What are your views? please share them?

Megan Emily Jones wrote on Aug 31^st, 2016 at 8:43pm:


What people?  What exactly do 'they' claim "Megan Emily Jones?"

Australia is a house of cards that the Superannuation companies are reluctant to invest in

The great thing I luv about Australia is that we can watch heaps of buzzardball...sorry Netball....

Megan Emily Jones wrote on Aug 31^st, 2016 at 8:43pm:


No australia is totally overrated and overpriced. It is full of ripoff merchants screwing each other blind on overpriced services.

The United States exports continuous propaganda about it being the greatest country in the world, and has done so for a very long time. Certain Australian PR groups have tried to do this with our country since 1960. Much of it is media based, using shamelessly plagiarism. Referring to Canberra as Capitol Hill, Gallipoli as The Birth of a Nation. The boring colonials who established the Commonwealth, as The Founding Fathers, as if we had a Washington, Jefferson and Franklin.

Give me F***ing break. Australia was a rather quiet and unassuming stop at the end of the line, until the 1970s. But even so, nothing has ever happened here worthy of note. That is why the brown highway signs that indicate historic sites in the Northern Hemisphere, are used in Australian to announce stops like the Big Banana.

It is how you interpret the idea of best and lucky that clarifies the claims. Much of our coastline is gloriously Mediteranean, but you really have to spend some winters in Europe or America before you appreciate just how benign it is.

Socially important, but denigrated and dismissed by many who count themselves progressive, is the foundation of our legal system in English Common Law. All of those former colonies that were so delighted in getting rid of the British, have not come up with a better alternative.

English is our first language. That has been a huge advantage internationally. Our education system followed the strides made in the emancipation of the working class during the 19th Century in Western Europe, while Russians, Arabs and the Asian working people lived in serfdom, which is not much better than slavery.

There are plenty of aspects of Australian life that are pretty shabby, especially the treatment of natives. That is where Australia has close parallels with the USA. However, it seems to me native Australians have a louder voice than their American counterparts.

Since the rise of Muzlim Terrorism, the biggest threat to world peace, the gradual restriction of firearms and explosives since 1900 puts Australian society in much safer circumstances today than Europe and North or South America.

While the two major political parties use economic woes to lambaste who ever is in power, and warn of imminent doom, the standard of living has grown steadily from what it was prior to WW2 when the ownership of such items as a refrigerator or an automobile were only attainable by the wealthy minority.

Australia's long coastline is difficult to defend, but the surrounding ocean gives us some natural advantage, but only as long as we do not give it away in misguided exercises of compassion, as the British are doing with the English Channel and North Sea.

Most of us love Australia, but no country is the best country in the world. Some are better than others. Australia is high on the list. One reasons is the lack of sectarian violence. It was one of the reason the grand experiment in multiculturalism seemed logical in the post war years. It is a noble cause, but it never considered possible that some would not see Australia as anything other than a platform for their religion, and that our tolerance was their advantage.

The convict system was ugly. It did have a positive legacy though. It bequeathed a general lack of respect for institutional authority, which is why Australian society is a bit too skeptical to fall for political firebrands and religious zealots. And for this we are luckier than Pakistan and the USA. It is from the children of the convicts, the currency lads and lasses, that Australia developed its secular tradition. It was not a gift, it was paid for in blood and poverty. Multiculturalism has undermined that secularism in as much as it has forgotten the superstition at the foundation of most religions. Perhaps we have been lucky for too long and have forgotten why.

Polluting the pool does not 'improve' the pool.          pool = = a pool of fresh water



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Ecclesiastes 7:29
Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.


Ecclesiastes 12:13
Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.
14  For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.


Leviticus 18:24
Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out before you:
25  And the land is defiled: therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land itself vomiteth out her inhabitants.
26  Ye shall therefore keep my statutes and my judgments, and shall not commit any of these abominations; neither any of your own nation, nor any stranger that sojourneth among you:
27  (For all these abominations have the men of the land done, which were before you, and the land is defiled;)
28  That the land spue not you out also, when ye defile it, as it spued out the nations that were before you.
29  For whosoever shall commit any of these abominations, even the souls that commit them shall be cut off from among their people.
30  Therefore shall ye keep mine ordinance, that ye commit not any one of these abominable customs, which were committed before you, and that ye defile not yourselves therein: I am the LORD your God.




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It is a mistake, to promote the idea [in a society of men] that all [ill conceived] 'consequences' 'can be dealt with', later, rather than choosing care to prevent them in the first place.
- Yadda



Jeremiah 15:19
Therefore thus saith the LORD, If thou return, then will I bring thee again, and thou shalt stand before me: and if thou take forth the precious from the vile, thou shalt be as my mouth: let them return unto thee; but return not thou unto them.


Deuteronomy 8:2
And thou shalt remember all the way which the LORD thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or no.


Psalms 9:17
The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God.



Don't ya just love bible quotes.

issuevoter wrote on Aug 31^st, 2016 at 11:05pm:


Great post 

Marla wrote on Sep 1^st, 2016 at 2:44am:


The metaphor of the Gated Community does not explain why 28% of Australians were born in other countries.

http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/rate-of-overseasborn-aussi...

Good post valkie..I thought I was reading my own thoughts..

Marla wrote on Sep 1^st, 2016 at 2:44am:


No. It is more about a trichotomy of rural, regional, and metropolitan differences. I live in a regional town in Queensland. I have everything that I need to survive. Rural Queensland has all the basics for survival. But they are not spoilt for choice. Metropolitan Queensland is the spoilt rotten section of our state. I figure the same for other states.

You will find that the politicians in Canberra will not give a stuff about the non-metropolitan areas, as they do not live there. The gate shuts on us there.

Super Nova wrote on Sep 1^st, 2016 at 12:20am:



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Kat wrote on Sep 1^st, 2016 at 8:47pm:

Lord Herbert wrote on Sep 2^nd, 2016 at 8:20am:


Only because we bend over backward to give them everything, expect nothing and pander to their devil worshiping ways.

Also, these parasites get far far more than any Australian

No wonder the love us, we are idiiots

Lord Herbert wrote on Sep 2^nd, 2016 at 8:15am:


Truth hurts, eh?

Fuzzball wrote on Sep 2^nd, 2016 at 11:08am:


Go somewhere quiet and catch fire.

Megan Emily Jones wrote on Aug 31^st, 2016 at 8:43pm:


When Paul Hogan threw that shrimp on the barby in hope of attracting more tourists to boost our economy it fulfilled its purpose but it also caught the eye of some awfully huge leaches.

These leaches (oligarchy) saw Australia as a ripe piece of fruit that needed picking, a big teat that could provide them with lots of milk and so with the consent of the people we elect to govern over us they set about suckling on it until we reach the here and now.

So what have we got today, our rag trade was the first victim and died on its arse about 30 years ago.

Today our manufacturing sector is all but dead, our resources and the industries they support either pay pittance in royalties and taxes to the people we elected to govern over us which in turn deprives us all of the first class amenities and services which made this country so great.

Not only that but they have moved big projects worth billions of dollars of shore to low cost centres depriving all Australians a chance to work on projects that are for Australia, if the Sydney Harbour bridge were to be built today, it would be designed and built in Asia.

Then they would ship it out in modules and assemble it on site.

Not only that but we have over one million 457 visa workers here in Australia because the oligarchy want slave labour and Aussies are just too damn expensive even in their own country.

So the bridge would be shipped here to Sydney Harbour and assembled by a foreign slave labour work force.

While we can only look on because the people we have elected to govern us have given their blessing for this to take place.

Then these people that we elected to watch out for us come out and say things like you can only be on the dole for 6 months any longer and your off.

Or our poor pensioners are living on the bread line.

With the riches Australian posses and our politicians have so gracefully donated to the oligarchy a hand full of wealthy men that have so much money they don't know whether to call themselves Arthur or Martha, yes we could be the BEST in the world that's could because we aint.

A hand full of people enjoy Australia's wealth the rest or majority are on the skids.

I don't know how old you are Megan but Australia is full of people with degrees coming out of their backsides and yet there are no jobs to be had for young Australians.

It's time for a revolution.............

Kat wrote on Sep 2^nd, 2016 at 11:50am:


You go first and I'll just watch in appreciation.

It was in many ways - when the horizons of the majority were enough to eat, to work and own their home if they played the game right, and to retire with a little security and something to hand on to their children so their descendants would be better off - it worked fine.

Once the politicians and their mates in business turned it into their personal whorehouse and literally forked the whole thing over, it went downhill and looks unlikely to recover from its fatal dive.....

Damn - that's a B-17G with the chin turret..... buggar...

Valkie wrote on Sep 2^nd, 2016 at 5:29pm:


BOTR!  Vote 'em all out at the ballot box.... better to do it that way than the way it's normally done....

Now join me in assembling a real party that will make a difference...

Setanta wrote on Sep 3^rd, 2016 at 12:09am:


G's had the chin turret to fend off frontal attacks - a favourite of the Luftwaffe when it was running short of experienced pilots, but one of the hardest attack profiles..... hard to score a hit with closing speeds up to 500 mph and eye sights....

It resembles the LNP mascot, since it is uncontrollable and has lost its arse....

Oh - the B-24 with the same turret attached had a little stability and weight distribution problem.... can't have everything.... but like the Hurricane (70% of fighter Command) in the Battle of Britain, the majority of US heavy bombers in Europe were B-24s and not the -17 so lauded in popular movies.

James Stewart, the actor, flew a B-24....

Andrei.Hicks wrote on Sep 3^rd, 2016 at 12:21am:


Iceland looks nice.
Rodger, Iceland.

Haven't been there yet.

Kat wrote on Sep 1^st, 2016 at 8:47pm:


How many countries have you lived in?

Setanta wrote on Sep 3^rd, 2016 at 12:31am:


Antarctica. Unspoiled by the presence of Andrei's uncles.