SUFFERIN SUCCOTASH IT,S FRYDAY !!!

joe6pack Friday night

Another Friday rolls around with the pleasant thought that Xmas is only 36 Days away

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And it,s already heating up. temps have been hot all over Australia Today

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So time to cool down

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Have a drink or 2

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336 thoughts on “SUFFERIN SUCCOTASH IT,S FRYDAY !!!”

  1. They said she wasn’t a real Jihadi warrior, or all that dedicated a Muslim, not fanatical in behaviour at least. She screamed to police for help, from the apartment window.

    But she then went on to become Europe’s “first female suicide bomber”. Gee, you never can tell can you? They’re out there among us… they’re all bad guys (and gals).

    Except… now we know different.

    Paris: Investigators sorting through body parts from a flat raided by French police on Wednesday now believe Hasna Aitboulahcen, the woman who died there, was not the one wearing a suicide belt, a source close to the investigation said.

    Headlines flashed around the world this week that Aitboulahcen had become Europe’s first woman suicide bomber, after officials said they believed she had blown herself up at the scene of the raid in a northern Paris suburb.

    Read more: http://www.theage.com.au/world/paris-attacks-woman-who-died-in-saintdenis-raid-likely-not-wearing-suicide-belt–source-20151120-gl4g07.html#ixzz3s5p0ty2x

    Just goes to show you that the Ray Hadley version of history… based on reports in the Daily Telegraph, in-turn leeching off TV stand-ups from over-coiffed Nine Network talking heads, flown in to make it look like Nine has a “European bureau”, but actually who wouldn’t personally know Paris from a pissoir… isn’t always correct.

    But my, does it get the punters and pokie players, the pensioners and pisspots up in arms wanting to thump every Muslim in sight (now even “normal” Muslims, ya just can’t trust any of ’em)?

    Sure does.

  3. joe6pack

    I did not know about that bar. Well done on being in the know. I used to like going down there for a meal and a few beers around sunset . A very relaxing atmosphere to sit back just looking out across the harbour , Considering it was on the waterfront the food was pretty cheap.

  4. kaffeeklatscher

    It was near where they used to lift the patrol boats out of water on railway type lines. There was something, can’t quite remember what, but if you put you foot on it you had to shout the whole bar.

  5. Given all the misdirection from the media in the past week or so regarding the identity of the Paris terrorists (not Syrian, not refugees), I’d say there are three possible explanations as to why there are so many prominent political and media types trying to tell us it’s a Syrian refugee thing:

    1. Blinded by ideology and refusing to acknowledge facts.

    2. Well aware of the facts, but propagating a narrative the that takes advantage of the situation, in order to foster a climate of fear and hate

    3. Something more sinister

    I’d favour the second option myself. Up at that level, the battle is one of control – control of information, control of resources, control of land, control of people. Most of what they do is aimed toward at least one of those areas. A terrorist event is a great opportunity to make a move on people’s rights, on the pretext of keeping them safe.

    It’s a bit depressing watching them overload the information channels with refugees/Syrians/danger/shut-the-borders crap. It all looks as inevitable as the misinformation campaign that led to the invasion of Iraq after 9/11. Totally divorced from facts and data, but so overwhelming that people just go along with it.

  6. . . . My job as Treasurer now, I think, is to very much be a home Treasurer, a domestic Treasurer . . .

    Listen, Leone, everyone knows running a country’s finances is just like running a household’s finances. As Mr Micawber said:

    Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen [pounds] nineteen [shillings] and six [pence], result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery.

    scrott is working hard on a zillion cuts so Australia can bask in the glow of a tanner’s worth of surplus.

  7. Fiona

    Thank you so much for explaining that. I wonder who runs the Scrott household’s finances. Somehow I don’t think it’s Mr Treasurer.

  9. This might help explain all the media propaganda on Paris.

    Israeli Prime Minister pushes for control of Golan after oil discovery

    Afek’s license to do exploratory drilling was renewed by the Israeli government for two years in October, shortly after the finding of the oil reserves.

    But the land on which the oil is located is actually Syrian territory

    http://www.imemc.org/article/73890

    What that article doesn’t mention – Genie Energy is part owned by Rupert Murdoch.
    http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/03/27/rupert-murdoch-and-the-israeli-genie/

    So put on your tinfoil hat and get busy joing a few dots. Oil in Syrian territory, rich Americans owning the exploration company, favouritism always shown to Israel, Israel supporting Syrian rebels, not Assad…..

  10. I think the libs will win the next election. Spoke to a fella today that has been quite honest about his voting intentions over the last few years.

    Voted Rudd- Sick of Howard
    Voted Gillard- Just . thought Knifing Rudd was a bad thing but doesn’t really like Abbott
    Voted Abbott- which ever way you look at it Labor made a big mistake/leadership was going to continue and Abbott maybe won’t be so bad.

    WAS going to vote Shorten ,Abbott turned out worse than everybody feared and the sooner he is gone the better. Haven’t really got that much confidence in Shorten and Labor again but Abbott is a fuckin nutter.

    Will be voting for Turnbull. Stable,optimistic,not fear warmongering and not after headlines every day. and I just want a break from all the political bullshit.

    Could’t give a toss about asylum seekers,climate change,etc.
    This view ,( from whom I observed in a little coastal town in Qld.) pretty much sums up the general feeling of people I have spoken too lately.

  12. CTar1
    75c a stubby may have assisted the loss of memory.

    Was with a pommy captain {Juno, Frigate} again from memory and a Aussie LT commander (cousin).
    He drove a ship I drove a Truck both said we would swap

  13. The problem is we don’t get to vote for Turnbull or Shorten, we get to choose a party to form government. I really wish Australians would understand that. And this – an Australian prime minister is not like the US president. Our prime ministers have no real power, they have to do what their party room tells them to do and are obliged to follow party policies. If they fail the party room in some way they get the boot. They have no right of veto like the US presidents, they are not commander of the defence forces, they don’t even get a mention in our constitution, they are just party leaders.

    The MSM reinforce the idea we vote for a prime minister because it suits their agenda. Journalists, ideally, should be educating the voters on their responsibilities and on how government works. They don’t do that. They push this myth of electing a PM on us all and everyone accepts it without question.

    Even worse – i’m so sick of comment from Labor supporters in the independent media telling me Turnbull will win the next election because he is ‘charming’. Every day there’s another piece along the same lines. Charming my arse. I’m fed up with it all.

    It seems to me Labor voters have just given up, given in, rolled over and decided Turnbull will be PM for a few terms. Why? Turnbull is a fool. He’s worse than Abbott because he has enough cunning to be able to convince far too many people he’s different when he is just the same.

    What about a bit of fight?

    Geez, I dunno what’s going on. I’ll probably vote indie, if a good candidate turns up, but that’s the usual for me. I might vote Labor, depending on who runs here, but my vote makes no difference in Lyne, we will get the same National turkey returned. I have the luxury of being able to pick and choose knowing my vote is not going to be crucial. Voters in other electorates often don’t have that choice.

    I wish someone could explain to me why I, usually a non-Labor voter, am trying to get Labor voters to see sense and stand up for their party when they themselves have given up.

  15. I do not understand why sometimes the whole tweet appears, and sometimes it doesn’t. Anyway, enjoy this lovely photograph:

    Oh, rats – still didn’t show up!

    Liffey rowers this morning

  19. Members Of The Far Right Are Threatening Political Violence. Whatever Happened To Those Anti-Terror Laws?
    https://newmatilda.com/2015/11/21/members-of-the-far-right-are-threatening-political-violence-whatever-happened-to-those-anti-terror-laws/

    It’s very clear those anti-terror laws are not meant to apply to violent right-wing nutters. Have look at what has happened to Australian Muslims under the provisions of those laws.

    Audience Testimonials: Melbourne “Innocent Until Proven Muslim?” Event 2015
    http://gimc.org.au/audience-testimonials-melbourne-innocent-until-proven-muslim-event-2015/

    The second video, featuring a young aboriginal man who is now Muslim is harrowing. He and his family did not deserve the treatment he describes.

  20. joe6pack

    Were you “Road Training ” when you were up there or just visiting ? Had a Russian boss up there and those big rigs blew him away. Took lots of photos of them. I would have thought they were ideal for Russia but he reckoned they would never work there because in Russia every time a road train stopped one of the trailers would be stolen 😆

    He and his wife were also over the moon when I took them to the wharf for a meal and they saw the price of oysters. They bought a platter of a dozen oysters and Roman said “Now I feel like an oligarch”. He was from Sochi and there the price per fresh oyster was the same as what they paid for the dozen platter. He and his wife got a platter every time. Photo on phone sent back home every time .

  24. It seems to me Labor voters have just given up, given in, rolled over and decided Turnbull will be PM for a few terms. Why? Turnbull is a fool. He’s worse than Abbott because he has enough cunning to be able to convince far too many people he’s different when he is just the same.

    As a Labor voter I certainly haven’t given up, neither have those who actually put in effort to campaign unlike those on the internet who I would bet voted for the greens in 2013 and think that because they joined for five minutes to vote for albo they can call themselves true believers.

  28. Mr Burnside should recall one of the basics of company law.

    A corporation is a legal person.

    However, it is not a human being.

    Therefore it is incapable of shame.

    The only sanction the public can wield against a corporation is boycotting it.

    Governments could, of course, encourage their corporate regulators to take other and perhaps more efficient and expensive (for the corporation) action, but that depends on the intestinal fortitude of the relevant government.

  29. That rowing scene reminded me

    (Well, one of you owned up here to being an Argonaut. No names, no pack drill …)

  31. The lyrics of Blur’s ‘Charmless Man’ seem apt for Truffles.

    Educated the expensive way
    He knows his claret from a Beaujolais
    …………..He thinks his educated airs those family shares
    Will protect him, that you will respect him
    He moves in circles of friends who just pretend that they like him
    He does the same to them and when you put it all together
    There’s the model of a charmless man

    …..He talks at speed he gets nose bleeds
    He doesn’t see his days are tumbling down upon him
    Yet he tries so hard to please he’s just so keen for you to listen

  39. On Insiders today Gerard Henderson was right for once, the press gallery is fawning over Turnbull. and when he said that I thought that Katherine Murphy and Dennis Atkins got very defensive about it.

  40. CK

    If that was the last Maher for the year then he is certainly going out on a high.

    How could anyone vote for these religious fruitcakes? I don’t understand. Just like I don’t understand why NSW keeps returning (ugh) Fred Nile.

  41. GL

    Fancy agreeing with Hendeson! I’ll have to have a look at that.

    Here’s something from the US, but it applies to our media as well. Instead of ‘Charlie Sheen’s personal life’ (he did get a few headlines here) just substitute ‘gushing over Malcolm’ and you have exactly the same thing.

    5 Critical Stories the Mainstream Media Buried Under Charlie Sheen’s Personal Life
    http://thefreethoughtproject.com/5-critical-stories-mainstream-media-buried-charlie-sheens-personal-life/

  42. FFS Gladys!

    Gladys Berejiklian seeks to allay China fears over Transgrid privatisation

    Among the likely bidders is State Grid Corporation of China, which is in a consortium with Macquarie Bank’s infrastructure arm.
    Transgrid’s role in supplying power to Canberra and its extensive fibre optic cable network carrying sensitive data for government departments has prompted security concerns about selling to a Chinese government-owned entity.
    …………………………………….
    Fairfax Media revealed at the time that State Grid was the subject of a massive anti-corruption audit in 2014 which uncovered allegations of graft amounting to more than $1 billion.
    State Grid’s chairman, Liu Zhenya, has been a key focus of the ongoing inquiry

    http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/gladys-berejiklian-seeks-to-allay-china-fears-over-transgrid-privatisation-20151119-gl3j6c.html

    Here’s an idea –

    How about we just sell the entire country to the Chinese for an amount that would make each one of us a billionaire.

    If some poles and wires are worth $9 billion then an entire country, complete with infrastructure and mineral resources has to be worth a lot more than $23.13 billion. Hell, let’s just ask for $10 billion each and make it a round $231.30 billion walk-in-walk-out sale.

    We could all leave for somewhere else sunny and warm and live off the money we had invested in hedge funds in the Caymans. Our kids wouldn’t have to worry about ho they would be able to afford to buy a hovel in Sydney for less then $1 million, we wouldn’t have to worry about whether or not we could afford a visit to the dentist, pensioners could stop living on sausages……..

    I’m surprised no-one has thought of this before.

  46. This is good news. I don’t think the Smelly can claim all the credit though. A lot of people have campaigned on this issue.

    No Jab, No Pay: 8000 more conscientious objectors vaccinate children in past year
    November 22, 2015 12:00am
    Samantha Maiden NATIONAL POLITICAL EDITOR The Sunday Telegraph

    AUSTRALIA’S small but dangerous army of parents who refuse to vaccinate their children is finally in retreat, with thousands of parents dumping their “conscientious objection” excuses.

    As federal parliament prepares to pass No Jab, No Pay laws this week that will strip parents of childcare and welfare payments if they refuse to vaccinate, there are signs the campaign is already working.

    For the first time in decades, the number of conscientious objectors registering refusals to vaccinate has fallen significantly by 8000 parents in the past year alone.

    Since 1999, the number of so-called conscientious objectors rose to a peak of 40,000 parents in September 2014.

    The figure was 10 times larger than the number of parents in 1999 who objected to vaccination on philosophical grounds.

    Since then, the number of parents lodging official objections to vaccination on philosophical grounds has fallen to 32,000.

    From January 1, that option will be banned. Parents will be prohibited from lodging conscientious objections under the No Jab, No Pay laws and will be denied childcare and welfare payments if they choose not to vaccinate.

    Previously, all parents had to do to dodge the requirement was sign a form confirming they had discussed immunisation with a GP and state they had a “personal, philosophical or religious” objection.

    The childcare and welfare payments at risk are worth up to $15,000 for each child, or $30,000 for a family with two children in childcare. Religious exemptions have also been scrapped.

    Social Services Minister Christian Porter said he hoped the No Jab, No Pay reforms would continue to lift the ­nation’s immunisation rates by providing a financial incentive for parents to vaccinate.

    The reforms follow a three-year campaign by The Sunday Telegraph to force political leaders to take action.

    An estimated 75,000 children are not fully immunised in Australia, risking the “herd ­immunity” that protects all children from preventable diseases, including whooping cough, which can kill infants.

    Mr Porter said although he was encouraged by the drop in the number of conscientious ­objectors in Australia, the fact remained that we needed to lift immunisation rates further to deliver the “herd immunity” to protect people against diseases such as whooping cough

    http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/national/no-jab-no-pay-8000-more-conscientious-objectors-vaccinate-children-in-past-year/story-fnii5s40-1227618228186

  47. Not sure they are all over Turnbull. I get feeling they are just glad Abbott has gone. I sense many are waiting for him to falter, even fall over.

    Just a thought.

  48. Of course, what Henderson is sniffy about is that people aren’t fawning over Abbott. The idea that we ought to take a critical eye to all politicians and politics is alien to all these pundits. Picking winners, taking sides, defending favourites, that’s all they ever do.

  50. Voters in Louisiana went to the polls today to choose their next governor, early returns have the democrat leading in quite a big way.

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