Teaching Ravens to Fly Underwater.

G'day Petals,

I was watching "Insiders" last week (5-11-17) and observing panellist Geriatric Gargoyle Henderson of the Sydney Geriatric Institute's school-boyish mumblings, floor searchings and hand-wringing attempts at every oblique reference, straw man, selective observation and misrepresentation to avoid facing the obvious fact that the ruling rabble he supports is now a terminal shambles. 

He provided at least, much benign amusement to journalists Laura Tingle and Mark Kenny and also to host Barrie Cassidy in the process.

Then, on the same program another ruling rabble apparatchik Kelly, Shadduppa-ya-Face O' Dwyer whose predictable rote practise of spitting forth her unblinking, flat-earth, loud, "in-your-face" refutations of any question put was again confidently performed.

Shadduppa-ya-Face is such an assured liar that I really think she thinks she almost believes what she says.

As both the Geriatric Gargoyle and Shadduppa-Ya-Face live in the parallel universe manufactured by the IPA and promulgated by The Ugly American, Murdoch's media, it's no wonder you cannot but draw reference to other forms of satire and it occurred to me there was not only a similarity in this Insiders program's content with both of these ruling rabble "guest's" comments but also a curious relevance to a Peter Cook and Dudley Moore "interview" about "Teaching Ravens to Fly Underwater."

Five minutes into the "interview" Moore, as Interviewer asks Cook as Interviewee who had spent some twenty years in his activity:

"Have you ever managed, in all your years, to teach a Raven to fly underwater?"

"Err...... no!"

"Then you could say that your whole life has been a miserable failure."

"Err.... yes..... you could  say that."

Having "gone-to-ground" in the vastness of Western Australia apparently to avoid compounding her less than sound rationale for the mangled AFP  witch-hunt of Willie Shortstuff, serial parliamentary liar The Harpy, Cash popped up at an industry talk-fest with that well known Aussie car-maker, BMW extolling the virtues of the manufacturing business. Hmmm... pity about the thousands of jobs in manufacturing her ruling rabble associates have recently destroyed at both Holden and Ford.

Ruling rabble apparatchik Nola, Madam Lash Marino has discovered she's ineligible to sit in parliament at the same time as ex tennis player, Backhander Alexander also revealed that after five months cogitation that he's also an illegal member due to citizenship malfeasance.

Bingo... minority government!  And irony of ironies, on the same day Gough Whitlam was sacked by the Governor General in 1975.

This Governor General though, is taking a lead from Harpy Cash and is nowhere to be seen or heard, lest he not only play his role in dealing with so much unlawful constitutional activity promulgated but being ignored by the ruling rabble but also brooking the anger of his conservative fan base in working to prorogue an unworkable parliament and calling an general election!

Rumour has it that IPA apparatchik, Gorgon Downer is being touted as a potential candidate for the SA seat of Mayo...and even though, the incumbent has fallen foul of citizenship sloppiness too, this "challenge" must provide her some wry amusement.

Downer presents as seemingly imbued with all the simpering personality of a stale rice pudding and with an intellectual acuity to match. Master of the bleeding obvious but a mediocre practitioner of Straw-Man argument, (an IPA favourite.. must remember to send them a new bale for xmas) Gorgon has during her frequent but boringly lacklustre TV outings given every appearance of not only enjoying but celebrating the most banal of ideas. This scion is probably being touted as either a continuation of a tired family political dynasty of utter mediocrity or as a sop to ruling rabble faction ploys.

Psst.. her father was once a ruling rabble, mesh stocking wearing, opposition leader (haw, nudge, nudge, haw, haw) but one gaffe too many (making light of domestic violence), saw him eventually removed to London as High Commissioner where his faux accent better suits this expensive but mostly ceremonial sinecure.

And then there was ANNE!  Henderson, that is. A fiercely in-your-face talk down, over, through, brooking no facts to counter to the "truths" of her fantastical right wing polemic! Golly, no wonder the Gargoyle of the Sydney Geriatric Institute looks so trodden ... dinner conversation must be interestingly mono-directional !

Well the ruling rabble is now a definite shambles, terminal and all but destroyed but in its hubristic arrogance is refusing to lie down....  perhaps they're teaching Ravens to fly underwater.

Hoo-roo Possums,

Shane.

gagged in a fog

In a Fog

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

All class, those two!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Debate? 

They didn't.

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

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

Oh, dear!

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

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

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

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

Hoo-roo fellow mushrooms,

Shane.

Further unravelling the Nation…

Shane in defensive fence

G’day Petals

I’m  preparing for another Ballarat International Foto Biennale, August 22 –19 September.

Title of show: “Dancer.”  And some of what I’m showing.

Dancer: Lawrence Winder

Dancer: Lawrence Winder

More detail, closer to the event.

Wombat Droppings

The chronicle of Australia’s descent from Egalitarianism to Fascism.

What has become known as “Chopper-gate” is still maintaining a focus on the dishonesty and fiddling the public purse, which looks to have become endemic amongst the ruling rabble.

Speaker Bronny Kero-Pompadour Bishop attended another wedding under the cover of a “secret meeting” with an “undisclosed academic” in the Deep North.

If this sounds a bit like Two Weddings and a Funeral you would not be mistaken as the publicity surrounding Bronny’s and other pollies rortings have wiped another 3 points from the ruling rabble’s poll figures in a week and many of them are becoming nervous that the prospect of being a “oncer” is looking ominously possible and their snouts will be removed from the trough.

Deputy Prime Miniature Warren Ploughman Truss it turns out, spent $21,000.00 on chartered aircraft to fly to a meeting (again in the Deep North) to tell pensioners to tighten their belts… or “…we’ll all be rooned.” His explanations as to the unavailability of commercial or RAAF craft sounding somewhat thin and self-serving. 

Then his boss Rabid the Hun, kitted out in his best “Top-Gun” Cos-play gear probably spent another $12,000.00 for a flight from Brisbane to Darwin in a RAAF chopper.

Apparently for “a number of official briefings with our armed forces.” 

This unpublicised event also included visiting a Party Fundraiser for 30-40 attendees.

The deliberate blurring of the lines between official and unofficial business where the taxpayer is footing the bill for Party-Political purposes is plainly dishonest. It shows that a disdain for ethical behaviour can be the only outcome from the pursuit of power and a lack of real leadership.

When pretend Treasurer, Joe Eleventy Hockey visits his farm (in the Far North, again) 13 times and claims it as “official business” on top of paying $270.00 per night living-away-allowance “rent” to his wife for her home in Canberra you know clearly, things are rotten.

These people are incapable of leadership: they are compromised, mired in a morass, a deceitful swill of their own making and their only defence is, “Look over there…it could be quota for more women in Parliament…” or “How dare Labor steal back a policy we stole from them …”

Labor, playing the game of Lowest-Common-Denominator looks as if they will maintain the Refugee Concentration Camps that are disgracing our nation and have also decided not to have a Federal Independent Commission Against Corruption, a move that many in the community see as absolutely necessary and well overdue.

The further breakdown of this country is evident in the racist treatment of Adam Goodes an Indigenous football player who is now routinely booed by racist opposition crowds. This behaviour has been aided and abetted by, guess who?  All the shock jocks and right-wing journo’s like Blot-on-the-Landscape, Bolt the Dolt!

One, Toilet-boy Jones even went so far as to ludicrously claim that Goodes was “playing the victim!”

It’s interesting that amongst these unctuous ravings about Goodes being a “sook” for shaming a girl in the crowd who called him a black Ape during a game some 12 months ago nothing is said of those sport “stars” who have bashed their wives or G/F’s, had adulterous liaisons with team mates wives, raped, taken drugs, were thugs on the field and generally just been Bogans.

Let’s bash the minorities, the disadvantaged, the poor and needy… targets that can’t answer back against the power of the Ugly American’s press.

I said years ago, this is the Age of the Aspirational Bogan where the Free-Market values of the right wing IPA rule.

Poor fellah, my Country.

Hooroo Possums,

Shane

Seeing people of privilege…

Shane at ballet Studio

G’day Petals,

Japanese Photographer Moriyama Daido has said the photographs are memories of light and deposits and traces making up a kind of archaeology and he likes Tennessee Williams' thought “….that worthwhile memories lie somewhere between fact and non-fact.”

Photos taken recently at class and rehearsal for Ballet Theatre Australia... They have a performance soon.. check their facebook page for details... https://www.facebook.com/BalletTheatreAustralia

These are not documentary photographs, yet they are…

They are a fiction but still true.

A dance performance is ephemeral, it is always enjoyed after the event.

 They are not “staged” images but manipulated truth.

Wombat Droppings

Scott “The Drone “ Morrison has used refugee children on the Manus Island concentration camp as bargaining ploys to get legislation passed through the Senate under the pretence that it is “humanitarian.”

Rabid –the-Hun with his usual warped values applauded this a fair and honourable thing to do.

That he has a brain is without doubt.... but it must be very small, hence the repetitive simple three word slogans. They’re repetitive because it’s almost as if he's trying to convince himself of their "rightness" and viability.

What a bastard nation we have become. What a venal, selfish, intolerant and stupid people; a Nation so without a set of moral values that we are going to be easy pickings for the next huckster that comes along.

A young cricketer got hit on the head with a ball during a State match and tragically, died.
A young woman with severe physical disabilities who was a forceful advocate for seeing disability for what it is died, suddenly.
The Australian Cricket Board and its cricketers had the cricketer's funeral televised (politicians of all persuasions attended) and "Milked" at every opportunity the situation.
I don't think the disability advocate will get the same attention.
Advance Australia ...where?

Then there was the rather sad spectacle of our newish taxpayer funded $330,000.00 p.a. ”Freedom from Something” Commissioner, Timmy “Twat/Freedom-Man” (ex-Liarbril, ex-Coot-With-Queer-Ideas-From-a-Parallel-Universe”, aka IPA) bouncing around the set of “The Chasers Media Circus” on the soon to be financially gutted, ABC.

Looking, according to Mrs Wombat’s analysis, like a dippy school–girl invited to a party where she knows no-one and senses she is not liked but is so, so desperate to be involved, Timmy offered little of substance but seemed blithely happy to be a clapping wallflower to everyone else’s contributions.

Perhaps more than a real civil servant working for the betterment of the nation’s civility would do?

Me?   I thought Timmy looked more like a dim-witted Labrador dog happily sniffing new bums in the hope a being accepted by the peer group.

Timmy’s previous employment was with that rancid organization the IPA  which in its paid advocacy role espouses abolishing the very commission for which Timmy is now being paid by the nation to speak for. That is the real problem and his appointment rather, foisting, without tender into the role, by pretend Federal Attorney General, “Bookshelves” Brandis, makes a mockery of Democracy.

He can never be trusted in this role.

 Almost on cue as the wheels begin to fall off their ramshackle government; we are treated to more news “shock, horror, feel afraid”,  70 or so Australian Muslims are fighting with ISIS in Syria & Iraq and Mandy “Il Patrone” Vanstone bounces up to opine how hard-done-by her rabble are being treated by the press and Labor.

Geez, Mandy do you now sympathise with the viciousness your lot meted to Gillard and Rudd in the past few years? Do you think Mandy, that your rabble’s top level infighting is the press’ and Labor’s fault?

The infighting is getting worse as their wholly unfair budget is in a mess, their ludicrous tertiary education dismemberment is stalled in the Senate and Rabid-the-Hun’s popularity deteriorates.

Julie “Death-Stare” Bishop then has a hissy fit when told she can’t go the Climate Change talks in Lima.

They weren’t going to have Australia attend as “Ozone-Hole” Hunt is useless as Environment minister and besides “…climate change is crap…!”

 “Death-Stare” with one look, irradiated a cabinet room of colleagues and gets her way but is further informed (probably by Rabid-the-Hun’s most favoured partner, “Commissar” Credlin) that Andy “Reboxetine” Robb was to chaperone her, lest she swayed from the righteous doctrinal path of  “…climate change is crap…” and not hinder the de-railing of the talks.

It was reported that “Death-Stare, “…went Bananas…” Not, that she was Bananas.

That Julie “Death-Stare Bishop’s star is in the ascendant is not disputed but that is a bit like a flag being run up the mast of the Titanic as it sinks.

“People of privilege,” said the economist JK Galbraith, “will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part of their advantage.”

And so it goes Down-Under.

Hoo-roo Possums,

Shane