If falsehood, like truth, had only one face, we would be in better
shape. For we would take as certain the opposite of what the liar
said. But the reverse of truth has a hundred thousand shapes and
a limitless field.

Words fail me...in between guffaws.
Poirot,
No, reality is what you fail.

'The Concise Oxford Dictionary' 2014 edition. If you did and turned to page 742 under the letter 'L' there is the word;

LYING

I have a Macquarie Tasman Dictionary & an old School "Collins" (you know, the Navy Blue one) They both say, " Anything that comes out of any Politician mouth when they speak." or "untruthfulness."

Shadow, don't steal my stuff, please think up your own one liners. I though that was rather good.

Now that we ALL agree Tony Baloney been telling porkies. Moving on, back on topic.
This topic, " The Silence of the left..." The political conserves have always referred to 'the left' as the "noisy rabble" so the title must be a contradiction. Besides the conserves always say they speak for "The SILENT majority" Little Johnny Howard was always prattling on about the "silent majority..." Typical conservative rubbish, how on earth could they possible know what the silent majority think, after all they are silent! What, did Howard have telepathic powers, more like pathetic powers.

Shadow, I warned all, before he went OS, Abbott would be an embarrassment, and he hasn't let me down. Calling Canada, Cambodia or Canary or what it was he called the place, As Effie would say "how embarrassment!" can someone please confiscate the Mad Monks passport and lock him in The Lodge, until we can have a fresh election, it will save us the embarrassment. I did warn you!

Hi Paul,

Usually, when I make comment on an OLO thread, I do so in the faint hope that somebody out there will be struck by the impeccable logic of my argument and in some small way, change their viewpoint.

Your epithets - Tony Baloney, Mad Monk, {sooner or later] Abbott the Rabbit, &c., and your slag about his saying 'Canadia' before correcting himself (who hasn't done that sort of thing ?) are perhaps less likely to change anybody's fundamental viewpoint, except perhaps in an undergrad bar or TAFE cafeteria.

So, apart from the epithets, what's your point ?

And by the way, 'back to topic' doesn't necessarily mean 'back to part of the topic', and then some semantic sliding away from even that.

So - BTT :) Is the Left, so-called rather laughably, selective on whose denigration it gets outraged about, or not ?

Joe

Paul,

Now we ALL agree that Christine Milne is a consummate liar, we can move on.

Paul, I have seen some unadulterated waffle in my time, but your last few posts lead me to suspect the use of recreational supplements.

P.S. no one could be as embarrassing to Aus than our last 2 Labor leaders or the alien whispering Brown eye Bob.