Rostrum!

Vale Jim Keays…RIP one of the greats in Aussie Rock. Apt words for a dark age in Australian politics.

I suppose at least if the whole city blows up and there is a sudden helicopter/rooftop evac of Australian citizens at least I’ll be able to wait with a drink in hand

“sorry, no money in budget for that walrus, you’ll have to fend for yourselves”

Oh well………………………..I’ll just have to wait in the bar until there is

Guess they need to add balance to the one sided tripe coming out of murdor SB. 😉

I have sad news, our internets is about to run out, so will be left back in 20th century 😯 before too long. Bloody kids! Mind you, I might get some work done 🙂

Don’t miss me too much, and have a good weekend everyone 😉

Will post/bug until the apocalypse occurs!

starting with this

Commissioner Heydon ruled that anything that related to 2012 could have no bearing on events back in 1992, which is what the commission is focused on. While this is true, it also presented like a Through the Looking Glass moment. The main reason Wilson’s slush fund has been pursued in the public arena at such length is because of the role played by Gillard, just as the intense focus on Peter Slipper’s harassment case in 2012 lasted only as long as he was speaker.

This is a well-trodden case. The real danger is that, after three sets of inquiries, what the archaeologists are now finding is compromised by the footsteps of would-be investigators.

http://www.afr.com/p/national/union_corruption_excavation_tad_0fHQW5Wo0CT5VUJg2TdWNJ

But, as long as they get “Gillard” and “slush fund” on the front page, the multi million dollar witch hunt is serving its purpose.

Who knew I’d see a third invasion of Iraq in my lifetime? So much for “Mission Accomplished”…

Guess they need some more weapons of mass delusion… Haliburton in the wings rubbing hands.. John Howard hides under a blanket

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/12/jihadist-victories-iraq-us-troops

Prediction: If Abbott pulls us back into a war in Iraq… Considering the current climate, he will unleash the most hostile beast of public contempt ever seen in Australia… Things will get very very Ugly….. just sayin

Two years after Australia started pricing carbon, the economy is growing above trend, unemployment has fallen and inflation is comfortably in the Reserve Bank’s comfort zone.
And now the government is promising to scrap carbon pricing next month with the assistance of Clive Palmer – and economic growth will fall and unemployment will rise.
That wasn’t the story the Coalition has been telling Australia for four years.

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/business/comment-and-analysis/taxing-the-truth-on-carbon-pricing-20140613-3a1oq.html#ixzz34UpPwgMr

Yea, bias I see 😯

Somehow, presenting the news is “lefty”

“………….and is granted the privileged access that comes with that””

What the fuck are you on about “privileged”” ?

Anyone can open a newspaper.

It’s TV and Radio that need licences because they take up spectrum which is a public asset

“….Oh yeah? …””

OK………subject to whether they own a radio or tv licence already

“”Don’t often pull my comments from another thread””

No one noticed……………………so don’t worry too much about it……….LOL

Oh what wicked webs we weave hehehe

Labor says Prime Minister Tony Abbott has conceded the fuel excise is a “carbon tax on steroids” following remarks about the scheme the PM made in the US.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-06-13/fuel-excise-a-carbon-tax-on-steroids-labor-says/5522216

“Labor says Prime Minister Tony Abbott has conceded the fuel excise is a “carbon tax on steroids”

And trussy’s immediately had to rush out and deny what Abbott said

I like the way that, when he was in Canadia, he was preparing a Coalition of the Denialiti against Obama, but, when in the US, he was on a “Unity Ticket” with him

He didn’t get the nickname weather vain for nothing 😉

And our piss arse media just report it with a straight face, happily forgetting what he said yesterday.

Except trussy’s cleaning up the mouth farts of the “fuel tax is a carbon tax on steroids” not going down well in nat territory!

Very funny to watch you Lefties shriek like banshees at the injustice of it all

Oh, the injustice 😉

https://theguttertrash.com/2014/06/13/rostrum-17/#comment-61590

Sitting on the fence gives me options and on this occasion I can fairly say Abbott is out of place. The fibs he’s telling the Alliance leader are only white lies, so that’s alright I suppose.

There’s justice and there’s justice sb.
Strange logic of yours to think that restraining justice by ToR handcuffs is ok. You don’t care how it’s done as long as unions are demonised?
I prefer a proper process where the powers of a RC are actually used to get to the bottom of it all, not just a stitch up to ensure your own side don’t cop any fall out. Still reeling from Icac eh?

Another good one from that era …

One of the best songs from the Australian Songbook. An Very important iconic track in Australian music history..

‘biggest in 24 years’

The US is well in front of us because of fracking.

”””””””””””Fracking… Possibly one of the most environmentally destructive and stupidest things that man will ever impose upon the environment next to Nuclear”””””””””””’

#agree ricky, but l reckon the powers that be will continue to consume this planet until there is nothing left

$10 million, `about` the amount needed to but a printing press.

””””””’Very funny to watch you Lefties shriek like banshees at the injustice of it all””””””’

what is even funnier blubbers, is the silence around the grollo investigation into the three deaths caused by the collapsing wall,

(hint, no engineering inspection) and nobody knows why, and nobody is reporting just `how` this happened or what `cost-saving` measures were in play.

““This either has to go away or stand up, and so far it’s a house of cards.” – Jon Faine”

Faine’s campaigning, not reporting.

All very true, AO. Even some Labor supporters barracking for Clive might be motivated by self-interest.

Obviously a Frackwit

Yep. 😉

‘The state of political “debate” in Australia.’

Its still as gutsy as its always been, but with the addition of the twittersphere and blogosphere it has become more instantaneous and exciting.

Kitty a DD election would be a breath of fresh air to drive away the pollution.

(I don’t know; sometimes the global human tapestry has some barefoot-in-the-brain exponents surfing some rather knotty notions… http://www.anu.edu.au/culture/abstractions/artists/vak_4.htm

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I thought a ‘lump-o’-coal was the designated official gift.)

“What a stupid “gift” for the POTUS anyway …”

Since your judgement is suspect i therefore would say it was a great gift.

I find it strange that you people are now condemning Abbott for giving a gift. This is normal protocol that is only condemned by leftists when a Coalition PM gives a gift.

Not when Gillard gives a gift to Obama however.

Gifts are normal. I remember there was some discussion when Obama went to the UK and gave a gift of American films on DVD. Apparently they were not compatible with UK DVD players. Some Americans did not like the gift.

In contrast when Gordon Brown went to the US he gave Obama a gift of a pen made of wood made from some famous ship. I believe it was the same wood which makes the US Presidents desk but i could be wrong.

I really don’t see what business it is of that F**KWIT Clive Palmer to start recommending the gauge of tinfoil that lines the cubicle. #Go-Clive

”””’™ he’s a bwillionaire!!”””””’#exactly 🙂

‘(note, l was never a fan of the previous regime either)’

For dog’s sake show a little backbone, pick a side and barrack for them, otherwise people will think you stand for nuffin.

”””’backbone, pick a side””””

dumpty, `sides` or `teams` will get me (or_Aust) nowhere,

#excellence #intelligence #strength are the things l tend to admire

“OK I got it wrong

Sigh ….”

Why sigh deadbeat?? I remember there was a present of a pen something or other. It was actually a pen holder.

It was a GREAT present given by the UK to America. It was made from some wood from an anti slave ship.

It was a great present with a lot of thought.

In contrast the USA gave in return some DVDs

Your judgement as always is suspect.

‘Happy when the real movers and shakers of the world say what I’ve been commenting on for some time now … eg’

Could you spell that out for me in one clear sentence?

I studied political science under another leftoid intellectual, the late Donald Horne, and we had a falling out over the Whitlam sacking. At the time I was on the left and argued that the masses had already made up their minds before the Murdocracy took sides.

(Its like watching Sir Noddy & The Nitwits rip up an expensive handmade suit to make floor cleaning rags …

Err, not exactly…

“[Attorney-General] Jarrod [Bleijie] is doing what he’s required to do: to protect the victims and not the criminals.”

Tim Carmody’s appointment as Chief Justice ‘horrendously controversial’, Former Bar Association president Peter Davis says)

…and people complain about budgie smugglers!!

http://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/fashion/the-new-menswear-trend-we-wish-wed-never-seen/story-fnjev484-1226955767115

‘Just another loaded survey – what constitutes a “journalist” anyway?’

You have the potential, as do most of the staff at Trash, and at least half are left of centre. The universities have been churning out left wing Communications students for a couple of decades or more, just sayin’.

‘Cause it seems that only the 12.9% who consider themselves right-of-centre. are writing shit … duh!’

Not exactly, a third sit on the fence and hunt for the best stories. Those journalists know that politicians of all persuasions are prone to human weakness and corrupt practice, so the journalist and helpful reporters do their job free of personal political bias.

Its my preferred MO.

‘while in regional areas, 44.4% would vote for the Coalition.’

I accept that, but as Fairfax rules the roost there is no deviation from the true path.

Media Watch and Barry in particular is steeped in left wing bias.

we have the living proof, PM tony abbott and his ministry!

Exhibit A, B and C 😉

Media Watch and Barry in particular is steeped in left wing bias.

You really don’t have a clue do you.

OK, it’s a fair cop. I admit the crime.

I only voted Liberal at the last election as a cover.

http://www.abc.net.au/mediawatch/transcripts/s3937354.htm

using misleading statistics to make false claims which are tantamount to lies…

There was nothing “tantamount” to it, they were out and out lies, evidenced by the fact that the oo kept pushing the line AFTER the “mistake” was highlighted.

Was fun watching the defense of it here though 😉

Media Watch and Barry in particular is steeped in left wing bias.

Mediawatch? You are fucking kidding right….. Maybe throw that ridiculously unsubstantiated ABC bias out to the shithouse where it belongs, Has it ever occured to you that media watch is in fact Run by Paul Barry, a liberal voting right winger?

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/media-watch-offers-another-surprise-paul-barry-admits-he-did-vote-liberal/story-fni0cx4q-1226817592591

So this is left wing bias is it? I call it real Journalism exposing fake Journalism

http://www.abc.net.au/mediawatch/transcripts/s4026465.htm

Hold the phone prediction: Abbott will use this to send us back in

Jesus, he’s already sent us in back in the US until Obama said “not yet”

He’s at the bit just itchin’

Mind you, the second time we went was a f*&kin disaster from the outset, and this was probably always on the cards. I mean, it’s not like they weren’t warned when the coalition of the fully armed went off half cocked last time 😯

Did you miss me?

Obviously.

You didn’t say “Ow” 😉

masterful troll

masterful? 😯

That’s interesting last week we were using statistics drawn directly from ABS tables.

To show that the figures given to the oo were incorrect, or misleading at the best.

‘You really don’t have a clue do you.’

Is Barry right wing?

Apparently my chances of dying are rather high………………..

That salad at the bottom of the page looks nice , would be better with some bacon in it though 🙂

Is Barry right wing?

Ahh Yeah Derr Ya think?? You better rethink that argument.. Egg. That frivolous argument about ABC your bias just dissolved quicker than the minister for vaginal discharge’s already microscopic credibility.

Wow, who knew that this would happen!

Kinda spooky aint it 😦

But, who’d ever wanna say “told ya so”?

‘Ahh Yeah Derr Ya think??’

It was a rhetorical question.

HILLARY CLINTON: I’m not going to name names. I mean, that’s really for the Australian people to judge. But the overall impact – and I saw online the speech that Prime Minister Gillard gave about misogyny, was very striking to me because she did go chapter and verse. And again, this is not about whether you approve of, voted for or had any affinity with the positions that she put forward. I just don’t think there’s a place for sexism in our politics and I think we should be purging those kinds of comments and holding ourselves to a higher standard.

http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2014/s4026461.htm

Here’s me thinking that Hilary Clinton basically calling our pm a misogynist would be news or something? Instead, we have more front pages of accusations from the libs witch hunt.

And these muppets wonder why they are losing money?

“We’ll have the chicken shur soo fan mee with the pork hun far too low.”

They say the Cream Of Sum Yung Gai is quite good also.

“………Leave ‘em alone, let ‘em get on with it … while they are fighting amongst themselves they’re leaving us alone … ”

Yep…………………..let em kill each other until moderation eventually prevails.

Just drop a few bombs on them if they venture their murderous ways into our neck of the woods.

As long as they cant separate Religion and State at least to a Western standard they’ll just continue to spill blood.

Best to walk away and leave ém to it

How could anyone possibly defend that Rabbit is anything but a misogynist? Glaringly obvious Billboard surrounded by Neon..

“I will make myself Minister for Women’s affairs to prove a point, because you don’t have to have a vagina to make decisions for woman, I just don’t accept that premise”

I do not think you could possibly demonstrate the polar opposite of what he thinks such stupidity was going to achieve in trying to prove he is not a misogynist by being the quintessential arrogant misogynist in personifying the essence of misogyny… I guess he just does and will never get it as the archetype misogynist.

Does she say when Abbott compared female genitalia to shell fish ?

Trying to ignore the “context” too I see 😉

I do recall a certain menu though……

How would Australia have fared without the spending though AO?

Abbott STOP LYING! ALP saved us from GFC, invested in future & our debts LOW! Were it LNP, result is this #QT #AusPol http://t.co/izVYMawCkt—
Mark ✌ (@WorldOfMarkyD) June 16, 2014

“I do recall a certain menu though……”

Prepared by Tony Abbott was it…………………..otherwise you still have no point

Roll it in Glitter dip it in chocolate… examine it out of context or in the pocket.. This is a not a label, this is the essence of the DNA of Abbotts character. He is by his actions and attitudes unequivocally beyond doubt a misogynist and “Minister for women’s affairs” stunt is conformation not obliteration of this indisputable fact.

Words of a weasel

You mean someone who ignores the “context”?

Prepared by Tony Abbott was it

The same blue ties at least

When a Fiberal say Take O Fence.. It usually means this:

Splatter I agree 98% with you. But I must say Jackson and her Beau are far from clean skins they are political animals. She is holding Thomo’s balls Frank Thring Style in front of a pretty vicious audience of detractors armed with tomatoes. Her intentions, although honourable were in part self serving. I tip my hat to her tenacity.

I thinks Slipper is a Bisexual chauvinist (a hedged better)… or his actions displayed chauvinism at best…a different animal from a life long purposed misogynist by virtue of a legacy of actions.

“…a different animal from a life long purposed misogynist by virtue of a legacy of actions.”

At worst Abbott is just an old school male brought up and educated in a household that no longer fits in with todays “perfect” household’s and acts accordingly.

In fact he’s probably fairly representative of a lot of 1950/60s baby boomers. He might not have “moved on” from those values as quickly as most of his generation and those later ones but that does not mean he’s a misogynist.

Fuck me dead most of those who fought in WW1 and WW2 would be judged as misogynists based on current standards.

In fact I recall up until the mid 1960s my father pulling up in the FJ outside city and country pubs and bringing out a middy of shandy for my mum (women were banned from some pubs) whilst she waited with us kids in the car whilst he went and had a few schooners before heading wherever.

Obviously all publicans up until the late 1960s were misogynists

But ‘misogynist’ is a stretch.

Under your 1950’s definition, perhaps. But some of us at least pretend to be contemporary 😉

At worst Abbott is just an old school male brought up and educated in a household that no longer fits in with todays “perfect” household’s and acts accordingly.

At best you mean. And, nice try to attempt to defend his obvious misogyny as just being a product of his spoilt upbringing. Wouldn’t it be nice if we could have elected someone who actually grew up instead of remaining the obnoxious, sexist twerp his pampering produced.

And besides, the expression of their faces is priceless!

ROFL

To be a fly on the wall reb 🙂

LEXICOGRAPHERS at the Oxford English Dictionary said that Australia’s Macquarie Dictionary was merely catching up by expanding the meaning of misogyny.

The move by Macquarie to expand the meaning of misogyny to include “entrenched prejudice against women”, following Julia Gillard’s description of Tony Abbott as a misogynist, has caused some indignation this week, with Liberal frontbencher Chrisopher Pyne saying that it undermined the Macquarie “in its entirety”.

But John Simpson, chief editor of the OED, the world’s most respected dictionary, told The Australian: “We reviewed our evidence for the Oxford English Dictionary entry about ten years ago and decided that on the basis of modern usage we should expand the definition to include a reference to ‘prejudice against women’.”

Taking the opportunity for a slight dig at his Australian rival, Mr Simpson added: “Dictionaries are always monitoring the language, and I’m glad to see that Macquarie is on the ball here now!”

“How would Australia have fared without the spending though AO?”

Tom R
Name me one Labor govt that has ever paid off any govt debt either State or Federal??

You lot blasted Costello for running surplus budgets. Costello should have been spending on this that or whatever

Labor supporters are claiming credit for something they could never do.

Nice Reb… I like it are they pantaloons?

TomR.. do not feed the trolls… concentrate on Rebs ensemble.

Tom I think a Megalomaniac sexist that makes himself Minister for “women” to prove a point has crossed the bridge, because if he genuinely liked women and held any regard or empathy as such.. he would never consider such a heinous act of misogyny.

‘The latest Newspoll, conducted exclusively for The Australian, also reveals Tony Abbott and Bill Shorten are both less popular today than they were before the budget, with the immediate post-budget surge in support for the Opposition Leader faltering.’

Lewis / Oz

concentrate on Rebs ensemble.

I’m trying my best to wipe it from my memory as we speak

Looks like nils having a bad day. Maybe he doesn’t like to be reminded of tabots innate MISOGYGY 😉

Tom He wants to go staggering down absent memory lane again tripping over his own truth.. just let it go. that Jacket is fetching Reb,, nice wattle…

A chauvinist or sexist may not necessarily hate women… The Minister of Women has taken a government ministerial appointment and used it as a bitchslap to the detractors of his twisted thinking that he needs no empathy to decide what is appropriate for a woman’s best interests , despite having many women within the coalition ranks capable of the job. This is a man who called himself a feminist… he’s a sick fuck. That is the international poster boy for misogyny, using an office created to empower women’s equality and representation of distictly female issues as a tool for his own twisted ideology….

Sorry REb

The 50,000 boat people who came here from 2008-2013 is because you voted from Rudd in 2007. One of them, Raza Berati came here because he could no get a job in his chosen profession.

Let us hope Morrison gets us back to taking people from UNHCR camps.

As opposed to those who are incapable of living in the here and now…..
Hows Abbott working out for you all? Honest? Trustworthy? No surprise?

“Ahhh the personal insults TR, … you’ve got, Kneel, worried you might be right ”

No Tom R and most ALP supporters are scum.

You lot abused Costello for running surplus budgets so we could lower our debt. Now our debt is low you claim credit for it.

No personal responsibility is normal for ALP supporters.

I can imagine most ALP supporters walk around creating mess and then order other people to clean it up.

ALP supporters are scum.

Not to generalise or anyfink.. 🙄
Gee he told us right 🙄
I think this low intellect , brainless soap box tossing broken record circle jerking neville nobody is trying to insult us?

Who shall tell this puny peanut of infinitesimal intellectual capacity to shove his festering hatred up his pustulous asshole then take a long lemming goose step off a short pier of insignificant fucktardery?

Anyone? or do we all have complete contempt for his innocuously repetitive broken tape loop he considers discourse? Anyone? Anyone?

It was my vote too.

Choice says Foxtel has itself to blame for illegal downloading of hit show

And our govermint is trying to pass legislation aimed directly at GOT. Looks like a protection racket for murdoch more than any real concern over illegal downloads.

Something Wonky have been ranting about this for a while. The only way to watch it, legally, is to buy an overpriced bundle from Foxtel with 90% content that you just don’t want.

“There’s a moral disconnect there which I just don’t get.”

That comment can run both ways imo

Mind you, I wasn’t aware that it was available on Google Play? Kinda surprised, a news article that actually told me ….news 😯 🙂

REb
You seem to have an unending supply of smartalec comments.

Dunno bout youze but data why i’m here 🙂

I blame Reb for Squeals fukushima tanties

I could do without the squealing repetitive childish jerk circle though..just sayin

Splatter, if Foxtel didn’t have such a Pirate ship as their service delivery model then people would not use Bit Torrent. They only have themselves to blame. I have Netflix via the Unotelly proxy. very Happy to pay $16 a month not to use bittorrent.

This geoblocking and regional bullshit is an old tired model. Cartel days are over. Its like people saying the ABC is the dominant online provider and should be broken up because they have killed the online publishing and content industry. What absolute fucking stupidity. The ABC have been setting this up since the 80’s, I tendered and worked on content delivery services via ISDN for Jtec and voice networking for NEC and it was the most advanced network of its kind in the world.

So why should these corporate robbers blame everyone else because they are dragged kicking and screaming into the new convergence delivery model? 500, 000 people downloaded GOT, if it was $1 per ep there is $500k they would have? Netflix is making plenty of money and growing, making programs now… Foxtel is a joke as is their argument.

Splatter Fox distribution is the delivery arm for Fox Entertainment and most of the content on all fox feeds across SKY Foxtel, Direct TV and Star come from there. Optus vision went under because Fox controls the content delivery arm.
This is why Rupert is so ant NBN, it will open up the wholesale market to Netflix and alike. My guess is he will try to buy it and it has n=been earmarked for sale. The deal to pay the 800 mill tax debt directly has something to do with it, people in Jouno world are digging deep on that I can confirm.

250 buck on music a month? wow.. what are you into? I’m interested

where’s the charity?

The CWA are providing it for tabot 😉

It’s how the born to rule operate. Charity begins at home,and they not only accept, they expect it.

he had not considered it a crime in the late 1980s.

I AGREE! yomm, that is abhorrent.

Mind you, how does that gel with the modern day misogynist “just bein’ what they was brought up to be”?

All the ALP does whether State or Federal is rack up debt with very little to show in return.

Nothin’ at all in fact 😦

http://www.independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/australia-tops-the-iarem-worlds-best-economy,6279

Tom R

And it is all due to Costello. Govt debt was at 18% of GDP in 1995 and increasing rapidly. To get our AAA back which we lost under Hawke/Keating we need to get govt debt below 10% of GDP. In fact it was at 5% of GDP in 2003 when we got our AAA back.

To believe that Hawke/Keating could do something like that is just wrong. An economy in top shape is what saved us from the GFC. Not some stupid WAyne SWan spending.

I am terrified of the ALP getting back in. They will just start borrowing and spending like they always do. Trying to make out they care about people when all they care about is staying in power.

“Just who is running my state and country!!!”

Those who the electorate put there.

I am terrified of the ALP getting back in

There ya go a glowing example of how good a job the faux outrage prophets of doom started scaring the gullible, impressionable, ignorant and stupid before imposing their undisclosed radical neocon agenda of social engineering upon the country… boo …. reds under the bed

I see Pynes “Friend” finds the covert lifestyle of conspiracy a little too stressful, poor dear I hope they bought him a chinese dinner and a bottle of bowlers green at least 🙄

The medicine may not taste nice

Squeals bending over and kissing the pope’s ring ready for his suppository of wisdom… just don’t lick the spoon sweetheart.

Further………….let the record show me ROFLMAO

A public service union is threatening industrial action over a proposal to increase the length of a working day by nine minutes for thousands of workers.
The proposal to change the knock-off time from 4:51pm to 5pm will be put to staff at the Australian Tax Office (ATO) when official bargaining on new agreements begins next week.

Yeah!!

Those public servants really need to knock off at 4.51 and not 5pm, because otherwise they’d have to start having their last cup of tea and tim tam 4.30, and not at 4.21.

WADDA WE WANT??!!
NEW CARDIGANS…and Liptons (not Robur)
etc.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-06-19/aps-working-day-may-be-extended/5535000