Foxy,

What a great poem. Such an accurate and perceptive
description of the personalities we see on, on-line opinion.

It is really amazing how the personalities do shine through,the
written words. Often so accurately, that if someone changes
their username they can often still be recognised by regular
online-opinion members. Your poem points this out in an
engaging and charming way.

In the vein this thread has taken, might I offer the following:
A variation on an old British Army song:

" Loafer has only got one ball,
Jiggler has two but they are small,
Scribbler has something sim'lar,
But poor old Screwballs has no balls at all. "

With reference to the article:

Our T'Abbott has great big potatoes,
A notion now taken as fact -
They may not impact on his swagger,
But contribute a lot to his chat.
When the big boys are running their mouths off,
Our T'Abbott sits calm and relaxed,
In the knowledge he's taken their measure,
And has his responses down pat.
There's a war o'er the nether horizon,
For whatever reason begun,
And it's up to all right-thinking fellows to do there what needs to be done.
Should we all sit 'pat' while they're at it,
All fat and tucked-up in our beds,
Or go to the aid of the victims - of murder and rape and all that?
These timid, excusionist Wimpoles,
Who'd leave it to others to tend,
Might ponder a moment reflecting,
Who is it you'd rather have friend?

(Anyway, that's my thought on the matter.)

A supposedly wall-beating PM accusation constantly regurgitated, whereas the previous 2 (3?) PM's, by admission of their own and self, were Psychos or still "immature" (criminal?) enough at 33 to create Slush funds. Climb out of the echo chambers of your minds and look at reality.

Foxy, I tips me hat to you! Yours is a wonderful poem, almost Shakespeare-like in its perception.

Well done!

Dear CHERFUL and David G.,

Thank You for your kind words.

These are times that can prove difficult for many of us
but it's great that we've got a forum such as
this one to at least share some of our thoughts
with each other.

Now back to the topic ...

I feel sickened today. Australia has again joined the American War Machine.

In 1939-45 it was different. The U.S. joined the World War (nearly two years late) and helped to defeat the evil AXIS of Germany and Japan.

Then the U.S., a serial warmonger, decided to take over control of the whole world but it didn't announce this ambition.

Oh, no, it wrapped itself in the flag of democracy, human rights, freedom, equality, while it built a massive army, one that no other nation could match.

People didn't question what the U.S. was doing. They believed the American lies, the duplicity, the propaganda. They didn't ask themselves why the U.S. needed so many military bases, or why the America dollar should be the world currency, or why the U.S. got involved in every war or used rendition or torture or used weapons like depleted uranium and kept people is cages.

Decent nations in the world were tricked by the U.S. They couldn't believe that the nation that saved us from Germany and Japan was angling to dominate the world using military force and bribery and, quite often, supported evil dictators which served its interests.

When is the world going to realize the massive con-job that the U.S. has employed and stop the Imperial Plunderers in their tracks?

If they are not stopped the world will become like 1984 as Orwell predicted.

The Wooden Horse is in every nation on Earth.

It must be burned!