Talk radio listening wing nuts are both enraged and confused today as one of their beloved sports people has strayed from their blinkered delusional orthodoxy, in this case the Brumbies expensive bench warmer and long ago Wallabies flanker David Pockock who’s made the above video for GetUp!’s Canberra Day of Climate Action:
On 17th November, tens of thousands of Australians will gather in every capital city and hundreds of regional towns – to make it clear that Australians want stronger action on climate change. Make sure you RSVP today to turn up the heat on climate action.
Please also invite your friends to the Facebook event
Details
— Sunday
— 17th November 2013
— 11:00 am
— open event – capacity of 20000 guests.Location
— Garema Place Canberra 2601
From the host
WEAR HOT SUMMER COLOURS. Think red, orange, yellow – shirts, clothes, signs, banners, facepaint, hats, umbrellas and any other creative ideas. Together we will turn up the heat on climate action! Also bring water, hat and sunscreen.
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maxblues said :
Not only Bob Carr, but now Kevin Rudd, leaving the parliament. Two foreign ministers bite the dust. Last One Turn Out The Lights.
Thumper said :
Electricity Bill is not bad and with the exodus of personnel at the last election maybe the Labor Party could be known as the Last One Turn Out The Lights Party.
howeph said :
I still don’t understand how Labor gave electricity a bad name; but “Electricity Bill” is funny.
Given the colourful name calling used by Paul Keating in parliament, Labor doesn’t have a leg to stand on.
Doh! The quoting is all screwed up above. Sorry.
maxblues said :
The Speaker of the House of Representatives has ruled that it is not against Standing Orders to refer to Shorty as Electricity Bill. The Labor Party is outraged and obviously considers Electricity an insult.
I still don’t understand how Labor gave electricity a bad name; but “Electricity Bill” is funny.
Given the colourful name calling used by Paul Keating in parliament, Labor doesn’t have a leg to stand on.
howeph said :
Frankly, I liked the Pieman better…
howeph said :
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/bronwyn-bishop-ruling-on-bill-shorten-nickname-sparks-political-row-and-labor-dissent-motion/story-fn59niix-1226758758423
howeph said :
The Speaker of the House of Representatives has ruled that it is not against Standing Orders to refer to Shorty as Electricity Bill. The Labor Party is outraged and obviously considers Electricity an insult.
maxblues said :
Please explain?
How did Labor give electricity a bad name? When and in what context, did they take offence when it was used in parliament?
It is ironic that it was the Labor party that gave electricity a bad name and now it is the Labor party that now takes offence at the word electricity being used in parliament and now considers it an insult.
Here I was hoping it was the other David Pocock…
PantsMan said :
The problem with this is that you are painting yourself into a corner with this sort of crap.
The facts are apolitical.
If you make your politics dependent on an exclusion of the facts (like Abbott, Minchin, Hunt, and their 50% of the Liberal Party are doing), then you are steering your politics onto the path of inevitable irrelevancy.
The Catholic Church went through all this with the Galileo trial and their attempt to contradict fact with their political dogma. Ultimately, they had to convene Vatican II and recant from their position of anti-reason, opposing the natural sciences, to reach a more modern state where they recognised that dogma does not trump fact and that science is valid.
It’s little wonder that Abbott failed in his calling – he clearly does not have the intellect to understand where his politics are leading him.
Posterity will deal very, very harshly indeed with Tony Abbott – think Neville Chamberlain, another man who was unable to embrace the challenge of his time, and is remembered as a betrayer and as a weak fool.
davo101 said :
Wow. Winner.
DUB said :
DUB you have NO credibility here.
You lied about the pro-wind rally in June:
DUB said :
And you lied about the numbers attending the Refugee rally in Woden in July:
DUB said :
When the pictures of the rally show around 400 people attending.
DUB you make stuff up. What lies are you going to tell us about this rally?
Anyone taking bets on numbers that will turn up for this clowns’ parade?
Face paint, umbrellas, red, orange & yellow clothing combined with singing and ranting….sounds like born-again BARCODE.
PantsMan said :
Can’t be true. The climate changed in the past well before there were any socialists around.
Codders111 said :
Tony Abbott
PantsMan said :
Damn those scientists with their Ph.D.’s & their extensive research.
PantsMan said :
*yawn*
PantsMan said :
*Sigh* reference required.