🎶🎶Look At The Scoreboard🎶🎶

Kristina Keneally has always struck me as the epitome of the vacuous blond. Her performances on SkyNews are torturous to watch. In fact, I can’t watch them. If ever you needed proof, she is a vacuous blond here is the proof. 

In referring to the Bennelong by-election she made these comments. 

First, in her attempt to take a swipe at Prime Minister Turnbull along with trying to talk up Labor’s loss she said; 

“Mr Turnbull had “injected himself” into the campaign by admitting it was a vote on his government. “There is no doubt that he owns this result. There’s no escaping it.”

Yes, dear he does and his party represented by John Alexander won. But thank you for so graciously acknowledging it not that it was your intention. 

Ms Keneally continued; 

“I am here to claim success for the Labor movement,” Ms Keneally told supporters at Club Ryde. 

Err no dear, you lost. The other side won and that is success.. 

So based on those two comments. 

Keneally 0 - Winners 2

Based on the election result.

Labor 0 – Liberals 1

And to use that great old English football chant. Conservatives are you ready. 

Turnbull:  Is that not the scoreboard?

Conservatives: Yes, that is the scoreboard!

Turnbull: Is that not a 1?

Conservatives: Yes, that is a 1!

Turnbull: Is that not a 0?

Conservatives: Yes, that is a 0!

Turnbull:  Is that not the winning team?

Conservatives: Yes, that is the winning team!

Turnbull:  Is that not the losing team?

Conservatives:  Yes, that is the losing team!

All (pointing):  Winning team!  Losing team!  Winning team! Losing team! Yay!

..”🎶🎶Look at the scoreboard🎶🎶

A Political Spy Novel? If Only It Was..

The leader of a foreign power declares he did not interfere in the US election. Donald Trump believes he is sincere. This is not just just any foreign power, it is Russia. Trump in turn attacks former U.S. intelligence officials labelling them “hacks”. Trump admits he believes the leader of a foreign power over his fellow countrymen and women. 

In all likelihood if Putin did interfered, he wouldn’t admit to it. If Donald Trump and his team conspired with Putin does anyone seriously think Trump will admit to that? He won’t given the  investigation underway in the US. So I’d take what was said with a grain of salt. 

Now for some facts. In the past two weeks, various Trump campaign advisers including George Papadopoulos and Carter Page have confessed to having met with or conspired with the Russian government during the election. I repeat, they confessed they met with or conspired with the Russians. How far this went will probably not be known until the commencement of any court cases following the conclusion of current investigations.  

Papadopoulos and Carter then named higher level Trump campaign officials who were also involved. Some of those officials have now admitted they knew all along about the engagement with the Russians. In addition, Trump’s campaign chairman is under house arrest in relations to the Trump-Russia scandal. 

Despite the above, Putin said he didn’t do it. Trump, said he believes Putin because he is sincere. I’m not sure it’s wise to be so trusting of anyone who is ex-KGB. Particularly someone with a chequered past like Putin. But this is where it gets bizarre. 

If Putin and Trump are telling the truth; with a major emphasis on IF. That would mean Papadopoulos, Carter and the rest have lied.  Why would they lie? It makes no sense for them to risk jail confessing to something that never happened. That would be bizarre in the extreme.  If anyone has an answer as to why anyone would compromise themselves like that I’d love to hear it. 

Following the Putin, Trump declarations, Trump copped a backlash over siding with Putin. In true form Trump took to twitter attacking his fellow Americans as “haters and fools.” According to the latest polls the majority of Americans now believe the Trump campaign and Russia conspired with each other during the election. 59% believe Trump himself knew last year that anyone associated with his campaign had contact with suspected Russian operatives. That means The President of the United States has now called the majority of Americans “haters and fools.” I don’t recall any other President ever doing that. Certainly not siding with the leader of a foreign power and attacking his own people. 

As a script for a political spy novel is might be a riveting story line. As a real life drama involving the President of the United States it’s alarming. 

It’s Time To Go Malcolm

Towards the end of Tony Abbott’s reign I was open in sharing in views that he either had to make changes or hand over to someone who would. He was warned of the consequences of failing to act. When he didn’t, the inevitable happened. Prior to that change I was also vocal in my criticism of Malcolm Turnbull. Albeit I don’t believe he was the major source of white-anting against Abbott. 

I’ve never been a huge fan of Abbott’s. But as a Liberal member I prefer LNP policies to the opposition. My loyalty is to the party so, I supported Abbott and defended his less than desirable actions. That was until there were just too many failures for me. I would have preferred Tony Abbott to have wised up and stepped down but he couldn’t see or accept there was a problem. He paid the price. 

Likewise, I’m not and never have been a huge fan of Malcolm Turnbull. But as the new leader of my party I was prepared to give him a go. To be fair, the Turnbull led government hasn’t done as bad a job as the chatter would have you believe. But we need more than that. We need strong dynamic leadership. We need a voice that can command attention and respect despite the message not always being what people want to hear. We need a voice that can get the message out there and stop the decline. We need a voice that can define the vision and get people enthused about it. Malcolm sadly is not that voice. It’s been two years of hoping for change. It’s not happening. 

I don’t support overthrowing leaders. But if they won’t listen sometimes for the greater good, it’s the only option. It time for someone to knock on Malcolm’s door and convince him it’s time to go. But to go gracefully on his terms if need be but go he must. My dilemma is I can’t see an inspiring replacement. All the usual suspects come with baggage. Perhaps we need a ‘left-fielder’. Someone with no baggage. Who it is I don’t know. But they need to stick their head up now. We’re running out of time.

We Want A Citizenship Audit Now...

I’m becoming increasingly pee’d off with calls for a citizenship audit being ignored (or worse dismissed) by our elected representatives. It’s not good enough for politicians like Finance Minister Mathias Cormann to argue an audit would unfairly put the presumption of guilt on politicians. There is nothing unfair about it Mr Cormann. The refusal is what is leading to the presumption of guilt. What have you got to hide?

Many companies ask for proof of your eligibility to work in this country. Politicians in fact expect business to do it to ensure they are not unwittingly hiring illegal workers. Most reasonable people would say that is fair enough. Therefore, we as the employers of our politicians have every right to demand the same from them. Even more so given the absurdity of the circumstances that has lead to some of those ‘we hired’ having to resign. The High Court has now defined the rules and we need to be ensure (to OUR satisfaction) that everyone who remains in office is in compliance.

It’s a simple request, so why the stalling? Just do it and put this one to bed. Then we can get back to the real business of government.

Intolerance

"I have a deep seated bias against hate and intolerance none more so when attacked by the intolerant who try to claim the moral high ground and in doing so demonstrate their deep seated intolerance of anyone who does not share their opinion.” 

I’ve been on Twitter for over 8 years. Despite some very robust exchanges I’ve never felt the need to protect myself or lock my account. Usually just blocking is all that’s needed. Today it changed.

I hold strong opinions anyone who follows me know that. I’m not hard-wired politically (albeit I vote conservative), religiously, socially or environmentally. That puts people offside at times because I don’t always follow the tribe. I share information I find interesting and things I know concern peeps within my group. I don’t use foul language or attack people personally unless they attack me. Even then I prefer humour or clever sarcasm to try to defuse an argument.  If people who don’t know me form opinions about my morals or beliefs based on one tweet I’m couldn’t be bothered trying to correct them. It’s a waste of my time.

My comments on politics and politicians are direct and I pull no punches. My motto is, I own what I say how others perceive it is their problem not mine. There are people who will always read into comments what they want so they can turn my opinions into a cause to criticise and attack. It’s all too easy behind the anonymity of an avatar and a twitter handle.  

Today I was subjected to the wrath of the Twitter leftist hit squad; along with a fair smattering of troll/bots if their follower numbers are a gauge; under 10 followers.   It was in response to a post I made a few days ago about a parody colouring book depicting Santa as a black man in a gay relationship. Funnily enough not one person made a negative comment about the book being a parody. Proves they don’t read things preferring to pick the eyes out of a comment to find anything to justify their attack.

I wrote, “Santa is now a gay man with a black husband. I could literally cry over what we’re doing to kids it’s criminal.” Hands up I got it wrong, Santa is black his white husband fills in for him. I included a link to the story.

What triggered my concern was the publisher’s statement the book is for all ages. I don’t give a flying fig if Santa is black, white or green with red spots. I simply don’t see what value there is bringing SSM into it. Marketing this stuff to adults is one thing but I don’t believe it’s suitable for little kids? I make no apology for it and nor should I have to. Because people see things differently it is NO justification to verbalise, insult or bully me because I don’t agree. Let’s just agree to disagree. That’s how grown-ups behave.  

Funnily enough in replying to one person, “if it rocks your boat, fine”, I was summarily taken to task by another who said my reply wasn’t acceptable. This gentleman (given further exchanges perhaps not the best handle as he was rude and condescending) thought I should have condemned support for the book. I did stress it wasn’t my business to tell others what to think. In response I was summarily “dismissed”, his words not mine. 

So you are damned if you don’t and you are if you do. The weird world of social media!!

The naysayers were in full voice condemning the practice of telling children Santa is real. The atheists chimed in stating telling kids Santa is real is as bad as telling them about a “guy in the sky.” The “but Jesus is black” mob joined the party. I was branded a bigot, a racist, a homophobe, a RWNJ and a snowflake along with a few other descriptions not worth mentioning

I was told to do things to myself which would be a physical impossibility. A couple of people said they hope I burn in Hell. It was told I was mad, ignorant and I shouldn’t be allowed on Twitter. I was taken to task over SSM based on my condemnation of the City of Sydney giving free access to venues for SSM services if the law passes. When my posts clearly stated my objection was about equality.

I was hit with wave after wave of comments, accusations, threats, likes and RT’s which just resulted in more accusations and attacks. I had to turn the sound off on my iPad the ding, ding, ding was driving me insane.

It was as they say open slather. And all because I didn’t agree with the theme of a colouring book that will be sold as all age appropriate. How absurd it that????

I tried to defuse the onslaught with humour. That didn’t work. So in the end I locked my account. I’ll unlock it in a few days but for now I need to protect my sanity.

I make no apology for worrying about what we are doing to kids. Childhood is brief. Bit by bit adults are infringing on those precious years pushing their agendas on kids rather than leaving them to enjoy their few years of innocence. We see it here with the Safe Schools and banning so many things we took for granted as kids. Things like birthday cakes in schools. The book albeit a parody was simply a trigger and a reminder of the world we now inhabit.

Mention was made of lying about Santa Claus and then breaking hearts when kids find out the truth and how wrong that is. I take a different view. Fairy stories and traditions like Santa Claus teach us a lot about life. It teaches us about goodness and reward and recognition. It teaches children about humility and giving. It opens up our minds to the wonderment of fantasy which stretches our imagination. It teaches us about disappointment and how to handle it; we learn life isn’t always fair.

I’ve wiped the eyes of little kids who have never experienced the joy of Santa Claus but would have given anything to have done so. That leaves a lasting impression. I think about my own childhood and the excitement leading up to Christmas. The visit to Santa was always a highlight. Tracking Santa on Christmas Eve was magical. Where I lived Santa arrived by plane. I spent hours gazing at the sky for a sign of a light.  If wanting that for others is the worst crime I commit in life, then I’m doing OK.