Another day, another leak from the White House. This time the leak featured transcripts from a discussion between Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and the self-proclaimed “world’s greatest person”, Donald Trump.
Perhaps even more amusing was Trump’s conversation with the Mexican President where the wall was discussed. In what must have been a moment of hard realisation for the POTUS, he acknowledged to President Enrique Peña Nieto’s translator, “He speaks English better than me.”
The Washington Post would not say how it got its hands on the transcripts. It may have been sitting on them for months. The old simile ‘leaking like a sieve’ is no longer apt in the White House. Sieves don’t let everything through. At the moment the White House is hurling documents out the window, carefully collated with accurate page numbers and stapled in the left hand top corner in the appropriate fashion to any passing journalist.
Trump demands loyalty from everyone in his orbit. As the old saying goes, if you want loyalty in politics, get a dog.
So it is quite odd Trump doesn’t have one. The 45th President of the US doesn’t own a pet of any description. Forty two of the 43 US Presidents before him (I’m not miscounting as Grover Cleveland was both 25th and 27th POTUS) have been pet owners.
Full column here.
My that’s a mighty fine glock you have, is it loaded?
If it’s unloaded it’s just a semi-auto hammer. *grin*
Nice touch at the athletics world championships to hold a one minutes silence for Betty Cuthbert, not a peep from the crowd.
I’m a night behind, no way getting up at 3am to watch the finals
Sad news on the local telly. Country music legend Glen Campbell has passed away. ‘Wichita Lineman’ was the first 7″ I bought with my own money, and I still have it. Farewll chum. Thanks for so much. Glad now I went to your farewell concert in Brisbane. I wasn’t worried when you forgot the words a few times.Vale!
http://www.tmj4.com/news/national/country-musician-glen-campbell-has-died-at-81
Indeed, Wissendorf, what a fabulous guy he was too and sadly missed, Alzheimer’s Disease took him out . I had the honour of seeing him a few times live and his shows sparkled. RIP Glen Campbell.
HYPOCRISY 101
1. When Abbott was PM Turnbull was the most ardent backer in cabinet for the parliament
to vote on marriage equality.
2. When Abbott was PM Turnbull also said “a postal vote flies in the face of democracy”.
3. No matter what result a plebiscite or postal vote comes up with, it is not binding on the parliament says
says Erica..
4. Daily we hear the PM stating “I cannot break an election promise”. Of all the statements this is the most
astounding when one looks at the train-wreck of broken promises Turnbull has been associated with.
After this statement I take it the Looters will never again break an election promise?
5. Then there is the money. $125million at a very conservative estimate which not so long ago the PM said
was a waste of money!
Have a poll…Newspoll is pretty accurate and would be much cheaper. From one poll we know of ,72% of people in Turnbull’s electorate want a parliamentary vote on SSM. Oh and if the Senate knock it back twice can we please have another DD Malcolm…oh please!
The only thing that can save this a mob is a well-timed terrorist threat! Well that is all they have in their scabbard. Why do they want to hand the next election on a plate to a dullard like Shorten?
The coalition went to the election on the premise that they would hold a plebiscite if they won the election. They won, let it pass through the senate, hold a plebiscite and if your newspoll figures are correct you can be assured that ssm will be legalised and democratically. As Howard mentioned, in an article on him, the labor party don’t believe in democracy or a free vote on such matters. They are not unlike the greens in their authoritarianism.
GULP!
And further, Bassy Shorten was all for a plebescite. And why didn’t labor introduce ssm during the Rudd/Gillard years? They are (both) playing politics with this and that is why it is best going to the people.
I’m no expert in such matters but some of the comments by senior police in relation to the recent big raids and arrests in Sydney and elsewhere seem to me as if they could put in doubt the chances of the accused getting a fair trial??!!
When these comments are made it generally means the police believe they have a strong case. I saw some of those remarks including another from the Minister for Justice. The police may have a strong case but they still should be circumspect about what they say.
I miss the description of shady characters as “Colourful Racing Identities”…
True! I was listening to some comment speaking rather fondly of John Ibrahim – charming, fast cars, fast women, nightclubs, loads of money and all that – but not really feared or disliked. A larger than life character.
Agree. That was my concern that even a strong case may be undermined by imprudent comments.
On other matters, I am forming the view that a lot of those underbelly type characters that disappeared without trace may have been devoured by sea lice. Not a strong case but it could have legs.
Message to Warnie, stay in your pool.
Seems we have another type of gender to add to the list, viz. non-binary. I had always connected the word binary with computer software coding. Ah well, guess I’m behind the gender times maybe.
All sorts of civil wars going on in Victoria, which state seems to he a bed of confusion.
So is it now LGBTIQN-B?
And when making a speech it is no longer okay to start with “ladies and gentlemen” we are huffily informed. How ridiculous.
I welcome non-binary Boa, because it relieves us from remembering the 21 genders that some article outlined a year or two ago, probably in the Green Cheese Weekly. Binary itself is simply base-2, it doesn’t have to involve computers.
Beyond that, I now understand why Qantas abruptly stopped using the phrase ‘Ladies and gentlemen’ in their cabin announcements a few years ago. Thanks for the heads-up. I thought it weird then and I think it weird now. And slightly offensive. They just launch straight into whatever announcement with no introduction whatsoever. The newly fashionable ‘everyone’ would be better. The possible exception I would countenance is “We are all about to die”, in which case there’s room for brevity. And yes, the change came about in the Joyce era (not Barnaby). It might have been nice if they had explained the policy. Maybe it’s in the fine print?
Funny you should mention Qantas, Triv. I had the most appalling overnighter with them from Singapore recently. It was really disappointing as I had been looking forward to “calling Australia home” on our national airline.
The cabin service was utterly abysmal and the stuff euphemistically dished up as dinner even worse.
I must admit to wondering if the arrogant and smug attitude of the male flight attendants on that flight had something to do with Alan Joyce’s recent forays into the subject of gender discrimination. Stupid maybe, but that was a perception I came away with.
Suffice to say I will never fly Qantas again.
Having flown with them for years, I’d have to say you can be unlucky.
Having regularly flown to North America, I can assure you that Qantas is heaven compared to the American airlines – e.g. Delta, United, Continental, American Airlines and Air Canada. I just wish that Qantas was cheaper!
That’s a given TO
Have had the same experience, business class on an old Jumbo was like economy on other airlines. Emirates or Singapore are the go, Thai not too shabby either. Flew Swiss Air once, took days for my back to recover, very spartan.
From ‘LGBTI brawl over $30m ‘Pride Centre’” in the Oz:
“Ms Goldner hit out at the lack of transgender representation on the nine-member board and accused organisers of permitting “transphobic attitudes”, “non-binary erasure” and promoting “mental health stigma”.
“She took particular issue with a convener of the meeting greeting the audience with the phrase “ladies and gentlemen”, despite there being several non-binary people in attendance,…”
Actually read the lot, I’ve got a headache and I want to erasure it.
I try not to read things that give me a headache, unless I’m paid to do so as they were submitted by students.
Idle minds may be wondering why Turnbull stepped into this pile of doodoo.
I’m very suspicious of people who let their little doggies run off lead in public places. I’m honour bound to pick up after mine, but the vast numbers of small turds on public walkways in this postcode suggest some think their hairy rats’ leavings won’t be noticed.
Anyway, my advice to Turnbull – “Don’t go in the water”.
There are worse things than sea lice.
Yep….The Hard Right
CFMEU?
Or your overlong posts and crap spelling😈
Geez, TA and co certainly have Malcolm in a squirrel grip – self-destruction
Things looking very bad for Turnbull, Boadicea. 17 consecutive Newspolls in which Labor has led, and the sixth consecutive one in which the two-party margin has been 53-47% in Labor’s favour. As Abbott stares into his “rear view mirror” he can see PM Turnbull fast approaching! Cheers.
Labor may have led many polls but Shorten is seriously unpopular and rates very poorly time after time on performance.He is very vulnerable in any election campaign with Dutts, Abbott and The Belgian at his throat on boats refugees and The Big Terror Scare.I read somewhere recently maybe The Monthly that even many on Labors side believe they cannot win with Shorten. Sad Cafe.
RGR redux.
But most of Malcolm’s failings are from being Malcolm. If you can find out what he believes in, could you let us–and him–know?
We sort of know what he believes in. He just never acts on that belief.
Yeah, but none of that is in the Liberal Party platform.
Don’t see much about in there about a voluntary postal plebiscite as a means to temporarily resolve their factional feuding either.
That’s spot on Jack. Where would he be now if he had kept to his beliefs and withstood the Abbott right wingers? I think he would have earned respect instead iwf ridicule. But would would the Coalition have survived?
http://www.betootaadvocate.com/headlines/lucy-leaves-malcolms-brown-leather-jacket-remind-used/.
he wasn’t much chop as leader first time around, i could see why they wanted to punt Abbott but i couldn’t see much evidence that Turnbull would be better than before.
Eade gone from the Suns. Buckley skating on thin ice at the Pies. Hasler likely gone from Bulldogs in the NRL. Who’d be a footy coach? Blues responded well in a challenging game last weekend Jack. Cats died in the arse. Lou O’Tod lamented the closeness of the season this year. We have seen some strange results, but it’s the time of the season now where those just outside the 8 will mount their final charge, and more dangerously, those with no chance will become spoilers. Some teams already need other teams to lose in order to make the finals. Teams with no show, now playing for pride and for their fans, will bob up and poke better fancies in the eye. Goes for the NRL too. Rabbits put Saints finals hopes on life support last weekend too.
I won’t remember this season for being close, I will remember it for the crapbag umpiring. I’ve seen players run 40m without bouncing the ball, marks paid off 5m kicks, legit tackles pinged and howlers ignored and the deliberate out-of-bounds rule bent so far out of shape it’s useless. But here comes September. My tipping has gone awry these last weeks. Does the tipping comp go on into the finals or end with the H&A season?
Staying in very pleasant Colby, WI this week. Best part of the trip so far. Haven’t been this far north in Wisconsin before. Reminds me of the Darling Downs.
You must hit up Dwight. This is his former backyard.
Man you’re getting closer–only a couple hours from my home. Try Forest County. Lots of good fishing, picnicking, swimming, camping and all around relaxing. And hordes of my cousins. *laugh*
Just checked it on the map Dwight. I’ll be very close on the way back from Duluth. I met a guy from Eagle River at the Elkhorn swap meet who has a car for sale there and I’m planning to go through there on the way back to Wausau and have a look at it. (A ’28 Nash Continental 8, complete and running, the “Kenosha Duesenberg” – well it IS Wisconsin!) If I buy it I’ll have to go back next week to arrange shipping, and with a week of spare time before my next meet I’ll have time to explore up there. This is really pretty country. Is it legal to fish in Chequamegon-Nicolet? Alternative suggestions if not? Just the mention of fish sends me off the rails. What’s your hometown? Do your cousins play the banjo and brew moonshine?
Eagle River? Can’t get much closer than that. I’m from Wabeno on the southern end of the county. Just stop in any hardware or sporting goods store with a photo ID and get a non-resident fishing license: http://dnr.wi.gov/GoWild/nonresident.html You can even buy one for one day. What you like to fish for?>
Dwight suggested a few weeks back that travelling up to Wausau and beyond, from Madison, I might avoid trouble with pollen. After falling ill from pollens in Arizona I decided to take his advice. Drove up here along the Lake from Kenosha via Milwaukee and Green Bay. Will be travelling on from here to Duluth MI where a friend is taking me to see the head of the Mississippi, then returning to Wausau for the swap meet in nearby Iola next weekend. Dwight may be able to suggest a scenic route to Duluth and back? atm I’m planning to go up via Chippewa Falls and return via Ironwood.
Take 51 North to Hurley. Mercer, Manitowish and Minocqua all have connections to the Al Capone era. Head over to Ashland from Hurley and you’ll skirt the shores of Lake Superior on Hwy 13 into Duluth. From there head south to Chippewa Falls (and a tour of the Leinenkugel Brewery). Then just wander country roads back east to Wausau.