Aah, it's been another day on the sea of never ending temporary status paperwork here in Indonesia.

I'd been feeling thoroughly stressed and fit to smash on with some #$%! but instead opted to drop of paracetamol-codeine (we still have 50 mg per pill of codeine here in Indo) and a glass of sticky rice wine, 1 day fresh from the pasteurising bottle from atop the gas stove (from the 15kg clean weight gas bottle @ less than $AU10 per month for a family of 3 who mostly eat in) at about 0.40c per bottle @ current FOREX.

Things could be worse, I muse to myself.

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And then, here, we have the return of P the B, and every one getting all fired up (a sign of good things to come I hope) and by far one of the more enjoyable threads I have read in a while.

Of course, just having come from the ABC Australia web, I note the allegations regarding Krudd and Garrett, the insulation disaster, subsequent cover up and refusal to adhere to the principals of transparency and accountability.

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Potentially a series of hanging offences in my view and I note we still have pretty good trees out the front of the WA Supreme Court.

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They appear to have cared more for themselves than the potential (and actual) extreme risks to our fellow Australians.

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That's a drum to beat and even though the thought of Abbott at the helm disgusts me, Mr Wudd has to go if the allegations bear out.

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Off with his head I say, and a "prayer" that *GreenBrowny et al* end up with the balance of power. .. AmenHotep.

Wow, we now have two died in the wool Ruddites. Everyone needs to understand the principles that governed England well, and caused the dark ages to blight most of Europe until Luther came along. It is a real pity that Rudd is only a skin deep Christian, and by association with a whole raft of lawyers, whose whole belief system is skewed away from truth and honesty, is unable to lead as a Christian should.

The lawyers have established nine separate republics, in what should be a United Nation, with a Council of Australian Governments, as representing nine separate Republics. These republics have de-facto Presidents, and Rudd is only one of these individuals. The Constitution is the Deed that establishes a United Nation, and is supposed to guarantee everyone’s freedom absolutely.

Rudd promised to be a constitutionalist. Unfortunately his henchmen have prevented him from governing by the Book. Poor old Squeers and Belly are as misled as the lawyers who make up a very significant part of the Labor Party these days. There are thirty LLB’s in the Labor Party in the House of Representatives, and not one of them has the gumption to get the Australian Style Manual, and learn what the punctuation of the Constitution really makes it mean.

The Style manual states that Capital Letters make a real difference. The word Judge and Court do not stand alone in Ch III Constitution. Yet the Parliament of the Commonwealth and of every State have created Courts. They have also created Judges. Both of these are Pagan inventions. Instead of having a Christian Commonwealth, we have a pagan Australian Government. I once told a good Roman Catholic Judge, that he represented Almighty God, under the Australian Constitution. He objected strongly, thought about it and promptly resigned.

The Bible says When Judges ruled, there was famine in the land. There is poverty and despair in all the Capital cities of Australia because Judges Rule. We do not have a democracy, when the people only get heard once every three years. The little j Constitution judges are you and me

Peter the believer - what unmitigated nonsense you've written. The bible says all sorts of things, including many that you'd probably prefer not to be quoted. Even most theologians today accept that it is a fairy story and not to be taken literally. Christianity has nothing to be proud about and is no model for anyone. Unfortunately I have to defend your right to drivel on but please - give up on the Christians are good, crap. It is blatantly untrue and serves no good end.

Peter the Believer,

The Dark Ages was the legacy of the fall of the West Roman Empire (476), wherein slavery morphed into fiefdom. The Norman Dynasteries (from 1066) lowered the standard of living of the Angles and the Celts. King John was forced to sign the Marna Carta (1215). Luther was significant, but the Great Divergence (c.1760) was more important. It was the breaking down od the power the old Mafia like nobel families that brought the modern era allowing for industrialisation and creation of wealth on scale undreamt of by our ancestors. Today, you and I, live better thahn Julius Caesar and Henry VIII. We don't wont to regress to Church and Monarchial states.

I can relate to your comments about the CBA Chief, I though the same about $20 million beig spend of unneed spires atop Sydney's St Mary's Cathral casting shadows towards King Cross's street kids.

Peter the Believer,

As I have tried to point out to you before: The Pagans (Pagani) were a group of Roman civilians or rustics. Herein, the Christians used the term to refer to people who believed in God but did not believe that God is revealed through human religions. It has nothing to do with non-Constitutionalists. The polytheists Romans called Christian "atheists" because of their religious exclusivity and because the Christians would not pray for the good health of Caesar. The term pangi was a Christian retort to being an atheist by the more religiously tolerant society.

Pagani was nothing to Kevin Rudd or being a non-Constitutionalist.

I think Rudd (Garret) have been is some respects disappointind and prefer Gillard, Swan and Wong. However, the any of these aforementioned five are preferable to Abbott's autocratic policy on the run with no details or Hockey's whining evasiveness (even more than most politicians).

The Labor party has become a liberal democratic party, easing its industrial roots. The Liberals have become a Tory cum Business cum Farmer party, with only secondary interest in middle Australian workers/professionals.

When Hockey slammed 40% super profit tax, he didn't mention that on the other hand, companies like BHP receive favoured treated by Banks, with "shaded" exchange rates and lower interest rates, compared to you and me

In case any of you honking geese are capable of being objective, Rudd said he was absolutely passionate about dealing with climate change on the 7.30 Report. He is however a politician, and had to abandon it not because he's piss-weak, but because he is a 'representative' of a piss-weak country. It is the electorate that is piss-weak, here and in the US and elsewhere! What's a polly going to do? He/she is pegged to the self-seeking electorate that puts him/her in office.
Rudd plainly said that he was defeated by the politics, not by his own weakness.
So much for fu@#$%$# democracy!!