Hmas Rudd Hits Iceberg...

[Ex FSO GRIFFO]

HMAS RUDD appears to be on course for the infamous iceberg which is said to have accounted for 'Titanic'.

Could it be that Mr Albanese will be given a 'diversion' should the weather turn untenable, or will he survive the 'Tempo' and return to the CAVOK??

:}

[pilot2684]

If, by grace of god, the good ship RUDD manages to weather the storm, I think his mutinous crew might not be so "forgiving". Much has been left to be desired with this ye ship. And rightly so.

I think the HMAS Gillard might be a fine vessel to take over duties from the aging HMAS Rudd, for she has a mightier engine, and the pulse of the crew.

[tinpis]

...but who will stoke the boiler?...

[Mr.Buzzy]

Arrrr.... That be a new age boiler that needeth no stokin'......

[tinpis]

Knoweth this...they get back in, the Ostrayan public will be looking over the side for the wheels...:hmm:

[Jabawocky]

I really hope Kevie gets back, mainly because the first woman PM in Austrlia is a title of honor and prestige...and not at all suitable for Julia Gillard :yuk:

I suppose the question for the greater good is ..which will most likely lose the next election the easiest:ok:

[the wizard of auz]

Might be best for the whole lot to sink and disappear. the sooner they go the better.

[frigatebird]

Take your domestic political angst to Jetblast, fellas, - where it belongs.. :bored:

[Mr. Hat]

Get your work choices and bible ready for sunday school.

[Desert Flower]

...but who will stoke the boiler?...

A hair products salesman by the name of Tim Mathieson is stoking the old boiler's boiler! ;)

DF.

[ForkTailedDrKiller]

The Ozzie yobbo voters wanted "Little Kevie" from Sunrise!

All they got was Krudd!

Haha - the whole thing is hilarious!

Dr :8

[adsyj]

You got it spot on Doc.

Somebody said she is or was a communist. Is this true

[the wizard of auz]

Gosh, you sound a little cynical. :rolleyes:
Frigatebird. If you don't like it, don't read it. simple. :hmm:

[Di_Vosh]

Gillard new PM

[Joker 10]

How the Australian public at large will accept a Prime Minister in a defacto relationship is yet to be seen, it is new territory.

The lady is talented and smart, if she is as savvy as the party believes she will settle the dust and unite the troops.

The public loved k Rudd until they saw through the veneer, I hope this time the Governance is somewhat more inclusive of others and less a one person shooting match.

We need a new Minister for Transport, maybe the incumbent backing the loser is a ticket to oblivion, one can only hope !!

No matter what, a new day dawns.

[Wallsofchina]

Sorry for the delay Gentlemen, the deck chairs have now been rearranged.

[YPJT]

Great, just what we need, another trumped up wannabe moderator :D:D:D

I'm just waiting for the Downfall parody to appear on You Tube. :}

[onetrack]

Politics is full of opportunism, and this is an opportunistic and crafty move as ever. The Labor power brokers know that Rudd is dead in the water, what with his obsession with emissions trading and carbon capture... his blue-arse-fly tearing around, mistaking movement for action... his failure to rein in Conroys fascist control of the Internet... and his style of micro-managing and failure to delegate.

Julia is a pretty ruthless operator, I reckon, and she has a lawyers smooth tongue, and also has a pretty good handle on negotiating ability.
However, she would appear to fall down in the economic/business credentials area.
As many mates have commented, you wouldn't let the average pollie run your corner shop, selling sweets to the kids from the school next door - they'd go broke, such is their lack of basic business sense.

The Labor mob have pretty craftily figured that a woman PM is a sure fire winner to garner a lot of the female vote. Anyone who garners a large portion of the female vote is on a winner.
My money is on Julia rolling Abbott (just), at an election to be held within a VERY short space of time, before Julia makes any serious mistakes, and before the "new broom" gloss is worn off.

The problem is, that Abbott and the Libs can't produce a very satisfactory alternative vision for a lot of people. Costello warned about Abbotts inability to even understand basic economics, such as jotting your income and expenditure down on a notepad, and balancing it at the bottom. How Abbott would get even a basic grasp on the economics of an entire countrys economy, is the $64 question.

[Edition12]

Here you go:

Kevin Rudd's Downfall - Video (http://www.metacafe.com/watch/4799802/kevin_rudds_downfall/)



LMFAO at the deck chairs

[Ndicho Moja]

Is Gillard her own person or a hand puppet of the Factions/unions? Too bad the present govournment does not have the intestinal fortitude to put it to the people, especially in light that there could be an election called within the next year.
What has changed other than the Labor leader has red hair and wears women's clothing? Gillard is one of the gang of four and is responsible for as many if not more bad decisions as Rudd.

[Mr. Hat]

Nothing wrong with religion apart from the fact that it seems to get an awful lot of people killed!

Plenty wrong with work no choices.

[Captain Nomad]

Yeah, and 'non-religeon' like Communism, and Nazism didn't get anyone killed did it... :rolleyes: :suspect:

[Ex FSO GRIFFO]

Who's got red hair..........Who's got red hair.............Who's got red hair.......

That's just ONE argument on 'Auntie' this morning......

And THESE people VOTE?? :}:}:}:ugh::ugh::ugh::yuk::yuk::yuk:

[LewC]

Is she a Communist? Well Comrade Gillard worked,full time, for a Communist-front organisation known as the Socialist Forum between 1984 and 1986,she served as a member of that organisation's management committee until 1993.The Socialist Forum has the stated aim of advancing the Socialist agenda in Australia.Gillard's memory perhaps isn't quite as good as it could be as in recent times she seems to have forgotten that she spent nine years beavering away with her Comrades in their pursuit of the establishment of our very own Southern Hemisphere Soviet,she now claims to have been merely a part-time typist for the Comrades.

[PA39]

:bored: Well the country was always RUDD...ERLESS with him at the helm!!

[Ascend Charlie]

Anybody noticed a similarity between Julia (with the new RED hair) and Woody Woodpecker?

Julia made such a monumental stuff-up of the insulation and school BER, i really look forward to what she will do with the whole country. Not.:sad:

[frigatebird]

Wiz
I'll read it or not, as I choose. (Actually get a giggle out of seeing the same handles spouting the same tired old stuff time after time. Much as I like my history, I like democracy better - wouldn't want to live in George 2's time when only the landed 'gentry' were allowed to be elected to Parliament to run the country. As far as my vote is concerned - and it is equal in worth to yours, - yours is not 500 times more valuable even though you may think you have all the answers and can provide spin). And it beats me, WHY do the Ultra Orthodox Jews, Ultra Devout Christians, and Ultra Religious Muslims expect to get special treatment and be able to do as they like, because they are Ultra..? Australia HAS moved on, thanks very much. There.. - that is my input in this place of your choosing. Just get tired of seeing it in a pilots forum popping up everywhere I look.. once again I suggest it be moved to the Jetblast section of this Pilots Forum..!



not me Owen. Seems you're the one trying to dictate opinion here..

[ForkTailedDrKiller]

You have to love Australia, don't you!

There are relatively few countries in this world where you can just tap the "Big Fella" or in this case the "Little Fella" on the shoulder and tell him to pack his bags and p*ss off - and he does!

In many other countries a similar achievement would involve one or a number of the following: a knife between the ribs, an assassin's bullet, a plane crash, an army coup, allegations of corruption or sexual perversion!

Now we just gotta get rid of Woody Woodpecker!

Bring on the bible bashing budgie smuggler!

Oh dear!

Dr :8

[the wizard of auz]

As far as my vote is concerned - and it is equal in worth to yours, - yours is not 500 times more valuable even though you may think you have all the answers and can provide spin

Wow....... you got all that from a suggestion to not read something????? Dude, your just awesome.

[desmotronic]

hey lewc if you going to plagiarise someone you could do better than that dropkick andrew bolt hahahaha.

how many women gonna vote for Mr Tony anti-abortion Abbott hahahahahahaha fair dinkum theres some morons in aviation lol

[frigatebird]

Thats alright Wiz. Appreciate your input too, - makes me post something other than old grainy photos.. :ok:

[Jabawocky]

I would much prefer you stick to the old grainy photos :ok:

[Mr. Hat]

May the lord be with you desmotronic!

[LewC]

Sorry desmoronic that didn't information didn't come from Andrew Bolt,a slightly more than cursory check would have revealed that it was from a story by Paul Sheehan writing in the Sydney Morning Herald.Andrew Bolt,in case you are unaware,writes for the Herald Sun a News Ltd. newspaper.The Sydney Morning Herald is a Fairfax newspaper which is held in high regard by the True Believers.So does all this change Gillards previous fellow-traveling interlude? No!

[Wally Mk2]

You can count on one thing to be steady in this country, turmoil within ANY political party. We elect a party in this country where the head honcho can be booted out during his term at any time where as most elect a 'Ele Presidenty & it takes a lot more to move him/her out. Good or bad our political system is a joke I reckon & costs you & I squillions to maintain for the few fat cats!!!!:ugh:
Aviation is a prime target when it comes to a political shift externally or internally.

Ms G" I believe is "Baron", or is that she is Baron endorsed?:}
I don't see any diff now she is at the helm, she was after all Krudds 2nd in charge.

No matter who is at the helm none seem to get it right!:ugh:


Wmk2

[onetrack]

I think what gets most people in Australia, is that we regularly end up with a leader that no-one voted for! - but which a POLITICAL PARTY FACTION installs!! It doesn't matter which party, either! Only under our famous "Westminster Democracy"!! :ugh:

[capt.cynical]

The ALP powerbrokers :yuk: are running true to form, when they look like losing an election they put a puppet sheila in as leader. (WA,VIC,NSW)
Qld is the exception. v:ugh::E

[Andy_RR]

The last thing we need in this country is a President! We have Queen Lizzie and long may she live!

I can't imagine the political 5hitfight amongst all that lot to be first in the queue to be El Prez.

BTW, this guy wrote to little Johnny (http://www.nickmaine.info/Documents/SolicitorsInParliament.htm) asking for his constitutionally required resignation, but none was forthcoming. Noone is paying much attention to their statutory and constitutional obligations thesedays, it seems.

[Jabawocky]

And in Qld......old Hollywood Pete exited stage left (quietly you might recall :confused:) and Anna got back in, but not to her credit, a bunch of pre-schoolers would have beaten them if allowed to run.

I would love to see Anna Bligh pull an election now. The unions up here are after her too!

[PA39]

:ok: Now we just gotta get rid of Woody Woodpecker!

Bring on the bible bashing budgie smuggler!Love it!!

I thought perhaps she looked a little like Jodie Foster gone wrong.....However Woody Woodpecker does it!! Well done again Forkie!!

[frigatebird]

The Keystone of Character

This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.
Hamlet, Act 1, Scene 3








The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
Christian Bovee.

[Worrals in the wilds]

If we're talking Shakespeare...

Et tu, Brute? Then fall, Caesar!
(Julius Ceasar)

If we're talking Dante and retribution for traitors...

"That soul up there which has the greatest pain,"
The Master said, "is Judas Iscariot;
With head inside, he plies his legs without.
Of the two others, who head downward are,
The one who hangs from the black jowl is Brutus;
See how he writhes himself, and speaks no word.
And the other, who so stalwart seems, is Cassius.
But night is reascending, and 'tis time
That we depart, for we have seen the whole."
(Dante's Inferno. Circle 9)

[Andu]

Interesting to me is another "only in Australia" aspect to today's development.

Is there another country in this world that someone can immigrate to (as 10 Pound Poms?) with their 3 year old daughter in tow and have her end up as Prime Minister of that country? Not even the Americans can claim that. Their top (wo)man must be born in the country. (Although some believe that Barak Obama might have side-stepped that particular requirement witha bit of ceative birth certificating.)

[Desert Flower]

I think what gets most people in Australia, is that we regularly end up with a leader that no-one voted for!

The trouble with political jokes is that they get elected! :ugh:

DF.

[TBM-Legend]

with so much 'blubbering' :{:{:{:{:{:{:{:{:{:{:{:{Julia can appoint Krudd to the Whaling Commission...

........or were they crocodile tears???:E

PS: All we need right now in our industry is for that dill Albanese :yuk: to lose Transport/Aviation in the next reshuffle.

[Timber]

Whatever one's opinion was of Kevin Rudd as a PM, he was still the elected PM of Australia. He deserved to be judged by the people who elected him in an election and not be executed in the dark of the night by a mob of so called power brokers and union thugs. What a terrible disgrace for Australia this 24th of June 2010 has become.

[Arnold E]

What a terrible disgrace for Australia this 24th of June 2010 has become.

Please tell me your not serious.:(

[TBM-Legend]

we don't vote for the PM. He is elected by the party that wins ofice. Krudd was not elected by popular vote. The ALP won the erection...:eek:

Agree that Julia Iscariot is a puppet [or muppet] of the faceless system...:hmm:

[Dances With Dingoes]

Hell Hath No Fury Like An Angry Ranger.

Trust Me I Know :(

[The Wawa Zone]

Oh well, its been an interesting day but now its over.
Really, how big a deal is this ? None of the current characters are of any real stature; is there a Menzies, Ben Chifley, Frazer or Keating anywhere in this - no. With Rudd, Gillard, Abbott all we have are the equivalents of Billy Snedden, Billy McMahon, or Arthur Calwell or any other names who appear in history as names only.
Has anyone thought about what Gillard and Abbott are actually going to achieve, or is it telling that most people are only thinking about how today's change will affect the mechanics of the next election, but thinking nothing more ?

In terms of political leadership, we're still just rattling along, and its' not going to change. Julia Gillard did not inspire any Caucus blocks to get in behind her; instead she was installed by various left wing factional leaders (eg., Bill Shorten - there's an inspiring character... :) ). It was really just business as usual.

Has any political leader, ie., someone with the ability to inspire others to act on his/her vision of their future, voiced a position on, and an intention to act on:
- Australia's energy requirements (even Vietnam is building eight nuclear power plants),
- an Australian Republic (or if it's not broken, why fix it ?),
- the Australia-wide housing shortage (where feasible solutions seem to include 40m2 residential units),
- the widening rich/poor gap,
- the undiscussed health crisis which exists in the form of Australian taxpayers financing the poor but readily available and cheap lifestyle choices of about six million overweight or diabetic or heart disease afflicted people ?

Aussie Aussie Aussie !

Yo....

[boofta]

Abbott missed a great oportunity to welcome the BULLDOGS FULLFORWARD
into the lower house as the new prime minister. But seriously, the only real
achievement of avoiding a downturn these labor idiots crow about will be
a greater FUTURE recession. This will be paid for by tax increases on the
next generations, most of their waste will cost our kids jobs later.
At least the timing of this affront to our political process stopped Rudd
going on his G20 junket, but all's well Mr Swan left yesterday, after all
it was a good time to be out of town, and give him time to wash knives.