Friday, February 7, 2014

Short Kicks: Br'er Abbott and the IR patch


Spending more time on work lately so don't have mental bandwidth for feature length posts on a single subject, or proper sentence structure. Dot point time!

- Tony Abbott's War On Workers continues apace, with a raft of rightwing lies about SPC's industrial relations which were summarily shut down by the company, the stupidity of Judith Sloan telling the orchardists to have a cow or two, and continuing with Paul Howes trying to come across all Hawkey-esque with talk of a grand bargain. Howes is playing Br'er Rabbit: please don't throw me in the IR patch! Only fools could pretend that Abbott has anything like the power and skill of Hawke to achieve anything like the Accord. While Howes looks like a shag on a rock, Abbott's swift repudation of any sort of deal with unions only highlights how little of substance he has to say on industrial relations.

- Regarding SPC, SPC is Shepparton in certain respects. I have relatives around the Goulburn Valley (I was born in Shep), and they tell me that the northern part of that region has been forgotten time and again due to it being so uncontested. Seymour is included in the Federal seat of McEwen so it gets some attention (bugger all really), but even in the regional movement in which Jeff Kennett failed but Steve Bracks succeeded for so long in state politics, the battlegrounds were always Bendigo and Ballarat, with Shep not featuring. There is no Cathy McGowan in that area, though Sharman Stone is being pushed to emulate her through her own party's abandonment. Now she knows how it feels to be a National MP.

- Tom Sizemore, so flakey that he spent most of his appearances on the Celebrity Rehab reality show obviously still on drugs, made up the story about Liz Hurley having an affair with Bill Clinton which was passed around the wingnut blogs... because he got high. Hillary is going to have a field day with this crap.

- The Kouk has been acting like a jackrabbit who found Sizemore's stash lately because he's got it in his head that the RBA are going to hike rates due to the economy heating up again, and he's excited to be going against consensus predictions. He is quoting insanely short-run market fluctuations as if it's a herald of the Second Coming. Koukoulas' theory seems to be that Joe Hockey has already nobbled Treasury and that Treasury's forecasts are significantly lowballing reality, which along with the RBA grant money possibly being refunded at an opportune moment, means that Hockey will be able to build some sort of war chest for the next election. Empirical testing of economic assumptions is always good, I suppose.

- Is it just me, or does anyone else not remember the dressup scene in Groundhog Day at all? Did the Australian censors cut it from all those times I watched it?

UPDATE: Stephen Koukoulas has confirmed the nature of his conspiracy theory.

33 comments:

  1. Homer, you fucking moron, no one not even fatboy would be pleased they received a complement from you at that mental asylum called a blog.

    As bird used to say, go get yourself a neck tie, find a ladies toilet and hang youself..

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  2. Poor JC, you're so bereft of targets on which to project your lifelong lack of manliness.

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  3. Why Monster? As far as I'm concerned it's a target rich, concentrated theater of stupidity when I have you, Stepford and Homer E Paxton at one blog. Think of the time savings.

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  4. I feel the same way about the Cat. So many morons. They reckon Glasson won Griffith by losing it. Just plain idiocy over there.

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  5. JC is a genius, He probably still thinks the NBN is not on the balance sheet.

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  6. I Sinclair has re-branded the blog as an educational entertainment venue.

    Is this because nearly all libertarians have abandoned it, and it was obviously a joke to call its dwindling fan base in comments "centre right"?

    The blog threads are certainly becoming dull and unreadable, with teeth grindingly obnoxious commentators like Tom and Mk50 having succeeded in turning it into their own playground.

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  7. That should have been "I see Sinclair..." etc

    I also see how Judith is proudly proclaiming she doesn't read the Economist. Hasn't Sinclair said before he doesn't watch ABC news and current affairs?

    It's one of the few blogs around where economists are proud to proclaim their self-enforced limitation of sources of information to those which they know will reinforce their pre-existing views.

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  8. PPS: did I not post a comment on Friday about Groundhog Day that has disappeared?

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  9. Steve it is why they are wrong so often!

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  10. Go away Homer, your betters are having a chat and you're not wanted. Go on, buzz off.

    You've hit a new low when fatboy and Stepford are regarded as your betters.

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  11. you shouldn't talk about Sinclair and Janet that way.
    not good ,manners!

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  12. Shut up Homer. The only reason you keep talking and stalking them through the web is because you were banned from there for stupidity.

    You idiot.

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  13. You embarrass all of humanity, Homer. All of us a little embarrassed by your behavior, you lunatic.

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  14. Didn't see that Groundhog Day comment, Steve.

    As for you JC, I note you aren't defending the catnap noddy crew. As usual when you have nothing to say, you resort to insults.

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  15. What insults are those, Fatboy? Carry on a discussion with Home Paxton. I want to have a good laugh.

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  16. why do they talk about Sinclair so much here instead of you M0nty?

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  17. Homer

    On a serious note, do you realize you spend your time talking about Sinc? It's veering towards stalking.

    Talk about the 1959 budget papers as you're much more versed on those topics, or perhaps even Skanky Ho.

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  18. Well if he didn't make so many mistakes I wouldn't JC.

    We can call Catallaxy the mistake riddled blog!

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  19. I really should have added if anyone could read budget papers at Catallaxy they could have told Judy that she was using far too much peroxide and the NBN had ALWAYS been in the budget papers.

    however they don't and so they couldn't and they are probably still in ignorance!

    wow JC outs his gigantic foot in his even bigger mouth again.

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  20. Homer, you imbecile. I had drinks with Sinclair a short while ago and he blames me for giving you too much of a hard time and the reason you're so hostile these days.He was actually sticking up for you. Loosen up you moron as you're stalking the wrong person. He doesn't dislike you in the least.

    By the way I disagree with Sinc. I don't believe I've even been remotely hard enough, as you thoroughly deserve it, you piker.

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  21. JC,
    you have always had a glass jaw and been whacked to kingdom come almost any time you become hostile and you don't know how stupid your comments are.

    As for Sinclair it all about glass houses!

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  22. Go read the 1957 budget papers, Homer, you idiot and leave the internet alone. You're not cut out for it.
    You massive unadulterated moron, you argued for years, years, that Skanke ho was an Asian warlord's mistress. You ought to be whacked across the ears so hard they turn cauliflower.

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  23. And Monster is no better either. That wrongolgist deserves a whack too.

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  24. JC you had no idea nor did that idiot Mark hill how the urban dictionary was constructed.
    Mind you no-one over there understands how a dictionary is constructed.
    A pity you do not understand English!

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  25. What the hell does the urban dictionary have to do with anything you complete cretin, Homer?

    You went around for years saying Mark Latham's use of the term skanky ho only related to an Asian Warlord's mistress. That is so fucking stupid, you deserve to be beheaded in the public square on a sunny Friday afternoon.

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  26. Great work, Monster. Homer is now glued to your blog. This will always happen when you continue to write stupid stuff because stupid stuff to this idiot is like flypaper. Homer can sniff stupidity from 148 miles away.

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  27. Play nice with Homer, JC. He may be the only real friend you've got in this crazy world.

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  28. of course you wouldn't have ac clue of how it relates. you are an idiot.
    Both you and Sinkers didn't understand the word predecessor even though you put up the dictionary definition of it.

    Can't read ,can't write but can swear.

    no more evidence is needed!

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  29. Bugger me, 10 days and 32 comments. How do you keep on top of this blog?

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