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 10 Jan. 7.10am
He’s on the mend thank-you, even on the hunt for a new bike.
The helmet stays but I’m liking it so much more now.
Bella
Wraith 10 Jan 12.36pm
I don’t know how these bludgers can steal funding from special needs families and still get an iota of media support.
I wish you could order karma like flowers & have it delivered.
Regards, Bella
Funnily enough I had high hopes for Ms Ley. She is the member of an adjacent electorate and I figured she and McGowan could have been a good team for the border.. She seemed capable. You never can tell when the spoils of office spoils the member.
Unfortunately, in a photo of Ley and the government-enriched Russo, Sussan’s swimsuit/tan lines are all too obvious. Sussan, you’re not 18 any more. The one-shoulder sash is for year 12 formals.
Picky? Unfair? Probably but I’m over all of them.
Susan Ley’s record as Health Minister should be enough to have had her sacked last year. She has abandoned her electorate. The electorate she “represents” has a lower than average income level is rural and has an older per capita population. Just about everything she has done in the health portfolio has made life more difficult for the people in that electorate (not to mention every other). Cuts to pathology, freezing of medicare rebates, increases in cost of diabetes testing gear etc etc etc. the list goes on and on. The biggest issue is the constant attack on Preventative medicine measures.This coalition government has got to be the most out of touch or outright self entitled seen in this countries history. What makes it worse is there is not one iota of contrition. Never has a government doubled down on bullshit like this one.
Pardon me if someone else has come up with this, but I have the solution to the long blog scroll to the bottom on a pad or phone – search for “Leave a Reply”.
‘Simples’, as the meerkat says.
Yes, sorry about this. I’ve been internet poor for more than a week now. I had to flick my ISP and move to another. Hopeful I will have a fixed line connection in the next week but in the meantime I am muddling along with mobile broadband. I’ll get to it when I can.
DITTO:- I have been off for a few days…you couldn’t tell-hee hee? Hours and hours with my ISP
internet technical officer were wasted hours. These blokes have degrees in I.T. Who fixed it? ME in the end. Exasperation Cubed!
Gee whiz, had a lovely weekend in Canberra and then son goes and does something stupid out of depression/anxiety just when I thought things were really starting to get better. Needless to say, surgery on the hand at RNS wonderful staff, my local GP practice were brilliant, two steps forward and I don’t know how many back but the ignorant comments on James Hird from people who have never experienced it and have no idea, too many of us going through it in silence because others think we/our loved ones should toughen up….if only it was so simple.
Ah it’s tough Tracy.
Keep him close, remind him how important he is to you and family, and show him how good his future is. Find some goals, short term and achievable, short steps.
Wish you well.
RE: Jean Baptiste says:
January 10, 2017 at 6:26 pm
As you know I’m always trying to help. I’m that sort of guy. The information is a bit of a logjam though.
JB,
Thank you. Although the link blocks me without a subscription. But I am sure my mate Bernard in the ATO can provide an enlightened view of both the Property Portfolio and the tax implications!!
As a fellow ‘Religious’ I know you understand the issues at hand! At least you try to understand the issues and subjects from which you take the piss!!
I mean, I am sure the Parish Council of the Sacre Cru (Cur) would be only to willing to abide by any change in the tax law – not of course that it would make any modicum of difference to the ‘expenses’ of the Cathedral and the barely basic repast of the devoted; cheddar crackers and fine aged cheese with a full bodied communion cup!!
After all, we ‘Religious’ are only desperately trying to set a good example for the ‘traditional religious bigots’!!
Oh no – Peter Sarstaedt fallen off his perch too.
One of my all time favourites – I want to get inside your head or is it Where do you go to my lovely?
Whatever, beautiful song
Where Do You Go to My Luverly….only hit. I recall he was supposed to become bigger than The Beatles. Didn’t happen…Sad Cafe.
politicians getting a taste for spending other people’s money has been going on for a long time, and it has been a bi-partisan project.
the only way to address it is to try to keep the guidelines in front of the rorts.
i was impressed with Ms Leys, spending 10k a day in the US is good going, but 21k in a week or so on land transport is outstanding.
She’s gone hard but all the same she’s got a long way to go to get close to Joe Hockey.
Ley’s insults pale into insignificance when you look at the Looters who attended weddings, took taxpayer flights to buy investment blocks (Hockey Cairns, Randell from WA etc). Joyce over to India for a wedding plus his weddings here including Soapy Mirabella’s. His comment on the wedding? ” A workday like any other”. Not forgetting his ‘study tour’ to Malaysia-$5,500… Labor loot as well but the Libs like their Tory mates in England (who charge moats and home renovations to the taxpayer) have made an art form out of it.
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Ruddock is presently drawing a pension of over $200k PLUS the $214k gig Turnbull bequested to him for (wait for it, grab hold of your chair) Special Envoy for Human Rights….yep, Mr Kids Overboard himself…envoy for human rights, Minister for Nauru! Even his own daughter left home and would not speak with him foer some time she was so shamed. A great rort that one-Turnbull even had to rewrite the rules so he could get 2 hits at once. Abbott is a beauty though spending hundreds of thousands more than the PM when he was opposition leader! Tones was not even running the joint-weddings, Birdsville races, Looter Fund raisers, charity bike rides even charged to us, diversions to hospitals on a whim so he could make a claim!
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Brandis and his thousands on books/bookshelves and (yep more weddings). Slipper lost his job, his reputation, his wife and nearly his life during court cases brought on by Abbott which were eventually dropped. Others Looters were allowed to pay their thousands back ( under the Minchin principle) but Slipper’s pizzling amount was not allowed to be reimbursed. After all there was a government to be brought down. And to top it off Abbott was bloody best man at his wedding. What a backstabber.
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Dutts likes to fly with his family…at a cost of $29k to us. Liberal Nigel Scullion knocked up $74k in airfares. Christian (anti pensioner) Porter racked up $516,000 in his first 16months as an MP. Now a lot of this is within the guidelines and I expect a missile from Rat saying Burke rorted $4.6million which is not correct. The excuse ‘within the guidelines’ is crap. Simple…the guidelines pollies hide behind must be changed.
i saw some joe hockey expenses in DC but thought they didn’t look too bad, we don’t send the chaps there to sit at home and watch netflix after all.
He’s in the right place then mate.
Trevor Snott 1:42PM
Old jungle saying. “Even Phantom avoids the Snott that never dries.”
But I’m not the phantom, call me gurly (?) man again and by the time I finish with you you’ll think you’ve eaten a box of anti histamines. You runny nosed girls blouse.
Bless you Baptiste your good friend Snott appreciates your kind words of endearment and I do feel closer to you now you crazy misguided climate change fruitcake.
It’s girly man, and I love the way you break your wrists when you really get wound up. A bit of a snow storm there JB, is that weather or climate for a change?
pay up
https://youtu.be/eoD0efoHzeA