Friday 29th of March 2024

Gus Leonisky's blog

two for the price of one...

good

I find it ludicrous that the brother of Christopher Hitchens, Peter, states without flinching that "Good without God? Morality's Foundations Crumble in the Absence of Christianity"... It's quite insulting really. He is pissing on his brother's work with abandon, as well as pissing on all other religious beliefs — two for the price of one: 

and a super size-sugared fizdrink, a giant chips bucket with your triple-cheese-double-bacon-fat pattie-hamburger in sugar buns?

fat kids

Across Australia, rising rates of child obesity are already having a severe impact.

Leading diabetes expert Professor Paul Zimmet is shocked by the rise of obesity-linked type 2 diabetes in children and adolescents.

it's logicoal...

 

it's logicoal...

While Whitehaven Coal and the NSW Government continue to trash the nation, former Wallabies captain David Pocock has made a principled stand — to the fury of rugby officialdom.

of bananas, of global warming, of the planet being raped for profit... and of science being dismissed by ignoramuses...

 

hot year...

This year is in the running to be the hottest globally and for the UK since records began, early estimates show.

the idiot cannot be trusted... the cure is as bad as the ailment...

snake oils

The Federal Government has announced backdowns on its university overhaul and defence force pay, after what Prime Minister Tony Abbott has described as a "ragged week" for his government.

In a wide-ranging press conference this morning, Mr Abbott said he wanted to address "head on" some of the recent criticism of his government.

smirky sneaky bishop brings back the silly nuke option to blame labor...

 

nukie bishop

Foreign Minister Julie Bishop says nuclear energy remains an option for Australia, describing it as an "obvious direction" as it considers how to cut carbon dioxide emissions after 2020.

Ms Bishop called for a an open discussion about the feasibility of nuclear power, given Australia's abundance of uranium, but accused Labor of resorting to a scare campaign when the issue was raised during the Howard government years.

puppet journalism on a string budget...

 

abcirkus

Jobs are being reclassified onto lower bands on lower wages. The new jobs, which are about bringing in digital skills, are in lower bands than the journalists that are being let go, aren't they?

sailing in the victorian era, that sinking feeling might still haunt voters...

sinking titanic

The week didn't start well for federal MP Clive Palmer and it's ended badly too with a family home suffering a partially collapsed roof in Brisbane's wild storm.

an idiot playing a game far worse than russian roulette with your life...

co-payment trigger

Prime Minister Tony Abbott has accused the Opposition of sabotaging sensible reform after the Government abandoned its planned GP co-payment.

The $7 co-payment was one of the Coalition's key budget measures, but the Government has walked away from its proposal, knowing it did not have enough support in the Senate.

jokes and jockettes under the down-under sun are dying in newspapers... long live online angry colours and lines !

jockettes

The power to provoke, stir, enlighten, amuse or simply provide a different perspective in a single picture is unique to cartoonists, who have a range of weapons photographers do not.

But the editor of a collection of the top Australian political cartoons for 2014 has warned the art form's influence is facing an inevitable decline.

the minister should be keelhauled then sacked...

barnacle

 

Defence Minister David Johnston has backtracked on his criticism of the Government's ship-building company, telling the Senate he did not intend to cause any offence.

joining dots with more traffic jams on a map might give us a sense of achievement but in the end it's destructively ugly...

sydney opera house...

As our pseudo-idiots in charge are planning to spend more and more debt money on roads, tunnels and bridges while selling power stations to pay for some of this extravagance, one has to ponder about the real purpose of this undesirable destruction, reconstruction and ribbon cutting on a rainy day, while some goose with a sword beats you to it...

not the end of the story...

 

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