What happened? Twelve years! You hit me with a cricket bat! Ha! Twelve years!
Tuesday, July 05
Does Australia Have A Government Yet, Again
No Probably.
Currently the major parties are split 68/67, with 10 seats still undecided, and needing 76 to form a government. There are also 5 independents who will obviously be getting sweet-talked to death right now.
Update: Official but not final results have the Liberal (i.e. conservative) Party returned with a much reduced majority, down from 90:55 to 76:69. One seat has not yet been declared, but that can't affect the overall outcome.
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Every political system has problems, and this is one of the problems with the Parliamentary system...
Posted by: Steven Den Beste at Tuesday, July 05 2016 03:09 AM (+rSRq)
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Come visit us in 5 months. You won't feel so bad then.
Posted by: The Brickmuppet at Tuesday, July 05 2016 06:23 AM (/4jFR)
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Tim Blair says that there's one confirmed member of the House of Representatives, so far.
Posted by: Steven Den Beste at Sunday, July 10 2016 11:38 AM (+rSRq)
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Labour leader Bill Shorten conceded, so it appears you get a slightly narcissistic and far less rich version of Donald Trump as Prime Minister. Which is better than having to deal with President Hillary for four years.
Posted by: cxt217 at Monday, July 11 2016 03:51 AM (DuUoO)
Well, crap. Condolences to everyone affected by this atrocity.
Meanwhile, the burying-the-lede contest is on:
CNN: 0 mentions of Islam, prominent link to story on the dangers of guns.
New York Times: 0 mentions of Islam, prominent link to story on the dangers of guns.
Washington Post: 0 mentions of Islam, prominent link to story on the dangers of guns.
ABC Australia: Mentions Islam, mentions recent shooting in Miami, but no lectures.
The American mainstream media are consistently to the left of one of the left-most institutions in Australia.
Oh, and Reddit is a total train wreck on this story. Just amazingly bad. The moderators are deleting anything that doesn't fit the narrative, or that questions why so many posts not fitting the narrative are being deleted, or that questions why so many post that question... Train wreck is putting it mildly.
This is what it looked like:
Update: CNN now has a mention of Islam. The Washington Post, to its credit, has made that their headline. And the New York Times... Has a picture of Obama.
And it looks like a second attack was stopped by police in Santa Monica. Details are still sketchy.
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The authors regret that there is an error in the published version of "Correlation not Causation: The Relationship between Personality Traits and Political Ideologies†American Journal of Political Science 56 (1), 34–51. The interpretation of the coding of the political attitude items in the descriptive and preliminary analyses portion of the manuscript was exactly reversed. Thus, where we indicated that higher scores in Table 1 (page 40) reflect a more conservative response, they actually reflect a more liberal response. Specifically, in the original manuscript, the descriptive analyses report that those higher in Eysenck’s psychoticism are more conservative, but they are actually more liberal; and where the original manuscript reports those higher in neuroticism and social desirability are more liberal, they are, in fact, more conservative.
(My bold.)
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Obviously we have an entropy problem with trying to keep up, even if we could figure out a way for cattle to harness nuclear fission for muscle growth.
Posted by: Ken in NH at Thursday, April 07 2016 04:11 AM (6qAvd)
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There's something very strange about the cat in this video. He doesn't seem to mind the monkey suit (unlike other cat-in-costume internet sensations, where the cat is obviously wishing a painful death on the person who dressed him up), and he also likes bananas.
Posted by: Peter the Not-so-Great at Saturday, January 02 2016 10:17 AM (XC8ds)
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Monkeycat, monkeycat, does whatever a monkeycat does.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Saturday, January 02 2016 08:10 PM (PiXy!)
Construction has started in Sydney on putting back the tram lines we ripped up fifty years ago. Well, they ripped up, I wasn't around, much less involved.
Straight up George Street, the busiest street in the CBD. I'm not sure this is necessarily a bad idea - at peak hour George Street isn't a thoroughfare so much as a bus depot lined with shops, and trams will be a nice change even if they make traffic worse - but it will certainly be interesting.
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