From Kafka’s concepts to the world of Hieronymus Bosch

G’day Possums,

the “insanity” is spreading like a Middle Ages plague; this one of the mind  but soon to hit the body … more of that later in Wombat Droppings.

Shane pondering visions of our future

Last week at the prompting of its affable publican, Kathleen I took myself off to Hudson’s Great Western Hotel in Ballan to hear a Cajun band strum, squeeze, bow, tap and sing its way through some medleys and take some photos.

 

Hudson's Hotel, Ballan

The crowd was a good-natured mix of locals and others from further afield… and of all ages, too who were not afraid to put their dancing shoes on.

Hudson's Hotel, Ballan

It was a fun, enjoyable evening; attendance details can be seen in last pic.

Hudson's Hotel, Ballan

Hudson's Hotel, Ballan

Hudson's Hotel, Ballan

Hudson's Hotel, Ballan

Hudson's Hotel, Ballan

Hudson's Hotel, Ballan

Hudson's Hotel, Ballan

Hudson's Hotel, Ballan

Hudson's Hotel, Ballan

Wombat Droppings or Low-Down Politics in Oz.

Oh, where to start in this so-called “audit”, this foetid mire of right-wing Business Council of Australia anti-social ideology.

Laughingly presented by Assistant Treasurer (and Part-time Stand-Up comic to the Chief Office Boy “Rabbutt-the-Hun”) Joe “Cereal-Toyota-SPC-Killer” Hockey as blue-print for future growth and prosperity, but lacking detail and keeping us in suspense till the poll samplings are done to see which bits are the least offensive and which bits can be snuck through later; this shit-laden “audit”, is being fronted by a business man of dubious quality, Tony “Shylock” Shepherd who takes notions of egalitarianism and Federation and turns them on their head. This “Audit” presents not a vision for a nation but a business case for asset stripping and eventual enslavement and sale of the population to the highest foreign bidder.

There in no nation in profit.

Aiding and abetting this right-wing frolic was one James “Plonker-too” Paterson whose high-pitched whine announced (and timed to coincide “Shylock” Shepherd’s rantings) that abolishing the minimum wage would advantage the poor….. hmmm... as conceptually tenable as is the idea of a flat earth being more efficient as a round one?

Poor James, he does seem to get stuck with all the seriously silly gigs the “The Coots-With–Queer-Ideas-From-a-Parallel-Universe” invent. Perhaps this is a “Hazing” ritual within the IPA fraternity to “prove” him. That, like the more senior of the IPA Asylum, “Plonker-one” Roskam and “Badger” Berg, that you can say repetitively in public, the most inanely ludicrous, anti-social things with a straight face and still call yourself human.

Stop Press… here is a picture , allegedly of three of the “Faceless-Men” who back the IPA…Apparently taken at the crucifixion of a socialist type chap; these willing three were selling off what assets he had left.

Alleged IPA Donors at Crucifixion

Liarbrils in NSW are imploding under the weight their own fundraising corruption being exposed publicly. “The Spiv” Sinodinas just might take a few of his Federal colleagues with him as the net in the ICAC enquiry tightens. What is wryly funny about this is how “Rabbutt-the-Hun” has banged-on and on and on about Labor corruption and is now watching only two Labor people being investigated; whilst whole branches of the Liarbril Party and people very close to himself are feeling the heat …justice might exist. 

In the Tardis State “Where-All-Goes-Backward” Liarbril Pretend Premier, Dennis “Inutilus Rusticus” Naptime has taken to going around in election mode without a tie. This, I think, is meant to look relaxed and “cool”. Dennis….NOT… you look more like a dork than ever!

They are having a flurry of activity putting a little money back into things they have previously gutted and which for the main will mostly be privatised (and therefore in the long run cost the public more)… there is a real whiff of desperation in all this sudden activity… and trying to avoid presenting a business case for their concreting of public parks and destroying homes to build a tunnel of little effect is not a good look either.

Just when the real Premier, Geoff “Fiddles” Shaw seems to have been sedated, up pops Bernie “F***WITTED” Finn telling us that the “social media” is dangerous and should be

A Bernie Finn

censored as “… a campaign on face-book could in the long run could bring down a government”…and “people”, he said “..wake up in the morning and they are faced with this information that may be totally libellous, false in every way, but a lot of people will be influenced by it.”  Poor Bernie… sounds more like “The Sun” and “The Australian” and “Blot on the Landscape” to me.

 Not content with those gems of media wisdom, Bernie then goes off on a rant… "In this day and age I don't think there is any acceptable reason for having an abortion,"

"In years gone by when they needed to kill the baby to save the mother then it might have been acceptable but in today's world I think that's a very 1950s argument."

The Liarbril MP, said abortion in cases of rape was like being raped a second time and was being used as defence by paedophiles and rapists.

Is he a member of the IPA, too?

Closer to the Wombat Burrow there was a very sad letter in the local rag from a Jim Stewart of Smeaton who is one of those “gullibles” sucked in by the tobacco business’ campaign style..  a style deliberately concocted to divide and discredit environmental campaigns. He quotes with very shonky figures and psuedo-scientific assertions by the fully discredited NIPPC, a shonky group backed by Heartland Foundation in USA. Heartland’s funding over the past decade has included thousands of dollars directly from Exxon Mobil and the American Petroleum Institute, but a large portion of their funding ($25.6 million) comes from the shadowy Donor’s Capital Fund, created expressly to conceal the identity of large donors to free-market causes. The Koch brothers appear to be funnelling money into Donor’s Capital via their Knowledge and Progress Fund.

It is exquisitely sad to see people denigrating science and some even claiming that scientists have a vested interest (though in what, is never stated) when the truth of the matter is that they are quoting the views of the real vested interests who have only profit as their motive not the health of the planet nor that of its inhabitants.

 Curiously, there was another climate denier letter in the same rag… from Queensland… so thoughtful of someone in the “Far North” to think of writing to Ballan in Victoria. Hmmm is this propaganda from the owners of this rag…? Oohh, Shane you are cynical!

And if you think the illo up front is a bit over-the-top it may be time to wake up …just a little….

Cheers Petals,

Shane