Don’t forget the inevitable…

Dunno about you mon, but I don’t find Rudd’s shift to the right to be anywhere close to ethical. Howard is holding Australian workers at cannon-point; Rudd’s happy to settle for holding us at gunpoint.

I completely agree with you, weez. Rudd’s intelligence and enthusiasm, flattening first Beazely then Howard in the same year, must have required him to make some heavy promises to the ‘Not the Good Guys’ (AKA ‘Core’).

We rubes, who democratically always get the govmint we choose, are non-Core. The things we’ve let Howard get away with are written loud for Kev to see – He’ll save a few tame lefties and a pot of fiscal grease for elections, the rest of the term – well, he only promised to behave marginally better than a rodent.

Ethically this old freak doesn’t like capitalist freedom any more that communist persecution, both sides are minted on the same coin. Like my grandpa-of-Gallipoli used to say “Boy, you can’t play two-up with only one penny.” He was referring to my mental midgetry, of course, but it gives me the opportunity to define Australian politics as a game of One-up.

Sorry ’bout the mess, nice job with the dust buster. [Walks off, egg in beard.]

I must say (and please don’t tell this to the plebs at the ALP lest they revoke my membership) that the so-called (and ridiculous concept) of the “honeymoon” is fast becoming “over” for me.

Still, this weekend’s ALP Conference has Anthony Albanese and ??? (I forget, apologies in advance; it is “anzaceve” after all) promising to veto any nuclear plans Rudd has… and I will be supporting those dissenters any way I can.

However, in the bigger scheme of things, I’ve finally got to the point where I don’t care what Rudd does, or says, or “promises”, because, after 10 years of Howard rule, he is still the lesser of the two evils. Go on, admit it, you know he is!!

Hippy, no problem on the tidying up. I’m looking for a WordPress plugin that will make it easier for commenters to add formatting like bold, italic & hyperlinks to mgk comments.

C, the “Rudd honeymoon” is a HoWARd concept. The press and the voters don’t actually subscribe to it much.

Yes- Rudd is most certainly the lesser of two evils, but that’s not the basis under which I want to support a new leadership. I DO care what Rudd does, especially when we’re being held over a barrel by HoWARd’s DorkChoices… and Kevvo simply retorts with the same thing in his own IR proposal, just 5% less draconian.

I wrote:

I’m looking for a WordPress plugin that will make it easier for commenters to add formatting like bold, italic & hyperlinks to mgk comments.

Found one. All you need to do to add a link is highlight the text you want to hyperlink, click the LINK button and enter the URL in the dialogue box which pops up.

I’m working on integrating Quicktags into the SHAO commenting facility using Montie’s fine plugin just as installed here on mgk.

However, it’s not quite working the way I want it to on SHAO in terms of the appearance of the buttons. The SHAO buttons appear big, lumpy & grey as opposed to the outline buttons as they appear on mgk. The buttons on SHAO are working, they’re just ugly. I’m a bit perplexed as I installed the plugin on SHAO and mgk in just the same way.

Eventually, I want to get a WYSIWYG compositor going for comments on SHAO & mgk, just as appears in the WordPress main post composing window. Clues would be nice if anyone has any. 🙂

he is still the lesser of the two evils. Go on, admit it, you know he is!!

Colours, we have to agree – and thereby crank the Ratchet. (a better link from UFO)

Got the Hoover warmed up, weez?

Doesn’t look like any Hoovering is required. 🙂

Way cool Admin, Mr Weezil. 🙂

Well, we aim to please… but don’t for a minute presume that I know what I’m doing. I don’t speak HTML very well at all. Calling myself fairly lucky that I’ve gotten any of this nonsense to work!