International Beer Day friday

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Today is International Beer Day .

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And as I am a world citizen I am fully embracing this celebration with a few lovely refreshing beers from my cellar

 

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I bet our suck hole PM wishes he could hide in his cellar after his Pathetic  call to Trump was released

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If there is anymore evidence needed that the people on manus are just cattle the transcripts confirmed it all.

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Have your favorite Tipple Peoples

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It will all be over in a year or so

628 thoughts on “International Beer Day friday”

  7. Sorry if I missed this in an earlier post. What a powerful opening 2 paragraphs from David Marr

    <blockquote.If only Christians fought like this for refugees. Imagine if the Coalition’s big men of faith threatened to tear down their own government unless it brings home the wretches we’ve imprisoned in the Pacific.
    Surely there couldn’t be a greater service for Christ?

    Or what about crossing the floor for the poor, the homeless, for battered wives and illiterate Aboriginal kids. No. What excites these Christian warriors is beating up on gays. I’ve watched it all my life.
    https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2017/aug/09/abbotts-obstruction-of-gay-marriage-is-a-defence-of-privilege-and-the-power-of-shame-david-marr

  9. Good work by Katharine

    I did see Cormann’s reaction. Penny totally pwned him in her great speech

    In the Senate, Penny Wong took the opportunity to make a speech which she was at pains to deliver while looking straight across at Mathias Cormann – one of the chief architects of the ridiculous postal plebiscite.

    Wong, a gay parent with two small kids, sought direct eye contact as she told the chamber Cormann was dead wrong when he said a postal plebiscite could be a unifying moment for the country.

    “I don’t think – I hope – that people watching me debate would think that I’m a shrinking violet. And I know what a hard debate’s like,” Labor’s Senate leader said.

    “But I tell you: have a read of some of the things which are said about us and our families and then come back here and tell us this is a unifying moment. The Australian Christian Lobby described our children as the stolen generation.

    “We love our children, and I object – as does every person who cares about children and as do all those same-sex couples in this country who have kids – to being told that our children are a stolen generation.

    “You talk about unifying moments? That’s not a unifying moment. It’s exposing our children to that kind of hatred”.

    Wong then turned her critique on a prime minister apparently unprepared to fight his own corner on marriage equality, or to stand up assertively for people who needed a champion.

    “Maybe he should stand up for some of the people who don’t have a voice, because we know the sort of debate that is already there. Let me say, for many children in same-sex-couple-parented families and for many young LGBTI kids, this ain’t a respectful debate already.”

    Cormann, who is the most loyal of government soldiers, who delivers the line and never breaks cover, looked down, briefly, to his lap, in what seemed like obvious discomfort.

    https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2017/aug/09/tony-abbotts-appetite-for-destruction-consumes-marriage-equality-debate-and-pms-credibility

  10. Very sad but classy

    The co-leader of the New Zealand Green party Metiria Turei has resigned citing “unbearable” pressure after she revealed that she had lied to claim more benefits as a single mother more than twenty years ago.

    Last month Turei admitted to the New Zealand public that she had lied to a government social welfare agency as a 23-year-old single mother in order to “survive”.

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/aug/09/new-zealand-green-party-leader-metiria-turei-resigns-lied-to-claim-benefits

  11. This little black duck

    She was a single mother from a poor area and at the time got herself into studying law. Top effort on her part. Initial reaction in NZ was pretty positive, people could relate. The punishers and straighteners must have decided to take up arms.

  12. What numbnuts put Abbott in charge of the ‘No’ campaign, or did he just take over?

    • I do.

      The whole thing is just going to end up a huge battle of the egos. Abbott doesn’t like to lose, neither does Turnbull. The Apocalypse will have nothing on the wrath the loser will unleash. I suppose we can already guess who the loser will be.

  13. Leonetwo

    Abbott was “the Golden child” who mummy said would be PM or pope. Truffles “stole my precious” so it will not end up in a huge battle of egos as it has been a huge battle of egos since at least the ‘depreciousing’ .

    What a fight, two bustards with so many tickets on themselves they both thought PMship was their destiny.May they both lose horribly. Well actually they already have. The NE and Truffles regimes are being chiselled into the annals of Australian history as ‘bloody awful” . Which is superb karma. They like any PM but even more so for them will be acutely aware of their time entering the nation’s history books. So they will feel the deserved pain of knowing that next to the ledger of history will be the word”Dud PM” and not the glory they imagined . (Bwahahahaha evil laught)

    • 😆

      Back in 1982/3 I worked in an office, muy rare event for me, it was also when I first heard about the future being a paperless office due to those computer thangs. Still waiting waiting waiting. That said I have just started introducing a new system at work which means instead of 3 pages only 1 needs to be printed for a product batch. Part 2 will be persuading how to make it zero pages printed. Yay paperless !

  19. Can’t disagree.

    Usain has now been called the greatest sprinter / athlete / person.

    A split second before Usain Bolt had done his dash, international athletics got what it deserved.

    That the twice-convicted drug cheat Justin Gatlin beat Bolt to the line meant the sport’s lacklustre efforts in fighting doping were fiercely exposed on a night that was supposed to end in euphoric celebration.

    This was horribly unfair to Bolt. The great Jamaican sprinter did not deserve to have his going away party pooped on like this — at least as far as we know.

    As far as sprinters are concerned, I rank Jesse Owens highly, probably higher.

    On August 3, he won the 100 m sprint with a time of 10.3 s, defeating teammate and college friend Ralph Metcalfe by a tenth of a second and defeating Tinus Osendarp of the Netherlands by two tenths of a second.

    On August 4, he won the long jump with a leap of 8.06 m, later crediting his achievement to the technical advice he received from Luz Long, the German competitor whom he defeated.

    On August 5, he won the 200 m sprint with a time of 20.7 s, defeating Mack Robinson (the older brother of Jackie Robinson).

    On August 9, Owens won his fourth gold medal in the 4 × 100 m sprint relay when coach Dean Cromwell replaced Jewish-American sprinters Marty Glickman and Sam Stoller with Owens and Ralph Metcalfe, who teamed up with Frank Wykoff and Foy Draper to set a world record of 39.8 s in the event. This performance was not equaled until Carl Lewis won gold medals in the same events at the Soviet-boycotted 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.

    In 1935 (the year before the Berlin Olympics), Owens set the world record in the long jump with a leap of 8.13 m (26 ft 8 in), and this record would stand for 25 years (a very rare length of time for a track and field record), until it was finally broken by countryman Ralph Boston in 1960.

    It is reported that he was asked to repeat his 8.13 jump because they didn’t film it and that he jumped again: 8.13.

  21. I really hope the High Court pushes through their decision on this stupid postal vote ASAP. I don’t think I can take three months of this repulsiveness.

    This Is All The “Respectful Debate” On Day One Of The Postal Vote Campaign
    Proponents of a public vote on same-sex marriage often say it will be a “respectful debate”…but here’s what we’ve had just one day after it was announced.
    https://www.buzzfeed.com/joshtaylor/this-is-all-the-respectful-debate-on-day-one-of-the-postal?utm_term=.ciqY72zYX#.fc2aAVEa9

    Someone really tried hard to drag out the irrelevant old dinosaurs today – Bronnie and Flint.

  22. Leroy

    The Herald is not sure we can trust politicians to sort this quickly and democratically.

    Even the SMH gets something right sooner or later.

  23. Good morning Dawn Patrollers.

    One for J Edgar Tuber! Australian Border Force is launching an anti-corruption overhaul amid concerns that a cell of its officers has been working with a notorious international drug and tobacco syndicates for a decade.
    http://www.smh.com.au/national/border-force-tackles-internal-corruption-as-officers-suspected-of-helping-alleged-crime-syndicate-20170809-gxsr5d.html
    Is there a connection to Ibraham’s dealings?
    http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/john-ibrahims-girlfriend-sarah-budge-freed-on-bail-over-glock-charge-20170808-gxs8ro.html
    Trump delivered his “fire and fury” threat to North Korea on Tuesday with arms folded, jaw set and eyes flitting on what appeared to be a single page of talking points set before him on the conference table at his New Jersey golf resort. The man’s a worry. Quite a worry!
    http://www.smh.com.au/world/donald-trumps-fire-and-fury-threat-to-north-korea-was-improvised-20170809-gxsyae.html
    Paul McGeough writes how Americans are con confident that Trump can handle North Korea.
    http://www.smh.com.au/world/fire-and-fury-americans-not-confident-donald-trump-can-handle-north-korea-20170809-gxsgfb.html
    A right-wing pastor who serves on Donald Trump’s evangelical advisory board claims God has given the president “full power” to launch an attack on North Korea. I mean what have we got to worry about then?
    http://www.huffingtonpost.com.au/2017/08/09/trump-evangelical-adviser-god-is-totally-cool-with-nuking-north_a_23072280/?utm_hp_ref=au-homepage
    Penny Wong’s speech in the Senate yesterday on the plebiscite bill was magnificent and boy, did it make Cormann squirm!
    http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/we-love-our-children-penny-wongs-stunning-senate-speech-about-the-marriage-plebiscite-20170809-gxs9in.html
    And NOW look what’s come to light! Lobbyists on both sides of the marriage equality debate will be free to distribute misleading and deceptive material ahead of the same-sex marriage postal vote, because the usual campaign rules have been discarded. This is a shameful and cynical effort by Turnbull.
    http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/rules-against-malicious-campaign-material-will-not-apply-to-samesex-marriage-postal-vote-20170809-gxskoj.html
    Former High Court judge Michael Kirby says he would rather keep waiting than endure a public postal vote on whether he can wed Johan van Vloten, his partner of 50 years. Johan, he says, will boycott the process entirely.
    http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/a-hurt-michael-kirby-implores-his-old-friend-malcolm-turnbull-to-show-leadership-on-gay-marriage-20170809-gxsfcf.html
    Simon Benson reports that the Anglican Archbishop of ¬Sydney, Glenn Davies, and leading Catholic officials have written to Malcolm Turnbull demanding that any proposed bill on same-sex marriage be released before Australians are asked to vote on the issue. This whole thing is not going to play out well. Google.
    /national-affairs/church-leaders-lay-out-plebiscite-fears-for-turnbull/news-story/e05b30c4030f00983ee46f0716f6090f

  24. Section 2 . . .

    Marriage equality advocates and independent federal MP Andrew Wilkie are filing a constitutional challenge against the same-sex marriage postal vote, charging that both the Turnbull Government and the agency it wants to run it are exceeding their authority. I do hope that it gets up.
    http://www.huffingtonpost.com.au/2017/08/09/a-high-court-challenge-to-the-postal-plebiscite-is-on_a_23071537/?utm_hp_ref=au-homepage
    Madonna King reckons children speak more sense on SSM than politicians.
    http://www.smh.com.au/comment/that-thinking-feeling/children-talk-more-sense-than-politicians-on-marriage-equality-20170809-gxsxes.html
    Judith Ireland has something to say about the postal vote aberration.
    http://www.smh.com.au/comment/a-postal-vote-is-a-silly-idea-but-polling-voters-makes-sense-20170808-gxrids.html
    John Warhurst tells us about the decades long rivalry between Turnbull and Abbott.
    http://www.smh.com.au/comment/turnbull-and-abbott-divisive-rivals-for-decades-20170808-gxruen.html
    Dennis Shanahan tells us that the old “no” team of Tony Abbott and John Howard, who worked together¬ in 1999 to soundly defeat the republican referendum against all the odds, will reunite to campaign against same-sex marriage in the postal plebiscite. Google.
    /national-affairs/john-howard-joins-tony-abbott-in-campaigning-against-samesex-marriage/news-story/d7cae3da2446598abb26b5ee4fe7596e
    David Marr writes that It isn’t ‘freedom’ that the former prime minister and the bishops uphold – it’s their power to dictate the laws of marriage to the rest of us. Ne says Abbott’s obstruction of gay marriage is a defence of privilege and the power of shame. A cracker of an article!
    https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2017/aug/09/abbotts-obstruction-of-gay-marriage-is-a-defence-of-privilege-and-the-power-of-shame-david-marr
    Michelle Grattan salivates at the prospect of a head to head debate between Abbott and his sister over SSM.
    https://theconversation.com/tony-abbott-morphs-same-sex-marriage-into-a-culture-war-issue-82279
    Adele Ferguson writes about the CBA’s Jekyll and Hyde routine.
    http://www.smh.com.au/business/banking-and-finance/commonwealth-banks-jekyll-and-hyde-routine-20170809-gxss7l.html
    Allegations that the Commonwealth Bank of Australia has been complicit in money laundering is just the latest example of issues with regulatory compliance and risk management in the financial sector. Why bankers so often fail to comply with policies and regulations.
    https://theconversation.com/why-bankers-so-often-fail-to-comply-with-policies-and-regulations-82159
    Jane Caro writes that she will not let shame about sexual assault silence her any more. An excellent contribution.
    http://www.smh.com.au/comment/why-i-wont-let-shame-about-sexual-assault-silence-me-any-more-20170809-gxscnl.html

  25. Section 3 . . .

    The Russia probe is getting closer and closer to home!
    http://www.smh.com.au/world/fbi-raided-the-home-of-former-trump-campaign-chairman-paul-manafort-20170809-gxsxyk.html
    The Ibrahim links widen.
    http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/sydney-police-raids-ryan-watsford-remains-behind-bars-20170809-gxsutt.html
    Even Rodney Adler’s (remember him?)in their sights!
    http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/former-jailbird-rodney-adlers-office-searched-by-police-during-ibrahim-drug-raids-20170809-gxsm5m.html
    Meanwhile our mate Mehajer’s back in the news again.
    http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/salim-mehajers-wife-unsure-what-hes-capable-of-20170809-gxsv9q.html
    Tony Wright’s having a bit of trouble trying to work Malcolm Roberts out. The same goes for Pauline Hanson .And with good reason!
    http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/making-sense-of-malcolm-roberts-is-a-task-teetering-on-the-impossible-20170809-gxsls1.html
    Victorian Opposition Leader Matthew Guy’s claim that the Liberal Party had received no donations from the people at the infamous lobster dinner appears to have been contradicted by Frank Lamattina’s presence at a $2000-a-head fundraising function.
    http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/matthew-guys-lobster-dinner-host-was-also-at-a-2000ahead-liberal-fundraiser-20170809-gxsshs.html
    Michael Bachelard tells us how the political donations game actually works.
    http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/matthew-guys-lobster-dinner-host-was-also-at-a-2000ahead-liberal-fundraiser-20170809-gxsshs.html
    NFP Internet Australia continues its criticism of the failure of the NBN despite ongoing attempts to discredit its motives.
    https://independentaustralia.net/business/business-display/internet-australia-continues-to-call-out-nbn-fiasco-amid-media-attacks,10590
    Power companies have blamed a decade of political uncertainty in Canberra for sharp rises in power prices, and implored the Turnbull government to adopt a proposed Clean Energy Target. I’m sure Turnbull can accommodate that. Oh wait!
    http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/turnbull-targets-power-companies-over-bills-generators-call-for-clean-energy-target-20170809-gxs98e.html
    New car manufacturers that mislead consumers into using dealers over independent retailers for repairs have been put on notice by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission. It’s going to be quite a battle.
    http://www.smh.com.au/business/consumer-affairs/car-industry-complaints-to-accc-exceed-10000-in-past-two-years-20170809-gxsi7j.html

  26. Section 4 . . . with Cartoon Corner Part 1

    Why should this school receive ANY government funding under these circumstances?
    http://www.watoday.com.au/wa-news/perth-alternative-school-slammed-for-refusing-to-support-to-vaccinate-students-20170809-gxsv1h.html
    The revelation Bruce Billson received undisclosed payments from a business lobby group while still a serving MP has raised eyebrows among his party colleagues, but the former cabinet minister insists he acted with complete “transparency and integrity”. Of course they would!
    http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/supping-with-the-devil-colleagues-surprised-bruce-billson-received-lobbyist-income-while-an-mp-20170809-gxsi0y.html

    Matt Davidson’s version of the postal plebiscite.

    A great dig at the CBA from Cathy Wilcox.

    John Shakespeare’s not at all impressed with Turnbull.

    Mark David and the “civil” debate we will have before the postal vote.

    More from Mark David on the postal vote.

  27. Section 5 . . . Cartoon Corner Part 2

    David Pope and Turnbull’s problems de jour.

    Broelman also has a dip at the postal vote.

    They’re all at it! This time it’s Paul Zanetti.

    David Rowe assaults us with this image!

    Pat Campbell and a busy marriage guidance counsellor.

    At the Lobster Café with Mark Knight.
    http://cdn.newsapi.com.au/image/v1/fe5854976287c48b358fb83f3b732f30?width=1024
    Jon Kudelka and Postman Mal’s solemn pledge.
    http://cdn.newsapi.com.au/image/v1/4ca719ff12524a2e4fca5893edd91c07

  28. Peter Martin has written a blindingly stupid article about the NBN. I don’t have to time to go through it right now, but have a look at all the ridiculous assumptions he’s working on here:

    http://www.theage.com.au/comment/dodgy-from-the-start-dont-blame-turnbull-for-labors-flawed-nbn-20170809-gxsa5v.html

    He has a guy in the article actually quoted as saying fibre will deliver the speeds originally promised (who also says those speeds can be reached in other ways), and then goes to on to say they won’t.

    • Aguirre

      I made it as far as the headline before saying ‘feck off” and read no further.

      Dodgy from the start: don’t blame Turnbull for Labor’s flawed NBN

    • I lost all trust in Peter Martin when Labor first introduced the real NBN. I read him with much skepticism. He really hates fibre to the home. Must have lots of money tied up in copper.

  29. Peter Martin disgraced himself early on by his absolute belief that FTTP was expensive and unnecessary. As the article in Independent Australia suggests The Australian has also done a hatchet job on the not for profit Internet Australia. Clearly the government strategy to counter complaints about slooow internet speeds is to shoot the messenger.

    As everyone knows the NBN has a map of Australia that shows max speed available at every address. That map is not shared with customers who are often sold plans offering 10 times the speed that runs past their address.

    Peter Martin now concedes max speed on degraded Optus copper HFC is 50 mbs

    Peter martin has yet to realise that the wired home (that orange house app on your iPhone) can’t work in Australia with our slow internet upload speeds. Damn! I just installed wireless blinds

  31. “Even Rodney Adler’s (remember him?)in their sights!”

    I do remember him. I remember his links to Turnbull, too, in the HIH business. I remember Adler went to prison while Turnbull skipped off a free man able to make more millions and avoided a damages claim when Goldman Sachs bailed him out with a confidential settlement.

    Funny how the HIH thing keeps popping up this week, isn’t it.

    Labor was said to have been planning to use it last year to campaign against Turnbull, but they didn’t. It looks like it’s going to be used in the next election, especially after the embarrassing question to Turnbull yesterday. He must have been ready to kill another cat after QT.

    If you have forgotten all about the HIH scandal then here’s a quick refresher –
    http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/hih-the-focus-of-labor-efforts-to-take-down-malcolm-turnbull/news-story/e175e3ecf34b699513bc8de04ce60584

    http://www.theage.com.au/news/business/turnbull-adler-to-face-530m-hih-damages-claim/2007/06/22/1182019371254.html

    http://www.smh.com.au/national/turnbull-closer-to-deal-on-hih-claim-20090706-damb.html

    Someone should bring up the rest of Turnbull’s dodgy business dealings too.

    • Those intimidating texts have been sent out to areas of high unemployment, 20&, and high youth unemployment, 40%.
      The schools in Casey (Dandenong) have upto a third of the students attending breakfast club

  36. TLBD do you think its possible for ABS to conduct a postal plebiscite starting Sept 16 and finishing Nov 15th? I don’t!

    Many years ago I designed a mail out to all families in Australia. We were prepared and we had planned the event, even so we could mail out 1 million items a week.

    Now the ABS has to access high speed printers that have spare capacity, hire staff to handle the mailout. Design the mailout sequence or else Australia Post has an additional 3 weeks to deliver the items and remain within its service level agreement.

    hopefully ABS has already hired someone like me designing the mail out and corresponding factory procedures to ensure the mail out is undertaken in a timely manner

    Meanwhile the electoral roll has to be closed off and the plebiscite question agreed to.

    And staff have to be engaged and trained to count the plebiscite

    I reckon the ABS can mail out 1 million items a week so if there are 14 million voters it will take 14 + 3 weeks for all mail to be delivered.

    If the ABS fail at this ‘simple’ task the organisation will be left vulnerable to further staff cuts and outsourcing of core functions. Probably to organisations like the Murdoch subsidiary Pearson who design, administer NAPLAN testing and administer oral English competency exams for the Department of Immigration

  40. They will probably mail out to government electorates first. Whatever happens, there will be a lot of people who can complain they were left until last, not given enough time etc.

    People who can’t remember the last address they put on the electoral roll will have little hope of retrieving their mail, as it will surely be junked immediately upon receipt by whomever lives at that address currently.

    There will be no comeback if you object to not being included. AusPost is challenged at the best of times nowadays, but if they start losing bags of plebiscite returns, watch out! Who could check anyway whether a vote was received? Who could prove one was sent?

    It is a recipe for disaster, catastrophe. A total f*ck up before it even starts.

  45. Labor will pull out all the stops and campaign for a “yes” vote in the looming postal plebiscite on same sex marriage, Bill Shorten will confirm, putting to bed suggestions the federal ALP could boycott the vote.

    Mr Shorten is due to announce Labor’s plan to campaign for a “yes” vote in a speech after question time on Thursday.

    http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/labor-and-bill-shorten-to-pull-out-all-the-stops-and-campaign-for-a-yes-vote-on-samesex-marriage-20170810-gxt54g.html

    Least worst option I guess.

    • what a disgrace! Well I would have expected the South Australian MPs to be concerned about water

  47. Mark Di Stefano 🤙🏻 (@MarkDiStef)

    The minister in charge of the ABS Michael McCormack is now being called “Survey Monkey” by the opposition in the parliamentary chamber.

    Cool!

  49. How dodgy is this?

    The marriage equality postal survey is vulnerable to voter fraud because Australians will not be given individual identifiers by the Australian Bureau of Statistics, experts have warned.

    The move to anonymise the process is designed to address concerns that if ballots included personal identifiers the ABS would be able to match Australians’ opinions on same-sex marriage with other personal information, in effect spoiling the concept of the secret vote.

    But now the former ABS chief, Bill McLennan, and two privacy experts have warned if voters are not sent an individual identifier, the ABS will struggle to determine who has voted.

    McLennan said the ABS “has no powers to ensure that the right people are answering” surveys.

    “‘After the question is mailed to 14 Smith Street, whoever picks it up and answers it, that’s who answers it.
    You don’t know who they are … It’s just a matter of practicality, it’s not a statistical issue. How do you do it? Ask them for a birth certificate and watch them fill it out? Bugger that, it’s not possible”

    https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2017/aug/10/liberal-party-marriage-equality-labor-shorten-turnbull-politics-live

    • An invitation to stuff the ballot boxes. I expect surveys will show that 55% voted Yes and the final count to be 90% No with many fewer votes counted than people claim to have submitted.

      Australia Post doesn’t even have the mail boxes, sorting exchanges or posties to cope with this extra volume of snail mail, probity be damned

    • I can see the ACL ordering their supporters to pinch mail from letter boxes and fill in other peoples’ ballot papers.

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