tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post5950448785062016795..comments2024-03-29T15:34:55.287+11:00Comments on loon pond: In which feuding, fussing, fighting reptiles do their thing, thanks to a plucky Major Mitchell and a bold Bolter...Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-16388318221840769352017-03-06T21:14:59.188+11:002017-03-06T21:14:59.188+11:00Bolter backing a principle not a side. Remember wh...Bolter backing a principle not a side. Remember when he backed the principle that just maybe Pell ought to come clean about when he know of sexual abuse within the catholic clergy? The the next morning he was again backing the side.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-66275971260958411402017-03-06T17:58:56.215+11:002017-03-06T17:58:56.215+11:00Q. What's the most reliable inhibitor of any m...Q. What's the most reliable inhibitor of any meaningful process?<br />A. Keeping a failed PM in your team.<br /><br />Q. Who would be batshit insane enough to have a vengeful, retired-but-back-again and-throughly-discredited-Order-Of-Lenin-hunting-editor as an op-ed writer for the same journal?<br />A. The reptiles.<br /><br />Fair dinkum, there are times when after a few weeks overseas reading the FT, WaPo, NYT et al, you are passed a copy of the Weekend Australian on the plane, and your mind that had been stimulated for a little while suddenly grinds gears upon glancing the names Henderson, Kenny, and even a Shanahan or two. You feel that you really have returned to the fag-end of the civilised world. <br /><br />But then after a G & T and a bag o' nuts, you realise that it's just Holt St Dorothy, and it will all be gone soon enough....<br /><br />via collinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14342963456605644101noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-14720549926165520482017-03-06T16:20:09.645+11:002017-03-06T16:20:09.645+11:00"...Shorten leading the most left-wing govern...<i>"...Shorten leading the most left-wing government in the nation's history."</i><br /><br />Ho ho, Ben Chifley and Andrew Fisher would be dying of laughter if they weren't already deceased.<br /><br />But what is this amazing confession:<br /><br /><i>"And of course, Abbott's large win in 2013 was largely a rejection of Labor's chaos rather than an endorsement of Abbott's conservatism."</i><br /><br />What a howler - owning up that Abbott didn't win because he's this wonderful Dr No, but simply because his Labor opponents had destroyed themselves. But I bet this is the last time that bleedin' bloody obvious truth is ever mentioned, especially by any of the right wingnuts. The myth of Abbott, Mighty Crusader must be maintained.GrueBleennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-25757613945987647752017-03-06T14:19:24.257+11:002017-03-06T14:19:24.257+11:00Mitchell is the same old Mitchell, just feeling th...Mitchell is the same old Mitchell, just feeling the attention deficit syndrome.<br /><br />He lists the "mandated" Coalition policies. He claims it was a mistake to roll Abbott, because he (Mitchell) had predicted that Abbott would have beaten Shorten - an astounding claim when Golden Boy Turnbull lost 14 seats and just scrambled over the line. Abbott would have been a train wreck.<br /><br />So, Major Mitchell,to echo Sarah Palin: "That trickle-down austerity program, 'ow's that workin' out forrr ya?"Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com