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Opie and Anthony - Well rated, edgy radio talk show hosts that were tossed around various FM stations and achieved various levels of syndication before switching to XM satelite radio to avoid FCC restrictions. They popularized the WOW (Whip 'em Out Wednesdays) promotion.
OnA rule! They totally beat out Howard Stern.
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A very interesting person. One will often see an "ona" in places they are not expected to be. When you see them they are often hard to miss. And as soon as you have found them they are also very hard to forget. This stunning person will leave memories one can not soon forget.
"Man she pulled an ona"
"Did you see that ona yesterday. Wow that was wild"
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An amazing usually a girl that makes a really great friend that remembers things that are important to you and will go out of her own way to help others even if she dosen't know them . Great person to be around that is very kind and doesn't see her own beauty and easily falls into other gossips that she doesn't know aren't true and needs to be reminded that she is loved.
Random girl "wow who's that "
Friend "that's ona "
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A variety of bat
Did you see that lovebite on his neck? She bit him like and Ona last night!
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A small and simple whisper of a town. Located in between Milton and Barboursville in West Virginia.
There is nothing really in Ona other than houses, let's go to the mall in Barboursville.
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a freakishly hot guy that bus drivers drool over
holy crap! look at that ona, hes so fine
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Khan: You Can Never Rule Out Possibility of Hatton Fight
By Amir Khan
So I've just landed back home after a couple of weeks in New York, it was great getting away and spending some time with my fiancé and her family, I had a really great time out there.
I saw that a few papers today have mentioned that I want to fight Ricky Hatton in my next fight. I just want to make things clear and say that this isn't the case. I'm really pleased that Ricky will be making a return to the ring and want to give him my full support, as he's always given me his full backing.
Ricky's a good friend of mine and I think it was clear he had an itch to get back into the ring like a lot of great champions and my hope is that his return is a successful one. He's only 33, so there is still so much he can give to boxing.
Down the line you never know what can happen in the sport, and if it makes sense, and our paths cross, then you can never rule out the possibility of us sharing a ring.
For the immediate future, however, I'm still in discussions with my team and Golden Boy as to my next opponent and we'll be making a few announcements soon. I've got a date of December 15th from HBO for my next fight and I'll let you all know who I've got lined up as soon as everything is confirmed.
I'm feeling really good, I've enjoyed the time I've had off, and will be making the most out of the few weeks I have remaining before I begin another gruelling camp!
For any updates make sure you stay tuned to www.amirkhanworld.com as it will be the first place to know anything.
After a couple of bouts for each fighter, this fight makes perfect sense to me.Comment by project xxx1 on 09-22-2012
[QUOTE=hookoutofhell;12540429]brook is a good young fighter and one that has just cracked the top 10. i don't think carsen jones sould be classed as a bum - hes a solid pro and if WW weren't so rich right now he…Comment by Roy Jones Jnr on 09-22-2012
[QUOTE=Bossy;12539975]Why the hell would he even consider Hatton as an option when he has Kell Brook just waiting from him? Especially since Kell seemed to struggle a few rounds against Jones. It's win win, if Kell wins he gets exposure,…Comment by hookoutofhell on 09-22-2012
[QUOTE=project xxx1;12540399]ehh...........Hatton vs Khan makes hell of a lot more money than khan vs Brook,also its a 140 vs 140 fight Brook has got plenty of very good fighters at 147 for him to fight,still waiting for him to step…Comment by PrinceNaz88 on 09-22-2012
Hatton-Khan would be massive. Could even be a Wembley Stadium fight next summer if both fighters do well in their next fight or two. I would definitely go to it. But it mainly depends on how Hatton looks on November…Post a Comment - View More User Comments (15)

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Fedora 14 Takes Flight
Energetic Fedora community unveils fresh Fedora 14 and updated website
Today the Fedora Project rolled out Fedora 14, the latest release from this Red Hat-sponsored project. Fedora 14 includes the Spice framework for desktop virtualization, new debugging features, remote and out-of-band management capabilities, MeeGo Netbook UX 1.0, D programming language, updates to the Sugar desktop environment, and the OpenSCAP framework.
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Visit the redesigned fedoraproject.org site to download the latest release, get involved with the Fedora community, or learn from online tutorials.
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She preaches the openness and acceptance that 'Harry Potter' once taught us.
And not in that 'most dramatic season finale ever' kind of way.
Joshua Kendall's 'First Dads' assesses presidential parenting skills.
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I am trying to have my post thumbnails have a "sash/banner" that diagonally covers their top-left corner. The "sashes" would say New/To Let/Let. These "sash" images would need to be updated from New>>To Let>>Let as and when needed.
To accomplish this I presume I will need two thumbnails, a main thumbnail that would be a jpg and the "sash" that would be a transparent png.
Has anyone tried this before, do you have any pointers?
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Adele Cried 'Pretty Much All Day' After That GRAMMY PerformanceAdele performed the track on Ellen, sans audio issues, check out the clip below.
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This has a nice cool summer flavor. The texture is a bit different. Use as little water as possible.
Yield4 cups
2 red or orange bell peppers, seeded, roughly chopped
½ cucumber
3 small tomatoes
½ red onion
1 jalepeno, seeded
1 teaspoon cumin
1 teaspoon seasalt or to taste
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Roughly chop all of the ingredients, add them, a few at a time into the bender with enough water to get it going. I put diced tomato and avocado in the bowl and poured the soup on top. I gave it a stir and sprinkled it with a little ground pumpkin seed. I used one red, one orange pepper, but I don't think the taste would change if you used either color of pepper.
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I think every OP forum post about WordPress issues would benefit from an attachment showing output of this plugin. So much time could be saved, higher quality of answers guaranteed. Less chit chat. Plugins can do what ever = they must be known to put issues in context. Same can be said about some themes. And on top is importance of version numbers.
Output is short and sweet and that should not change but may be a few extra checks would make it even better? Like mentioned here http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/a/96593 and may be also check for Suhosin values which I believe are somewhat related to menu problem. These "hidden" (host) values can cause issues for those who do not check forums, faqs - or have shitty hosts.
Could add a "Copy to clipboard" button or notice saying "To avoid wasting yours and others time when asking internet for help or reporting bugs attach below information" ;)


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Not sure, site was installed several ms ago.
When I hit the URL http://www.galvt.net the site comes up as a list.
When I click on "Log in" it acts like it is doing something but never gets a login screen.
Not sure, site was installed several ms ago.
When I hit the URL http://www.galvt.net the site comes up as a list.
When I click on "Log in" it acts like it is doing something but never gets a login screen.
I have looked thru the WP documentation, check domain parking, forwarding, wp-config.php, index.php, mySQL Database, mySQL user info, etc. I am missing something somewhere and I am sure that it is probably something pretty simple.
I think theme is not set properly for your WordPress Site.
FTP to your WordPress Site goto themes directory rename your current theme by any name then rename Twenty Eleven Theme with your active Theme name.
Hope this will solve your issue.
You can also use following URL to login to admin area :
Login Page
If you can successfully login then change the theme.
Thank you for your response!
Do you know anyone who could fix the problem and instruct me as they go along?
Shane, can you assist with this problem?
If not, do you know someone that can.
I am sure that it could not be that big of a deal.
I just cannot seem to put my finger on the problem.
- switching to the Twenty Eleven theme by renaming your current theme's folder inside wp-content/themes and adding "-old" to the end of the folder name using FTP or whatever file management application your host provides.
- resetting the plugins folder by FTP or phpMyAdmin.
- re-uploading all files & folders - except the wp-content folder - from a fresh download of WordPress.
Is there anyone out there who can remote into my pc and fix this so I can watch how to do it without spending hours trying to learn it on my own?
You could try hiring someone.
Boy, that is an easy one and you are right!
I have a friend who helped me with getting this one up and running but she is not available at this moment and my site is kind of down.
If money was no object then I would certainly do that.
There is no budget at this time, so I am stuck trying to figure it out.
I am working on it as I type!
Thanks for the reply!
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The next few days are important for the Lauderdale County Sheriff's Department.
You may recall that three years ago it received state accreditation, becoming the first in Mississippi to attain that.
This week, it's up for accreditation again. The LCSD actually remains the only sheriff's department in the state to be accredited.
And Sheriff Sollie says this is a distinction the department plans to receive again this year.
Last month a mock assessment was held and the sheriff was told to fix a couple of issues, but he says they have since been corrected and he is confident the department will achieve its re-accreditation status.
"We went through a mock assessment last month and they found a few files that needed tweaking, but those were not enough to kick us out, so to speak, so we feel confident that when we have our exit interviews we will be all smiles around here and start breathing again," Sollie said.
"The process of that is for us to take a look at their evidence room, their narcotics room, their patrol division, their units, to make sure everything is in compliance with those standards," said Bob Morgan, alliance manager for the accreditation process.
The representatives from the state will be in Lauderdale County through Thursday.
The Mississippi Law Enforcement Accreditation Program began back in 2004. The state is one of 17 nationwide to have such a program. It requires that law enforcement agencies meet 123 total standards to get the accreditation.


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After four years of planning and fundraising a new drug treatment center for women will soon become a reality in one eastern Kentucky community.
An open house celebration was held tonight for "Hope In The Mountains" in Prestonsburg.
The facility will serve as a home for up to nine women at a time. They will learn a variety of skills while they are they are working to overcome their addiction.
Four women are scheduled to check in when the center opens on Monday.
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Nothing ruled out including war, says Cameron
THE prime minister has promised he has ruled nothing out in negotiations with the EU, including a decade-long transcontinental war.
Actually we are a bit plebby, admit policemen
POLICEMEN have admitted they enjoy Typhoo tea, the comedian Jethro and Sweet & Spicy Pot Noodles.
Miliband reveals packed gaffe schedule
ED Miliband has revealed that he is struggling to keep up with his packed diary of PR blunders.
Scotland too much of a paradise to ever leave, confirm millionaires
SCOTLAND to tax its millionaires because they could never find anywhere nicer to live.
Tactical voters hopelessly confused
TACTICAL voters no longer have any idea who they are meant to be voting for or who they are trying to keep out, they have admitted.
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UKIP leader Nigel Farage has begged the Government to just let him take over now because he is too excited to wait any longer.
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ED Miliband is now less convincing than a former member of Hear'Say.
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Amy and Joseph tied the knot on May 7, 2016. These newlyweds said their "I dos" at the Willow Oaks, and danced the night away in the Fearrington Barn.
How did you and your partner meet?
Joseph and I met in law school at Campbell University – Norman Adrian Wiggins School of Law. He sat just a couple of seats down from me in class, and when we realized we had a mutual friend outside of school, we got to talking and a few weeks into the fall semester, he asked me to take a study break (on a Friday night! . . . we studied a lot.) and grab some dinner. I'm so glad that I did; it felt like I was spending time with someone that I'd known for years. We spent the evening talking about our nieces – mine had just been born, and his had just turned one – our favorite movies, and laughing for what felt like the first time since we started school. Almost five years and two cats later, we couldn't be happier.
Tell us about the engagement.
While we love going out and trying new restaurants or bars, or catching a movie or concert, Joseph and I also love spending time at home, watching movies with our fur babies, Franklin and Bash. Our engagement took place doing exactly that, and it was perfect. He passed me a little note in the middle of the movie and I opened it up and he had asked me to check a box next to whether or not I would marry him. When I looked up, he was holding my grandmother's ring. I was completely caught off guard – I knew that he had asked my father's permission, but I was not expecting it at all that night.
What made Fearrington the place for you to say "I do?'
My parents used to bring me to Fearrington when I was a little girl. We had family that lived in the village, and I loved visiting the Oreo cows and goats, or the "belties." When we got engaged, we decided to take a quick look one day while my parents were in town. We met them over at The Granary for a quick lunch and then we treated to a tour. As always, the belties charmed me, but when we walked into the barn, beautifully lit for a wedding that evening, it was a done deal.
Describe the highlight moment of your wedding day.
Our wedding day feels like such a blur, but I think that one of my favorite parts was our exchange of rings. I was so nervous that I gave Joseph my right hand instead of my left, and just after he'd placed it on my finger, I looked down at my new wedding band and realized that it was on the wrong hand. I was so embarrassed, but Joseph just smiled and laughed as I handed him my other hand to make the switch. Being able to laugh at moments like that reminds me that I'm lucky enough to have married my favorite person in the world.
Is there anything you want to add about your wedding story?
We are so grateful for all the preparation that went into our day to make it absolutely perfect. From the decor to our funfetti wedding cake – I was so embarrassed to ask for funfetti while we sat in the beautiful Fearrington House Restaurant doing our tasting, but Joseph spoke up and Paola made it happen! – to the send off at the end of the night, everything was beyond what I imagined.
This wedding was designed and coordinated by Fearrington's own Gilda McDaniel. Photography by Caitlin Rose Photography.
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We were thrilled to chat with designer Cara May before her trunk show at Dovecote on Saturday, August 20th and Sunday, August 21st. Here is what she shared with us about the collection!
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We were excited to speak with Kimberly Abell, for Equestrian Designs, before her trunk show at Dovecote on Saturday, August 20th and Sunday, August 21st. Here is what she shared with us about the collection!
What was your inspiration this season?
The colors of the Santa Inez Valley: the vineyards, the apple farms and horse farms.
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KU's McLemore puts his dog days behind him
As Kansas prepares to compete for a ninth consecutive Big 12 title, Bill Self needs more aggression.
LAWRENCE, Kan. — Lassie in the classroom, Cujo on the court. Is that too much to ask?
"Nice kids are great, but we definitely need that aggressiveness, that mindset," said Kansas coach Bill Self, whose No. 7 Jayhawks lift the lid on 2012-13 on Tuesday in an exhibition tussle with Emporia State. "We don't need blenders. We need guys to take charge."
The Lassie part,
Ben McLemore has down. It's the Cujo bit that's the great unknown right now, one of the biggest "X" factors for a Kansas bunch earmarked to win a ninth consecutive Big 12 title.
"I really want to bring a lot of energy to the team and to my players, just bring my energy and my effort," said the highly-touted 6-foot-5 St. Louis native, who'll make his competitive debut at Allen Fieldhouse after redshirting last season as a partial academic qualifier. "Coach wanted us to just bring a lot of energy and effort to the team."
Energy and effort, McLemore has plenty of, right along with all the other tools in the kit: Quicks. Hops. Length. Range.
Scout.com tabbed the athletic wingman as the No. 13 shooting guard prospect in the Class of 2011. Comparisons to former Jayhawk great Brandon Rush have run rampant. When the NCAA forced McLemore to sit out last season, the legend — witnessed mostly behind closed doors — grew larger with each passing week. Self, a straight-shooter by trade, only added to the fire this past summer when he said that McLemore had the raw tools to become the best defender in the program's history.
"He's just got to learn how to plug himself in the game and be aggressive at all times," Self said a few weeks ago. "But just (as an) athlete, shooting, length slide, rebounding ... he can do about as many things as we have had here. He reminds me a lot of Brandon in that regard. But we struggled with Brandon being aggressive, if you guys remember. So that is one thing that Ben is going to have to be good at."
"(McLemore has) got the most upside of any (guard) on the team right now," former KU guard Tyshawn Taylor told SiriusXM Radio last February. "He's young, is long and is the best athlete in terms of getting off the floor."
Word on Naismith Drive is that the battles between the 6-3 Taylor, now with the Brooklyn Nets, and taller McLemore in practice were epic, and that the younger of the two won more rounds than the loquacious point man would prefer to admit.
"Tyshawn loved it," Self said, "because he would actually take it personally if Ben made him look bad."
To this, McLemore just smiles.
"It was fun guarding Tyshawn, because he was a great point guard," McLemore said. "Me and him had a good bond with each other ... on and off the court. ... Guarding Tyshawn is going to help me make that move to the next level and get me better, get me ready for what's going to be happening for me when I get ready to play."
McLemore seems ready now. He raised a few eyebrows after he re-tweaked a nagging groin problem in August and wound up playing just two of the four contests on Kansas' summer European junket. Still, it wasn't all for naught: The redshirt freshman recalls senior Elijah Johnson offering a nugget of good advice while the two were overseas.
"He was saying, 'Don't even think about trying to score,' and stuff like that," McLemore said. "'The main thing you should think about is just playing defense. Just play defense. Once you play defense, everything else is just going to fall into (place), and the offense is going to come to you.' Stuff like that. That's what you've got to do. Just play defense, and then everything else is going to come to you."
Not that anyone could blame McLemore for being nervous. He spent a year in the shadows, hitting the books hard (reportedly posting a 3.2 GPA over 36 academic hours), hitching rides to Jayhawk games with student managers, watching a storybook season unfold and giving Taylor fresh hell during scrimmages.
"I mean, he's a great player, so I'm going to give him a lot of credit," McLemore said of Taylor.
How much, though? How often did Taylor get the upper hand?
"I'm going to say 70-30," McLemore said. "Thirty percent of the time, I probably just, you know, frustrated him a little bit."
McLemore grins again, a Cujo smile this time. Every dog has its day ... and with McLemore, it seems the best days are yet to come.
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Who thinks,we will finish 5 or above next season ?
Yeh well looking at what we have done this season.our lads have come a very long way.We all know that all the other team supporters never thought we would get this far.So where do you think we will be at the end of next season?. And who thinks we will do anough to finish in the top 5?. are we going to get to europe?.UP THE IRONS.Sort: Newest | Oldest | Most Replied Expand all replies
Coming from a fellow hammer - i think top 5 + is a tall order. Pardew needs to be bringing in new blood this summer to keep that "unknown" quality we have.
As for Europe? Why not? I think we'll put 110% into it.
I think we were a bit of an unknown quantity this year, next season other teams will have had more of a chance to look at our gameplay and work out better tactics against us.
Having said that, I still tip us for a top half finish, maybe qualification for Europe by winning the FA cup this time :)
You done well last season, but i think you will struggle as predicted last season same with Wigan. You'll do well to get yourself in the Top Half which is possible with a few strong signings.


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My last blog post ran through the history of our 'rate the view' site ScenicOrNot.
I was expecting to wrap up with a final paragraph describing its graceful retirement. But no — it turns out that, even as I wrote, emails were going back and forth to secure a whole new career for ScenicOrNot.
Here's what its new owners at the Warwick Business School have to say:
Does living in picturesque areas make you feel healthier? Urban planners and think tanks have puzzled over this question for years, but have been held back by a lack of data on the beauty of our environment.
We were immensely excited to discover the data being collected by ScenicOrNot, as it gives us a crucial opportunity to finally get some answers to this age-old question.
Our initial analyses of the ScenicOrNot data suggest that people living in more scenic environments report better health, even when taking variables such as income and greenspace into account. These results suggest that the beauty of our everyday environment might have more practical importance than has previously been realised.
We've written a paper describing these analyses, which is currently under review. Keep in touch with us via Twitter (@thoughtsymmetry or @thedatascilab) and we'll let you know when the paper is published.
We're very honoured that mySociety are passing the ScenicOrNot site into our care. We're excited about having the opportunity to customise the site and gather more data for our research, and we'd also love to expand this work to other countries. Stay tuned to hear what comes next!
We're excited too, of course — and really pleased that ScenicOrNot has been redeployed in such a useful way.
The good news for you is that you can carry on rating photos for scenicness over at the site's new home, all in the knowledge that you are increasing our understanding about the correlation between health and our environment.
Oh, and meanwhile: how would you rate the view from your window? You might want to talk to your doctor about that.
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As you may well already know, I'm leaving mySociety and taking some time off to chillax and think about what I should do next.
Today is my last day and it seems appropriate to sign off with a blog post, 11 years and 5 months after the first one that I can find.
It feels too early to share any deep thoughts on what mySociety means, where we are with civic tech, what worked and what didn't, what I learned as a founder and what we should all be focusing on next.
One of my many reasons for wanting to move on was to regain the kind of mental freshness and detachment that comes from having fewer responsibilities for a while. So I promise that I'll think and write more.
Follow me on Twitter if you want to, or add your email address to my new notification list if you just want a ping when I've written something. Or mail me direct at firstname.lastname@example.com if you want to talk about anything.
My main reason for writing today is to thank people. A lot of people gave up very significant portions of their lives to get mySociety to a point where it helps so many people in so many countries in so many different ways.
So I've written a huge list of thankyous. If you're missing, ping me and I'll thank you too 🙂
Thank you to:
Paul Lenz for his strength, energy, focus, morality, tolerance of my foibles, and his financial and legal skills that stop this happening to me.
Tim Morley for loving and caring for PledgeBank for so many years, and for bringing a little Esperanto to our lives. And for cooking.
James Crabtree for writing the original article that said that something like mySociety should exist, and for being a patient trustee from many timezones away
Tony Bowden for being the first person to try to help people outside the UK to benefit from the ideas and tools we'd built here, and for the miracle that is EveryPolitician (100+ countries, anyone?)
James Cronin for being the chair of trustees for so long, and doing so with a calm, kind level-headedness that I think would drive other charity CEO's wild with jealousy. And for being such a key part of starting mySociety in the first place.
Mark Cridge for taking on the challenge of running mySociety, and for resisting the temptation to use me as a scapegoat for everything [n.b. this thanks may be retroactively repealed]
Ian Chard for keeping the server lights on, for making me believe I can do more with every day of my life, and for telling me about the British Library's amazing online newspaper archive.
FOIMonkey for spotting when councils dump tons of private data out via accidental FOI. You are what other people mean by eternal vigilance.
Deborah Kerr for being eternally patient and kind to the users, even when they were taxing, and for doing super retreat organising on a shoestring.
Ganesh Sittampalam for a billion hours of patient FOI administration, helping make WhatDoTheyKnow the institution it is today.
Alex Skene for so much volunteering on WhatDoTheyKnow, for grown-up management advice that I took seriously, and for surprising me at the Olympics
Abi Broom for nothing*.
Richard Taylor for years of diligent volunteering on WhatDoTheyKnow, making us all laugh with his videos of council meetings, and being perhaps the most knowledgeable person about every vote in Parliament who has ever lived.
Adam MacGreggor for server cabinet wrangling at difficult moments.
Ben Nickolls for heading up such a happy, productive commercial team, and for helping me understand that £200 is an entirely reasonable sum to spend on bicycle pedals.
Owen Blacker for a lot of trustees meetings, and for always keeping us spiritually close to the digital rights world.
Ethan Zuckerman for helping me gain perspective, and for being my biggest fan in the USA.
Jen Pahlka for being an even bigger fan than Ethan, and for endlessly quoting me on stages around the world.
Sam Smith for early hacking, for running OpenTech, and for reminding me that chippiness always has a place.
Dave Whiteland for the stories, and for travelling far and wide to help people take advantage of our tools and learnings. And, on a personal note, for showing me what it means to be a truly good son.
Michal Migurski for making Mapumental so beautiful, and for bringing your tech skills to Code for America
Amandeep Rehlon for being the volunteer finance department before we had a finance department, and for giving me the unique pleasure of sending my expense receipts to the Bank of England's financial crises department.
Bill Thompson for organising the first puntcon, where I first met Chris. And for giving feedback on the very earliest versions of the mySociety plan.
Etienne Pollard for helping at every stage, whether a drama hippy, a McKinsey suit, or a harried public servant.
Stephen King for, yes, representing our biggest funder, but also for being clear, friendly, and a quiet champion for mySociety. And for sometimes helping translate from Californian to English.
Alistair Sloan for being such a dedicated WhatDoTheyKnow volunteer that he once got the bus from Glasgow to London for a meeting.
Duncan Parkes for making Mapumental performant in the post-flash era, even when it looked like it might not be possible. And for the best retreat presentation ever.
Struan Donald for the puns, the deadpan one liners, and for making both FixMyStreet and TheyWorkForYou so much better.
Micah Sifry and Ellen Miller for making me unofficial members of the US civic tech family.
Eben Upton, now Raspberry Pi legend, who booked me a speaking gig in the Cambridge Microsoft Research labs which is where I first met Francis Irving and (I think) Chris Lightfoot.
Dan Jellinek for bringing together VoxPolitics with me and James Crabtree, which was the precursor to mySociety.
Janet Haven for the money. For her 'massive thermonuclear powered bullshit detector' [ht Tom Longley]. And, oh yes, for becoming a friend too.
Ayesha and Keith Garrett for design help on PledgeBank, and sysadmin skills, long ago.
Tim Jackson for taking a philanthropic punt on a wild idea, long ago, which worked.
Robin Houston for doing battle on a project you didn't really love, but that was for the right purpose.
Pierre Omidyar for making all that money at eBay, and then deciding that we deserved some of it.
Tom Loosemore for hacking together our very first web presence, and for being a positive, confidence inspiring presence in good times and bad ever since.
Mike Bracken for the vital job of helping us get out first significant grant, and then years later for successfully smuggling mySociety values into government.
Richard Pope for being a ceaseless fount of new ideas, and for driving the first redesign of TheyWorkForYou.
Edmund von der Burg for showing that you can both be a charming coder, and capable of building an office out of a shipping container, with your own hands.
Julian Todd for realising that vote data in the UK parliament deserved clear, regular, semi-automated analysis to make it useful for most people, and then for making it real in PublicWhip. If history is fair it will note him as the inventor of modern vote analyses.
Helen Goulden for helping us navigate the tricky paths to government money, back when there was any.
Doug Paulley for blazing onto the scene as an amazing new WhatDoTheyKnow volunteer.
Martin Wright for turning us from an organisation that sucked at design, to one that really rocks. And for his enduring love of Yo.
Stef Magdalinski for the name of the charity, and for trusting me with TheyWorkForYou
Nick Jackson for happy rats and research stats.
Jason Kitcat for the very first mySociety.org!
Matt Jones for mySociety's logo, which is still going strong, albeit in a gently shaded new style.
Alex Smith for helping us through TV-driven load spikes with customarily despairing good humour.
Manar Hussain for diligent, challenging trusteeship that was always good humoured, and never afraid to bring in new ideas.
The public sector for being such a terrible employer of programming talent that it gave us both Matthew and Steve
John Cross for being a brilliant WhatDoTheyKnow volunteer.
Steve Day for being a brilliant, sensitive engineering manager, wise far beyond his age, all whilst riding a BMX.
Christoph Dowe for helping organise the series of Berlin-based conferences that first brought together Europe's civic hackers, and which ultimately helped attract funding to the scene.
Liz Conlan for the coffee advice
Chris Mytton – for introducing the words 'craft ales' to mySociety's internal discourse, for showing that not going to university has no impact on your ability to be either an amazing coder or a well rounded human being.
Steve Clift for being there to talk to about digital politics when nobody else was interested, and for loving Poplus into life.
Dave Arter for wrestling Mapumental into a truly beautiful state, for your Github robot, and for convincing me that Wales is disproportionately full of bright young coders.
Gareth Rees for helping make Alaveteli our most-used platform, and for bringing a little race-car glamour to our team.
Rebecca Rumbul for getting our new research programme of to a flying start, and for showing me that the art of creative swearing is never truly mastered
Jen Bramley for cheerfully travelling the world and making people feel that mySociety must be worth working with if everyone is so nice
Gemma Humphrys for bringing a tornado of efficiency to our events organisation, and for having absolutely no boundaries that I am aware of.
Rowena Young for being a person I could really moan to, when things got tough.
Myf Nixon for being our organisation's voice, for looking after our users, and for making sure that we get noticed.
Tony Blair for starting a war that inspired Julian Todd to build PublicWhip, and much later for commissioning a petitions website that caused all sorts of fun and games.
Seb Bacon for making DemocracyClub happen in 2010, for starting the conversion of WhatDoTheyKnow.com into the generic Alaveteli, and for going off to OpenCorporates to make it harder for the b*&^&ds to get away with it.
Sym Roe for making DemocracyClub happen in 2015, and for giving a lot of his time to the cause of good political information in the UK.
Tim Green for being the new Chris Lightfoot
Tom Longley for giving us a no-nonsense introduction to how hard it was going to be to conduct successful partnerships in the developing world.
Mark Longair for making sure that technological excellence and human kindness are are the core of what we do.
Camilla Aldrich for the lungs
Angie Martin for giving all she could, for as long as she could.
Zarino Zappia for ceaseless energy and good humour, and for asking hilariously straight questions about why we made terrible design decisions previously
Karl Grundy, Kristina Glushkova and Mike Thompson for helping us grow a commercial team, over several years.
The vandal who repeatedly smashed up the phone booth on London's Caledonian Road, and thus planted the idea for FixMyStreet
William Perrin for helping make government interested in data and tech before it was cool, and for virtually single-handedly starting the UK government's work on Open Data. And for all the support and the ideas in his post civil service life.
Fran Perrin for the support, and for protecting me from William's ideas.
Louise Crow for showing me what a technology leader really looks like.
Matthew Somerville for always standing up for the user, for making everything work, and for doing it all in a tenth the time expected. And for a hug when I needed it most.
Francis Irving for joining at the right time, for leaving at the right time, and being a monster of thoughtful product design and speedy, skilful implementation in between. For always being excited, and always wise.
Chris Lightfoot for giving me a brief, life-changing glimpse of what the raging, brilliant light of genius looks like. And being the person who introduced me to Anna.
Anna Powell-Smith for everything, everyday.
* Trust me, this is how she'd want it
If you need data on the people who make up your parliament, another country's parliament, or indeed all parliaments, you may be in luck.
Every Politician, the latest Poplus project, aims to collect, store and share information about every parliament in the world, past and present—and it already contains 100 of them.
What's more, it's all provided as Open Data to anyone who would like to use it to power a civic tech project. We're thinking parliamentary monitoring organisations, journalists, groups who run access-to-democracy sites like our own WriteToThem, and especially researchers who want to do analysis across multiple countries.
But isn't that data already available?
Yes and no. There's no doubt that you can find details of most parliaments online, either on official government websites, on Wikipedia, or on a variety of other places online.
But, as you might expect from data that's coming from hundreds of different sources, it's in a multitude of different formats. That makes it very hard to work with in any kind of consistent fashion.
Every Politician standardises all of its data into the Popolo standard and then provides it in two simple downloadable formats:
- csv, which contains basic data that's easy to work with on spreadsheets
- JSON which contains richer data on each person, and is ideal for developers
This standardisation means that it should now be a lot easier to work on projects across multiple countries, or to compare one country's data with another. It also means that data works well with other Poplus Components.
What can I do with it?
Need a specific example? Yesterday, we introduced Gender Balance, the game that gathers data about women in politics.
As you'll know if you've already given it a try, Gender Balance works by displaying politicians that make up one of the world's legislatures, one by one.
That data all comes from Every Politician, and it's meant that the developers have been able to concentrate on making a smooth and functional interface, knowing that the data side of things has already been taken care of.
That's just one way to use Every Politician data, though. If you'd like to use it in your own site or app, you can find out more here.
We still need more data
As you may have noticed, there are more than 100 parliaments in the world. In fact, despite having reached what feels like a fairly substantial milestone, we're still barely half way to getting some data for every parliament.
So we could use your help in finding data for the parliaments we don't yet cover, and historic information for the ones we do. Read more about how you can help out.
Back in March, mySociety's founder Tom Steinberg, announced that he would step down.
Today, I'm pleased to announce that later this month I will be taking over the reins as Tom's successor. I'm Mark Cridge, and I guess I should start by introducing myself.
I've had a diverse 20-year career doing digital things. Most recently I was chief operating officer with the lovely folks at BERG, a London-based technology and design consultancy many of you might know. For the past year I was a senior advisor at Blue State Digital in London, the team responsible for the digital strategy used in President Obama's electoral campaigns.
I began my career back in 1996 in a small web design agency in Birmingham, before setting up glue London, a digital advertising agency, going on to become global managing director of Isobar, following glue's acquisition in 2005. I originally studied Architecture before realising that wasn't quite my cup of tea, and that the internet held more immediate attractions.
I'm genuinely excited to take what I've learned over my time to date, and to apply it to help build on Tom's achievements as mySociety's founder — by creating even more digital tools that make a difference to the lives of citizens in Britain and around the world.
What I'll be focusing on
mySociety's mission is unchanged: we exist to invent and popularise new digital tools that enable citizens to exert power over institutions and decision makers.
As CEO I plan to focus on mySociety's users, partners and volunteers both in the UK and in dozens of countries internationally, where we now conduct the great majority of our work.
My initial priorities will be to ensure that mySociety's existing sites keep pushing the boundaries of what is possible in the world of civic technologies, whilst also thinking through where we can move into new and exciting areas.
I want to make a new push to ensure that charities, activists and journalists around the world are able to run successful, high profile sites of their own, powered by mySociety's open source technologies.
We will also be building up our research team over the next few years, to ensure that we are providing tools and services that have genuine impact, which we ourselves are able to measure.
All of which will build towards a reaffirmation of mySociety's place as a key player within the global civic technology movement.
Making this all possible
Of course, all of this is possible only thanks to the generous support of our many funders — and needless to say we are always looking for more, if you think you can help then please do let me know. In particular, I will be spending a good deal of time delivering the three-year vision we developed with our friends at the Omidyar Network, with whom we announced a major $3.6m funding partnership earlier this year.
That said, one of mySociety's great assets is that we are not entirely reliant on donor funding, so I will also retain our strong focus on helping our commercial clients — from UK local councils and charities to global technology giants — to serve their own users better, by working with mySociety Commercial Services.
All in all, I am indebted to Tom for leaving mySociety with sound finances and a world-class team of developers, both of which will be invaluable in helping me to take the organisation to the next level over its second decade.
I am also grateful to Tom and mySociety's trustees for putting their trust in me. I've been an admirer of mySociety, and a user of its sites, for many years. It is a great privilege to be appointed as CEO.
I will be spending the next few months with the team as we plot and plan the next phase of our development which you can read more about here on this blog in the coming months. So if any of this sounds interesting to you then please get in touch.
I'd love to hear your thoughts.
And Tom says…
A big welcome to Mark!
I am excited that someone with so much digital experience has come along to guide mySociety in our second decade. We've always been an unusual social enterprise in that while we have a social mission, we also operate a first class software development and design team in-house. With Mark on board we will retain and grow that digital credibility, whilst focusing ever more deeply on the needs of our international partners, our UK clients, and growing our research capacity so that we know what is (and isn't) working.
I am looking forward to spending the next month brain-dumping to Mark, before I slip quietly out the door in early August.
It's an exciting time for mySociety, and I hope everyone will join me in celebrating Mark's arrival!
This is a public service announcement for any organisations that have been making use of Google Ad Grants to run Adwords for free.
We're the grateful recipient of a Google Ad Grant ourselves, which is why you might see our ads appearing on some Google searches. We find that Google Ads are a great channel to bring our sites to the attention of people who might not already know about them, but who are searching for phrases like "Who is my MP?", "How did my MP vote?", or "How can I report a pothole?". Every year they bring us thousands of new visitors.
The single-domain rule
A couple of years ago, the rules around Google Ad Grants changed, stipulating that recipients must only link to a single domain, and that that should be the domain of the grantee organisation. For us, with our multiple sites, that meant making some changes. Our ads currently point at a series of landing pages here on the mySociety.org site, each of which acts as a springboard to one of our other domains.
This is permitted behaviour and in many cases it resulted in a pretty good user experience, allowing us to focus on exactly what the user was searching for, and deliver them there.
For example, if someone searches for 'report a pothole' and clicks on our ad, they'll land on this page.
Inputting their postcode takes them directly to the second page of FixMyStreet, with no extra clicks than if they had gone through the homepage, plus there's the opportunity for us to talk a bit about what the site does and why it exists at all.
Linking to additional domains
However, we recently discovered that Google Ad Grants' rules have been relaxed a little (at least, they have here in the UK. As terms and conditions vary from territory to territory, you should check your own region's Google Ad Grants terms and conditions). Here's what they look like in the UK:
In certain cases, you may be able to promote multiple domains in a Google Ad Grants account after your original Grants application has been approved.
To request adding new domains to your account, fill out the Additional Website Domain Request form. Your request should be reviewed within 5 business days.
Reasons you can request an exception
You can request an exception to the website policy if you have other websites that:
- Promote ongoing projects with similar content owned by your organization
- Contain the same information as your main domain but for a different language
- Replace your original website because you've changed your domain since applying for Ad Grants
We applied and within just a couple of hours, we were authorised to link directly to our own websites.
This is brilliant for us because it means we can really maximise the value we get from the grant. We can now point searchers directly to deep content such as MPs' voting records on TheyWorkForYou, and specific public authorities on WhatDoTheyKnow. We'll probably also keep our landing pages, at least for the time being, because we think they are a good user path for the relevant search terms.
So, if this is a ruling that was causing you headaches, it is worth revisiting the terms and conditions and seeing whether you are now eligible to do the same. Let us know how you get on!
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Have you ever typed a phrase like 'what's the time in New York' or 'what is 28 km in miles' into Google? If you've done so in the last couple of years, you'll have seen answers given on the results page itself, inside dedicated answer boxes.
For the next couple of weeks, Google users in Britain who search for key election data will see the answers presented in-page in this increasingly familiar way.
We're delighted to share the news that these answers are being supplied as open standard data from Democracy Club's brilliant, volunteer-powered YourNextMP project, as well as our own long running TheyWorkForYou. The aim is to make information easily accessible to anyone who seeks it: we are one of a few data sources to be supplying Google.
We're particularly excited about this because YourNextMP is powered by PopIt, a Poplus Component which is used to create nice clean open standards Popolo data on politicians.
We think that adoption of open standards data by companies as big as Google points towards a promising world in which there is a lot more good quality, open standard data on political issues of all kinds.
Try it for yourself: search for uk election candidates or a question like who can I vote for?
How was this made possible?
We're so delighted to see essential civic data being brought to the search engine's vast numbers of users. It's all down to the power of open standards and re-usable open source software.
YourNextMP provides feeds via an API, which are available for anyone—large organisations like Google, or individual people like you, perhaps—to use in their own projects.
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MPs must get their snouts out of the trough
Susie O'Brien
–, Tuesday, October, 08, 2013, (8:54am)
Politicians must get their snouts out of the trough. There urgently needs to be a crackdown at both state and federal level on the use of study tours, travel expenses, reimbursements, travel arrangements, entitlements and gifts.
The problem isn't so much that the rules are broad and generous, it's that many of our politicians think they are different from the rest of us. They think they deserve special perks, special treatment and special handouts that most of us would never dream of. Politicians are happy to make life harder for the rest of us, making it more difficult for those relying on welfare, and restricting access to family payments and services.
But for them, life is pretty good at the top. If they can go business class on an internal air flight, most will. If they can take a chauffered Com car instead of a taxi or hire car, they will.
Recent stories illustrate how MPs will bend the rules as far as they can. It might be legal, but in the minds of the average taxpayer, it doesn't pass the sniff test.
Think PM Tony Abbott who's just had to pay back money for attending the wedding of former Liberal MP Sophie Mirabella.
Think Nationals MP Barnaby Joyce and Liberal MP George Brandis attending the wedding of journalist Michael Smith.
Think Victorian MPs traipsing around the sights of Greece on a "study" tour.
Think former PM Julia Gillard paying back more than $4000 after her partner used a taxpayer-funded car.
The answer does just involve tightening up the rules.
It's about changing the way politicians do business. The real problem isn't the rules but the ego of the individuals.
Yes, being an elected member of parliament is an onerous, important, time-consuming job. But I wouldn't say most work any harder than the rest of us, and they are handsomely compensated for their efforts. (Base salary for a backbencher is $195,000, plus throw in allowances of up to $46,000 for servicing their electorates).
Yes, there are many late sitting nights that take politicians away from their families. But late night in Parliament House - whether in Melbourne or Canberra - isn't so bad. I've seen it firsthand. There is staff to do all the hack work, silver service restaurants, swanky bars, and comfortable offices. There are some nice little side earners as well – an extra $19,000 if you choose to give up a private plated car and a Life Gold Pass for older retired politicians on non-commercial travel.
Don't get me wrong: good politicians are worth their weight in gold. They work tirelessly to bring in policies and laws to improve the lives of ordinary Australians. But there are many who have been there too long, and are too used to the good life. They just think they deserve to get their trips or travel or expenses paid for.
And why? Just because they can. Just because they think they're worth it. Just because they think they're better than everyone else.
They know the rules and they know how to bend them. If they've got a wedding to go to, they'll organise some meetings (often called "briefings") the week before so they can claim the cost of their travel and accommodation.
They take overseas travel tours to exotic destinations, knowing they have to write just a few short pages justifying their trip. They are protected, cosseted and separated from the real world at every turn. They step out of their front door into a chauffered car, walk to the Chairman's Lounge at the airport where they will have free food and drinks served to them, and arrive in Canberra where they are picked up in a chauffeured car. They are treated like kings within Parliament House, and get paid hundreds of dollars to stay the night, regardless of how much their accommodation actually costs.
One of the few exceptions is SA No Pokies Senator Nick Xenophon, who makes a point of choosing low-budget, flexible flights where possible, and of driving a hire car around Canberra rather than relying on an expensive chauffeured Com car.
And yet he's had to fight the entitlements office to get reimbursed for the $60 a day hire car – your see, most aren't used to MPs doing things on the cheap when they have much more cushy options.
Have Your Say
What some of them need to do is drop the confected pretences, confected outrage and get their snouts out of the hypocrisy Susie.
I agree with you that a good politician is worth his/her weight in gold, and as such I would care less about the monies in question here.
What is galling for the country and about many of these people is that they hounded their opponents with the said confected, hypocritical outrage and accusations for years about morals, honesty and ethics, yet themselves were comfortably rorting the system and with a blatant disregard for said honesty, morals and ethics.
The screamed and demanded accountability and consequences, yet now feel it is OK to rort the system and simply pay the monies back once caught cheating?
This has nothing to do with political leanings, I am personally as neutral as it comes, it is about massive levels of lying about what the country needs, and yet living the lie themselves.
They need to get their noses out of the trough of hypocrisy, otherwise their arrogance will cost Australia dearly.
Tue 08 Oct 13 (10:23am)
Tue 08 Oct 13 (04:54pm)
I think a simple tweak could fix this problem in 5 mins. Let the MPs pay expenses from their own pocket and submit the claim after like all the rest of us do. If the department rejects it, so be it. No crime, rules enforced, no embarrassment for them and I suspect a little more prudence.
Although, since Gillard took a VIP jet to Byron Bay to attend her press secretary's wedding, could be some MPs out of pocket a lot.
Explain it anyway you like Suzie ,its theft . you know and they know it and they do it frequently . If it was you job or mine , we'd be sacked
Tue 08 Oct 13 (10:39am)
Tue 08 Oct 13 (11:49am)
Moose, Somehow, I think I know who you voted for at the last Election. With all this confected outrage by Labor and the media, why not ask the Department of Finance if the claims were a breach of entitlement? I suspect you will find that the rules have been followed.
Tue 08 Oct 13 (12:43pm)
Tony fitzgerald , A goat in a suit is still a goat
Bravo Susie! It's about time the pollies were controlled the same way business men are on trips from home. No more per diem allowances, just a credit card which is re-imbursed.Travel booked through a central authority with reasons for travel, and expected outcomes and contacts. Most international companies have arrangements with 5 star hotels for discounts based on room nights per annum, which are paid to the company. If these guys reckon they are running the country - let them be subject to the same rules and regulations that private enterprise is. Oh..I forgot, the government doesn't have to pay fringe benefits tax!!
Tue 08 Oct 13 (11:26am)
Can't say I disagree with you Susie, however, this is not limited to politics. Just about everyone takes what liberties than can from their jobs, ranging from taking a few goods home with them, to taking overseas holidays written off as a tax deduction. Businesses that register their luxury car to their business, a two hour meeting requirement that turns into a family holiday, etc. It's happening all over the country and in every profession, so are politicians really any different to the rest of us? Any tax avoidance is tax that doesn't go into the system, which I see the same as tax coming out of the system. We also harp a lot about how much politicians are paid, and the cushy jobs they have. Yet that same opportunity is available to all of us. Anyone can begin a political party and run for office.
Tue 08 Oct 13 (11:26am)
Perhaps the real problem lies within the Department of Treasury who actually make payments on the claims. If the payments claimed are not within the guidelines then Treasury should not pay them. If you were not certain on the legitimacy of the claim, would you not surrender it for payment in any event and if it did not get paid, fair enough. Obviously the problem is within Treasury.
Tue 08 Oct 13 (11:44am)
How politicians get away with 'crime' is beyond my imagination - the reason why I refuse to vote for the selfish hypocrites.
Tue 08 Oct 13 (11:56am)
Tue 08 Oct 13 (03:23pm)
Head in the sand then Tammie?
Thu 10 Oct 13 (08:06am)
Yeah Tammy - Not voting will teach them a lesson. I can see how that worked out for you last time
Each MP should be entitled to a set amount of travel and accommodation allowance per year, based on how many primary votes they won. Might that not elicit the appropriate squeal?
Tue 08 Oct 13 (11:57am)
Another week or so after it blows over and they will be back to the swill.
Tue 08 Oct 13 (12:15pm)
I note Labor are attempting to latch on to this issue by calling for an enquiry into Coalition parliamentarians'expense claims.
This is extremely dangerous ground for labor, who are just as guilty - and they know it. If there is to be an enquiry (why waste more money doing that as opposed to concentrate on fixing the problem, it should investigate ALL parliamentarians' expenditure. Labor and the Greens in particular would, of course, not be at all keen on that would they!
Tue 08 Oct 13 (12:16pm)
Tue 08 Oct 13 (05:40pm)
Well Harry I'm with you - I'm especially curious as to how Albanese and Shorten are funding their month long ALP Election campaign. They better not be claiming travel expenses from the taxpayers for this sham of a faction driven talkfest. Last time I looked any Party activities are meant to be conducted in their own time at their own expense (personal or party funded). How much will these two buffoons cost us? Well they've been absent from their electorates for almost a month now so what are we paying them for? Plus any staff along the way.
Tue 08 Oct 13 (09:40pm)
Susie curiously like so many of her fellow journalists waited for a coalition government to get into power before running with the 'rorts' story even though both sides of politics are into it and have been for a long time. How much did it cost us to rush Gillard back to Adelaide when her father died for instance? An awful lot I would suggest
Hypocrisy at its finest, Abbott.
Tue 08 Oct 13 (12:50pm)
Tue 08 Oct 13 (05:39pm)
Hypocrisy on both sides Yep. What about Julia's mate, Tim, who 'claimed' $4,000 (the amount Julia apparently repaid) using a government car to sell shampoo - and he isn't even a politician! What is equally hypocritical is how they all blame 'the other side' - sick to death of all this nit picking! Get on with the job of running the country!
For Mr Abbott to claim that He was doing the Pollie rides for charity and then claim Airfares and even worse travel allowance from the public purse, That he now claims that he did other Party Political matters during the ride beggars belief, the rules say that the Party Political matters are in fact the Primary purpose of the trip not the other way around! To meet a party hack and shake a hand or two is no where near the meaning of the Primary Political reason for being there!
Tue 08 Oct 13 (01:07pm)
I have a three word slogan for the next three years" stop the rorts" ......lobor liberal nat green dont care .....stop the rorts
Tue 08 Oct 13 (01:33pm)
Wed 09 Oct 13 (06:00am)
"Abbott says the adults are back in charge, but it just doesn't feel like it, does it?"
It sure does to me, Susie. But I'm more interested in why BILLIONS of taxpayer's money was wasted on Labor stupidity and incompetence.......you know, things like the edookasion revoloosion, overpriced school halls, an obsolete NBN.....a few lazy couple of hundred billion dollars by crooked idiots like Gillard, Rudd and Co pretending to be adults. Fools like Gillard still sooking about how her excellent Prime Ministership was stripped from her just because she is a woman.
You have the gall to question if Adults are in charge? Only in your lefty head!
Wed 09 Oct 13 (06:36am)
Actually Susie, Yes, it really does feel like the adults are back in charge. And the growth in small business and employment since the election would indicate that a majority of Australia feels that the adults are back in charge also.
Couldn't agree more. Abbott says the adults are back in charge, but it just doesn't feel like it, does it?
Susie O'Brien
Tue 08 Oct 13 (02:48pm)
If Abbott goes on a charity ride let him pay the costs himself cos doesn't charity begin at home and not with the Australian tax payer?
Tue 08 Oct 13 (01:52pm)
Thu 10 Oct 13 (08:13am)
So when the McGrath foundation invite him to attend one of their charity events he says no. That way they don't get the media coverage, they don't get the increase in participation, they don't get the extra dollars all because he claimed an allowance to get there and back . And of course lets not forget that we can raise this 6 years later when it is convenient to the opposition.
This is old news and you might not have anything else to write about, BUT why didnt you write things like this when Labor was running the show or destroying the country???
I think you will never run out of material if you focus on the real failures of Labor and there OUT of CONTROL spending and boat arrivals… You would be a wiser person…
Tue 08 Oct 13 (01:55pm)
Tue 08 Oct 13 (03:28pm)
its pretty obvious to even Lib voters by now that there was not a lot wrong with the actions of the previous Labor government, as Abbott is basically aligning his post-election policies with everything that Labor put in place (especially in respect of boat arrivals). It will become increasingly clear that Abbott was a hysterical opposition leader who would have said anything to be PM, no matter how unreasonable or unjustified
Tue 08 Oct 13 (05:36pm)
Suzie D8 does have a point though check out the list Andrew Bolt has about the Laborites doing the same thing: -
Kevin Rudd:
- Comcar costs for that day were $831 (single transaction)
Greg Combet:
- He actually adjusted his entitlements report to reverse 2x Comcar entries (paid back)
Simon Crean:
-2x Comcar entries = $109
- Family Domestic Travel, 9th December from Melbourne to Sydney, then back on the 10th, for $963.50
- 8th through 10th December, Crean travelled MELB/BRIS/TOWNSV/SYD/MELB for $1412.55
- On 9th December however, he had to buy a separate ticket in order to get back from Townsville to Sydney in time for the birthday celebrations. The further cost here was $550.
I could guarantee that if they went through the unions books they would find an encyclopedic list of rorts.
Like I said in another post about pointing the finger......
Wed 09 Oct 13 (01:47pm)
No, not obvious at all. And as a Lib voter I giggle every day your lot are in opposition.
Suck it up.
Wed 09 Oct 13 (06:22pm)
@chris - let's wait for the introduction of the carbon tax repeal legislation and the inquiry into the use of union funds. We will really see hysterical then, from Labor.
I see this slightly differently. If a reporter or a photographer not from the wedding party ask a pollie a question (or photographs) then the pollie can not be expected to be on a private trip. The reporters or photographers can not have it both ways. What gives the reporters the right to ask questions or take photographs when a pollie is attending something privately and expect them to be working and not get their entitlement by the fact that they have to respond. I bet where ever Tony Abbott goes, or other senior pollies that they are expected to answer questions thrown at them.
Surely if any person out there was in a similar position e.g. on a holiday or a break and get asked questions about work they are entitled to be peeved or expect payment for it and if the option is there to claim I bet they would.
I will add, if a pollie does claim for something and they were left alone, no questions from Journalists or photographs taken they should be reported.
Is that really so hard?
Tue 08 Oct 13 (02:08pm)
I can understand our senior politicians being flown business class, and the driver service can actually be cheaper than a cab in some instances. But private expenses are private expenses, and all public servants know the difference and have to follow the same guidelines.
How Tony Abbott is allowed to pay back finance for what he would have know was a private expense is beyond me when Peter Slipper is being taken to court over the same thing. The government is pretty tight when it comes to their agencies executives spending, and have taken measures to reduce spending. Our politicians are public servants and all are well aware of the rules when spending public funds. What some think are "perks" of the job for politicians are not so, rather blatant misuse of public funding and some seem to be getting away with it while others aren't.
Tue 08 Oct 13 (02:41pm)
Tue 08 Oct 13 (03:29pm)
You bet the rules for execs are clear and water tight??? What planet are you living on. Every exec in every corporation rorts the system. They always have and they always will. We really have learnt nothing from the Enron scandal.
Tue 08 Oct 13 (07:36pm)
@Andy. Accommodation arrangements for public service execs changed a few years ago so that execs weren't able to get $200 per night for accommodation when they actually booked a room at half the rate. Some execs were booking apartments together, sharing the expenses and pocketing a fortune over a week. The government changed policy so that execs could only book accommodation through certain providers of which have an agreement with an agency where prices are set, no allowance paid to execs and it saved the agency a fortune. That was a government directive. So too the requirement for all staff below executive level to book the cheapest available flight when traveling. Cab charges, driver service, accommodation, meal allowance and mobile phone use within the public service is highly regulated and audited. Every time a public servant books anything to charge to the organisation, AND, every time the charge is approved, all parties involved are reminded of the conditions of use and that it must comply with public funding use. As a public servant you can't even get a cup of coffee paid for by the taxpayer and ALL public servants know this.
As far as other execs are concerned rorting a system, they are committing fraud if they are misappropriating funds or claiming private expenses as tax deductions. But as far as you thinking public servant execs don't know or follow the rules then you have no idea of the amount of staff who have been disciplined or sacked for misuse of public funding and you can't claim ignorance because every time you apply for an expense you are reminded of the policy and made aware of the penalties for non compliance. It is all audited and taken very seriously and only a complete and utter fool would try to pull one over a government regulated, and audited, spending of public funding report. So why is it that Tony Abbott, head of Government, can repay funds to avoid discipline for claiming expenses when he was part of the Government (Howard) who tightened government funding expenses and the requirement to have it highly regulated? What planet am I from. One in which I conducted some of the audits and I know how tight they are. I know how accurate the details need to be and I know how seriously it is taken. It is no game believe you me!!
Tue 08 Oct 13 (09:06pm)
There is a significant difference between what other MP's have done, and what Slipper has done.
Other MP's have incorrectly claimed expenses that have been spent, and paid them back.(edited) It is alleged that Slipper used cabcharges for unauthorised and non parliamentary trips. (edited for legal reasons)
Wed 09 Oct 13 (11:54am)
Guest1 Bank execs paying themselves whopping bonuses is rorting they system. Share options at zero dollars is rorting the system. Your rules for public servants may have been tight but the private sector is a shocker and always will be.
Wed 09 Oct 13 (04:24pm)
@JamesP. There is no difference. Other MP's claimed travel to weddings years ago. Now that Slipper is in the spotlight, those MP's have thought about their own dealings and so have paid the money back. They are trying to clean their slate and that is all. Slipper tried to pay the money back but wasn't allowed to. It is irrelevant that one was for cab charges and others for travel. It is the private nature of the claim that is the issue. There are many eyebrow raising dealings that have come to light over this. Once again, ALL public servants are well aware of regulations around spending public funds and all have to comply the same way. That is regardless of whether you submit travel expense claims prior to travelling or whether you claim once you have paid for it yourself. There is absolutely no difference! But I do find it ironic that the same government that tightened travel dealings within their own agencies and adopted higher regulation are the same people who are apparently confused about what is or isn't a private expense. They had it detailed pretty clearly when they were telling others what could or could not be claimed!
Dead right. I think there is some hypocrisy there. I'll bet the rules for execs are really clear and water tight, but why then is there so much grey area for the MPs themselves??
Susie O'Brien
Tue 08 Oct 13 (02:49pm)
The example I can site would be if I claimed more money than I can legitimately prove on my tax return. The ATO would investigate and I would be required to return what I had overstated and probably be fine / punished in some way. I think this is a fitting outcome for our greedy pollies.
Tue 08 Oct 13 (02:59pm)
Thu 10 Oct 13 (10:45am)
"Small crime does not mean no crime". Returning the stolen goods does not mean the crime has not been commited. Our politicians need a reality check. These breeches are crimes, and basically they are thieves. If they want their constituents to respect them they have to be exemplary. Or is good to be the King , just do as we say not as we do. Fine example.
I we done this working for private enterprise we would get the sack and possible face criminal charges so what makes these Politicians any different They work for we the tax payer pays their wage they should should be sacked and face charges they are the people who set an example to the community
Tue 08 Oct 13 (03:01pm)
Tue 08 Oct 13 (03:53pm)
I just hope you work with your hands, picking fruit, labouring, standover man, that sort of menial thing, and don't go anywhere near paperwork.
And if you do work with paperwork, why have you not been sacked?
It is a disgrace and there should be more control over their spending but I am much more concerned over my money they waste on stupid policy decisions. Myki, mothballed desalination plant, School Halls, Pink batts, taking a cast of thousands to a climate change summit, illegal immigrants to name but a few.
Tue 08 Oct 13 (03:24pm)
Xenophon. Isn't he the coward who made statements inside Coward's Castle, but like all craven curs refused to say them out on the street? Why yes Peter he is.
And here's our precious Susie, who is married to a GetUp whatever he does there, with a ringing endorsement of the craven cur.
Yes sirree, I'd love a ringing endorsement like that.
And you reckon my massive protuberance in my pants makes you sick. That's a one off thing, said in all forms of sarcastic bent (he's only large and beautifully circumcised), but your sickening love-in with Xenophon is an ongoing thing.
Seriously, you have no shame. But you already knew that.
Tue 08 Oct 13 (03:46pm)
Wed 09 Oct 13 (07:57am)
Peter, I think you should get your "massive protuberance in your pants" checked out by a doctor as it could well be a femoral hernia.
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