Friday 29th of March 2024

Gus Leonisky's blog

whinge, whinge, say no more...

abbottcarbon


Deputy Opposition Leader Julie Bishop says the announcement is a betrayal of trust for the Australian people.

"This represents a fundamental breach of an election promise that the Prime Minister gave solemnly to the Australian people on the eve of the last election," she said.

"She said there would be no carbon price, no carbon tax under any government that she led.

"She has broken the trust the Australian people put in her at the last election.

"It's another example of the Labor Party being in government, but the Greens being in power."

back from the grave...

nomuslim

Last night on Lateline (ABCTV) Malcolm the Debonair explained to Tony Jones, with great smiles and affability, that ALL his Liberal colleagues we uninamous on embracing multi-culturalism in Orstraylia...... That is not the impression we got from a few of them including Tony the Little Rattus. Transcript should be available soon...

the idiots are at it again...


cloudsss

A Climate Skeptic With a Bully Pulpit in Virginia Finds an Ear in Congress


By JOHN COLLINS RUDOLF


RICHMOND, Va. — For nearly a year, Kenneth T. Cuccinelli II, Virginia’s crusading Republican attorney general, has waged a one-man war on the theory of man-made global warming.

wooing....

wooing

TONY ABBOTT'S hopes of encouraging the federal independents to switch sides before the next election have taken a blow, with Rob Oakeshott saying he will not be attending any more weekly meetings with the Opposition Leader because of the Coalition's ''personal attacks''.

The final straw for Mr Oakeshott was an address by the shadow treasurer, Joe Hockey, at a function in his electorate on Friday night for a NSW state National Party candidate, where Mr Hockey delivered a message on behalf of the radio announcer Alan Jones that ''a vote for an independent is a vote for Labor''. Jones pulled out of the event at the last minute due to illness.

free speech...

free speech

dynamic earth...

earthquakes

The Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences in New Zealand says there has been a major earthquake in the city of Christchurch.

The institute is still trying to confirm the magnitude.

All phone lines to the city are down.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2011/02/22/3145320.htm?section=justin

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twaddling self-importance...

xenophoning

 

Nick Xenophon is refusing to be treated the government's fool a second time as the independent senator continues to hold out on the controversial flood levy.

Labor needs the senator's vote if it wants parliament to approve its $1.8 million taxpayer impost. [note the SMH editor missed a few zeros... it's 1.8 BILLION]

But Senator Xenophon is not prepared to back the levy on a promise state governments, especially Queensland, will consider taking out disaster insurance.

"A few months ago I may have been happy with that approach," he told ABC Radio on Tuesday.

rubbing it in...

rubbing it in...

Security forces and protesters have clashed in Libya's capital for a second night, after the government announced a new crackdown.

Witnesses say warplanes have fired on protesters in Tripoli.

To the west of the city, sources say the army is fighting forces loyal to ruler Col Muammar Gaddafi, who appears to be struggling to hold on to power.

Libya's deputy envoy to the UN has called on Col Gaddafi to step down, and accused his government of genocide.

Ibrahim Dabbashi said that if Col Gaddafi did not relinquish power, "the Libyan people will get rid of him".

too much water in the beer...

civility

The University of Arizona — whose Tucson campus President Obama used for his nationwide address on civility after the shooting of Representative Gabrielle Giffords last month — will announce on Monday that it is establishing an institute to promote compromise among opposing political parties and views, the organization’s director said on Sunday.

in the backroom, at steptoe and son...

stepfox & son

On a night in late January when he should have been in the Swiss village of Davos, James Murdoch went to dinner here with his father, Rupert, and several journalists from The Sun, the tabloid that the Murdochs have owned since 1969.

In the private room at Wheeler’s of St. James’s, father and son politely argued about the lesser of the public controversies swirling around the Murdoch empire: the firing of Andy Gray, the chief soccer pundit for their Sky Sports network, for making sexist comments.

“Can we stop firing people for making a joke?” Rupert Murdoch asked.

no coaching please...

coaching

Abbott faces battle telling NSW Liberals what to do

PHILLIP COOREY

Tony Abbott will have no quibble with a finding in part two of Labor's post-election review, the unreleased section that deals with the election campaign.

In the words of a member of the ALP national executive who read the review on Friday, a key reason Labor fell over the line on August 21 last year was because the NSW division of the Liberal Party ''fluffed it''.

http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/politics/abbott-faces-battle-telling-nsw-liberals-what-to-do-20110220-1b0xr.html

duplicitus americanus...

bothways

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