Reds and rhyme

After all, Kennedy had just stared Khrushchev down over the Cuban missile crisis. What would Trump have done? Take half a dozen different positions in as many hours, blame it all on “fake news”, and conclude that there was nothing to be done about the missiles because both sides were a little wrong. Then, after losing his bid for re-election, he’d build one or more Trump Towers in Russia and several golf courses, all with “loans” from Russian oligarchs from whom he has already received money, as his son has admitted.

Meaningless

PRONOUNCEMENTS by Donald Trump have a “boy cries wolf” aspect to them. Remarkably, just about every statement he makes can be reversed in subsequent days. What he actually says and means becomes meaningless. THE Romanovs favoured Rasputin. Donald Trump thinks he’s good friends with Putin. Nobody reckoned he’d rate the CIA second. How long before the Reds put the boot in?

Compass lost

THE moral compass seems to be non-existent in this country, Peter Dutton issues visas to Right-wing extremists to tour the country to espouse their nonsense, yet to bring a seriously ill child from a detention centre is right off his radar. Future generations will look askance at what he has been allowed to do in our name.

For a song

DERWENT Entertainment Centre is on 73,000m2 of land, complete with water frontage, along with substantial built infrastructure capable of seating more than 5400 people. This site has the potential to fit 140-150 residential building blocks and at current residential land prices, the land alone could realise up to $19 million. A private commercial property on 2102m2 of land in Glenorchy is for sale at the moment for $8.5 million. If this community asset is to be sold, it should sell for at least $15 million. Please don’t let this place, where many a song has been sung, be sold for one.