The Sunday Tampongraph was pretty subdued today... There was the "low key" announcement of a $5 million timely donation to a charity, the Children Hospice in Manly, which at this time of vicious electionarium, coud be seen as a desperate attempt at a phot-op with the stars for struggling Tony — and a dash of discreet pork barelling.

In the Saturday Paper, we are reminded by the Gadfly that Tony Abbott does not live in the electorate that he wishes to represent once more: Warringah. He lives "next door" in Mackellar. This should actually disqualify him forthwith. But we shall see what the AEC makes of this..

On the question of global warming, which is not a question by the way, Tony Abbott is a "compleat" (old fashioned way to spell complete) ignoramus because he does not want to know anything contrary to his beliefs... See: http://www.yourdemocracy.net.au/drupal/node/27145

This is going to become ugly. Already the guns are out in the Murdoch camp... One of their front page articles on the website is about a Green candidate doing some rubbish posting about the police. He should be chastised sure, but the headline on the merde-och media is cleverly disguised with a photograph designed to associate Tanya Plibersek (Labor), as if she had been doing the shit.

Watch it. It's classic DT clever manipulation of your brains.

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Today, lazy as ever, Gus steals someone else editorial from a few years ago to remind readers why Ms Devine is an idiot. The cartoon at top is from the Melbourne Punch, published in 1896, when Aussie cyclists were doing so well in bicycle races, overseas. This was the new Australian Coat of Arms.

Here goes Loon Pond:

Miranda Devine, lycra-clad louts redux, and an epic bicycle journey through the dangerous streets of Sydney ...