It is fair to say the Right has been feeling the ideological pinch lately. While the fussing and feuding has been going on, the Hard Left in Australia continues its moral decay at an impressive clip with hardly a mention.
Take the animal liberationist group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. Usually PETA spends the bulk of its energy and time routinely supplying the ABC’s Four Corners with free footage, allowing the current affairs program to work within its budget. It’s a win-win, provided you’re a card-carrying member of PETA or a journo with an insatiable thirst for a gold Walkley.
Yesterday it surfaced PETA had written to the management of Hunters and Collectors urging the band to change its name to something less violent and antagonistic. The thought being the band, first formed in 1981, might now be inadvertently encouraging young kiddies to load up the shotties, the pig dogs and several cartons of Emu Bitter and go out blasting away at ecosystems various in a frivolous manner.
Full column here.
Murray Ball…..sigh
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I rather liked TA’s tribute to Bill Leak today. Concise and thoughtful – and accurate.
From all sides of politics there hasn’t been a bad word – a tribute in itself.
Except for a rump of hard-left loonies on Twitter. “Am I glad he’s dead? Of course”. True colours showing there.
What breathtaking gall, Mr Insider as we read: “Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has brushed off questions about the federal implications of the Liberal Party’s catastrophic performance in the West Australian election, saying the result had been “expected for quite some time”. Now is this the same little chappy who only recently said Newspolls don’t matter! The same wally who used negative Newspolls to bring down Abbott. I say again, Mr Insider, “what gall”. Meanwhile the Polls toll for thee Malcolm, ohhh yes. Probably wouldn’t matter what leader the Federal Libs have now they resemble a Christmas Turkey – stuffed!
http://tinyurl.com/jjl3w7a
Just looking at Bill, thin, good bod, a physique I wld long for. Obviously he would be exposed to healthy food on his wage, probably has regular check-ups and looking forward to a long life…then there is me. A fat overweight bag of shit on blood pressure tablets surviving at 70 with a new baby due in May for Christ’s sake.
Is it more about how the cards are given out or how they fall Bald?
It can happen without reason or warning. I had a mate who had a history of heart disease in his family. His brother and father all died young from heart attacks. Ross then, was vigilant about his weight, blood pressure, cholesterol and had 2 years before retirement.
My wife phoned me one day from tispotal where she worked as an RN and said “Guess what…we have just got Ross in. Dropped dead on the golf course”. I was amazed. Here was a bloke who looked like a picture of health…gone in the prime of his life. Just like Bill.
Sad Café.
ON A BRIGHTER NOTE:- SOUTHSOUTHSOUTHSOUTHS…of all the teams we luurrrve to beat it is ALWAYS…the SILVERTAILS.
Bassy: Couple of reports I have read indicate that he was a smoker and enjoyed a drop or two. Definite health hazard when combined but especially the former. But he was someone who lived life to the full. Add the stress of the Islamic fatwa (or whatever it was they took out on him) and being forced to sell up and move to a safe house.
Really sad
“then there is me. A fat overweight bag of shit . . .” Easy there, comrade. You’ll cause a demarcation dispute. Calling you names is our job.
But you’re right. There is very often no good reason why, really. Modern medicine, in my humble and inexpert opinion, is very largely about giving us the illusion of control over our fates. A lot of it (not all) is not a lot more effective than sacrificing to the gods for their favour whilst being a lot less colourful and a lot more expensive.
We have just had Greg Doolan die up here from the multi award winning band Wickety Wak. The Mrs and I were at one of his shows. Great show…he looked as healthy as anything. Next thing I hear “Greg Doolan died suddenly after a short illness”. Knocked me right over. A great muso who won so many Entertainer of The Year Awards he had to stop going in it!! Normie Rowe, all the big names at his funeral.
http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/queensland/entertainment-community-in-mourning-following-the-death-of-wickety-wak-frontman-greg-doolan/news-story/2589fc2baa773da5b38afe652afd825a
Remember Paul Landa, Neville Wran’s attorney general? Fit as a mallee bull, dropped dead playing tennis at 43.
way above my pay scale bass…and yeah bunnies
Bassy:
Thanks for pointing me in the direction of Prof Cox demolishing Malcolm Roberts. Never watch Q&A, so missed it.
uTubed it – thoroughly enjoyable. Refreshing to see someone smart keep his cool and totally annihilate a fool!
…and they say the Greenz are the Wacko party! Wants to take fluoride out of the water supply…also…
Mad Putin statement
Adores Trumper
Mad vaccination statement
Mad deal with Libs
Against ANY tax to tax polluters
Will vote with Turnbull to cut weekend penalty rates
Ban ALL Muslim immigration… MADNESS
Will stop the bureau of Meteorology ‘stop lying’
Wants to ban Islamic Schools
Wants a Royal Commission into Islam
Climate changes is a NASA conspiracy
….well this is just for starters!
Exactly, B’man. It’s become a cliché that “people are angry out there”, and that this is why ON exists. But the problem is they’re not all angry about the same things, and a good deal of the anger isn’t even rational. It’s one thing to be angry about unemployment, wages, or taxes, or even immigration, but quite another to be mad at science, or flouride, or a book.
The companion cliché is that “the government isn’t listening”. But it’s one thing not to listen, and quite another to listen but not be able to please everyone; and yet another to listen, and then decide not to do what’s demanded because it’s insane.
A being true does not preclude B being true.
Speaking of departed toonists, Murray Ball has left the building too. Sigh. I was a long-time fan of Footrot Flats, and his lefty caveman Stanley too. Sad days.
Yes, I nearly choked on my wheaties this morning when I saw Aussie No. 1 feminist, Cate Blanchett, proclaiming in a TV interview on America’s ‘The Stephen Colbert Late Show’ that her moral compass is located in her vagina.
It now seems quite clear that all the publicised groping by the now POTUS Trump was nothing more than an honourable search after all.
Bet me old mate JB (if he happened to catch the interview) would be nonplussed.
Uncanny. Cate was taking the piss Carl. Clue! She wasn’t using her own voice, and it was hilarious.
What a brilliant woman.
Interested in reactions I had a quick butcher’s around. Scroll down to the comments section to see what your knuckle dragging mates at Breitbart had to say.
http://www.breitbart.com/big-hollywood/2017/03/08/cate-blanchett-stephen-colbert-moral-compass-vagina/
It was inexplicable alright, and perhaps she was taking the mickey JB.
However, it seems a shallow world that some of those film folk inhabit. Always peeking over each others inflated egos and attempting to create a connection between functioning genitalia and the bundle of greenbacks one is worth.
I see the WA socialists have won in a sandslide.
Not a very stable base for the future in that neck of woods, one would have thought.
stable as man…$40b in debt, credit rating clubbed, $3b deficits to look forward to. all at the end of an enormous boom. twas GST distributions what dunnit
Nah nah n’ nah nah! Suck it up.
Nice to see this message from Jacqui Lambie – from one larrikin to another! Say what you like about her, Jacqui has the ability to laugh at herself and not give a damn. Bill lampooned the bejesus out of her.
“Rest in peace Bill Leak. Thanks for all the laughs while I’ve been in politics. Your Australian larrikinism will be missed.”
It will be interesting to watch the repercussions in the federal Coalition now – after the disastrous decision to preference PHON ahead of the Nats. I suspect feathers will fly in all directions.
Good to see PHON get battered – where will those who were thinking of protest voting with her go now?