tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post142308387167456574..comments2024-03-29T09:38:21.970+11:00Comments on loon pond: The neocons make being a neocon seem hip and hilarious ...Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-64285454300137966572014-03-11T23:49:51.824+11:002014-03-11T23:49:51.824+11:00ABC last night, Emma thingo, or Tiki what'sher...ABC last night, Emma thingo, or Tiki what'shername was it, noted that Chinese investment was only $5billion of $250billion, but then went for the Chinese straight from the reptiles' playbook. idiotsAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-51701964469584687392014-03-11T11:21:56.399+11:002014-03-11T11:21:56.399+11:00Yes, DP, I did have the misfortune to watch Q&...Yes, DP, I did have the misfortune to watch Q&A and the moment I saw Brandis I waited for one of his inimitable nonsensical comments.<br /><br />Tony Jones: “George Brandis, if I understand you correctly, you’re not in any way defending what Andrew Bolt said, is that correct? Did you find it offensive?<br /><br />George Brandis: “I didn’t agree with it, but I don’t agree at all with what Professor Langton said a moment ago, I know Andrew Bolt, but, Andrew Bolt is not a racist [laughter from the audience], Andrew Bolt is not a racist and to accuse Andrew Bolt of racism is itself a form of vile abuse of the man. <br /><br />In September of 2011 Andrew Bolt was found to have contravened Section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act. <br /><br />Justice Mordecai Bromberg read out his verdict:<br /><br />“He found that "fair-skinned Aboriginal people (or some of them) were reasonably likely, in all the circumstances, to have been offended, insulted, humiliated or intimidated by the imputations conveyed in the newspaper articles" published in the Herald Sun.<br />http://www.theaustralian.com.au/media/andrew-bolt-x-racial-vilification-court-case/story-e6frg996-1226148919092<br /><br />Andrew Bolt contravenes the Racial Discrimination Act and Brandis claims Bolt is not a racist? Then Brandis makes the claim that to accuse Bolt of racism is a vile abuse of the man. That's Brandis’ disjointed logic in action.<br />higgs bosonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-53066730071769885062014-03-11T09:17:21.133+11:002014-03-11T09:17:21.133+11:00Thanks Anon, the pond saw it, but was too busy che...Thanks Anon, the pond saw it, but was too busy chewing grass to settle the nerves to do anything about itdorothy parkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00816807935021738560noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-51710257418004401352014-03-11T09:16:40.503+11:002014-03-11T09:16:40.503+11:00Welcome to Kafka 101 Anon. The ungeheures Ungezief...Welcome to Kafka 101 Anon. The ungeheures Ungeziefer are everywhere.<br /><br />http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Metamorphosisdorothy parkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00816807935021738560noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-75720810001215403462014-03-11T09:15:08.822+11:002014-03-11T09:15:08.822+11:00Time to call in the nukes?Time to call in the nukes?dorothy parkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00816807935021738560noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-76758636056622441912014-03-11T09:13:59.434+11:002014-03-11T09:13:59.434+11:00You know you're right Anon. Not being a custom...You know you're right Anon. Not being a customer, the pond didn't know they talked about customers, but a nanosecond of searching found little talk of clients and a lot of this sort of talk:<br /><br />"Centrelink Confirmation eServices (CCeS) provides you with real-time information about our customers. You can use this online service to confirm a customer's eligibility for your rebates, concessions, or services".<br /><br />http://australia.gov.au/topics/benefits-payments-and-services<br /><br />Others, especially the media and other government bodies, use the word 'client' in relation to Centrelink, but the organisation itself seems to studiously avoid it.<br /><br />Perhaps your use of "telling porkies" is a tad too kind?<br /><br />Could we agree on brazen liar telling shameless lies?dorothy parkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00816807935021738560noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-83112096956910228642014-03-11T09:08:04.323+11:002014-03-11T09:08:04.323+11:00Perhaps you had the misfortune to see Q and A last...Perhaps you had the misfortune to see Q and A last night HB, where even the conservatives agreed that the real cause was alarmist paranoid racism of the lowest and demeaning kind ...dorothy parkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00816807935021738560noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-29369459604765303252014-03-10T19:14:35.099+11:002014-03-10T19:14:35.099+11:00You gotta hand it to them. The ABC comes good wit...You gotta hand it to them. The ABC comes good with Blackadder and the baby-eating bishop of Bath and Wells just when Pell goes into the witness stand.<br /><br />http://iview.abc.net.au/programs/blackadder/ZZ1589A004S00<br /><br />The quotes are just too many and too pertinent to quote. But the poker up the arse one is good.<br /><br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-67802000390074191882014-03-10T14:14:00.739+11:002014-03-10T14:14:00.739+11:00Below the Sheehan rant this morning, a vomitous pi...Below the Sheehan rant this morning, a vomitous piece of hagiography on Pell.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-42034150007774508452014-03-10T13:25:17.174+11:002014-03-10T13:25:17.174+11:00According to Morrison, "A friend who works fo...According to Morrison, "A friend who works for Centrelink often speaks of her personal distaste at having to call welfare recipients ‘‘clients’’."<br />Since Centrelink refers to its clients as "customers" Morrison must be telling porkies.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-72157445714434903202014-03-10T13:09:57.036+11:002014-03-10T13:09:57.036+11:00DP, according to Sheehan “First-time buyers, young...DP, according to Sheehan “First-time buyers, young buyers, are now caught in a pincer movement between superannuation and Chinese investment” and this is not culturally healthy. <br /><br />All newspaper articles on this subject of increasing real estate prices having consistently targeted the Chinese buying splurge as the cause. <br /><br />Five days ago another article appeared in the SMH on the current real estate market, again targeting the Chinese as the “guilty” party for rising prices in real estate. This article can be found here:<br /><br />http://www.smh.com.au/business/property/locals-priced-out-by-24b-chinese-property-splurge-20140305-346hd.html<br /><br />“Locals priced out by $24b Chinese property splurge” was the heading, but in the article there is a list of the top ten investor countries for real estate in Australia for the financial year 2012/13 with China at the top. Canada purchased about $1 billion less than China and increased its investment from the previous year by 100%. <br /><br />Why did Sheehan fail to mention that Canada, US and Singapore, together, purchased twice as much real estate as China? Of the total real estate investment by the ten countries China’s percentage amounted to 24.33%, so why single out China?. <br />higgs bosonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-34150552749444745682014-03-10T11:48:32.583+11:002014-03-10T11:48:32.583+11:00More poetry from a loon. This time Sarah Palin ch...More poetry from a loon. This time Sarah Palin channels Dr Zeuss at CPAC.<br /><br />I do not like this Uncle Sam, I do not like his health care scam;<br />I do not like these dirty crooks or how they lie and cook the books;<br />I do not like when Congress steals, I do not like their crony deals;<br />I do not like this buy-in man, I do not like ‘oh yes we can’;<br />I do not like this spending spree, we’re smart, we know there’s nothing free;<br />I do not like reporters’ smug replies when I complain about their lies;<br />I do not like this kind of hope and we won’t take it ‘nope, nope, nope’<br /><br />http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/sarah-palin-rewrites-green-eggs-and-ham-cpac-hat-tip-internet<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-61190830322116205992014-03-10T10:58:49.225+11:002014-03-10T10:58:49.225+11:00I was unfortunate enough to switch my channel to A...I was unfortunate enough to switch my channel to ABC 24 and that week kneed blather expert Sheehan was on there so after trying to interpret what he was sprouting about I was forced to change channels just to be rid of the quisling but when coming back to catch more of ABC 24 I was confronted by a program called one plus one and the BOLT was being interviewed by some lackey from the ABC not just content to have the ABC over run by Murdoch shoe shiners they have to present this right wing jug head to promote his program. 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