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'travel rorts' : Comments

By Don Aitkin, published 11/10/2013

If I had advice for the Prime Minister, it might be that he point out to his team the dreadful cost to the Labor Party of the Peter Slipper business, the Craig Thomson business, and even the Julia Gillard business.

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SM,

".....That the one or two weeks a year is not necessarily in one continuous stretch is the most rational and most probable meaning."

Well, that is shame, because if he undertook his volunteering/promotional visits in one solid stretch, the taxpayer would be spared "repeated" charges for charter flights.

Here's the daily update - Don Randall:

http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/don-randall-dodges-questions-over-expense-claims-for-trip-to-cairns-20131016-2vlx1.html

(Quite impressive - even by Coalition standards)
Posted by Poirot, Wednesday, 16 October 2013 4:22:02 PM
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And furthermore....

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-10-17/call-for-randall-to-resign/5029032

"WA Liberal MP Rob Johnson has called on his federal colleague Don Randall to resign or be sacked over his travel claims."
Posted by Poirot, Thursday, 17 October 2013 2:31:35 PM
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P,

I find your logic in condemning Abbott for bringing attention to aboriginal schooling, and organizing business funding for the same schools, yet say nothing when Juliar and Dudd spend vastly more on pure Photo ops.

I meet your Don Randall and raise you one Michael Williamson who at the time of being ALP president defrauded the lowest paid workers of over $1m.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-10-15/ex-hsu-union-boss-williamson-admits-fraud-offences/5022842

Or Craig Thomson Labor MP defrauding the same by paying for prostitutes.
Posted by Shadow Minister, Friday, 18 October 2013 12:40:33 PM
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SM,

http://m.canberratimes.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/pm-wont-act-on-doubtful-claims-20131016-2vn3u.html

Some one on twitter suggested they should call it the "Pinchin Protocol"...

Very apt.
Posted by Poirot, Friday, 18 October 2013 2:29:25 PM
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funny..lost/post..suddenly returned..some-how
re..pre-conditional..clause..

2/aj

quote..aj.<<..“Imagine..a perfect..>>..

this/means..imagine..if*

ie..not..a..real/usage/by definitive..of when..
ie..its..not science..not/even..theory yet..only concept

IMAGINING IF,*

a..<<..neuro-imaging/device..that..*would..allow us..>>

ie..even..IF..neuro-imaging..*cant do..*this
[dreaming/imagining/un-proof/fiction-ing]

cant..do/what?..<<..detect..and interpret..the/subtlest..changes..in brain-function...>>

nor..even..anything much else*!*
but..we live..in..publish/or perish-times..so

*IMAGINE..<<..You might..spend..an hour..thinking>>

then..what you think..
will attract..that you focus on

but..we cant hold focus[fo-cuss]..in..mind..for long
enough..to get anything worthwhile..[like a song..only partially heard..
so..we move..onto..the next/fragment..of simile..to..*make you.."just/react"..to ..*their stimuli.

[our minds are..so/much reactive..to..the smallest distractions/detraction's..[thus i..mediate..on word-sounds..already with-in..the frame..of cont-ext]..[in-flating..per-form..a/word..into word-form]

only..to find..<<..discover>>..the ILLUSORY..

<<..that..the scientists..scanning your brain..can..inform
/a..complete record/moments..in..lol..advance..of each event...For instance,..>>

any..fore-instance..
is clearly..dreaming/fiction/hope

the..first quote..was interesting
but..even then....in what..con-text..with the..later..con-text

<<..The experimenters..found two..brain/regions..
that contained..information..about which*..button subjects..*would press..a full..7 to 10 seconds..before..the decision..was consciously made>>..

[not made/executed]

i..would say..they..prejudged..which button..they would push..at the next-impulse*..to push..arrives..#..its..like saying..if*..there is#..a fire..i will..leave..out/of..*that fire exit

all..science/could tell..
is that..a choice..was made..
[not which..fire-exit..you..*plan to use*..
WHEN/if..the need arrives..[their..predicament=is..my..prejudgment]

<<..direct/recordings..from..the cortex>>

[physio-motor cortex?]..
that needs..*relay..the choice/timing..of act?

<<..showed that..the activity..[in the..motor/cortex]..
of merely 256 neurons..was sufficient..to predict..with 80 percent accuracy..a person’s decision..to move 700 milliseconds..before..he.>>

[he/who?][subjective/witness..
or measured objective?]..before..<<..HE*?.. became aware..of it.>>

yes..i heard..the same EXCUSE..given..that
that is why..its IMPOSABLE..to/hit.a cricket ball..[or stop a goal..to actually..catch..[or hit]..the ball..WHICH..comes faster..than..the 3/4..of a..second..for/ball..to cover..the distance

in affect..the batter..or goalie
ALWAYS..NEEDS*..initiate..his movement..pre-dicatively*

[inductively]
..well..before..the ball moves..they
essentially..must/necessarily..[[see..into the future*]..
be-cause the ball..moves..over..the distance..in lesstime..than motor-neurons..[cortex]..can initiate the re..quired movement.

noting in..the spirit/realm's..
the goalie..reads in advance..the pitchers intention
[sport..thus always gets boring..as others..read/our intention..
before*..we even..have decided..just as..we..*can read them./.[read their aura'l..movement..intente']..[they read..ours.

no*..secrets..in..the next/life.

[aura communications]..[active/predictive/reductive]..
nothing..un-seen..[pre-veiled]..that shall..not be revea-led]

back..to jesus words
http://miraclevision.com/acim/urtext/acim-urtext-2003-upe-ready-edition.pdf

God..offers..ONLY mercy.
Your..own words..should..ALWAYS reflect..only mercy..
because..that is what..you have..received,..and will expect returned..and..that is what..you should GIVE.

Justice..is a..temporary-expedient,..or..an attempt..to teach man..the meaning/of..mercy../.Its JUDGMENTAL/side..rises..only because man..is capable..of INJUSTICE..if that is..what his mind creates.

You..are afraid..of God’s will..because
you..have ab-used..your..own will-freely,..which
He..created..in..the/likeness..of..His own-will,..to mis-create.?

debate?

<<..What..you do-NOT realize..is that
the mind..*can miscreate..only when..it is..NOT free.

An/imprisoned-mind..is not free..by definition.
It..is possessed,..or..held back,..away..by ITSELF.
Its/will..is therefore/limited,..and not..free..to assert..even..it-self.
Posted by one under god, Friday, 18 October 2013 8:41:29 PM
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Considering the hundreds of $bns of taxpayers money that labor has squandered Labor has a dirt campaign to dredge through the last decade of records of only Lib spending to see if they could come up with something that sounds dubious.

It was good that Mark Dufus got hoisted on his own petard.

Considering that it is Labor's Speaker that is being charged with criminal activity, they should hang their heads in shame.
Posted by Shadow Minister, Saturday, 19 October 2013 4:36:56 PM
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