Is this what Tony Abbott is warning us about?

An analogy for the dire consequences of allowing our Prime Minister to continue on her journey to bring continued prosperity to our great land?

For should she succeed, then poor Tony’s ambitions will crack and shatter and fall asunder.

“Today is cooler than yesterday so all this Climate Change stuff is a load of codswallop put out by a conspiracy of greedy scientists who have no clue as to what is really going on!”

The word for this week is

DEDICATION

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The Australian Women’s Weekly, Saturday 31 January 1942

However, a new king decided that hunting was a cruel sport, and he immediately outlawed hunting in all forms. The absence of rich hunters from America and Europe began to plague the country in many ways: no money came into the kingdom, and the wild animals began to proliferate. Lions, snakes, and other wild beasts became more than a nuisance; they were over-running the villages and endangering the lives of the people.

Finally, the people had had enough. They overthrew the king and his government and brought back the hunters, decreeing that the new law outlawing hunting was stupid.

The regime was overthrown and prosperity soon returned. This was the first instance in history of the reign being cancelled on account of the game.

The Australian Women’s Weekly, Saturday 31 January 1942

Not that they could be true.

Tony Abbott is the Leader of the Parliamentary Liberal Party and as such is the official Parliamentary Leader of the Opposition. He is married, with three grown daughters. And a solid, committed Catholic in good standing.

So, I believe, there is no way he would have done something this stupid.

I know I am on the opposite side of the political fence and I disagree with much of what Tony Abbott does and says, yet I find it very hard to believe this scuttlebutt!

Still, anonymous rumour (as all rumours are) has it that there are apparently those in the corridors of Parliament House in Canberra who are talking of such a liason.

I wonder if any of the Parliamentary Press Gallery can throw some light on this matter.

UPDATE!!!

I began to play a game, as many of my readers would have done. IF this story has some basis in fact, and I’m not saying it has. I’m playing “What If“.

If there is any truth in the rumour there may be some clues in the Mainstream Media.

I vaguely remembered something about Tony Abbott getting lost in the bush last year and there was something strange about telephone numbers.

So I checked Google and found my memory was not that bad. He had indeed gotten himself lost (something I have done in the outback as well but that is another story) and had to do an E.T. and “Phone Home”. Problem was, as this news report says, he could only remember one phone number.

I know highly placed politicians lead sheltered lives but surely he could remember his WIFE’S phone number at a time of great stress. No! Just his Press Secretary’s phone number.

That bit is reported fact. The original basis of this story is just unsubstantiated rumour.

But it is fun to play “What If”.

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NEW UPDATE

Following this fantasy to its logical conclusion, there would be a move from the females in Tony Abbott’s family to have him move the offending “Staffer-chick” (who is only a fantasy) out of his office, and replace her with, preferably, a harmless male.

That is all only in fantasy world and has absolutely nothing to do with this coincidental story from The Australian.

James Boyce to replace Claire Kimball as Tony Abbott’s press secretary, which was written by respected journalist James Massola and published January 25, 2011 2:52PM

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It Has Happened In The Past

If such an unlikely event should have happened it would not be the first time a high-profile Australian politician has strayed from his marriage vows.

Malcolm Fraser

On 14 October 1986, past Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser, then the Chairman of the Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group, was found in the foyer of the Admiral Benbow Inn, a seedy Memphis hotel, wearing nothing but a towel and confused as to where his trousers were. The hotel was an establishment popular with prostitutes and drug dealers. Though it was rumoured at the time that the former Prime Minister had been with a prostitute, his wife believes it more likely that he was the victim of a practical joke by his fellow delegates.

From Wikipedia

Billy Snedden

In a bizarre ruling, an English court has ruled that in favor of a commercial poster company that argued that a photo that showed a similar (but different) scene taken by a different person in a different place nevertheless infringed the copyright of a poster. What the judge ruled was that photographing a scene that is “substantially similar” to a scene someone else has already photographed infringes the first shooter’s copyright.

Read more of this insanity here at Boing Boing. I’m off to check  whether I can get a case going against all those other photographers who have stolen my composition idea of clouds near the horizon at sunset!

LAST Week contained a cyclonic sweep by the Australian bowlers through the wastelands of the Indian batting and a cyclone forming to the North West of the State. A cyclone named Iggy! It will hang around for a while and Perth will have to suffer from about 5 days above 40C!

Hats and Crowns:-There were no crowns this week with DaddyP and dinahmow the best with 5/7 while Magic Hands, DaisyFae, Sandy and yours truly all scored a hat-avoiding 3/7
THIS Week Yet again, I used a lot of guesswork this week.  There must be plenty of quizzees who can do better at this weeks quiz.

Previous Dunces

20th Jan No hats awarded.

13th Jan 1/7, Daddy P, nursemyra

7th Jan, 1/7, Daddy P

9th Dec, 1/7, Rob
2nd Dec, 0/7, Rob
25th Nov, Andrea
18th Nov, daisyfae, Rob, gitwizard, silverstar98121
11th Nov, 2/7, Jess, Tony
4th Nov, 1/7, healingmagichands, Puddock, nursemyra, Cybe R Wizard.
28th Oct, 2/7, Cybe R Wizard, Daddy P, sandy
21st Oct, 0/7, daisyfae
14th Oct, 0/7, healingmagichands
7th Oct, 1/7, azahar,
30th Sept, 1/7, Rob

Crown Winners (7/7)

3rd Jun, 2011, dinahmow
10th Jun, 2011, dinahmow
1st Jul, 2011, dinahmow
8th Jul, 2011, Buff
15th Jul, 2011, dinahmow
5th Jul, 2011, dinahmow, Rob, Cybe R Wizard
26th Aug, 2011, Magic Hands, dinahmow
2nd Sept, 2011, dinahmow
23rd Sept, 2011, dinahmow
30th Sept, 2011, healingmagichands
11th Nov, 2011, nursemyra, dinahmow
2nd Dec, 2011, dinahmow

13th Jan, 2012, dinahmow

Welcome to the first Friday Foto Finder.

I’ll be posting between 7 and 8am, Australian Western Time (Midnight in Gt Britain and about 7pm in the Eastern USA.

And so, my first entry.

I can almost hear him saying “Velcome” in his Transylvanian accent.

Actually, he is not Transylvanian. He is an Aussie Flying Fox or Fruit Bat.

He may not suck your blood but, on the East coast where they are native, they have been implicated in transmitting the Hendra Virus. And that could well be worse!

Leave your comments on the Friday Foto Finder blog and wander off to visit the other “Finders” entries.

The normal Court Jestering one-liners were expected to be unexpected and so he could throw them into a gathering as and when he felt like it.

When it came to story-telling, however, the King decreed a rather unusual way to announce the daily appearance of the Royal Storyteller.

All the King’s courtiers knew a story was about to be presented when out strode the Royal Mime carrying upon his shoulders the Royal Dunce, who in turn held high a placard bearing the title of the forthcoming story.

Thus, from that first day until the present, every story told in King Arthur’s Royal Court began with dunce upon a mime…