tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post1532534767602341871..comments2024-03-28T22:51:37.034+11:00Comments on loon pond: In which the reptiles do a standard set of FUD Chicken Little ostrich routines ...Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-81167131253754754882016-09-02T14:37:02.792+10:002016-09-02T14:37:02.792+10:00Now, DP, you said:
"Phew read a reptile and ...Now, DP, you said:<br /><br />"Phew read a reptile and stumble into a great moral and philosophical maze, and with the moral high ground nowhere in sight ."<br /><br />And Reptile Crowe said:<br /><br />"Australians who want to cast their ballots would have good grounds for grievance if parliament took away their chance."<br /><br />Now, to resolve this dilemma, we turn to the great founding father of Conservatism, Edmund Burke. He said:<br /><br />"Certainly, gentlemen, it ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative to live in the strictest union, the closest correspondence, and the most unreserved communication with his constituents. Their wishes ought to have great weight with him; their opinion, high respect; their business, unremitted attention. It is his duty to sacrifice his repose, his pleasures, his satisfactions, to theirs; and above all, ever, and in all cases, to prefer their interest to his own. But his unbiassed opinion, his mature judgment, his enlightened conscience, he ought not to sacrifice to you, to any man, or to any set of men living. These he does not derive from your pleasure; no, nor from the law and the constitution. They are a trust from Providence, for the abuse of which he is deeply answerable. Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion."<br /><br />So, as you can see, the desires of constituents to determine how their elected representatives should vote, is just an old-fashioned furphy, killed by Burke in the name of Holy Providence these many years ago. So, "his unbiassed opinion, his mature judgment, his enlightened conscience" has absolutely nothing to do with anybody else.<br /><br />Is everybody clear on that now ?GrueBleennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-18689958858954832972016-09-02T13:30:14.687+10:002016-09-02T13:30:14.687+10:00The pond hears the ants in Canberra are highly agi...The pond hears the ants in Canberra are highly agitated and there's much bitterness amongst those who stayed behind and the recalcitrant drop kicks who headed off as quick as they could. Happily the mutton Dutton was one of the naughty ones ...oh excoriate him and excoriate him again, please ...dorothy parkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00816807935021738560noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-6599869570577726552016-09-02T11:33:16.654+10:002016-09-02T11:33:16.654+10:00Augusto Zimmermann is Senior Vice President of the...<i><a href="https://theconversation.com/section-18c-is-too-broad-and-too-vague-and-should-be-repealed-64482" rel="nofollow">Augusto Zimmermann</a> is Senior Vice President of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_French#Career" rel="nofollow">Liberal Party's Fremantle Division</a>, <a href="http://creation.com/law-and-creation" rel="nofollow">Adjunct Professor of Law</a>, <a href="http://profiles.murdoch.edu.au/myprofile/augusto-zimmermann/" rel="nofollow">University</a> of Notre Dame Australia, Sydney, and a member of the Law Reform Commission of Western Australia.</i>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-42112633879069057662016-09-02T10:21:05.862+10:002016-09-02T10:21:05.862+10:00Didn't Paul Kelly come out in support of re-el...Didn't Paul Kelly come out in support of re-electing the coalition only weeks ago?<br /><br />Why didn't he see what was coming. It is his job to be a perceptive analyst. <br /><br />You would have thought that Turnbull and the Whipcrackers would have splodged every behind with Superglue yesterday to make sure everyone stayed seated. Amazing! And why were three members so eager to skedaddle? It is only the first week! <br /><br />Miss ppAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-69004454192761604992016-09-02T09:51:15.033+10:002016-09-02T09:51:15.033+10:00Lordy, does Ned actually talk like that, in additi...Lordy, does Ned actually talk like that, in addition to writing in such a pompous, pontificating manner? It's been several years since I had the dubious pleasure of viewing him on screen, and while even then he always sounded up himself, this indicates he's become much worse.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-64536249011904827862016-09-02T09:30:49.232+10:002016-09-02T09:30:49.232+10:00This one is for the LNP...cos today really is poet...This one is for the LNP...cos today really is poets day. OK,rollin'....<br /><br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRwsNWk0Dx4Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com