2016.07.26 Rabid Narcissistic Fool
If they did not find a bridge, they could only grow more insane each year, like a rich nobleman in an empty castle chasing elves and ogres with his stick. - Norman Mailer
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"They had been a damned minority for too long, a huge indigestible boulder in the voluminous ruminating gut of every cow-like Democratic administration, an insane Republican minority with vast powers of negation and control, a minority who ran the economy, and half the finances of the world, and all too much of the internal affairs of four or five continents, and the Pentagon, and the technology of the land, and most of the secret police, and nearly every policeman in every small town, and yet finally they did not run the land, they did not comprehend it, the country was loose from them, ahead of them, the lifestyle of the country kept denying their effort, the lives of the best Americans kept accelerating out of their reach. They were the most powerful force in America, and yet they were a psychic island. If they did not find a bridge, they could only grow more insane each year, like a rich nobleman in an empty castle chasing elves and ogres with his stick." - Norman Mailer on the Republican Party, 1968
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jul/22/republican-party-donald-trump-madman-in-his-castle
F.U.
Dishlickers
Eddie Obeid
Ian Turnbull who will die in gaol http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/farmer-ian-turnbull-jailed-for-murdering-environment-officer-glen-turner-20160623-gppzki.html
Eric forgets his family history https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/jul/25/eric-abetz-praises-article-urging-rethink-on-open-borders-to-muslim-migration
Turns out it wasn't just one testicle https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/jul/13/an-pleads-guilty-to-removing-another-mans-testicle
WA Aboriginal Communities https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/jul/14/fears-western-australia-will-close-remote-indigenous-communities-by-stealth
Sydney Lindt Cafe
Mining cleanup https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/jul/20/full-holes-australia-mining-boom-permanent-scars
People setting other people on fire
Threats against Bolt https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/jul/08/andrew-bolt-moves-children-out-of-family-home-after-death-threats
This guy https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/jul/21/attack-sydney-police-station
And then George (Manchild) Christensen withdrew his stupid comment about that event, only to make stupid comments about this event https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/jul/24/george-christensen-says-munich-shooting-validates-admittedly-incorrect-remarks
RIP (aka Coming to an End)
Turkish secular government
Hazara in Kabul
Kids in Munich
Bastille Day in Nice
Wooden escalators at Wynyard? http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/after-80-years-sydneys-wooden-escalators-face-the-chop-20160708-gq19io.html
John Pidgeon https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2016/jul/21/john-pidgeon-obituary
Bill Heffernan left the Senate in the election just passed
Lady Susan Rossiter Peacock Sangster Renouf https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/jul/15/australian-socialite-susan-renouf-dies-age-73-after-battle-with-ovarian-cancer
The Blessed Rat https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/jul/11/man-who-bit-head-off-rat-and-ate-it-a-rabid-narcissistic-fool-says-magistrate
NEWS
Australian Election - meet the new government, same as the old government
HoR results http://vtr.aec.gov.au/HouseDefault-20499.htm
Senate results http://www.abc.net.au/news/federal-election-2016/results/senate/
Brandis scrutineering votes - WRONG on many levels
Mr Coal becomes Environment and Energy Minister https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jul/20/mr-coals-super-ministry-and-the-challenges-of-merging-energy-with-the-environment
Hanson/Aly(s)/Kruger https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/jul/04/pauline-hanson-takes-centre-stage-again-but-this-time-we-should-listen-not-lampoon https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jul/15/queensland-is-not-backward-its-an-early-warning-system https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jul/19/the-most-depressing-thing-about-pauline-hansons-view-of-muslims-the-facts-no-longer-matter
The Greens
Bill Shorten
Hinch and his legal threat - he has a lot to learn about the Senate https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/jul/05/derryn-hinch-threatens-legal-action-if-he-is-relegated-to-three-year-senate-term
Turnbull's election night speech - ABCC and productivity
Anne Aly, Husic, Dastyari
Plebiscite https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jul/05/a-marriage-equality-plebiscite-is-not-inevitable-anymore-we-have-the-numbers-for-a-free-vote https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/jul/24/marriage-equality-george-brandis-to-ask-cabinet-to-decide-plebiscite-wording
Tasmania's Christian regressives gone (except Abetz)
The 'boutique senator' Cory Bernardi and his Australian Conservatives https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/jul/06/cory-bernardi-establishes-rightwing-movement-australian-conservatives
E-voting is a very bad idea https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jul/12/lets-put-e-voting-where-it-belongs-on-the-trash-heap-of-bad-ideas https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/jul/20/looking-out-for-no-1-why-the-senate-vote-count-needs-greater-transparency
Penny Wong
Linda Burney/Kim Carr
Mandate
Turnbull's donation
Only 7 parliamentary sitting weeks scheduled this year
LNP to split from Libs and Nats? https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/jul/22/move-for-lnp-split-from-liberal-and-national-parties-expected-next-month
Frankly, pollies are not enough eating of their own ... yet.
Other News
Biden visit
Chilcot Report https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/jul/07/australia-needs-its-own-chilcot-inquiry-into-iraq-war-former-defence-head-says https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/jul/07/john-howard-chilcot-sending-troops-iraq-war-justified-at-the-time- https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/jul/08/paul-keating-says-john-howard-should-hang-his-head-in-shame-over-iraq-war
Rupert on Iraq then and now https://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2016/jul/11/was-rupert-murdoch-fooled-by-tony-blairs-pro-war-silky-oratory
Turkey Coup
Kabul suicide bombings
Australian Census
Gambling reforms https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/jul/14/nick-xenophon-and-andrew-wilkie-demand-federal-reform-of-gambling-laws
Chinese Propaganda https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/jul/14/fairfaxs-china-propaganda-sheet-reveals-beijings-enormous-restraint
Citizenship Loss Board https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/jul/22/government-members-of-secretive-citizenship-loss-board-named
Pokemon Go
WWF buys Reef shark fishing licence https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/jul/13/wwf-buys-shark-fishing-licence-on-great-barrier-reef-to-scrap-it
Van Badham and Steve Price (he's a right vunt) https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/video/2016/jul/12/qa-steve-price-and-van-badham-clash-over-eddie-mcguire-saga-video https://www.theguardian.com/society/video/2016/jul/14/van-badham-the-subject-of-abuse-after-steve-prices-comments-on-qa-video
Eddie and prescription drugs https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2016/jul/17/eddie-mcguire-blames-heavy-duty-painkillers-for-2013-adam-goodes-comments
Welfare dependency https://www.theguardian.com/business/grogonomics/2016/jul/25/cutting-welfare-means-hitting-those-who-are-already-among-the-poorest-greg-jericho
Bananaland and Crocland
Meltdown over kids detention in NT https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jul/26/dont-waste-our-time-with-a-royal-commission-just-shut-down-youth-detention-centres-now
Aurukun https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/jul/05/aurukun-review-children-learn-more-about-us-than-australia-and-indigenous-culture https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/jul/07/noel-pearson-under-fire-from-all-sides-over-aurukun-school-experiment
SPORT
Are the Olympics dead?
Jared Tallent
Cheating Ruskies
Waratahs suck
Hawks ... Can they lose?
Fffaaarkup
Chile won the Copa America
Portugal won the Euros
F1 is soooo dull
