..perchance to Dream..

a Budget..... for in that sleep of death what dreams may come,

when we have shuffled off this mortal coil, must give us pause...

but more of that later in Wombat Droppings.

Shane and New Bio.

G’day Possums,

We’ve been to a book signing.

Dame Margaret Scott (Maggie) has had her biography written by Michelle Potter.

A Life in Dance…. one of the most important people in the history of Australian ballet, Maggie was in good form, starting with ” I’ve nothing to say… It’s all in the book.” But then proceeded for another twenty minutes with “thank-you’s”, anecdotes and observations which were wry, funny, pointed and as always, on the mark.

Maggie commented that she was always being asked what was her vision for the ballet school?  “I had none” she said, “I just got on with it and did what I had to do.” 

Graeme Murphy was there and as with others of his innovative talent and success was the evidence of Maggie’s perspicacity for evaluating capability and potential.

I have some very early photos in the book and it was good to meet Graeme again and others from early ballet school days, all of us there celebrating this publication and thanking Maggie for her intelligent forward thinking in her development of “The School” and the important part she played in our careers and our “..chance to dream.”

Michelle Potter and Maggie Scott

and to finish some more recent shots of rehearsal from Ballet Theatre Australia…

Wombat Droppings

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the chronicle of the demise of Australia’s egalitarianism and descent into Fascism

The long awaited “shirt-fronting” bout between Rabid-the-Hun and Vlad Putin was like all Liarbril policy action, a “Fizzer!” 

“I’m not talking to him when he comes to the G20” our Prime Miniature sulked after his 15 minutes of “confrontation.”

Pathetic.

Y’know Petals, we’ve never had a leader in this country who walks like he’s recently pooped his pants, claps like he has a intellectual disability, is always poking his tongue out and who keeps channelling Mrs. Malaprop!

It’s now being said to excuse his “shirt-front” gaff that he mis-understood the Aussie Rules Football connotation.

Hmmm like he didn’t think he was “….the suppository of all wisdom.”

Pathetic

Illo: Peter Grace C/O Facebook

Perchance to Dream a Budget, for in that sleep of death what dreams may come,

when we have shuffled off this mortal coil, must give us pause...

Poor old Joe “Cereal/Toyota Killer”Hockey…. Looks like we have a budget emergency after all: and unsurprisingly it’s not Labor’s fault but another of the Liarbril’s malign projections manifesting itself as a wrathful reality from Joe’s ideologically fuelled incompetence.

James Paterson (Dep. Dir. “Coots-With-Queer-Ideas-from-a-Parallel-Universe,” aka IPA) then popped up on Q and A .

Paterson, role playing.

I’m not sure whether he was there as a stiff, arrogant repeater of ideological business cant or perhaps as a target for the intellectual disdain of the bubbling and intelligent loquaciousness of Baroness Susan Greenfield or then again, just as an added embarrassment to our pretend Environment Minister, “Ozone-Hole” Hunt (he of Wiki research fame) who did such a good job himself of making the case for Carbon Pricing and climate change, eloquently real, and consequently a shambles of his ruling rabble’s environment policy.

Somewhat disturbingly I kept seeing “Unterscharfuhrer” Paterson in SS costume… and more disturbingly… secretly, I don’t think he would mind dressing like that.

The election in “The Tardis State” “Where-All-Goes-Backward” is not going at all well for Pretend Premier “Do-do” (Genus: Inutilus Rusticus) Naptime. 
Seems his much vaunted "Tunnel to Nowhere" is going to cost 3 times what he’s telling us, that is: $15,000,000,000,000.00 which caused his Piggy-Bank minder “Boggles” O’Brien to froth at the mouth about CFMEU, leftish plots and Academics with Agendas.

Well let me tell you something Michael-me-lad…. Not everyone likes either Dodo's or your agenda; particularly the one where the taxpayer does the $3,000,000,000.00 refurbishment of National park infrastructure and your lot to lease it off for business development. Stinks that does.. almost as much as Matty “What’s-a-Green-Wedge” Guy’s  costly folly at Ventnor.

But it is good the see that “Dodo” can hold to a script and train of thought ….…repeatedly…repeatedly… repeatedly, about the zillions and zillions of trains we can import for Cranbourne.

A prognostication Petals: in about five days ( around two weeks from polling day) the Public Prosecutor will bring down a finding that based on the Police evidence submitted, certain Labor Party members close to leader Dan Andrews will be charged with the theft of a reporters tape machine.

A molehill that will have the proportions in all the Ugly American, Murdoch's press of a Krakatoa!

Where’s Geoff ”Fiddles” Shaw in all this… off scot free and running as an independent!

Ohh Petals ….Perchance to Dream of people of Maggie’s quality and not dismal apparatchiks with very limited imagination.

Hoo-roo,

Shane

Blood and Sand 2 and the hidden Grenade

Shane with Grenade

Blood and Sand 2:  Perhaps we should have a "Missile Fund for Humanity" drive?  Or better, perhaps we should just March on Canberra and throw the incompetents out? 

More later in Wombat Droppings

Here are some more rehearsal shots....

Ballet Theatre of Australia....

Wombat Droppings

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A Chronicle Detailing

 the

 Disappearing Egalitarianism of Oz.

The hand grenade of their own stupidity is that the wealthiest seats in Liarbril electorates have suffered only about 10% of the budget cuts as compared to the poorest in Labor seats. 

It will not be a Muslim who’ll pull the pin, it’ll be one of the 25% below the poverty line, one of the unemployed or one of those unable to afford an education, housing, health or food.

The dog-whistling over terror conveniently ignores the manufacture of drugs, particularly “ice” by criminal bikie gangs whose activities are “observed” but don’t rate an 800 police strength raid. 

Activities that are far worse in their terrorist effect on the community than any Muslim has been accused of or perpetrated.

David "Gunna" Johnston  was all over the shop on "Insiders" last week.

Apart from his constant contradictions... "it might be easier than we first thought.." and"... although there are some excellent elements in the Iraqi Army to work with..."  and  "...we'll degrade the baddies"   and    "... it might be more easier.." (?)

It all sounded a bit too much like a Boy-With-a-Toy and he incompetently stumbled over how much it is all going to cost; as did Rabid-the-Hun to the same questions.

The Liarbril’s credibility with their vicious nonsense and their pretence of being a ruling party is being severely and, I think, terminally compromised. In ruling according to “thought-bubbles” from the “Coots-with-Queer-Ideas-From-a-Parallel-Universe” (IPA) for oligarchs and select business,’ not only are they wasting the legitimacy of government but are becoming the most untrustworthy rabble to ever be in Federal Parliament.

This is the most incompetent government Oz has ever had.

We have no money to fund education, healthcare or pensions. No money for job creation or social security or significant infrastructureand manufacturing  but there’s $600,000,000.00 for spying on us and $600,000.00 per missile or bomb dropped as a humanitarian gesture on top of the estimated $500,000,000.00 for the Iraq#2 frolic.

Soon there will be a real budget emergency.

Perhaps we should have a "Missile Fund for Humanity" drive?  Or better, perhaps we should just March on Canberra and throw the incompetents out? 

Anyone?

It would seem that more than 50,000 people spontaneously booing Rabid-the-Hun at the footy isn't newsworthy; not reported any where except by the Guardian a week later.

I thought it was a very significant poll and a direct proof of what I’m saying, Petals.

We have become a severely divided society and there is much trouble brewing!

*StopPress* Rabid-the-Hun has said he'll "shirt-front" Putin over the shot down airliner when the Russian arrives for the G20 meeting in Brisbane.  Goodie.....farcical entertainment for the Aspirational Bogans as we have a "Face-Off of Fascists!"
Most betting seems to be favouring a Putin win but how long it will take for Australia's reputation to recover is another matter altogether.
Apart from the most incompetent government we can now, sadly add, the most ludicrous.

Hoor-roo Possums,

Shane

PS: further reading….

http://urbanwronski.com/2014/10/11/war-will-cause-death-of-an-abbott-government-unprepared-to-share-the-true-realities-of-situation-in-iraq/