J Ramsay Sutherland

Politics has pushed its head into the news now thaqt the overseas trips have been made the kids have been taken skiing and watched the tennis in Melbourne. All the summer happiness of the general sweep of the Australian population is set to be a thing of the past as the political apprentices try out their schemes to swamp the media with a scandal broth stirred up by their seniors in the trade.
Australian politics is beset with sly hints and misinterpretations of big people’s slips of the tongue and the kitchen and garden chatter caught in passing, enabling them to win brownie points for their advancements into the sofas of power.
What a shambles results falling into the willing hands of the media pirates to precipitate a wreck’

The year of the Dragon has brought into many people’s minds that, because of the impressive importance of the Dragon in Chinese and other Sino-Asian cultures, the future of humanity is in dire danger.
Of course if one does a historical recall of the vast losses and the years in which they were set in train, then it is possible to feel a frisson looming fate in store for us, not in 2012 but on 2014.
Go back two centuries: 1914 and 1814 and perhaps even further.
Think on it and contemplate likely frightening events which could looming in two years time!!!

The Leader of the Opposition and others of his ilk seem to follow faithfully,in Parliamentary life, the 13th rule of Ignatius Rules for thinking with the Church:
” I will believe that the white that I see is black. The hierarchical church so defines it”
In the late 19th cemtury and early 20th century forced a template of democracy for the Western world. It seems now to have thrown into the garbage bin of history and Democray has been propituted for the sake of power and aggrandisement.
JRS

Abbott’s gaffe has raised quite a stir!
It has exposed the smelly spots in the Coalition. ‘One Nation’ is a prick of irritation.
In fact the shit has hit the fan, and to use another comment heard about the traps, it has all turned round to bit him on the bum.
It’s no use castigating the Press. That is biting the hand that feeds you when it comes to politicians of any colour.

Abbott’s gaffe has raised quite a stir!
It has exposed the smelly spots in the Coalition. ‘One Nation’ is a prick of irritation.
In fact the shit has hit the fan, and to use another comment heard about the traps, it has all turned round to bit him on the bum.
It’s no use castigating the Press. That is biting the hand that feeds you when it comes to politicians of any colour.

I have been subject to being robbed via credit card to the tune of $5000 over a perod of three hours in the early hours of the morning, while I was sleeping,
What ever other plagues and misfortunes take place in the world this must come in the same category as fire and murder. It is more frightening than either as there is no visble sign or sound and only for the fact that I was informed that it had happened I was completely unaware,
Inside my house, locked up and secure, I was ravaged by faceless robots. the implements of carefree “gamers”.

JRamsay Sutherland

I have been away for a while. But now I am back. I see religion has become the topic -de-jour in the lettes to the editor. The Pope is taking a beating. However, if one takes a look at his former life as cardinal Ratzinger he was an uncompromising supporter of the church of his faith to maintain a protective wall around it. He played hardball. It may be that it has all turned around andbitten him. That is rather a mixture of metaphors, but you can see what I mean

So we have a new Prime Minister!
Here in Australia we have managed it without riots in the streets, barricades or smoke bombs.
On the other hand we have turned Parliament into a professional class where young graduates, or even before that, become interns to someone in Head Office, a union, or a sitting member until they are regarded as having moved through the ranks in required loyalty, to be selected to stand in some lectorates when the time comes.
Unfortunately the propsed candidate might not even live in the electorate for which the candidate has been given the call.
Our Prime Minister now is the chairman of the boards and the shareholders have as much control as in any other company.

It must be the season when the media, for lack fo shock-horror, have disclosed, not a new scandal but an old one clothed in all its new glory of Papal robes. The information concerning clerical child abuse has around for a long time, and kept simmering with accounts of court cases and muted references of priest being moved on to new parishes. Now the hierarchy has been pushed onto the front pages and the opinion pages and the letter-pages.
But let’s face it, the Roman Catholic Church would not be the only religious institution beset with this guilt, forced on the inniocent as necessary for adherence to any particular faith.

The NSW Government whether it is party in power now or the would-be ruling party present an image of democracy as a products as puppets of ousie interests with greed and and nepotism as the driving force.
In the newspapers there are clues to the cliques with questionable connections. The business pages are prime souces of the questionable practices at other peoples expense. The philosophy driving it all that there is a fool every minute.
On the other hand are thhose who carry the banner of their right to make the rules for everybody elses according their own narrow outlook on life.
We need people to govern us who have clear vision of a better society for all, caring, upright and honest.
The trrouble is that the majority of the people cannot see the point of paying for the running of the State when the governing party is a ponzi orgaanisation!!