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February 29th, 2008 Posted by rebellion | Uncategorized | no comments

Decisions Are made by those that turn up

With all due respect to QLDPCS, new to the blogroll on the right, I disagree with him concerning boycotting the Local Council Election on March 15th.

Mrs Rebellion and I are mad keen fans of the West Wing. Despite its absolutely obscene left wing leanings, it is still a fascinating watch and the title to the post is a comment made by Martin Sheen playing a fictitious president who would and could never actually be elected.

As much as the whole Amalgamation issue is set in stone, no reasonable or rational person has to agree with it or like it, but they do have to accept it. In saying that, they also have to do everything in their power to make sure that their feelings are known and acted upon. Simply not turning up may be an attractive option, but it won’t actually achieve anything. All that will mean is that those that will turn up and elect the new council, will be those that are politically motivated to support the ALP, or those that simply don’t care enough to not go. Either way, we get a council that will not go out of its way to oppose the State Government in the amalgamation issue that has been so obviously and vocally opposed by the people that it will affect.

February 29th, 2008 Posted by rebellion | Uncategorized | one comment

The MBRC Update

The great mass of the Great State of Queensland goes to the polls in just over two weeks to decide who they want managing their Roads, Rates and Rubbish for the next four years.

There is a special feel in the air to this election as their is so much additional baggage attached, due to the unilateral decision taken by the Bligh Labor Government to overide the history of the State and impose amalgamations on the councils. We halved the number of councils, but on the up side, we doubled the number of people who consider Captain Bligh and her cronies to be the worst thing to ever happen to the state since cane toads were introduced. It is a signature example of the old adage that Every Cloud really does have a silver lining.

In our new hodgepodge Moreton Bay Regional Council, on the outskirts of Brisbane’s north, we have replaced three pretty good councils, with one mess that will take at least two terms to sort out. So far, we don’t have a single council chambers, nor even a single employemnt agreement between the workforces of the three councils. We are combining about 40 divisions down to 12 and spreading the borders far and wide so in one case the local councillor has a larger area to cover than the State Representative for the region.

But enough of the Hanrohans, it is going to be messy, but at least we can watch and laugh.

The field for the Mayor of the Region is five of which three are really viable candidates. Joy Lieshman is the current Mayor of Caboolture Shire and she should pick up a fair swag of that area. The other two potential candidates are the Current Mayor and Deputy Mayor of Redcliffe City Council. Alan Sutherland and Peter Hueston respectively are running a pretty good race but they are coming off of very small bases of support and will tend to split their heartlands. This means that it will come down to who takes the lions share of Pine Shire in the vote. The other two candidates are Brian Galvin from Pine Shire who is having a few dramas concerning a payment made to an ex council employee for sexual harrassment and so probably has more on his mind than campaigning, and some other ALP stooge who is using his membership of the ALP as a selling tool. Considering the ALP is the party that has forced the amalgamation on to an unwilling region of which over 70% disagrees, and the fact that the ALP is proving at a State level to be unable to run a chook raffle effectively, I can’t see him as much of a threat except to maybe the terminally insane sector of the electorate. But that is a given demographic for the ALP, so I don’t think this tells us anything.

At the local Division level we have a wide open race. Bases of support have changed for sitting Councillors and boundaries have changed. This means that we have potentially the widest range of possible outcomes for years. Traditionally, incumbency was the gold standard of Council elections. If you were in, and hadn’t stolen too much or shafted too many, you were pretty much going to get back in. The only races that I have been really watching were Divisions 4, 9 and 10. Division 4 will be the least interesting as the likelihood of terminally insane Councillor Christine Monsour getting back are very high. Cr Monsour has a fairly identifiable schtick in the way she approaches Council meetings. Every three months or so, she will find a particularly inane decision to chuck a wobbly about and consequently get kicked out of Council Chambers. You can almost set your watch to her hystrionics. They will last exactly long enough to get the local rags to cover her tirade then she will pretend to be stable again. She has been doing this for years and no doubt it will get her over the line again.

Division 10 is a two horse race and the sitting councillor Bathersby has a real challenger for the first time in years. It will be worth watching.

In Division 9, there is a change in the air. Mike Charlton is running again but he can’t rely on his traditional base anymore as he has lost a sizeable chunk of it. The new division takes in a great swathe of Brendale, Eaton’s Hill and Strathpine that he hasn’t had to concern himself with previously. In fact,the largest area of the new Division is now outside his old Albany Creek region. Up against him are two challengers, John Dangerfield and Dennis Ride. Both have been working very hard on the region and should give Charlton a real shake this time around. This coupled with Charlton’s connection to the sexual harrasment payoff, means that he has a hill to climb to keep his job in the new council.

All in all, it should be a fascinating time for the region and the State as a whole.

##Cross posted to Qld Decides##

February 29th, 2008 Posted by rebellion | Uncategorized | no comments

Bigger than a Very Big Big Thing

Wow, I must have made it to the top in Blogging because I have been approched to write for this site about the local elections in Queensland in a few weeks time. For those that don’t know, or have an American’s attention span, I am helping a mate of mine run for a council slot in the brand spanking new Moreton Bay Regional Council.

This is the slapped together abomination that was foisted upon the residents and ratepayers of three different councils that were ticking along very nicely, thank you very much, and now for the grand total of at least $58,000,000 , we get one council with an area that would kill your average brown dog.

So my vitriol seeped posts concerning the local election will soon be generating scorn from a whole new set of Lefties over at Qld Decides. Yes, I do feel like a bit of a token Conservative in a swamp of lefties over there, but lets face it, you would want a little bit of common sense in a group blog and you sure as hell aren’t going to get it with that lot by themselves.

Still posting here, but I may start to bore you with more local election stuff that you all couldn’t give two pinches of shit on a dark night about. Bear with me, normal programming to resume soon.

February 27th, 2008 Posted by rebellion | Uncategorized | 9 comments

Sheetin Slack Hunts

MATTHEW Hayden has labelled Harbhajan Singh an “obnoxious little weed” as India was told to shut up and stop whingeing.

Hayden’s stinging verbal attack on Harbhajan came on the same day that former Test firebrand Rodney Hogg demanded India stop moaning about trivial on-field clashes.

Look, I don’t think that any normal, rational and sane person would or could deny that India are the kindergardeners of World Cricket. Always threatening to take their bat and ball and go home if things don’t go their way. Unfortunately the last time that anybody thought they saw a backbone in the ICC or Oz Cricket, it turned out they were actually just leaning on a broomstick.

Personally I think that the world of Cricket would be a damn sight better without them, but what are you gonna do? After all, we still let Collingwood play in the AFL, despite repeated suggestions about truck-tyre necklacing Eddie Everywhere. We let the NSW ARL team play even though they are a bigger bunch of cheating bastards than a team of bastards who are out to win a ‘who can cheat the most’ competition, and we let the South African’s play in Super 14 and Tri-nations, even though they are South Africans.

February 27th, 2008 Posted by rebellion | Uncategorized | one comment

HERETIC!!!!!!!!

How dare he bring reality into anything to remotely do with glowball warmenising.

“I do think that the claims being made in relation to climate change generally are often very exaggerated,” he told ABC Television.

Pray for him brothers and sisters, obviously another that needs to spend some more time in St Kevins house of thinking correctly. Christy, next he will tell us that he didn’t agree with the Sorry statement!!!!

February 27th, 2008 Posted by rebellion | Uncategorized | no comments

I realise that Politics is Theatre for Ugly People…

…But there are limits.

####UPDATE#### The Mayor has layed down the challenge and with the words “I see your Lefty candidate and I raise you a scumbag islamic terrorist felcher” we present for your viewing pleasure this.

February 24th, 2008 Posted by rebellion | Uncategorized | 2 comments

Top Ten Reasons Fidel Castro is Retiring

From the February 19 Late Show with David Letterman, the “Top Ten Reasons Fidel Castro is Retiring.” Late Show home page: www.cbs.com

10. He has accepted the role of Dr. Ramon Vazquez on “General Hospital”

9. Achieved his goal of getting Cuba’s unemployment rate under 83%

8. Wants to spend more time interrogating his family

7. Just got Season One of “Gilmore Girls”

6. Caught injecting human growth hormone into his wife, Debbie Castro

5. Too many tacos

4. He was adopted by Angelina Jolie — honestly, how crazy would that be?

3. Always promised himself he’d quit torturing when it stopped being fun

2. Jane Fonda called him a blank

1. 49 years at the same job? Who am I, Letterman?

February 22nd, 2008 Posted by rebellion | Uncategorized | no comments

But,But,But Kevvy said that Nobody would lodge Claims????

I love it when Chickens come home to roost. I just wish, just once, I was wrong about these things. Just remember sportsfans, it is YOU who will be picking up the tab for this, not Kevvy and his corrupt mates.

THE West Australian Government faces millions of dollars in compensation demands from members of the stolen generations after a law firm said it was backing claims on behalf of up to 1000 people… Lavan and the ALS will try to persuade the WA Government to review its Redress in WA $114 million compensation scheme, for children abused in state care….

And just so you have an idea of the scope of the corruption we are about to be forced to endure, here is the money quote. And I really do mean Money Quote!!

Mr Eggington said it was difficult to put a figure to the amount of compensation needed as each case would have to be judged on the pain and suffering experienced by the claimant.

However, he said he believed the $114 million Redress scheme did not offer enough.

That is $114 000 000 in real honest to goodness money. You could build almost an entire hospital for that sort of lolly. It would be $114,000 per person of the litigants, but don’t expect that this will be the end of the story.

I would think that if we take the Trevorrow case in South Australia, He picked up a lazy half a mill for his troubles. To be fair this was an open and shut case. He was taken from his parents against his and their will. Personally I would have gone for more, but then I am greedy. Racist lefty scum from back then who thought they could change the little blackfellers into good whitefellers and thought that they knew best were entirely to blame and I have no problem with the outcome.

Where I have a problem is the grey areas where parents voluntarily gave up their kids. Or the ones where the kids were being assaulted, raped and were in danger of death or injury. These people should be suing their idiot parents, not the state. The state got stuck with picking up the pieces, they did not inflict the injury. Sure, once again, lefty scum who thought that they knew better then assaulted some of these poor kids, but you get arseholes everywhere. Once again, the overbearing know it all doogooders from the time should be the ones apologising. They should also be the ones being sued to whithin an inch of their very lives for what they did to the poor little kids supposedly in their care.

February 21st, 2008 Posted by rebellion | Uncategorized | one comment

The First of “Non-Core” ALP Promises??

THE Rudd Government has backed away from an election pledge to provide every upper secondary school student with their own computer.

I think this is absolutely priceless. The ALP buys an election and then the bill arrives. Its a mad scramble to pass it from one to the other till it is left down the end of the table where you normally put school teachers that you feel compelled to invite, but really don’t want to actually have to speak to.

Can anybody else hear the creaking sounds of incompetence ringing through Canberra? One termers if they are lucky. This lot couldn’t organise a chook raffle.

February 21st, 2008 Posted by rebellion | Uncategorized | 2 comments