Da Troll

Unlike the metropolitan media, here in the Northern Rivers our local newspapers tend to host polite commentators.

However, recently one regular contributor began turning into a bit of a troll:

By yambaman from Yamba,

Just wondering if some shooters could be let out of national parks to get rid of the human "ferals" living near me?

By yambaman from Yamba,

Prosecute the trespassers! Can Centrelink get out there and get the dole bludgers more gainfully employed - I have heard Gina Rinehardt is looking for employees? Hopefully "Boudicca" and "Davey Bob" could join the foreign workers, then again maybe they are foreign workers judging by their names!

What yambaman forgets is that North Coast towns are not all that big relatively speaking and (just as Boudicca is widely known to hold a degree in environmental science from the University of New England) so many people know a great deal about him.

Such as his real name, what he looks like, his age, home address, the car he drives, preferred sport, hobbies and much, much more courtesy of his tendency to chatter away on multiple platforms across cyberspace.

An anonymity allowing one to be gratuitously nasty or xenophobic just doesn’t exist today.

Andrew Bolt accuses legitimate companies of not existing and other howlers

In his weekly newsletter Liberal Party Senator Cory Bernardi very foolishly linked to this Andrew Bolt nonsense:

“Below are some interesting examples of the 200 businesses listed on http://www.b4ce.com.au/home/signatories/businesses supporting a Carbon Tax:

• Furless (online shop specialising in Vegan makeup brushes and not much else)
• Love.fish (there website is ambiguous but possibly a fish and chip shop or an sustainability consultancy that sells fish and chips )
• Marie-Pierre Cleret (not so much a company as a Physiotherapist in Erskinville )
• Organia Revolutuion (store selling “Elephant dung journals & writing paper in Murwillumbah)
• “I ran the wrong way” (possibly a gift shop )
• Byron Bay International Film Festival
• Unfolding Futures (possibly a husband and wife team of motivational speakers )
• WordCraft Global (some type of consultancy which teaches you how to write documents
• NIDA
• Shaunie P Music
• Telstra Shop Balina (note Telstra Australia haven’t signed up – just the Balina shop)
• The Dentist at 70 Pitt Street
• The Family Wellness Centre
• Young District Anglican Ministry
• Cellian (don’t appear to exist based on an online search)
• Damask Perfumery (shop in Woolloongabba)
• tripple0gear (don’t appear to actually exit)
• Jason Corporation (appears to be a house in Neutral Bay” {all that red ink belonga me}

As usual Teh Bolta tries to pull the wool over our eyes.

Cellian Pty Ltd does exist and has done so for the last 9 years as a consulting firm. It can be found by searching online.

Despite Bolta misspelling its name Tripleogear also exists as a business which sells emergency and adventure equipment online and has its own social media presence on Twitter as triple0gear.

Jason Corporation Pty Ltd is not a house but a 12 year-old construction management company apparently owned by John Vigours.

Marie-Pierre Cleret Pty Ltd is another 12 year-old company run by a psychotherapist not a physiotherapist.

While love.fish is not a chippy but a seafood restaurant in Rozelle, which has a website set up by the owners.

As he wasn't batting all that well I didn’t bother to look up the rest on his little list – feel free to hunt for yourselves.
And yes, I took a screenshot of Bolta's pork pies.

Grafton Gaol: Nationals MP Chris Gulaptis told to stand up or stand aside

 

National Carbon Price: how does Tony Abbott explain this?

 

If Australian businesses are all behind Tony Abbott’s position that a national carbon price will wreck the economy, how does he explain this advertisement by Businesses for a Clean Economy?

Almost 300 organisations have galvanised under the banner of Businesses for a Clean Economy to voice their support for putting a price on carbon. The 299 large, medium and small sized businesses and associations represent a wide variety of sectors from across the Australian economy and include AGL, ARUP, Fujitsu, GE, Grocon, HESTA, IKEA, Infigen, Pacific Hydro, The Body Shop Australia, Unilever, Vestas, and Westpac.

While over at the Australia Institute it was being pointed out that the the three-year set carbon price was one of the smaller 'taxes' being collected by government.

How low can one pollie go?

Has that £10 Pom Tony Abbott descended so far into the abyss that he's becomes the ultimate heartless b@stard:

“One well-placed Liberal source told The Australian that Abbott would rather see Labor continue to bleed politically with ongoing boat arrivals. If that means deaths at sea continue, he said, so be it.”

You can take the lad out of England but you can’t take the bluddy cruel perversity out of a politician weaned on British-style right wing politics.