The Daily Blog Open Mic – Thursday 8th June 2017
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Interesting Frank’s latest with a photo of an attempt at covert photography – set against my own comment on CHris Trotter’s latest “Letter from London”.
I know (OF) that fella, and I’ll bet he’s still in possession of a dual nationality.
OH!!! These bloody colonials – they need to be kept in check
/sarc
Not normally a twitter referencer, and yeah, its ultimately old news…but nothing like a slavery gaff to lighten the mood of the day…
“A passage from It Takes a Village, in which Clinton recalls the longstanding tradition of using inmates as kitchen staff in the Arkansas governor’s mansion, has not aged well and has many HRC supporters dumbfounded.”
for the actual book quote
https://twitter.com/i/moments/872315615486332929
Surely! opposition parties will now be realising what a complete fuckup the Joyce vanity project known as MoBIE is.
Now its building inspectors – only now 15 apparently for the whole country.
A bugger’s muddle under which there’s everything from Immigration, to the Labour Inspectorate, to Building and Housing, to “Mediation Services”.
Then there’s MSD and all that goes with it (privacy issues to throwing people off their entitlements to CYFS), and MPI, and the Transport Agency.
It’s a failure at the top levels of management with a corporate culture, and its not public SERVICE – rather ministerial SERVITUDE
100% ONCE…..ETC
Joyce = Goebbels they are the same beast.
Now that we understand (https://news.vice.com/story/why-isis-just-attacked-its-mortal-enemy-iran-for-the-first-time) that Islamic State is at one with TRump on Iran (just thought of that in the context of TRex) we now all know who the good guys are. Yes?