Found on a friend's Facebook page:
Up s**t creek without a paddle? No problem!
What you say, and what the painter hears (a classic scene from Mr. Blandings Build His Dream House, 1948)
From Powerline's "The Week in Pictures".
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I'd say Australia is more like California if it was ruled by New Yorkers.
ReplyDeleteDepends on what generation Australian you are, bruce.
ReplyDeleteSadly, for those few remaining who were born in Australia in the 1930s with British Passports and sang 'God Save the King' every morning at school, Australia seems now very much like California governed and educated by Californians.
We'd rather be Texans.
Beg to differ Skeeter mate. That generation also gave us Gough Whitlam and even Moonbeam Cairns. Bill Hayden, heck Boy on a Bike's dad Bill Snedden, Andrew Peacock, even Menzies chose Liberalism over Toryism to distinguish us from the old country. Like California we were supposed to be a new start and went Gay. And that was ok by the 1930s folk who thought 'it's time' the gays get a better deal, and the single Mums etc. Don't know if you spent much time in Sydney, my peeps go back 150 years there. NY politics has some similarities.
ReplyDeleteIf you're not a Sydney-ite I understand the confusion. This is where things go sideways. But what about all the Germans in Qld? And Poles now running it? Eh mate?
My schoolfriends joined Jack Mundey's Burwood 'ALP' branch where they first came up with the 'Green bans', which led to the worldwide Greenies thing (via Petra Kelly). Funny Mundey's history ignores his being an ALP branch leader, because he was a Commie all along. They later took over Sydney with Clover Moore, a Gay Communist alliance. WTF?
ReplyDeleteAnd we Boomers were just following the 1930s generation in all this. By the time our votes counted we voted for Bob Hawke and John Howard. The 1930s generation own what came before.
OT. Here's sending all best wishes for a HAPPY NEW YEAR to Paco, Mrs.Paco, Maggie, the Paco clan, Daisey and all the Paconistas!
ReplyDeleteYou are right Bruce and you make valid points.
ReplyDeleteBut I'm not blaming any particular generation for the mess we are now in.
I'm just try to show how the changes to Australia appear from my generation's point of view.
Yes Skeeter. My Dad used to talk about 1942 fall of Singapore when he was a lad. The level of despair. They were going to blow up Sydney buildings and evacuate to the west through the mountains. That must have broken a lot of people's faith in the British. Although it was toffs like Whitlam we still put our faith in, like clutching at straws.
ReplyDeleteGod bless you for your service.