Rolf Harris is an 82 year old Australian who has donated a wobble board to the Australian Museum. Son of Welsh immigrants … say no more.
Author: bobmcgee
Good Friday …
G’day … and a happy Easter.
Because of the piece of music I am about to post I am thinking of a friend that had a very profound influence on my musical education and that I miss a great deal. One day we were discussing god. We both agreed He did not exist. We also agreed that He had commissioned some of the finest music ever written , so with Nancy in mind let me offer these, enjoy …
Regulatary burden …
Old MacDonald …
… had a farm, ee, i, ee, i, o
and on that farm he had a mine, ee, i, ee, i, oh.
So, I said t’ICAC, och the noo, good bloke that MacDonal
Obviously, no need to tell’em ma daughter worked for the lad.
The Squandermonkeys …
… and their accomplice.
But first the monkeys. The lie from Wayne Swan …
At the centre of our challenges we face in this year’s Budget is the huge hit to government revenues we’ve taken since the global financial crisis.
The truth can be seen at Catallaxyfiles …
Do visit that link, there are some more graphs and some of the comments are spot on. It will show you that it ain’t the income that’s the problem, it’s the expenditure. But if you are going to sustain the expenditure you have to raise the money somehow. Your superannuation looks nice. The Cypriot solution, it’s obvious.
Enter Rob Oakeshott, he thinks it’s a great idea. Remember that he will leave the Parliament (hopefully very soon and with a large boot up his arse) with a nice big super safety net, provided under a completely different scheme to ours.
I have worked hard and saved sensibly for my retirement, reforms by Keating and Costello helped, the frequent changes to the rules did not. The only way we will ever see a good superannuation system is when the pollies are under the same rules as the rest of us.
Meantime, get your hands off my super, you thieving bitch.
Ms Ogyny …
And the rabbit …
I will call misogyny when I see it … unless it suits me to court it.
More at Tim Blair’s blog.
Not Churchill …
“That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.” – Aldous Huxley
Cricket …
Tim Blair draws our attention to some of the great sledges.
Those were the days, weren’t they, when we could joke about cricket rather than be the joke …
Simon …
Leigh Sales asks the tough questions …
Is today’s outcome what you had in mind?
Simon says …
No.
Mr Crean does seem to represent all that’s good in the ALP. It’s hard to imagine him spending other people’s money to pay for prostitutes or organising a mining lease to be granted on his farm. Almost out of place really …
Julia claims victory …
I want to thank everyone for their continuing support of me, as just demonstrated in our Labor Party meeting.
I accept their continuing support of me as prime minister and Labor leader with a sense of deep humility and a sense of resolve.
A clear winner in a competition that had much more in common with a game of pass the parcel than a leadership challenge. Mr Rudd didn’t have the numbers, but was he looking for them? Julia and friends have written the script for the Coalition, a script that would challenge One Flew Over the Cuckoo Nest. The much vaunted future leader, Bill Shorten, is in no hurry to lead the party to a wipeout. Any volunteers step forward … and Caucus stepped back.
The government has a plan for the nation’s future.
We have plenty of work to be getting on with, and we will be getting on with it in a few minutes’ time.
… just as soon as I find somewhere to put this parcel.
bobmcgee 