Rostrum II: “Son of Rostrum”

You chinese don’t get off the hook, either. From now on I just won’t stang for being called Gweilo, gwailo, or kwai lo. I mean it!

I just got a message when I tried to post this comment
Sorry, comments are closed for this item.
What does that mean?
Oh I see, it’s reb mucking around 🙂

I apologise for doubting your sincerity IPA!

Perhaps it is an NT thing!
I lived for 20 yrs in a NT country town with a divided aboriginal/white colonialist population, I heard it said often [amongst many other slurs].

That’s interesting though, do others here know it to be a racial slur? I tend to believe the 13 yo girl may not have, but where has she heard it in context to an aboriginal man?

I consulted the Urban dictionary and sure enough:

1 rock ape
A derogatory white Australian slang term for an Aborigine. Most commonly used in the Northern Territory, where modern Aboriginal culture has been defined by generational poverty, primative living conditions, poor levels of education, alcholism and violence, to the point where Redneck Australia can feel that they are more cultured and civilised than those stupid rock apes.
Those rock apes are less than human. You see ’em in the streets comming up to you, saying “hey mista, gotta dolla? Got smoke?”, and they’re always drinking, sniffing petrol and fighting. Why can’t they be more like us white people?

…Frigging rock apes busted open my petrol tank so’s they can get high on the fumes.

“she is then marched out of the stadium by TWO security guards, her parents told to stay in their seats”

Actually is this legal?? Wouldn’t the child by law need to have adult representation?? How many Police then grilled the girl?? Does seem a little over the top behaviour by law enforcement.

“I’m surprised that the Krakouer brothers even played out at Victoria Park such was the racial abuse.”

They probably survived on the old “sticks aand stones” principle, which is no longer operative, evidently.

They probably survived on the old “sticks aand stones” principle, which is no longer operative, evidently.

My recollection is that on field Jimmy used to take some action, but Phil was better able to shrug it off. Was there ever a better football pairing?

“How to completely miss the whole point – fkn simple minded eejut. ”

Well WTF has Howard got to do with a 13 year old that the Left and White Australia Policy does not ?

Who presided over Australian Immigration during the 50 and 60s.

The liberal Nats did

They made one mistake

Letting a future moronic lying grub and her family in from Wales

‘THE journey to recognise Aboriginal people in the Constitution has begun in the shadow of racism, with an online anti-racism campaign featuring video of Sydney Swans star Adam Goodes forced to shut down its public comments after it was bombarded with racist abuse.

‘Goodes has received overwhelming support for pointing the finger at racism, in the form of a 13-year-old girl who called him an ape during the Swans v Collingwood game on Friday night.’

Stuart Rintoul in the Oz

That’s true TB, it’s ‘union bosses’ rather than ‘unions’.
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Meanwhile, have the polls shifted?

If not – the revised task for Gillard – she has to persuade 6,700 people to switch to her every day for the next 108 days.

She has to get 6,700 voters to move to the ALP each day 2PP, Abbott can’t get any.

“This is despite a request from senior MPs three months ago for polling to be done to gauge how dire the situation was in Victoria.”

So no news is better than bad news.

The Gillard camp is now officially in denial

Well that’s all nice to know.

At least Gillard is duplicitous with her own party as well as the public. People should admire her consistency.

‘The ALP will be forced to make some changes’

Drop their industrial wing and go into a coalition with the Greens, a defacto marriage of convenience, perhaps. Being a rump is no fun for anyone.

If Barnaby turns the table on Windsor he’ll woo the Green vote once in power. They have much in common.

So the ALP is in deep shit and as Walrus recently commented, they are probably doomed never to rise again.

Perhaps the 13 year old girl can sell her story to the Womens Weekly for $50,000.

Pell says he will pay compensation, whatever it takes, then someone asked him how he’s going to handle the moral dimension. Can’t wait for an answer, got work on.

Herr Pell is making Teh Baby jeebus cry.

I’m shocked, that fantasy’s moral guardians would assist in perpetrating such a grotty coverup.

Shocked, I tell you! 😯

From TB’s link….

‘They’ll no longer receive the planned $100-plus electricity rebate, despite a 21 per cent price increase due in July.

‘Mr Nicholls, who blames the rise on the carbon tax, says he would have had to spend $600 million over two years to reduce the increase by five percentage points.’

This comes in the aftermath of the Ford closure, which the Victorian Premier said was caused by a tax on a beneficial trace gas.

Haha, splatter, that whole scat party sculpture thing is a worthy grant of my hard earned, if ever there was one. 😯

Best 4 minutes of vid you will ever see. I nearly voided myself in funfilled excitement…

http://www.afc.com.au/video/2013-05-27/fiveaa-call-the-last-4-minutes

Not good if you are a hapless Nth Melbourne supporter!

I do feel for them, they’ve choked in a lot of matches this year. So close, but so far.

I thought The Famous Crows were gone for all money with about 10 min to go. Actually, I thought they were screwed with 2 min to go.
I watched the game live with my Dad & my brother. It was fkn nuts.

“It was fkn nuts.”

Crowsturbator. Go team!

“Crowsturbator. Go team!”

Affirmative- but that would have been an epic win by any team (except Cuntingwood or Portscum).

It was bullshit.

Heaven on earth….

‘A FADING mining boom may be taking the gloss off Australia’s resource-rich economy but the country has retained the title of happiest industrialised nation in the world.’

Edna Curran in the Oz

(What would the dunnies smell be like in a Mumbai call centre?)

“A MELBOURNE business once awarded a best employer accolade is in strife after deducting wages from staff members for toilet breaks. ”

Are we sure its just toilet breaks ?

Gen Y sure likes spending worktime in a queue to get its coffee from the local barista’s ya know

“The national budget must be balanced. The public debt must be reduced; the arrogance of the authorities must be moderated and controlled. Payments to foreign governments must be reduced. If the nation doesn’t want to go bankrupt, people must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance.” ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero, 106 BC – 43 BC

Julia, whose last name has not been released, has now explained the incident to Nine News saying she yelled out “way to kick ya ape” on the spur of the moment …”She’s only a 13-year-old young girl that lives in a country town and doesn’t get out that much.”

The new CEO with China Inc. is a free marketeer, which is a relief, while the PLA has other plans just in case this experiment with free market economics goes belly up.

And besides this chick has class in a when rascism is involved

“What did the fatter wog say to the skinnier wog?”

Everyone in Moe-
*Uses racist terms
*Is a racist
*Has both parents on welfare
*Doesn’t get out much

Plus she barracks for Collingwood.

Moe is like Emerald, Qld, but with rain rather than heat.

So it’s all quite unsurprising.

And while we are talking about toilet breaks here’s another great example of $100K in taxpayer funding of the “Arts” well spent…………….

“Difficult territory is a cornerstone of the visual arts – so artist Mikala Dwyer knew it would be confronting last night when she invited Balletlab dancers to empty their bowels as part of a performance at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art.

The two-hour act saw the six dancers, masked but naked beneath sheer garments, move around a room in the gallery before sitting on transparent stools and performing – only if they were moved to do so – what is usually one of our most private and rarely discussed daily acts.”

Read more: http://www.theage.com.au/entertainment/theatre/dancers-display-private-movements-20130524-2k6x3.html#ixzz2UXs7VfRj

And you can get it on DVD apparently

A great gift for Fathers Day……..

That performance sounds really nice.

I’m going home to Fifi & Lulu tonight and saying –
What should we do tonight? We could go to the local Italian place, or perhaps go and see the new Star Trek film, but I hear there’s a great show on. The dancers take a shit on stage. It sounds like fun!

Why does the Left even insist on Arts funding anyway ?

I’m not sure too many nurses or cleaners are that interested in Ballet, Opera or Picasso

The public servant who approved it had to decide whether to give the $100,000 to-
*An indigenous cultural festival, such as one by The Koori Heritage Trust
*A performance of Swan Lake by some junior dancers at NIDA
*People being paid to take a crap

The public servant probably thought people taking a crap looked familiar to his own work.

“Third Way” politics and its fruits

“Tell me this IPA, from the time of Keating on, lowering tariffs and opening the market to competition was supposed to strengthen our industries and make us more competitive. Is there any evidence that this has actually happened?”

No evidence for that whatsoever. However, in my opinion, it was broadly a good thing as the far as average consumers are concerned. They were being forced to pay higher prices for cars to protect the interests of those involved in car manufacturing (the same goes for textiles, clothing and footwear). Having said that, though, we are still overpaying for our cars, relatively speaking.

😯

I feel a bullet train coming on….

‘FEDERAL and state governments face new demands to privatise hundreds of billions of dollars worth of their assets from superannuation funds that say they are investing in offshore electricity, water and telecommunications even though Australia is facing a $770 billion infrastructure shortfall.

‘The Industry Super Network yesterday released a landmark report that recommends governments sell existing public infrastructure to super funds to unlock up to $100bn for cash-strapped governments to put into nation-building projects.’

Annabel Hepworth in the Oz

No-one here seems willing or able to answer my question about the basis for the quote “The catholic church made in $16.2 billion in Australia last year alone. Tax free.”, so I’ll give my own thoughts on what it might be referring to.

That figure is probably an estimation of the turnover of all enterprises associated with the Catholic Church in Australia. That is, all school fees collected by Catholic primary, secondary and tertiary educational institutions; all fees earned by Catholic-run hospitals; all donations to Catholic charities; and all donations to Catholic parishes. That is, its total turnover before expenses or costs of services provided. That is, the church’s gross income.

Churches are effectively not-for-profit enterprises. That is, there are no owners or shareholders to whom dividends need to be distributed, so all monies received are put back into funding the provision of services.

A church would likely not be obliged to pay any tax even if it was a taxable entity. There would be no profit to tax.

“No one has asked where Toilet reb got the figure from……..”

Smells like a twitter meme to me.

I never came up with any figure!

So, gfys.

All I did was, reasonably I thought, ponder upon why the Institute of Fabricated & Revised Dogmas should be tax exempt.
I read PIAUndress’ speculation with interest. I’m unswayed.

To my mind, anyone could make up some fictitious shit & then claim tax exemption.

“To my mind, anyone could make up some fictitious shit & then claim tax exemption.”

Go for your life.

“as long as they can indoctrinate enough useful idiots into following them.”

You don’t even need to do that. You just have to agree you won’t be “distributing profits or assets for the benefit of particular persons”. You could start the Flying Spaghetti Monster Appreciation Society, be its only member, and still get tax-free status. It just can’t be “carried on for the profit or gain of its individual members”.

No.

That’s incidental.

I was just reminding adherents that the man made Institution hasn’t always been altruistic; despite how it would like to portray itself. Thus the inner turmoil it finds itself in when it gets caught out trying to sweep its pedo-priests under the carpet.

“Try thinking of it this way…”

Analogies are bullshit. Try using facts.

Bit of a hiccup there on the timeline of overglossing when they helped Nazi war criminals flee to South America; I must admit.

Might as well link to your source for “they helped Nazi war criminals flee to South America” while your at it. I’ve heard someone here mention it before (you?) but I hadn’t read it elsewhere. I’d like to take a look.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_Church_and_Nazi_Germany#The_Ratlines:_Helping_Nazis_to_flee

The Ratlines: Helping Nazis to flee [edit]

Main article: Ratlines (history)

At the end of the war, top Catholic officers organized the so-called ratlines that allowed Nazi war criminals to flee towards South America and other destinations via Francoist Spain. Bishop Alois Hudal and Cardinals Luigi Maglione, Eugene Tisserant and Antonio Caggiano, as well as the seminary in San Girolamo degli Illirici of Father Krunoslav Draganović were specially active in this task. Thousands of presumed European Catholic immigrants, actually Nazis in disguise, were able to escape from Europe using these networks.[333]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ratlines_(history)

I have a book I could dig out, but I don’t think I can send it down the interwebz.

I don’t think it’s disputed, although it’s understandable that catholics wouldn’t go out of their way to publicise it.

OMFG! Eddie Maguire press conference about to begin on Nine. Apparently he made some (racist?) comment or other on radio this morning about … wait for it … Adam Goodes(!). I’m sure he’ll be suitably contrite and probably will self-flaggelate on national television. (One can only hope, anyway. 😉 )

It’s okay, as you were. It was just a slip of the tongue, he put his foot in his mouth, apparently.

Moving speech in parliament from Martin Ferguson as he announces his retirement at the election. Tony Abbot chokes up during his tribute to Ferguson, who he described as an honourable man, a worthy opponent, and a great Australian.

Let us be in no doubt that Eddie was trying to extract a joke out of a regrettable event to which he had plenty to say about post event.

For that he should resign from Radio and Collingwood.

“IPA…………….Have you been drinkin’ out on my “Bucketful of Crazy” today ?”

I only had the one, your honour. (Eddie was just musing about the olden days. Don’t get me wrong, I’m no fan, I just hear what he was saying.)

Bad Publicity

This is apparently the recession we have to have. Too easy, we may not be competitive but we are still happy.

‘AUSTRALIA has fallen to its least-competitive position among 60 advanced and developing economies in a quarter of a century.

‘As concerns mount that the end of the resources boom will trigger the first local recession in more than two decades, Australia has slipped one place to 16th on the index compiled by the IMD World Competitiveness Centre.’

Adam Creighton in the Oz

Sorry but I don’t buy into all this gloom and doom shit.

Sentiment will pick up post 14 September. The Dollar will fall increasing our competitiveness and because our mining exports are denominated in USD (as most commodities are) we will see a lift in Mining Company revenue and profits.

Hopefully it will get to at least $0.85

“Have you shorted the A$? Australia’s George Soros?”

LOL

No

But I am long on miners like BHP, Rio, Incitec Pivot (they blow things up like ore bodies), Newmont, Santos and the crown jewel of Australian LNG Woodside.

As they cutback their Capex they’ll start accumulating bid wads of cash from expanded production. Even if the USD price goes down the AUD weakness will compensate to a degree which should mean an uplift in earnings payout ratios = increased dividends = increased share price.

I don’t share Ross Garnauts doom and gloom shit about China being “finished”. The faster he fucks off into oblivion the better.

If he reckons that the leaders of China are going to leave more than half their population scrounging for a few crumbs after the first part of its modernisation then he’s more fucked in the head than even I thought.

The last thing the Peoples Committee is going to allow are diaffected hordes roaming about.

Totalitarian regimes get a bit nervoius about that sort of thing.

The faster that scumbag c**t Garnaut is thrown out onto the nearest street the better.

He’s a prized dickhead and he has never properly answered for his part the Ok Tedi scandal.

http://www.socialvoice.com.au/component/content/article/1-stories/161-ross-garnett-the-paleontologist

Rant over …………………..I feel better now

The PM has a novel experience with multiculturism

http://www.news.com.au/national-news/whitebread-salami-sandwich-thrown-at-prime-minister-julia-gillard/story-fncynjr2-1226653656553

O/T

‘MUSLIM fundamentalism may one day be seen in the same way as mental illness is today and be “curable”, according to a leading neuroscientist.

‘Kathleen Taylor, a science author and research scientist at the University of Oxford, said that strong, negative beliefs could be eradicated using techniques that were already under development.’

Simon De Bruxelles in the Oz

If I’m going to listen to an economist about Australia its going to be Bill Evans, Shane Oliver or Craig James.

All the rest can go f**k themselves…………….especially Chris “Son of Garnaut” Richardson

So I should not feel lonely about it then.

And Tim Cook is said to be looking at an iWatch to surf the net.

Is he fucking serious ?

I’m not going back to wearing watches. If that’s his idea of a “gamechanger” I’m out of his ecosystem.

Apple is today’s Nokia

‘THE 6 per cent slide in the Australian dollar in the two weeks since the budget, making it the world’s worst performed currency after the Syrian pound…’

Uren in the Oz

This is not Wayne’s fault, no matter what Nils thinks.

There has been some comments in the media recently that Peter Costello left some problems for Wayne Swan because he gave tax cuts when we really could not afford them. ALP supporters have been trying to blame Costello for the Swan budget deficits. I do not agree with the allegation. You are in govt to solve problems and if Costello had a revenue problem he would not introduce tax cuts.

Then i came across this

http://www.budget.gov.au/2013-14/content/overview/html/overview_41.htm

“The Government has delivered $47 billion of tax cuts in our first four years since coming to office. In addition, we have provided further tax cuts as assistance for the cost of living impact of the carbon price from 2012‑13. Even after accounting for the small increase in the Medicare levy in 2014‑15 we will be delivering total tax cuts of around $20 billion a year over the next four years compared to the 2007‑08 tax scales.”

So the ALP supporters who condemn the Costello tax cuts have nothing to say about the Swan tax cuts. They go back 6 years to condemn Costello but are blind to the Swan tax cuts.

That’s very friendly of Min.

Does she take her teeth out ?

I do apologise.

My last post was very unclassy and crass.

Let me put it this way…….

“elle ne prend ses dents sur”

After all we are talking “French”

The French kiss…..

Voulez-vous galocher avec moi?

Re NBN – once again, we have a government program that has attracted thousands of new, inexperienced entrants, with a huge volume of subcontracting.

…and people will wonder why the are problems with compliance, safety, quality and meeting rollout targets.

“Telstra likely has liability in at least some states.”

Yeap and they would also be carrying a very large Public Liability Insurance cover.

I’m sure there is a very very nervous Insurer out there somewhere

TB

I was not referring to whether it was covered.

The “revelation” that pits are underground made me laugh

I have yet to find an above ground pit

Excellent…..Excellent

Senator David Feeney and ACTU Prez Ged Kearney are both running for the to be vacated seat of Batman

So the ALP is going to choose one of its “Faceless Men” or a Union Official.

Does the rank and file members get a say ?

Let the Rot Continue…….

ROFLMAO

David Feeney to win!!

Gillard is supporting Feeney

So much for Emily’s List

You know this ALP NBN is starting to look like a disaster.

In 2007 Labor stated their NBN would cost $4.7B and take 5 years to finish. They had to change their election commitment to something much more expensive because their 2007 election policy was a dud. Apparently the new NBN was worked out on the back of an envelope on some plane trip.

However at the current rate of progress we will all be dead before the NBN is finished.

“I’m warming to the idea that Abbott has no integrity, looking at the $60 million largesse they were going to vote themselves.”

O.K. you may have a point. But why pick on Abbott?? The ALP wanted this. What does that say about Gillard??

Under pressure Abbott did back down.

This is good for democracy and it also shows the monk isn’t the ‘sharpest pencil in the box’.

I recall someone from abbott’s own side saying he really is a crazy, he’s lazy on policy and detail and he only got selection because he brings in the money. Wonder how much he’s owned if he gets into government and the favours are called in, lots of cory bernardi’s teaparty undermining ‘networking’ to please!

Abbott’s a mafia member, happy to do his worst behind closed doors and use others to do the dirty work where nothing is traced back to him. Once the rock he hides under is lifted, he scutters away at a million miles an hour. This time he got rolled by his own side he had nowhere to hide and no cover, he had to give in.

Gillard caves in on everything, compromises more than she ever should just to get a deal done and satisfy the community union brotherhood. This time it’s a grubby deal with taxpayers funding the parties and barely any curb on lobbyists and big donors. Can’t have the players worried about money or jobs as if they were ordinary people! She would have bowed out happy to know she funded the labor party for the future, to keep them all in the lifestyle/power that they are accustomed to and ward off any threats of party reform from within or without.

They they are on the nose, both leaders and parties are ruthless powermongers they just take turns on the gravy train.

We all deserve far better but we will have to force it from them – how best to do so?

Yep, the electorate is thinking like us, but perhaps we should be looking outside of the leaders and concentrate on platform.

The fact that Abbott caved in maybe a saving grace, he is open to popular opinion and with a large backbench almost certain…. he has little choice but to listen to the electorate through their representatives in the lower house.

Let’s not despair at being leaderless and instead see Abbott’s coming tenure as an opportunity where the people are finally listened to.

As I’ve said before, trust the electorate to create an ideal society free of ideology.

“I am now, as before, a Catholic and will always remain so.”

Adolf Hitler 1941

“Min’s got a new post up about how Gillard’s impending election anihilation is some sort of orchestrated “set up”… ”

Yes I had a look last night.

It’s hillarious…..

Denial ain’t just a river in Egypt