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.
Speaking of hunters and collectors, Lyon has three for early in the second Test, and Matty Wade has pulled off a neat stumping. Lyon had Kholi completely bamboozled.
Not bad for failures eh Dismayed? Geez I’m so glad your not a selector. Hohns is doing pretty ok at the minute btw.
He’s got six now, Lou. Bowling like the champion he is. Best spinner we’ve had since Warne obviously but if you take SKW out of the equation, Lyon’s record is very healthy relative to all other comers.
I was watching on replay after getting home late Jack. I think I’ll watch it all over again, a career best eight for was just exceptional. Talk about line and length.
Just a special mention for our mate also, with Wade taking two stumpings, who said he couldn’t stand up at the stumps?
He made a real mess of the first one, mate.
mmmm …..he might not be the ladies favourite partner for a waltz
One more Jack,the way Warner has controlled his natural urges in the first two Tests shows the bloke has some ticker. I think he’s giving the Indians the shits by being a different batsman than they thought. Young Renshaw looks like he’s having fun, which would piss the opposition off big time.
What were the odds of an Australian Series victory? I know I didn’t look, and I don’t want to put the mossie on them. but credit to the way Smith has pulled these guys together. In cricket, belief counts big time.
Win two and we keep the trophy I think
8 for 50 – what an effort – the 2nd best in Australia vs India tests. That combined with O’Keeffe’s figures in the first test should teach some of our spinners critics to pull their heads out of their dark areas.
He only ended up with 8/50 Lou. Good to go to stumps with no loss as well.
SOK brought Lyon into the game beautifully again. Kept the pressure on. Wade PFFFT.
Todays paper state that Lyons efforts were “the best performance by a visiting bowler in eight decades of cricket in India.” . Forget your singular swallows and the one summer, Lou that’s 8 decades!
It was a perfect display of Australian off spin bowling. As an example of sub continent offies, Ashwin tends to bowl with the seam almost horizontal, relying on turn for his wickets. Don’t get me wrong, he’s a gun. A very fine bowler. Lyon has the seam pointing to leg slip and aims at the r.h. bats’ thigh guards yand gets more bounce than turn. That’s what I mean about Australian off spin bowling. His length was perfect. In fact it was an almost perfect display. I don’t remember Lyon bowling a bad ball out 134. On top of that, it’s good to see a nice guy get rewarded for effort and skill. A mate of mine played with Lyon in the local Canberra grade comp ten years ago. They were both in third grade. A year later, Lyon was playing for Australia while my mate got dropped to the fourths. Funny game, cricket.
Fingers crossed this doesn’t turn into a funny game, Jack.
Anywho, time to head out for some suds and enjoy it.
The broadcaster showed a map of Lyons deliveries the grouping was McGrath like. Best performance of his career. Lets hope this give him the confidence and belief finally to bowl over the wicket like yesterday continually. Lets hope he can continue this sort of form.
Poor young M. Marsh the ball ran along the ground and hit him in front. He will come good if he is given the same opportunities others get. Geez Maxi would have been handy on this pitch too.
What to say about PETA? Not wanting to suggest that I endorse animal cruelty, but this lot are possibly the biggest dropkicks on the planets. With the possible exception of these Green nutters. Did these candidates suggest themselves Jack, or did you actually have to go looking for them as examples of optimum lunacy?
It’s always interesting to see how laudable ideas like “be fair to other people”, “be kinder to animals”, “don’t consume more stuff than you need” get hijacked by people who take them out to the bleeding edges of sanity and alienate so many who might otherwise have supported them. Extremism usually engenders more resistance than support.
It seems to be more about the proponents having shiny haloes than achieving anything good. Sarah Hanson-Young loves those off-shore immigration facilities because it gives her a reason to cry on TV. Sea Shepherd loves whale hunting because it lets them do their hero-pirate thing. Friends of the Earth love coal-fired power stations because it gives them something to chain themselves to. Al Gore loves global warming because he’s got rich from buying into businesses that rely on people being freaked out by global warming.
That’s bullshit & it’s weak TBLS.
We exist to defend the ecological integrity of the oceans and to safeguard marine diversity against poachers, greed and corruption. The whales are just one of a great number of marine species we try to protect with direct intervention tactics across the globe so if you actually believe our crews put their lives on the line in very hostile situations for some kind of hero status then you couldn’t be more wrong.
If we wait for the meek to inherit the Earth there won’t be a damn thing left to inherit mate so you’ll excuse me for calling you out on your incorrect assertion.
FYI The bulk of our funds are directed to our global campaigns to locate & shut down illegal overfishing and shark-fin operators. I meet people all the time who were blissfully unaware of how depleted our oceans are of fishstocks or how vital biodiversity is to the planet.
Regards, Bella
Mm-hm.
Strong stuff Bella. I quite agree. There’s nothing more piss weak than those who sit on their arses and do nothing, head in the sand “regular” people who bag those who have the insight, foresight and social consciousness to try and make a difference. It’s a pathetic obfuscation to cover for their self centered intellectual and moral laziness. Always sneering at what they want to see in the motivations of activists.
Go girl! Give the pompous gits heaps!
That was pretty pompous from you too JB. And I’d sit on my arse any day before I attached myself to a bunch of rolled gold maniacs like PETA. You also don’t get where I’m coming from re activists, but never mind. If you go along with everything they say and do, I presume that you’re a fan of the POTUS with the MOSTUS? Because blatant lying is what I’ve been on about.
Trivalve. Back up. I was replying to Bella’s response to The Swantoon. Refer to that post.
Your presumptions are based on your misunderstanding.
Don’t know if Al needed the money BLS?
Well, nobody who has more money than they need needs the money. It doesn’t stop them going after more of it. And of course, if you listen to Al, the money has nothing to do with it. Sure, it doesn’t.
So what! Even if your worst prejudice towards the bloke were true, does that mean he should not address AGW? What exactly is the Swantoonian criteria for an activist? One that you wouldn’t be dismissive of?
Greed is good, Bowmeister and if someone else has more moolah and toilets than you then you gotsa aim for some more.
I’ve always thought his and his (pc here) hand basins (?) in the ensuite (a shitter, pisser and shower in your bedroom!!) a burden on one’s cash in hand help. It’s a good thing I no understand her lingo, otherwise I ring up Dutt’s and off she goes.
To steal from you mate, where’s ya getup and go, it’s got up and went!
And I check out interiors and real estate for fun and inspiration and I oft wonder about the places that have two and a half bathrooms. Is this catering to the vertically challenged gone mad?
Milton, you poor sad sod, bound for Hell and who knows what damnations plaguing thee for eternity.
Capitalist pigs at the trough, never enough for thee, taking the food from the mouths of babes and mothers to fuel the want and greed.
Prepare thyself.
http://www.truthworks.org/the-five-signs-of-worshipping-mammon-part-1-of-2/
Yes, and the Liberal Party loves the unions and Nelson Mandela loved Apartheid and Pauline Hanson loves Islam and and Jonas Salk loved polio and Joe McCarthy loved Communism and Fred Hollows loved cataract blindness and Trump loves everyone! Everyone really loves whatever they’re fighting and anyway they’re only doing it to look good and get cash! And here I was thinking life was complicated!
BTW Jack, i just noticed the wee flag on the blog, i think it is one the Greens should be very pleased with. Lee might get an Order of Lenin or whatever it is they hand out these days.
It’s called Hero of the Russian Federation now mate and Lee’s would be richly deserved.
Sorry JTI – The grammar and spelling Nazi has arrived. “Lee’s”? Please forget the “‘s” at the end, and also forget any similar errors in my post ;-).
Kohli gorn! Nice Gary.
What was he thinking?
super cynical says $$$…….nah getaway
“Jesus H Christ Mal don’t come anywhere near WA”, shrills beleaguered WA Premier Colin Barnett who is in a battle for his political life, the WA election next weekend. Wise indeed Col but doubt he has to worry as suspect after Mals Penalty Rates balls up this week and the ongoing accumulating dud Newspolls, big Mal has locked himself in the Lodge Wine Cellar to take stock of his situation. The Polls toll for thee Malcolm just as they did for ex ousted PM Abbott!
http://tinyurl.com/hqosarj
just harking back to the last blog, i think grace collier nailed the role shorten played in the penalty rates in a way that the government has failed to do.
john i thought your frankenstein post re the liberals was accurate and amusing, but it also fits my recollection of years and years in the victorian labor party.
there were indeed lots of different tribes with vastly different views and agendas, and intra-party disputes were carried on with a fair bit more vigour than inter-party.
people used to say that it was the desire to win government that brought us all together as a broad church, but even that was problematic, as there was a sizeable rump with no interest at all in winning, just being pure to their ideology.
Gosh, here’s another good one from The Age:
”Why is our liquefied gas sold in Asia for $8/gigajoule when the wholesale price to Australian consumers is more than $12/gigajoule?”
The first question should be, “Is that true?”
cfmeu?
APPEA actually. I’ve read their white paper about domestic gas reservation and I don’t agree with them.
And here’s their rebuttal:
https://www.appea.com.au/2016/08/the-truth-about-domestic-and-export-gas-prices/
As I said, I don’t like their domestic reservation policy (i.e., don’t do it), but I suspect that in this case their alternate facts are more on the mark than those of the SMH. Of course, in Australia today, we want to ban gas exploration and extraction but get it cheap at the same time.
Which pretty much says all you need to know about our energy policy.
APPEA? Oh my. Why not just quote the IPA? There is evidence to show the Wholesale prices in Australia a higher than they should be. The AEMO and the gas cartels should be investigated. Since the removal of the ETS Australian wholesale Gas prices have jumped 65%.
http://reneweconomy.com.au/really-must-talk-gas-93076/
http://reneweconomy.com.au/gas-cartel-holding-nation-ransom-60079/
Dismayed, March 6, 2017 at 10:12 am, I think I clearly noted that I disagree with the lack of domestic reservation. I don’t support for a moment the way that the gas market is running. That doesn’t make the APPEA article incorrect.
Trivalve you do know who runs APPEA? Malcolm Roberts?
I don’t think it’s the same one Dismayed
I know its not the same one I just thought that it was curiously amusing.
Reader comment in The Age today:
”How is it that the French can double the size of the Paris metro at a fraction of the cost per station or per kilometre of tunnel that we are planning to spend on the Melbourne metro tunnel? It’s not as if France is a low-cost country”
Probably don’t have to be Einstein to answer that one – the CFMEU hasn’t hit France yet.
The industrial relations environment in France is a lot more adversarial than it is here. Gawd, if we had here some of the employment rules and regs they have there, the delcons would be ropeable.
Interesting then JTI. Efficiency must come into the equation somewhere surely? They have nuclear power – is that cheaper? The cost of materials? What have the frogs got that we haven’t?
It’s the world’s 6th largest economy on nominal gdp. High unemployment as with most of Europe but huge manufacturing and technology sectors.
Competition.
like the cfmeu are major sponsors of a post parliamentary career
Well you are certainly no Einstein. Australian contractors are the world’s best gougers. And I don’t mean gouging out tunnels.
When they are tied into what they have to shell out due to an EBA on a CFMEU site, they have to gouge just to make ends meet. Tradesman’s hourly rate at $60 per hr, the contractor has to allow for about double that at $119 per hr to be viable. Penalty rates, site allowances, super, office running expenses, supervision etc, it all adds up. Labourers on $58 per hr, see above. Do the math JB.
Oh, don’t get me started on RDO. What a rort that is.
https://www.thelocal.de/jobs/article/germany-has-eus-seventh-highest-labour-costs
https://theconversation.com/factcheck-does-building-hospitals-schools-and-airports-cost-more-in-australia-than-in-the-us-16540
You do the math.
and has precious little experience in quoting major projects
Very occasionally one comes across an article that is spot on
“These state electorates are tired of so called conservatives who speak in mealy-mouthed politically correct superlatives, and a former workers party who threw their genuinely struggling grass roots support base under the bus, in favour of more fashionable special interest groups whose struggles are more esoteric and less tangible. And Labor aren’t extreme enough for the Cultural Marxist contingent who will be pathologically driven to the diametrically opposed policies of the Greens. The myth of the wasted vote is quickly being dispelled as we saw in the Orange Bi-election.”
http://www.xyz.net.au/no-waleed-nobody-flocking-labor-theyve-hopped-fence-paddock/
Was just talking about this with someone JS. I reckon we could see a ”Trump phenomena” happen here. It’s a given that heaps of Liberal voters will move over to ON, but I have a feeling that plenty of Labor will do likewise. Heck, she could even be our next PM. Imagine that….. We all thought Trump was just a giggle and look what happened. 🙁
I don’t expect those useful idiots who have previously demonstrated their ignorance of law and immunity from reality to ever admit they got it wrong, but this surely must be an end to the farce:
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/indigenous/judge-rejects-prior-appeal-tells-lawyers-to-end-qut-case-now/news-story/4e3580b0ef375c93892d7742e0642cd2
What…
Speculating on the motives and finances of the claimant is a bit risky at the moment, Boadicea.
OH okay, thanks Jack