An Australia Day Confession

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My fellow Pubkateers, I have to make a confession about a surprising epiphany that occurred a few minutes ago …

(Image Credit: Pets Diaries)

Moi has suddenly, overwhelmingly, DEEPLY, DESPERATELY, AND DANGEROUSLY, fallen IN LOVE with Our Dear Leader, PM Blood Oaf.

So moi simply cannot resist sharing moi’s feelings and, more importantly, reasons, with youse humanes.

Moi loves PMBO with:

A because he is ABYSMAL

B because he is BELLICOSE

C because he is CRASS

D because he is a DOLT

E because he is EGREGIOUS

F because he is FRIGHTENING

G because he is GORMLESS

H because he is HORRIBLE

I because he is IMPOLITE

J because he is JINGOISTIC

K because he is a KILL-JOY

L because he is LOUTISH

M because he is MISOGYNISTIC

N because he is NASTY

O because he is an OAF

P because he is a PRICK

Q because he is QUINTESSENTIALLY appalling

R because he is REPULSIVE

S because he is STUPID

T because he is TERRIBLE

U because he is UNCOUTH

V because he is VICIOUS

W because he is WORTHLESS

X because he is XENOPHOBIC

Y because he is YUKKY

Z because THAT’S HIS GRADE LEVEL.

 


Toodle pip 😉

PS: Well done and fantastic choices (which I bet got up a few people’s noses):

Adam Goodes – 2014 Australian of the Year

Fred Chaney – 2014 Senior Australian of the Year

Jacqueline Freney – 2014 Young Australian of the Year

Tim Conolan – 2014 Australia’s Local Hero

All thoroughly well-deserved (as were all their fellow nominees).

877 thoughts on “An Australia Day Confession”

  2. Leroy,
    Aaaahh, the scent of Perkin’s Paste in my youth 😉

    Ducky, m’dear,
    An excellent notion!

  3. The bootstrap continues.

    A few random comments by Abbott on Hadley’s show, some argey-bargey from the Murdoch peanut gallery, more comments, an understandably comprehensive coverage by the ABC itself, some op-eds in Fairfax and…

    Exposing how the ABC spends your $1.4 billion
    PATRICK LION THE DAILY TELEGRAPH JANUARY 31, 2014 12:00AM

    A REVIEW of ABC funding was launched last night as the row between the national broadcaster and the Abbott government escalated after months of government attacks on its news coverage.

    Shock! Horror!

    The ABC’s spending of its legislated budget now warrants being “exposed”, after “months of attacks” on it… by the person who’s ordered the exposing.

    THIS is how the Coalition works. While Labor pussyfoots around, trying to make nice and cop it sweet from the likes of Tony Jones and Leigh Sales, the Coalition under Abbott just wades into the national broadcaster.

    As far as I can see, it’s over precisely TWO stories: Townsend’s revelations, and the burnt hands yarn, which, despite all the bluster, still has not been cleared up… in fact Morrison is refusing to comment on the story in any detail, but then has lambasted the news organization that DID cover it, in the absence of any input from him.

    After all, he’s only the minister.

    The ABC is being held responsible for Abbott’s boofheadedness in dealing with SBY, and the subsequent boofheadedness of his bull-in-a-china-shop Minister for Immigration.

    They believe, now that the boot’s on the other foot and THEY are in government, that no criticism or examination of of the government can be permitted, lest it drift into “unpatriotic” waters.

    We’re at war, after all.

    Pass the press releases.

  5. Good morning Dawn Patrollers.
    More vindictive cuts from this vindictive government. And look at the lovely photo of Mr Grecian 2000.
    http://www.smh.com.au/national/job-losses-loom-as-charities-watchdog-to-be-scrapped-20140130-31pxb.html
    One could be forgiven for seeing some vindictiveness in the SPC decision and Abbott pointing to Richard Gonski.
    http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-opinion/tony-abbott-thrusts-spc-upgrade-back-into-david-gonskis-hands-20140130-31pqz.html
    Big Tobacco goes up in smoke in the US. Richard Ackland takes us through the story.
    http://www.smh.com.au/comment/big-tobacco-goes-up-in-smoke-20140130-31p9r.html
    An examination of where the government draws the line on industry assistance.
    http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-opinion/location-in-marginal-seat-a-struggling-companys-best-argument-for-government-aid-20140130-31pqk.html
    It seems that all the arguments at the Court of Disputed Returns are based on self interest.
    http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/reelection-for-wa-senate-would-be-costly-difficult-high-court-justice-20140130-31pe5.html

  6. Section 2 . . .

    If anything needs a Royal Commission it is this sort of stuff.
    http://www.theage.com.au/business/fatal-crash-fallout-costs-cootes-transport-jobs-and-major-fuel-contracts-20140130-31plm.html
    Ex-chairman of the ABC, David Hill, has a crack at Abbott’s ideas of what a national broadcaster should and should not do.
    http://www.smh.com.au/comment/patriotism-lies-in-unbiased-journalism-not-in-censorship-mr-abbott-20140130-31p9t.html
    Senator X ramps it up with the board of Qantas.
    http://www.smh.com.au/business/groundhog-day-as-xenophon-again-turns-up-heat-on-qantas-20140130-31ppu.html
    The Guardian’s Van Badham asks for a broader review of corruption and malfeasance.
    http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jan/30/union-corruption-must-be-stamped-out-business-finance-must-be-tackled-too

  7. Section 3 . . .

    ABSOLUTELY MUST SEE! David Rowe has Abbott inviting us into Play School.
    http://www.afr.com/p/national/cartoon_gallery_david_rowe_1g8WHy9urgOIQrWQ0IrkdO
    Alan Moir – “Abbott is his own man” says Howard.

    Andrew Dyson on the deconstruction industry.
    http://www.smh.com.au/photogallery/federal-politics/andrew-dyson-20090819-epqv.html
    Cathy Wilcox on Abbott’s scientific rigour.
    http://www.smh.com.au/photogallery/federal-politics/cartoons/cathy-wilcox-20090909-fhd6.html

  8. And from the Land of the Free –

    Another Marlboro man bites the dust because of it.
    http://thepoliticalcarnival.net/2014/01/29/third-marlboro-man-icon-dies-smoking-related-death/
    Unemployment benefits will continue to be a hot button issue.
    http://thepoliticalcarnival.net/2014/01/29/next-senate-plan-pass-unemployment-benefits-extention/
    Oh dear! Repug darling, Chris Christie, goes deeper into the ordure.
    http://thepoliticalcarnival.net/2014/01/29/ruh-roh-chris-christies-brother-bought-property-just-before-christie-pushed-for-big-overhaul/
    And he’s on the nose in voter land.
    http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/01/30/1273683/-Yet-another-bad-poll-for-Chris-Christie
    Education Utah style.
    http://crooksandliars.com/2014/01/utah-schoolkids-lunches-taken-and-tossed

  9. ‘The ABC has viewed this footage’.
    No comment made on what it showed though.Very nice tactics there. If that footage shows Australian personnel doing anything wrong then Morrison will be revealed as the liar we know he is and all the ABC’s claims that sailors abused asylum seekers will be seen as the truth. Why mention this footage at all if it doesn’t show anything incriminating? Morrison must be feeling a bit queasy this morning.

  14. Something that should be mentioned –
    The ABC is funded triennially by legislation during Budget appropriations. The base funding for 2013-2016 was passed only last May. Provision for that funding has been included in the forward estimates. Abbott will have to amend that legislation to get his planned cuts to ABC funding. That won’t get past this senate and it probably won’t get past the incoming senate either. So he can ABC bash as much as he likes and he can waste money on as many efficiency studies as he likes, none of it will achieve anything. By the time the next round of funding is due this government will be in it’s dying, lame duck phase and Labor can go to the next election promising to restore whatever funding has been clawed away by the Coalition.
    http://www.budget.gov.au/2013-14/content/bp2/html/bp2_expense-06.htm

    http://www.aph.gov.au/About_Parliament/Parliamentary_Departments/Parliamentary_Library/Publications_Archive/archive/fundingabc

    And –
    Abbott’s Orwellian-sounding ‘efficiency study’ is just going over stuff that has only recently been examined. It is a blatant waste of money. What a shame we can’t make Rupert Mardoch pay for it – he’s the one wanting it so badly.

    Here’s the response from the ABC to the Gillard government’s CFAR ‘Is Less More?’ discussion paper in 2012. Abbott should read it. It’s very clear on why the ABC is and must remain independent of the government of the day.

    Click to access No.36-Australian-Broadcasting-Corporation.pdf

    And for the really keen (I’m not) here is the discussion paper, all 114 pages worth.

    Click to access CFAR_Discussion_Paper.pdf

  15. Old Barrie Cassidy was riding shotgun for Tone this morning on ABC Breakfast. Regular hosts Ken and Barbie were looking very tense but Baz simply said that Tone has had a very good week. Hasn’t he been saying that since 2009?

  17. Tony Abbott is not intelligent, at least not intelligent enough to be in command of a nation…he is almost exactly like the peter sellers character ; “Chauncey Gardiner”…itself a mistaken interpretation of a mumbled sound..and that is what was intended for the satire…a satire on exactly the sort of situation we (as has many before) find ourself in.
    The repeated mantras of a fool deludes those who ought to be more astute into looking for the clue as to which way to judge him…ie; are these the ravings of a idealogue dickhead or are they lines of wise instruction…sadly, the vanity of those followers who have thrown their lot in with blind foolishness does not allow them to perceive their mistake and they lay on in silly, smiling idiocy.
    Murdoch knows, hence the hyperbolic headlines..the “over the top” screaming from the dirt-sheets….Murdoch is the bully’s pimp egging the fool on.

  19. I thought of that Chauncey Gardiner comparison a little while ago (coincidentally, a day before I saw it cropping up in my Twitter feed). But I rejected it, because Chauncey was a sincere man whose knowledge was limited but secure. A better comparison for Abbott is the senator in The Manchurian Candidate. The man’s an idiot, but all he’s asked to do is stand up and say the inflammatory things he’s given to say. His wife (cf. Peta Credlin) takes care of the machinations.

  20. Well, well, well. Sharman Stone is one angry little hornet who has fired all the right words to keep her popularity intact in her electorate. I do think though that she genuinely believed her party would do the right thing with SPC, the fruit growers, workers and community generally…. obviously she has learnt a lesson that the abbott, HoJo et al are not to be trusted.

  21. Media really, really, really want us all to look at Don Farrell right now. I get nervy when everyone’s pointing at ALP factional issues. It usually means they don’t want us looking at something else.

  22. “Chauncey was a sincere man”

    That has always been my impression. And I don’t think he was a complete fool; he had some words of wisdom.

  25. And I’ll surmise further…If we look to that old maxim ; “Birds of a feather flock together”..look at the people Abbott surrounds himself with…bunglers, mumblers, charlatans, criminals and fools….I surmise that in his past, Abbott has done something…something bad…Pell knows it as his confessor…Margie knows a little of it as his wife (but there is shame attached!)…Murdoch knows it as does certain quarters of the police…Look at them as a collective…have you ever seen such sneaky, duplicitous behaviour?….Certain players in the MSM. also have a whiff of it…which makes their behaviour even MORE untrustworthy.
    Sooner or later, truth will out!…..But I fear the damage that will be done before it is out.

  26. Murdoch has waited for years for such a sucker as Abbott to turn up…I bet it is hard for Rupert to keep the smile from his face…The perfect patsy!..he has the ‘goods” on “the boy”…he probably rubs the urn containing his father’s ashes while chanting in mock seriousness..: “Genie, genie of the lamp…three whishes pleeeese!”
    As an aside, who was it that Keating was reffering to when he accused them of having a “criminal mind” ?

  27. Jaycee,
    You can have a look at what has been pubished of his record as well …. he’s been brought before the courts on occasion but fronts with a retinue of QCs, there is a string of ‘offences’ from his University days highlighting his thuggish behaviour,,,.then there was his involvement in getting Pauline Hansen’s incarceration and his slush fund which enabled that campaign….He is one nasty, mean and crooked operator and like heaps of those of his ilk, has a brigade of like minds to cover his tracks and an army of gullible, god-fearing souls who turn a blind eye to his doings.

  28. I guess Abbott is lucky once more. He has a mild-mannered opponent in Shorten. As for Julia Gillard, there was no such thing as luck. She had to deal, among other things, with the most obnoxious LOTO.

  29. gigilene,
    I am not writing off Bill Shorten just yet. IMO the way to go with the likes of the odious abbott is to let him shoot himself in the foot a few dozen times and allow him to think he’s top cocky. Attacking him head-on is not going to get Labor anywhere while the media is still wearing rose coloured blinkers and the voters are not yet hurting enough to realise they were taken for fools.

    The abbott has already started to show his dark side to the voters and the more he gets away with it, the more confident he’ll become that he can do anything he likes. The more people, businesses, the ABC etc he pisses off, the more nails he’s hammering into his own coffin. May he continue and get the result he deserves.

  30. “The abbott has already started to show his dark side to the voters”

    Let’s hope he turns into complete darkness for those silly voters …

  32. We have seen yesterday where this government is coming from. Abbott has very simple beliefs about what drives the industry. He also believes all this country’s ill can be placed at the feet of workers and their unions., abetted by bosses that cave in.

    He sees the solution as destroying unions, putting the workers back in their place.

    He also believes that government should be minute, there ti serve capital.

    He believes in this, as he believes in HIS god.

    He does not explain why the USA has suffered so badly with its low wages and poor welfare services.

    Abbott believes he has to do nothing, except cut welfare and remove all protections that workers have.

    As that mayor said today, SPC problems are not wages, they are cheaper, food products pouring into this country. She mentioned Italy, but I suspect trade agreements, especially that one signed by Howard, is contributing to their problems. As they said yesterday, they are not competing on a level playing field.

    I wonder how low Abbott believes wages have to go.

    Gillard took us down the path, with education, technology and other infrastructure of high wage, high technology jobs. Abbott seems to believe we can compe4te with the low wage countries of Asia, Africa and some parts of Europe.

    Yes, all Abbott believes he has to do, is destroy the unions. We know how Abbott loves to destroy.

  33. Mr. Morrison, they have not changed their story re the behavior of the navy. They have added to it.

  34. kk
    True. But isn’t it often the case that mild-manners is expected when it comes from Labor; and sheer mendacity is accepted by the electorate when it comes from the Libs?

  35. Nathine now on. Does he not have an election in the m near future, when it comes to SPC. He does not believe there is nothing further that can be done.

  36. Wow, I leave the computer for a couple of hours this morning and then I find out SA Labor’s having a public factional war. Ye gods.

    I was hoping that Weatherill’s work in the past month and Abbott’s hamfisted amateur rule would just be enough to get Labor over the line in March there, but that’s looking unlikely now. Since the Libs look likely to win Tasmania too, then they’ll have wall-to-wall LNP governments except for the ACT, and that gives Abbott the chance to really screw over everyone.

    The only chance to cut that short would be for Labor to win Victoria in November, and if it misses that chance then Abbott’s likely to enjoy total national rule until 2016, seeing as the LNP majorities in NSW and Queensland look nearly impossible to beat in one term.

    Well, I hope Don Farrell’s proud of himself. And Weatherill should have kept his mouth shut and kept it private.

  37. It’s not just: “I wonder how low Abbott believes wages have to go.” It’s the “generous over-award conditions” the mean man is also concerned about.

  38. I can’t speak about circumstances back in the depression years, but I have some experience in the field at the present time. None of the major Christian charities (Anglicare, Uniting Care, Brotherhood of St Lawrence, various Catholic charities including Vinnies, etc) discriminate in their assistance to those who ask for help. I do occasional work with Vinnies and we have a strict policy, which I have never seen breached, that we never ask clients if they are religious or if they have a brand of religion. (I like the French term culte!)
    My own experience is that most of our clients are of no religion and occasionally firmly atheist. It amazes me just how many clients feel the need to tell us upfront if they are non religious or are strongly atheist, as it seems they have a strong need to not be seen as rorting us if we have some preference for helping people based on their religion. They always seem to be relieved when we reply that religiosity is not a consideration.
    One group which tends to remain silent as to their religion is the Muslims, I have never had one volunteer their status although obviously it is often clear from signs such as head dress etc. I don’t know if their silence is because of fears that we might refuse them assistance or a fear of the general prejudice against Muslims in our society. As a lot of our basic assistance is based on providing foodstuffs until the family can get (back) on their feet, an obvious question arises concerning the need for Halal/Kosher food, and the possibility that asking that question might imply that we are in fact attempting to determine their religion. I usually overcome the problem somewhat by asking at the same time if their are any allergies etc to “hide” the question a bit.
    A big problem with providing assistance to the poor and needy however is their is more call on our assistance than we often have resources to match. As a matter of course, if someone is asking for help that we just cannot provide, we always ring around the other groups within our area and see if they can come to the rescue or, more often, share the burden. But sometimes we just don’t have what the client needs, and neither does any of the other groups and so the bad news has to be given to the client. And sometimes they don’t take that bad news very well, understandably in many cases.

    On Christmas eve about 2 or 3 years ago I had a call from a woman who was renting privately and had large arrears (about $3000 I think) due to casual work not being sufficient to cover her rent. The day previously her boss had told her she was not going to be required after Christmas. Now her landlord wanted to evict her. Would we help?
    We have a policy of never paying rent as that would bankrupt us in about 3 months and in any case without resolving the underlying problem we are only enriching landlords which is not our purpose. The woman had certainly not done her cause much good waiting until the afternoon of Christmas eve to ask for help, in fact there was a lot she had done wrong or neglected to do at all, but recriminations were not what was required. I made several calls to see if I could do something for her, ringing refuges, Housing, other charities, etc etc. Nothing. I rang a contact at a motel which sometimes helped us out if things were quiet, but with Summernats about to start there was nothing there. I tried everything I could think of and followed up a few suggestions others made to me, but zero. Now I had to give her the terrible news, and she did not take it well, as you would probably expect. She screamed and cried, shouted abuse at me and the world in general, accused me of not trying, of not caring, of prejudice against her, and then screamed and cried some more. Finally she threatened to complain to some one or other that I had not helped because she was a lapsed Catholic, which was of course the first I had heard about her religious status.

    It was the worst Christmas I have ever spent, I couldn’t get the sound of her screams of fear and rage and impotence out of my mind. It really got me down. I never heard from her again, but I hope she managed OK somehow.

  39. The electorate see Labor election campaigns as abusive and dirty and Coalition campaigns as models of polite, decent saintly behaviour, despite decades of evidence showing the exact opposite applies. This misguided view is reinforced to the max by talkback radio, shills on TV talk shows, countless trolls who deluge every possible article and blog post with anti-Labor filth and twits like Blot.

    If Bill Shorten and his team can stay calm and collected while the government unravels before our eyes they might just be able to get a bit of a change going in the way too many voters have seen Labor. The government is already looking and acting like an uncontrolled rabble while Labor continues to act like a government. Labor can afford to sit back and allow Abbott and his ministers to became even more unhinged than they already are. Once those hip pocket nerves start to hurt people will begin to notice what is happening. It will be a new experience for many. What Labor supporters need to do is stop whining about the way Labor is handling things and start talking to anyone and everyone about what the Abbott government is doing and will do to them.

  41. Well, hopefully that will fix the damage.

    I just hope the SA Electorate forgive this. I’m worried that it might be seen as Weatherill throwing a tantrum, but thinking about it a bit more, him staring down a ‘faceless man’ might be a good move after all.

  42. Kambah Mick,
    I found your last comment detained in “Pending” a few minutes ago, and altered its date and time so as many people as possible have the opportunity to read it.

    The compassion you and all your fellow-workers show is inspiring. Thank you.

  44. Well done Fiona.

    Kambah Mick’s contribution was one of the really good ones. A bit away from how PMBO’s doing to foul up the country and instead what decent people like him are doing to help those around us who suffer at the hands of the greedy. It’s excellent to read that so many groups are working under the policy of we’ll look after you whoever you are, we are not interested in what you believe and whether you do or do not have imaginary friends looking after you, we are real friends.

    Well done Kambah Mick and all who sail with you.

  45. Better for Labor to lay low. Let Abbott’s victims, which are growing in number each day, take up the fight.

  46. http://www.politicalowl.com/home/2014/01/31/australian-newspaper-front-pages-friday-31-january/

    http://www.politicalowl.com/home/2014/01/31/asian-newspaper-front-pages-friday-31-january/

  47. http://www.politicalowl.com/home/2014/01/31/european-newspaper-front-pages-friday-31-january/

    https://newmatilda.com/2014/01/30/worst-culture-war-ever

  48. I read the book “The Monster of Florence” and realised the prosecutor Giuliano Mignini was a raving nut case coming up with all these satanic plots and intrigues. In the Monster (there was about 10 people convicted) he made the evidence fit the plot.

    I was ambivalent about Amanda Knox case until I realised Giuliano Mignini was the prosecutor and true to form up comes satanic rites . He is appealing a couple of case where he has been sentenced to considerable time in jail. .America will not allow extradition as it would break their double indemnity law.

    If you have a chance read the Monster of Florence as it is an ideal template how not to investigate a crime

  50. Crazy, absolutely stark raving bonkers. Indonesia has every reason to retaliate with full force now if just one navy ship goes a few centimetres into indonesian waters. This government seems intent on provoking a war. Sorry about linking to Shanners and The Oz, but it has to be done. Morrison will be appearing at the inquiry around 1.00 this afternoon.

    Coalition begins boat policy offensive

    IMMIGRATION Minister Scott Morrison has publicly embraced forcing people-smugglers’ boats out of Australia’s territory and back into Indonesian waters, defiantly declaring that the Abbott government will continue “to protect Australia’s sovereignty” after the first January free of illegal boat arrivals in six years.

    In a surprise move – and an attempt to tackle head on charges of excessive secrecy – Mr Morrison will appear at a Labor/Greens-dominated Senate inquiry in Canberra today to defend the government’s Operation Sovereign Borders policy.

    “This government reserves the right to protect Australia’s sovereignty by preventing any vessel illegally entering our territorial waters,” Mr Morrison told The Australian last night.

    “In these circumstances, it is the policy and practice of this government to intercept any such vessel and, where safe to do so, remove it outside Australia’s territorial waters and beyond our contiguous zone.”

    http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/policy/coalition-begins-boat-policy-offensive/story-fn9hm1gu-1226814437544#

    For the Fairfax version –
    http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/scott-morrison-to-appear-before-senate-inquiry-but-refuses-to-budge-on-asylum-seeker-policy-20140131-31qho.html

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