While the children are in charge, noone in the family is happy

Anna Burkes words in favor of youth were fine , but symbolic of the very shallow noise and confusion that has left the left falling off fiscal cliffs - just as you would expect if you listen to young people but don't educate and discipline  them.

No mature citizen could have watched Q&A tonight without rejecting the noise and wishing for some fiscal discipline and wealth creation talk ( Anna s more "cushion talk" made her a poor rep for Labor )  .
 Pyne bashing is fine - he and John can handle criticism - unlike the majority of noise in the room

Ageing reactionaries at the ABC still yet to grow up

Saw Phillip Adams droning on about drones on ABC's big ideas last week . His moral outrage unconvincingly focused on yet another  problem he has identified in another.
This was the same week  when , if many of the immature of my generation had learnt anything,  they would   have been deeply challenged by the words and life of Nelson Mandella.
Where is that acerbic wit when it comes to tributes to a real leader ? Perhaps I missed it ? Perhaps the ABC even censor Phillip ?   A more dangerous great leader was not afraid to offer the truth to the audience " what did you expect to see , a reed shaken with the wind? "
·If the ABC  were a mature bunch , they would not have tried to squeeze Mandella into a hero mold of their own making. A windmill touting wanderer whose only cause is changing others in the bad name of revolution; A windmill touting reactionary whose faith is in automatic progress; who would kill there own children and leave them homeless in the faith of such foolishness . Windmill touting , reed focused wanderers who don't stay long enough in one place intellectually to learn  the liberating freedom of knowing  something worth reforming .

The one thing our BB ABC won't be remembered for is their ability to distinguish reformation from revolution, childish preoccupations from truly mature ones.  Hooked on a fast ride to the future they use up the fuel , but provide no landing homes for a future generation.



A young man recalls being at a rally  angry with Mandella
He came to see things in a totally new way.

This man is right. At this moment, he is the father of all of us here, and he is acting like a true parent, refusing to let us get ourselves into trouble.

 I won't be bidding goodbye to a soft man. Rather, I'll be saying goodbye to a man fierce enough to love his people without fear. In doing so, in large measure, he saved us from ourselves. May we never forget him.

If only Australia had more men like himin public life 

Read more at http://www.philly.com/philly/opinion/inquirer/20131215_Amid_hecklers__Madiba_offers_stunning_reply.html#Kl5b6dETiVxVYYlT.99

• OTHERS said on him
  He loved like a parent, with resolve to protect the young people, all people, from the ravages of rage.
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  Finally a tribute that doesn't turn Mandella into a man like my generation want their heroes to be - a man in their own image: wooses like we have been. What do we want ?what do we need ?A man moved by the wind whose constructions are toppled easily because the foundations of their newest building or demolition or rage project are soft,weak and incomplete.

Someone has to play hardline

Told the story of Labors incompetence in investing in the education revolution in our town.  Got little respectful response from a largely city crowd . We had no choice about getting a " new sec school"; we were part of an experiment . A city based experiment that caused us to lose most of our best teachers and kids to other towns and schools . an experiment that leaves us with 2 unused facilities that could be used by us but that may well be bulldozed and sold to pay for the experimenters failures. 

Millions of dollars of public money wasted, and who will pay for all the broken windows in buildings we once used , now.  We are clearly at risk even now of losing this great opportunity to KEEP the existing capital and cultural assets of our town - let alone build on them . 

Labor is teaching our children, if it isn't working, bulldoze it ;  sell the family assets to pay for your mistakes;  if its stops working, buy a new one; The bank account has money in it , spend it .

Its not clever ; its childish cloning ---market cloning "being a good consumer ". if that means anything but that we are living on the never never . 

We are only ever complete when we encourage each other to be a productive people!  Lets say so clearly at this election 

Little kids at the wheel

 "There are times to focus on the brake - this moment is one of them

ITS not our car we /the people are worried about 

--its 

- your brake 

 the car YOU  have driving and 

-the dumb routes you choose  

-the dumb best intentions you don't look into 

- the dumb sales jobs you fall for 

- the cul desacs you end up because you don't read the instructions 

-the reckless way you drive it 

-the need for care on the corners 

-the need to read signs 

- the accelerator you have been pushing

- the fuel gauge you think means you can drive it into the ground ( your pathetic and childish game of a race to the bottom ) 

- your dumb exploitation of what your fathers gave you 

Posted After Doug Camerons predictable bookeeeping ignorance and arrogance on Qanda ABCTV 

Saying No

Julia Gillard is today trying to say No;;  but it comes after years of providing succor to the noisy and immature in her hearing .
Mother Julia should not try to take all the calls. The problem then for Father Abbott and Father Napthine Like Father Balllieuu is the tough ask of saying no to some  of the noise .
But which noise - some distant noise about slavery today or soem close loud noise that noone wants to talk about ?

In Victoria this week we have leadership from wonderful Western District ? This may mean we  have we have much to offer OR that we don't quite know what we have been offered .My guess - bit of both! We know what a fair go mate really means 
Well either way we have the job,  so here are some suggestions. We have had the bulldozer  and  we all know out here  that bulldozer drivers are still in there in the big smoke; PLUS we know that such singleminded dummies have no idea about the sensitive matters of household .
Maybe the tractor is a better analogy Denis and Tony  - It ploughs the ground to show up the weeds.
Maybe if you asked us, you might learn something ?

You will hear a lot about the critical household  word "Resilience" at the moment , but not much about how to assess it and know it . Here's a little contribution from me who was once paid to do it .

Woosy Green stuff

Oh dear . Christine Milne thinks the risk is that the plight of refugees will be ignored ;  that  the issue with the majority of Australians is they don't/won't  care enough ( Her response to the refugee drowning s recommendations ) . Apparently according to her , the risk is that we aren't being kind enough.  
I am sure thinking and non thinking Australians have had enough of this woosy weak, unjustifiable  and pathetic talk .Talk tough and talk kind,  but not tears only please.
Have the greens not heard?  - you "have to be cruel to be kind"  .
Any suggestion that the other parties are not caring enough is an insult to most Australians who have a more realistic view of the sound tensions in oikonomia than she seems to
No one wants the impractical  unworkable household leadership of the overly sentimental  Greens.