tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post634275034344179446..comments2024-03-29T22:18:45.103+11:00Comments on loon pond: In which the pond celebrates an unbirthday with a Killer kolumn and some chappie from News Corp, kissing cousin to the Fox ...Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-88711104518649710902022-06-24T07:38:37.329+10:002022-06-24T07:38:37.329+10:00You'll be pleased to see that the caroling Car...You'll be pleased to see that the caroling Carroll took up your cause Chadders and was at it today ...dorothy parkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00816807935021738560noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-86498406342603217662022-06-23T22:32:36.806+10:002022-06-23T22:32:36.806+10:00But they're all 'Australian flags', Ch...But they're all 'Australian flags', Chad (you can tell that from the 'Made in China' insignia down in the bottom left corner), and Bandt wouldn't have stood in front of any if them.GrueBleennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-9139806529456297792022-06-23T22:25:37.097+10:002022-06-23T22:25:37.097+10:00I guess if you went to a meeting of the Flat Earth...I guess if you went to a meeting of the Flat Earth Society, then everybody present would probably qualify as an expert in flat Earth theory. And every one of them would be "comprehensively wrong".GrueBleennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-9070268852082218962022-06-23T20:42:37.866+10:002022-06-23T20:42:37.866+10:00The reptiles are bloviating about 'the flag...The reptiles are bloviating about 'the flag', wheeling-up people who claim that, for 120 years, members of their family had fought and died under a flag that was not properly legislated until 1953. A common refrain has been that the 1953 flag is supposed to 'bring us together' and represent us all.<br /><br />National flags are a work in progress, and I offer this link - <br /><br />https://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/au%5Etrisv.html<br /><br />- sorry that it goes on a bit, but it demonstrates that our defence forces have not been prepared to give up their own separate flags (none of which exactly copy the 1953 flag) - nor have they been able to agree that one such service flag might cover them all when - as tends to happen - more than one defence force is present.<br /><br />So we have this tricolour - which is just 22 years old, but, supposedly, bringing our defence forces together.<br /><br />Oh, except that 'Australian Border Force' has its own, separate flag - defaced (is the term) with that title. Now - which ministers attended to the birth of ABF? An organisation that spent its first few months of existence concentrating on design of uniform, insignia, flag, style of awards, and other 'service' identifiers.<br /><br />Of course, none of this distracts reptile writers, and interviewers, from maintaining the myths - well, not when it helps give the Greens a right kicking.<br /><br />And if you want to know precisely which flag your family member died under in either World War - you need to read detailed histories of the campaign they served in. As often as not it would have been a red ensign or a white ensign - but there were plenty of other flags, all approved officially, for people to die under.Chadwicknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-47000378829670439872022-06-23T20:03:49.211+10:002022-06-23T20:03:49.211+10:00We needed to spend time at our local seat of (loca...We needed to spend time at our local seat of (local) government this day. It is in another town. At one stage, had to fill in about an hour, so went into the library, and glanced through the tree killer versions of the Flagship and the Curious Snail. Both had lined up battalions of experts, predicting, absolutely, the imminent collapse of the economy of the state of Queensland, because of that almost unmentionable state treasurer, who had raised 'taxes' on coal mining. Never mind the semantics - as Abbott's booby has claimed credit for calling any levy, royalty or surcharge a 'tax'.<br /><br />I looked in vain for mention of economists such as John Quiggin. The 'experts' contacted by the reptile editors had one thing in common - they were either CEOs of coal mining companies, or members of boards of the same companies, or writing for coal mining lobby groups, or making a nice auxiliary pile out of drawing up financing deals for - yep, you guessed - opening new coal mines. But they all sang from the same song sheet.<br /><br />So - if your 'experts' have unanimous opinions, but their thinking may not be free of influence from the subject on which they opine - there is every chance that they may all be shown to be wrong. <br /><br />I assure you that I will alert readers if the entire economy of Queensland does collapse within the time these 'experts' have suggested - about 18 months seems to be the median.<br /><br />Meanwhile, would it be too crass to quote Upton Sinclair - “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” ?Chadwicknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-4592326451427874182022-06-23T15:11:51.859+10:002022-06-23T15:11:51.859+10:00Yeah, A KillerC is ok I reckon, vc. He's just...Yeah, A KillerC is ok I reckon, vc. He's just proving once again the proclivity of reptiles to engage in attribution and projection. He claims: "<i>It's hard to recall a period in history in which experts have been so comprehensively wrong on so many topics in such a short time.</i>" Now really, do we know anybody else who has been so egregiously wrong in everything he himself proclaims ? Other than the entire population of the herpetarium, that is.<br /><br />But he's gone back to the Thatcher era - as heroine worshipping wingnuts are wont to do - in order to, as always, try to cover up their failures. So when he says "<i>300 of them</i> [economists]<i> publicly warned Margaret Thatcher in 1981 that the prime minister's belt-tightening policies would cause a recession, only to be proved spectacularly wrong a few months later</i>." what exactly is he talking about ? "<i>Spectacularly wrong</i>" when the recession which had already started in 1981 continued on into 1982 ?<br /><br />Now in fact it was 364 economists who warned Thatcher back in March 1981 when she had already been PM for very nearly two years:<br /><b>364 British Economists Assail Thatcher's Policies</b><br />https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1981/03/31/364-british-economists-assail-thatchers-policies/ca561527-7c56-4253-bb41-aba7ce2b08df/<br /><br />And Britain under Thatcher did subsequently experience a significant recession in 1981/82.<br /><br />If you want a more informative understanding, this might help:<br /><b>Did Margaret Thatcher transform Britain's economy for better or worse?</b><br />https://www.theguardian.com/business/2013/apr/08/margaret-thatcher-transform-britain-economyGrueBleennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-4452348370153815842022-06-23T13:46:31.868+10:002022-06-23T13:46:31.868+10:00Is Adam alright?
It's clear that the editor i...Is Adam alright?<br /><br />It's clear that the editor is being held hostage, and the reptiles have the keys to the herpetarium again. The signs are really not good here.<br />via collinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14342963456605644101noreply@blogger.com