well seems you are a bit younger than me as I graduated in engineering in 1966, but I feel I was able to deal with whatever came my way by then.

but my attack by homosexuals was in the confessional of the Catholic Church when I was but 12, and that has always been hard to deal with [and I may soon sue the "One True Church", having found their Towards Healing by Professor Parkinson to be a cruel joke].

but without making light of your case, it sounds very similar to the plot of the most boring film I have ever seen, A Beautiful Mind, with "Our [boring] Russel"

why not give the part to Kylie Monogue? lol

I am 66 and I have seen improvement in Australian standards of living that would have been beyond imagination when I was young. That's not only material standards which have reached extraordinary levels. As Dr Clark's situation suggests, there was no way society would allow anyone to take the lid off forms of abuse in families or institutions and frankly, no vocabulary to define the category of abuse.

Our politicians of every hue have in their way contributed to the present undeniable wellbeing. I vote more to the Liberal Party side (more opportunity) than Labor (more rules for our "benefit") but all sides have left good legacies. I think the vocabulary with which we express our opinions of various regimes should be toned down, abusive imagery blocks off any sensible discussion. We should have two defined categories of political discourse, one the histrionic where we make the cruel jokes and so on and the other a common sense category where we converse and provide reason and research and are less liable to become boring

"Our politicians of every hue have in their way contributed to the present undeniable wellbeing."

Oh to live with you and Alice in Wonderland. As Dylan said:

Now all the Rules of the Road have been Lodged
It's only people's Games you have to Dodge

I would far rather have been a [virtual] slave working 15 hours a day 3,500 years ago for Queen Hatshepsut [my favourite person besides Kirby J] on her Temple, than for Queen Greer, morphed by Howard PC into "lifestyle/justice" today via his army of blood sucking lawyers/feminists.

At least there WAS something of beauty in the end with Hatshepsut, whereas as Cohen says, the Greer victory is "a cold and lonely Hallelujah, waving her flag on the Marble Arch".

You then say:

We should have two defined categories of political discourse, one the histrionic where we make the cruel jokes and so on and the other a common sense category where we converse and provide reason and research and are less liable to become boring

well I will skip the jokes IYW but for the common sense category [and remember Kirby J says thinking is Beyond most lawyers] I will simply refer you[s] to a chapter of my book as an example of how the noble idea of citizens having privacy was bastardised by Howard.

It is FREE at http://www.ablokesguide.com on the right, 2nd from top

This thread started on the economy of Australia regarding The best Treasurer that this country has ever known Lord Peter Costello who I am sure will either be our next Prime Minister or President being a passionate Republican. Then right out of the blue we had a so called Doctor come on to this thread telling us that he was accosted by Homosexuals. Lucky Him.
But unfortunately he has since had a mental breakdown. Speaking of other s that have had unfortunately this type of attack what about these allegations which of course relate tremendously to the finacial situation of the Australian Economy. Buswell 'sniffed' staff chair
Joe Spagnolo
April 26, 2008 05:00pm

WITH just months before the state election, Troy Buswell's leadership is
being actively undermined from within his own party.

Liberals have been spreading potentially damaging new allegations against Mr
Buswell of inappropriate behaviour towards women.

The new allegations follow admissions by Mr Buswell in January that he
snapped open the bra of a Labor staffer during a drunken night at Parliament
House last year.

Liberal MPs have contacted The Sunday Times claiming a former Liberal female
staffer was the victim of a "chair sniffing'' incident in Mr Buswell's
parliamentary office when he was a deputy to former leader, Matt Birney, in
2006.

It was alleged that Mr Buswell lifted her chair and started sniffing it in
front of her after she had finished interviewing a constituent.

He then allegedly repeated the act moments later in front of several Liberal
staff members.

It's understood that the woman had warned Mr Buswell about his pranks
before.

On a previous occasion, he had allegedly crawled around on his hands and
knees in front of the same woman pretending to be her husband. When
confronted by the allegations this week, Mr Buswell declined to comment. Can we really believe that this actually happened ?

"Lord Peter Costello who I am sure will either be our next Prime Minister or President being a passionate Republican"

well yes but your little tin hero "did the bunk" AFTER taking our $60 billion

http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=hLRg1U4h-2Y

are YOU TOO a little piggie

Cuphandle, Dear Cuphandle:

I wonder why nobody replied or made comment to either of your posts 16 and 18 back?

Maybe there was no answer because the statements were "spot on"?

Maybe there are just NO answers to the questions posed?

Maybe the contributors think that you are getting too close to the truth and the subjects are too contraversial to discuss further?

MAYBE WE SHOULD ALL STOP FEIGNING FALSE CONCERN....and skip off down the "yellow brick road"!