Comments on: Keating on Costello (… and everything else)

By: David Irving (no relation)

David Irving (no relation) — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 02:50:48 +0000

As I recall, Sir Henry, Lynch was suspected (unjustly, as it happens) of being involved in tax evasion (“Bottom of the Harbour” schemes – sounds like something the Painters’ and Doctors’ Union would do, doesn’t it?) and fell on his sword, thus paving the way for Howard to become the second laziest Treasurer Australia’s ever had.

By: Sir Henry Casingbroke

Sir Henry Casingbroke — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 12:31:07 +0000

Phil Lynch?

By: joe2

joe2 — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 10:42:27 +0000

Dave, you lash out at Rudd in the most extreme manner, while pointing to the wonders of Malcolm Turnbull, on your blog, where you describe yourself as a “lefty”.

Have you been blind to his behaviour since grabbing the job? Is there a position that Mal has presented that is not influenced by the demands of big business or those jockying right wing loons within his party?

By: Ambigulous

Ambigulous — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 10:26:47 +0000

casey,

don’t take my word for nuffink, it was decades ago I read it. Good luck.

Dave: should Malcolm Fraser have strangled Dr Jim Cairns, or do you refer to Mr John Howard? (I understand Mr Howard held further positions after being Treasurer to Malcolm the Merciless, but never amounted to much.)

By: Dave Bath

Dave Bath — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 09:59:06 +0000

adrian@61
My memory is long enough… I remember Ming the Merciless.

Yes, Fraser DID do some bastardry (certainly gaining power), and we’d all be much better off if he hadn’t toppled Whitlam, but his main failure was in not strangling his treasurer. Did I say he’d be good? No, merely less awful than KRudd in the same way that syphilis is less awful than having HIV/HCV and leprosy all at the same time. While Fraser may have been almost as much a power-grabber as KRudd, at least Fraser didn’t promise a lefty paradise and deliver a righty wet dream.

Hell, even Harold “All-the-way-with-LBJ” Holt would be more useful than the “All the way with BHP” of Rudd/Ferguson/Wong/etc/etc.

By: Casey

Casey — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 09:26:18 +0000

Ambi I’ve never read that. I will go check it out.

By: Casey

Casey — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 09:24:06 +0000

oh lol anthony. That makes this whole conversation rather funnier than it was. Can’t believe you waited till the last comment to tell me that you were not Goddess. And you thought I was quoting Andalusian poetry just cause I like it? It must have read like a scene straight out of Brecht. The reason I thought you were Goddess is that you share some interests, but in particular, because we once had a rather heated convo on her NPD enunciations on another blog long ago.

I think you will know her when you come across her.

Metta back.

By: Ambigulous

Ambigulous — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 06:35:47 +0000

Well said casey on the little matter of not offering medical diagnoses when one hasn’t
a) met the subject, or
b) had much evidence,
c) likely at third hand in ay case.

You and anthony have made your peace. Good.

I was offended by Dr Freud’s ‘psychoanalysis’ of the deceased Leonardo da Vinci, for reasons as above. I thought it amateurish, virtually baseless, and possibly attention-seeking on Sigmund’s part.

Some might say I over-identified with, and hero-worshipped Leonardo. Be that as it may.

By: anthony nolan

anthony nolan — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 05:06:42 +0000

Umm, jeez case, I think maybe you might be mistaking me for someone else operating under a nom de blog. Not so actually but keep going as I guess I’ll get it sooner or later. I’ll be yr blog-goddess if it makes you happy.

Metta.

By: Casey

Casey — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 04:45:39 +0000

Who would want to be on the end of routine comment like that?

Well indeed Goddess. As you say. Who would want that?

Er, I suppose that man outfit I got you erases memory too then?

Well now, never mind, I need to go check my incantation ingredients and see what went wrong exactly. Regular worshipping duties will recommence once I fix this little glitch.