tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post2649219313348153279..comments2024-03-29T22:18:45.103+11:00Comments on loon pond: Never mind for whom the bell extols ...Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-28869604859431392992014-05-07T15:02:53.117+10:002014-05-07T15:02:53.117+10:00Knob polisher supreme or knob decorator? Kenny nai...Knob polisher supreme or knob decorator? Kenny nailed his colours to Tony's mast (so to speak) when he berated "the left" for "not getting" Abbott. Since then he has been going though contortions to maintain his "narrative" despite the PM fulfilling the worst fears. His botched diplomacy has been called "sure footed"; His broken promises have been called "an epiphany"; worse: he has been shown to be the empty vessel which the IPA has filled. Kenny needs to explain exactly what "the left" got wrong in their predictions. If you don't vote for a party based on their promises, what is it you are voting for?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13467071669624321286noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-42316034822854756022014-05-07T13:16:02.175+10:002014-05-07T13:16:02.175+10:00After reading Gay Alcorn's interview with Bolt...After reading Gay Alcorn's interview with Bolt, I was perplexed. Bolt argues he's against tribalism of people by race. That we should look for the individual qualities that unite, rather than divide us.<br /><br />Yet all he does is create tribes within our community:<br />Left vs Right<br />Warmists vs Sceptics<br />Conservatives vs everyone...<br />Migrants/Refugees vs "Aussies"<br /><br /><br />His whole business model is to scare his demographic that the "others" will take what they have - so they need to be fearful and protective against these tribes. <br /><br /><br />I used to think his was a public persona - but I now believe he's drunk his own kool aidAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-17873401025897000192014-05-07T12:21:42.703+10:002014-05-07T12:21:42.703+10:00I have an Italian friend who hasn't quite gras...I have an Italian friend who hasn't quite grasped the nuances of English. He called such dickheads 'bagrats' which I think is apt.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-55100654319775520242014-05-07T11:24:20.305+10:002014-05-07T11:24:20.305+10:00The Bolter routinely proves his credentials as a r...The Bolter routinely proves his credentials as a reader and follower of extremist ratbaggery. But what else can you expect from an extremist ratbag? Dropping into his pages is liking stepping into a cesspit, and a strong constitution is required. You're braver and stronger than the pond ...dorothy parkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00816807935021738560noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-25837817766774366792014-05-07T11:22:07.950+10:002014-05-07T11:22:07.950+10:00The pond wishes it could disagree with a single wo...The pond wishes it could disagree with a single word, Gorgeous Dunny, but not a single word could we find.dorothy parkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00816807935021738560noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-72740734293343410942014-05-07T10:38:10.913+10:002014-05-07T10:38:10.913+10:00You've got it again. It's safe enough to ...You've got it again. It's safe enough to ignore the rants of Dame Slap and the Magic Water Boy. But Mark Kenny (on the same side as his cousin, but without the stupid) and Lenore Taylor are relatively sane. And both seem to be blissfully unaware of what they are saying and where it leaves them.<br /><br />Kenny claims the Deceit Tax is for the public good. Certainly as it has been watered down in attempt to staunch the public bleeding (2% levy on those earning +$180,000 I'd heard at its latest attempt) it might actually be of some use. But that ignores the entire mantra of Abbott's attacks over the previous 3.5 years and his assurances that he would never do anything like that, or at least not without taking it to an election first.<br /><br />The trouble is, where does this leave Kenny and the rest of the Press Gallery on the slack they cut Gillard? There was never an explanation of the whole Gillard statement that she did want an ETS for carbon; that she didn't actually form a majority government and had to cut a deal with other interests, nor that she actually delivered pretty well what she promised except that she had a fixed price in the start-up years. It was questionable whether it was a broken promise at all, with such a changed political landscape, and it was certainly never a lie, which Abbott, the Liberal Party and the Jones- Bolt push got away with claiming. What sort of press gallery never calls out this dishonesty?<br /><br />And is Lenore dinkum when she says that Abbott's close to losing trust? "Losing trust"? He never had it to begin with. The press gallery allowed Credlin to gloss over that with daily stunts on how good he was on a bike or in a fire truck or visiting a pie factory to foretell doom on the carbon tax. It was always a bullshit TV cameras-style charade and he was never called for it, never called about avoiding questions or running away from press conferences.<br /><br />I have to conclude that they were in some sort of a coma, befuddled by the Rudd whispering on the one hand and the Abbott lies and stunts on the other. How else could they have missed the significance of the Misogyny Speech? The false alibi, provided by Taylor herself, was that the public missed the "context" of the speech. Well, the press gallery certainly did - the public, less so.<br /><br />The fact is, the press gallery was a major contributor to the mess we are in, as much as Rudd's malice, Abbott's lies and the Murdoch-Singleton propaganda.Gorgeous Dunnyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10540625260311418333noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-36898923467671123132014-05-07T09:09:09.670+10:002014-05-07T09:09:09.670+10:00Bolt works himself up into a righteous racist lath...Bolt works himself up into a righteous racist lather and quotes approvingly from an article in the World Net Daily.<br /><br />"Beware the nation of tribes"<br /><br />Does he even know what the WND is? Goebbels would be proud of them.<br /><br />http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/organizations/worldnetdaily<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com