My family have suffered so much during these Labor years. We have lost so much that we had built over our life-times it almost brings me to tears.Of course, given that the blog is now headed by a painting featuring lots of naked Spartans (libertarian types have a fetish for that "300" story) it has become even more incongruous that one of the regulars will use a homophobic slap in the face to everyone else:
My children have literally been impoverished as these corrupt bastards have enriched themselves to the detriment of the Country.
I tell you, were there a groundswell, I would seriously consider taking up arms against them, I detest them with such an enraged passion.
And this coming from a gentle man, an artist, a believer in God Almighty, but also a former infantryman.
How long must we bear this terrible burden?
It was so wonderful to read your thoughts this morning. Others have been touched by them too. I have been coming here since 2010 (at least) and it has always felt like a second home, a place of refuge, to someone who spent a fair bit of her early youth essentially homeless and has only recently begun to feel secure in herself. I have always been accepted here on my own terms – no easy task – but that is the way it has been and I am grateful for it. It is a fine place and I will not give up on it, nor on the powerful individual and life-affirming things it stands for. Thank you.
And thank you, too, Abu, for slapping us hard.Hilarious.
Update: Cry, Catallaxians, cry! The Wall Street Journal, the only paper you trust internationally because it runs (almost) as many AGW denying articles as The Australian, notes the Rudd momentum, so it must be true.
Also - they (Catallaxians) are already contemplating whether Turnbull might be a better counter to Rudd after all. Most of them are appalled at the suggestion. He believes in climate change, after all...