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For us dunces who are not Latin inclined could you translate that and what it is about? Thanks with love.
For us dunces who are not Latin inclined could you translate that and what it is about? Thanks with love.Stultus est sicut stultus facit.
For us dunces who are not Latin inclined could you translate that and what it is about? Thanks with love.
She has to pretend to believe in an ETS to get Bob Brown on side. His preferences are going to count.
you can't fight it sails.
She's got the vibe. Its in the constitution. It don't matter how many millions she's wasted. Its the vibe.
gg
You remind me of a dog I owned when I was a kid. He gave his loyalty to anybody who fed him.
It would appear our new Prime Minister is very vulnerable indeed and may still have a battle on her hands to retain power.
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/new...t-new-management/story-e6frg6zo-1225887763530
He was a good dog from memory, Calliope, why did you call him Machiavelli?
gg
Because he manipulated me and everyone else he came across with his charm.
Do you know what gg? I woke up the other day and decided that it doesn't matter much what the colour of the government is. I have adopted Dr Pangloss's philosophy in reverse;
Everything happens for the worst under the worst of all possible governments.
For us dunces who are not Latin inclined could you translate that and what it is about? Thanks with love.
Fair suck of the sauce bottle noco. What I did in 1983 when I was a young radical should not be used against me now that I am older and wiser. Not that I am a PM or anything in the public spotlight with a history similar to Julias that is. Remember she is a LABOR PM and must have a history in Socialism and or Unionism to be counted as one of the bretheren. I think Andrew Bolt is a journalist of some specific leanings that do not agree with the Labor idealogy somehow.
GOSH ...... can't believe I just defended a Labor PM !She is allegedly tackling the Asylum Seekers debacle by threatiening to send the Afghanis and Sri Lankans back to whence they came. Surely this must be seen as a good thing and far from the "early" political leanings she showed?
I'm not sure that's necessarily true, noco. Most of us went through that radical stage, where we could only think in extremes. Age generally mellows us and allows us to see the world a little more objectively.Trainspotter, what you and I did as young fellows was most likely not related to politics. Ms. Gillard is desperately trying to distance herself from the socialist left because she knows she will have a better chance in the middle. Don't lets kid ourselves Ms. Gillard is very crafty and will undoubtedly swing back to the left to appease the radical unions if she gets into power. You cannot change the spots on a leopard.
Sure, and you wouldn't expect her to do otherwise. I think the general public is smarter than you might imagine.I think she is looking after her own back side. She is politically motived to wipe the slate claen before the election. She is making out she is a pollie of action and is aware of public opinion on asylum seekers.
That sounds a bit more like it. Pretty hard to see how, with all the concessions made, the government could only be down 1.5 billion.Her deal with the miners is reported already to be in trouble whereby her loss of $1.6 billion in the budget is more likely to be $4billion.
Or alternatively, she may have concluded that now she's PM, she has a responsibility to take a more middle-of-the-road position in order to provide what the electorate at large is looking for.
I think the general public is smarter than you might imagine.
It's a challenge for any individual to change long held ideological beliefs.
Group ideology is much more difficult again.
Rudd thought he was the smartest guy in the room, but any lawyer can tell you, they are actually the smartest. Fertile profession for intellectual vanity. The powers that be will one day turn on her, as they turned on Rudd, and we'll see how well that self-satisfied smirk sticks.Andrew Bolt asked the question has Julia Gillard left her past behind? Or maybe it is still clinging to her like a leech!
She is as cunning as a sewer rat. I would say the general public is more gullible than ASF members, and there are signs on this thread that her spin is working.
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