You unlock this door with the key of imagination. Beyond it is another dimension: a dimension of sound, a dimension of sight, a dimension of mind. You're moving into a land of both shadow and substance, of things and ideas. You've just crossed over into... The Gullible Zone.
Got a problem with a pesky bloke in budgie smugglers conducting a fear campaign? Counter it with your own fear campaign. Genius!
Posted by: Richo | August 5, 2011 at 11:26 AM
I'd like to see this on Prime Time TV
Posted by: JustMEinT | August 5, 2011 at 11:36 AM
Yeah BoltA should play it on his show
Posted by: Andy | August 5, 2011 at 01:32 PM
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ,, the funniest part about the whole show , is that Australia is letting these barefaced liars tell us what to do .
Who's the idiot here?????
And "STILL" they are there!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: barry | January 7, 2012 at 07:13 AM
"I think all you scientists are crackpots." I think the same about most politicians - particularly of the labor/green variety.
Bloody hell, how did Australians turn this mob of certifiable lunatics lose on the country?
Posted by: ibbit | January 7, 2012 at 11:30 AM
[Bloody hell, how did Australians turn this mob of certifiable lunatics lose on the country?]
If Howard had not gone overboard with work choices and refused to implement a succession plan with Costello none of this would be occurring. Howard shot himself in the foot trying to outdo Robert Menzies lengthy tenure.
Sadly it's just one of those if only situations....
If Howard had done a smooth transition to Costello this nightmare we find ourselves in may have been avoided.
Posted by: bluebell | January 7, 2012 at 02:29 PM
Sadly, I think you are spot on. My husband still fulminates about this every time JG opens her mouth an fires another dose of bilge at us.
Blames Howard to the point where I get to feeling murderous and have to point out that Howard did much for the country, even if he buggered up Peter's chances in the end and Australia to boot by letting this mob of total sh**t in.
You're - hubby and you - both right, though. If he had handed over to Peter early in the final term, chances are we may not be in the mess we're in.
Posted by: ibbit | January 7, 2012 at 05:57 PM
Blaming Howard, or Gillard, or anybody for that matter doesn't take away the fact that the Australian people are responsible for what we have here, and it will be up to the Australian people to change it .
Unfortunately they seem to be preoccupied with have a beer with Bob.One of the people who helped instigate this mess.
Clever people , aren't they?????
These people having been planning this for many many years.And Australians were being warned of it several years ago .
Slowly , but very slowly , they are waking up .
Will it be too late? Anybody's guess.
They certainly don't appear to be in a hurry.
No where near as much as the invaders anyway.
They could start with removing Bob Brown .
He is a parasite on the country , and has been for a long long time .
Posted by: barry | January 7, 2012 at 06:36 PM
Looks like democracy to me. Settle down. The sun will come up tomorrow.
Posted by: captain catholic | January 7, 2012 at 07:46 PM
I don't have any respect for Bob Hawke - he deliberately marketed himself to the blue collar union crowd during his days as their President. The quintessential mates mate. He merely added to it during his Prime Ministership, ingratiating himself during the America's cup race declaring any boss who sacked their worker for taking the day off, was a bum.
However, that is not why I have no time for him. During his days as the head of the ACTU it was well known that he was a womaniser and a heavy drinker. A friend of mine used to be a barmaid in her younger years, and she told us of the time when Hawke and his union buddies came to drink at the bar. He was so pissed off his brain that he came up to her and told her that he would love to r**t her! Never mind that he was a married man. Hazel Hawke suffered years of humiliation with his Neanderthal antics. Her reward for the years of support during his Prime Ministership? She was betrayed and publicly humiliated when he had his affair with the French tart Blanche`. The woman who was writing his biography. I guess inbetween chapters they were getting their rocks off and laughing at Hazel's loyal naivety. However, it's the shoddy way that Hazel was portrayed in Blanche`'s recent book, setting off a very angry Sue Peters (Hawke and Hazels daughter)to defend her ailing mother. Hawke came to no such defense of the wife that gave him her best years, preferring to smugly sit in a 60 minutes interview fawning over that French sl*t as she tore into Paul Keating and condescendingly talked about Hazel's 'faults'. So yeah...........a pox on Bob 'bleary eyed' Hawke. The man was a dog who happened to be a Rhodes Scholar.
Posted by: bluebell | January 7, 2012 at 08:03 PM
You're right captain...
I was raised a catholic too ,,, reminds me a bit of this mob we have in here....... no offence
Posted by: barry | January 7, 2012 at 08:04 PM
Even the powers that be at that "Rhodes Scholar" institution , said he was nothing but a ratbag,,,not the exact words, but I think you get the drift..
But still many Australians idolized him.. says a lot doesn't it!!!!!
Posted by: barry | January 7, 2012 at 08:08 PM
Remind me again how this is democracy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApCwoj35d3M
Posted by: John Mc | January 7, 2012 at 11:00 PM
Hailing from Victoria originally and living near to Bob and Hazel there was a strong rumour that she was about to leave him just as his grooming by the ACTU for a tilt at Canberra and the Lodge was nearing its culmination.
Heard the union movement begged her not to leave him and Hazel complied for the sake of his career.
Some reward she earned at the hands of Bob and his Blanche. And one cannot help but think there is no such think as justice as she is not the one who should have been afflicted with Alziemers.
Posted by: ibbit | January 8, 2012 at 09:37 AM
Bob has had Alziemers for years, he just hasn't realized it yet.
Posted by: barry | January 8, 2012 at 10:09 AM
"Australian people are responsible for what we have here, and it will be up to the Australian people to change it."
Definetly, it will take the Australian people to chuck this government out. But we need more than that - we need a complete overhaul of our electoral system i.e. we need to get rid of preferential and compulsory voting.
The Brits knocked back preferential voting for FPP, sensibly, I think. Here we are compelled to give preferences so we can, and do at times, end up with our vote going to a candidate and party we would rather murder than vote for.
Wilkie with 8.4% of the votes was not particularly wanted by his electorate but got over the line on preferences - both major party prefs.
The two "conservatives", Windsor and Oakeshotte, betrayed their electorates and will pay the price next election.
Don't know how democratic any of this really was.
We have a PM who lied to the electorate just prior to voting day and now tries to justify this on the grounds that things changed.Almost worse than this, she continues to lie when ever it suits her and her power lust.
The thing that should have changed is that she went striaght back to the electorate and asked for a mandate in her own right. Now that would have been a bit more democratic, but this PM does not have a democratic bone in her body. Power is the be all and end all and it doesn't matter at what cost, so long as she has it. And this year is the big spendup, vote buying year which, I hope, enough Australians will see through.
One thing seems certain and that is we need citizen initiated referenda in this country to get rid of governments as totally incompetent and amoral as this one is and which is set fair to do great damage to Australia's economy and thus her people.
Another think is equally certain and that is that there will be no citizen iniated referenda, or overhaul of the electoral system. Politicians are too self-interested for that to happen and Australians, by-and-large, are to bloody stupid or complacent to agitate for change.
On the self-interested front, the gov. says it cannot afford an increase in the dole as it would cost $20 million pa, but they can award themselves a pay increase to that value and this on top of hefty superannuation and other perks which seem to be continuing apace.
Politicians are shameless; they are already better placed than the majority but still greedily grab more. To my mind they are a pack of rats and the temptation to never vote again grows by the day.
Posted by: ibbit | January 8, 2012 at 10:34 AM
There is a case for increasing unemployment benefits for those who genuinely find themselves jobless through no fault of their own. The recent closure of the Heinz factory is one such situation where total support is warranted. After all, they are going to be just some of the many thousands who will lose their long held jobs due to Madame Gillard's punitive Carbon Tax. There are many manufacturers in this country who will simply offshore their operations to escape the Carbon Tax madhouse.
I posted an articles about the Europeans trying to force their ETS on foreign airlines - China and America have told them they can whistle Dixie on that score......the first of many countries who will rebel against this crazy madness. Yet madame Gillard is determined to march Australia down the path of economic destruction for no other reason than to appease the Greens, and therefore retain POWER at any cost!
Posted by: bluebell | January 8, 2012 at 11:07 PM