Mario Puzo Presents....

Turnbull : "I will do this for you. I will reassure you, I am the boss, I am the leader of my family. E vinceremo."

Hockey : *cunt cunt cunt cunt cunt*

"Gee Whiz, Malcy, This Has Been One Crazy Week!"

What?

The men behind the black masks – all specialist medicos, including a plastic surgeon, a radiologist, a urologist, and so on – insist that they aren’t racists (in fact one is of Indian background, and another apparently Lebanese) and one hopes that’s true.

http://blogs.theaustralian.news.com.au/coverington/index.php/theaustralian/comments/connick_jnr_puts_hey_hey_to_shame/

Can people of Indian and Lebanese descent not harbour racist attitudes? Non sequitur, Caroline.

The Stump

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Go To Texas, Or Something

That failed, I suppose the NRL is acceptable. Although I wonder whether The Man With The Eyebrows Of Steel will feel out of place in the midst of those slick dilettantes. Nobody wants to be the philistine in the room.

Reality Check

"What the Government's done is hand out everyone a lot of money, sent $900 cheques out ... (but) if you've got a $400,000 mortgage, you lost that in the one interest rate rise."

The Government refused to see sense and by refusing to wind back the stimulus was "working against the Reserve Bank", he said.

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,26174983-12377,00.html

Sir Turnbull of Wentworth

Stevens particularly made the point that, while both fiscal and monetary stimulus needed to be reduced “as private demand increases”, the Government had designed its fiscal stimulus to do exactly that. “The peak effect of these measures on the rate of growth of demand has probably already passed. The extent of support will tend to tail off further over the next year.”

That’s exactly the argument that Wayne Swan has been making for at least two months, and longer, ever since the fatuous question of when he was going to withdraw the stimulus started being asked.

In what will be a particularly unfortunate choice of words for Malcolm Turnbull and Joe Hockey, Stevens said that the expected adjustments of both the fiscal and monetary stimuli (in the latter case, via the movement by the RBA of interest rates “off their current unusually low levels”) “would mean that fiscal and monetary policy would be acting broadly consistently.”

Crikey

Broadly consistently, broadly consistently, broadly consistently.



Liberals? You do realize your party is falling apart so quickly and comprehensively that you're resembling the Whigs circa 1850? How, then, can you explain this? Faced with a choice between serving the greater interests of the party by listening to Canberra-based frontbenchers, and pandering to the petty whims of a Queensland party doyenne, you go with the woman with straw stains on her teeth? Not that I'm complaining if you've decided it's time for a white wine and a whole lot of Panadol, but when I see a poor country lad teetering on a ledge...

"That I can open a flower shop if I want to is an example of freedom. That a bank owns our airports is its opposite"

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