Tubley wrote “Re “fail to answer it in your next post then I shall move on to another thread”

Then wrote
“An ugly display, from the rat,
Who went away, to another shed;
Hopefully, you’ll do just that…
See you ‘round, in another thread.”

As the sign-off on Frazier goes -

“The rat is leaving the building.”

Bye, bye tubley, threats and bullying might work in your classroom (where you have the height advantage) but they will never work here.

Maybe he is in the wrong media, television might suit better – I think teal should be the colour and a big hook in the head of the suit for “telly-tubley”

Philb I guess politics does not have the same requirements of form as being a runway model does, but then, it could work as the second career the age of each do not overlap.

RE Maximus reservations to the politically unbiased delivery of education

Quote -
Former Victorian education minister Joan Kirner once argued that the work of schools had to be radically redefined. Instead of education being impartial, she said, it had to become "part of the socialist struggle for equality, participation and social change, rather than an instrument of the capitalist system".

The AEU told classroom teachers to tell students that the US-led war was illegal, that allied troops should be immediately withdrawn and to "support students who take an anti-war stance".
More recent evidence of the AEU's left-wing bias is evident in President Pat Byrne's prepared remarks at the 2005 Queensland Teachers' Union biennial conference on June 21.
Based on the works of Marxist intellectuals such as Antonio Gramsci and Pierre Bourdieu, the union also argues that the education system, instead of providing a ladder of opportunity, is instrumental in marginalising disadvantaged groups.

Extract http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=3787

Maximus makes a good point

Oh Shonga - politics is part of life - but not "LIFE" itself developing and growing as an individual is what life is about.

Changes in gender relations across the world can be seen in terms of shifts in the underlying gendering of politics. Women, the community and the social are vital to Third Way and social democratic politics, taking the hard edge off neoliberal governance without doing neoliberal economics much damage. Does the current government Australia need a softer face? Is there any real challenge in the formal political sphere? It is most likely that women are leading the way in alternative politics spaces such in the social movement activism of late and perhaps this is where we should all be looking for real change.

Women on top?

About time society benefits from this obviously underutilised capacity. Probably time women became better taxpayers too - at least to the point of collectively paying for their own health and education costs, supporting “their” children, and those of other women unable to support themselves, such as other single mothers and the elderly. Come to think of it, they should do a lot better in the superannuation stakes as well. Rather than rely on multiple consecutive divorces to build up retirement savings, they should be alerted to the not-so-insignificant retirement plans of politicians. For those not suited to politics, perhaps our defence forces could do with a softer face for that upcoming Iran conflict.

And let’s not overlook the opportunities in local government - ranging from waste collection to Lord Mayor.

With sustained graduation rates higher than those of males, not only should we now expect full repayment of HECS debts, but some real financial contributions to society for a change. No, consumption alone, no longer qualifies. The time to get out of the kitchen and produce something more tangible has truly arrived. Roll on progress!

You heard it here first folks, our investigative reporter Mr, Col Rouge Esq. has just announced to the world that the Gulf War 11 is legal, yes you have it, straight over the UN Secretery-General's head did our intrepid reporter go, where none would have dare gone before him, THE WAR IN IRAQ IS LEGAL....read all about it, Rouge trumps the UN read all about it....

Ah Col, it makes me proud to be an Australian today, shooting over 100,000 Iraqi men women and children civilians, and it's now all declared legal, good on ya mate, you are a credit to your country, even if you are a bleeding Pom, we'll claim ya, anyone who can trump the Un is ok by us....Col Rouge for PM...OI,OI,OI...

SHONGA – Please identify the post I made regarding UN Secretary General.
I can find none, from which I can only assume you are deluded and have retreated to “SHONGAland” a place where bland is pursued and personal development discouraged.

If you have something to say, say it, otherwise you are simply wasting good air which someone else could be breathing.

Oh and to your description of me, I would far sooner be described as a “bleeding Pom” than a “retarded troll”.

Col,
You have said the Iraqi War is legal, for you too say that you must override the UN Secretary-General, gee you have to spoon feed some people.....especially those to whom everything is a communist plot like you and Maximus mate. I mfound another post of yours which I was able to compliment you on mate, do you have an alter-ego who also makes posts under your name, as the posts on which I am able to compliment you on are obviously made by a person who is reasonably in touch with their emotions, and feelings, not at all like your style Col.......