Reference :- Andy ( pragmatic multiculturalist ) Bolt sent an unveiled threat to the ABC's Paul Barry .

Reference :-    Andy Bolt threatened ABC reporter Paul Barry with legal action .  Mr Barry  described Andy as a hate monger,  which Andy considers a scandalous accusation .

 Top of the morn to you Andy .  Do you ever read the comments by your vile cult of followers ?  Well , obviously not , or you would be aware of the fact that you regularly pile fuel on the fires of just about every brand of blind prejudice invented .   Racism , sexism , scapegoatism ,  climate skepticism , anti intellectualism , cynicism and many more such "isms " abound in the innumerable semi-literate comments that sprout like toxic weeds in the comments beneath your scowling dial .

You are way overdue for a fuel load reduction , Andy .  I would be disappointed if you couldn't recall  our recent invention of the word " andibolt "   , a noun for a person who is a hypocrite about being hypocritical  (  the chaps at the oxford dictionary press will have received our letter by now ) .   Well, to simplify  all those nasty "isms " your viewers demonstrate , my son  Ken junior has come up with a gentle euphemism that gathers them nicely into a single word .  The lad is good at that kind of thing .  He has suggested the word "andiboltism "   The beauty of it is that we still have time to get it added to next year's unabridged tome before the professors at Oxford start cranking the roneo machine .

With regards to your unveiled threat to sue Mr Barry , Ken junior reckons why not settle the matter with fisticuffs ?  He figures you are probably into pugilism too,  and it would be an interesting match . Paul Barry looks to have good reach , but you have a weight advantage .   Before you duke it out , both parties would have to agree to Queensbury  Rules .  Five rounds should be enough to decide a clear winner .  You have spent enough time in court already Andy , and this would be quick and easy . And it needn't be too rough , just a bit of footwork and a few gentle jabs here and there , and let the judges decide .  

 Also , it would be a good little earner for Sky News when they broadcast the fight .   If you do decide to run with it , do you think you could get Ken junior a job in promotions ?  He already has an advertising headline in mind   .    "  Watch Andrew Bolt and Paul Barry settle their differences in a 'Slugfest to the Death' , here on Sky News " .  

  You know , I reckon that might get a few views .  

 Your comrade , Ken.

Reference :- Prime Minister Mr Scott Morrison faced resistance to his proposed " Freedom of Religion " Bill.

Reference :-   Religious leaders are rallying against the proposed new " Freedom of Religion " Bill.   The title of the bill is useful for marketing purposes , but religious leaders of all faiths are united in their opposition to it .   Why is that ?

Gee Mr Morrison , sir .   You are having a bad run at the moment . If you keep introducing bills that fail to be passed you are going to end up looking like a total loser .  It is unwise to give this one a run , since you may be surprised to hear that the leaders of faiths other than the venerable society of happy clappers are actually blessed with a certain intelligence and can see straight through a cynical marketing ploy . 

 That religious freedom moniker takes a few liberties with the definition of free.  It reminds me of all those supposed " Free Trade Agreements " that run to thousand of pages of freedom obliterating gobbledygook .   Or , better still  , those wrought  iron words above the gates of many Third Reich concentration camps    " Work Sets You Free ".    I have perused some of the document myself , and I think those religious leaders are right on the money.  That Bill has more strings attached than a starving spider .

   Take my advice , and forget the whole thing .  The racists who vote for you will think it really does give foreigners religious freedoms  , and feel betrayed . And the followers of the various faiths will look into it carefully,  uncover the deception and also feel right royally stitched up.    We are not much into the various deities and graven images here at The Sky Reply .  Although to each his own .  My son , Ken junior , has actually become an atheist .  For a while there he took an interest in Judaism , since he likes their tradition , informed by the Talmud , which promotes discussion rather than doctrine.   But then , after he told me that all the males must be circumspect , he quickly lost interest for some reason .      

  Your comrade , Ken   

Reference :- Paul Murray laughed at the idea of a four day working week

Reference : -    Let down by stunningly inadequate research , Paul Murray , the well known workaholic who intends to participate in the workforce full time until he is 80 years old , misleads us about the craziness of discussing a four day working week .

How's it going Paul ?   Good luck with your plan to work long hours into old age . ( I assume, since you are telling the rest of us we must , that  you intend doing the same ).  But I reckon if that is your plan , it might be wise to shed some lard before your myocardium suffers an excess of infarcts . 

 Did anybody research this story for you Paul ?   I guess not , or you wouldn't have run it at all.     You see,  the countries in the OECD  with the best living standards,  the happiest citizens , the most wealth , and the least unemployment, tend to be the ones with the shortest working weeks  .  Big companies that moved to four day weeks , found that productivity increased , and profits rose , because staff who are less stressed do a better job .  They are also more faithful as employees , and contribute more to innovations that enhance efficiency .  

 Advances in technology have increased the total production of goods and services in the world to the highest level per capita in history .  If the benefits of this were shared more equally , the average person should be able to work fewer hours and still enjoy a better living standard .  That means less unemployment , less stress , less need for childcare , more time for  study , more time for cultural activities , happier workplaces and fewer cars full of debt slaves choking the toll roads every day , chain smoking while they contemplate the best way to kill themselves .  

 Why not do some research and run the story again ?   After you run a detailed cost /benefit analysis your opinion will be much changed . Unless , of course , you are just an overpaid hack chanting the war cries of your neoliberal masters .   My son , Ken junior , has been running his own four day week now for quite some time .   He wags school one day each week,  to stay home and bake his special herb cookies .   The teachers don't mind , because he puts in a big effort on the days he is there , always offers to clean the blackboards , and still gets top marks in most subjects , the smart little bugger.    Also , the teachers buy a fair share of his herb cookies each week, and he is making money faster than the CEO of my superannuation fund .

  Your  comrade , Ken

Reference :- Andy ( I am not a hatemonger ) Bolt interviewed himself ..again .

Reference:-       Andy Bolt ran another segment in which he talked about himself a lot , and showed us clips from one of his previous presentations .  We were rather disappointed , but he must still be whipping up his big one about how " the destroy australia party " defeated the union bashing bill .

Andy , the crew here at The Sky Reply broke open the popcorn last night , hoping to watch as you terrified the nation with a story about how unionism was destroying democracy and the future of our children . But not yet, hey ?   I can see how , with union bashing  hammer in hand , you are searching for a way to turn climate change into a nail before running the story .   I have faith in you Andy , you will figure something out .   And don't delay , we don't want the popcorn to go stale .

Anyway , I will take this opportunity to offer some feedback from your fans here at The Sky Reply .
Young Monte is not a deep thinker .  All he talks about these days is wheelies , carburettors , and his latest Evel Knievel poster  . But he did say "  Do you reckon Andy could go more than two sentences without calling somebody a hypocrite ".   I told Monte it is probably because there are so many hypocrites around these days . Maybe give it a go anyway Andy , just to please the lad . (Plus we have a little bet going on that one ).    Gabbo ( the aborigine ) is not disposed to hatred , but is sorry for you, since he feels that you are so disposed.  He says your rants about multiculturalism and aboriginal culture conceal your underlying hatred like a band-aid would conceal a terminal case of smallpox. 

 The thing about aborigines , as you know from your numerous court appearances , is that they are inclined to readily forgive when an apology is made .  Gabbo is endowed with a similar sangfroid , and is not a vindictive type .   This is what he says  " I don't think Andy is such a bad old fart  .  I reckon he will probably repent one day soon when he is trembling on his death bed riddled with painful spite fuelled metastases  from his cancer of the everything . "  I guess Gabbo might not attend your  funeral , Andy . 

    As for my son , Ken junior , he made the mistake of reading the comments by your cohort of followers on You Tube . He found them so illiterate , misinformed and vile that he bolted from the breakfast table and did a technicolor yawn all over my prize winning geraniums .    I hope they survive Andy , otherwise Sky News will be getting a letter of demand from my lawyers .  Nothing personal you understand ,  your insurance ought to cover it .   

 Your comrade , Ken    

Reference :- Our government told us that the banks haven't been " persistently breaking the law" as our unions do .

Reference :-  The government , in it's desperate , and so far failed , bid to bring in their  new  union bashing bill informs us that rogue unions have been breaking the law two to three times every week.
 However , the banks , they tell us , don't need to face any " bank bashing " legislation since they have not " persistently " broken the law.

Well , to plagiarise  the late author , Douglas Adams, this must be some new usage of the word " persistently " with which we are not familiar .   If we set aside the findings of the banking royal commission , and just consider Westpac's  latest transgressions , there appear to have been about 23 million of them .   How does that compare with two to three per week ? 

  Fortunately my son , Ken junior has a phone app , whatever that is , which can do simple mathematical calculations .  He just ran the numbers , and it turns out that the unions would have to continue breaking the law at that rate for the next 192,000 years to merely catch up with Westpac .  I think that illustrates the need to slap most of those so called "bashing "  laws on to the banks , not the unions . And with great haste . 

 Also ,  I suggest you discourage the use of the term "bashing " .  It sounds like everybody  hates the unions and wants to cripple them , but without them we probably wouldn't have superannuation or medicare , among many other things .  Have you noticed how wages have remained stagnant since union membership fell to under 20% of the workforce ?   And now the economy has stalled because nobody can afford to buy anything .   (  Except , of course , the CEOs who are making out like bandits . ) 

 That calculator app on Ken junior's phone sure works a treat , maybe Mr Angus Taylor , current minister in disgrace , should run one to stop him getting his figures wrong.   Ken junior says the telephone company is promoting a "two for the price one " deal for apps at the moment , so for no extra fee he might also be able to install one that tells him when his arse is on fire .   

 Your comrade , Ken

Reference :- A domestic report from The Sky Reply .The kids are skipping school today.

Reference :-   Along with his best mates , Monte , and Gabbo ( the aborigine ), Sky Reply co-editor  Ken junior is skipping school to protest about climate change .  

 Well good luck to them I say . We may as well go mad with demonstrations before the right honorable Mr Scott Morrison starts throwing people into Black Marias if they so much as wear a green T shirt . The lads are running a fund raiser for the fire fighters at the same time , as are many other students across the country  .  Although we were disappointed that Andy " I am not a racist " Bolt didn't make it to Gabbo's band's fund raiser at the pub the other night , we still raised quite a few quid . If the kids raise a few more today we can get a couple of new tyres for our local volunteer fire brigades's  1964 Bedford fire truck.  

 Young Monte will be giving the younger kids rides around the school yard on the back of his old motorbike .  Although he is years away from getting a license and the bike isn't roadworthy , he is quite a little  " Evel Knievel ".  He charges one gold coin for a blast around the oval . For two gold coins he does a wheelie , and for three gold coins you can also wear a helmet . Though nobody does , for fear of looking like a sissy.   

The last time he ran his bike rides fundraiser , Monte was briefly concerned when one kid burned his foot on the exhaust .   But then the kid's mum dragged him off the bike and snapped  "I told you not to put your bloody foot on the hot exhaust you little idiot.  "  Gabbo is selling a few dot paintings on home made boomerangs . Last  time he did that I asked him if all his boomerangs really worked , and he said they must because he has never had one come back .  And my son , Ken junior has set up a stall where you can throw darts at caricatures of politicians you don't like . He has done up half a dozen of Mr Scott Morrison , since last time that caricature was in shreds by smoko time .

 Despite the heat and dust , we expect a fun day , and in the evening we will have a beer and laugh at the  red faced Sky News anchors as they splutter about unscientific student activists being the pawns of leftie idealogues  .  Gabbo won't be able to come though , he will be online with a student in  Norway working on his assignment  "  The use of the  'isolated source tracer ratio method ' when measuring  methane release from melted permafrost " . Whatever that means.

 Well, that's all from the home front  for now .    Your comrade , Ken
 
 

Reference :- Popular Prime Minister , Mr Scott Morrison lies low after making a few strategic blunders .

Reference :-   While defending Minister Angus Taylor , who misled parliament , Mr Morrison misled parliament himself  , with an incorrect quote .  He is now hiding  , which might be a good idea before he jams his foot further down his own throat .

Mr Morrison,  sir .  Things are really getting out of hand in parliament today , and I reckon you did the right thing staying home .  Your  " good old uncle Scomo " mask has slipped very badly now , and it's not a pretty sight .   I don't wish to be presumptuous , but a bit of perspective from afar might be what you need right now .  

Your marketing credentials are impressive enough , otherwise how could the LNP have snatched victory at the polls from the jaws of the socialists ?   But marketing is one thing , and getting things done is another thing altogether .  You might find this analogy useful to ponder while you are hiding out .   A car salesman might be able to sell somebody a lemon , if he is good at marketing .  And fortunately , when the customer discovers he has bought a lemon , it is the mechanic in the service department that cops the complaints and has to fix the car .   You don't have that luxury .  Having sold the country your Prime Ministership, you actually must then competently deal with the country's many issues .   It's not like winning a raffle . Having won at the polls , you now have a serious job to do, which isn't easy .   

 Why not step down ?  You have done your job getting the Tories re-elected , so why not take a break and hand the Prime Minister's role to somebody else ?   Young Josh is making a dog's breakfast out of running the finances , so maybe give him a go at the top job instead.   Or just let the front bench run their own little " Ides of March "  and see what happens .   My son , Ken junior , says you are welcome here any time , the change of scenery would do you good.  He wants to challenge you to a game of   "  Dictionary " .  You know, that game where you win by deceiving your opponent with fake quotes .  The lad wins every time , but  reckons you would be a worthy opponent .   

Your comrade , Ken .