tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post189576834755689688..comments2024-03-29T04:12:15.091+11:00Comments on loon pond: Welcome to the 'no surprises no new taxes' Belle Époque down under ...Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-42975029157015833872014-05-13T08:54:49.828+10:002014-05-13T08:54:49.828+10:00Senility is a terrible thing, but then the pond lo...Senility is a terrible thing, but then the pond long ago came to the conclusion that Ellis was the victim of premature senility, or perhaps the SDA upbringing that so scarred him mentally. I mean if you head up to the Blue Mountains during the Cuban missile crisis, like as not you'd probably head to Antarctica with Abbott's mob in charge. But what good would that do you?dorothy parkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00816807935021738560noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-17109907172432857062014-05-13T08:50:30.780+10:002014-05-13T08:50:30.780+10:00The Mars Attacks solution! Love it.
Well Adam Pa...The Mars Attacks solution! Love it. <br /><br />Well Adam Packer, you win the cigar today, which we believe was rolled between jolly Joe's virgin thighs ...dorothy parkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00816807935021738560noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-63774959975885024122014-05-13T08:48:02.528+10:002014-05-13T08:48:02.528+10:00Yes, and what does the digital page of the lizard ...Yes, and what does the digital page of the lizard Oz lead with today? Budget speculation, budget fever? Wrong, but hey that's how you get to win the cigar ...dorothy parkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00816807935021738560noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-47465841607727951872014-05-13T08:17:51.700+10:002014-05-13T08:17:51.700+10:00Agreed, usually Ellis articles are pointless wish-...Agreed, usually Ellis articles are pointless wish-pieces. Like Bolt's, after you read one, you think, "well, he would say that, wouldn't he?"<br /><br />Whenever I see a bunch of excited tweets suggesting I read his latest prediction, I'll just respond with (in proper social media fashion): "be;dr"Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13467071669624321286noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-11655775723602336682014-05-13T04:28:53.472+10:002014-05-13T04:28:53.472+10:00Gonna buy a van with a PA and drive round and roun...Gonna buy a van with a PA and drive round and round State Circle for the next couple years, playing yodel hits until the Tories' little skulls go pop.Adam Parkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10200214629836143958noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-58419470494041826002014-05-13T01:02:17.130+10:002014-05-13T01:02:17.130+10:00The greedy foxes already got hold of the henhouse ...The greedy foxes already got hold of the henhouse in the 1970's with this:<br />http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractional_reserve_banking#Money_creation_process<br /><br />What greedy thing owns foxes?<br /><br />http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21228354.500-revealed--the-capitalist-network-that-runs-the-world.html#.U3DZC_2KCoC<br />http://www.businessinsider.com.au/this-chart-shows-the-bilderberg-groups-connection-to-everything-in-the-world-2012-6<br />http://www.businessinsider.com.au/these-10-corporations-control-almost-everything-you-buy-2012-4<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-10328267130255644332014-05-12T17:49:19.744+10:002014-05-12T17:49:19.744+10:00Let's see how selling the Mint to a Bank goes....Let's see how selling the Mint to a Bank goes. Isn't this a bit like selling the henhouse to the fox?<br /><br />I'll give 'em $10 for one of those nice waferer-things with the white minty stuff surrounded by dark chocolate.<br /><br /><br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-6089916845174543142014-05-12T17:01:55.158+10:002014-05-12T17:01:55.158+10:00Shit - I thought this was a First Dog joke, but no...Shit - I thought this was a First Dog joke, but no.<br /><br />http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-05-09/immigration-minister-scott-morrison-announces-new-border-agency/5441968<br /><br />"Australian Border Force (ABF) will begin operating in July next year and will act as the nation's single frontline enforcement agency."<br /><br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-13917632895411999992014-05-12T16:12:09.408+10:002014-05-12T16:12:09.408+10:00G force - my kids used to love this. (Maybe should...G force - my kids used to love this. (Maybe should be G4S Force?)<br /><br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2jjCMgGOYw<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-64801443039305702272014-05-12T15:48:04.124+10:002014-05-12T15:48:04.124+10:00Lizard People?
"This is what the data shows:...Lizard People?<br /><br />"This is what the data shows: when the economic élites support a given policy change, it has about a one-in-two chance of being enacted. (The exact estimated probability is forty-five per cent.) When the élites oppose a given measure, its chances of becoming law are less than one in five. (The exact estimate is eighteen per cent.)"<br />http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/johncassidy/2014/04/is-america-an-oligarchy.html?intcid=obnetworkAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-37550323275586734032014-05-12T15:01:26.453+10:002014-05-12T15:01:26.453+10:00Bob Ellis is an embarrassment. No one can take him...Bob Ellis is an embarrassment. No one can take him seriously any more, even though he still has a few cogent points to make. (eg. 'The Stupidity of Joe Hockey' at Independent Australia). His ridiculous exaggerations "persecuting cripples"; "forcing the unemployed into prostitution" etc. His childish 'predictions', (Hockey cannot survive this week) and his lamentable threats to sue all and sundry all but make him unreadable. <br /><br />He's become the Bolt of the left.<br /><br />Sad to see the deterioration of a once worthy talent.<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-47355022372540618092014-05-12T12:25:04.889+10:002014-05-12T12:25:04.889+10:00Some more priceless First Dog...
http://www.thegu...Some more priceless First Dog...<br /><br />http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/cartoon/2014/may/12/first-dog-border-force<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-2726104276516259962014-05-12T10:24:38.825+10:002014-05-12T10:24:38.825+10:00Politics is also the art of 'look over there&#...Politics is also the art of 'look over there'... Surely it must be a coincidence that the royal commission into 'get Gillard' is hearing evidence from Ralph Blewitt today, while up in Qld the royal commission into 'get Rudd' is also hearing evidence from the major players. These commissions appear to headed, respectively, by a Howard High Court appointee and a former Brandis colleague. The timing of both is impeccable.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-10226695327937125732014-05-12T09:46:12.711+10:002014-05-12T09:46:12.711+10:00"Politics is the art of looking for trouble, ..."Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies."<br /><br />Groucho Marx<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-11719984618111413732014-05-12T09:28:04.661+10:002014-05-12T09:28:04.661+10:00Oh, and one further thing I can't resist given...Oh, and one further thing I can't resist given the Hockey-Cormann cigar-smoking episode. From Kipling and so appropriate to this government's attitudes.<br />"A woman is only a woman. But a good cigar is a smoke."Gorgeous Dunnyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10540625260311418333noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-743333507227756692014-05-12T08:48:20.893+10:002014-05-12T08:48:20.893+10:00Enter Tony Shepherd, preaching austerity after run...Enter Tony Shepherd, preaching austerity after running a million over budget in his Commission of Audit. I suppose the Grange and cigars are a bit dearer now that the lobbyists have had to go underground since ICAC.<br /><i><br />He (Shepherd) did not accept criticisms that the commission of audit – and by implication the likely federal budget – place too much responsibility on the poor to cut costs. </i><br /><br />I'd hardly have expected it, but Shepherd knows his Wilde. From <i>The Importance of Being Earnest</i>, I think it was Algernon who commented, "If the poor cannot set a good moral example, what on earth is the use of them?"<br /><br />Thanks for the link to Paul Krugman, which I'll catch up with. I'm still in awe with the way he helped Clinton blow a hole through all this sanctimonious Republican tripe 20 years ago, bringing the budget back to sanity after a decade of Reaganomics. Bad luck Dubya had to take it all back to bankrupting the government, but I think that's the tory aim these days.Gorgeous Dunnyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10540625260311418333noreply@blogger.com