tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post2084220175143670701..comments2024-03-28T22:51:37.034+11:00Comments on loon pond: A dangerous disdainful elitist delivers yet another blow to the classless society, thanks to the reptiles at the lizard oz ...Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-45539971545796214262014-01-09T12:27:21.040+11:002014-01-09T12:27:21.040+11:00Quite, though personally I always considered Senat...Quite, though personally I always considered Senator Joe more successful at it - he did get quite a few people blacklisted and banned, and created quite a show with his UnAmerican Activities showtrials (a trick which which he probably learned from that other great and famous Joe).<br /><br />But it just shows how far back that most egregious rightwing strategy goes: I refer, of course, to the "whatever the GOP does, try to copy it" strategy as evinced ever since by the local Regressive Parties. See, for instance, Cory Bernardi - I wonder which GOP thinktank drafted his little red book for him.GrueBleennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-48223515570972652182014-01-09T08:26:57.552+11:002014-01-09T08:26:57.552+11:00Yes indeed GrueBleen, what with nationalising the ...Yes indeed GrueBleen, what with nationalising the banks and all, and as for Doc Evatt ...<br /><br />But let's not forget Ming the Merciless's great impersonation of Senator Joe McCarthy in the 1950s ... an Ozcar winning performance in its own right ...dorothy parkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00816807935021738560noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-74829832510915610402014-01-08T14:26:33.470+11:002014-01-08T14:26:33.470+11:00Cater NOT Carter, even though there may be an assh...Cater NOT Carter, even though there may be an asshole called Carterhiggs bosonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-63808392979994863382014-01-08T14:25:00.722+11:002014-01-08T14:25:00.722+11:00According to Devine,
“He (Cater) traces the ris...According to Devine, <br /><br /> “He (Cater) traces the rise of the new insider class to the extraordinary expansion of higher education from the late '50s, in which the number of universities doubled - and became "degree factories". <br /> <br />Yeah, damn that higher education for more people, eh?. Makes it difficult to transform the reality for “more people” when they are educated, eh? <br /><br />Does Carter know that life is too short to be an asshole?<br />higgs bosonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-41763369210390756272014-01-08T13:16:41.072+11:002014-01-08T13:16:41.072+11:00Ah yes, DP, I do wonder, occasionally, how Austral...Ah yes, DP, I do wonder, occasionally, how Australia might have turned out had Chifley held the PMship instead of, and for nearly as long as, The Great Bob.<br /><br />Probably it would be as much a great but crazy mixture as Ben himself, but it would most certainly be different.GrueBleennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-40682566990723020292014-01-08T08:58:49.384+11:002014-01-08T08:58:49.384+11:00All that and more GrueBleen, but we'd propose ...All that and more GrueBleen, but we'd propose just a minor amendment, which is to give Ben Chifley his due in beginning the Commonwealth Scholarship scheme:<br /><br />There was a modest expansion into tertiary education with the funding of Commonwealth scholarships, the establishment of the Commonwealth Education Office and the setting up of the Australian National University. Nevertheless, when (Ben) Chifley was asked to involve the Commonwealth in financing primary and secondary schooling, he declared that education was tied up with state aid to religion and was a State function. Advised of Commonwealth subsidies for pre-school and university education, he retorted, 'That's different—they're for kids before they've got souls and after they've lost 'em'.<br /><br />http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/chifley-joseph-benedict-ben-9738dorothy parkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00816807935021738560noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-28734887272141489852014-01-08T08:55:08.334+11:002014-01-08T08:55:08.334+11:00thanks HB, another reader sent the pond a link, an...thanks HB, another reader sent the pond a link, and what do you know, reading your comment this morning, it turns out that great minds think alike and have a very similar sensa huma. We liked them so well we decided they needed to become Google images ...dorothy parkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00816807935021738560noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-70306148721021772752014-01-07T15:07:05.332+11:002014-01-07T15:07:05.332+11:00It's fascinating, isn't it, how ignorant l...It's fascinating, isn't it, how ignorant lizards and other aliens are of history and human affairs. Whitlam was, of course, only completing the last small step of "opening up the universities" that was started by Robert Gordon Menzies in 1951 with the creation of the Commonwealth Scholarship scheme (which I, the son of a lowly bricklayer, once benefitted greatly from, and now I are a leet - albeit retired).<br /><br />Oh, and indeed welcome back, DP, you have been sorely, sorely missed.<br /><br />Indeed , another fine Australian Prime Minister, Malcolm Frazer, was recently moved to note: ""Menzies believed our universities should be open to all Australians," Fraser said. "His support for universities was one of his greatest achievements. Yet this government is already reducing access to universities." ["this government" being that of Tony Abbott]. See http://www.theaustralian.com.au/opinion/columnists/menzies-the-true-liberal/story-fnbcok0h-1226729531435#<br /><br />Interestingly though, that fine Australian B. A. Santamaria considered Menzies action one of the three worst things he'd ever done, whereas Menzies considered it as merely one of the only three things he'd ever done.<br /><br />So it goes, and much of what the regressives complain most about is of their own doing.<br /><br /><br />GrueBleennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-3832756100630041092014-01-07T13:41:13.368+11:002014-01-07T13:41:13.368+11:00A reading of comments on Cory Bernardi’s book THE...A reading of comments on Cory Bernardi’s book THE CONSERVATIVE REVOLUTION <br />on Amazon is uproariously joyous<br /><br />http://tinyurl.com/lfkqluf<br />higgs bosonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-71881055094422370282014-01-07T10:28:07.360+11:002014-01-07T10:28:07.360+11:00It's a known fact, DP, that Whitlam set up the...It's a known fact, DP, that Whitlam set up the secret channels that funded covens of witchcraft. Successive Labor governments kept it up, most egregiously under Gillard. Cater has been instrumental in coordinating exposure of the witchery, and his leadership inspired Cory Bernardi's Book of Truth. You see, single-parent families without male headship are the very incubators of all kinds of wicked behaviours, as traced out by Bernardi - criminality in the boys and promiscuity in the girls. Witchery, in sum. <br />Women who want control of their bodies, and their own destinies without control by men, are acting against Nature. It's not so much fertility control, as denial of male power. <br />So, it's pretty clear, on Bernardi's presentation of the facts, that some households produce "worthier" children. A soft-cock liberal may ask "Why not strive to ensure ALL children have equitable access to all the goods that society produces?". <br />The first riposte to that piece of non-sense is that there aren't enough resources to go around for everyone. The Costello demolition of Medicare Gold proved that many good things are, simply, unaffordable for all. This is a golden rule that applies to all strata of society. A rational society should, then, apportion its' gifts to those children most likely to succeed. <br />OK, how do we know which kiddies are more deserving than the rest? Easy, and I'm sure you will agree with Abbott & Bernardi, DP. The babies who have been baptised under the authentic rites are the ones who have been marked out for special favours. Doesn't that make governing, and Life, a whole lot easier? Trevor3130https://www.blogger.com/profile/08148555743063226957noreply@blogger.com