A big shout out to Dennis Hof who overcame the severe handicap of being dead to win election in District 36 of the Nevada State Assembly.
District 36 sits inside Nye County, Nevada. The county’s principal city, Pahrump, is a solid hour’s drive east to Las Vegas. It is home to 36,000 Nevadans, wedged on the Nevada-California border and ominously and perhaps auspiciously, Death Valley lies nearby. Pahrump became noteworthy (at least to me) as a part-setting and general den of inequity for the television drama, Get Shorty.
Hof enjoyed his 72nd birthday celebrations three weeks ago in Pahrump in the company of porn star Ron Jeremy, and recently pardoned former Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, and died the following day.
Death became Dead Dennis. He not only won but won in a landslide. The obvious conclusion is the Democrat candidate, Lesia Romanov, may not have been entirely compelling. But here’s the rub — Hof, in a state of the deepest repose, was seen as a better candidate dead than alive.
The denizens of District 36 were not altogether comfortable casting a vote for a man who owned seven legal brothels.
But dead he was just fine, and the punters came out and voted for him in droves. Dead Dennis received 68 per cent of the vote. Had Still Vaguely in the Vertical Dennis run, it may have gone down to the wire.
What’s next? A dead Abe Lincoln to emerge from his tomb in Springfield Illinois? Dead Thomas Jefferson and dead George Washington to battle it out in Virginia’s sixth district for another shot at the title?
Worse things could happen.
Full column here.
If I had to choose between a benign, non-partisan monarchy that is indelibly manifest in our countries modern history, and a divisive, boorish writer with a red hankie on his head I’d…………….
And what just caught my ear on sbs was a black man waffling on about the threat of Trump and his demonising of immigrants etc and their threat, and this bloke felt safer with these people than he would with Trump’s US whites. What he failed to mention was the statistics in relation to the number of murders of black people by black US citizens. Black lives matter started under Obama’s term. As did many of the race riots. If black lives matter then a good start would be if they stopped killing each other.
sorry dudes for my bumbling, bombastic run of post, but life’s short and death seems longer.
Bumble and bombast away but don’t fret about death you’re going to heaven anyway aren’t you? They’ll put you in with Morrison and the other God botherers so you can B&B to your hearts content and appear normal for eternity.
For those anti-coal shills, which party has a history of anti-nuclear? Labor. We could have been world leaders, decades back by going nuclear, in the façade that postures to save the planet, but instead the economist’s want to save it by using paper money. Why? – the unions were getting coin from those working in the fossil fuel industry. and no doubt so were their puppets, the labor party. And whilst Shorten will talk up renewable to get elected (probably some coin involved there), be sure that big coal will keep on turnin. And for those Greenies, recall the failure that was Bob Brown and what he thwarted??!!
What amuses me mostest is the pursuit of coin, by the unelected IPCC, to solve climate change and our would be climate change saviours paradoxical argument against nuclear, due to its cost!
Like the Berlin wall, this purely ideological farce will crumble.
It was tough enough in the rest of the world, you don’t seriously believe the fossil fuelers would have allowed nuclear to get off the ground here. If you do, you’re living in cloud cuckoo land.
I object to you calling out fossil fuelers such as Dismayed! He has every right to work in a planet polluting occupation should he wish!
Totally agree there Milt bu the nuclear option as good as it is is incredibly expensive.
Apparently not so Bassy
The new baby reactors can be retro fitted to existing coal fired stations, are very safe and not that expensive.
Hilarious stuff Milton. Unions, Labor, Shorten, coal-puppets, Greenies IPCC AND Bob Brown all mashed up in one big nasty plot. 😴
You can sleep it off now mate.
‘Mostest’ laugh I’ve had all week!
Oh right, I’d forgotten that nuclear is green these days. 10,000 year half-lives of radioactive waste not the slightest problem. It’s amusing how some ‘interest groups’ think if they lie for enough years, physics will change.
If they get Thorium reactors going, fine. If not, no.
If anyone knows how to put lipstick on a donkey it’s Carr’s ”army”. What a steel-cut (and its alternative) oaf he was and remains.
Bring it on, boof Latham (the sole remaining labor (type) intellectual – true story).
Cant be hard, an unco like you has been putting lipstick on Tony Abbott for years.
Tony puts his own lippy on thanks JB. Does a nice line in sequins and a little number cut just above the knee as well. The budgie smugglers are a smoke screen I’m told. Prefers to go Commando!
I thought you two were close
Yes it was Bob Carr who got me onto steel cuts oats…these are the healthiest
The story of the Day and possibly the Week, Mr. Insider appears to be the “outrage” over the Bunnings Sanger with Onion and where the Onion should be placed, under or above the Sanger, with regard to its “safety” placement!
Strewth,
https://tinyurl.com/y793qcx2
What I am confused about, having partaken in many Bunning’s sausage sizzles, is that we normally have two slices of bread. Putting the onion on first or last seems to be irrelevant because the customer does what he/she like after that.
I suppose one could always turn them over.
I think the problem is the amount of onion..
For starters, when partaking in a ”sausage sizzle” never have a sanga on bread without a) onions and b) tomato sauce (never bbq!). Most esteemed economists will tell you that these are the only nutritionally beneficial components. For seconds (and who can only have one?), now that Kontrol Central (failed Greens, Lefty, Socialist types) has decreed that for the safety of the nation the onions need to be applied to the bread before the sausage, I have, using secret heuristics (!), contrived a method to placate those palates that prefer the Old Order. Like you and I it is quite simple, but possibly revolutionary. For starters (2nd time around), ask the handler of your sausage to refrain from holding its future bed-mate (the bread you sillies) from opposite corners, and instead hold it with thumb and the bird finger from opposite sides (i’ll add diagrams later). Then, once directed, they can apply in strict order the sauce, onions and sausage. Once this staple of our diet is placed in your grubby mit you can then firm the sides together and insert into your orifice sides side up!
What the hell have we turned into? Except for Tony Abbott’s career, what harm, I ask you, has the humble onion caused? This will all end in tears!!
Bunnings quote incidents where the onions have fallen out causing a “slipping” risk. In view of our litigation tendencies mimicking the US, this is a smart move. The cooks at Bunnings cook-ups are generally mugs with few workplace safety clues.
As for your “secret heuristic” (did you mean hysteric?) methodology I suspect putting together a sanga sammy is at the limits of its usefulness.
And further, Abbott self harmed, the innocent onion did not ask to be chewed and the fact it looked vaguely like an apple and lived in Tasmania was not it’s fault.
Henry and Milton, by placing the onions beneath the sanger, Bunnings are simply following their long held trademark slogan : “Lowest Onions are Just the Beginning”.
Brilliant Carl!
Jesus Christ!
I was looking at BBQ plates at Bunnings one day when one slipped out of the box and fell onto my shin. If not for the jeans I was wearing it would have caused a nasty injury but I was lucky, although I did bleed quite a bit. I went up to the desk and they gave me a safety incident (read arse-covering) report to fill in. No-one so much as apologised. I could have sued their red-and-green arses off I reckon but I’m not from America so I didn’t. But the onion thing leaves me unimpressed.
Dismayed says:
November 13, 2018 at 9:32 PM
“carl, ….. a triple back flip does NOT fix the issue. It is another knee jerk reaction made on the run…” Only a sycophant of your epic proportions would think this government is “good”… .”
Whoa! …. A triple back flip, knee jerk reaction?
Such comments Dismayed, may also indicate you’ve been over-extending your latissimus dorsi in that so called backyard gym of yours. Are you sure you haven’t caused a rupture in your trunk rotator area? I’d recommend a dab of Badger muscle balm mate, it may do wonders for a novice such as yourself. Now before you burst your pooper valve (either literally and/or metaphorically ) let me say I’m all for regular exercise, including gym work. Been there, done that and still involved to a lesser extent nowadays.
Regarding your attempted personal slur on my character, I’ll overlook that, given your obvious mental paucity concerning your inability to distinguish between healthy robust exchanges and vilification. May I suggest that when your order the muscle balm, perhaps you should also order a booklet covering a beginner’s guide on civility.
A slur on your character? I thought he was being excessively kind and you would appreciate it!
Just what did the English language do to you to deserve getting the *&%# beaten out of it every day?
This is the one where the greasy Innes Willox of the AIG makes excuses about workplace safety after the death of a young guy.
https://tinyurl.com/ybcd4xb8
Onya Dismayed. Should never, ever happen. Basic stuff.
How does this happen so easily in a world of safety regulations?
I may be wrong but shouldn’t there have been a person on watch also?
Those poor parents & the company hasn’t even spoken to them.
I expect a full on pink batts Royal Commission please
The lawyers for their insurers would have forbidden the company to speak to them Bella.
wellee…
1 Job hazard analysis authored by the deceased to document his roadmap to completing the task to be submitted to his supervisor.
2 JHA approved by line supervisor when the supervisor is satisfied with the quality and veracity of the JHA.
3 job site quintessentially qualifies as a confined space as per worksafe regulatory guidelines and must be identified as such in the JHA. otherwise the JHA is deficient
Do not be that supervisor who signs a dud JHA
4 risk management of a confined space requires gas testing and an appointed sentry who will maintain an entry / exit log of people accessing the space. And a rescue procedure must be outlined along with identified rescue personnel
thank-you smoke
Applause light please
If you want a textbook example of why Australia’s skilled visa program is a giant fraud, look no further than the top five occupations granted permanent visas in the skilled stream in 2017-18:
That’s right, Australia’s so-called skilled migration program is all about lowering labour costs for employers by crushing wages, while also feeding the growth lobby more consumer.
https://tinyurl.com/ycwunwwq
I expect Yvonne and others will be calling for a Royal commission into work place deaths. Not to mention the AIG and its failing and the disgraceful comments from the greasy Innes willox No tome to tiny url.
https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2018/11/migration-council-aig-chief-defends-youth-death/?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Daily%20MacroBusiness&utm_content=Daily%20MacroBusiness+CID_8fa8268117d91e1d47510c34f7974945&utm_source=Email%20marketing%20software&utm_term=Migration%20Council%20and%20AIG%20chief%20defends%20youth%20death
As a keen student of climate change I couldn’t help but notice Trump’s culpability in the Californian fires and his blatant targeting of actors, muso’s and other vacuous, garden variety type celebrities, who by their very nature are generally democrats.