tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-147950682012-02-12T20:59:41.506+11:00Avatar BriefsAvatar Briefs is free from the laws of matter, time and space.Cazhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17387674413840435759noreply@blogger.comBlogger23821100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14795068.post-12856348440548863652012-02-12T00:43:00.000+11:002012-02-12T00:43:12.985+11:00Wastelands
Bill Leak - The Australian (The Uncomfortable Hunch Continues)
Cazhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17387674413840435759noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14795068.post-31411986293705151442012-02-11T12:30:00.002+11:002012-02-11T12:30:40.308+11:00'Barbie wife' is a transformation of the political spouse
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In an unusual public intervention, media baron Rupert Murdoch entered
the fray at the weekend, giving both Ms Gillard and Mr Rudd a kick and
professing to be mystified at ''Aussie politics''.
''Can Kevin Rudd really come back and knife Gillard?
Weird place mucking up great future,'' he tweeted. ''Gillard once good
education minister, now prisoner of minority greenies. Rudd Cazhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17387674413840435759noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14795068.post-52683062779979067822012-02-10T02:30:00.000+11:002012-02-10T02:30:02.594+11:00Duck FridayCazhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17387674413840435759noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14795068.post-64400831634271328452012-02-08T21:46:00.000+11:002012-02-08T21:46:08.609+11:00Goat captured!After five
days on the run, the wayward Melbourne goat has been rounded up by the police
and taken to a lost dogs home.
Confused?
Imagine
how the goat feels.
Runaway goat captured
As previously reported .... Jacob's goat causing havoc Cazhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17387674413840435759noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14795068.post-36251955250130965862012-02-08T01:05:00.000+11:002012-02-08T01:05:00.860+11:00Wednesday Wisdom
The future is already here; it’s just not evenly distributed.
William Gibson Cazhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17387674413840435759noreply@blogger.com43tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14795068.post-92009369842325614932012-02-05T13:04:00.000+11:002012-02-05T13:04:32.040+11:00Catching death of coldMore
people die in the cold than the heat, always have, always will.
Heat also
kills, is often awfully uncomfortable, debilitating; however, much produce,
many animals, vegetation and life sustaining ecosystems flourish in balmy
weather, and in more regions of the world ... if the much heralded global
warming does arrive.
Nothing so
positive comes from the cold, from iciness: everything diesCazhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17387674413840435759noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14795068.post-19722517611529939442012-02-04T22:33:00.000+11:002012-02-04T22:33:35.661+11:00Mommy Dearest<!--[if gte mso 9]>
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Remember Goat FridayTM, at Jacob's place, which is regrettably defunct?
Back then, goats were safe and sound in the interwebs.
I think Jacob's goat is roaming, elusively, in the streets and road of Melbourne, causing havoc for CityLink personnel, who don't have the skills or experience to find or capture goats.
That's what happens when a blog closes down: unintended consequences.
Cazhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17387674413840435759noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14795068.post-72275247651360706292012-02-01T01:02:00.000+11:002012-02-01T01:02:00.868+11:00Wednesday Wisdom
My first impulse, when presented with any spanking-new piece of computer hardware, is to imagine how it will look in 10 years’ time, gathering dust under a card table in a thrift shop.
William Gibson Cazhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17387674413840435759noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14795068.post-23297331181218394202012-01-29T21:15:00.000+11:002012-01-29T21:15:57.653+11:00Culbability<!--[if gte mso 9]>
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Canberra, Australia Day 2012 - Julia Gillard and Tony Abbott, united by close personal protection team.
We've only ever lost one Prime Minister, and that
was when Harold Holt donned a wet suit and swam out into the ocean, of his own volition.
A very Australian way to die. Not a protester, gun or Russian submarine
in sight. (Also very Australian to remember the lost PM by naming a
swimming Cazhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17387674413840435759noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14795068.post-67107276652464302992012-01-27T00:30:00.000+11:002012-02-03T21:05:47.885+11:00Duck Friday<!--[if gte mso 9]>
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is nice. Worth reading the whole thing.
Going native: John van Tiggelen (Good Weekend, The
Age, January 21, 2012)
I share a
town in Central Victoria with John Pasquarelli. You might recall him - he was
the croc-hunting über-patriot with a head like a grenade who groomed Pauline
Hanson for politics. As a reporter back then with the Townsville Bulletin, I
used to see a fair bit of himCazhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17387674413840435759noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14795068.post-22725362963211591832012-01-26T17:21:00.002+11:002012-01-26T17:23:56.359+11:00Lucky to be an Australian II
40 years in the making?!
Close personal security staff nearly drop their employee - the PM
‘‘We were peacefully celebrating the 40th anniversary of
the aboriginal tent embassy. The opposition leader on national
television made a comment to tear down something that have built over 40
years, which is sacred to us,’’ he said.
‘‘So what do you expect us Cazhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17387674413840435759noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14795068.post-9078276887349876062012-01-26T10:54:00.003+11:002012-01-26T10:54:53.536+11:00Lucky to be an Australian
Happy Australia Day
Cazhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17387674413840435759noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14795068.post-91300760620652216412012-01-25T02:00:00.000+11:002012-01-25T02:00:02.298+11:00Wednesday Wisdom
He could pass for any urbane man about town.
The Shepparton News, complimenting Tim Mathieson (December 2011)
Cazhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17387674413840435759noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14795068.post-45781231892341497902012-01-22T20:40:00.000+11:002012-01-22T20:40:03.093+11:00Loaded and on the way to losingSince federation, only eight of 44 proposed constitutional
amendments have been approved by the Australian public.
The latest potential referendum proposal has no support
in the ‘burbs, going by last week's online voting, no matter which newspaper
poll.
The Australian, taking a not infrequent lurch to the
loony-left (contrary to the loony-left and loony-green hysterical accusations),
Cazhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17387674413840435759noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14795068.post-85407687542877286692012-01-22T12:23:00.003+11:002012-01-22T12:23:58.944+11:00Every second counts
Shocking proposal to abandon the leap second!
Won't someone think of the children!
Nations go toe to toe over time glitch
Cazhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17387674413840435759noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14795068.post-3885154488428259432012-01-21T21:37:00.001+11:002012-01-21T21:43:28.415+11:00Total tool
Total tool Tony Abbott - and would-be Prime Minister - has yet again demonstrated why he's a loose cannon waiting in the wings to do maximum damage to this little country.
"
... The comment about the sinking of the Italian cruise ship came during an interview yesterday morning on the Adelaide Triple M breakfast show with Ali Carle, Dale Lewis and Warren Tredrea.
At one point during the Cazhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17387674413840435759noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14795068.post-57192905799792287482012-01-20T02:30:00.000+11:002012-01-20T02:30:04.625+11:00Duck FridayCazhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17387674413840435759noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14795068.post-41691620393742994632012-01-18T01:30:00.000+11:002012-01-18T01:30:00.360+11:00Wednesday Wisdom
This little flower, this delicate little beauty, this cream puff ... He is simply a shiver looking for a spine to run up.
Paul Keating (describing John Hewson)
Cazhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17387674413840435759noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14795068.post-23007078746659603262012-01-13T00:30:00.000+11:002012-01-13T00:30:05.227+11:00Duck FridayCazhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17387674413840435759noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14795068.post-353495581501864702012-01-11T04:40:00.000+11:002012-01-16T20:45:26.870+11:00Wednesday Wisdom
Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say: ‘She doesn’t have what it takes’. They will say: ‘Women don’t have what it takes’.”
(more than 50 years ago) Clare Boothe Luce
Cazhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17387674413840435759noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14795068.post-53040590034703394842012-01-08T19:39:00.003+11:002012-01-08T19:39:43.902+11:00Cause of obesity identified: goats
Betty the python – Gosford - evidence of goat diet
.
Cazhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17387674413840435759noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14795068.post-1954049633417611912012-01-07T22:51:00.001+11:002012-01-07T22:51:54.000+11:00Not newsworthyMore than 3000 people - mostly women and children - were slaughtered in Sudan the other day.
This news rated a couple of paragraphs buried inside the local tabloid today. Couldn't find a mention of it in The Age or The Australian.
Slaughter in Southern Sudan Cazhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17387674413840435759noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14795068.post-23589290839517553342012-01-06T11:52:00.000+11:002012-01-06T11:52:32.651+11:00Carbon tax kills soft drinks industry!Yet another unintended consequence of the mindless, unsophisticated practice of bunging a tax on anything that allegedly requires a government intervention: the soft drink industry is running short of carbon dioxide (which used to put the fizz into your mixers and your Coke).
While the ALP/Greens inspired tax won’t be introduced until the middle of this year, carbon dioxide is already on the Cazhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17387674413840435759noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14795068.post-84988074778625777132012-01-06T02:55:00.000+11:002012-01-06T02:55:00.658+11:00Duck FridayCazhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17387674413840435759noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14795068.post-16455017041265844702012-01-04T14:12:00.003+11:002012-01-04T14:14:56.270+11:00Extreme weather all in the landscape?
I don’t know who he is, but I like Australian landscape restorer, Peter Andrews.
“He discounts the argument that we are seeing the impact of global warming. ''The whole global warming argument misses the point. Yes, we are facing an environmental disaster. Yes, it is urgent. Yes, it is caused by our own activities. But we have misdiagnosed the problem … In terms of dealing with Australia's Cazhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17387674413840435759noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14795068.post-23786929379688782852012-01-04T14:03:00.004+11:002012-01-04T14:15:22.061+11:00Herrings come and herrings go
Tens of thousands of dead herring have carpeted a stretch of coast in northern Norway - and then disappeared again.
Herrings
Cazhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17387674413840435759noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14795068.post-38324676570510029752012-01-04T08:08:00.000+11:002012-01-04T08:08:01.007+11:00Wednesday Wisdom
Any girl can be glamorous ... all you have to do is stand still and act stupid.
Hedy Lamarr
Cazhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17387674413840435759noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14795068.post-63200929780508401632012-01-01T00:00:00.000+11:002012-01-04T12:55:58.362+11:002012
Two important dates to mark for 2012:
- The transit of Venus (for us, 6 June, I believe), which will not happen again until 2117 (only iJustin will still be around to see the next one)
- The end of the world (yes ... again!) at 12 o’clock on 21 December.
Other than that, should be pretty much same old, same old.
(Happy birthday Mum.)Cazhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17387674413840435759noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14795068.post-76646719411298839832011-12-30T14:18:00.000+11:002011-12-30T14:18:27.139+11:00Amending the calendar
Residents of Samoa will go to bed tonight and irrevocably lose an entire day, and it won't be due to collective debauchery or general drunkenness.
No, Samoa is sensibly aligning their days and times with us and our first cousins, all the better to do business.
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It will be December 29 when they go to bed and Saturday December 31 when they awaken - meaning Cazhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17387674413840435759noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14795068.post-9657498998151424372011-12-30T01:47:00.000+11:002011-12-30T01:47:01.610+11:00Duck Friday
Happy New Year
Cazhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17387674413840435759noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14795068.post-21576833309090134702011-12-28T11:33:00.000+11:002011-12-28T11:33:24.957+11:00Digital darkness
I found time to do ironing yesterday, and washing of the kitchen floor.
On the eve of Christmas (or Xams, as iJustin prefers), my trusty dirt cheap second hand computer suffered a fatal hard drive problem, from which no amount of CPR elicited resurrection. When your hard drive makes gurgly and screeching noises, you know you’re in serious trouble.
When system restore insists there’s no good Cazhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17387674413840435759noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14795068.post-21527038970099062122011-12-28T08:05:00.000+11:002011-12-28T08:05:00.130+11:00Wednesday Wisdom
Do your damnedest in an ostentatious manner all the time.
General George Patton
Cazhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17387674413840435759noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14795068.post-136740373251216162011-12-25T02:00:00.000+11:002011-12-25T02:00:10.548+11:00Happy ChristmasCazhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17387674413840435759noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14795068.post-75413295060135153932011-12-23T01:45:00.000+11:002011-12-23T01:45:01.720+11:00Duck Friday
Crispy Duck
Cazhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17387674413840435759noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14795068.post-22211195593017538302011-12-21T01:50:00.000+11:002011-12-21T01:50:00.130+11:00Wednesday Wisdom
If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.
George Bernard Shaw
Cazhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17387674413840435759noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14795068.post-80754287875461928382011-12-19T11:30:00.001+11:002011-12-19T12:44:41.706+11:00Real history will see Gillard and Abbott gone - and damned
... there’s a belief that Tony Abbott is popular in the suburbs and
regions; that his everyman no-nonsense conservatism goes down well with real,
everyday, average etc Australians.
There’s
a more general belief among politics watchers that a politician, particularly
an opposition leader, must personally “connect” with key parts of the
electorate. It’s rubbish; just think of most successful Cazhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17387674413840435759noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14795068.post-7376102167362277422011-12-19T11:15:00.000+11:002011-12-19T12:48:24.383+11:00Keating: Twenty Years Ago Today
Although some suggest that Keating may not want the attention and is
not seeking to bask in the glory of the past, Brereton says, "drawing
down on the vital legacy of our movement is something that we should
always do."
But on Monday's anniversary, the Labor Party will be holding a trivia night at the Trades Hall in Sydney.
A trivia night? Yep. Sounds about right for the Labor Cazhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17387674413840435759noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14795068.post-26029068247467800212011-12-16T22:13:00.003+11:002011-12-16T22:18:13.686+11:00Really?
Everyone from god downwards sent their thoughts, love, prayers and wishes to Molly (Meldrum) during the last 24 hours. I think Michael Chugg did too, in his own way:
"I was peaking to (UK promoter) Harvey Goldsmith in London" he told ABC radio in Melbourne "... and they're just mortified, you know it's gone around the world".
Cazhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17387674413840435759noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14795068.post-82169055425338628022011-12-16T21:47:00.001+11:002011-12-19T11:33:59.722+11:00Paper cut upsets little states
The never ending catalog of misplaced human outrage:
The Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet (DPCD) has cancelled their subscriptions to newspapers from everywhere other than London, Sydney, Melbourne and Canberra.
Yes, let's get all huffy about the PMs own department's lack of interest in the rest of Australia.
Let's not be outraged at:
- cost savings: $9569
- continued spend on hard Cazhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17387674413840435759noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14795068.post-14778854426263611692011-12-16T21:28:00.001+11:002011-12-16T21:34:17.261+11:00Hitchens
Christopher Hitchens, gone - December, 2011
His vision of earthly bliss: "To be vindicated in my own lifetime."
His ideal way to die: "Fully conscious, and either fighting or reciting (or fooling around)."
Cazhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17387674413840435759noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14795068.post-39340585187794289742011-12-16T01:40:00.000+11:002011-12-16T01:40:00.402+11:00Duck FridayCazhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17387674413840435759noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14795068.post-44368609211399193532011-12-14T22:02:00.000+11:002011-12-14T22:06:13.515+11:00Karl Lagerfeld is a small, annoying cock
Last week in Paris at a long table laid for high tea with
a maharajah, around which the world's most expensive and expensively
dressed models paraded in his latest collection, [Karl Lagerfeld] cast himself as the
Queen of Hearts, pronouncing he was inspired by India because ''even the
poor have dignity there''.
With Wonderland logic, he explained that this was
evidenced by the fact Cazhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17387674413840435759noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14795068.post-45309720118017431022011-12-14T03:34:00.000+11:002011-12-14T03:34:01.062+11:00Wednesday Wisdom
Fear of the neighbours has driven aggression for 50,000 years. Internal and international conflict remains essentially tribal. Fear of the "other", the people who aren't us, is at the heart of conflicts between civilisations and between factions in the ALP.
Phillip Adams (2011)
Cazhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17387674413840435759noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14795068.post-15360536526493642782011-12-11T18:51:00.001+11:002011-12-11T18:58:24.535+11:00Toys R Us
When
Julia Gillard said "We are us" in her speech to Labor's national
conference on the weekend, most thinking people assumed she had lost the plot.
Other than as an exercise in pop banality, it made no sense.
But perhaps it was a coded message
to the furious rosy-cheeked man in the front row: We are us, Kevin, and you're
not. Get over it.
She really said that?
She's actually the Cazhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17387674413840435759noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14795068.post-82397903425507898232011-12-09T22:33:00.001+11:002011-12-11T18:46:25.965+11:00Another wrong inquiry
Back in July, my brief foaming at
the mouth rant about the tawdry corrupt tender process
for the Australian overseas broadcasting service - Australia Network - elicited
little to no interest from my small but adored readership.
I'm still foaming, and can't
believe how little the public care about yet another truly gobsmacking ALP
perversion of governance.
And those who do care, a tiny Cazhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17387674413840435759noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14795068.post-42588452578227261382011-12-09T21:20:00.001+11:002011-12-09T21:23:40.205+11:00Social Network 2
Ever wondered what a post-apocalypse Facebook-free world would look like?
Coming to a theatre near Somewhere ... Social Network 2.
Cazhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17387674413840435759noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14795068.post-28982554376078815772011-12-09T03:30:00.000+11:002011-12-09T03:30:02.105+11:00Duck FridayCazhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17387674413840435759noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14795068.post-6027573238820949072011-12-07T01:32:00.000+11:002011-12-07T01:32:00.306+11:00Wednesday Wisdom
As we have seen, great earthquakes, forest fires and mass extinctions are all merely the expected large fluctuations that arise universally in nonequilibrium systems. To avoid them, one would have to alter the laws of nature.Mark Buchanan
Cazhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17387674413840435759noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14795068.post-74297492095442150332011-12-04T13:30:00.001+11:002011-12-04T14:51:42.972+11:00Revisiting Turnbull's limitations
Malcolm Turnbull isn't nearly as bright in politics as he was in the private sector. It's not, as Sheridan argues, that he seems incapable of taking the longer view, it's that he clearly has no friggin' idea what he's talking about - yet persists anyway: good for him! At least he can do no harm, and never will - unlike Abbott and Gillard.
It's irrelevant that these observations are made in Cazhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17387674413840435759noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14795068.post-15983116817920850312011-12-03T19:16:00.001+11:002011-12-03T22:46:50.685+11:00Who has the sourer grapes?
Rudd is a vengeful, vain man; we know that, but he has, this past year, popped up all over the place with a large grin and a remarkably happy disposition.
Gillard, on the other hand, fronted the ALP conference yesterday, giving an banal (as usual) speech (although Rudd, as PM, was guilty of the same sin; remember his droning acceptance speech, the night he beat Howard?), mentioning every formerCazhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17387674413840435759noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14795068.post-4804830789556203872011-12-02T03:28:00.000+11:002011-12-02T03:28:00.940+11:00Duck FridayCazhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17387674413840435759noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14795068.post-86447807134072149762011-11-30T22:35:00.001+11:002011-11-30T22:56:03.378+11:00Ratatouille
Slipper in the House
Cazhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17387674413840435759noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14795068.post-81979349245129351972011-11-30T08:55:00.000+11:002011-11-30T08:55:00.316+11:00Wednesday Wisdom
It always seemed strange to me that the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, aquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self interest are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first, they love the produce of the second. John Cazhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17387674413840435759noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14795068.post-54916406344497375572011-11-26T10:06:00.001+11:002011-11-26T11:57:22.681+11:00Peer reviewed - Climate forecasts exaggerated
It's a relief to see real science being reported - not politicians frowning with deep concern and intoning as if they have a clue, nor a single claim to "consensus" - just good old fashioned peer reviewed research:
Dramatic forecasts of global warming resulting from a doubling of atmospheric carbon dioxide have been exaggerated, according to a peer-reviewed study by a team of international Cazhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17387674413840435759noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14795068.post-64759144281195484572011-11-25T03:25:00.000+11:002011-11-25T03:25:00.091+11:00Duck FridayCazhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17387674413840435759noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14795068.post-25687162298338864342011-11-24T21:59:00.001+11:002011-11-24T22:05:51.347+11:00Bronwyn Bishop finds something to do!
Liberals MPs Kelly
O’Dwyer (a director of Bowls Australia) and Seniors spokeswoman Bronwyn
Bishop tabled a petition with over 37,000 signatures yesterday calling for
the ABC to bring bowls back Australian TV screens. The pair are accusing Auntie
of breaching its own charter by scrapping bowls coverage.
It's time to throw our support
behind angry lawn bowlers and bowling fans; they deserve toCazhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17387674413840435759noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14795068.post-22612148163107616182011-11-23T11:11:00.000+11:002011-11-23T11:11:00.071+11:00Wednesday Wisdom
The history of our race, and each individual’s experience, are sown thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill and that a lie told well is immortal.
Mark Twain
Cazhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17387674413840435759noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14795068.post-32408222921377472982011-11-22T22:18:00.001+11:002011-11-22T22:26:05.889+11:00140 more laws and counting
The Gillard government might (ok - does) suck, but unfortunately they're a whiz at passing new and revised laws.
''No man's life, liberty or property are safe while the legislature is
in session,'' wrote a 19th century lawyer.
The fewer sitting days the
better. The father of liberalism, John Locke, argued that while
parliament was better than monarchy, parliamentarians need to be
Cazhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17387674413840435759noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14795068.post-39397930398328834812011-11-21T21:04:00.001+11:002011-11-21T21:22:52.706+11:00Why?
The Age online poll question:
Is Australia doing enough to maintain good relations with China?
Majority say no.
How did it get to this?
When did we become the country that feels an burning need to be aligned with China; a large Communist country whose rulers don't and never will give a rat's arse about *upsetting* Australia. You never see those guys hand-wringing over the allure, or Cazhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17387674413840435759noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14795068.post-34379886940815011472011-11-21T20:59:00.001+11:002011-11-21T21:03:54.038+11:00I'm confused
European drink makers have been banned from claiming water can prevent dehydration.
WU officials in Brussels have said that a three year investigation found no evidence to prove the previously undisputed fact.
Companies making the claim for hydration will face a two year jail sentence.
Pass the gin and tonic. Cazhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17387674413840435759noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14795068.post-5839662794490409672011-11-18T01:00:00.000+11:002011-11-18T01:00:05.513+11:00Duck Friday
Ooops
Cazhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17387674413840435759noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14795068.post-23841695066798805162011-11-16T04:06:00.000+11:002011-11-16T04:06:00.229+11:00Wednesday Wisdom
It is humbling to discover how many of our glib assumptions, which
seem to us novel and plausible, have been tested before, not once but
many times and in innumerable guises; and discovered to be, at great
human cost, wholly false.
Paul Johnson
Cazhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17387674413840435759noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14795068.post-67087341305018502752011-11-15T19:25:00.001+11:002011-11-15T19:32:03.354+11:00A global shift on the pivot
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Cazhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17387674413840435759noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14795068.post-80732616991894231692011-11-11T00:30:00.000+11:002011-11-11T00:30:01.206+11:00Duck FridayCazhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17387674413840435759noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14795068.post-46196214186130003732011-11-09T21:12:00.003+11:002011-11-09T21:12:45.840+11:00Canberra Shock: one sensible man; one sensible policy idea
PEOPLE SMUGGLERS
Once again asylum-seekers have met unnecessary deaths at sea. People smugglers are to blame.
We
need to break their business plan by offering, for a similar price, a
safe passage to Australia by air. Why doesn't the Government license an
agency that will do just that?
The agency would operate
wherever people smugglers are to be found. The stream of Cazhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17387674413840435759noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14795068.post-69553054136109514862011-11-09T21:05:00.001+11:002011-11-09T21:05:31.991+11:00Baggage handler still not guilty
Schapelle Corby is still guilty.
Nothing has changed since the boogie board was unzipped at the Bali airport more than six years ago.
Now someone has written a book to explain, at length, everything we already knew.
At the end of the book, I predict that Corby will still be guilty.
I also predict that Corby will spend the rest of her life being shrill and furious at having been caught.
Cazhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17387674413840435759noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14795068.post-60425613063805481942011-11-09T20:54:00.001+11:002011-11-09T20:54:26.331+11:00They won't follow her, follow her, follow her
Julia Gillard's introduction of a
carbon tax has been praised at the latest economic summit for showing
the way on climate change but Australia is being isolated within the G20
on carbon pricing as members retreat due to changing priorities and
economic pressure.
And the prices within the Emission Trading Scheme in Europe continue to crash and burn; that would be the only ETS that will be Cazhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17387674413840435759noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14795068.post-44183040047705981682011-11-09T04:04:00.000+11:002011-11-09T04:04:00.503+11:00Wednesday Wisdom
He is simply a shiver looking for a spine to run up.
Paul Keating
Cazhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17387674413840435759noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14795068.post-81932588393724743652011-11-08T20:57:00.001+11:002011-11-08T21:00:18.296+11:00Inquiry to stop public buying Murdoch papers commences
Now that our hyper-powers-that-be have all figured out that Murdoch does not own 70 per cent of print media in this country, everyone is being hyper-pedantic so as to be able to continue quoting the 70 per cent figure without - you know, LYING.
It's an extraordinary deception, one which our inadequate media is yet to bang on about; is yet to hold politicians to account; the latter, supposedly Cazhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17387674413840435759noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14795068.post-3929049636884585512011-11-05T19:11:00.000+11:002011-11-05T19:18:52.975+11:00Lies about Murdoch and the murky Greens
The Murdoch Media Inquiry, bludgeoned into existence by the Australian Greens, albeit, Gillard and her woeful government was an eager bride, is at least partly driven by a lie.
Remember the figure, the concentration of Murdoch's power?
He, or News Ltd, of which he is the majority sharedholder, to be more accurate, supposedly owns - and therefore influences the editorial content of - 70 perCazhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17387674413840435759noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14795068.post-81322553528073438142011-11-04T01:30:00.000+11:002011-11-04T01:30:03.379+11:00Duck FridayCazhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17387674413840435759noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14795068.post-2863101125869044552011-11-02T21:21:00.000+11:002011-11-02T21:21:09.635+11:00Police Occupy John.G.Martin's street
Police Occupy John.G.Martin's street while cleaning up Squatting Occupiers (try saying that when you're had a few).
Drunka, unlike the rest of us, doesn't have to pilfer his news from real news sources; he just has to sit at home waiting, and, in due course, if he feels sufficiently alerted, look out the window - and there it is, news unfolding, as he scratches his testicles.
There they Cazhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17387674413840435759noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14795068.post-48501361809458163842011-11-02T19:46:00.003+11:002011-11-02T19:51:35.694+11:00A whole pile of reasons why Andrew Bolt is sometimes ok and Paul Ehrlich isn't
What makes us so hungry to be told we're doomed, even by people we should mock? Especially by. Take Paul Ehrlich.
Actually, it's a miracle he's
dropped in on us, since by his past predictions he should be
half-starved and short of petrol for his wooden jet.
Yet this professor of
population studies at Stanford University is among us again, well-fed
and cheerfully predicting some Cazhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17387674413840435759noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14795068.post-14329837890499144002011-11-02T04:02:00.000+11:002011-11-02T04:02:00.472+11:00Wednesday Wisdom
He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.William Faulkner (about Ernest Hemingway)
Cazhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17387674413840435759noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14795068.post-7390418675538599402011-11-01T16:15:00.001+11:002011-11-01T16:16:00.987+11:00If Shakespeare didn't, who did?
1. Not a single manuscript has been found in William Shakespeare's handwriting. Not even notes or correspondence.
2. Shakespeare was born to illiterate parents, and both of his children were also illiterate.
3. Shakespeare was not a member of the upper class, but wrote extensively about them with great insight.
4. The only examples of Shakespeare's Cazhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17387674413840435759noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14795068.post-62159983054866443382011-10-28T02:30:00.000+11:002011-10-28T02:30:02.854+11:00Duck FridayCazhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17387674413840435759noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14795068.post-15219264058519552992011-10-27T20:56:00.001+11:002011-10-31T19:30:26.568+11:00Overland done over
Former Victorian Chief Commissioner of Police, Simon Overland, was accused, pillared, generally insulted, tarred and feathered, and lost his job.
He was especially and specifically smeared for referring matters relating to Sir Ken Jones to the Office of Police Integrity (OPI) for investigation.
Turns out every son of bitch commentator was wrong, except for Overland. The bastards really wereCazhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17387674413840435759noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14795068.post-21671596518542704742011-10-26T21:02:00.002+11:002011-10-26T21:03:25.577+11:00Le long
The l'Academie nationale de chirurgie, established in 1731, is alarmed by the rise in penis enlargement surgeries in France, so have published a handy-dandy guide, in the hope that men who might otherwise consider the artificial enhancement option come to their senses when they see that they do, in fact, measure up without assistance.
A "normal" penis should be between 9 and 9.5 centimetres (Cazhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17387674413840435759noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14795068.post-55829975507016189552011-10-26T01:39:00.000+11:002011-10-26T01:39:00.606+11:00Wednesday WisdomPut your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour.
Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. That's
relativity.
Abraham LincolnCazhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17387674413840435759noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14795068.post-82376715057383055702011-10-25T22:03:00.003+11:002011-10-25T22:03:37.842+11:00Tim Flannery: can someone get the guy a compass
Does anyone understand Tim Flannery's moral foundations, his bearings?
Does he?
Does he have any?
Flannery is vigorously on the side of backs coal-seam gas and mining industry, and is warning of "social dislocation" across the country if farmers don't play nice with the mining industry. And this:
"I went around talking to farmers who told me tales of woe about coal-seam methane Cazhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17387674413840435759noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14795068.post-84246381073922710702011-10-24T21:20:00.001+11:002011-10-24T21:22:01.000+11:00Cheesy
The Global Retail Theft Barometer 2011 has found that cheese is the most stolen food item in the world, based on a survey of 1,187
retailers in 43 countries.
The study found that one of the
reasons cheese is a frequent target for thieves is that it comes in
“small, mobile formats that make it easy to conceal by thieves.” Which only especially makes sense if the cheese of choice is the Cazhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17387674413840435759noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14795068.post-59727975158723698512011-10-23T21:18:00.002+11:002011-10-23T21:18:23.957+11:00Less than 1 per cent of companies hold 40 per cent of world's wealth
If you think that 40 per cent of the world's wealth being concentrated in only 147 companies is ok, then you'll never need lose sleep over how pathetically powerless you are over your financial well-being and security. The great moral challenge of our times, the great inter-generational crime, is not life-essential carbon dioxide, it's the obscene concentration of wealth in the hands of so Cazhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17387674413840435759noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14795068.post-24869797718286770272011-10-22T19:40:00.002+11:002011-10-26T19:15:03.391+11:00Occupy Melbourne
Occupy Melbourne protesters have "vowed" to continue with the cause after the police clean-out of city square yesterday, with a quite and wet turn out today, marching about the city, we'll await developments - if any - next week. I hope they, or others, have the stamina to persist, but keeping in mind that this is Australia, and we're a passive, conservative lot, easily awed by authority, I Cazhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17387674413840435759noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14795068.post-2888647623865465042011-10-21T02:00:00.000+11:002011-10-21T02:00:05.600+11:00Duck FridayCazhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17387674413840435759noreply@blogger.com4