Comments on: Don’t Read Blogs

By: Bryan

Bryan — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 05:34:41 +0000

One of the best things is that you can do is laugh at yourselves, whereas too many people in this country have lost the knack, and it shows. Too many people are crazy these days and don’t know how to take a joke or make a joke to relieve the pressure. They also refuse to admit it when they screw up. I have people who are convinced that I’m never wrong for the simple reason that when I’m wrong I admit it immediately and move on, so they forget about it. When people refuse to admit it – no one forgets.

The current crew are incapable of learning. They do something that turns into a disaster and instead of trying something different, they spend all their time looking for excuses.

Half the time the Congress of the United States looks like a bad Monty Python skit. There are certain members of Congress who get absolutely nothing done because they spend all of their time complaining that Congress isn’t doing anything.

When you decide to get rid of a government, I have to say you do a thorough job of it.

The DLC isn’t the problem, it’s the people who listen to them that are the real problem.

By: Kryten42

Kryten42 — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 05:07:27 +0000

Of course! I forgot about XXXX! LOL You’d be talking like a native then. 😉 That was one of Pratchett’s books , at least for an Aussie with a good sense of humor that could read between the lines. LOL (And as you know, if we can’t laugh at ourselves, we don’t have any real humor in us). 😉

In truth, Howard was a shock and a real eye opening experience for us. We could see what Bush was doing, and wanted no part of it. It seems that the Liberal Party now realizes their error. Aussies have never really been sheeple, though we do get lazy at for periods. 😉

I like the colander! 😀 I have one, but it still has it’s handle firmly attached and I like my pasta too much to remove it for head ware just yet! 😉 I have some chicken wire… will that do? 😉

Yes. It does look at first glance to be something the DLC would try. Any way of finding out there? Would it make any difference anyway?

By: Bryan

Bryan — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 01:13:51 +0000

I can’t figure it out, any more than I can figure why they have a rule like 11A. I think it may be like the whole super-delegate business – they passed a rule to solve a one time problem and it comes back to haunt them later, and actually cause the same problem it was supposed to solve.

This smells like the DLC, which is, in many ways, a Republican front.

By: Anya

Anya — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 00:53:33 +0000

Ya don’t suppose there are a couple of Republan moles on the Democratic National Committee…?

((adds a chin strap to her stainless steel colander))

By: Bryan

Bryan — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 21:51:22 +0000

Australia has had the time to get quite as entrenched in its ways as the US and is more willing to change. For some reason people conveniently forget that the “founding fathers” were progressives and revolutionaries who went to war to get rid of the type of government the Republicans have been trying to install.

I know what a “sheila” is, I have an Australian-English dictionary around somewhere and have read Pratchett on XXXX.

By: Kryten42

Kryten42 — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 15:36:19 +0000

Hmmmm. Maybe a couple Aussie blogs by a couple Aussie sheila’s (people of the female persuasion) might help your mood a tad… 😉

Oh… and Australia grows up a bit, and finds a pair of balls that Howard had stashed in a bunker under Parliament House! LOL

They said it

An Apology a Long Time Coming: Australia Says Sorry

It was good to see. And Rudd did it with great style and sincerity. Even the Liberal Party (now in opposition rather than destroying the Country) were there and apologized (with a few caveats, of course, just to try and spoil things as usual). Previous PM’s were there… with one glaring (but completely unsurprising) absentee… Howard. Imagine that. LOL

So… when do you thing the US Gov will apologize to it’s people? 😉 😛

I guess, if Obama gets elected, they may say sorry for slavery. But that won’t really mean much, will it? 🙂 Kinda like one of our Aborigine’s apologizing here.

Was a great day. And a long time coming. I suspect Howard won’t even be a footnote in History, as it should be. 🙂

By: Bryan

Bryan — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 05:49:51 +0000

Fortunately I have the feline bed warmers in place.

By: hipparchia

hipparchia — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 05:28:15 +0000

i could have lived happily ever after without knowing all that. it's just too cold to get out and about tonight, and all the florida/michigan craziness is getting to even me, so i was planning to just stay home.