Rostrum!

So what I have to undergo every time I fly is too demeaning for julie bishop. I have a public frisk because of metal in my leg. Julie says she’s ‘just the same as everyone else’…except for when they actually want to do it to her too!

Why lie about it?
Every time I go through the scanners and get frisked I have to worry about where my handbag and shoes have ended up and whether anyone may have ‘lifted’ my unattended handbag left on the counter. None of the security staff care.

http://www.theage.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/julie-bishop-complained-after-pat-down-at-melbourne-airport-documents-show-20160220-gmz6up.html#ixzz40l06wKIL

…An email shows Julie Bishop did complain about her treatment at Melbourne Airport last year…

…The airport detailed how Ms Bishop had been chosen for scanning but her jacket set off the alarm due to “buttons or a brooch”, leading to her being asked to remove the jacket.
“In the course of being scanned a staffing change occurred and the lane swapped. This led to the Foreign Minister’s belongings (including her shoes) to be not where she was and she was left without her belongings (and her shoes) for over a minute after the scanning was complete,” Department of Infrastructure director Cathy Murphy told colleagues in an email.
“The CCTV shows the Foreign Minister’s face which could be described as unhappy.”…

Bill Shorten heckled by own crowd at rally protesting health cuts
http://www.theage.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/bill-shorten-heckled-by-own-crowd-at-rally-protesting-health-cuts-20160220-gmzcfh.html#ixzz40l3mSLDM

…”People from the crowd started shouting ‘Shorten, close the camps’ which led to almost unanimous chanting of ‘let them stay’,” she told Fairfax Media.
“It was disappointing to see Shorten speak about protecting vulnerable people from Medicare cuts whilst hurting the most vulnerable people fleeing war by locking them up in Nazi-like concentration camps.” she added.
Labor’s policy on refugees is similar to that of the Liberals. Labor supports the current government policy of boat turnbacks and mandatory detention…

We’re all battlers now. Government handouts are demanded for everything, you need it for your kid’s private schooling and your private hospital membership so you can jump the queues that the ‘other battlers’ have to remain in. Remember when it used to be a bad thing to have to rely on government handouts to get by, to shop and pay off your mcmansions?
Howard & costello made it cool though, they also made it OK to be nasty, divisive and hateful to minorities, they are too aspirational and they might need the government handouts that good australians rely upon, asylum seekers are bad people even if their situations are far worse, far more barbaric and inhumane than ours will ever be.

The four-letter word you won’t hear spoken by politicians
http://www.theage.com.au/federal-politics/political-opinion/the-fourletter-word-you-wont-hear-spoken-by-politicians-20160216-gmv5o4.html#ixzz40l57QHK8

…It’s OK to want to be rich because that’s aspirational. It takes hard work, sweat, determination and possibly some government assistance to haul yourself up through the ranks of society. But it’s not OK to be rich because that could expose you to all sorts of possible trouble such as the suggestion that you don’t need handy tax breaks like the superannuation offset and negative gearing.

The aspirational voter has come to dominate the minds of politicians and has done so ever since John Howard redefined who was a Liberal voter with his march through western Sydney in 1996. The Howard years were accompanied by a period of economic golden times complete with plenty of hand outs for everyone deemed to be doing the right thing such as working, preferably raising a family and trying to get ahead.
One of the ways people get ahead is by negative gearing…

Stephen Fry must have read KL’s twitter dump

Yes well, stephen would say that wouldn’t he? He’s not always covered himself in glory on twitter. He deactivates his twitter account on a regular basis, usually after being very melodramatic or a bit of a prat. He usually comes back after a sulk 😆

Stephen Fry quits Twitter following uproar over ‘bag lady’ jibe
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/celebritynews/12157533/Stephen-Fry-quits-Twitter-following-uproar-over-bag-lady-jibe.html
The star’s Twitter account appears to have been deactivated in the wake of fierce criticism of his comments at the BAFTAs

Maybe armchair should bleat incessantly to the prime meddlers office about the frisks that piss her off (and everybody else) at airports and see if their complaints get treated the same as jooLies…

Hmmm, the response I get might just be worth it, good idea 🙂

Andrew Bolt lashes out at Herald Sun reporter over George Pell story
http://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/feb/22/andrew-bolt-lashes-out-at-herald-sun-reporter-over-george-pell-story

…Pell has strongly denied allegations of involvement in child sexual abuse, saying they are without foundation and utterly false.

“Now the campaign to destroy Pell has become sinister as well, after it was joined by – in my view – elements of Victoria Police.”…

The cops are finally doing their jobs and the plutocracy don’t like it one bit.

I never did understand the paintings, what do they mean?

The real world, where do you draw the line, who gets to decide and why?
The real world is something you talk about when someone doesn’t like yours.
All I know is, we need to find a happy place somewhere in a corner of this stink’n real world or we’ll go mad.

I have always loved that song tosy, but this is how I remember it