It’s been hot.Damn hot everywhere around Australia lately
So lets cool down with some cool drinks
Remember a cool dude
And a cool actor from a cool movie
.And enjoy a cool evening
It’s been hot.Damn hot everywhere around Australia lately
So lets cool down with some cool drinks
Remember a cool dude
And a cool actor from a cool movie
.And enjoy a cool evening
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Still too much heads-down and aggro from the Indians.
Oz is coasting.
Leone,
Distressing because of the wilful, or pathetic, ignorance?
poroti – LeMay on the Tokyo fire bombing WTTE “it doesn’t matter if it’s over for them in a flash or the victims have time to know they’re about to be incinerated. In the end they’re all dead anyway …”
Nice guy.
What a bastard.
It must be a non-news day:
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-35336464
Who’d give an FF about this other than immediate family.
CTar1
“In the end they’re all dead anyway …”
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As a wee un I was confused about the supposed horror of Nagasaki and Hiroshima. My confusion was how people incinerated in Hamburg , Dresden , Tokyo etc were meant to feel better about being incinerated by “conventional ” weapons”. Doubt their last thoughts were “Thank Dog I was incinerated by conventional weapons: .
Bonus trivia. Ray Bradbury’s “Fahrenheit 451 ” was partly inspired by a Maori fellow POW as they cleaned up after Dresden fire bombing.
Blimey, these MSM pundits seem to have extraordinary powers of perception & ability to predict future events well beyond the abilities of us mere mortals!
http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/nick-xenophons-plan-to-build-a-new-political-force-is-faltering-20160114-gm62di.html
As the old saying goes: “it’s not over till the fat lady sings”!
She hasn’t started singing yet. Probably waiting for the election night results to come up on the board! 😉
It is outrageous, but they worked the same method with Gillard who they couldn’t defeat on policy.
kk – 2 golden points for the Maori just for surviving the stench.
Al Jazeera America to close down:
http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2016/1/13/al-jazeera-america-to-close-down.html
Ctar1
That was the point in his prologue . Maori chappie did not survive. Keeled over stone dead after going in to another cellar full of dead Chermans what they were clearing out after the raid.
kk – Such is life.
Yes, Ned.
CTar1
‘Tis indeed. Ray reckoned it was the horror of what they saw that did him in. Big 😆 to read him mention Maori dude was “large”.
Fiona..did you get my email?
Jaycee,
Yes – see tomorrow’s thread.
Ah , the wisdom of Truffles. “We do not intend to be in Iraq forever”.
Sorry about all the chopping and changing, people. We now have a new threadstarter:
The Great Australian Novel?
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Several men of my fathers generation have spoken to me about their feelings regarding the bombing of Japan. Every single one of them had no qualms about it at all. As one nice bloke said to me at my fathers funeral “nobody who, like us, spent months brooding on the likely consequences of the coming invasion of Japan felt anything but elation at the news that they had been atomic bombed into surrender. Distaste at the use of the Atomic Bomb was a luxury only available to the uninvolved.”
Curtis Lemay was one of the greatest pricks the world has produced, but to win a war against criminal fanatics such as Nazi Germany and the Japanese Empire takes blokes like him. Don’t start military action unless you acknowledge that to win you will need to be as ruthless as Lemay (and Chukov of Russia) , and that you are likely to be opposed to people of their ilk.
That is very true. And I believe every Japanese schoolchild should read Sister Bulwinkle’s book about her war experience, ‘White Coolie’ I think it was called.
I urge you to watch the ABC Iview replay of Tracey Holmes interviewing James Hird. Throughout my major thought was to imagine our top political players in the interviewee’s seat being forensically but not belligerently questioned by Tracey Holmes.
THAT is the level of interview so shamefully lacking in our political discourse. Holmes made every one of the Canberra Press Gallery and the ABC’s Cassidy, Ullmann and Sales look like rank amateurs.
Good morning Dawn Patrollers.
Tim Dick says that death is the only peace left for asylum seekers,
http://www.smh.com.au/comment/comment-tim-dick-on-selfharm-20160117-gm7jry.html
Self harm in immigration detention centres is rampant.
http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/asylum-seekers-selfharm-in-detention-centres-at-epidemic-levels-internal-documents-show-20160114-gm6gqp.html
NSW Labor has the bit between the teeth on reform.
http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/labor-launches-historic-affirmative-action-rules-in-wake-of-jamie-clements-saga-20160117-gm7mko.html
It’s not just chiropractics that are getting away with dangerously inefficacious “treatment”.
http://www.smh.com.au/comment/ken-harvey-20160116-gm7hln.html
Sussan Ley and pathologists are heading for a big stoush.
http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/sussan-ley-under-fire-over-pathology-comments-20160117-gm7q4r.html
This is a bit sad but in one sense uplifting.
http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/hero-cop-craig-campbell-left-behind-by-the-cronulla-riots-20160117-gm7j5r.html
Surely there is need for increased compliance enforcement in aged care.
http://www.smh.com.au/national/reports-of-assaults-in-aged-care-up-10-per-cent-in-one-year-20160117-gm7lh3.html
The TURC secret volume is causing a bit of trouble.
http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/turnbull-government-undecided-on-whether-all-senators-can-view-secret-royal-commission-reports-20160117-gm7kaa.html
What hope do little girls have under these circumstances?
http://www.smh.com.au/comment/push-to-ban-child-marriages-dubbed-blasphemy-in-pakistan-20160117-gm7nvf.html
How marine species are being widely distributed around the world.
https://theconversation.com/how-the-japanese-tsunami-sent-marine-invaders-across-the-ocean-and-why-you-should-be-worried-53107
Section 2 . . . with Cartoon Corner
Campbells breaks ranks and will label GMO foods.

https://independentaustralia.net/environment/environment-display/campbells-will-label-gmos–and-the-sky-will-not-fall,8584
The government is looking at exporting APS jobs to India.
http://www.canberratimes.com.au/national/public-service/from-barton-to-bangalore-offshore-aps-comes-closer-20160114-gm6ep5.html
The six technologies that will define 2016.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/vivek-wadhwa/these-6-technologies-will-define-2016_b_8970168.html?utm_hp_ref=world&ir=World
Jon Kudelka analyses Turnbull’s speech to the troops in the Middle East.
http://cdn.newsapi.com.au/image/v1/7987aeb84c61311c8c2c249a092fcc9b
David Rowe is suggesting Clive Palmer’s on the skids.
Alan Austin piles into Andrew Bolt and the ABC.
https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/the-abc-plunges-to-a-new-low,8586#.Vpv8BlvIFDB.twitter
Great work from Stephen Koukoulas here.
http://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/jan/17/risk-is-building-for-australias-economy-but-we-need-action-not-rhetoric?CMP=share_btn_tw
From Cathy Wilcox.

Palmer’s Queensland Nickel has gone into voluntary administration.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-01-18/qld-nickel-goes-into-administration/7094818
Brilliant stuff from Cathy Wilcox. Derision so richly deserved!
