Now outstriping battlefield deaths

Mostly because battlefield deaths have dropped by over a third. And BTW, there is a new thread running …

Oddly when the Senate panel this week interviewed Hagel the nominee for the Def Sec/ job..the right-wingers snd tea party senators …had only two questions of Hagel re this major military problem…but they had 147 questions re his attitude to Israel
Says a lot really about some Senators !!

The Guardian article below
ww.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/feb/01/us-military-suicide-epidemic-veteran

I don’t think I feel anymore disheartened than I already do.
Well, perhaps the morning after Abbott has become Prime minister is going to set a new benchmark.

At least if the government manages by some abso-fucking-lutely (sorry Rossmore) miracle to pull off a win I’m gonna feel a whole lot better than good.

I would really appreciate it if they moved on from the gloom and doom stuff.

As if we all can’t see the mountain Labor has yet to climb.

Instead of trying the “holier than thou” stuff, they should instead celebrate the fact that we have had the third longest run of Labor governments, unemployment is low, interest rates are low, the stock market has picked up billions – and this is since the Carbon Tax and we have a leader who is streets ahead of her opponent.

Some of us are happy to be optimistic and I wish the complainers (calling themselves ‘supporters’) would change their tune.

You remind me of the words of a very old song from the 1950s – monologue really – called Life Gets Tedious Don’t It?

One of the lines refers to a dog howling because it is sitting on a thorn but is too lazy to move off it and thereby keeps howling.

Some here remind me of that damn dog. Oh so want Labor to win (and so-say not want Tony Abbott) and then criticise everything that Labor does.

And, to boot, then have the gall to accuse others here as being mindless optimists.

Things are indeed strange.

Gillard’s declaration that Thomson had her “full support” is now looking like the kind of statement that deserves one of of those memory-wiping sticks from the Men In Black trilogy.

I don’t like the guy, partly because it’s very likely he’s a thief and a whoring scumbag liar and mostly because his ridiculous antics (if proven in court like I suspect they will) will do no small part in bringing Abbott to office.

If you’re a fan of Thomson good luck to you. You’re taking a lot on faith though.

margo kingston ‏@margokingston1
No more #Ashby questions for Pyne please. @geeksrulz is collating now - will publish tonight.

Excellent. Ready for his Qanda appearance tomorrow.

Sorry CTar1. Just trying to supply a bit of balance to the mindless optimism on display here.

Good on you TT!
I for one appreciate your efforts.

The first step in dealing with a problem is to recognise it’s existence.