tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post1548389481818752784..comments2023-11-03T00:06:36.875+11:00Comments on Bunyipitude: Suddenly, the Sounds of SilenceBunyiphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14668398379654771814noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post-12624289570916422582012-10-27T09:53:56.307+11:002012-10-27T09:53:56.307+11:00So true, Deadman. The flagrant waste, ignorance, ...So true, Deadman. The flagrant waste, ignorance, ineptitude and sheer laziness I see all too frequently in my educated organisation make my blood boil. Makes mock of exhortations to fiscal and ethical responsibilty. The selfish sense of entitlement and senseless expenditure of folk who should know better is disgraceful. Pippanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post-40139800956863794502012-10-26T23:36:57.260+11:002012-10-26T23:36:57.260+11:00Even supposing that the costs of two people stayin...Even supposing that the costs of two people staying in luxurious accommodation are not much different from the cost of one person staying in luxurious accommodation (which I doubt), a major problem here is that if the senator’s wife cost the taxpayer only an extra dollar a year, rather than at least $120,000 in six months, it would still be too much; ministers of the Crown and public servants should not be adding to the public purse at any time unless with sound reasoning and with appropriate authorisation.<br />The sort of deplorable thinking, whereby every tea-room of a department might be provided with fancy coffee-maker and hi-fi system, or every teacher with a “free” computer, or every parliamentarian with a part-time assistant straight out of a political-science major with a salary twice or thrice that of a bloke who labours hard all day actually making stuff, on the fallacious grounds that it’s only a pittance and doesn’t amount to so much really, is part of the sloppy, imprudent, improvident thinking, I submit, which has led to our seriously damaged economy.Deadmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05012725254441170657noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post-71500561883300929962012-10-26T20:16:26.871+11:002012-10-26T20:16:26.871+11:00Nonny one assumes that accommodation would be not ...Nonny one assumes that accommodation would be not much different than the Used Car on his own. I assume of course that he shares a room and bed with his wife. The odd cocktail and stir fry is not going to do much damage to our already seriously damaged economy.Davidnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post-70298734899009577292012-10-26T19:30:47.117+11:002012-10-26T19:30:47.117+11:00The young lady is correct, Bunyip. Never, ever, e...The young lady is correct, Bunyip. Never, ever, ever, disagree with a leftie who is 'teaching' you.<br /><br />They do not like it at all. Elizabeth (Lizzie) B.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post-79097119057286273732012-10-26T14:49:20.365+11:002012-10-26T14:49:20.365+11:00Airfares $120g Accommadation $?.Airfares $120g Accommadation $?.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post-64225777083692530812012-10-26T12:26:01.937+11:002012-10-26T12:26:01.937+11:00Evidence has nothing to do with the religion of an...Evidence has nothing to do with the religion of anthropomorphic climate change. Self flagellation is cleansing. Gaia's predeliction for coprophilia inspired the composting toilet, etc. It's all so cleansing - but utterly unrighteous to clean your hands with water from a dam.<br /><br />PS. Rising CO2 levels is the only good news story there is at the moment. Without a shadow of a doubt it will mean more plant life growing with greater ground cover density in more places. And animals have tendency to eat plants, or other animals which eat plants.<br /><br />Green was only ever a synonym for envy, in a sick world, where sick is a metaphor for the condition of the mind, not brain.PhillipGeorge(c)2012noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post-85831571645905978802012-10-26T11:29:04.851+11:002012-10-26T11:29:04.851+11:00And the commentary I'm hearing from sundry peo...And the commentary I'm hearing from sundry people in my place of work and elsewhere refers to ice caps (plural). Somehow the hurricane damage, and subsequent ice loss, to the icecap at the top of the planet has been extended by either Chinese Whisper Technology (TM) or Analytical Ability Absent Syndrome to the one at the bottom. And no amount of pointing the error out changes closed minds.Megannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post-66301113219738315382012-10-26T10:44:20.049+11:002012-10-26T10:44:20.049+11:00With Sen. Bob Carr’s strong defence of his socking...With Sen. Bob Carr’s strong defence of his socking it to the taxpayer for whisking his wife luxuriously around the world revealed as “It’s a good idea”, we can see that <i>all</i> this inept government’s decisions—such as establishing an expensive but useless department of climate change, fomenting race-riots, accepting awarmists’ loony but self-interested prophecies of climatic catastrophe, imposing a ‘carbon’ tax which does nothing for the climate but raises the cost of living, incompetently trying to hide its own ineptitude by redefining words and imposing censorship on free speech, or imposing a mining tax which costs millions in compliance but which raises no revenue—are founded on no more than “<a href="http://allrightallright.blogspot.com.au/2012/10/its-good-idea.html" rel="nofollow">it’s-a-good-idea</a>” reasoning.Deadmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05012725254441170657noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post-61114828446648284472012-10-26T10:15:27.401+11:002012-10-26T10:15:27.401+11:00Prof you forgot AGW Step 5. The one that sounds l...Prof you forgot AGW Step 5. The one that sounds like this - "I'm sorry but the party you are after is unavailable at the moment. If you leave a message ......."Davidnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post-24718993423879840962012-10-26T09:34:31.628+11:002012-10-26T09:34:31.628+11:00"You tell them what they want to hear and the..."You tell them what they want to hear and then you graduate"<br /><br />Sounds like the mandatory political awareness classes of the former Soviet Union discussing "Chto Delat".<br /><br />"We must purge, and purge again!"The Old and Unimproved Davenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post-15718142287598327412012-10-26T08:43:58.203+11:002012-10-26T08:43:58.203+11:00When will Benny Cubby and Timbo Flannery heading o...When will Benny Cubby and Timbo Flannery heading off to re-education camp?<br /><br />The Irish LionAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post-63782832772421617442012-10-26T08:41:38.417+11:002012-10-26T08:41:38.417+11:00"You tell them what they want to hear ...&quo..."You tell them what they want to hear ...". Well, that's refreshing. It was common practice among ANU undergraduates to arrange, usually for some consideration, for someone else to to do the telling, although the teacher was not so informed.rafikinoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post-17355256757150309842012-10-26T08:38:28.586+11:002012-10-26T08:38:28.586+11:00Funnily enough they also forgot to mention the rec...Funnily enough they also forgot to mention the record* Antarctic ice cover of the last few months.<br /><br />* All records of both Arctic and Antarctic ice cover start from 1979 when they deployed satellites to measure them.jupesnoreply@blogger.com