tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14861983937366050642024-02-20T22:37:04.232-06:00Fool's Paradise - Infinity on a Shoestring: 'IN OTHER NEWS...'Payton L. Inkletterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00498134400783189246noreply@blogger.comBlogger250125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1486198393736605064.post-21614545090667240032011-03-07T11:57:00.004-06:002011-03-07T13:03:42.576-06:007.30: Sales plus Uhlmann equals quality current affairs, keeping Aunty at the forefront in Australia<m:smallfrac m:val="off"> <m:dispdef> <m:lmargin m:val="0"> <m:rmargin m:val="0"> <m:defjc m:val="centerGroup"> <m:wrapindent m:val="1440"> <m:intlim m:val="subSup"> <m:narylim m:val="undOvr"> </m:narylim></m:intlim> </m:wrapindent> </m:defjc></m:rmargin></m:lmargin></m:dispdef></m:smallfrac><br />
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</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Be all that as it may, meanwhile:</span></i><b><span style="font-size: 18pt;"></span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">'In other news…'</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">07<sup>th</sup> March 2011</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Monday</span></b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">: A new era began this evening as <b>7.30</b> replaced <b>The 7.30 Report</b>, and <b>Leigh Sales</b> and <b>Chris Uhlmann</b> replaced <b>Kerry O'Brien</b>, who had been anchoring the esteemed current affairs program since the <b>First Fleet</b> sailed into <b>Botany Bay</b>.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">I congratulate <b>Ms Sales</b> and <b>Mr Uhlmann</b>, as well as the <b>ABC</b>, for the excellence of this first offering, certain to be just one of hundreds, even thousands, to come of similar quality. Anyone who doesn't think that these two journalists don't represent much of the the cream of <b>Australian</b> journalism, hasn't assessed the alternatives nor followed these two for several years.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">They are proving that given intelligence and knowledge, research and sincerity, honey catches more flies than vinegar. The exciting thing is also that they are young enough to refine and mature further for up to another thirty years or more.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">I only wish I had more time to follow and post about their doings, as well as their many talented colleagues anchoring the other excellent <b>ABC</b> offerings, such as <b>Lateline</b>, <b>Lateline Business</b>, and <b>Q&A</b>, let alone the new <b>Channel 24</b> line up. Alas, serious health and other issues have absorbed most of my discretionary time since last October.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">However, much viewing can be done even when exhausted, and one's delightful pet cat on one's lap can add much balm to the experience.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">+paytontedwithlove+</span></b></div>Payton L. Inkletterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00498134400783189246noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1486198393736605064.post-39394717857506615012011-02-08T12:38:00.010-06:002011-02-08T15:09:40.712-06:00THE CIRCLE OF LIFE: With this ring I thee...<m:smallfrac m:val="off"> <m:dispdef> <m:lmargin m:val="0"> <m:rmargin m:val="0"> <m:defjc m:val="centerGroup"> <m:wrapindent m:val="1440"> <m:intlim m:val="subSup"> <m:narylim m:val="undOvr"> </m:narylim></m:intlim> </m:wrapindent> </m:defjc></m:rmargin></m:lmargin></m:dispdef></m:smallfrac><br />
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</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Be all that as it may, meanwhile:</span></i><b><span style="font-size: 18pt;"></span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">'In other news…'</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">08<sup>th</sup> February 2011</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Tuesday</span></b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">: </span> <m:smallfrac m:val="off"> <m:dispdef> <m:lmargin m:val="0"> <m:rmargin m:val="0"> <m:defjc m:val="centerGroup"> <m:wrapindent m:val="1440"> <m:intlim m:val="subSup"> <m:narylim m:val="undOvr"> </m:narylim></m:intlim> </m:wrapindent><b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">The Babies Ink&Peggletter</span></b><span style="font-size: 18pt;"> came to dinner with us and <b>Janny's</b> father at our place, and announced that they were engaged two days ago, on their third anniversary of meeting. <b>Janny</b> and I are elated at the news; <b>Baby Peggletter</b> is one of those very rare people I like more each time I meet him, and I've met him now maybe a couple of hundred times.</span></m:defjc></m:rmargin></m:lmargin></m:dispdef></m:smallfrac></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">I couldn't be happier than my only child will be marrying such a superb young man.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">A unique and delicate ring now graces our beautiful daughter's delicate small hand.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">A very special day.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">+paytontedwithlove+</span></b></div></div>Payton L. Inkletterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00498134400783189246noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1486198393736605064.post-4324018931421395692010-12-03T12:46:00.010-06:002010-12-06T22:53:56.959-06:00LATELINE: As one door closes for Leigh Sales, a bigger one opens: Auf wiedersehen Kezza the Great!<m:smallfrac m:val="off"> <m:dispdef> <m:lmargin m:val="0"> <m:rmargin m:val="0"> <m:defjc m:val="centerGroup"> <m:wrapindent m:val="1440"> <m:intlim m:val="subSup"> <m:narylim m:val="undOvr"> </m:narylim></m:intlim> </m:wrapindent> </m:defjc></m:rmargin></m:lmargin></m:dispdef></m:smallfrac><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Friday</span></b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">: To avoid a 20 to 30 minute queue later in the day, I stayed up doing various chores so I could drive to the service station with a good price 3 kms down the road; worth it, being on empty and being 13 cents lower than every one else within cooee. And so I hit the sack around 7 this morning.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">I arrived at Guildford about 4 p.m., and my first call with <b>Bob</b> was <b>Centrepoint</b> in <b>Midland</b> to buy him his annual birthday cigar, being one week late this time. We then walked the <b>John George Walk Trail</b>, but my mind was racked with a very recent relationship issue, taking some of the tranquillity out of the beautiful walk. We finished with his swim at <b>Swan Aquatic</b> and the obligatory cup of tea at <b>Fish Market Reserve</b> on dark.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Once home I was pleased and surprised to reach <b>Mum</b> on her hospital phone, being close to 9 o'clock. She may come out tomorrow, but we all feel that would be too soon. We acknowledged <b>Dad's</b> passing 21 years ago today.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">With <b>Cadbury</b> spread out on my lap, moulting a bit, I settled in to watch <b>Aunty</b>. <b>Janny</b> had returned <b><i>The Dear Leader</i></b> to his place a bit before 9.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Lateline: The </span></b><b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">(Leigh) Sales Graph</span></b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">: My <b>'In other news…'</b> and <b>Abecedarian Project</b> websites went a little mad today, and the searches which brought the flurry of visitors were mainly for <b>'Leigh Sales'</b>. And this is best explained by tonight's <b>Lateline</b> being her last: <b>Ms Sales</b> moves next year into the big chair being vacated by <b>Kezza the Great</b> this month, who has hosted the <b>7.30 Report</b> since </span><span style="font-size: 18pt;">1788, when he was a young starry-eyed journalist for the <b>BBC</b>, embedded with the <b>First Fleet</b>. <b>Kerry O'Brien</b> went on to cover many events of world significance, including the <b>Voyage of the Beagle</b> and the <b>Sinking of the Rudd</b>.</span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Ms Sales</span></b><span style="font-size: 18pt;"> was in a buoyant mood, and who could blame her, with a couple of the <b>Chaser's</b> guests, <b>Craig Reucassel</b> and <b>Julian Morrow</b>, to interview for a review on the year in <b>Australian</b> politics in the main, and the inimitable <b>Stephen Long</b> for his opinion on the year to come for the global economy, though she did have a short serious interview beforehand with <b>James Ball</b>, who is working for <b>WikiLeaks</b>. (<b>Mr Ball's</b> archetypical geek appearance softened the cut of the subject matter somewhat, fortunately; he would've made a good companion for <b>Godwin Grech</b> in the cold damp basement of <b>Treasury</b> in <b>Langton Crescent</b> in <b>Canberra</b>, never seeing the sun other than on the desktop artwork.)</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><m:smallfrac m:val="off"> <m:dispdef> <m:lmargin m:val="0"> <m:rmargin m:val="0"> <m:defjc m:val="centerGroup"> <m:wrapindent m:val="1440"> <m:intlim m:val="subSup"> <m:narylim m:val="undOvr"> </m:narylim></m:intlim> </m:wrapindent><span style="font-size: large;"><i><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Caught out! Julian Morrow underestimated Leigh Sales' mischievousness, losing his hairpiece in a deft piece of handwork by the talented journalist</span></b></i></span></m:defjc></m:rmargin></m:lmargin></m:dispdef></m:smallfrac></td></tr>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">+paytontedwithlove+</span></b></div>Payton L. Inkletterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00498134400783189246noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1486198393736605064.post-29921471778909312002010-11-30T12:31:00.007-06:002010-11-30T12:44:48.430-06:00'FREEDOM': Jonathan Franzen discusses his novel and the writing process with Leigh Sales on LATELINE<m:smallfrac m:val="off"> <m:dispdef> <m:lmargin m:val="0"> <m:rmargin m:val="0"> <m:defjc m:val="centerGroup"> <m:wrapindent m:val="1440"> <m:intlim m:val="subSup"> <m:narylim m:val="undOvr"> </m:narylim></m:intlim> </m:wrapindent> </m:defjc></m:rmargin></m:lmargin></m:dispdef></m:smallfrac><br />
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</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Be all that as it may, meanwhile:</span></i><b><span style="font-size: 18pt;"></span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">'In other news…'</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">30<sup>th</sup> November 2010</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Tuesday</span></b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">: But two hours broken sleep out of four in the cot, unable to sleep without eventually succumbing to my talking book and headphones.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Janny</span></b><span style="font-size: 18pt;"> and I got to an appointment at <b>Charlie Gee's</b> by half nine, on this stinking hot day, high thirties Celsius. Before noon we were visiting <b>Baby Inkletter</b> in <b>Adelaide Terrace</b>, to drop of some supplements we'd been storing in our fridge for the last week for her, and we drove her to the <b>Inglewood Library</b> to save her bussing in the scorching conditions.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">She finally has completed her assignments and exams for her <b>Diploma of Education</b>, which, assuming she has passed, will be her third degree; she will have to wear a triple deckered black flat cap at graduation.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Back briefly to <b>Charlie Gee's</b> for a prescription after dropping our precious daughter back home in the heart of the city, then finally home. I had to go to bed, and slept maybe another four plus hours till after dark.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Lateline: The (Leigh) Sales Graph</span></b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">: Thank you <b>Ms Sales</b> for bringing us a superb interview with <b>Jonathan Franzen</b>, celebrated author, who has recently had his latest novel '<b>Freedom</b>' published.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Mr Franzen</span></b><span style="font-size: 18pt;"> was able to open up and give some exceptional insights, under the skillful questioning of <b>Ms Sales</b>, about the novel and about the phenomenon of writing. He wasn't afraid to assess the devaluation flowing from even interviews like the very one he was engaged in with <b>Ms Sales</b>, late in the time allotted: "<i>But there is something about the process – particularly of doing interviews like this, frankly - that it begins to empty you out and you start to feel as if more of the language you speak is going dead on you.</i>" Give us more of this type of honesty and integrity any day!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">I could not think of a better <b>ABC</b> journalist, a better qualified one, to conduct an interview like this. Being very widely read, intelligent, and with a satisfyingly broadening insight, <b>Ms Sales</b> helped her honoured guest share much of value, and much of unusual but fascinating interest.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">For example, <b>Ms Sales</b> asked <b>Mr Franzen</b> whether he missed his characters when he finished writing a book, and he gave a wonderful analysis of what leaving his characters be, when he pens his final lines, means to him.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">For this line from <b>Mr Franzen</b> alone, <i>thank you thank you thank you</i>, <b>Ms Sales</b>: "<i>You know, once it's passed a certain hour in the evening it's time to be reading… because I need that time alone to commune with a book.</i>"</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">I imagine interviews like this one are like getting a favourite dessert after a long and punishing diet for the likes of <b>Leigh Sales</b>, who, for her bread and butter must spend mind-numbing hours grilling mediocre politicians who are all mouth and trousers, these connivers, shallow-minded common scoundrels in suits.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">+paytontedwithlove+</span></b></div>Payton L. Inkletterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00498134400783189246noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1486198393736605064.post-66602898332355357002010-11-29T12:16:00.011-06:002010-11-30T11:58:06.509-06:00Monday 29th November 2010<m:smallfrac m:val="off"> <m:dispdef> <m:lmargin m:val="0"> <m:rmargin m:val="0"> <m:defjc m:val="centerGroup"> <m:wrapindent m:val="1440"> <m:intlim m:val="subSup"> <m:narylim m:val="undOvr"> </m:narylim></m:intlim> </m:wrapindent> </m:defjc></m:rmargin></m:lmargin></m:dispdef></m:smallfrac><br />
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</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Be all that as it may, meanwhile:</span></i><b><span style="font-size: 18pt;"></span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">'In other news…'</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">29<sup>th</sup> November 2010</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Monday</span></b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">: This is not a short story (although it may well become the fodder to write one):</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">***</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">He was running late as usual, as damn usual – ask his <b>Missus</b> – and so to stop for a hitchhiker was not going to help the deadline; his wife wanted to go to her knitting group at <b>Caffissimo's</b> tonight, and he wanted her to go, because it was soul food for the poor thing, overworked, underappreciated, and discounted regularly by certain close ones.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">But to make the trip worthwhile, he needed to be back at maybe ten past seven at the latest. That was going to be a challenge, because it was <b>Bob's</b> afternoon out in <b>Perth</b> today, and he liked to make the most of it. Not helped by the party in full swing, with tables groaning under the weight of goodies, at <b>Bob's</b> <b>Guildford</b> house, with more social trainers and their bosses than you could poke a stick at milling about, most of whom he knew, and felt obliged to acknowledge and chat a tad with.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">He had even joked as he walked into the main room "How did you know it was my birthday?" He reminisced at length with <b>Maxine</b>, rarely seen these days, as she had been promoted 16 months ago to some arcane position in the mysterious corridors of the <b>DSC</b>. A favourite supervisor of his for years over <b>Bob</b> and all of his outings with said rascal. All the while <b>Bob</b> was finishing his 3 o'clock smoke and having a private cup of tea in front of his TV some metres away. A tonne of food, one of Bob's reasons for living next down the scale from tobacco, and he was determined to have a cup of tea on his own…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">And so we left for the train into <b>Perth</b> even later than otherwise, due to the obligatory socialising to be done with colleagues old and new.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">What of the hitchhiker, did you ask? Yes, powering along <b>Marshall Road</b>, the wonderful <b>Whiteman Park's</b> four thousand hectares on his left, he may as well have been a thousand miles out of <b>Perth</b>. There on the left, a woman in her forties, under a lone tree a few feet off the tarmac, hand out for a lift. Bloody hot, at least 35 Celsius.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Probably 15 years since he last stopped for a hitchhiker, he felt a sudden twinge of concern for an older woman, alone, in this heat, stuck out here, needing a lift somewhere. Pulled over, after some thinking time, overshooting by a hundred feet, maybe two hundred.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">While she was hoofing quickly up to the passenger side, he was hoisting about five bags of things from off the seat and the floor, not quite moving it all by the time she arrived, opening the door, and hopping in as he just got the the last of the paraphernalia onto the back seat.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">She had a small bag in her hand and a very low cut blouse, a plain faced woman. As he began asking "Where do you need a lift to?" she said, having just sat in the seat, "I'm a hooker. I'm from <b>Sydney</b> and need money."</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">This took the man by mild surprise, not shock, likely because he hadn't processed it fully, but he quickly said, with the mildest of irritation well concealed, "I'm running late for work, and I thought you needed a lift somewhere."</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Just exactly what was said in the ensuing moments and in what order is a bit jumbled in his mind, but he got to reiterate his need to keep moving, and she got to imply that she didn't need to go to any place in particular but to get money, and it by plying any of the various skills of an ancient trade.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">And so she politely vacated the seat, and he wished her well. He genuinely did. Not angry about what she did for a living – he felt sorry for her for that – but now under more pressure time-wise and for no noble outcome, like helping a fellow human being in need of a lift on a hot day.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">As he digested what had just happened while he drove on to the controlled riot at <b>Bob's</b> digs, it dawned on him that she likely misunderstood one thing he said in repetition, as she faced him sporting sizeable in-your-face white breasts half covered, "I'm off to take out my intellectually disabled friend, who will be wondering where I am," touching his forehead. She said something he could not recall, but putting the pieces together she likely inferred that he was saying that he himself was intellectually disabled.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">No argument from his wife on that one…</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">***</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">And by the way, <b>Bob</b> took his time in the city, we called on <b>Baby Inkletter</b> at her place in <b>Adelaide Terrace</b> (first time in about 14 years or more since they last met), and I did'nt get back home till a quarter to eight. I convinced <b>Janny</b> to go nevertheless to her knitting group, but she refused to let me drive her and wait for her there.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Lateline: The </span></b><b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">(Leigh) Sales Graph</span></b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">: Former <b>Prime Minister John Howard</b> should feel grateful at how pleasantly he was treated by a professional <b>Leigh Sales</b> during her long interview tonight. He came across more reasonably than usual, certainly better than his self serving debacle with <b>Tony Jones</b> on <b>Q</b></span><b><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 18pt;">&</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">A</span></b><span style="font-size: 18pt;"> to flog his autobiography <b>Lazarus Rising</b>.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Ms Sales</span></b><span style="font-size: 18pt;"> asked a lot of good questions, and didn't tear him to shreds like <b>Kerry O'Brien</b> would likely have. This resulted in a better interview, because we mug public can suss out the pricks whether they're being treated nice or nasty.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">One of my main bugbears with <b>John Howard</b> began early on in his prime ministership, when it became apparent that he was as conniving a politician as the rest of them, while having portrayed for ages the illusion that he was a cut above, of a higher calibre concerning integrity and such. It quickly became obvious that he was yet another ordinary polly with whom you had to study the fine print, and that he was set apart mainly by ambition. Common as muck; sorry <b>Howard</b> lovers.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">If he had not placed himself on an integrity pedestal, I would not be making such complaints. An ordinary politician is nothing inspiring, but there is something inspiring about an ordinary politician who does not pretend to be extraordinary.</span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">I finished reading </span> <m:smallfrac m:val="off"> <m:dispdef> <m:lmargin m:val="0"> <m:rmargin m:val="0"> <m:defjc m:val="centerGroup"> <m:wrapindent m:val="1440"> <m:intlim m:val="subSup"> <m:narylim m:val="undOvr"> </m:narylim></m:intlim> </m:wrapindent><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 18pt;">Cormac McCarthy's </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 18pt;">'<b>The Road</b>'</span><span style="font-size: 18pt;"> today: a powerful book, well worth the experience, and I adored the last paragraph, laced with insight and anticlimactic.</span></m:defjc></m:rmargin></m:lmargin></m:dispdef></m:smallfrac></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">+paytontedwithlove+</span></b></div>Payton L. Inkletterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00498134400783189246noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1486198393736605064.post-80958612760124923922010-11-15T12:37:00.005-06:002010-11-15T12:53:25.322-06:00Monday 15th November 2010<link href="file:///C:%5CUsers%5Cadmin%5CAppData%5CLocal%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml" rel="File-List"></link><link href="file:///C:%5CUsers%5Cadmin%5CAppData%5CLocal%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_themedata.thmx" rel="themeData"></link><link href="file:///C:%5CUsers%5Cadmin%5CAppData%5CLocal%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_colorschememapping.xml" rel="colorSchemeMapping"></link> <m:smallfrac m:val="off"> <m:dispdef> <m:lmargin m:val="0"> <m:rmargin m:val="0"> <m:defjc m:val="centerGroup"> <m:wrapindent m:val="1440"> <m:intlim m:val="subSup"> <m:narylim m:val="undOvr"> </m:narylim></m:intlim> </m:wrapindent><style>
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Monday</span></b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">: How does she keep doing it? <b>Leigh Sales</b> has brought us yet another wonderful interview on <b>Lateline</b>, this time with <b>Lord David Puttnam</b>. It was a total pleasure listening to <b>Lord Puttnam</b> responding to <b>Ms Sales</b>' questions. These interviews are inspiring, and a welcome relief from the run-of-the-mill politicians we have to suffer ad nauseam. More such please <b>Ms Sales</b>. By the way, what a great interview <b>Ms Sales</b> brought us recently with <b>Dr Vandana Shiva</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">+paytontedwithlove+<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>Payton L. Inkletterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00498134400783189246noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1486198393736605064.post-3753554189795394272010-11-13T10:51:00.003-06:002010-11-13T10:58:13.502-06:00PLAINSBORO: "Walk her Gordon," PLInkletter called, "or you'll have Elsie in a dizzy spin. You'll do Lobelia! We'll have you milked in but 12 minutes."<link href="file:///C:%5CUsers%5Cadmin%5CAppData%5CLocal%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml" rel="File-List"></link><link href="file:///C:%5CUsers%5Cadmin%5CAppData%5CLocal%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_themedata.thmx" rel="themeData"></link><link href="file:///C:%5CUsers%5Cadmin%5CAppData%5CLocal%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_colorschememapping.xml" rel="colorSchemeMapping"></link> <m:smallfrac m:val="off"> <m:dispdef> <m:lmargin m:val="0"> <m:rmargin m:val="0"> <m:defjc m:val="centerGroup"> <m:wrapindent m:val="1440"> <m:intlim m:val="subSup"> <m:narylim m:val="undOvr"> </m:narylim></m:intlim> </m:wrapindent><style>
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Saturday</span></b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">: I phoned <b>Luke</b> from <b>Kambo's</b> who we had met on Thursday, and I purchased by phone the 700 litre <b>Westinghouse</b> fridge-freezer we had looked at. Our faithful <b>Kelvinator 390</b>, over twenty years old, is so bursting at the seams all the time with what we need to keep in it, that we've finally said enough is enough, and it will be retired to <b><i>The Dear Leader</i></b>, for whom it will be a doubling of size.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Luke treated me very well, for which I am grateful. Delivery will be on Thursday, and I will almost have to dismantle our house to get it through the front door (I am not joking: the bright sparks who designed this house – it's only 24 years old – made a ridiculously narrow front and and back door width, and in their wisdom made sure the front opening was further compromised with a jutting piece of wall, such that anything like a recliner chair has to be magically shrunk to get around the corner into the lounge. I have often fantasised about getting the designer and gently pushing his or her head through a miniature basketball hoop, while giving the genius a twist and a bend.)<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Late in the day I dug up some more of my absurdly small potato crop from under the outside sink, and juiced the smallest ones, and, wait for it, drank the couple of mouthfuls of juice; it is not going to take the soft drink market by storm, but it could have been worse. My first ever try of potato juice, and I'm still alive six hours later to write about it.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Meanwhile, <b><i>the spinning tail</i></b> was at her annual wind-up <b>Spinning Guild</b> day long meet in <b>Dianella</b>, winning the <b>Christmas</b> hamper, and being told no-one nicer could have won it, as well as having a great time, spoiling the ladies with her home cooking, including the wickedest cranberry and brandy chocolate balls.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Oh, great to see <b>Stephen Long</b> back with <b>Leigh Sales</b> last night on <b>Lateline</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">+paytontedwithlove+<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>Payton L. Inkletterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00498134400783189246noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1486198393736605064.post-64356943371001123142010-11-08T23:57:00.000-06:002010-11-10T14:37:58.855-06:00CLAREMORE: "I'm in a singin' rage with a waggly tail." PLInkletter toned, "Pinch me to prove I'm awake, my dreams, my dreams are through. Ay, ay, ay."<link href="file:///C:%5CUsers%5Cadmin%5CAppData%5CLocal%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml" rel="File-List"></link><link href="file:///C:%5CUsers%5Cadmin%5CAppData%5CLocal%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_themedata.thmx" rel="themeData"></link><link href="file:///C:%5CUsers%5Cadmin%5CAppData%5CLocal%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_colorschememapping.xml" rel="colorSchemeMapping"></link> <m:smallfrac m:val="off"> <m:dispdef> <m:lmargin m:val="0"> <m:rmargin m:val="0"> <m:defjc m:val="centerGroup"> <m:wrapindent m:val="1440"> <m:intlim m:val="subSup"> <m:narylim m:val="undOvr"> </m:narylim></m:intlim> </m:wrapindent><style>
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Monday</span></b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">: I took <b>Bob</b> swimming and walking, having not seen him for a week and a half. Great to see <b>Phoebe</b> the old corgi and her master <b>Peter</b> on our walk along the river. <b>Phoebe</b> is intensely loyal to <b>Peter</b>, now in his 80's, and she went out her door and got a friend walking past to come in and help <b>Peter</b> this very morning, who was quite unwell at the time.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">This evening late I began writing my next short story, titled '<b>Sugar</b>', up to 2500 words, which I hope to submit to a competition closing in December.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">+paytontedwithlove+<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>Payton L. Inkletterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00498134400783189246noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1486198393736605064.post-37490457631486350392010-10-28T14:33:00.001-05:002010-10-28T14:37:27.186-05:00HAMPTON: "Tipsy with the numbers, yet he found the smoking gun," PLInkletter notes, "and no blood money, against death before old age, a living doll."<meta content="text/html; charset=utf-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"></meta><meta content="Word.Document" name="ProgId"></meta><meta content="Microsoft Word 12" name="Generator"></meta><meta content="Microsoft Word 12" name="Originator"></meta><link href="file:///C:%5CUsers%5Cadmin%5CAppData%5CLocal%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml" rel="File-List"></link><link href="file:///C:%5CUsers%5Cadmin%5CAppData%5CLocal%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_themedata.thmx" rel="themeData"></link><link href="file:///C:%5CUsers%5Cadmin%5CAppData%5CLocal%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_colorschememapping.xml" rel="colorSchemeMapping"></link> <m:smallfrac m:val="off"> <m:dispdef> <m:lmargin m:val="0"> <m:rmargin m:val="0"> <m:defjc m:val="centerGroup"> <m:wrapindent m:val="1440"> <m:intlim m:val="subSup"> <m:narylim m:val="undOvr"> </m:narylim></m:intlim> </m:wrapindent><style>
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Thursday</span></b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">: What a wonderful day! Way too tired, I forced myself up, having been working on another edit of <b>'Man's Best Friends</b>' aka '<b>After the Rain</b>' in the wee smalls, after <b>Baby Peggletter</b> kindly gave me a whole hour and a half of critiquing advice by phone till after midnight last night. I set to and applied the majority of his suggestions, which were really helpful.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Janny</span></b><span style="font-size: 18pt;"> had organised the local <b>Mormon</b> elders to wash our car, bless their cotton socks, and so at about ten <b>Elders Tindel</b> and <b>Weber</b> duly arrived and did so. We enjoyed a lunch with them later, and they left with a small mountain of goodies that <b>Janny</b> created in the kitchen. (A huge proportion of the billions of long termer daily visitors to <b>Fool's Paradise – Infinity on a Shoestring</b> could be forgiven for thinking that we or <b>Janny</b> are/is /a <b>Mormon</b>/s, but if so, they'd be mistaken. We simply have <i>no fear</i> of any sincere religionists, while holding no allegiance to any particular flavour. Myself, I am known for being a cherry picker among the orchard that is organised religion, while delighting in hiking among the breathtaking mountains of non-organised religion, feasting upon the abundance within the invisible realm of the spiritual economy.)<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Before the elders arrived <b>Baby Inkletter</b> arrived, and spent till mid afternoon with us, which was a blessing.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">And shortly after the elders left there was knock on the door, and lo and behold none other than <b>Reeve Chocson</b>, a geek bearing gifts: four potted <b>Herb Robert</b> plants, their bitter little leaves bobbing about in excitement at coming to a new home.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Now to apprehend one <b>Reeve Chocson</b>, alone and free of his little green bag, dear and matchless though she is (like all wives, <b>Chocci</b> keeps <b>Reeve</b> on a shorter leash than he would choose), is an opportunity too good to pass, so we lured him in with a cocoa made the way it should be, <b>Lindt</b> chocolate of two flavours, and several sweet baked offerings from the oven of my irreplaceable affectionate pretty tailed <b>Jayne Coon</b>, the greatest cook in the southern hemisphere. For those wondering, that title for the northern hemisphere is held by one <b>Cumbrian</b> known as <b>Gladys Hobson</b>, not known as '<b>slick cook-draw McHobson-Graw</b>' for nothing.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Reeve</span></b><span style="font-size: 18pt;"> remarked today that he has scientifically proven that he gains about one kilogram after every visit to our place.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">The More O’Kerry (O’Brien) Volume</span></b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">: I greatly enjoyed <b>Kerry O'Brien's</b> interview with <b>James Wolfensohn</b> this evening on <b>The 7.30 Report</b>. Both men presented themselves with an excellent sartorial aura – old men can look so damn good! (And I am firmly rooted in the heterosexual camp, mind you.)<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Mr Wolfensohn</span></b><span style="font-size: 18pt;"> has a wonderful clean and precise manner of expression, and he used this talent as he explained his side of his work as special envoy for <b>Gaza</b> disengagement for the <b>Quartet on the Middle East</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">He also gave a brief negative but doubtless close to the mark assessment of the current economic woes of the <b>United States</b>. I don't share his "<i>enormous faith</i>" in one of several things he mentioned, namely the "<i>university system</i>", but I won't give up hope in it yet. Throughout the <b>Western World</b> it can turn out experts in narrow fields, but is still failing badly at producing balanced sensible broadscoped global citizens.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">I could not stay awake after 8, but of course once in bed it took me ages to fall asleep. And of course, I was awake a few hours later, and back, insomniac that I've become, writing, reading, titivating about, walking, canoodling <b>Cadbury</b>, all after midnight.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">My niece <b>Elizabeth's</b> baby <b>Indi May</b> was due yesterday, but is still keeping us all guessing. Oh, and speaking of babies, <b>Reeve</b> and <b>Chocci Chocson</b> became 6 times grandparents two weeks ago with the arrival of <b>Brontë</b>, and 7 times grandparents yesterday with the arrival of <b>Ryder</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">+paytontedwithlove+<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>Payton L. Inkletterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00498134400783189246noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1486198393736605064.post-84113253249824661472010-10-25T13:05:00.001-05:002010-10-25T13:12:00.799-05:00BRIDGEPORT: "Tennis for two perhaps, but no nukes for any or all!" noted PL Inkletter. "He strived to rinse the pong from the little boy and fat man."<meta content="text/html; charset=utf-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"></meta><meta content="Word.Document" name="ProgId"></meta><meta content="Microsoft Word 12" name="Generator"></meta><meta content="Microsoft Word 12" name="Originator"></meta><link href="file:///C:%5CUsers%5Cadmin%5CAppData%5CLocal%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml" rel="File-List"></link><link href="file:///C:%5CUsers%5Cadmin%5CAppData%5CLocal%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_themedata.thmx" rel="themeData"></link><link href="file:///C:%5CUsers%5Cadmin%5CAppData%5CLocal%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_colorschememapping.xml" rel="colorSchemeMapping"></link> <m:smallfrac m:val="off"> <m:dispdef> <m:lmargin m:val="0"> <m:rmargin m:val="0"> <m:defjc m:val="centerGroup"> <m:wrapindent m:val="1440"> <m:intlim m:val="subSup"> <m:narylim m:val="undOvr"> </m:narylim></m:intlim> </m:wrapindent><style>
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</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Be all that as it may, meanwhile:</span></i><b><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">'In other news…'</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">25<sup>th</sup> October 2010<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Monday</span></b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">: As I had got to bed so late – dawn – it was a late start for moi. I had a good excuse I think, having reworked overnight my draft of '<b>After the Rain</b>' aka '<b>Man's Best Friends</b>', a short story which I have to submit this coming weekend to have it considered for publication.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Convinced it was a swimming day with <b>Bob</b>, when I arrived at his place in <b>Guildford</b>, fashionably late, he informed me it was his city outing day. He is rarely wrong, so I rejigged my arrangements, and we were on the train about four o'clock heading for the <b>Big Smoke</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">He had a ball, for he so enjoys his <b>Perth</b> city outings with me. We did the usual things, and while I was sitting reading in the evening sun in <b>Supreme Court Gardens</b> as <b>Bob</b> planted himself on the grass some sixty feet away to eat his goodies, a full blood aboriginal man staggered over to talk with me. To overseas readers of this blog, full blood aboriginal folk in <b>Perth</b> city are rare sights, even in the entire South West, and I dare say, the South East of <b>Australia</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">I engaged him, and while his motive was clearly some small change to keep oiling his tonsils, poor fellow, he was soon fascinated by my questions and comments. We covered his blood clan out <b>Warburton</b> way in the desert, the rules and prohibitions of particular marriages, traditional music, bush tucker, Dreaming, and much more, with him giving me several – slurred – sentences in his tribal tongue.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">And the intersection of coincidences struck me, for they happen uncannily so often in my life, with the fact that my short story I've been working on features a full blood aboriginal man I've named '<b>Gnamragan</b>'.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Back home after 8, <b>Janny</b> was still entertaining <b><i>The Dear Leader</i></b>. I settled into the <b>Player Recliner</b> with tuck tuck and then had the pleasure of one <b>Maine Coon</b> who goes by the moniker '<b>Cadbury</b>' going elastic upon my lap as I watched <b>Aunty's</b> lineup. Thus folk will cotton on to why I also now call that scrumptious piece of fluff that is my wife my <b>Jayne Coon</b> (<b>Jayne</b> is her real name).<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Q&A</span></b><span style="font-size: 18pt;"> was captivating, for <b>Tony Jones</b> had but one guest fronting his in-studio audience, former Prime Minister<b> John Howard</b>, and while it is unkind of those who say it was largely one continuous wank by <b>Mr Howard</b>, I can understand why they would say it. He was undoubtedly a successful <b>Prime Minister</b>, but he was not a great one. The three years out of office have evidently not yet added to his greatness quotient. He was merely successful.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">I look for humility, willingness to admit errors, even serious ones, fallibility, exposure of warts within one's makeup, these kind of things as part of the features of a great person. Forgiveness of the hurtful failings of others, not taking oneself too seriously, aspirations higher than the sky grounded by pragmatism and balance, that kind of stuff. Neither for that matter was nor is former Prime Minister<b> Kevin Rudd</b> great: if from no other evidence, his resignation speech. Greatness is a very rare quality in politicians, in anyone for that matter. And I am not great either, far from it, but I recognise greatness when I encounter it.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Lateline: The </span></b><b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">(Leigh) Sales Graph</span></b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">: Wow <b>Ms Sales</b> brought us a fabulous interview with <b>Barnaby Joyce</b> tonight!<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">What an entertaining fellow this politician is. Never should he be let near a ministry, shadow or substantive, because he is a loose cannon who could keep an army of diplomats in overtime for a thousand years, but he is very useful as badly needed yeast in the political bowl.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Ms Sales</span></b><span style="font-size: 18pt;"> obviously enjoyed herself, and it appeared she had dosed heavily on a dozen espressos before this interview, because she was on fire and shooting questions like a <b>Gatling gun</b>, but it worked, and <b>Mr Joyce</b> held his own. It's been many an interview since any <b>ABC</b> journalist got so many words in between a politician's ramblings.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">To be fair to <b>Mr Joyce</b>, he expressed a great deal of wisdom, smattered as always with his unique brand of whackiness, more so than most politicians are prepared to or are capable of.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Now in my opinion <b>Mr Joyce's</b> analysis of the <b>Murray-Darling Basin Plan's </b>social and economic<b> </b>effects was inspired, especially his example of the repercussions for life-time working pensioners who have fully paid for their houses in those towns, as was his comeback to <b>Ms Sales</b> on the <b>National Broadband Network</b>. His remark "<i>…and I want a Maserati, it's just a case of whether I can afford it. I mean, there's no doubt that people would love, you know, broadband and we want to deliver broadband, but you gotta cut the suit to fit the wearer.</i>" Brilliant comeback, regardless of the nitty gritty of the actual affordability for our nation.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">+paytontedwithlove+<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>Payton L. Inkletterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00498134400783189246noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1486198393736605064.post-30719277030655579622010-10-19T15:36:00.018-05:002010-10-25T11:14:26.753-05:00HILL END: "Two sisters, a similar vein, Star of Hope, aureum buyers, stained glass…" PLInkletter rambled, "just picture it if you can, hi ho, silver!"<meta content="text/html; charset=utf-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"></meta><meta content="Word.Document" name="ProgId"></meta><meta content="Microsoft Word 12" name="Generator"></meta><meta content="Microsoft Word 12" name="Originator"></meta><link href="file:///C:%5CUsers%5Cadmin%5CAppData%5CLocal%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml" rel="File-List"></link><link href="file:///C:%5CUsers%5Cadmin%5CAppData%5CLocal%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_themedata.thmx" rel="themeData"></link><link href="file:///C:%5CUsers%5Cadmin%5CAppData%5CLocal%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_colorschememapping.xml" rel="colorSchemeMapping"></link> <m:smallfrac m:val="off"> <m:dispdef> <m:lmargin m:val="0"> <m:rmargin m:val="0"> <m:defjc m:val="centerGroup"> <m:wrapindent m:val="1440"> <m:intlim m:val="subSup"> <m:narylim m:val="undOvr"> </m:narylim></m:intlim> </m:wrapindent><style>
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</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Be all that as it may, meanwhile:</span></i><b><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">'In other news…'</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">19<sup>th</sup> October 2010<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Tuesday: </span></b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">I chatted to cousin <b>Vee</b> in <b>Broome</b> today, to catch up with his health outcomes, and there is some encouraging news with a little weight gain.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Lateline: The </span></b><b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">(Leigh) Sales Graph</span></b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">: <b>Ms Sales</b> interviewed <b>Prime Minister Julia Gillard</b>, both in <b>Canberra</b>, and it was well worth watching for several reasons, least of all the fact that both women looked fabulous.</span><br />
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</style><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Leigh Sales asked, and kept asking, some challenging questions, of Prime Minister Julia Gillard, fragrantly and professionally, on Lateline</span></i></b></span></m:defjc></m:rmargin></m:lmargin></m:dispdef></m:smallfrac></td></tr>
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</style><span style="font-size: 18pt;">an aside, we might have been witnessing the current <b>Prime Minister</b> being interviewed by a future <b>Prime Minister</b>. I've said it before. <b>Ms Sales</b> would have to summons up some (artificial) <b>Inner Mongrel</b>, because politicians, especially leaders, seem to need a higher <b>IMQ</b> (<b>Inner Mongrel Quotient</b>) than others. So that would be a bit sad, but if anyone could do it and keep her inner beauty, my money's on <b>Ms Sales</b>.<o:p></o:p></span> </m:defjc></m:rmargin></m:lmargin></m:dispdef></m:smallfrac><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Now my first overall impression is that <b>Ms Sales</b> managed to tread that delicate line of remaining polite and professional, while asking and pursuing some lines that <b>Ms Gillard</b> would doubtless prefer not to have to be examined on in public. Rather than lose all balance and bludgeon the <b>Prime Minister</b> – do a <b>Kerry O'Brien</b> – <b>Ms Sales</b> achieved the difficult goal of remaining fragrant, helping her honoured interlocutor portray herself well also, while not shying away from <b>Ms Gillard's</b> discomfort zones.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">This would not be easy to pull off, and <b>Ms Sales</b> did it very well.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">The subject which was threatening the <b>Prime Minister's</b> comfort zones was <b>Australia's</b> military and civil involvement in <b>Afghanistan</b>, the subject being debated in <b>Parliament</b> for the first time today, thanks to the <b>Howard Government's</b> going all the way with <b>GWB</b> almost a decade ago without parliamentary examination first.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">I am dismayed that both <b>Julia Gillard</b> and <b>Tony Abbott</b> both assiduously avoid, assuming they even understand, some inexorable facts that plague the whole <b>Afghanistan</b> mission. To help illustrate what I mean, let's do a thought experiment:<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Australia</span></b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">, all alone, militarily invaded a <b>Taliban</b>-ruled <b>Afghanistan</b> almost a decade ago, to remove that dangerous and barbaric leadership which gave safe haven to <b>Al-Qaeda</b>. The vast bulk of the population welcomed us, and still do. The people crave a liberal democracy, long denied them, wherein equality of the sexes would be the norm, as would freedom of religion.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Although the cost of the military and civil input is large, <b>Australia</b> is so well off that it is just small change, with little of importance back on home soil not being adequately funded for the maintenance and betterment of the nation. No health waiting lists, no-one sleeping on the streets, no environmental issues worsening, everything on the up and up.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">And so our military command is running the show, neither answerable to any allies nor dependent upon them. The government of <b>Afghanistan</b> is corruption free, and their military is rapidly training up to world's best discipline and ethical standards, paralleling our own.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Afghanistan's</span></b><span style="font-size: 18pt;"> neighbour <b>Pakistan</b> is squeaky clean, and fully cooperating with the effort to eliminate the refuge for violent fundamentalists across the shared mountainous border. No other nation is interested in helping insurgencies or locals to defeat us.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Need I continue the fairy tale?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">A quick look now at what the actual case is:<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Virtually half the population of <b>Afghanistan</b> consider the other half as inferiors, who have far less right to an education, health care, justice, freedoms of any kind.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Virtually all of the population subscribe to a religion that practices severe intolerance of religious freedom, and insists on the church being the state. Thus our soldiers and civil personnel are considered to be infidel, with the negative connotations that come with that.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">The nation of <b>Afghanistan</b>, or should I say that collective of tribes, has no long hard fought and fruitful experience with the institutions of a liberal democracy, has no extensive modern infrastructures to speak of serving the government, health, environmental, energy, agricultural, and justice needs of its people. Might we not have to be there for fifty years, even with their wholehearted cooperation?</span> <span style="font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">The allies running the combination of operations known as <b>Operation Enduring Freedom</b> and <b>International Security Assistance Force</b> are mostly <b><i>undeclared bankrupts</i></b>, most especially the <b>USA </b>followed by<b> Britain</b>, no less than the two powers doing the lion's share. <b>The Netherlands</b> has withdrawn, having been largely based in <b>Uruzgan Province</b>; <b>Canada</b> is leaving by July next year, <b>Kandahar Province</b> being their main base.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">The amount of things that have to keep working cooperatively to pull the whole show off eventually are myriad.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Imagine that <b>Australia</b> succeeds brilliantly in <b>Uruzgan Province</b>, bringing the region into the 21<sup>st</sup> century against the odds, taking billions of our dollars to do it, and a lot more lives and health of our soldiers. Then the national government implodes, is taken over by rabid fundamentalists again, the allies dump their commitments throughout the rest of the country… How long will <b>Uruzgan Province</b> last as a bastion of a liberal democracy in the making, doing <b>Australia</b> proud?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">All of our efforts, every drop of <b>Australian</b> blood and every cent of <b>Australian</b> money, depend for their lasting success upon the wholehearted commitment from a hotchpotch of lily-livered confused thinking bankrupt nations, rapidly losing the support of their voters. It does not bode well does it?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">As awful as it is to consider, it may well be better to cut our losses, and leave a sinking ship before our bodies melt into jelly on the sea floor along with the whole battleship. 21 <b>Australian</b> lives and mission <b><i>UNaccomplished</i></b> may be far better than hundreds more <b>Australian</b> lives and mission <b><i>NEVERaccomplished</i></b>.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Does it</span><span style="font-size: 18pt;"> make sense to join with an ally when it does something ill-thought through? <b>John Howard</b> leapt in with <b>Bush</b> and <b>Blair</b> because we are allies. <b>Gillard</b> used the same reasoning tonight under <b>Ms Sales</b>' questioning. Yes we're allies, but no we don't have to be stupid. The peanut gallery in charge of the <b>United States</b> at the time of the <b>9/11</b> atrocity demonstrated an appalling grasp of global dynamics, and only made a bad situation far worse. Why keep justifying to ourselves that we haven't been a part of that stupidity?<o:p></o:p></span> <br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Faced with two paths, the less stupid and the more stupid, how stupid is it to keep choosing the more stupid?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">It was clear to me from <b>Leigh Sales</b>' questions that the journalist is far from convinced of the arguments that the leaderships of the <b>Labor</b> and <b>Coalition</b> parties are mounting for continuing the mission in <b>Afghanistan</b>. Our leaders need to be kept in the frying pan of scrutiny.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Prime Minister Gillard</span></b><span style="font-size: 18pt;"> said, in answer to a very clear and simple series of excellent questions from <b>Ms Sales</b>, "<i>Our mission, of course, is to make sure Afghanistan doesn't become a safe haven for terrorists.</i>" Well, <b><i>how impossible</i></b>, given the mindset of the populace as well as the fundamentalist sewer across the inhospitable and porous border with Pakistan, and even if it was possible, <b><i>how redundant</i></b>, given the globalisation of terrorist opportunity, assisted mightily by the internet; how many <b>British</b> have died at the hands of <b>British</b> terrorists this decade?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">The <b>PM</b> also highlighted her own lack of understanding or honesty with the <b>Australian</b> citizenry – or was it a flagging of her gullibility? – when in answer to <b>Ms Sales</b>' characteristically precise question: "<i>But to what standard </i>(government provision of services)<i>, I guess I'm wanting to know?<br />
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"<i>Because in looking to benchmarks you need things that can be measured and there's a big difference between the sort of elections we have here, for example, and the sort of elections you have in Afghanistan.<br />
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"<i>So I'm wondering where in that continuum you would think that that's a functional government?</i>"<br />
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<b>Julia Gillard</b>: "<i>Leigh, in part this is for the Afghan national people to determine.<br />
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</i><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">"<i>We are not there nation building in that sense. The Afghan people have to do that nation building themselves.</i>"<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Here is the immense risk: the determination that the <b>'Afghan</b> national people' reach will be far from satisfactory from our national interest position, nowhere near commensurate with our sacrifices of life, health, and finances, even very harmful to us.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Imagine the advantages we could be leaving in the shape of a trained military and civil infrastructure to the next bunch of fanatics to hold the reins of power in <b>Afghanistan</b>! Even if 'moderates' rule <b>Afghanistan</b>, how much of our hard-earned and hard-sacrificed will assist women, children, civil society, and how much will further hard-line <b>Islam</b>?</span><span style="font-size: 18pt;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 18pt;">And let me be clear: I would dearly like to be wrong, and see the fruition of the allied efforts with a rapid achievement of a peaceful self-governing society in a stable and developing <b>Afghanistan</b>, with a consequent orderly and soon wind-down of all military engagement by all concerned. The nation would obviously be <b>Islamic</b> flavoured, but how about a moderate flavour? And let it then hold its head high a part of the <b>United Nations</b> of peaceable forward-striving collective of humanity.</span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">A great interview conducted most skillfully by <b>Ms Sales</b>, and most politically astutely by a weasel-worded <b>Ms Gillard</b>. This quality of interview is so valuable, to alert the thinkers among the <b>Australian</b> people of the spin that infects and directs our national policy, and also for posterity when a higher quality of history-motivated citizenry will be able to study just how mealymouthed our politics was.<o:p></o:p></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">+paytontedwithlove+<o:p></o:p></span></b></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div><b><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b>Payton L. Inkletterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00498134400783189246noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1486198393736605064.post-66437409982368319292010-10-15T13:17:00.022-05:002010-10-19T15:38:48.235-05:00GOTTHARD PASS: "At last, some light without heat at the middle of the tunnel!" PLInkletter yodeled movingly, "But what is a mountain to faith anyway?"<meta content="text/html; charset=utf-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"></meta><meta content="Word.Document" name="ProgId"></meta><meta content="Microsoft Word 12" name="Generator"></meta><meta content="Microsoft Word 12" name="Originator"></meta><link href="file:///C:%5CUsers%5Cadmin%5CAppData%5CLocal%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml" rel="File-List"></link><link href="file:///C:%5CUsers%5Cadmin%5CAppData%5CLocal%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_themedata.thmx" rel="themeData"></link><link href="file:///C:%5CUsers%5Cadmin%5CAppData%5CLocal%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_colorschememapping.xml" rel="colorSchemeMapping"></link> <m:smallfrac m:val="off"> <m:dispdef> <m:lmargin m:val="0"> <m:rmargin m:val="0"> <m:defjc m:val="centerGroup"> <m:wrapindent m:val="1440"> <m:intlim m:val="subSup"> <m:narylim m:val="undOvr"> </m:narylim></m:intlim> </m:wrapindent><style>
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</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Be all that as it may, meanwhile:</span></i><b><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">'In other news…'</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">15<sup>th</sup> October 2010<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Friday</span></b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">: What a beautiful balmy spring, nay, yay, <i>October</i> day! A good day for a very short story:<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Equanimity<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">"You've got cancer."<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">His doctor hadn't sat down yet. Maybe it was his way of avoiding eye contact when he had to tell younger people, well, younger that retirement age people, that serious news. A caring fellow, he actually touched you, the touch of concern beyond and over diagnosis. It must wear, this bad news stuff, delivering it. Take its toll.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Who could blame him for contriving means to deliver it.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">The man took a second, maybe a second and a half, to register and process the announcement, more probably because his doctor invariably was seated and looking at him when he first spoke at an appointment, after the niceties at the door that is. A relevant medical statement from the middle of the room from a moving doctor carrying some whatever to the bookshelf, his back to him, all a bit out of the ordinary. And so, the time delay for the cognizance was as much that the medical talk had begun out of place, the man wasn't concentrating.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">The doctor always began with a question like "What can I do for you today?"<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">After the niceties.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">The man was quiet for most of the appointment, asking questions sparingly, also on another matter. And there were the mountain of usual prescriptions to have written. Out of most things – it had been likely five months.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Some time into the appointment, was it before the poor line take your chance eventually when it's worsened written referral, or after? the doctor asked "Are you in shock?"<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">"No," the man said, truthfully, leaving it at that. He'd been mildly surprised, no shock.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">When the man got to his car, in the undercover, he was thinking in a different frame than when he went in.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">He had considered in the past that he might not tell his wife if he was to get a serious diagnosis one day.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Decision time.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">What decided it was, if the tables were turned, <i>what would I want?</i> He immediately resolved to tell her on his return, bury the dysfunction that spawned such ideas. Time might be short, how inconsequential the decades of bullshit, perceived and real, now.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">She had left a message on the mobile, he discovered, back in the car, when resetting it back from silent. He rang her to answer the message: he'd forgotten to unload the vegetables, leafy ones, from yesterday's shopping, still under the false floor in the hatch section.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">"How's it all going? What were the results?"<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">"Oh yeah, pretty good, I'll talk more about it when I get back."<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">(She already knew, 'psychic' should be her middle name.)<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Driving home, among his many thoughts, he was delighted to observe himself having no trepidation, utterly none. The countless times he'd thought of this possibility one day, and integrated it with his growing existential level certainties, discussing with himself often the opinion that he had no longer any fear of death, and what do you know, effortlessly, no deep breath and force himself to see the bright side, it has just, unconsciously almost, happened.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">The drive gave him much time to feel concern for a wife and adult child; this, if it came to it, would be where the effort would be needed…<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">***<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Lateline: The </span></b><b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">(Leigh) Sales Graph</span></b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">: Little wonder <b>Ms Sales</b> scintillated tonight, for she had an in-studio interview with no less than that living national treasure, <b>David Suzuki</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">While <b>Mr Suzuki</b> chose a casual look in his red shaded open necked shirt, <b>Ms Sales</b> kept up her usual professional standard, tonight choosing an ivory jacket with a deep blue camisole, fetching convex flared hair style swept back behind her ears, subtle-effect makeup and tiny pearl earrings.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i><b>David Suzuki shared much wisdom under the gentle direction of Leigh Sales in this wonderful LATELINE interview</b></i></span></td></tr>
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</style><i><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">David Suzuki gave his shared wisdom a little emphasis here and there during his LATELINE interview</span></span></b></i></m:defjc></m:rmargin></m:lmargin></m:dispdef></m:smallfrac></td></tr>
</tbody></table><span style="font-size: 18pt;">The topic was mainly the state of the planet and human society's impacts. It was touching and inspirational to listen to <b>Mr Suzuki's</b> account of the month he spent with his father before his death.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">I commend <b>Ms Sales</b>' light touch during the whole interview, which allowed <b>Mr Suzuki</b> to shine through. Another interview to treasure from the professionals within our <b>ABC</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">+paytontedwithlove+<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>Payton L. Inkletterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00498134400783189246noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1486198393736605064.post-63908851251079880412010-10-08T17:31:00.004-05:002010-10-08T21:19:40.295-05:00BEIJING: "Xia, please give Xiaobo a big hug from the rest of us who value liberal democracy," asks PLInkletter, "and keep hope alive for his release."<meta content="text/html; charset=utf-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"></meta><meta content="Word.Document" name="ProgId"></meta><meta content="Microsoft Word 12" name="Generator"></meta><meta content="Microsoft Word 12" name="Originator"></meta><link href="file:///C:%5CUsers%5Cadmin%5CAppData%5CLocal%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml" rel="File-List"></link><link href="file:///C:%5CUsers%5Cadmin%5CAppData%5CLocal%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_themedata.thmx" rel="themeData"></link><link href="file:///C:%5CUsers%5Cadmin%5CAppData%5CLocal%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_colorschememapping.xml" rel="colorSchemeMapping"></link> <m:smallfrac m:val="off"> <m:dispdef> <m:lmargin m:val="0"> <m:rmargin m:val="0"> <m:defjc m:val="centerGroup"> <m:wrapindent m:val="1440"> <m:intlim m:val="subSup"> <m:narylim m:val="undOvr"> </m:narylim></m:intlim> </m:wrapindent><style>
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</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Be all that as it may, meanwhile:</span></i><b><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">'In other news…'</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">08<sup>th</sup> October 2010<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Friday</span></b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">: To bed this 'morning' at about one this afternoon, and up at five; yes, another day night day blurring.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Before hitting the low thread count polycottons, I found <b>Cadbury</b> killing a dove she'd caught out the back door among the bamboo. I am aware of the irony of loving the natural world and owning a domestic cat that has still got outdoor freedom, and if and when it becomes feasible, I'll set up a large outdoor enclosure that will prevent such sad happenings. I cannot quantify how much joy this little <b>Maine Coon</b> has brought into my life since finding it abandoned early this year as a kitten. And my word the killer instincts of spoiled domestic cats are alive and well.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size: 18pt;">The delicate dormouse</span></i></b><span style="font-size: 18pt;"> and I drove to <b>Adelaide Terrace</b> and began an evening with <b>The Babies Ink&Peggletter</b>. We got there about seven, and then went to <b>Victoria Park</b> to <b>Chi</b> <b>Restaurant</b>, where we treated them to a meal as a reward for <b>Baby Inkletter</b> getting through her recent ten week horror practical teaching stint, with the mentor teacher from hell.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">It is our (we wrinklies) second time there, and we are very impressed with the standards, from the very nice <b>Chinese</b> food to the friendly and professional staff, topped off by the relative inexpensiveness of the cuisine and service.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">After this we went for a walk along the <b>Perth</b> foreshore, before dessert and a board game back at <b>The Babies</b>' place. It wasn't till about midnight that we got home, with a fuel stop locally.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">I settled in to watch recorded current affairs till almost four a.m., with killer <b>Cadbury</b> on my lap, <i>bless her fat little heart</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Lateline: The Tick(y Fullerton) Check Mark</span></b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">: <b>Ms Fullerton</b> looked lovely in her simple long-sleeved coral red blouse, and subtle-effect makeup, her only jewellery small pearl earrings, her hair appealingly convex flaring and tucked behind her ears:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</style><span style="font-size: large;"><i><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">How nicely Ticky Fullerton sets off her coral red blouse!</span></b></i></span></m:defjc></m:rmargin></m:lmargin></m:dispdef></m:smallfrac></td></tr>
</tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqPB-z4OuM9ylbO8SpIoKeZMhlPnkUz5QZ3nKeyRxZ0e-pvgsZaZA7SwbfQS2piLnZlTD_xNdUlFXSQJpsWUsmTkSsVJzo6gYQc3JUM6tfz9c9wEQp-N7ZfsdmPBVcVwEukjsGq6U_YNLc/s1600/Ticky+Fullerton+LATELINE+anchor+Friday+8th+October+2010,+discussing+the+Murray+Darling+Basin+plan%5BPaytonL.InkletterC%5D.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">She conducted a riveting long interview – 21 minutes no less! – about today's <b>Murray Darling Basin Authority's</b> announced plan, with <b>Water Minister Tony Burke</b>, splendid in his grey jacket white shirt and blue shades striped tie combo, <b>Professor Mike Young</b>, resplendent in a pastel-coloured combo grey jacket white shirt and yellow shaded tie, and <b>Rob Black</b>, who was the most colourfully attired, minus a jacket with a striped light shirt and zingy blue and red striped neck strangler.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Ms Fullerton</span></b><span style="font-size: 18pt;"> was the ideal journalist to conduct this discussion, given her personal extensive knowledge of the water challenges facing the <b>Australian</b> nation. I was impressed with the civil contributions of each of the interlocutors, despite some very serious financial consequences for <b>Mr Black's</b> stakeholders, the valid environmental solicitude of <b>Mr Young</b>, and the political concerns of <b>Mr Burke</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Mr Young's</span></b><span style="font-size: 18pt;"> contributions stood out; he was a delight to listen to, with a very positive outlook and preparedness to pay praise where praise is due.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Well done all of you, and thank you <b>Ms Fullerton</b> for how tightly you kept your guests on subject.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">I went for a walk about half four, and the eastern horizon was lightening on my return.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</style><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 18pt;">with the sun heading to midday before I retired.</span></m:defjc></m:rmargin></m:lmargin></m:dispdef></m:smallfrac></div><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 18pt;">+paytontedwithlove+</span></b>Payton L. Inkletterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00498134400783189246noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1486198393736605064.post-53986937144003645572010-10-01T17:10:00.010-05:002010-10-02T07:29:38.203-05:00WASHINGTON: "It's hardly rocket science," PLInkletter maintains, "more like a singalong: 'Oh give me space, lots of space, under starry skies above…'"<meta content="text/html; charset=utf-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"></meta><meta content="Word.Document" name="ProgId"></meta><meta content="Microsoft Word 12" name="Generator"></meta><meta content="Microsoft Word 12" name="Originator"></meta><link href="file:///C:%5CUsers%5Cadmin%5CAppData%5CLocal%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml" rel="File-List"></link><link href="file:///C:%5CUsers%5Cadmin%5CAppData%5CLocal%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_themedata.thmx" rel="themeData"></link><link href="file:///C:%5CUsers%5Cadmin%5CAppData%5CLocal%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_colorschememapping.xml" rel="colorSchemeMapping"></link> <m:smallfrac m:val="off"> <m:dispdef> <m:lmargin m:val="0"> <m:rmargin m:val="0"> <m:defjc m:val="centerGroup"> <m:wrapindent m:val="1440"> <m:intlim m:val="subSup"> <m:narylim m:val="undOvr"> </m:narylim></m:intlim> </m:wrapindent><style>
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</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Be all that as it may, meanwhile:</span></i><b><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">'In other news…'</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">01<sup>st</sup> October 2010<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Friday</span></b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">: Uber 'late' to bed (sunrise), so uber late up. And with a disturbance, an hour before my one p.m. rising, when <b>Missus Inkletter</b> came in to let me know she was taking our over the road neighbour <b>Deelia</b>, who's approaching her eighties, to the doctor, for she had become quite ill.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">I also had <b><i>the alabaster dragon</i></b> phone <b>Bob's</b> people (<b>my</b> people got in touch with <b>Bob's</b> people) to see if he wanted to go to the city today, as I had not planned to see him this week, and <b>Bob</b> was keen, so when I surfaced it was a mad rush for me to get crank up and get ready and arrive at <b>Guildford</b> before three.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">And so we spent three hours doing the things <b>Bob</b> enjoys in <b>Perth CBD</b>, which is changing at a rate of knots again these days, with so many new skyscrapers and other projects steaming ahead. They've even ripped up half of <b>St Georges Terrace</b> (I can't quite get over the missing apostrophe, while also on the same terrace is <b>St George's Cathedral</b>, where my parents married) out front of <b>London Court</b>! (Some historically formed typos are worth keeping, but some aren't, and I for one wish <b>Perth City Council</b> would rename it.) I was struck by how thin the road base is.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">And so I was rather whacked when I got home about half seven, and by half eight, after din dins, <b>Cadbury</b> spent the next four hours on my lap as we watched news and docos on <b>Aunty</b> and <b>SBS</b>. That cat will be the best informed feline on current affairs and politics in <b>Australia</b>, before the year is out.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Lateline: The Missing </span></b><b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">(Leigh) Sales Graph, instead The Tick(y Fullerton) Check Mark</span></b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">: <b>Ticky Fullerton</b> anchored <b>Lateline</b> tonight in <b>Leigh Sales</b>' stead, who is gallivanting around the <b>United States</b> for a while, where she will doubtless rediscover that <b>North America</b> has an abundance of political pricks and dickheads just as does <b>Australia</b>. Speaking of political pricks and dickheads, <b>Ms Fullerton's</b> guests tonight for the <i>Friday night fight club </i>were <b>Shadow Attorney-General George Brandis</b> and, well, I could stop there.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">I won't keep you in suspense for long as to the identity of the other politician, but first, a note on <b>Ms Fullerton's</b> appearance: she looked fantastic, and was a just-controlled fire, as the photo demonstrates:</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>Her bright red jacket only failed to ignite Ticky Fullerton's hair because it is so much shorter now</i></b></span></td></tr>
</tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiURLDOwZ089V7N9UOVIsRKh0hsSi6JaBCC9P8AyfwKlhrx6qHJQfEc99UWocxSgC9RKpJRa5vUYNGS_PwlFqU1jv4UZ6P5WUM3SslY6CdgFMogo38nKOqHr_m3KWfJnYNYDvqlqXeK4PW/s1600/Ticky+Fullerton+anchoring+LATELINE+1st+October+2010%5BPaytonL.InkletterC_2%5D.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">The other polly was <b>Minister for Trade Craig Emerson</b>. Both men were on-screen, and both looked superb.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Mr Brandis</span></b><span style="font-size: 18pt;"> opting for a black and white theme (<b>Freudian</b> slip?), with even a bold striped tie in black and white upon his white shirt and surrounded by his dark suit jacket; <b>Mr Emerson</b> came close to imitating <b>Mr Brandis</b>, except that <b>Mr Emerson's</b> tie had a dash of fire in it also:</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>There's nothing quite like black and white in politics: Craig Emerson and George Brandis were predictably starstruck by their own side's performances</i></b></span></td></tr>
</tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJMZQIQ-wamYKsCagF1enlQyELkzGa8yRPCc0cHPbV5ZBnr4Y-jPBsCT5sXgUyyR08wgsWf8RqAYXYd8GzyXOUezYX6UO_3qkOXLR-fLZAzKnLqXdYLaagOWHZ-yK6eCyvvNl60KW_pWIi/s1600/Craig+Emerson+and+George+Brandis+on+LATELINE+1st+October+2010+with+Ticky+Fullerton%5BPaytonL.InkletterC_7%5D.jpg" imageanchor="1"></a></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">This interview highlighted to me the fact that practice makes perfect, for these two boys got stuck into each other with overtalking a few times while completely ignoring <b>Ms Fullerton's</b> attempts to pull them into line. <b>Leigh Sales</b> is getting so much practice at controlling unruly politicians that she would have pulled them into line more quickly and probably with good humour; <b>Ms Fullerton's</b> interlocutors over at <b>Lateline Business</b> are usually in a more docile frame of mind.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Some delights for me were the use of the term '<i>shirtfronted</i>' by <b>Ms Fullerton</b> in reference to <b>Peter Slipper's</b> acceptance of the <b>Deputy Speaker</b> role, as well as her rhyme "<i>despairing of pairing</i>", in regard to the obstinance of <b>Tony Abbott's</b> stand on pairing with the <b>Speaker</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Mr Brandis</span></b><span style="font-size: 18pt;"> kept up the imbecilic <b>Opposition</b> line that <b>Prime Minister Gillard</b> broke a pre-election commitment to not introduce a carbon tax: <b>George</b>, like I advised <b>Joe Hockey</b> the other day, do your best to understand what a <i>hung parliament</i> means and the changes it forces upon the whole of the new <b>Government's</b> agenda, and when you've done that, stop insulting our intelligence with your side's stupid and disingenuous line. Had you formed government you would be in the identical predicament.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Mr Emerson</span></b><span style="font-size: 18pt;"> is spot on with his early remark that <b>Tony Abbott</b> (and his cohorts) "<i>…is still sulking as a result of the <b>Australian</b> people not electing him, he's obviously angry with that.</i>" I haven't an abundance of respect for any <b>Opposition</b> we've had for decades, however, the <b>Coalition</b> in opposition over the last three years have been the pits of bitterness, petulance at being turfed out, and smallness of many kinds. And that has been under three different leaders, which suggests the problem is deeper than their leaders.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Sadly, yet again, I have to award the interview to <b>Mr Emerson</b> in terms of mature behaviour and believable statements, but <i>not</i> by a country mile. I say 'sadly', because <b>Australia</b> would be far better served by a higher calibre <b>Opposition</b>, which also implies, of course, by a higher calibre <b>Government</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Well done <b>Ms Fullerton</b>, being thrown back into the bear pit of <b>Lateline</b> and performing professionally.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Oh how nice it would have been to sweeten things up with a chat with <b>Stephen Long</b>; hurry back <b>Mr Long</b>!</span><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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</div><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p>I managed a slower than usual late walk, on this humid cool night, around four a.m. Some hoons appeared to be yelling out at me from the local shops carpark at one stage of the walk. I am pleasantly surprised at how little untoward behaviour I encounter in the dead of night around this patch of our suburb.</span><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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</div><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Very late, well, time is so blurred and smeared around my life these days, very early, till and after sunrise, I wrote more on '<b>After the Rain</b>', exhausting myself but feeling strangely alive.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">+paytontedwithlove+</span></b></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>Payton L. Inkletterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00498134400783189246noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1486198393736605064.post-38190483521980272532010-09-28T13:29:00.004-05:002010-09-28T14:19:20.415-05:00QUFU: …say, "He who keep making up mystelious clyptic brog headrines of plecisery 150 chalacters, either velly stupid or must be Payton L. Inkretter."<meta content="text/html; charset=utf-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"></meta><meta content="Word.Document" name="ProgId"></meta><meta content="Microsoft Word 12" name="Generator"></meta><meta content="Microsoft Word 12" name="Originator"></meta><link href="file:///C:%5CUsers%5Cadmin%5CAppData%5CLocal%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml" rel="File-List"></link><link href="file:///C:%5CUsers%5Cadmin%5CAppData%5CLocal%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_themedata.thmx" rel="themeData"></link><link href="file:///C:%5CUsers%5Cadmin%5CAppData%5CLocal%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_colorschememapping.xml" rel="colorSchemeMapping"></link> <m:smallfrac m:val="off"> <m:dispdef> <m:lmargin m:val="0"> <m:rmargin m:val="0"> <m:defjc m:val="centerGroup"> <m:wrapindent m:val="1440"> <m:intlim m:val="subSup"> <m:narylim m:val="undOvr"> </m:narylim></m:intlim> </m:wrapindent><style>
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</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Be all that as it may, meanwhile:</span></i><b><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">'In other news…'</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">28<sup>th</sup> September 2010<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Tuesday</span></b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">: 'Yesterday' blurred for me into a typical evening, night, day, and it wasn't till noon that I finally lay down to sleep. And so, come half six in the evening, I was not well rested, when I arose to do my first 'job', and deliver hot vittles to <b><i>The Dear Leader</i></b>., fresh from being phlebotomised this morning.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">It had been a warm spring day, and <b>Cadbury</b> is certainly in molting mode, with a long winter coat that is of reducing use to her. I must use the Furminator again on her tomorrow in daylight and outside. Anyway, with minimal fur ruffling, she spent over two hours on my lap watching <b>Aunty</b> with me, until her meowing messages convinced me she needed a spell outside, about half ten.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">I always enjoy <b>Tony Windsor</b> interviews, and <b>Kerry O'Brien</b> gave us another on <b>The 7.30 Report</b>. What a dream if every politician in <b>Australia</b>, state and federal, had <i>his</i> restraint, composure, and bearing. Both men looked excellent in their dark suits and boldly striped ties.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="color: red; font-size: 18pt;">Pictures coming…<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">The one point I'd highlight from that interview is <b>Mr Windsor's</b> calm observation that <b>Tony Abbott</b> is "<i>missing an opportunity to be constructive</i>", in his leadership of the <b>Opposition</b> for our 43<sup>rd</sup> <b>Parliament</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">I could easily be persuaded to call <b>Tony Abbott</b> <b><i>the incredible shrinking politician</i></b>, due to just how small minded he is behaving. I'll say more on this in my <b>Lateline</b> observations below.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Lateline: The </span></b><b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">(Leigh) Sales Graph</span></b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">: <b>Leigh Sales</b> chose a casual look tonight, and looked wonderful, in a double pocketed longsleeved dark blue shirt, her only jewellery a set of gold ring earrings, subtle-effect makeup, and attractively flaring hairstyle. Her eyeshadow strength and shade was ideal.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="color: red; font-size: 18pt;">Picture coming…<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Her long interview subject was the first day of our new <b>Parliament</b>, with the finely tuned numbers and their consequences. The sucker from the <b>Opposition</b> who fronted up, on-screen from <b>Canberra</b>, to discuss the day's developments, was <b>Shadow Treasurer</b>, <b>Joe Hockey</b>, whose dark pinstriped suit and white shirt, enhanced with a white tie with medium width black stripes, cut him a handsome figure.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="color: red; font-size: 18pt;">Picture coming…<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">This interview's mood was sombre. And that was the right tone, for here we had the <b>Shadow Treasurer</b> giving away the sad truth of the state of mind of <i>his</i> side of politics, with regard to the recent election and their failure to form a government. I don't believe that even <b>Mr Hockey</b> believes that the non-cooperative stance his side has adopted, under the leadership of <b>Tony Abbott</b>, is the best thing to do.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">It became evident through <b>Ms Sales</b>' thorough and researched questions, that <b>Mr Hockey</b> was the latest harbinger from his mob that this <b>Opposition</b> has not got sufficient goodwill towards the <b>Australian</b> nation, to help make this latest <b>Parliament</b> as productive as possible.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Tony Abbott</span></b><span style="font-size: 18pt;"> is demonstrating that he hasn't got the greatness to accept that, <b><i>according to the rules we've been running on for a century and more</i></b>, his side did not form government, and he did not become <b>Prime Minister</b>, which sadly, might be as much the point.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">I reckon <b>Ms Sales</b> is very aware of the smallness that is oozing out of the <b>Opposition</b> from all angles, and her questioning indicated this. She thus let <b>Mr Hockey</b> indict himself and his colleagues. How spot on <b>Ms Sales</b> was with the spirit in the following question: "<i>Is there a risk that that </i>(the 'wrecker' appellation)<i> will resonate with the public if the <b>Opposition</b> does pick fights over comparatively minor courtesies like pairing?</i>"<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">His lame comeback included the following non sequitur: "<i>And how ironic it is, <b>Julia Gillard</b> accusing us of breaking a deal, whereas before the election she promised the <b>Australian</b> people there would no carbon tax.</i>" <b>Mr Hockey</b> and your cohorts, listen carefully to <b>Tony Windsor</b> and, if necessary, get someone with more intelligence than you are displaying to the public to explain the implications of the following: IT'S A HUNG PARLIAMENT. Thus, many campaign commitments are thrown into doubt automatically. The <b>Coalition</b> would be in an identical situation if it had formed a government under the current balance of numbers; some of its promises would doubtless have to be purged.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">How easily most of our politicians are prepared to keep insulting our intelligence with irrelevancies, redundancies, and falsities. Give us more <b>Tony Windsors</b>,<b> Rob Oakeshotts</b>,<b> Bob Katters</b>,<b> Nick Xenophons</b>!<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">In years to come, I would not be surprised if <b>Mr Hockey</b> looks back to these days, even this interview, and cringes. He, at the bidding of the small-spirited leader he works under, demonstrated that he can talk and defend smallness also.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">However, I am not confident that the <b>Australian</b> people will punish the <b>Coalition</b> for its tactics born of bitterness, formulated through the distortion of their smarting eyes. That remains to be seen. I hope the <b>Coalition</b> is punished electorally for its ongoing puerile and nasty behaviour, only to impress upon our politicians, and aspiring politicians, of every flavour, to behave with a far higher level of maturity towards the honour they are awarded to represent and lead us.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">I was impressed with the fact that <b>Ms Sales</b> had a good grasp of the history of the situation 70 years back when we last had a hung parliament. She is a studious researcher, and it shows. I wonder when she sleeps.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Thank you <b>Leigh Sales</b> for an interview which had <b>Joe Hockey</b> exposing as much of what the <b>Opposition</b> doesn't stand for and which it should, by <i>omission</i>, as for the same by <i>commission</i>.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Lateline Business: The Tick(y Fullerton) Check Mark</span></b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">: <b>Ticky Fullerton</b> looked great when she anchored tonight's program. She wore a dark jacket and a simple Carolina blue camisole, with subtle-effect makeup and just tiny earrings for jewellery, her new shorter hairstyle suiting her very well, with its full forehead exposure and convex flaring at the sides.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="color: red; font-size: 18pt;">Picture coming…<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">I get a chill whenever I think of big foreign businesses buying food production assets in our country, and so I was not the most comfortable I've ever been during the long interview <b>Ms Fullerton</b> had with <b>Sunny Verghese</b>, the <b>Managing Director </b>of<b> Olam International</b>. <b>Mr Verghese</b> looked like a new dollar, billions of them to be precise, but with a dark blue theme to his jacket and tie.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="color: red; font-size: 18pt;">Picture coming…<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">The topic was about the plans by <b>Olam International</b> to double its business, already a $2.6 billion enterprise. I cannot help but think that this business and most like it are <b><i>not</i></b> first and foremost dedicated to feeding people while being profitable, but rather to make profits first and foremost, and all else being secondary. I hope I'm wrong with <b>Olam International</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Ms Fullerton</span></b><span style="font-size: 18pt;"> did raise the concerns of the various countries about their farming assets, including water rights, being sold to overseas interests, with <b>Mr Verghese</b>, and while he spoke a lot of words back, they didn't amount to addressing the basic problems of local insecurities, in my opinion. He interestingly gave a reply including this line: "<i>…for us the more important licence that we need to seek and get is the licence from the communities and where we operate.</i>"<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Well, that prize will depend on the greatness, the character, of <b>Olam International</b>, and will best be evidenced over time and under duress. Specifically I speak of the duress of the locals in the countries his business operates in, when food prices rise above manageable needs for the poor. Just how his company behaves at such times will be the acid to determine the above mentioned licence of which he claims he seeks.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">It's a big issue, and a big problem. We've all got to eat. And of course, agricultural business has to be profitable, and – especially – sustainable, ideally continuously improving the health of the ecosystems in which it operates.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Be all that as it may, meanwhile:</span></i><b><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">'In other news…'</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">27<sup>th</sup> September 2010<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Monday</span></b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">: I tried to surface at two, having written till 8 this morning on my short story, '<b>After the Rain</b>', but I couldn't manage it. And so, less than an hour before sundown I arose. I must say I am glad of the writing time last night; it is too rare these days to devote time to purely fictional prose.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">And so, all I managed was a bit of weeding up the back, accompanied by <b>Cadbury</b>, who likes to try to grab the weeds from me as I pull them out. Last job was to squirt <b>Missus Inkletter's</b> legs, by accident (that's my story and I'm sticking with it), when I watered the motherinlaw tongues out the front. She got a fright and called out loud, for the neighbourhood to hear, "<i>What are you doing to me!</i>"<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">I then spent the whole evening, but for a short break, in front of <b>Aunty</b>, with <b>Cadbury</b> on my lap.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Lateline: The </span></b><b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">(Leigh) Sales Graph</span></b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">: <b>Ms Sales</b> looked beautifully turned out with an ivory jacket set off nicely with a full ellipse ruffled collar, and black camisole, avoiding any lack of contrast issues with her skin, and crowned with a convex flaring hair style to finish the superb effect. Subtle-effect makeup, especially the eye shadow tint, conspired to support the effective appeal of professionalism and beauty. And the only jewellery was a set of tiny pearl earrings. She is a rather blessed woman.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="color: red; font-size: 18pt;">Picture coming…<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Her first interview, on-screen, was with <b>Senator Christine Milne</b> in <b>Canberra</b>, who also looked beautiful in, no, not a green jacket, but a vivid pink one. They discussed the climate change committee that the <b>Labor Government</b> is putting together, and <b>Ms Milne's</b> role in it.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="color: red; font-size: 18pt;">Picture coming…<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Ms Sales</span></b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">' long interview (12 minutes) soon had me paying attention. She was speaking in-studio with <b>Grover Norquist</b>, the <b>President </b>of<b> Americans for Tax Reform</b>. <b>Mr Norquist</b> was immaculately attired in a dark grey pinstriped suit and pale blue shirt with a silvery gold dimpled tie.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="color: red; font-size: 18pt;">Picture coming…<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Let me start at the finish: <b>Ms Sales</b> ended with "<i>There are many more things I'd like to ask about, but we're out of time.</i>" I only wish she could have had him for another hour, to investigate whether he has anything profound and intelligent to say about some of the other interesting causes he's involved in, because he certainly didn't treat us to much along those lines in this interview.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Ms Sales</span></b><span style="font-size: 18pt;"> struck me as having the holes in <b>Mr Norquist's</b> arguments, which were largely about the role of and size of government in the <b>U.S.A.</b>, all worked out, if not before she met him, certainly on the run with him in the studio.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Now while I think it's a bit strong of people who think <b>Mr Norquist's</b> a conservative nutter, whose output with regard to taxation and governmental activity has a quality bearing an uncanny correspondence to the quality of thought of <b>George W. Bush</b>, that is, low grade, I can understand how they arrived at such a view, if this is how he always presents his arguments. However, <b>Ms Sales</b> valiantly tried to pin <b>Mr Norquist</b> down to delineate specifically what he would have the <b>US Government</b> do to reduce its tax take and its size, and, embarrassingly to himself, without (doubtless) him realising it, his ideas were so simplistic, he sounded like a fundamentalist religionist quoting scripture.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">It is dumb to try to to solve the many excruciating problems of the <b>US Government</b> with equally silly, simplistic, and stupid, not to mention dogmatic, 'solutions'. Many of <b>Mr Norquist's</b> prescriptions, as brief as they were, gave away their naiveté. Take this: "<i>We've wasted almost a trillion dollars and nothing has happened.</i>" <b>Mr Norquist</b>, any thinking person would admit that the recent stimulus and emergency spending in the <b>US</b> has involved great waste, but don't insult our intelligence and make a fool of yourself by claiming 'nothing' helpful has happened. I again refer to my previous religious fanatic reference.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Ms Sales</span></b><span style="font-size: 18pt;"> gently confronted <b>Mr Norquist</b> with the fact that the market "<i>doesn't always operate efficiently</i>", and tried to keep up a focus on the minutiae of his answers to the problems faced by his nation. She properly brought up the little problem to his arguments regarding the superiority of the <b>Republican </b>side of politics concerning smaller spending of the <b>Bush Junior </b>years, and his reply bumbled on and finally landed on the line that it's now a different <b>Republican Party</b>. I would ask, <i>And a different basic philosophy?</i><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Now I wonder if <b>Mr Norquist</b>, and I suspect he might, would have some enlightenment to share with us concerning his laudable interests in building economic bridges between ethnic and religious minorities and the greater market.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">I can say that he didn't do his small government cause much justice with the arguments he used tonight. Maybe we caught him on a bad day. He should take a sabbatical, and formulate a credible method for transitioning his nation, any nation, from big wasteful government, to better government, and practice describing it clearly in a few minutes.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">I also wonder if he is aware (I doubt it), that many of the things he believes in, with regard to small and non-intrusive government, belong to a far off era when the average citizen is so advanced in character and intelligence that he/she is essentially self governing.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">I do hope <b>Ms Sales</b> can get him again and explore his efforts with his other causes, to see if he can redeem himself. Maybe an on-screen interview from his part of the world might be able to be arranged.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
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<div></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: left;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">My time at the keyboard was interspersed during the night with three loadings of the dishwasher; I had not kept up with <b>Janny's</b> cooking for a little while.<o:p></o:p></span></div><br />
<div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">I picked up <b><i>The Dear Leader</i></b> at 8 a.m., and took him for blood tests locally. It took an hour, so I read from <b>Cormac McCarthy's </b>'<b>The Road</b>'<b> </b>while waiting. I was very tired by the time I returned him to his place then me to ours. Yet back to the keyboard it was for more writing.<o:p></o:p></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">+paytontedwithlove+<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>Payton L. Inkletterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00498134400783189246noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1486198393736605064.post-64516218457398112612010-09-24T23:57:00.022-05:002010-09-27T21:01:29.161-05:00TÓRSHAVN: "He pointed us towards the light, and not with a grain of salt," PLInkletter remarked. "A boy of good heart, too often the great die young."<meta content="text/html; charset=utf-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"></meta><meta content="Word.Document" name="ProgId"></meta><meta content="Microsoft Word 12" name="Generator"></meta><meta content="Microsoft Word 12" name="Originator"></meta><link href="file:///C:%5CUsers%5Cadmin%5CAppData%5CLocal%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml" rel="File-List"></link><link href="file:///C:%5CUsers%5Cadmin%5CAppData%5CLocal%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_themedata.thmx" rel="themeData"></link><link href="file:///C:%5CUsers%5Cadmin%5CAppData%5CLocal%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_colorschememapping.xml" rel="colorSchemeMapping"></link> <m:smallfrac m:val="off"> <m:dispdef> <m:lmargin m:val="0"> <m:rmargin m:val="0"> <m:defjc m:val="centerGroup"> <m:wrapindent m:val="1440"> <m:intlim m:val="subSup"> <m:narylim m:val="undOvr"> </m:narylim></m:intlim> </m:wrapindent><style>
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</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Be all that as it may, meanwhile:</span></i><b><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">'In other news…'</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">24<sup>th</sup> September 2010<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Friday</span></b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">: Not much sleep had, but what's new? I rushed around, after a late arising, doing too many things but somehow managing to get a good number done, before setting off for <b>Guildford</b> on this warm day for early spring.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Bob</span></b><span style="font-size: 18pt;"> was keen to go on the <b>John George Walk Trail</b> along the <b>Swan</b>, and we again met <b>Cheshirian Peter</b>, 78, and his gorgeous endearing corgi <b>Phoebe</b>. Two months ago we first spoke, and two weeks ago <b>Peter</b> had his kidney operation: not the removal he was expecting, rather some kind of scraping of the vital organ for three hours. <b>Phoebe</b> is as fat as butter, nine years old, and her back legs jut up when she sits her sumptuous bottom down.</span><br />
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</style><span style="font-size: large;"><i><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">A dear old lady, Phoebe the corgi, loves her elderly master Peter from Cheshire, and is watching solicitously out for him after his operation, when he goes for his walks</span></b></i></span></m:defjc></m:rmargin></m:lmargin></m:dispdef></m:smallfrac></td></tr>
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Well, that's just another experience to use to fortify herself for the remainder of life.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">She phoned me again to let me know that she had just heard on <b>Radio National</b> that <b>Kezza the Great</b> is leaving <b>The 7.30 Report</b> at the end of this year. We both have been following <b>Kerry O'Brien</b> for many years, myself of course for some decades longer.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">It was well after eight when I got home to <b>Missus Inkletter</b>, who, poor thing, has been unwell all week. Yesterday she vomited badly, and for half the week almost lost her voice (that part I'm thankful for).<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Today I finished <b>Albert Camus' </b>'<b>The Outsider</b>': I will take some time, methinks, to digest it and decide what I think of it. It certainly was a pared use of language, direct, with simple sentences. I wonder did it suffer much in translation from the <b>French</b>?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Lateline: The </span></b><b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">(Leigh) Sales Graph</span></b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">: <b>Leigh Sales</b> gleamed in a light grey jacket with a champagne ruffled blouse, tiny pearl earrings, and subtle-effect makeup, and crowned with her convex flaring hair style, tonight more often falling assymetrical and fetching enough for it, flaring largely to her left side. Now as for the colour of her blouse, it was saved by its ruffles, for without them the lack of contrast with her décolletage skin would have not worked well.</span><br />
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</style> <![endif]--><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Leigh Sales had the pleasure of the wit of Michael White, Assistant Editor of The Guardian, on LATELINE</span></i></b></span></m:defjc></m:rmargin></m:lmargin></m:dispdef></m:smallfrac></td></tr>
</tbody></table><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="color: red; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Her long interview guest, <b>Michael White</b>, an old <b>Bodmin Grammar School</b> boy, now <b>Assistant Editor</b> of <b>The Guardian</b>, where he's been working for almost 40 years, to discuss the leadership contest for the <b>British Labour Party</b>. <b>Mr White</b> looked corking with his salt and pepper dark grey suit and darker grey shirt, set off superbly with a green shiny tie.</span><br />
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</tbody></table><b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Mr White's</span></b><span style="font-size: 18pt;"> wit was a delight, as he answered with generosity <b>Ms Sales</b>' many questions, starting with the prospect of one of the <b>Miliband</b> brothers leading the <b>Labour Party</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">It was obvious that <b>Mr White</b> was conversant with <b>Australia's</b> federal politics since our recent election, noting the minority government challenges we both now share.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">What a pleasant listening voice <b>Mr White</b> has! Add to this his intelligence and grasp of current affairs, and you have a recipe for a pleasant viewer experience. And we even got a different vantage on <b>Big Ben</b> in the background: not the common view we are usually treated to when the interlocutor is in <b>London</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">There were too many witticisms to record here from <b>Mr White's </b>sharp mind, however, I was particularly tickled by his "<i>flabby faced old cowards</i>" remark with reference to the <b>Conservatives</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Ms Sales</span></b><span style="font-size: 18pt;"> obviously enjoyed interviewing <b>Mr White</b>, and I certainly enjoyed the experience as a spectator. I hope he comes back often. I reckon interviews like these must be a form of hard earned relaxation for the likes of <b>Ms Sales</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">I'm already missing <b>Stephen Long</b>, who's surely not off cutting corners somewhere? He would be more likely adding corners, polishing them, and adding 'see wot's coming' mirrors.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">In the wee small hours I watched an interview <b>Jon Stewart</b> did with <b>King Abdullah of Jordan</b> on 23<sup>rd</sup> September, and I recommend it for a brief insight into the thinking of a moderate leader in the region, while talking to a well known comedian.</span><br />
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</style><span style="font-size: large;"><i><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Some refreshing and moderate insight came from King Abdullah of Jordan on the Israeli-Palestine problem, while talking over the issue with comedian Jon Stewart on The Daily Show</span></b></i></span></m:defjc></m:rmargin></m:lmargin></m:dispdef></m:smallfrac></td></tr>
</tbody></table><span style="font-size: 18pt;">I called off my plan to go for a walk in these same wee small hours, hitting the low thread count poly cottons around half four. When I called <b>Cadbury</b> in around three, she was wet, although there was no rain; a look around revealed a thick fog, saturated enough to coat <b>Cadbury's</b> fur heavily with dew. For northern hemisphereans, fog is uncommon in Perth.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">+paytontedwithlove+<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>Payton L. Inkletterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00498134400783189246noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1486198393736605064.post-74702981517537555272010-09-23T15:19:00.003-05:002010-09-23T16:21:28.326-05:00BROOME: "The original crocodile hunter, alas, hunts no more," sadly notes PLInkletter, "but I'll bet he'll be across the top with the game up yonder."<meta content="text/html; charset=utf-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"></meta><meta content="Word.Document" name="ProgId"></meta><meta content="Microsoft Word 12" name="Generator"></meta><meta content="Microsoft Word 12" name="Originator"></meta><link href="file:///C:%5CUsers%5Cadmin%5CAppData%5CLocal%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml" rel="File-List"></link><link href="file:///C:%5CUsers%5Cadmin%5CAppData%5CLocal%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_themedata.thmx" rel="themeData"></link><link href="file:///C:%5CUsers%5Cadmin%5CAppData%5CLocal%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_colorschememapping.xml" rel="colorSchemeMapping"></link> <m:smallfrac m:val="off"> <m:dispdef> <m:lmargin m:val="0"> <m:rmargin m:val="0"> <m:defjc m:val="centerGroup"> <m:wrapindent m:val="1440"> <m:intlim m:val="subSup"> <m:narylim m:val="undOvr"> </m:narylim></m:intlim> </m:wrapindent><style>
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</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Be all that as it may, meanwhile:</span></i><b><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">'In other news…'</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">23<sup>rd</sup> September 2010<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Thursday</span></b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">: After 15 hours sleep I felt only partly refreshed. Even with the help of three white comforters last night when I crashed at ten with a throbbing head.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">And it may as well have been a summer's day, much to <b>Janny</b> and my disappointment. And the forecast for the next week has no rain in it. Gulp! And the new spring water restrictions are the worst they've been for years.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Enough complaining; we set off in the afternoon for a shopping outing, which neither of us particularly enjoy having to do, except that it is time together; just another set of chores. Oh, did I say I'd finished complaining? I wasted my time in a queue at the <b>Post Office</b> only to learn that they don't have a particular form (<b>State Traffic Certificate</b>) which I have to submit regarding my traffic record for my work with <b>Bob</b>, since I drive him places (as well as another, a <b>National Police Certificate</b>, totalling about 75 bucks at my expense: funny thing is, I've been working with <b>Bob</b> for 17 or so years, without either!). The woman who served me spent ages 'out the back' only to inform me, incorrectly as it turned out, that I have to go to such and such a department in <b>Morley</b> or <b>Joondalup</b> to get the form. I checked online this evening to learn that the one is from the <b>Post Office</b>, the other from a <b>Police Station</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Between the three places we shopped, the remainder of the afternoon went west, and back home I got a tiny bit of weeding done out in the backyard plus some watering before dark. Pooh! I had hopes of getting much more done.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Lateline: </span></b><b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">The (Tony) SilverToes </span></b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">aka<b> Tojo (Jones) Assay</b>: I can not get enough of <b>Tony Windsor</b>, <b>Independent MHR </b>for<b> New England</b>, who was <b>Tony Jones</b>' long interview guest tonight. <b>Mr Jones</b> was decked out in a dark pinstripe suit, close to white shirt, and dark purple richly patterned tie; he looked immaculate as always, but a lighter brighter tie would have really set him on fire.</span><br />
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</style><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 18pt;"><i><b><span style="font-size: large;">Tony Jones had the pleasure of interviewing Independent MHR for New England, Tony Windsor, on LATELINE. Mr Windsor diplomatically inferred that Tony Abbott is lower than a snake's belly.</span></b></i></span></m:defjc></m:rmargin></m:lmargin></m:dispdef></m:smallfrac></td></tr>
</tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtMssU_XiuFQnPU4Qd9TwVKez91S1OyfEISJ2ACb8-t5bh1_rpHH4qCV8FOsQefzztgjGMcU6ElQ1k-_BS3wtT39NzEW3E2X7esu5qtf-ykxOSv4vGWMuIGfFAq0JMeMm7YouV3cwyCYk8/s1600/Tony+Jones+anchoring+LATELINE+Thursday+23rd+September+2010%5BPaytonL.InkletterC_%5D.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a></div><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><b>Mr Windsor</b> looked very smart, in his dark suit, white shirt, and red shade tie with white dots, and his endearing weather beaten face and crooked teeth.</span><br />
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</tbody></table><div style="text-align: center;"><i style="color: red;"><b></b></i></div><span style="font-size: 18pt;">He politely and calmly, diplomatically and with grace, told us what a bastard most of us already know <b>Opposition Leader Tony Abbott</b> is. It seems certain now that the next three years, if the <b>Parliament</b> lasts that long, will be characterised by the smallness of the <b>Opposition's</b> last three years. They're led by a small minded bitter man, and sadly this seems to be a reflection of the troops he leads' mindset.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">+paytontedwithlove+<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>Payton L. Inkletterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00498134400783189246noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1486198393736605064.post-88641408590878278882010-09-21T16:11:00.006-05:002010-09-23T12:55:12.635-05:00BRISTOL: "An albatross around his neck, with much huffin and puffin, he soon put paper back in front of the masses," PL Inkletter coolly noted, drily.<meta content="text/html; charset=utf-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"></meta><meta content="Word.Document" name="ProgId"></meta><meta content="Microsoft Word 12" name="Generator"></meta><meta content="Microsoft Word 12" name="Originator"></meta><link href="file:///C:%5CUsers%5Cadmin%5CAppData%5CLocal%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml" rel="File-List"></link><link href="file:///C:%5CUsers%5Cadmin%5CAppData%5CLocal%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_themedata.thmx" rel="themeData"></link><link href="file:///C:%5CUsers%5Cadmin%5CAppData%5CLocal%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_colorschememapping.xml" rel="colorSchemeMapping"></link> <m:smallfrac m:val="off"> <m:dispdef> <m:lmargin m:val="0"> <m:rmargin m:val="0"> <m:defjc m:val="centerGroup"> <m:wrapindent m:val="1440"> <m:intlim m:val="subSup"> <m:narylim m:val="undOvr"> </m:narylim></m:intlim> </m:wrapindent><style>
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</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Be all that as it may, meanwhile:</span></i><b><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">'In other news…'</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">21<sup>st</sup> September 2010<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Tuesday</span></b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">: Late last night I registered online to be an organ donor, after watching <b>Tracy Bowden's</b> report, in which <b>Mark Colvin</b> was featured, on the low organ donor rates in <b>Australia</b>, on <b>Kerry O'Brien's 7.30 Report</b>. The online page advised me that my new application appeared to be a duplicate, and asked me to phone to clarify matters. And in the middle of the night I did, to learn that yes, I have long been registered.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">I was uncertain, because donkey's years ago I had my status as an organ donor on my driver's licence, only to have that system scrapped here in <b>W.A.</b> Anyway, the friendly nurse informed me that I re-registered in 2002. She confirmed my understanding that, unfortunately, despite my registered intention, next of kin can still block my wishes after my death. And so, registering that I want to be an organ donor when I cark it if they're of any use, then being contingent on the okay of my next of kin, seems a bit redundant to me, to say the least.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Speaking of last night, it was great to see <b>Ticky Fullerton</b> return, with her undeniable journalistic skills and intelligence, after some week's absence, to <b>Lateline Business</b>; however, she did exactly what <b>Ali Moore</b> did, or strictly speaking, <i>didn't do</i>, when she returned from an absence: back in May, <b>Ms Moore</b> returned to the chair after many weeks away, during which time <b>Whitney Fitzsimmons</b> had filled her position, but neglected to make any mention of her service; last night <b>Ms Fullerton</b> neglected to make any mention of <b>Brigid Glanville</b>, who had filled her position. These lapses, for that's what they seem to be to me, are missed opportunities to be gracious, regardless of the quality of the job the replacement has done. I am slightly puzzled as to why ones of the stature of <b>Ms Fullerton</b> and <b>Ms Moore</b> would not have done this.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">I didn't manage my walk last night, although I would have enjoyed it and I somewhat needed it.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">I was dead tired as per usual, and dragged myself up at the crack of one (p.m. that is!), and helped <b>Janny</b> clean the place up for our special guests for dinner and my training tonight, <b>Reeve Chocson</b> and his business partner and friend, <b>Meynell the Humble</b>. Our guests arrived by six, and we broke bread, a wonderful meal on short notice by the greatest cook in <b>Australia</b>, <b>Janny Inkletter</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">The training to which I referred? <b>Reeve</b> observed <b>Meynell the Humble</b> who gave me one-on-one training with <b>Photoshop Elements</b>, for a couple of hours. These fellows are going to be training professionally with one-on-one courses, and I was the benificiary of their early development of the course they are designing. I am very grateful to be the guinea pig, because anything to do with <b>Photoshop</b> has always been too arcane for me on my lonesome.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Reeve</span></b><span style="font-size: 18pt;"> had to depart by nine, and <b>Meynell the Humble</b> stayed and chatted with us after my training wrapped up, for another hour and a half. It was nice to get to know him better.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">After our guest left, <b>Lateline</b> was just starting:</span><b><span style="font-size: 18pt;"> The </span></b><b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">(Leigh) Sales Graph</span></b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">: <b>Leigh Sales</b>, as usual, looked consummate in her dark jacket and bisque ruffled blouse combination, subtle-effect makeup and convex flaring hair style, and with but tiny pearl earrings her only concession to jewellery.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Leigh Sales' enjoyment from interviewing one of the Independents in Federal Parliament was evident</span></i></b></span></td></tr>
</tbody></table><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Her long interview guest was <b>Independent</b> <b>Senator Nick Xenophon</b>, who also as usual, looked tired (maybe not, but his bags under his eyes – like my own – always give that impression), but was smartly attired in a dark jacket and pale textured shirt with a very conservative dark striped tie, to put a ring of sombreness to the main subject discussed: pokie machine gambling.</span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> </tbody></table></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</tbody></table><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="color: red; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">There is so much comparitive refreshment when our independent politicians are interviewed. I for one cannot get enough of these interviews; these politicians usually tell it like it is, and their integrity glows from their pores.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Ms Sales</span></b><span style="font-size: 18pt;"> gave us a sweet moment after some disarming modesty from <b>Mr Xenophon</b>: "<i>I think my thoughts are largely irrelevant. I think that ...</i> (concerning who should be the <b>Speaker</b> of the <b>House of Representatives</b>)"<br />
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<b>Ms Sales</b>: "<i>That doesn't stop many politicians!</i>"<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">I found this a really good interview, and I hope we are treated to many more from this combination of <b>Ms Sales</b> and <b>Mr</b> <b>Xenophon</b>. It beats the crap out of the predictable output of the typical <b>Labor-Coalition</b> divided politicians.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">I mustered the energy very late – around 4 a.m. – to go for a badly needed walk, and while it was rather tiring, I got a psychological boost.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">+paytontedwithlove+<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>Payton L. Inkletterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00498134400783189246noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1486198393736605064.post-60575182450811158782010-09-17T17:20:00.013-05:002010-09-20T14:08:59.674-05:00BARNSTAPLE: "Four gypsy moths and thousands of jigsaws later, he put his stamp on the globe, though neither dead nor royal," PLInkletter circumspected<meta content="text/html; charset=utf-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"></meta><meta content="Word.Document" name="ProgId"></meta><meta content="Microsoft Word 12" name="Generator"></meta><meta content="Microsoft Word 12" name="Originator"></meta><link href="file:///C:%5CUsers%5Cadmin%5CAppData%5CLocal%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml" rel="File-List"></link><link href="file:///C:%5CUsers%5Cadmin%5CAppData%5CLocal%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_themedata.thmx" rel="themeData"></link><link href="file:///C:%5CUsers%5Cadmin%5CAppData%5CLocal%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_colorschememapping.xml" rel="colorSchemeMapping"></link> <m:smallfrac m:val="off"> <m:dispdef> <m:lmargin m:val="0"> <m:rmargin m:val="0"> <m:defjc m:val="centerGroup"> <m:wrapindent m:val="1440"> <m:intlim m:val="subSup"> <m:narylim m:val="undOvr"> </m:narylim></m:intlim> </m:wrapindent><style>
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</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Be all that as it may, meanwhile:</span></i><b><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">'In other news…'</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">17<sup>th</sup> September 2010<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Friday</span></b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">: I picked up <b>Mum</b> at <b>Melville</b> and got her to the skin specialist for her 11.30 appointment.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">He decided to shave the skin cancer growth off her left leg, rather than excise it. The needles for anaesthetic hurt <b>Mum</b> greatly, as did the needles for the excision two months ago behind her ear. However, the shaving procedure meant she could walk and carry on, whereas a deep incision would have been a different story.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">The growth was an inch or so from where she had the deep incision to remove a cancer near her ankle a couple of years back, which necessitated her resting with her leg up for many days.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">When I got back home, about half three, I took <b>Janny</b> shopping, and so this spent the day. I was so tired I had to sleep for an hour till nearly seven.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">During the evening, with <b>Cadbury</b> on my lap, I saw some live coverage a few times from the <b>BBC</b> on <b>ABC24</b> of <b>el Papa</b> on his visit to <b>London</b>, from <b>Edinburgh</b> the day before. The irony of the grandiosity of it all is so stark, with both sides of the <b>Christian</b> schism so far removed from much that <b>Jesus</b> lived for.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Lateline: The </span></b><b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">(Leigh) Sales Graph</span></b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">: Sad to learn, sweetened with some <b>Shakespeare </b>from<b> Leigh Sales</b>, that <b>Stephen Long</b> will be away for a few weeks <b>Four Cornering</b>; his riposte was also <b>Shakespearian</b>. Stay safe <b>Stephen</b> and come back with more wisdom with which to scent this economic coil.</span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">And <b>Ms Sales</b> put the question of why the <b>Aussie</b> dollar is going gangbusters, and of course, we received very sensible reasons, such as our comparitively high interest rates and the dollar's link with our high priced commodities.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">I can never get enough of <b>Stephen Long's</b> straight talking common sense; if only our politicians could be so candid. I look forward to <b>Mr Long's 4 Corners</b> report.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Ms Sales</span></b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">' long interview was the <i>Friday night fight club</i>, with <b>Scott Morrison</b> and <b>Tony Burke</b>, in-studio, and all behaved most civilly, (and each was presented superbly, with <b>Ms Sales</b>, unsurprisingly, being the most soothing to the eye):</span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Thankfully, <b>Ms Sales</b>' good sense of humour helps to lift the tone and keep it up at more acceptable levels. She began funnily with a remark that the interview was almost over due to the length of the pollies' titles.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">A wonderful moment occurred when <b>Mr Morrison</b> said "<i>…the <b>Coalition's</b> very united on it (climate change)</i>", and <b>Ms Sales </b>interjected while wrestling with her own laughter: "<i>Well really? …You've got <b>Malcolm Turnbull</b> in your ranks. We've had <b>Tony Abbott</b> previously say climate change is crap and now embracing direction action?</i>" <b>Mr Morrison</b> steamed ahead trying to make nothing of that fact, while the smile that staked its claim on <b>Mr Burke's</b> moosh was a sight to behold. I recommend you watch the podcast just for this sight:</span><br />
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</tbody></table></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">*<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">I managed a very late walk, on this relatively warm evening. <b>Janny</b> spent some hours awake in the middle of the night. It's a nuisance when this happens, coz she either wants to gab on with me, or get me to write emails for her, and I can't get my writing done. The burdens of husbandhood…<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">I was still at the keyboard till well after sunrise.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">+paytontedwithlove+<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 18pt;"></span></b>Payton L. Inkletterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00498134400783189246noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1486198393736605064.post-85172319255475483952010-09-16T12:44:00.015-05:002010-09-17T13:14:30.940-05:00BUDAPEST: "What a shot in the arm! This free radical could cee the cure for scurvy," PLInkletter said, "and muscled up tunefully for cancer research."<meta content="text/html; charset=utf-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"></meta><meta content="Word.Document" name="ProgId"></meta><meta content="Microsoft Word 12" name="Generator"></meta><meta content="Microsoft Word 12" name="Originator"></meta><link href="file:///C:%5CUsers%5Cadmin%5CAppData%5CLocal%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml" rel="File-List"></link><link href="file:///C:%5CUsers%5Cadmin%5CAppData%5CLocal%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_themedata.thmx" rel="themeData"></link><link href="file:///C:%5CUsers%5Cadmin%5CAppData%5CLocal%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_colorschememapping.xml" rel="colorSchemeMapping"></link> <m:smallfrac m:val="off"> <m:dispdef> <m:lmargin m:val="0"> <m:rmargin m:val="0"> <m:defjc m:val="centerGroup"> <m:wrapindent m:val="1440"> <m:intlim m:val="subSup"> <m:narylim m:val="undOvr"> </m:narylim></m:intlim> </m:wrapindent><style>
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</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Be all that as it may, meanwhile:</span></i><b><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">'In other news…'</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">16<sup>th</sup> September 2010<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Thursday</span></b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">: I was so tired when it came time to get up (which I'd put back a couple of times 'overnight'), that I felt I needed a further 8 hours.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">I made my first job phoning my cousin <b>Vee</b> now in <b>Broome</b>, to chat about his cancer relapse and many aspects of his situation. We spoke for maybe ¾ of an hour. I had been anxious for quite some time over the past few weeks regarding this call, simply because such subjects involving mortality are rarely easy in the stage of the world we still find ourselves in, where death is a taboo subject, religion is fraught, given its million one-and-only dogmatic variants, and such things.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">However, I needn't have had my concerns, as <b>Vee</b> was most obliging, generous, and a gracious listener. He is only 47, and the throat cancer for which he was operated on early last year has spread now to his lung and spine. He has two children around 10, and a wife. <b>Vee's</b> attitude struck me as realistic, positive, hopeful, and pragmatic. There were some tears at times, and that is a good thing. Men of our generation and nationality were not taught that it was proper, healthy, and appropriate to cry at times.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">We agreed that the medical profession often get their prognoses wrong; my mother was sent home to die, palliative care nurse and all, ten years ago from an aggressive form of lung cancer, and she is lung cancer free, still alive, and still smoking. Mum's story is a bit more involved than that, but it just goes to show…<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">I will email <b>Vee</b> the link to my web page on cancer tonight, which he does recall I emailed last year, but it all got lost in the turmoil of treatment.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">And for anyone who might wonder, the cryptic title of this post (as almost all of my post titles are), with its cancer reference, is entirely coincidental; I often choose the birthday or departure day of some notable person in history and set myself the challenge of quickly composing a cryptic statement in 150 characters including spaces pertaining to their life, which is exactly the case with today's post title.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">By now it was around 4 in the arvo, and I was very keen to get outside for some weeding and fresh air, and sunshine, which I rarely ever get nowadays. And yet, I broke down and hoed into some Father's Day chocolates and additionals while watching some <b>Deutsche Welle</b> on <b>SBS</b> and some of <b>The Drum</b> on <b>ABC24</b>, all washed down with a maté tea: another almost hour went west. (If it helps lift my estimation in the eyes of healthy living adherents, I had an orange before that binge! Oh, and there was that maté tea.)<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">And so, the hour and a bit outside weeding and watering was good for the fresh air, but light on the sunshine (pun not noticed at first!) – I got next to none, much to my vitamin D level's dismay.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Cadbury</span></b><span style="font-size: 18pt;"> graced my lap for almost an hour watching <b>Aunty's</b> early evening lineup, and then it was to the pooter to write and attend to emails and whatnot.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Lateline: The </span></b><b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">(Leigh) Sales Graph</span></b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">: Filling in for <b>Tony Jones</b>, who took a sickie, <b>Leigh Sales</b> looked stunning, if that's not too strong a description, in a grey and blue themed outfit, set off with that magical hairstyle. Her blouse worked all the better for its echo of grey on its upper edge hem. Subtle-effect makeup rounding the whole presentation off perfectly:<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</tbody></table></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><span style="color: red;"><i><b></b></i></span> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Her long interview tonight was on-screen with <b>Henry Olsen</b>, the <b>Director</b> of the <b>Washington, D.C.</b> based <b>American Enterprise Institute's</b> <b>National Research Initiative</b>, who also was finely packaged, rather non-conservatively in shades of yellow, gold, and blue:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;"></span><span style="font-size: large;"><i><b>Handsomely turned out, Henry Olsen explained the current trends in American politics to LATELINE's audience via Leigh Sales</b></i></span></td></tr>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Ms Sales</span></b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">' main subject covered with <b>Mr Olsen</b> was the <b>Tea Party's</b> growing ascendancy in <b>North</b> <b>American</b> politics. <b>Mr Olsen</b> answered every question with focus and depth, despite an initial hiccup with a near stutter or two. If he ever was a stutterer, he has overcome the condition wonderfully. Maybe it was a flutter of nerves only.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Ms Sales</span></b><span style="font-size: 18pt;"> showed yet again how her research and general knowledge leverages her interviews, for her questions and comments were illuminating and invitations for <b>Mr Olsen</b> to shed his light on the topics covered.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><o:p><br />
</o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">The question <b>Ms Sales</b> posed regarding the projected incredible $8.5 trillion deficit over the coming years and the fantasy of responsible tax cut delivery was a good one, to which <b>Mr Olsen</b> could not, understandably, give a watertight answer, except that it would be batted around between the power brokers of <b>Capitol Hill</b>, and the <b>President</b> who holds the veto power. <i>Compromise</i> from all sides was his prediction. History and human nature suggest that the deficit will not be tackled until something drastic forces the nation to do it.</span><br />
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</tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5_a7WeRmRS745znvaMEFER-d0eprW6bIJZYOs_LgNFgnq3-57M3muLPojndBV8lcl9WHgkQyx6gUnUgqSy30NAvF6QzDS9TMpspExZofxoRHh4_49sadkkqLB-ixHBgveMiErJVT2C_DP/s1600/Leigh+Sales+interviewing+Henry+Olsen+on+LATELINE+Thursday+16th+September+2010%5BPaytonL.InkletterC_8%5D.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a></div></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">*</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">No surprise, <b>Blogger</b> has thrown another arbitrary fit, capricious sod that it is, and won't allow my target=_blank HTML coding to work for my pictures today if they include a caption. It's worked every other time, but not this time, causing me to waste another hour of my life trying to do this simple thing. I have resorted to copying code from captioned pictures in earlier posts, and laboriously altering their addresses to the current picture. <b>Blogger</b>, I still hate your guts, you whimsical piece of coding shyte, having lost countless hours of my life trying to get you to do the most reasonable and basic of things. What long successfully employed procedure will fail to work next?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">I planned to take a late overnight walk, but on one of her overnight tinkles <b>Missus Inkletter</b> reminded me that I had to take <b>Mum</b> to the skin specialist in the morning for surgery, and it would be wise to skip the walk and try to get some sleep. Tail between my legs, I dutifully obeyed, for I saw the wisdom in her advice. Quinceconscely, I forgot to put out <b><i>The Dear Leader's</i></b> rubbish bin, which I've been doing on my Thursday night walks since we cleaned up his house and garden, adding from the pile of bagged trash into the bin, making it too heavy for the hoary gentleman to manage. Oh for perfection of memory!<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">+paytontedwithlove+<o:p></o:p></span></b></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>Payton L. Inkletterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00498134400783189246noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1486198393736605064.post-15138566356936204352010-09-14T15:05:00.002-05:002010-09-14T15:17:53.066-05:00LYME REGIS: "Yes his ruling passion feathered his nest, kept him humming, but never did it knock the stuffing out of him," according to P.L. Inkletter<meta content="text/html; charset=utf-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"></meta><meta content="Word.Document" name="ProgId"></meta><meta content="Microsoft Word 12" name="Generator"></meta><meta content="Microsoft Word 12" name="Originator"></meta><link href="file:///C:%5CUsers%5Cadmin%5CAppData%5CLocal%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml" rel="File-List"></link><link href="file:///C:%5CUsers%5Cadmin%5CAppData%5CLocal%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_themedata.thmx" rel="themeData"></link><link href="file:///C:%5CUsers%5Cadmin%5CAppData%5CLocal%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_colorschememapping.xml" rel="colorSchemeMapping"></link> <m:smallfrac m:val="off"> <m:dispdef> <m:lmargin m:val="0"> <m:rmargin m:val="0"> <m:defjc m:val="centerGroup"> <m:wrapindent m:val="1440"> <m:intlim m:val="subSup"> <m:narylim m:val="undOvr"> </m:narylim></m:intlim> </m:wrapindent><style>
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</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Be all that as it may, meanwhile:</span></i><b><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">'In other news…'</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">14<sup>th</sup> September 2010<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Tuesday</span></b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">: Dead tired, despite 13 hours sleep. Oh well, what's new?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">I was up at noon, which was early for me, and the day outside was wonderful, but I foolishly and obsessively wrestled for hours with <b>Blogger's</b> inability to display animated gifs properly, finally posting an animated gif of <b>Brigid Glanville</b> and <b>Charlie Aitken</b> on Monday 6<sup>th</sup>'s posting, through the labyrinthine pathway of <b>4shared.com</b>, who do host animated gifs (with a frustrating size restriction), and some gymnastics in the HTML code that I accidentally discovered. What a pain in the rear end. The rats at <b>Blogspot-Google</b> could make it a cinch by accepting animated gifs.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">And in the middle of the night, again after an hour or so, I managed a second animated gif at the same posting, this one of <b>Ms Glanville</b> and <b>Austin Williams</b>. Both these animated gifs are just a bit of fooling around, entertainment value only. And as from my first <b>Blogger</b> experience over three years ago, I'd gladly shove the software up the jacksies of the programmers who have made it and kept it so limited and contrary, whimsical and arbitrary.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">When <b>Missus Inkletter</b> got back from taking <b><i>The Dear Leader</i></b> to several medical appointments and such, I got her to video me doing my first furmination of <b>Cadbury</b>, in the laundry. It removed a fair bit of fur, but she wouldn't put up with any more, so her belly area awaits the <b>Furminator</b>… (<b>Baby Inkletter</b> gave her a few strokes with it a couple of weeks back, but today's effort was my first and the first attempted all over grooming with the very cleverly designed metal comb.)<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Late in the afternoon I managed a bit of sunshine in the back and front yards, attending to some small gardening jobs. <b>Cadbury</b> kept me company, but I wish she'd stay out the back, for she goes right up to the edge of the street, worrying me for her safety.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Lateline: The </span></b><b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">(Leigh) Sales Graph</span></b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">: I enjoyed <b>Leigh Sales</b>' longest interview tonight, with the <b>Director</b> of <b>MOBY Group</b>, <b>Afghanistan's</b> largest media company, <b>Saad Mohseni</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Ms Sales</span></b><span style="font-size: 18pt;"> asked a myriad of questions, partly due to the efficiency of <b>Mr Mohseni's</b> answers; while he had plenty to say, he didn't try to hog the airtime like our politicians are fond of doing. It was a credit to <b>Ms Sales</b> that she was not short of things to ask <b>Mr Mohseni</b> about; she certainly does her research, as well as having a good all round nous to see her through most subjects she covers with her interlocutors.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">I was piqued by the question <b>Ms Sales</b> put to <b>Mr Mohseni</b> on the influence upon women of the media in <b>Afghanistan</b>; it is, if done well, a great hope for mining the crucial resources and graciousness of womanhood, to eventually liberate the country from the primitive mindset infecting the ruling men from husbands up to the highest levels of government.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Mr Mohseni </span></b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">did rise to the opportunity <b>Ms Sales</b>' persistent questioning gave on the subject of corruption in the government of <b>Afghanistan</b>, and gave insightful and balanced answers, which was most refreshing to hear, while not exactly pulling his punches.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">I wonder if some of the, almost caution I suppose, <b>Mr Mohseni</b> evinced with his answers, is due to the genuine risks he must face from the barbaric religious fundamentalists that have been ruining <b>Afghanistan's</b> present and future for too long now? He didn't bignote his company's doings overly much; would you want to in the lethal environment of that fragile nation?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Anyway, what a hopeful thing to listen to someone rational, positive, and gracious from within <b>Afghanistan</b>, with a modern attitude. Such a rare event. I think <b>Ms Sales</b> brought us a valuable interview here.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">I went for a very late walk, around 3 a.m., my first in five days or so; too long, but I have been too exhausted to manage.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">My bloodshot eye problem will not abate; two days back I woke up with a fresh map of blood over most of the white of my right eye.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">+paytontedwithlove+<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>Payton L. Inkletterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00498134400783189246noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1486198393736605064.post-62731528167259522142010-09-07T16:02:00.011-05:002010-09-09T00:59:52.700-05:00LUBBOCK: "Not about to fade away," P. L. Inkletter reckons, "a flavour in American pie, beautiful corpse. Oh boy! Just imagine what would have been…"<meta content="text/html; charset=utf-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"></meta><meta content="Word.Document" name="ProgId"></meta><meta content="Microsoft Word 12" name="Generator"></meta><meta content="Microsoft Word 12" name="Originator"></meta><link href="file:///C:%5CUsers%5Cadmin%5CAppData%5CLocal%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml" rel="File-List"></link><link href="file:///C:%5CUsers%5Cadmin%5CAppData%5CLocal%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_themedata.thmx" rel="themeData"></link><link href="file:///C:%5CUsers%5Cadmin%5CAppData%5CLocal%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_colorschememapping.xml" rel="colorSchemeMapping"></link> <m:smallfrac m:val="off"> <m:dispdef> <m:lmargin m:val="0"> <m:rmargin m:val="0"> <m:defjc m:val="centerGroup"> <m:wrapindent m:val="1440"> <m:intlim m:val="subSup"> <m:narylim m:val="undOvr"> </m:narylim></m:intlim> </m:wrapindent><style>
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</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Be all that as it may, meanwhile:</span></i><b><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">'In other news…'</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">07<sup>th</sup> September 2010<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">This occurred very recently, spoiling an otherwise most satisfying time spent with the close family member. The tension and stress resulting from it was very difficult to bear for both of us, and the inner turmoil has continued troubling me for too long.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">So, another non-rejuvenating sleep, as if I need another one of those…<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">It was so nice that a little rain came today, and I had the opportunity to curl up on the <b>Player</b> recliner with <b>Cadbury</b> on my lap, and watch several hours of the news on the <b>ABC</b>, covering the decision of the three federal <b>Independents</b>, <b>Katter</b>, <b>Oakeshott</b>, and <b>Windsor</b>, which delivered the election to the <b>Labor Party</b>. Another little piece of history I've managed to catch as it unfolded; now just how much additional good will our nation manage to draw from this minority government situation? – the first in 70 years or so, so they say.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Very late in the day, after <b>Missus Inkletter</b> returned from yet another marathon out and about with <b><i>The Dear Leader</i></b>, during a spell between showers, I began cutting the weeds with the electric mower in the front yard, getting maybe a quarter done by dark. I used the catcher and put about four loads of clippings out onto the worm farms in the backyard, which will thrive on the stuff.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Oh, before I forget to mention, poor <b>Missus Inkletter</b> badly scalded her left hand on Saturday, when she was filling a thermos pot for a picnic we went to with sister <b>Mary</b> and <b>Mum</b> at <b>Wireless Hill</b>, where we saw about six or seven varieties of native orchids. Anyway, back to the scald; almost the entire top of the back of her hand and most of her fingers got a drenching with boiling water, and three days later, despite copious amounts of aloe vera applications, the hand looks like it has been roasted in the oven. It hurt her terribly at the time, and has been very tender and sore since.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">And also, before I forget to mention, <b>Mum</b> and I visited my dear <b>Uncle M</b> yesterday, who is in a nursing home in <b>Midland</b> (which I did not know until a few days ago, believing it to be in a suburb to the south of there). I first mentioned him back in a very early entry on my Main Site, on Monday, August 20, 2007. Later this month he turns 90, and his life imploded just over three years ago just before the date of that posting, when he went from a fully active life, still driving, to being in a wheelchair, from a serious car accident which almost killed him. We had a chat for over an hour, and he was close to tears when we had to leave.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">He amazed me with his sharp mind, and most particularly his kindly disposition given his unpleasant circumstances; the conditions at the home could be worse, but they could be far better, and the states of mind, ethics, and health of some of the residents swarming around him are, frankly, very distressing. I am left convinced, if I needed it, that I have here an uncle of remarkable character. He was a delight all of my young life, and given what has happened to him in recent years, he could have gone two ways; while we were with him he did not complain about his lot once, and was inspiringly cheerful. I look up to him for his wonderful achievement in awful circumstances.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">I enjoyed an evening in front of <b>Aunty</b> with <b>Cadbury</b> on my lap again (she has been uber spoiled today). <b>Lateline</b>: </span><b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">The </span></b><b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">(Leigh) Sales Graph</span></b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">: there definitely are advantages for a journalist being on duty on a momentous news day, and this was <b>Leigh Sales</b>' lucky lot today, given the long awaited decision from the three federal <b>Independents</b>, which has handed ongoing government to <b>Labor</b>. <b>Ms Sales</b>' appearance was simply spectacular tonight (as it was last night by the way, don't you agree?:</span><br />
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</style><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Leigh Sales looked spectacular. (It must be a pain in the bottom to have know-it-alls like me commenting on your appearance all the time!)</span></i></b></span></m:defjc></m:rmargin></m:lmargin></m:dispdef></m:smallfrac></td></tr>
</tbody></table><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><b><i><span style="color: red;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Her first interview was with the incomparable, for all the right reasons, <b>Tony Windsor</b>, <b>Independent</b> for <b>New England</b>.</span><b><span style="font-size: 18pt;"> Mr Windsor</span></b><span style="font-size: 18pt;"> looked excellent, his dark suit and white tie conservative combo set alight superbly with a bold striped tie of black and gold:</span><br />
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</style><span style="font-size: large;"><i><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">It's either this or cry… Tony Windsor after a momentous day in Canberra, still down to earth, still fragrant</span></b></i></span></m:defjc></m:rmargin></m:lmargin></m:dispdef></m:smallfrac></td></tr>
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">+paytontedwithlove+<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>Payton L. Inkletterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00498134400783189246noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1486198393736605064.post-55790156257047750972010-09-06T23:57:00.030-05:002010-09-14T13:06:25.940-05:00DERBY: "He found he'd split his jeans, but he could splice them back again. 'Structure, structure!'" PL Inkletter said, wishing many diseases goodbye.<meta content="text/html; charset=utf-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"></meta><meta content="Word.Document" name="ProgId"></meta><meta content="Microsoft Word 12" name="Generator"></meta><meta content="Microsoft Word 12" name="Originator"></meta><link href="file:///C:%5CUsers%5Cadmin%5CAppData%5CLocal%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml" rel="File-List"></link><link href="file:///C:%5CUsers%5Cadmin%5CAppData%5CLocal%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_themedata.thmx" rel="themeData"></link><link href="file:///C:%5CUsers%5Cadmin%5CAppData%5CLocal%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_colorschememapping.xml" rel="colorSchemeMapping"></link> <m:smallfrac m:val="off"> <m:dispdef> <m:lmargin m:val="0"> <m:rmargin m:val="0"> <m:defjc m:val="centerGroup"> <m:wrapindent m:val="1440"> <m:intlim m:val="subSup"> <m:narylim m:val="undOvr"> </m:narylim></m:intlim> </m:wrapindent><style>
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Monday</span></b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">: The highlight of today was visiting my <b>Uncle M</b>, soon to turn 90, in his nursing home in <b>Midland</b>. I picked up <b>Mum</b> from <b>Melville</b>, and we drove to <b>Midland</b> to see him. I was under the impression that he was in a home several suburbs south of there. The lovely man still has his wits, and his character is evident in spades, against formidable odds, arising from the car accident that disabled him three years ago, and the enormous challenges from the fellow patients and the environment around him. I have described a bit more of this visit in tomorrow's posting.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">A billion dollars of property to be offloaded by <b>Woolies</b>? Not unless <b>Charlie Aitken</b> gives it the go ahead?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>Full marks to Charlie Aitken for his stylish combination of textured tie with non-conservative shirt colour, all within a conservative dark jacket package. It certainly had Brigid Glanville taking notice.</i></b></span></td></tr>
</tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">She is going to have to watch that financial devil, <b>Charlie Aitken</b>, and the games he's playing with her, or is it some psychic power he wields? – as the picture below attests:</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>Is Charlie aitken it again? What manner of power can do this to a woman?</i></b></span><br />
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</tbody></table></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">On a less lighthearted note, tonight's <b>LATELINE – LATELINE BUSINESS</b> package illustrated the power and value of research and understanding. <b>Leigh Sales</b>' interview with <b>Professor Hugh White</b> demonstated that <b>Ms Sales</b>, by her comments and questions, that she had researched <b>Professor</b> <b>White's Quarterly Essay </b>'<b>Power Shift: Australia's Future Between Washington and Beijing</b>', and understood the gist of it. <b>Brigid Glanville</b>, on the other hand, demonstrated the opposite, unfortunately, during her interview with <b>Austin Williams</b>, <b>Director </b>of the<b> Future Cities Project </b>in<b> London</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Mr Williams</span></b><span style="font-size: 18pt;"> was courageously blunt here and there with some of his returns to <b>Ms Glanville</b>, and I was left with the impression that she was not around the issues he was addressing. He made a great deal of sense. I wouldn't mind hearing <b>Leigh Sales</b> interview him on the same subject.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">To be fair to <b>Brigid Glanville</b>, I don't know how much time she had to prepare for the interview. Preparation time is definitely a factor, in which some ferocious paced reading would need to be done.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</style><span style="font-size: large;"><i><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Uh oh! I've put my guest to sleep! Brigid Glanville tests Austin Williams' fortitude and stamina on LATELINE BUSINESS 6<sup>th</sup> September 2010</span></b></i></span></m:defjc></m:rmargin></m:lmargin></m:dispdef></m:smallfrac></td></tr>
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Friday</span></b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">: I had high hopes of taking <b>Bob</b> swimming today, but a poor quality of sleep in the first few hours put paid to that, and I realised I'd be dangerous on the road if I tried, so <b>Janny</b> contacted his people (I got my people to contact his people) and rearranged for Wednesday coming. Thus I returned to sleep till dark.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">During din dins, given a guest, he who cannot be graciously differed or debated or examined with, but who insists on a preponderance of spontaneous opinions, the shine was taken a tad from the TV watching over the ensuing hour. Just one of the small crosses to bear…<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Lateline</span></b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">: </span><b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">The </span></b><b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">(Leigh) Sales Graph</span></b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">: Doubtless fortified with two or three Pramin, <b>Leigh Sales</b>, looking really good by the way, did a sterling job of interviewing a couple of our federal politicians still in limbo, <b>Christopher Pyne</b> and <b>Tony Burke</b> (the medication needed due to the former, according to some severe commentators), both men, as usual, looking crisply turned out. I wish I couldn't say it, but as per usually usual, the <b>Labor</b> man was less small, bitter, nasty, hysterical, arrogant, and hyperbolic than the <b>Coalition</b> man.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">I have been pining (pun intended: see above) away for my weekly <b>Stephen Long</b> fix, and at long last he returned to give us <b>The Long View</b>: It is difficult to overestimate the quality of <b>Mr Long's</b> assessments; they are usually confined to things economic, but even when he strays from his specialty, the pearls of wisdom keep coming. Oh, by the way, I wouldn't blame him for gloating tonight, because he was given over 4 minutes! He went white shirt tonight, with a most fetching tie, within the background of his dark blue suit. His mum had less curls to tousle, given the shearing he must have recently undergone.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Ms Sales</span></b><span style="font-size: 18pt;"> quizzed <b>Mr Long</b> on the hullabaloo surrounding the <b>Coalition's</b> election costings finally submitted to and chewed over by <b>Treasury</b>. And true to his habit, <b>Mr Long</b> set about telling it more as it is, and in fact came out very fair for both sides, and supported the <b>Opposition's</b> suggestion of a budget office to cost both sides' election commitments.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">There was a funny and joyous moment when <b>Ms Sales</b> asked <b>Mr Long</b> to the effect why <b>Australia's</b> financial world hadn't imploded due to the political uncertainty during this limbo, and his answer was embarrassingly true to our politicians' detriment: the economy is run by <b>Treasury</b> and the <b>Reserve Bank</b>.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</style><span style="font-size: large;"><i><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Stephen Long reveals Australian federal politicians' worst kept secret, to Leigh Sales delight: economically speaking, they're irrelevant!</span></b></i></span></m:defjc></m:rmargin></m:lmargin></m:dispdef></m:smallfrac></td></tr>
</tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Mr Long</span></b><span style="font-size: 18pt;"> came up with a pair of gems as he expounded on the reasons for the steady course freighter <b>Australia</b> is plying – that we won't be ending up with a "<i>Julia Chavez or Adolf Abbott</i>".<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">+paytontedwithlove+<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>Payton L. Inkletterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00498134400783189246noreply@blogger.com0