tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post7516843882798498293..comments2024-03-29T22:18:45.103+11:00Comments on loon pond: In which the bromancer goes Donald again ...Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-47468730491415217442018-07-27T15:16:20.666+10:002018-07-27T15:16:20.666+10:00Yes - I see now. This is my naivety at play again....Yes - I see now. This is my naivety at play again.Befuddledhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16201490489888639207noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-69701065776572441252018-07-27T02:27:30.443+10:002018-07-27T02:27:30.443+10:00I would offer just one small correction, Bef. It&...I would offer just one small correction, Bef. It's actually quite easy for somebody who <b>professes</b> christian beliefs to be an apologist for anything and everything. 2000 years of practice guarantees that's a well embedded skill.<br /><br />It's the poor sods who actually <b>believe</b> Christianity that have the problem. Fortunately, there's very, very few of them - and the Bromancer most definitely isn't one.GrueBleennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-67156713454990175522018-07-27T02:19:41.988+10:002018-07-27T02:19:41.988+10:00Of course not, Anony, we're much "too mor...Of course not, Anony, we're much "too morally fastidious" to ever mention them.GrueBleennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-67652903656615287552018-07-27T01:58:02.494+10:002018-07-27T01:58:02.494+10:00Don't mention Saudi Arabia! Or Ye(s)men!Don't mention Saudi Arabia! Or Ye(s)men!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-43295712636976417402018-07-26T18:22:17.338+10:002018-07-26T18:22:17.338+10:00I wonder if even the rusted on Oz reader believes ...I wonder if even the rusted on Oz reader believes this stuff or is it just intended to wind up the odd rational person reading the freebies in an airport? Hands up anyone who thinks they have benefited from a privatisation, demutualisation or corporatisation. For the execs it is a big payday, the likes of Macquarie Bank get to pick over the carcass but the consumer (I even hate being called that) gets inferior service. Then you get a lecture from a dullard like Durie. MTM is more efficient? His engineering qualifications must be on par with Moorice's climate science degree - nonexistent. <br /><br />On another subject, sometimes people are just what they seem to be. Trump seems like a fool and the bromancer seems like a man with no moral compass. Maybe it's that Jesuit casuistry or maybe it's just a personality disorder, but it's hard to see how someone professing christian beliefs can be an apologist such low acts. Befuddledhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16201490489888639207noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-39857080484601176482018-07-26T09:21:36.202+10:002018-07-26T09:21:36.202+10:00Bromancer: "It is an open question whether t...Bromancer: "<i>It is an open question whether the West can ever again effectively intervene in a hot civil war anywhere with its own troops. In the end, the West is <b>too morally fastidious</b> to be efective</i>."<br /><br />Que ? Just where did "the West" ever "effectively intervene" in a hot civil war with or without "its own troops" ? Korea, maybe ? Vietnam maybe ? Perhaps Afghanistan ? Iraq ? Syria ? Where ?<br /><br />And: "[Russia's]<i> economy is only about the size of Australia's</i>."<br /><br />Here the Bromancer is almost uniquely* correct, according to the International Monetary Fund anyway (and if you can't believe the IMF who can you believe):<br /><br />Russia: GDP 12th in the world, US$1.527 trillion; per capita 62nd US$10,608<br />Australia: GDP 13th in the world, US$1.379 trillion; per capita 10th US$55,707<br /><br />Anyway, we also have some input via the ABC ("way back in 2015"):<br /><br />"<i>Now, despite a blowout in the cost of his</i> [Turnbull's] <i>version of the NBN from $29.5 billion to $56 billion</i> ..."<br /><br />Strewth, that extra $26 billion or so would have financed the ABC for something over 20 years !<br /><br />*tm ABC<br />GrueBleennoreply@blogger.com