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4:16 post - well well - a new Labor member with experience outside a union.
As a teacher for 27 years she might have more real world experience than the entire Caucus.
As opposition whip all that hands-on experience dealing with kiddies won't hurt either.
The editorial in today's Herald takes the new government on for the excessive number of "reviews and advisory panels" they have commissioned in their first 100 days. They might like to quote the PM in his time as Leader of the Opposition, complaining that:
"He's a great one for setting up committees and claiming that as an achievement of itself. We've lost count, but early on in the life of the Rudd Government I think we counted up about 150 separate reviews, committees, inquiries and other processes that had been put in place. A lot of these don't come to anything. That's why people think he's all talk and no action." Feb 19, 2010
Just a reminder that 4Corners has a special investigation into people smuggling tonight "Trading Misery" at 8.30pm on ABC1
No doubt Scott "Can't answer any questions in parliament - it's not in my folder" Morrison will have nothing to say on the issue in parliament, on Lateline or 7.30 or until his weekly Operation Sovereign Borders update this Fri.
That's how much time Morrison needs to spin carefully scripted answers with Peta Credlin and Brian Loughnane, especially given Snowden's revelations about Australia tapping SBY's phone.
How's that "Jakarta focus" and "stronger ties with Indonesia" working out for Abbott again?
4.49pm - Penny Wong on the Finance and Administration Committee.
Is that like Homer Simpsonbeing put in charge of safety of the nuclear plant?
No, it's like George Orwell being put in charge of working out what lies are being peddled by the Government.
I see ms Peta travelled .... Just aw well that over 0.05 got quashed
other than Gillard repeating "moving forward" in the same speech, the rest of your comment as far as I know is fabrication. JG did not repeat those other expressions in the way that TA does and for some of them they were one offs. Was it her or Wayne who said they would achieve a surplus? I never heard of Labor saying it had achieved a surplus. I am being sincerely (ignorant?) not disingenous.
Why demean and discredit yourself with (some) blatant untruths and make yourself seem hard of understanding about a straightforward query as to why TA repeats the same word in the same statement, QT answer or speech?
Well Lyn there was an amount of mickey to a certain extent, but in terms of the surplus both Swan and Gillard stated that they had delivered a surplus.
"we've delivered a surplus, on time, as promised" said Swan after the 2012-13 budget.
You'll forgive me for ignoring any ALP promises of budget competence for about ten years if that's okay.
returning to TA repetition. It is a form of brain washing. Remember his mantra<s of :a bad government" bad economy"The boats, etcyou will believe it.. Hear something long enough and if you are weak you will believe it
Exhibit A
There will be no carbon tax under a givernment I lead.
Exhibit B
The budget will return to surplus.
I rest my case.
This new government is just making me sick to my stomach.
This is getting ridiculous, today, in the space of hours, we have the ALP legacies of SBYwatch, Potgate, Plategate - what else could possibly go wrong for Shorten's strategists?
I love the way the Libs have been pushing the story they are being frugal with stories like Julie Bishop cutting costs on her travel by going buinsess class and taking her own iron to Tony Abbottt choosing the spartan surrounds of the AFP college while the lodge gets repaired.
Yet today we find this "Taxpayers are forking out $3000 a week in rent for a luxury Canberra house that Prime Minister Tony Abbott has chosen not to use." So in fact in order to get the right media story in the News LTed papers Abbott is actually costing us more than $3k a week.
You're joking right? Each of those problems have been occuring under both parties. But don't let the truth get in the way of your denial.
The bureaucrats signed the lease on the property before the election. Neither Rudd, nor Abbott, actually inspected it.
The house was leased a week before the election by the Dept, technically still under the control of Rudd. Another ALP legacy - Housegate can be added to the list.
4:16 post - well well - a new Labor member with experience outside a union.
As a teacher for 27 years she might have more real world experience than the entire Caucus.
As opposition whip all that hands-on experience dealing with kiddies won't hurt either.
Hacka well said and yes she should be able to handle the pretend adults on the government side quite well.
So much for Kevin's resignation and departure. Last Wednesday evening, he stated the following in Parliament:
"That is why I will not be continuing as a member of this parliament beyond this week."
That is, beyond the 15th.
Now, he is saying that he will tender his reisgnation letter sometime the middle to end of this week.
So, last week's comments appear to have mislead Parliament, because (*) he got up and announced that he was retiring, and (*) that he would not be continuing as a member of Parliament beyond the end of that week, yet (*) now he saying something altogether different.
Politics right the very end and then beyond.
So Rudd had to extend his resignation so he could complete outstanding correspondence with his constituents but whilst e is overseas. Looks like his electronic signature is getting a workout together with the poor overworked office assistant who is writing up all those responses to the good folk of Griffith. It's not often you can pretend to be a former PM.
Well at least he isn't flying from Perth to Cairns to try and see the members of his electorate.
No. For that, Kevin flew all the way from Brisbane to New York, then back again, as a private MP (post election). All of that was on business or first class. And he was there for quite some time, but none of it on either electorate, government or official business.
How about we gift the DALEK to the Indonesians? And no - of course we would not bug it!! :)
Can anyone please explain why Abbott, continually repeats himself not only once or twice but thrice often. Not just in QT, but in his speeches to the party faithful and in those rare Pressers.
It's habitual, a simple explanation will do.
So his mates in the press gallery a certain about his preferred soundbite.
Because that's how Peta explains it to him.
There is a lag in the earpiece from Peta to Tone so he repeats last phrase till new one arrives. Notice in his unscripted gaffes he doesn't repeat!
Well ACG, Macca75, tasch2, Pieron - you've never been too good at listening to anything Abbott has to say so he might figure repeating it helps !
In TA's case, in off the cuff remarks eg in interviews and in QT, maybe because he is a slow thinker and it gives him processing time.
In the case of his pre-prepared remarks and speeches, he and his speech writers have clearly heard of the rule of three in lierature, speech making, music but (in yet another affirmation of his and the LNP's low opinion of Australians' intellects and possibly his own) have bastardised it into a low brow practice of simply repeating the same thing/word three times. Not an application of the rule of three at all but he and his speech writers must think it is impactful and effective. To me, this repetition is dull and dim witted.
Hacka - That is not true I listen to everything he says, that is how I am able to point out how most of it doesn't make any sense.
Hearing isn't believing.
Hacka, When the suppository of all wisdom finally pokes his head up we do listen with baited breath for him to enlighten our days with another gaffe or more uncosted policies on the run. More barnacle boats anybody!
Hacksy, given your maintained unwavering support for the LNP I imagine you don't listen to Tony either.
Fair enough Macca75 - perhaps Abbott just takes a leaf out of one of parliament's great orators, and the original repeater - Keating.
Thanks, I think the money is on Peta, somehow.
Hacka, I listen, I just don't like what i hear.
But the constant repetitiveness is irritating and ineffectual, condescending even.
How else does he spend his time at the dispatch box, it doesn't take long to announce a three-words slogan !
Well guys i seem to remember a certain ex-Prime Minister repeating herself quite a lot. "misogynist", "men in blue ties", "unfit to govern", "there will be no carbon tax", "we've returned to surplus - rolled, gold, guaranteed", "moving forward", get the picture ?
No Hacka, not that picture, they are all guilty of that. when he begins to speak or in the middle of saying something. Like we didn't hear or a weird stammer, Turrets like.
Oh look i don't know ACG - maybe he speaks slowly to appeal to people that don't listen well.
When posting, i tend to write it slowly as i know some people can't read very fast :-)
Maybe Abbott speaks slowly to counter the 24Seven lectures we've been used to. Don't know if you guys know "How Green was my Cactus" on the radio but their portrayal of Abbott is hysterical.
Hacksy, you probably remember those phrases so vividly because you have typed them ad nauseum over the past three years in your inept attempts to construct an argument.
At least the Coalition is consistent about one thing. They turned Question Time into a circus when in Opposition and they are still making it a circus.
WW - you must be in shock that Minister's answer questions directly (except of course in the case of national security issues :-)
Whyalla Whipeout, that is a little desperate.
Having watched question time today via streaming, labor to me resembled Ding Duck from the Swamp cartoon series. There was a lot of flapping, a bit of noise but ultimately no lift off and a very funny end.
If there is a circus, the clowns are in opposition. Bravo.
And an embarrassing circus, did you note O'Dwyer's behaviour during the maiden speech. OK not exactly a Martin Luther King moment but looked like only 2/3 colleagues remained. i felt a bit sorry for him and at least watched most of it, boring as it was. He would feel humiliated when realising how few had listened.
Manners, etiquette whatever happened to them and that applies to all.
Hacka, I'm in shock that you think the Government is answering any question directly.
Even Dolores could not avoid drawing the the attention of some Ministers to standing order 104(a), but not before inflicting the blood quill on the Opposition.
Do you have some serious problems with blindness and deafness on the left side?
perhaps a little WW, but the right side's working fine.
Every day the Speaker becomes more and more Dolores Umbridge. She puts on the sweetest voice to be utterly biased. She is an utter disgrace.
I'm awaiting that blood quill WW. Anytime soon.
You need to go back and watch the last 2 speakers. Bishop is no different... every speaker is biased. They belong to the government. How many Gov members of paliament were thrown out in the Rudd/Gillard/Rudd tems?
I can go back over the last three Speakers. After my last post I saw the most revolting performance where she desperately tried to cover up for her own incompetent bias (pointed out by Joel Fitzgibbon for heaven's sake) and then still could not help the Minister deal with the tabling of a document.
Aren't you embarrassed to even let her in the same house as Anna Burke.
Brettie, how many Opposition members were thrown out?
I know that a number of Government members were tossed for one hour, especially under Peter Slipper. So far, all we have seen is prejudice and bias from Bronwyn. And she is what we QT watchers always thought - actually ignorant of the standing orders.
There are so many of you know-alls, obviously without jobs, making so many comments. Why don't you stand for office and let's see what you do can do in the real world.
I doubt the people you crticise as no alls will judge you for not having a job and also no need to be so hard on yourself for not having one - because reflecting back to you your own measure (which I do not endorse or agree with as I dont think people who comment are necessarily jobless and even if they are, this does not make them bludgers as you imply) you must be jobless, being able to comment on this site!
Politics the real world? As if.
Can't find that out but is was a fair few from my memory. It's always the opposition that is thrown out otherwise it's a new speakr. Really it's a joke with the ALP supporters complaining about the speakers bias. Where have you been? Comments about her being a newbie making rookie mistakes is valid though. A poor start for Bishop but I wouldn't hang her just yet.
Brettie, you obviously missed Dolores jumping up and down like a pogo stick when her side were disrupting every Question Time for the last three years. Otherwise you would know that she acted - and was treated by her own side - as having every word of the standing orders hardwired into her very being.
She is not a newbie. She has been around forever, getting the Speaker's job as a payoff. It should have gone to Bruce Scott, whose performance as Deputy Speaker in the last Parliament was exemplary.
JT, Piesnchess, A country gal, Whyalla Wipeout, Steeden, Ladies and Gentlemen as you seem to be the current Labor Brains Trust and freshly graduated from the Union School for Writing Nonsense.
I ask you all "Why did Labor get tossed out on it's ear at the recent Election" were the voters wrong in doing this.
From what we are seeing of this invisible bumbling LNP government i agree with your sentiment. Yes the voters did get it wrong!
Internal infighting, a relentless campaign by the MSM (in particular Murdoch) and I don't think people really realised how good they had it due to this relentlessly negative campaign. I'll award a win to the then LOTO on the grounds he sucked the electorate in with his slogans. And yes the voters did get it wrong. Every single passing day is proof of that.
The voters weren't wrong. 54% did not vote LNP.
Just because LNP was elected does not mean that those who are not LNP voters, who disagree with what the LNP has done in Govt or with its ideology or for whatever reason they are critical or negative, must only express a view that agrees with yours or that endorses the LNP, its policies and everything it does or says.
What a stupid notion if that is what you are saying.
Based on your comment, I presume that when the ALP was in Govt you either remained silent or commented positively about ALP and everything it did and its policies?
Bronwyn Bishop is so one-eyed, it is ridiculous.
That is because she has the other eye well and truly on the increase in her pay packet from doing the role.
When one door closes another opens!
Entirely fictional thought bubble by any one of a group of Fed politicians, who based on recent reports of entitlement rorting, are in it for the main chance (inspired by Mark Kenny's report that over 300 large heavy plant filled terracotta pots have disappeared from Parliament House).
"Politicians entitlements under scrutiny - hmmm. Got to make up that lost source of funds from somewhere. Those pot plants, its a grey area - given they are just lying around, no one seems to own them, they may be abandoned, back up the forklift, onto the truck/ute/boot, then onto Gum Tree and Bob's your Uncle to a nice little earner."
QT - looks like someone's been in Bill's ear over the weekend, and the CT / ETS, debt ceiling and oats aren't so important today.
Maybe he read Hartcher's Meltdown article ....
"Oats" well they are very good for reducing cholesterol. Not quite sure of the relevance with the price on Carbon. Barnaby did mention a few agricultural sectors in his blushing speech though.
Those oats better be hot too. Remember the last time he was given something cold - he completely lost the plot. How did that pie taste anyway Bill?
Barnaby should do something about his blood pressure, or is he just blushing with embarrassment.
So when are the LNP going to do something besides bag out labor and take the credit for their work?. I am not talking about their heinous bogan operation sovereignty.
When is Negatrvity Bill going to have a positive statement to waffle on about. ??
In the owrds of the worst opposition leader in history (Tony Abbott) the opposition is here to oppose. He has nothing much to oppose as this government in hiding has done nothing.
Haters gonna hate. As much as you bag him, he brought down not one, but two sitting Prime Ministers who have both subsequently resigned form Parliament and was one seat away from turfing out a first term government.
Give credit where it is due.
Smokin mo,
Labor brought themselves down with their own infighting and backstabbing. The through all this only garnered 48% of the vote and Abbott himself only got the leadership by one vote. So realistically after the lying negative slogan filled campaign proudly sponsored by Rupert. No I will not give credit to this fraudster and if that makes me a hater then so be it, I am comfortable with that. I am also more than comfortable with the fact I did not vote such a heinous bigoted government.
I too am most comfortable with the fact that I did vote for the LNP.
Unfortunately you like many other Labor die hards are still oblivious to why you were voted out. It wasn't just the internal in fighting (as selfish as it was). Your record in government was horrendous and the broken promises resulted in a loss of trust in the electorate. Blame it on the Murdoch press if you like (the Fairfax press is just as guilty today with a record number of negative Abbott stories) but to think there were no other reasons is delusional an naive.
Smokin Mo,
Horrendous as in one of the strongest global economies, jobs growth, AAA rating while successfully navigating a G. Admittedly they did not conduct themselves as a government should, but looking at this pack of buffoons currently in the previous Labor government are not looking too bad and people out there are already questioning there very unwise decision voting them in. I have read your other posts here and for a n LNP voter you dispell a large amount of venom towards Labor, loving the boats policy are you???
Photo@1:33PM AEDT:
Looks like Channel 9 found one of the missing terra cotta pots.
Oops, coal production should read as 456.1 million tonnes.
Just when we thought Rudd's ALP had finished with ideas like Fuelwatch, Grocerywatch and we now find out he was running SBYwatch. Brilliant and no doubt with the aid of Obamawatch. What great legacies the ALP left behind.
It seems we can't get rid of their shocking legacy.
2009 - k. Rudd control. And he resigned on Friday.
EiE - did you notice that the Greens (Ludlam) want a full public inquiry into Australia's spy agencies ?
Oh brilliant - why don't we just open the doors of DSD or better still, publish all their records online. So much for national security.
You thin spying is limited to the ALP? What a precious little life you must lead.
You honestly believe that spying never took place under the lnp? I would hazard a guess that spying increased dramatically over the past 13 years. Want to guess who the pm was for the first half of that time frame?
Hacks, the Greens and ALP should be more concerned about the overdue Royal Commission into Unions. Let's hope PM Abbott gets it up and running during his second year of Govt. We should get a lot of evidence and good recommendations leading up to the next election.
Seems like deja' vu all over again - the LNP back in the saddle once again cleaning up Labor's balls-up's both financial and otherwise....
12.19 well there's a cheap answer for the "dining room" to replace the sagging Thai silk. Borrowed pics of Liz and her ancestors could grace the walls. Queen Victoria, Henry VIII etc very appropriate. Few corgis to lighten it up.
Oh dear, so Rudd and Gillard were trying to tap into the Indonesian President's phone whilst at the same time gleefully blasting media orgnisations for doing it. Tony Abbott can now reassure Indonesia that this terrible part of Australia's political history is well and truly past.
You assume this sort of thing just started under the ALP, I would be surprised to find it didn't kick off in the post 9/11 frenzy - which was under Howard.
Tones can reassure Indonesia by offering them second hand barnacle barges, as he did with Sri Lanka. Never mind torture and human rights, that concerned Conservative PM Cameron so much, . !
Piesnchess sounds like you would prefer for people to continue drowning at sea rather then stop the people smugglers.
Let us face the reality for what is Tony Abbott's short term goal by scrapping the carbon price, it is to see an enormous expansion of the mining industry, including massive coal production increase so the Coalition can pay of government debt ASAP. Anything else is a barrier to his goal no matter how short sighted and fiscally irresponsible this exercise actually is.
It is irresponsible because he purposefully ignores the incredible massive cost of abating one year of Australian coal production currently at 456.1 tonnes for year 2013-14, producing 1.304 billion tonnes of Co2 at an 24/7/365 abatement cost of $2.2 billion per 400,000 tonnes of emissions.
Like the fiscal coward he is he refuses to accept the responsibility of the abatement cost of 1.304 billion tonnes of Co2 of $7172 billion. Instead he allows expansion of coal production to the detriment of every Australian. His cowardice is for all to see including the international community by spending $3.2 billion over 4 years on Direct Action that will not abate even our 5% emissions target.
Please discuss the need to send $150 Billion form the Australian economy overseas by 2020 for the ALP to meet its 5% cut by the ETS to buy shonky permits from Direct Action like planting tress in Nigeria??
The Sri Lankan Navy has been very successful against Tamils in the past. The Tigers assassinated a serving Naval Chief. There is no love lost between Navy and the Tamil 'sympathisers' who are still trying to flee the country - in fear of their lives. Two more patrol boats to add to the 12 'attack craft' they have will be as well received as our UH1H Choppers were received by PNG. And will probably be used in a similar fashion....
Well done TA, DM and PC ...brilliant!
Richard Marles needn't worry about the patrol boats only being used for asylum seeker operations. The most trivial internet inquiry reveals that we don't want them because they cost an arm and a leg in maintenance and hardly go to sea any more. The question is how insulted the Sri Lanka Navy will feel when they realise they've been fobbed off with secondhand duds.
OMG it's not Friday is it? Morrison in the Press Gallery, trying to spruik his "Give the Boats" mantra. What happened to "Buy the Boats"? Better to give than receive, how noble and christian.
Smokin' Joe.......
Why do you need $500b when your OWN numbers suggest we will peak debt at below $400b?
You told us we would be in good hands and your numbers would be right prior to the election, so why do you appear to have no confidence in those numbers now as wanting an extra $100b suggests?
In the words of our infamous friend...."Please Explain"!!
The ALP PEFO own numbers show debt peaking at $37 Billion.
Swannie said that advice to him was to have a $30-$60 Billion buffer built into the ceiling
= $400 - $430 Billion peak debt.
Simple if you knew the facts.
Andie - So why do we need the extra $70b-$100b?
All the ALP is saying, outline the issue before we give you the extra money - the Libs just don't want to revisit the issue leading up to an election where their "we'll cut the debt" lin will be shown as BS.
Yep, good old Faulkener who has just heard from Carol Mills that 350 terracotta pots have disappeared from Parliament House. I'm sure those Chinese Terracotta Warriors ain't coming to the National Gallery anytime soon.
At that time, the budget situation in the Department of the Senate was not so "dire," Dr Laing said.
Yes. This was a time when Howard and Costello thought that government revenue was better spent on George Brandis's ego than on Australian infrastructure.
Its called climate change, and having both unusually high and unusually low temperatures in the same month is not normal. So no, climate change hasn't stopped for now.
As Bill Shorten was the chief architect of the ALP's self- destruction 2009 - present, and Bill Shorten is responsible for failing to hold the government to account, I would like to see Bill Shorten apologise to and resign from the ALP, in everybody's interest. Step aside Bill as your judgement is abysmal, go and work on your personal development.
Actually, I would like to see the Government justify why it needs a debt ceiling of $500 billion when the most recent Treasury estimates project debt as peaking at below $400 billion.
It is incredible how the Coalition urgers who told us that the Opposition is not the issue 12 months ago now want to talk about every little prejudice they have against Labor in Opposition.
On second thoughts it is not incredible when you consider how hypocrisy is hardwired into Liberal DNA.
It's because of Bill Shorten's reckless spending, most treasury estimates expect the debt to blow out to about $450 billion, that is nearly $50,000 for every wage earner in Australia. How did this come about, the GFC was bad but not quite that bad.
Perhaps we should wait for MYEFO instead of hanging our hats on "most recent treasury estimates." Having said that, it's pretty clear to me why sloppy Joe wants the extra $100b pre-approved. Just in case, he doesn't want to go back for more just before the next election.
Bill Shorten's reckless spending ?
So it wasn't Ruddy who saved us from the GFC, it was Shorten. Lucky the ALP has him lined up as the new PM in a couple of years then. Gotta love Bill.
Kevin Rudd handed out $900 each plus a few school halls and pink batts, how did this blow out to $50,000 for each viable taxpayer? Rudd was knifed so he can't be held accountable for what happened later. Since the leader of the ALP is so replaceable we have to look to the real leader, this was clearly Bill Shorten from about 2009 onwards.
bg, it is a pity that those who were most vociferous about honesty from politicians when it came to the Labor Party not only turn a blind eye to the utterly dishonest garbage being spouted by the Government but are actually spouting the same rubbish themselves.
Depends on your perspective I suppose. I am like Eden Monaro, I swing the same way as the majority, judging by the outcome.
Or Bill Shorten himself. He always backs a winner doesn't he?
Bill Shorten just cares about clearing away the competition so he can be the main man. Bill has always been No.1 according to Bill. Some of us are just a bit slow to catch on that's all.
can anyone tell me how many trees Abbott intends to plant to stop all the pollution?
Calculations in the CSIRO research show that reaching the forecast figure for offsets from forest abatement would require millions of hectares of cropping and grazing land to be taken out of production and converted to forest.
I've just looked in myself, and I think it's a Labor site, Archer, but conservatives can still post.
Good luck to Bill Glasson - his video One More Day is the best I've ever seen of a political type. Really well done.
Archer, perhaps Tony Abbott could go speak to the former PM Bob Hawke, back in 1990 / 91 Mr Hawke had a tree planting policy across Australia, maybe Mr Hawke was ahead of his time?
now we know why he is cutting the CSIRO......he is seeming to cut anyone who can tell the truth to the public on many subjects
@ GJS so what your saying is that the LNP is twenty years behind the ALP. Sounds familiar.
Where are the billion trees Bob Hawke promised to plant? How many did he get up to?
I can't remember for sure but I suspect Bob Hawke only promised a million trees, this would be 1000 x 1000, only a large paddock.
Archer it won't happen.
It's fanciful to think DA will mitigate our emissions. in my area Project Hindmarsh has planted over a million (15+yrs) a biolink on public and private lands. How many have survived is another matter. One year a whole plantation was sabotaged by a disgruntled farmer who sprayed the tube stock with Roundup.
So it's not how many need to be planted, it's survival rate that's paramount. Logistically impossible.
This was in the SMH
"Bob Hawke made the ambitious pledge in 1989 as Australia buckled under the weight of severe land degradation, salinity and erosion. Although it sounded an impossible dream, more than 700 million were reportedly planted before the government lost the 1996 election and the program was scrapped."
Bob did promise 1B and apparently got up to 700M before losing Govt and the scheme scrapped. Scheme was to address land degradation not CC.
Kevin Rudd finished 5,201 votes ahead of Glasson on September 7.
Only on preferences. He was behind on primary vote.
I hate to be the one to break this to you, but we do not have first past the post in Australia. We have an optional preferential system. Who had the most first preferences is totally and utterly irrelevant.
Then why do politicians always say you can't win an election with a primary vote that low.
Seems like Murdochs pommy puppet likes to give other countries millions of dollars and free gifts but forgets about the Aussies who have lost their homes from the fires,So very sad.
Sounds like you're still weeping for the missing the Welsh sock puppet Steeden,
Never mind, best keep a tissue handy, because she's gone for good.
So I take it you are supportive that we didn't agree to help setup a climate change fund for impoverished Commonwealth members.
After all we could use those funds to help our bush fire victims.
The thing is, Smokin Mo, the money we are spending on bushfire relief (being a lot more miserably dole out under this government) will be a pittance on what we will spend on pushing back 'economic' migrants fleeing their climate change ravaged communities in droves on boats.
Smokin Mo - Why does it have to be either or?
Where do you think all those impoverished commonwealth citzens will flea to when CLimte change makes it impossible for them to sustain their populations?
At 7K Brandis' bookcase obviously didn't come as a flat pack from IKEA.
Ah there you are SteveH, thought I'd missed you. Um, you just asked me to compare Australia giving Indonesia Hercules aircraft for humanitarian and disaster relief with Abbott giving Sri Lanka patrol boats to round up and return their own citizens. That's right? You need me to explain how those two things are different? Perhaps you could find a better example.
Now that Kev's left town and hopefully Julia and supporters can keep quiet for a day or five, we might be able to get on with discussing the carbon tax repeal and sorting out the debt ceiling.
Here's hoping anyway.
If anybody wants to see some sensible commentary about carbon emissions by an environmental economist, try this link:
Just bear in mind that Lomborg is the pin-up economist for the denialists.
Yes, but unlike your hero Abbott, Lomborg accepts AGW. (Quote from Wikipedia) In a 2010 interview with the New Statesman, Lomborg summarized his position on climate change: "Global warming is real – it is man-made and it is an important problem. But it is not the end of the world."
His arguments are now not whether to do anything about it but that we don't have to do as much as is claimed to be necessary.
Lomborg in fact believes in climate change; just has a more pragmatic view about the issue.
I know what Lomborg's view is. The fact is he is still the pin-up boy for the denialists because they love anyone that they can put out into the debate to confuse the issues.
And what you call more pragmatic I call more extremist. And Lomborg is out there on his own (which is a good place to make a motza from those uncomfortable with the inconvenient truth)
WW - so now environmental economists should be ignored if you don't like their view ?
Sydney had the wettest November in 16 years - does this mean that climate change has been solved ?
Sydney had the wettest November in 16 years - does this mean that climate change has been solved ?
Your ignorance and lack of knowledge is on vivid display again.....more extreme dry and droughts and more extreme rain and floods.....that's the forecast.
But JT - if bush fires and cyclones are supposedly clear examples of CC in action, doesn't it follow that lots of rain means that the carbon tax has solved it all ?
By the way is that weather forecast from Tim Flannery ?
So, we are to ignore ignore an economist who believes in climate change. Obviously, he has one foot outside your ideological boundary.
What I keep seeking is for one of the luvvies to defend taking $150 Billion out of the Australian economy by 2020 under the ALP ETS to buy shonky permits overseas to meet their 5% cut n emissions.
That is $150 Billion to Direct Action plans like planting trees in Nigeria etc.
Why not spend that $150 Billion in the Australian economy doing the R&D necessary and on Direct Action here??
Hacka, record rain in November, to the extent that a single weather event means anything, is more likely to be a reflection of global warming than otherwise as greater heat causes greater evaporation from the oceans and consequential precipitation. Simplistic but nowhere near as simplistic as your comment.
$eptic, I did not say to ignore Lomborg, just to point out the caveat that he has skin in the game - just like denialists (masquerading as skeptics) allege about the 97% of climate scientists who are concerned about global warming.
So WW if i can be bold enough to paraphrase - examples of climate change are drought, flood, rain, heat, cold, fires, glaciers, melting ice, new ice, cyclones and snow - does that about cover it ?
One senses that some common sense is starting to blanket this debate - and not a moment too soon.
Hacka, it is not about 'examples' it is about very large, complex and fundamental changes in global ecosystems over very long periods.
If you want to know what I'm talking about, have a look at this article, especially the graph tracking the inexorable trend of rising global temperatures over 130 years.
bookcases are obsolete ,but apparently allowing traidies to rip of customers is very liberal.
A bit like building companies and overpriced school halls and COLA's ala building the educaiton revolution.
Good excuse for GB, those books are only for show anyway
The second hand patrol boats donated to Sri Lanka must be better than sending them off to the wreckers, hope they can afford the fuel or are we paying ?
Coldest November day since 2006 yesterday. Has global warming finished for now?
My 5 year old asked a similar question they other day, I wanted to refer him to some reading material however I deemed it would probably go over his head.
I showed mine the weather channel and explained to him that the weather changes all the time. Some days it is cold, some days it is hot, some days it rains, some days it is windy.
I think he got it.
No it hasn't and it's not about to, unless there is decisive and proactive global consensus.
So, I guess you had the heater on (churning out more emissions) rather than a jumper.
Wake up and start doing your bit by reducing your emissions.
A country gal,
Then why is it ok to sprout the "global warming" claim when we get a week of high temperatures but hear nothing when we get a week of cold and wet miserable weather. Surely it works both ways?
And for the record I didn't have the heater running this weekend - have you seen the price of electricity lately? I can barely afford to pay my bill each quarter.
also smokin mo ...show him the average monthly temps too and what's happening with them....also the average monthly temps up there in the Arctic and what they've been doing for 200 years.....good to see the younger folk using their grey stuff.
Smokin Mo, will you still be around when he asks you in 25 years time why it is so much hotter than when he was a child? Or why there are more cyclones all through the year and disastrous bushfires in September?
I hope he will enjoy your answer then.
How scientific, perhaps that is the reason you ask the wrong questions.
smokin mo...your comments remind me of the comments made about daylight saving years ago (still in Qld)....that the curtains fade more with extra daylight......some people are still in the dark and haven't got a clue.
And those that told me of the impending catastrophe of the Y2K bug. Remember that old furphy??
I have never read or seen anything that shows global warming has contrinuted to more cyclonic activity.
As I look outside I am reminded of the great Tim Flannery and his prediction in 2007 that we would never see the same kind of rainfall in the future. So off we went and built desal plants around Australia.
For the record - Warragamba Dam levels at 90%.
IPCC report - no statistical warming over 15 years.
The science is in people.
Glad you didn't have the heater on Mo, no i haven't seen a bill at home in the past 20 years. We had the good sense to go "off the grid". Minimal maintenance bills and only embedded emissions. Perhaps you should put a few panels on too. You may mot acknowledge the science but you'll save a packet, 1M other households can't be wrong.
smokin mo....you obviously only believe in the present moment.....if the dam is 90% full now and just say El Nino gets stronger and we have another 10 year drought....in 10 years will the dam still be 90% full? Or don't you think the future will one day be the present? You somehow have to understand that all this climate change talk doesn't really refer to solutions for today or tomorrow......its a plan to deal with the future, same as the desal plants......they will come in handy one day.
All I know is that this is Australia. We have always had drought, we have always had rain. I think Dorothy Mackellar illustrated this perfectly.
My frustration lies with alarmists using global warming as the reason for every single weather event. Recent bushfires in NSW - global warming. Typhoon Haiyan - global warming. Rain in November - global warming.
It is not correct to keep espousing this cause and effect when even the IPCC acknowledges this is not true.
A country gal,
Good on you for going solar panels - my brother has done the same and pays nexct to nothing for his electricity. But at the end of the day you are only paying nothing because you are putting what you generate back into the grid and getting paid for it at a higher rate than what gets charged to the average consumer.
One of the reasons why electricity is so expensive is because of the renewable energy targets. If energy companies are paying a higher price per kw for solar derived electricity then naturally those prices will flow onto retail customers.
Mo, "off the grid" means independent, we are not connected. Although my partner has a feed in system at his work and just sold his RECS for a handy return. Tariffs offered now are pathetic, if we ever need a RC it's into the power market. Rates should be climbing to promote renewables not reducing. The scheme is skewed towards filthy coal usage.
A country gal,
Thanks for the clarification. Didn't pick up the "off the grid" originally - my apologies.
All well and good to increase prices to promote renewable energy but where is that energy going to come from and how is it going to be affordable?
Assuming we shut down coal fired power stations tomorrow what will substitute it?
Just to keep in perspective the amount of man made carbon dioxide emmitted into the Earth's atmosphere is still only 0.001%. And even allowing for man made contributions, what impact is it having on temeratures givne the IPCC have reported no statistical increase for 15 years?
For the record I do believe that man made emmissions do have an influence however I see the global warming scare as a phenomenon of people seeing far more in something, that in reality is quite insignificant.
Tony has a strong mandate by voters to STOP the boats and he is doing exactly that.
People have a short memory LTTE is a banned terrorist organisation
Short memory.... here is what Tony said about a gov mandate when he was in opposition... "In a December 2007 opinion piece published by Fairfax, Tony Abbott wrote:
"[Brendan] Nelson is right to resist the intellectual bullying inherent in talk of "mandates". What exactly is Rudd's mandate anyway: to be an economic conservative or an old-fashioned Christian socialist? The elected Opposition is no less entitled than the elected Government to exercise its political judgment and to try to keep its election commitments."
So Scott Morrison thinks Sri Lanka is 300 000 km away. Perhaps he's worried about the danger of invasion by spaceship people, not boat people. (300 000 km would get you nearly to the moon.)
Morrison also conveniently forgets that India is not a signatory to the UNHCR convention. No point in fleeing there even if it is closer.
The human rights scruples that the Abbott opposition expressed about the Malaysian solution because it was not a signatory to the UN Refugee Convention, have like their promise of transparency and accountability in Govt, disappeared now they are in Govt - reinforced by the Indon VP spokesperson letting the cat out of the bag about talks for boat people swap with Indon - even though Indon is also not a signatory to the Convention!
It's funny how the only articles on this site that allow comments are those which are critical of the Government.
its not controversial to post flatterersGThe idea is to create democracy,not adoration or worship.
You can't write a positive article unless they do something laudable.
Oops, meant my comment for moar politics - silly moi.
I've just looked in myself, and I think it's a Labor site, but conservatives can still post.
Good luck to Bill Glasson - his video One Day More is the best I've ever seen of a political type. Really well done.
Suppose when they do some that is not cringe-worthy it will be published, until then sit back and cringe in shame!
Immigration Minister Scott Morrison is nonplussed personified.
Dictionary definition: "so surprised and confused that one is unsure how to react"
Doesn't sound like the utterly arrogant Morrison to me.
Let's hope that we don't hear from Rudd, Gillard, Lathan, Keating, Hawke, Carr, Roxon, and their ilk for just one day. A week would be even better.
The Keating interviews with Kerry O'Brian continue tomm night on the ABC. Excellent viewing.
I'd settle for not hearing from EiE.
Keating was the best PM we've ever had, but the public weren't educated enough to understand him....we clearly are not educated still as a nation with this basic bogan lot in power.
That is champagne comedy!!
Absolute Gold. I needed that laugh after the mornig I have had.
We don't hear much from this secretive mob, only stunts like giving Sri Lanka second hand old boats, with his manic mantra to stop the boats. Glad the Indonesians didn't fall for his 3 word bogan slogans, good on them.


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Last week, Senate Minority Leader David Hann wrote Senate Majority Leader Tom Bakk a letter requesting that Sen. Bakk release the content of a threatening email Sen. Bakk sent to Cook County businessman Dennis Rysdahl. Predictably, Sen. Bakk refused to release that email, saying "You just can't do that."
After hearing Mr. Rysdahl's testimony and reading his quote in the DNT's article, I'd argue that it's imperative that Sen. Bakk's email be made public. Rysdahl testified at Cook County's County Commissioners meeting, saying "I got an email from Tom Bakk yesterday, and he's very concerned. He's already hearing, again, what's he's heard many times before that Cook County doesn't really belong in the Taconite Relief District, and if they're going to take an action like this, they don't deserve to continue to be involved."
After reading that quote, it's insulting that we read this opening paragraph of the Mesabi Daily News article:
Senate Majority Leader Tom Bakk of Cook will not acquiesce to a Republican request to make public a personal email sent to a Cook County businessman regarding the Twin Metals lease issue.
That's BS. First, I'd demand to know which email address Sen. Bakk used. If he used his legislative email address or his IRRRB email address, that ends Sen. Bakk's argument that it's a personal email. Saying that you're using a government account to send personal emails is a nonstarter.
Further, I'd argue that any email that talked about potential action by an executive branch agency isn't personal. Based on Mr. Rysdahl's testimony, it sounds like the email relates directly to Sen. Bakk's responsibilities as a member of the IRRRB executive board. This paragraph indicates that the email was official:
But in Cook County, there is also an undercurrent of an Iron Range Resources & Rehabilitation Board issue — should Cook County continue as part of the Taconite Relief Area and receive agency funding.
I can't wait to hear Sen. Bakk explain how threatening the Cook County commissioners with cutting off funding is "personal." As I said earlier, I don't doubt that Sen. Bakk wanted to keep his threatening email private.
I hope that Sen. Hann has another plan to force Sen. Bakk into producing that email. Private citizens shouldn't have to deal with threats from public officials. That's what Sen. Bakk did to Mr. Rysdahl and to the Cook County commissioners.
Technorati: Tom Bakk, IRRRB, Cook County Commissioners, Taconite Relief Area, Dennis Rysdahl, Minnesota Data Practices Act, Executive Board, DFL, David Hann, Accountability
Senate Majority Leader Tom Bakk isn't having fun, thanks in large part to Senate Republicans and Senate Minority Leader David Hann. Sen. Bakk is insisting that Republicans move into Bakk's Palace, the building Sen. Bakk shoved down taxpayers' throats in the 2013 Tax Bill in the dead of night the last weekend of session without going through the committee process. It didn't go through the committee process intentionally because Bakk didn't want it to be scrutinized by anyone.
Now, Sen. Bakk is attempting to play hardball, insisting that "other state entities need Republicans' current quarters in the State Office Building." Senate Minority Leader Hann isn't buying, saying "if that's the case, Bakk should say who is it and when they're going to move, 'because that's all news to us.'"
What's especially laughable is that Bakk calls their refusal to move "short-term political gamesmanship." The truth is that Sen. Bakk doesn't like it when GOP legislators shine the spotlight on Bakk's Palace, my nickname for the new Senate Building. Bakk doesn't like the attention because he's trying to maintain his majority through the 2016 election. When House Republicans highlighted the House DFL's support for Bakk's Palace, they lost their majority.
When people take a look at Bakk's Palace, Republicans will remind them that Democrats voted to raise taxes on citizens, which paid for the $90,000,000 building. They'll also remind citizens that the DFL also voted to dramatically raise the pay of Gov. Dayton's commissioners.
Sen. Bakk should stop worrying about political gamesmanship. He should start worrying about the DFL's legislative history since the last election. Then he should kiss his majority status goodbye.
Now that the Special Session is history, it's time to reflect on what happened. The best way I know how to do that is by identifying the Sessions winners and losers. This post will deal with the winners.
- Kurt Daudt — He was simply masterful throughout. He proved to be a master negotiator, which nobody predicted going against Sen. Bakk. Late in last night's special session, after the Senate had stripped out the House Republicans' reforms and the DFL passed the amended bill, the decision was made in Caucus to restore the original bill, pass it and send it back to the Senate. House Environment Chairman Denny MacNamara offered an amendment to essentially restore the bill. After that, the outcome of the session was virtually sealed. Speaker Daudt gets credit for having the spine to insist on the bill's original language.
- David Hann — Sen. Hann played a key role in getting the Ag/Environment bill passed. After the bill was originally defeated, Sen. Hann spoke with Sen. Bakk about winning some GOP votes this session by promising to pass tax relief. That was the right elixir. The first time the Senate voted on the Ag/Environment Bill, it failed by a 33-32 margin. When it returned from the House, several procedural votes happened first. Sen. Marty made a motion to not concur with the bill. Had that passed, the bill would've gone into conference committee. It was defeated 38-29. Next, Sen. Tomassoni, a DFL senator from the Range, made a motion to concur. That passed 40-26. That passed with 7 more votes than it got the first time. Sen. Hann got those extra votes by negotiating a tax relief bill for the 2016 session. After that, it was all over except the special interests' whining. The vote on final passage was 38-29. The whining went into full whine at that point.
- Denny MacNamara — his amendment on the Ag/Environment Bill was the straw that broke the environmental activists' back. I was following the session through Twitter. The minute the bill got to the Senate, environmental activist organizations like the Minnesota Environmental Partnership and the Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy, aka MEP and MCEA respectively, started whining. The bloggers at MNPact started whining, too.
- Jennifer Loon — She shepherded the K-12 bill throughout and brought it home without a hitch.
The entire GOP Caucus, both in the House and Senate, deserve an honorable mention. They didn't back down. They fought for reforms that took power out of the hands of special interests and won. They even won on education spending and policy. When's the last time that could be said?
Technorati: Kurt Daudt, David Hann, Denny MacNamara, Jennifer Loon, Citizens Board, Reforms, Tax Relief, MPCA, MNGOP, Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy, Minnesota Environmental Partnership, Tom Bakk, John Marty, DFL
To: Kurt Daudt, David Hann
From: Gary Gross
Subject: Transportation negotiations
Considering the fact that rank-and-file Minnesotans have stated emphatically that they won't cheerfully accept another tax increase, GOP leadership in the Minnesota legislature shouldn't attempt to strike a deal with Gov. Dayton and DFL leadership that includes a gas tax increase. Period. Tax increases are totally off the table. If Gov. Dayton wants to throw another hissy fit, that's fine. The GOP should record Gov. Dayton's hissy fit and upload it to YouTube.
There are some things Speaker Daudt and Sen. Hann should forever keep in mind during these negotiations. Here are the things that they shouldn't forget, in order of importance:
- The last time the DFL pushed a gas tax increase, they promised it would solve our underfunding of roads and bridges for the next 20 years. That was 2008. It's 2015 and they're back, this time insisting that a significantly bigger tax increase is needed. Don't double down on the DFL's failure.
- The GOP plan is popular. Insist that the DFL adopt the GOP plan or face a major advertising campaign from now through Election Day. Tell them that every vulnerable DFL legislator in the House and Senate will be targeted with advertising that tells their constituents that they voted for a gas tax increase.
- You're building trust with Republican activists and independents by being straight shooters. Don't throw that away by agreeing to a transportation compromise that includes a gas tax increase. Accepting a tax increase will be seen as a betrayal. That will lead to Republicans losing the House and the DFL holding the Senate in 2016. (Remember the disaster the last time the DFL controlled the House and Senate and held the governorship?)
- Keep pressure on the DFL by addressing the press anytime they're available. Remind them that the DFL's last transportation bill was a failure. Remind them, too, that 75% of Minnesotans agreed with the GOP transportation plan and that 51% of Minnesotans rejected the DFL's plan.
It's important to constantly switch the conversation away from transportation. Constantly drag the conversation back to fixing Minnesota's potholed roads and highways. Outside the Twin Cities, it's difficult to find a dozen transit advocates. Outside the Twin Cities, it's impossible to find a person who's happy with Minnesota's potholed roads.
Play to those facts. Portray the DFL as who they are — the political party who listen to the special interests and the lobbyists while reminding them that a) Republicans listened to their constituents before the session started and b) Republicans are still listening to their constituents by refusing to raise gas taxes.
I'm more than a bit surprised after reading this post about Sen. Bakk's latest transportation plan. Check this out:
In January, Gov. Mark Dayton and DFL lawmakers rolled out comprehensive transportation plans and talked about how urgent it was to do something this year. Republicans held up their hands and said there was no rush.
Times have changed. On Wednesday, it was Senate DFL leader Tom Bakk raising the specter of delaying a transportation bill for another year. "Transportation probably doesn't have to happen," Bakk said Wednesday.
While the Legislature has to pass a finance bill to keep the Department of Transportation operating, lawmakers are under no obligation to approve billions of dollars in new spending as both Democrats and Republicans want to do.
Both chambers have rolled out comprehensive transportation packages spending billions of dollars over the next decade on roads, bridges and mass transit. The threat to just go home and not pass a comprehensive transportation bill could be aimed at increasing the Senate's leverage in final negotiations with the House — potentially forcing Republicans to make more concessions than they want to in order to get a deal.
Republicans passed a bill that fixes Minnesota's roads and bridges, which is Minnesotans' highest priority. Because they did their job, Republicans just have to insist that the DFL leadership pass a sensible transportation plan. Then Republicans can remind voters that they listened to the voters before crafting a bill that put Minnesotans' highest priorities first.
Then the GOP can remind voters that Sen. Bakk and the DFL acted like spoiled brats throwing a temper tantrum. Anyone thinking that that attitude will play well in outstate Minnesota isn't too bright. The old cliché that you can't beat something with nothing certainly applies in this instance.
If Sen. Bakk and the DFL insist on pushing an unpopular tax increase down Minnesotans' throats, they'll hand the Senate majority to Republicans on a silver platter. First, doing nothing isn't an option. Next, doing something unpopular isn't an option, either. Finally, throwing a temper tantrum while doing nothing is a short path from the majority to minority party status.
Technorati: Tom Bakk, Obstruction, Tax Increase, DFL, Road and Bridge Act, Transportation, Kurt Daudt, David Hann, Tim Kelly, John Pederson, Budget Negotiations, MNGOP, Election 2016
The past 4 years have provided Minnesotans plenty of proof that the DFL is the party of corruption. Simply put, the DFL will do anything to increase or regain political power. During the 2012 campaign, 13 DFL state senate candidates coordinated their advertising campaigns with the DFL Senate Campaign Committee, which is illegal. Republicans filed a complaint about the DFL's campaign committee hijinks. The end result was the DFL Senate Campaign Committee getting fined $100,000, the biggest fine in Minnesota campaign history.
Unfortunately, 11 of those 13 DFL state senate candidates won their election. In essence, these politicians bought their senate seats. Rather than apologize for their unethical actions, DFL Party Chairman Ken Martin characterized the incident as a nuisance before declaring the need to get back to governing. That makes sense in Chairman Martin's world because this was just a financial transaction to him.
DFL State Sen. Jeff Hayden is tangled up in multiple messes, starting with the corruption that shut down Community Action of Minneapolis. He's also had ethics charges filed against him for pushing the Minneapolis school board into funding a program run by his friends and associates.
I'm not surprised. The DFL is as interested in providing oversight of their political allies' nonprofits as Hillary is interested in turning over Bill's email server.
During the final days of the 2013 session, hundreds of in-home child care providers of all political persuasions descended on the Capitol to tell the DFL not to pass the forced unionization bill. Mike Nelson and the DFL waged war on these women, essentially telling them that they knew what was best. On June 30, 2014, the US Supreme Court told Mike Nelson and the DFL that their legislation was unconstitutional.
Mike Nelson, the DFL and AFSCME didn't care about the Constitution. They didn't care that private employers weren't public employees. Mike Nelson, the DFL and AFSCME just deemed private small business owners public employees. That's because their first concern was accumulating political power. That's why the DFL sided with the special interests. That's why the DFL didn't pay attention to women they simply disagreed with. They only cared about their big money benefactors.
The DFL's cronyism knows no limits. Senate Minority Leader Hann's op-ed shows how invested the DFL is in special interests:
Dayton recently awarded his commissioners salary increases as large as $30,000 each. He gave the chair of the Met Council an $86,000 increase, and the beneficiary just happens to be married to the governor's chief of staff. One of Dayton's deputy chiefs is married to a top official at Education Minnesota, the teachers union. Another Dayton staffer is married to the chair of the DFL Party.
Why should I believe that the DFL is the party of the little guy? The DFL sold out Iron Range families in exchange for hefty campaign contributions from environmental activists. The DFL sold out in-home child care providers in exchange for hefty campaign contributions from public employee unions.
Worst of all, Gov. Dayton's administration is filled with the DFL's biggest special interest allies.
Elizabeth Warren loves telling her audiences that the game is rigged. She's right and she's wrong. She insists that it's rigged by Wall Street fat cats. The truth is that it's rigged by the Democrats' special interest allies. The truth is that Big Government is just as corrupt as Wall Street.
Technorati: Jeff Hayden, Community Action, Mike Nelson, AFSCME Council 5, DFL Senate Campaign Committee, Campaign Coordination, Special Interests, Education Minnesota, Environmental Activists, Met Council, Ken Martin, DFL Culture of Corruption, Election 2012, Campaign Finance Disclosure Board
House Speaker Kurt Daudt issued this statement after announcing the House GOP transportation proposal:
"Minnesota families rely on our road and bridge infrastructure to get their kids to school and themselves to work. To help them, our goal from the beginning was to refocus transportation dollars on roads and bridges and deliver a real, long-term solution without increasing their tax burden. I'm proud today to unveil our vision for the next decade that achieves our shared goal," announced Speaker Daudt.
"Republicans have developed a thoughtful solution to adequately maintain and expand our road and bridge infrastructure without raising gas taxes, because Minnesotans can't afford to pay more at the pump. Our proposal will benefit small cities, rural areas, suburban communities, and elderly and disabled Minnesotans while also making significant commitments to state roads," said Senate Republican Leader Hann.
"Most Minnesotans count on safe roads and short commutes every day, and our plan focuses on those daily needs. It fills potholes and repairs streets in their neighborhoods and will alleviate congestion on Minnesota roads. Now, Minnesotans have a choice between smart budgeting that dedicates existing transportation taxes to roads and bridges without a tax increase and a plan that raises the gas tax by at least 16 cents per gallon," added House Majority Leader Peppin.
Predictably, the DFL immediately criticized the plan:
DFLers, in contrast, attacked the Republican plan for shifting money from other sources. "What programs will (Republicans) cut to pay for (money) they are taking from (the) general fund?" Dayton's deputy chief of staff Linden Zakula wrote on Twitter.
House Minority Leader Paul Thissen, DFL-Minneapolis, responded that the GOP plan "irresponsibly raids" the general fund. "Unfortunately, the Republican plan is the same old shifts and gimmicks budgeting we've come to expect from them. Siphoning money from schools and hospitals and relying on the state's credit card is no way to fund Minnesota's transportation system," he said in a prepared statement.
Here's my response to Mssrs. Zakula and Thissen: What corrupt programs will the DFL fund with the money that the GOP proposes to fix roads and bridges with? Does the DFL plan to finance more trips for Sen. Hayden? Or would they rather direct money to Community Action? Would the DFL rather funnel more money to MnSCU to sign contracts with their friends to do 'consulting' work ?
Actually, Rep. Thissen, putting some things on the state's credit card is the right thing to do. Why should this generation pay the entire cost for fixing bridges? Shouldn't subsequent generations pay for their fair share of the cost since they're going to get a substantial benefit from new bridges? Why shouldn't younger generations pay for some of the cost of lane expansions?
There's nothing wrong with paying for road repairs with current money. Maintenance is a short-term proposition. Fixing potholes is something that's done annually. Widening State Trunk Highway 23 to 4 lanes from St. Cloud to Foley is a one-time thing. That's something that should be paid for by multiple generations.
Finally, it's interesting to watch the DFL immediately insinuate that Republicans want to "siphon money from schools and hospitals." It didn't matter to Rep. Thissen that there's literally no proof that Republicans want to do that. In fact, there's proof that Republicans don't want to do that.
That's irrelevant to Rep. Thissen. The truth isn't relevant to him because it's about frightening people with baseless allegations. It isn't about having an honest debate based on reality. Simply put, the DFL is the Fearmongering Party.
Technorati: Kurt Daudt, Joyce Peppin, David Hann, John Pederson, Transportation Stability Fund, Transportation, Republicans, Paul Thissen, Middle Class Tax Increase, DFL
Senate Minority Leader David Hann's op-ed highlights the DFL's culture of corruption and incestuousness. First, there's this pattern of DFL corruption:
- The DFL Senate campaign committee was fined $100,000 last year for cheating with 13 DFL Senate candidates during the 2012 election.
- The DFL Legislature, with Dayton's signature, spent $90 million on an unnecessary new office building, bypassing the normal process and allowing no public hearings.
- DFL Sens. Jeff Hayden and Bobby Joe Champion were accused of bullying the Minneapolis school board into funding a program run by their friends and associates. Hayden is also the subject of an ongoing ethics complaint that he received free trips and other inappropriate perks while serving as a board member for Community Action of Minneapolis, a government-funded nonprofit.
- DFL Sen. David Tomassoni attempted to take a job as a lobbyist for the Iron Range city association, even though he is a sitting senator representing part of the Iron Range.
- The Iron Range Resources and Rehabilitation Board (IRRRB) was exposed for underwriting a business whose main client was Dollars for Democrats, an organization set up to help Democratic politicians win elections.
- Department of Commerce Commissioner Mike Rothman refused to investigate the misuse of public funds at Community Action of Minneapolis because of "political" concerns surrounding the executive director of the organization and his financial support for Dayton. By the way, Rothman used to be the treasurer of the DFL Party.
Apparently, there's no definition for conflict-of-interest in the DFL's dictionaries. Then there's the incestuous nature of the Dayton administration:
Dayton recently awarded his commissioners salary increases as large as $30,000 each. He gave the chair of the Met Council an $86,000 increase — and the beneficiary just happens to be married to the governor's chief of staff. One of Dayton's deputy chiefs is married to a top official at Education Minnesota, the teachers union. Another Dayton staffer is married to the chair of the DFL Party.
Apparently, the DFL in Minnesota doesn't think government of, by and for the people is worthwhile. It's clear from the Dayton administration's incestuousness that the DFL believes in government of, by and for their special interest allies. Why should Minnesotans living in Lindstrom, Little Falls and Litchfield think that the Dayton administration's budget prioritizes their needs. Minnesotans living in Wadena, Willmar and Winona shouldn't think that the Dayton-DFL budget puts a priority on their needs.
There's plenty of proof that there's plenty of plundering happening in St. Paul and Minneapolis. With the exception of David Tomassoni, all the other corrupt DFLers are from the Twin Cities. That's because they're the metrocentric party of corruption.
Technorati: Mark Dayton, Jeff Hayden, Bobby Joe Champion, Mike Rothman, David Tomassoni, Community Action of Minneapolis, Education Minnesota, IRRRB, Special Interests, DFL, David Hann, MNGOP
According tho this article, Gov. Dayton and Sen. Bakk are whining because Republicans refused to vote on a bill without knowing what's in it:
Dayton and DFL leaders have rushed to pass the measure to ensure the largest number of Minnesotans can take advantage of more than $50 million in retroactive tax relief by April 15. Senate DFLers used a rare procedure to try to speed passage by a day, but Republicans in the minority used their limited muscle to delay the vote until Friday.
Earlier in the week, Dayton chastised Senate DFLers for not passing the measure swiftly enough. On Thursday, Dayton and Senate Majority Leader Tom Bakk, DFL-Cook, joined together to direct their wrath at Republicans.
"There is no good reason for Senate Republicans to block the bill's passage," Dayton said. If Republican legislators force any further delays, "they will be solely responsible for denying income tax cuts to thousands of Minnesotans."
Yesterday, Sen. Bakk whined that not getting his office building would leave the Senate homeless:
"To think that the Senate is going to give up all this space and just be kicked out on the street. That's just not going to happen. And we just don't understanding why the House hasn't acted in some urgency," Bakk said.
Today, it's Gov. Dayton whining that the GOP said no to voting on a bill they haven't read. 'Trust me' won't cut it. The GOP has an affirmative obligation to know what they're voting for before voting on something. Senate Minority Leader David Hann summed it up perfectly:
"Just because Gov. [Mark] Dayton and the Democrats had a meltdown this week doesn't mean the Senate should set aside our rules and rush this important tax bill," said Senate Minority Leader David Hann, R-Eden Prairie. "There's an old saying: Failure to plan on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part."
Sen. Bakk held the Tax Repair Bill hostage as a bargaining chip to get approval for his office building. That's why Gov. Dayton criticized him in a public press conference. Nos Gov. Dayton and Sen. Bakk are complaining that Republicans want to read the bill before voting on it.
Republicans did the right thing. The Tax Repair Bill got its first committee hearing Thursday morning. If the roles were reversed, isn't it likely that Sen. Bakk and Gov. Dayton would be whining about Republicans jamming legislation down the Democrats' throat without letting them read it?
Of course they'd be whining. In fact, they'd have a legitimate right to complain about that.
This is just Dayton's and Bakk's attempt to deflect attention away from Bakk's attempt to play a stall game to get his office building. Bakk was humiliated publicly for playing games with the Tax Repair Bill. Since then, he's been playing defense for playing political games.
This is what DFL 'leadership' looks like. First, the DFL plays political games. Next, people criticize the DFL for playing political games. When doing the right thing is the DFL's only option, they try playing games by not letting the Senate read the bill that they're supposed to vote on.
Finally, when Republicans insist on readng the bill before voting on it, the DFL 'leadership' whines that Republicans are holding up the legislation that Sen. Bakk didn't want to vote on until he got his Palace for Politicians. That isn't leadership. That's gamesmanship.
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Thursday, Speaker Thissen and Sen. Bakk sent a letter to Rep. Daudt and Sen. Hann asking for bipartisan support during the upcoming special session. Thursday afternoon, Rep. Daudt and Sen. Hann pledged their support in a hand-delivered letter:
We received your letter regarding a proposed Special Session. Our top priority is to provide disaster relief to the eighteen counties included in the disaster relief declaration signed by President Obama. We have a rich tradition of supporting Minnesota counties and nothing should stand in the way of Minnesotans receiving the support they need.
Republicans will support the disaster relief proposal. That said, they didn't stop with just their support:
Furthermore, in an effort to help hardworking farmers and all Minnesotans, it is critical that we repeal your equipment repair tax and your warehousing tax. Governor Dayton has publicly stated that he supports repealing both of his new taxes.
Rep. Daudt and Sen. Hann didn't stop with that, instead choosing to remind people what the Democratic legislature did this past session:
Republicans are ready to fix the mistakes Democrats made in the last session and provide the needed disaster relief funds.
Clearly, Republicans will use the counterproductive Dayton/Bakk/Thissen tax hikes as a weapon in next year's campaign. Republicans must have proof that this issue is hurting Democrats, especially in swing districts. I suspect it's hurting Gov. Dayton, too, partially because he's trying to change history, partially because he's dramatically changed his tune.
This special session will be all about disaster relief. Part of it will focus on providing federal disaster relief funds. Part of it will focus on repealing part of the Democrats' disastrous tax increases.


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First pro-Hamas Palestinian Newspaper Launched in Gaza Strip
Roughly 10,000 copies of 'Palestine' to be distributed in Gaza, W. Bank; other PA media controlled by Fatah.
Palestinian supporters of Hamas launched their first newspaper on Thursday, opening a new front in the battle for political dominance with the rival Fatah faction.
"Palestine" is the pro-Islamist answer to the three largest Palestinian newspapers which have longstanding ties to Fatah, the secular faction of Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas.
It is also the first Palestinian newspaper to be printed in the Gaza Strip. The other newspapers are produced in the West Bank, which is dominated by Fatah.
"Palestine" will initially print an estimated 10,000 copies, published separately in the West Bank and Gaza to avoid any possible Israeli restriction on its distribution.
Editor-in-chief Mustafa Assawaf said the paper's owners were close to Hamas, which heads a unity government with Fatah.
But Assawaf said the paper would not be a mouthpiece for the Islamist group, whose charter calls for Israel's destruction.
"We say that the newspaper will be for all Palestinians and we will leave judgment to the readers," he told Reuters. "It will not be a newspaper of one faction. It will be as its name suggests, 'Palestine' for all Palestinians."
First editions of the paper went on sale in Gaza on Thursday, published in tabloid format, with a news section as well as culture and sports supplements.
Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas attended a ceremony to mark the newspaper's launch on Wednesday.
Haniyeh, who has sharply criticized pro-Fatah news coverage in the past, urged the owners of "Palestine" to "maintain accuracy, neutrality and objectivity."
"I am full of hope that our Palestinian people can look into your newspapers and see themselves, see their hopes and their ambitions," Haniyeh said, calling the media a "dangerous and effective weapon."
Hamas, which has long complained about Fatah's domination of the Palestinian newspapers, radio and television networks, launched its own television network late last year in response.
Abbas controls the Palestine Broadcasting Corporation, which includes television and radio.
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Don Rodolfo who is the representative of the group is 51-years-old, married to Señora María Juana, and together they have four children who still depend on them because they go to school. Don Rodolfo has a carpentry shop that is named "El Membrillo" and has been around for 25 years. He started his carpentry shop because in Mexico City he worked as a carpenter and learned many things. That is why he decided to put one in his house and thus be able to spend more time with his family, reduce their cost increase, and be able to pay off their household expenses.
This time he has asked for the loan to buy raw materials like wood, paint brushes, paint, varnish, etc. The biggest challenge that Don Rudolfo faces is that he often does not have the tools he needs to fulfill all the orders that his customers have placed with him. Many times he has not been able to comply with the orders in such a way that his customers do not like the design and they complain that it is very simple because he has not finished it the way they wanted. This is why it is increasingly difficult for him to succeed in his business. In his carpentry shop he makes all kinds of furniture for the home, like cradles, wardrobes, tables, built-in cupboards, small furniture, etc.
He says, "The loan has helped me a lot. Thanks to it I have been able to buy more material although my biggest goal or hope would be to have more up-to-date machinery to satisfy my customers so that they would want to return to order more furniture from me; to be able to improve the quality of life for my children and wife."
Don Rodolfo and the rest of the group are grateful to FRAC and Kiva since they all will be able to invest in their work. Don Jesús, Pedro, and Juvenal will be able to invest in the maintenance of their taxi; Doña Cecilia will be able to invest in the remodeling of her restaurant; Lorena will invest in the purchase of groceries; Agustina will buy lambs; and Martha will buy calves - all in order to improve the quality of life of each of their families.
Don Jesús, Pedro, Juvenal podrán invertir en su mantenimiento de su taxi, Doña Cecilia podrá invertir en la remodelación de su local, Lorena invertirá en la compra de abarrotes, Agustina compra borregos, Martha comprara becerros todos con el fin de mejorar la calidad de vida de cada una de su familia.
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Welcome to another edition of Square Smarts. This week's Smarts provides insight into the evolution of the digital footprint, including who is using (and not using) which medium, why consumers even bother to engage in the first place, and where they are choosing to interact the most. Enjoy!
The Evolution of Blogging
Blogger Activity Dwindles - PCWorld author Keir Thomas writes that the days of blogs are numbered. While that may be a bit of a stretch, research from Pew Internet shows that "only half as many online teens work on their own blog as did in 2006, and Millennial generation adults ages 18-33 have also seen a modest decline." However, interestingly enough, those over the age of 34 blog slightly more than they did in 2008. It's hardly a case for the demise of blogs all together, but definitely some interesting food for thought.
Half of all U.S. Internet Population used Facebook Monthly in 2010
130 Million and Counting in 2011 - According to this press release from eMarketer, if Facebook continues growing at the rate it did in 2010, this year Facebook will reach almost nine in 10 social network users and 57.1% of internet users. And if that doesn't blow your mind, by 2013, 62% of web users and almost half (47.6%) of the overall US population will be on Facebook. There are also some fun facts about Twitter, including that although Twitter growth rates are smaller, eMarketer predicts that growth will surpass 26% this year as Twitter reaches 11% of internet users and 16.5% of US adult social network users. Remember when people said Twitter would never even make it? How 'bout them Tweets.
How Facebook Users Interact With Brands
Facebook Users Want Promotions - An oldie but goodie, this Mashable article provides awesome insight into how and why users on Facebook like to interact with brands. Among the key takeaways are that 40% of consumers like a brand on Facebook to receive discounts and promotions and that 75% of online consumers connected because they were invited by the brand directly. Read this article for more info about how and why consumers engage with brands on Facebook.
Who's on Facebook, What's on Twitter
Demographic Down-Low on Twitter vs. Facebook – A couple articles from Mashable and All Things Digital help explain which demographics are using what social media channels. For instance, Hispanic and Black populations use Twitter and Facebook at a similar rate (between 15 -20%) where as only 5% of White Non-Hispanic Internet users are on Twitter versus 75% on Facebook. Read both of these articles for more great demographic tidbits.
Social and Mobile – Two Peas in a Pod
Social Networks More Mobile Than Ever - More users are accessing their social networks on mobile devices than ever before, according to this article from the Wall Street Journal. All the biggies including Facebook, Twitter, and Foursquare had a significant presence at this year's mobile industry trade show in Barcelona. During the trade show, Twitter founder and Chief Executive was quoted saying that 40% of all tweets happen on mobile devices, while Foursquare announced its plans of going global. I guess mobile and social make a pretty perfect pair.
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Graham Leggat, who currently serves as director of communications at the Film Society of Lincoln Center, has been appointed the new executive director of the San Francisco Film Society effective October 17th, the organization announced Wednesday. Leggat replaces Roxanne Messina Captor, who departed from the position following the 48th San Francisco International Film Festival in May. The group organizes the annual festival, which will be held April 20 - May 4 in 2006.
Leggat has served as director of communications at New York's Film Society of Lincoln Center since 1999, administering the publicity, marketing and special events of the organization's extensive year- round calendar, including the annual New York Film Festival, taking place this year September 23rd - October 9th this year. In addition to NYFF, the Film Society also hosts the New Directors/New Films series, the annual Rendez Vous with French Cinema and numerous other film events. Leggat has also served as associate publisher of FSLC's Film Comment Magazine in addition to working as a columnist for the New York Daily News and serving as a contributing editor for Filmmaker Magazine. He is also a programming board member for the New York Video Festival.
indieWIRE corresponded with Leggat yesterday, who indicated that he has a "number of ideas" for the organization he will soon oversee, although he isn't currently ready to reveal them. "I need to be on the ground and see exactly how things work and meet everyone in the city first," said Leggat to indieWIRE. "I believe, without being able to say exactly what yet, that the San Francisco Film Scoiety is going to do great things over the next several years." Leggat also praised the SF Film Society staff for its dynamism and ability to evolve. "There's [a] terrific energy and applied intelligence among the organization's staff and board and in the city itself. That kind of progressive momentum and attitude invariably seeks ways to make things new… the '05 festival's concentration on new Malaysian cinema was particularly impressive and ahead of the curve."
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Mustang schedule breakdown
The rivalry game with Yukon is only days away, and Mustang has high goals after last year's 12-1 run to the semifinals. Not a lot of mileage on the Mustang buses this year, with trips to Lawton and Edmond being the longest of the bunch. Here's a look at the Broncos' schedule:
Sept. 4 vs. Yukon: The excitement never dies in this rivalry.
Sept. 10 at No. 10 Edmond North: An early top-10 test will be a good measuring stick for the Broncos' several new starters.
Sept. 18 vs. Putnam City: Third straight week against a stout defense provides plenty of learning for a first-year starter at QB.
Sept. 25 vs. Edmond Santa Fe: Wolves are rebuilding, but strong up front, making for a good battle in the trenches.
Oct. 2 at Lawton: Plenty of speed to test the Broncos' new defenders.
Oct. 9 vs. Norman North: The T-Wolves lost a lot but they should still be battling for a playoff spot.
Oct. 15 at Moore: The Lions are lacking numbers and experience.
Oct. 23 at Putnam North: The Broncos finish with three of the district's best, starting here.
Oct. 30 vs. Del City: Mustang's all-new secondary should be seasoned by now, but the Eagles have loads of offensive talent.
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