Let me take you back. Way, way back to the evening of December 2, 2017. The Prime Minister and his deputy stood arm in arm at the West Tamworth Leagues Club. Joyce had just won the New England by-election by a thumping margin and Turnbull declared he was “putting the band back together.”
Ah, good times.
Alas, rock stars and politicians are, if nothing else, a difficult and unpredictable lot. Velvet Underground reformed and got halfway through a European tour in 1992 before the band’s two enormous egos, Lou Reed and John Cale, remembered why the band had split up in the first place. The two men hated the sight, let alone the creeping presence, of one another. The tour and the reunion ended abruptly, and Reed and Cale went their separate ways.
The Turnbull-Joyce combo did not come to grief because of crippling personality conflict. although it may do so at some time in the near future. But back then the band had only broken up when Joyce discovered his unfortunate New Zealand-news. We subsequently learned the High Court did not so hold and Joyce was off to a by-election that on the parliamentary numbers at least, threatened the Turnbull government’s majority.
Full column here.
The state with the most coal fired power generation Imports the most power. No surprises.
Ah yes it’s all a conspiracy. The planet is also a gay left wing Marxist, muslim, inner city, latte making hipster barrista. Have I miss any of the shadowy figures you cons create to avoid taking responsibility for anything?
https://www.theage.com.au/environment/climate-change/really-extreme-global-weather-event-leaves-scientists-aghast-20180226-p4z1q4.html
I say Dismayed, apart from allowing your mind to stray to “shadowy figures”, did you note the apex of the Polar Vortex in the first graph in your link shows a 0 degrees c temp for the months Jun – Sept; not during Feb as Amelie appeared to claim. Also, the air temp graph (shown in red) reaches a shade over -10 degrees c during Feb; not 0 degrees c as Amelie again claims.
Is that the way you read it?
If you’re not sure, I suppose we could always impose on me old mate JB to adjudicate. He’s a whizz at graphs.
Are you popping up your “Shooter” Blog, Mr Insider?
Oh yeah. Sorry. Will do tomorrow.
Who wrote this:
“As a national polity, we have fallen victim, like much of the collective west, to the globalisation of superficiality. We savour the titillation of the moment. We have acquired the national attention span of a gnat.”
No. No. And no.
It was Kevin Rudd, in this piece: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/feb/26/turnbull-no-longer-cares-about-reconciliation-with-indigenous-australians
Talk about chutzpah!!!
He may even be that delusional as to make a comeback as he had another piece, again against Turnbull as McCarthy.
No one has spent more time awake with so little to show for it than Rudd. Never have so many trees been felled for so much gibberish as under Rudd.
I think he is right. And if you weren’t so superficial with the attention span of a gnat you’d realise that.
Apologies to gnats everywhere might be in order now I suppose.
He is right. It was a perfect summation of his administration. Spin and chaos. You have the comprehension skills of a gnad.
I wonder what attention span a nit on a gnat’s nuts would have?
That old Bjelke-booster, John Stone, is a sad (and delusional) commentator: https://www.theaustralian.com.au/opinion/trust-tony-abbott-to-tell-it-like-it-is-about-issues-that-matter-most/news-story/3549d7242bb54ac7d0cd85facecbb8b4
With like-minded friends like Stone and Maurice Newman, it’s no wonder that it’s hard to take Tony Abbott seriously.
Stone was behind the Joh for PM push. That makes his opinions on anything worthless for ever more.
So was Alan Jones which means anything he says or has said is worth even less.
“Those who have never made a mistake have never tried anything new” – Albert Einstein
“Those who have made a mistake are not necessarily worthless” – Author Unknown
Trilobite
“It’s early days, yes, but the signs point to pretty much exactly what skeptics of the tax bill predicted — an upward redistribution of wealth with little obvious macro payoff”
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/now-we-know-where-the-tax-cut-is-going-share-buybacks-2018-02-22
“US company tax cuts boost share buybacks, not investment or wages” “Buyback announcements are up 22% this year to $67 billion in just six weeks, Goldman said in a note to clients. This follows a report by benefits consulting firm Aon Hewitt finding that 83% of large companies don’t expect the tax cut to boost salaries at all”
“The Moody’s analysts also said that the larger deficits resulting from the tax bill — combined with the Federal Reserve’s efforts to normalize monetary policy by raising interest rates and unwinding its balance sheet — “will increase the effective cost of debt for the government faster than we previously expected.” No Surprises.
I’ve never liked that prick Mourinho!!
And Liverpool go second……..
Where’s Chelsea?
London I think.
South west London, Trivalve.
nice flowers I hear
Pleased to see my eldest boy seems to have suffered no ill effects from O’week and his start at Uni. Even had the temerity to bring some washing back! And it sounds like he’s eating better than we are.
Good stuff, Milton. I gather that your son’s boarding at Uni, then. He’ll be in for an excellent time.
Mine turned six this weekend and wanted to know if there’s anyone he hasn’t told about the milestone. I doubt it.
Yes, and thanks mate. He has quite the busy schedule and I hope he finds time to fit in some study and learning type stuff!
Our younger boy is 12 and at home, thankfully, as the missus is taking our first lads absence quite hard.
I do my best to cheer her up by pointing out that the youngest one will soon be gone and she can have me all to herself, but that long wait just makes her cry even harder.
Cheers for the milestone!
He didn’t get ‘initiated’ then?
How’d you guys or your partners fare at Mulletfest? You obviously went back, Jean to defend your title. Respect.
Idiot.
No luck this time, Curly?
Nola Merino’s Tweet was was rather amusing, bit naughty for a chief whip but amusing.
Didn’t stay up long but while it was there, ouch.
As……no!
Do share, or is it verboten?
and someone got the DCM