Monthly Archives: November 2014

Give us more money so we can lie to you more persuasively

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The left have the best cliches and their arguments embody every fantasy and wish anyone who has ever hoped to live in a better world than the one we have has had. The only thing that keeps them from winning every election is that their ideas are so wrong and misguided that after a few years of the nonsense they peddle, conditions are so bad that the electorate become desperate to see the last of them and to get someone to fix up the mess they left behind. That continues until the voting population forgets, as it inevitably does, how rotten the ideas of the left actually are. This is from John Hinderaker at Powerline on why the left wants to stop the right from criticising the left:

[The left] have a problem. Their arguments are terrible, and their theories are contradicted at nearly every turn by the facts. Which means that they can’t withstand criticism. They can’t take competition; they need a monopoly. Which, in turn, means that they must prevent voters from hearing conservative ideas and arguments. They can do that in the schools and in the culture, and they don’t have to worry about newspapers or broadcast television. But there is a loophole of sorts: during election seasons, conservatives can buy time on television and on the radio to broadcast messages that liberals are otherwise able to blockade. This is intolerable! Because when people hear conservative ideas, unfiltered by the liberal press, they tend to find them persuasive.

And then there are the 47% who vote for a living but that’s something else again.

The New Palmer Song

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The news comes thick and fast, Clive Palmer folds, admits key date falsified over China funds:

CLIVE Palmer signed and executed a document that he falsely backdated by 11 months to provide an explanation for his siphoning of $12 million in Chinese funds for his own use.

The document, titled “Port Management Services Agreement’’, has been previously ­described as a “sham transaction” and a fabrication by the Chinese government-owned companies which accuse the Palmer United Party leader of dishonesty and fraud.

The Weekend Australian can reveal Mr Palmer now admits the key document, which came from his company, was not created on June 1 last year, the date next to his signature on the paperwork.

Mr Palmer admits in his formal legal defence, filed in the Supreme Court in Brisbane, that the document was created 11 months later, in April or May this year. This means the document was produced long after he took the funds, which bankrolled the PUP into the federal election in September last year. . . .

The acknowledgment by Mr Palmer that the document was falsely dated will raise further questions in his Supreme Court civil trial this month about who backdated it and whether the ­intent was improper. The Citic Pacific-owned companies seek declarations including “that Palmer dishonestly procured or was involved in” a breach of trust, and that he knowingly assisted the company he controlled, Mineralogy, “in its dishonest and fraudulent breach of trust”.

But there are two sides to every story:

Mr Palmer’s defence, which was filed on Thursday, admits the budget made no such provisions, and that he authorised the payments of $2.167m and $10m. Mr Palmer ­denies he acted fraudulently or dishonestly. His defence insists he “did not know that the funds in the bank account were trust funds — if it be the case, which is denied …”

Politics is such an entertainment I don’t know why anyone bothers with Game of Thrones.