tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post729291943155615380..comments2024-03-29T22:18:45.103+11:00Comments on loon pond: In which the pond goes extremely populist with the ever-popular dog botherer and portentous, pompous, ever so popular Ned Kelly ...Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-10389289474146632072016-09-04T08:23:14.654+10:002016-09-04T08:23:14.654+10:00Between them, the pair dished out more indulgences...Between them, the pair dished out more indulgences than the Catholic church in a couple of centuries of Sundays ...dorothy parkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00816807935021738560noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-14227989757956881552016-09-04T08:22:05.318+10:002016-09-04T08:22:05.318+10:00:)³x :)³:)³x :)³dorothy parkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00816807935021738560noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-75552137474270005092016-09-04T08:21:19.102+10:002016-09-04T08:21:19.102+10:00An astonishing sighting Mercurial, up there with t...An astonishing sighting Mercurial, up there with the planet itself :)³dorothy parkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00816807935021738560noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-37375231927519583512016-09-04T08:20:01.008+10:002016-09-04T08:20:01.008+10:00:)³:)³dorothy parkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00816807935021738560noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-24570525470619466142016-09-03T15:07:58.920+10:002016-09-03T15:07:58.920+10:00Sayeth the Dogbotherer
"John Howard and Pete...Sayeth the Dogbotherer<br /><br />"John Howard and Peter Costello had to fight tooth and nail for tax reform."<br /><br />Sayeth Alan Austin [ https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/we-really-must-talk-about-the-howard-and-costello-economic-disaster,5686 ]:<br /><br />"According to a Treasury report in 2008, between 2004 and 2007, the mining boom and a robust economy added $334 billion in windfall gains to the budget surplus. Of this, the Howard Government spent, or gave away in tax cuts, $314 billion, or 94 per cent.<br /><br />Sales of businesses yielded another $72 billion. And yet Australia’s cash in the bank when Howard left office was a pathetically low 7.3% of GDP."<br /><br />Oh yair, I'm just so grateful that Howard and Costello were such fierce "tooth and nail" fighters. Aren't you ?GrueBleennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-42292319095898048272016-09-03T13:14:35.490+10:002016-09-03T13:14:35.490+10:00'Lefty causes that are of no interest to the s...'Lefty causes that are of no interest to the salt-of-the-earth greyhound trainers of Struggle Street......"<br /><br />Love it, Anon!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-90919313086271162102016-09-03T12:19:57.504+10:002016-09-03T12:19:57.504+10:00Thanks Dorothy for bringing all of this to our att...Thanks Dorothy for bringing all of this to our attention (again!).<br /><br />The thing that really astonished me in all of today's gleanings is the quality of Wilson's submission on the plebiscite. Seriously, is that the best the golden haired boy of libertarianism has? "This is a bad idea. Let me say that again, this is a bad idea. Oh and by the way, did I say that this is a bad idea?" I would have hoped that he could at least string some sort of an argument together.....Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-87596530505746493472016-09-03T12:09:43.052+10:002016-09-03T12:09:43.052+10:00Yes, Dog Botherer - here in Canberra, we're al...Yes, Dog Botherer - here in Canberra, we're all part of the leets, we all sip lattes when we're not quaffing chardonnay, looking down our noses - when we bother to - at the lumpen masses, attending Parliamentary balls and nattering on about lefty causes that are of no interest to the salt-of-the-earth greyhound trainers of Struggle Street......<br /><br />Fuck, I'm sick of seeing this sort of drivel from third-rate ex-Parliamentary staffers masquerading as journalists who know about as much of Canberra and its inhabitants outside Parliament House, Kingston and Manuka as they do about Sydney outside of the Surry Hills Bunker. Lazy, unoriginal cliches from lazy, unoriginal reptiles. Stuff the lot of them.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-47179278633898674062016-09-03T11:39:25.217+10:002016-09-03T11:39:25.217+10:00Apropos of nothing DP, other than your previous po...Apropos of nothing DP, other than your previous posts:<br /><br />Alan Yuhas in the Graudian gives qualifying 'unique' a red hot go.<br /><br />https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/sep/02/jupiter-juno-pictures-nasa-space<br /><br />“Saturn has a hexagon at the north pole,” Bolton said. “There is nothing on Jupiter that anywhere near resembles that. The largest planet in our solar system is truly unique. We have 36 more flybys to study just how unique it really is.”<br /><br />I think they will find it is unique. Truly, truly unique.<br />Mercurialnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-37812146201951419062016-09-03T11:18:30.396+10:002016-09-03T11:18:30.396+10:00Sorry, Anony. I have no idea how you learned to st...Sorry, Anony. I have no idea how you learned to stand on your own two feet. I presume it was practice.<br /><br />And that's a sarcastic response. Bit like my previous post.Mercurialhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08531202189169082683noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-62350476544867134472016-09-03T10:44:21.867+10:002016-09-03T10:44:21.867+10:00Oh yeah "Those victims just need to learn to ...Oh yeah "Those victims just need to learn to stand on their own two feet." <br /><br />Can you write a book for us on How I learned to stand on my own two feet. Or maybe you were born just knowing the secret of standing on your own two feet?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-84846685579193628642016-09-03T10:42:14.871+10:002016-09-03T10:42:14.871+10:00Too funny DW. You do find them all too often. Well...Too funny DW. You do find them all too often. Well done.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-69802658185874450582016-09-03T09:34:14.198+10:002016-09-03T09:34:14.198+10:00Ned's right. I mean, how did the RC into inst...Ned's right. I mean, how did the RC into institutional responses to child abuse ever help a single child? What is that RC ever going to do for any of those children? Will they ever get their dignity back? No, they will get nothing. They need to seek justice. What we have in place are ombudsman services. We have legal services. Why, we even have pastoral services. We have a range of avenues they can employ.<br /><br />No, we don't need a Royal Commission into child abuse. Those victims just need to learn to stand on their own two feet.Mercurialhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08531202189169082683noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-66995934379290808642016-09-03T08:46:00.391+10:002016-09-03T08:46:00.391+10:00Hi Dorothy,
I for one will ignore Henderson and c...Hi Dorothy,<br /><br />I for one will ignore Henderson and celebrate the Great Leader with an appreciation of some occasional furniture.<br /><br />http://boingboing.net/2008/04/05/chairman-mao.html<br /><br />DWAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com