Bill Shorten Ramps up the Hysteria to Eleventy!

How cozy, a transport company pays a union to harass its competitors. It’s what happens when unions selectively use their muscle and companies use their cash to avoid the excesses of union behaviour.

Shareholder money is being used to hire union officials to harass companies to extort money for anti-competitive purposes. This story perfectly showcases how collusion between business and unions hampers competition and pushes up the cost of living for Australians.
Several years ago, Toll executives found themselves under union pressure. The Transport Workers Union was demanding wage rises for workers, but agreeing would push up business costs, which would be passed on to customers. This might mean loss of market share as customers might turn to Toll’s competitors for cheaper services.
Toll’s choices were grim: say no to the union and face a fight, or give in to the union and lose market share. Someone conceived a third option. Toll would agree to the union demands but would contract the union as hired agents, pay them $50,000 a year via a union-owned third party to spy on, bully and harass Toll’s competition so that they faced higher costs, too.

The union agreed to act as Toll’s agents; in 2011 the parties signed a three-year contract setting out the terms of the deal. Toll was to pay a $100k a year retainer to an organisation wholly owned by the union, called TEACHO. In addition to the retainer, a performance bonus of up to $50k for each year would be paid, provided the union harassed Toll’s ¬competition.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/opinion/columnists/little-people-are-the-victims-of-unionbusiness-harassment/story-fnkdypbm-1226990176022#

But Electricity Bills Hysteria goes to EleventyOne surely? 😯

🙂

Yes, but are you willing to use terms like-
*It’s a beat up

DOH!, I’ll go with that one.

A trucking company pays a Union to do what a Union does, audit trucking companies. 😯

I’m still cacking meself over the idiot journo who starts a beat up with THIS is a true story

ROFL Somehow, I’m not convinced. I’m not denying the facts are not accurate, but I would very heavily question the implications (which make up most of the “story”) that have been drawn from those facts. It’s a triple jump from reality to the oz.

A Union, checking companies to make sure they are adhering to safety regulations. Who ever heard of such Underworld actions

😆 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆

It’s a bribe – “If you go and bother them (not us so much) we’ll pay you lots of money”

“…keep Qantas working well”

There has been no time in the past 2 or 3 decades that Qantas has “worked well”

Shorten really has no idea.

Qantas has “worked well”, unfortunately, it’s management hasn’t

they didn`t `omit` the corporate, boardroom aspect of the corruption like you did.

I read another one earlier about Bikies apparently blocking in a builder.

After much talk of Unions and other allegations, turns out it was a rival builder blocking in the builder. Had nothing at all to do with Unions. But they got a big mention in the story

The smear is on.

while Limited-News often behaves in an `underwhelming` manner, they don`t usually throw open their cheque book for the libel courts, (which if untrue toll, twa and teacho would win)

Qantas is beset with intractable problems that won’t be resolved while ever its finances are checked every minute on the ASX. It has little appetite for the level of reform required to salvage commercial stability.

Takeover by a foreign airline is about the only future it has (in my opinion)

Ramp up the Hyzteria on this Billy Boy. Electricity Bill won’t be giving you $550 dollars will it!

Industry groups have been reassured by the competition watchdog that it has “no intention” of pursuing businesses outside the energy sector to enforce price reductions after the repeal of the carbon tax.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/16/carbon-tax-repeal-industry-reassured-it-wont-be-pursued-on-price-cuts?CMP=twt_gu

So many Lies, so little time.

“The budget is in a lot of trouble,” he said.

Oh my dog, a real emergency.

Oh my dog, a real emergency.

Well, if Mohammed won’t come to the Mountain……..

Filibustering in the Senate, but no worries, they have agreed to ‘extend sitting hours after Friday and keep coming back until this is resolved. They were due to start a 5 week break on Friday.’

Its all good. I’ve been channelling scaper, who has a mate on the back bench, and he reckons the Coalition is at ease.

snacty’s mates lol

Labor were economic vandals in govt

Worlds.Best.Treasurer. 🙂

Do they have one for the world’s worst?

Shorten sounded completely flummoxed on AM this morning.

Ulhmann quizzed him about now opposing the spending cuts that had been planned by the ALP in government. He waffled incoherently but Ulhmann really didn’t press him, it was very gentle by Ulhmann.

I see the oz has some “confidential” analysis that claims “The nation’s richer suburbs would pay more of the fuel tax ­increase while proceeds worth billions of dollars would be spent across poorer areas, including ­regional Australia.”

They mention Deloitte Access Economics, but it is not clear where this “analysis” came from

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/policy/rich-will-bear-load-of-fuel-excise-change/story-fn59nsif-1226991561491?nk=5eff587b986deebd1335cc17ece5e2ed

Mind you, perhaps, per household, they will most probably pay more in actual dollar terms, but definitely not in percentage of income, which is what hurts. I also wonder if they have taken into account what richer families are able to claim? Considering their history, all valid questions imo. But, they have their headline, and that’s all they need. The seeds of doubt are planted. That is their aim.

Probably a good time then to revisit this, the last time the oz made a bold claim.

The Fairfax media group is reporting this morning findings from the National Drugs Strategy Household Survey that show smoking levels are in decline. Not at all surprisingly, the numbers from the NDSHS dovetail with the hard data on the volume of tobacco consumed from the Australian Bureau of Statistics. Those data show that the volume of tobacco consumed is 5.3 per cent lower in the March quarter 2014 compared with the December quarter 2012.

“The only thing that happened in the 12 months before that was the introduction of plain packaging laws.”

http://www.thekouk.com/blog/how-good-is-this-95-of-12-17-year-olds-have-never-smoked.html

listen and learn nil (or just read) 😉

http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/rearvision/a-history-of-australian-budget-surpluses-and-deficits/5446434

I’ve been hearing stories around the traps for years that Uhlmann is a Rightard,

Has he ever lied to a liberal PM in order to try and push his barrow?

Actually one thing i am starting to think about is that the Coalition should not try to balance the budget. What is the point? Once the budget is back under control greedy Australians who want more services will vote the economic vandals back in again.

Jeff Kennet and Howard/Costello showed what Australian do to govts who run surplus budgets.

Well it looks like goodbye AAA credit rating thanks the the economic vandals in the Senate and the people who voted for them.

http://www.smh.com.au/photogallery/federal-politics/cartoons/alan-moir-20090907-fdxk.html

ROFL

http://www.smh.com.au/photogallery/federal-politics/cartoons/ron-tandberg-20090910-fixc.html

PERNICIOUS TAX AXED

Is it an affectation? – “furver to that point, I’d like to make anuvver one”

I met Shorten numerous times, before he went into parliament. I didn’t notice his ‘uvver’ impediment then. But I’m not very observant.

The Carbon Tax is gone

Well, there blows another hole in the budget.

And I guess that’s all Labors fault 😯

And the numpty’s celebrate and don’t care that we have been lied to.

(“”Amid the concerns over ill-discipline and mixed messaging….””

What’s up with that, Skippy; the Maldives are surfing, not drowning?)

hmmm…my comment disappeared!

Does Tom R have editorial control?

The ALP f**ked it.

Yep, all the ALP’s fault.

Although, now might be time to reflect and see just which party (major OR minor) has consistently voted for a ets? There is only one.

Now, apparently, that is “inconsistency” ❓ 😯

”””Its all good. I’ve been channelling scaper”””

well that makes a nice change dumpty,

usually you`re being ploughed by bolt

”””I’m already tired of bill shorten,”””’
yeah, me too armchair,
.
”””I would have preferred albo,”””
it`s a big club 🙂
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”””labor will have learned nothing from the last few years.”””
agree, it does seem like that,
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”””””””Shorten is a direct result of back room machinations anyway, he wasn’t the popular choice.”””””””
yep, agree,
http://730reportland.wordpress.com/730reportlands_alp_vote_breakdown/

and shortman won`t be able to gather the voters that dropped the alp last time,

as he was a major driver of why voters kicked`em to the curb, being up to his ears in the knifings, both joolya-followers and kevin07-followers don`t like shortman #yay-caucus-you-dumb-fcuks

Of 147 members of the HoR, Adam Bandt was the only one to specifically stand on a platform of a carbon tax

Yes, and Labor stood on a platform of an ets. Which is what we got.

Despite it being supported (before the elections) by 1 out of 147, we got it

No, what we got was an ets. We didn’t get the Carbon Tax Bandt wanted, we got the ets Gillard promised.

Just because the media wanted to call it something different, doesn’t change what it was. Labors biggest failure (apart from not calling a DD) was accepting the name, or allowing a petulant media to reframe what it was.

The media need to accept their role in this. They won’t of course.

Has Labor EVER voted against an ets? Labor has been consistent, over the past three elections on introducing an ets.

They lost the semantic, and therefore the political, battle. That doesn’t change their position. And it looks as if they will be supporting an ets, again, at the next election.

Albo is okay but he’s yesterday’s man, believes carbon dioxide is a pollutant. What the party needs is a clean skin woman, Plibersek comes to mind even though she’s a CC zealot.

”””And it looks as if they will be supporting an ets, again, at the next election.”””

And what that shows tom-R, is the teabag-lites aren`t learning.

While it pains me to inflate his ego, yomm seems more correct, (yes team-followers can end-up being correct, much in the way an unwound clock manages to be correct twice a day) and the `issue` is toxic, and only fools will stick with it.

A much better alternative would be to `approve` funds for stand-alone power systems (start-with-the-poorest) and get people of the grid, let the cranks have the grid, and let them pay for it too, this is already underway anyway.

sorry dumpty, your paid-per-mindless-coal-chanting is only going to leave you paying bigger power bills to ya`coal sponsors, or shelling-out for ya`own off-grid system, take a look at our blog-buddy`s here dumpty, two already have their own power system, and l aspire to. You dumpty, kneel and yomm will have to cover ya`coal sponsors shortfall in profit.

‘two already have their own power system’

That’s nice, government subsidised?

“And Whyalla remains where it is.”

It was the AWU who said Whyalla would be wiped off the map

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/archive/news/carbon-tax-will-destroy-major-centres-such-as-port-pirie-and-whyalla/story-e6frg6p6-1226041270107

THE state’s two key industrial cities will be “wiped off the map” by a carbon tax, a major union warns.

The tax would strip thousands of jobs from Whyalla and Port Pirie, the Australian Workers Union state secretary Wayne Hanson said………………..”Goodbye. They will be off the map,” he said.”

”””And Whyalla remains where it is.”””and so do the deniers, and so do the teabags, and so does teabag-lite. Everybody is staying exactly where they were several years ago, and all lack the leadership to move the issue `globally` now that the kyoto-global-consensus window has shut tight. lnstead, countries, and industries, and individuals have taken control of the issue, and placing their own interests first, as the issue relates to them.

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”””I think that you will find it is not ‘toxic””’to team-followers maybe, but to the unrusted, the topic is toxic, and so is shortman too. Sticking with toxic topic and toxic shortman may keep them in the wilderness, it won`t win the unrusted, and won`t win the team-followers of team-joolya or team-kevin07 back. This tends to show how little teabag-lite have learned from their own experience.

Reading between the lines, Plan B is a cert.

‘The PUP leader has described its direct action plan as a “waste of money” and could pose a problem when the policy eventually reaches the Senate.

‘Environment Minister Greg Hunt is confident the upper house will legislate the $2.55 billion policy.

“We have a plan A and we’re sticking with plan A,” he told reporters.

AAP

”””””””””””’The last election was the culmination of 3+ years of rabid opposition, gutless internal machinations from a proven weasel, and an unhinging within the media never seen before””””””””””””’

While this is true tom-R, it is only half the story, as told by cheering team-followers. lt was `also` the culmination of `about` 6-years of continual teabag-lite errors. Kevin07 couldn`t control himself, continually making media announcables and micro-managing everything with his gang-of-4. The party and `faceless`hacks arse-fcuked themselves by knifing kevin07, who was highly popularly `chosen` by the voters. lf the knifing was inevitable, the next error was NOT sending ALL of the gang-of-4 to the back-bench for at least a full term. lnstead, they arse-fcuked themselves `again` by putting gang-of-4-joolya in charge and kept gang-of-4-swan in place. Tanner and a couple of others realized that if it was not the end, it WAS the beginning of the end. Then there was the endless parading of folks like nanny-roxon, fronting the media to tell us the great volumes of `disarray` they were in, to justify the knifing. Still not satisfied with the amount of shooting their own feet, numerous sound-bites were made during the election like,

`there will be no carbon tax under a govt l lead` and instead of just stating plainly they had to drop that commitment in forming govt negotiations, team-joolya chose to try and weasel-word their way out with bullshit like `carbon-price`. By this stage the public had had enough and reviving kevin07 wasn`t going to help. Mr-rabbit didn`t get in for his genius, his great ideas, or because he was `loved` by the public. Like most elections, he slid in because the public had enough of the `other` lot.

(When sniffing in the garden of the blooming of a thousand electoral flowers in the Spring of 2016, the scent of the snap-dragons will smell nice to him.)

‘if and when expert advocacy for policy direct action might be required in any hypothetical Senate debate’

It was his maiden speech and I can safely predict he’ll be on the front bench as quick as a flash and gagged, except for his portfolio.

I’ll be interested to know why passenger aircraft are flying over a war zone. Aviation regulators stop aircraft flying near the Indonesian archipelago when a volcano lets off a little steam, but they still fly over war zones in Ukraine!

What a f**kwit comment – that it isn’t the fault of those shooting missiles at the passenger aircraft.

You really are a f**kwit.

They could TR, that’s why we are cultivating good relations elsewhere just in case.

‘TROOPS from China’s People’s Liberation Army will for the first time stage joint military exercises with the Australian army and United States forces — and they will take place on Australian soil in October.

‘The decision to hold what will be known as “Exercise Kowari” in northern Australia was finalised during yesterday’s visit to Canberra by a high level Chinese military delegation headed by General Fan Changlong, the vice chair of China’s Central Military Commission and one of China’s most senior military officers.’

Nicholson / Oz

that’s why we are cultivating good relations elsewhere

Someone should tell the foreign minister, I don’t think she got the memo

So yomm, are you saying that CEO’s who ignore warning about assholes shooting at planes aren’t responsible at all?

Of course the idiot with the gun is responsible, but so is the idiot who lets their planes fly over the other idiot.

We could also blame those who get on the planes but, as I alluded to above, not many are actually informed of the current state of affairs. They are trusting in the common sense of the airlines. Of course, considering that one airline chose to strand it’s entire customer base in order to play a political game, trusting in airlines is only for the foolish. I used to, I am now very wary of them.

Tom R, I’ve already commented on the irresponsibility/negligence of flying over a war zone, and I’m aware of how airlines always try to minimise fuel costs, and this is an example of cost reduction induced negligence.

What I’m objecting to is the stupidity of teabagz comment – ‘wrongly blame…’

It’s bizarre, but no doubt he’ll walk away from it. He always does.

“The Lying Habbitt Wiping Squeals memory”

It was the AWU who said Whylla would be wiped off the map. Abbott just repeated what the Union said. Of course the media always repeated Abbotts statement but it was the AWU who said it first.

https://theguttertrash.com/2014/07/16/bill-shorten-ramps-up-the-hysteria-to-eleventy/#comment-66067

“THE state’s two key industrial cities will be “wiped off the map” by a carbon tax, a major union warns.

The tax would strip thousands of jobs from Whyalla and Port Pirie, the Australian Workers Union state secretary Wayne Hanson said………………..”Goodbye. They will be off the map,” he said.”

You’ll run from this – “Half-wits on my ABC wrongly blame Warriors and Weapon Suppliers..

What an imbecilic thing to say – “wrongly blame” the people who used a missile to shoot down a civilian aircraft

l don`t need to `run` from it dummy,

you show you cannot distinguish a tweet on a blog,

or you don`t know tweets are limited to 140 letters #teabags

As predicted, teabagz runs away.

In 140 characters teabagz apparently can’t say- ‘shouldn’t the ABC also ask what it was doing in a war zone?’

A true f**kwit who runs away from his f**kwittery.

“The AWU said something stupid.

A bigger idiot repeated it, numerous times. ”

I don’t know how many times Abbott said Whyalla would be wiped off the map. Abott may have only said it once. It was the AWU who said it first and then Abbot repeated what the AWU said. It was the media who repeated it many times.

But it would be interest to know how many jobs were lost because of the carbon tax.

So according to you it’s wrong to blame ‘warriors and weapons suppliers’ when they shoot a missile at an aircraft carrying 300 innocent people, killing all of them.

Bizarre, callous. You should f**k off and stick to twitter.

korea and qantas abandoned flightpath months ago,

not bizarre, not callous, just not letting teabag-media shift blame and attempt to scapegoat, (and l don`t care which `side` of shit-scared soldiers fired) and aid politicians beat war-drums, which IS the language that is being used, (teabag-media need to challenge these talking-heads so we don`t end-up in yet another vietnam/irag/korea/afghan disaster)

The carbon tax is dead and there is nothing credible to take its place

Almost a decade of bruising debate has led to the absence of any serious policy alternative and paralysis over the way forward

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/17/carbon-tax-is-dead-direct-action

No shit sherlock. But, when will the media recognize their role in this god awful mess.

They twisted and twirled Gillards words to mean ‘tax’, when all along she promised an ets, relabeled her ets as a “carbon tax”, then stuck that as an Albatross around Gillards neck, screeching “look what we made”.

They then sat back on their haunches laughing and clapping as tabot strutted across their stage with their Albatross, ranting back and forward to each other “what a talented leader he is”, and clapping themselves collectively on their backs.

Now, in the aftermath of the mess they created, they look at the ashes, wringing their hands and wondering where our politicians went so wrong. Nary a word about the monumental unhinging and venomous diatribe directed from them towards Gillard and their Albatross tabot proudly strangled for their entertainment. And now, their knives are already out for Shorten, who apparently had/has ‘vacated the debate’

Of course he ‘vacated’ in their eyes, if they are so widely shut against what he (or Labor) actually say or do.

Labor suffered a relentless, unhinged assault from every side (left and right) of their ets, and that is now described as “vacating the debate”. They have only just yesterday re-iterated their support for an ets, which they will be taking to election, with much related sledging from the sides. Yet they are simultaneously “vacating the debate”.

No, our media have not learnt anything. They continue to stumble along, picking their realities, and pretending they are ours as well.

“They twisted and twirled Gillards words to mean ‘tax’, when all along she promised an ets, relabeled her ets as a “carbon tax”, then stuck that as an Albatross around Gillards neck, screeching “look what we made”.

You know i have always wondered why so many people throughout human history have been willing to die for falsehoods.

And then i met Tom R on a blog.

(Hooray for SAMs, ASMs, and SSMs; may there be plenty more where they came from to stop errorists from ever doing this sort of thing again to innocent civilians!)

where is my half-wit,

no matter how much you do the chicken dance, it doesn`t change the fact that airline management imbeciles set flightpath over battlefield that had previously been bombed by aircraft, and had also shot down other aircraft #Teabags

Don’t blame the shooter!

“As usual Squeal you nasty little factless troll you are 100% wrong Abbott said it loud clear and first … like you he is a fucking liar.”

It was the AWU who said on April 19, 2011 that Whyalla would be wiped off the map.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/archive/news/carbon-tax-will-destroy-major-centres-such-as-port-pirie-and-whyalla/story-e6frg6p6-1226041270107?nk=7629a499247f96f613e8f7d7bf471ae6

“THE state’s two key industrial cities will be “wiped off the map” by a carbon tax, a major union warns. ”

Abbott repeated the Unions concerns when he visited the city on April 27, 2011. Abbott was just repeating what the Union rep said.

“Mr Hanson yesterday stepped up his union’s opposition to the tax, claiming the future of both cities would be in serious doubt because both had economies based on the high-emission production of steel, iron ore and zinc.

“Goodbye. They will be off the map,” he said.

It was Hanson (AWU) who said Whyalla would be wiped off the map.

‘They twisted and twirled Gillards words to mean ‘tax’, when all along she promised an ets, relabeled her ets as a “carbon tax”, then stuck that as an Albatross around Gillards neck, screeching “look what we made”.

I think I’ve pointed out that (on any reasonable analysis) Gillard’s carbon policy was hopelessly confused.

I’m always amused that everyone focuses so much on ‘tax’ vs ‘price’

The comment that more clearly demonstrates her hopelessness was – ‘it will fail without community consensus’. Gillard then committed to various mechanisms to build community consensus.

She walked away from the lot.

“So, the greed of big airlines has resulted in them flying over dangerous routes. Who’d have thought.”

No they’d be happy to go around them at a bigger seat price it’s just greedy common people like cheaper fares

How’s Qantas ?

Ok

Watching Obama

That did not go down well here

What a weak speech

Where is the Red Line these days ?

Much earlier inhis Potus

(For certain; Dame Julie will continue to impress the Dragon with her intelligence and team freedom ideology; while Sir Anthony will join nth-of-July in celebratory bilateral unilateral consensus revenge beverage and agitate pre-agitated Ruskis with sams and forgotten nukies; and forgotten space-bus-service to stations floating above terra firma; all played out beneficially in a style that suits the Rupert whiskey-tango-foxtrot organization.)

(What’s peculiar about MH17 is that the ill-fated flight was different from its usual path over Ukraine. According to data at flightaware.com, a website tracking civil aviation traffic, the flight on Thursday diverted about 200km north from the paths the Malaysian Airlines Boeing 777 had used in previous days. And it led the plane right over the war-torn Donetsk Region.)
http://rt.com/news/173792-malaysian-plane-diverted-warzone/

“We had a responsibility to work within the political realities to achieve the best national outcomes for the best international response. For this, Labor does not apologise. From this Labor does not resile. We are not sceptics. We believe the science. We understand that what is necessary is an effective international solution. In that international solution we aim for best practice, to be among the leaders, working with the progressive, continuously testing the facts. In that international solution we want practical outcomes, the best solutions, not just some vague promises.

“We would prefer to be part of a national consensus, but where we cannot we shall advocate our position. We want to nurture the debate.”

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/comment/labor-leader-bill-shorten-raises-climate-temperature-20140718-zugd5.html#ixzz37rnNKduM

“It is in the best interests of the world to have a full, transparent, independent investigation,” Bill said.

“If the Russian Federation doesn’t co-operate and help us get to the heart of what has really happened in this senseless act of murder, the Government should indeed consider not inviting Mr Putin to Australia.

“I don’t believe Australians would want him here in those circumstances.”

(For certain; errorists will continue to efficiently incompetently operate from airline boardrooms and personal assistants cubicles with vigor, with rigor, with others rigor-mortis; everything is okay, fly this way.)

Tony is a world statesman and will be around for a decade, suck it up.

Civilian aircraft avoiding Ukraine.

http://www.flightradar24.com/49.47,34.66/7

Toilet face reality.

Borrowing ToM’s dot points.

* Stopped the boats

* Axed the tax

* Strong international statesman

* Free Trade Agreements with Japan, Korea and China

* Reducing the deficit to get Australia back in the black

Now if Julia was still in power none of this would have come to pass and after the G20 meeting there will be infrastructure galore…. satellite cities and bullet trains.

The trouble with the green leftoids is that they are living in a fools paradise and won’t accept reality. I know heaps of them in the real world, but apart from the usual pleasantries we don’t speak, them being as thick as a brick.

The rusted ons from both sides will stay in place, while the average swing voter should return to the government in time for the next election.

As you are a fiercely independent anarchist, I don’t expect a rational reply from your direction.

‘Russia Today sparked a fever of speculation last night after publishing a report that claimed the doomed flight was flying almost the exact same path as Putin’s presidential plane did less than 40 minutes later.

‘It quoted a source as telling Interfax news agency: ‘I can say that Putin’s plane and the Malaysian Boeing intersected at the same point and the same echelon.’

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2697293/From-CIA-assassination-cock-nefarious-Illuminati-involvement-The-MH17-conspiracy-theories-doing-internet-rounds.html#ixzz37x7CvXQr
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‘Yep and Labor said it could not be done.’

Exactly, just like they said the tax on a harmless trace gas could never be repealed.

‘reb is too kind’

That’s true, he has shown compassion for this misfit blog refugee.

‘What is the matter with you?’

I maybe mentally ill and have gone undiagnosed, its hard to tell. Most of the time I appear to be operating on the right side of the brain.

‘Why do you feel a need to be a complete jerk all the time?’

Being outside groupthink is not a pleasant experience, in some respects, but living on the fringe has its own rewards.

‘Where’d you come from anyway? You got short shrift at deltoid and decided to run your brand of passive-aggressive, flip flopping mindless cant here.’

My more recent period at Deltoid was very robust, shoulder to shoulder with warmist comrade Luke, it was a duo with potential.

We used to hang out at Marohasys and compare notes, which is what brought us undone when Lambert tracked us down and I was banned at both blogs on the same day.

Passive/Aggressive Strategy has been getting a lot of bad press, but I’m convinced its much more effective than just aggression. In a micro sense around the office or in the big picture, as Xi remarked recently, there is no benefit to be gained from aggression.

Flip Flopping means I’m prepared to be persuaded on any subject, having an open mind is useful for something.

Mindless cant isn’t me, but I’m seriously thinking of doing a CC parody in the back room.

Bullet trains & satellite cities, my arse.

Irrational inextremis.

‘Bullet trains & satellite cities, my arse. Irrational inextremis.’

Maybe, we should know one way or the other before the next election.

Ideally, Japanese built Maglevs with Chinese built lines and the Australians can grow the cities. Brisbane to Melbourne via the back route would be a lot cheaper.

ah good to see`ya reb, was a bit worried you were flying as ya`hadn`t been in for a while, glad to see`ya safe on the ground, even if it is nz

(For certain; Malaysian Airlines busy tickets refunds counter indicate; decision to short-cut over battlefield destroyed marketing of airline safety image.)

‘Egg you really are becoming a tireless bore’

Your comment leaves me speechless.

your credibility = 0.0

Haven’t you noticed? Even those you brown nose to don’t bother with you.

”””””’MH17 flew corpses as passengers, pro-Russia rebels claim
http://www.themalaymailonline.com/malaysia/article/mh17-flew-corpses-as-passengers-pro-russia-rebels-claim
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#the cranks are coming out of the woodwork now armchair

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”””””””””””The appointments made a mockery of Brandis’s excuse for dumping Cassidy. They also served as one of many examples of the pettiness of the new government in its rush to install its own people.

Of course, the make-up of the advisory board for Old Parliament House is hardly a big deal, except as an iconic – and ironic – indicator of the Abbott government’s narrowness.

http://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/politics/2014/07/18/abbott-appointments-are-trusted-class-warriors/1405652282?utm_source=The+Saturday+Briefing&utm_campaign=996e875904-The_Saturday_Briefing_19_7_2014&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_6de0204698-996e875904-303202357#.U8uU7fmSySp
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#yes-sir-ee, it`s a broad and wide `church` that teabag party is,

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””””””””’You could sum up the attitudes of many of the Abbott government’s appointees with the old joke: “My mind’s made up, don’t confuse me with facts.”

And in no area is this truer than in the matter of climate change.”””””””””

#guffaw, the teabag panic is well set in

James Scott Bumgarner died
April 7, 1928 – July 19, 2014
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Garner
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Legendary actor James Garner — star of “The Rockford Files” and “The Notebook
” — has died … TMZ has learned.Law enforcement sources tell
http://www.tmz.com/2014/07/19/james-garner-dead-dies-maverick-rockford-files/
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# l`m still waiting for you harry callahan

”””””Skye McCole Bartusiak Dead — Dies at 21
http://www.tmz.com/2014/07/19/skye-mccole-bartusiak-dies-dead-the-patriot/

Skye starred in only one other movie in recent years — “Sick Boy.” Other than that she had roles in various short films. Sources say Skye struggled after doing “The Patriot” … trying to establish a foot print in Hollywood, but it was largely a frustrating and unsuccessful experience. We’re told police found her dead in the garage apartment behind her home around 9AM Saturday. Right now, no foul play is suspected and it’s being treated as a natural causes death — pending autopsy results.Law enforcement sources tells us … there are no “obvious signs” she took her own life … however, our sources say toxicology reports could change their operating theory.”””””””””””

# sad that she is dead at 21, but l never heard of her until l hit the tmz site, she will be more famous, l suspect, dying the same day Garner did

(l`m still waiting for you betty white)

‘Aspiring to be non-aggressive in an open, free commenting environment isn’t necessarily a bad thing though; in a personal sense, at least.’

Passive Agressive strategy allows for greater wit and wisdom, if you get my drift. Note that in the Trash office we have these aggressive characters who appear to lack the essential necessary ingredients.

On the international front the Chinese are determined to rule the world with their form of communism …. let’s call it the real third way.

Going through those links to The Saturday Paper, it’s difficult to argue it’s anything other than a leftist publication.

(Is James now Bolt fair game, because his father is Leftoid Enemy Number One? If he wasn’t his father’s son, would a part-time junior researcher at the IPA receive any scrutiny whatsoever?)

His son was a karter and is imbued with a quiet confidence because of it.

I’ve lost count of the number of ALP MPs who have kids working in unions and the number of union official offsprings working for politicians- media, research or whatever.

Add the number of union officials who will press for apprenticeships or other employment for their kids.

(no offense taken either)

‘No intelligent rational person would share his opinions.’

I share his opinion on the weather, but apart from that ….

“I’ve lost count of the number of ALP MPs who have kids working in unions and the number of union official offsprings working for politicians- media, research or whatever.”

I think you’ll find that libs kids are doing the same – working in dad’s electoral office, jobs from mates in business organisations, it’s the new norm esp. if they go to a private school where they pay for the old school tie privilege.
Seems that politics is now, student, young lab lib, staffer then mp.

The most interesting example of a nong made good on the efforts of dad-
*Dad was a (competent) minister in the Whitlam government
*Dad got son an apprenticeship with a local council
*Dad then got him a job as a union organiser
*Son somehow got to be an incompetent state secretary, who helped f**k NSW ALP
*Son sidelined into a $200k/year job with the Fair Work Commission

Disgraceful.

Competent by the standards of the day, I think…but of course I’m too young to speaa with authority about that period.