Well yabby you got that right.
Not taking Dickie too seriously.
But insults are top notch you have to admit that.
Rent boy remember that?
Aimed at me it seemed to come from an episode of a police story the night before.
Implying I/ the rent boy was a homosexual who rented out his body.
No running to GY no complains.
Not worth the effort but pure evidence these threads are not about discussing the planets health but insults.
Just count the insults aimed at each of us.
How could anyone take Dickie seriously?

Belly

In your first post you advised: "Have no true part to play in such a thread."

True and we are agreed on that but you are still here ranting on about everything except the topic. Historically in other threads where you trail around after neo-con, Yabby, you bombard us with your unmitigated swill. And typical of your boasts you also state:

"A trade unionist for every day I live." Ah yes, a union rep bludging on a debate forum during working hours. Well why don't you get back to work? My Pop, a union man, would turn in his grave to see your calibre representing his union.

Says Belly: "One day we must find a new word to explain that old dream." I say, "Take your hand off it Belly." Union membership is down to a miserable 13% in the private sector workers.

Your largest union SDA actually help to maintain the low levels of pay and poor conditions in fast food and retail - the "Bosses' Union" it's called.

Not only are they pro capitalist but they are extremely socially conservative - influential in maintaining the Labor Party’s right wing policies and are opposed to abortion rights for women and to rights for same sex couples.

So whilst the kids are working their butts off in Kentucky Chuck, a Union representative is bludging around debate forums throwing in indecipherable red herrings to distract those who may be interested in hard documented facts.

As is typical in most of his 2,547 posts, capitalist and head pimp, Yabby has succeeded in corrupting yet another thread, backed by a fawning self-seeking rent boy.

Fakes, fraudsters and figwits!

Over and out!

The present capitalist system of exploiting minerals is for the risk taker / entrepreneur to pay a licencing fee and possibly a royalty.

What “Democratic Socialism “ (which is an oxymoron) would like is for the taxpayer to be to risk taker and some here-today-gone-tomorrow politician to be the entrepreneur.

Having seen the mess and incompetence which government nationalized industry manage to get themselves into in the past, the last thing I would wish to see is the taxpayers of this country stuck with the largesse and losses of the expanded government spending programmes needed to implement uranium production, with no detailed programme of future revenue to support them.

If and when a private entrepreneur sees the opportunity to engage in uranium mining, he can go and satisfy his investors of the risk, raise capital and purchase the necessary licences (which will benefit the government/community) and then pay the royalties as negotiated/agreed.

That way tax payers do not get stuck with the abysmally poor negotiated outcomes, the products of compromises made by politicians, like the Victorian taxpayers did for $3 billion of Tri-Continental banking losses.

*Fact: I am a green-power customer purchasing accredited renewable energy*

Which means Dickie, that you get your power from exactly the same
coal based energy grid as the rest of us do. No coal means no
electicity for Dickie, its as simple as that. You of course free
to take the feelgood option and pay extra, which does not change
the fact that you still rely on coal for your electricity.

*Fact: Western Australian sedimentary basins currently hold more than 80% of Australia’s discovered natural gas resources. *

Yes we have alot of gas, although CSG from the coalfields will
probably change the 80% figure. That is not the point. The point
is that with all that gas, one little pipe ruptured on Varanus island
and the State nearly came to a halt. Coal kept things going. If
that same pipe had been over at Woodside, it could well have shut
the State down. Gas in a gas field is a long way from electricity
in your home. The first thing they did when Apache developed a
problem, was bring coal fired power stations out of mothballs,
to try and somehow keep the wheels on the electricity cart.

*I'm not the recipient of a social security benefit*

Ah Dickie, so no seniors card, with a price discount on everything?
No lower tax for retirees? Don't tell me fibs.

*Ethical posters support their claims by providing documented evidence.*

Documented evidence Dickie? You mean if somebody published it
on a webpage, then it must be true? How gullible are you?

Col:

"That way tax payers do not get stuck with the abysmally poor negotiated outcomes, the products of compromises made by politicians, like the Victorian taxpayers did for $3 billion of Tri-Continental banking losses."

Col, you didn't have to go back to the 80's for an example of abysmal fiscal management; how about the $700 billion being handed over by USA taxpayers for the Wall Street bail-out? Or closer to home in 2000, when the Howard capitalist-conservative government bailed his brother's company National Textiles with taxpayer's money?

Back on topic, I see no problem mining small quantities of Uranium for Medical requirements. It is when we sell huge quantities to any other country we no longer have control over its final use and destination.

Dickie having noted you nasty spite filled posts for a long time I am still baffled.
You seem to have had, or some one did on your behalf a post removed.
Yet it did not truly insult any one as bad as you do.
2 Fridays ago, I was involved in a car smash.
I have been working short hours ever since.
I was told to take compo but wanted to not let my members down.
See Dickie my members are my mates.
Your insults are deep and meant to hurt, but not worth the trouble rebutting.
You take the thread shake it and head of in other directions, then blame others for doing it.
I will never take the trouble to talk to you again.
But you may not believe me, whatever ails you, brings you to insult so needlessly, to express so much rage, anger and pain, may you find a cure for it.
In this one thread you poor thing you have called me just about every thing, and been wrong every time.
Look into the mirror Dickie some one you know needs help.