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

The Authentic Magical Mystery Tour

Shane's Bus

G'day Possums,

We are so lucky in this luckiest of a lucky country. We have been belled oops, bountifully appointed with anointed political officers who are ever ready to make themselves available to meet the people they so blessed to serve.... no matter how far out of sight and/or mind  they really are.

Prime Miniature du Jour, Scummo,  for instance has just completed what could be likened to a truncated Oral Roberts tour to the natives of The Deep North, spreading the word of his prosperity gospel and demonstrating at every moment his genuine suburban authenticity as a counterpoint to the evils of The Red Terror, Hanson's Noe Notion Party.

In the same vein as the late Roberts and using, in lieu, The "I Ching," as my copy of the Bible evaporated many years ago: I opened it at a random page to seek guidance as to Scummo's progress:  Hexagram 39.  Obstruction.  "Difficulties and obstructions throw a man back on himself. While the inferior man seeks to put the blame on other persons, bewailing his fate, the superior man seek the error within himself, and through this introspection the external obstacle becomes for him an occasion for inner enrichment and education."

Window, Footscray.

How serendipitously apt... for remember how Scummo's first pre-selection went "pear shaped"  at 82-8 and was then miraculously reversed:  and how earlier on being sacked from Tourism Australia he is afforded a generous payout, and more recently how his unalloyed support of the besieged Truffles, again, miraculously lands him in the Top-Job?  

Even as Commandant of our regional concentration camps it wasn't Scummo's fault that people were suicidal but Labor's, and it wasn't his fault that all around him were telling lies about the camp's conditions. 

Why, even his rival for the Top-Job, Rabid-the-Hun is on the record as noting these places are a wonderful place  for a holiday!

Spilt Milk or Putting Your Foot in It.

Scummo's  commitment to has flock is such that ever mindful of reaching his people his empty tour bus is over-flown by his RAAF flight so that next morning the bus can be utilized as a temporary pulpit from which to descend and spread the word that salvation is nigh.... as long as you're not LGBTQQIA, Labor, Green, want penalty rates , Medicare, honest banks, a genuine public service, a proper NBN, a funded NDIS not a "kitty" for farmers, a funded CSIRO  and a funded ABC!

 

Another Tourist Train.

Having spent quite some energy lambasting Labor's Willie Shortstuff  traveling all over the country during the past 12 months for his old fashioned Town Hall meet and greets, the Ruling Rabble has decided that actually talking to disparate plebians might provide some advantageous publicity.... but knowing their utter disdain for "the great unwashed" who are not IPA members they will probably go to the central casting bureau they used last election to provide some Types: "working", safety vest, overalls, boots (sans Rolex and manicured nails)  nurse, uniform, just-do-it 1/2 smile, "pensioner": Unlined, semi-attractive, slim (Julie Bishop), "Busy Working Mum" 30-ish, 21/2 children (optional 1/2) middle-class, with small 4WD in mock Georgian house, to attend their vetted meeting with vetted questions and "canned" applause. 

It's happening already Petals:  Sabra Lane today on ABC's nobbled "AM" spent the last 10 minutes of the program sounding like she was reading a prepared set of questions for Ozone-Hole Hunt's (now the deliriously incompetent minister of sickness)  factotum Trenty Zimmerframe, who announced yet another enquiry to further the pretence of caring and looking active, not their usual moribund selves. 

This one is allegedly about sleep patterns for workers . 

Possibly to find a way around penalty rates for shift workers, particularly nurses and "fireys."

Factory, Footscray.

One thing that is certain in all this. It is that The Ruling Rabble's mendacity, cupidity and corruption IS authentic and all fatuous variations on a theme of care for the suburban plight has as much truthfulness as Arbiet Macht Frei had for the souls that passed beneath its falsehood.

Hoo-roo Possums,

Shane.

The Orrery is Very Awry.

G'day Possums,

after another week where this shambolic ruling rabble demonstrated once again that their worst has no nadir, I was looking for a metaphor to adequately describe them and this I think, will do... well, it's old fashioned, antique really and not awfully reliable for the C21st .

"An orrery is a mechanical model of the solar system that illustrates or predicts the relative positions and motions of the planets and moons, usually according to the heliocentric model. the first orrery that was a planetarium of the modern era was produced in 1704, and one was presented to Charles Boyle, 4th Earl of Orrery.... typically driven by a clockwork mechanism with a globe representing the Sun at the centre, and with a planet at the end of each of the arms."   

"Ephemerides are used in celestial navigation and astronomy. They are also used by some astrologers."   Wikki

The Red Terror of The Deep North, Appalline Hanson indicated some time ago that it was in the stars that she was going to present a white supremacist and neo-fascist "It's OK to be White" motion to the Senate. This rancid woman's motion was put and was only narrowly defeated 31 to 28 when the ruling rabble crawled out from under their rorts  er.. rocks and voted in support.  Queried, across the chamber, "Do you know what you're voting on?" by a Greens senator, Deep North ex cop and serial misogynistic harasser of Gillian Triggs in senate estimates, Big Bazza O'Sullivan replied that he, "... had no idea and didn't care either!" Which in part, explains why he has lost pre-selection and that he'll have more time to devote to his 40+ negatively geared properties and construction business.

Earlier in the week prime miniature du jour, Scummo attempted to advance the sinking prospects of the Wentworth candidate by telling assembled media, “At least with The Liberal Party, you know what you’re getting.”  Well, after that ignorant display in the senate which was followed by the most fatuous of excuses, "It was an administrative error" from an  unusually dis-spirited  Horseshite Coormann ....... we certainly do!

As one commentator said, "Too right - you’re getting a bunch of Stale Pale Male Climate Change Skeptic, Homophobic Bullies Beholden to Big Coal, Big Church, Big Gambling, Alan-Jones-Fearing-Policy-Free Pricks who’d rather support Racists like Hanson & Anning and turn the Opera House into a billboard than have an actual plan to combat Global Warming." And from another, "With the Liberal Party, you know what you are going to get,” says the unelected PM who replaced the elected PM causing the surprise by-election."

Back-flipping from his previous support for religious intolerance to be enshrined in law, Happy-Clapper Scummo the Pentecostalist, now says, that's not on but one of his party,  Alex The Abhorrent, Hawke thinks it's perfectly OK to sack gay teachers and student from private religious based schools and slimy Lyle Shelton of Bestiality Bernardi's cabal  says gay students can only be expelled if they have sex!   On QandA,  Labor's Terri Butler skewered a deputy principal espousing these views with a  "Can you tell me how they're teaching e.g. Gay, Maths?"

Putting on his best faux- xtian suit, Scummo then told us he might take up the NZ government's offer of taking some of the refugees in our concentration camps particularly as Medicins Sans Frontieres has been expelled from Manus Island as has the chief Aussie Medical Officer, but only if they make legislation that denies these people ever being allowed into Australia!  As the redoubtable Penny Wong commented "Are we to modify NZ tourist visas?"

And the humanitarian NZ'ers replied, diplomatically: "Fuck off!" 

Ruling rabble back bencher Rust Broadbent told reporters: “This is an embarrassing humanitarian crisis that the government needs to resolve in a manner acceptable to the Australian people.”  A statement showing the weird dark-side-of-the-moon notion of leadership these incompetents have about a policy they rigorously defend and just prior to the Notionals announcing, although hard to hear over the whetstone on metal "sh,sh,sh,sh...",  that there has no leadership crisis over their leader, at all: none, zilch, zip, nente,!  In space no-one can hear you scream!

Desperately seeking The Rapture when all the planets align, Scummo prophesied unilaterally that Australia will move its embassy from Tel Aviv  to Jerusalem thereby creating a small Armageddon with Indonesia who don't really like us anyway and delight when they can find a Aussie tourist to execute for having a non-prescribed Aspirin in their kit .

Though, it does make you think... that wearing baseball caps might be more dangerous than micro-wave radiation in frying your brain! 

Ahh, petals..... what we are seeing is a fine demonstration of the alignment of the planets of ego, ideology, ambition with a complete lack of talent, vision and imagination: all coalescing into the neo- liberal nirvana of the hell they wish to make for us all....

Hoo-roo Petals,

Shane

Where's the Sense in a Debacle?

Shane and Aussie author's, Save-Oz-Stories

G'day Petals,

It's interesting just how much general media is beginning to comment similarly about the state of public affairs as I did some two or three year ago.

Comments like: has Truffles-in-a-Muddle's got the reverse Midas-touch, everything he touches turn to dross. Is privatisation losing us revenue?  Where are the policy's to take the country forward rather than backward and with all the cuts... where's the money gone? Why do so many legislative pieces look like nascent Fascism?

There is also a recognition that the ABC news service has been nobbled and is now effectively another unreliable propaganda mouthpiece for the Ruling Rabble Mk2.

Is there a congruence of thought happening?

There certainly is amongst writers who with publishing houses have come out swinging against the Orwellian-ish titled "Productivity Commission" which wants to decimate their industry.  There's a lot of very good reading in the book they've produced arguing their case for the cultural and social values so important to a civilized nation. Values obviously neither appreciated nor understood by the Ruling Rabble Mk2. 

Get a free copy from you local newsagent or good bookshop.

If the reaction of the four "Insider" panelists  (14-8-16)  to a video of Peter Costello sonorously intoning platitudes like a faux "older statesman," about how to get the budget out of deficit was any indication, then this Ruling Rabble Mk2 is already well and truly on the skids. Rarely do you see journalists openly laughing at Liarbril pollies' pronouncements.  Dutton, too was savaged...but then what else can you say to an empathy bereft Neanderthal?

I'm sure Greg Ozone-Hole Hunt thinks he's some sort of latter day sage, as well. On QandA (15-8-16) his banal aphorisms and tiresome affected responses redolent of a world weary, pipe in hand, purveyer  of wisdom and experience, a font of knowledge..."Yes, I know, I know what you mean, and we're thinking about it...(taps pipe into ashtray and looks at ceiling)"  Does he really believes the shit he spouts?

On the same program, Professor Brian Cox had to suffer the amateurish climate denial rants of One Notion, Senator-elect, Malcolm Roberts.   I observed with interest the animated attentiveness and admiration on a schoolgirl's face as she listened to Cox's answers and conversely her dull, impassive closed response to -Roberts who interrupted with what sounded like oft-repeated, trite truisms ..... said much, I think.

I also appreciated Linda Birney  near the end of the program telling Roberts, who was cutting across an answer again, and with solid audiences applause to, "Oh, be quiet!,"! 

In 2013, Roberts sent one of his voluminous reports to Ben Cubby, then environment editor at the Sydney Morning Herald. This was Cubby's response:

"In considering your request that I identify errors in the report you sent to me "CSIROh! Climate of Deception? Or First Step to Freedom?" – I find myself confronting an unusual problem: how does one critically analyse a pile of horseshit?"

Morning Light

Current census  information is out-of-date says the Ruling Rabble Mk2, which suggests that the economic modelling to justify the savagery of  all the cuts to Health, Education, Emergency Services, Public transport infrastructure, Women's refuges, Mental health etc, is false so we need a new census.

Five years in the planning, the ABS, after suffering $68,000,000.00 in funding and staff cuts as well as the outsourcing (privatisation) of its IT section to IBM and suffering image problems because of its alteration of personal data retention, with great fanfare, launches its first on-line census. 

And it flops. Crashes. Suffers a DDOS and is pulled down.

 Firm Leadership being needed, the Ruling Rabble did what they do best; all the relevant (and the not so relevant, Whyning Pyne) ministers and assorted Public Servants all disagreed about whether it was a stunt, a hack, a real cyber attack, was local or the Russians or perhaps the Chinese, (who are allegedly pissed-off at us at the moment for a variety of reasons) but there is no leadership....the ABS, left like a Shag on a rock was being told by an embarrassed Truffles-in-a-Muddle that "...heads will roll...!"

Then it takes four days to be re-instated!

All in all, just another bloody Ruling Rabble circus, where the real fault lies again with them and their Penny-Wise-Pound-Foolish, IPA driven "Free-Market" ideology.

 

Morning Light

Gaming developers in Melbourne say that our miserable NBN internet speeds are disadvantaging their global reach and success... Spokesperson for Minister Fifield said that we should be up to 25kb by 2020. Remember when Truffle's innovative and agile, you-beaut copper system was going to be cheaper, faster and sooner than the original fibre model?  But then, Labor made a mess of that, didn't they... didn't they, DIDN'T THEY?

 

Morning Light

The leaking of 2000 Concentration Camp documents detailing the appalling cruelty being meted out to refugees (incarcerated for three years) so soon after the child abuse of indigenous prisoners served only to have Do-do Dutton blame the victims!  This episode seems to be getting more "press" overseas than here which is another "own goal" for the Ruling Rabble and a further diminution of Australia's proud but mythical image of tolerance and fairness. Yes, mythical!  We've always been a conservative, small-minded and venal lot. Now, the real national character is emerging in its full sordidness as the Ruling Rabble stoop ever lower to garner power for the interests that control them.

Like the malodorous rise of Trump c/o the Tea Party in destroying the Republican Party, our own version in the toxic IPA has through its ideological insanity become the cancer at the core of the Liarbrils.

Bob Carr opined on QandA that the really dangerous element about Trump was that he sets a precedent for demagogues getting into the presidency in 4- 8 years.... was he forgetting the rancid popularism of that loopy Alaskan woman, Palin ...perhaps she's the real precedent?

 

Morning Light

Sco-mo promises that the Ruling Rabble Mk2 will live within its means and then taxpayers foot a bill of  $11,625 for food and drinks for his budget after-party; this xtian hypocrite even beating Eleventy Hockey's record of waste for a similar rort.

Then, Senator Loopy Leyonhjelm's  over-reacting (and inciting 18C which he wants repealed) to his being hoist on his own petard of "you can only have your feelings insulted if you take notice of the insult", by Journo Chris Kenny who called him an  "Angry White Male." Well, Leyonhjelm... he's white, male (well, he says he is) and obviously is not pleased... so what his F*****G gripe this time? Oh, I know, A.T.D.... no-one is paying this rat-bag the attention he thinks he deserves!

Pit-Bull Mirabella, failing to regain her seat of Indi at the election has been gifted a lobbying gig from Gina (our biggest miner) and now serves only one master. The travel rorts will now  be on the private but heavily subsidized purse of Gina.  Pit-Bull as a lobbyist seems to have the personality attributes which appeal so much to the Liarbril male species. Relentless ambition, lack of empathy, monocular views and little discernible talent!

Where is the sense in all this?

When you see such a dearth of ability and common sense from those that would rule us, no wonder that sensible people are looking askance at their stupidity and are reacting with disdain.

People are angry...  far angrier than ever before...

Oo-roo Possums,

Shane