September 3, 2008
If I heard that someone’s teenage son was going away to war, I don’t know how I’d react. A respectful hush, a sharing of the worry, offers of support. A feeling of my stomach dropping out of my body. Private tears, perhaps, especially if we were close. How wouldn’t I react? Cheering. Grin...
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Further to what I raised in my post last night, this morning I saw the first article I've seen so far in the mainstream media linking the Bristol Palin pregnancy with her mother, Republican VP nominee, Sarah's position on abstinence-only sex education. Palin herself said she opposes funding sexual...
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August 30, 2008
Bene mentioned last night a desire for some commentary on the cynically timed announcement of McCain’s running partner as Sarah Palin, so here goes: here’s a short bit from the LA Times, who sums her up as a risky choice due to her inexperience, the very charge that the McCain campaign has bee...
go to article »August 24, 2008
Tim Dunlop Monday, August 25 On the surface, Barack Obama’s choice of Joe Biden as his Vice Presidential running mate strikes me as pretty uninspired. It’s hard to imagine that it wins him an extra vote come November, though I think that sometimes the ability of a...
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In the last few hours Joseph Robinette Biden Jnr. has given his first vice-presidential candidate speech. The speech played heavily on his supposed hard work in the U.S. Senate since 1972 and his modest financial circumstances. Well it seems that Biden (along with Obama and McCain) does not ha...
go to article »August 15, 2008
Are there any limits to McCain’s inflammatory derangement? “We learned a great cost of the price of allowing aggression against free nations to go unchecked. With our allies we must stand in united purpose to persuade Russian government to withdraw its troops from Georgia,” McCain told the cr...
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August 7, 2008
Marching Toward Hell? August 7th, 2008 — Amir I’m reading Michael Scheuer’s Marching Toward Hell: America and Islam After Iraq at the moment; an interesting book by the author of Imperial Hubris: Why the West is Losing the War on Terror, Through Our Enemies’ Eyes: Osama bin Laden, Radica...
go to article »July 10, 2008
Secondary teacher (now retired), unionist and Australian Labor Party member since 1972. 8 years teaching in the Northern Territory: 4 in Katherine, followed by 4 in Maningrida, an aboriginal community in Arnhem Land. Returned to Melbourne in June 2008 to live after 15 months in Broome.
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