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Though – just now – it feels as if we are in the tragedy.
And the following isn’t entirely impossible …
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So, up to the barricades for a rousing chorus
sharpen the
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wet our whistles with whatever we wish to order at the bar
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One of these days the farces of good will arrive
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However, NEVER forget who rules . . .
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I doubt there would be an arena strong enough to withstand puff and Brown being that close together.
Joe6pack,
Thank you – and these were our replies.
Fiona:
And Bushfire Bill (of course, far more considered, insightful):
We do – think the world of you, that is.
By the way, you still haven’t responded to my list of things to be done around here . . . but hey, I won’t complain TOO much.
Have fun tomorrow.
Hmmmmm
joe from Queensland eh! Are you here to help?
Joe6pack,
Charlie Brown?
You wish!
Now, isn’t it time for The Boss to hit the hay, given the 6:00am start tomorrow?
C K Watt
Nope no idea who you are referring to
hmmmm
I was sure I typed Kevin from queensland
Excellent, Joe!
Bonne nuit, mes petits.
It seems that the LNP has just told their support base that, forget about Workchoices, go right ahead and do to your employees what you would have been able to do under workchoices and we will make sure that our version of the Fair Work Commission allows employers to do what ever they wish.
Number 2 daughter has just finished employment with a certain employer and is about to commence employment with another one.
Apparently, she is owed over $10,000 not counting Superannuation not being paid on her behalf and I suspect they haven’t paid her income tax either. They have probably been trading insolvent for some time as my daughter says that all other employees are in the same boat as her.
I have been hearing similar stories from all over and after reading what the government are trying to pull with the public servants and military, nothing would surprise me any more about this miserable mob.
My wife informs me that Queensland Health are trying to get their employees to trade off penalty rates etc for a miserable pay rise that doesn’t even cover inflation.
They should all drop down tools until this miserable mob wake up to themselves. And that will probably be until the twelfth of never!
I agree. it is getting near General Strike time and screw the secondary boycott ban.
Scorps,
Grow up. And the same to your missus and your daughters.
Teh bosses rool okay!
Oh, solly…………
Night all, I can hear a call from the boudoir…………………:)
The Dragonette has settled in well at home with doting parents and maternal grandparents.
Fiona – The Brunfelsia is low on the priority list. The high priorities are a couple of Lantanas, and especially climbing Asparagus ferns (dreadful!) I pulled a small one out; it was like wrestling an octopus. We have shallow, rocky soil which fortunately restricts the roots to two dimensions, but they extend an awfully long way. The Duranta “Geisha Girl” (or similar) will be a doddle in comparison.
http://www.news.com.au/national/queensland/support-for-palmer-united-party-plummets-poll-shows/story-fnii5v6w-1227087647011
Support for Palmer United Party plummets, poll shows
October 12, 2014 1:00AM
STEVEN WARDILL
The Sunday Mail (Qld)
CLIVE Palmer’s support is disappearing faster than a packet of Tim Tams in the self-proclaimed billionaire’s hands, a new poll has revealed.
Conducted exclusively for The Sunday Mail and Channel 7, the poll shows the Palmer United Party’s vote base has more than halved in just three months, with people increasingly turned off by his antics.
Most Queenslanders believe Mr Palmer’s party will win seats at the next state election, due in March.
However, it appears the PUP’s poached duo in State Parliament thought otherwise, both quitting as the slide set in.
With Mr Palmer’s dream of crushing Premier Campbell Newman all but over, the election is now shaping up as a two-horse race between the LNP and Labor, with minor party preferences likely to have little influence.
According to the Reachtel Poll of 1471 Queenslanders, the Newman Government’s attempt to keep a low profile, interrupted in recent days by Moggill MP Bruce Flegg’s ousting and the finalised privatisation plan, has so far failed to improve their appeal. Primary support for the LNP was at 40.9 per cent, almost unchanged since last month, while Labor had inched forward to 36.6 per cent.
Mr Palmer’s party has been the biggest loser, falling from a peak of 15.4 per cent in July to 7.2 per cent in the latest results.
http://www.cairnspost.com.au/news/cairns/lnp-in-for-election-fight-in-cairns-and-barron-river-at-queensland-election-according-to-reachtel-survey/story-fnjpusyw-1227087011331
LNP in for election fight in Cairns and Barron River at Queensland election according to ReachTEL survey
Nick Dalton
The Cairns Post
October 11, 2014 5:10AM
“Disaster yawn?” Our ADHD MSM couldn’t cope with this…
Three months on, the June 27th lava flow from Pu‘u ‘Ō‘ō * is still threatening Pāhoa:
http://hvo.wr.usgs.gov/activity/kilaueastatus.php
http://hvo.wr.usgs.gov/multimedia/index.php?newSearch=true&display=custom&volcano=1&resultsPerPage=20
http://hvo.wr.usgs.gov/maps/
* Pronounced: poo-oo oh-oh (ʻ is a glottal stop.)
I never understood why you would name a “new” (1983) cinder cone after an extinct bird; a digging stick makes much more sense.
Good morning Dawn Patrollers.
It looks like a very slow news morning so the posting will be light today.
This is worth a look.
http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/the-black-dog-roaming-parliament-house-20141010-1144ls.html
An ugly truth about Islamophobia. Think about it!
http://www.smh.com.au/comment/islamophobia-by-another-name-covers-all-religions-20141011-10rhi8.html
Thanks Tony!
http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/government-plans-to-double-sbs-ads-20141011-114e5g.html
Cathy Wilcox looks at the troubles of the ABS.
http://www.smh.com.au/photogallery/federal-politics/cartoons/cathy-wilcox-20090909-fhd6.html
Michelle Grattan on our response to the ebola crisis.
https://theconversation.com/time-for-team-australia-to-do-more-on-ebola-32830
That’s not a debt disaster. THIS is a debt disaster!
http://www.independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/thats-not-a-debt-disaster–this-is-a-debt-disaster-joe–tonys-big-con,6984
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/the-black-dog-roaming-parliament-house-20141010-1144ls.html#ixzz3Fs3kTT5e
Thanks for the link BK.
I wonder if he felt for Julia Gillard. If he did he seemed to have remained silent.
http://www.voanews.com/content/climate-change-paris-schwarzenegger-california/2480722.html
joe6pack
Excellent job, well done, and you lived to tell the tale. None of us here had any doubt that you would do well, and that you would get interest from the students.
Just logged on from last night ..thelast post I saw was Puff being curios about what Joe6pak did next!….When I read it this morning , I too have to add my “very well done” to the list…It is heartening to see that kids are still so inquisitive and curious…the talk on business ethics couldn’t have been more succinct or better explained if they had come from St Francis of Assisi himself!…bloody well done….but I have one question…was there a equal attentive curiosity from the girls as well as the boys?..I ask because in these days of ‘big-rig’ technology, I’d presume it was of equal capacity for women to run such a business as a bloke.
joe6pack
Well done! We all knew you would be a great success.. Do you think your talk will become an annual event?
I got to thinking that every morning during the week, I wake to the ABC. radio clock and invariably there is some “news on the economy” from some economist or perhaps the baritone humm of Saul Eslake delivering good or bad news….followed just before the news at 7. by Cheryl Baddwell giving the stock market report….and throughout the day or the week on the tele with Alan Kohler of the IMF or Euro -union spokesperson telling of the rise or decline of banking or stock market fortunes in every corner of the globe…..We all are so well informed of these fluctuations and warnings and opportunities to secure or make fortune that one is surprised there is even a monetary crisis at all!…..and yet…and yet…when I look at the world news, I see that the poor still have the look of the poor, the hungry have the look of the hungry and the sick still suffer the pains of the sick…and I wonder if all this monetary policy and economic “advancement” is really doing the slightest bit of good at all.
Perhaps many people would be a lot better off learning how to use their hand-skills for their and their family’s good rather than their “head-skills” that seem to be much more limiting. I did some building work for a Professor of mathematics at Flinder’s University many years ago…a Dr. Kluvanik..a Chekoslavakian…He was head of the dept, I believe …and he did all the electrical work on the renovations and the welding when needed etc…I remarked on his multi-skilling and he said that before one could advance into his choice of pure mathematics at the university in those communist days, one had to learn a trade skill…his choice was electrical engineering (more a profession here in Aust’) . A very sensible policy I have to admit and perhaps one that ought to be adapted in this country.
Very well done indeed, Joe6Pack. Didn’t we all tell you the kids would mob you and your rig? I’ll bet those kids re-live your school visit every time they see a big rig on the road, and more than a few will remember the wise advice they were given.
Could this be the reason for all those RAAF flew-out-did-no–bombing-flew-back’ missions? We just cannot afford it.
Australia to foot bill for US bombs dropped in ISIS fight
http://www.news.com.au/national/australia-to-foot-bill-for-us-bombs-dropped-in-isis-fight/story-fncynjr2-1227084339380
And –
Destroying a $30,000 IS pickup truck can cost half a million dollars
http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2014/10/11/destroying-30000-pickup-truck-can-cost-half-million-dollars
Another triumph for the Abbott government –
Australia’s Antarctica position under threat due to scientific funding shortfall
Other nations in danger of eclipsing Australia’s interests, with just a ‘narrow window of opportunity’ to transform Hobart into a key gateway to Antarctica, a 20-year strategic plan finds
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/10/australias-antarctica-position-under-threat-scientific-funding-shortfall?CMP=soc_567
Good on you Joe6Pack!
Joke of the day. Of the week, even. Maybe even joke of the year.
Australia presses for Human Rights Council seat despite UN criticism
http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/australia-presses-for-human-rights-council-seat-despite-un-criticism-20141011-114rmo.html#ixzz3FsPeQvZ8
This is starting to look serious.
Actually, when you think about it…
Julie Bishop is trying to gain kudos on Australia’s past good will..unfortunately, under the LNP. , the tread is wearing a tad thin and even going down to the wire in some areas….so she better act swiftly if she wants to look like “Barbi-in-the-mirror” for the local press.
Let’s see if this works…
v.theonion.com/onionmedia/videos/videometa/426/zen_mp4.mp4
Nope. But it’s hilarious. Cut and paste the link. A white woman sentenced to be tried for murder as a black male (and all its ramifications).
There’s a good video too…
loved the father’s comment !
And the bit about how they’re appealing for her to be tried no harsher than a Black Celebrity, or even An Extremely Attractive Filipino Woman.
And lets us not forget the judge’s order that henceforth the media were to assume she was guilty.
http://andrewelder.blogspot.com.au/2014/10/another-week-in-federal-politics.html
http://www.theherald.com.au/story/2618737/fairfax-front-pages-october-12-2014/
http://www.voanews.com/content/reu-chile-allende-election/2480655.html
KK
Sitting watching the car racing.
Van Gisbergen well up front today.
If it rains he is unbeatable.
Lap 138 …
Should be tried as a celebrity black man or a gorgeous Filipino woman.
what about the character witnesses!
snap BB
Pyne on 24 saying he wants a Western Christian centric history curriculum taught by white Nuns in full dress uniform of the 1850’s.
“We do not want any politics in schools”, A quote from Pyne, who says there are inappropriate elements in our curriculum.
Laurie Oakes –
When Joe Hockey talks, Coalition colleagues wince
http://m.heraldsun.com.au/news/opinion/when-joe-hockey-talks-coalition-colleagues-wince/story-fni0fha6-1227086773526
Pyne getting grilled on the NBN, and getting very defensive. Now attacking the questioner.
CTar1
Ta. Forgotten all about that race. Was watching the IRB 7’s . Looks like a long hard day of sport for me 🙂
There was this strange whooo I could hear. Everyday, for many hours a day. No variation, no melody. For several years, I couldn’t work it out. Assumed it was some sort of machine. I thought it coudln’t be a bird. I went for walks, trying to find out and to identify that persistant whooo.
I’ve finally discovered the culprit. It IS a bird. I saw it in the act. What it does, it nods as it whooos. Monotonous and repetitive. It’s a bronzewing pigeon – an attractive and timid bird:
from jaycee
I remarked on his multi-skilling and he said that before one could advance into his choice of pure mathematics at the university in those communist days, one had to learn a trade skill…his choice was electrical engineering (more a profession here in Aust’) . A very sensible policy I have to admit and perhaps one that ought to be adapted in this country.
It is an excellent idea. The penny-pinching tories would probably begrudge it, but it would undoubted broaden horizons and perspectives. Back when the the US government was mostly run by Keynesian and New Deal economic policies, many US colleges (then well-sourced by collegiate+graduate backing and government support) actually had a cross cultural approach to qualifying. Those wanting to do a science-related degree had to first qualify in an arts-related one and vice versa. J K Galbraith first qualified in agricultural science before moving to agricultural economics and then economics. The eloquence and fluency of his writing probably derived in some way from his broad range of reading.
There is much we could do to make life better and more fulfilling if we could only get away from cutting costs and making money for a while. Perhaps we’d have been more inclined to accept the sense of climate science if it was presented in a compelling way.
gigi
If you knock them down you should retrieve and eat.
Other than that – All big excuse needed.