Raining on Truffles' Parade

Shane and Rain

G'day possums,

It's been raining a lot and although it was nowhere near as bad as the '98 falls' all the fields were flooded and creeks running where they've never usually been before.

Everything being very wet is also a metaphor for the times.

It is Truffles Turnbull's first anniversary as Prime Miniature and he is now further behind in the polls than Rabid-the-Hun was when Truffles knifed him for not being popular and not handling the economy very well.

 It is passing strange then that the economy is worse and it is Rabid's IPA agenda still being implemented.

Peter I-Had-a-Baton Costello has re-joined the comedy circuit again by telling the mining industry it had been shabbily treated!  Notwithstanding the billions of dollars in tax breaks it filches and the environmental damage it leaves for others to clean up and pay for, Petey said, "The Resources Super Profits Tax was the weirdest tax ever conceived by a government in this country. In the end it collected nothing of substance," conveniently ignoring the Norwegian example of how to future proof your country rather than selling everything off to the nearest bidder. He also thought that the real values of the mining industry should be taught in schools.  A sort of Reverse-Ethics study.

Petey is also the Treasurer who wasted the biggest mining boom in the nation's history by failing to develop any significant infrastructure and providing the middle and business classes with tax cuts that now are costing the country very dear.

 

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The Ruling Rabble are so "good" that they ran out of legislation to debate in the senate which allowed their senators to waffle on about anything they wanted for a few hours.

One, Brigitte McKenzie (National Party) couldn't remember the name or town of a colleague she was droning on about which was probably more entertaining than her interminable dreary conservative platitudes on QandA a night or two later.  Another, Linda Reynolds, decided that the repeal of 18C (Racial Discrimination Act) was her essay topic, flying in the face of Truffles diminishing authority and his assertions that the Ruling Rabble will leave 18C alone.

 

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Truffles' "Iron Clad" guarantee that the superannuation legislation would not be altered turned into a sort of soft Lead material after Nationals back-bencher, Blubber Christensen said he would spit his dummy if they didn't change it adding further to the actuality that the Ruling Rabble couldn't run a Chook raffle in a pub!

But staying "on-song," their strident repetitive cries of, "...what a successful week..' and "...how well and widely we consult..." it all seemed less of a positive note but more akin to the feeble screeches of drowning rats... and just when you think the Ruling Rabble can't go any lower or get any worse, off flatulates Bookshelves Brandis on how as important to the country Truffles will be compared to the war-mongers Ming Menzies and Little Johnny Howard.

But the one thing that is utterly fascinating about this rancid collective of cronyism. 
They're totally and universally incompetent and divided and everyone is raining on Truffles' parade. An incoherent latter-day, Much Ado About Nothing?

 

Australian Metaphor

It's come to light that the Army's Dress uniforms are being made in China 'cause they're cheaper. The boots certainly are ...they fall apart!

 

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What future does this sad country have? Not much it seems; perhaps it's a bit like a pimple or a boil reaching its potential and it is then squeezed or lanced and the poison dribbles out and you then get better.

Hoo-Roo petals,

Shane