisted concentration camp inhabitants on Manus Island in self harm methods and that the sexual abuse of refugee children in the camps is other than he said and rife and also at being so obviously at odds with the prevailing ethics of the ruling rabble, Triggs needs to be shown the error of her thinking.

Bloody Morrison then “turned some stomachs” when seen cavorting with children in the SS Liarbril’s crèche. It is understood that after fumigation and washing the children suffered no real harm but will only have bad dreams for a few weeks.

                                                                                                  Timmy ”Twat-Freedom-Man” Wilson again, is nowhere of importance to be seen but his fellow “Coot-With-Queer-Ideas-From-a-Parallel-Universe” (aka IPA) “Bunter” Berg is, bobbing around regularly obfuscating debates on ABC”s “The Drum.”

Chris "Bunter" Berg, IPA

In his latest Libertarian-lite, poppy-cock, and playing the most current popular game of the Ruling Rabble: “Shoot-the-Messenger,” “Bunter” was opining that the Government’s Statutory Sports Drug watchdog, ASADA should be investigated by a Royal Commission because it couldn't definitively prove that the Essendon FC injected 34 of its players with banned substances and it was all Labor's fault anyway.

Unfortunately for “Bunter” his arguments generally have all the force of a ball of vapid vapour thrown at low speed; you watch it dissipate as it meanders toward you, then you exhale and “Puff”…… gone!

Perhaps a Royal Commission into the football club, its “sports-scientist-drug-supplier”, the coach, management team and the board might be the proper target but the rules on board SS Liarbril are Orwellian/Kafka-esque at present.

Which is a bit like Captain Rabid’s newest thought-bubble (probably courtesy of his bosses at the IPA?) of limiting the chances and opportunity for independent senators being elected.

All in the name of strengthening democracy mind you.

Sort of like the old aphorism so beloved of Senator “Vichy” Abetz, “Freedom through Work!” Or how 800,000 unemployed can disappear in filling 150,000 vacancies.

Hoo-roo Petals,

Shane

With an Orwellian dream

With an Orwellian dream

They promised maturity but could only manage

Kafka-esque parody.

G’day Possums,

No:1 daughter and I went for a little journey up the track t’ other day through the very pretty towns of Blackwood and Trentham.

Trentham

Apart from the rather incongruous siting of a couple of cousins ambling over a roof in Trentham, we found both towns have retained a quintessential “Federation-Australian-Country-Town” feel: the sort of places that Norman Lindsay was setting the stories of “Redheap” and “The Cousin from Fiji” in.

Trentham

No: 1 Daughter was looking at land for sale so it was a bit surprising to come across land being offered for sale that you wouldn't get a council building permit for;  which is a bit like buying shoes with no soles on them.

Then I was sent this image of another distant cousin performing a seriously important but odd role of guarding the Pitot tube of an aircraft at the Avalon Air Show….. just goes to show you never know how useful a  Wombat’s can be.

Which really is the tenor of this week’s….

Wombat Droppings

Or the chronicle of a Once Egalitarian Nation Sliding into Fascism.

Chief Bursar and Navigator of the rust-bucket, S.S. Liarbril, Joe “Cereal-Toyota-Killer” Hockey finally presented his late “Intergenerational Report Chart” after warning us of stuff in there that would have us all falling out of our deck-chairs. Well, we did fall out of our deck-chairs…. with laughter!

Trentham

Joe has (some call him “Eleventy,” because of their perception of his ability to add things up) decided that we should all work till we are 105 and live off our Superannuation, not the pension. At the same time he thinks young ones should access their “super” to buy houses, which means they will have little “super” at age 105 to live off.

Blackwood C19th

Joe’s ruling rabble have never seen the benefit of compulsory “super”, except for the wealthy and have done much to limit its growth but don’t think taxpayer funded pensions are a good thing either. This is probably why “Cereal-Toyota-Killer’s” Report Chart was cast 100 years into the future when A/ no -one would remember its prognostications and B/ the world would have changed anyway.

Adding to Joe’s woes; he has been traumatised, embarrassed and reputation trashed by scurrilous newspaper writings that he thinks, they suggested he was for sale.

Blackwood C19th

Noooooo!  Joe for sale..? To developers… to foreign interests… to Gina Rinehart….? Never!

It’s not like he was fundraising in Parliament House or taking money from Sydney Water Holdings, (that happily, had fellow Party member and Senator, Arfur ”Da Spiv” Sinodinas on its board) … Joe, Joe …as pure as the driven snow….

or a whitewash, take your pick.

With an Orwellian dream

They promised maturity but could only manage

Kafka-esque parody.

SS Liarbril’s assistant PE Officer, Chwissie,”The-Whyne-and-Perfect-Prat-of-a-Prefect” Pyne has had another “hissie-fit” with the remaining passengers who are still baulking at his proposed $100,000.00 deck-quoit tuition fees. Chwissie reckons that the deletion of $150,000,000.00 from CSIRO research will bring them to their senses and improve science and educational standards all round. How this will happen is a secret; as they used to say, it is “an-on-water-matter.”  Besides listhped Chwissie, “Education is a fashion item and only good as a Status symbol if you pay lot’s for it.”

With an Orwellian dream

They promised maturity but could only manage

Kafka-esque parody.

Another curious piece on the social calendar was the celebratory party of the importance of female crew.  This was held in the male-only officer’s club. Those who questioned the appropriateness of this choice of venue were bluntly told that being allowed to earn 2/3 the male pay indicated your inability to afford a more suitable venue; and that you were lucky not to be asked to do the washing-up after the event.

Crewmembers Bishop and Cash then swaggered off  whistling, “There’s Nothing Like a Dame” to show their solidarity with the male Officers.

Chief Engineer, “Chainsaw” McFarlane and Captain “Rabid-the-Hun” have decided to return the $1,000,000,000.00 they cut from the engine room budget and are hoping that the crew contemplating jumping overboard from those quarters might stay at their posts a little longer to maintain enough steam to give a semblance of forward movement.
Oops... that was this morning it's now only $500,000.00.
Oops.... that was this afternoon...it's now $100,000.00.
Could this rabble run a school tuck-shop? NO.

With an Orwellian dream

They promised maturity but could only manage

Kafka-esque parody.

In another re-writing of the “Coots-With-Queer-Ideas-From a Parallel-Universe” sailing instructions, the fee to open the medicine cabinet has been dropped.

Announcing this reverse before Medical Officer Sussan “Snarler” Ley could again disagree, Captain Rabid said it was “dead, buried and cremated,” but ominously, didn’t say he’d thrown the corpse overboard.

Le Jongleur Roskam, Head Clown of the “Coots” entertainment committee was thought to be waiting for the severe squalls following from the Pacific Trade deal to re-lock the cabinet and hopefully scuttle any attempt for the public passengers having an affordable health service.

With an Orwellian dream

They promised maturity but could only manage

Kafka-esque parody.

Stoker Georgie “Bookshelves” Brandis’ secretary C. Moraitis, has told Federal Police investigating whether Professor Gillian Triggs was offered an inducement to leave her post and take to the lifeboats; that the briefcase containing the relevant documents has been inadvertently thrown overboard.

This has many wondering how often the dog ate his homework when at secondary school.

SS Liarbril’s attempt to make movement by changing course is working….  except that it is now drifting backward to it’s start position of 18 months ago having made no progress at all in anything.

Passengers seem increasingly tired of the same old “Row, Row, Row your Boat,”   “La Mer de”, “It was on the Isle of Manus” and Captain Rabid’s favourite, “What Do You Do With a Drunken Sailor?”

Crewmembers are believed to have made suggestions to that….and also timing, pertaining to the Ides of March, as well.

With an Orwellian dream

They promised maturity but could only manage

Kafka-esque parody.

Hoo-roo, Petals,

Shane.

PS further reading… if you think I’m making all this up…

https://newmatilda.com/2015/03/02/john-pilger-why-rise-fascism-issue  An alternative view…

http://www.tai.org.au/node/2683  The Hockey scare campaign…

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.

To Advance Australia Where?

G'day possums,

Shane being Patriotic.

It's Straya Day  and for the first time we are being exhorted to sing the National Anthem at midday tomorrow.

That this rather Americanised concept of plastic patriotism/jingoism is gaining a foothold in this country at present is a definite indication that there's actually little to celebrate.

But as a loyal, patriotic and involved member of "Toim Striaya" I have penned an alternate version for tomorrow's festivities....

... To the tune of  Advance Australia Fair

Advance Australia Where?

Bogans all let us lament

That we are full of fear

We've privatised all in making wealth

For investors not from here

Our abundant natures gifts are raped

For compensation poor

Oft wrapped in flags of Chinese make

For ranting mindless slogans of hate

In words fully three and sometimes more

Advance Australia Where?

Below our smoggy Southern Cross

All things made wrecked by Rabid whim

And 457’s on the rise

Our future does look grim

We say to those fleeing shock and awe

“We’re bloody full so fuck right off

Illegal Queue jumpers welcomed here

Only if your Burqa’s doffed”

Still Oz Flagged wrapped in sentiment fake

Advance Australia Where?

Chained Indigineous People

It's interesting to note that until the 60's the Aborigine was classified under Flora and Fauna.

We popped down the The Greendale Pub to have a gander at their Striaya Day celebrations....My anthem would probably not have been appreciated by many...wrong audience. Hey-Ho.

Wombat Droppings 

or the chronicle of the inexorable slide of a country into Fascism

Rabid-the-Hun has been (allegedly) catching up on his reading because Campbell "Il Duce" Newman, Dictator of the Deep North will not invite him to participate in his election games.  Rabid's behaviour is rather suspect at the moment as "Il Duce" looks like losing his own seat and his Fascist rabble are perilously close to being made the opposition after only one term like "DoDo" Naptime was recently in The Tardis State of Victoria (Where-All-Goes-Backward) election. 

Newman has amused many of us with his defence of his regime by accusing Labor of receiving funds through the CFMEU Union  with funds allegedly  donated by Outlaw MC Clubs.
When pressed publicly as to where the evidence was for this, "Il Duce" said, ".... we should look it up on Wikki!"

Most of us were unaware that "Ozone-Hole" Hunt, Federal Pretend Environment Minister was advising the Deep Northerners on research method or that these "donations" were any different from receiving  cash "assistance" from mining companies or property developers in brown paper bags and envelopes.
 Making legislation retrospective to avoid friends' illegal practices embarrassing the government though, is quite another matter.

Rabid-the-Hun has, I understand, been been reading  Julius Ceasar By Will Shakespeare, particularly the "Ides of March" bit and  reportedly has been seeking alternative interpretations of the text from his lowly back-benchers.

It is also apparent that the pirate vessel, he Captains, the S.S. Liarbril is not steering too well as it keeps steaming  in circles, which is not quite what the driving instructions supplied by "The-Coot's-With-Queer-Ideas-From-a-Parallel-Universe" (aka the IPA) intended.

 First Mate "Bloody Idiot" Credlin is thought to be at blame for this although the Navigator, Joe "Cereal/Toyota-Killer" Hockey is obviously in difficulty reading charts and calculating Latitude and Longitude but does have some excuse as his assistant, "Horse-Shite" Coormann only issues direction instruction in either broken English or Belgian: only one of which does Joe "Cereal/Toyota-Killer" partially understand.

 Captain  Rabid said he has tried scraping some barnacles off the hull but S.S. Liarbril's plate is so thin that its hull is now in danger of collapsing and she is settling lower and lower in the muck it has churned up.
It is unfortunate that the IPA's original instructions were very limited in concept and sophistication and were not related to how to build things but only to disassemble.

Many passengers have left the cruise early and it would seem that the toy-maker, "The Ugly American" Murdoch and his minions at CWQIFaPU, (IPA) have not done their respective reputations much good.

 The stench coming from the boiler room at this time is not at all like the Coal these pirates so like, it's more akin to the funk of a wounded animal waiting for the Ides of March.

Breaking news: In the Australia Day Honours lists Captain Rabid has given Phil-the-Greek (Betty Windsor's other half) a gong, a knighthood! Now Australia's Prime Miniature bestowing a knighthood on a British Monarch's hubby might seem a little bit cart before horse  but that's the way things are being done around here. That it is an entirely ludicrous idea and likely to have more people crying out not just for 1/ a Double Dissolution of Parliament, 2/ a Republic, 3/ Revolution or 4/ Rabid-the-Hun's committal isnot too fanciful.
That his own crew might be brought that much closer to mutiny with this insane display arse-licking fawning is also not out of the question.

Hoo-roo Petals,

Shane.

It’s Xmas after all.

G'day Possums... well it's not really...

Shane, Xmas 2014

Man Haron Monis murders two in tragic finale to a 16 hour siege in a Sydney café and sparks more race-hate from Xtians.

Press and TV turn it into a 24 hour "reality" entertainment stimulating faux emotion to be piled on faux emotion for bogan empathy justification. 

It reminded me of scenes from Ray Bradbury's Sci-Fi novel, "Fahrenheit 451"as it was letting loose the media Right-Wing trolls spouting about too restrictive gun laws, Towel-Heads and Muzzies and Death cults and those peculiar "Tea-Party" values.

"Little Johnny" Howard had certainly prised open the can of worms with "Tampa," Reith's "Children Overboard" and his refusal to deal with the nascent racism of Pauline Hanson. We are a morally diminished nation with these Liarbril fools.  Now we have the present incompetent incumbent, Rabid-the-Hun getting  facts about the Sydney Cafe  killer wrong in an interview... which sort of begs the questions: who was this nutter being protected by and why? And who in the NSW judiciary was being "leant-on" by ASIO? 

Proving it really is the “Silly Season,” ”The Institute of Public Affairs (IPA) has just released it's new fiction,  "Climate Change: The Facts 2014".

Edited by A Moron, oops, Moran and with contributions from highly opiniated people like Andrew” Blot-on-the-Landscape” Bolt, blogger Anthony Watts, and climate denialists Ian Plimer, Richard Lindzen and Robert Carter and others in lieu of scientific experts in climate, it is sure to be an eye-watering, side splitting frolic through the Parallel Universes they inhabit.

Daylesford

The "Coot's-With-Queer-Ideas-From-a-Parallel-Universe" always do write a very interesting range of Sci-Fi.

I assume this $25.00 pamphlet is to book-end their other near best-seller "Voodoo Economic Principles of The Free-for-All Market?"

It does cap off a very successful year for the “Coots” though, as the chief Office Boy, Rabid-the-Hun and his money box holder Joe “Cereal/Toyota-Killer” Hockey bludgeon Oz from a relatively egalitarian state to nastily free-market oligarchy.

It’s a pity the OECD don’t agree, questioning just where Oz is headed and seems doubtful of its success. http://www.smh.com.au/business/the-economy/oecd-slams-australian-budget-measures-close-monitoring-required-20141216-1285ip.html#ixzz3M7LAukXS

Daylesford

Hell-bent on destroying his nation on the myths of his mis-apprehended Catholicism, Rabid-the-Hun’s destruction of  our cultural diversity well suits his limited imagination.

He then goes on a rant when his CoS is attacked by his own ministers calling it a gender attack of unprecedented proportions…

Daylesford

Ohhhh …Dear Rabid-the-Hun, do you think we should call Ms Credlin "Barren" as your lot did Ms Gillard?

Do you think, Rabid-the-Hun, we should call Ms Credlin a "Witch" as your lot did to Ms Gillard and be burnt at the stake for her influence?

Rabid -the-Hun, should your party be lining up to slit Ms Credlin's throat as your Senator Ciobo said of Ms Gillard on national TV?

And one other thing, Rabid-the-Hun, do you think you might apologise to Ms Gillard for your relentless hypocritical attacks on her as a liar over ONE issue when have broken so many more?

Trentham

Poor Peta "Bloody Idiot" Credlin. Commissar to a lying nincompoop. Wrangler to a hideously inept Environment minister; who cant get her own make-over shots in Vogue like "Asbestos-Death Stare" Julie and who has to deal with the mangled English of “Horse-Shite" Coormann. With the others in cabinet (unmentioned due to space requirements) as dismally untalented to deal with, she must feel like she's running a kinder full of ADHD / Asperger toddlers... I mean have some pity..... or perhaps we should just revel in the schadenfreude as a little bit of yuletide joy.

Trentham

The world lives within us, we live within the world. By damaging the living planet we have diminished our existence. (George Monbiot)

Hoo-Roo Petals,

Shane