As many of you may know, it was International Cat Day on Tuesday 8th August. And yesterday was International Lion Day. So, in my role as Dame Queen Fiona, I thought it appropriate that we should take time this evening to pay our respects to our true masters and mistresses …..
The Felines (lol)
First, in honour of a very special large cat:
Then (it almost goes without saying) there’s Grumpy Cat:
Shinakano the Zen cat:
and for a little ‘awwwwww!’, remember this?
not to mention the Husky kitten:
and possibly best of all, blind labrador Terfel and his guide:
Enjoy your evening, and remember …
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Kirsdarke
Your last paragraph says it all loud and clear.
I meant to type at the top of that last one, the first reason is all I need to vote “Yes”.
Stephen Colbert’s monologue today:
Boy, was Pershing right!
You only have to watch QT
Then, again, the best of Fizza’s troops …
According to the Buzzfeed podcast that also featured the Eric Abetz ‘people will marry the Harbour Bridge’ rubbish Liberal politicians have been wandering around the Press Gallery telling anyone who cared to listen that no Liberals have been caught in the citizenship mess.
I’d like to hope that is because the Liberal Party. like Labor, has been doing their checking properly. Much as I’d like to see a Liberal front-bencher or two turn out to be dual citizens I really don’t think that will happen. I’d be delighted to be proved wrong.
The Nationals, though, have been unbelievably sloppy. So have the Greens and PHON. It seems those parties accepted anyone who put up a hand, without question and without vetting. Saying ‘I was told I was not a dual citizen’ is not good enough. Laws change, family members have NFI, you never just ‘assume’.
This really isn’t a mess of Turnbull’s making, it’s a mess mostly made by the National Party. Turnbull, though, is going to cop all the blame from the ill-informed public, who will leap onto the ‘all politicians are the same’ bandwagon.
The podcast is here, the relevant comment is around teh six minute mark.
https://www.buzzfeed.com/isiton/baaaaaaaaaarnaby?utm_term=.xeXKynwKj#.uk82bB42Y
I have only listened to the first ten or fifteen minutes.
Trumble could have shown leadership. He chose not to.
Yes, he should have. He should have treated all the Nats in the same way. It seems nuts that Canavan resigned from cabinet until the High Court makes a decision, but Barnaby and Nash are still kept in cabinet. . They have all committed the same ‘crime’ and should all have given up their ministerial positions and their voting.
Instead of at least insisting on equal treatment of all the offenders Fizza has been making excuses based on dodgy legal advice from the solicitor-general. t all comes down to the necessity of keeping Barnaby’s vote in the reps, I suppose.
In Barcelona, a car … (Trump: bad, very bad dudes in car)
In Charlottesville, a car … (Trump: very bad dude in car and very bad dudes not in car)
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/new-zealand-government-releases-timeline-of-inquiries-about-barnaby-joyce-and-kiwi-citizenship/news-story/779774bcae8b06fb64767c19f6b7909a paywalled, google the URL or try opening via twitter
https://theaustralianatnewscorpau.files.wordpress.com/2017/08/dunne-timeline-re-citizenship-status-joyce.pdf this attachment of the NZ statement is not paywalled
Oh God, we’re not STILL talking about this are we? It’sso… uhm… day-before-yesterday.
On indulgence…
Update on the Travails of HI
6 weeks ago HI was forced (“invited”) to attend a meeting with the Big Cheese of HR for her department. This was the person who had already reneged on the offer of a year’s pay to just…go away.
Big Cheese said that “We have to follow and complete The Process’, meaning HI was asked to formally submit reasons why she should not be dismissed.
(Parenthetically: I thought, “THAT would be a first!”)
“Never mind,” said B-C,”We’ll find you not-guilty and reinstate you. Just a paragraph or two will do. Just say ‘I’m not guilty’ and we’ll look after the rest.”
Hands up those who would trust these people to do ANYTHING they say they will do?
I thought not.
So we went in boots and all. We listed everything that had gone wrong with their precious process, including: broken written assurances, falsification of evidence, outright WRONG evidence, incomplete and/or out-of-date documentation, secret witnesses, fabrication of allegations and unlawful deletion of evidence from the record.
Everything we claimed was documented with multiple sources. There was a lot more that wasn’t documented, but we didn’t claim that. Just the stuff we had on paper. Bang to rights.
As I said, that was 6 weeks ago.
We have heard not a word in reply. $30,000 down the public tube since we heard of the “adverse” finding (itself delayed by a further $30,000 worth of salary in getting to us,on top of $130,000 worth of no communication for 18 months), and we still don’t have a clue what is going on.
If you read this far, thanks.
Indulgence granted. And welcome.
Jones from Dad’s Army got it right.
Can’t believe they are still trying all this on. I’m sure all here at The Pub are wishing you both the best and hope an end is in sight soon.
SOme tweets don’t age well…
bushfirebill
Why indeed. It’s a Turnbull government so the day before yesterday would be two farces a farrago 1/2 a schemozzle and 3 fluck ups ago.
Not to everyone’s taste but it works for me.
Back in 1935-6, Carl Orff wrote a three-part cantata. The first is the well-known Carmina Burana>. The second was Catulli Carmina. This is the third. I think it totally brilliant. Aphrodite’s last exultation was brilliant.
If someone would like to dust my text …
I am muy not into “classical” but I could listen to that without any pain.I guess that is a thumbs up from me 🙂
TLBD+BB
“Jones from Dad’s Army got it right.”
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Private Fraser re the managent.
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And if you don’t like that I’ll give you Carl Nielsen’s fifth symphony. Which you will hate.
Must be time for a new post. I could recommend Andrew Probyn’s latest.
😆 Saw this headline in the NZ Herald and thought WOW I did not think the country was that bothered with Jules+Barn Yabbie. “Aus-NZ relationship may never heal” .Opened it up and…….
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=11906855
The finding was: Crim unknown.