Climate Common Sense

We are  all familiar with Basil Fawlty and the "Don't mention the war" episode of Fawlty Towers. Australia has it's own version called "Don't mention the Carbon tax" with Gillard and her  Fawlty government crew. The verbal contortions of Labor ministers trying to avoid saying the words "Carbon tax " are hilarious and worthy of John Cleese.

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The most profligate money wasting president ever  is telling Europe to keep spending and put it on the credit card as he has done. Obama is advising Europe to forget about austerity and raise their debt level after he has destroyed the US economy and saddled generations of  Americans with a huge debt. Obama has upped the national debt more in 3 years then the much-maligned George Bush managed in 8 years. Putting it in perspective , Obama has borrowed 5 billion dollars each day of his Presidency and anyone who takes his financial advice would have rocks in the head. You have to feel sorry for Angela Merkel who is one of the few adults at the G8 conference being sandwiched between Hollande and Obama.
[i-Chart - Deficit 2012]

[i-Barack Obama greets Francois Hollande]

How about a couple of  verses of the Internationale?

"Gillard and Labor are doomed "says Graham Richardson former numbers man and senior Labor figure saying that MPs are getting doors slammed in their faces often with "naked hostility". Even following a budget bounce after a cash-splash budget Labor is still ten points behind in the two-party preferred polling. It would be interesting to know what the polls would be if the Libs had a popular leader such as Malcolm Turnbull . Turnbull however is unacceptable to the Coalition because of his warmist views .

Our famous climate seer Flannerius and his wandering crew of fellow prophets have returned from  the wilderness to proclaim that the pestilence of global warming has struck the evil suburbs of Western Sydney while sparing the rest of Sydney . Unconfirmed speculation is that the vision came to them after finding some strange looking mushrooms.Obviously Western Sydney has offended the Carbon Deity to have such preferential punishment meted out to it. Flannerius was in danger of having his prophet's license revoked and his staff confiscated by Empress Gillardius after the tablet with his permanent drought prediction was washed away in the Great Flood. 

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The release of the latest Gillard/Swan budget poses major problems for the Coalition which will oust this incompetent lot at the next election. A series of poison pills starting with the carbon tax and all the giveaways of the latest travesty of a financial budget will leave any future government burdened with these unfunded "gifts" from Labor. It is almost impossible electorally to roll back these changes . As the Aussie economy is currently a one-trick pony riding on the mining boom any change to the mining sector will be disastrous. With the combination of a looming downturn in China coupled with the discovery of huge Chinese coal deposits the future looks bleak for this country if the mining income starts to fall . Labor is currently wanting to increase the nation's credit card limit from 250 billion to 300 billion - a far cry from the billions in surplus it inherited. The effect of the Carbon Tax in killing the non-mining economy is yet to be seen as most of small business will be whacked without any compensation. Oakshot and Windsor, the conservatives who betrayed their conservative electorates to support this destruction of our economy will not be treated favorably by history.

ALP members and unions who have financially supported the ALP will be happy to learn that more of their funds have been going to defend Craig Thompson against allegations he misused up to half a million dollars for prostitutes and other personal use as detailed in the 1100 page Fair Work report. It is time for a royal commission to investigate how union funds are used, not just in the HSU. It is difficult to believe that HSU is the only rotten apple and all the rest are squeaky clean. Corruption has been a problem in unions historically and the HSU debacle should be a wake-up call to Australia. The mega-salaries union officials pay themselves to represent the poorest workers is obscene and should be included in any investigation.
It seems that the assistance given to Thompson has not been declared on his Parliamentary register which is a serious breach.

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While the Gillard government is cutting Australia's defense capability having blown billions on pink batts and inflated school halls the climate fat-cats are to get large pay rises with the head to go to $700,000 per year by 2014. In the Climate Change Dept 118 bureaucrats earn over $280,00 per year which has been well-earned as global temperatures have been stabilised for 15 years, global sea ice is above normal and sea level rises have
levelled out. As they have nothing to do now it might be a useful exercise to equip them with cheap sub-standard weaponry and ship the lot off to Afghanistan .

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As we know climate scientists are good at making stuff up and it is not surprising that the Australian Privacy Commissioner has adjudged that eleven email "threats" allegedly received by Australian climate scientists were not life threatening and ten of the eleven documents did not contain threats at all and the eleventh was only "intimidating". An FOI request for the threats which had been publicised around the world had been refused - that refusal has now been overturned on appeal.

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The latest opinion poll has Gillard's hold on the leadership slipping away from her as Kevin Rudd waits in the wings. Continual poor judgement calls combined with the loss of trust of the Australian people has made her replacement a certainty. The latest Galaxy Poll has the Coalition with a 12 point two-party preferred lead and Labor's primary support in the toilet at 30%.
Today’s Galaxy Poll reveals the allegations against Mr Slipper and Mr Thomson, which both deny, have dragged down the Government with 54 per cent of voters saying the PM had shown “poor political judgment”.
Almost six out of 10 voters said they believed Labor was “desperate to cling to power” with only 37 per cent saying it was doing its best to maintain good government in difficult times.
And 52 per cent of voters - including one-in-five Labor supporters - said they wanted the independents to force an early election.
The poll of 1019 people taken at the weekend found Labor’s primary support at 30 per cent and that the Coalition would have had a thumping victory if an election was held now with a two-party vote of 56 to 44.

Even the leftist SMH is calling for her head with Michelle Grattan saying that her "credibility is gone and she should quit.



 

With the stench about her government getting worse Julia Gillard has moved to ask Craig Thomson, the Labor member whose union credit card was used to pay  for thousands of dollars for prostitutes , to leave the Labor Party. The honorable member has agreed and will continue as an Independent voting with the Government as before as criminal investigations continue. So what has changed? Nothing! Gillard must think the Australian voters are complete fools if she thinks she has cleaned up the mess! Craig Thomson still receives his full parliamentary pay as usual following this cruel and unusual punishment.