MR WAR HERO,

Should I feel deprived, that I didn't get the opportunity of joining the gung-ho brigade in an orgy of baby killing and rape in Vietnam. Me thinks not, I left that to the more qualified. Unfortunately many returned stotally screwed up, then OD'ed on drugs, or went out and necked themselves with a length of rope. How many like that did you know, many I suspect.

The typical bully approach, try to isolate the victim, by pathetically sucking up to those who might offer support. You are just so predictable.

You came on here and started this, but as you can see, I wont kowtow to a drop kick like yourself. For someone who is used to lording it over others in your "past employment", this must infuriate you, but I don't care one way or the other. Say what you like, its water off a ducks back to me.

I think your last sentence says it all. PAUL 1405 - Sadly, it is water off a duck's back. You might've been a pretty decent sort of bloke otherwise. I know you'll reply by saying I'll never be a decent bloke, and you might well be right, I dunno. But at my age, all I can do is try. The concept of decency has never curried any thought with you.

Concerning Vets who've necked themselves - I know of a couple. But more likely, they meet their demise through the excessive consumption of alcohol. Together with a litany of busted marriages, chronic illnesses, etc. None that I've heard ever purposefully killed babies. I guess squadrons of heavy B-52s carpet-bombing jungle, with HE and napalm, will invariably leave all manner of casualties. The Oz TF at Nui Dat used to overlook the Long Hai hills, which were rotten with Cong and ARVN regulars. Consequently, the USAF regularly bombed the Long Hai's flying regular sorties from their base at Da Nang.

Anyway, you'll soon get your wish, PAUL1405, us baby killers are rapidly thinning out, noticeably so, if last ANZAC Day was any measure. I'm eighty, so many Vietnam Vets are around that figure except those conscripted at age eighteen.

Hassy,

Your attempt to link your power outage to green energy is feeble in the extreme. Even worse is trying to link it to the final closure (28th April), its been running at a reduced capacity for some time, of the 52 year old Ladell power station in New South Wales. AGL like all other providers see no long term future for coal fired power stations in Australia, they will not invest money in such projects, they are just not financially viable for investors over a 40 year period. As for the closer measures were taken to safeguard supply., and here it is, May 12th, and the totally closure has not impacted supply in any way.

o sung wu

Most people would respect your military and police service. The rubbish aimed at you by one unhinged person who has nothing to be proud of, and who can't remember what he says from one rant to the next, should be ignored. What he has said to you and about you is abusive - the ravings of a non-achiever with a huge chip on his shoulder. There is nothing to be gained by trying to have a conversation with people like him.

Thanks, TTBN - Matey, I no longer have the energy to do battle with PAUL1405; I'm now over eighty years and too tired to engage in combative rhetoric with this individual. Perhaps he's right, in some of the things he's said about me, I dunno. Time I left the Forum permanently I think.

That is a big NO o sung wu, we need the real world experience & the common sense you bring to us with your posts. The nasty ideological rubbish we get from some lefty posters must be refuted, for the sake of our grand kids.

On the other subject AGLs balance sheet tries to disguise the huge excess profits it makes from unreliables & the subsidies, but it is there for those who would look. That is why they want coal fired power gone. When it is, lust watch the escalation in prices. Albo's $500 hand out will be just a drop in the bucket compared to the rises to come.