Posted Tuesday, 18 December 2012 at 1:20 pm |Permalink
Living proof that wealth and seniority are no guarantees of self-awareness or wisdom.
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ernmalleyscat
Posted Tuesday, 18 December 2012 at 2:03 pm |Permalink
While I’m all for an eventual gradual reduction in the number and frequency of random murders using military weapons, I certainly don’t think we should go so far as to codify the notion that the old wrinkly head in a jar Rupert really does rule the world.
I dream of a world where good people make the decisions.
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Modus Ponens
Posted Tuesday, 18 December 2012 at 2:09 pm |Permalink
2013 Walkley winner. You heard it here first folks
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paddy
Posted Tuesday, 18 December 2012 at 2:14 pm |Permalink
That’s a truly stunning drawing of invisible *crickets in frame 5 FD.
Bravo!
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zut alors
Posted Tuesday, 18 December 2012 at 2:17 pm |Permalink
I wouldn’t share a lift with either of them.
I recall Rupe had some concern over global warming a while back but the Faux News team neglected to take the bait. Is the monster he created out of control…
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Holden Back
Posted Tuesday, 18 December 2012 at 2:19 pm |Permalink
Of course, Malcolm Turnbull will want a bit of that Walkley.
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zut alors
Posted Tuesday, 18 December 2012 at 2:22 pm |Permalink
Just noticed the marvellous subtlety of the two out trays. Firsty scores another ace.
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drmick
Posted Tuesday, 18 December 2012 at 2:46 pm |Permalink
Notification that the shadow ministry for misinformation, planning and negativity ran at a $450M loss this year.
When will politicians find the courage to ban automatic negativity, dishonesty and misinformation? As in America; similar tragedy after last election.
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Holden Back
Posted Tuesday, 18 December 2012 at 3:13 pm |Permalink
“Former governor and Republican candidate Mike Huckabee blamed the violence on the removal of God from schools, while commentator Ann Coulter tweeted that so-called ”concealed carry” reduced the murder rate.”
I don’t remember the removal of God from schools - did they do that during the holidays?
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fractious
Posted Tuesday, 18 December 2012 at 3:19 pm |Permalink
@ Holden #1, who needs wisdom when you’ve got that much moolah?
Zut #8 - for bonus points, if the name plate on his desk says “Roger” on the front does it say “Me” on the back? And if so, has he been?
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zut alors
Posted Tuesday, 18 December 2012 at 3:26 pm |Permalink
fractious, well spotted.
Holden, I heard G0d was removed due to non-compliance with new OHSW regulations.
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Holden Back
Posted Tuesday, 18 December 2012 at 3:28 pm |Permalink
@fractious Well, I just wish others wouldn’t treat the wealthy as if they were wise. ‘Cause they ain’t.
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Plonkoclock
Posted Tuesday, 18 December 2012 at 3:38 pm |Permalink
@fractious - morally, ethically, intellectually.. you name it, he’s been done over so much, in so many ways and so often, he knows no other life..
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klewso
Posted Tuesday, 18 December 2012 at 3:47 pm |Permalink
And where does the party, Rupert’s company pimps for, stand on gun control?
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klewso
Posted Tuesday, 18 December 2012 at 3:48 pm |Permalink
“This is all Obama’s fault”?
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Plonkoclock
Posted Tuesday, 18 December 2012 at 3:59 pm |Permalink
A black man tellin’ us we cain’t have gurns!No way Jose!
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fractious
Posted Tuesday, 18 December 2012 at 4:02 pm |Permalink
@ Holden, but Gina wrote a book. With poetry innit.
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Holden Back
Posted Tuesday, 18 December 2012 at 4:17 pm |Permalink
@fraction QED. Pomes: not even barely. Doggerel-just. No offense, Firsty
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Andybob
Posted Tuesday, 18 December 2012 at 5:48 pm |Permalink
Americans may only legally own automatic weapons that were manufactured and registered with BAFTA prior to May 19 1986 and then a federal license is required. Some states have laws banning ownership of any automatic weapon. The public mass murders that seem to be contagious in the US are generally not carried out with automatic weapons and none of the weapons at Sandy Hook were fully automatic. So does Rupert mean automatic when he says automatic or does he include semi-automatic which were substantially regulated as Category C weapons in Australia after 1996 ? Does he even know what he means himself ? No wonder his editors go nuts trying to read his mind.
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Andybob
Posted Tuesday, 18 December 2012 at 5:52 pm |Permalink
BAFTA = BATF, apologies to acronym mavens.
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Andrew L
Posted Tuesday, 18 December 2012 at 7:59 pm |Permalink
Ergo, the mother died of shame (with apologies to the many millions of people who already stated/quietly believe this).
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klewso
Posted Tuesday, 18 December 2012 at 8:30 pm |Permalink
What a waste of time and space. What a shrivelled, desiccated husk of opportunity.
Eight years he had in which he could have used his position of influence and devoted his resources to hectoring and badgering his beloved Bush administration into doing something about those guns - but what did he choose to devote those resources too? He alternated between sitting back, clapping and leading the cheer-squad at their every move; selling their policies. Right up to striking up the marching band and handling their PR when it came time to invade Iraq.
Now, suddenly, it’s this crop of politicians and Obama and his administration (who defeated his preferred candidate last month) that have to fix it up?
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klewso
Posted Wednesday, 19 December 2012 at 8:07 am |Permalink
“Roger Rupert!”?
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klewso
Posted Wednesday, 19 December 2012 at 10:44 am |Permalink
Does that sound like a cause?
After what he and his “viewsmade-ya” did their best (or tried) to Brown, Rudd, Gillard, Obama, Kerry, Gore, Keating, Major etc etc?
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Michael Carroll
Posted Wednesday, 19 December 2012 at 12:49 pm |Permalink
@Holden - Avtually I heard he got tossed out for not passing the “working with Children” check. Something to do with the church he started.
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Hominoid
Posted Wednesday, 19 December 2012 at 1:10 pm |Permalink
Nice depiction of Ailes, FD. Is he a fat Fox Terrier?
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klewso
Posted Wednesday, 19 December 2012 at 3:48 pm |Permalink
More a “corpulent corporate corgi”?
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Holden Back
Posted Wednesday, 19 December 2012 at 4:53 pm |Permalink
@Michael Carroll - didn’t turn up for the photo ID?
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zut alors
Posted Wednesday, 19 December 2012 at 5:26 pm |Permalink
Michael and Holden, thanks for the best laughs of the day.
Living proof that wealth and seniority are no guarantees of self-awareness or wisdom.
While I’m all for an eventual gradual reduction in the number and frequency of random murders using military weapons, I certainly don’t think we should go so far as to codify the notion that the old wrinkly head in a jar Rupert really does rule the world.
I dream of a world where good people make the decisions.
2013 Walkley winner. You heard it here first folks
That’s a truly stunning drawing of invisible *crickets in frame 5 FD.
Bravo!
I wouldn’t share a lift with either of them.
I recall Rupe had some concern over global warming a while back but the Faux News team neglected to take the bait. Is the monster he created out of control…
Of course, Malcolm Turnbull will want a bit of that Walkley.
Just noticed the marvellous subtlety of the two out trays. Firsty scores another ace.
Notification that the shadow ministry for misinformation, planning and negativity ran at a $450M loss this year.
When will politicians find the courage to ban automatic negativity, dishonesty and misinformation? As in America; similar tragedy after last election.
“Former governor and Republican candidate Mike Huckabee blamed the violence on the removal of God from schools, while commentator Ann Coulter tweeted that so-called ”concealed carry” reduced the murder rate.”
I don’t remember the removal of God from schools - did they do that during the holidays?
@ Holden #1, who needs wisdom when you’ve got that much moolah?
Zut #8 - for bonus points, if the name plate on his desk says “Roger” on the front does it say “Me” on the back? And if so, has he been?
fractious, well spotted.
Holden, I heard G0d was removed due to non-compliance with new OHSW regulations.
@fractious Well, I just wish others wouldn’t treat the wealthy as if they were wise. ‘Cause they ain’t.
@fractious - morally, ethically, intellectually.. you name it, he’s been done over so much, in so many ways and so often, he knows no other life..
And where does the party, Rupert’s company pimps for, stand on gun control?
“This is all Obama’s fault”?
A black man tellin’ us we cain’t have gurns!No way Jose!
@ Holden, but Gina wrote a book. With poetry innit.
@fraction QED. Pomes: not even barely. Doggerel-just. No offense, Firsty
Americans may only legally own automatic weapons that were manufactured and registered with BAFTA prior to May 19 1986 and then a federal license is required. Some states have laws banning ownership of any automatic weapon. The public mass murders that seem to be contagious in the US are generally not carried out with automatic weapons and none of the weapons at Sandy Hook were fully automatic. So does Rupert mean automatic when he says automatic or does he include semi-automatic which were substantially regulated as Category C weapons in Australia after 1996 ? Does he even know what he means himself ? No wonder his editors go nuts trying to read his mind.
BAFTA = BATF, apologies to acronym mavens.
Ergo, the mother died of shame (with apologies to the many millions of people who already stated/quietly believe this).
What a waste of time and space. What a shrivelled, desiccated husk of opportunity.
Eight years he had in which he could have used his position of influence and devoted his resources to hectoring and badgering his beloved Bush administration into doing something about those guns - but what did he choose to devote those resources too? He alternated between sitting back, clapping and leading the cheer-squad at their every move; selling their policies. Right up to striking up the marching band and handling their PR when it came time to invade Iraq.
Now, suddenly, it’s this crop of politicians and Obama and his administration (who defeated his preferred candidate last month) that have to fix it up?
“Roger Rupert!”?
Does that sound like a cause?
After what he and his “viewsmade-ya” did their best (or tried) to Brown, Rudd, Gillard, Obama, Kerry, Gore, Keating, Major etc etc?
@Holden - Avtually I heard he got tossed out for not passing the “working with Children” check. Something to do with the church he started.
Nice depiction of Ailes, FD. Is he a fat Fox Terrier?
More a “corpulent corporate corgi”?
@Michael Carroll - didn’t turn up for the photo ID?
Michael and Holden, thanks for the best laughs of the day.
All love, all powerful, all for nothing.