Rostrum: Special “Protect Our Country” Edition!

They won’t behave & we all know it.

They’ll rout the ALP & then carry on like egomaniacal snots with a mandate to inflict their hybrid fetishes upon us all.

Shit sandwich or gargle broken glass?…not much of a choice.

Inhuman blastbeating…

‘It’s not so much that the ALP is “bad”…’

That’s not how the majority of Australians see it.

‘We are a great people whose best days are in front of us, a great people held back momentarily by a bad government.’

Yep, noice…very noice, this is the government we have to have because the other side is pathetic. Or perhaps the barrackers here would like another decade of ALP dysfunction just for the fun of it?

This is not a personality contest.

Which barrackers here would they be? 😯

I don’t see any. james has gone

Just back from picking a few things up from the shops with Mrs Jaws.

I’ve been going to the same BBQ chicken shop for a few months now as I like to treat my 2 four Maltese legged friends to a whole bbq chicken each weekend plus sometimes on a Friday night we get ourselves one as well.

Usually the owner doesn’t say much at all but I think he is getting much better at English (he’s mainland Chinese). Anyway tonight the conversation went like this.

Me: I’ll have 2 chickens please

Shopowner : Ok no probrem……………..you have big famiry ?

Me: Ummmmmm……………Yes……….me………….my wife…………………and ummmmmm…………….a 12 and 11 year old.

Shopowner: What you have ?

Me : One of each.

Shopowner: Oh ……..boy and girl……….varewee nice………………….almost twins ?

Me: Ummmmmmmm………….No ……………….Ahhhh………..they were born in the same year. Mummy got pregnant almost immediately after the first was born

********At this point Mrs Jaws has to walk away as she’s cant hold herself together*****

Shopowner: They blonde like you ?

Me: Matter of fact…………….they both have fair hair

Shopowner: You must wun awound a lot on weekend for sport

Me: No……………they prefer to exercise just by walking.

Shopowner: So no wunning

Me: Ohhhhhh………………………sometimes they like a run along the beach.

Shopowner: They like swimming

Me: No…………..they don’t really like the water that much

Shopowner: Oh…………..ha…ha…ha….ha………………..here your change

Me :Thanks……………….see you next time

‘I’ve checked with, The Mothership, and they assure me it is not one of us …’

They would say that…

Villa Maria at $10.00 a bottle……………………….and here’s some Heathcote Shiraz for ToM.

I dont drink it so have no idea if its a good price………

https://www.kemenys.com.au/go.jsp#!class=Tab&theme=RedWines

Yep

Time for a drink

Off to pry open the garage fridge for a James Squire

LOL

Yes ToM as well as the shower screeens.

What do you usually pay for the Taltarni ?

Yeah, I’ve seen a shit copy of Cabin a while back. Handycam kinda killed what probably would have otherwise been an ok slasher flick with a bit of a twist.

Not as good as the raving about it, I thought, but not the worst I’ve ever seen either.

I saw “The Dictator”. It’s my kind of film.
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Taltani doesn’t really sell for its RRP, but I quite like it and buy up when it’s this price – good quaffing.

You didn’t like the way that Al Adeen held a mirror up to the stupid Americans at the end, did you ,Che.

Just getting ready to blend into Glorious Leader Abbott’s new reign, so as not to be conspicuous & thus re-educated as a non-troll.

A good mate of mine who is born in australia of Chinese parents once said to me when I complained about the driving skills of Asian drivers he said……..

” if you really don’t like Asian drivers then just stay off the fucking footpaths Ok “

I’m in favor of drug law reform and ‘pork eating’ is ahead of me.

‘The former prime minister, who lives in neighbouring Potts Point, said Cr Moore had presided over the growth in licensed premises, which had turned the city into ”an inebriate’s spittoon”.

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/the-queen-of-grog-keating-lashes-moore-over-cross-crisis-20120713-221e0.html#ixzz20XbPV2xv

Ferrous reader misser a bit know rike carpet tacks.

😯

SUUUUUUUUUUNZ !!! 😯

Tigas brone seezin. 😦

(I’m not surprised, really. They lost the same game last year in Cairns, criticised as to why they’d give up a home game to play there.)

It’s good for football, though. 🙄 🙄 🙄

Hmm. Don’t think I’ll bother. Just looked up the final scores. 🙄

facepalm @ Geelong

Unusual taste ToSY?

😉

How to catch a kangaroo.

http://www.news.com.au/national/surfer-taken-by-shark-north-of-perth/story-fndo4e3y-1226425990874

PATROL vessels will continue their search to catch and cull the “massive” white shark that killed a male surfer in Western Australia.
The 4m killer dubbed Brutus by surfers near Wedge Island, 180km north of Perth mauled a 24-year-old man as he surfed with a mate at 9am yesterday.
The victim, whose identity is yet to be released, was surfing about 200 metres off an isolated beach, the WA Department of Fisheries said.


I think it’s time for shark culling. Surfing seems to be an increasingly popular activity and shark attacks seem to be occurring with increasing regularity. Sharks are beyond endangered and people who enjoy the water are should be able to do this without being munched.

(Yeppers*.)

Afternoon Meta…enjoyable read ToM. Not sure what the barrackers believe anymore on the subject of asylum seekers.

But I think its disgraceful TDT is not on the cafe’s blogroll.

‘The sea is collecting all that increased CO2, some humans don’t want to do anything about that problem at all…’

Some of us don’t see that as a problem, apparently its natural and been going for a considerable length of time…a little more or less is well within adaptable limits.

Acidification is porky propaganda and you would be well advised to look at the alternative view before jumping to erroneous conclusions.

AO – ” John Faulkner is a lone voice at the conference telling Labor that maybe their problem is not the external threat of the Greens and preferences but of Labor refusing to look at themselves and what they stand for and why they are not getting the primary votes. Faulkner got told to shut up, no one wants to hear him

That’s the point really, isn’t it? No one in the ALP wants to deal with their problems and structure. They had the report by Hawke and Wran a decade ago, which was shelved. Then the one by Faulkner etc, that they won’t deal with.

They don’t stand for anything, they’re a philosophical vacuum, reacting only to the daily swings in political issues.
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” Why must the animal world be controlled to suit the whims and wishes of humans?

I’m not too bothered personally, but surfing is increasingly popular. My kids are very keen, and are probably tasty! Personally I’d poison a shark.

I think if hikers were being routinely mauled and killed by packs of dingo, there would probably be some control and support for eradication.
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” But I think its disgraceful TDT is not on the cafe’s blogroll.

That’s interesting. They really shun, insult and ban are uncomfortable with alternative opinions, that are more complicated than arguing that Malaysia is better than Nauru, Gillard is nicer than Abbott, Wilkie has now lost his sense and it wasn’t a lie anyway.

http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/national/qantas-motion-moved-at-labor-conference/story-e6frfku9-1226426482870

Under the Qantas Sale Act of 1992, the airline is required to have its headquarters in Australia and be majority Australian-owned.
But unions believe Qantas could get around the Act by employing more maintenance workers in Asia at its budget carrier Jetstar and other future offshoots.
TWU national secretary Tony Sheldon, a delegate to the NSW Labor conference, is moving a motion on Sunday afternoon, which would call on the Act to include Jetstar and any other Qantas subsidiary.
“The proposed legislation would include the entire Qantas group and where it’s invested its money,” Mr Sheldon told AAP outside Sydney Town Hall.
“Anyone flying in our air space, Qantas or others, should be turning around and paying Australian wages and conditions and providing where it’s appropriate Australian jobs.”

Unions won’t be satisfied until they’ve killed Qantas.

This is typical of the problem of union affiliation. Why bring a narrow industrial relations perspective to the conference of the party of government? It’s pathetic and typical of the TWU.

The reason western democracies are supposed to operate under the rule of law is so that governments don’t enact arbitrary legislation where decisions are made to favour the interests of one party over another. Laws should be the general rules of the game where all players can predict how the state will act under a particular set of circumstances.

What the TWU is doing is pressuring its cronies in government to change the rules – of a game that has been running for twenty years – because it suits the union’s best interests but doesn’t sufficiently (if at all) consider Qantas’s interests. That kind of arbitrary rule making is the sort of thing centrally planned economies do, not free market ones.

I’m with kitty on the sharks.

Personally, I think they’re the coolest beasties on the planet & should be protected at all costs.
Interestingly, the loved ones of most victims are usually very forthright that they understood the risk & would never have wanted retribution upon the animals.
Let’s face it, humans in the ocean are like turtles on a beach, cumbersome, awkward & vulnerable. Great Whites for the win!

They are everywhere down here in the cold water, routinely sited. I think that’s great & wouldn’t have it any other way. If you don’t want to be devoured, stay the fuck out of the water & forego the fun. 😉
It all comes down to balance of probability. In my mind, the odds of being taken are infinitesimally small…& if you do get taken you won’t even know about it prior to being dismembered & are powerless to stop it anyway.
It comes back to an innate fear that people have of being eaten alive (understandably)…probably goes back to caveman survivalism.

When I think of the countless hours I’ve spent floating around out the back, waiting for sets, by myself…well, I think that the pleasure far outweighs the risk & the potential for devourement is negligible.

The only reason that “if hikers were being routinely mauled and killed by packs of dingo, there would probably be some control and support for eradication”…is because surfers have a decent set of swingers & hikers are WEAK AS PISS ! .

Hahaha.

So have I! many times. Middleton point. Waitpinga (Great White Heaven), Parson’s Point (Great White Hell- have nearly drowned there). All can be great on their day! 🙂

“Such is the nature of the world’s greatest leisure activity.”

I’ve wimped out of the water for 2 weekends. I’m afraid of the cold (rather than sharks) after nearly 2 weeks of tropical surfing.

“if hikers were being routinely mauled and killed by packs of dingo, there would probably be some control and support for eradication”

That’s because on dry land us humans are pretty much safely at the top of the food chain even unarmed. And we are at the top of the food chain when we have a rifle in hand. We don’t take kindl;y to that position being placed under threat.

Venturing into a different food chain (the oceans) throws up all manner of different consequences.

Getting rid of Abstudy – that’s just further evidence of stupid policy.

Though I don’t think the government has done anything in this area since the apology.
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Barrackers really have no idea of the structure of the ALP, how many have actually experienced the “joys” of membership, and members not having any control of the organisation they join?

The pardy, party joke is worth bottling.

Gillard doesn’t appreciate the mood of the electorate, she should get out more. Christopher Pyne’s rhetorical throwaway is closer to the mark.

”The next election will be a referendum on the carbon tax and it will be an election on who is best to defend our borders from what currently is a deluge of asylum seekers.”

Does anyone konw if this was passed at a vote. Seems to have gone unmentioned in the Press today

DOW Jones

Australia’s Labor Party to Vote on Expanding Qantas Sale Act to Jetstar

– Report

12/07/2012 08:13PM AEST

SYDNEY–Australia’s ruling Labor party will vote Sunday on a motion to prevent Qantas Airways (QAN.AU) from employing more Asian maintenance workers through its budget Jetstar carrier, AAP reports.

Under the 1992 Qantas Sale Act, the airline is required to have its headquarters in Australia and be majority Australian-owned.

But unions believe Qantas could get round this provision by employing more maintenance workers in Asia through Jetstar and other future offshoots.

Transport Workers Union National Secretary Tony Sheldon told AAP at the New South Wales state Labor conference that he has put forward a motion to expand the act to Qantas’ subsidiaries.

“The proposed legislation would include the entire Qantas group and where it’s invested money,” he was quoted as saying. “Anyone flying in our airspace, Qantas or others, should be turning around and paying Australian wages and conditions.”

Sheldon couldn’t beat Qantas in the IR game, so he’s after his political party to do his bidding. That’s the contemporary ALP, it exists to help unions sort out employers they don’t like.
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That’s funny Tony. I’ve also used the other one you posted about the “sportsman’s triple” or whatever it was.

‘A Whitsundays backpacker resort has placed a blanket ban on Irish guests because of drunken behaviour.

‘Manager of Main Street Backpackers in Proserpine, Thomas Dunne, Irish himself, said many of the incidents involving Irish backpackers have caused deliberate damage to his property. This year he has accepted only eight Irish guests and six of these have been thrown out. The last two were charged with willful damage to the hostel and ordered to pay $410 to the owner of the hostel.

“What can I say, we can’t tar everyone with the same brush, but yes we have had enough of the Irish backpackers who stay at our accommodation,” Mr Dunne said.’

Well, it seems that Peter Wicks sells things. This means he mixes with many people, and in his opinion Lawler may have mixed with the guy doing the investigation, and therefore the guy doing the investigation thought it might be a great idea to issue a tainted report…

Powerful and irrefutable evidence!!

This evening I’ve had an interesting exchange with Peter Wicks about HSU/Thomson/Jackson.

It’s now clarified a range of issues for me.

• There is no evidence to suggest that Vice President Michael Lawler even attempted to influence the investigation into Thomson.
• There is no explanation about how the “tainted” investigation could have occurred under the supervision of (former ALP ministerial advisor, and union official, and ALP FWA appointee) Tim Lee
• No explanation of how (former ACTU official) FWA President could have allowed a “tainted” report to issued under his watch
• The case against Kathy Jackson is non-traditional union bashing.
• Wicks hopes that something might turn up.

Interesting!!

This evening I’ve had an interesting exchange with Peter Wicks about HSU/Thomson/Jackson…

You forget tomm that Lawler ensured he went on ‘long leave’ to avoid facing any questions in parliament and that it is only parliament that has the power to investigate lawler as an independent judicial officer.

That’s pretty much end of story – no-one but parliament has the power and authority over Lawler, certainly no-one in FWA and Lawler made sure he wasn’t available [and he got away with it too…which I find disgusting].

(7:30 Report)
http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2012/s3512917.htm

…LEIGH SALES: Last week in his address to the Parliament, Craig Thomson said he wanted Fair Work Australia to answer whether Michael Lawler, vice president of the organisation and the partner of Kathy Jackson, had any influence on the investigation. You’ve said today that because you’ve not been presented with any evidence of wrongdoing and because Mr Lawler is a sworn judicial officer, you won’t be investigating Mr Thomson’s allegation. In the interests of complete transparency, isn’t there merit in some level of investigation into those allegations?

IAIN ROSS: Well, Leigh, the point I was making this morning is that it’s not a matter for me. Again, I’m not the head of a political party and vice president Lawler that’s not a backbencher. He’s an independent judicial officer. I have no powers of discipline over him. Those powers reside in the Parliament and that’s what the statute says…

So it’s basically, Lawler told me he didn’t act improperly! I wish all court cases worked like that -noone would ever get jailed!

…LEIGH SALES: If we accept that there is no evidence that Mr Lawler influenced the investigation, nonetheless we have seen evidence that Mr Lawler’s been involved in making a police complaint against HSU officials, that he had access to documents relating to internal HSU politics. In your view, is that appropriate for a member of Fair Work Australia?

IAIN ROSS: Well, I’ve not seen any of those matters, Leigh…

I saw nuffink, so it didn’t happen!

…LEIGH SALES: Let me ask you though in your capacity as president of Fair Work Australia, do you stand 100 per cent behind the report into Craig Thomson and the HSU?

IAIN ROSS: Well, the question of who else might investigate these isn’t a matter for me. The point I made also is that I believe that a more transparent and accountable complaints mechanism in relation to tribunal members would be appropriate…

AO, why would Lawler do anything to help duplicitous throw sh*t at him? There is simply no evidence about Lawler.

The best Wicks was able to come up with was his retreat over an hour from “(FWA Investigator) Nassios and Lawler shared an office, and probably socialised” to “they may have worked in the same building”*. That’s the entire evidence for all the mud he’s thrown at Lawler!

But barrackers have taken Wicks’ baseless speculation, and magnified it! They’ve somehow persuaded themselves that Wicks has something on Lawler.

Wicks admits he has nothing. There would have to be some red faces around.

*I’m not even certain they work in the same building. I think the FWA chambers and hearing rooms are housed separately.

Hilarious scenes over at another blog where the posters are whipping themselves up in a rage as the Conductor waves his wand around and gets them to throw themselves about in a hilarious rage like evangelicasts at a Hillsong Sunday service over some nutjob who has posted a death threat of some kind against Julia on the Liberal Party website.

Of course when another poster on their blog points out a site that carries charming peaceful messages like this (and worse) there is silence.

“I wish that someone would fist-fuck Tony Abbott to his death. Australia’s most vile liar deserves a fitting death”

Not a word of outrage.

Get me a bigger pair of blinkers goes their chorus and pass the green cordial

What a bunch of hypocrites they are !

http://tonyfuckingabbott.com/

The cafe is an amusing place…as seen from a distance. The Bitterness Society (coined by sreb, I think) is entirely apt.

“The Bitterness Society”

No that was a comment made by one of the reasonably minded participants (Shane of Qld) who was under relentless attack by the “Bitterness Club” members.

“………who was under relentless attack by the “Bitterness Club” members.”

Yes that was amusing the way they fed on their own that day.

They completely turned on him

Hilarious in fact

Thanx ToM, its important to get the history right.

I kind of followed that Wixxy stuff. I think the best he came up with was that Kathy Jackson’s ex husband might have used hookers once. Apparently Kathy Jackson was one of those rare ex wives who condone such a thing….

ToM is correct, “The Girls’ Bitterness Society” was Shane of QLD’s description…

Although I believe I coined “Club Menopause”

Must we have the group misogyny?

It’s crap, and I don’t blame Lawler for not wanting to participate in a process that gives credence to it.

You are just making excuses for a bloke that is too gutless to face scrutiny. He was happy to use his ‘protected and sheltered’ position to intimidate and accuse others, when it is time to investigate his own behaviour, he squirts and runs away [typical conservative bully boy].

And when you start comparing our domestic nutcase extreme Right to the Gestapo its very obvious that you do not have any background in history other than a few Humphrey Bogart movies it would seem.

In fact it’s an insult to many of the victims of the extremes of Nazism

Now who is being a bit extremist?

When you create the atmosphere and dabble in the politics and propaganda of nazism as Abbott has, then you can’t be surprised that some dimwits will act on your incitement.

I am one of those who deplores the politics of extremism, muscular aggression, targeted hatred and the incitement of violence and sexism that has prevailed since tony abbott came to lead the Opposition. Conservatives rave on about ‘traditions’, civil society and the rule of law etc yet are the ones who are the most prepared to act indecently and with violent hatreds.

The ALP would have just asked salacious questions, with no objective other than blackening his name. Pillow talk questions.

I don’t blame him. Lawler’s accusers have no evidence of anything.

Former ACTU Official, now FWA President Iain Ross doesn’t think there is anything to investigate about Lawler.

It’s a beat up that got some barrackers **squirting** they must be embarrassed, or they would be if they had any self respect. So they probably aren’t.

Oh come on Kitty

If Dreyfuss says so therefore it must be………….?

Are you kidding………..?

And by the way. Hitler was most influenced by the British propaganda of WW1 and claimed it contributed heavily to Germany’s defeat. He used the best bits of it to create his own methods as per Mein Kampf

Various people across the blog have just about wet themselves about Wicks’ ramblings.

But the actual situation is-
*He’s got no evidence that Lawler has ever even spoken to FWA Investigstor Nassios.
*He’s retreated from his ‘they shared an office claim’
*He says his writing about Jackson is ‘throwing mud’
*He’s attacking a union official as a distraction, for political ends. This is usually regarded as union bashing.
*Nothing that he’s written disproves FWA findings against Thomson.
*He is completely unable to explain how the report could have reached the adverse outcome given the involvement of Tim Lee (former union official, ALP ministerial advisor) and FWA Pres Iain Ross (former ACTU official).

But he’s been quoted as an authority in some blogs. Bizarre.

Confirmation bias…

That’s nice.

But he’s been quoted as an authority in some blogs. Bizarre.

What’s bizarre is the inferences and conclusions that you have drawn tomM 😆

I had a look at wixxy’s site and I think that you are trying some kind of poisoning the well style of argument where you make a mountain out of any molehill regarding completely unimportant and irrelevant stuff and act like that actually means something in the scheme of things. I’m puzzled as to what you are trying to achieve over there. It seems that you think if you can discredit something, anything, that wicks has said then that means everything he says is false or should be discounted- yet it is your ‘gotcha’ that has no value.

I can’t help but laugh to myself TomM when you accuse wicks of union official bashing, I mean that is almost comical, especially given your own history of union bashing. You really are trying hard to make a case aren’t you?

No AO, I think Wicks has made a range of allegations and inferences about interference in the Thomson/HSU investigation, particularly regarding the involvement of Lawler.

He suggested they “shared an office”, probably did favours for each other, shared a coffee etc. But he has no evidence that Lawler has even met or ever had a conversation with Nassios. He’s not even sure they work in the same building now.

He hasn’t even bothered to try to explain how a the report could have been conducted in a tainted manner given that it was supervised by Tim Lee, former ALP ministerial advisor, former union official, ALP government appointee to FWA. He just doesn’t bother to address that issue.

He cannot explain how the report would have been released under FWA President Iain Ross, former ACTU official etc.

The attack on Jackson is “mud throwing” he admits. When a political opponent attacks, or repeatedly throws mud at a union official for political ends, union barrackers claim its “union bashing”. I think Wicks’ attack justifies the description.

Wicks is just involved in a complicated “look over there”!! and that’s all there is to his ramblings.

It’s quite funny that he’s been regarded as some authority on this. He’s just making it up, particularly about Lawler and that’s been the central plank in his efforts to discredit the FWA report.

Its being called mommy porn, whatever that means.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/annanorth/why-50-shades-of-grey-is-less-about-submission-a

There is a herd mentality associated with this book.

AO – ”I reckon we only have to look down the nearest rabbotthole to find Lawler’s influences… My own conspiracy theory is that it is Jackson not Lawler who is enamoured.”

I have no objection to this. Maybe Jackson has changed her orientation, and maybe Lawler has persuaded her. I have no idea, that’s the discussion that goes on between peopl..
The issue I have is that Wicks has run a campaign against Lawler, suggesting that he has some influence over the investigation and report. This has been parroted and magnified across some other blogs.

When the fact is that Wicks has just made this up. It’s an invention.

yikes…

???

More Indonesians soldiers arrested for people smuggling. Who would have thunk it?

Down at the cafe there is self destruction on Cafe Talk V, someone has gone ballistic with the delete button. LOL

Much amusement.

That’s funny ToM, seriously good stuff.

Wow.

Just, wow. 😯

So ends the myth of ‘free discourse’ there.

That’s the problem when you don’t read outside of your comfort zone.

😯 😯

…and that’s the expurgated version.

Apparently James’ comment was the most offensive one this evening.

Min got a fair old dressing down by Miglo for participating here (quite inoffensively. They don’t take kindly to diversity there.

Ban him! And HIM!! AND HIM

It works well there when they ban the trouble makers. Banning and deleting leads to a nice, cohesive blog where everyone has nice similar views that can be debated openly, and nicely.

That’s nice!

Reading a Taltarni label is more interesting than the crap they post at the Cafe

Poor James he’ll be hooked on debating unreasonable people, who actually aren’t in the least interested in policy or logic, or discourse.

Despite their protestations, they actually hate all that. There’s a niceness façade, a veneer over the deep bitterness. It’s bound to end in tears. Retreat with your dignity in tact James!!…is likely to be banned!

Oh my that’s a low point

Catching Up is scandalized that the word “adulteress” has appeared on the blog.

It is Comedy Fucking Central over there.

Things being thrown everywhere

Better call the Zimmer frame repairman I’d say

why don’t you grow up, fuck off, and stop your bullshit

Normally they’re nice.

Hello Lekhni

This is “I Am the Walrus” here

After being to anger management school………….LOL

It’s official…I’m banned at CW.

How amusing Egg

Your’e pretty harmless

I think Min is always welcome too.

In fact everyone is welcome here, it’s just that some prefer to gossip amongt themselves enjoy rigorous reinforcement of their existing opinions.

OK, so Pip didn’t really shag Miglo. I made that bit up……

It was the other way around

I think its time for them to change the Cafe header from “Political Tragics” to just “Tragics”

😯

When are you off to Tassie TB ?

Egg…………………….apparently you have not been banned but merely placed in moderation because you stir up shit ALL THE TIME.

Currently there is nothing of yours in moderation………….that’s according to the Ringmaster…………………………and of course we all believe him ………………I mean he’s never misled anyone in the past has he……………..LOL

The people associated with Vexnews seem nice

WARNING: THE FOLLOWING LINK IS NOT SUITABLE FOR WORK.

http://slanderyounew.blogspot.com.au/

So do ya reckon someone doesn’t quite like Andrew Landeryou’s Vexnews ?

That’s good splatter

Someone hates Vexnews obviously

Fuck the Batshit.

Poxy & overdone -3 stars

‘Egg, for the last time, are you a he or a she?’

I am a male of the species homo sapien. A gentleman with only a casual interest in sport who enjoys domestic duties. Drinks sparingly…a sort of girlie man. Not that there is anything wrong with that.

Sexual orientation traditional.

I admit their confusion at the cafe about these matters has given me much delight, as you can appreciate I have not behaved like a typical male…hence the confusion.

‘Miraculously your comment has now been found……………………..now who would have thought.’

Miracles will never cease.

As someone mentioned earlier the structure at the cafe is wrong, too many sub editors. By comparison, sreb has discovered the correct formula, an old fashioned editor who will tell someone to their face what he thinks and dares them to hang around.

To my knowledge there have been few sackings under this roof (scaper comes to mind and that was a good call) so what we have is a robust environment, with different points of view presented with wit and intelligence.

Intellect is debatable, because its hard to define, but I think we have it.

‘Yowsa! Is that really what people think of me..?’

I mean in the sense that you are not disingenuous.

September. ?…………should be rather nice weather…………a bit of fog and a chill in the air I’d imagine.

“Clink”

Just popped the Moet with Mrs JAWS.

Should taste nice with a Crust Pizza………………………..she’s not cooking apparently

‘What kind of world have we created? (to nick a frase)’

That was mine, I think, which was meant ironically. Smiley faces are noice, but I prefer practicing ToM’s dry style. Did I mention Poe’s Law?

I’m pretty comfortable with an unhinged, egomaniacal line-crossing piece of shit like scaper being banned.

Having said that, let him in if you want, but I’ll be a total cnut to him. It’s a long drive from Qld to my front door, but TB mightn’t appreciate that insect crawling around here.

As you said, it’s out in the open here. There aren’t any back channel machinations. The only person here I’ve ever been in contact with privately via email is reb, usually to offer a kind word or support, which his long term efforts certainly warrant. Even that has been seldom.
I think if you were banned or censored here there wouldn’t be any airs & fancies, no pretending & it would be stated pretty clearly. I also think you’d have to be an utter arsewipe to get yourself banned here. I seriously doubt that you’d get blacklisted for disagreeing with the prevailing sentiment…of which, there isn’t any, except for maybe “let’s all carry on like fucktards”…

😉

You’ve got most of the nutterz up there, TB.

We just have demented serial killers per capita, down here. 😆

Hawhawhaw…

Almost simultaneous pedantry from the legible southerners.

snigger

Don’t know what’s up, the bouncer on the cafe door has stopped my entry again. Perhaps a committee is analysing my two words ‘true dat.’ …to see if it conforms to Newspeak.

TB izzle the dogjizzle…

The owner never looks in the spam bin, apparently. 🙄

TB should learn to be like ninja if’n he’s gonna lay his mack down’n shit, yo.

He ain’t no Jesse Pinkman! 😯

I think you mean “who’s in charge”

TB don’t do ‘postrophes no more

respect

“TB don’t do ‘postrophes no more

respect”

😆

TB adds in silent, postfix ‘e‘s’, too. WORD UP!

http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/society-and-culture/how-to-avoid-being-eaten-by-a-shark-20120716-225xj.html

tips on not getting munched!

Oh that’s right it was some Yankee loser

Been to York TB

We were there in I think it was 2000 when the town of Selby (?) was flooded as we drove away north to Scotland to Ed and the to Inverness then down to Carlisle then over to Chester then to hay on wye where as we drove away that flooded as well.

Got back to London and then Mrs Jaws proceeded to get us lost For 90 minutes around Wembley stadium . Every fucking 15 minutes we ended up at fucking Wembley. No gps in those days. Just the a to z.

At the end of the 90 minutes she was startled by 2 things

a) the number of times I can say the F word in one breath

b) that the top of every map is North

Faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaark

What a day

Oh my head……………………………I cant believe she convinced me

“Stick to the Swans”

guffaw!…pretenders.

The Slipper case continues, despite the barrackers recently noting “how quiet the issue had become lately”. That’s probably because the media and opposition didn’t want it to be highlighted while the referral was being made to the prosecutors.

Slipper is clearly a sleaze, and that’s not saying his accusers aren’t as well. But Slipper is the rorter who’s Speaker, appointed in a grubby deal by this government.

…and remember the only reason he was appointed Speaker, was to allow Gillard to renege on her written agreement with Wilkie.

http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/political-news/afp-refers-slipper-to-prosecutor-20120719-22d58.html

ToM will be happy to hear that Alan Jones really ran heavily on the Bruce Wilson/Julia Gillard matter this morning for over 20 minutes. He had Michael Smith (shock jock sacked by 2UE over the matter last year) in his studio for an in depth interview.

Jones vowed to pursue the matter again next week

“…………and walking the battlements (what was left of them……………”

Yep

Did that too. A small museum in one of the towers as you probably know.

Some really nice pubs up in those parts I must say.

I cant remember what the local ale is ?

There’s plenty to be told about Gillrd and Wilson.

Gillard’s suppression attempts only feed the story. I think the speculation, which will always occur when a politician tries to duck an issue, will assist in her downfall.

Is she still young & naive? Or did that stop when she hit 40?

She seems nice.

http://www.news.com.au/sport/london-olympics/the-world-says-michelle-jenneke-is-our-new-favourite-hurdler/story-fndpu6dv-1226430586738

Mmmmm.

I’ve checked my email. That’s interesting, also unusual in sharing the email details of people that participate in blogs,

I thought the blogging convention was that people that run blogs don’t hand out the email addresses of others.

No it’s mine, which is slightly less anonymous.

Reb, a question for you…….

How many times has Tom posted in dot point form his considered view on union thugs and how often have you deleted such posts.

He thinks that Daily Trash is an appropriate name for this blog.

He thinks Hawkesbury is nowhere close to Dobell.

He thinks Tom and I are lifelong personal friends (we would be if Tom would only share).

He’s up to his neck in investigating union rorting (or so he pretends) but he’s never heard of Bruce Wilson.

He’s not quite certain whether he is accusing Lawler of interfering with the FWA investigation or not.

He’s only very recently met Craig Thomson (because Hawkesbury is nowhere close to Dobell if you knew anything about electoral boundaries).

He believes in censorship.

He doesn’t believe in repetition (except if one is writing a dozen or so posts about Kathy Jackson).

This is the Melbourne FWA building. I asked him which office they share.

I mean really, a Vice President of FWA has Chambers with light and views over the Yarra, or towards docklands, it’s elevated. An investigator has a workstation near the emergency exit, quite close to the basement.
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to FOR!

Tom challenged Peter Wicks on his blog. Wicks refused to directly answer Tom’s questions. So Tom repeated his questions.

I posted at the Cafe my opinion that Wicks’ campaign had a number of holes. I was challenged to do so on Wicks’ own blog. So I did. My post was deleted along with some of Tom’s and together we received a long winded email which has resulted in a funny little tennis match today.

Tom and I won convincingly. Wicks is not much chop as it turns out.

Mmm, Vintage Ale.