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I thought the panel was OK, but yes, the focus was biased too much towards the opposition in my view.
Truly you lot live on another planet............
Indeed, where money doesn't grow on trees.Yes, the real world.
If Julia Gillard goes early, I suspect it will have more to do with Labor's problems coming home to roost than anything else.
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 ....
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.
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/national/world-leaders-liked-my-misogny-speech-says-julia-gillard/story-fndo2j43-1226511992647World leaders liked my misogny speech, says Julia Gillard
PRIME Minister Julia Gillard says she has won global support for her attack on Tony Abbott as a misogynist.
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 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.
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/
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...
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:
My money is on the Libs, but I have been wrong before, on many occassions.
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