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Hockey getting absolutely (and rightfully) torn apart over his thoughtless, out of touch remarks on housing affordability. Half of Sydney is going to come after Joe on election day with baseball bats. Abbott needs to cut him loose before he leaves us Bill Shorten PM as his legacy. He's so out of his depth it's just not funny.

I found "The Killing Season" part 1 to be riveting viewing. Well worth a look on ABC website if you missed it.
 
Smoking Joe has put his foot in his mouth so many times that it is coming out of his arse. The man hasn't got even the slightest idea about how it is to be an average Australian, all he knows is how to be a rich, entitled dick.
 
Joe's an idiot. Abbott's a complete idiot. Labor has shot itself in the foot by agreeing to 'The Killing Season'. What a time to be alive.

My Dad passed away yesterday. A tough year continues.
 
Joe's an idiot. Abbott's a complete idiot. Labor has shot itself in the foot by agreeing to 'The Killing Season'. What a time to be alive.

My Dad passed away yesterday. A tough year continues.

Sorry to hear about your father, my condolences.
 
Joe's an idiot. Abbott's a complete idiot. Labor has shot itself in the foot by agreeing to 'The Killing Season'. What a time to be alive.

But it gets it out of the way and greatly reduces the ability for the fibs to use the issue in the next election campaign.

Same with shorten and the RC. Bringing his appearance forwad goes a long way to defusing the issue (unless the negatvie finding against him).

After all this is the same RC that failed to find any evidence of illegal acts by Julia Gillard

My Dad passed away yesterday. A tough year continues.

Sorry to hear that.
 
Joe's an idiot. Abbott's a complete idiot. Labor has shot itself in the foot by agreeing to 'The Killing Season'. What a time to be alive.

My Dad passed away yesterday. A tough year continues.

I am so sorry to hear this mate, all the best.
 
wow some-one needs to get abbott a submersible. It's the only way he could sink to lower depths than his comments on saturday.

Terrorists are coming for us?

The U.S doesn't raise it's alert status, Canada doesn't, the U.K doesn't yet some how Australia is a big ripe target.

What a utter **** the man is.
 
Just watched the whole thing on the 60 Minutes site.

I've known more than a few people who make up incredible lies about health, trauma etc.. on the same scale as Gibson and seem incapable of admitting it. It was creepy watching her. I hope that's her last interview because repeated ones would feel like exploitation of mental illness. She is clearly delusional and doesn't even realize how damaging the interview is.

I do wonder how she got away with it, as in how publishers had no need for any proof of such extreme claims of healing. Did they just see the pretty girl who took pretty pictures and had a following who would buy books?

I know a person who says she healed ovarian cancer with diet. I suspect she must had an ovarian cyst (common enough) and was told it needed to be removed or it could become cancer, ignored this and it went away. These exaggerations are disturbingly common and at least one person was influenced to consider not having conventional cancer treatment because of that story. That publishers and APPLE seemingly gave Belle their imprimatur needs to be held up to scrutiny because I think any doubts people had reading a blog would have been wiped away with the weight of money and promotion from outside companies.

Hopefully she is eventually charged with something when enough digging into the finances is done. And hopefully the next person that comes along with a healing tale is expected to provide real medical proofs.
 
^ Watched that last night, while checking the net, after the con. Massive liar.

Feeling a little sore today after OZCC happening over the weekend. Melbourne hasn't been too cold while I have been here.
 
On someone who exists at the lowest depths, just watched the Belle Gibson interview on 60 Minutes and she is a piece of work. You have to wonder about the mental health of someone who does what she did. And now trying to push that she is the victim in all this...to say my thoughts towards her are unkind would be a mild way to put it.

One doesn't need a mental illness to be a nasty piece of work.

That's the one think coming out of this interview that I find frustrating. Someone does something we don't understand and we find abhorrent and therefore many assume they must be mentally ill.
 
Hello Coco Pops 1967.

I haven't eaten Coco Pops for many a year.


You're not missing much like most things now they have turned to shit. They don't taste nice at all.

Same for things like Cadburys chocolate. They used to be nice but now taste awful.

Used to love Nestle Aero bars but they taste oily and yuck, tht is if you can even find them in shops ....

I haven't had a date in years. I repel people.
 
I still like Cadbury Chocolate and I think I had an Aero Bar a couple of uears ago.

Lately I have been eating Violet Crumble bars.
 
I have a chocolate confession. For years I ate Violet Crumble and never bought Crunchies even though in my opinion the taste of Crunchies is far superior. This was because I loved the name Violet Crumble soooo much and hated the name Crunchie which is stupid.

I'm either very aesthetic or very shallow.
 
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