It’s time once again for weekend reflections.Feel free to write at greater length than for a standard comment thread. As always, civilised discussion and no coarse language.
"I do not know how he is a professor, but anyway he purports to be an economist" Senator Richard Alston, ex-Minister for Communications
"One of the elder statesmen of the Oz blogosphere" - Age Media Blog
"More intelligent than Britney Spears"Jason Soon
"The great neo-classical iconoclast"Ross Gittins
"A green activist with a totalitarian mindset", editorial, The Australian
"would argue under a pile of wet statistics and produces more copy than Xerox". Stephen Matchett in the Australian
"the odd Quiggan (sic) is good mental exercise; all part of life's rich tapestry et al."Peter Jonson
"Wrong", "incorrect", "off the mark again" Institute for Public Affairs, Institute for Private Enterprise, Centre for Independent Studies etc.
"Never wrong"Tim Blair
"A compassionate exponent of the dismal science" Stewart Fist
"An indispensable weblog"Bear Left
"Quiggin strikes me as the stereotype of an Australian - joyful, hearty, and not particularly aware of his own strength."SomeCallMeTim
"Krugman of the Antipodes"Christopher Joye
" ... his chief delight was drinking cups of coffee at odd hours" Anthony Powell A Dance to the Music of Time
George Bush has revealed that even as he was predicting imminent victory in Iraq in 2006 he was afraid the US faced defeat there:
http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/n11281880-usa-iraq-bush/
His reason for lying (let’s be blunt) to the American electorate and the world was apparently concern at the effect the truth would have on morale.
(I’m sure the 2006 Congressional elections never entered his mind.)
Ironically, Bush’s unrealistic and dishonest portrayal of the war’s progress, was probably a key factor in the collapse in domestic US support for the occupation and the increasing demands for immediate and total withdrawal.
I have to wonder too how the people who bought his lies back in 2006 feel about this? Still think the people who shared in public Bush’s private views were a bunch of anti-American terrorist-loving defeatists?
Still absolutely rock-solid in your current opinions?
For those interested in my areas (northern tablelands NSW)climate variability continues unabated. Dec was under the long term avg for rain, Jan above avg, Feb well below avg, March below avg and April no different. No rain here for eight weeks. So much for the drought being over!Starting to look like a semi-permanent state of drought to us. We de-stocked the property completely in Jan, seems it was the right decision.