Earl Hood

I am thinking he is playing centre half forward so if he is successful the number of goals he kicks is secondary to how he helps the forward line to function and kick heaps of goals as a unit.

Glad to hear you are middle aged Faulty, as hopefully then you can see out your career digging coal in your existing mine and retire comfortably as I hear you guys get paid quite well for your efforts and maybe that might be due to some work done by your Union over the decades past? Anyway my point is most of the newly discovered coal, oil and gas reserves have to stay in the ground unfortunately if civilisation as we know it is to survive and that includes Queensland!

Is it just me but everyone seems to be incredibly cut, that is muscularity defined. The boys look fit!

Not one to be bothered with facts and figures I guess Faulty. And about the male, female thing? Yes they were guessing, Hadlee and Dutton, that is my point! They don't for a minute try to verify facts. They don't want to know about any facts. You should not guess about something that an anonymous caller has claimed and then prognosticate about the required solution!

Faulty you might want to read the follow up on this issue in The Age. The whole thing was a beat up, the school website shows they have had a number of Chritmas Carol events in recent weeks and no sign of any anti Christmas agenda. Oh and the Principal is a man, not a women as Hadlee claimed. Facts! Who needs them. I wouldn't be surprised if the talkback caller to Ray Hadlee, who was from Dutton's electorate, might not have rung in by coincidence! What makes me angry about the right is that many of them seem to be in a constant state of outrage about something and the likes of Hadlee and Jones and politicians like Dutton love to fuel that outrage with ignorant hearsay from anonymous phone callers. It works a treat of course for the right's agenda to spread fear as Dutton got his headline with hic PC gone mad etc.

Do they know it's Christmas....on Manus Island Mr Dutton?

Uncle I believe Roebuck was competing at a different level than Col. He had little time for mere balcony jumpers preferring to work without such safety devices, instead leaping straight out of Windows.

Looks like the FBI and the KGB were working in tandem to get Donald over the line using Wikileaks and who knows what other methods. Yes maybe the whole thing was rigged!

I agree!

No he is a former player that is my point. And yes there may be mental health issues but it seems by his choice that he has played his last game of AFL. Let's all move on and hopefully without the club paying out more than is fair and reasonable for the service he has given us.

The former player known as the Prince?

Gee that has got the mind wandering back in time HT. I am thinking DJ Chris Winter and the Room to Move hour on a Monday night 9 pm on 3LO where he played progressive rock albums for their full length, not constrained by the 3 minute limit of the top 40 and 3KZ etc. I do remember listening to and being enthralled by The Court of the Crimson King, all ten minutes of it with Chris Winter back in 1971 I think it was. I loved it at the time. I used to listen intently while I was supposed to be doing my homework. On listening to Court of.... Again on iTunes today, yes it is Greg Lakes haunting voice again. I never made the link with Crimson and ELP back then.

I remember playing ELP's Tarkus album on my record player till it wore out when I was a kid. It must have been one of the first LP's I ever bought so I always had a soft spot for the trio. The burst on the scene then disappeared, probably along with prog-rock. I was waiting for them to reappear for the London Olympics to redo their Fanfare for the Common Man in the Olympic Stadium but it never happened. Missed opportunity there. I thought Greg had a good voice in songs like C'est La Vie from their later Works album and he was a top guitarist as well. Certainly a talented lad. RIP

Gee that looks a lot like my Judean People's Front mug!

Yes we let the Tigers in to play in 1965 and we know what hasn't happened since then! Its no coincidence, build the wall.

My memory is shot but do we concur that the former player known as the Prince played his best football in 2010 as a half back operating behind the Malthouse forward press in their premiership year? He had time and space to run and be noticed and deliver the ball to a forward. In recent years with us that time and space has diminished due to the evolution of modern footy and so has H's impact.

Good point GV and perhaps this was a unique case of win win for Cubans at the time. Those Cubans who had aligned their fortunes with the Batista regime left for Miami pronto after Batista took off with the central banks millions, leaving the treasury empty. The descendants of the first refugees have carved out a good life in Florida, and good luck to them but by leaving they maybe have allowed the other 80% of the Cuban population to live their lives in a socialist system they are reasonably happy to live with. Maybe they were happy with that life. They certainly have shown tremendous remorse and love for Fidel over the past week. But I am sure we will be told all that is coersed by the communists. It is interesting to me at least that I now realise that Capitlists can't handle any other economic system. They act no differently than a 15th century missionary who is hell bent on saving souls even if that meant death for unbelievers. So there can be only be one true belief system, free market Capitalism and if you disagree you must be destroyed.

PD think about it. He can't be right because without women there would have been no Greeks and for that matter no Romans or Italians to introduce women to the concept of you know what.

And Fitzroy, an oasis in the dysfunctionality I say!

And I recently discovered that Thunderclap Newman died earlier this year! HT I thought you would have let me know. Not a good year for old musoes that's for sure

Fascism?

Tim do you know where she put the second tennis ball when she was serving?

Amazing someone didn't give Grimes a life line as a rookey at least. Good option as a depth player I would have thought.

DC I took the time to read your article, quite informative, one journo's opinion and he makes some good points but I don't believe anyone, including myself is making a claim for sainthood for Fidel or Che. Remember the times, the 1950's and 60's the era of revolution against European and US imperialism. Marxist socialism was the political theory of choice at the time to galvanise the masses against the ruling elite. It doesn't mean Socialism is the best way but it was the preferred way to gain independence from Colonialism in the 1960's. Think Ho Chi Minh, what is his legacy in Vietnam? How is he regarded by the Vietnamese today? I am sure he is reviled be many refugees here but he is revered I think by the society there today for those peasants that stayed and yes he and his successors have blood on his hands and education camps etc. But what was the alternative? Mahatma Ghandi's passive resistance only worked in India because they were dealing with the Brittish who had a high profile, but a diminishing empire to maintain and a conscience and let's face it millions of Indians to deal with. But try passive resistance in South America and see what might have happened in the 1960's. Imperialists have always loved passive peoples. For good or bad both Che and Fidel where remarkable men in history.

I Yes he did BD that is probably because he was the leader at the time. And strong leadership was needed and he set himself up as the prime target for the US reprisal. I suppose he could have hid in the background and let some other figure head be knocked off by US interests. and remember Cuba was being ruled largely by the Mafia in1959 and they were running their US drug operations with impunity from the FBI out of Havanna. Castro sent them packing to Florida, Nevada and Atlanta where the FBI could deal with them if they chose to. In theory Castro did the US authorities a favour and a chance to deal with the drug trade. I don't think they were that interested. I travelled to Cuba in December last year and I found a fascinating society created largely by Fidel. Free medicine and education for all, a monthly basic food ration and allocated housing for all. Litter free streets, no drug lords, no drug addicts that I saw, no terrorists, little obvious crime. I certainly felt safe and I saw little poverty, no shanty towns and a lot of great old cars from the 50's and a lot of crumbling architecture. Cuba has its problems and your average Cuban does it tough, they don't get paid much, but they won't starve and they won't end up in drugs or victims of drug cartels. I have travelled regularly around central and South American countries for the past 5 years and yes there is affluence for the privileged and so called deomocratic freedom in Columbia, Guatemala, Mexico, Peru, Bolivia, Belize, Honduras etc but guess what there are a hell of a lot of people living in squalor or they are just dead from assorted drug lords or from military regimes protecting US interests. The amazing thing about Castro is that he could be in power for 50 years in a one party system yet he has not corrupted its initial objectives. In Havana you will not find much evidence of Fidel, no statues, few images just some quotes exhorting hard work and education for the revolution! Che Guevara is the national martyr, Fidel seems to be respected but not necessarily loved. I can't think of any other socialist revolutionary who has not turned himself into a Demigod and destroyed their original vision and their society, think Stalin, Mugabe, Assad, Sadam and the tyrants of North Korea, Romania, East Germany and on and on. Somehow Castro remained committed to his revolutionary ideals and has not enriched himself or his family at the expense of the people. I am sure he has plenty of skeletons in the closet after 50 years in power but he really stands out as one the great world figures of the last 60 years.