By now, most of you are probably aware of how ex-Minister Ley acquired the double “s” in her first name. Apparently, she “read about this numerology theory that if you add the numbers that match the letters in your name you can change your personality” So she altered the spelling so that her life would be “incredibly exciting” and “interesting”.
Mm, ok, she did do it in the 1980s, but she stuck with it. Now I’m no expert here and for all I know the only reason I’ve had such “exciting” and “interesting” life may be because of the double “s” in Rossleigh, but I do find it disconcerting that our former Health Minister placed so much faith in numerology that she changed her name. One would hope that she didn’t bring her beliefs about numbers into the health portfolio. Did she ever suggest to her department that maybe the odd change to a person’s name might eliminate the need for treatment altogether?
But it was possibly her influence that caused Malcolm to add that extra “s” into Medicare on election night. “Mediscare” was clearly a continuation of Sussan’s determination to add letters wherever possible.
Of course, numerology isn’t just about adding letters. Sometimes subtracting them can greatly help a person. When Madonna ditched her last name, I’m sure it was a great help to her career. If Donald were to ditch the “T” and the “P” from his surname, he could do wonders for his approval ratings.
So, with this in mind, I’m suggesting to Tony that maybe he should delete one of the “b”s in his surname and simply call himself: “Tony A bot”…
Well, it wouldn’t be the silliest thing he’s done. Like his tweet yesterday about the search for the missing plane being called off:
Now, again I’m no expert, but I suspect you don’t actually need to be an expert to suggest that if they haven’t found it in nearly three years of searching, there are CLEARLY better places to search. When Mr A Bot interrupted Question Time in 2014 to announce that they were very close to finding it, I wrote something suggesting that he was suffering from premature excitement. Somebody commented that shouldn’t be making fun of our PM when he was announcing such important news. I made the point at the time that he wasn’t announcing news; he was announcing that there would be news very, very soon and he looked forward to announcing it. Which I thought was rather silly but not as silly as his recent tweet. Even if we ignore his sudden conversion to the idea of listening to experts when he spent most of his time as PM ignoring all expert advice, it still seems rather strange that nobody involved in the search has bothered to take any notice of these “experts” and that they’ve persisted in searching in the wrong place when someone else knows exactly where they should be searching!
Ah well, A Bot clearly had to tweet something yesterday, otherwise people may have started writing about how there’s no way he’ll ever get a ministry under Turnbull. Reports that 2016 was the hottest year on record make hell freezing over just that little bit more unlikely. (Who wants to take bets on which of the Cuckoo Conservative Club will announce that breaking the record for the hottest year is no reason to blame climate change because we break heat records just about every year!)
While his irrelevance may irk him, at least it gives Toe-knee* the freedom to offer a running commentary on all that’s wrong with the current government. Of course, the main subtext of the commentary is: “There’s not much wrong, apart from the fact that I’m not leading it”! Apart from that, his only complaint is that Malcolm hasn’t accomplish all the things that he and Smoking Joe failed to do when they had the reins of power.
But enough about yesterday’s man. Tony Abbott is irrelevant, and we shouldn’t waste words talking about him. At least not until he launches his leadership challenge, which will pave the way for the Liberals to install somebody like Peter Dutton as PM.
Speaking of absurd, did you happen to catch this photo of the Clayton’s PM?
Now, perhaps it’s just me. But did anyone else find what Malcolm wrote above the image ironic? Good ole’ Turnbull spruiking his innovation agenda while hanging around a museum dedicated to an obsolete company. Pretty much sums up their approach to the NBN.
Actually, pretty much sums up the whole government!
*Hey, I’m not a numerology guru, but he might as well try it! Nothing else is likely to work…
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