Poirot,

To repeat what is already there on record in this thread, you can save the petulance and faux victimhood (cheered on by Suseonline, as usual).

You introduced the subject of the home schooling of your son.

It was a government report I linked to and there were red flags.

Just as an aside, the State schools local to us are losing many boy students to the private schools from year 5 on. They are failing to thrive. The additional cost must be a stretch for some families.

Recently a report on home schooling was tabled in the NSW parliament. An article on the subject report arrived at the conclusion that the review and by inference education policy and management are ideologically driven. Then again, some might observe that the news article itself was likely ideologically sensitive too.

http://theconversation.com/evidence-of-home-schooling-success-erased-from-inquiry-report-35087

Perhaps the 'Progressive' ideologues are at odds with each other on either side of the fence now. That is amusing, but spells more sad outcomes for children and youth, especially boys.

Perhaps the leftist 'Progressives' and especially the radical feminists who have been so active in re-engineering education to suit their values and world views might take some responsibility for the unforeseen negative consequences of their work? That is not likely from their previous form.

Stastný Nový Rok, George.
Feliz Año Nuevo para 2015
Glückliches Neues Jahr
Bonne Année
etcetera etcetera

Poirot,, You talk of fairness? You really mean fairness between Lefties, re/Progressives and their lackeys, and no one else, don’t you?

But we'll be right because:

Leonard Cohen – Democracy is Coming
(I love the country but can’t stand the scene, And I'm neither left or right )
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEDSRP3yNPo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbqM9R8g7rU

It's coming through a hole in the air,
from those nights in Tiananmen Square.
It's coming from the feel
that this ain't exactly real,
or it's real, but it ain't exactly there.
From the wars against disorder,
from the sirens night and day,
from the fires of the homeless,
from the ashes of the gay:
Democracy is coming to the U.S.A.
It's coming through a crack in the wall;
on a visionary flood of alcohol;
from the staggering account
of the Sermon on the Mount
which I don't pretend to understand at all.
It's coming from the silence
on the dock of the bay,
from the brave, the bold, the battered
heart of Chevrolet:
Democracy is coming to the U.S.A.

It's coming from the sorrow in the street,
the holy places where the races meet;
from the homicidal bitchin'
that goes down in every kitchen
to determine who will serve and who will eat.
From the wells of disappointment
where the women kneel to pray
for the grace of God in the desert here
and the desert far away:
Democracy is coming to the U.S.A.

Sail on, sail on
O mighty Ship of State!
To the Shores of Need
Past the Reefs of Greed
Through the Squalls of Hate
Sail on, sail on, sail on, sail on.

It's coming to America first,
the cradle of the best and of the worst.
It's here they got the range
and the machinery for change
and it's here they got the spiritual thirst.
It's here the family's broken
and it's here the lonely say
that the heart has got to open
in a fundamental way:
Democracy is coming to the U.S.A.

Cont......

........DEMOCRACY IS COMING

It's coming from the women and the men.
O baby, we'll be making love again.
We'll be going down so deep
the river's going to weep,
and the mountain's going to shout Amen!
It's coming like the tidal flood
beneath the lunar sway,
imperial, mysterious,
in amorous array:
Democracy is coming to the U.S.A.

Sail on, sail on ...

I'm sentimental, if you know what I mean
I love the country but I can't stand the scene.
And I'm neither left or right
I'm just staying home tonight,
getting lost in that hopeless little screen.
But I'm stubborn as those garbage bags
that Time cannot decay,
I'm junk but I'm still holding up
this little wild bouquet:
Democracy is coming to the U.S.A.

Dear George,

Thank You for the inspirational quotes.
Maya Angelou stated that:

"I've learned that people will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did, but people will
never forget how you made them feel."

Thank You for consistently making myself (and others) feel
good about themselves on this Forum.

Happy New Year!

Gawd!...been out food shopping and come back to this whacky pair of hysterics banging on interminably.

otb..I mentioned it in passing and your started foaming at the mouth (as usual) because all you saw before yer eyes was a nice juicy trouser hem.

And...Lol!... I note on that other thread after you went for o sung wu's trouser hem that you decided, in lieu of him taking you on...and in lieu of him being a "bloke"....that you'd better apologise.

How not surprising!

Constance,

"Poirot,, You talk of fairness? You really mean fairness between Lefties, re/Progressives and their lackeys, and no one else, don’t you?"

What a lot of bollocks you go on with....I'm off out to the garden as an antidote to your petty moronics.

No doubt you'll declare that weeding is a leftist conspiracy - go for it!

Dear Poirot,

People really should not be concerned about
those "left-wing" forces. They will be
stopped dead in their tracks upon direct
orders from the Fuhrer.