states of delusion
Our PM?The PM says the states are borrowing $70 billion, the PM also says the feds are saving $70 billion. Doesnt that mean the states are simply paying for what the feds are refusing to fund.
For me with my boring life, I hate to say it but the internet is too damned slow, and by that I mean that life is just too damned slow, I can see where its all heading, but it just takes too damned long to get there. I want it and I want it well before it happens. Fcuk the 24 hour news cycle, I demand the 24 minute cycle, with everything Ive thought in the past 24 minutes answered and resolved, preferably in a manner I approve of.
Evryday I am overwhlemed by the shere amount of panic that has overwhelmed the Howard Government, if its not the forced "crisis de jour" that Howard is inventing, its the ineptitude of his and his ministers response's and the blatant stupidity of his attack on Labor. Surely he must know that by inventing a crisis a day, it just focuses peoples attention away from whatever it is has achieved and makes them wonder where the hell the people in charge have been for the past 11 years, espcially as he is still running arguments based on Keating /Hawke years, which just open up the Fraser/Howard years to scrutiny, not something Howard wants in any way. So each day I read and think and wonder, when is the old fart gonna go and do what he threatens us with, letting the people decide.
Do I really have to wait till february for some good news Little Old Devious Johhny, cant I have just a taste of that free democracy you are promising the Queenslanders, right here, right now, before I have to see another one of those dozen or so bullshit government ad's that are interupting my spank fest while watching americas next top model.
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I, Terrorist
Virginia Trioli talks to Joseph Felter from the Combating Terrorism Centre
VIRGINIA TRIOLI: Let's go into just one more of those categories and that is the one lower down the list from demonstrated threat to associated threat. I will read out what defines that category. "If you had a connection to a member of Al Qaeda or another group, if you'd stayed at a suspect guest house, had travelled to three or more countries, were carrying large amounts of foreign currency...
Why is any of that or even one of those aspects enough to have you classified as an enemy combatant and have you locked up for six years?
JOE FELTER: That's why we called it an associative threat. We define it as activities or attributes associated would other terrorists. We're careful not to say any one of these in particular was enough evidence to warrant an enemy combatantant status but we thought it was something to be concerned about. If you were carrying many thousands of dollars in a remote province of Afghanistan, that's something to be concerned about.
I have done all of these things in my offical capacity as a tourist, each and every one, I can now offically be declared a terrorist and spend a few years on holiday in Gitmo. My reaction, bring it on, I am so sick of this shit, all of it.
But then again, here's a different story from the war on terror:
After years of almost total silence on his son's arrest and imprisonment, Frank Lindh sets the record straight about the 'American Taliban.'
http://www.alternet.org/story/31211/?page=1
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http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/08/10/2001351.htm
Howards lapdog, ex Peter Reith protege and sleeping partner, Peter Hendy is up to his usual Liberal inspired bullshit, pumping out an "independent" report (one of his many before the election no doubt) that claims that the world will end the moment a Labor Government is elected. I beleive they also link joining a union to instantly getting cancer and that non-unionists get more pussy or at the very least their kindly bosses are more then willing to negotiate "Pussy" breaks in their AWA's, unlike the Communist regime of Rudd which will do as Marx said institute "commmunal women". Am I scared, only by the shere amount of coverage this skewed, bogus report will get in the Murdoch press.
http://larvatusprodeo.net/2007/07/25/abcc-and-econtech-flawed-assumptions-biased-report/
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My favourite peice of spam for the week
Subject:
When I tried to give him oral sex, I practically choked. How do I do it without gagging? Please help!
body and answer:
Chicks always srieked at me and even blokes did in the not private toilet!Well, now I smil at them, because I took M E _G_A_D_ IKfor 7 months and now my phallus is extremely more than average
Needless to say, I have ordered six packets of Megadik and a manual on the Heimlich Manouver.
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what australian's owe the banks= $1 trillion dollars
Interest paid= $1 in every $8 earned
Average monthly increase in debt for australians over the past 12 months: $10 billion plus
Wheres that Liberal Party debt truck when you need to add it all up?
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Why would anyone not trust our PM, could it be that every sentence that slips from his mouth is parsed within a lawyers degree of the truth and riddled with strawmen.
7.30 report:
KERRY O'BRIEN: He (the reserve bank govenator) says that states borrowing money won't feed directly into the consumer price index.
JOHN HOWARD: I don't think anybody would suggest that unlimited borrowings by either a state or federal government has no impact at all on the inflationary environment and therefore some ultimate impact on interest rates otherwise we'd be turning economic theory of the last 30 years totally on its head.
Its true, nobody, absolutely nobody has ever suggested "unlimited borrowings" in any way shape or form except the PM.
On his intervention in the tasmanian marginal seat
JOHN HOWARD: Can I say that the Health Minister, Mr Abbott, went to Tasmania today and had a meeting with the Tasmanian Health Minister and to say the least the Tasmanian Government is being extremely uncooperative, which I think is very poor. I would have thought the Tasmanian Government would have welcomed with open arms the fact that we are willing to inject up to another $45 million to $50 million a year into the health system in northern Tasmania and for the Tasmanian Health Minister to say in effect well, we're going to spite the Federal Government because we don't like the idea of the Federal Government being involved, shows an arrogant disregard for the interests of the people in Devonport and the people of northern Tasmania.
Would you be co-operative with a burglar breaking into your home, maybe passing the dvd player out the ever so tight windows, just in case he injures himself on the way out?
Lets take a look at that one statement, "arrogant disregard", what do you call a dawn raid on a states hopital, for what even the PM says are purely political purposes where you dont bother contacting the states Premier or Health Minister (I imagine, so they dont spoil the photo op), threatening to cut off the states health funding and not being able to tell anyone on the day wether the $45-50 million will be coming out of the states allocation. A week later the PM sends his lapdog down to tell the Tasmanian minister what the PM is going to do, not consult, just tell, theres no arrogance in that, there's no spite in the accusations that the states are clearly to blame for evrything bad that has occured under the PMs watch either.
And cooperation, now why the hell would anyone co-operate with a government which has so far (well since polling shows it may be Howards only winner) blamed everything of the "incompetence" of the "2nd 11" of politics, the state governments, despite the fact that all the states governments are at least twice as popular as Howards fiasco ridden rabble. All thats good flows from me, all bad is yours to own, what a brillaint philosophy to work cooperativly with, edward de bono would be proud.
The funniest thing for me is the fact that the state of the state liberals is just laughable, to the point where in state elections Howard is loath to even appear on the same stage as the Liberal Leaders. Durring the recent NSW election spent many pained minutes at the side of the utterely hapless Debnam, with neither side willing to be seen in fulsome endorsement of the other. The Victorian election was the same, with Ted "the budgie" B, hardly glowing in his embrace of the IR laws (until after the election) and the PM in town only long enough to bring the already low standing of the state libs to a just above gutter level. For all the PM's huff and puff on the dangers of wall to wall labor, he really cant risk the electorate focusing on the state liberals who are in total dissaray across the country, either infiltrated by bizzarre right wing christian cults branch stacking (Qld, NSW, Vic) or letting their infighting spill blood across the frontpages (Qld, NSW, Vic, Sa, WA) or just plain old batshit crazy incompetent (NSW, QLD, VIC).
Howard has made the plea to his state counterparts to stop the infighting and at least pretend to have policies in place a few days before the elections are called, he has made the plea for at least the past six years, with little in the way of a response so far. Is it any wonder the Libs in Victoria are cutting funding for the state branch to focus on the federal election, neutering Ted B in the process and making him look like a fool with even less control over his powerless coalition. Or the Queensland Libs who fight each other harder in the press than they do the Beatie Government and who are constantly involved in scandals like the still unresolved "Printergate" one, which has so far immeshed three federal libs in the slime.
The question the electorate should be asking Howard is, what kind of shitbox state would this country be in if the Libs ruled the country, coast to coast, when clearly none of the state liberal leaders should be left in charge of a kitten or a box of matches without adult supervision and safety mittens on their hands?
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Pre-election cash giveaway
The worst aspect of it all is the shere fiscal irresponsibilty of the PM's pre-election giveaways, at the beggining of Indigneous Crisis, his handouts amounted to $7.5 billion and that was assuming that the intervention was going to cost "tens of millions", now we know that it will cost close to $600 million, the crisis intervention in Tasmania will cost a further $200-300 million over the coming years and the PM's ridiculous "who ever wants a referendum, can have one" pledge for queensland. Then add in the $10 billion for the Murray Darling, which still is really still uncosted, and a bit of a wild guess, much like the plans outcomes, which read like a pitch at a land far, far away, with the proposed outcomes and water savings not kicking in until, wait for it, 2024, and even modest gains not going to be recorded until 2012 (and even thats on the most opptomistic estimates, and they are the only ones given by Howard). If the Murray Darling plan is starting to sound more than a little like the PM's Global Warming strategy, dont do anything now, just push a truck load of dollars at the vested interest groups and promise to do something, maybe, in the distant future, well its all writen on the same envelope sitting in the PM's office if you want to check his figures.
He will be handing out lots of little gifts like the $4 million to a failing eden-monaro wood mill (amazing how his largess is largessly in marginal liberal seats), all of which will inevitably feed into the federal reserve needing to push up interest rates, and considering he hasnt as yet reached the campaign, which will bring about an absolute flood of cash for your votes, Mr stevens must be tearing his hair out with treasury sectretary Ken Henry worrying about what will happen IF the libs get back in.
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For a good laugh, go here, learn the horrifying secrets of the Greens, they have lesbians as members of thier party, and not just the good lesbians you see in those Penthouse documentaries, but the kind of "extremist" ones that wont let you watch. I was so shocked. We can be proud that such patriots are on the lookout for poor schmo's who may well be voting on such issues or be worried that thier local greens candidate is a communist, I know thats always my first policy consideration. Imagine, a lesbian communist extremist, makes Osama look like a boy scout. What next will we be making gay compulsory, we will if the greens get in.
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Flood waters resulting from a dam breach could destroy 70 percent of Mosul and inflict heavy damage 190 miles downstream along the Tigris. The humanitarian disaster that would result represents a nightmare scenario for the Iraqi and US government, as lack of disaster-response capability would make search and rescue extremely difficult.
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