The Dump is:
For posting comments that don’t get up at the Drum, and for having a pleasant, mirthful or enlightening off-topic discussion.
It’s not for personal abuse of other commenters.
Please do that somewhere else if you must.
Play nicely or piss off.
However, why doesn’t a poster add a link for us to read and comment on here, much quicker. Maybe we can do a bit more bagging here, not that I speak for the moderators, yet.
NB: Being tiresome and boring, racist, sexist or just plain creepy is not playing nicely.
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The Pig’s Arms exists because a dozen or so years ago our other favourite playpen – the ABC’s Unleashed blogsphere started to go off. Like a sack of prawn heads in the sun. Something had to be done.
Moderation was taking forever. Comments seemed to be rejected randomly – outrageous ones appeared and reasoned ones were pinged. When they released the Drum / Unleashed ….. things actually got worse !
So many pieces from professional writers appear with no obvious merit. And the moderation has become, to put it frankly, appalling.
As a former contributor and a commenter, I was deeply disappointed at the plummeting quality from our pre-eminent media empire. And I resented so many challenging or dare I say, witty or funny posts in which we’ve invested seconds of our precious time – getting the chop.
So here, for all our benefit – is an open slather blog. Copy and paste your best rejected comments here for posterity. Does not matter whether you’re posting on the Guardian, First Dog on the Moon or wherever else.
And sprinkle pointers to the Pig’s Arms amongst your comments. Let’s try to rescue some of the old faithful.
Cheers,
Emm.
Window Dresser's Arms, Pig & Whistle 
Anyone seen my mate Tony?
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…. ever gonna see you face again …… no way, get fucked, fuck off. Repeat and then forget. He’s gone. Thank gawd !
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🙂
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😊😊
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I take that as a no then shall I?
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Turnbull says we need to respect the intelligence of the Australian people.
It’s on, soon it would seem. Waiting on Tony’s response etc etc.
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I think the tories are stuffed whatever they do. If Turnbull wins his best chance is to call a snap election. Otherwise the Ghost of Godwin will raise its ugly head.
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I don’t think so. He will want the year as the PM. I’m happy to see that Bastard Abbott gone, gone, gone. I’m hoping that Albo taps Shorten on the shoulder and Shorten bows out – anything is possible regardless of Rudd’s stupid bloody rules.
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He could go for a year. He’ll get a spike early then fade. Has he learnt from Godwin. Has he got any policies to speak of. Half the party hates him, but at least he’ll move to the centre. With you on Shorten.
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If only the ALP did the same immediately!
Still even Shorten can’t fuck this up, surely!
My thoughts exactly, too, Alge. I have a feeling Turnbull will do a DD and go for an election as early as possible so that the people (young voters at least) will have no time to see what he’s really like as a PM; and to ratify his delusion that he’s a great emperor, even greater than moron Abbott and even greater than Howard, about whom he said that Oz should get back to his era!
Evert Lib yearns for the glorious days of the past!
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I suspect Shorten is sitting back and just wondering. Abbott could well get up, meaning he’d lose the next election with a monster swing. I’d say Canning is now gone for the Liberals. I though last week they’d win with a 10% swing against them.
Its laughable we have a government that can’t even run itself let alone the country. I don;t think it matters who wins they’re fucked.
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I think a mop with a cardboard face would be more electable than TA.
Billy Shorten may have to pop on the thinking cap now that he’s not ‘debating’ with three word Tony.
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Yes, stop the boats, axe the tax, wipe my …………………. brow.
Turnbull will need to stop with the waffle as was last night.
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http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-09-12/uk-labour-crowns-leftist-jeremy-corbyn-as-leader/6771188
YES! YES! YES!
YES! YES! YES!
YES! YES! YES!
YES! YES! YES!
YES! YES! YES!
And YES AGAIN!
Conscience has finally entered the British Parliament!
What will the Queen say now?
What will MI5 say now?
What will Cameron and all the other dags hanging off the arses of the bankers and the military complexes say now?
What will Netanyahu say now?
What will Blair The King Turd say now?
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They’ll be pissing themselves. New Labour has totally failed. If they want to act like the Tories etc then bloody join them. I’m happy and look forward to seeing how it goes for him.
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What will our Labor Party say now?
Interesting development in England. Jeremy wants to nationalise ‘railways’ and a few other things in England as well.
“His policies include spending more on public services like schools and hospitals, scrapping nuclear weapons, renationalising industries like the railways and involving Islamist groups Hamas and Hezbollah in Middle East peace talks.”
Go Jeremy.
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I’m happy for anyone who gives lunatic ear criminals like Netanyahu nasty tasting sandwiches by the truckload. Be interesting to see how he goes
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What quality politicians we have.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-09-11/kiribati-president-lashes-peter-dutton-for-sea-levels-joke/6770034
I’m amazed they didn’t call them niggers.
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We know who the idiots are and they prove it daily. I hope they get totally thrashed at the Canning by-election.
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Yes I would agree vivienne, however, I’d like to see Labor fall just short maybe a 9.8% swing. That would be disaster for the Liberals but probably not enough for them to remove Tony. Mind you picking someone who has spent nearly all his life in Sydney and who has been resident at a Perth army Barracks but hardly there, to contest a WA seat is pure genius by the Liberals. That in itself will mean a swing against them.
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Ok – let them win by 150 votes then. A lot of the media pundits reckon Hockey is about to go.
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Labor needs Abbott to be there at the next election, though I doubt a change in leader will save them now. Either of those scenarios would be a pyrrhic victory.
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http://www.candianews.gr/2015/09/08/ise-anoitos-piga-sto-london-school-of-economics-ti-skt-echis-kani-esi-evropaika-mathimata-apo-ton-m-kefalogianni-vinteo/
Hilarious! on a panel show live on air on the national broadcaster, comprising 6 politicians the far right wing politician (from New Democracy) screams at the syriza guy, “I studied at the London School of Economics… while you ate shit!” That’s the sort of discussions these thugs have when they are having a discussion. He behaves like this on live TV, imagine what he’s like in less exposed places. The syriza guy got up and left. See the video!
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He looks like a steaming pile doesn’t he; the right winger. Looks like they needed Tony Jones moderating. He looks like he’d get on well with Peter Dutton.
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That Hung fellow seems to be getting a few in 🙂
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They won’t even let me to reply to Helvi !
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Yes, they rarely publish my replies to the lovely H
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I wanted to say to her :
“Yes Helvi, even Finland’s prime minister Juha Sipila has promised to open his own home to asylum seekers coming to the country and has urged all Finns to help with the refugee crisis.”
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ABC Dingledorks !
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Which articles Hung. I’ve been out doing my usual Tuesday shopping and errands. (Got some lovely blue swimmers for dinner.). Still raining here although we have had two days of sunshine – sweet and short.
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Gerard is back on the Drum’s front page.
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Thanks Vivienne. And well done Gerard.
As for Denny, what does this sentence mean?: “What I find really strange is that the death of a little boy on a beach in Turkey has caused the left to go into melt down but when 1200 people drowned off the coast in Australia they did object at all.”
What I find strange is why The ABC decided to put it on the front page. Is it because the word “not” is missing in the sentence? What is ABC trying to do here? Why does ABC prefer ‘ambiguity’? What is ABC’s purpose?
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Incidentally, I was going to respond to this dipstick yesterday in ‘black and white’ but seeing that my comments are not getting up, I didn’t bother.
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Like many of the commenters they failed to put brain in gear first. One does despair.
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Do you think The ABC is reading my comments here? Over at the drum all my comments are blocked (except two) since Monday morning. Yet Tabanus had 43 comments in one article-page!
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sorry I was wrong! .. 41
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hph – I think there is a sinister plot by the moderator to annoy the shit out of you and me, but more you at the moment.
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They didn’t like me at the Lowy Interpreter, either. 🙂 Yesterday, I made the first and only comment on Jim Molan’s article. It went straight into the wastebasket. 🙂
Me:
“The US needs to take the fight in Syria more seriously and Australian involvement will help. We should welcome Australian air strikes in Syria to protect Western oil interests in this region to pin a strategic battle honour to their colours.”
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Sorry Viv missed your reply, got a lead off on and anti Abbott piece
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https://theconversation.com/only-a-global-response-can-solve-europes-refugee-crisis-47040?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Latest+from+The+Conversation+for+September+8+2015+-+3358&utm_content=Latest+from+The+Conversation+for+September+8+2015+-+3358+CID_dc2af44242de498650b8eb2606088fa8&utm_source=campaign_monitor&utm_term=Only%20a%20global%20response%20can%20solve%20Europes%20refugee%20crisis
But for the grace of Fate, that father could be me, that daughter could be mine, that mother could be Mrs Ato!
But for the grace of Fate!
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Exactly.
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Delusional, paranoid, sociopathic, psychopathic, xenophobic tapeworms…. Boy, they really come out of the woodwork, don’t they?
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Getting worse by the day and week. I do some skimming of comments and the garbage level keeps going up and up. They must be digging the bottom of the barrel of Young Libs to do their stint at the ABC. I think desperation has set in.
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The ABC banned me today: Zero out of 8 ….. 🙂
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Dingledorks !
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Zero out of 12 ..?
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Regionalgranny:
04 Sep 2015 5:26:08pm
Aren’t we fortunate to live in Australia? That we are surrounded by oceans brings with it a certain detachment from troubles in other parts of the world. The only way this crisis will be solved is if peace and stability is brought to the Middle East and Sub Saharan African countries currently in upheaval. Those who profess to know what, who and why this migration of humanity is underway are simply shoring up their own prejudices in unsubstantiated hypotheses.
[ Who bombed Libya and supported armed groups against Kaddafi, who supported armed groups against Assad? … you dipstick! ]
We have no idea what it is like living in a region where the enemy is within the borders of individual countries ie fighting among the same nationalities. The terrible truth is that these upheavals are frequently caused by either sectarian or tribal struggles for supremacy or by dictators trying to keep a lid on the battles. Interference from other countries with diverse motives does nothing in the long term to ease the situation and often makes it worse. The fact that neighbouring countries do not get directly involved in these terrible tragedies possibly tells us that they have seen it all before and that like as not their involvement would not be made public in any case.
The people who flee probably have many and varied reasons for doing so but we in our blissful isolation do not know what those individual reasons are
[ There are 10 million war refugees. So there must be 10 million individual reasons….You may be an idiot AND blissfully isolated but not me, you dipstick! ]
…despite many of the opinions expressed here. I for one am not surprised that people are looking for a better life. Wouldn’t most of us, given the chance in these circumstances?
[ No shit, Sherlock! ]
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Ladies and Gentlemen,
With a great deal of pleasure, I’d like to introduce to you one of the best dipsticks on The Drum 🙂
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Sonya:
04 Sep 2015 7:11:53pm
I just cannot understand why many people cannot accept a very simple logic. I also cannot understand people who insist in claiming some sort of higher moral grounds shedding crocodile tiers to emphasize their mistaken beliefs.
Most decent human beings are compassionate and don’t like seeing anyone to suffer. Particularly women and small children. The problem is HOW to help them?! Most fall for the common trap talking about what feels good, right and compassionate. The problem is – they never consider the most probable outcome of their compassion. On most occasions such compassion creates more mass misery.
Let me be more compassionate that all of you put together. Lets accept and accommodate every migrant, refugee and asylum seeker who wants to live in any country they choose. (At the moment the chosen land is Germany) Lets provide them with food and shelter where they can feel secure and live with dignity deserving by every human being. What can be more ‘normal’ and acceptable to our standards?!!! Lets do that. Why not?
This is why not. Over three quarters of the world’s population do not have living standards we would like to provide to all those seeking refuge. Therefore, over four billion people would be attracted to such wonderful reception and accommodation. Can we or would we be willing to affect such drastic changes to the world’s demography? Are we prepared to virtually remove state borders and let people live where they choose. Somehow, I don’t believe that may would agree with that. Therefore, the current mess in Europe can only be stopped either by force or by removing the ‘sugar from the table’ and by stopping the people smuggling trade. Only then, Europeans could properly decide how many refugees they want to accommodate each year.
It may sound cruel, however I challenge anyone with some form of ‘compassionate solution’ to consider the real outcome of your compassion. If you are honest enough, you will realize that your compassion only creates more deaths and misery to many more people. These are the simple facts. Sad but true!!!
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As was said this weekend they walk amongst us
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I read that. She believes it.
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Dingledork Sonia changed her name to Pat and made a similar comment again in Monica’s blog !
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You might enjoy this
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Comedy gold, the jokes write themselves.
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In sentences of not more that three words. A happy Fathers Day to all the dads
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Thanks young fella, yes happy fathers day
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Magnificient video. Where did you find this gem?
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Youtube, for some reason it came up on my list of recommendations. Had a great laugh.
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Yes – went and found it on Youtube in order to share with my Facebook friends. What luck it came up as recommended. Ripper.
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Got first up on the last article posted on the Drum on Friday. First response was right on cue:
Jean Oliver:
04 Sep 2015 4:30:15pm
I’m afraid Tom they will just call you a bleeding heart. Yep, billions going to a foreign company running our concentration camps and they think it’s all totally in order (to protect our borders). What utter rot. Labor got itself well and truly wedged and humanity got shafted on the way.
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AGB:
04 Sep 2015 4:37:05pm
The images of the dead toddler move me alright!
The boy’s father – the sole surviving family member – must bear responsibility for removing his family from the safety they enjoyed in Turkey. Placing innocents in the hands of people smugglers is willfully reckless at best.
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It was the debate under it that was interesting. A bunch scathing of this grums comment then right on queue the right wing tom cats come out. What disgusting people they are. I see the dog walkers home country has put their hand up for 200000 yet, Adolf has it in his heart to take an extra 4500. His immigration moron wouldn’t have any, nor would that economic transplant.
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Yes indeed Algy. The comments about how safe Turkey is etc, same as how safe Indonesia and Malaysia are, so they should all stay put. Awful to think that these people ‘walk among us’. Yet here we are taking 200,000 economic migrants each and every year. My solution has always been, apart from stopping war, to take less of them and more of the desperates. What makes all the Indian, Chinese, Irish, Poms etc more deserving of a chance at living in Oz.
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And these economic migrants are the ones making the most noise. Yet they squark how good the old country is. These morons need to recognise that Turkey, Malaysia and Indonesia offer shelter and little else. They can’t work and these countries offer little else. Its up to the agencies to offer them aid.
If these economic migrants think that their home countries are so much better than here and offer so little or nothing to the fabric of our society then maybe they should consider why they live here.
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From Migration website: The first wave of post war migration began with Displaced Persons. These people fled their countries which had been utterly destroyed by war or overran by the Soviet Union. Between 1947 and 1953 the Australian Government assisted over 170,000 Displaced Persons to migrate to Australia. ….. The second wave of post-war immigration arrived in the 1950s and 1960s, and consisted of those seeking employment and better living conditions. These programs were an enormous success.
So, that’s then and we have now. WFT !
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Its really sad isn’t it vivienne. It was the post war migration that built the country. Nowadays we have people buying their residency or citizenship $3m if you start a business (nearly all fail because the residency is the important thing) $5m and you can do what you like. Thanks John Howard so much better. Yet those desperate people coming in and taking jobs… I’ve employed a few refugees, hard working good people that want to contribute. The economic migrants just want to whinge.
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I had a bookmark for a few years which gave me migration statistics, outcomes etc. When I clicked on to it I got this http://www.border.gov.au/ – do have a look – it’s dreadful. No figures either.
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Well I did find stats but they are poorly presented now. They look like they have been put together by a twit.
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Look harsh doesn’t it. Wooden design. Did you notice the ABF tab is in red.
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Note HPH got quite a few sweet and short posts up. I turned computer off and never saw what transpired. Speechless.
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I’m amazed the mods allowed the same comment six times. But his sentiment is correct.
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I note the usual lies. Good grief thinks Turkey is a first world country, really since when. The heartless Zing talks about the Kurdish children being safe there. By what measure does they come up with that. Even the dog walker came up with his usual uninformed rubbish.
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I didn’t have time to read and comment as the articles went up, but skimmed through, later. GO, Helvi and HPH are correct, why be so hard hearted??
I’m f*&^ed if I know what drugs WS is on, perhaps I should get some?
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Even the Finns are in to it: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-09-05/finland-pm-offers-own-home-to-asylum-seekers/6752778
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Gee they’re hopeless over at The Drum. Post a comment on Barrie’s blog today and they don’t post it. Add the same post to someone else’s with an added sentence and they post it.
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I’m just getting more and more appalled at the comments of the Abbott lovers. The rubbish, the lies and so forth are just getting lower, sillier, fact free and bananas. Doesn’t matter which article you read – it’s all shitty and usually totally inconsistent with stuff they’ve said elsewhere on related issues (foreigners and jobs come to mind – can’t have asylum seekers taking our jobs but now more than happy to allow dodgy Chinese qualifications to come in by the hundreds and thousands).
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I agree vivienne, I tried to return a comment to one of Claudius P’s sprays but it didn’t get up same with AHLD. These people are complete nutjobs.
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Nutjob is the one sitting in the chair at the ABC!
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See the utter rot he gets up in the news items open for have your say. Never fails. He is nuts. Same shit, no brain in gear.
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ALL my replies to Psychopaths were blocked to day.
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I’ve managed 4 posted all day and one of those was pulled down in reply to ij.
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The ABC is totally f…ed. They don’t know whether they are Arthur or Martha. They are too scared to lose their jobs. In the news last night, the segment about refugees entering Hungary, the ABC reporter finished off his last sentence with “… [the plight of] the economic migrants (or refugees) .”
“Economic” …..?!
Entire neighbourhoods, towns and cities where these people lived before, were all destroyed and turned into rubble in the war, and they have been living in the ‘tent cities’ in filthy boiling conditions in Summer and freezing in winter, in knee-high snow, for THREE years, and he refers to them as “Economic refugees” ???
And, and, Leigh Sales, in the 7:30 Report last night, has the temerity to ask “Why now- they are deciding to migrate to Europe?” …………….
“Why now”…..?!
F,,, me ????!!!!!!
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I picked up on that ‘economic’ thing. Another thing which makes me angry.
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Zing:
04 Sep 2015 2:43:02pm
HPH. The fences are beginning to rise. The police are beginning to patrol. The people are beginning to get angry at their unwanted guests.
I suspect this issue will haunt you a lot longer than it will haunt Europe.
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Me:
“I know this will not get up Zing but…. Go Fuck Yourself, You Heartless Bastard.
🙂
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That would be too good for for them I’m afraid.
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The place is full of right counts.
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Here’s a true psychopath….
Erick Quang:
01 Sep 2015 10:29:46pm
Australia has no moral obligation to to take in refugees and asylum seekers especially when it is Australian families who are called upon to sacrifice so that these trouble making asylum seekers can sponge off the wellfare system. I wonder how long the German people will put up with these wellfare bumming migrants once their own standard of living catastrophicly collapses? My guess is that it will be the foot of the hardworking German people that will give these troublemakers the boot quick smart.
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We have a similar moron who posts at the Border Mail. Very sick people. I suppose if his next door neighbour was starving and very unwell he wouldn’t lift a finger or open his wallet either. It’d be stiff shit.
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Not only that, this same psychopath wants to see the US military drop atomic bombs in the Middle East at the same. Why The ABC moderators are posting his comments is a mystery? When I see the tv images of the drowned children in The Mediterranean Sea, words are not enough to describe my sadness… Yet when I respond to this psychopath..heh heh…no such luck! dipsticks!
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…and our ‘proud’ Prime Minister still keeps talking about evil Hitler Stalin bullshit and bombing missions in Syria ! Dipstick!
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We live in societies shaped and ruled by psychopaths.
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…and you are surprised??
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No I’m not Big M.
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I’m too old and tired to be surprised.
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I’m finding more plenty of ordinary, non-political people who are angry, agitated, and ready to demonstrate against this mob of blackshirts. What’s next, a beer hall putsch??
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Even the bloody Germans are more civilised: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/03/germany-refugees-munich-central-station?CMP=soc_567
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Thanks for the link, Big M. There is still hope….
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I;m wondering which businesses will have rocks thrown through their windows. Yet Adolf continues to talk crap.
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Hey Sea M, (I know you are reading this page) you couldn’t help yourself but make that ridiculous comment to Gerard. Absolute rubbish SM, absolute rubbish! – I hope I didn’t hurt your feelings this time.
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It would appear that SM is one sick puppy. I’ve always been concerned about they way they troll both Gerard or Helvi. They have been doing this for quite a while. Quite gutless behind a veil of anonymity.
They are a bit like the dog walker, moved here for purely economic reasons and has no interest in the economic plight of asylum seekers. Very much part of the piss off we’re full lot.
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What I don’t understand is why some people are so mean spirited? Why some people hold grudges, deep ones?.. Which can last a lifetime? I never hold a grudge to anyone. Not even to Julian…in spite of what happened in the past between him and me. There was confusion about what I said and how I said it, in short lost in translation; I couldn’t express myself as well as others. But I don’t hold a grudge against him. He is more than welcome to come back here and chat with you guys. It’s good to see George is back here for example. I regret some of the things I said to him in the past as well. And for that I offer my sincere apology to George. I apologized to SM, on the Drum too. But he still doesn’t get it. This is madness! It’s got to stop! – Pride, hatred, grudge – Holding a grudge and harboring anger/resentment is poison to the soul.. It’s like pouring acid into a man’s soul.. Eats away a man’s life and strength… y’hear SM?
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I’d have to agree hph, I don’t get why people need to troll. Over at the drum gerard or helvi will post a comment and like clockwork there’s SM with disparaging comments, you can almost set your watch by it. What perverted satisfaction do they get from it. I like good vigourous debate but not abuse, Unfortunately the drum sees more abuse than debate most the time now. Unlike the early days.
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Drum posters treat the Ooosterfolk with complete contempt.
Disgusting.
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On Drum’s piece on Heydon is staying, so ….. got one comment up this morning and went back to it a little while ago to see OUB had a go at me and then I dashed off a response which to my surprise went up a minute later: here it is and I’m rather happy!
Jean Oliver:
01 Sep 2015 10:28:38am
There is indeed a very real perception of bias and that Heydon has dismissed it all is a clear sign of ingrained bias. He presents his findings as a forensic analysis and reasoning for his ‘innocence’ yet I find his findings not at all forensic. Huge pieces of evidence are omitted. The twisted logic displayed does not come from a retired judge of ‘impeccable standing’ but rather that of a smart arse who was frequently out of step with his fellow judges of ‘impeccable standing’. He is in it for the money as well.
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OUB :
01 Sep 2015 2:08:36pm
A blogger calling a judge a smart arse? You want judges to agree, offering no perspective of their own? Perhaps you need robots instead.
Heydon would have made his money before he became a judge. I would be shocked if he didn’t take the role for the intellectual challenge and also because of a notion of public service. Your post says more about you than Heydon Jean.
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Stuffed Olive:
01 Sep 2015 3:40:54pm
He spent the bulk of his career as a legal academic, had two years in NSW Supreme Court and then Howard gave him the High Court gig in 2002 from which he retired two years ago. He never became a top earning barrister. Studious people are not known for making a motza OUB. It seems all High Court judges are accorded a lot of highfaluting silly respect. When he did not agree with other Judges it was often because he had delved into some ancient text which he thought more important than current enlightened thinking. As an old pal of Tony he gets the RC gig and I am sure he is delighting in his $12000 day recompense. Yes, he is a smart arse because he didn’t present all the evidence to himself and somehow thinks he represents the ordinary man in the street. He doesn’t. He is a pompous old fart who has let his position go to his head.
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I forgot to change my moniker ! Stuffed got a look in !
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Nice to see vivienne. He might think he’s smart. The rest of the country sees this witch hunt for what it is, biased. It devalues what RC’s are meant to be. THen again Adolf devalues the role of government.
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Hah hah haa… Excellent comment dear Olive, excellent. I was going to make a comment on the drum that “there is no way he is going to retire from his position: One) he stands to lose a great deal of money, Two) if he does, that’s an admission of his bias towards the Liberals, it wont look good for him and the Liberal Party.” This guy is a dipstick ! There is something very repulsive about this man but I couldn’t work it out. I just don’t like him. If I was in the same room with this man I would leave as soon as possible or tell him to “go ….. yourself”
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OUB then thanked me for the info, basically. hehehe
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Just signing in again.
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Yes I saw it (forgot to mention it above) Good – at least he was honest enough to admit that you were right.
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Now here’s a government with its finger on the pulse
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-08-30/peter-duttons-office-received-border-force-press-release/6735584
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Here’s a ridiculous comment from:
custard666
12:38 PM on 30/08/2015
“The lead agency was Vicpol and the decision to pull out was the CFMEU controlled Andrews govt doing the unions bidding.
Just like the CFMEU is attempting to undermine the China FTA and the TURC.
The faux outrage on Friday is simply socialist leftistindustrial noise.”
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Tried to comment on that but it didn’t get up. Pointed out this
Good to see you’re completely off topic custard. Sounds like look over there “Kittens”
So you’d be in favour of say the Germans in 1930 Europe or perhaps the apartheid era in Southern Africa. Fortunately right minded people of all political persuasions do not share your views.
Custard is a dill, there is no value in these old Rhodesians and their fascist thoughts
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Oh, tell me about it Algernon. I worked with them for many years at the mines in WA. There is a whole tribe of them in Perth. (It’s disgusting that they won’t allow your comment.)
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Now they closed comments !
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I noticed that they’d closed the comments. Custard works with cars in Perth, used cars I think from comment he’s posted in the past. I could have thrown an Afrikaner comment in but thought that might have gone a bit too far even though it fits well with his white supremacist views.
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Hey Algernon! success..! They put up your comment after all 🙂
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I landed on it about 5 mins after comments closed. The custard comment is a copy from the Oz (almost). Poor little bugger working overtime. They will excuse absolutely every stuff up or disaster or support every insane idea. If Abbott said all first borns from today will be killed, they’d be all for it (population control is such a good idea). Gawd, I’m a first born. What’s Abbott – didn’t think it through. Half the population shall be slaughtered ……… I’m getting carried away, maybe.
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Well the oz isn’t called The Sorbent for nothing vivienne. And we can’t go around killing the first born, I’m a first born so is Mrs A.
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Border Farce – want to read what the Abbott cheer squad think, well there is a link in the Guardian’s comments which takes you to The Australian and you aren’t blocked – all there along with comments. Article isn’t too bad but the comments will confirm that whatever you thought of them (clete, custard, Forrest Gardner types) is all true and spot on. They are unthinking nuts and will excuse anything.
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What about WS, he’s well read, wouldn’t expect Alfie though he relies on others for what to say.
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I didn’t spot the names as such, just a pile of like minded idiots. Not sure if WS would cough up to subscribe. Think he prefers the free stuff.
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Ambrose Raven is there.
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The others are not there because they only go on the Drum to write anti lefty drivel.
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No that would mean having to give something besides his style would be more The Daily Mail or perhaps The Sun or Mirror. They must be staffers, who’d have the time to be commenting on so many forums.
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Been skimming more of the comments on Border Farce in the Oz – they really are mad. Apparently according to Brett: ‘Fact one: the actual operation has been running for some months.
Fact two: someone in middle management decided to create a pretty stupid press release for reasons unknown this time.
Fact three: the media with the help of someone makes big assumptions and the BS starts to flow.
Note, there is so much silly stuff – half the time BS means Bill Shorten and the other half it means bullshit. In the end it is all the fault of Bill Shorten who knew all about the plan and the Vic govt who knew all about it. Rewriting events and making stuff up. These people walk amongst us !
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The good apprentice of John Howard, Tony Abbott is dividing our society for his own political success. Now we see uproar and punch ups in the streets of Bendigo. Did you notice the way the journalists reported the news about people “behind masks”? Who were those behind the masks? The ‘reporter’ did not make it clear, did she?
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No. Fairly clear it was the rent a brain dead bogan from Melbourne though. The one thing I don’t like about protests are the use of children and the gutless who hide behind masks.
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Do you shop at 7-Eleven Stores? They’re expensive!
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They should be half price!
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Only for petrol
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No.
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Don’t miss 4-Corners program on Monday night. It’s about them.
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The Drum really lacks style, I mean I posted to clete that he was a fucking dickhead and it didn’t get up, well I never.
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I don’t understand either Hung, they are a tory brown nose
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Song list? Shall I just go and do my own thing – I’ll wait till tomorrow morning.
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Done one haven’t sent it though.
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Excellent.
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Perhaps you need to SHOUT WITH CAPSLOCK!!!!
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P.S. Clete wears a condom for a hat!
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How do you do likes?
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When you click on someone else’s reply from the right hand notification box (you know, the thing that turns orange if there’s a message), there is a star below the reply, with ‘like’ under it. Just click on the star.
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Got it looked for something on the main screen but couldn’t see it.
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It’s in the WordPress bar that runs along the top of the screen if you are logged in.
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Yes I saw i, I sent you a like.
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I was locked out again.
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You have to wonder how low a government can sink when they start asking their black shirts to go onto the streets of a particular city and start checking the visas of people. Easy to see who’d they would target, people with a particular coloured skin or clothing worn in a certain part of the world. What will they stoop to next the smashing of windows of certain businesses of people of a similar persuasion.
What on earth do they hope to achieve by such actions. Is it to show how big his balls are. Maybe something to do with the Canning By election I don’t know. Then we parachute an ex SAS officer stationed in Perth but really from NSW. That will work well in a parochial state like WA.
THis government would have to be the most incompetant in the nations history and their daily effort to blast their feet off then have their myopic minions praise up their efforts fills one with mirth and dread at the same time.
Yesterdays effort though smacks of 1930’s Europe. The difference was that particular Adolf was popular.
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I was astounded when I read this. Kudos to those who demonstrated. Perhaps asylum seekers should be made to sew a star to their shirts, or something?
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I agree Big, had it happened in Sydney I would have stopped work and joined the protest. I saw the head of of whatever they call them try and justify it as some sort of low level administrative error and things would be put in place to correct it. What bullshit, this came from a very high level and someone is running as fast as they can from this mess.
This repugnant government doesn’t do these things in my name.
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Furthermore, algie,
Will the new paramilitary stop Abbott in the street and ask him for his papers? The papers that say he renounces all rights and alegiances to his old country?
And if they find no such papers, will they deport the bastard – for life?
Abbott’s new mission: to build an army. A whole lot of armies, to save himself from australians.
Abbott’s Border Defence -behind the fence.
Abbott’s new Army -behind the army.
Abbott’s Rear Force -behind his rear.
Abbott’s Khakha Boys to fill our streets with kakas.
Abbott: A mission creep if I ever I saw one!
Abbott’s inspiration for his new mission:
Dad’d Army.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rj7HkWFY34s
He’s on a mission driven by his dick.
Power is an elusive orgasm for him.
The gods, or his excessive time in a boxing rink, has deprived him of the ability to reach coitus, so, he does what other men suffering from the same misfortune: he dresses up or gets others to dress up as Freudian symbols of erect and functional dicks.
If only these poor men and women of the new army knew that they are victims of this idiot’s wet dreams!
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At least the Libs had the good sense to send TA off to Arnhem Land to look for left handed boomerangs and talking wallabies during the lead up to the by-election!
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Give them time Big, he’ll invite Colin Barnett whose about as popular as a dose of the clap in WA at the moment and announce something grandiose which will fall flat. He might get the black shirts to look at the Halal abattoir in neighbouring Katanning to instill fear into the electorate.
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Beautiful George. Like the inspiration for these black shirts. Yes he’s an onanist extraordinaire.
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Border Force=Viagra for Conservatives.
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I was thinking a butt plug
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Do we manufacture Zyklon-B in Australia? 🙂
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I thought, maybe one of Tony’s industrialist mates is into this business !
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Perhaps they could build autobahns.
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Articles on the Drum – regardless of the topic the usual trolls get it right off topic and there is yet another repetitive string of shit. I’m getting very pissed off (again) and also having little luck with one exception the other day.
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Me, too. I was surprised when the ABC posted my comment at Paul Frijters & Gigi Foster’s blog on Wednesday, but after this, zilch, nothing…
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“On The Drum, each article and the accompanying comments under it, make up a whole picture. The role (and the job) of The ABC is to make sure that this picture is satisfactory to the Powers that be. This picture is similar to a jigsaw puzzle. What we are doing is providing ‘the pieces’ by posting our comments. So the moderator(s) chooses each comment that best fits to make up the whole picture. Whether your comment is relevant/irrelevant, true/false, informative, eye opening or not, the aim is to create and present this predetermined picture.”
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Yep and now, late Friday arvo, two good new articles off and knock off time approaches for them and for me. They should remain open for tomorrow or Monday at least. Bastards.
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Funny how comments were closed quickly for some articles. I tried to reply to Joebloggs, Zing and Tab Anus in Samara’s blog, but to no avail.
Lehan is right one hundred million percent when she says:
“You often see Prime Minister Abbott in the press, for example, saying something that he knows is rubbish, absolute rubbish and also knowing that the likelihood of him being pulled up over it is nil. The reason for that is that we are expected to provide an argument against it, and as the premise is ridiculous, the argument will be equally ridiculous. The answer, surely, is rubbish. Absolute rubbish.”
Same goes for the right-wing nut jobs when their ridiculous premises are allowed to be published on the Drum;… as if I’m going to respond to them in a rational way! … I usually send two, three words knowing full well that they are not going to be posted but I hope there is enough intelligence to realise for whom they are meant to be. 🙂
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Tried to put a reply to that white supremacist Rhodesian custard on Barry’s blog this morning but it wasn’t allowed. Yet I see the usual right wing tom cats spraying their territory and being allowed.
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That’s our ABC !
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Anyone seen my Arc?
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No but I’ve seen a good amount of baby poo. Oh, you mean the rain? Lot of it here but it is manageable. Six days of constant rain until early this morning. Stopped now.
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3 and a half days here Viv. Not used to that after 35 years in Adelaide.
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Gawd I know, I know ! Has Adelaide ever had a flood? Not that I can recall. But I do like Adelaide.
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Stop your complaining Hung and grow webbed feet like the rest of us.
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Apparently Adelaide does flood, never seen it though and web feet what a great idea 🙂
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Of course, my short reply, “Did you polish only shoes ?” was not published:)
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I don’t know, do you cover your feet. 🙂
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When I’m outside, I have to. Or I will be charged with obscene exposure under the NSW Act.:)
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Well it depends what’s being exposed.
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Elections b=are back in Greece. The fifth in as many days. To be held (almost certainly) on the 20th of Sep.
Traitor Tsipras and his minions think that this will rid them of the last vestiges of their social conscience of which they had bugger all.
25 members gathered themselves into a new party called “Popular Unity” (LAIKI ENOTITA) with some but not all of the prominent true left names. Its leader is a very respected fighter against the junta of ’67, Lafazanis. In numbers of seats held, it is the third largest party.
Still to declare their positions are the President (Chair) of the Parliament, Zoe Konstantopoulou, Varoufakis and another stunning female brain, Rachel Makri. So far only announced that they will not be standing for SYRIZA.
It is intriguing to see what they’ll do.
I see three possible scenarios, the most obvious for me but, of course there could well be other, far more nuanced scenarios:
1: They form a party themselves, poaching as many from the rest of SYRIZA as they can
2: Sit as independents
or
3: Retire from politics and go back to their law practice or teaching.
If I were to do Ellis’ favourite thing and predict the outcome of the elections, I’d say that we’ll be back to an unworkable Parliament but a collusion (not a coalition) between all the fascist parties, of which there are six. Parliament will look a little different but it will not miss a beat when austerity bill after austerity bill is passed… because the ECB (European Central Bank) will threaten the Greek Govn’t that they’ll close the banks again if they don’t pass them austerity bills!
If the Right (including Tsipras’ mob) fails, then Lafazanis’ Popular Unity Party might well be given the seats of Govn’t.
Were I to be a believer in deities other than Zeus, I’d be praying that this happens. This mob is the only one that is truly left and not “mock left” like SYRIZA.
Traitor Tsipras will probably be very satisfied with the job given of Ganymede in the Eurozone palaces, serving drinks and his bum to the likes of Angela Merkel, Wolfgang Schäuble and Jeroen Jizz-in-bloomers.
At the moment the Parliament is run by a “non-political” caretaker, a woman whose name escapes me right now and who’s nothing short of a Greek version of Mrs Merkel.
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Stuffed if I know what’s really going on.
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An impostor, named Tsipras, gathered around him more impostors and they all declared themselves to be, not only “radical lefties” but anti Eurozone-imposed programs of austerity, due to “loans” to Greece which were neither loans nor were asked for by the Greek people but by the German-owned banks.
This group of impostors formed a party they called SYRIZA, an acronym which is formed from the words “coalition of radical left.”
Tsipras’ highly polished rhetoric included promises like, “no more Eurozone-imposed programs,” no more TROIKA (the triumvirate of European and International banks, European Central Bank, IMF and the European Commission) and no more austerity for the country.
To cut the long story short -but I’ll answer questions on detail- Tsipras did the exact opposite. At the end of the negotiations with the other 18 countries which form the Eurozone, he came back to Greece with the third and worse than the last two deals.
Some 50 out of the 149 members have pulled out of the party and so far, 25 of them (some very prominent figures) have already formed their own party, called Popular Unity.
As I type, more are positioning themselves outside SYRIZA. A couple have retired.
New elections are called for the 20th next month and both, SYRIZA and POP UNITY are optimistic, giving various reasons for that optimism.
Frankly I can’t see how the new -the actual left- party will win but I have asked Zeus in no uncertain terms to cast all his thunder bolts at Tsipras and his fellow traitors.
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So he was a lying bastard.
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Absolutely, Vivienne! Now he’s hated beyond belief.
Goes to show you just how bad the bastards can be!
He had everyone eating out of his hand with his highly varnished rhetoric and his fiery words against the German-imposed deals. Then he comes back waving the worst ever deal and tells the poor folk that he didn’t think he was given the mandate to get out of those illegal deals.
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