tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post7200060760166620182..comments2024-03-29T04:12:15.091+11:00Comments on loon pond: Fizz went the rocket and Miranda the Devine ...Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-90756637331704007712015-02-02T15:22:22.134+11:002015-02-02T15:22:22.134+11:00Umm, actually Anon, the sun is getting bigger and ...Umm, actually Anon, the sun is getting bigger and hotter, but kinda slowly. So it will take about 200 million years before the sun has become big enough and hot enough to end all life on the surface of the Earth (and not all that much longer before it ends all life - surface and subterranean).<br /><br />And it will take about 4000 million years before the sun becomes big enough and hot enough to become a red giant.<br /><br />So your interlocutor had the right idea, he was just a wee bit confused as to timeframe.GrueBleennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-91540956473191318102015-02-02T08:54:49.755+11:002015-02-02T08:54:49.755+11:00O dear looks like Little Miss Perky got the free t...O dear looks like Little Miss Perky got the free tram ride this morning with the "unexpected" release of Mr Greste. Ooh and look Malcolm is taking full advantage whilst Perks is stuck in traffic. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-4680083519528993142015-02-02T04:42:16.745+11:002015-02-02T04:42:16.745+11:00LNP resorts to dirty tricks tactics to save votes
...<a href="https://www.getup.org.au/about/media-room" rel="nofollow">LNP resorts to dirty tricks tactics to save votes</a><br /><br />UPDATE: Supreme Court Judge has dismissed LNP's application, finding there was "no serious question to be tried."<br /><br />With a big swing building against the Newman Government, the LNP's resorted to a vexatious attack on GetUp's how-to-vote cards in the Supreme Court...<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-64567772104676573212015-02-02T04:29:32.697+11:002015-02-02T04:29:32.697+11:00Abbott better save the reef, and quick.
In the w...Abbott better save the reef, and quick. <br /><br />In the wash up Saturday night you may have noted words to that effect by Wayne Swan. <br /><br />True that. <br /><br />Plenty, and I mean plenty, of marginal seat voters happily took my GetUp! "A vote to save the reef" how to vote cards at the polling booth Saturday. Only one contrary loon sought to opine that reef death was inevitable due to the sun getting bigger and hotter. He said he was taught that in school... I suggested he could greghunt that one if he wished. <br /><br />Will Greg Hunt pursue this or continue to protesteth at length that he already is. Will he grow some balls and get it like the majority do? <br /><br />Let me tell you, handing out those <a href="https://www.getup.org.au/campaigns/great-barrier-reef--3/save-the-reef/save-the-reef" rel="nofollow">illustrated</a> how to vote guides was one of the easiest sells of my life. The Greens, yes, Labor certainly knows it, but by the end of the day, and despite Newman trying on a supreme court injunction, the LNP booth volunteers also knew who had had the easiest job by far: GetUp!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-26606216840443906992015-02-01T23:57:19.870+11:002015-02-01T23:57:19.870+11:00Burn The Witch xTended continues. Weak as piss win...Burn The Witch xTended continues. Weak as piss wingnuts held hostage by that woman?<br /><br />Beyond pathetic.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-66745032934179560032015-02-01T17:55:04.129+11:002015-02-01T17:55:04.129+11:00The problem Miss pp is that MD is too thick to und...The problem Miss pp is that MD is too thick to understand nuance, or what she's saying about Abbott by what she says about Credlin. She also clearly doesn't have a clue about the point of having a chief of staff, which is to sort the wheat from the chaff, and given the chaff in the Liberal party, that must be a 24/7 job.dorothy parkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00816807935021738560noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-34686533107720325472015-02-01T17:25:43.526+11:002015-02-01T17:25:43.526+11:00"The people of Australia elected me as Prime ..."The people of Australia elected me as Prime Minister and they elected my government to get on with the job of governing our country," Abbott told reporters in Sydney today.<br /><br />"The people of Australia elected me as Prime Minister and they elected my government to get on with the job of governing our country," Abbott told reporters in Sydney today.<br /><br />He doesn’t know the prime minister is chosen by a vote of the members of the government, not by the people??? <br /><br />FFS! <br /><br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-5056334248053987292015-02-01T16:33:49.409+11:002015-02-01T16:33:49.409+11:00If I were Tony Abbott I would be appalled by Miran...If I were Tony Abbott I would be appalled by Miranda Devine's laceration of Credlin.<br /><br />By portraying Credlin as some kind of foul-mouthed, control freak, Devine has presented the leader of this nation as too weak and uncertain. In effect she is saying Credlin runs the country.<br /><br />She has done Abbott no favours.<br /><br />Miss ppAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-77149216739521013962015-02-01T15:31:10.578+11:002015-02-01T15:31:10.578+11:00I think it's interesting that, in outlining th...I think it's interesting that, in outlining the Federal policies announced and other blunders made during the Queensland campaign, none of the right-wing commentators mention the Productivity Commission report on industrial relations. This is possibly because either they hope that Abbott or his successor will still go through with this 'necessary reform', or that if it didn't play much role in the Queensland defeat, the worst is yet to come for the Federal Liberals. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-44811797958814204392015-02-01T14:17:58.763+11:002015-02-01T14:17:58.763+11:00Hi Dorothy,
"A cursory knowledge of group ps...Hi Dorothy,<br /><br />"A cursory knowledge of group psychology will tell you that a small group with no diversity of opinion is a sure-fire recipe for bad decisions"<br /><br />That The Devine can write that sentence without even a shred of irony reveals just how delusional she is. Where does she think she works? There is about as much diversity at Limited News as there is in a field of GM Soy Beans.<br /><br />DW<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-14780435388790038602015-02-01T14:14:11.177+11:002015-02-01T14:14:11.177+11:00Dorothy,
Check out the photo of our most 'ste...Dorothy,<br /><br />Check out the photo of our most 'steamed leader leaving church this morning. I think it captures him wonderfully.<br /><br />http://www.theage.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/prime-minister-tony-abbott-to-hold-special-cabinet-meeting-as-mp-anger-rises-20150201-1331u4.html<br /><br />DannosaurusAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-47727866922767996192015-02-01T14:10:06.025+11:002015-02-01T14:10:06.025+11:00Massive defeat for News ltd. When one of their own...Massive defeat for News ltd. When one of their own has become electoral poison, where do they go?GlenHhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10978357851849422273noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-52383682268349644782015-02-01T14:02:47.785+11:002015-02-01T14:02:47.785+11:00If you're sick of all the political breast-bea...If you're sick of all the political breast-beating, Key Largo is on Gem. One of Huston's better films, with of cause Bogey, Bacall, Barrymore and the amazing EG Robinson.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-67045327095981354002015-02-01T13:51:55.154+11:002015-02-01T13:51:55.154+11:00Poor Miranda..she too thinks it will go on forever...Poor Miranda..she too thinks it will go on forever, this writing for the "old Man" thingy, when already, HE is counting the cost of maintaining his Aust' operations now that they have no political influence. "Let them eat sport !" he was heard to say as he gave the command for all hard-copy news operations to cease forthwith..."I'm sure the journalists can find alternative employment in the expanding hospitality industry..writing promo-copy for Clive Palmer's string of resorts!"<br />jaycee.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-70682259198188003392015-02-01T13:30:24.975+11:002015-02-01T13:30:24.975+11:00Hi Dorothy,
In 1842 a petition was presented to t...Hi Dorothy,<br /><br />In 1842 a petition was presented to the British Parliament. With over 3 million signatures, the 'People's Charter" had six main demands;<br /><br />Votes for all men.<br />Equal electoral districts.<br />Abolition of the requirement that Members of Parliament be property owners.<br />Payment for MPs.<br />Annual general elections.<br />The secret ballot.<br /><br />The Charter also complained about the "cruel wars against liberty, the 1834 Poor Law and especially the appalling working conditions in the factories and the mines, with a request to reduce the working day to a mere 10 hours.<br /><br />Unsurprisingly the House of Commons rejected the petition by 287 votes to 47.<br /><br />The industrial districts of the Midlands and the North of England exploded. In Lancashire and Yorkshire, the heart of the textile industry, the strikers marched on the mills and sabotaged the factories. They did this by draining the mill ponds and removing the plugs from the huge boilers on the steam engines that powered the looms.<br /><br />Thus came the term; "Pulling the Plug".<br /><br />After yesterdays election it would appear that an angry electorate want to pull the plug on a number of political careers.<br /><br />DiddyWrote<br /><br />http://www.tameside.gov.uk/tamesideinfo/chartism<br />http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1842_General_Strike<br />http://www.egold.net.au/biogs/EG00295b.htm<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com