Posted on 11/19/2020 6:41:06 PM PST by naturalman1975
They would anyway, constitution or not.
Federal and state constitutions here in the US have done nothing to reign in power hungry, tin pot dictator wannabes. They politicians just ignore the constitutions and nobody demands accountability.
It works in theory. In practice, we’re no better off.
I read the article. Still.... To lock down the country (Or open early) over one person’s (regardless of his interactions) for 3 additional days - or more - is ridiculous. The excuse of contract tracing is being abused. They are unhinged.
Power mad nuts!
“This nation was settled by prisoners, by the way.”
Their nickname was POME’s
Prisoners
Of
Mother
England
They’re “Blue” states because they’re RED!
Pom or Pommy is an Australian derogatory slang for an English person. I believe it originates from P.O.H.M. Stamped on the prisoners uniforms. That stood for Prisoner of His Majesty and is meant as a an insult to Pom’s regarding their lack of true freedom.
Naturalman75 can correct me if I have it wrong since I’m not a native Aussie.
Haha I think the idiots who shut us down without doing the contact tracing they are so proud of first ought to be the ones hiding from the public. Shutting down for 3 days cost millions of dollars. It seems they are so quick to want to believe the worst!
As one called a Pommy Bastard when I came to Australia in the late sixties there are several versions of the story. I think the one you gave holds up as well as any. The thing about Aussies, especially those of older generations is that they only really abuse their friends (mates). It may be derogatory in a sense but it is meant to people to not be a “whingeing pom” but to join in with the rest. Same with Italians, Greeks and other Europeans who came here after the war were called Wogs, Spicks and Dagos. Some may have been serious about it when it first happened but they became familiar friendly jibes we all called each other. We all had to become Aussies. Similarly Aussies were very often called Skips (as in Skippy the bush Kangaroo) we are a strange lot but I love this country with all my heart and especially its peculiarities!
Well, whether your ancestors were bonded or free, you all obviously made it work down there.
Does your Constitution restrain Canberra from forcing your premier to cut ties with the Chicomms?
So, I take it you make frequent road trips to the Duty Free store in Sault St. Marie, Michigan, then?
Food isn’t taxed in Wisconsin. Yet. ;) I don’t shop much other than for food, and as you probably know, I garden big time, so grow a lot of our food, too. I buy other things we ‘need’ on the Second Hand Market. For example, if I buy a used book, I’m paying a nickle in tax, versus $1.37 in tax for a new hardcover at full price. Or, I use the Library. We rarely eat in a restaurant, never do ‘fast food.’ We don’t go out to bars - even if we could, still being locked down in Wisconsin. :(
I drive very little (as are so many right now) so I pay little in gasoline taxes, which are supposed to pay for roads, but our last two Rat Governors diverted the $80 Million (or some such astronomical number) in funds to their own pet projects! I drive once a week, about 20 miles round trip, max.
At age 60, I’m in the process of SHEDDING possessions, not adding. I sold all of my land/house, so no property taxes anymore. Our house and 48 acres is paid in full. No car payments, no CC debt.
I do what I can. You should, too! It’s a fun game to play; look at every purchase you make and see how you can do it differently. Or, just quit buying stuff. Trust me - that works to avoid taxes 100% of the time, LOL!
I’m already figuring out what to do when I start drawing SS in less than two years. That will be ‘taxable income’ though technically, it’s my money to begin with. Mother Government has been p*ssing it away on things I disagree with since I had my first paycheck at age fifteen.
Starve The Beast! :)
No.
Basically the Australian constitution gives the Commonwealth government specific areas of responsibility and everything else is under state control.
But the first of those specific areas listed is 'Trade and commerce with other countries, and among the States'. Another is 'External affairs'.
Either of these create a 'head of power' for the Commonwealth the constitutional power to overrule a state government on something like China's 'Belt and Road' initiative. Legislation needs to be passed for that to happen, and the Commonwealth government is planning such legislation, but absent some extraordinary and novel legal argument from Victoria (can never entirely rule that out), it will past constitutional muster.
The origin of Pom is debated - the abbreviation argument is possible (both POME and POHM) but it never seems to have been a formal abbreviation. Another suggestion is it derived from rhyming slang - Pomegranate for Immigrant, although that has never seemed like a particularly good rhyme to me :)
What I heard from my mates was a different variation of the pomegranate story. The you could always tell a Pom in Oz because he was the colour of a Pomegranate after 10 minutes in the sun.
Although I don’t believe it was the origin of the word, it was definitely true :)
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