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.
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May I recommend a Military History Book I have just discovered, Mr Insider, and its called “Flying Colours”, written in 1981 by Laddie Lucas. Its on the life of the great Flyer, Group Captain Sir Douglas Bader. What is quite fortunate it was written before he died in 1982. May be hard to find but its riveting imho.
“I want to die in bed as leader of my Nation”, so North Korea’s Kim Jong un is reported to have said, Mr Insider. Going by the massive firepower the USA is arraying against this fool it does seem he may well get his wish in the not too distant future. If I was Fat Kimmie I would be careful just farting right now!
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That can be arranged.
Jobe Watson retires under his own terms. A great young man who handled himself very well throughout the whole sorry saga. Go well Jobe
Predictable. he hasn’t been the same player since coming back from suspension. It’s as if he’s looked at the world and understood there are more important things in life than footy. Good luck to him.
there is always something appealing about a bloke who worked so hard to turn himself into a good player, especially as it came pretty easily to his father.
So SA have the highest electricity prices in Australia. The world even.
I’m wondering if the cost of all the diesel generators purchased and Olympic swimming pool amounts of diesel that will be required to run them when the wind stops blowing have been passed on to the consumers yet? Prices could get even higher, one assumes.
I’m having a quiet chuckle remembering the barbed comments received from the usual suspects here about Tasmania’s generator when we had power issues due to falling water supplies and the Bass Strait cable rupture.
Well, at least our lights didn’t go out. Someone had the intelligence to take the necessary precautions before that happened.
yeah tassy plugged in diesel gen sets
Yep. and we kept the lights on, Smoke. Very sensible really wouldn’t you agree?
put your flame suit on Boa you’ll cop it for that comment! 😜
You better go look at the AEMO data dashboard SA has the cheapest Electricity in Australia even cheaper than down there in oaky oaks. How do you manage to walk around the streets with your eyes closed.
Gee look the AEMO says SA still has the cheapest electricity in the country. Some people will never let fact get in the way of the of bitter twisted ignorance. Hey Yvonne?
BER 97% successfully value for money. Show us 1 private enterprise that makes that sort of outcome? Oh you can? No Surprises. The amount of energy saved by the home insulation program has probably stopped many losing their homes. You are always talking rubbish about power prices. Insulation is one of the best ways to save money. A handful of greedy Liberal supporting dodgy business men killed their untrained employees. We had Royal Commission. Over 16 Dead in the WA resources industry in the last 12 months. Why are you not screaming for a Royal Commission Yvonne? Oh that’s right the supporters of the coalition would have to answer questions.
All the squawking from Shorten about the $122 million cost of the postal vote is irrelevant.
Crikey it’s chickenfeed compared to what Labor have thrown at various hair-brained schemes/thought bubbles. Pink bats and unwanted school buildings spring to mind.
What is important is the ethics of the issue.
You are an Ugly individual. Through and through.
School chaplains
Direct Action 😛
Pink batts – Howard government idea that saved gobs of energy and got a bad name from a handful of dodgy operators
BER – scurrilously misreported success
Net result – no recession.
Brilliantly succinctly put….oh why havent I the gift of word economy that you have!
$5 Billion Northern Slush fund. $1 Billion dairy slush fund, 1 billion sugar slush fund. How amny Billions in missing water buybacks slush fund. $25 billion to date unfunded corporate tax cuts that the governments own modelling say will NOT increase GDP and will NOT produce jobs. Taxpayer Subsidised slave labour in several industries actually reducing real employment. Oh don’t forget Kevin Andrews marriage counselling policy at the same cost to keep the automotive industry alive. Get real Yvonne the real economic vandals are your pals.
I don’t know anybody who has returned their pink batts. A report on the “pink batts fiasco”said that by 2020, the insulation scheme would save at least 38 petajoules of energy (equivalent to lighting all Australian households for one and a half years) and avoid 14 Mt of CO2-e greenhouse gas emissions. Sadly but predictably as with refugees, Abbott used dead men to win votes over this issue. $50 million wasted on a Royal Commission…not ONE conviction! .
And school buildings. The greatest thing ever.We have one across the road that is used EVERY SINGLE day that would never have seen the light of day under a Looter government. As I have said…when they were opened there were grovelling Looter Party members grinning their ears off in their electorates taking credit for the new buildings as if they built them.
You do realise your coalition have added over $100 Billion more than Labor did Debt is now over $500 Billion it was just over $200 billion at the time of the 2013 Election. Debt has skyrocketed under the coalition. That is with 80% of their legislation passed so No excuses.This Coalition government have added Debt at a greater rate than Labor ever have. Are you allergic to facts or just don’t want to know the facts?
Those stalwarts in the CFMEU and MUA have pledged their support for the Bolivarian debacle in Venezuela. Breaking a few eggs still seems to be official policy with them. Jack won’t publish anything I’d really like to say to these dills.
If they really wanted to be like Venezuela there wouldn’t be any eggs to break in the first place?
The MUA are from another planet
Vale the great Glenn Campbell.One of the greats of guitar and vocals….a silky set of pipes.Was a session guitarist to the Beach Boys and hundreds of others.Although most of his success was as a vocalist when asked how he wanted to be remembered he said as a guitar man.U Tube his live version of The William Tell Overture with a full orchestra…..AMAZING STUFF Bald.
Have a listen to one of his last tunes, “I won’t miss you when I’m gone.” Written after the Alzheimer’s diagnosis. Heartbreaking.
Onya Bassy, not many people realise G.C was a primo guitarist & renowned session muso, used o write a bit in his spare time too. Vale.
Yeah Bassy – he put put dome great stuff on his day.
One of my faves is “where’s the playground, Suzie”
One of my favourites Bassy.
I Love these…. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QlDJaCUfxU
…….on his 12 string https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUBhE00h9U0
It would go with a Stalinist-era poster, but the phrase has a certain ring rendered as “Feuer und Wut”.
Anyway, I’ve decided already what to do with my postal vote. I’ll return it, unsullied, in the reply-paid envelop with a crisp $10 bill to cover the costs.
Vale Glen Campbell, one of my favourites. And a great guitar player amongst other things.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2A7iuQF_tAc