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Monday, October 22, 2012

Gosh, it’s fortunate that The Honourable Chief Justice Diana Bryant AO QC is not the Commandant of the Australian Defence Force Academy. Excuses will be made but nothing will happen because...

Extra! Extra! Read all about it... here
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Sunday, October 21, 2012

Susan Butler, Editor of the Macquarie Dictionary, This is (Now) Your Life


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Saturday, October 20, 2012

And for an extra point, what was the name of the dog?

Dedicated to the memory of Major Arch Foxley MBE
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Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve - George Bernard Shaw


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Sorry, but we're not responsible for your poor choices


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Friday, October 19, 2012

As useless as a Macquarie Dictionary


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The case against affirmative action


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Let's all smile broadly and celebrate Gillard's legacy to Australia


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Thursday, October 18, 2012

Force is always beside the point when subtlety will serve - Darius the First


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There are crimes that, like frost on flowers, in one single night destroy character and reputation - Henry Ward Beecher


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Wednesday, October 17, 2012

I take solace that there are no words I could utter and only a few acts I could commit that would make me more despicable


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Tuesday, October 16, 2012

While the 'economic girly men' of the Gillard Labor Government run around tearing their party dresses, private enterprise gets on with business

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All these creatures spend their time explaining, realizing happily that they agree with each other. In Heaven's name, why is it so important to think the same things all together - Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea


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Monday, October 15, 2012

A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true - Socrates


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Saturday, October 13, 2012

Sorry Joolya but a pair of ovaries is not enough to qualify


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Wednesday, September 19, 2012

Dad, why do you risk your life? So that others may live, Son


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Monday, September 17, 2012

Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms [of government], those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny - Thomas Jefferson


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Sunday, September 16, 2012

I tried to watch "The Bolt Report" on YouTube today and got this instead.

Strange that they "can but do not" control the trade of drugs but they "can and do" control the trade of information
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Word Association Football


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Friday, September 14, 2012

Harold and the Female Federal Magistrate, whose name begins with 'C'


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Greens - Warning: May Contain Nits


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Thursday, September 13, 2012

The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor - Albert Camus


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Saturday, September 8, 2012

Speaking of Germans...

Kurt von Hammerstein-Equord... here
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Nut jobs and misogynists? I think she's losing it


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Friday, September 7, 2012

If Jim Wallace really wanted to offend the PM, he should have first checked the Flashback here


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Thursday, September 6, 2012

ALP Values - 1. Sack the whistleblower 2. Pass the hat around for the paedophile's family 3. Ignore the victims


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Make up your own mind

Adelaide District Court Judge Paul Cuthbertson... here
Brisbane District Court Judge David Reid... here
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Wednesday, September 5, 2012

If a man does not have an ideal and try to live up to it, then he becomes a mean, base and sordid creature, no matter how successful - Theodore Roosevelt


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Tuesday, September 4, 2012

What if Joolya died and went to heaven?

Hear Norman Greenbaum here
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Sunday, September 2, 2012

Mirror, mirror, on the wall...


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Saturday, September 1, 2012

To believe in God is impossible - to not believe in Him is absurd - François-Marie Arouet (Voltaire)


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Friday, August 31, 2012

Fairy roses, fairy rings, turn out sometimes troublesome things - William Makepeace Thackeray

Want to Vote Greens? Watch... here
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Wednesday, August 22, 2012

Which current Australian Prime Minister does this describe?

View The Sociopath Next Door... here
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Sunday, August 19, 2012

I did nothing wrong


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Friday, August 17, 2012

Wisdom of Solomon


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Wednesday, August 15, 2012

No embellishment required


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Tuesday, August 14, 2012

Creatures flock together with their kind, doves with doves, cranes with cranes and so on - Democritus


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Monday, August 13, 2012

When enough insane people scream in harmony... they can actually start to believe themselves. Or put even more simply: people with overlapping delusions get along wonderfully - Daniel Mackler

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Sunday, August 12, 2012

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened - Sir Winston Churchill


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Saturday, August 11, 2012

A good friend will come bail you out of jail, but a true friend will be sitting next to you saying...'Man, we screwed up!'

Listen to The End by The Doors.. here
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Thursday, August 9, 2012

There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail - Will Rogers


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Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain! - L. Frank Baum

See the work of Bravehearts... here
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Wednesday, August 8, 2012

Betrayal can only happen if you love - John LeCarre


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Tuesday, August 7, 2012

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation - Oscar Wilde

Listen to Sandie Shaw's 'Puppet On A String'... here
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Monday, August 6, 2012

What luck for rulers, that men do not think - Adolf Hitler


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Sunday, August 5, 2012

The can is open… the worms are everywhere - Brian Wood


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It is curious - curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare - Mark Twain



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Thursday, August 2, 2012

What has Tony not done?


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In Verity Veritas


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Wednesday, August 1, 2012

We are women, Hear our roars, Our lives are worth so much more than yours...


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According to some historians, Grigory Potyomkin, Russian military leader, statesman, nobleman and favorite of Catherine the Great, and who led the Crimean military campaign, had hollow facades of villages constructed along the desolate banks of the Dnieper River in order to impress the Empress with the value of her new conquests
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