Tuesday 19th of March 2024

grandpa was not amused...

grandpa was not amused...

glory, glory to the turd team in new south wales...

 

An amazing scene. Perhaps for the first time in nearly two months Tony Abbott was seen and not heard.

Only a man of the calibre of Mike Baird could be capable of such a feat.

Sitting in the pantheon of Liberal leading lights while the Premier officially launched his 2015 election campaign at the City Recital Hall on Sunday, the Prime Minister remained dumb and dumber.

Only 21 days before, Labor's schadenfreude at Abbott Agonistes had been on display at its Campbelltown launch when federal Opposition Leader Bill Shorten not only brazenly introduced leader Luke Foley but delivered one of his patented zingers:

"These days, Tony Abbott only comes to NSW to collect the mail and put out the bins," Shorten said.

But the Liberals are unafraid.

They not only wheeled out the mute Prime Minister, but his wife Margie, John Howard, Nick Greiner, John Fahey, Barry O'Farrell and federal and state MPs to cheer their champion.

read more: http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/nsw-state-election-2015/tony-abbott-stays-mum-while-mike-baird-plays-dad-20150322-1m4zm9.html

 

 

Ah... the glory for a turdy team of has-beens to be wheeled out again after having been booed at the Gough Memorial Service... Especially now, considering Grandpa Fraser has gone to the greater pasture in the sky... Imagine, war criminal Rattus, Grange O'Barrell, and a host of ICAC wounded, all cheering toothpaste commercial poles-and-wire Mike, a dude who wants to build your roads to more traffic jam. Jam? Anyone said jam?... I love jam... Idiots...

baird is a turd derivative...

 

Baird refuses to say if he met with Chinese company


Nicole Hasham reports:

Premier Mike Baird on Tuesday refused to say if he'd met Chinese government-owned company State Grid Corp in relation to his bid to privatise the electricity network.

The Herald reported on Tuesday that Treasurer Andrew Constance has met the company, with the unions planning to use the meeting in attack ads.

Asked to confirm or deny taking part in a meeting, Mr Baird said his job was to "meet with investors across the world and across Australia".

"We are about providing every opportunity to grow the economy, to keep that working, and part of that is providing confidence for international investors and domestic investors to invest in this economy," he said,

Asked to provide a yes or no answer, Mr Baird said: "I've met with many individual investors because that's my former job as treasurer

and its also my job as premier. I want to encourage as many people as possible to come and do business in this state."

We'll take that as a yes, then.

http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/nsw-state-election-2015/nsw-state-election-2015-live-blog-tuesday-march-24-20150324-1m5yhw.html

 

 

Okay Baird could have said I met with this Chinese investor, etc... But he chose to go around the bush three times in a typical turdy way... Baird shows he is an understudy for the great man — Turdy little shit. A Turdy derivative...

the whirligig of time brings in his revenges...

 

For anyone old enough to remember the November 1975 dismissal of Gough Whitlam from Australia’s Prime Ministry, it still seems unbelievable that Whitlam’s opponent and successor (John) Malcolm Fraser — who remained in office until he lost the 1983 federal election, and who died last night — would ever inspire the sort of near-ecstatic obituaries which this week have been his. Whatever happened to the mobs in the streets of Australia’s main cities yelling “Shame, Fraser, Shame”?

Back then, the bien-pensant mindset regarded Fraser as not only an antipodean Franco or Pinochet (we Australian “papists” should be so lucky) but as personally corrupt in the bargain. Ex-historian Manning Clark, demonstrating his habitual allergy to la phrase juste, went so far as to grumble that Fraser’s cabinet was inundating the country with “one unending celebration of the senses.

Still, in the Southern Hemisphere no less than the Northern, “the whirligig of time brings in his revenges.” An almost Diana-style display of grief has marked Fraser’s encomiasts in the last 24 hours. “I always thought Malcolm [84 when he died] would be around a lot longer. I must say, I wished he had been”: thus Paul Keating, Labor Prime Minister 1991-1996. From another Labor PM, Kevin Rudd (reigned 2007-2010 and again for part of 2013): “I well remember Malcolm attending the National Apology [to the Aboriginal population] in February 2008 together with prime ministers Whitlam, [Bob] Hawke and Keating as we celebrated another milestone between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians.” Fighting back sobs, Helen Pitt—opinion editor at The Sydney Morning Herald — wailed:

In the past few years … I’ve had the honor to edit the man whose political trajectory from hard Right to Green Left has astounded many. I talk to many politicians in the course of my work. Most have huge egos, some are politer than others; he was always only a gentleman.

The chief surprise, in retrospect, about Fraser’s political transformation is how quickly it happened after he had left office. One of his more infatuated apologists, Melbourne academic John Carroll, referred in Quadrant to this ballot-box defeat as “The Tragedy of March 5, 1983.” When that non-tragedy occurred, Australia’s mainstream right-wing thought — insofar as this ever existed — still approvingly interpreted Fraser as a sort of cross between Churchill and Ayn Rand. Within 12 months that consensus had evaporated. The once-respectful Kenneth Minogue dismissively called Fraser, with some justice, “Australia’s Ted Heath.” More dramatic than Minogue’s private condemnation was an essay — again in Quadrant — by that most artful of Australian journalistic dodgers, Gerard “Hendo” Henderson. Particularly incensed at Fraser’s Heath-like failure to curb either welfare spending or trade-union activism, Hendo there reproved Fraser as “really a bit of a bleeding heart.”

read more: http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/malcolm-frasers-late-burkeanism/