As a born-again Freudian, I think they could all benefit from nasal cauterisation.

This is an aside. What I was actually going to say was, don’t necessarily blame the journos and reporters for what turns up on the news; don’t forget how large a part editing also plays in the MSM, especially television. Who knows what’s ended up on the ABC’s cutting-room floor lately?

The Greens and Nats have no policy at all re fluoridation…its called fence sitting.

As far as I am concerned Abbott is an obvious sleaze bucket… but if you are in either Labor or Liberal at any degree of power, there is a fair chance they are also sleaze buckets as well, because they have ceased to represent the wishes of those who support them with our taxes, and give their adulation over to the party and the cushy job at the end.

Did you know that it is in only the english speaking countries that fluoridation is still pushed by Government, every single country in the world apart fropm Singapore has rejected Fluoridation…

But then we are a nation of lickspittle suck ups… and always have been, kowtowing to anybody and everybody ” what will the world think of us?” we muse…the world doesn’t give a fig either way.

Here are some links on my blog… the ones to the lefthand side when researched prove beyond any doubt the dangers of Fluorides
http://fluoridationisforcedmedication.blogspot.com/

Added to the occasional bit of bureaucratic arrogance …… there is now fear ……

Fear, yes.

I rang up the week before last to find out when the Keating interview would be available for downloading.

Inter alia, I remarked that it was funny. Silence. Hello? Ah, yes, it was funny. Who was the poor bunny who copped the interview? [Gave name]. She didn’t know what she was walking into, did she? Silence. Hello? I wouldn’t know. Yeah, but it was funny. We were all laughing. Silence. Did you think it was funny (it’s all over the on line papers already). I can’t really comment any further. Is this conversation being recorded? I can’t comment. Aren’t you supposed to tell me if it’s recorded? I can’t comment, sorry… would you like to speak to my supervisor? No, no matter. Thanks. OK, thanks. Bye.

Anthony and Aussie Bob:
Off-topic a bit but ….. KSM knows he’ll be executed no matter what so he carried out a standard Resistence tactic on his captors and interrogators: that of eventually admitting to everything and more ….. and they fell for it; hook, lime and sinker. He’ll be laughing at them from beyond the grave.

But then again, there aren’t too many local Libs who are free from taint.

As Howard once said about Pyne when he made a goose of himself again (someone will provide the detail).

“they are all god’s children”.

FGS, the preadolescent Pyne as Minister for Ageing.

Perhaps, it is an attempt to make him grow up?

Little point complaining to the ABC. I wrote last year when the Sydney newsreader summed up the 2006 Budget with the tabloid headline:

“They’re on a winner and they know it!”

My complaint pointed out that the polls had actually tanked for the government from the week after.

First they deny: the ABC flunkie replied (2 months later) that their reporters were “experienced” and made their best assessment. I pointed out that their assessment was wrong, and that it would have been best not to make it until they had proof. Certainly it would have been better not to have put their wrong assessment in such tabloid terms.

Then they rabbit on: about how there are many shades of opinion on the matter. I referred again to the polls, which at this stage (2 months later) had been running 5-to-1 against the government. My suggestions was that most “shades of opinion” disagreed with the ABC’s instant assessment.

Next, the dump the Code Of Conduct in your in-tray and tell you the matter’s closed: it’s a big tome and takes a long time to read, and of course you’re none the wiser after you’ve read it. There’s something for everyone in it.

Then they ignore you: No further correspondence will be entered into. You’re obviously just a crackpot who doesn’t know anything about national affairs and should leave it to the Big Boys, even though they were wrong in fact and wrong in emphasis.

And this was before the new regime.

Forget about it. They will never admit a mistake.