Mooney Goes Loony And Jenny Makes A Joke – And There’s Still 3 Weeks Of Buffoonery To Go.

Losing the plot seems to be in the Mooney genes, with Liam taking after Dad with a foot stamping profanity-laden performance for candid camera. But his boss,  Jenny Hill, bless her comedic little heart,  shows that she thinks rationalisation involves the bacon industry regulation.

And that wasn’t her only merry quip of the week, making a thigh-slapping promise for her next term …  which prompts The Magpie to ask  a simple question of the the mayor on behalf of  all voters.

The Magpie calls for an urgent change to Western Australia’s court calendar.

Supermarket price-gouging driving you to drink? Well,  the rip-off doesn’t end in the food and commodity aisles. The ‘Pie has one example that might steer you towards illegal drugs … it might actually be cheaper.

And Trump gives himself Golden Boot Award for foot-in-mouth … a startling compilation of the former White House mobster who keeps projecting on Joe Biden’s  occasional speech lapses.

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Sixty Years Of Celebrating Queens: Some Bentley Nostalgia

With the ultimate irony of a new museum celebrating gay history opening a former Sydney police station once notoriously renowned for dark deeds and ‘poofter bashing’, keen historian Bentley looked back at how much things have changed in Australia … and in one way, he discover not much, is different prime ministers are still keen supporters of queens.

A seriously sad and bizarre irony linking the museum to its police past unfolded in the same week, with a gay NSW police officer charged with the murder of his former lover and his new partner.

Although the world over, cops who go to prison are usually marked for special treatment,  The ‘Pie doubts this bloke is too worried about getting a hard time from his fellow inmates.

On The Local Scene, A Mooney Melt-Down Livened Up A Dullish LG Campaign 

It wasn’t quite as entertaining as dad Tony doing a drunken hit-and-run and cover-up, all those years ago,  but still livened up a droning sort of week.  Doing a door knock in his division, Liam got into a verbal blue with a less-than-happy ratepayer, during which not all the hot air was coming from leaf blower being flourished by the irate householder. Mooney Jnr eventually displayed another fatherly trait with. foul-mouthed intellectual assessment of his critic. Mayoral candidate Troy Thompson was only too happy to provide ringside footage from CCTV.  All very unedifying, but it gave Mayor Mullet the opportunity to trot out the best bit of sophistry since ‘Hitler was nice to dogs’.

In deep damage control (probably a feverish call to Dolan in Brisbane did the trick) Liam made a public apology for his behaviour, but as far as we can ell, he apologised only to the ‘public’ (who he hopes will be voting for him) and not the householder, who definitely won’t be. As well, Liam took good advice to do the bleedin’ obvious and reported himself to the Office of the Independent Assessor (OIA) for his naughtiness. And this is what ledMayor Mullet to his little gem.

“The OIA is best suited to address complaints regarding councillors, and it was appropriate and showed integrity on Cr Mooney’s behalf to self-refer in this instance,” Ms Hill said.

Showed integrity? You jest, me old Mullet …. tell us this, madam, in the face of irrefutable evidence, would he have reported this himself if the security vision hadn’t been plastered al over the internet? Or if there was no vision of it, but you learnt about it, would YOU have shown your well-known integrity and reported it to OIA?

Not a snowball’s chance on either count, but THAT would’ve been integrity.

Integrity my black and white cloaca.

Which leads us to another whoopsie from you, Mayor Mullet. The whole town, -even some of your supporters – had a good chortle over this.

‘More open than ever’, eh? ‘More’? Just in simple English as she is understood, that is actually an admission that you haven’t been as open and transparent as you should have been all these years, m’dear. (gosh, who would’ve guessed?)The ‘Pie would’ve congratulated you on your integrity for the admission but for the fact that until you read this, you probably did realise what you’d said. The point is that what is openly available to the public and what isn’t is not your decision … local govt regs cover that.

Jenny, you are so up yourself you could whistle in stereo.

But Oh Dear Have you Misjudged Your Best Moment For Advancement?

Let’s put aside your bogan lettuce-leaf whipping of ‘get off your arses southern media’ comment which took some rare  humorous skill from a clearly embarrassed Albanese to hose down.

But The ‘Pie has a simple question for you, Jenny, framed in the light of reliable information flowing into the Nest over the past year. Variously, the word is that despite Labor previously having scratched you at the starter’s gate for higher office, you hope to present your longevity as mayor as proof that you’ve rehabilitated yourself from deviation from the party line (as the comrade’s say). Enough  to be considered for the local House of Reps candidate, or failing that, second prize of a long-cherished spot on Labor’s Queensland senate ticket. It’s been sensibly suggested that that is the main reason you’re running for mayor again, for a sort of ‘see they really love up here’ message to Canberra.

So, in the name of your suddenly-cherished transparency, can you, will you, answer just yes or no: will you promise, indeed will you swear to  the voters of Townsville that if re-elected as mayor, you will serve out the whole term to reward the trust the electorate has put in you?

This may as well be regarded as a rhetorical question, because we know you won’t answer truthfully. How do we know this? Because Jenny you really are transparent – we can see right through you.

WA’s Court Calendar Cock-Up

As reported in last week’s Nest,   the case of the dreamtime serpent suffering sleep apnea came before a WA magistrate last Tuesday.

This is the one where a landowner (rich white scum, of course) built a small flood-proof bridge across a little creek on his own property , only to learn from an ‘indigenous cultural assessor $120 per hour thanks bruvver) that his modest little crossing endangered the sleep of the great serpent Waugal.

Apparently, if old Wally Waugal got pissed off, then he pisses off, and the creek would dry up and the environment would commensurately suffer.  This is solid, irrefutable information which follows the indigenous science of 60,000 years. It seems the only course open to rectify such catastrophic behaviour is plead ignorance of these facts and pay a hefty fine. So off to court the matter trundled, and what a bonanza for the local tribal folk as well as a battery of lawyers. because it turned out that the local council was in the shit with the indigenous herpetologists experts, too. You can read the about their dastardly deeds here.

But this is the bit that most fascinatedThe Magpie:

“A prosecution “statement of facts” describes the site as “having mythological value and is the Waugal’s home”.The Waugal is a mythical serpent,” the prosecution said.It is believed that any alteration to the Waugal’s home could scare it from the water, causing the water to dry up and cause harm to the surrounding environment and people.”

Now, just remember this: this utter guff is from the environmental people who savagely castigate those who even question climate change, but this same group expect us to believe in mythical creature never seen,  in waters never disturbed beyond normal scientific cycles.If the Waugal is mythical, surely it doesn’t exist –  in fact or in law – and therefore can hardly have a home, to leave,  aquatic of otherwise.  This whole thing tends to challenge the judicial and democratic idea that actual evidence must be presented for a case to be proved. The claim doesn’t even meet the normal standard of circumstantial evidence … unless courts will now accepting  anything that anyone believes about anything.

By these yardsticks, why isn’t ‘ the devil made me do it’ a legitimate criminal defence?

Oh, and that court calendar mistake? ..The magistrate adjourned the matter for a new hearing to April 19 … this is a matter that definitely should be heard on April the first … before midday.

Being Financially Hauled Over The Coles

If price gouging at Coles is driving you to drink, be careful where you buy your medicine. This will give you a whopper headache.

A Magpie mate who likes a restorative G&T of an afternoon (or morning or lunchtime) made a nasty discovery which have more to do with his wallet than his liver.

This is a bottle of Gordon’s Gin at Coles Liquorland and First Choice.

… and this is the same 1litre bottle as priced at LiquorStax CBD, BWS Castletown and the Seaview Hotel (where pic was taken).

And adding insult to apoplexy, when the 1 litre of Gordon’s goes on ‘special’ at Liquorland, it is apparently $66, still dearer than the standard tariff elsewhere.

Cute, real cute, which is close to the spelling of a word that describes you lot, you thieving bastards.

Trump: Silver (Plated)Tongue And Golden (Plated) Boots.

Seriously, the man had not a skerrick of shame.  Trump’s latest money raising stunt, to help finance his legal bills more than any campaign he hopes to conduct, is to start flogging footwear. But not any old footwear, not your everyman’s everyday sneaker.

The shoes, shiny gold high tops with an American flag detail on the back, are being sold as “Never Surrender High-Tops” for $399 on a new website that also sells other Trump-branded shoes and “Victory47” cologne and perfume for $99 a bottle. He’d be the 47th president if elected again.

The website says it has no connection to Trump’s campaign, though Trump campaign officials promoted the appearance in online posts.

This has been exposed as Trump’s latest scheme to get around tightened campaign donation laws. Fake gold to get real money, typical. Somehow, The ‘Pie thinks it appropriate that this high-stakes grifter’s name should be associated with the word ‘sneaker’.

But the new product was welcomed by US cartoonists, it made a lighter change from their more grim fare of the week.

Look Who’s Talking … Or At Least Trying To

The Maga Gagas and the Orange Terrorist are making much f Biden’s occasional word gaffe, and long pause as he recalls a word or two.  This campaign has the implicit message that Trump has no such problems.  Oh really? Check this out.

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