Midweek Picture Guessing Competition!

Can we have a hint eg nationality and occupation?

Does he punch walls?

David Robert Jones

Yep

Haha toilet, the bolt poor bugger me act is hilarious. It’s like he’s trying to force people to defend his version of ‘free speech’. Trying to apply pressure cos he knows the libs are wavering on the RDA due to pressure from minority groups.
He’s showing he really has no idea and also appears to do a lot of wink wink nudge nudge work behind the scenes. Biggest sook ever!
All about saving face for him.

‘The best liar I ever met’

Graham Richardson on Craig Thomson

‘Two paintings worth millions of euros by the French artists Paul Gauguin and Pierre Bonnard which were stolen in London in 1970 then abandoned on a train have been recovered in Italy.

‘Gauguin’s ‘Fruit on a table or small dog’ and Bonnard’s ‘Woman with two chairs’ which were taken from a family house in the British capital, were recovered from an Italian factory worker who had hung them in his kitchen for almost 40 years.

‘The Gauguin painting is worth between 10 and 30 million euros (£8million and £24million) while the Bonnard is valued at some 600,000 euros (£500,000), Italy’s heritage police said at a press conference on Wednesday.’

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2595166/Two-paintings-worth-30million-stolen-London-Italian-factory-workers-kitchen-40-years-later.html#ixzz2xlEpN5z7
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Lara Bungle will be the next banning I hope

What a pity all those who used to agrue the point about union affiliation have self banned from the debate.

Even Fairfax now sees sense…

Bad unions may be Labor’s curse
In castigating the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union this week, Justice Anthony Cavanough recalled the words of former Federal Court judge Ron Merkel, QC, who, in a case involving another union some years ago, said: ”The rule of law in a democratic society does not permit any member of that society, no matter how powerful, to pick and choose the laws or court orders that are to be observed and those that are not.”
Justice Cavanough on Monday fined the CFMEU $1.25 million and entered multiple convictions for its blatant defiance of Supreme Court orders in 2012, when union officials led a series of disruptive protests around Grocon’s Emporium site in central Melbourne. He found the CFMEU had ”knowingly, deliberately and repeatedly” defied court orders for it to cease actions against the building group, and it did so very publicly, calling up to 1200 of its members to the Lonsdale Street site, blocking the city’s streets and triggering clashes with police.
The point of the CFMEU’s original protest was the right of union members to choose who would represent their interests on site, a deeply contentious issue with a long history on Grocon sites. But that the CFMEU wielded its power so recklessly, and in such a flagrantly illegal manner, to press a point that amounted to a hill of beans against the great history of the trade union movement is a disgrace on its senior officials. Little has been won, and much has been lost.
The CFMEU’s convictions have come when unions generally are under enormous pressure, and this will surely play into the hands of those who want to damage or destroy the union movement. The Abbott government has initiated a royal commission into the financial accountability of unions, and theft and fraud convictions have been entered against two former senior officials of the Health Services Union over misuse of union funds. It should be kept in mind that the sins of officials are not those of union members, but the good being done by many unions is being smothered by revelations of greed and intimidation elsewhere.
All this bears badly on the Labor Party. At the heart of the Bracks-Carr-Faulkner 2011 review of Labor was a statement of affirmation that the union movement remains ”at the bedrock” of the party. The benefits of that proud and historic attachment, however, are certainly not as apparent to the wider community as they obviously are to the three Labor statesmen. While the Bracks-Carr Faulkner review pointed to unions as the breeding ground for important policy initiatives, such as superannuation and parental leave, the inescapable fact is that unions have a disproportionate voice within the Labor Party. It is especially disproportionate considering only about 18 per cent of Australia’s estimated 11.5 million workers are union members.
There is another issue, though, and that is the risk that the Labor Party becomes tainted, if not infected, by the cultural problems that have permeated some powerful unions. The Age believes Labor must reduce its reliance on unions. We said as much earlier this year and today we reiterate that call. For Labor to expand and flourish as a modern political party, it must adjust dramatically all aspects of its relationship with the union movement so that the ALP becomes a more representative and broad-based party.
Labor must face some tough but vital decisions about its future. The logic for severing, or at least reducing, its formal links with the union movement is compelling. Labor’s internal political structure, however, dominated as it is by union heavyweights, renders this nigh impossible. It awaits a truly courageous Labor leader to confront the inexorable fact that the level of union influence over the party is unjustifiable and unsustainable. As long as the inordinate influence of unions remains, Labor’s efforts to modernise and reconnect with the majority of Australians will be problematic at best.

Read more: http://www.theage.com.au/comment/the-age-editorial/bad-unions-may-be-labors-curse-20140402-35ytc.html#ixzz2xovSWSIK

(apologies for the lengthy cut & paste)

Yeah!

That’s yet another retraction I’m expecting.

Just what the World needs…………………………A fucking bionic kangaroo…………………………..

http://www.smh.com.au/technology/sci-tech/engineers-unveil-bionic-kangaroo-20140404-zqqn1.html

Someone fucking beam me up now

Perhaps you should move across the border for the NSW Government Wine Assistance Scheme

http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/nsw-government-paid-to-promote-sales-of-lowcost-wines-to-seniors-20140403-361ha.html

Joe Bullock, the ALP’s no 1 WA senate candidate seems ideal.

A much better prospect than that Louise Pratt, the sooner types like her are drummed out of parliament, the better.

‘I must admit, it had completely slipped my mind.’

** chuckle **

Friday Funny

http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/health/heavy-drinkers-to-get-new-livers-so-britain-doesnt-run-out-of-people-2014040485430

‘The Sunday Telegraph can reveal the cost of the $40 billion-a-year age pension threatens to increase by 80 per cent in the next decade to more than $70 billion.

‘Warning of tough choices in the May budget for Treasurer Joe Hockey, the report calls for a review of the indexation arrangements and asks Australians to work longer ­before claiming a pension.’

Daily Terror

Further to Tony’s earlier comment on food.

‘Three per cent of males and 8 per cent of females in Generation X had diabetes, compared with 1 per cent of males and 3 per cent of females in the baby boomer cohort.

”We’re getting sicker younger,” researcher Rhiannon Pilkington said. ”The increased prevalence of obesity isn’t because we have an ageing population, it’s much more related to our environment.”

‘Ms Pilkington said the marked deterioration in health in just one generation was due to the increasingly sedentary lifestyle that people were leading, the increased consumption of processed foods and the decline in incidental physical activity and sleep.’

Those Romanians have such a great sense of fun! I think they can pay homage to the legacy of President Ceausescu for their sense of humour.

…and I think there is a nearby location that has plenty of candidates for the grannies, though most already seem in a spin.

Yeah they say Cassidy is too right wing and favors the Coalition.

Cafe people think that anybody that does not praise the greatness of the ALP 24/7 is a right winger.

If you spend any time on Bolt they say the opposite, Cassidy is too left wing and favors Labor.

I must admit i hate the ALP and its supporters. Truth for them depends on who is in power.

If Gillard was doing what Abbot is doing they would say she is a great PM

‘Looks like PUP will gain another senator …’

This will eliminate the need for a double D election.

Go Clivey!

Clive is rich and fatuous, but apart from that ….

‘I missed that, egg .. “the dismantling” of what FFS!’

A couple of taxes.

Yes, good point deanz1

Tin Foil Hats

http://www.westernjournalism.com/shock-claim-flight-370-diego-garcia-per-gps-data/#tcZtsT3qLW0LE7PR.99

‘I for one am grateful for Tony’s most interesting music links.’

Yes, but they’re not as prolific as Nasking’s. He used to load up with about 50 clips in quick succession.

What a marvellous career he had, until it was cut short.

*****MOVIE REVIEW AND COMMUNITY SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT*****

Went and saw Noah at Gold class over the wekend.

It can best be described as Dr. Bob Brown meets the Transformers and goes on a P&O Cruise with his thoroughly pissed off family of desperado hornbags on a floating zoo with homicidal maniac also on board

A few scenes of of Sharknado would not have been out of place and would have greatly improved the cinematic experience.

In Summary it is CRAP

chalk up 93 year old Mickey Rooney

Mickey Rooney and Bugs Bunny are my favourite actors

‘deanyz1, seems … erm … er … different … does he/she/it comment here?’

He doesn’t feel like a sock puppet.

‘Yeah what is it they are gonna export here again?’

Not sure, a lot more cars is a cert.

you are also willfully blind to raising retirement age, work till ya`drop…

People can retire whenever they like. They just can’t claim the old age pensions when they’re still middle aged.

Do you think really 65 year old women or men are elderly and beyond working?

over-paid types that reside in `cubicles` with `paper-cuts` being their greatest danger, can pick or choose their `retirement` age,

those of us that do real fcuking yakka yomm, can be pretty fcuking buggered `before` said retirement age, and pushing it higher is a cnut act by Mr-Rabbit,

we aint all over-paid, and we all aint cosy in a cubicle

Incoherent certainly describes it.

…but Teabagz at what specific age are people beyond working?

Should everyone just go on welfare on their 65th birthday? Is it good public policy that we encourage fit active middle aged people out of work, and on to welfare for 20+ years?

(await incoherent reply)

(True; onshoring cowfarts and offshoring carparts is always a bilateral-exchange net good; and is always cheaper under an Abbott Government!)

”””””””””Maybe they (China, presumably) don’t, but they won’t be able to (legally) export counterfiet goods to Australia.”””””””’

fascinating teabag`osy, but plenty of imported food has gotten around `our` food-safety Laws/regs and all kinds of `forbidden` additives and ingredients are now in our food-system,

#yay for free trade poison ya`stoopid teabag

1-anything stamped product of NZ, it is a `backdoor`(not inspected) into Aust,

2-From asia, fish, prawns, lobster, seafood, use out-law conditioner/preservative that is proven cancer causer

Life.

or ya`could just take`ya pick tea-pad`osy
http://www.google.com/search?filter=0&hl=en&num=100&q=seafood+safety+china+cancer
(plenty to choose from)

A reminder to teabag that exporting healthy food to China is our duty to humanity and nobody in their right mind would eat frozen vegetables packaged in the land of the long white cloud.

“……those of us that do real fcuking yakka yomm, can be pretty fcuking buggered `before` said retirement age, and pushing it higher is a cnut act by Mr-Rabbit, ………””

Isnt that exactly what Rudd and Gillard did anyways.’

In fact the retirement age for a pension should be somewhat linked to the Nation’s Average Life Expectancy and expected older population.

Walrus is fair and correct on all points.

An old age pension at 65 (or 60 for women) might have made sense when most people died at around that age.

Now people live healthy lives until their late 70s, people aren’t considered elderly until 80+.

Most 65 year olds are fit and active, their self image is that they’re middle aged and often they don’t even yet have grandchildren.

The notion of getting old age welfare during middle age is stupid.

“……and limit withdrawals to annuities or similar products to deliver an income stream in retirement, not lump sums”

Disagree

Limited Lump Sums should be allowed on amounts salary sacrificed in excess of the compulsory 9.25% and not allowed at all when the member’s total sum is below $1M

“Honestly the (eminently fkn stoopid) idea that people should just be able to work into their sixties and seventies is just Liberal party bullshit…””

Problem there is

1) Both Parties advocate it

2) Where are you going to get the money from ?

‘Limited Lump Sums should be allowed on amounts salary sacrificed in excess of the compulsory 9.25% and not allowed at all when the member’s total sum is below $1M’

That makes good sense too, the lower classes would only squander it on cheap piss and pokies.

l am as `humorless` about `poor-bashing`, as reb would be equally `humorless` about `p0ofter-bashing`.

“……….Vote on carbon bills defeated. Very few senators turned up for the vote. 33 = 29, I believe…………..”

– Catching Up

Very few senators …???????????????????????????

Does that idiot actually know how many Senators there are ?

I don’t think 62 out of 76 is “Very few”…

What an idiot she is

first blubbers, just coz Govts have gutted themselves, refused to stand-up to corporations, and collect enough tax from them, is NOT the fault of the poor,

and any `accountant` with half a brain in his head would know that the `unemployed` numbers are `fudged` among `under-employed`, thus,

listing the `oldies` as pensioners, instead of `un`/`under`-employed, won`t cost a single cent

so blubbers, are you claiming there is not `classification-dishonesty` in the system

that`s right blubbers, run you weak thing

Classification of who ? for fucksake

”””””’Classification of who ? for fucksake”””””

YOU RAISED IT, you stoopid fcuking walrus, scroll up and re-read ya`own blubbering

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For fucksake Reheated Teabag how does reclassifying anything fix the fiscal cliff caused by an aging population ?

I shall now just reclassify you from bricklayer to customer service……………would you like that……………………#############################

“/”” & ^# @ ( \\\\\\ ?

the under-commitment is that governments have not committed to raising enough tax revenue #bingo #yes

the single side of ledger arguments the politicians make, are largely bullshit, who `projects` expenses, but doesn`t `project` income for matching period, one without the other is a total waste of time

‘…the best way to fight poverty is to create jobs.’

Its the only rational thing to do, but the complexity is daunting. Take the indigenous population in Australia for starters.

What to do?

If middle aged people can’t find a job, they can get the dole. If they’re ill they get sickness benefits, if they’re incapacitated they can get a disability pension.

But why would we have a policy setting that presses fit, experienced, active middle aged people to give up and go on welfare

‘The trouble is finding employers who want to emlploy people of that age.’

This particular group should go into very small business (VSB).

“I would like to work well into my sixties. The trouble is finding employers who want to emlploy people of that age.”

Fine, people in their 60s should be encouraged to keep working, rather than being encouraged to go on welfare. If they can’t get a job, take the dole.

Permanent welfare is for people who are incapable of work.

They saw the bubble coming and brought in superannuation. Not sure which government opted for compulsory Super. More on the horrendous impost on the taxpayer.

‘The Sunday Telegraph can reveal the cost of the $40 billion-a-year age pension threatens to increase by 80 per cent in the next decade to more than $70 billion.’

I mean, what company in their right mind is going to employ someone 60+ for a full time role…?

Plenty, particularly as we age. The 50 year old managers who hire people will have a different perspective as they start to turn 60.

”I don’t want to spend all the best years of my life as a cog in the fucking wheel, only to work til death” as a rationale for ‘giving up work’ while still being of sound enough mind & body to actually appreciate retirement?”

So it’s up to taxpayers to provide the welfare for 20+ years?

Better that everyone increase their superannuation contributions to the allowable limit ASAP.

“Having witnessed governments of all persuasions changing all manner of rules when opportunity suits, I have little confidence that, by the time I get to retire, my Super won’t be plundered or obsolete.”

Yep, i used to Salary sacrifice 7.5% of my salary until i came to the same conclusion. So i now use that money to pay off my home loan.

Furthermore my opinion of the ALP is that it is the party of the unforeseen stuffup. Another reason for me not to salary sacrifice and to pay off my home loan since compulsory Super was an ALP policy.

‘and those of us that remain seeking junk-jobs, earn too little to be `pension-free` anyway,’

True and to break the nexus you have to be keen to reinvent yourself. As our colleagues have pointed out, we are living longer and those who are physically and mentally fit should be reeducated.

The service is available now, through TAFE or Uni to do something just for fun, instead of trudging around for jobs that aren’t there. Which can be quite soul destroying.

‘…so it is not working.’

Alan Kohler thinks super is a national disgrace.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-10-31/kohler-australia-super-disgrace/4343108

O/T

Peaches death not suspicious.

‘Peaches Geldof sparked health concerns over her dramatic weight loss two years ago – prompting fears that she was risking ‘acute cardiac arrest’ by living off nothing but vegetable juices for weeks at a time.’

UK Mail

“that wouldn`t surprise me TB, Mr-Rabbit`s zombies seem to have a `spiteful` element to their decisions, intentionally aimed at the poor/struggling part of the working-class”

Sounds more like wishful ALP supporters wishful thinking rather than what is happening.

Jenny McAllister throws spanner in the works and big bruvvers take dim view.

Migration works if there’s a labour shortage. With mining in decline and manufacturing stuffed, it’s a little difficult to identify all the jobs that they’d fill.

It makes sense to start to figure out how to keep existing workers working, and keep them off permanent welfare.

‘Migration works if there’s a labour shortage. With mining in decline and manufacturing stuffed, it’s a little difficult to identify all the jobs that they’d fill.’

The decline in mining is a temporary lull and manufacturing is changing as we gear-up to the new realities. Agribusiness, the growing and processing of agriculture, is our greatest asset.

With fast rail infrastructure the country could build satellite cities all over the place and enjoy continuing growth. I’m thinking a population of 50 million inhabitants by mid-century is feasible.

A bureaucracy says by 2050 two and a half people will be supporting one pensioner.

http://www.treasury.gov.au/PublicationsAndMedia/Speeches/2014/Fiscal_sustainability

This is nonsense.

Egg,

You’ve been sitting in this corner for the last 2 hours talkin’ to yourself.

For Dogsake go get some sun

What a WANKER……………………………………!

http://www.news.com.au/national/bob-carrs-diary-of-a-foreign-minister-dubbed-bridget-carrs-diary/story-fncynjr2-1226878884968

“Business class. No edible food. No airline pyjamas,” Mr Carr notes sadly during a trans-Atlantic flight. “I lie in my tailored suit.”

Bob Carr

”””it was the internet,”””
”””it was the economy,”””
””’it was high wages,””’
””’the government,”””
””’the consumer,””’
”’it was the strong Australian dollar or maybe the weak Australian dollar.””
.
”””’It was anything but second-rate management and dull boards that were responsible”””’
”’for Australian retail’s poor performance”’
.
##”””’yet it turns out it was poor management all along.””””##
.
http://www.smh.com.au/business/comment-and-analysis/david-jones-takeover-the-foreign-brands-are-here-because-australia-is-rubbish-at-retail-20140409-36cfi.html#ixzz2yM8kjldg
”””””””””””””

Clearly (Michael Pascoe is a BusinessDay contributing editor.) doesn`t know what he is talking about. `Our` teabags, particularly yomm, have always claimed boardrooms are never wrong and worth the excesses they`re paid. All corporate problems stem from `unions-boo` and minimum-paid bottom-rung workers. Pascoe obviously needs his head read.

“………so blubbers, why did you go to the `ralph` department in the first place, when clearly you wanted `tommy`.? ……………….”

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sorry blubbers, but in department stores it is very important to read the over-head signage, not reading it can cause unhingement, if you want `tommy` you go to the `tommy` department, if you want `ralph` you go to the `ralph` dept,

if you want to but a tv, you go to the `household-electronic` dept, not the `hardware` dept, and aggravate the bloke that mixes paint. #teabags

of course `tommy` and `ralph` had signage in place, it is totally ridiculous to claim that super-ego`s like `ralph` and `tommy`, (who will tell you what a man is meant to look like) won`t have signage in place #teabags

Yeah!!

What right would a consumer have to expect service from a shop assistant in a shop?

In addition, I’d like to add ########## and ######

”””’snooty dicks in DJ’s too”””’

now who is kidding who TB, there is no way you are a `tommy`boy or `ralph`boy, or any of those types TB, you are much more of a `big-w` character

oh yes, of course Lowes is the first port of call, but not all goods desired are available at Lowes, so when TB roams for those `extra` items, `big-w` will be much higher up his list than `snooty` DJ`s #takes.one.to.know.one

BTW, aldi socks (work) crap all over the others for tough/long-life

particularly the *roll*

‘THE union official who confessed to being a perpetrator of a major fraud in the Australian Workers’ Union slush fund affair has agreed to a formal Victoria Police request to return to Australia to be charged with criminal offences.

‘Ralph Blewitt, a former AWU senior official who confessed his role to The Australian in August 2012, has been asked by Victoria Police Fraud Squad detective Sergeant Ross Mitchell to come to Melbourne as soon as possible for a formal interview in which he will again admit his guilt.’

Smith and Thomas / Oz