Australian Elections in August

[Keith Webb]

It's become the battle of personalities between Julia Dullard and the Mad Monk, but in reality I think it's going to be a mere endorsement of Julia's back stabbing of Kevin Dudd.
I am not looking forward to this one bit.

Dullard has just announced she wants to get "gas guzzling" vehicles older than mid 1990s off the road so she is no friend to old MV owners.

Originally Posted by lynx42

We here in Australia have an election coming up. There are many political cartoons out there, so I'll start of with this very apt one.
Rick

[aj.lec]

Unfortunately getting that farcical feeling

None of the parties have decent leaders

-Labour has the droll ,untrustworthy ,backstabbing ,policy regergitator without a good plan for the future , just more taxes

-Liberal has the Budgie smuggler ,who seems to put both feet in his mouth every time he opens it .No revolutionary policies or plans. Also regergitating policies

-Greens have a slimy ,arrogant git that reminds me too much of Keating

-Nationals .. well you just never hear of them

Overall . I think we may be in a spot of bother

[Barry Churcher]

Rick,if you changed the names it would be Ontario.
Barry

[Hanno Spoelstra]

It is the same everywhere it seems. So much for democracy, eh?

I think we should have a serious look at other politcal systems. As a famous Chinese leader once said: "Elections? In China we have elections evely day!" That sounds like it works. . . .

H.

[Grant Bowker]

Originally Posted by Barry Churcher

Rick,if you changed the names it would be Ontario.
Barry

Barry,
Are you sure that Ontario has a monopoly on "all the same - so why waste my time voting" poiticians for Canada? On the other hand, my view is that if individuals can't be bothered to vote for whoever they view as the least bad of the lot they don't have a right to complain about the outcome.
The last party I remeber that was much different than the others was the Rhinoceros party and I'm not sure I would have wanted them to govern although they would have made things a bit more interesting/lively..... Some of their promises can be found at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhinoceros_Party_of_Canada I wonder how they would have done under the more recent suggestion of proportional representation?

[aj.lec]

Was sent an email entitled
"This is what happens to naughty boys"

Not really appropriate for political discussion but was funny at the time

[aj.lec]

Got me started now
Another example of the "quality" of some of our "politicians" are (especially bad ex "pop" singers)should have stuck with that

TRUE STORY
The Australian Government and the NSW Forestry Service were presenting an alternative to NSW sheep farmers for controlling the dingo population.
It seems that after years of the sheep farmers using the tried and true methods of shooting and/or trapping the predators, the Labor Government (Peter Garrett - Environmental Minister), the NSW Forestry Service and the Greens tree-huggers had a ‘more humane’ solution.
What they proposed was for the animals to be captured alive, the males would then be castrated and let loose again. Therefore the population would be controlled.
This was ACTUALLY proposed to the NSW Sheep farmers Association and Farming Association by the Federal Government and the NSW Forestry Service.
All of the sheep farmers thought about this amazing idea for a couple of minutes. Finally, one of the old boys in the back of the conference room stood up, tipped his hat back and said, ‘Mr Garrett, son, I don’t think you understand our problem.
Those dingo’s ain’t ****en our sheep - they’re eatin’ ‘em.’
You should have been there to hear the roar of laughter as Mr Peter Garrett and the members of the NSW Forestry Service , the Greens and the other “tree huggers” left the meeting very “sheepishly”.

[Keith Webb]

Voting is compulsory in Australia unlike most other parts of the world. They say we get the government we deserve but this time there is a definite lack of inspiration on either side. We deserve better than that.

Originally Posted by Grant Bowker

Barry,
Are you sure that Ontario has a monopoly on "all the same - so why waste my time voting" poiticians for Canada? On the other hand, my view is that if individuals can't be bothered to vote for whoever they view as the least bad of the lot they don't have a right to complain about the outcome.
The last party I remeber that was much different than the others was the Rhinoceros party and I'm not sure I would have wanted them to govern although they would have made things a bit more interesting/lively..... Some of their promises can be found at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhinoceros_Party_of_Canada I wonder how they would have done under the more recent suggestion of proportional representation?

[Howard]

Originally Posted by Keith Webb

...Dullard has just announced she wants to get "gas guzzling" vehicles older than mid 1990s off the road...

If I heard this story correctly, I can get a grant if $1,000 if I take my old car of the road & get a brand new one. $1,000. Yep, that'll make all the difference! I think I'll get a NEW Falcon! I only need to find another $37,000 an d it's MINE!
Fair Dinkum, what fairy land do these morons live in?

[Keith Webb]

Originally Posted by Howard

If I heard this story correctly, I can get a grant if $1,000 if I take my old car of the road & get a brand new one. $1,000. Yep, that'll make all the difference! I think I'll get a NEW Falcon! I only need to find another $37,000 an d it's MINE!
Fair Dinkum, what fairy land do these morons live in?

You could cash that rusty old truck in - maybe buy a Jackaroo or Commodore.

[Alex Blair (RIP)]

Originally Posted by Keith Webb

You could cash that rusty old truck in - maybe buy a Jackaroo or Commodore.

Keith..
Maybe y'all should sneak into the states..they know how to treat you right..
And by the way there are more rust buckets sailing from Tamil land with piles of terrorists that are heading for Canadian waters because we didn't sink the last one that had a couple of hundred of them terrorists that we are now feeding and sheltering and they are sending for their relatives to come and there is more behind them..Should have dealt with them and sunk them the minute they hit Canadian waters..only way to stop them..as soon as they get close enough to swim they are over the side and gone..
And y'all are even closer than we are ..at least you have them all herded on a remote island that probably when you fill it to over flowing you will be waiting for a Tsunami to clean it off so y'all can start over..great idea..

If you cross the North Korean border illegally you get 12 years hard
labor.
If you cross the Iranian border illegally you are detained indefinitely.
If you cross the Afghan border illegally, you get shot.
If you cross the Saudi Arabian border illegally you will be jailed.
If you cross the Chinese border illegally you may never be heard from
again.
If you cross the Venezuelan border illegally you will be branded a spy
and your fate will be sealed.
If you cross the Mexican borders illegally you will jailed for two years.
If you cross the Cuban border illegally you will be thrown into political
prison to rot.
If you cross the United States border illegally you get:
1 - A job
2 - A driver's license
3 - A Social Security card
4 - Welfare
5 - Food stamps
6 - Credit cards
7 - Subsidized rent or a loan to buy a house
8 - Free education
9 - Free health care
10 - A lobbyist in Washington
11 - Billions of dollars in public documents printed in your language
12 - Millions of servicemen and women who are willing to - and do - die
for your right to the ways and means of our @#$%----ution
13 - And the right to carry the flag of your country - the one you walked
out on - while you call America racist and protest that you don't get
enough respect.

Rant over....

[Alex Blair (RIP)]

This is actually being considered..
Those slime ball politicians would commit incest with their grandmothers/grandfathers,and most do, to get a vote..


Spred this around and call your MP to protest..

Bill #C-428 [THANKS TO RUBY DHALLA AND BOB RAE]
Only if you disagree with this Bill ... pass this message along.


This bill should not have seen the light of day ... and yet it will receive second reading at the next sitting of parliament.

Please read the bill and make your own decision. If you disagree with the bill send this to everyone over the age of 50 in your address book ... or those who may be turning 50 a few years.

Hopefully, by letting your member of parliament know your feelings on the bill, it will be defeated.

If you agree with the bill you don't need to do anything..

URGENT ATTENTION About Our OAS pensions Bill C-428 An Act to Amend the Old Age Security Act (residency requirements)



Bill C-428 will allow recent immigrants to apply for OAS in 3 years instead of the existing 10.


This bill had first reading in the house on June 18, 2009. It was seconded by Bob Rae! MP Ms Ruby Dhalla who introduced the bill represents the riding of Brampton whose population is mainly East Indian. Right now you have to have lived in Canada for 10 years in order to qualify for Old Age Security. She wants the time reduced to 3 years. Thousands could come to Canada when they are 62 years old, never having worked or contributed to this country's tax system, etc and qualify for full Old Age Security benefits. 10 years minimum is reasonable - 3 is not!

Look this up, Google C-428 and you will see this bill has only one purpose, and that is to 'featherbed' a select group of people for votes.

I certainly hope this bill does not get passed. It is about time we called our elected MP's to ask them to NOT support this bill. Their response may be one factor in helping us determine who gets elected in the next election.

What Can You Do?

1. Spread the message to family, friends and e-mail buds.

2. Write letters, send e-mails to all your list and call Members of Parliament

It is time Canada looked after it's vets and long-term citizens before tossing OUR hard-earned money around on people who have no right to this money, never having paid taxes or contributed to our economy. If a family wishes to bring elderly relatives here and are willing to waive their own right to collect these funds in order that the elderly relatives can receive them ... fine. Otherwise, do not expect the Canadian taxpayers to do it.




There are too many people abusing the generosity of the Canadian people. We need to stop this NOW. We, our children and our grand children currently owe the global investment community over $500 billion dollars ... the sum of our accumulated National Debt that is never publicized.

[Keith Webb]

Source: Daily Telegraph

This is fascinating, funny and tragic all in one article. This is only part of it - it's an amazing read.

COULD Kevin Rudd be this vindictive? Our complex, brilliant, idiosyncratic, angry former prime minister, seething like an exiled prince in the north, is widely regarded as the likeliest source of the most damaging allegations to surface about his deposer, Julia Gillard.

In the crucial first weeks of her election campaign, Gillard has been forced to fight anonymous allegations that she reneged on a deal to give Rudd more time as leader, and that she opposed pension and parental-leave policies in confidential Cabinet meetings.

All the while, Rudd has played the humble Member for Griffith, smiling for the cameras, playing with schoolchildren and pretending he can't hear journalists' questions.

The leaks may have come from other politicians or staffers, authorised by Rudd or not. They may be old information, gleaned by journalists when Rudd was still PM.

Or they may be a pieced-together account by staffers who weren't in the Cabinet room, but who subsequently heard reports.
Whether or not Rudd is deliberately trying to lose Labor the election - and one day return to his throne - he is undoubtedly the beneficiary. And he has a long history of leaking against his own side.

The people who know Rudd best tell of his coldness and his kindness, his brutality, his consideration and his conceit.

Today, former foreign minister Alexander Downer reveals he regularly used Rudd to leak damaging information against his then-Opposition Labor colleagues during the early 2000s.

"I don't use the c-word, but I do use the f-word pretty freely, and I can tell you that Kevin Rudd is a f****** awful person," Downer says.

Others have plenty more to say about Rudd.

"I think he has some form of Asperger's syndrome," broadcaster Alan Jones says.

"We called it 'the icebox'," says one of Rudd's many disgruntled ex-staffers, describing the way Rudd would freeze out anyone who gave him bad news or tried to argue.

"If Rudd was p***** off with you, he would stop asking you to do things.

"You'd end up with nothing to do, and he'd give your work to other people. And if you disagreed about anything, he'd shut you out."

But ice-cold was better than blazing hot. When Rudd kicked a hole in the wall of his own office, screaming with anger, none of his staff quite knew what to say.

It was 2007 and Rudd, as Opposition leader, had just conducted an aggressive press conference in Sydney. He returned to his Phillip St office and let everyone know how strong his rage could be. "We all saw it - all the staff," one witness says. "It was extraordinary."

What frequently set Rudd off was the feeling that he was unappreciated - like the flop of his speech before the UN general assembly in September, 2008.

The UN auditorium was three-quarters empty, and Rudd's then-chief of staff, David Epstein, nodded off. That was bad enough, but when Rudd got wind of the Australian news reports mocking his appearance, he lost it.

In his private suite on the jet home, surrounded by staff and RAAF personnel, Rudd raged.

"He actually punched the wall of the plane," one observer says. This time, luckily, he didn't put his foot through it.

[Ken Hughes]

Don,t vote for politicians,it only encourages them!