The Ship of Fools or All at Sea on the Foundering Rustbucket, SS Ruling Rabble

G'day Lorikeets,

We've been to and seen a few performances this week, two spirit lifting, the others seen only from afar, wholly dispiriting as you witness how completely bereft of moral and ethical behaviour the Ruling Rabble have become and how any concept of ministerial responsibility is utterly foreign to them and just how parlous our democracy has become.

Squawking like a demented Sulphur Crested Cockatoo aloft the crows nest at sunset, The Harpy Cash demanded that Labor apologise for questioning her honesty because she withheld knowledge from the police about the staffers who admitted they criminally leaked the AWU raid to the press. Then incongruously denied that it was in order to get Willy Shortstuff into trouble ("...who's this Shorten bloke..?" she was alleged to have muttered) as she and the Retiring Keenan flapped away from the tender ministrations of Senator Penny Wong who also wanted to discuss the failure of the Unfair Work Commission in cutting penalty rates to hospitality workers which hasn't meant, as they promised, an increase in working hours.

And if ever a Knight was errantly named it was this new Paladin. Born in a shack on Kangaroo Island with shonky partners, with no experience and with Home Affairs Minister, Potato-Head Dutton's sister on staff, the Ruling Rabble have said privately, much like they did to the Barrier Reef Syndicate, "Here ya go, mate... have a measly $423,000,000.00 go and run the concentration camp on Manus.... and don't forget "good practice" .... sack the workers, re-hire them on lower wages and make a bigger profit!"

In what seemed an audition for the Melbourne International Comedy Festival the alleged Attorney General, The Un-xtian Porter when queried by Barrie Cassidy on Insiders that Paladin's accommodation bill for a concentration camp bed was costing at $1600.00 per week sans food, a lot more than a top Sydney hotel, The Unxtian strait facedly replied with something like, "....we try to do the best for our concentration camp inmates.!"  Later, in a Tsunami of appearances inaccurately blaming Labor, he announced that there were loopholes in legislation big enough for a whale to jump through (I know, I know, whales broach...but it's not me speaking) It was the legislation parliament enacted to provide a semblance of kindness to the Manus and Nauru detainees but like Joe McCarthy in the 50's, The Un-xtian declined to offer the evidence.

Then just when you thought the weather couldn't get worse, Double Dipping Joe Hockey sails in from his taxpayer funded double-dip holiday camp in Washington to not offer advice to the godfather of his children and WA Ruling Rabble treasurer and Helloworld travel business owner on how to facilitate a billion dollars in government travel contracts. "Nor Sir, not me, grinned the ever ebullient Joe the Double Dip..... and I didn't advise him to about the Fisherman's Bend redevelopment either, that was probably Matty Thug, The Lobster Guy.... we're all mates here, we (wink, wink, nudge, nudge) share  everything."

Mates-rates also caught his other friend, Horse-Shite Cormann out when he decided to go-to-the-top instead of the sales desk, to the same Helloworld travel boss and book a family holiday flight... which seven months later still wasn't paid until a journo asked... and even then, amid the flurry of salty excuses, $2700.00 for a family of four for return flights to Singapore and unlikely to be "cattle-class" is very cheap. But then, cheaply treating the public suits Cormann: he billed the taxpayer $37,000.00 for an RAAF flight to Adelaide to unsuccessfully woo some Centre Alliance opposition rather than take a very cheap commercial flight for say $1200.

But as Primed Miniature de Jour Scummo says..."Nothing to see here.. "Ooooh, look Boats , boats and more boats, terrorists, rapists, naughty brown people on the horizon, batten down the hatches, man the cannon!"

And then the polls turned ...well they did if you believe The Ugly American's comics. But if you believe them you also probably think "John and Betty" is classic high literature.

It is interesting to note how consistent all the media have become in their word placement, the tenor and projections of what they are saying... it's not actually news, it's propaganda designed to obscure the truth of just how corrupt and incompetent this Ruling Rabble is, was, and shall always be. Amen.

Now the nice stuff ... I commissioned a ring for Mrs Wombat, a replica of one from the C12th-C13th  from jeweller friend Paul (APS Jewellery) and it made us all very happy.

Then later, at the Sidney Myer Music Bowl we all attended a wonderful concert featuring the incredibly talented 11 yo Christian Li playing Saint-Saen's Introduction and Rondo capriccioso, 

Max Bruch's Scottish Fantasy with the superb playing of Veriko Tchumburidze  and a really good band, The Melbourne Symphony beautifully conducted by Benjamin Northey......

which makes all the political stuff more evil, more wastefully negative, pointless and culturally debilitating than it has ever been in Australia.

May we soon be rid of these irrelevant but costly pricks.

Hoo-roo, Kookaburra's

Shane. 

Being hung out to dry

being hung out to dry

G’Day  Possums,

Mrs Wombat and daughters 1 and 2 went to a concert t’other night at the Sidney Myer Music Bowl. The Bowl is a nice open air venue where we and many hundreds of others picnicked and thoroughly enjoyed Smetena’s Overture “The Bartered Bride”, Dvorak’s Symphony No.8 and Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto in D all encored with The Polonaise from Tchaikovsky’s “Eugene Onegin” beautifully played by the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra.

 

It’s been quite a while since I’d been to a live performance and much, much longer since I’d been to one at the Music Bowl and had forgotten the density of the sound produced and its wonderful clarity in this humid Summer’s night setting.

On the way back to the burrow there were fireworks going off over the city. It was either Chinese New Year, a Chinese invasion, the start of the revolution…or perhaps, all three.

And just one more Ballet Pic from Ballet Theatre Australia… their Group shot.

BTA Group

Wombat Droppings

Or the Sad Chronicle of Oz’s slide from Egalitarianism into Fascism.

Rabid-the-Hun, Australia’s Prime Miniature received, unusually, some good news for once. His propaganda pamphlet in Sydney run by “The Ugly American”, Murdoch, informed the Captain that although SS Liarbril was still sinking, it wasn’t going down as fast.

In material that read more like “Push-Polling” than a real survey and which made some odd assertions from the figures given; this news has cheered the Captain who recently had been strongly advised to abandon ship.

It remains to be seen whether “the-storm-in-a-teacup” over his Party’s federal treasurer threatening to jump ship over concerns about fundraising and the malignant cabal of Rabid’s Chief of Staff, “Bloody-Idiot” Credlin and her hubby, federal director,  “Brain” Loughnane will cause the becalmed vessel to ship more water.

Hmmm... sailing too far to the right, to right? 

Larger waves have appeared though.

News that Captain Rabid was wanting to unilaterally invade not only Iraq but Ukraine, too have been followed by the botched character assassination attempt on Gillian Triggs, 

Human Rights Commissioner by “Bookshelves” Brandis our Blimp of Attorney General. The complete bastardry of this ruling rabble has been on displayfor 8 hours with their disgusting behaviour toward Triggs. Their total lack of humanity, their total lack of morality and the baseness of their characters is now fully exposed. They have elevated the putridness of their treatment of Gillard to a different plane in this star chamber which looks more like a Stalinist Show trial than an enquiry. These Liarbril are the scum of the earth and are not fit to hold the positions they do.  Then there are revelations that job agencies are rorting taxpayers money; something which the ruling rabble knew but chose to do nothing about.  Another example of the nation being sold down the drain... but let's not forget how Mrs Rudd made her Millions.

And that “Horse-shite” Cormann ignored advice that the National Australia Bank was as incompetent and as bad as Commonwealth Bank in its mis-handling of superannuants funds and did what Liarbrils do best…nothing 

These waves just might be enough to swamp such a dodgy vessel and send it to the bottom particularly if the AFP investigation into Triggs' attempted forced resignation is found to be a criminal "inducement" of a statutory officer.

Attempting to inspire his tattered forces with a call to the Flag of National Security, Rabid-the-Hun, in a mini Nuremburg Rally setting, insulted all the Muslims in Australia to keep the Bogans happy.

picture courtesy Peter Grace.

In an abundance of sometimes rhyming rhetoric containing little substance, Rabid said we’d been too nice for too long and that dual citizens must split their personalities and become “one-of-us”.

Sadly he missed the opportunity to settle the rumours concerning his own dual citizenship.

This occurred just after he’s insulted the Swedes’ capacity to build submarines.

STOP PRESS: Chinese announce collapse of Aussie Flag production due to peak demand by Rabid-the-Hun. Looms caught fire and cheap nylon melted as overload on computerised spinning machines halted production. Chinese Government has announced a reverse 457 deal where 800,000 unemployed Australians will be granted visa's to finish production quota before 2016 election.

Pay rates & conditions will be assured at normal Chinese ones.

Those not accepting this generous offer will be re-educated on Manus Island once the asylum seeker "Illegals" have been sold to Cambodia.

And if Rabid’s Rabble think it’s safe to go back in the water, there’s always the details of the Pacific trade deals, their attempted dismembering of Medibank and the possible tsunami of response to $100,000.00 uni fees…there’s some rough weather ahead.

Hoo-roo Petals,

Shane.