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Friday, April 27, 2012


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Tuesday, April 3, 2012

FLASHBACK - QUO VADIS


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Friday, March 30, 2012

FLASHBACK - How would you rate Joolya in each of the elements of trust: Honesty, Competence, Consistency, Reliability and Candour


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Thursday, March 29, 2012

FLASHBACK - The light on the hill becomes a smouldering ruin


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Wednesday, March 28, 2012

"I feel the greatest destroyer of peace today is abortion, because it is a war against the child. A direct killing of the innocent child. Murder by the mother herself. And if we can accept that a mother can kill even her own child, how can we tell other people not to kill one another?" Mother Teresa


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Sunday, March 25, 2012

FLASHBACK - With a thumping LNP majority in Queensland, there is now no excuse for delaying a Royal Commission into the Heiner Affair and locking up the guilty bastards - wherever they may now be


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Thursday, March 22, 2012

FLASHBACK - I believe Craig Thompson has appendicitis. Really, I do. He's just the innoocent victim of unscrupulous individuals. The Health Services Union should be proud of his service to the cause of hard working men and women... gosh, now I'm feeling unwell


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Wednesday, March 21, 2012

FLASHBACK - “Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough" Groucho Marx


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Tuesday, March 20, 2012

"When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. When the government fears the people, there is liberty" Thomas Jefferson


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Monday, March 19, 2012

"The petty are eager to make boasts, yet desire to have others believe them. They enthusiastically engage in deception, yet want others to have affection for them. They conduct themselves like animals, yet want others to think well of them" Xun Zi


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Sunday, March 18, 2012

For everything else, there's Mastercard


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Saturday, March 17, 2012

FLASHBACK - Racing at Caufield and the little gelding "The Man Who Would Be King" has closed on the old red mare "Directionless"...


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Wednesday, March 14, 2012

"Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage" H. L. Mencken


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Tuesday, March 13, 2012

"Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship." George Orwell


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Monday, March 12, 2012

“I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.” Leonardo da Vinci


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Saturday, March 10, 2012

FLASHBACK - Why are you so reluctant to fight for yourselves?


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Thursday, March 8, 2012

“Rogues are preferable to imbeciles because sometimes they take a rest” Alexandre Dumas


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Wednesday, March 7, 2012

If you are offended by this cartoon, please contact Yumi Stynes, George Negus or the Channel 10 lawyers for advice on how to get over it

Extra! Extra! Read all about it... here
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Tuesday, March 6, 2012

"Despotism can only exist in darkness, and there are too many lights now in the political firmament to permit it to remain anywhere, as it has heretofore done, almost everywhere" James Madison

For the article, click here
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Monday, March 5, 2012

FLASHBACK - How long can we last?


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Sunday, March 4, 2012

Another Bolt question?


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Friday, March 2, 2012

Infanticide should be legal? Who are these people and have we really fallen so far?

Don't believe me? Check it out... here

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Thursday, March 1, 2012

"In no way is this meant to be a comment or a reflection on George Negus or Yumi Stynes, directly or otherwise. However, if my cartoon has unintentionally offended them, their families, or their Channel 10 colleagues, obviously I am sorry."


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FLASHBACK - 'Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible' St. Francis of Assisi


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Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Now there's a man to breed from...

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Monday, February 27, 2012

Salvador Dali said "Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings". What then is ambition without intelligence?


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Sunday, February 26, 2012

The New Morality from The Emily's List Play Book


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Saturday, February 25, 2012

FLASHBACK - Who are the 45% (two party preferred) who intend to return the Labor Government?


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Friday, February 24, 2012

FLASHBACK - Ready Ready, Ready Ready, Standby...

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Wednesday, February 22, 2012

For what does it profit a man (or woman) to gain the whole world, and forfeit his (or her) soul?


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Tuesday, February 21, 2012

FLASHBACK - The Hard Man of Public Broadcasting


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Monday, February 20, 2012

FLASHBACK - A friend in need is an opportunity


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Sunday, February 19, 2012

After playing hooky from school and dirtying his clothes in a fight with Miss Joolya, Master Kelvin is made to whitewash the fence as punishment...


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Saturday, February 18, 2012

Suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not


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Thursday, February 16, 2012

FLASHBACK - Soon to lose his best customer... until the next


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Wednesday, February 15, 2012

FLASHBACK - When I was just a little girl...


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Monday, February 13, 2012

Moral Hazard - The risk that a party to a transaction has not entered into the contract in good faith


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Sunday, February 12, 2012

Julia, I couldn't do much better than you, Said so yourself

Listen to Julia by Pavlov's Dog... here
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Saturday, February 11, 2012

FLASHBACK - What do you call people who know but choose to do nothing?


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Friday, February 10, 2012

Gina Rinehart might wish to consider this as well


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Thursday, February 9, 2012

This just might rival the Malcolm Mackerras Pendulum


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Wednesday, February 8, 2012

It is an interesting question how far men (or women) would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes. Henry David Thoreau


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Tuesday, February 7, 2012

Discrimination denotes a virtue representing the ability to make sensible decisions


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Monday, February 6, 2012

FLASHBACK to Potemkin's Favourites - A Party of Tradition


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Sunday, February 5, 2012

Mensa need not fear the competition


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Saturday, February 4, 2012

OUT NOW!


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Friday, February 3, 2012

Slip sliding away


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Thursday, February 2, 2012

Ice Age


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According to some historians, Grigory Potyomkin, Russian military leader, statesman, nobleman and favorite of Catherine the Great, and who led the Crimean military campaign, had hollow facades of villages constructed along the desolate banks of the Dnieper River in order to impress the Empress with the value of her new conquests
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