I have been perusing the pages of The New York Times so you don’t have to.
With great sound and fury, the NYT recently opened up an office in this Wide Brown Land and the results have been odd, to say the least.
It’s hard to know who the Australian articles are written for. Are they for Americans to glean a greater understanding of a land so far away they couldn’t care less about it, or are they written for the meagre number of Australian subscribers who signed up during the US presidential election, only to forget to unsubscribe after all the votes were counted?
Either way, the Times fails miserably.
Full column here.
Gotta say SHY’s whalewatching trip with ”sick” child in tow is looking pretty shallow. Will they ever learn?
Disgraceful Boadicea and a further $3500 of Taxpayers money down the tube as she “does her job”. A lightweight is SHY imho.
Just a small contrast from the wail watching we normally have to put up with from said SHY Bo.
If pressed I’m sure she would say the trip was searching for refugee boats off course, so to speak.
No Boadicea they never will.
It’s a time honoured tradition for politicians in this country.
So is accepting donations from overseas benefactors with an agenda, like the Julie Bishop Glorious Foundation in China.
Myer One is offering me a complimentary ‘brow wax’ in my ‘birthday month’. Didn’t know such things existed, but hey, worth $31! Can’t wait.
Far too high brow for me TV, but happy birthday month anyway.
I suggest you make sure it is your brow they are waxing, the wrong place could be taxing.
Eyebrow’s only TV. Ignore all upsell spiel.
Unless you’ve only got the one brow that could look a little silly. Anywho spoil yourself and go the anal bleach, you’ll never look back.
Waxing is not for sissies.
Baby steps mate.
really, I thought they were rather keen on it.
Well I wouldn’t know about that.
She’s been caught at this before! So what now? Nothing I imagine. After all she’s from the Greens and the mob who called for Bronny and Susan Ley’s blood will just let it ride.
http://www.news.com.au/finance/work/at-work/greens-senator-sarah-hansonyoung-says-whalewatching-trip-with-daughter-was-doing-my-job/news-story/d1954017987d720dfdb20279436503e2
They’re all doing it Razor. Perks of the job. They’ll slash and burn everything else before they give up their perks.
Piffling. It’s research anyway. Have you any idea how much the Japanese spend on whale research?
Whether you agree with them or not JB, at least the Japanese end up with a digestible product, well for them anyway. SHY just give me heartburn and ulcers.
SHY just gives you heartburn and ulcers? Well I’m delighted to hear it Lou.
That’s a profound effect to have on a chap, unconsciously you could be repressing feelings of a deep love for her which for ideological reasons you cannot accommodate.
You might be able to loosen up a bit and get in touch with your true feelings through hypnosis therapy.
A big fat zero actually.
Japan carries out illegal commercial whaling under the guise of ‘research’, financed by Japanese old money, Government & in 2011, added $28M from the International Tsunami Relief Fund to prop up the hunt.
Pathetic greedy poachers they are.
Keeping tabs on George Christensen? Sounds like work.
He better not go swimming. The Greens will keep pushing him back into the surf till he drowns.
OK once he gets up the beach then he can have a lie down while folks with bad haircuts keep him cool by splashing him with buckets of water.
he will have to put up with the chanting of whale noises though.
Speaking of tabs, I understand Qld men’s clothes stores now stock sizes of small, mens, large, xtra large, xxl, xxxl, and Christensen.
He’s left his mark, or indent.
Why would “nothing I imagine” be the result Razor?
Bishop & Ley were guilty as hell & caught out bigtime, so if Hanson-Young can’t absolutely prove she was on government business then she must repay every cent & be dealt with accordingly.
Don’t care what, when, who or why, this girl is sick of politicians on the take. Don’t kid yourself it’s not happening on their ‘break’ as most of the cheats are on convenient ‘fact-finding’ overseas holidays, most likely with the whole family, all charged to the mug taxpayer.
Sarah Hanson- Young is all that is wrong with the hopeless Greens, say one thing and do the opposite. Shameful indeed! ”
“GREENS Senator Sarah Hanson-Young has defended spending more than $3500 in taxpayer funds on a whale watching trip for her and her daughter, saying she was just doing her job.
The South Australian Senator has admitted to charging the September trip to the Great Australian Bight — where she guzzled oysters, took selfies, and spotted dozens of whales — to the public.”
But I thought the oil industry had killed them all?
We have trained whale watchers and do soft start ups over longer periods for any seismic or logging operations. If required we use the support vessels to shepherd any cetaceans away from the area or stop the logging or seismic until no activity is confirmed as best as possible. Sightings are documented, if they occur, during all operations and information is sent to environmental agencies research groups and regulators. We also find new species of all sorts of marine life with ROVs and work in conjunction with or all sorts of organisations.
‘Trained Whale Watchers’ no less! What would they be on a year? Union members no doubt!
Key selection criteria 1./ Two eyes
2./ Two eyes
3./…….. you get the picture
What would the training be? Do they carry around charts like the aircraft spotters in WW2?
Pictures of sharks, coral trout, tuna on the top quarter of the chart and a bloody big picture of a whale taking up the bottom 3/4’s!
I thought the world was stuffed but by this takes the cake!
Sounds like a cut and paste D. That was just a little dig I made. I think I probably know a bit more about that stuff than you do.
Marine Mammal Observers (MMO’s) Razor. Originally they were marine biologists but I think it started to become obvious that there weren’t enough qualified people who were interested to go around. It’s a pretty sweet number really, although you might get bored after a while and you don’t get paid as well as Bernard Tomic.
Now you can get a ticket in four days (count ’em) but there was a mob a few years back doing it all in – one.
https://www.scanningoceansectors.com/2017/04/dates-20172018-mmo-courses/
Not yet.
What ? All the SHY’s? Damn, I didn’t even know she was endangered. If only we knew what species she is ……..was……
A rare species Mack, most unlikely to survive due to genetic weakness, but toxic to other high range mammals.
The wildlife back home is pretty smart: http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/30/us/wisconsin-elephant-escape/index.html
Her partner unlocked the enclosure so she went out for a snack. 600,000 hunters in Wisconsin, and no elephant tags.
Saw that Dwight. Thought of you. Maybe she smelled cheese?
Wildlife? Do you have feral elephants in Wisconsin?
“They highlighted an area that we now know is a weakness”. Brilliant! There’s your genius right there!
My bet is they either forgot to close the gate or the circus needs the exposure.
I reckon I’d want to escape a cruel life of captivity in a circus too.
What do you mean ‘no elephant tags’? Seriously.
Just a bit of a joke Bella. When you buy your deer hunting license you get a tag that must be put on the one you shoot so they can be sure you only get one.
Hard to tell who is fighting amongst each other the most, Mr Insider, the Liberals or the Greens, both hopelessly out of touch with life in Australia today imho.
Getting pretty disgusting, HB
Jeff Horn you magnificent bastard! The Aussie the new Worlds Welterweight Champion, Mr Insider. Hard to make the transition to the World Stage in Boxing but Jeff’s done it following in the footsteps of Lionel Rose, Johnny Famechon , Jimmy Carruthers etc etc. In my teens I used to closely follow the Australian Heavyweight Champion, Bobby Dunlop but he failed to step up to the top World class.
http://tinyurl.com/yaomvme4
One of the great underdog triumphs in Australian sporting history. Superb work.
Rates with Lionel Rose defeating Fighting Harada in Japan. Maybe U were too young Jack for dat one.. Hee hee…major upset that one was!
At school we called him Farting Harada
A great win. The trouble is people that don’t know the sport see different things and do not understand the point scoring system.
A great win and the othercorner knew it. That’s why they sent him out late looking for the knockout. Manny was well down on points.
OMG is that boxing caper seriously a ‘sport’? Jeez, you’ve got
split faces, eyes swollen shut, lips cracked open & all that blood. It’s just nuts to call that entertaining IMO. Parkinsons anyone?
Gives the “wouldabeen” “couldabeen” frustrated warriors a buzz Bella. As a spectacle it’s a great to watch the fat old slobs get their primal brains fired up, screaming and waving their arms about in genetic memory of ancestors half crazed with fear and adrenalin swinging a bloody great club around their heads.
I chuck cans of beer at the TV yelling “moider de bums” watching Vikings!
Give ’em heaps.
Hit the nail in the head JB.
I’m always shocked to see that people are still hooked on violence.
Just never imagined you’d be the type to “chuck cans of beer” at…well…..anything really. haha
Regards, Bella
It was one of the five Olympic sports of ancient Greece, along with running, discus, javelin and horse riding.
Just because it was done in ‘ancient’ times does not mean it’s acceptable today. You’d think, as a species, we’ve evolved enough to move along from bashing each other to a bloody pulp for entertainment.
Any ancient ‘custom’ that involves cruelty toward a person or animal is just wrong.
Just look at the Grindadrap, a ‘custom’ the Faroese use as an excuse to butcher hundreds of terrified whale pods with lances whilst the locals applaud & ‘celebrate’ their Viking heritage.
It’s sick stuff and impossible to justify.
https://news.vice.com/article/graphic-video-shows-faroe-islands-whale-slaughter
Are you describing a Greens Federal party room meeting Bella?
That’s quite funny, Razor. But I agree with Bella. Appalling ”sport”.
I think Bella is describing a boxing match Razor. The word “boxing” is the clue, and I think she must be referring to the Horn Pacman fight. The idea of the Greens belting the living daylights out of each is a bit exaggerated isn’t it? They are nice people.
Regarding the fight, I wouldn’t get too carried away just yet. Pacman is nearly forty so the reflexes cant be what they used to be, but he still went well against the local boy.
Nah Razor you must have them confused with the Fibs ongoing public slugfest.
When do you reckon the Fibs will get time to do the job they are overpaid to do?
I’ve had a rethink about the Abbott factor & I reckon Mal should give him back the grand poobah hat he’s been gunning for & quit politics. We all know Turnbull’s set for life financially plus it’s got to be soul-destroying at his age to spruik all that right-wing nonsense when in truth he believes in the exact opposite.
Malcolm’s now a beaten down shell of the guy who ousted that 30 negatve poll nutbag so he needs Tony to take the reins.
Abbott will feel vindicated & he’ll strut about like a gloating demigod until Labor sweeps into office in a record landslide victory soon after he awards a knighthood to George Pell.
Cheers mate, Bella
A good example of winning despite losing, Henry. I heard Pacquio got 10 million and Horn 1 million.
Was it Jack Johnson who fought at the scg in the early 1900’s? I thought they had about 100 000 people in to watch it! That’s a crowd.
Rushcutters Bay.
I remember going to the Wrestling at the old Stadium at Rushcutters Bay in the late 60’s, Mr Insider, Chief Billy White Wolf our hero at the time as we sat on board seats!
An interesting story of the similarities between Tony Abbott and Lee Rhiannon: http://www.canberratimes.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/tony-abbott-lee-rhiannon-and-the-age-of-the-party-faithless-20170630-gx212f.html
As someone remarked earlier, Rhiannon won’t ever win. A good song about Tony is this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_N3HrYOGpNQ&list=RD_N3HrYOGpNQ
Trump still getting plenty of comment here. But what have we really learnt these last few months? What I have learnt is that it is possible to be a petulant narcissist and be President of the United States, but it is not possible to be a petulant narcissist and be Leader of the Free World.
Bella, or anyone interested
A post to make you jealous. Staying at a friends place at Middleton on the South Coast this weekend. Cold but lovely weather. There were a dozen hooded plovers on the beach when we went for our walk just after dawn. Then looking out the front windows an hour ago, there were two southern right whales close inshore putting on the full display of tail slapping and blowing. Sometimes it’s still a beautiful world.
How lucky are you NFY?
You got me, I’m jealous!
The Southern Right Whale species is listed as Endangered so I hope there’ll be no drilling ever allowed in the GAB. Aside from the environmental disaster of a spill, seismic blasting bursts the eardrums of whales & dolphins resulting in their death.
Thanks, Bella
Stunning stuff, Not Finished Yet, Mother Nature at her finest imho.
http://www.espncricinfo.com/australia/content/story/1107576.html