The Heebie-Jeebies …

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The Heebie-Jeebies

Induces an immediate, tangible and most marvellous sensation of the Heebie-Jeebies, quickly relieving all cases of Well-Being, Joy, Warmth and General Happiness. An agreeable substitute to the Collywobbles; may contain traces of mild peril.

Just £8.00 from Hoxton Street Monster Supplies … or follow the election campaign.

My postal vote has arrived. Since I am an undecided voter I may not post it back until after say 9 am.

Anniversary …

August 18th … today is the anniversary of the death of Ghengis Khan in 1227.

The true cause of his death is lost in the mists of antiquity but legends abound. He may have died in battle, fallen from his horse or died of pneumonia.

Or it may be true that a sweet young Tangut princess that he had taken as the spoils of war got fed up with him despoiling her and cut off his nuts with a hidden knife.

Sex appeal has to be handled with care.

The rictus is cactus …

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The Sydney Morning Herald reports …

Mr Rudd announced Mr Beattie would stand in the first week of the campaign, pushing aside Labor’s preselected candidate Des Hardman.

Billed as a coup by Labor, it was hoped in the ALP that Mr Beattie would not only win Forde but drive up Labor’s vote across Queensland, where it needs to pick up at least six seats from the Coalition to have any chance of a victory on September 7.

But the eleventh-hour substitution may achieve the opposite.

A poll by JWS Research suggests the coalition will win the seat with a landslide.

Sex appeal …

I gave at the office.

But leaving that aside …

“If any male employer stood up in the workplace anywhere in Australia and pointed out a female staff member and said this person is a good staff member because they’ve got sex appeal, I think people would scratch their heads at least and the employer would find themselves in serious strife,” Kevin Rudd 2013.

 

Kevin Rudd has admitted visiting a New York strip club during a drunken night while representing Australia at the United Nations.

Mr Rudd issued a statement yesterday to News Limited papers, confirming he went to the club but could not recall the events of the evening because he “had too much to drink”. Sydney Morning Herald, August 19, 2007.

Admittedly, New York is not in Australia, but there is one question I would ask Mr Rudd and that question is this (you will have noticed how I put that in Rudd speech) …

If there were strip clubs in Australia would it be reasonable for the employer to point out a female employee and say this is a good staff member because they’ve got sex appeal?

 

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Jodhi Meares

Now she does have sex appeal, tits of the nation, just ask Mr Yat-sen Li, ALP candidate for the marginal seat of Bennelong.

Reality beckons …

EU members states have spent about €600 billion ($882bn) on renewable energy projects since 2005, according to Bloomberg New Energy Finance. Germany’s green energy transition alone may cost consumers up to €1 trillion by 2030, the German government recently warned.

These hundreds of billions are being paid by ordinary families and small and medium-sized businesses in what is undoubtedly one of the biggest wealth transfers from poor to rich in modern European history. Rising energy bills are dampening consumers’ spending, a poisonous development for a Continent struggling with a severe economic and financial crisis.

Heavy subsidies and the innate inefficiency of renewables have caused power prices in Europe to rise to a level that the poor cannot afford and at which industry cannot compete. The magnitude of the problem is detailed in this article which concludes that …

Australians would be well advised to watch this green train wreck very closely if they wish to avoid a repeat of the fiasco that is unfolding in Europe.