Earl Hood

As to your questions the answer is no to all the above. I work off an individual management contract. However Do I detect a sneering attitude to those who work to support our community and may belong to a union to negotiate their employment conditions? And the recent history is that collective bargaining is not gaining unionised workers much above the average. But then those not in a union are being screwed over the last 10years. Let me guess you are from the self employed small business sector that believes in the Margaret Thatcher view of the world, there is no such thing as a society, there is just an economy? Lets talk conspirancies: While I am at it just think of the logistics of conspiring to falsefy the data coming into the B of Meterology that is full of professional scientists, who mostly take pride in their professional integrity and the intercity in the work they do versus the ease of throwing up doubts about climate change by wealthy vested interests via donations to the LNP and to existing lobby groups such as the Minerals Council of Australia which admits openly that it lobbies parliamentarians to promote coal. Take the example of Morrison taking a lump of coal into question time. These guys have been bought by the coal lobby, hook, line and sinker. It is a disgrace, and they cannot be trusted to make sensible economical decisions. Coal fired power stations are dead, solar power with battery storage is now a more economic alternative, but don’t expect Matt (coal firedCanavan) to recognise that anytime soon

Is My Kitchen Rules a film? If not it seems like it.

Interesting how you measure environmental issues in political terms. Fyck the data it’s all about the politics isn’t it? Your real issue is with your hatred of lefty, greenie types, and of course darstardly unionists. To fight that battle, you will ignore facts in pursuit of victory over these deluded individuals. Your goal is to berate greenies, not to pursue the scientific truth. You would of course rejoice in Andrew Bolt’s article today in the Hun. citing so called data that the world has not warmed, based on last months world temperature average! Can I query whether last month was unusually cool? I mean our denialists claim we need to look at the longer climate history, like thousands of years! But if last month looks good let’s jump at that one; Andrew Bolt of no known qualification, but an opinion on everyone else’s area of expertise, usually to tell them they are wrong!

So Exxon Mobil would not want to do anything to protect the billions they have invested in their oil rigs on land and at sea, petroleum refineries? How much have they invested in solar or wind? And even if they have invested in renewables, you don’t think their Board of Directors would insist that all divisions pay their way? You obviously haven’t worked for a large business organisation and had to manage and account for your annual income/expenditure budget. To justify your annual bonus.

Wrecker ever heard of context? I was replying to Ethan’s statements that it has been very cool in Perth of late, lowest average temperatures in decades. I provided BoM data showing that in 2017 Perth’s average maximum temperature was still above the long term average. So it may seem cool by recent experience but it is actually still warmer than average. Thus the frog analogy. Sorry if my wording was unclear. Here is an explanation of the beast, polar vortex, stratospheric warming. It’s happened before, so we can’t say it is evidence of global warming or global “not warming” as far as I can see. http://r.search.yahoo.com/_ylt=AwrSbmPfBJlaUzoAjDVAvolQ;_ylu=X3oDMTByNDZ0aWFxBGNvbG8DZ3ExBHBvcwM2BHZ0aWQDBHNlYwNzcg--/RV=2/RE=1520006495/RO=10/RU=http%3a%2f%2fwww.itv.com%2fnews%2ftyne-tees%2f2018-02-27%2fwhat-is-causing-the-beast-from-the-east-and-what-is-storm-emma-weather-questions-answered%2f/RK=2/RS=j8exN.beJoY.cq67u6YTBA1dPuU-

Barry lives in Carlton these days I think, I see him occasionally going to a seafood restaurant in Lyon Street near Brunetti’s. He is always dressed in a suit a throw back to a by gone era. God knows what he makes of the current anti rationalist/science mob running the country now!

No Ethan be alarmed, 2017 was our third hottest year on record nationally with El Niño in neutral. It may have seemed cool in Perth but it was still just above the long term average! At least according to the BoM’s measured data, no predictive modelling errors involved here. The old story of the frog in the saucepan of slowly warming water comes to mind. http://r.search.yahoo.com/_ylt=AwrSbmKYn5daHO8A3hxAvolQ;_ylu=X3oDMTByb2lvbXVuBGNvbG8DZ3ExBHBvcwMxBHZ0aWQDBHNlYwNzcg--/RV=2/RE=1519915032/RO=10/RU=http%3a%2f%2fwww.abc.net.au%2fnews%2f2018-01-10%2fannual-climate-statement-2017-third-hottest-year-on-record%2f9314364/RK=2/RS=DSm2CqDNJ8x81MDrDv9ynSHDcw8-

Holly Shyte 111 https://www.theage.com.au/environment/climate-change/really-extreme-global-weather-event-leaves-scientists-aghast-20180226-p4z1q4.html

So what happens in round 1 when we watch the pre-game routine of players bouncing off each other in the usual show of strength and aggression just before the bounce? Will they all be pinged $1500? The AFL will make a fortune, clawing back thousands from their employees, maybe no different than Caltex or 711 fleecing their own employees I suppose. But we know it won’t happen come round 1 and does anyone have any idea on the medical report from Norf that seems to have been a factor in this rediculous decision? Not sure what injury you sustain from an open handed slap to the stomach.

Holy Shyte 11 ocean acidification caused by human induced C02 emissions and the subsequent absorption by our oceans. You know the emissions that some believe don’t cause any problems above the surface of the seas, that is all about sunspots apparently. Rising acidity means any organism that depends on forming a protective calcium carbonate shell is in trouble and also krill populations when Rising acidity levels affect their embryos detrimentally. And now we can add destabilisation to coral reef structures https://www.theage.com.au/environment/climate-change/world-s-coral-reefs-face-new-peril-from-beneath-within-decades-20180223-p4z1ev.html

Interesting in retrospect that Billy would call his religious get togethers Crusades! It makes some sense on a superficial level referring back to the original crusades to recover control of the Holy Land from the Islamic hoardes; however if you ever take the time to read the history of the Crusaders you find you are dealing with a bunch of blood thirsty opportunists interested in killing the locals and acquiring their land. Nothing religious in any of their actions and then there was the 4th Crusade that raped and pillaged Constantinople a Christian city before they even got to see a Muslim! Great blue print Billy.

Holy Shyte! https://www.theage.com.au/world/north-america/arctic-temperatures-soar-25-degrees-above-normal-in-the-dead-of-winter-20180222-p4z1bh.html

Is there a church nearby and a mass scheduled? Go in the main doors and sneak out through the side alter, through the presbytery and help yourself to the sacrificial wine on the way through. My guess is BBO, if he enters the church, will be struck down before he gets to the Presbytery!

Huh? Gun control is a Democrate issue then? You never cease to amaze Wrecker!

Hi Nut thanks for the Richard Broome reference. I will follow that up. May I also recommend Bruce Pascoe’s Dark Emu. You may have read it? It looks at aboriginal society pre 1788 based on archeological studies but mainly on the observations of those who had first contact, the writings of the explorers, surveyors and first squattors. It paints a fascinating picture of pre European life here, a varied society that farmed, hunted, built stone houses and had permanent settlements. What was going on here for nearly 60,000 years was unique and needs to be further explored, studied and celebrated. But don’t hold your breath waiting for that to happen when the 40,000 year old bones of Mungo Man could not get government funding for a dedicated rested place in Lake Mungo recently.

There is Norway and there is Qatar who make $60 billion a year in royalties from their gas reserves. We are about to surpass their output in gas exports but our income is measured in the millions because we have sold out industry to overseas multinational companies who specialise in tax minimisation and enjoy tax holidays because they have invested money in extraction infrastructure. We are handing over natural resources for next to nothing to overseas multinational mining, oil and gas companies who exploit our resources and pay minimal tax and royalties. Rex Connor might have been on to something all those years ago!

Great sound. Thought they may be Cuban, googled and discovered they were Jamaican and were named the Jolly Boys by Errol Flynn of all people in the 1950’s when Errol was hanging out there between film assignments and court cases. The name stuck.

I think Donald is finally getting his Shyte together. This is spot on!

MR you can add US baseball to the list, plenty of noise and pantomime, not a lot of actual scoring, like 0 vs 0 after an hour, then it will all happens at the bottom of the 6th while you went out to get some more beers! Happened to me when I was in the US watching a World Series final deciding game back in the 90’s.

I fell asleep before the end, what happened?

Facebook coment saying that the Caravan Club played its last gig last night with Mick Thomas? Is that goodbye?

Fair cop Macca!

Rjay if they are setting up Spud Frawley, they are struggling surely? Or am I misjudging the audience? Maybe it is me but Spud is a not very interesting relic of the 70's and talks like he is still in the change rooms from when he played. Very cringeworthy at times, blokey talk about not getting enough from the missus, [censored] ups with mates etc. And importantly not much analysis of the games when he is supposed to be talking about it rather than him so what is the attraction?

Well this is interesting because my first reaction was who are the replacements! Appalling treatment of employees by the way, and this speaks volumes of the management, are we talking Hutchy and Doctor Turd? I liked the Ox for his sense of humour and Marko for his golf but if you are listening it is not for intellectual depth for heaven's sake. I think SEN is on the way out. Garry Lyon is hard work in the mornings, KB is gold mid morning but now they have nought till Finey in the night who I find irritating but some like. If we are talking Hirdy forget it, the great non personality surely?

Yes great film, watched it last month on 70mm at The Sun in Yarraville. Superb vision apparently on 70 mm, depth of vision you don't get with digital, so they said. Now in the final scenes I interpreted the German bomber attacking the English minesweeper off Dunkirk with the central characters escaping on board being depicted a number of times from the spitfire pilot perspective, from the characters on board the sweeper and from the Dunkirk rescuer's small motor boat. The same event depicted 4 times. Initially I was thinking, for heaven's sake what does it take to kill this German bomber? Then I realised what we were seeing. Yet when I have mentioned this to 3 people who watched the film they didn't see it that way. Any thoughts? One other thing, I used to have a pilots license and I doubt you could fly a spitfire without fuel for the distance they managed in the film, take out a Jerry bomber and still emergency land on the beach intact.