tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post1638560483939899942..comments2024-03-29T04:12:15.091+11:00Comments on loon pond: A personal note ...Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger19125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-24696141450159784582015-01-26T01:26:25.752+11:002015-01-26T01:26:25.752+11:00Very, very, very pleased to read of your return, D...Very, very, very pleased to read of your return, DP. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-31355548810290503532015-01-25T22:25:58.100+11:002015-01-25T22:25:58.100+11:00Welcome backWelcome backIt's better to have only some of you than none of younoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-72762359566221740632015-01-25T21:03:54.860+11:002015-01-25T21:03:54.860+11:00So glad you're back, DP! All the best for your...So glad you're back, DP! All the best for your recovery.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-54994919223697325442015-01-25T18:34:48.740+11:002015-01-25T18:34:48.740+11:00"And when the disciples saw him walking on th..."And when the disciples saw him walking on the sea, they were troubled, saying, It is a spirit; and they cried out for fear. But straightway Jesus spake unto them, saying, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezZXLQTQw3U" rel="nofollow">Be of good cheer; it is I; be not afraid</a>. And Peter answered him and said, Lord, if it be thou, bid me come unto thee on the water. And he said, Come. And when Peter was come down out of the ship, he walked on the water, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillsdale_College" rel="nofollow">to go to Jesus</a>."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-45948223217939985722015-01-25T17:33:44.224+11:002015-01-25T17:33:44.224+11:00Now, now DP; even in my day, family meals were com...Now, now DP; even in my day, family meals were commonly meat (steak, lamb) and three veg (potatoes, peas or beans, cauliflower etc.). Quite tasty, though a tad boring, if not overdone. And English cooking had lots of good meals - roast beef and Yorkshire pud (who does that today), bangers and mash, mock pancakes and Cumberland rum butter. Not to mention, a lovely big serve of toast, sunnyside up fried eggs, a stack of bacon and fried spuds. Oh joy.<br /><br />But I do have to say, that since reading Ak Dak's rave I do have a question: is allowing a hate filled cretin to continue to live a moral issue ? On what basis, apart from similarity of body plan, could Ak Dak be declared human ?GrueBleennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-78298941835157641542015-01-25T16:56:10.609+11:002015-01-25T16:56:10.609+11:00It's only ever the moral morons like Blainey G...It's only ever the moral morons like Blainey GB and it's hard to put them aside. Nobody who's been to China or Japan would pretend for a moment that they don't have a healthy dose of Blaineys lurking in them but it helps not to keep yelping about yiddle i pongs and noodles seeing as how Australia's cooking would have stayed Irish British stew sludge without some European and Asian infusions. (The likes of the Bolter are always moaning about the decline of Europe and they can't wait to holiday there ...). I mean, sheesh, noodles on the clothesline? True, the pond favours an old cut off broom stick in the kitchen, but that sort of yelping is beyond pathetic ...dorothy parkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00816807935021738560noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-52203988933227301232015-01-25T16:14:34.800+11:002015-01-25T16:14:34.800+11:00You know, I did think that maybe you should recrui...You know, I did think that maybe you should recruit a 'deputy front-pager' (like Balloon Juice and League of Ordinary Gentlemen have. Of course they both actually have a lot of "front pagers").<br /><br />But then I realised that I didn't know of anybody who does quite what you do in quite the way you do it. So we're stuck with you, huh ? And here's hoping iit will be for a long time to come.GrueBleennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-40414318308582675072015-01-25T16:06:27.161+11:002015-01-25T16:06:27.161+11:00Two Wongs don't make a white ?
But I don'...Two Wongs don't make a white ?<br /><br />But I don't get why 'racism' is transmogrified into some kind of moral issue moral morons like Blainey aside). Is there a defining moral objection to preferring your own kind ? By and large, everybody on the planet does, don't they ?GrueBleennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-20875691356019638522015-01-25T15:52:39.500+11:002015-01-25T15:52:39.500+11:00Don't forget, Anon, that Britain had joined th...Don't forget, Anon, that Britain had joined the "Common Market" in 1973 and that to do so, the Brits had had to demonstrate quite a nasty amount of 'anti-Australianism'. In particular, despite having many ancestors in common (eg my dad was born in the UK in 1905) we were no longer considered 'family' and no longer had "privileged entry to the UK<br /><br />Surprise, surprise - at least to the likes of a Blainey, there was quite a lot of Aussie resentment because of that. So just a tiny tad of Aussie 'anti-Britishness' wasn't entirely unexpectedGrueBleennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-40079202610021026372015-01-25T15:09:35.939+11:002015-01-25T15:09:35.939+11:00Thanks Robin, and to those above, it's great t...Thanks Robin, and to those above, it's great to be back, especially considering the alternative ...dorothy parkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00816807935021738560noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-37432125025330805132015-01-25T15:09:06.252+11:002015-01-25T15:09:06.252+11:00Oh it's good to read your post GD, and for rem...Oh it's good to read your post GD, and for reminding the pond of the long ago Nancy Prasad case, which made it into Immigration Nation http://www.sbs.com.au/immigrationnation/resources/article/311/nancy-prasad and is elsewhere on the internet.<br />As for poor old Enoch, say no more - it's as unnerving as watching Bill Leak veer off in the direction of Larry Pickering. What is it that induces this sort of weirdness?dorothy parkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00816807935021738560noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-77888350017326320582015-01-25T14:23:40.927+11:002015-01-25T14:23:40.927+11:00All the best Dorothy. I have missed you greatly a...All the best Dorothy. I have missed you greatly and hope you recover quickly, I look forward to your posts daily and hope to for many a long year.Robin Wingrovenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-6469601270023899522015-01-25T11:45:53.081+11:002015-01-25T11:45:53.081+11:00So good to have you back, DP, and we trust, on the...So good to have you back, DP, and we trust, on the road to recovery.<br /><br />An immensely valuable service you have done in running that SMH piece on Geoffrey Blainey. My memory as I age is not so reliable because I'd had a kinder view. I'd put it down to parochialism, coupled with academic eccentricity. But there is little doubt, viewed from this distance, that it is racism, even embellished by paranoia concerning Immigration's Secret Section. How sad to occur among one of our leading historians.<br /><br />Nobody is immune. I still remember arguing with a few otherwise OK blokes about the Nancy Prasad case in the late 60s. They supported the hardline stance of the government and Immigration, as inhumane as it was. Their argument was that if we don't draw the line somewhere, "they" will soon outnumber "us". And this was pretty much Blainey's line 15 years later. I was in a minority in the 60s with my view on White Australia, but much less so by the time of Blainey's outburst. Times do change as information grows. I should also add that the MSM was more humane then, giving an empathetic coverage to the Prasad case, than it is today. It is appalling how asylum seekers have been demonised and how seamlessly it fitted in with the Abbott slogan agenda.<br /><br />By an interesting coincidence I happen to be viewing the old <i> Inspector George Gently </i> series, itself a retro on the 60s. (How does Martin Shaw wangle these more nuanced roles? I also watch another old digital one on <i>Judge John Deed </i>, now sadly suspended for the tennis.) Dealing with race politics issues in the slums of the north, it featured direct TV footage of some of Enoch Powell's more inflammatory moments.<br /><br />Alas, poor Enoch, once a professor of Classics and Ancient History at Sydney University. What tempted a fine scholar to go in that direction? Did he perhaps agree with Plato that demagogues would always win in a democracy, and thus seek to become one? Whatever, he ultimately failed after an initial flurry. How ironic that the far more blinkered John Howard should succeed with a similar ploy a generation later.<br /><br />Happy Australia Day.<br />Gorgeous Dunnyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10540625260311418333noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-3777365914843891552015-01-25T10:50:13.053+11:002015-01-25T10:50:13.053+11:00Dorothy - delighted on your return and I will cont...Dorothy - delighted on your return and I will continue to look forward to your postings, whether they are to be morning, noon or night.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-57732584128524133892015-01-25T10:42:15.112+11:002015-01-25T10:42:15.112+11:001. Welcome back and congratulations on your recove...1. Welcome back and congratulations on your recovery.<br />2. Where in the hell would the poodle get to ride his pup's surfboard in Adelaide?<br />3. Blainey's comments about 'anti-Britishness' are interesting, since they reveal the provenance of the current rhetoric of conservative culture warriors about 'western civilization', 'pioneers' and 'the Anzacs'. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-34613147426175662372015-01-25T10:31:55.833+11:002015-01-25T10:31:55.833+11:00Welcome back DP! As for doing it in style, just wh...Welcome back DP! As for doing it in style, just when have you not? <br />That T-shirt is priceless,by the way. I want one. Yours would read "write it like you own it" Welcome back and take care.Jeff.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-28597224905936480052015-01-25T08:54:18.432+11:002015-01-25T08:54:18.432+11:00Congratulations, Dot'...and welcome back...we ...Congratulations, Dot'...and welcome back...we knew you had it in you !<br />jaycee.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-77312331855620237912015-01-25T08:42:39.229+11:002015-01-25T08:42:39.229+11:00Welcome backWelcome backAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-13661568662048005352015-01-25T08:02:01.971+11:002015-01-25T08:02:01.971+11:00 OMG! So good that you are back, Dot. :) :) :) OMG! So good that you are back, Dot. :) :) :)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com