tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post2209739701277322717..comments2024-03-29T22:18:45.103+11:00Comments on loon pond: Dame Slap ... celebrating cake for the rich and gruel for the poor, and remember, when that sliver of turnip trickles down, be grateful, be ever so grateful ...Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-69167904911186817002016-01-28T07:40:07.438+11:002016-01-28T07:40:07.438+11:00Excellent link DW. You know how to maintain and to...Excellent link DW. You know how to maintain and to fuel the pond's rage ...dorothy parkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00816807935021738560noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-5103553908055246922016-01-28T07:39:05.943+11:002016-01-28T07:39:05.943+11:00The pond re-watched The Big Short the night before...The pond re-watched The Big Short the night before, and regrets that, thanks to Optus and Malware, it failed to note the film's splendid resonance with the thoughts of Dame Slap.dorothy parkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00816807935021738560noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-16789714635813485112016-01-28T00:13:45.478+11:002016-01-28T00:13:45.478+11:00Hi Anon,
Maybe it was for services in fucking up ...Hi Anon,<br /><br />Maybe it was for services in fucking up the NBN.<br /><br />http://www.crikey.com.au/2013/11/21/when-malcolm-met-henry-ergas-gets-a-second-bite-at-nbn/<br /><br />DWAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-67797583613021278292016-01-27T21:37:54.787+11:002016-01-27T21:37:54.787+11:00http://www.stockjournal.com.au/story/3686511/austr...http://www.stockjournal.com.au/story/3686511/australia-day-honours-2016-the-full-list/?cs=4893<br /><br />21 gongs for "service" to a church, one of those also for "service" to religion.<br /><br />9 Anglicans + 8 Uniting + 4 Catholics + 1 Islamic + 0 Scientology = 22 <br /><br />Yeah, I know, but when did religion ever add up?<br /><br />3 Freds, 1 Nguyen, 1 Reptile:<br /><br />OFFICER (AO) IN THE GENERAL DIVISION<br /><br />Professor Henry Isaac ERGAS, Kingston, ACT<br /><br />"For distinguished service to infrastructure economics, and to higher education, to public policy development and review, for his impression of a dessicated coconut, and as a supporter of emerging artists."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-57522348598922015552016-01-27T20:46:30.657+11:002016-01-27T20:46:30.657+11:00Dame Slap selling capitalism, ends her rant pointi...Dame Slap selling capitalism, ends her rant pointing the stick at Milton Friedman: "A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both."<br /><br />[The Slap's shtick miss-hits on: "The society that puts equality before freedom will end up with neither. The society that puts freedom before equality will end up with a great measure of both." - <a href="http://www.freetochoosemedia.org/broadcasts/freetochoose/detail_ftc1980_transcript.php?page=5" rel="nofollow">Created Equal,</a> an episode of the PBS Free to Choose television series (1980, vol. 5 transcript)]<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.yourdictionary.com/capitalism" rel="nofollow">Capitalism?</a> <br />noun<br /><i>The definition of capitalism is an economic system in which the means of production and distribution are privately or corporately owned and the operations are funded by profits.</i><br /><br />Use capitalism in a sentence<br /><i>An example of capitalism is the prison system in the United States being operated by private companies.</i><br /><br /><br />Milton Friedman, pointing back at Dame Slap:<br /><br /><i>“History suggests only that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Clearly it is not a sufficient condition.“ </i> (Capitalism and Freedom, 1962) <br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Capitalism" rel="nofollow">3. Capitalism</a> <br /><br /><i>You have two cows. You sell three of them to your publicly listed company, using letters of credit opened by your brother-in-law at the bank, then execute a debt/equity swap with an associated general offer so that you get all four cows back, with a tax exemption for five cows. The milk rights of the six cows are <br /><br />transferred via an intermediary to a Cayman Island company secretly owned by the majority shareholder who sells the rights to all seven cows back to your listed company. The annual report says the company owns eight cows, with an option on one more. You sell one cow to buy a new president of the United <br /><br />States, leaving you with nine cows. No balance sheet provided with the release. The public buys your bull.</i><br /><br /><br /><i>"You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker"</i> (<a href="https://socialistworker.co.uk/art/5781/Malcolm+X%3A+%E2%80%98Show+me+a+capitalist+and+I%E2%80%99ll+show+you+a+bloodsucker%E2%80%99" rel="nofollow">Malcolm X</a>)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-21845557936172750412016-01-27T17:58:29.333+11:002016-01-27T17:58:29.333+11:00Hi Dorothy,
Surely Dame Slap should know that the...Hi Dorothy,<br /><br />Surely Dame Slap should know that the reason the CEOs aren’t shouting from the rooftops about their fabulous wealth and all the benefits that it brings to the world, is their morbid fear of kidnap.<br /><br />http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/sep/22/tax-office-did-not-go-to-police-over-fears-wealthy-would-be-kidnapped-inquiry<br /><br />DW<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-27444822821250480612016-01-27T15:50:20.223+11:002016-01-27T15:50:20.223+11:00And here's a lovely description of the freedom...And here's a lovely description of the freedom of equality that Dame Slap so passionately espouses:<br /><br />"The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor, to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets and to steal bread ." ]A France]<br /><br />And so very gratifying too, to see that Moorice is still Moorice: totally unaffected by the reality of the world around him. Come to think of it, that's just a weeny bit like Tones, too ...GrueBleennoreply@blogger.com