If you take someone into custody, they are your responsibility. If CBP/ICE didn’t want to take on that responsibility, they shouldn’t have detained anyone. Heads need to roll.

Abbott losing his seat will be sweeeeeet. I never trusted that mofo, not since he was Health Minister and blocked RU486.

Oh it’s been glorious. Hanson’s comments on Port Arthur being some sort of conspiracy ala Alex Jones and his crisis actors has a lot of people in Tasmania very very upset. It should shutdown any talk of loosening our gun laws for a long time.

Why 18? Why not 21? Or 25? Or only those who pass a test, or can pay a fee, or own land, or have proper ID, or veterans, or whatever arbitrary line is fashionable this week? It’s still not gonna magically divide ‘good’ voters from ‘bad’ voters. 

That argument still applies two years later. There’s no magic line where someone becomes a good voter. 

It’s not about him getting a cash rake-off, it’s about him servicing the debts he already owes to various oligarchs and mobsters. They’ll make money (in a million devious ways) and he’ll get to smile and shake hands at parties where they tell him how great he is.

I was eating alone on Monday night, next to a group of two older couples. They chatted about True Detective, then Green Book, and how he was sooooo good, whatsisname, umm, you know, and I was about to lean over and say ‘Mahershala Ali’, when they said, Viggo! And then it was Viggo this and Viggo that. I contemplated…

ICE were holding this woman in their custody. They are responsible for her safety, and her child’s safety. The onus is entirely on them. Given their reputation, they get no benefit of the doubt. 

First, get them to say what wifi is short for. Then ask them why are using something so unAmerican. Then tell them how the CSIRO (that’s an Australian taxpayer-funded science organisation) invented wifi. Then tell them how it kinda didn’t, but still managed to use the US patent system, and US courts, to get a half…

Yeah, I went ‘wut?’ at that too. Sepsis is the technical term for having so much shit in your blood that your body is teetering on complete collapse, not a type of infectious agent in itself. Same with your asshat-in-chief, ‘5G’ is not a thing you can just slap on your current tech and make it go faster. It’s an…

Compare that to Australia: while my generation got dicked over by having to pay for a uni education (the preceding generation got theirs free), we at least have HECS - if you can’t pay the upfront fees (which is cheaper in the long run) you can defer it and the federal government will pay the uni instead, and you pay…

The allergies one is a good question, current thinking is it’s a mixture of too much hygiene with too little microbiome diversity (with multiple possible causes for both) and kids’ immune systems misfire. The autism one is trickier - probably a combination of better diagnosis and recognition, and better child health…

Google local charities, make sure they are Tasmanian, not just Australian. Colony 47, AsthmaTas, Hobart City Mission. The area is the Huon, main towns are Huonville, Geeveston. 

No single cause, just a buildup of dry weather over the previous year plus the usual triggers (lightning strikes etc, no arson I’m aware of). 

Adding: the abnormality of these fires is not the fire itself. It’s that these are types of bush that aren’t evolved to burn - they are insanely delicate and do not regenerate afterwards, they just die. Nothing is left but ash, so then the soil is lost, it becomes a wasteland that takes hundreds of years to become…

Didn’t Warren only do the test because Trump said ‘a million dollars she’ll never do it’, and she was trying to call his bluff?

I prefer ‘ten pounds of shit in a five pound bag’. 

Oh, definitely ‘they’ is Trump. This whole thing is so bizarre. If a politician tried anything like this here, there’d be mobs screaming for blood inside a week, the opposition would be gleefully pointing out exactly where to stick in the boot, the bankers would tut tut about the financial and market losses, and the…

Oh, definitely ‘they’ is Trump. This whole thing is so bizarre. If a politician tried anything like this here, there’d be mobs screaming for blood inside a week, the opposition would be gleefully pointing out exactly where to stick in the boot, the bankers would tut tut about the financial and Marklosses (Well, half