Why bother giving another creep politician oxygen? Just ignore him. This is why he weeps so much.

The best thing about Kevin Rudd, was that he proved that the leader of the labor party had little say, as it was the faceless men that pulled the strings, while the best thing about Julia Gillard, was the way she squirmed her way back in in 2010, as she buried the labor party for years to come.

In fact, those six years were almost worth it, almost!

<< Bazz growth must go on, as long as we are silly enough to keep increasing the population. More people must produce, & use more. >>

Yes Hazz!

<< The most ridiculous thing in Oz today is that we have voted with our birth rate to hold or even reduce our population, but policy advisers & politicians want to second guess us, & keep immigration ridiculously high. >>

YESSS!!

If only you were as sensible on other subjects as you are on this one!! ( :>)

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<< The "Big Australia" policy is nothing short of madness and indeed could trigger a collapse of the Australian economy >>

Absolutely, Bazz.

Rudd completely didn’t get this. Gillard did… but was quashed by the faceless men… with the big-donations big-business lobby standing closely behind to make sure that the faceless men told Gillard to zip it, and to keep on with super-high immigration and manic expansionism!

Bearing in mind that I do at times feel more romantically idealistic than at other times, as perhaps most of us do from time to time, I must admit that I find my present emotional state to be not entirely devoid of some sadness in the aftermath of seeing shots of Kevin yesterday.

Part of him seemed none to keen ... and pain ...

Perhaps in me it is merely the same reaction that perhaps many of us feel when seeing anybody in distress, as after all, another thought within me reminds me that in "my book" Kruddy is "guilty" of more than one offence for which I would have him sent to the "Hanging Judge," as an old mate from the Feds used to affectionately refer to it. ;-)

Even so, is there not some real fire left in the old boy yet? Or is it in reality too late to ButterFly?

Perhaps it turns on how much of a change of Heart he really had, and I believe that the Chinese would agree that it was, how shall I say, not an auspicious time for such a decision.

and *KruddConon* (and to reminisce just for a moment)

" ... What is best in life? ... "

" ... Crush your enemies, drive them before you, and hear the lamentation of the Red Headed Woman. ... "

(HaHaHa)

I was watching something of *Kill Bill 2* last night, and noted with interest when Bill's brother said something to the effect that the real end of some quality people was (and perhaps still is) retirement.

..

and as an old friend once said:

" ... don't kid yourSelf that you can Love others anymore than what you Love yourSelf. ... " (Master Tedbury of Sidmouth - and perhaps for that reason, if for no other, I would walk those shores one day and search for the secret "stones" and see the old places of fortification.)

And what of those who re-ushered him in again? Would you not also go to them in considering how to proceed?

Hasbeen & Ludwig,
When you read comments by economists and financial
commentators, note how they only mention money, either printing it or
changing interest rates or various manipulations etc.

They seem to think the whole system can be controlled that way, which
is why they are desperate to get growth going again.
They never allude to anything but money as if energy and materials are
not involved at all.
Without surplus energy there can be no growth. China has been using up
all the surplus energy which is why the economies of the rest of the
world are having growth problems.
Extra Chinese demand is being met by increasing prices to the rest of
the world to reduce their demand.
Once, about 2017, when tight oil production slows then we will see a
bigger price rise and perhaps contraction in our economy.

Ludwig, regarding population, it is the same story, an increase in
population means a demand for growth, but growth is now very difficult
so it has to mean that the product that was available for the previous
population has to be shared around the larger population.

<<..Coming from the center right
I have no love for extreme politics on either end of the spectrum,>>

the great..joe bejelklie barbed wires..fence sitting..
extremist-right..whingers..becomes middle..sorry [..center right]..thus center left...become extreme left..and extreme lefties..are simply..terrorists

great Orwellian double think..oh..shaded maestro
the admirable criton..

[..i..must spell-check..that]

[by..the sun-struck/some downer..]..clearly..extremist left wing/whinger..

lets reset it..the other way
middle of the road=extreme/mist

and left and right
are thus revealed as extreme
narco extremist..or..sparko extreemlypist

left and right only mean any thing..to..extremists
who..*all..feel..they alone=middle of the road
and its their opposition..

that falls into righter/brighter whiter
than..the middle of the road..i claim as mine
or the lower more extremely off the chart lefty..who
dont even..know what..middle piddle fiddle/riddle even means

middlre means you copity sweet..when both side hate you
but by your mates are you revealed..but not reviled..indeed loved and respected

indeed the very same fish..even..kevin rudd
..in the end..rejected..he didnt want to win..he just didnt want anyone to..say..they..beat him..[but they did]..yeah he was a dreamer..but we all knew that..but..his dream..he was better than the nightmare/reality..john how hard left us with...

but thenyou center right lot..got juliar..
[via the middle/of the rodes..leftie..bill short odds..the middle man for..the extreme right..the middle fiddle man..

just like you putting thyself..in the midst[middle]..
riddle..where is the middle..rode piddle riddle..in the muddle?

[right..is so often completely wrong..but all..that
only makes you half right..half wrong ya nong]