IF you’re like me, you’re sick to death of the Barnaby Joyce story already and it has only been out there for little more than a day.
And oh, how the Op-Eds rolled out, like a torrent spewed out by the terabyte.
What we might kindly call the new media babbled on about conspiracies between the press gallery and the parliament. Democracy denied was the collective shriek, as if the readers of these inner-city websites were exclusively the denizens of New England.
Joyce won New England with a 7 per cent swing and if an election was held in his seat tomorrow my best guess is he would win by a similar margin.
Even during the campaign Twitter knew. I knew and I didn’t care. Indeed, during the New England by-election campaign, mainstream media reported Joyce was no longer living at the family home. Any journalist worth his or her salt could have chased the story down.
Full column here.
I guess
Yeah, nah. Not that shitsheet.
@ JtI
OOh just read your re-tweet on the letters from Barnaby’s staffer. This is the sort of thing Labor should be bringing up in question time. I’d like a few questions answered. Maybe when he cant hide behind Turdbull we can get to the truth.
My husband says the only reason people are feeling sorry for Barnaby is because he is ugly. He feels that had Barnaby been a good looking man, he would have been crucified as a playboy womaniser. However, BJ being a fat ugly red man has been his trump sympathy card. He also said he thinks people think ugly people are more honest because they feel no-one that ugly could be a liar too. Of course thats wrong. Barnaby has been shown to be both as ugly as the proverbial hatfull, and a liar.
cheers all.
I haven’t seen where anybody is feeling sorry for Barnaby Wraith.
…. and somewhere in a puppy basket on the other side of the world, Pistol and Boo roll around laughing their arses off.
Hahaha wraith 😋
Lucky Natalie has a fine time coming. When the menstrual hued monster is up to his piggy eyeballs in post natal female, tears, sore boobs, bleeding, moods swings, and best of all, a crying baby and a pile of stinking dirty nappies, the beautiful lady can dress up to the nines, get herself a hotty date and go out on the town. Adults doing it in style. Get a headline in New Idea, ‘my glamorous new life’. High heels and dancing!
You go girl!
Pretty shop soiled and tacky, even coming from you Wraith.
You just don’t understand female revenge.
“Gotta go to Canberra darl. Business.”
That’s if he sticks around Wraith….
Watched the Men’s Moguls till the early hours.
Awesome stuff – and our guy got the Silver medal!. Or should I be saying – he “silvered” ?
Crikey, hate to think what their knees feel like at rhe ripe old age of about 35 – they sure take a hammering.
Reading a leader for an article that says, “Police say they are searching for a man perceived to be of African appearance in relation to . . .”
Once upon a time it would have been, “Police are searching for an African man in relation to . . .”
Then it became, “Police are searching for a man of African appearance in relation to . . .”
Now we have the above. Soon it will be, “It is alleged that police say they are searching for what may be a man, perceived to be of African appearance, possibly, but not necessarily, in relation to . . .”
World’s gone mad.
I’m not happy with the mention of “man”, tbls. Far too nebulous for mine. Come to think of it so is “African”. Boa is African!
Or was African!
Weren’t we all?
Yep, but de-tribalised now, Milt.
Been an Australian for 30 years. Never been back to Africa.
I have. It’s still hot.
So are my Moroccan, Tunisian and Egyptian friends, Milton….they’re just not dark skinned or do they not count as being true “Africans”
Well, we could differentiate by using the words ‘negro’ and ‘Arab’ but I get the feeling that would be deemed a no-no.
So true TBLS…..
That’s my point, Penny there is a wide variety in what could “look African”.
You obviously missed the fact that the first Britons were dark skinned.
I know Milton. My Tunisian friend applied as a social experiment, to his American University for a scholarship for African-Americans (he has American citizenship). They didn’t give it to him obviously and when he asked why he was told there were “better applicants”…..he knew they couldn’t tell him it was because he wasn’t black enough 🙂
Nearly spat the cup of tea😂
Tea? that’s a first. I’ve never had a family intervention, thus far….
Thats funny, TBLS – but you can take the word “African” out of it. Absolutely not PC at the moment.
There was quite a revealing piece on 7 30 Report with Leigh Sales last night on the issues with these kids.
Fortunately I am still sans television and have no plans to change.
Peter Rabbit under fire:
http://www.news.com.au/world/breaking-news/peter-rabbit-faces-allergies-backlash/news-story/508f6d1077ff3811ed81854d013c0e9a
Why no outrage about the Roadrunner’s abuse of Wile E. Coyote, or the sadistic treatment of Tom by Jerry? Specism.
You might be less judgemental if you had an allergy to blackberries fella.
Looks like its “do as I say not as I do” for Barnaby Joyce, Mr Insider. Perhaps this wretch should be ‘considering his options” in light of the fact too he most likely will fill in for Turnbull next week as PM when Turnbull is OS. Standards are falling fast in the dishevelled Turnbull government imho.
https://tinyurl.com/ycnfxftp
Standards? The bar must be set on low HB.
2018 tipped to be the hottest year ever recorded, by some margin.
Is it just me, or does there seem to be a trend developing?
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-02-10/heatwave-to-hit-queensland-with-temperatures-as-high-as-46c/9417732
We Titwillow’s have lived in Queensland for over 100 years fellow and except for a few days this summer has been a balmy one. You seem to be drawing a wild erratic conclusion from such a short event is that your normal modus operandi?
Too long in Queensland Mr Titwillow. Far too long. No longer able to differentiate between Queensland and the planet Earth. Tragic, there are countries out there where the people speak a language you would not understand, there are…….. never mind that was probably too much all at once I suppose?
I’m assuming you married a Titwillow like your father and grandfather did?
https://e360.yale.edu/features/how_long_can_oceans_continue_to_absorb_earths_excess_heat
My dear Mr Titwillow, please forgive our ever hasty Mr Baptiste, a stout chap but do feel the “smoke” of Nimbin NSW circa late 60’s still lingers fogging up the brain. He also missed the entire Apollo Program and is in denial there too. Cheers, also from QLD is your humble correspondent.
Queenslanders. Idiots one day, imbeciles the next.
Hear, Hear. JB Hear, Hear,
There’s a trend developing alright JB. One of confusion. They were reporting this “hottest year ever” stuff back in 1934. The data was adjusted and it was then 1931. Then, whoops, it was back to 1921, followed by 1998, and so on. And we’re only talking 1/10 of a degree difference in many cases.
Rest easy me old mate, and keep out of the sun.
According to whom?
http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/global-warming/climate-deniers/koch-industries/
You struggling to keep up JB? The latest from NASA’s Goddard Institute is their report that 2014 was now the “warmest” year on record but admitted they were only 38 percent sure this was true. So they’re now unable to conclude if 2014, 2010 or 2005 was the warmest. There’s also talk of there not being a meaningful warming trend since 1997, and even if there had been an increase it was smaller than the MOE. So its all been a bit of a fizzer for the last 20 years.
They seem to be all over the shop. Nothing much to write home about me old mate.
PS. I’m wondering if there’s a difference between “warmest” and “hottest” in some of these reports. I suppose “hottest” is not preferred descriptor ’cause it would tend to frighten the horses; and we wouldn’t want that, eh.
Really? Lets see a link?
Press on the button for active.
https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/long-term-warming-trend-continued-in-2017-nasa-noaa
The world is safe while Carl is confused. Kind of works.
Aren’t trends what define climate “ages” and the seasons?
Oh hello! You must be a Queenslander. Does someone in your family understand what a graph is?
https://climate.nasa.gov/vital-signs/global-temperature/
milton used to get his mum to explain things but she gave up he now waits for support from others with comprehension deficit issues, like carl, lotd razor funny they are all old guys who cannot handle the fact they have lost all relevance. No Surprises.
Unfair Dismayed. They have relevance and some importance insofar as they put up their obedient little hands and make ridiculous statements which means we can put up links like this.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/science/ct-oceans-heat-climate-change-20170310-story.html
Treasure the silly old buggers, they cant learn.
And give ’em heaps anyway.
Didn’t they fake the moon landing?
Yes elements with NASA did. Totally different organisation now and I doubt any of the perpetrators still work there.
Keep flailing.
The element in the room?
Apologies! I forgot to give you a link!
Here, get some Goethe into ya’ It will help you understand the conservative condition.
https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/johann_wolfgang_von_goeth_134023
Its just you JB, its just the weather. In case you missed it, its middle of summer in hot Queensland right now.
Take a cold shower, or a religeous dip in the river if you feel more comfortable.
Lots of rabbits out today.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_U8eoyfEy8
Is it not beyond reason to be a no voter on same sex marriage, publicly advocate the “clichéd” underpinnings, the cultural and societal benefits/relevance of male/female marriage and be yet another human who has committed adultery, deceiving their partner and subjecting their children to an rude awakening. It is hardly rare and I fail to see the hypocrisy.
Yep, traditional marriage is between a man and a woman or two.
I agree Milton. But perhaps the advocate you appear to be alluding to, for the purposes of balance, should also have included cautionary advice during the plebiscite lead up that the reality of marriage sees over 46,000 registered divorces occur each year due to cheating, infidelity, bedroom boredom and the like. And that’s not to mention an even greater number of hetro bust ups of various long to medium term alliances, fusions, couplings, hook-ups, etc.
Not the ideal foundation and probable future for the SSM folk to so readily wish to jump into bed with one would have thought.
Yes, marriage per se as a long term proposition seems to have become a precarious, high risk institution where lack of commitment and human frailty are on the ascendancy.
True, and you forgot to mention domestic violence within marriage.
Yes indeed Milton, my omission.
Huh? In fact Milton it is quite rare for an elected representative to be purporting to support family certain values whilst acting in a manner contrary to those values, if the said representative should have the minimum requirement of brains to realise that exposure was inevitable.
If you fail to see the hypocrisy you are probably drunk.
“it is quite rare for an elected representative to be purporting to support family certain values whilst acting in a manner contrary to those values”.
Huh? You must have been at the bottle yourself, Jean or you’ve let your inner Pollyanna out for all to see.
Cheers Milt. I’m flattered. I was lampooning your dipsy writing style of course, but I fail to see where “Pollyanna” comes into it.
I wasn’t making a judgement on, or advocating for family values just underlining the hypocrisy.
Too subtle for you maybe?
Milton thinks “subtle” are those words than come up on the bottom of the TV screen.
Ahem, “quite rare” JB? You trying out your ostrich trick again me old mate?
Yes, rare to be so stupid Carl.