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Yes. It's a ridiculous, meaningless farce where the government and the opposition basically take shots at each other and shout at each other.
"Did you ever notice how in the Bible, when ever God needed to punish someone, or make an example, or whenever God needed a killing, he sent an angel? Did you ever wonder what a creature like that must be like? A whole existence spent praising your God, but always with one wing dipped in blood. Would you ever really want to see an angel?"
Kaldor wrote: Yes. It's a ridiculous, meaningless farce where the government and the opposition basically take shots at each other and shout at each other.
Kaldor lies, politics in Australia is only for the most respected, the most educated, the greatest amongst us.
Actually, he was spot on. Its a joke. The old speaker was the best though, he retired recently. Not the most recent one but the one before him. He woud get so goddamn pissed with people cutting in.
Also, there is this recent gem...This is the opposition leader and another guy trying to avoid voting with another member of parlaiment.
But things weren't always this bad....back in the good old days we had Prime Ministers who knew how to handle this country. Politicians we could respect.
Bob Hawke...what a freaking champ
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It's the nature of Parliament (any parliament) the hooting and jeering is customary, congress lost that aspect somewhere along the way. And as for the fleeing the floor, that has a long history in both american congress and parliamentary governments
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H.B.M.C. wrote:
"Balance, playtesting - a casual gamer craves not these things!" - Yoda, a casual gamer.
Three things matter in marksmanship -
location, location, location
MagickalMemories wrote:How about making another fist?
One can be, "Da Fist uv Mork" and the second can be, "Da Uvver Fist uv Mork."
Make a third, and it can be, "Da Uvver Uvver Fist uv Mork"
Eric
Yeah thats the way it works, Ive always been stunned at how polite they are in the US.. obviously we Brits and our Aussie cousins systems are almost identical and it looks like a fething jungle in there!
Bob Hawke knacking that pint was funny as feth as well by the way.
I also remember David Cameron ripping the piss out of Gordon Brown once and saying he wore more makeup than Barbara Cartland. Here is a decent video of them mercilessly ripping the piss out of each other whilst their chums jeer in the background.
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We are arming Syrian rebels who support ISIS, who is fighting Iran, who is fighting Iraq who we also support against ISIS, while fighting Kurds who we support while they are fighting Syrian rebels.
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Though I don't think any of our politicians could call each other 'Right Honorable Gentleman' with a straight face
H.B.M.C. wrote:
"Balance, playtesting - a casual gamer craves not these things!" - Yoda, a casual gamer.
Three things matter in marksmanship -
location, location, location
MagickalMemories wrote:How about making another fist?
One can be, "Da Fist uv Mork" and the second can be, "Da Uvver Fist uv Mork."
Make a third, and it can be, "Da Uvver Uvver Fist uv Mork"
Eric
youbedead wrote: It's the nature of Parliament (any parliament) the hooting and jeering is customary, congress lost that aspect somewhere along the way.
I would hazard a guess that it would be because there was a duel between two congressmen in the 1800s... I mean, we brought fething guns to congress back in the day I personally would think twice about mocking and jeering my opponent if I knew he was packing a Colt revolver in his jacket
mattyrm wrote: Yeah thats the way it works, Ive always been stunned at how polite they are in the US.. obviously we Brits and our Aussie cousins systems are almost identical and it looks like a fething jungle in there!
Bob Hawke knacking that pint was funny as feth as well by the way.
I also remember David Cameron ripping the piss out of Gordon Brown once and saying he wore more makeup than Barbara Cartland. Here is a decent video of them mercilessly ripping the piss out of each other whilst their chums jeer in the background.
The Lords is significantly more entertaining than the Senate. At least the Brits politicians are honest about their scorn or lack of respect for each other.
Ensis Ferrae wrote:
youbedead wrote: It's the nature of Parliament (any parliament) the hooting and jeering is customary, congress lost that aspect somewhere along the way.
I would hazard a guess that it would be because there was a duel between two congressmen in the 1800s... I mean, we brought fething guns to congress back in the day I personally would think twice about mocking and jeering my opponent if I knew he was packing a Colt revolver in his jacket
Both houses of our congress were pretty raucous until relatively recently. Now our politicians take themselves too seriously...which basically says to me they don't own mirrors.
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AustonT wrote: The Lords is significantly more entertaining than the Senate. At least the Brits politicians are honest about their scorn or lack of respect for each other.
Speaking of, I think this is the best political speech I've ever seen. I don't follow UK politics so I don't know where this guy stands, etc, but man does he ever lay it down.
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Powder Burns wrote:what they need to make is a fullsize leatherman, like 14" long folded, with a bone saw, notches for bowstring, signaling flare, electrical hand crank generator, bolt cutters..
Ouze wrote: Speaking of, I think this is the best political speech I've ever seen. I don't follow UK politics so I don't know where this guy stands, etc, but man does he ever lay it down.
That speech was really quite eloquent. Gave Gorden Brown quite the pasting without ever rasing his voice or resorting to snarky comments.
I would also just like to point out that before he became PM for Oz, Bob Hawke held the Guinness world record for sculling a pint in the shortest time.
Heres his account of the feet. Taken from Australianbeers.com.
In more down-to-earth fashion I inadvertently achieved notoriety as a result of one the quaint and ancient customs of my college. A system operated at dinner in the Great Hall under which if an offence was committed - in my case coming to dinner without a gown (some bastard had borrowed mine) - on was 'sconced'. This meant having to drink two and a half pints of ale out of an antique pewter pot in less than twenty-five seconds. Failure to do so involved paying for the first drink, plus another two and a half pints. My chance of avoiding payment lay in downing the ale within the limit and hoping that the Sconcemaster - the President of the Junior Common Room - could not beat my time. I was too broke for the fine and necessity became the mother of ingestion. I downed the contents of the pot in eleven seconds, left the Sconcemaster floundering, and entered the Guniness Book of Records with the fastest time ever recorded. This feat was to endear me to some of my fellow Australians more than anything else I ever achieved.
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Yes it's that ridiculous, we're developing a disturbing 'americanisation' of our politics in the media, more concerned with the personal lives of politicians then their actual policies.
When policies are actually discussed it's often lies, half-truths or just gak slinging. The opposition love using the word "Tax' as a scare tactic, and were recently called out for blaming a pensioner's power bill doubling on an emissions trading scheme (in actual fact the pensioner simply used twice as much power).
Question Time is one of the best forms of evening entertainment, though.
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The recent Queensland election was hilarious, it was a slaughter! I pity the guys who've got 4 or so portfolio's each. Thank god they don't really have a government to run/any reason to show up to vote.
I wish I had time for all the game systems I own, let alone want to own...
mattyrm wrote: Yeah thats the way it works, Ive always been stunned at how polite they are in the US.. obviously we Brits and our Aussie cousins systems are almost identical and it looks like a fething jungle in there!
Bob Hawke knacking that pint was funny as feth as well by the way.
I also remember David Cameron ripping the piss out of Gordon Brown once and saying he wore more makeup than Barbara Cartland. Here is a decent video of them mercilessly ripping the piss out of each other whilst their chums jeer in the background.
The Lords is significantly more entertaining than the Senate. At least the Brits politicians are honest about their scorn or lack of respect for each other.
That's the Commons. The Lords is usually a pretty sedate affair.
You're right. I suppose the green upholstery should have given it away. I stand by the statement the the Lords is more interesting than the Senate, but the Commons are epically more interesting than the House: also: there is no way there are 600 MPs in that room.
Avatar 720 wrote: You see, to Auston, everyone is a Death Star; there's only one way you can take it and that's through a small gap at the back.
Powder Burns wrote:what they need to make is a fullsize leatherman, like 14" long folded, with a bone saw, notches for bowstring, signaling flare, electrical hand crank generator, bolt cutters..
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AustonT wrote: You're right. I suppose the green upholstery should have given it away. I stand by the statement the the Lords is more interesting than the Senate, but the Commons are epically more interesting than the House: also: there is no way there are 600 MPs in that room.
You're probably right. Good clip though, eh? Cameron bitch-slaps Brown there.
A California congressman said Friday that he regrets forcefully grabbing another House member during a tense campaign debate but insists he was not threatening his rival with violence.
The confrontation Thursday between Democratic Reps. Brad Sherman and Howard Berman came during the stretch run of a nasty campaign for a Los Angeles-area seat.
"I touched him, I put my arm around his shoulder, I should not have done that," Sherman told The Associated Press in a telephone interview Friday.
He said the confrontation "is not emblematic of either of our careers."
But Berman told AP said Sherman was "parsing words to develop a new rationale for unhinged activity."
After years of debates in campaigns and Congress "I've never had anybody before come even close to threatening me or trying to start a fight," Berman said. "It was like in the eighth grade, `You want to go over to the park on the corner and fight this out?"'
The taller Sherman seized the shoulder of the 71-year-old Berman during the debate at a San Fernando Valley college, yanked him toward his chest and shouted, "You want to get into this?"
The two men later stood nose-to-nose exchanging words before a sheriff's deputy emerged behind them and briefly placed his hand on Sherman's shoulder. Sherman sat down, and the debate resumed.
Sherman, 57, stopped short of blaming Berman for instigating the confrontation, but emphasized that Berman had walked across the stage and was shouting in his face.
Sherman said in the telephone interview that his supporters would not be distracted by the confrontation.
"They are not focused on a video that makes good entertainment television for somebody who wants to do a show about congressmen behaving badly," he said.
Berman's campaign said the congressman would respond later Friday.
The veteran lawmakers were pulled into the same district after a voter-approved independent panel redrew California's political boundaries.
They were the top vote-getters in the June primary and went on to the general election because of California's new primary system, which sends the top two finishers to the runoff regardless of party affiliation.
Their race for the 30th district seat is one of eight same-party congressional runoffs on California's November ballot.
Its already starting
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