Here I was all set to knock out a Christmas column full of cheer and bonhomie but life, or more accurately, Daily Life has intervened.
I normally disapprove of intra-media byplays but Fairfax Media’s Daily Life section has become so full of cranky third wave feminism that someone needs to hold it up to the light. Among this waste of ink and kilobyte street corner psychobabble, comes a contribution from self described feminist Polly Dunning who tells her harrowing tale of giving birth to a shame boy. The good news is she’s slowly getting over it.
I’m not allowed to swear anymore, at least not at volume but this is sorely testing my already fragile grip on self-control.
At first blanch this was merely another addition from women who have recently given birth and have come to believe that having done so, they have unlocked the secrets of the universe. But on further reading this is a tale of a woman not just at war with men but also her own male child.
Full column here.
Jack the Insidsr 08:20am
I mentioned this bloke further back on the problems faces while being a little rough around the edges with his life having a wife standing by him I feel sorry for ,
I also mentioned if he fixes up his life , I would congratulate him because many have done it .Lets give hope the opportunity in this case .
Paul Bloxham and Shane Oliver , who would argue against these two characters having the runs on the board, both economists seems tk have sent a possy of team member parkingntheir tents outside the Trump residence now deliver us the good economic news.
These blokes usually shift aside the mainstream battlers with small dollars while chasing the big fish now in America with Trump expanding into Australia.I say this after their predictions of optimism that Trump wants to dig into our finite bonanza of minerals in the ground of iron ore plus others .
This goat Barrie Cassidy ABC continues to goose himself saying America stock market will crash many months back , now the reverse. He also said if Trump comes in , it will crash worse then 911 , well now elected 6 weeks and about to
begin it has gone up 12%rising .His prediction Trump can’t win , the nightmare is over .
I don’t listen to all this distortion garbage 98% media tried to destroy him now egg on their face , but one thing sure and certain , we should focus on optimism first and not try and destroy our ourselves been vindictive and allow democracy to proceed. Lets bury all this bias rubbish that only harms this planet and think ahead that the planet is much better then we are .Lets focus on pragmatism and avoid the hate in 2017 for the sake of generations ahead instead of ourselves .If this bloke gets us up and running , give him the benefit of the doubt.
Lets tune away from the ABC for a while and not watch the gloom and doom that we now face over their hate on America .Lets just think there are more people in this world worse off then we are , so stop whinging . It seems blokes like Cassidy have this hate on America that saved our backsides in WW2 but yet the ignorance and hate on America continues , They have the lead by far comes to greater logistics and billions comes to natural disasters of mankind attending in all world zones to those critics “please shut-up” and stop all the whinging and vindictiveness following the ABC Barrie Cassidy sooking over America in the future of crash and burn.
That bloody silly Julian Assange, Mr Insider, still prattling on from his bedroom in the Embassy this time about the US elections. He needs to get some balls and make a run for it the drongo otherwise he will be there forever. C’mon Jules fling the door open and go the sprint you big gurly man!
Are you the same Henry Blofeld I was reading about the other day Henry. You know the enormously brave fellow of great renown with a sac swinging like a pair of coconuts in a hessian bag.?
Regale us we beseech you Henry with tales of your heroic derring-do. Oh please do Mr Mucho Macho, do!
Yvonne 09:22pm .
AFL coach James Hird. The one I feel sad for is his wife seeing a picture today in the paper that blokes would fight for .
Why would this dope indulge and substitute drugs for a smashing looking wife like that?
I feel awfully sorry for this women now facing the fact that her life has problems ahead , not by her own doing . If he fixes his life up well I would be the first to congratulate him , but he must think about her first before himself .
Rodent, it’s nothing to do with the fact that he has a smashing looking wife or even the fact that he has great kids. The man has gone from being a respected and fine athlete, a reasonable sports commentator, a good businessman and then a pretty good coach. He and I might add, a lot of other people in the Essendon Football Club, made some very bad decisions, for which theyand that includes the players involved, have all paid a very high price. I don’t know James Hird, but I have a very close friend who does and she told me 3 years ago that he was doing it hard. Since then the pressure on him has been relentless……I am so sad that it came to this. Not sure if I could cope with it all and it seems James found he couldn’t. I too hope he gets his life together, but considering that the paper saw fit to print Tanya’s photo at this difficult time and the fact that the media are camped all over his front lawn, I don’t hold out a lot of hope that he/or she are going to be given the privacy they deserve. I have made mistakes in my life Rodent as I am sure you have, but they have never been made public. When you are desperate you do desperate things. I have had friends who have succeeded in committing suicide, I think the last things on their minds have been their loved ones, even if the wife is so good looking that “blokes would fight for her”
Too true Penny. I only met James once, in 1996 when he shared the Brownlow with Michael Voss. I remember we commented at the time what a pair of outstanding individuals they were.
What has transpired is tragic. What has happened now is blacker than tragedy, and we can only hope for a good resolution if that’s possible. I find the role of the media deplorable, as was much of the reporting through the whole sorry episode.
Tania is a tough lady, but with four kids to protect as well as deal with James’ struggle, why in gods name can’t they leave her alone. The cops should have the right of applying the equivalent of an AVO to keep the hyenas away.
By all accounts Tania is a pretty tough lady Rodent. A lawyer if I’m not mistaken. She stood by him – probably the kids who need to be given TLC
Walk a mile in the man’s shoes Rodent. Well twenty yards? Taking it easy.
Amazing , Australia looks like having economic life growing on the continent as no surprises bank CEOs shovels their team of advisors as with themselves out to America hearing the Trump rewards of 47 billion dollar gain here .
Seems the markets and bank CEOs finally on heat with super hitting highs and CEOs camped in America looks good for Australia . Shane Oliver AMP and Paul Bloxom now jumping around getting excited with America hitting highs in the economy , now lately recording record market highs up 1700 points last 6 weeks and population confidence growing again.
All good for our super .
Penny: (earlier)
According to ABS sports news this morning, he had been fragile for a while leading up to Xmas – and was then attacked by a society matron at an intimate Xmas do that sent him over the edge.
Apparently strings have been pulled to prevent him getting employment – presumably media. His failed legal actions must have nearly bankrupted them.
In the end though Penny, I still cannot believe that he oversaw kids getting injected with a substance that he claims not to know what it contained. If that’s really the case, they should never have been injected in the first place.
As someone said, the Essendon saga is not over yet.
One has to feel dreadfully sad though when someone is pushed to the brink of suicide. I hope he comes good.
I agree and the AFL community needs to rally around him as best they can. I read that J Hird has had great difficulty returning to the club and may be that is of his own choosing. It’s a difficult situation but it is time for Hird to be forgiven and for the bitteness to be put aside.
It’s been a very public fall from grace. I wish Hird well in recovery from what ails him. I hope at some future time he gives all of us an honest accounting in a book. A blunt and brutal account would doubtless sell well, helping his finances a bit, and shine light into those corners where answers are still needed. Someone from Cronulla needs to be equally frank.
As predictable as ever-another doom and gloom piece on Education by Kevin Donnelly in The Terror. Why the hell don’t the Terror and The Oz give someone else a go? Same old problem…no balance.
RE: BASSMAN says:
January 5, 2017 at 5:03 pm
B’Man,
At last something other than our mutually agreed assessment of Shorten as a ‘dud’!!
Yes indeed it was Costello that bequeathed us the ‘Structural Deficit’!! Primarily because the concept and nomenclature was first crafted, as a public debating point, just after his departure from the Government benches.
That is not to say that ‘long term’ policy initiatives were unfunded beyond the forward estimates prior to this. It was just that that was the way it had been for ages and ages; what was new was that the concept was elevated by Treasury and the Treasurer (Swannie) to explain some of the GFC fiscal impacts etc.
Now of course, as you say the Howard / Costello tax cuts with the benefit of hindsight returned revenue to taxpayers, in lieu of building a bigger ‘piggybank’ such as the Future Fund. You might recall that Labor entered an auction on tax cuts in their election campaigns etc. Let’s face it, very few of the voting public argued at the time against tax cuts.
I strongly suspect that the real motivation for returning revenue was to deny any future Labor government arriving with a Surplus.
For Costello to now argue for personal tax cuts is disingenuous in the extreme. He knows full well that such are fiscally and politically unsaleable.
The Company tax cut proposals are one of those issues on which the debate is about ‘degree’. I would suggest that Turnbull etc will get a partial solution – cuts for small and medium enterprises with some vague future commitment to get to the Bigger Boys in time.
Returning to our agreed ‘Dud’. What I find absolutely unbelievable is that Shorten, his Leadership Team and the Labor party actually seem to believe they want to win Government!! Why would anyone want to inherit the current fiscal and budget basket-case?
Surely, they know what has to be done to fix things and all the options are going to be unpopular and unpleasant. Why would you not arrange things such that the Coalition gets to implement these changes. The odds being that if the succeed, we the ungrateful lot will evict them and if they fail, then they were to blame!!
All this requires is for Labor in the Senate to criticise to their heart content, adopt a ‘be it on your own head attitude’ and abstain.
But no – they want to win; I suspect for the ‘power’ reason alone and they actually have no actual plan for really solving the issues.
The train-wreck is not going to be pretty but it is going to be pretty awful!!
No Budget problem if Churches and Religious groups payed tax.
James Hird overdoses – oh dear……
Not merely a ‘health scare’ but the Hun is reporting an overdose as Yvonne says. http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/james-hird-taken-to-hospital-with-major-health-scare/news-story/d3510ef3cd113de4b1928e08aaaee9b4
Is it possible to overdose on Peptides? I thought you get pimples.
Did you think that was witty? FAIL.
In very poor taste Dismasted.
Not good taste, Dismayed. For someone who fiercely objects to being ‘defamed” as you do, it’s very poor form buddy.
Mental health issues are serious. Whatever the circumstances with Hird one has to feel empathy for him getting to a point where he feels life is futile.
Get a grip.
Offensive twit. But not surprising.
Dismayed, not a good comment. Maybe I’m a little sensitive at the moment, but trying to commit suicide is a serious issue . I have been reading some terrible comments in various outlets about James Hird and wonder why people really do hate so much…..I know it was a throwaway line, but wish you hadn’t made it.
Oh nearly forgot, Matthew Wade did not look too flash with stomach cramps and who knows what else before leaving the field today.
Methinks the rain delay and lunch break might have seen him sneak into the Pakistani rooms for a bit of imported curry and whoom.
A timely reminder for the boys heading off to India shortly. Curry puffs.