20171128

A bunch of sensible people

Scipio Africanus: sensibly stopped the Carthiginians

Charles Martel: sensibly stopped the Muslim hordes

John Sobieski: sensibly stopped another lot of Muslim hordes

Oliver Cromwell: stopped the unsensible king of England being bossy

James Cook: found Australia by being sensible

Arthur Phillip: settled Australia (with sensible people)

Lachlan Macquarie (built sensible towns and buildings)

Robert Menzies: (led the sensible party)

20171123

Sorry...


Comment on a web story about teaching kids to do something in redress, rather than say 'sorry'.

"Reminds me of the Australian propensity to say sorry when it is not their fault. I think of Rudd's 'apology' to aboriginal Australians for their failed culture of child abuse and domestic violence, as part of the grand attempt by the aboriginal victim industry to lever $ out of the government. Better would have been to say 'sorry for the children we had to look after because you refused to'. But being a spineless narcissist, he didn't, of course."