Rostrum: There’s a moon in the sky called The Moon Edition

I was in Qld today.

Bogan as always.

Mumm is a nice quaffer according to Fifi

(Re JWs, have you tried being more inclusive and wishing them a merry unbirthday?)

(Just out of curiosity is there anyone who can’t see the main “face” in that photo?

I see nussing, TB.)

TB

Is this a picture of you coming back from the grog shop?

http://s305.photobucket.com/user/ZHANGFEI4/media/WifeCarryingBeer.jpg.html

I think TB should try one of the moon like this..

I don’t understand your photos, ToM. I prefer pictures of strong women …

So that’s how they do it!!

haha `secrets` and bullshit standards in `pretending` to inform the public on `all` types of pantie-wetting fantasy`s are driving most of the public away from the halfwit politicians, recently one of the pollies (at press club l think) said voting in elections was less-relevant than voting on masterchef to most people, had to laugh at sudden out-burst of honesty 🙂

(Speaking of (im)partial links, it’s probably a green-left conspiracy-consortium, also, which has developed plans to run oil and gas pipelines directly into Europe from (Libya and) Egypt (and Syria) and (Iraq and) Kurdistan (and Syria), coalescing in Turkey before crossing Albania and Italy and Hungary and Austria; all of which donor nations have been most helpful recently in the unfortunate Arab Fall, and whom we thank for their unwavering support and weapons; special thanks must also go to Georgia, for offering to host and train moderate Syrian freedom fighters with minimal further peace partnership assistance, and for continuing to foster firm friendships with Azerbaijan and Turkey, despite or in spite of coincidental sanctions and sundry strictures placed on Russian offshore drilling in the Caspian Basin; and, lastly, or firstly, we must not forget it’s Winter in the West and in the East Ukraine soon, when dancing with bears and/or seeking civil access for ongoing independent investigation of the remains of the remains of MH17, after these many, many months of near obscurity and extreme insecurity for the red-crossed crash site, and for the Red-Crossed clash sites of its immediate surrounds.)

The New Normal

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/opinion/2014-10/10/content_18716671.htm

(Is it possible to nail it without at least one reference to Orwell and a lecturette on Plain English? Still, it does clearly meet the baseline standard for freespeech extremism, I guess, even if the freespeech extremism is ostensibly contra freespeech.)

I haven’t followed the TPP debate.

But of the bit I have heard, the international dispute process is likely to be a crock. I think it is running at about 800 to nil against the countries seeking a resolution against companies.

Having said that, I’d prefer freer trade to the alternative.

“apologise”

‘… at least two of us apologise …’

Okay, make that three, I apologise to Ricky for calling him the equivalent of a vagina.

Oh, right.

(Pivoting off on another tangent…

“But Mr Keating’s ambition for APEC will clash with the Howard Government’s agenda and the standing expectation of all APEC governments. Any recasting of its core agenda will be a task for its future hosts.”

Which does seem to be going very well…

“The vision of the APEC-wide, ambitious free trade zone emerged in 2006. APEC leaders agreed in 2010 to eventually achieve it on the basis of other preceding frameworks such as the TPP, but little has been decided so far.”

And who would ever have imagined that Russia, too, is an (almost-overlooked) Asian-Pacific nation, if of somewhat straitened bearing, beyond Sarah “drill, baby, drill” Palin?)

That should be FTA.

For tosy. a [hopefully] largely unbiased reporting of ISDIS. For my mind, it needs a lot of work before being included, but I’m biased that way anyway 😉

One of the world’s leading arbitration lawyers in the ISDS field, George Kahale, says he doesn’t see any benefit for governments in signing up to ISDS. In fact, he thinks the system is so fundamentally flawed it should be abolished.

‘What we’ve seen develop is an incredibly effective form of international recourse for foreign investors. This is a major bonus both for investors and for host countries; whereas in the past there was never any effective form of recourse, now there is.’

http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/backgroundbriefing/isds-the-devil-in-the-trade-deal/5734490

The audio download in the link is well worth the listen imo.

If you start with the idea that the ALP is always to be defended

And here I was thinking we were talking about ISDS 😯

‘Foreign nationals on 457 visas are working in schools and early childhood centres despite a growing glut of unemployed Australian teaching graduates.

‘Half of all teaching graduates – about 8000 people – had not found permanent employment four months after completing their education training last year, Fairfax revealed on Monday.’

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/foreign-teachers-on-457-visas-worsen-graduate-glut-20141020-118x9m.html#ixzz3Gihxs9RT

(The judge, perhaps, does coax-conjure a compelling Goldilocks zone from out the holodeck…

“Masipa said she wanted to find a balance between retribution, deterrence and rehabilitation…”Using a lethal weapon, a loaded firearm, the accused fired not one, but four shots into the door,” said Masipa. “The toilet was a small cubicle and there was no room for escape for the person behind the door,” she said.”

But, will it be sufficient to lock all parties, and latent appeals, in to that judicious tesseract: grossly negligent culpable homicide with mean gaol-time?)

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“UPDATE: At the link, lefty commenters already launching ad hominem attacks. Because that’s what they do.”)

I saw that story in the Mail and her appearance has dramatically changed, but she claims it has nothing to do with plastic surgery and everything to do with a happier lifestyle.

Yea, but what’s a “tewwawist”

After all, we swords here, metal ones too (blunted of course)

Are they more dangerous than plastic ones, or is the plasticity the defining ingredient?