Giving Bolt the Shits - the Conspiracy Revealed

Katauskas - New Matilda

Your wife decides to go out with the girls dancing…

This one has been going around the traps – very funny.

Your wife decides to go out with the girls dancing…

You're okay with it, because you get to watch sports all night....
You hear her stumble into bed around 4am and laugh knowing she's going to
have a monster hangover....
You wake up next morning and go outside to the family Volvo, which she used last night...
You sigh in relief because it's all in one piece....
You circle the car looking for dents and find none....
But then ....

Wait a minute....

A picture is worth a thousand words....

Carbon Agreement

Katauskas - New Matilda

The inaugral message from Sunbury RYBACTTA - Get on Ya Bike

In the inaugural message from SRYBACTTA (Otherwise known as the Sunbury Ride Your Bicycle and Catch the Train Association), the President and Secretary presented our mission is to encourage as many Sunbury commuters as we can to ride to the station. Thereby freeing up the parking congestion at the Sunbury station precinct.

We often here the cries of where can we leave our bicycles safely during the day? We are glad you asked, as SRYBACTTA at its own expense called on artists such as Spencer Tunick and many others to develop ideas and models of the visions for new century Cycle Racks ("CRACKS"), this phase of the brief is also known as the Dreamtime Crack. The brief provided to the artists was to fit the surrounds of the Sunbury Station precinct of both old and new there we challenged the artists to fulfill the brief using both old and young CRACKS. CRACKS that the old fart babyboomers, cynical Gen X and it is all about me Gen Yers would all be attracted and feel they are a part of Sunbury by sinking their boots or even just the front wheel of their marvelous bi wheeled contraption. We all know one particular resident can not wait to have his own CRACK at Sunbury station judging by the many comments left on Vexnews.

We are pleased to say many a CRACK has been modeled and presented to SRYBACTTA to for judgement, a snippet preview is below. Please note we have found one particular model the very bottom to be most unpleasant please judge for yourself.

















Plenty of parking CRACKS for all we are sure.













This particular blend is the closest to meeting the brief by incorporating both the old and young CRACKS with a touch of history and art. The last photo however has been rejected outright - the model was aptly named the JSBJ Crack all obscenely old CRACKS designed only to attract a small segment of the Sunbury cycling and commute market. The right winged red necks or should we say "red Arses" (aka Bogarses):



















If you do sight one of these JSBJ Cracks near the station kick it hard until it departs.

Get On Ya Bike Ya Lazy Buggers - Ride, walk and catch the bus to the station.

Written and authorized by Big Fella, Co President of SRYBACTTA.

Billy Connolly Quotes - Sublimely Ridicoulous

As I slave through the tombs, texts, thesis and academic essay's I can not help but yearn for simply marvelous observations instead of the obvious Aristotelian, Marxism, Foucault etc. Break the tradition and give me some Connolly:


"My definition of an intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger."

"What is it with McDonald's staff who pretend they don't understand you unless you insert the 'Mc' before the item you're ordering? It has to be a McChicken burger...a chicken burger gets blank looks. Well, I'll have a McStraw and jam it into your McEyes, you f**cking McTosser!"

"Save the Trees?...Trees are the main cause of Forest Fires!"

"Poor Michael Jackson and these sex allegations. As if it's not bad enough him being a Jehova's Witness, they're accusing him of behaving like a catholic priest!"

“If Jesus was a Jew, how come he has a Mexican first name?”

“It seems to me that Islam and Christianity and Judaism all have the same god, and he's telling them all different things.”

“I don't know why I should have to learn Algebra... I'm never likely to go there.”

“I worry about ridiculous things, you know, how does a guy who drives a snowplough get to work in the morning. . . . That can keep me awake for days..”

“I've always wanted to go to Switzerland to see what the army does with those wee red knives.”

“My parents used to take me to the pet department and tell me it was a zoo.”

“I'm a citizen of the world. I like it that way. The world's a wonderful. I just think that some people are pretty badly represented. But when you speak to the people themselves they're delightful. They all want so little.”

“I'd always been scared of people with tertiary education and high intellects in case they found me wanting. I thought they viewed me as just a welder who knew a few jokes.”

“outgrew the media ... The negativity felt like a disease.”

“Do you remember that politician who died with the fishnet tights and all that? Aw, his poor family. I wonder how they dress him in the coffin?”

"The human race has been set up. Someone, somewhere, is playing a practical joke on us. Apparently, women need to feel loved to have sex. Men need to have sex to feel loved. How do we ever get started?"

Charlie Sheen and the 9/11 consiracy mmm...

No doubt the mainstream media has lost the plot however very skeptical about the conspiracy theories behind 9/11 however any that had Bush and Cheney's hands in deserves an independent inquiry. Worthwhile trauling the comments there are some very scary people out there - aliens!? Discredits a poignant message that makes you pause and think for a moment. Note I am not pushing the conspiracy theory.



Then there is this and this and also this lot where Van Jones resigned under a "cloud of controversy again check out the comments.

Neoliberal Disciminatory Agenda - Victoria University Campus Closures, Mass Sackings, and Removing Student's Right's of Equal Access to Education

All in a days work at the VC's office - Victoria University Campus Closures, Mass Sackings, and Removing Student's Right's of Equal Access to Education.

October of 2008 Victoria University Council made its announcement of closing Sunbury and Melton Campuses . Along with Victoria University planning to proceed with mass sackings.

It is now back on with the full blessing of the Commonwealth Government apparently. Essentially a very clever and crafty piece of work by VU's brains trust - the Commonwealth, State and local Government is now the one that has to clean up the shattered shards of local education. The Governments are the ones implicit in discrimination and deception of a major undertaking. Despite the VU spin unit's canny wording it means it is effectively closing the Sunbury campus and withdrawing direct education services to these regions.

Under the heading of "Transitional Arrangements" implying a plan is in existence. Why do they not state clearly and concisely the transitional plans to staff, students, and community groups? Answer is easy it does not exist. Yet more spin and deception. This blogger has become aware of salient facts a plan is not in existance. Under adhoc directions students and staff are going to be shunted from fully operational fit for purpose facilities, (not forgetting state of the art music facilities at $5million invested by the Commonwealth Government), to portable class room yet to exist and will not be in place until sometime in 2010.

Melton students are advised the transition will take place over 2010 and 2011. Yet Sunbury students have been advised their courses will no longer be supported at Sunbury campus. Under the autocratic auspices of the corporatist populated Council all courses go to St Albans. Forget the "Undertaking" by Victoria University students will be able to complete courses at the Sunbury Campus. The very campus these students enrolled as their choice of course and place to undertake Higher Education and TAFE.

Within the web of deception by VU it states "The University will honour its commitment to retain student accommodation at Sunbury Hall until the end of 2010." Can we honestly believe this statement? No students housed at Sunbury Hall were advised they must find alternative accomodation by June 2010. No assistance is offered nor financial consideration or the issue of housing shortages or availability of student accomodation throughout the western suburbs.

The university also states the Sunbury campus is not sustainable due to dwindling numbers - the same dwindling numbers Victoria University have manufactured. Shifting students from Sunbury to FP or St Albans, eg Sports administration etc, enrolments occuring under a cloud of continuing uncertainty, yet education enrolments for 2009 I hear were on the increase and climbing.

Can any statement be considered as truthfall from an administration throughout 2007 and 2008 denighing any plans what so ever of closing campuses.

Puzzling however is the term transitional arrangements and the bias of the matters contained therein. If Ballarat University offers an Education stream why are students not being given the option of transferring to Ballarat University to complete a course at Melton? Why is it the smaller student population will be transitioning over a two year period? Why is VU determined to migrate the larger student population circe 1400 -1600 students in 3-4 months? Foregoing the very undertaking it made to Sunbury students.

What of the students whom are now facing the prospect of not being able to complete their course - where are their rights to an education under the principles of social inclusion?

What did professor Harman have to say about the process and community backlash earlier this year? People were spreading lies and VU failed in their Public Relations. management. Not the review nor the very decision process VU council was hopelessly flawed, inclusion of staff, students, and the community. It failed in its process of ensuring it had the Government and departments on their side believing the spin and doctored reports. Now the Commonwealth Government has "approved" something yet the formal notification fails make public the terms of reference of such approval or the conditions of that approval.

The underlying reason I have utilised neoliberal discriminatory agenda is the implied and direct discrimination of students in this region. The agenda is one of maximising profits, furthering the benefits to the few in power under the premise of the market shall deliver a higher quality of education, delivering an education demanded by the market! Students, staff and the community are an exploitable commodity. These are the autocratic strategies of neoliberalism and corporatism.

The University would do well to hold any further actions, until such time as all plans are in place or if another entity is taking over the campus allow the students the freedom of choice to decide what where and when they will study! That would be the new humanist approach, democratic approach.

At the opening of the Sunbury Campus 1995 Paul Keating stated "Nothing is so basic a prerequisite of our economic and the future well-being of Australian society. It is an integral part of our economic and social policy ...Education and training are the fundamental building blocks for our future prosperity ... Education and training are the key to the breakdown of entrenched inter-generational poverty. "

Obviously now this maxime only applies to the inner and eastern suburbs of Melbourne.

Yellow Cake Barnaby

So far the big transnationals have been winning the game of divert, confuse and delay - not in convincing citizens that climate warming as based on surveys (Collins 2009, what do australians think about climate change, ANU Discussion papers), 8 out of 10 people think global warming is already occuring . Barnaby Joice is toeing the former Government's line, which would be another big winner for the dinosaurs – Nuclear power being defined as “Renewable Energy”. Umm hello what about the issues of digging up very big holes in the ground, emissions and waste. The very term annoys me as much as the greatest of oxymoron’s “Clean Coal”. I wonder will Senator Joyce allow a Nuclear power plant to be built in his electorate and the nuclear waste to be disposed of in his electorate?

It is bad enough to have the transnationals and flatearthers’ with Senator Fielding, Xenephon and the majority of the libs in their celubrious back pockets. It is horrendous that Governments globally is pushing out cap and trade schemes pandering to the big dirty transnationals.

This takes the big slice of yellow cake – Nuclear Energy as renewable energy.