Squeers (and any with ears to hear that may be listening),

I offer this little vignette from the teachings of Diogenes:

"The city was under seige. Everyone was busy fortifying the walls
- some were carrying stones, others were patching the walls,
yet others were building battlements. Diogenes, not wanting to appear idle
while everyone around him was working so frantically,
diligently rolled his barrel back and forth along the battlements.
The city fell."

(For those who know nothing as to Diogenes, he was a Greek philosopher contemporary with Plato, and who was famous as living in a barrel on the streets of, presumably, Athens, Greece, and surviving as a beggar. He had earned the nickname 'Dog', in romanised greek 'cynic', hence in our aggluti-native tongue giving rise to the noun 'cynicism'. And along the way you have now found out why 'nicknames' are so called: it is from the greek [again romanised], 'Nick', which so many, many Greeks are called, and don't you know it!)

I don't know whether that sheds any light on things for you Squeers (and those with ears that hear), as to why I post on OLO. You say:

"why else would such a silver tongue while away his hours
crafting supererogatory prose and prosody, gratis-
-for the sheer hell of it! Unless to torment me,
to toy with my pretentions--to gloat!
Even imposing such strictures as perfect economy-
-not a word wasted or wanted!"

Perhaps it is just that I fancy myself, somewhat analogously to Diogenes, as living like quite a few other Australians, by choice almost, on the scrapheap rather than salute much of the drivel and banality that passes for political debate these days. Or then again, perhaps it is just to provide the counterpoint to the silence that is golden; an opportunity for the tired, abused eye of the OLOer, forced by idleness to peruse these threads, these columns, these veritable pillars of our democracy, to see the funny side of things.

Oh, I almost forgot:

Harry Harbord Morant.

Brian and Kerry Howes.

Extradition.

Trial.

Justice.

YOU WILL BE PLEASED TO KNOW...as posting has gotten complicated/systamised...here...no doudt to stop all the bots posting...this is near my last post

you also no doudt will be pleased...with these..rather detailed revelations
http://www.infowars.com/climate-treaty-will-create-world-government-dictatorship/#

of course others may not be./but no doudt your ever ready to serve the moneychangers..to the last drop they can squeeze out of us

luckey for me...im pretty much done

you have been told

...the problem dont belong to me..but those conducting and condoning active treasons...im notuing the tax revieuw..recomendations to cut business taxes...just as..we get this globalist new tax...lol

lert each do their due dilligance

Climate Treaty Will Create World Government Dictatorship

<<The Conference of the Parties..(COP)>>..special intrests paRTIES..LOL THERE ARE..ONLY ONE MASTER/PARTIES..BOTH PARTIES SERVIONG THE SELF SAME ELITE

...<<..to the United Nations will hold their 15th conference on climate change through December 7-18th.>>>

NOTING IT BEGAN WAY BACK THEN AS COOLING...THEN WARMING...THEN CHANGE...LOL

<<..At the conference,..globalists like Obama..will sign the..‘Copenhagen Climate Change Treaty’..that will replace the Kyoto treaty that is set to expire in 2012.

Lord Christopher Monckton,..the man who warned many..this week of the treaty appeared on the Glenn Beck radio program,..he makes it clear..that the treaty will create a World Government Dictatorship..

..that will have complete authority..over all nations..

..by intervening in the economies..and environment of any individual country..in the world..without consent...

The treaty..will also allow..the distribution of wealth from..THE CITISENRY...OF THE developed countries..like the U.S....to THE NEO ELITES FAVOURED WITH FINANCING..TO REBUILD THE SCAM UPON THE IGFNORANT...Third World Countries like Africa,

in other words;.. CARBON/taxpayer-funded FAUX-socialist AS COORPERATE/welfare!...

The reason..why many believe..Obama will sign this global treaty..is because Obama'S SUPPORTERS/ADVISERS ADVICE TREASONS...HE has supported a global tax legislation..would have given $845 billion of foreign aid...

to satisfy the United Nations’...NEW WORLD OVERLORDS...CONSISTING OF DICTATORSHIPS...OF CUNTRIES/STATES..MADE INTO FRABCHISE..LEGAL WARDSHIPPS...BY THE ELITES WHO'S..goal of reducing US ALL INTO poverty by 2015...

THE CAPS ARE MINE

YOUR CHOICE..IS TO READ THE FULL REVEALATION..OR NOT...ITS A DONE DEAL/TREASON

One Under God... how right you are, and so perceptive too, not to mention fluent in your thoughts and articulate in imparting your ideas. Yer done good.

Clearly, that Obama fellow is Devil sent, what with his desire to heal the sick with a Communist designed health service straight from the centre of socialism, the UK and its damned NHS.

I am very pleased to see the large number of Christians and their churches can see through the glitter surrounding this Devil, and recognise the underhanded dealings about to assault the Land of The Free and its particular grasp of democracy.

I await the ever loving Christian abortion clinic bombers picking up their military rifles (and hand launched missiles maybe?) and mounting the grassy knoll, again, to rid the world of Auld Nick's work.

Keep up your warnings to this miserable and unworthy world OUG, we'd be lost without seers such as you.

>>Simple you can track the problem you identify that back to Hawke/Keating and the socialist swill in government at the time, who allowed the Coles/Myers and the Woolworth/Safeway mergers to proceed, when they have the authority to stop them.<<

Col,

I was young fellow at that time who didn't have eyes to see such things, so I concede that what you say could be right.

>>That is why I support the spirit of ACCC. Because it helps redress the imbalance of a few producers/wholesalers with power to control prices for millions of individual consumers.<<

I noticed the ACCC has recently been involved in brokering a deal to ensure there is grocery competition in shopping centres. The deal discontinues the practice of Coles/Woolies writing into contracts with their landlords that business competitors not be given any retail space. I wonder how they ever got away with that over the years? I agree that the spirit of the ACCC seems to be working in this case. And, as I understand it, they've done this without any regulation. Maybe just backroom threats that, of course, would never have worked if the Government did not have the regulation card to play.

Forrest,
I'm a big fan of Diogenes myself and have an illustrated limited edition (cartoons!) text covering his exploits. Did you know that Sherlock Holmes' older and "smarter" brother, who only makes a few appearences in the stories, was based on the dear old dog? Sherlock of course was no philosopher, but a narrow-minded dolt (much like some of the contributers to these threads), who didn't know that the Earth goes around the sun, for instance! Sherlock was an idiot savant in fact and would, as occasion demanded, appeal to his brother's broader spectrum of thought. The philosophers of the world, like Sherlock's big brother (who, like Diogenes, was a great success at being an abject failure in the ways of the world--there are no instances of him masturbating in public, however) and yourself? and even myself (in my small way), have a hard time finding a focus, ever being distracted from the mandetory business of building our empires, and laying blame, by the contingencies that seem to colonise every endeavour.

On more serious matters: Being father to a brood of 6 myself, I cannot imagine the distress the Howes, and especially their children, are prey too. Julia Gillard and her lame bloody government have learnt nothing from Howard's toadying to the US. It is another human rights abuse, perpetrated by governments, that this family is broken up and kept in limbo for so long without being charged. And from what I gather, there's little indication that any law has been broken--at least not in the UK or Australia.
The Howes "may" have acted unconscienably, but as I've said elsewhere, we are ALL experts at rationalising the things we do, or don't do! Indeed we routinely perform this aclechemy, individuals and governments, making our misdeeds redound to our credit with sincere credultiy!

Squeers and others
When did the sun stop going round the earth?
Isn't the world flat and only other planets round?
The sun must revolve around the earth as there are so many out there that thinks the sun rises from thier ar/e
Anyway have a laugh it breaks the monotony
Have a good life
From Dave
PS had a bit of a laugh at this

http://au.news.yahoo.com/a/-/mp/6289679/nobel-winner-slams-bible-as-handbook-of-bad-morals/

Laughter is a great past time
Dave