Here I was all set to knock out a Christmas column full of cheer and bonhomie but life, or more accurately, Daily Life has intervened.
I normally disapprove of intra-media byplays but Fairfax Media’s Daily Life section has become so full of cranky third wave feminism that someone needs to hold it up to the light. Among this waste of ink and kilobyte street corner psychobabble, comes a contribution from self described feminist Polly Dunning who tells her harrowing tale of giving birth to a shame boy. The good news is she’s slowly getting over it.
I’m not allowed to swear anymore, at least not at volume but this is sorely testing my already fragile grip on self-control.
At first blanch this was merely another addition from women who have recently given birth and have come to believe that having done so, they have unlocked the secrets of the universe. But on further reading this is a tale of a woman not just at war with men but also her own male child.
Full column here.
Jean Baptiste
Re your pleas of innocence at 11.47am on 28 Dec, I agree to indulge you JB. Your efforts at backpedalling leave me no option other than to extend you the benefit of innocently jumping the gun by taking the red herring bait with an over-abundant absence of forethought. In so doing you have also (dare I say it) displayed an apparent ignorance of the informal inductive fallacy of hasty-generalisation.
You may take some comfort from your impulsiveness by my not considering your responses to be within the so called ‘Galileo Gambit’ theory.
Surely you must have been aware that the ad hominem association fallacy theories have been around for yonks JB. It was not my intention, nor was it my belief that I would snare you so effortlessly, notwithstanding your comments were sailing quite close to the wind. I do sincerely hope that my putting a waffly shot across your literary bows on this occasion has not fractured our technological relationship to the extent that it would be injurious you to continuing to be ‘me old mate’, me old mate.
Yep yep……. http://www.smh.com.au/comment/one-rule-for-parliamentary-pensions-another-for-the-aged-and-disabled-20161228-gtj4ro.html
Menzies is spiraling in his grave:- Menzies comments on unemployment and sickness benefits 29th March, 1944. “People should be able to obtain these benefits as a matter of right, with no more loss of their own standards of self-respect than would be involved in collecting from an insurance company the proceeds of an endowment policy on which they have been paying premiums for years”.
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Compare this with the present attitude of the Looters. Hit the poor, sick, the pensioners and unemployed at every turn. Here is Hockey again-the biggest leaner of them all. “Hockey said this on 4th November 2014 “We’ll find any way we can to take money out of universities”.
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….and by the way. Lets us have a look at the 2014 ‘Zombie’ cuts. There is no way these will EVER be passed so why doe the Looters keep putting them up and castigating the SDenate for not passing them. They cost Abbott his leadership-they should go to skool on this.
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– Four-week wait for young people to access unemployment payment. A loss of $1.320 upfront and $47/week
thereafter. Over 300,000 affected.
– Increase Newstart eligibility age to 25
– One week ordinary waiting period (to be served in addition to four-week wait for
relevant income support recipients). 70,000 young unemployed people affected by this, the 270,000
unemployed and those on parenting payments.
– A 22-year-old who cannot find work after leaving education will lose at least $1,320 upfront and
$47/week thereafter. If they rent privately, they will lose over $1,530 upfront by being denied income
support for five weeks.
– The loss of Family Tax Benefit Part B for those whose children become teens. Sole parents will lose $60/week.
– 33,000 Aged Pensioners will lose their pension portability.
– Pension Education Payment….190,000 will lose $35/week.
– Cessation of Energy Supplement (strange this when electricity is more expensive now than it was when
the carbon tax was in! A loss of $7/week for pensioners. 2 million people affected.
– Those on Newstart to lose $4.40 a week. Isn’t it too low already!
Bye bye Maddinson goodbye……..
I’d imagine he’ll play in Sydney. Geez, some of you amateur selectors would have a new Test team every game. Maddison, like Renshaw, Handscomb and Wade should have been selected on the understanding they had four Tests to make a name for themselves. One Test to go.
Renshaw, Wade and Maddison’s selection were a gamble from the outset. Wade had no form to speak of, certainly not any better than Nevill’s at the time or since. Surely he cannot go to India he is just not good enough up at the stumps. Maddinson’s average after 6 years at shield level and FC cricket of 35 should have been enough to keep him waiting. Renshaw’s technique was always going to be a drawback at test level, he just happened to make a ton at the right time to get selected. I stand by my initial Dismay(ed) at the selections. I am all for renewal but as usual when Hohn’s is on the selection panel we get these weird outcomes. The Australian batting line up is still very shaky. Without Smith (who some may remember I was plugging for way back last decade when he was seen as a leg spinner who could bat a bit.) and Warner the team would be in all sorts of trouble. Khawaja to date does Not make runs overseas averaging half of what he does in Australia and should open with Warner in India before the spinners come on. I do think positions should be changed depending on pitch and other conditions. these are millionaire cricketers who should be able to adapt. The squad should be selected for just that reason.
JTI, You don’t see a need for an all rounder in Sydney or another spinner which would probably also mean an all rounder to bowl seam up, a third seamer? The Pakistani’s have made sure the bowling unit has had to do a lot of work and this could be leading to a lack of penetration. In this scenario Maddinson would make way. Unless Handscombe takes the gloves off Wade.
I don’t see any point in smoking young cricketers’ careers on a whimsy. There is no point in blooding an all rounder in Sydney.
I agree, no point in “blooding” an all rounder the selection of Hilton Cartwright is another of the unjustified selections. He has a career bowling strike rate of 65 and this year in the 90s. His batting does look more sound to date. We have several experienced all rounders with both form and longer term performance. The selection panel continues to over look form and longer term performance. Many players have come in early to be replaced and come back better, S. Waugh, M. Waugh, Hayden, Martyn, Ponting, Clarke are just a couple of fairly recent examples.
I wonder how long the likes of Sri Lankan, Marvan Atapattu would’ve lasted with this lot around: 1 run in his first five innings (and six ducks in his first nine innings) in the space of seven years, and went on to score 6 double hundreds and 5,502 runs in all, to become one of Sri Lanka’s best-ever batsmen and captains.
Might Bradman have been a one-Test wonder after the squashing we got at the Brisbane Showgrounds on his début?
Or probably a score of other future legends?
How many selectors thought the same way and sawed off the careers of very many others who might’ve gone onto greatness had they been more supportive?
They sound like the English selectors of the 1990s, and we saw how well that all went. Or some of the past India and Pakistan ones.
It’s a different game JTI without doubt but he has no feet! It’s all about head and shoulders. I watchdoged his whole innings (missus off me shopping) today and I doubt his feet, other than plonking the obvious forward, did anything. The kids not up to it. Welcome to 20 / 20
So RN your answer is to let them have say 18 tests straight and average 32 like Ed Cowan? Sir Don was averaging a Lot more than 35 as Maddinson does when he came into the Australian side. He was dropped after 1 or 2 test from memory before coming back in. M. Hayden had to go back to shield cricket until his late 20’s before coming back into the team. The recent selection made were of guys who were neither the best performed or the best in form and they do not score 50 or more as regularly as others around the country playing FC cricket. The Maddinson selection was acknowledged as a gut call by the selection panel. If they consider him highly he should have been introduced through the ODI side. Renshaw as I said previously made a ton at the right time is a good future prospect but has to get rid of his scissor like leg movement if he wants to play and stay at the top level. Why have you not complained about Ferguson being dropped after one test, or Agar, Henriques, Maxwell C. White who came into the team did what was required then dropped or for a Trent Copeland who came in for a series in Sri Lanka a couple of years ago and did well only to be dropped?? The list of players who came and went would be endless. The simple fact is the guys who have been selected recently have been found wanting at home in familiar conditions . They were selected in very strange manner. 4 test, potentially 8 innings. 1 score of 50 or more in 8 innings is NOT good enough. Even if Renshaw, Maddinson and Wade had made decent or fighting 30’s or 40’s it would be completely different. But they have not. The batting line up is still a big concern with an Indian tour then the Ashes next year against a England team with good bowling stocks.
we’re gunna cop it in India…hell Sri Lanka was bad enough.
Debbie Reynolds gone.
Carl on the Coast
Yesterday
I’ve just read what you said about me Carl & there’s a good reason you’re a carer. I don’t share much personal stuff but this is important.
Early this morning my fit gorgeous son was hit by a p plater while cycling his daily 30ks. He’s got no memory of hitting the ground but he saw it coming & witnesses say he somehow used the bar on the bike to jump onto the bonnet then went over the cars roof before he landed on the bitumen. He’s got concussion, six fractures and gravel abrasions but it was his helmet the cops say to thank that he’s going to be fine. It’s one of those bikie seargent Schultz ones that he likes but I never did so that’s the message, always wear a helmut everyone. Apparently it’s all intact & stayed on unlike the common ones.
So I’ve just left the hospital & I’m sitting in a park reading my blog to calm myself (as you do in times of crisis) before I drive home & your lovely words just washed over me like a soft cool breeze Carl. I sure needed them.
My best, Bella
Best wishes for a speedy recovery for your son, Bella.
If the Paki who got hit in the head today had not had a helmut on there is a good chance he would be dead!
Ditto Jack’s best wishes.
What a nasty shock, but thank heavens he’s going to be OK! I hope you are too.
Fingers crossed for him and you Bella
Milton: Did Lee Lin Ching wrote this book especially for you?
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/life/take-an-overseas-holiday-from-good-behaviour/news-story/79474a099e203972f36eddee7a2a3eac
Take II
Milton: Did Lee Lin Ching write this book especially for you?
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/life/take-an-overseas-holiday-from-good-behaviour/news-story/79474a099e203972f36eddee7a2a3eac
Well JB old son, looks like your Communist pals are about to stage a moon landing…….
Brilliant commentary! Obama out of spite and god knows why the Kiwis went with this. The Arab world had an opportunity to solve this in the middle of the 20th century but decided hate was the best option. It suited their PR exercise to impoverish the Palestinians and keep them in refugee camps and continues to do so.
http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/opinion/rowan-dean-kiwis-cast-the-vote-of-shame-in-uns-sickening-west-bank-resolution/news-story/d6b1351791a1220a387c9fb7bb349558
In comes Maddinson. Easy equation. If he makes runs he stays in. ( I would still drop him)