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.
Danby well knows where Corbynism and the views of the left generally with regard to Israel will lead. Anti-semitism plain and simple. Well done Michael Danby keep up the fight!
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/we-dont-want-a-corbyn-here-danby/news-story/5e42e26c377ef2e3081f2ef9cd0ea60b
Outstanding use of an obscure Simpsons reference JTI.
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Would I be considered strange if I said I have never seen a single episode of the Simpson’s?
Winter Olympics kicks off in a few hours, unfortunately one will have to grin and bear Ch 7 coverage or lack there of
Yes.
Get their app Tracy. I actually saw all of the men’s downhill practice yesterday.
Downloaded the app TV and watched a bit of the Curling if only for the Norwegian men’s team pants. The stuff of legend every games https://www.abcnyheter.no/nyheter/sport/2018/02/04/195367537/curlinggutta-er-klare-et-nytt-ol-med-nytt-antrekk
Haven’t seen the opening ceremony yet watching that tonight.
Ugh, you know my sister has never seen one either. No great loss. To be honest, it jumped the shark a long time ago and was always too preachy. “Louise” little girle character from “Bob’s Burger’s, funnier, darker, smarter, makes Lisa look dull. Not hard to do mind. Much funnier stuff on the American psyche out there, my kids keep me supplied.
Extremely strange…mind you I have never seen a single episode of Game of Thrones….
Guilty of every single GoT episode, I had read the books awhile ago but admittedly last season was not the best.
Me either….I can’t stand serialised episode TV that use you as a sort of click bait to suck you into the next episode. I like complete shows like Inspector George Gently, Jack Taylor, DCI Banks, Luther, Foyle’s War, Line of Duty, Good Cop, Wallender, Varg Veum, Kidnap and Ranspm……fantastic British Crime ANY DAY.
Shetland is back – very good.
Shetland is TOP viewing Just discovered a great new one PARANOID Pom crime show
Inspector Rex?
I gave up after the first season. Don’t think I’ve even finished all the books.
I have never seen a singled episode either-or Dr Poo. The kids often bribed me but
I always got out of it.
I couldn’t care less about the private lives of politicians but that doesn’t stop me believing Joyce is one of the biggest hypocrites I’ve ever seen.
My one question about the coverage by the Daily Telegraph is why is Joyce’s infidelity newsworthy now but not before the by-election?
Because neither Turnbull nor Shorten would have wanted it to blow up during the campaign. Think about it.
Huh?
When are you going to realize that Shorten has nothing to do with this, it would have been no skin off his nose if had blown up during the campaign. In fact if you read as many newspapers as you profess to, you would have read that Shorten cautioned Turnbull when he approved the job for Barnaby’s girlfriend in Matt Caravans office that this had to look “clean”. Your mate Turnbull knew full well what was going on and didn’t seem to think that Barnaby was doing a thing wrong…..as you don’t.
If you’re continually going to stick your boot into the Opposition, do it armed with correct information.
Whatever this is has nothing to do with Bill Shorten.
It IS rather amazing how the Terror has gone after one of their own so viciously. Not so 2GBiased though.
Perhaps the Daily Telegraph “couldn’t care less”, but now you both do Mac.
Barnaby’s bit on the side is NOT the issue. Basic desires are our greatest weakness. The issue is Taxpayers funds spent on his travelling trysts and then Taxpayer funds for created jobs as she was moved from office to office at taxpayers expense to accommodate the relationship and to cover up the issues it was causing within the unnational party. There should be scrutiny on the use of the taxpayers funds for what can only be seen as nepotism.
Agree.
To explain my agreement with Dismals comment I will say he is spot on regarding the movement from office to office but not everything . I’ll even cop the root at taxpayers expense when it first started but once deals were done……..bye bye…..
Yeah me too! I’ll cop a root at the taxpayers expense any day of the week.
Yes Razor, this really is the heart of the issue, the expenses and now as it turns out the dodgy living arrangements….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msn7xbfEHoA
Not sure if anyone has put this up. But it’s pretty awesome. Takes one back to the Apollo launches.
Just love the shots of the Tesla driving around in space.
Magic Boadicea and sadly the feed from the Tesla Roadster has now ceased but it will orbit for eternity. Cheers
They missed Mars, so it’s headed for the asteroid belt. However, some space scientists say that radiation will tear it apart long before it gets there. Nice stunt though!
Gutsy – or completely crazy!
Nice car, HB. Hope it doesn’t collide headon with some crappy bit of space junk.!
There will be no insurance claim Bo, as every policy will exclude events that are out of this world.
Highly dubious. I think Elon is having a lend while flogging his car. Isn’t it supposed to be inside a space ship?”
“It looks so fake it has to be real.” Sure does take one back to Apollo.
Give it a rest JB and concentrate your efforts on the grassy knoll.
Dumb and dumber.
Bella:
Sad that 16 polo ponies died in transit back to the mainland after a polo competition here.
Autopsies underway but I think they will come up with heatstroke – it was extremely hot at the time. No one is saying where the fault was yet though.
You would think that someone would have been with them all the time to ensure they were kept watered
Just awful – beautiful animals.
It’s been nearly two weeks since this happened B so for the owners to not have an answer yet seems pretty strange to me. Dreadful.
I suppose the autopsies may be dragging it out a bit, Bella. What really surprised me though was that the person travelling with them did not even check them when they landed in Melbourne. After the night at sea they travelled for another hour or more in even hotter temps than Tassie was – 40+deg. Just stopping at a traffic light for a couple of minutes would have had the temp in the truck at closer to 50deg. If he loved them as he says (and they were beautiful animals) it’s really odd
I reckon there would be a lot of bonking going on inside Parliament House, Mr Insider. I do remember quite a few years ago a certain Labor Pollies wife intimated her and hubby had “cleared” his desk in some wild teeth grinding sex. Perhaps many other stories out there too re the rabbit warren of Parliament House, or “Nookie Central” as it may have to be known as.
John Beige, Henry?
There may be more depth to you than I thought Henry. Pray tell us more about this “wild teeth grinding sex”. Do the exponents grind their own teeth or each others?
Is this an element of your own tantric regime or is it the inner wild man unleashed?
It all sounds jolly interesting.
Indeed TO….
This does present a wonderful opportunity to illustrate how the same word in different contexts can have very different meanings. If I say Barnaby screwed the Murray Darling Basin I mean that his partisan decisions have done significant environmental damage. If I say Barnaby screwed his family I mean that he has betrayed them unforgivably. And if I say Barnaby screwed his staffer I mean….. Well, you can work it out for yourselves.
yep got it
significant environmental damage
So you left the last one to the imagination? Yuk, that’s horrible that is.
Whilst a screw is a spiral form of nail, threaded for three quarters of its length, and having a head slotted or so shaped so as to allow rotation, then “screwing” is all about exerting pressure or coercion, NFY. As to the latter part of your post, we can all theorize just who was working it out for themselves.
Oh gosh Carl. They’ve all been talking about sex. i.e. “screwing” a coarse expression describing the act of sexual intercourse.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3MyLt6l5n0&vl=en
Uh-uh JB, you’re not going to entice me into opening one of your smutty little youtube clips. But you go ahead, knock yourself out me old mate.
Very wise Carl. You could have been so corrupted by that youtube clip.
gold
JB says to Penny:
“I warned ya, cougars don’t change their spots”
Cougars don’t have spots, JB. So don’t expect transformation –
ever.
Dismayed opines that I am old and senile in a nursing home.
Christ make up your mind and coordinate yourselves, guys.
The others tell me I am shallow and lack morals! Wow.
Pathetic stuff. Grow up.
And I say you are young and beautiful Boadicea. Cheers
xx
You can be a shallow moral vacuum and be a biddy in a nursing home, the two are not mutually exclusive. 😉
Frankly, Wraith, your crude remarks disgust me. I’m not in the least interested in your opinion of me.
Disgust you? How is that possible? You are a moral vacuum, you have to understand right and wrong to be disgusted about something. I called you out on your loose morals. Good luck on dragging your victim cart out this time. I suppose you would sleep with and get pregnant to a married boss, because?…….. and I disgust you. Creepy.
How do you pull that victim placard around with your mobility scooter?
A mobility scooter! Jesus! Remind me to walk on the road when I go to Tasmania next.
Good thinking, JB. Some of those dear old fellas whiz along like they’re in a Ferrari!
Walking in the road comes with its hazards too though. Lots of bikes. We’re the MTB mecca of the world too.
Tell you what, if you come to Tassie I’ll leave the mobility scooter in the garage and take you for a drive through gorgeous scenery!!
Cougars, the wild ones not the euphemistic ones, do change their spots. You may have missed the joke.
Now now, Boady, everyone’s entitled to an opinion. Don’t take it so seriously Your Majesty.
They are born with spots but mature into sleek, beautiful tan coloured cats. I have no issue with being labelled a cougar – but get your facts right, and appreciate that I will not change my non-existent ”spots”. I’m very happy with my form as it is. Now run along and behave yourself, Mr Baptiste.
Righto. “Cougar” it is then. Run Dismayed, run as fast as your little legs will carry you!
Oh, JB that’s funny. Good on you.
I see fat Kimmie is putting on a great PR exercise at the olympics. Immaculately attired cheer squad. They’re terrific.
Everyone is impressed!
Maybe this is the best thing that could have happened to get North and South Korea talking again?
Yes but the US will do it’s darn best to keep them apart. Too many arm sales at stake.
So cougars do change their spots?
Nah. Not a kitten any more – sadly!
Chuckle. C- for that one Queen Boadicea. Something occurred to me and I’ve just checked your instructions again.
“Christ makeup your minds and coordinate yourselves, guys.”
None of those opinions are mutually exclusive. They may not be true but they are not contradictory.
Can try harder.
About to make a joke about a few cougars with spots I’ve known, but I’m 60 now. No cougars left.
Cougars with acne?
😁
stop shootn em Dwight
Let’s hear it for the small business owners not giving in to government pressure: http://www.foxnews.com/food-drink/2018/02/08/pyeongchang-restaurants-still-serving-dog-meat-during-olympics-despite-officials-ordering-them-to-stop.html
That’d be like telling parliamentarians to stop rooting around
Shocker Dwight, as a dog lover, we have 3 beautiful Border Collies, I cant even imagine eating dog meat. Cheers
3 Border Collies Henry!! My daughter has 2 and they need constant attention…..beautiful smart dogs, but their energy makes me sometimes want to go and have a good lie down.
When will the small and medium business owners who have received tax cuts start raising wages? Wages and labour compensation has dropped to record low share of compensation of GDP. The treasurer for the real estate industry Hillsong Morrison continues to rebuke advice from Treasury the Reserve Bank and the Productivity Commission and continues to lie even in the face of direct evidence in this country that cutting taxes to business has NOT increased wages in fact the opposite has happened. Like wise the cutting of penalty rates has resulted in people working less hours not more as was the reasoning for the cuts. What do say as an avowed Friedman disciple?.
When they stop serving dog.
Barbarians.
Did you know they torture the dogs before killing them?
Tradition insanely believes that makes old men more virile.
Perhaps the next generation will have compassion.
Read Upton Sinclair’s “The Jungle” and get back to me.
Halal, kosher?
I don’t worry too much about what other people eat. Worst thing I’ve ever had was marinated jellyfish in a Japanese restaurant on the Gold Coast. I was guest of a honor at a dinner and only the hostess and I ate that. You do what you have to to be polite. If someone served me dog, cat or hamster and it was their culture, I would try it. Most Asians are horrified we eat kangaroo.
I had a girlfriend almost lose her lunch in a nice restaurant in Munich because I ordered Hasenpfeffer. Another one gave me a sad story about veal. A number of students have visibly paled when I casually mentioned being a deer hunter in my youth. No big thing.
I won’t complain about being served smoked tofu, but don’t expect me to change my diet. I’m hoping my wife never wants to surprise me with Besbarmak. But, if called upon, I will eat it with a smile on my face.
What about prairie oysters Dwight? Or mountain oysters depending on where you come from. Not too many people I know will have a crack at them. Nice when curried. Besbarmak, only with mutton, can’t stand the thought of eating horse, man’s best friend as far as I’m concerned. Don’t know how people can eat dog or cat, really wrong in the food chain scheme of things. he liver, too much vitamin A and might kill you.