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Joke (or is it?). In two parts (sigh) because of ongoing problems with longer posts.
A old stationhand named Billy was overseeing his herd in a remote pasture in the

outback when suddenly a brand-new BMW advanced toward him out of a cloud of dust.


The driver, a young man in a Brioni ® suit, Gucci ® shoes, RayBan ® sunglasses and

YSL ® tie, leaned out the window and asked the old man, "If I tell you exactly how many cows and calves you have in your herd, will you give me a calf?"



Billy looks at the young man, who obviously is a yuppie, then looks at his peacefully

grazing herd and calmly answers, "Sure, why not?"
The yuppie parks his car, whips out his Dell ® notebook computer, connects it to his

Cingular RAZR V3 ® cell phone, and surfs to a NASA page on the Internet, where he

calls up a GPS satellite to get an exact fix on his location which he then feeds to another
NASA satellite that scans the area in an ultra-high-resolution photo.

The yuppie then opens the digital photo in Adobe Photoshop ® and exports it to an image processing facility in Hamburg, Germany ....
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Here is the rest (I hope)
Within seconds, he receives an email on his Palm Pilot ® that the image has been processed
and the data stored. He then accesses an MS-SQL ® database through an ODBC connected Excel ® spreadsheet with email on his Blackberry ® and, after a few minutes, receives a response.

Finally, he prints out a full-color, 150-page report on his hi-tech, miniaturized HP
LaserJet ® printer, turns to Billy and says, "You have exactly 1,586 cows and calves."


"That's right. Well, you'll be helpin' yourself to one of me calves, then, since you won
it fair en square." says Billy.

He watches the smartly dressed yuppie select one of the animals and looks on with
amusement as the man gingerly picks it up & stuffs it into the boot of his car.

As the yuppie is carefully brushing the dust & hair off his suit, Billy says, "Hey, if I can
tell you exactly what work you do & where you come from, will you give me back my calf?"

The yuppie thinks about it for a second, wondering what this wrinkled up dirt encrusted
uneducated old man could possibly know? He grins and then says, "Okay, old fella, why not? I'm a believer in fair play."

"You're a politician & you work in Canberra." says the old timer.

"Wow! That's correct," says the yuppie, "but, tell me how on earth did you guess that?"

"No guessing required." answered Billy "You showed up here even though nobody
called you; you want to get paid for an answer I already knew, to a question I never
asked. You used millions of dollars worth of equipment trying to show me how much
smarter than me you are; and you don't know a thing about how working people make
a living - or about cows, for that matter.
This is a herd of sheep.

Now give me back my dog."

AND THAT FOLKS IS WHAT THE PROBLEM IS ALL ABOUT.
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Be ready with your baseball bats for an early election.

There is no way that Labor will deliver the next budget.
 
The world leaders are apparently ignorant of her defence of the disgustingly misogynistic and vivid descriptions of female genitalia by the odious Slipper.
She is the ultimate hypocrite.
 
I would assume that Tony Abbott is completely unknown to the world leaders, so any opinion they expressed on the speech would have been on the assumption that Gillard's claims about Abbott were true. It is appalling that Gillard would use that as some sort of vindication.

I was also surprised by Janet Holmes a Court's approval of the speech. She spoke of the venom she has seen on the internet against Gillard and justified it on that basis. Whilst she is probably correct that there is a lot of misogyny on the net, she seems to forget that the speech was not directed against those on the net, but specifically against Abbott.
 
bellenuit said:
I was also surprised by Janet Holmes a Court's approval of the speech. She spoke of the venom she has seen on the internet against Gillard and justified it on that basis. Whilst she is probably correct that there is a lot of misogyny on the net, she seems to forget that the speech was not directed against those on the net, but specifically against Abbott.
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I am surprised too. There is plenty of venom on the internet against Tony Abbott as well, or anyone for that matter.
 
noco said:
Does Gillard really think by sprouting her MISOGYNIST lie to world leaders will get her over the line at the next election.

I think NOT.

http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/...ud_her_misogynist_lie_fooled_a_leader_or_two/
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It was a cheap shot by a tacky lady, leading a tacky party.
Slagging off at people, with no basis, in order to promote your own standing, is a short lived popularity ploy.
How many of the people you worked with, that employed this activity, ended up on their ar$e.
It works well in the U.K, but If Abbott doesn't get sucked in, it will backfire here. IMO

What if Abbott asks for examples of his sexism?
What if he takes her to task on it, in the run up to the election?
There is one thing for sure, the coalition would be stupid to say anything untill an election is called.
This government stands for nothing, other than re election, there is nothing they won't back flip on, change policy on, or even adopt coalition policy on.
This government imo has no soul, it is just about retaining office, nothing to do with labor beliefs.
They sold out to the Greens and found it is wasn't that hard, it's just like running a union.lol :2twocents
 
Obama-care, Obama victory, the US people have spoken. The ones that vote anyway.

Bolt is about a decade late with the following observation, and clearly hasn't worked with any state public service:

Obama win celebrated in post-racial US
http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/

...Well, welcome to the new age of identity politics - a time when seeming trumps doing, identity trumps performance and receiving beats giving...
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Logique said:
Obama-care, Obama victory, the US people have spoken. The ones that vote anyway.

Bolt is about a decade late with the following observation, and clearly hasn't worked with any state public service:
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It will be interesting to see how it plays out here. :D

The litmus test will be the W.A election.
Labor has a new, younger more popular leader, facing upto Barnett who has brought in a lot of price hikes.:xyxthumbs
My money is on the Libs, but I have been wrong before, on many occassions.
 

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