Aww Belly I wasn’t being smug but I see you’ve gone from slagging “Kate” to calling Reba Meagher an idiot but that’s not what the irreverent Della Bosca thought when he allegedly rang Meagher to offer her Newman's seat 90 minutes after Newman was murdered.

The threat of an election loss in NSW has the potential for Labor’s shadowy figures to remain in parliament – including Tripodi but perhaps you should get out and about more and discover that the Labor politicians who’ve forgotten history are repeating it.

“Smack Express (Allen & Unwin), has recently been released, by a former assistant NSW police commissioner, Clive Small, co-written with the journalist and author Tom Gilling. The book paints such an appalling picture of Al Grassby and the Calabrian mafia that Grassby's “statue in Canberra is now an indictment of the ACT Labor Government's stupidity and cynicism.” And Mr Tripodi, it appears, is up to his eyeballs in it too.

http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/monuments-to-honesty-and-deceit-20090215-881s.html?page=3

Mr. Bruce Provost, a retired National Crime Authority senior investigator, indicated in 2005 that he had no doubt that the Whitlam government Minister was paid to commit crimes and do favours for Calabrian Mafia members operating in Australia and that the National Crime Authority bowed to political pressure not to fully investigate his Mafia links.

http://www.nationalobserver.net/2005_winter_ed1.htm

Dude this party ain’t goin' to be poppin’. You should establish a clean up crew now. Already WA Liberal Premier, Barney Rubble’s on the loose and you guys are losing your grip on the greasy totem pole.

Come now yabby at ALP conferences and such on my way in and out of the AFL club young Lady's do talk to me.
I thought it must be my good looks , maybe the suit? no wallets are bigger in men who wear suits.
And likely to be used more if half drunk.
This thread started with GY highlighting media behavior.
And we all if we look can see we are no different.
Our behavior is no different.
On the smallest if any evidence we have seen the ALP blamed in the death of a man described in todays Sydney Herald as a stand over man and gangster.
Todays Sunday Sydney Telegraph has a story confirming my view Della had a plan, a strong commitment and plan for NSW it lays in dust because he had an affair?
How many men have never had an affair?
How many women?
Before marriage's surely we all did?
After?
I see nothing so very wrong in sex.
How can we avoid the fact it is the basic driving force behind almost every thing we do?
Those young girls at kings cross do not get my wallet, I understand my ego tells me lies, no groupies follow unionists, well yes they do but boiler suited females rarely beat bikinis.
Yes NSW is a basket case yes Labor is self destructing but can conservatives see a leader on their side? a policy maybe?
I see a train wreck waiting to happen.

Yabby
If your rash generalizations get any wilder and wider we'll need to import a tranquillizer Cannon to subdue them and an industrial suction pump for liposuction to bring them back to believability.
You simply read too many trash rags and now you believe they're real life.

Wake up and smell the coffee the media publish salacious stories of young girls and men BECAUSE it's different, not the norm and therefore can be sensationalized. Imagine trying to sensationalizing an average man and woman of the same age getting married.

Current research clearly shows that the 'other woman' is vastly more likely to be an average neighbour type not some younger woman.
Sure there are trophy wives/hubbies and predatory types but far more likely to be from the same social and age bracket (demographics). Do the maths how many older males and gold digger type wives in politics/Hollywood. Your assertions simply simply aren't supported by the facts.

I can think of at least 10 valid reasons(generally accepted by professionals and research) why the great distances in the ages of partners occur.

Both CJ and I have urged you to get some wider (realistic) perspective on your pet subject.

I wonder how Yabby's statistics and theory holds up in regards to rich women and toy boys. It can't be fertility as the attraction for the men, and it can't be money for the woman she is already rich.

Using examples like Anna Nicole and decrepit old men with big wallets is to select a cartoon caricature anomaly as indicative of real life.

Foxy is quite right, there are many reasons why women would want to choose an older man. Maturity is a big factor.

Just popped in to wish all of you who
are fathers - HAPPY FATHER'S DAY!

Examinator has again summed up pretty much what
I've been trying to tell Yabby - that we can't
generalise about people.

Anyway, have a great day!

*Current research clearly shows that the 'other woman' is vastly more likely to be an average neighbour type not some younger woman*

Well of course it does, because most people are not rich and
powerful, but normal. That is my point, amongst rich and powerful
men, the odds are quite different.

*I've been trying to tell Yabby - that we can't
generalise about people. *

Foxy, we can clearly make interesting observations. Like that
on average men are taller then women. Plenty of exceptions, plenty
of ifs and buts, but its still true.

Now if you are a rich, powerful older bloke, having a young thingy
on your arm is rather common. Not so for the average non rich,
non powerful bloke.

Fact is, I'll re post Examinator's line, he agrees that rich and
powerful people attract partners way out of their league.

*The interesting question is WHY, otherwise ordinary people, are able to score sex partners that were it not for their position of power or money wouldn't have a fart in a hurricane chance with.*

Foxy and Pelican once again try and pass judgement by seeing the
world through their own eyes, rather then what is happening out
there in the real world.