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.
I’m quite enjoying Bronwyn Bishop of Choppergate infamy outing likely about 90+% of the population (pulling a random figure out of my figurative hat) as card-carrying ‘Socialists’ for being more than a little uneasy – just projecting my own feelings here – at possibly quondam Health Minister, Sussan Ley’s repeated sojourns to the Gold Coast to liaise and party with soi-disant ‘stakeholders’ (possibly steak-holders as well) and buy Surfers Paradise apartment on apparent taxpayer-funded flights of whimsy and caprice.
Old ‘Chopper’ Bishop, like too many in politics, seems incapable of distinguishing between “free enterprise” and kleptocracy, despite her opportunities to learn that lesson.
Her rhetoric here is characteristically hypocritical. She brands criticism of Ley’s rorting as class-envy, betraying her unshaken belief that anyone would do it if they could; and she even stoops to playing the gender card (something she despises in others), as if male snouts in the same trough don’t attract the same criticism. Pathetic.
JB 11:10pm.
Just scratching my head on that line ,”all day and every day for months if necessary”.
Is it too much to ask what you do for a crust , me having a little think with mixing work with pleasure etc may see you arming up with RPGs rallying the troops while setting up some logistics like creating a combat zone “lefties vs Righties” some day down the track. One thing for sure and certain is, Dismayed will be rallying around the country side recruiting for your offensive while dodging frontline combat after setting up battle with the conservatives {or looters ] some other dude is calling them . Take it easy gentlemen in 2017 ,looks like our super has now blasted off lately into great times,just like our Apollo mission to the moon . What do you reckon JB?
Cheers .
Oh, you little brown nose. Send me a copy of the rule book Ratty.
JB 11: 10pm .
The game we play JB gets serious at times , but at least the dust always settles .
I enjoy having fun with you throwing out the bait like you do at times setting us bloggers on fire . At least you ain’t a hothead having a laugh I imagine as I do .
Cheers chief, warrior of the Lefties.
Dismayed Jan 8 2.15pm
You’re so right mate, Trump IS the worst thing to happen to this world and the Trumpenstein offspring are as unethical as their father.
Try getting your head around this nauseating news.
Trump Jr & Eric Trump have invited their father’s hunting & shooting donors to a fundraiser where the top donation of $1M called the ‘Bald Eagle’ entitles you to accompany this pair of lifeless twists on a hunting trip to pop off a few endangered animals such as giraffes, elephants and leopards. If you can’t swing that there’s always the ‘Grizzly Bear’ donation of $500,000. All proceeds to go to Conservation!
http://www.salon.com/2016/12/20/hunting-with-the-kleptocracy-donald-trumps-sons-host-shameless-fundraiser-for-charity/
Their gene pool is sick, lacking all respect for anything but money.
To me they are a living advertisement for contraception & I’m hoping for a hunting accident.
My best, Bella
Tops.
Give ’em heaps Bella.
PS. Update on the boy?
Jean Baptiste
January 9, 2017 at 11:38 am
says: “Struggle with it? Hardly, you’re so patently transparent in your prevarications, you amaze and amuse me. Frank Zappa (how the hell did you get that wrong, are you drunk?) was wrong in so far as minds, like yours, do work when they are not open, they just don’t work very well. ”
I thought you’d appreciate a thoughtful bloke like Frank, JB. He also opined: “There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.” You can add CO2 to that one too in the current climate eh.
Re Socrates – the disciplined practice of thoughtful questioning.
I’ll make the appropriate allowance if the apparent randomness of your present mindset precludes you from getting me gist, me old mate.
You’re as big a threat as C02 and methane, you old gas bag. Thoughtful questioning? Have you ever tried it?
Come on von Zeppelin, just one fact in rebuttal?
Lets get you into the optimistic shallow end and see if you can cope with that better.
http://www.smh.com.au/environment/climate-change/climate-change-could-make-humans-extinct-warns-health-expert-20140330-35rus.html
Thanks for coming.
Coast and Baptiste the 2 climate change comedians on this blog. Snott is all over the both of you 2 gurly men. Two old farts and the only ice you have ever seen is the ice that goes into your many whiskies.
Sitting here in Jackman & McRoss having a coffee, reading The Age.
Here’s an article that says ” Australia’s brightest teenage prospect (tennis), 17 yr old Alex de Minaur, says he has been taking advice from Kyrgios and Topic on how to transition into the big time”
That had to he the funniest thing I’ve read all year!! WTF is he thinking?
Yvonne – re your: “WTF is he thinking?”
Never thought you’d be the sort of gal who’d use expletives in coffee shops.
What do messers (or ms as the case may be) Jackman & McRoss think of such behaviour in their assumedly high class establishment? Or do they encourage such outbursts in the hope it adds to the the flavour?
The asmosphere of course, not the coffee.
Best Women’s hopes for a decade is Ash Barty and new sensation Destinee Aiava. I’d dodge sleep to watch either one.
The difference between the clowns that we have produced and Alexander Zverev of Germany is like chalk and cheese. I think that this 20 year old will be the next world champion.
Now our under 19 champion is up on match fixing charges.
I do not know what Tennis Australia does to produce these guys.
Federer is still the best to watch – he is just superb.
What’s wrong with the Mercury?
Um, just read the letters to the Mercury and you’ll understand JS. It’s not the greatest literary output. I refuse to pay for a copy, hence read the one in the coffee shop to get the local gossip.
Jackman & McRoss is a fine old traditional coffee shop who make yummy things to eat too, but sadly as with the rest of Battery Point, it is losing it’s ‘village’ touch and chasing the tourist dollar. Not many ”locals” to be found in there anymore.
I usually pop down to Retro café in Salamanca – you’ll still find them down there.
Wow, class act! Here’s me sitting on the dunny and reading the Aldi catalogue. .
The mind conjures up some horrible images JB. Although the Aldi catalogue may be a better read than the Mercury. Just reassure me you’re not one of those that queue from daybreak to get the Tuesday special!!?
Queue, moi, never? I simply strut to the head of the queue on opening wearing my Kimmie tee shirt and flashing my Communist Party Card and they run shrieking like school girls.
Any objections from the Aldi staff and I fix them with a steely glare, “We hev not forragotten Stalingred.” Works well.
Oh forgot to mention the Milo and popcorn, absolutely de riguer for the bog connoisseur de catalogue.
yep
The Trump Cabinet Tracker, Mr Insider. Still waiting on appointments for Agriculture and also Veterans Affairs just 11 days out from the inauguration. We note a few entertainers have thumbed Trump off and wont be performing at the inauguration such as Elton John and Barbara Streisand to name a couple. President Bush Jnr and the Clintons are all attending the big event.
http://tinyurl.com/gruqvne
I see Susan who see’s no problem is to be replaced by Arthur Seenodonors. Time for a Bassman – BAAAD Government.
comical government…I mean really…
RE: Dismayed says:
January 8, 2017 at 2:42 pm
Dismayed,
So a subtle change in your argument. No longer would we solve the Budget problem ……… now taxing Churches and Religious would …. ” in some small measure would go a long way to correcting the balance”.
Subtle but important, so you no longer have to find $35B but some indeterminate lower figure?
“The Catholic church on the best estimates from available evidence have over $100 million in holdings in Australia with not a cent of their collections taxed ..”.
As I tried to point out to you, the “collections’ are only business income, whether the entity is tax exempt or not. To retain the tax exemption the ATO has to be satisfied all income is expended on the declared charitable endeavour.
So just like all other businesses in Australia, if the Churches were to be reclassified as such, they pay tax on profits not income. So zero extra tax if there is no profit.
Now, the real substance to your argument should be and indeed needs to be around the exemptions relating to property. These were the taxes I exempted because they do not apply to the Federal sphere.
Rates, Land Tax, utility concessions etc are State and Local government.
So in order to eliminate the deficit, something like this has to happen, the Federal Government withholds say $35B from the GST revenues and tells the States and Territories to make up the reduced income by revoking concessions for Churches and Religious – applying Rates etc to their property holdings. Your original argument says this should generate huge amounts.
Now you can imagine just how easy politically, legislatively and administratively that is going to be.
The core of the Strategy is to transfer the taxing opprobrium from Federal to State.
But of course, why have half-a-hog when you can have the whole?
The Feds could withhold all $80B of the GST and tell the States and Territories to tax not only the Churches but all 600,000 registered Charities. The Feds go from $35B deficit to $45B Surplus – easy or so your original argument says!!!
How difficult can this be?
Kathy,
Re your comment. The employment figures were from the Australian Bureau of Stats. The current revenues were from the 2016/17 Budget Papers. The number of employees in the Religious Sector was from the Productivity Commission Report into the Not for Profit Sector. The Federal tax exemptions applying to Registered Charities were from the ATO guide to Charities and Not for Profit.
Generalization?
Richer sates mean a richer nation you old devil dodger. I’m on to you.
Better still, eliminate the states and make the Grand Old Scam pay property tax to the Fed.
And those bloody dresses on blokes! Whats the go? It’s alright for Kamahl, but fair fart in the font, this is the 21st century.
And I think it attracts the wrong sort of bloke to the job. Present company excepted of course.
Plmo – I just wanted to let you know that the bright light you shine on some of these roosters (and chicks?) comments has a wattage rating way above their comprhension.
But I enjoy and enjoin you in every word of it.
agreed
Ok you fantasist. There is No change in my position just a change of words which you deliberately misconstrue to further your own religiously held beliefs which are purely fantastical. Balance. yes balance. The best option is for the budget to be on balance when times are good and in deficit when we see as we have the Private sector sitting on huge and increasing profits as has occurred for some time now. If religious groups were not afforded the luxurious concessions and tax free status it would go along way to balancing the budget. Therefor NO budget issue. As I sated above and you again prove me correct you refuse to accept any evidence because it would force you to accept that your religiously held beliefs are WRONG. Your diatribe above is about your self serving ideals. There are so many hypotheticals and impossibilities it almost appears to be Religious text in itself. Then again the figures look very similar to what Hillsong Morrison is producing. Surly your all powerful deity would want you to give rather than to take.
I’m guessing Ms Ley was given the stand aside or be sacked ultimatum. Not sure the public think this is an acceptable response; especially the hypocrisy between what is acceptable for politicians compared to the hoi polloi at a time when budget cuts are the order of the day. Perhaps Turnbull should have just sacked her as Abbott allowing the Bishop saga to fester was another contributor to his downfall. The arrogance and disconnect of our political class is both staggering and nauseating.
You have to feel sorry for her, Milts – going back to a paltry back-bencher’s wage while the PM tries to figure out how to make it all disappear. If she isn’t re-instated to the ministry a measly $200 grand a year will mean she might have to wait for a whole five more years before she can buy another investment property on the Gold Coast. Oh, the humanity!
As for her poor judgement, nobody has yet questioned her wisdom in buying on the Gold Coast. If there’s a more over-rated sh*t-hole on the planet I’m yet to hear about it. People who are saying “drain the swamp” obviously don’t realise that when you do, the Gold Coast (or Washington) is what is left afterwards. I say, re-fill the swamp. The rapacious blood-suckers and mysterious diseases that live in the average swamp do far less damage than the replacement wildlife.
I agree TBLS – dreadful place. No wonder the unit was going cheap. One day those high rises are all going to topple into the sea – or at least have their foundations severely compromised.. The beach erosion there is phenomenal.
I am sick of these entitled politicians. And they have the nerve to tell us that the age of entitlement is over.
Even better is Bronwyn Bishop’s reaction – it’s all the fault of the socialists! Shades of Bjelke Joh. Just how far out of touch is the silly old bat? And a slow learner I might add.
It was Bronnie’s contention from day one of her own debacle that the whole thing had been cooked up by the ALP. I mean, when Andrew Bolt, Janet Albrechtsen and pretty much everyone in the street was holding their nose she had to have a peculiar blind spot to think all the opprobrium was coming from the opposition front bench.
Yvonne – $800 grand is CHEAP?!?! Jeez, you could buy 70 or 80 acres with a good 5-bed, two-bath and river frontage in NE Victoria for that. And it doesn’t look like Bogus Florida full of drug addicts.
I’m with you TBLS. Give me country Victoria anyday.
Nice-ish place, in parts. Shame about the people.
It’s still rather tacky in places, though.
Just hope they sort of the flipping trains and trams in time for the Commonwealth Games and either co-ordinate the bastard things (or actually have them turn up).