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.
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Jean Baptiste
February 16, 2017 at 9:56 pm
Says in part: “No Carl, as a precursor to understanding the following link you will need to acquaint yourself with difference between the terms “abrupt” and “slow”. When changes happen over thousands of years they are said to be slow, at least in relation to changes of the same magnitude which take place in mere decades. To which we apply the term “abrupt.” ”
May I respectfully make the observation that your over-reliance on what simply appears to be a bunch of colour reprints of Picasso-like abstracts to illustrate your personal understanding of AGW and its genesis, is complimented by your tendency to display distain toward those who may innocently question whether your melting ice block is larger that theirs.
An example of your contemptuousness was the unnecessary chiding about the paleoclimatology difference between “abrupt” and “slow”. You appear to be positing that all past climate change events were “slow” compared to the “abrupt” change you perceive to be currently occurring.
In this regard I note in the link you provided, the author (I assume a “climate” scientist) has a different view to your own JB. The ‘scientist’ acknowledges: “But there have been several times in Earth’s past when Earth’s temperature jumped abruptly, in much the same way as they are doing today. Those times were caused by large and rapid greenhouse gas emissions, just like humans are causing today.”
To eliminate any future confusion on your part, JB perhaps it may be time for me to remind you of that old proverb – ‘more haste less speed’ , when considering posting any of your future offerings on the subject me old mate.
Here ya go…..what a great start for Trumper
https://www.thestar.com/news/world/2017/02/03/daniel-dales-donald-trump-fact-check-updates.html
Today the great orange one is happy with himself because “at least I rate well”. I wonder what he would do if he called a media conference and nobody showed up. Implode?
On average, an Australian wind farm produces 29% of its rated output.
Once one realises that, one understands the need for such huge subsidies to make them competitive with the alternatives.
So next time you see a proposal for a 800 mega watt wind farm, divide it by 3 to get the real output.
Then if you factor in that wind farms need about $110 per mwh to stay in business, versus coal at at $40-$50 a MWH, one understands why there is a subsidy of around $85mwh to wind farms. The $5billion nation wide subsidies to the renewables amounts to $5billion a year or $500 a house hold.
Anybody care to refute these facts?
In the arena of fake news ( sorry Bassman misrepresentation of the interpretation of facts) surrounding the renewable rent seeking energy crowd, there must be many ways of interpreting the “facts”. One only has to look at the crap surrounding the period when SA went “dark”
Gee, for $5billion a year, one could buy SA in a couple of years and solve all their problems overnight. ( 🙂 )
Then you factor in the cost of cleaning up the mess, the destruction from rising sea levels and super storms, the loss of habitable lands and quite possibly the death of most life on the planet.
When the final bill comes in for the price of fossil fuels all the money in the universe wont pay for them.
It’s a bit like putting a $5.00 deposit on the car and claiming that’s all it cost.
We must get rid of Governors. For how much longer must we remain chained to the gates of Old Buck Palace paying these ribbon cutters our hard-earned? NSW Governor David Hurley earns an annual salary of $467,640 – almost $100,000 more than the Premier’s $377,780. Marie Bashir claimed $496,234 last financial year. Figures published last week show that to December 31, Dame Marie has claimed $278,324 – on track to crack the half-million mark in this financial year.
The budget for running Government House for 2016-17 is a hefty $5.7 million. Now don’t get me wrong. These are lovely people. Bashir in particular but we don’t need them. The money could be better spent elsewhere. Duplicate this in every state. Then add on the Governor General and his digs and staff….millions upon millions more!!
Fair point, Bassman. Whilst we are on savings hows about we put an end to the ridiculously expensive, and ineffectual indigenous spending. If anything is blatantly racist or discriminatory (and within) it is that failure of taxpayers money.
Forget bridging the gap, remove it. Treat all races equally.
Do you mean treat all people equally? Lets suppose all people should be given an equal advantage in life, therefore there should be compensations for those not born to a privileged relatively wealthy European family that benefited from the invasion of a country, theft of land and the almost complete destruction of a culture and balance that existed for thousands of years.
Treat all people equally? Absolutely. If you want more for you and your type Milton, learn to appreciate how easy things have been for, get off your date and get out and earn it.
Walk a mile in their shoes and stop your whining.
What a load of supercilious, patronising and nonsensical balls, Jean. It is precisely that guilt ridden mentality, from on high, that has contributed to the parlous existence that many of our indigenous people face. It would seem that their situation has gone from bad to worse. And your solution to this problem and also AGW and possibly everything else boils down to throwing money at it.
I am DEFINITELY with you on that…very little to show for the billions we have spent on indigenous people…and get that bloody mess from the front of parliament house.
Still need somebody to open the flower shows Bassman.
It is their latent powers that are the biggest problem.
One has to remember that way back when the colonies got self government, the Poms were determined that if the colonies got to stroppy, the governor could step in.
I am amazed that there is an ongoing stipend once they give up their positions.
The other irony is that there are many positions within the government arena that pay more then the Premier – makes no sense at all.