The week in Australian federal politics was headlined by the triumphant return of ‘Bad’ Malcolm Turnbull.
Australians had become accustomed to the pinkie-extended punctilios of Pleasant Malcolm and it has become clear they don’t much care for them.
So with nothing left to lose, Bad Malcolm got a run and delivered a withering character assessment of the Opposition leader. It was a terrific spray, no doubt, so full of harsh burns Bill Shorten may well still be plastering himself in aloe vera.
Bad Malcolm left his best line to last: “This sycophant, blowing hard in the House of Representatives, sucking hard in the living rooms of Melbourne — what a hypocrite.”
Understandably, lovers of the pugilistic arts weren’t about to get too excited. Should the People’s House ever become the House of Stoush with ‘Truffles’ Turnbull and ‘Wee Billy’ Shorten coming to blows, it would make last week’s Danny Green-Anthony Mundine fight look like the Thriller in Manilla.
Full column here.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/feb/12/humans-causing-climate-to-change-170-times-faster-than-natural-forces
Pure insanity dribbler
Not only is this government a baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaad government it is a LYING government that will do anything to achieve a political end. In the same manner it uses asylum seekers as election fodder ,the Turnbull outfit has no qualms in rough riding over the hapless people of South Australia to score a few political points.
In the same way emails sunk Turnbull in the Godwin Grech fiasco the ignoring of emails saying that renewables had nothing to do with the SA blackout if used tactically could bury this bloke. Labor though, as hopeless as it is will see Malcolm slide out of this one. The question is-can this mob sink any lower?
http://www.canberratimes.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/pm-and-ministers-were-told-wind-not-to-blame-for-sa-blackout-20170212-guaxf0.html
The New Order…..a police state:-
1. Trump is ordering the disabling of climate satellites that monitor global warming…I will give you ONE
guess WHY!
2. All announcements by scientists on climate must be vetted first by Trump’s politically appointed panel
before they can be published.
Citation? Link?
Dont need one TV every day the left wing press is issuing pure bullshit trying to impress the brain dead like dismal
I notice he didn’t respond with a link…….
35.1°C here at just after 7:30 in the evening and it’s not especially unpleasant. I don’t think the humidity’s that high, though, but I don’t have a hygrometer handy.
Some of the parks around here, too, look like they could catch fire any second with the right/wrong spark.
So, … BASSMAN (5.36PM) enquires: “Who first used the term “it sucks” “, and Penny (6.03PM) confesses to being attracted to a woman breast feeding her child.
What the suck is going on?.
“Beans, beans, are good for your heart!
The more you eat, the more you fart!
The more you fart, the better you feel,
So let’s have beans for every meal!”
Plenty of piss and wind around here, BS, without the necessity of beans.
I’ll fart to that Bald!
Dismayed says:
February 11, 2017 at 7:15 pm
“CotC You have just continued to lie about what Flannery said.”
I half expected such a biased response to what was initially a factually innocuous accurate comment on my part.
Shame really.
And don’t bother to carry on with that ‘playing the victim card” bullshit that you carry on about! It’s so passe mate.
What about all your bullshit Carl is that ok? Get a life sweetie.
CotC stop sooking. you lied, were called out and you are now trying to minimise and obfuscate. the only shame is your ongoing peddling of false information.
You’re a funny fellow sometimes Dismayed.
Even the most impartial observer would agree that Flannery made a number of predictions about serious water supply problems. Predictions that never came to pass; hence the mothballing of desalination plants in Sydney and Brisbane.
Those same observers would agree his SA hot rocks experiment was a fizzer.
Your obstinacy and sensitivity in denying these matters causes one to invoke that old idiom about ‘leading a horse to water’ .. etc.
cc. Kathy – yeah, mine’s okay, but your’s seems rather truncated.
CotC you continue to lie about flannery’s comments. Mack the knife reckons the hot rocks was successful .We are in the industry, it appears both of us know quite a deal more about the project than you. You are a parrot for your chosen ideology.
been enjoying reading the electricity arguments, especially as i am not sweltering and waiting for the cool change.
it’s a pity individual consumers can’t choose their own power source and then live with the consequences.
they could decide that they want all renewables, and depending on whose links are more reliable pay more or pay less, but then they might have to adjust to intermittent power, you know, the air-con going off this afternoon for instance.
businesses too could calculate the odds and make their own choice.
That sounds to me like a reductio ad absurdum of free-market economics as applied to public infrastructure. Millions of individual consumers sifting through the same pile of complex information, which they are not necessarily qualified to interpret, and which is distorted by commercial interests. Each individual tries to calculate the same odds and takes a punt, copping the consequences if they get it wrong or are just unlucky. Duplication, churn and wasted effort. This is exactly why government is best placed to make these kinds of decisions, to measure the risks and to absorb the variations.
no, people make better choices than governments
Nice catchy aphorism, but the people have made their choice. Privatisation of utilities is deeply unpopular, because people understand what my comment is about and want their elected government to do that work for them. Unfortunately, most recent government think they know better, and force that choice on people for their own good. Ironic, no?
Incidentally, this is exactly why schemes like TAC insurance, Workcover, Medicare etc are so much more efficient, effective and popular than private insurance.
Top comment.
look at the things that people get to make their own choice about, food, cars, mobile phones, entertainment, consumer goods,
the soviets and chinese used to make those choices for people and we know what that did for quality.
“it’s a pity individual consumers can’t choose their own power source and then live with the consequences.”
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Working on it Jack. As soon as I have the cash (my gods puppies are expensive!) Im putting in extra pannels and, and, I say, battery banks. After that Im off the grid, they can stick their Chinese prices up their collectives. No more outages because the idiots refuse to power up Pelican Point for back up when we need it.
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I think the phrase Im looking for with regard to supply is ‘sod you lot mate, Im in the dingy’
cheers
Hoi! …… Milton, go easy on me old mate, JB. He comfortably resides in a renovated thunder box under a mango tree.
No that is lou o TOD.
“See it is fat f***ks like you….”???
No idea how that got through the keeper and I’m guessing by 2.08am a guy like you may have had more than a few but it’s no excuse.
I look forward to JBs posts Milton, they’re either hilarious or informative or brilliantly both so just pull your head in.
Dismayed 02:23pm.
You again have confused yourself being arse up ,head in the sand as usual knowing nothing about the trucking industry.
I was all for owner drivers who years getting short changed in wages and shunted out of the game you idiot!
Stop talking rot into topics you know nothing about.
rodent. I grew in trucks, learnt to read by the signs on the side of the road. My old man was an owner operator from 1952 he purchased his first truck at 17. I moved onto rigs but before that was in the transport industry. Once on rigs I was eventually responsible for moving them around this Nation and several others via truck before going offshore that is.
Trucks or truck stops……..
If it wasn’t so funny it would be sad – Bill has declared he won’t call Malcolm names any more…… for the rest of the year, what’s more. Does he have any idea how stupid that makes him look?
His first tongue lashing from MT and he can’t take it.
God, where do we find them from?
I watched Shorten say he would “TRY” to not call the PM names. “I will do my Best” is what he repeated several times.
Which means he has no intention of stopping. Typical political double speak
Wonders will never cease! You’re catching up!
The world is full of masochistic narcissists who want to lord over the smelly vermin that makes up the general public. That is why we must call them out whenever we can
*masochistic narcissists” ? Interesting idea.