I’ll keep it short ‘n’ sweet Sammy.
My ballot paper belongs to me. I get to decide how I cast my preferences.
A salaried factional heavy and his NSW Labor mates - who wouldn’t know where to find the Northern Rivers on a map - have no say whatsoever.
Sunday 8 July 2012
Memo to that little spiv from Sussex Street, Sam Dastyari
Saturday 7 July 2012
BOOM, BOOM! Boson joke of the year
So bad it’s funny…………………
A Higgs boson walks into a church.
We don't allow Higgs bosons in here!" shouts the priest.
"But without me, how can you have mass?" asks the particle.
Like everything else Tony Abbott tries to organise....
Friday 6 July 2012
Jockey ducks and weaves
Jockey Matt Dacos certainly earned his riding fee in race 6 at the Grafon races on Thursday. Dacos was aboard Cee Jay Clang near the 1200m mark when he was struck in the face by a low flying duck. Dacos overcame that obstacle, continued to ride his mount and eventually finished in second place.
NSW jockeys earn the princely sum of $162 whether their mount wins or loses. If their mount wins or runs a place they also pick up a standard 5% of the prize money, which is sometimes accompanied by a "sling" from grateful connections.
Does anyone know how the duck fared?
Image credit: dailyexaminer.com.au
Gulaptis admits he "stuffed up" & then offers a string of weak excuses to 2,000 strong crowd
The Great Garbage Swindle
Clarence Valley Council is running the old pea and thimble scam, but are using garbage cans instead of thimbles.
Here is how it works.
If you are lucky enough to have the three wheely bins, green red and yellow, you are not in the firing line of this sting.
If you are one of the many in Valley rural areas who only receive the service of the red and yellow bins, read on….
It pays to think on the fortnightly cycle of the garbage service outside of the towns.
Last year the red bin was collected every week, therefore in one fortnight 2 red bins were collected and one week in the same period the yellow bin was collected. This makes a grand total of 3 bins per fortnight.
This current year the red bin is collected one week and the yellow bin the next week, the total number of bin per fortnight collected is 2.
When you look at this there is a 1/3 reduction in our garbage service, but the council assures me that the price we will pay for garbage services in our rates will remain the same.
So my argument is: since the garbage service has reduced by 1/3 or 33.3% and the price we pay for this service is the same as last year we are in affect paying 33.3% more than we did last year.
To put this in dollar terms if the garbage charged on my rates last year was $300, this current year I am in effect paying $100 more this year.
All this without a visible increase in the rate notices.
If this isn’t the best little pea and thimble scam you have seen in a while let me know.
In fact I hear that an unprecedented number of ‘Nigerian’ emailers have applied for Australian residency visas so that they can sit at the feet of a veritable scam meister.
Bins from Google Images
NSW Government closes forty-five year old, inefficient power station which has been surplus to requirements for last 12 months - media wildly blames introduction of carbon price
Delta Electricity announced today the closure of Munmorah Power Station after 45 years of operation. The station has been maintained on standby but has not been in production since August 2010.