Category: General Musings
More boats…more drownings…more excuses
Rudd’s third week
Just ask yourself what an emissions trading scheme is all about. It’s a so-called market in the non-delivery of an invisible substance to no-one.
Carbon Credits is also questionable with nothing sold to someone mostly using government funds.landowners can sell “carbon credits” if they can prove that they have reduced carbon dioxide by capturing it as humus in soil, or by planting forests, or by allowing re-growth of woody weeds, or by reducing feral animal emissions (shooting camels) or even by promising solemnly to NOT clear specified parcels of forest.
NONE of these processes are sustainable in the long run.
Viv Forbes at Australian Conservative says the scheme has bipartisan support. That needs fixing. So far Rudd ;- Promised to change the way the ALP elect, or kick out their leaders but that has to go to the ALP conference which isn’t happening until after the election so he has done nothing. More words and the only reason he uttered them was to defang Abbott when he says “When you voted for Rudd, you got Gillard and when you voted for Gillard you got Rudd”
- Hasn’t said how he is going to fix his “own goal” boaties dilemma and while they are still drowning of our coast reaching for the sugar he and Gillard put on the table all he can offer is sympathy. He did go to Indonesia but in doing so handed over the security of our borders to Indonesia whilst promising another conference.
- Hasn’t said how he is going to fix the economy and the huge debt he established.
- Said he would get business on-side but immediately attacked them with more 457 visa restrictions and has left the unions in charge of the economy with the Fair Work legislation.
- Has gutted defence but in doing so promised dreamtime purchases that weren’t funded and were never going to get out of the conference process. 12 submarines for God’s sake!
Ewen Mackenzie replaces arch enemy
Jill Meagher
“Accordingly, he had no option but to kill her,” Mr Silbert said.
That’s like about 20 cases of rape – I wonder if the Parole Board members have any trouble sleeping at night?Another Terrorist welcomed
Swan song
Say something nice about the budget?
It is Swan’s last. Peter Van Onselen
Swan has just handed Abbott a problem because who in Australia believes anything Swan said last night. Most of his budget wont come to fruition as the chances are he will be unemployed come September. Who believes his forward estimates…a surplus in 2015-16 – yeah…right!. Gillard and Swan are putting a case to set up their legacy of Gonski and Disability Care at the Coalition’s expense. Even in their last dying gasp they overspend. If you don’t genuflect at the altar of Gonski and Disabilitycare then you are a bastard but can we pause, dry our tears and get the funding right? The Gillard/Swan modus operandi of plucking feel-good policies out of the air and announcing them without a thought to serious funding has become a trademark. Look how compassionate we are…look at me crying in the House over the poor disabled – lets all just wish it so. After five years of throwing money out the door and spending way over income they want us to remember them as progressives with bold policy changes that change society. They are effectively demanding the Coalition pay for their legacy. Gillard sees her time as Prime Minister being written up in history as the woman who saved the disabled and every kid in the nation. A cut-price legacy if ever there was one.Boat people aren’t new
I’m not having hundreds of fucking Vietnamese Balts coming into this country with their political and religious hatreds against us”
It should be noted that the Vietnamese didn’t hate us, as in ordinary Australians but they did hate communism (for very good reasons) and that is where Whitlam and the unions were coming from. Those that couldn’t flee the retribution in South Vietnam died in their millions as the communists did what they do best – slaughter and/or send to reeducation camps those who had the temerity to fight for freedom. The Vietnamese were fleeing a communist state and the ALP of the time and the union leaders were very clearly pro-communists or anti-US which is the same thing. The same people today reason that Iraqis and Afghans are fleeing US influenced regions and are therefore welcome. The left wing Tamils, inventors of the suicide bomber’s vests are likewise welcomed for the same reason – their left wing politics I lived through those days when Australia was governed by a socialist government with very clear connections with the communists of the world. Our service in South Vietnam was denigrated by the Left, Communists Generals were dined out by Jim Cairns, one-time Deputy PM and life under Whitlam reminded us every day of how the world had changed. Communism was the new ‘way to go’ and wearing the uniform of your country was frowned upon. It was humiliating and it looked like we had lost the Cold War which I enthusiastically contributed to for 13 months of my life but within a decade reason had prevailed. Whitlam was a nightmare memory and President Reagan correctly identified the ‘Evil Empire’ and proceeded to flog them until the collapse of the Berlin Wall. If you are interested at all in the truth then you do need to read this report by Hal G.P. ColebatchRolf Harris in trouble?
Kloppers’ demise due to setting standards
Staff at BHP were outraged when the company under Mr Kloppers issued an incredible 11-page missive banning office staff from eating smelly lunches at their desks, sticking post-it notes on their monitors and keyboards and placing jackets on chairs.
Many employees were outraged by the elaborate dossier, which stated:
- Food must not be eaten at workstations
- No food emitting strong odours are allowed
- Mobile phone ring tones must be kept at low volumes
- Post-it notes are to be removed from monitors and keyboards at the end of the day
- Workers are warned to watch the tone and volume of their voices
- In meeting rooms, all whiteboards are to be cleaned, equipment turned off, cables put away, chairs pushed in and cups and bottles thrown away
- iPods and MP3 players must not be brought into work
- Small bags must be stored under work stations during the day
- Clothes must be put in “designated storage areas”