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.
Jean Baptiste
January 10, 2017 at 7:08 am
Contributes: “http://www.smh.com.au/environment/climate-change/climate-change-could-make-humans-extinct-warns-health-expert-20140330-35rus.html”
Strike me pink JB, some of this outdated stuff you continue come up with should have “restricted distribution” classifications splapped on them, at the very least.
That 3 year old ‘warning’ by a so called “expert” about the then imminent “intense heatwaves” would have been enough to send a shiver up one’s spine me old mate.
Jeez it’s annoying when overpaid actors (Simples – memorise and repeat lines with appropriate facial expressions) , with too much time on their hands and oversized ego’s get in front of any lectern, regardless of the occasion and take the opportunity to share with us unwashed their opinions on politics. Get on a blog like the rest of us. C Overington wrote a decent article on this today.
Seems fashionable for celebrities to bag Trump at the first opportunity they get. Take the brat Kyrgios and his “”F..k Trump” T-shirt at a post match interview.
I suppose any publicity is good publicity but it’s getting rather pathetic. The world needs to get used to the Trump presidency and get on with life. He’s there and that’s all there is to it. Who knows what the future holds? – no-one.
Who are you talking about there, Milt? Clint Eastwood? Arnold Schwarzenegger? Ronald Reagan? Sarah Henderson? Trump himself, if you count reality TV (or “Diff’rent Strokes” cameos) as acting? Or are the right-wing ones somehow less annoying?
You couldn’t possibly be talking about Meryl Streep, because being appalled by a POTUS publicly mocking someone’s disability couldn’t be regarded as a “political opinion”, could it?
I read Overington’s piece. Sheer doublethink. She accepts that what Trump did was appalling and agrees with Streep’s criticism, but she says “that’s not the point”, because Streep’s praise — at an arts award ceremony — for the contribution diversity makes to high-quality arts “sticks in people’s craw” and is “pompous”. Apparently that’s the point: style over content.
This is the new right-wing PC, the kind that says it’s worse to call someone racist than it is to be racist. So now no-one can criticise Trump because that will only make him stronger? So if we all just keep our artsy-fartsy mouths shut and our “supercillious” book-larning to ourselves, keep all public comment Nascar-friendly, praise Trump to the heavens and agree with everything he says, he will gradually disappear? What hogwash.
Maybe the last comment on this one.
I’m sure that Bronnie being the first to put her head above the parapets to support Ley must have made Sussan’s day.
Turnbull has a tin ear. Who would replace an alleged rorter with a bloke who can’t remember his middle name. Hi Arthur.
Four out of plenty who were invited to Turnbull’s new year’s eve bash thought it was parliamentary business and the taxpayer should pay. Stand up Dutton, Brandis, Fifield & Birmingham. Grubs! Kudos to the other (18?) who realised it was going to be a great night but had nothing to do with their jobs.
Sussan apologises to her party for “the distraction”. No apology for the rort itself. No class.
If Sussan agrees to some expert checking her and her partner’s internet history and they find she’s never googled or emailed the property or agent before she went north, I’ll cut her a wee bit of slack. I suspect the result would mean she’d be lucky to,get a job driving the bin truck in Albury.
Kelly O’Dwyer sent out to pretend the government is on the front foot re entitlements? God give me strength! She sounds silly and scripted. Tosser.
Yvonne says: January 10, 2017 at 7:48 am . “Oh, so you support the backflipping, indecisive Turnbull government then, Dismayed? What a surprise”
Not sure what they are putting in your coffee or it could be the ink from the used papers you refuse to pay for but you have certainly proven your lack of comprehension ability, Again. I did not mention the ridiculous coalition government taking this country down the drain with it.I highlighted your foolhardiness (read ignorance) supporting the disgusting trump and stated an obvious fact that C. Newman was and abject failure. Joseph Stiglitz has highlighted a number of trumps “voodoo” theories this week across several different news outlets you may wish to read just one of them. On backflips trump has outperformed all comers already when it comes to back flips and outright lies. Get some carbs into you your brain need them.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/jan/09/my-new-year-forecast-trumpian-uncertainty-and-lots-of-it
Stiglitz has been propounding his own voodoo economic policies for the last 10 years and he and his cronies have gotten us to the stage where the world is now – totally indebted and without any room to manoeuvre when the next down turn comes.
As to quoting articles from the Guardian – get real.
Do us all a favour – stop quoting the left press on Trump. There are going to be so many anti-Trump articles that you will swamp us.
They , the left, have gotten over the fact that their favourite was resoundingly defeated by the people of the US who have paid the penalty for Stiglitz’s (and others) economic theories. They, the left, are now seeking vengeance by attempting to belittle everything that he does. Instead of Abbott, Abbott, Abbott it will be Trump, Trump, Trump 24*7.
He is there for 4 years so get used to it.
Try picking on a country where the social freedoms are drying up daily – like take all the members of the UN, omit the western democracies, Israel and a few others, and you will have very fertile grounds. Eg like China – or is that too much to ask?
Really, Clinton with the help of Stiglitz left GW Bush $5 TRILLION SURPLUS $. Let me repeat that. Clinton with the help of Stiglitz left GW Bush a $5 TRILLION SURPLUS $. How many Nobel prizes for economics do you have JS?? On the rest of your rant. Or like Australia where your coalition has enacted piece after piece of legislation under the guise of security.
$5 trillion surplus – where did you get that furphy from?
Stigliz’s Nobel Prize, shared with two others, was for “their analyses of markets with asymmetric information.” He has had lots of opportunities to experiment with that theory over the last 10 years.
You should read some of academic criticisms of the left wing Ivy league economists of whom Stiglitz and Bernanke are the prime subjects. They have been treated the world economy as one great big experiment for the last 10 years and their ideas are getting wilder and wilder as they try to extricate themselves from the corner they have painted us all into
5 trillion dismal? The entire GDP was about that much in them days. The Budget surpluses was directly caused by the dot com boom. Idiots paying huge money for dotcom companies that did not even have a business plan. The money was borrowed from banks to pay for these companies and the taxes reaped from these sales was enormous. When the dotcom industry went bust of course those loans could not be repaid. seven years later we have the GFC as a direct result. Those mighty surpluses were used to prop up the banks that lost all their money on foolish banking practices
I think you will like this Bald
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z78zSiZ2r0s
Keep in mind…this mob have added $190billion to “What we inherited”
Good work Bassman. Just to add to my comment above GW Bush and his cronies and their trickle down economics left Obama a $1.5 Trillion Deficit which Obama has halved. It is clear which polices work better and it aint the trickle down mobs.
People still blame The Big O for debt even when he has halved it. They forget he is:-
1. Still fighting BOTH Bush’s wars…and paying for them!
2. The rise of ISIS caused by Bush
in the year and a half since Obamacare went fully into effect, the U.S. economy added an average of 237,000 private-sector jobs per month. That’s pretty good. In fact, it’s better than anything we’ve seen since the 1990s.
The tax cuts introduced by Bush for the already rich are the ones that caused the problems for America. Bush inherited a balanced USA budget from Clinton for the first time since the Eisenhower era and then went about systematically creating the massive debt that exists in the USA today. If Bush had maintained Clinton’s economic reforms by this year the US would have no debt.
When George Bush was elected he inherited a budget in surplus, a record low national debt, an unemployment t rate of only 4% and a decade where NO AMERICAN HAD BEEN KILLED in COMBAT. A country at the pinnacle of its power only to be torn apart and torpedoed into multi trillion dollar debt. When Bush was turfed out 8yrs later the country was fighting 2 wars, military spending at 20% of all Federal outlay, unemployment at 9.3% and rising.
Barack O’Bama added a 56% increase to the national debt mainly because he had to continue financing Bush’s wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and the rise of ISIS cause by Bush’s interventions.
George W. Bush left Barack O’Bama a 101% increase in national debt.
Bill Clinton left George W Bush a 32% increase in national debt.
George H.W. Bush increased national debt by 54% during his term
Ronald Reagan increased national debt by a massive 186% during his term
The trouble with Newman was his bedside manner Dismayed. He had the right idea, trimmed a hugely overloaded public service, and actually had Qld looking like it had a chance of solvency. Unfortunately his manner was way too gung ho and lacking empathy.
You’re not suggesting Palaszczuk is an improvement are you? If so you too need some carbs for brainfood.
It would be so much more pleasant if you could just refrain from hurling personal insults at someone who merely voices their opinion. It doesn’t necessarily mean that they are ignorant, brain deprived or poisoned by the coffee shop’s coffee. Poor Jackman & McRoss would be mortified at that suggestion! Good coffee there.
Newman was a disaster in council and a disaster as Premier. His “policies” were a disaster. Look at the debacle after debacle by Government departments after culling jobs. The contractors hired back in cost more and have NO accountability. If you don’t want your comments scrutinised I suggest you do some reading of something other than News opinion writers. Once again with the victim card. Puhleease.
WA is the basket case……stick to the script man
Good point Gallop left WA a Surplus. Barnett with the great help from not Christian like Porter left them in a hole bigger than Gina could produce with $2 a day labour. WA continued to raise royalties and continue to complain about their GST take knowing when royalties are raised they are fiscally equalised less GST. They continue to threaten about seceding from the nation let em go I say.
I’m wondering if some of my posts have gone through to the keeper, or spam, as I don’t think I’ve written anything recently that was deserving of being cut?
Through to the keeper? Maybe to fourth slip or half way up the pitch.
RE: Dismayed says:
January 9, 2017 at 6:11 pm
” ……… Surly your all powerful deity would want you to give rather than to take…”.
Dismayed.
Do you know sometimes your comments are just priceless!!!
As I have been trying to tell you, and your unwillingness to accept it does not make it not so; Churches & Religious (and other Registered Charitable Organisations) are by Tax Law required to be Not for Profit and they must devote all of their income to the declared charitable endeavour.
Hence Registered Churches and Religious GIVE all of their TAKE to the charitable endeavour.
Up to this point I have not being arguing about the existence of God or otherwise, neither have I been arguing the rights / wrongs / morality of your views and declared assertions re ‘taxation’. Those are other matters about which you and I are never going to agree.
All I have asked you to do is to illustrate how your preferred views on taxation of Churches & Religious are actually going to generate revenue towards the Federal Budget.
You obfuscate, about having posted figures many times, you change words and declare that the differences are mere nuance. Yet you never actually demonstrate how revenue is to be raised.
And then of course you drop into your normal tactic of mild / medium personal abuse. Water off a ‘religious’ duck’s back I am afraid.
No matter how you duck & weave, if you want to run this ‘taxation of Churches & Religious’ commentary, I suggest you Put Up or Shut Up!!
PLMO – I admire your persistence with the use of rational arguments.
I would suggest, though, they are having the same effect as water dripping on granite.
The water will eventually carve a path but it will not be directed by a higher power the water finds its own path. More should consider carving their own path.
Nup, man made. Thick as a brick.
plmo – I continue to marvel at the display of your reserves of well-tempered frustration with our fellow poster. On the matter of water, perhaps it may be now appropriate to invoke that old equidae idiom re leading a horse ….. etc.
Have you eve stood on your own 2 feet Carl? It appears you would rather kneel in fear than stand on knowledge.
As you know I’m always trying to help. I’m that sort of guy. The information is a bit of a logjam though.
http://www.afr.com/real-estate/church-land-holdings-kept-secret-20160322-gnos9y
By amassing over $100 million in holding’s the catholic church is just being “charitable”. Charitable to themselves and their kaftan wearing mythology spruikers more like it. We have seen in recent days another government Minister have the same arrogance and expect people to believe all endeavours are for the greater good. Your continued protestations (??) are of the same ilk. No government should be aiding and abetting fantasy or myth making organisations to amass huge fortunes and holdings under the guise of “charity”. There are many tax concessions for true Philanthropy if the “Churches” and religious groups are so concerned they should like true philanthropist pay tax and stop receiving taxpayer subsidisation. I have first hand experiences of rorting by those purporting to be doing “charitable” work however the veil of mythology has strong links and as you note you all have teflon coating and those same charlatans are back up and running elsewhere. Now who is obfuscating by refusing to acknowledge the truth. A tip it is not Dismayed. Zealots, Extremist, Fundamentalist you are all the same. You hide behind your chosen brand and false rhetoric and continue to fleece the flock. No doubt it is religion or politics or both for many of the same type of people.
ooo land tax? cat meet pigeons
50 Pinocchio’s for Sussan Ley for telling so many porkies. What a shameful lady having a feeding frenzy off the aussie taxpayer. Shame on you Sussan.
Well if Sussan Ley needs to resign there are a lot more of them that should do likewise – aren’t there? From all sides of the house too.
Dirty bitch spending our money like it was hers, when the whole time this stinking government is picking on the disabled, the unemployed, the downtrodden, for the crumbs they get to survive on, in comparison to one, just one, of her jolly jaunts to the tropics for fun.
Is there any wonder the peasants want to eat the rich, and that idiot that promised to ‘drain the swamp’ got in. The pollies beg ‘dont hate me’. Sorry to tell you, but pollies make it so easy for us to hate them.
I say Wraith, a note from Mr Yoda you may care to consider – “Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.”
Just a thought.
All you people railing about NBN, don’t blink, 5G will be arriving in the not so distant future. Then of course its goodbye to NBN and uncounted billions of dollars down the drain. Thank you labor
http://www.news.com.au/technology/gadgets/mobile-phones/aussies-set-for-superfast-phone-speeds-as-telstra-leads-the-charge-to-accelerate-5g/news-story/f0d7227b7cbc95630c768bee8b17e854
Sush! The failure if the NBN is due to the way the Libs implemented it. According to Labor that is 🙂
And the cost? I presently get 300gig a month, free STD and free mobile calls to anywhere in Oz AND it includes line rental. Can U imagine how much this would cost on a mobile 5g phone? Not forgetting the more people using the towers the slower the speed. Most mobile plans, even the best cost a fortune. To download a movie on my wife’s plan would use all her data up for a month…$40bux. For $69bux I get more than I can eat
Is this the same link you posted last year and the year before?? You don’t get it. the NBN was to be the foundation just like copper was a hundred years ago. Turnbull and Abbott did indeed completely F… Up what would have been the start of efficiency and productivity enhancing technology for More Australians to create opportunities to improve their lives and access new industries. What the coalition have overseen will have to be over built within the decade. No doubt Turnbull will be on the board of several of the Private companies doing it ta huge expense to consumers.