So good, it deserves its own thread. Thank you, Jaycee!
And my humble apologies for not publishing this as a Guest Author post – but I’ve forgotten the recently-changed password and I’m having extreme difficulty accessing email for that fictional creature.
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Jeesus! I got rotten and wild this morning when I tuned onto Insiders for just a moment to check the mood … and there was Fran wetting herself over Mesma’s Harper’s Bazaar photo shoot … no bullshit! I can’t believe the moxie of that moll, Bishop – she lost all female respect and legitimacy when she harloted herself to Credlin / Abbott / Pyne for them to attack Julia Gillard on the floor of the house. YOU saw it! We all saw it: the catty swipes, the endless accusations, delivered second-hand from Credlin’s dirt-file, sheaf by sheaf of paper, delivered with that vague facial expression that showed she really didn’t have a clue where to go from there when proved out of her depth and knowledge. An opportunist, she strumpeted herself and her womanhood so that they couldn’t be attacked as misogynists, except The Idiot couldn’t stand Bishop getting all the shots in and his sewer-mouth let him down – AGAIN!!
That piece of work with her below-the-belt attacks on the asbestos victims – a direct take of vile formula practice from the hell of Liberal / Textor tactics. She has used her privileged-class upbringing to brown-nose herself into positions of aggrandisement time and again. Sure, SHE doesn’t suffer from glass ceiling syndrome because she’s been groomed by the oligarchy and the patriarchy to harlot her gender to be waved as a flag of legitimacy, of proof that the LNP does “understand the woman situation”. Like f#ck they do! … like f#ck they care! Abbott would sell the Virgin Mary into a forced marriage with Beelzebub if it convenienced him!
Mesma is alongside any of the front-bench as the lowest of the low schemers, and to treat her with any respect is to diminish the higher cause and honesty of feminism, and all those who struggled so long and hard for decency and respect for their gender. That is why the conservatives have to tear down Julia Gillard – for she above all has been relentlessly attacked and attacked and attacked again and again and again … they must bring her down, they must! For her to stand strong and proud AND be respected by the people is to relegate her assassins to their residence in the pits of infamy … and believe me: their history has already been written and no action by those MSM. thugs and spielers can alter the truth of it. Nor can the wealthiest, most vile media mogul the world has ever known, and regretted, erase one word of gross description of their insidious deeds … May they – indeed, they will – rot in their own particular hell!
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Socks,
To you, and to Ms Plibersek, thank you!
I’m back!…OH. likes to watch “the Midwives”….too much blood and guts for me!…I went for a ‘constitutional’ down to the front gate….weird night..weird sky…weird weather…
Yeah..I thought that Plibersek talk was very well said….I expect Mesma would’ve read it..
These privileged elites just don’t seem to get it….they ride into life on a chariot of favour and then go and sledge those who have the leg-it all their life!
Though I was at the birth and even attended to some of the ‘action”….I gotta say..it may have entailed some “hard, dirty work” getting it in there, but that was nothing to the grotty dirty work getting it out!
…birth of both my children…I meant to say.
Jaycee,
I devoutly hope you attended to some of the “action” involved with the begetting of your children!
The process at the end of those 40 or so weeks is indeed another matter. I distinctly remember saying to my obstetric person that I wanted to cancel that baby.
So glad I didn’t – she’s a lovely woman.
On a different tack, if anyone notices moi here tomorrow, tell me to get lost.
I have urgent work to do.
And it’s basket for her:
“Believe”? This is supposed to be science!
http://blogs.esa.int/rosetta/2014/11/13/comet-with-a-view/
Thank you BBC for a more informative assessment:
http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-30034060
Good morning Dawn Patrollers.
Mark Kenny reckons Abbott is left like a shag on a rock after the US/China CC deal.
http://www.smh.com.au/comment/emissions-deal-abbott-looks-like-a-shag-on-a-rock-20141113-11ljxb.html
But Abbott pig-headedly digs his heels in.
http://www.smh.com.au/business/g20/tony-abbott-says-jobs-and-growth-not-climate-top-of-the-g20-agenda-20141113-11lzud.html
The jig is up for Abbott’s climate change deniers says The New Matilda.
https://newmatilda.com/2014/11/13/china-us-climate-deal-means-jig-abbotts-deniers
The SMH editorial says the deal exposes Abbott’s parochialism.
http://www.smh.com.au/comment/smh-editorial/uschina-climate-deal-exposes-tony-abbotts-parochialism-20141113-11lntj.html
Reality bites at the G20.
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/planet-oz/2014/nov/13/g20-reality-bites-for-coal-and-climate-change
The federal government DID budget for a 3.2% Public Service and ADF pay rise.
http://www.canberratimes.com.au/national/public-service/federal-budget-included-a-32-per-cent-pay-rise-for-public-servants-20141113-11k9l3.html
Pay parking in Canberra is really putting the pressure on a lot of cafes.
http://www.canberratimes.com.au/act-news/pay-parking-hurting-business-for-canberras-landmark-cafes-20141113-11kdg7.html
The Bombers move closer to the AFL tribunal.
http://thenewdaily.com.au/sport/2014/11/13/bombers-step-closer-afl-tribunal/
Looks like where there was smoke at certain unis years ago there WAS fire.
http://www.smh.com.au/national/education/university-cheating-10-years-on-nothing-has-changed-20141113-11m1de.html
Tony Abbott and the Age of Stupid.
https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/tony-abbott-and-the-age-of-stupid,7090
Section 2 . . .
The three worst things the Liberals did yesterday.
http://www.ellistabletalk.com/2014/11/13/the-three-worst-things-the-liberals-did-yesterday-108-2/
Palmer tells “drama queen” Lambie to put up or shut up.
https://theconversation.com/palmer-tells-drama-queen-lambie-to-put-up-or-shut-up-34205
“The Russians are coming!” according to the News Ltd rags.
https://theconversation.com/palmer-tells-drama-queen-lambie-to-put-up-or-shut-up-34205
Waleed Aly looks closely at gesture politics.
http://www.smh.com.au/comment/gesture-politics-wax-as-power-to-control-wanes-20141113-11lj5q.html
Mental health sufferers will cop it bad with the $7 copayment.
http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2014/nov/13/mental-health-patients-will-suffer-disastrous-effects-of-7-co-payment
The fag end of Senate representation is in the spotlight again.
http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/pup-eyes-dlp-high-court-bid-to-keep-seat-of-senate-defector-20141113-11m64y.html
The polls paint a sorry state for Napthine.
http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/victoria-state-election-2014/victorian-election-poll-shows-napthine-government-remains-in-losing-position-20141113-11m6uz.html
And the Coalition government in Victoria has a terrible record when it comes to attacks on the environment.
http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2014/nov/13/victorian-government-has-worst-environmental-record-since-the-sixties
Another superb story about dying with dignity.
http://www.theage.com.au/comment/righttodiereality
Melissa Parke writes on the Israel/Palestine situation.
http://www.smh.com.au/comment/bds-a-legitimate-means-of-advancing-peace-efforts-20141113-11lomz.html
Section 3 . . .
David Pope turns to Henry Lawson to look at PUP antics.

Andrew Dyson – another successful free trade negotiation.
http://www.smh.com.au/photogallery/federal-politics/cartoons/andrew-dyson-20090819-epqv.html
Cathy Wilcox – WTF!
http://www.smh.com.au/photogallery/federal-politics/cartoons/cathy-wilcox-20090909-fhd6.html
John Spooner takes “feeding the chooks” to a new level as the Victorian election campaigns roll on.
http://www.smh.com.au/photogallery/federal-politics/cartoons/john-spooner-20090716-dmsv.html
Ron Tandberg ejects a G20 protester.
http://www.smh.com.au/photogallery/federal-politics/cartoons/ron-tandberg-20090910-fixc.html
Simon Letch – the Bizarre “Woman of the Year”.
http://www.smh.com.au/photogallery/federal-politics/cartoons/simon-letch-20090908-ffni.html
MUST SEE! David Rowe at the G20 parade. Look at Lambie and Putin!
http://www.afr.com/p/national/cartoon_gallery_david_rowe_1g8WHy9urgOIQrWQ0IrkdO
Is it November or February? This morning is so warm it is very scary. Razz has taken Hunter for a walk, I’ve told her to keep her eyes peeled for slithery things.
Gippy Laborite
I don’t know what the record for this pollster is like, but I like their numbers at the moment. I doubt it will be anything like this. Looks like I’ll be watching on election night, if they televise it.
All these traditional and ethnic folk songs we hear ..doesn’t anyone sing the “Hawaiian Wedding Song ” anymore…you know!..: ” nikka,nikka,nikka nikka….fuddu-wudda,wudda, wudda…on the island of romaaance…”…ah!..now THAT is a traditional love song !…they don’t write them anymore.
I see Turnbull is sticking his oar it on Putin this morning…tragic.
Meanwhile half a billion kilometers away. A panorama shot from the Philae sitting on the comet.
Is one of those comets an old Domino’s Pizza box?
The Register’s take, in their own inimitable style.
Rosetta Probot DRILLING DENIED: Philae has ‘one leg in the AIR’
– NOT best position for scientific fulfillment
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/11/13/philae_comet_landing_rosetta_drill_risk/
Jaeger
Doin’ it Abbott style 🙂
The David Pope
All this hoo-haa about a Russian ‘fleet’. What a beat -up. The ‘fleet’ consists the cruiser “Varyag”, a destroyer named “Marshal Shaposhnikov”, a salvage and rescue tug and a replenishment oiler. It’s hardly an invasion force. The ships are in international waters, where they have every right to be, as do our navy ships when they go on exercises. Now our media are trying to ramp up the hysteria by talking about a submarine being with the group.
Look at it this way – these ships are based in the Russian fleet headquarters in Vladivostok – a Pacific port. What’s wrong with any country’s navy ending some of its ships on exercises around its own pond? We don’t whine about the yanks doing it. Or the Japanese. But the Russians? It must be an invasion!
It’s damn cold in Vladivostok this time of year. The crews of these ships are most likely delighted to be taking a cruise in the South Pacific. They must be the envy of their mates, still stuck at home in the cold. If it makes Putin happy to have a few ships follow him around on his overseas trips then so what? He might want to take a sea voyage home. Who knows? He’s not the only G20 attendee bringing extra transport.
Here’s a fun fact – Obama travels with a spare aircraft, just in case there’s a problem. There are two identical, highly-modified 747-200Bs used by the president, whichever one he is travelling in has the call sign ‘Air Force One’. Both aircraft will be in Brisbane. Is our MSM cayying on about an American air force invasion? Of course not.
Our navy dealt with the threat of a Russian invasion by scraping up a few ships considered in a good enough state of repair to be able to actually go to sea and is sending them out to ‘surveil’ the Russians. I’m sure the Russians are quaking in their sea boots at the thought.
Compare and contrast.
The Russian navy –
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_active_Russian_Navy_ships#Heavy_missile_cruisers
Our navy –
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_active_Royal_Australian_Navy_ships
leonetwo
For sure. The ship in question was designed to take out US aircraft carriers and or their support fleet from over 500kn away. 16 x Mach 2.5 cruise missiles comin’ at ya ship near you Nuclear tipped if they are in a bad mood. .
4 November 2014
Prime Minister Tony Abbott says coal is still the “foundation of prosperity” for “now and the foreseeable future”
http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/coal-is-the-foundation-of-prosperity-for-foreseeable-future-says-prime-minister-tony-abbott-20141104-11gh7k.html
14 November 2014
Glencore to shut all Australian coal mines for three weeks as prices fall
Mining giant which employs 8,600 people announces shut down due to oversupply of coal
http://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/nov/14/glencore-shuts-australian-coal-mines-3-weeks?CMP=soc_568
leonetwo
Are you psychic ?
I have hooked a laptop with flight tracker software upto a 50″ screen ,got Brisbane ATC, on speakers,Fridge full of refreshments ready to watch the G20 planes arriving. Putin should be travelling with a few fighters in tow but doubt I will see them.
Their fleet is bigger than our fleet:
http://news.theage.com.au/breaking-news-national/defence-confirms-ramped-up-russian-patrols-20141114-3kc3q.html
Full load displacements:
SLAVA cruiser = 11,200-12,500 tons
UDALOY destroyer = 7,570 tons
ANZAC frigate = 3,600 tons
Worth pasting a slab of this rubbish from the Daily Telegraph just so you can see how utterly effin’ ridiculous they are.
“Halt” the “Russian flotilla”? Really? HALT it? Well, no, actually. “Halt” isn’t in the article, just the headline.
They not sure whether there’s a submarine there or not, either, but it never hurts to make sure, so Seahawk missiles are on-board. And our submarines are too slow to get there. Not that we’d want to start trying to sink the Russian ships or anything.
What absolute tommy rot. Talk about a giant of an imagination!
6Pack
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/watch-a-lorry-perform-a-uturn-on-the-m6-toll-9859324.html
Early start to FORTRESS FRIDAY NIGHT