tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post9052088284267425708..comments2024-03-29T22:18:45.103+11:00Comments on loon pond: Aye, likely there'll be trouble at mill, bromancer, he be saying so ...Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-85554554231819831732015-11-21T14:42:12.803+11:002015-11-21T14:42:12.803+11:00Amazing link DW, the pond learns something new eve...Amazing link DW, the pond learns something new every day. So much for the brutality of women cage fighting ... suddenly it seems genteel.dorothy parkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00816807935021738560noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-48540319437902317802015-11-21T14:38:15.082+11:002015-11-21T14:38:15.082+11:00:)³, but who are these fragile Swans you cry for? ...:)³, but who are these fragile Swans you cry for? Do you not weep for the Blood stained angels, who shared a motto with the bromancer, Aut vincere aut mori? (Or should that be 'either to conquer or to lose'?). Yes the pond has lived in Melbourne NH and knows the strange ways of the world ...dorothy parkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00816807935021738560noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-40998427736233162052015-11-21T14:34:43.611+11:002015-11-21T14:34:43.611+11:00Disrespect away, UC. Excellent link, and here'...Disrespect away, UC. Excellent link, and here's a spoiler/teaser for those too lazy to click on it:<br /><br />Is curing the disease therefore a simple matter? Hardly. Saudi Arabia remains an ally of the West in the many chess games playing out in the Middle East. It is preferred to Iran, that gray Daesh. And there’s the trap. Denial creates the illusion of equilibrium. Jihadism is denounced as the scourge of the century but no consideration is given to what created it or supports it. This may allow saving face, but not saving lives.<br /><br />Daesh has a mother: the invasion of Iraq. But it also has a father: Saudi Arabia and its religious-industrial complex. Until that point is understood, battles may be won, but the war will be lost. Jihadists will be killed, only to be reborn again in future generations and raised on the same books.<br /><br />Oh did that get the pond going, or what ...dorothy parkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00816807935021738560noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-89289355920570129622015-11-21T14:24:39.683+11:002015-11-21T14:24:39.683+11:00Risking disrespect, DP, I'd draw notice to the...Risking disrespect, DP, I'd draw notice to the superb <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/21/opinion/saudi-arabia-an-isis-that-has-made-it.html" rel="nofollow">Saudi Arabia, an ISIS That Has Made It</a>, except that, since Sheridan hasn't been made aware of it, it does not exist and the link will self-destruct. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08158673564017581517noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-69134103274329701922015-11-21T12:30:32.846+11:002015-11-21T12:30:32.846+11:00It's actually a good thing that Greg Sheridan ...It's actually a good thing that Greg Sheridan is predicting catastrophe.<br />Back in the days when I used to read the Australian for the football news, Greg Sheridan predicted the US invasion of Grenada would fail. I began to notice every time he made a prediction, the opposite happened. This was an unmatched and uncanny talent.<br />The last one I remember was he predicted the Iraq invasion would bring a wonderful future to that poor country.<br />I just wish he would do something useful with it, like predicting the Swans won't win the premiership.Nimbin Hippynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-8724997322043555782015-11-21T11:01:39.069+11:002015-11-21T11:01:39.069+11:00I hadn't realised before what a fully paid-up ...I hadn't realised before what a fully paid-up cretin is van O. The successful Australian model for absorbing foreign immigrants: he's not talking 1788, is he? He's so right, and so intelligently nuanced, to observe that it's complex. Just as well he doesn't employ the reptilian West versus The Terrorists goodies/baddies terminology, then. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-4363574506069463392015-11-21T10:50:59.530+11:002015-11-21T10:50:59.530+11:00Hi Dorothy,
Whilst Sheridan appears to like his m...Hi Dorothy,<br /><br />Whilst Sheridan appears to like his men rough he doesn't appear to be enamoured of rough women. I wonder what he would make of this account of London,from 1728, when the Swiss traveller Cesar de Saussure witnessed two female fighters;<br /><br />http://www.forgottenbooks.com/readbook_text/A_Foreign_View_of_England_in_the_Reigns_of_George_I_George_II_1000276666/305<br /><br />Smelling salts would most likely be required for the faint hearted Foreign Editor.<br /><br />DW<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-18760853694271249322015-11-21T10:43:28.010+11:002015-11-21T10:43:28.010+11:00It's not just the reptiles. Recent stories in...It's not just the reptiles. Recent stories in the media about the fall of communism have all neglected to mention Walesa. It seems he just wasn't important enough, despite the pivotal role he played in raising community awareness and fighting the establishment.<br /><br />We could learn a thing or two from him. Probably why he's no longer talked about.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-58309323039000209932015-11-21T10:37:06.776+11:002015-11-21T10:37:06.776+11:00His world view would fall apart without control.His world view would fall apart without control.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-82480397643017349632015-11-21T10:31:48.503+11:002015-11-21T10:31:48.503+11:00I think Sheridan is a tad scared, Dot. Scared tha...I think Sheridan is a tad scared, Dot. Scared that those 'individuals' he lauds - soldiers and police officers - might not be prepared to lay down their lives for the likes of him. That's the only existential threat in his mind.<br /><br />Quick! More right wing authoritarianism!!Mercurialnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-69584042440167880292015-11-21T09:48:57.141+11:002015-11-21T09:48:57.141+11:00Hi Dorothy,
The loss of the beloved Tony, has evi...Hi Dorothy,<br /><br />The loss of the beloved Tony, has evidently left Sheridan wistfully dreaming of rough men doing rough things for God, Queen and Country!<br /><br />Typical Sheridan of course, he waxes lyrical about the nobility of self sacrifice;<br /><br />"...is ultimately prepared to sacrifice their life for an idea, a set of principles, a set of values, that they believe transcends their own experience and even their own mortality"<br /><br />Without even realising he is describing exactly the mind set of the deluded fanatics who just killed 130 people in Paris whilst on a suicide mission.<br /><br />DiddyWrote<br /> Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-64386073137891540692015-11-21T09:17:57.970+11:002015-11-21T09:17:57.970+11:00The pond stands deeply humble and firmly corrected...The pond stands deeply humble and firmly corrected. A diet of bread and water has been prescribed for the day ...dorothy parkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00816807935021738560noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-46408974686746426792015-11-21T09:14:00.944+11:002015-11-21T09:14:00.944+11:00I like the caption under the photo: everyone can ...I like the caption under the photo: everyone can tell who Obama is, because, you know, he's the black guy. But Putin needs to be pointed out ("Vladimir Putin, right") because, well, there's two white guys in the pic.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-36286951291481925212015-11-21T09:08:53.953+11:002015-11-21T09:08:53.953+11:00'Could this be the chief stenographer - the fa...'Could this be the chief stenographer - the faithful pup, as the Terrorists are wont to call her - going about her onerous new duties?'<br /><br />Please Dot, show some respect! That should read "going about her onerous new senior duties."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-25143785604274307812015-11-21T09:08:13.163+11:002015-11-21T09:08:13.163+11:00You gotta love how the triumphant roll call always...You gotta love how the triumphant roll call always misses one name, Lech Walesa. I'm thinking that to credit trade unionism with a key role in bringing down the Soviet empire would just do the head in of a numpty like Sheridan. Anyway, what the hell did the member for Finchley ever do to save the West from oblivion? Fight the Argies? Pfft. Or maybe, sell illegal arms to Saddam...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-11402150517827551722015-11-21T08:39:01.727+11:002015-11-21T08:39:01.727+11:00DP - we can go back to the Sicarii and the Hashhas...DP - we can go back to the Sicarii and the Hashhashin if you like. Jews and Muslims seemed to have cornered the market on historical terrorism, although the allies were fond of promoting it in the cause of liberating Europe, with Norwegian, French, Hungarian and Polish terrorists amply provided with bombs, weapons and intelligence by our noble intelligence services. <br /><br />And don't forget 'The Quiet American.'<br /><br />http://terrorism.about.com/od/whatisterroris1/p/Terrorism.htm<br /><br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com