Dear Shadow Minister,

Actually I was raised in a very conservative thinking
and voting family. I also worked and lived in Los
Angeles for close to ten years. I know the entertainment
industry in Hollywood quite well. So I know of what I
write.

billyd, your lies and ignorance are manifest.

Anyone who thinks Australia has a first past the post voting system is a dunce. That's you.

On the other hand, I have never said Australia has not had a government elected by a minority. It has. But it's a very rare circumstance under preferential voting, compared to a first past the post system, which by its nature can deliver minority governments regularly. So that's another of your lies.

Your disgraceful attacks on the late Professor Bob Carter are shameful. However, Leo Lane, not I, did most of the heavy lifting in defending Bob's reputation against your vile smearing.

Every time I read your crap it reminds me that if someone is as ignorant as you they should just shut up.

Foxy:

"his disability should be immune from being mocked."

That is a very patronising attitude to people with a disability. Why should they be more protected than anyone else? They would not want to be protected from being mocked anymore than the next person because they see them selves as equal to everyone else. You obviously think they are not equal to everyone else simply because of their disability.

It is wrong to discriminate against people with a disability because it is not their fault that they have a disability but that does not mean that mocking them is worse than mocking anyone else. Mocking is mocking whoever is on the receiving end.

People who have a disability are just as able to deal with mocking behaviour as those without and they do not need 'do-gooders' like yourself or Meryl Streep to stand up for them.

Dear phanto.

I have politely told you I do not wish to
enter into any dialogue with you. If you
want to know why? Go back and read your
posts to me, then take an intelligent guess.

Foxy:

I heard you the first time. I am not here to tender to your desires. If you make a comment on a public forum then others have every right to respond with their own comments.

You cannot control that.

Foxy,

You might know something about the entertainment industry. I only know what I see and read w.r.t. what entertainers do and say, and it is overwhelmingly left whinge with actors and actresses fawning over the left whinge pollies and mocking the republicans and liberals in Aus, yet oddly silent when their heros cock up.

I grew up with relatively progressive parents, with my mother a scientist, and my father senior partner of a company he built. I noticed how they became disillusioned with the incompetence and intransigence of the left whinge, and sickened by their sense of entitlement.

As for conservatives, I am sorry that you had a narrow minded and regressive upbringing. Perhaps it is because I am surrounded by smart and educated people who know exactly why they believe in what they do, that I expect debate to reasoned not dogmatic.

Streep had her 5 minutes to whinge about trivia to a global audience, and for the 50% that loved Hillary. For the rest it was a non event.