Double Dissolution

[Rorschach]

It appeared first in the Herald Sun, which I quoted. Why don't you understand that? If it appeared in the DT as well they must have Re named it but that doesn't make them right and everyone else wrong. Bolt writes for the Herald Sun, I'm interested you keep claiming the DT calls it something else because for the first half of this thread you claimed you could not access the article and asked for it to be posted.
Everyone here can see who is making a fools of themselves, I'll let them be the judge.
I hope you only have sand and not clay at your joint.

Oh FFS, really did it and what of it if it did? Is Melbourne ahead of Sydney eh?
Don't lie about what I do and don't understand.
I understand very well, you are the one who seems to be stuck on repeat not me.
Bolt writes for News Limited.
I bought the paper remember that's how I know what the DT called it.
I told you how to check, but obviously you don't want to know the truth.
That's how I know the truth, I checked.
The truth is you keep on denying it.
I also know editors choose the titles, illustrations, photos, fonts etc, etc, etc, not the journalists who write the piece. You apparently don't.
Happy to let sane knowledgeable people judge... but for me it has never been a competition.
Perhaps soon you'll move on and we can address the actual topic once more.

[skippy]

It appeared first in the Herald Sun, which I quoted. Why don't you understand that? If it appeared in the DT as well they must have Re named it but that doesn't make them right and everyone else wrong. Bolt writes for the Herald Sun, I'm interested you keep claiming the DT calls it something else because for the first half of this thread you claimed you could not access the article and asked for it to be posted.
Everyone here can see who is making a fools of themselves, I'll let them be the judge.
I hope you only have sand and not clay at your joint.

Oh FFS, really did it and what of it if it did? Is Melbourne ahead of Sydney eh?
Don't lie about what I do and don't understand.
I understand very well, you are the one who seems to be stuck on repeat not me.
Bolt writes for News Limited.
I bought the paper remember that's how I know what the DT called it.
I told you how to check, but obviously you don't want to know the truth.
That's how I know the truth, I checked.
The truth is you keep on denying it.
I also know editors choose the titles, illustrations, photos, fonts etc, etc, etc, not the journalists who write the piece. You apparently don't.
Happy to let sane knowledgeable people judge... but for me it has never been a competition.
Perhaps soon you'll move on and we can address the actual topic once more.

I tried to move on a few posts back but you keep trying to have the last word as you hate being shown up as wrong. Never argue with a screen shot it just makes you look even more foolish

[skippy]

Thanks for the article post Sol… next time include the title please.

Dust Yourself Off and Fight

That is the title not what skippy was saying and you strangely enough left off.

Oh and don’t edit the article in future just quote it as a whole article please… now I have to go buy a paper and retype the whole bloody thing.

I take the thanks back.

Solonoid did post the article title as my screen shot proves. Neither Solonoid or I lied about the article title nor did she edit it as you claimed here. I think you owe us both an apology and then we can move on.

[Rorschach]

I already covered all that Skip thanks... your link is to the blog not the article because that is what she posted and you say she posted the info from your link.
I already conceded that there are different article titles in different states and I even explained why.
I also made the point that a title, single word or sentence does not convey the meaning of an entire article.
So keep it up if you like i'll even start a new topic on it for you if you like. We can call it Skippy's inability to read or listen.

[Rorschach]

As for Solo posting the article title... I already addressed that posts ago...
The first line of her post said Andrew Bolt.... there is no title

Andrew Bolt
NOVEMBER
18
2014
(8:59am)

The Abbott Government falls further behind in Newspoll:
In two-party-preferred terms, based on preference flows from last year’s election, Labor leads by 55 per cent to 45 per cent. The ALP’s third consecutive rise in two-party terms means the opposition has been in front of the ­Coalition on this measure for 14 successive Newspolls.

Now... aside from all this shyt about article titles and where it hit the streets first (by 10 seconds or 10 minutes)etc, etc, etc... is irrelevant.
My point has been... that the article is best described in sentiment and words, as a call to action... hence... Dust Yourself Off and Fight
I already... several times conceded the point about the different titles I don't know why you keep obsessing over it.

[Rorschach]

So what, doesn't affect my argument 1 little bit.
Want me to repeat it for you in an even larger font? Or colour perhaps.
If you bothered to post the whole article the first time as asked or highlighted the the title the first time you reposted it, then we wouldn't have wasted so much time working out there are different titles in different states.
You do know that is the case don't you?

I posted your original quote BTW Soannoyed and guess what... NO TITLE
Want me to post it again or should I post your first iteration where you stupidly reposted Skippy's link... oh what a great help that was.
Now stop wasting my time with idle prattle eh.

BTW I moved on ages ago after conceding there were different titles... you guys deny it and keep bringing it up... I'm just being polite and answering your crap.
You are right it is a petty point but you guys are petty.
I called it irrelevant ages ago.
Nice of you to catch up.

[Schu]

I have noticed a couple comments about myself in the various Threads and I suppose I can understand the interest. If anyone really wants to know why I have not been posting here (leaving aside the insults implied by both AiA and skippy) the above exchange involving Rorschach is the best example of my reason I can find.

[Rorschach]

Yep and as Bolt said throughout his article... Dust Yourself off and Fight... :lol:Tim Dunlop LW prog blogger, what else would you expect?
Obviously his opinions are coloured and he at least this time doesn't omit mentioning the ALP.
He has a fairly poor opinion of the public and as such we get lines like these...

The fact that governments of different political stripes end up suffering from the same shortfalls speaks not to something unique to a given party, but an underlying weakness in the political substrate.

Remember, both Rudd 1 and Abbott himself came to power with fairly decent majorities, were ostensibly swept into office on the back of electoral dissatisfaction with their predecessors, and yet both very quickly fell into a heap, shedding internal coherence and public confidence in equal measure.

This is hardly a coincidence. In fact, it is part of a wider trend in Western democracies, where political parties, long the basis of democratic governance, are no longer able to command the authority they once did.

Personally I don't think it true. It may have some truth to it but the details are inaccurate and it's hardly a global epidemic caused by a Western political virus, different things "conspire" in different countries to bring about voter dissatisfaction.

[Rorschach]

The age of party democracy has passed. Although the parties themselves remain, they have become so disconnected from the wider society, and

pursue a form of competition that is so lacking in meaning,

that they no longer seem capable of sustaining democracy in its present form.
Memberships are down, voting is in decline, and much of the serious work of economic management now happens at the pan-national level via organisations like the G20 or the European Union. So-called free-trade agreements and other international contracts zap control from sovereign nations and hand it to these rootless instrumentalities, further undermining the role of parties and the governments they form.

This also has a ring of truth to it. But to assume too much is wrong.
Democracy remains and is still healthy even if the political representative pool is shallow. And there lies the biggest problem. In Australia voting isn't down in any appreciable manner, it never is. As long as we have laws to support our democracy it will remain relatively strong.

[IQS.RLOW]

I have noticed a couple comments about myself in the various Threads and I suppose I can understand the interest. If anyone really wants to know why I have not been posting here (leaving aside the insults implied by both AiA and skippy) the above exchange involving Rorschach is the best example of my reason I can find.

Thanks for the explanation, Aussie.