Garbage Day!
Gidday and welcome to Garbage Day!
Our gradual end of the week demise into typical irreverant discussion and disdain for practically everything.
It’s been a fun-filled week for the Opposition party!
In a sensational and up until now completely unprecendented move, the Coalition ‘cavalcade of cadavers’ have put in what could be best described and as a stellar performance in reminding the Australian public why no one in their right mind should cast a vote for such an unGodly mob of the living dead.
Possum at Pollytics has more bad number-crunching news for talcum:
Only 28% of Coalition voters thought Malcolm Turnbull is best person to be Leader of the Opposition while 56% nominated someone other than Malcolm Turnbull. 23% of Coalition voters favoured Joe Hockey, 9% Tony Abbott and 8% Julie Bishop.
Meanwhile Tony “People Skills” Abbott, insists that the problem is “not about us, it’s the cycle..”
Rrright……
FUBAR I reckon.
In other news, Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has failed in his bid to make himself immune from prosecution (in relation to allegations of corruption) on the grounds that the Prime Minister of the country shouldn’t have to be concerned with the distraction of potentially facing the strong arm of the law over any allegations of gross misconduct. What is the world coming to?
Of course, this week the RBA hiked up interest rates and there is speculation that we could be in for another hike as early as Melbourne Cup Day. In fact, in the light of new figures showing that unemployment has dropped, it’s almost a certainty.
And it looks like poor old Godwin Grech of the famous ute-gate fiasco has finally been given the heave from Treasury.
I wonder if Joe has given him another poll “just to see how he is doing” as he did last time?
reb
Miglo
It’s a garbage day alright.
When it comes to Afghanistan we have to keep searching thru Neo-Con trash & hope we come up w/ something that we can manufacture into a nutritious plan that can be swallowed in the long run by an American electorate, the Afghans that are being defended…& other reluctant observers & participants.
I’m beginning to think that Obama needs to tell Congress to give General McChrystal his 40,000 McSpartans and demand he “bring back the heads of Osama Bin Laden & Mullah Omar”.
We’ll get plenty of movies & TV shows out of it.
And John McCain & Barack Obama can go arm in arm down the “Yellow Brick Road”.
N’
REB
Just been reading through your recent posts
“There is no Leadership Speculation”
Custard Quits!
Joe Hockey to save The Coalition Spiral of Doom!
Tony Abbott is not happy.
John Howard. Give that man a job!
Malcolm Takes a Tanking in the Polls
You know the coalition is not in power any more. You seem to enjoy inflicting pain on an almost dead animal.
How about some posts holding the govt to account?? Prime Minister Rudd could be at that strip club/brothel he like to visit, putting our hard earned tax dollars into the garters of strippers and the media is asleep.
When the Libs were in power they did not need an elected opposition. They had the media scrutinising their every move. The current govt could be up to all sorts of things wasting money and nobody seems to care
Hey Neil
Below is a selection of recent Bolt articles. Maybe there’s a reason the incompetent rabble that is the opposition is drawing all this flack?
Turnbull killed by what sickens Hockey, too
Costello quits
Just another knife in the corpse
Liberals even more hopeless than polls say
The threat is not weak Turnbull but strong Rudd
Meanwhile the government is quietly and competently getting on with the business of government…
“Meanwhile the government is quietly and competently getting on with the business of government…”
Yes predicting a $21.7B surplus in their first budget which ended up being a $27B deficit. Only the ALP is capable of this. I don’t think the ALP will ever run a surplus budget.
I think the reason that people are not talking about the current govt is that they are not really doing anything to talk about, otherwise people would be talking about it.
The other reason is that most australians are in love with the ALP. It does not matter how corrupt, dishonest, how much rorting they do, how many lies they tell, how many promises they break- most Aussies do not care.
Now if the Libs break a promise or do a little tiny, tiny, tiny bit of rorting the media explodes. The different standards by which the media treat the Libs compared to Labor are amazing
Well I just saw my local member (ouch) on 7.30 Report (ouch) Um ah flawed ets um ah flawed ets um ah um ah. Job and business um ah the coal industry um ah 7 mines to close um ah $40 increase in power bills um ah and Malcolm has my full support um…um….um…
Reb, you’ll be pleased to know that Jedda regained her winning touch at the club, coming home with a George Foreman pack which included a bread maker, a vegetable steamer and a grill.
The kitchen makeover is almost complete.
…and all Miglo had to do was buy another $800 worth of raffle tickets!
The unemployment rate announced today confirmed that Australia will not suffer the level of unemployment foreshadowed when the stimulus package was announced.
Our unemployment rate will be about 2.5% lower than predicted. About 4% less than the “no stimulus” prediction. Our unemployment will peak at a rate that is the level we tolerated for years.
So why is the government not adjusting the stimulus in accordance with the current economic situation?
Why does the government continue to load us up with more debt than is necessary?
Why does the government limit the options available for future policy flexibility?
It’s stupid. I blame Swan.
I was thinking about General McChrystal.
Then Patton.
Do we have a General Sir Bernard Law Montgomery too?
Never say never.
Ya know, I really dislike it when someone says something is impossible.
I think
FCK ‘EM!
particularly when it comes down to ensuring children, good women & men, are left to the predators…when they don’t need to be. The Cambodian thing really pissed me off. Rwanda too.
N’
“The kitchen makeover is almost complete.”
Well done Migs (and Jedda)
You’ll need to get them to get some bathroom accessories in next!
Dear Tom, you of all people should know that I don’t spend that much money on anything, unless of course . . . it’s tax deductable!
Good thought reb, but I’m thinking of getting the dungeon fitted out first.
Do you know where I can pick up a good rack?
Migs,
I’m not sure about a rack, but I know a shop in Sydney where you could get a natty wee leather strapped outfit for yourself and a vinyl nurses uniform for Jedda.
Where?
Here:
http://www.houseoffetish.com.au/
(At least, that’s what “a friend” tells me…)
Here’s a picture of the dungeon.
http://www.blood4sims.com/assets/images/wfs1tc_scr1_457.jpg
I’ll also keep the second bread maker down there.
“Here’s a picture of the dungeon”
Could easily pass as a photographic record of the Coalition’s forthcoming ETS meeting.
I wonder how Patton would’ve interpreted this?…or McCain & Obama now?:
October 8, 2009
The Gathering Storm
Dark Omens for the US in Afghanistan
By PAUL FITZGERALD and ELIZABETH GOULD
Amidst the deafening internal debate in Washington, a startling event occurred. On Monday September 28, in the Chinese government owned English language newspaper China Daily, an article titled, “Afghan peace needs a map,” by Li Qinggong, deputy secretary-general of the China Council for National Security Policy Studies, stated flatly that the time had come for the United States to withdraw from Afghanistan.
“To promote much-needed reconciliation among the parties concerned, the US should end its military action. The war has neither brought the Islamic nation peace and security as the Bush administration originally promised, nor brought any tangible benefits to the US itself. On the contrary, the legitimacy of the US military action has been under increasing doubt.”
A Chinese challenge to the war’s legitimacy is of no minor consequence. The Chinese have their own well established agenda regarding the growth of Al Qaeda extremism on their southern border.
Coming at a critical moment when U.S. economic power is in decline and China’s on the rise, Li Qinggong’s message should be taken as a serious sign that if Washington is not willing to decide the limits of its empire, the Chinese are. China’s involvement in Afghanistan is nothing new, but until now they have kept their ambitions largely to themselves. Although denied by Beijing, the Chinese played a supporting role in pushing the Soviets to invade in December 1979 by arming and training Islamist extremists in Xinjiang province. According to a British Round Table of April 1981, (No. 282) “earlier in 1979 China had already tried to set up a Muslim Republic of Pamir on the Afghanistan territory of Badakhshan and the Wakhan corridor.”
In the last few years China has emerged as a major player in both Afghanistan’s and Pakistan’s economy. In 2007, China’s Metallurgical group won a $3.5 billion bid to develop Afghanistan’s Aynak copper field in Logar province. In Pakistan, China’s development of the strategic port of Gwadar on the Makran coast has been described as Pakistan’s flagship infrastructure project.
But should the Chinese decide that the time has come to draw a line on American involvement in Afghanistan and flex their growing influence in the region, the war that the U.S. has been fighting for the last eight years will seem merely as child’s play to what is to come.
(excerpts)
more here:
http://www.counterpunch.com/fitzgerald10082009.html
N’
You know what I think is garbage???
People from Russia who migrate to australia from Russia to get research jobs in Australian Science while people born and raised in this country cannot get jobs.
People with names like Vadim, Irina, Sergia, Vladimir etc get jobs while people born and raised in Australia have to pick different jobs.
This makes me sick.
Friday Footy with Tom!
Hi Miglo, I see that some player manager has said that no one want to play with Port.
This is hardly surprising as Port supporters are –
• 41% more likely than the average person to be in the lowest socio-economic group;
• 41% more likely to be earning less than $10,000 per year;
• 29% more likely to smoke cigarettes than the average Australian;
• 23% more likely to own a cat.
So there we have it! Port is finished!
More tomorrow
quiet tonite…bar for the trembling gutter all stars
N’
Mean-spirited dipstick of the week goes to Rush Limbaugh for his usual nigh on head popping rant about Obama…this time it’s the Nobel Peace Prize win that has him salivating on American talkback:
“Can you imagine, folks, how big Obama’s head is today?” Rush Limbaugh, the conservative talk-show host, told his listeners. “I think it’s getting so big that his ears actually fit.”
more here:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/10/us/politics/10assess.html
This red-faced angry, white as white and always having a blue w/ someone so called patriot makes plenty of dosh for his rants:
“In 2007, Limbaugh earned $33 million.”
(wikipedia)
Nothing like free speech helping to fill the coffers eh?
N’
nasking, good ole Rush shouldn’t start talking about large heads. At least Obama’s is crammed with brains. Someone should warn Rush that his last remaining brain cell could explode if he keeps on frothing at the mouth and impeding blood flow to it.
He is living proof that patriotism is the last refuge of scoundrels. I guess it must be hard on him when his choice of buttocks to brown-nose has left America trillions in debt, is regarded as the worst president ever and has also proved that having half a brain is indeed dangerous. Perhaps some kind soul should remind him of the facts and then wait for the fireworks! lol
Yes if one listens to the right-wing dipsticks in the US MSM one would think that Obama awarded the Nobel Peace Prize to himself. As though the US President has the power to decide who gets Nobel Prizes. Their ignorance is appalling.
Worth noting:
More here: http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9B7MB401&show_article=1
I found this interesting
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,26186894-23109,00.html
Rudd ‘betrayed Aussies on whaling’
“”Way back in October 2007, I had urged thousands of Australians to vote for Kevin Rudd and Peter Garrett’s Labor Party. Why? Because they promised to get tough on illegal Japanese whaling,” Mr Watson wrote.
”… Since then Rudd and Garrett have demonstrated that they have done far less for the whales than former Environment Minister Ian Campbell had done.”
“Watson claimed the Federal Government had denied his visa application and his first officer, Peter Hammarstedt of Sweden, was also rejected.
This was despite visas being “routinely” approved in the past”
What did you expect Mr Watson. Rudd just wanted to get elected.
“I guess it must be hard on him when his choice of buttocks to brown-nose has left America trillions in debt, is regarded as the worst president ever”
jane, apart from the mega-moolah he earns (that regular volunteer soldiers in Afghan & Iraq can only dream of)…
and addiction to power (now wants a gridiron/American football team ownership share apparently to enhance his influence & fulfill grandiose desires)…
not to mention the obvious passion he displays for hearing the sound of his own voice…
I reckon what you said above are reasons why Rush is working so hard to politically knock off Obama…
it seems his pride & Goodyear blimp-like ego won’t let him deal w/ the fact he screwed up big time.
leading one to the conclusion that he’d rather continue stuffing up America by constantly trying to undermine the public’s confidence in a first term democratically elected President than admit he’s a hyped-up blowhard that helped promote an administration that oversaw the bankrupting of America and got them into two unwinnable, tax-payer draining wars.
And he gets paid to do it.
I ask ya?
And we wonder why so many Americans vote against their own interests?
Seems they’re in a RUSH to make judgments on their President…& be led into HELLCLONES.
N’
More dipstick moments from some of the team that helped bring us the Iraq fiasco…& the Afghan quagmire:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/09/obama-nobel-prize-reactio_n_315690.html?slidenumber=7#slide_image
And they reckon the Republicans are on a comeback. Can you imagine?
Plus ce change/more things change eh?
N’
From Neil’s link.
Good to see that the Rudd Government is strong on border protection unlike the previous Government’s slack approach. The linked article tells the real story re visas:
‘Routine approval’ of people with police records. What next. No wonder they were voted out.
Thanks for the link Neil.
The main point i wanted to make was the allegation that Rudd has done less than the Howard govt on Japanese whaling.
It is easy for the ALP to get elected. They just say things but then get nothing done. For some reason this inactivity then cause their primary vote to increase. The more incompetent they are the higher the ALP vote
“‘Routine approval’ of people with police records. What next. No wonder they were voted out.”
Did they have police records when they last came here???
If that’s the case, Neil, how come the ALP has racked up so much less time in office than the Libs?
nasking, your link was very interesting. I particularly liked the term Hatriots used by one of the commenters to describe the clowns like Brian Kilmeade who are trying to destroy Obama’s presidency and his reputation.
The next song is for Lang Mack. And all those farmers trying to keep up their family’s spirit during dry, dry days.
N’
Who knows? Certainly not the Howard Government because they ‘routinely approved’. No background checks apparently. Clearly soft or border protection.
Neil, why don’t you take Australia’s security seriously?
jane, I reckon Obama has to ask the likes of Geithner & a few other finance-related dudes to take early retirement & bring about a bit more TRUST in government soon so the United States of America doesn’t become the Hate-filled Separated States of America. I reckon it’s his Achilles’ Heel. Apart from that darn quagmire in Afghanistan.
I reckon Obama has the potential to be a great President. But the Hatriots (luv it, well spotted) are gonna gain further ground I fear if Obama doesn’t eventually say “Cheerio folks, it’s been nice to know ya…but…”
N’
time for a meal and a movie. Fan pasta w/ fetta, artichokes, capsicum, zuchinni, olives, garden basil, sundrieds, parmesan…and of course hot chillies.
‘Knowing’ on BlueRay.
later
N’
“The danger of global warming is as yet unseen but real enough for us to make changes and sacrifices, so that we do not live at the expense of future generations,” Margaret Thatcher. 1990.
By the way, for the person that found this site by searching for “stuff I can shag” you might be interested in this post:
http://guttertrash.wordpress.com/2009/09/28/fancy-that-a-robot-you-can-shag/
“Fan pasta w/ fetta, artichokes, capsicum, zuchinni, olives, garden basil, sundrieds, parmesan…and of course hot chillies.”
forgot to add we also use garlic & Sacla Italian Cherry Tomato & Basil pasta sauce.
N’
Looking at the map of site hits, it looks like the gutter is not getting much interest in Mozambique, Libya, Ukraine or Pakistan.
Pity really. Any ideas?
Here’s a link to Pakistani cuisine.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pakistani_cuisine
One of the very nicest things about life is the way we must regularly stop whatever it is we are doing and devote our attention to eating. ~Luciano Pavarotti and William Wright, Pavarotti, My Own Story
quote sourced from: http://www.quotegarden.com/food.html
N’
Yes. Why don’t you move there? I hear that the unions are non-existant.