Lord Mayor Doyle: Bringing a new scrutiny to Town HallQ: How do you get the formerly disinterested political media to focus on Town Hall policy and management with an unparalleled scrutiny and accountability?
A: Put a Liberal in the Lord Mayor’s seat.
The Age have run with Robert Doyle stories for the past two days - today, holding to account his idea of bringing cars back read more.. ObamaHe’s the President now.
A friend of mine thought he was being clever when he changed his Facebook status update to read: “thinks President is the new black”. How very droll.
Kevin Rudd thought he’d weigh in with public support for Obama, but totally stuffed it up in his reference to Martin Luther King, Jnr.
Said Rudd:
Twenty-five read more.. It’s official: Sydney food is shitI lived in Sydney for a number of years, and would always complain that the food up there was overpriced, or just rubbish.
Seemingly, this incident at the Coogee Bay Hotel confirms that they serve shit food in Sydney.
A family that complained about their meal were served complimentary ice-cream that allegedly contained fecal matter, eg: bog, read more.. Credit CrunchKids,
When people abuse George Bush, I shrug.
When they have a go at Palin, I smirk.
When they express fear and anger at the regressive, protectionist and quite frankly ridiculous policies of Barack Obama, I giggle.
But when they criticise the capitalist system, I get angry.
In a nutshell, I’ll say it: the capitalist system is a system of read more.. Virals don’t usually work - except for Diesel XXX SFW Porn Party Invite“Virals” don’t usually work. Ad agencies are trying to cling onto their business model by eschewing unpopular TV ads (that nobody watches) in favour of “doing a viral”, where they produce the same boring, expensive ad, and convincing gullible marketers that, by putting it online, it will “become viral”.
Most of the time, actually about read more.. FUNNIEST WEBSITE EVER - SERIOUSLY, EVER - Schapelle Corby Jail ToursThis guy is offering tours of Schapelle Corby’s “cage”, with extra special tours including an ability to “feed” Schapelle, a la feeding an monkey. Here’s the site: Schapelle Corby Tour
I checked the ownership of the URL, it seems legit, owned by:
Hutauruk, Eddie eddie.hutauruk@hotmail.com
63 A Teuku Umar
Denpasar, — 80362
+62 36178495
For those of you who read more.. It’s lonely out thereA touching tale of a man who was lonely and decided to attempt sexual intercourse with a bench. A“benchialist”? (video in the link)
My brain feels funnyA great piece on how Google, and changing media consumption habits are changing the way we think - literally. Is Google Making Us Stupid?
Great June reading - The President, the Pope and the Prime MinisterI’ve just purchased and read “The President, the Pope and the Prime Minister: Three Who Changed The World“, by editor-at-large of the National Review, John O’Sullivan.
It is a GREAT read. Do yourself a favour and buy it, kids. The Conservative Book Service says:
Who brought down the Soviet Union? According to liberals [lefties], it read more.. Zimbabwe’s Opposition Party Decided that Voting Wasn’t Worth Dying forA VERY cool editorial from The Daily Reckoning
A bit…
The founders of the United States of America distrusted democracy so much they designed a whole government to prevent it. Not once does the word ‘democracy’ appear in the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, or the Bill of Rights. The Constitution is basically an elaborate restriction on read more.. Rudd destroys University places (choice) for Aussie studentsPicture this: a young student gets offered a top management job in a large multinational at the end of second year uni (a remarkable stroke of luck. He takes it, deferring uni and taking a leave of absence for a total of two years away. At the end of the second year, with read more.. KikkomanKikkoman rocks. I just bought a bottle of their plum wine, and I’m reminded of their cool ad from years ago.
The bit that freaks me out is when the cat hangs in the corner? Weird. If anyone speaks Japanese, please translate the lyrics in the comments, I’m mightily intrigued.
OMG - Tasmanians on the loose!What positives could you possibly bring up about Senator Stephen Parry’s letter re: Bill Henson?
a) That it is spelt correctly?
b) That it contains relatively good punctuation?
c) That he has included a mobile phone number, which may allow you to call him and tell him how stupid this letter is?
Bumbling Brumby talks turd about HensonFollowing in the foolish footsteps of his Federal counterpart Kevin Rudd, John Brumby has claimed that Bill Henson’s pics have “crossed the line”.
Funnily, he admitted he had not seen the pictures:
I haven’t seen them
But still thought he would contrive some sort of bullshit response - Brumby the art critic:
Art is always a very fine line read more.. Bill Leak on Bill HensonTwo great cartoons from Bill Leak in The Australian over the past two days on the Bill Henson saga:
Monday 26 May
Saturday 24 May
Sex change for a 12 year old “adult”In the light of the Bill Henson saga, where the major argument against his work is that his 12 or 13 year old models and their parents don’t have the wherewithal to approve of their own images in an artistic context, we hear of the Federal Court’s approval of a sex change for a 12 read more.. Rudd the philistine fuckstickSuperstar Australian artist Bill Henson has been the victim of a vicious and ignorant political / media witch-hunt that has led to the cancellation of his latest show in Sydney, and a rebuke from Kevin Rudd, who called his art “revolting”. This is the same Bill Henson who has been lauded the world over, read more.. ALP Budget fuckup - effects on health system “potentially catastrophic”The morons in the Rudd ALP Federal Cabinet have, for no good reason, increased the threshold on private cover from people earning $50,000 to people earning $100,000. In essence, the incentive to move to private health care, thus taking pressure off the public system has been removed. PriceWaterhouseCoopers have analysed the results and read more.. Hillary obliterates her chances of becoming PresidentHillary Clinton is a nutjob who will say ANYTHING to become President, who will advocate whatever policy it takes to hold onto the trappings of power. We always knew Bill was sleazy; she’s definitely looking like the “woman behind the man”.
Including this ridiculously stupid comment, where she threatens to obliterate Iran. It’s so read more.. Fred Stauder - “A hero to small business”Today marks 20 years since the Supreme Court of Victoria awarded the Dollar Sweets Company damages in the fight against the thugs, bullies and standover men of the Confectionary Workers Union.
This article outlines the reasons why this case is so important - why it marked a serious turning point in the thankful erosion of union read more.. 2020202020 zzzzzzzzzzzzzAs per usual, our friend Andrew Norton provides insightful and bullshit free analysis, this of his experiences at the 2020 summit.
Definitely worth a read.
Rudd’s Mass DebateThis morning’s papers are covered in the intellectual ejaculate from Rudd’s Mass Debate, aka the 2020 Summit.
Seeing Cate Blanchett drag her six day old baby in front of the cameras all weekend had me thinking something was very wrong with it all. The best her crew could come up with was to assign 1% read more.. Happy Anniversary Chris Corrigan - Hero to AustraliansIt is the 10th Anniversary of the dispute between the Maritime Union of Australia and the Patrick Corporation, a dispute which led to the end of union corruption, thuggery and sloth on the docks, and the beginning of a new era of prosperity in Australia.
The docks used to be dreadfully inefficient, filled with lazy, protected read more.. Increasing Energy Prices Good for Some Aussie SharesHow can BHP expand production at Olympic Dam without a new source of power? Can Australia really increase production volumes in its minerals and metals industry without increasing the number of natural-gas fired plants that run on gas from the North West Shelf? These must be the questions that keep mine executives up at night, read more.. John Howard for President?The famous right-leaning US magazine, National Review, has made a big call: John Howard for President!
My favourite quote is:
some conservatives might read this or listen to Howard’s speech and pine for a time machine to go back to his prime ministership in Australia and take a political vacation in an ideological heaven
.
If they think Howard read more.. Watchoo talkin’ bout Rudd?Talk about a member of the stolen generation…
Arnold from Diff’rent Strokes got married.
Spot the differenceIraq - unstable country in the early throes of democracy.
East Timor - unstable country in the early throes of democracy.
So what does Chairman Rudd do?
Iraq - pull troops out.
East Timor - put more troops in.
He’s wrong, wrong, wrong.
Hillary’s experience? What experience?Hillary Clinton always goes on about her experience. In the battle of Obama vs Hillary, it’s usually some trite “vision vs experience” thing. I’ve been asking every Seppo (American - Yank - Septic Tank - Seppo) I know: what is her experience?
It seems the Wall Street Journal is asking the same question, here
It’s read more.. James Brayshaw wins the Cult of Personality Award for 2008Don’t send a moron to do a man’s job:
James Brayshaw wants to tap the riches of the very wealthy to bolster the finances of the North Melbourne Football Club. He’s talking about targeting
high network individuals.
Oh dear. …I think the term is “high net worth individuals”, James.
Remember this article in years to come when read more.. Interesting thoughts on leftist politicsYears ago the left - unions, Labor Party, etc. - created White Australia, to prevent the yellow hordes streaming into the country. They were afraid that the cheap labour would undermine the wages of “true Australians”. Now the conspiracy of labour wants us to cut the development of the third world through restrictions read more..
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