Comments on: News Limited’s partisan nonsense actually a disaster for the Liberals

By: Helen

Helen — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 01:29:36 +0000

I find it mildly amusing that the link “Today’s Oz front page” in the OP now has “Error on Page”. But I’m easily amused, of course. Do they ever have anything else on their front page? Of course, Fairfax is no better – Michael Jackson’s hair on fire! Oldest IVF Mum!!…etc.

By: Adrien

Adrien — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 01:09:47 +0000

than ALP Left people who, on one famous occasion, all turned up to a masquerade party in plain clothes,
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HAHAHA.
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As long as the ALP SL are around the manufacturers of grey tracky-dacks will never go out of business.
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Phil if you’re the same Phil as Phil the Greek then you’re busted. There’s only a 1% probability that those lips are male.
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What’s with the abuse? One week you’re in love with me and the next you heap abuse on me. Is it like the 9 year old girl who thinks a boy’s cute so she keeps kicking him in the shins or some such? Inquiring minds wanna know.

By: Paul Burns

Paul Burns — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 00:32:17 +0000

Nice lips Phil. There was this Country Party branch member who once … ah, better not. Don’t broadcast those kind of experiences as a rule.

Re Dee Brown – its been a long, long time since I’ve read Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee. Ground-breaking, fascinating, if I remember rightly, vaguely polemical,but the most magnificent history ever written? I can think of some others.

By: klaus k

klaus k — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 00:07:08 +0000

Phil is fresh from fighting the good fight over at catallaxy, where she has been pushing the likes of marxist, psychoanalytic and feminist perspectives on jc and his ilk. There’s something to be said for the sheer bloody-mindedness necessary for such an enterprise.

By: Paul Norton

Paul Norton — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 23:55:59 +0000

On the question of parties, I would simply reiterate that in my experience CPA and New Left Party people were much more interesting company at parties than ALP Left people who, on one famous occasion, all turned up to a masquerade party in plain clothes, and it fell to me to defend them against sectarian criticism by pointing out that they were in fact masquerading as members of the working class.

By: L to the Izzy, A to the Missy (HOGAN!)

L to the Izzy, A to the Missy (HOGAN!) — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 23:31:54 +0000

That is J to the Ro flippin out up there

Well spotted, Casey, and a welcome return to form!

tainted cheese

Heh, Adrian. The love you share/seems to go nowhere…

By: Phil

Phil — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 11:00:16 +0000

Seems Dee Brown was a man! Learning never ceases. I always thought this book was written by a woman.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dee_Brown_(novelist)

By: Phil

Phil — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 10:45:48 +0000

Thanks Casey.

“I think it probably the most magnificent history ever written.”

That is high praise indeed, Lefty E. I always felt like a big failed sook for not finishing Ms Brown’s tome, truth be known, not being able to read much of it at all. Perhaps now I’m adult enough.

And I treasure the reminder and assurance of historical excellence.

By: Casey

Casey — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 10:29:24 +0000

Well they are bloody nice!

By: Phil

Phil — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 10:27:59 +0000

Well they are my lips, Casey, photographed on a webcam for a social networking site.

By: Lefty E

Lefty E — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 10:26:23 +0000

I think it probably the most magnificent history ever written, Phil. I hate to demean it wit reference to somnething as trivial as the Libs, but its true: there is no miracle coming, only the patient work of reconstruction and survival.

By: Casey

Casey — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 10:23:44 +0000

Oh come on. Come on. Come on. That is J to the Ro flippin out up there. I will bet her bottom lip on it.

By: Phil

Phil — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 10:18:54 +0000

Great comment, Lefty E. Even at 17 I couldn’t finish Dee Brown’s heartbreaking book. Your invocation of it makes me weep.

By: Lefty E

Lefty E — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 10:03:07 +0000

Most defeated cultures have a “ghost dancing” phase like this. Read “Bury my Heart at Wounded Knee”.

By: Phil

Phil — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:48:06 +0000

Yes, because you had to put your oar in. Fuck off, you anti-leftist scum.

By: Adrien

Adrien — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:44:47 +0000

Well no not exactly. I have an entirely other sexual dysfunction when I’m pissed. I’ll be well thanked for not elaborating. I just don’t think it’s a good idea to make it mo’ better when inebriated. Especially the first time.
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This went off-topic in a good way and now I reckon it’s getting a bit tainted cheese.

By: Phil

Phil — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:40:05 +0000

Couldn’t get it up, eh. The story of your life?

By: Adrien

Adrien — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:36:57 +0000

Adrien is just a self-serving wannabe cockroach capitalist…
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Well true. I wanna be something else besides a capitalist cockroach. Working on it now. Wish me luck.
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who probably got the rebuff over and over from even the daggiest female NLP partygoer
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No. I got seduced by one of the foxiest Comm Party chicks. But, sadly, I had to decline her offer. I’d had too much too drink. After that she thought I was gay.

By: Phil

Phil — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:32:04 +0000

Adrien is just a self-serving wannabe cockroach capitalist who probably got the rebuff over and over from even the daggiest female NLP partygoer.

It shows, pal.

By: Adrien

Adrien — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:18:40 +0000

I have a funny feeling that we’re OT.
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Yeah dangerous innit?
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the Marxists that Phil alludes to, which largely don’t face up to the responsibility of Leninism, Lenin and Trotsky for laying the ground for Stalinism
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Or Marx himself.
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I don’t endorse the Marx=Death camps schtick, that’s just some rhetorical trick to con dumb-arse ill-educated Americans into voting for people who’re gonna destroy public education there even more. But Marx helped found authoritarian socialism. And Marxist-Leninists, even the vanilla sign-the-petition types we have in this country, are frighteningly autocratic when you get to know ‘em. It’s true. It’s the self-righteousness that accompanies religious fervour.
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Marx was the one that developed the idea that the State should own everything to the point where someone could come along and make it so.
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Marx’s proscriptions are problematic for many reasons. At the time, Mr Proudhon elucidated. And ye know Pierre Joseph was cooler ’cause Courbet was his mate.