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the merde-och spin and the SMH mind...

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in the press today...

Not a peep in the Merde-och press about Turnbull's turmoil with his conscience while presenting his excuses not to vote for gay marriages despite wanting to do so... As a frontbencher he "has" to obide by the decision of cabinet otherwise he would be sent to the purgatory of the backbench, where he could really vote in favour of gay marriages... Thus the hypocrisy is all around including at the Rudds, still hanging in the background and trying to foul Labor's nest... I have made up one item of excuses I did not find anywhere about Sophie... But her attitude on Q&A led me to believe she was taken aback and quickly retreated in a safe position in case of contagion...

 

Meanwhile, had I been the injured person in a collision with Abbott's car, I would have told him to bugger orf, even if he was saving my life...


Come on Malcolm show us some guts!...


Tony Abbott is an idiot...

bloody-mindedness is no commitment...

Federal Opposition Leader Tony Abbott has rejected senior Liberal Malcolm Turnbull's calls for civil unions to be legislated in Parliament.

Mr Turnbull says the more he reflects on gay marriage the less convinced he is by the arguments against it.

He says while he doubts there is enough support in parliament for gay marriage to be legislated, civil unions could allow a compromise.

"I think it would be a great pity if marriage is not able to be passed in the Parliament," he told the sixth annual Michael Kirby lecture on the Gold Coast last night.

"That opportunity to pass civil unions should be taken up."

Mr Turnbull argued that in most of the countries where gay marriage is legal, they legislated for civil unions first.

He says he believes civil unions will probably be adopted in Parliament before the next election.

But Mr Abbott today distanced himself from the former Liberal leader.

He reitereated the Coalition's position of opposing gay marriage and civil unions.

"Every single member of the Coalition went into the last election with a clear policy position on this issue," he said.

He says the Coalition does not do one thing before an election and do a different thing afterwards.

"We have a clear position. We took it to the last election and it's a matter of keeping commitments," he said.

 

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-07-07/abbott-rejects-turnbull27s-call-for-civil-unions/4116304?WT.svl=news2

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Of course we all know that only idiots don't change their minds.... though some idiots like Tony have had a plethora of views on " global warming is crap/ not crap"  in a very idiotic manner, as long as no knowledgeable commitment from him is expected...

Tony Abbott is an idiot...

they are banging on about climate change???

 

From Bruce Guthrie
WHY all the fuss over one man collapsing on Q&A? Fact is, I often pass out when watching the ABC panel show and wake up well into Lateline. Especially when they are banging on about climate change, which seems to be pretty regularly.
Here's a confession: I came dangerously close to doing a Simon Sheikh during my one and only appearance on the program about 18 months ago.

It was as if Sheikh had stepped in something large and distinctly unpleasant. Or worse, that he was something large and unpleasant. 


That's because producers forgot to give me the night's topics until just hours before we went on live. Everyone else on the panel had got them three days earlier! That's right, many of those incredibly erudite panelists have been swotting for 72 hours on the show's chosen subjects, often with the aid of advisers and speechwriters.

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/society-and-culture/getup-fall-down--its-the-natural-reaction-to-talkshow-stress-20120707-21o7j.html#ixzz201LrIK3Q

Okay... Where's Guthrie coming from...? Guthrie is the fellow who sued Murdoch, won and wrote a book called "Man Bites Murdoch"... thus Guthrie has a bit of curly hair on his legs, especially after having been a Herald-Sun editor... The Herald Sun is a Murdoch paper, Murdoch being his former employer...
But mentioning Lateline... then "banging on about climate change"? What does Guthrie mean? Is he offended or interested in the matter? Is he talking about Lateline or Q&A? I'd like to know... In regard to Q&A making people faint, I understand Guthrie's reaction... It's a dividing TV format that has no answers to anything, only emotions boiling over with bile and prejudices...
Knowledge never comes out of these discussions... NEVER!
Actually, most people come out more confused like me trying to understand what Guthrie position on Lateline's or Q&A banging on about climate change...

The reality is global warming is REAL but most of the media is too scared of their bosses to express such definite views, because the denialists mostly on the side of the Liberal (conservatives) would object... Meanwhile the commercial media is overrun by a multitude of Alan Joneses and such crap spruikers who have NO IDEA or totally wrong understanding of this subject, but they speak with the voice of authority...
But then we still live in an epoch where people still believe in Santa Claus, fairies or/and god... 

 

the fur is flying at Q&A

 

 

Q&A executive producer Peter McEvoy says Guthrie was being a tad 'disingenuous' in his column. The briefing that he is referring to would most likely just have been a list of potential topics, he says, and predicting the topics isn't exactly hard once you factor in the areas of expertise of the panel members and the current hot topics of the day.

Further, he says, only about five or six of the potential topics will be covered in the show and those topics are determined by the questions from the audience. As for briefings on the questions, it is a long standing rule of the show that guests do not get advance warning on what questions they will be fielding on the night.

"It's a strict rule that we don't ever tell the panelists what the question will be," says McEvoy. "They don't get any information after the Friday."



Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/tv-and-radio/qa-producer-denies-schooling-guests-20120709-21rcm.html#ixzz206xwJNa1

 

 

sorry to see him go...

From Doug Anderson
WITH considerable sorrow and what distressed psychologists might term "a reluctant sense of emotional objectivity", I begin my final column.
Time and circumstance wait for no one – not Godot, Willy Loman, me or my departing colleagues. Despite a desire to soldier spartanly on, we have been deemed redundant.
In a gesture of great grace, the editor – a saintly and well-comported man – has given me an opportunity to indulge in a little abstract reflection in signing off.
Not that I am redundant, by gee! Arguably a luddite – never a lemming. Abstract? Undoubtedly – it's just that I won't work here any more.

Reluctant to heed use-by date stamps on processed food, the idea of proscribed retirement – determined by age or by others – stings. The enjoyment of modest – perhaps imaginary – relevance is difficult to surrender when fondness for the work is undiminished.
Politicians urge us to toil into our twilight years – an idea that makes amazingly rare sense by acknowledging experience and intellectual capital among veteran workers. Yet it's hard not to suspect pollies just want our taxes a little longer.

"A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having once felt sorry for itself," wrote D.H. Lawrence. I am no tiny bird yet I appreciate most creatures survive on their wits – without pensions. That's nature. That's life – and the more you live the less you have to die. No pity, no piety. Obviously, family responsibilities and financial considerations attend human survival equations. Ker-ching!
From inauspicious beginnings to an even less auspicious ending, I've long appreciated the privileges attending this work.

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/toodleooh-dear-readers-20121026-28a6y.html#ixzz2ANUiCq8D

May Doug find another rewarding job soon...