jargonista

When you have to go to the lavatory for your humour, the writing is on the wall.

jargonista

Sometimes when you scratch the surface you scratch right through.

Iconoclast

A man walks into a bar and says, "SHIT! That hurt."

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Two British Royal Reptilians walk into a Pub
One says to the Barkeep , ” I say old man , I think I’ll have what those Gents over there are having .
The Barkeep replies , ” Are you sure M’Lord ? , you might not care for what those blokes are Drinking ” .
The other British Royal Reptilian says , ” Why not , do you have a Problem serving us ? ”
The Barkeep says to him , ” No , not at all M’Lord , it’s just that they are Drinking my Home Brew which is quite Strong , and it might not agree with you ”
” Oh really ? what do you call it ?
The Barkeep bows his head then looks him straight in the eyes and says , ” Rebellion M’Lord ", and then proceeds to hack them both to Death with a Deer Antler .

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"Few have the stomach to pursue truth , yet most know in their gut something is wrong" V

"But everyone knows the media doesn't inform. Duhhhhhh !! "

jargonista

Hilarious stand up by Dan Nainan. [VIDEO]

- V -

That was nothing but overt racism !

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"Few have the stomach to pursue truth , yet most know in their gut something is wrong" V

"But everyone knows the media doesn't inform. Duhhhhhh !! "

jargonista

"New South Wales is the Mick Dundee of Australian employers. That’s not a payroll, this is a payroll.
With a public service head count just shy of 390,000, NSW puts the Commonwealth government, with a mere 270,000 staff, to shame. Macquarie Street employs 10% of the NSW workforce."


Here is a thought.
Jeff Kennett finishes up as the Hawk President in a month or so.

He is available.
He is ready to step up to a big job.
He cuts a fine figure.

Would we allow him to transfer out of Victoria?

Iconoclast

Since Kennet was done with Victoria and left office, it hasn't emerged from the doldrums. You can keep that shitty bastard down there, thanks.

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antichrist

Along with his black dog

Iconoclast

Plenty of us have black dogs chained up in the back yard. Only a bastard lets it out to bite voters.

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jargonista

It is with genuine surprise that Victorians will read your comment that we are in the doldrums.
Recently, Melbourne has been voted as the most liveable city in the world.
Victoria has the highest credit rating of any State in Australia.
Victoria has a rental-housing pinch because of the last decade of peak-migration from other States of Australia, in particular NSW and NZ.
We have record levels of employment.
We would have thought it was a given that the purge of public services by Jeff Kennett had left us lean, and then the movement back to services that we can afford led by Bracks and Brumby, has been a success.

But if you see us in the doldrums then produce some evidence.

In the meantime, let us recognize that NSW is an infrastructure basket case.
It also has inflated public services.
It needs a five year purge. You can have Jeff, and we will pay his salary. We have Australia's interests at heart.

Iconoclast

1. Lots of Australia is top 10 livable - including Sydney. Kennet does not control the weather.
2. NSW also has a AAA rating. Kennet has not been bean counting lately.
3. NSW also has a housing shortage because immigrants what to live here more than anywhere else. Kennet has not been running an immigration campaign recently.
4. NSW also has low unemployment. Kennet hasn't organised the minerals boom.

Regardless of the above truths, I would say that NSW is also in the doldrums too, so what would you put up to say Victoria is a icon of successful fascist management.

Let me add this:
1. The public service has a churn factor of around 10% p.a. Therefore, the 7000 job losses being a 2% reduction in size is equivalent to a 10 week delay in churn replacement.
2. Further, many of the 7000 will simply be transfered from the state to the federal pay roll. This also happened in Victoria.
3. NSW schools out perform all other states by a long way, as measured by national exam results.
4. In 2010 Victoria had 200,000 on their hospital waiting lists. NSW has 65,000

Finally, you have been pwneded. So keep your nasty Kettitism and your nasty right wing cant to your self.

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jargonista

You have admitted NSW is in the doldrums.
There is scarcity in your previous post to support your allegation that Victoria is in the doldrums.

Perhaps this comment below on airport infrastructure may cause you to rethink our offer of sending Jeff with a dose of salts for NSW. It is not a matter of blaming Right wing or Left wing for the NSW mess. It is much more an issue of identifying an individual who can cut-through.





4. Why political strangulation of Sydney Airport is a farce
Ben Sandilands, aviation reporter and Plane Talking blogger, writes:

AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL, ANTHONY ALBANESE, PRODUCTIVITY COMMISSION, SYDNEY AIRPORT

This is lunacy, but at Sydney Airport now jets are being told to stay on the ground, ready to take off, engines turning, under empty skies, waiting for 20 minutes or longer at times, because the airport has exceeded its politically imposed capacity for airliner movements.
This farce, and thousands of passengers stewing in their seats wondering what the hell is going on while they wait for a new "metering period" to begin before they can get airborne, makes Sydney Airport a joke.
You can hear this farce in action here (go to the 18 minute mark to hear the most relevant exchanges) which was made on Monday between 7pm to 7.30pm, as Sydney tower tells flights caught in the madness how many minutes they have to wait before they can even think of starting to move to the takeoff point.
This fiasco is also having crippling effects right across Australia, because almost half the domestic fleet has to pass through Sydney Airport at least once a day, and up to eight times a day for some jets, and the political delays can cause quite serious ripple effects on other airports, and for thousands of people who aren’t even flying to or from Sydney, particularly later in the day, when flights can’t even escape from Sydney after the 11pm curfew, which is enforced with fines running into hundreds of thousands of dollars per breach.
Sydney has a cap of no more than 80 takeoffs and landing in total per hour.
According to controllers who have been in touch with us, the federal government is about to direct the employment of a person in the Sydney control tower whose role will be to count flights and stop the airport functioning efficiently when it exceeds its politically determined quota.
The debacle is putting pressure on Sydney Airport, which in its submissions to the Productivity Commission, says the 80 landings plus takeoffs limit per hour places an artificial limit on the capacity of the runways and navigation technology to handle substantially more flights.
It has lobbied hard to have that cap lifted, but publicly acknowledges that the limits are engraved in stone for political reasons.
The issues are even more complex, in that the airport could arguably handle an additional 16 Airbus A380s an hour, but because of politically driven "ring fencing" of scheduling slots for small regional turbo-props, those slower moving aircraft with between 18-33 seats can each require as much time to be vectored into their final approaches by the tower as three or more larger, faster jets carrying anywhere from 142-486 seats based on current timetables.
It is this political strangulation of Sydney Airport, and its diabolical side consequences for traffic flows at other airports, that explains the federal government’s enthusiasm for the building of a second jet airport for Sydney, which in turn has been a politically dangerously sensitive issue since before World War II, when a plan to locate one on the site of the Rosehill Racecourse was shot down.
The Minister for Infrastructure and Transport Anthony Albanese said this morning:
"Without a second airport congestion at Sydney airport will continue to worsen which is why Sydney needs a second airport sooner rather than later.
"That’s why we’ve established a joint taskforce with the NSW Government to identify strategies and locations to meet Sydney’s future needs."
Unfortunately for the NSW and federal governments, however, there remains a struggle over whether or not a new Sydney airport means one that will be in the Sydney basin, or outside it, in whoop-whoop, where it will be completely useless for business and leisure travellers.
So far the O’Farrell government has shown no understanding of the need for air access for Sydney to be provided in Sydney, not one or two hours away using a high-speed rail link that on current indications would not only be useless for air travellers, but take another 50 years to workshop and build.
Albanese’s office recently resisted an opportunity to again unequivocally rule out the site at Badgery’s Creek, which Albanese passionately supported while in opposition, and on which he has declined comment on the record while the site selection joint taskforce continues its work, with a decision expected before the end of the year.
Realistically, this means that the absurdity of jets sitting on the ground with several thousand restless passengers onboard, with engines turning but going nowhere at Sydney because of purely political restrictions will continue for 10, 20, who knows how many years, dragging down the rest of the Australian airports and with them the convenience of tens of thousands of other passengers country wide.

Visit Crikey's aviation blog Plane Talking with Ben Sandilands

Iconoclast

I know the airport is a fiasco. However, no one man will fix it. It takes a whole new generation of quality journalists, politicians, public servants, and voters. In other words, Kennet is not a panacea.

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antichrist

black dog was not referring to his mutt but to his nut and not the ones that drop off when they are ripe