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» 6/09/2011 11:06:27 AM SM I read your stats on arrivals and agree... it is not a function of season swings but re.....
» 6/09/2011 10:57:11 AM Belly "What a DUD! What was I thinking about? We did not need such a thread." A.....
» 5/09/2011 11:25:25 AM SM "Yet again, an ill considered and researched misadventure by the Labor government .....
» 5/09/2011 11:19:20 AM Belly "Gillard before Rudd, even before her rise in the Parliament, was a far differe.....
» 5/09/2011 11:16:18 AM Belly "Lets talk." Belly that is strange coming from you you and your little g.....
» 12/08/2011 1:34:31 PM Merv09 "The US was virtually on top of the world until the 1980’s, when they reduced .....
» 12/08/2011 1:07:55 PM [Deleted for abuse.].....
» 12/08/2011 12:57:37 PM I agree hasbeen the suggestion for a UN with more authority has been tried in a test mode.....
» 12/08/2011 11:09:39 AM QA in a previous relationship I watched as a lady did the “Pack the bags thing” with her s.....
» 12/08/2011 12:53:56 AM Yes Steven... but why improve health merely to experience a life not worth living? the pr.....
» 12/08/2011 12:38:26 AM My wife has probably employed some hamburger flippers in the past, her family are used to .....
» 12/08/2011 12:19:25 AM Yabby - I agree with everything you said in your last post. some wonder why Asian childre.....
» 12/08/2011 12:00:06 AM RC "I'm not seeing a problem with my suggestion for anybody who is not excessively gr.....
» 11/08/2011 9:12:40 PM QL - automation and job losses have gone hand in hand for the past 200 years, since someon.....
» 11/08/2011 8:53:19 PM Lexi... professional ethos.... I did not know Hungry Jack hamburger flippers had those.. .....
» 11/08/2011 4:11:08 PM Houellebecq it is good to see you back posting :-).....
» 11/08/2011 4:08:49 PM Lexi "The UK Guardian newspaper disagrees with your take on things (as does history)......
» 11/08/2011 3:55:19 PM Lexi "in an attempt to discredit the animal rights movement. " No one else need.....
» 11/08/2011 3:52:48 PM Houlle I’m not sure spreading the ghetto dwellers around will help… it will be more conven.....
» 11/08/2011 2:50:09 PM Hey QA “A LAW will be made that if you can support your child/children with out Government.....
» 11/08/2011 2:28:58 PM I have been reading a fair bit about these riots in the UK Daily Telegraph and alot of Eng.....
» 11/08/2011 2:05:51 PM hasbeen "We now have a very large percentage of people in our higher education instit.....
» 11/08/2011 1:31:34 PM hasbeen... yep... I doubt the people who work in Indonesian abbatoirs are the best paid in.....
» 11/08/2011 1:26:00 PM Of course it could happen here. Especially if we pander to the false sense of self-entitl.....
» 11/08/2011 11:55:20 AM SM "The real test would be if the ALP removed the competition and the NBN could compe.....
» 11/08/2011 11:30:32 AM Sorry Banjo addressed my last post to hasbeen.... it was meant for you... But I think we .....
» 11/08/2011 1:22:41 AM Pigs taste good... not sure about dogs.... May those who want to be vegans enjoy their l.....
» 11/08/2011 1:08:19 AM "When Labor culled their best: from Hawke to Rudd" Why cull their "best&qu.....
» 11/08/2011 12:55:31 AM hasbeen yep, I agree totally..... Just a quick point... India and China in ascendancy... .....
» 10/08/2011 10:02:50 PM Banjo and Hasbeen Dont expect anything from the soon-to-be-ejected Gilliard Government of.....
» 8/08/2011 12:00:14 PM Belly “Shadow Minister, if old mate, you or a few others here could only one day say words.....
» 8/08/2011 11:36:27 AM Antiseptic " I also tend to use the cries of "foul" as a gauge of how succe.....
» 8/08/2011 11:21:33 AM [Deleted for abuse.].....
» 8/08/2011 1:44:45 AM Lexi I am pleased you appreciate the pernicious role of trotskyites and hard line communis.....
» 8/08/2011 1:23:42 AM Belly "Col, last effort was made, no need to reply I am extremely proud to be totally.....
» 7/08/2011 8:35:41 PM Lexi "There are a few agendas out there as well as the real sciencess and the pseudo-.....
» 7/08/2011 8:26:18 PM Lexi you started your last offering with “unleashing offensive remarks” You then continu.....
» 7/08/2011 7:55:00 PM Peter Mac “Let them eat cake” and yes we are both on the same history page…. And it went.....
» 7/08/2011 7:26:40 PM RC Shareholder liability If you want shareholders with unlimited liability that option ex.....
» 7/08/2011 3:22:38 PM "Given the issues with the News Corp governance, and more locally, Centro, is there a.....
» 7/08/2011 3:10:33 PM Belly "Can we agree to ignore each other" You are free to do whatever you want......
» 7/08/2011 3:00:20 PM Ammonite "We need to stop arguing about global warming and get on with cleaning up ou.....
» 7/08/2011 12:40:32 PM Hi Antiseptic "I learnt that the best way to deal with those who seek to attack me is.....
» 7/08/2011 1:26:52 AM Bullying is the product of attitude We can always enact rules, regulations and laws to li.....
» 7/08/2011 12:56:54 AM QL "Col...you must treat ON LINE OPINIONS for what they are:) Its like facebook with .....
» 6/08/2011 10:43:34 PM Hi Kerryanne If you email your address to Graham Young (editor OLO) he will, as he has do.....
» 6/08/2011 8:03:06 PM Squeers “But it is surely more about luck and opportunity than genes or abilities” It is .....
» 6/08/2011 2:23:00 PM Hi Kerryanne… I am not sure which thread referred to “Ikebal Patel”… I will correct your.....
» 6/08/2011 12:42:32 PM Squeers “I don't think you're capable of humility,” Strangely Squeers, I don’t care a r.....
» 6/08/2011 11:49:26 AM Belly, I would have liked to respond to your last post but it was largely unintelligible .....
» 6/08/2011 11:24:33 AM Hi Banjo “I thought you would welcome the axing of a Dept and the saving of the wage bill .....
» 6/08/2011 11:02:59 AM Peter Hume “Rather, a state built on slavery and taxation merely took the fruits of the la.....
» 5/08/2011 10:43:01 PM Hi KerryAnne me a “grump old thing” No, I am more “grunty” than “grumpy” :-) “Socialists .....
» 5/08/2011 10:00:08 PM Banjo- "I would palm them off to other Depts and simply not replace the ones that res.....
» 5/08/2011 7:50:30 PM Belly “First to stop denigrating the other side of politics and those who support them.” .....
» 5/08/2011 4:35:44 PM Ah Belly puts his thunking cap on to address “peak oil” and finds it not scary at all Won.....
» 5/08/2011 2:57:06 PM RW it reminds me of the old joke when Jeff Kennett became Premier here in Victoria Questi.....
» 5/08/2011 2:48:09 PM Belly “The last time I complained about a post to our sites owner and administrator about .....
» 4/08/2011 5:59:38 PM Hi SM... I see you have incurred the spluttering ire of the OLO "league of lefties&.....
» 4/08/2011 11:45:21 AM I looked at the Title… then I speculated…. I smell “Watermelon” Then I looked at the bio .....
» 3/08/2011 1:27:30 AM Noisy Scrub Bird "Howard was a deceitful little toad, and the Mad Monk is no better......
» 2/08/2011 2:34:38 PM Houellebecq - nice to see you posting again... did you have a good holiday? Anyone who ha.....
» 2/08/2011 1:16:57 PM It is just another failure of the "government of failure".... doubtless it will.....
» 2/08/2011 12:13:04 AM Life is not fair, if it were "fair", all the people who presently vote liberal.....
» 1/08/2011 11:53:22 PM Within any given population, you will always get some crazy people..... psychopaths, soc.....
» 30/07/2011 12:52:10 PM The Horn of Africa has been a charnel house for decades. I have heard the mantra of the .....
» 30/07/2011 12:22:14 PM I have always believed CSR to be a furphy. Just motherhood statement with no tangible &qu.....
» 28/07/2011 8:26:44 PM Loudmouth, thankyou for your response... I did catch on to your "pot stirring".......
» 28/07/2011 12:30:18 PM Loudmouth "'Look, you might have earned all that and amassed assets, but let's face i.....
» 28/07/2011 11:44:38 AM Who is Sam Vankin He seems to have a negative view of western societies I suggest he i.....
» 27/07/2011 12:59:08 AM "Lighten up a bit, man! All this fear and loathing can't be good for your health, if .....
» 26/07/2011 5:23:29 PM morganzola.... from your comments to my previous post on thread I am pleased I amused you.....
» 25/07/2011 2:03:23 PM David Leigh “the seriously fractured section of the West Antarctic Ice Shelf (WAIS) should.....
» 25/07/2011 1:41:59 PM morganzola "Assuming that Col Rouge is misinformed rather than deliberately lying.........
» 25/07/2011 12:14:02 PM Rehctub it is not only big business. Smaller and small business is also suffering It is .....
» 24/07/2011 10:34:15 PM Rob Canoe “From a distance, the U.S. seems to be wealthy and democratic country, but the q.....
» 24/07/2011 10:00:52 PM I am well familiar with UKDT Thanks for the specific article, Antiseptic If you care to .....
» 23/07/2011 3:40:00 PM Morganzola “….ageing baby boomers like me, who grew up in the 60s and 70s and acquired our.....
» 23/07/2011 3:17:19 PM yesLexi… I will tell you about those unemployed numbers in Uk the fact is they were unem.....
» 22/07/2011 11:38:23 PM Lexi “We lived and worked in Los Angeles for ten years. I received two weeks annual leave,.....
» 22/07/2011 11:15:22 PM Lexi "This discussion is about leadership." So you say, but we both know Jul.....
» 22/07/2011 10:52:45 PM David Leigh "Col Rouge... Smile, you're on candid camera." Not really sure what.....
» 22/07/2011 10:47:48 PM Loudmouth you have a particular skill in personifying the pointless... I suspect you will.....
» 22/07/2011 3:50:35 PM Loudmouth “'This just shows the complete greed and unreasonableness of old people, concern.....
» 22/07/2011 3:30:38 PM Lexi - good to see you reading about dearest Margaret, she is a much more substantial (int.....
» 22/07/2011 12:34:22 PM No Bruce, it was Lenin who had his “useful idiots” Stalin was fair, he executed them ju.....
» 22/07/2011 12:02:00 PM David Leigh “If big business (the major polluters in Australia were allowed to only invest.....
» 22/07/2011 10:43:38 AM I did not vote for Gillard Not because she is female Nor because of her marital status .....
» 22/07/2011 10:29:23 AM David Leigh " The human trait to overcome obstacles (especially in business) and do t.....
» 22/07/2011 12:03:38 AM SM “It is interesting that the state where the greens have the greatest influence, has a s.....
» 21/07/2011 9:56:51 PM The only way Scotland will convert to 100 % renewable is to turn the Scottish economic and.....
» 20/07/2011 4:13:53 PM Jimoctec “What is needed is a winding back of the "growth at any cost" economy t.....
» 20/07/2011 1:14:31 AM So that’s it “Create a global Environmental Organization “ You can give it all the powers.....
» 19/07/2011 12:19:51 AM Geoff Davies “Many people on this blog seem to believe in markets, private enterprise and,.....
» 19/07/2011 12:02:14 AM morgonzola "I think that the "lying, manipulative trolls" are generally tho.....
» 18/07/2011 11:07:09 AM I always thought the prime agenda of the Democrats, under Don Chipp at least, was they w.....
» 17/07/2011 9:31:00 PM Politics is not just about the now but also about tomorrow.... Labor are the party of &qu.....
» 16/07/2011 11:47:45 AM Jay of Melbourne "I'm not seeing anything that even alludes to those ideas in the Aus.....
» 16/07/2011 10:48:32 AM Morganzola the practice of Greens is to appear as all things to all men until they acquire.....
» 15/07/2011 9:37:27 PM Morganzola the greens lust for power is what will inevitable drive them to determine the r.....
» 15/07/2011 7:06:50 PM Morganzola "You should also note that Col Rouge and the other anti-democrats favour t.....
» 15/07/2011 2:24:30 PM morganzola "The Australian Greens have only existed since 1992, " what did they.....
» 15/07/2011 1:13:58 PM morganzola " was going to respond to your rambling, fact-free rant, but you've demons.....
» 15/07/2011 10:40:23 AM I agree totally with Atman, a minority activist party attempting to exercise authority bey.....
» 14/07/2011 2:57:05 PM “Why? Because once they have had their little play at running things even their live in a .....
» 14/07/2011 2:47:14 PM Being “Green” is a Religion? Not sure and I am not really interested “Communism” was not.....
» 14/07/2011 10:50:06 AM Alan Austin “But the Herald Sun is not free to report in a front page news story that the .....
» 14/07/2011 10:23:30 AM Morganzola “It's really hard to work out what the Green-haters are on about, except that t.....
» 13/07/2011 4:47:30 PM Parties like the Greens have been around for a couple of hundred years at least... Activ.....
» 13/07/2011 4:16:13 PM Hi Alan, You are welcome to my observations, they are shared by many others. I suggest, .....
» 12/07/2011 9:43:57 PM So Australia was "Invaded" That was 200 years ago.... Pilger, I suggest you ge.....
» 12/07/2011 9:33:16 PM I guess those who dislike Murdoch can follow the model deployed by “Get-Up”, in their reac.....
» 12/07/2011 9:06:49 PM John Ryan “If you think Abbott and the 3 bears in the Liberal party are any better you got.....
» 11/07/2011 5:48:41 PM We have a minority party Government (strung together with regengade Independents and ".....
» 4/07/2011 10:12:15 AM [Deleted for abuse.].....
» 3/07/2011 11:37:55 PM Morganzola "The increasing volume of shrill, ignorant and desperate insults is a sure.....
» 3/07/2011 10:39:12 PM Sonofgloin” Of what use are any of the worthless words from Gillard?” There is nothing ne.....
» 3/07/2011 10:21:53 PM Quantum "Col...lol....temper temper now:) Your hate for the greens is something to wa.....
» 3/07/2011 10:05:59 PM Islam is a minority religion in Australia. It makes alot of noise, well above its right f.....
» 3/07/2011 9:09:48 PM Ah "Green Strangler Vines"..... Yes, indeed SM, the small minded politics for t.....
» 3/07/2011 11:28:01 AM What a Useless word "Equality" is when we are individuals each with unique DNA. .....
» 2/07/2011 10:21:39 PM Australia is one of the few places, where participating in an election is mandatory and en.....
» 1/07/2011 12:36:37 AM Amonite "Wish Carbon Tax would be called Pollution Tax - its not just about carbon.&q.....
» 1/07/2011 12:24:33 AM Squeers “Capitalism is, finally, indefensible. Neoliberalism is of course not capitalism .....
» 28/06/2011 11:45:21 AM Dan-the-Man Rental prices exist in a market.... if fewer people wanted to lease space in S.....
» 28/06/2011 11:37:37 AM Squeers…. “same (only lesser; even more credulous and to be pitied) kind of political eunu.....
» 28/06/2011 6:24:48 AM Sonofgloin “The Fairfax broadsheets are even worse when it comes to selective ranking and .....
» 28/06/2011 4:00:43 AM "three activists will appear in Fairfield Local Court in response to charges related .....
» 27/06/2011 10:55:59 AM Agree we buy regularly off ebay and also direct from overseas suppliers... we have been c.....
» 26/06/2011 10:45:25 PM Sonogloin “and those reporting on it's guidance.” Maybe you should read more Andrew Bolt .....
» 26/06/2011 6:51:50 PM I hear there are unused facilities on Nauru, perfect for Socialists / Greens and their pol.....
» 25/06/2011 11:34:50 AM Banjo - "My wife once accepted my offer to buy her a ladies chain saw. Thought about .....
» 25/06/2011 11:31:24 AM “Ironically, it's probably women who hold the key to the radical changes we need. Mothers .....
» 24/06/2011 10:21:43 AM Ammonite "These men were very brave going on TV to discuss the reasons for the dolls,.....
» 24/06/2011 12:00:27 AM Fester, for the benefit of your education Your Wrote "If you increase demand, supply.....
» 23/06/2011 11:49:19 PM Fester "In other words you are blaming working women for the decline in housing affor.....
» 23/06/2011 3:42:28 PM Divergence... whilst I agree with the view of median incomes, I would suggest your median .....
» 23/06/2011 10:02:59 AM Boylesy "Civilisation is not an ultimate goal of evolution" No point in beating.....
» 23/06/2011 9:51:02 AM All this whining on about Gillards right to do anything is pointless She and the Independ.....
» 22/06/2011 9:08:07 PM House prices go up, house prices go down…. The laws of supply and demand Most houses are.....
» 21/06/2011 9:06:00 PM It would have been a terrible shame if you had thought that I was being merely facetious.e.....
» 21/06/2011 2:34:25 PM All – your defense of Julia…. “Of course They Lie and cheat, for if the truth was to be a.....
» 21/06/2011 2:29:10 PM Pericles "I think I may have found one of them..." nope... try reading... my co.....
» 21/06/2011 2:19:55 PM All – your defense of Julia…. “Of course They Lie and cheat, for if the truth was to be a.....
» 21/06/2011 11:19:33 AM Ammonite “By "survival of the fittest" Darwin did not mean that the toughest wil.....
» 21/06/2011 9:49:18 AM Belly “We have forgotten, Tony Abbott his team here, unlike my self, have not once, not in.....
» 21/06/2011 1:53:52 AM Boysley “the 'fittest' are always the most violent, and aggressive, the least compassionat.....
» 21/06/2011 1:37:14 AM Lexi “You seem to have overlooked the fact that the Prime Minister has to deal with a Coal.....
» 20/06/2011 11:35:26 PM Watch out Yabby, if you try to defend yourself with common sense and reason, by challengin.....
» 20/06/2011 8:41:26 PM I would observe, the lying never ends with Labor “Your money is safe in Pyramid” (Jolly, T.....
» 20/06/2011 12:03:53 PM Hey Houelle “You've handled yourself with class, and reacted appropriately to the provocat.....
» 19/06/2011 3:04:34 PM I think KRudd should return to lead the Labor Party He is a familiar face and his punctil.....
» 19/06/2011 12:18:45 PM “This discussion thread is about assisting anyone who has had dealings with NPD personalit.....
» 19/06/2011 1:11:57 AM Fester “I completely disagree that modern medicine is responsible.” http://www.healthmetr.....
» 19/06/2011 12:03:53 AM bonmot people who formulate an analysis of someone based on what other people say, without.....
» 18/06/2011 10:12:28 PM Mr Windy "If you want to blame anything for over population then you should look to a.....
» 18/06/2011 9:40:57 PM Lexi “You're under no obligation to like them. The truth is that an imagination is essenti.....
» 18/06/2011 3:06:12 PM Lexi "As a friend of mine stated" a friend... you must have a vivid imagination.....
» 18/06/2011 11:51:55 AM Monbot I do not think I have ever described nyself as a “successful and accomplished accou.....
» 17/06/2011 5:40:00 PM Sardine “population issue is that religious, political or ideological fundamentalism creat.....
» 17/06/2011 4:22:17 PM Houlle “Col has few supporters and many many detractors.” I have never worried about swim.....
» 16/06/2011 3:00:31 PM Ah if I were vain, I would think this post was about me, like the song…. Supposedly abo.....
» 15/06/2011 10:24:07 PM I dont know who this Colin bloke is Belly... but you do seem to be fixated on him - next y.....
» 15/06/2011 9:56:11 PM I see Poirot and Sardine have something in common….. They both post sneering responses to.....
» 15/06/2011 6:35:46 PM [Deleted for abuse.].....
» 15/06/2011 4:21:28 PM actually when I think of having a "dinner" with Nicola Roxon I immediately think.....
» 15/06/2011 2:43:35 PM Cheryl “When the anti-pops talk about population, they are really talking about is people .....
» 15/06/2011 2:26:09 PM "It's hard for Col R., to get the big picture. He has such a small screen." (A.....
» 15/06/2011 11:35:11 AM MS this is yet another example of the hypocrisy of the socialists (history is littered wit.....
» 15/06/2011 10:02:07 AM I consider myself a libertarian and as such tend to be against all forms of censorship. H.....
» 15/06/2011 9:48:00 AM I note this article was written by a German I think the way Cameroon decides to treat its.....
» 15/06/2011 9:17:52 AM Ah Belly your reference to dearest Margaret the difference between the walking weasel (re.....
» 14/06/2011 11:39:11 PM Lexi "The people I usually debate with are quite skilled in the art of reasoned, inte.....
» 14/06/2011 10:17:12 PM Lexi "Is that the best you have got" No it is merely the best I can be bothered.....
» 14/06/2011 5:47:48 PM Ammonite… I see your post to SM (Tuesday, 14 June 2011 3:52:25 PM) identifies how I have t.....
» 14/06/2011 4:08:09 PM Ammonite "You have a divine right to insult others, but should the 'favour' be return.....
» 14/06/2011 2:40:59 PM Hi SM thanks for the support Rather than respond I will leave Lexi to wallow in her irrel.....
» 14/06/2011 12:38:27 PM VK3AUU “…pinching their physical resources, but we are also encouraging their brightest an.....
» 14/06/2011 11:15:47 AM Lexi "How droll indeed. However, you'd possibly know more about that sort of thing - .....
» 14/06/2011 11:03:09 AM “Here Shadow Minister is the difference between me and you…… I regard Doug Cameron as an .....
» 14/06/2011 9:59:55 AM At a time when third world observation of first world lifestyle becomes more common place .....
» 13/06/2011 11:50:31 PM I was raised on Mqrmie on taost and with cheese in sandwiches Marmite is to UK what Vegem.....
» 12/06/2011 11:57:57 PM Lexi <"...one has love bites on his mirror" how droll doubtless, you are no.....
» 12/06/2011 11:54:00 PM Ah Belly “Dear old Margarete, have the fondest memory's of her. The day her party dumped h.....
» 12/06/2011 2:52:51 PM Ammonite “Well, unless you consider Col Rouge the shallow end of the civil pool.” Whereve.....
» 11/06/2011 8:06:08 AM Hello dunart I like your idea Get government out of people’s pockets and leave them to li.....
» 11/06/2011 7:50:32 AM vanna "Therefore I don’t think the media per se is to blame for declining standards o.....
» 10/06/2011 4:36:29 PM Vanna – your comment suggests academia is a bunch of cynical elitists – which does confirm.....
» 10/06/2011 1:52:33 PM Kenny “High carbon emitters are paying think tanks to push their case not the national int.....
» 10/06/2011 11:00:50 AM MickC "What is the minimum ammout of CO2 output that a single person should be emitti.....
» 9/06/2011 2:52:48 PM Poirot “Cringe worthy?” please yourself…. Houellebecq “Don't worry about them Col. Maybe.....
» 9/06/2011 2:14:10 PM Bonmot “Thing is, most OLO posters are not sceptics - they are cynics.” That is a cynical.....
» 9/06/2011 12:13:49 PM “potentially leading to” I love terms like that Most things have some “potential” but a .....
» 9/06/2011 11:09:43 AM MickC “ITS ALL OF US....so the real issue is , how many of us should we have on this plane.....
» 9/06/2011 10:46:46 AM Pericles "The mental picture this conjures up, of you sitting in front of your comput.....
» 8/06/2011 7:19:19 PM Belly “Col you seem content to be an unlovable person, are you equally happy to be seen as.....
» 8/06/2011 5:19:43 PM sbr108 "Here's a list of the countries that have introduced a carbon tax: Finland, Sw.....
» 7/06/2011 7:27:14 PM “When the oil runs out 1,000,000,000 people will starve.” That is one way of helping to a.....
» 7/06/2011 5:20:55 PM Pelican "How do you think the Opposition is handling the Carbon Tax issue?" How.....
» 7/06/2011 4:43:17 PM I think the article and replies are simply trying to be too "complex" about the .....
» 7/06/2011 1:44:19 PM Hi Hasbeen … I did take the wrong “spin” form your list… apologies I have found the diff.....
» 7/06/2011 9:41:56 AM I bet Kevin is feeling exceptionally smarmy ---- the milkybar kids revenge his one time d.....
» 6/06/2011 12:04:43 PM Gorofus "Unlike the author or any of his supporters I really care about what kind of .....
» 6/06/2011 10:56:32 AM Des, we have all seen in the past, the left of politics are so well known for a change in .....
» 6/06/2011 8:27:35 AM Hi Has been that’s a nice bunch of what was called “motherhood” statements when I was work.....
» 5/06/2011 12:43:18 PM the best way of depriving the carbon debate of oxygen is 1 ignore the ramblings of the le.....
» 5/06/2011 12:15:35 PM Hasbeen "Thanks for that SPQR, it does highlight just how often a consensus has prove.....
» 5/06/2011 12:09:47 PM Bonmot “It's not for me to say you are 'flaming' - suffice to say I think you are wrong, i.....
» 5/06/2011 11:40:59 AM Actually when I saw the article heading I thought this would be something to do with Globa.....
» 4/06/2011 3:33:52 PM Nicco regarding "It was an unusually dramatic case, but it was not about bunches of d.....
» 4/06/2011 3:20:43 PM Nicco “The satellites, balloons, buoys and all the other instruments are measuring what is.....
» 4/06/2011 10:40:34 AM nicco "And (for the umpteenth time) if you want to know about climate science, go to .....
» 4/06/2011 10:17:32 AM Peter Mac "Anyone with an IQ over 100 and some experience in data analysis knows that.....
» 2/06/2011 8:55:26 PM Yes Belly, “Do we truly care about the dreadful life some women lead is equality just a wo.....
» 2/06/2011 6:56:45 PM Hi Pelican… nice to see you again (sincerely). We regularly disagree but with never the ra.....
» 2/06/2011 6:31:28 PM bonmot "Umm, Col, seek help. Seriously, your paranoia has gone a tad too far." .....
» 2/06/2011 4:34:10 PM We have just had an advert here in Australia - promoting a new bute, carbon tax - one whic.....
» 2/06/2011 4:18:36 PM I see Bob Hawke has come out in support of Gillards blatant lying.... Well, what would yo.....
» 1/06/2011 4:34:14 PM Don’t listen to shock jocks? Why not? They are less motivated by venal vested interest t.....
» 30/05/2011 10:38:09 PM A Carbon Tax An unquantified and undefined impost on free peoples incomes, Designed to s.....
» 24/08/2010 1:16:23 PM JR "Mate, explain clearly why my objection to a whites-only Australia is obnoxious&qu.....
» 24/08/2010 1:09:22 PM Squeers “It's not that the deniers "can't" understand, it's that they "won'.....
» 24/08/2010 12:35:32 PM Keep up the good work SM, anyone who annoys the likes of mikk and exanimator must be doing.....
» 24/08/2010 8:28:15 AM I miss-posted the following, it. should be here JoM “I wonder how you'd respond the the i.....
» 24/08/2010 8:16:43 AM “Global citizen” is the extension of an international-collectivism and the notion that we .....
» 24/08/2010 8:02:40 AM Hi Gilbert.... yes I am a “late comer”, don’t worry I catch up quick. “If we pursue these.....
» 23/08/2010 3:10:41 PM Gilbert "....the ideals of Gilbert, here are pure protectionism...." says Col Ro.....
» 23/08/2010 2:04:43 PM Houlle’ thankyou for your kind words. “Stern” has an historic meaning which I will not go .....
» 23/08/2010 8:20:03 AM Peter Hume “Persistence in these irrational beliefs is no better than belief in rain dance.....
» 22/08/2010 8:26:17 PM Can we trust “Greens” on sustainability or on any other matter, at all? The environmental.....
» 22/08/2010 8:07:47 PM JoM “I wonder how you'd respond the the idea that "Multiculturalism" was designe.....
» 22/08/2010 11:41:39 AM Anyone who thinks “multiculturalism”, which is marketed as an appeasing alternative to “As.....
» 22/08/2010 10:36:30 AM So Julia has just managed to outlive Frank Fords (another socialist) listing as the shorte.....
» 16/01/2010 12:51:58 PM Actually Foxy… recalling Rwanda (among many atrocities across Africa and around the globe).....
» 16/01/2010 12:06:36 PM Wybong I like your posts Your misspellings are a joy to behold For instance a “Holly War.....
» 16/01/2010 11:41:25 AM Manorina “What is needed is some profound shock/s.The global situation suggests that to be.....
» 16/01/2010 11:13:34 AM Mikk your first paragraph is, as your say, stereotypical. Regarding “Why then are we allo.....
» 16/01/2010 10:19:05 AM ah Houlle "I also follow Col of course. His prose and wit are a level above the rest .....
» 16/01/2010 9:30:33 AM Ah grputland… I knew you couldn’t resist…. hook, line and sinker I will actually only b.....
» 15/01/2010 5:55:17 PM Hey Houlle good to see you back in your OLO saddle and riding flank Thankyou for your wor.....
» 14/01/2010 4:01:18 PM So I am a parasite for having a couple of investment properties which I rent out for the e.....
» 14/01/2010 1:38:10 PM Hamas are simply following the strategy and practice of Arafat before them: Lie to achiev.....
» 14/01/2010 10:57:05 AM I agree with the under-current of the thread I always believe those who own and work the .....
» 14/01/2010 10:29:30 AM I tend to agree with cornflower, who assumes that farmers are anti-tree? Farmers will, be.....
» 14/01/2010 9:43:12 AM Sancho I see your observation is spot on. When one smells and sees a fire, from a sense o.....
» 13/01/2010 7:52:26 PM Geoff Davis “then you just kept on flaming me and anyone you disagree with.” Maybe you co.....
» 13/01/2010 1:18:19 PM As sometimes is the case, I agree with Ludwig. However, Ludwig and I often disagree. Yet.....
» 13/01/2010 1:13:10 PM Mitchell “no Offence, Col Rouge” None taken The rest of your paragraph could be reduced .....
» 13/01/2010 11:30:26 AM Ah Bronwyn so pleased to see your response, which proves much of my comment Re “Besides, .....
» 13/01/2010 11:06:24 AM Why is it a local government responsibility to guarantee “affordable housing”? Every time.....
» 13/01/2010 9:03:23 AM Do women pull their radical “weight”? I find most “radicals” have an over-developed presu.....
» 13/01/2010 7:28:03 AM Ah I knew Helen would cop the wrath of the rabid “left” when she defended the historic bas.....
» 13/01/2010 6:55:38 AM Geoff Davis “Col Rouge, You chastise me for my opening comment … and then proceed to refe.....
» 12/01/2010 2:42:56 PM Candide “Col Rouge, for example,….. Everyone is entitled to their viewpoint, broad or narr.....
» 12/01/2010 6:36:20 AM It seems that "This article hits a new low in viciously emotive language, irrelevant .....
» 9/01/2010 7:15:07 AM Belly "Ah Col bloke its coffee black." I hear that is often used in colonic i.....
» 8/01/2010 11:25:33 AM Its an interesting question I vote, according to my conscience, for a major party, althou.....
» 8/01/2010 10:01:10 AM So environmentalists are disappointed.. too bad, get used to disappointment. The Environm.....
» 8/01/2010 7:44:27 AM Pontificator “Most science today honours the law of Modern day….. - The more complex a to.....
» 8/01/2010 7:08:52 AM Belly “Col you remain the rude bloke I have grown to know.” Ah Belly, thankyou, sometimes.....
» 8/01/2010 6:57:24 AM Floatinglili “I do not need to hear that women also prefer good looking men, as a kind of .....
» 7/01/2010 2:04:58 PM Maracas1 deny Palestinian atrocities against Jewish athletes , ignore Palestinian attacks .....
» 7/01/2010 1:47:01 PM Ah another day, another Don Quixote – mounting his trusty steed of scientific buffoonery .....
» 7/01/2010 1:21:55 PM when I consider the numbers of Indians killed in actys of racial violence in all of Austra.....
» 7/01/2010 1:16:26 PM Belly “Col Rouge your views are your right. And in my view not even close to reality.” Ab.....
» 7/01/2010 7:19:38 AM Floatinglili “That we are happy to reduce women, again and again, to their physical appear.....
» 6/01/2010 2:38:18 PM “how could by polar affected the behaviour of the Englishman executed for drug trafficking.....
» 6/01/2010 2:18:08 PM My view of any “turn boats around” strategy is it would be a firm statement of by a future.....
» 6/01/2010 2:04:32 PM I find the stupid dropdown box a pain in the arse and would rather it was not there at all.....
» 6/01/2010 12:52:47 PM SM “she is definitely the vanguard of the PC thought police, and for the restriction of li.....
» 6/01/2010 11:27:04 AM there is something wrong with your assertion I typed in "islam is" into Google .....
» 6/01/2010 7:07:16 AM nationmaster produces statistics on "life satisfaction" by nation which is an a.....
» 6/01/2010 6:58:14 AM Ah CJ Moron ans Sancho… now that is an alliance of equals – two intellectual mosquitoes .....
» 6/01/2010 6:46:05 AM maracas1 “I believe Australians would not condone Israelis actions against the Palestinian.....
» 6/01/2010 6:38:02 AM This battle is a perennial one and people must ask the question Why, 100 or so years a.....
» 4/01/2010 10:23:57 AM I think a world renown politician would be in the best position to comment on the merits, .....
» 4/01/2010 9:24:52 AM Sancho “There is no other feasible explanation for these observable, testable medical data.....
» 4/01/2010 9:09:19 AM Sancho “So, in the battle of climatology versus big industry, who is the science-wielding .....
» 2/01/2010 1:22:06 PM Chris C “I would never want a centrally controlled economy, though I would have more rules.....
» 2/01/2010 11:39:59 AM Poirot is right the “dark satanic mills” is from a line in a hymn http://poetry.eserver.or.....
» 2/01/2010 11:02:32 AM “A massive denial campaign waged by a coalition of contrarians…. Caligula waged war on Pos.....
» 2/01/2010 9:43:11 AM Cornoncob “fancy that a right wing website saying AGW is not real.” Just as every left wi.....
» 1/01/2010 11:18:21 AM CJ Moron “Have you found God recently” Actually, Rover, my new wife is a devout catholic .....
» 31/12/2009 3:03:05 PM Mikk “Im sure most Muslims are just like most of us. Caring, polite people who just want t.....
» 31/12/2009 2:54:00 PM Pontificator “In summary while the AGW is far from *absolute* it is orders of magnitude a .....
» 31/12/2009 1:08:34 PM Grim “a balance sheet is meaningless if it doesn't include debits as well as assets.” Wel.....
» 31/12/2009 12:36:49 PM Foxy “religious fervor has erupted in the Islamic world in general and in the Middle East .....
» 31/12/2009 12:22:13 PM God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, The courage to change the.....
» 31/12/2009 12:10:54 PM CJ Moron “Unfortunately, the function of Christmas in Australia seems to be to provide one.....
» 31/12/2009 10:23:51 AM Chris C “It lists countries, not governments, and it does not actually show that corporati.....
» 30/12/2009 12:49:07 PM “December marks the first anniversary of the Israeli invasion of Gaza which brought devast.....
» 30/12/2009 12:33:03 PM Pelican “It is almost farcical at how any issue of child protection on these forums is tur.....
» 30/12/2009 9:46:03 AM Grim “Once again, Rouge compares apples to oranges; first he writes of 'survival' of the f.....
» 29/12/2009 10:50:14 AM We ate simply this year Christmas day breakfast of waffles and fruit, with one on my daug.....
» 29/12/2009 10:33:15 AM “that human population is the problem, and that unlimited political power is the solution......
» 22/12/2009 3:06:46 PM the facts on electricity are simple generating electricity is a fixed cost business. Pea.....
» 22/12/2009 12:36:00 PM I had to wait in line and have my credentials tested before I came to Australia. I see no .....
» 22/12/2009 12:17:13 PM Pepper “http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/6847227/Questions-over-business-deals-of-UN-climat.....
» 21/12/2009 1:07:32 PM I note the practice of “crossing the floor” is alive and well in Australia, according to t.....
» 21/12/2009 9:51:59 AM UOG “establish the mechanism, the structure, and above all the funding for a world governm.....
» 21/12/2009 7:30:57 AM UOG I am not sure if you agree, disagree are repeating, adding, contradicting or simply re.....
» 19/12/2009 9:45:15 AM J S Mill I would agree wholly with every word of your post. Tax is not some method of wea.....
» 19/12/2009 9:14:32 AM “Why do we tolerate our politicians deciding on critical *scientific* issues without even .....
» 11/12/2009 12:22:36 PM Oscar “have always said that there is too much freedom,and i mean liberal freedom, in this.....
» 11/12/2009 11:54:30 AM Hi Foxy Which part of “treat the cancer comment as a joke“ Would you like me to let go .....
» 11/12/2009 10:44:41 AM “While the Sustainable Population Lobby and their Trotskyist and Luddite followers are few.....
» 11/12/2009 9:44:25 AM philipM “Col Rouge", when you vacate your honorary chair, don't forget to flush. I r.....
» 11/12/2009 8:19:36 AM Bugsy has, obviously, never heard the term “playing to the gallery” And Houlle obviousl.....
» 10/12/2009 12:50:51 PM RobP “you're acting as a front man for those doing well.” I am acting in my own best inte.....
» 10/12/2009 12:16:02 PM The Gruaniad is known as the “Gruaniad” because of their long history of incompetence in p.....
» 10/12/2009 9:33:42 AM Richie10 “Obviously you don't know much.” Since you do not know me, have no knowledge of .....
» 9/12/2009 2:18:47 PM Thinker “Whilst an improvement( in stats) on the position of A.A's 200 years ago, it is no.....
» 9/12/2009 1:53:09 PM Q&A “Actually, it is the politicians, economists and captains of industry that will be imp.....
» 9/12/2009 10:26:50 AM RobP “Give it a rest, Col. I'm heartily sick of” Proving, once again that “censorship” is.....
» 9/12/2009 10:18:01 AM Richie10 “All men have a gift and it is their passion so spend your energy developing your.....
» 9/12/2009 9:19:12 AM I would think anyone who dared disagree with this opinionated fruit-bat would be damned fr.....
» 9/12/2009 8:07:58 AM Climate scientists, enjoying their fifteen minutes of fame, have let the glare of the spot.....
» 9/12/2009 7:39:20 AM Pelican “Who knows what Moore does with his money he may be a philanthropist and donate mu.....
» 8/12/2009 11:29:06 AM Bronwyn, “What rubbish. Without any prompting whatever, you've very deliberately and ver.....
» 8/12/2009 11:09:56 AM Michael Moore is free to make movies decrying the social order model under which he flouri.....
» 8/12/2009 10:59:46 AM “Any communist or socialist agenda is to remove these decision makers out of society and p.....
» 8/12/2009 10:16:33 AM Stevenlmeyer “I see you prefer ad hominem attacks to an OBJECTIVE discussion of basic phys.....
» 8/12/2009 9:43:58 AM Peter King “The "denialists" emails would be directly lifted from the tobacco lo.....
» 8/12/2009 9:13:13 AM Belly “Col I am pleased for you,true. You say your new bride knows you best, you got a pea.....
» 7/12/2009 2:34:49 PM Polly many folk try to plaguarise the work of others. No one in their right mind would re.....
» 7/12/2009 2:24:32 PM “What difference to global warming or climate change will this make? The simple answer is:.....
» 7/12/2009 2:00:54 PM Pericles "But surely you are not such a miserable curmudgeon that you can't rustle up.....
» 7/12/2009 1:31:36 PM Oh dear “We live in a society divided into classes.” Actually we live in a society of ind.....
» 7/12/2009 12:27:40 PM Stevenlmeyer “Unless you can come up with an alternative OBJECTIVE explanation for what ha.....
» 7/12/2009 9:55:41 AM Agree It is no ones business, except those directly concerned. imho men who are seen as .....
» 7/12/2009 9:40:28 AM Stevenlmeyer “Sincerity” is not some divine state to aspire to Objectivity is a far more .....
» 7/12/2009 9:31:22 AM Pynchme another attempt by you to minimise the significance of the individual (the natural.....
» 7/12/2009 7:46:55 AM thomasfromtocoma“We’re talking about a country that was INVADED by the English.” Just as .....
» 7/12/2009 7:18:34 AM Balneus “It should take only a moment's thought to see your idea of tax as a close proxy f.....
» 5/12/2009 10:29:55 AM Balneus “ weak proxy.” "weak proxy", maybe but I challenge you to produce a be.....
» 4/12/2009 2:13:40 PM I had resisted promoting the puerile but things are just too tempting.. like the smell of .....
» 4/12/2009 1:30:38 PM Anyone who has not seen the recent Ricky GErvais movie "the invention of lying" .....
» 4/12/2009 11:27:52 AM Re “Australian law recognises women and men as primary steakholders of community, “ Ah Wh.....
» 4/12/2009 11:01:14 AM Well its like this.... Australia, like the rest of the world, has been subject to the tid.....
» 4/12/2009 10:48:15 AM Well the Gruaniad was never much of a paper largely because of the sanctimonious drivel i.....
» 4/12/2009 10:36:36 AM Some time ago I contributed to a thread I think the article was written by Fred Arjay (? S.....
» 4/12/2009 9:13:05 AM Peter Hume you are suggesting we “cut out the middle man”…. And impoverish those who see.....
» 4/12/2009 8:46:36 AM Leela I lived in London in the 1970:1980s when private enterprise was not allowed to provi.....
» 3/12/2009 1:35:53 PM Thinker2 “Welcome to an Australian Christmas of profiteering.” Actually when I think abou.....
» 3/12/2009 12:01:46 PM Ah Sancho “<< I have never promoted any action which could ever be perceived, by any.....
» 3/12/2009 10:52:11 AM Leela, “Some here seem to believe that paying taxes/public spending/infrastructure are evi.....
» 2/12/2009 2:25:17 PM “the adequacy of income support” The last time I looked, private enterprise employed peo.....
» 1/12/2009 1:51:25 PM “Accepting the reality of climate change and the consequent need for government action inv.....
» 1/12/2009 11:25:44 AM StG “What horrifies me though is my underlying intolerance and suspicion of Muslims. I'm a.....
» 30/11/2009 2:34:07 PM Shadyoasis “Clownfish and Peter Hume, I do so hope your grandchildren won't trample your g.....
» 30/11/2009 2:12:45 PM TRUTHNOW78 agree, multiculturalism is at best a joke, at worst the sell out of Australias .....
» 30/11/2009 1:59:31 PM Ah this article illustrates the eternal dilemma of socialists and socialism… what they t.....
» 30/11/2009 11:53:49 AM Sancho “Even better, I can't wait to see how it's handled by posters such as Col Rouge and.....
» 30/11/2009 11:30:01 AM “Freedom of speech” is not “freedom to incite” Likewise, actions are not words. My view .....
» 28/11/2009 8:03:18 AM Rehctub “This is simmilar to what happens with 'on line shopping'. Orders are colated, cut.....
» 28/11/2009 6:54:44 AM As Yabby rightly points out something which Ludwig has been on about for a long time and h.....
» 27/11/2009 2:37:44 PM Just another load of garbage where someone pretends everything is unaffordable by comparin.....
» 27/11/2009 9:45:28 AM Ah Ludwig, I might have presented slightly more posts than you but that in no way diminish.....
» 27/11/2009 8:03:06 AM One of the problems with bull-tish is the taste. No matter how sincere, emotional or cont.....
» 27/11/2009 6:18:29 AM Runner I wholly agree with your summation. Reducing emission of any kind, whilst possible.....
» 27/11/2009 6:07:26 AM Mikk “I said it before Col. Your a mean heartless bastard. At least your consistent.” And.....
» 26/11/2009 7:07:17 PM Ultimately this is just another load of misguided and misrepresentative crap, no different.....
» 26/11/2009 2:10:57 PM Houlle “Who really likes used car salesman and real estate agents?” Real estate agents ar.....
» 26/11/2009 1:02:47 PM Ah examinator, re “'Mad as a Maggot on Meths Maggie'.” To yourself, in the same spirit .....
» 26/11/2009 12:39:24 PM Yes well, what can I say, the world is not a perfect place. Using tax to spend on welfar.....
» 25/11/2009 1:18:47 PM “As a nation where a convict ancestor is a badge of pride, Australians know better than an.....
» 25/11/2009 12:41:55 PM Rehctub “Col - How can you possibly think that automated machinery creates jobs. It costs .....
» 24/11/2009 8:28:43 AM Rehctub this post seems to be out of character for you. It is almost luddite. Jobs lost .....
» 23/11/2009 6:42:23 PM Grim your post.. is just fluff, whimsy and no substance. When you manage to rise above gin.....
» 22/11/2009 8:26:57 AM Slasher “Bretton Woods was a barrier to trade was it? why then under the Bretton Woods Reg.....
» 21/11/2009 12:49:52 PM Stevenlmeyer “Defend your answer SCIENTIFICALLY – ie no recourse to religious texts.” I w.....
» 21/11/2009 8:08:28 AM Grputland “There's also the small problem that if you want to own a home, you have to pay .....
» 20/11/2009 4:53:41 PM grputland "As the email from me was passed around, someone may have jumped to the con.....
» 20/11/2009 11:35:14 AM From the article “The trade in complex derivatives effectively created a black market fiat.....
» 20/11/2009 9:57:24 AM hasbeen “With rules of engagement like this, there is not much else one could assume” tha.....
» 20/11/2009 7:55:47 AM Please ignore my previous post.. it has come to the wrong thread…. I must have been havin.....
» 20/11/2009 7:43:23 AM “It has been a few days since I visited this particular pursuit of the irrelevant and I se.....
» 20/11/2009 7:21:47 AM Rstuart “I have 'comprehended' the gravity of their actions while certainly not excusing t.....
» 20/11/2009 6:51:52 AM “It has been a few days since I visited this particular pursuit of the irrelevant and I se.....
» 19/11/2009 4:52:47 PM I find it ironic the deployment of Australian Gun Boats being used as floating detention c.....
» 19/11/2009 4:43:53 PM Antiseptic “Without risk takers we risk stagnation.” Yes, why is it when they are seen in.....
» 19/11/2009 10:39:25 AM Constance "Not Capitalism Not Communism Distributism is the third way, and it is pro.....
» 19/11/2009 10:09:02 AM You know I never understand this “anti-discrimination” legislation in its application to p.....
» 19/11/2009 9:48:53 AM Belly “Your fixation with Socialism is amusing, for sure and certain the ALP is no more So.....
» 19/11/2009 7:36:56 AM “Carrying a gun and an olive branch, Arafat appealed to the Assembly not to let the olive .....
» 19/11/2009 7:07:07 AM Housing “affordability” is a function of A house price and Since the vast majority of .....
» 18/11/2009 10:06:14 AM Belly “I however have never, not once told you just what I think of you.” And I have neve.....
» 18/11/2009 9:37:29 AM csteele “It is an indictment that it was only after I had read past this statement that I .....
» 17/11/2009 12:05:33 PM CJMoron “How's your mail order Barbie doll, Col?” Ah well “bling-bling Barbie” (a title s.....
» 17/11/2009 10:39:12 AM CJ Moron "that I'm the guy that the haters most love to hate around here." I do.....
» 17/11/2009 10:11:33 AM The following is certain after this period of "recession and downturn", an econ.....
» 17/11/2009 9:11:41 AM Belly “Striding into this red neck thread I wish say Gday to CJM, gee they give you some d.....
» 17/11/2009 7:53:06 AM Csteele “The equivalent in our times is of course the wall the State of Israel has built a.....
» 14/11/2009 12:22:07 PM Bronwyns politics is the impossible sort, designed to prove the democratic processes, whic.....
» 13/11/2009 1:36:46 PM Maybe, just maybe, these bachelors are reflecting the values of a society who demanded par.....
» 13/11/2009 10:37:47 AM The whole topic is bulltish Unfortunately not the sort of bulltish which produces assess.....
» 13/11/2009 9:33:20 AM Krudd was elected on his promise, like those made by so many detergents, to get the skid m.....
» 13/11/2009 8:07:26 AM Examinator “you mean CUBIC zirconias . They are made from a different element Zirconium Ox.....
» 12/11/2009 3:55:19 PM Pontificator “Communism is the People equality etc” Is the first lie of socialism/commun.....
» 12/11/2009 1:41:36 PM I have never pretended to be a scientist... but even I know that "carbon" is a p.....
» 12/11/2009 11:32:36 AM Pynchme “so what; you're libertarian as long as it serves your wants but you're not when t.....
» 12/11/2009 11:10:39 AM Pericles “I have no problem paying tribute to her grasp on theory. I have (far) less respe.....
» 12/11/2009 6:50:46 AM The USSR was the result of applying Communism and any attempt to apply it in the future wi.....
» 12/11/2009 6:48:22 AM My view would follow David f’s, the notion, which the grand pontificator asserts, that all.....
» 10/11/2009 12:09:03 PM Houlle “Oh I know. Hey you ruined mine by sending me that picture when I already had you a.....
» 10/11/2009 10:08:33 AM I only hope the author is joking. RE “the fact that the profession of public intellectual.....
» 10/11/2009 9:37:56 AM Chistina “arguments expressed in broad brush moral terms against people seeking to leave t.....
» 10/11/2009 8:15:05 AM Susan Metcalfe “But I don't want to read in the news headlines every day about a few despe.....
» 9/11/2009 9:21:22 AM Cont… Some might say I am arrogant, I would suggest that, whilst that might be true, I am .....
» 9/11/2009 9:19:46 AM When I read the first post I was reminded of the Carly Simon song supposedly about Warren .....
» 9/11/2009 7:40:31 AM This thread reminds me of what Abe Lincoln is supposed to have said…. Something like “Yo.....
» 8/11/2009 8:28:16 AM I note two things… It tends to be the ‘liberal’ minded who support the value of free spee.....
» 7/11/2009 12:49:18 PM Krudd is a mee-too experiment in marginal political appeal. Like the writer said “At leas.....
» 7/11/2009 12:45:02 PM Squeers “We are entering an era of corporate governance--is this not patently obvious!” N.....
» 6/11/2009 12:48:25 PM As someone who has recently entered marriage, I find the notion of a couple of blokes or t.....
» 6/11/2009 7:12:02 AM “Popular non-democratic governments may also be a danger to world peace.” Having demonize.....
» 5/11/2009 6:10:04 PM Smithy456 “.You're just as much a non-thinking, non-aware, follow the dogma, sanctimonious.....
» 5/11/2009 4:42:02 PM Smithy456 “What the self righteous right wing” Actually the "left" have the mon.....
» 5/11/2009 10:28:44 AM Houlle “COl you sound to me like a chook liberationist “ HA HA not at all… I don’t think .....
» 4/11/2009 3:03:05 PM Houllebeqc “But why would anyone want that. If you're constantly on about wanting to eradi.....
» 4/11/2009 1:09:08 PM Seano “I hope to receive responses from those who have lived for some extended time in mon.....
» 4/11/2009 7:12:16 AM E Syles “i am ashamed to be livin on the same planet as you lot let alone the same country.....
» 4/11/2009 6:54:35 AM I agree with the posters before me. We have a health policy, my family and I had to jump t.....
» 4/11/2009 6:40:13 AM Bushbasher seems to be selective in his responses and has, in replying to Houllebeqc in li.....
» 3/11/2009 7:33:50 PM Nalood1 “Because humans build concentration camps and practise genocide is not a justifica.....
» 3/11/2009 7:59:37 AM This is very simple. Australia decides who is allowed to settle in Australia. Surrenderi.....
» 1/11/2009 6:22:30 AM Bushbasher “thanks, col. that was the single most idiotic defence of battery cages, or of .....
» 30/10/2009 1:02:24 PM “UK Labor Government was dishonest” There is a bit of tautology there Anyone who expects.....
» 30/10/2009 12:51:55 PM Given a choice between a cage with access to a food supply but a cage with a equal access .....
» 30/10/2009 9:01:16 AM Pilger is defending the indefensible… the rights of minorities with a vested interest sanc.....
» 27/10/2009 9:08:45 AM Bronwyn “As has been pointed out to you countless times before, Col, there is nowhere for .....
» 27/10/2009 8:04:11 AM Bullblog “Congratulations refugee haters. You have won an all expenses paid trip to a dete.....
» 26/10/2009 8:05:31 AM CJMoron “Col, you're a truly odious person……” How strange … “odious” has lost its effect .....
» 26/10/2009 7:51:03 AM If it is not broken.... why bother to fix it? Of course, if it is just an action to deny .....
» 23/10/2009 11:44:01 AM Mikk “Another example of capitalisms greed driven destruction of our health and societies......
» 23/10/2009 9:14:54 AM Two points one is eliminating accidents is an exercise in diminishing returns… to make .....
» 23/10/2009 7:16:53 AM How do you identify a “legitimate asylum seeker”? By the fact that they are granted a ref.....
» 23/10/2009 7:16:50 AM How do you identify a “legitimate asylum seeker”? By the fact that they are granted a ref.....
» 23/10/2009 7:02:05 AM Bullblog… from your reference to the liberal party, I suspect you are some limp wristed le.....
» 23/10/2009 6:59:49 AM I first thought this was about camel racing..... reading the first posts... now I am sure.....
» 22/10/2009 12:18:23 PM From the article “Such little concern was held for the welfare of asylum seekers and refug.....
» 22/10/2009 12:01:39 PM CJ Moron “(a) It is not illegal for asylum seekers to enter Australia by whatever means, b.....
» 21/10/2009 2:24:44 PM E.Sykes “People who arrive on our shores without prior authorisation from Australia, with .....
» 21/10/2009 10:16:36 AM Monopolies are never good The problem with all government sponsored/fostered industries i.....
» 21/10/2009 8:41:00 AM Blame it on the Pome’s Belly “Stratford upon Avon” was the home of Dear old Bill Shakespe.....
» 20/10/2009 10:47:47 AM Csteele “Next you will be telling me it is right that people can negatively gear expenses .....
» 20/10/2009 9:53:21 AM RobP “Your one-sided application of libertarianism has got knobs on it, Col. Wake up and s.....
» 20/10/2009 9:04:15 AM MAREELORRAINE, Leigh and Shadow Minister say all that is needed to be said. Regarding “Pe.....
» 19/10/2009 5:32:46 PM RobP “Truly lovely. If mine is then so's yours, sunshine. The more I listen to your faux i.....
» 19/10/2009 4:50:38 PM Yabby "Some people had trouble with the calculations, so Costello simplified the syst.....
» 18/10/2009 5:29:17 PM Horus “If I can just pick you up on a small point. The boaties are not all Tamils. There a.....
» 18/10/2009 5:17:54 PM RobP "Hey Col, sod off." I see your eloquence is improving.... It is a shame .....
» 18/10/2009 5:07:08 PM My suggestion.. ask your tax agent. I am not an expert in CGT but if you were living in i.....
» 18/10/2009 8:01:40 AM I see some silly refugee activist is making parallels between the Sri Lankan refugees and .....
» 18/10/2009 7:44:54 AM RobP “You must know you've got your head right up your arse.” No But I do know you are a.....
» 16/10/2009 10:03:42 AM the problem with these sorts of laws are as follows 1 they intrude into the balance of fa.....
» 16/10/2009 8:54:40 AM Houlle “As I said, surely you can appreciate the human endeavour to better oneself?” Of c.....
» 15/10/2009 5:25:07 PM The Blue Cross “Remember the parable of the Good Samaritan Col, it'll do you good, and it .....
» 15/10/2009 4:59:23 PM Burbs “The purpose of fleeing persecution is to flee persecution, is it not? If these peop.....
» 14/10/2009 10:18:03 AM Just listening to this morning’s radio news - another boat load of Sri Lankan “refugees” .....
» 14/10/2009 10:02:54 AM Tomlinson is just an apologist buffoon. For whatever reason, he see the British Colonisa.....
» 14/10/2009 9:06:48 AM Grim “Libertarians use this disparity ….” Strange. Libertarians believe we are all free.....
» 13/10/2009 5:06:25 PM Houellebecq “No need for any government agencies to be involved at all. Taxes saved, peopl.....
» 13/10/2009 8:56:22 AM Pelican “Col You are playing semantics” Semantics …. The study of language, symbols and l.....
» 13/10/2009 7:36:32 AM Baxter “Go and meet a refugee who has come by boat, imagine yourself in that situation and.....
» 12/10/2009 5:58:19 PM Australia had an effective policy when the current opposition were in government. The rea.....
» 12/10/2009 9:19:30 AM Ozbiz “They still have the capacities to reason, to choose values and act on them, to feel.....
» 11/10/2009 12:19:11 PM Suzionline “I am quite happy to leave it to the police and courts, rather than to aggressi.....
» 10/10/2009 11:40:11 AM Houellebecq so you got the image .. that is good LOL I think you are too kind in your lav.....
» 10/10/2009 11:19:11 AM Suzeonline “A loving thought there Col! I am sure you would be far more comfortable living.....
» 10/10/2009 11:06:12 AM RobP “My problem is not with the content of what you say, it is with the DEGREE to which i.....
» 10/10/2009 10:56:56 AM Pelican “I agree with that particular statement Col but it should not be held up as the sl.....
» 9/10/2009 12:06:02 PM Belly “However rechtub try living on a pension aged 20 with an acquired disability, you co.....
» 9/10/2009 9:34:08 AM Ozbiz “The entitlement to assistance when you are ill or in difficulties has nothing to do.....
» 9/10/2009 8:09:50 AM I see a few fellow thinkers have already torn a hole through this piece of green whimpsy. .....
» 8/10/2009 3:09:04 PM This is all very simple Why should people who can handle alcohol and drink in moderation .....
» 8/10/2009 11:39:03 AM It sounds like someone is brainwashing our children with the propaganda of anthropological.....
» 8/10/2009 10:11:00 AM Pelican “The trouble with these debates is exactly as in your last post. The tendency for .....
» 8/10/2009 8:55:23 AM “We need self sustaining developments that will entice people to leave the big cities and .....
» 7/10/2009 10:34:10 AM “I was irritated that banks didn't pass on the new rate to mortgagees when rates were goin.....
» 7/10/2009 10:17:32 AM Belly “Col sorry but my view of you is unlikely to change get your kicks out of my educati.....
» 7/10/2009 9:47:37 AM From the article “individual effort and personal responsibility are fundamentally importan.....
» 6/10/2009 1:57:52 PM Banjo - free range eggs... I have it on good authority that given the choice between sitti.....
» 6/10/2009 9:41:49 AM Sancho “So, the next time you try to make an argument based on facts and observation of th.....
» 6/10/2009 9:12:53 AM Belly “Poor old Col, truly bloke you are an offensive beggar no other way to describe you......
» 5/10/2009 9:48:33 AM "The general opinion was an annoyance that labor always seem to want to do most for t.....
» 4/10/2009 7:59:01 AM RobP ”I restate: "Your problem is that you have no sense of helping anyone else".....
» 3/10/2009 12:28:56 PM Slasher “col, the system supports the speculators over the builders. farmers and manufactu.....
» 3/10/2009 11:44:01 AM RobP “If anything, you're giving me licence to start to let rip. Your one-sided utterances.....
» 1/10/2009 5:30:14 PM I find something incongruous about “anarchists” having a “committee”. Mind you, “Palestin.....
» 1/10/2009 11:25:26 AM Arjay “How is it possible for buildings to collapse at the free speed of gravity like a fe.....
» 1/10/2009 11:02:32 AM Ah another submission on “business bashing”, from the mouthpiece (or perhaps the cod-piece.....
» 1/10/2009 10:37:20 AM RobP” But, I know there's really a deeper agenda on your part - it is to promulgate the my.....
» 30/09/2009 11:53:00 AM “Obama just enacted leglisation that by-passes Congress enabling him to imprison people be.....
» 30/09/2009 10:44:26 AM RobP “Sorry to disappoint you, Col, but indulging in that sort of stuff doesn't interest m.....
» 29/09/2009 1:03:57 PM I find Julian's hysteria about global warming a complete load of tish. I further recall 1.....
» 29/09/2009 11:07:06 AM RobP “Or your software program (presumably this is the one you haven’t written yet, but ar.....
» 29/09/2009 10:37:13 AM “The key is to redesign public services to enable more mutual self-help, so that people ca.....
» 29/09/2009 10:08:22 AM "Now, what does Ezhil see as the best way of ensuring we all make only “rational” and.....
» 27/09/2009 12:09:14 PM Ultimately, “History” will record how the computer based climate models of the late 20th a.....
» 27/09/2009 12:01:58 PM RobP “You are an arrogant piece of shite.” Maybe so but I am free to be as big a piece of.....
» 27/09/2009 11:44:56 AM hasbeen "Green intelligence, WOW. That must be the mother & father of all oxymoron.&.....
» 27/09/2009 11:41:40 AM Ezhil “Playing is for improving one's physical fitness. Keeping fit to play is something q.....
» 27/09/2009 11:34:26 AM I think the best people to decide if we should produce beef are The folk who eat it and .....
» 26/09/2009 11:24:56 AM Ezhil “The market is driven by dishonest ambitions, everyone knows. The other name for &qu.....
» 26/09/2009 11:07:30 AM RobP… you are just a sad little tic. Regarding “I worked as part of a 12-team, 14-year pr.....
» 25/09/2009 9:50:20 AM RobP “Analysis? what analysis? More like a pretty narrow/lofty perspective dressed up as a.....
» 25/09/2009 8:38:55 AM Houlli “What about the most references to Margaret Thatcher in a forum Col!” but be fair….....
» 24/09/2009 11:00:26 AM RobP “Your haughty indifference is still alive and well, eh Col?” Not indifference at all.....
» 24/09/2009 10:29:40 AM Bruce Haigh, a master of the mendacious, is hypocritical in complaining about the supposed.....
» 23/09/2009 10:04:15 AM Houellebecq “Unions (And their sock puppet political parties) are no more democratic than .....
» 22/09/2009 4:44:44 PM Theodore Roosevelt was challenging the cartel system set up by the monopolists like JP Mor.....
» 22/09/2009 2:01:34 PM "Guinness Book of world records should be restrained from entertaining such useless a.....
» 17/09/2009 8:16:52 AM Those of the Muslim faith are, generally, not native to Britain, which is a nominal Protes.....
» 15/09/2009 9:26:34 AM According to someone I met once, my family name originates from a medieval mercenary knigh.....
» 13/09/2009 10:10:25 AM Davidf “You have stated you play the ball, not the man. However, that does not seem to be .....
» 7/09/2009 5:14:11 PM It is a function of human innovation, invention and the search for better ways of doing th.....
» 7/09/2009 4:38:16 PM Davidf “The Scandinavian countries have a very high average income, an equitable distribut.....
» 7/09/2009 11:44:17 AM Grim “do you believe all 6.7 billion people on this planet should have an equal right to t.....
» 7/09/2009 11:27:44 AM Grim “Since we still have 30,000 children dying daily,” Maybe the parents should slow dow.....
» 3/09/2009 10:12:23 AM TPP “You’re a harsh man Col.” Only on a Wednesday. Friday and Sunday we dance, so by Wed.....
» 3/09/2009 9:31:56 AM Examinator “One might suggest that the world has moved on since the power obsessed inane u.....
» 3/09/2009 8:21:46 AM RobP “I'm not trying to "top" you at all. I'm simply putting my view. Every time.....
» 31/08/2009 9:55:28 PM RobP "Col, For a so-called libertarian, you sure have an unhealthy obsession with sh.....
» 31/08/2009 9:50:11 PM As to the future’s take on 20th Century… just as we remember the late 18th century as a ti.....
» 31/08/2009 9:44:14 PM Opinionated2 “If this planet was given to us by GOD why are we so arrogant, greedy and sel.....
» 31/08/2009 9:25:35 PM Houellebecq“'What would happen if a handful of individuals (say 5%) tried to monopolise 50.....
» 31/08/2009 8:47:52 PM RobP “The meek, by definition, do not intimidate.” And RobP exposes a dullard who has nev.....
» 31/08/2009 3:14:19 PM RobP "Just remember this little tidbit - the meek shall inherit the earth one day. TH.....
» 31/08/2009 11:44:13 AM Peter the Believer “I hear all the carping between ego’s going on and cannot help thinking.....
» 29/08/2009 2:18:05 PM ASymeonakis THANKS FOR NOTHING That you do not understand basic English is your issue an.....
» 29/08/2009 11:53:39 AM Grim "What I don't understand is why anyone would need to be ten million times richer.....
» 29/08/2009 11:42:12 AM TPP “Err you want to stalk Col? At the very least you’ll learn some new words.” Ah stalke.....
» 28/08/2009 5:56:22 PM Grim “In the former, a small minority have the opportunity to 'live'.” And in the latter .....
» 28/08/2009 10:27:31 AM Grim “I've always wondered about that 'tall poppy' syndrome.” Yes cut them down and leve.....
» 28/08/2009 9:35:30 AM RobP “What if the weakening of the very best doers over time was replaced with lots of goo.....
» 26/08/2009 6:26:28 PM ASymeonakis “Usualy there is a connection between messeges and honesty but some time this .....
» 26/08/2009 5:06:19 PM Protagoras “Uranium miners, in the 21st century cannot be trusted.” “Regulators are incomp.....
» 26/08/2009 4:30:27 PM BAYGON “In other words your lifestyle and income were not a product of your own doing but .....
» 26/08/2009 1:07:16 PM TPP” Well see that is what I admire about you – brutal honesty. But don’t forget the kids,.....
» 25/08/2009 12:11:01 PM Matt Andrews .. .some of us believe the “fruit cakes” are those who have the hubris to ins.....
» 25/08/2009 11:41:19 AM Faking anything is to deny reality. Fake your medical details.. and you might die from so.....
» 25/08/2009 9:02:44 AM Grim “It is wonderfully convenient, having absolute faith that someone else will fix your .....
» 24/08/2009 4:38:43 PM Houellebecq, ours will be a “stylish marriage”, small but well presented Whistler “becau.....
» 24/08/2009 3:43:52 PM “The new Queensland program is part of a worldwide attempt to stop genocides by recognisin.....
» 24/08/2009 3:08:48 PM Grim “We need existing power supplies to create alternatives. If we wait until existing po.....
» 24/08/2009 12:34:12 PM Bronwyn “And Col, getting married - again I think. Well, we can only hope this new woman c.....
» 24/08/2009 10:21:56 AM Maybe the 100 poorest people should ask themselves what makes then poor? Is it the Gods c.....
» 24/08/2009 10:06:26 AM Grim “My sincere apologies, Col Rouge; for some reason I was under the impression you were.....
» 20/08/2009 3:29:59 PM Grim "Col Rouge, thank you for validating my points so comprehensively." Hardly.....
» 20/08/2009 11:32:50 AM I feel Nuclear power should be considered as a viable, long term energy source. My only c.....
» 20/08/2009 9:17:55 AM Grim “From a societal point of view, the worrying aspect is the sort of character traits c.....
» 20/08/2009 9:07:29 AM PetertheBeliever “The responsibility for the 100 poorest people in Australia whoever they .....
» 19/08/2009 3:09:38 PM Pelican “what I think he misses sometimes is the fact that things can happen to people tha.....
» 19/08/2009 2:38:21 PM Foxy “The inability to afford minimal standards” Problem: a “standard” is like a “bar” wh.....
» 19/08/2009 2:04:54 PM I thank CJ, Q&A, fractelle Daviedf and everyone else who wishes me well in my forthcoming .....
» 19/08/2009 10:48:16 AM MaryE “Hello Col. "Aboriginal" is the adjective, "Aboriginee" is the n.....
» 18/08/2009 4:05:52 PM RobP “I'll take your response to mean that I hit the truth right on the button.” No I sa.....
» 18/08/2009 3:36:50 PM Davidf “I am disturbed by the mass attack on Col Rouge. I disagree with him philosophicall.....
» 18/08/2009 2:52:28 PM Examinator “Oh ya! such British aggrandising selective use of the facts is stunning. Do I .....
» 18/08/2009 12:12:02 PM MAryE “I wonder if? No, surely not.” Maybe you are just one of the “slower posters” .....
» 18/08/2009 11:47:49 AM Davidf " Your post expresses the attitude: If you're poor it's your own fault." .....
» 18/08/2009 10:25:20 AM Q&A “Psst, Belly ... I'm Col's alter ego.” No Q&A you are not my alter ego, not under any.....
» 18/08/2009 10:08:47 AM Davidf “I would like to see a feature telling about 100 of the poorest people. I don’t kno.....
» 18/08/2009 9:57:57 AM The lord high pomposity “Pejorative assumptions and racial stereotyping only widen the und.....
» 17/08/2009 3:15:22 PM the grand Proctologist "Attitudes like Col's are endemic in certain demographics in t.....
» 17/08/2009 2:51:39 PM Houellebecq “hate pontificator the pompous,high and mighty and judgemental.” Oh I know wh.....
» 17/08/2009 1:39:35 PM Godo “Obviously climate science is inexact, based on probabilities and best-fit scenarios......
» 17/08/2009 12:08:53 PM Thats what happens a cargo-culture expects handouts and a socialist government exists to a.....
» 17/08/2009 9:46:41 AM I have to find something to do when at work and I consider allowing others to share the i.....
» 17/08/2009 8:29:45 AM Yabby… you must have been experiencing a too quiet a Sunday afternoon, so you decided to l.....
» 13/08/2009 4:06:33 PM I have been working in commerce and industry for the past 40 years. Early in that time fr.....
» 13/08/2009 3:06:05 PM Houellebecq, “we must start thinking in terms of morality' Whose morality?” And “'at wh.....
» 13/08/2009 3:05:33 PM Pontificator “The free speech argument is a red herring.” That is the common excuse made .....
» 13/08/2009 12:57:45 PM CJ Moron “You're a real class act, Col.” And we all know you of old, Now Rover, no more.....
» 13/08/2009 12:47:17 PM MaryE “And please cut the sarcasm, it only makes you look juvenile, and says more about yo.....
» 13/08/2009 10:35:46 AM I agree with huffnpuff If the populist do-gooders and “social opinion shapers” of the sor.....
» 13/08/2009 9:50:06 AM Rehctub “Why can’t foreign aid be by way of value added products, rather than CASH WE DON’.....
» 13/08/2009 9:29:06 AM “Pericles Your comment on ASymeonakis' poem and the accompanying slur was uncalled for.” .....
» 13/08/2009 9:17:19 AM The Pied Piper “What a crap family” Yes, epitomized by a skanky mother figure Rehctub “T.....
» 13/08/2009 9:16:33 AM The Pied Piper “What a crap family” Yes, epitomized by a skanky mother figure Rehctub “T.....
» 12/08/2009 3:35:46 PM GY “torture impulse might not be that far below some people's skins,” Observation to thos.....
» 12/08/2009 3:07:14 PM ASymeonakis “I asked Col Rouge if he has big yard to take all desert rats in his backyard!.....
» 12/08/2009 1:06:36 PM Sharkfin “but we have been telling the world this for 40 or 50years at least and it hasn’t.....
» 12/08/2009 12:34:01 PM I simply ponder the attitude and lack of skills displayed by the mother in this entire epi.....
» 12/08/2009 10:32:34 AM Suzeonline “but they are the only ones at present legally able to prescribe any drugs that.....
» 12/08/2009 10:14:44 AM MaryE “Just as your list of assumptions that he was a good father was wrong” I find it a .....
» 11/08/2009 4:34:42 PM Pelican “The irony is while you reduce everything in purely ideological terms, the US has .....
» 11/08/2009 4:14:41 PM ASymeonakis “I try to enter from the back window” Well bugger, I have heard of that appro.....
» 11/08/2009 3:46:32 PM MaryE “Probably ALL the adults involved in the sorry saga are to blame, and I ask where's .....
» 11/08/2009 12:53:50 PM "But when I see the dead bodies of the little children of cause the hunger, when I se.....
» 11/08/2009 11:08:37 AM Q&A “Yes rpg, I am intolerant to dumbnuts and wingbats, but as we have seen, some are tole.....
» 11/08/2009 10:47:03 AM What Pilger and his ilk never accept is: the sort of left wing despotism, which he and th.....
» 11/08/2009 9:51:09 AM Banjo “Col, You have erroniously attributed those comments to me. Please check.” You are .....
» 11/08/2009 9:48:43 AM Banjo “Col, You have erroniously attributed those comments to me. Please check.” You are .....
» 11/08/2009 9:43:33 AM Houellebecq “Oh, Col. You don't know what you do to me!” Watch out of it will be a bucket.....
» 10/08/2009 9:49:58 AM Making some issue out of the origin of the species will nto solve or resolve anything. Soe.....
» 10/08/2009 9:29:59 AM Banjo “I think achieving an extended criminal record should be grounds for revoking citize.....
» 10/08/2009 9:14:50 AM I enjoyed the Jack Black clip Piper Leonard Cohen sounds and looks like Brian Ferry with .....
» 9/08/2009 7:03:59 AM Regarding “strict medical supervision” what a load of cobblers. Doctors are not the sole.....
» 9/08/2009 7:02:16 AM RobP “Don't make decisions that affect the rights of others to make their own decisions in.....
» 8/08/2009 8:14:20 PM ASymeonakis “I feel as a clown if I wear a suit.” Yes that’s what I was saying “It is no.....
» 8/08/2009 10:07:05 AM Just back from Dad & Daughter time with my 29 yo... TPP "It is a bit of a quandary,.....
» 8/08/2009 8:58:46 AM Houellebecq I too am a great fan of Alexei Sayle. I wish he posted here .... more interes.....
» 8/08/2009 7:50:44 AM The greater the centralisation, the greater the distance between the authority and the all.....
» 8/08/2009 7:41:58 AM UOG has gone to great lengths to quote scripture for the rest of us to ignore…. The bit UO.....
» 8/08/2009 7:26:39 AM HarryC "The amoeba walked off this thread onto dry concrete and didn't even leave foo.....
» 7/08/2009 2:17:16 PM I beleive we should be allowed to take our own life... after all.. if things are so bad t.....
» 7/08/2009 2:10:40 PM Houellebecq all I can say is You are developing into a real thinker based on the critici.....
» 7/08/2009 1:51:17 PM mjpb "I believe that there are many parents out there with the resources, environment.....
» 7/08/2009 6:01:38 AM Antiseptic.. you must be an excellent fellow if fractelle is criticisng you for "lack.....
» 7/08/2009 5:51:17 AM I agree with huffnpuff... Smacking is sometimes an undesirable but necessary discipline b.....
» 6/08/2009 6:20:42 PM HarryC "This thread is so shallow it wouldn't drown an ant." ah but you decided.....
» 6/08/2009 6:06:23 PM Between TPP, banning hubby from visiting the lands of the hirsutely denuded and Banjo wa.....
» 6/08/2009 5:44:54 PM The decline of USA is inevitable Afterall, the one time Anglo-Saxon majority, on whose v.....
» 6/08/2009 5:36:29 PM "Its glib reassurances might help sell uranium, but at the cost of the nuclear weapon.....
» 5/08/2009 11:27:55 AM As pericles observed, this whole post is becoming “a slice-of-life” But to bring us back .....
» 5/08/2009 9:20:39 AM Pied Piper.. Brazil is the home of the "brazilian" (as well as Brazilians).... n.....
» 4/08/2009 3:54:44 PM Hasbeen.. thank you for your good wishes… Just to follow on from Foxy/examinators line of.....
» 4/08/2009 3:47:25 PM fractelle “Point taken. I am fed up to the back teeth with the likes of Col, Rusty C, Anti.....
» 4/08/2009 2:31:35 PM The implication to be drawn from the first post “does this apply to the unborn - and the n.....
» 4/08/2009 1:01:37 PM I guess this matters to me to the extent that I know (let alone care) who Kyle Sandilands .....
» 4/08/2009 12:55:20 PM If God had been so intelligent, he would have worked out how to prevent socialists and hem.....
» 4/08/2009 10:42:11 AM Ah yes, consider the poor… equality for all. Ignore the benefits of industrialization… s.....
» 4/08/2009 10:04:34 AM Houellebecq I am not quite sure about your Wednesday roster. When I met my fiancé, on ou.....
» 4/08/2009 9:34:29 AM Pied Piper “am none the wiser, but I did read Red Dragon - if that was the one with the wi.....
» 3/08/2009 3:30:32 PM Houellebecq “Fractelle and Col are disappointing me,” I will try to do better in future b.....
» 3/08/2009 3:02:47 PM My first daughter was a difficult delivery. she was born in hospital, delivered breach alt.....
» 3/08/2009 2:50:04 PM Ludwig, as so often happens, I wholly agree with you. Ultimately, trying to beat an incum.....
» 3/08/2009 2:10:35 PM Jayb "the original attack on the Indian students were perputrated by Ethopians studen.....
» 3/08/2009 8:48:42 AM My cardiologist told me the nasal spray does not work and it is more a scam, designed to b.....
» 3/08/2009 8:41:13 AM Yes well not all fathers have run away frOm their responsibilities, either emotional or fi.....
» 3/08/2009 8:30:21 AM AnSymeonakis “I do not trust at all the local counsils. I heard bad stories about the the .....
» 3/08/2009 6:28:17 AM Squeers “Which is not to say that I deny the possibility outright, but that these free det.....
» 2/08/2009 9:58:24 AM Yabby beat me to it….. I am indifferent to many. I do not like to see suffering but for .....
» 1/08/2009 12:09:01 PM I largely agree with Ludwig... although,in previous centuries, asian population pressure.....
» 1/08/2009 11:59:08 AM Fractelle “As any competent psychiatrist would point out your lack of compassion combined .....
» 31/07/2009 5:41:49 PM Houellebecq “Haha. I used sic.” At least, unlike in the first post on this thread, you d.....
» 31/07/2009 10:29:35 AM Pied Piper thank you for asking.. it will be low key about 20 people, this being my third .....
» 31/07/2009 9:47:54 AM Mikk “IF WE were to go back to the drawing board and address the question, "What are .....
» 31/07/2009 8:53:21 AM A carbon tax is just another excuse for big government to involve itself in redirecting wh.....
» 31/07/2009 8:24:10 AM The sad faceless fellows in cheap suits are no different to there wives, usually equipped .....
» 30/07/2009 4:57:16 PM I would vote against all of them, particularly the removal of local councils. The greater.....
» 30/07/2009 11:14:12 AM I tend to agree with rehctub, farm animals have been bred and cross bred to suit human des.....
» 30/07/2009 10:41:39 AM Pied Piper "Well done that man and congratulations." Thankyou, PP. She got a di.....
» 29/07/2009 5:13:49 PM Pied Piper… re furniture salesmen … similar to you, I was buying an engagement ring recent.....
» 29/07/2009 5:01:57 PM Underonegod “as many have realised the fall to the bottum...means more that mere wealth........
» 29/07/2009 12:30:20 PM Pied Piper “like an upper class beggar in the gutter would be treated as a higher class an.....
» 27/07/2009 5:04:26 PM Leigh “if all Australians of choice were like him we would have no problems at all.” Yes,.....
» 27/07/2009 12:52:12 PM E Knox your question is a very relevant one. Unlike one poster has suggested, “Class” is.....
» 27/07/2009 9:47:32 AM “Did 1989 mark the beginning of the end of the enlightenment?” The only time the Enlighte.....
» 27/07/2009 9:23:55 AM As AnSymeonakis said "Most Australians have two citizenships" I am one of them .....
» 22/07/2009 10:51:27 AM rehctub "At present the grower and the retailer are the only ones who's margins get c.....
» 20/07/2009 2:38:49 PM Houellebecq “That and the fact that everyone who I meet who identifies with the left are l.....
» 20/07/2009 2:17:31 PM RobP.. no bite intended LOL I apologise for the uppercase.. I rewrote it (directly below).....
» 20/07/2009 10:24:46 AM Fractelle “Blaming a worker for earning nothing more than the minimum wage appears to be a.....
» 20/07/2009 9:44:35 AM RobP “The balance between socialism and individualism I see in the same way. Socialism is .....
» 20/07/2009 9:28:07 AM Victoria saw the consequences of rampant green strategy, as far as forestry goes, on Black.....
» 19/07/2009 10:18:30 AM “How far should a secular multi-cultural society go to accommodate religious sensibilities.....
» 18/07/2009 12:16:04 PM ETS = "Socialism by Stealth" and as such should be resisted at every opportunit.....
» 18/07/2009 12:12:48 PM RobP “nobles oblige” and “philanthropy” predate “socialism” thus, socialism can take credi.....
» 18/07/2009 11:27:20 AM Fractelle “Col, people no more choose to be gay or transgender than you chose to be hetero.....
» 18/07/2009 10:43:08 AM Anyone who aspires to achieve merely the minimum wage is lacking in the necessary self res.....
» 15/07/2009 11:43:59 AM Economics as a "Science".. I think not... Economics, when there are so many con.....
» 15/07/2009 11:32:29 AM Why should anyone be expected to have the "will" to make sacrifices for a nebulo.....
» 15/07/2009 11:29:04 AM Foxy “I can understand your regarding intersexuality and the Third Gender with some suspic.....
» 15/07/2009 11:10:08 AM Upon death and inheritance, capital gains tax liability “crystalises”. The value of the .....
» 7/07/2009 12:56:10 PM Pied Piper “A better drug would be my answer or some sort of little lobotomy at birth.” (y.....
» 6/07/2009 9:41:02 AM Ah Pied Piper “This is just the only outlet you have for an itty bitty nasty streak you ha.....
» 2/07/2009 12:06:19 PM UOG to your question regarding Bernard Madoff … “Bad title” which effectively describes th.....
» 2/07/2009 11:55:23 AM Foxy "Dear Col, May I humbly suggest that you read the following website: http://en.....
» 29/06/2009 4:26:16 PM There are two genders, male and female. For those who think they are the one, assigned to .....
» 29/06/2009 4:19:57 PM Choosing who will be "Leader of the Opposition" in this country is a matter dete.....
» 24/06/2009 4:23:37 PM “In other words a climate model is a numerical model or simplified mathematical representa.....
» 16/06/2009 4:15:04 PM "21 Prominent Australian Economist Agree?" That sounds as realistic a probabili.....
» 13/06/2009 5:34:47 PM Krudd is just showing the wear and tear of any glove puppet.... He started out a fake .....
» 10/06/2009 12:13:17 PM Beefyboy “We measure success and failure in terms of dollars, “ You might I don’t. “In .....
» 9/06/2009 4:09:22 PM Sounds like another "boogey" word from the hysterical and hyperactive minds of.....
» 9/06/2009 2:51:31 PM I could list any number of benefits which accrue from employee share ownership both for th.....
» 8/06/2009 8:37:40 AM Maximillion "Forget it Col, Whistler is just "trolling"(?), stirring?. No i.....
» 7/06/2009 2:37:45 PM Whistler.. you calling me misogynist does not make me a misogynist However, if you wish t.....
» 7/06/2009 11:04:47 AM This is just a rerun of an attempt by Whistler to get some interest in what amounts to one.....
» 4/06/2009 11:00:43 AM Jewely “Yay Graham”.. why are you repeatedly hailing Graham? “We could well agree on t.....
» 3/06/2009 4:27:59 PM My elder daughter told me, one fathers day, that I had been strict with her and her sister.....
» 3/06/2009 3:49:57 PM you make a fair point. Although an immigrant myself I was follwoing a siple strategy of m.....
» 3/06/2009 3:41:32 PM Jewely “Col:”That is very interesting but I am none the wiser to who you refer…” You are .....
» 3/06/2009 12:56:15 PM Jewely “my experience with Islanders is any opportunity to attack needs no motivation. The.....
» 3/06/2009 12:28:31 PM Modernidealist “Eminient scientists have reached consensus that this warming PROBABLY IS d.....
» 3/06/2009 11:57:38 AM Wing Ah Ling “Down with speciescentric arrogance!! Equal rights for shower mould and win.....
» 3/06/2009 11:34:07 AM Sancho “The profound absurdity of this thread is still sinking in.” That is because the p.....
» 2/06/2009 3:30:15 PM As usual, Leigh uncovers the all important voice of reason and sanity. Agree fully Leigh,.....
» 2/06/2009 1:04:13 PM "Delaying effective action on global warming for 20 years is not commonly viewed as a.....
» 2/06/2009 11:52:15 AM I think we should arm all the experts to the teeth and then set them upon one another … a .....
» 2/06/2009 11:04:09 AM Efranke “Contrary to your delusions, Australia still remains a predominately British count.....
» 2/06/2009 9:54:19 AM Ginx “Are Aussies - narrow minded, prejudiced and intolerant” A YES will always be expre.....
» 1/06/2009 4:11:17 PM Foxy "We demand entire freedom of action and then expect the Government in some mirac.....
» 1/06/2009 3:00:25 PM Foxy "We demand entire freedom of action and then expect the government in some mirac.....
» 1/06/2009 12:52:58 PM Whilst governments continue to hold back progress by supporting institutionalised union jo.....
» 1/06/2009 12:49:30 PM Whilst governments continue to hold back progress by supporting institutionalised union jo.....
» 1/06/2009 12:42:43 PM Jewelry "I do hope she didn't overcharge you Col." actually the vagaries of dat.....
» 1/06/2009 12:24:06 PM Every society can be accused of racism, religious intolerance and parochialism to some ext.....
» 1/06/2009 10:42:15 AM Foxy “I suppose we do confuse multi-racial and multi-cultural.” I am not sure people can .....
» 1/06/2009 10:10:23 AM Fozz “Taxes levied by the federal government therefore do not fund anything.” Interesting.....
» 28/05/2009 12:49:20 PM I do agree with the views of the author. If we accept there is a “sludge” effect inherent.....
» 28/05/2009 12:22:57 PM ASymeonakis PART ONE and PART TWO I am really unsure why you made these posts. All you a.....
» 28/05/2009 12:06:36 PM Bronwyn “They might not necessarily be refugees, though the overwhelming majority who arri.....
» 28/05/2009 11:06:38 AM Hmm… I keep hearing how aboriginal life expectancy is so much lower than White Australian .....
» 28/05/2009 10:46:20 AM Foxy “The question is still asked by some, "Do you believe Australia should become a.....
» 28/05/2009 8:59:13 AM “Lifestyle” is a noun and defined as “the habits, attitudes, tastes, moral standards, econ.....
» 27/05/2009 2:52:56 PM GY "This critique is interesting, and accords with my preconceptions on the subject o.....
» 27/05/2009 12:23:01 PM When I lived in USA, I found just about every government form carried a requirement for pe.....
» 27/05/2009 11:54:59 AM I agree with the first poster, Brazil sounds like hell on earth... mind you I suspect .....
» 27/05/2009 9:41:43 AM "'to current standards, using ODBC and SQL and other advanced computer tools.' That'.....
» 27/05/2009 9:34:12 AM I wholly agree with Ludwig’s response to this article. the issue with fixing a small leak.....
» 27/05/2009 8:58:55 AM I have been reading about the Tamil problem in Sri Lanka since the mid 1970s when the UK D.....
» 26/05/2009 11:22:03 AM RawMustard “Retirement age should be lowered not risen. How are the young (which are findi.....
» 26/05/2009 10:55:58 AM It is a simple expectation for those who decide who will stand to represent Australians sh.....
» 15/05/2009 10:34:14 AM The idea of dropping nuclear weapons on Japan to bring about a swift conclusion to WWII wa.....
» 14/05/2009 1:51:25 PM We have tomes and tomes of corporate law… thousands of lawyers making a good living out of.....
» 14/05/2009 12:24:48 PM I see Jewely has descended into raving..… debating the merit of the abuse she hurls upon h.....
» 14/05/2009 11:34:47 AM Rapscallion “Thatcher's great dream was to turn a nation of corner-shop grocers and coal m.....
» 13/05/2009 11:53:18 AM Jewely “I think being “base” is a concept, really doesn’t matter how many words you use to.....
» 12/05/2009 4:42:19 PM the Any "price per measured unit" rule will address comparative price:unit measu.....
» 12/05/2009 2:51:56 PM As one who is regularly criticized for daring to quote from dearest Margarets august libra.....
» 12/05/2009 2:29:40 PM Jewely” Would have been quicker and less wordy if you called me a "twat".” I wi.....
» 11/05/2009 11:54:42 AM Jewely “An abortion is the fix after the mistake was made because they didn't use the cogs.....
» 11/05/2009 9:39:44 AM " the dog chasing it`s tail " so wages and price control makes a dog chasing i.....
» 11/05/2009 9:24:36 AM Abortion is a free choice of cognitive humans. Becoming a mother is another free choice. .....
» 8/05/2009 5:53:29 PM Ken Fabos “Col, when multiple independent lines of research reach the same conclusion the .....
» 8/05/2009 12:50:06 PM Children are not a right but a responsibility. If someone wants children they must be pr.....
» 8/05/2009 12:19:48 PM “Wage and Price Control” Well its failed before and Krudd seems hell bent on implementing.....
» 6/05/2009 4:04:02 PM I thought lots of critters had been migrating for hundreds of centuries.... so nothing n.....
» 6/05/2009 3:53:06 PM Governments are elected to represent the interests of the people they are supposed to serv.....
» 5/05/2009 11:06:40 AM When government gets into the business of "training leaders" it has first to get.....
» 4/05/2009 5:07:07 PM Houellebecq "Oooh Col! I get all warm and fuzzy when I hear 'Socialism by Stealth'.&q.....
» 4/05/2009 11:42:01 AM "Blame" who to blame for a person who attempts to circumvent Australias right to.....
» 4/05/2009 11:05:34 AM "The antidote is well known. Reduce greenhouse gas emissions and do it PDQ" wel.....
» 24/04/2009 12:44:08 PM Fractelle “And Col your description of Susan was pure appearance:” Yes and that is becaus.....
» 23/04/2009 5:00:40 PM GrahamY “What I'd like to know is whether she would have got this level of attention if sh.....
» 23/04/2009 9:53:39 AM that was another post which came up with the message "Server Error Incident number: .....
» 19/04/2009 9:36:08 AM Speaking as an immigrant, I had voting rights immediately upon arrival. That is because, a.....
» 19/04/2009 9:13:00 AM Yabby, else would you expect from the airy fairy philosophy of a socialist (spits appropri.....
» 25/03/2009 11:05:03 AM For what has been, historically described as a victimless crime - and hence decriminalised.....
» 24/02/2009 8:57:58 AM Truth Probe “Prosperity from capitalism is based on growth.” No it is not “Prosperity fr.....
» 24/02/2009 8:33:54 AM “I bet Col has a framed portrait of M Thatcher on his wall at home.” I don’t but when d.....
» 24/02/2009 8:04:24 AM Easytimes “Col mate you have a lot to learn about how science is progressing.” I might bu.....
» 23/02/2009 8:49:58 PM "whistler far be it from me to criticise the Queen, Col Rouge, but i'd take a close l.....
» 23/02/2009 1:46:41 PM TanyaR “Forgive me my ignore Col Rouge, but what sort of 'quota' or 'contractual obligatio.....
» 23/02/2009 1:35:04 PM TZ52HX"You sir are simply an idiot, as shown by your backward posts, with no understa.....
» 23/02/2009 1:29:15 PM "Col's an economic genius, with "ALL" the answers. Gee, it must be wonderfu.....
» 23/02/2009 12:00:01 PM I don’t think JonBenet Ramsay was targeted for particular interest because she was blonde......
» 23/02/2009 11:39:55 AM fractelle "he claims to be." I claim to be nothing other than myself, with occa.....
» 23/02/2009 11:25:24 AM TZ52HX “Now Col, you may possess all the answers, and know that almost all first world gov.....
» 23/02/2009 10:56:29 AM Pericles "My theory is that whistler is in fact a first-year sociology student at ANU.....
» 23/02/2009 9:05:59 AM Belly “Conservative replys in this thread are mirror images of the party at large.” Labor.....
» 23/02/2009 8:38:36 AM Examinator "Tis is way off topic but no one's looking." (Yes they are) “But as.....
» 22/02/2009 6:22:28 PM Whistler “since the culture that lasts the longest is the most sustainable, indigenous cul.....
» 22/02/2009 5:55:46 PM Antiseptic "I'm prepared to take your word for that. It was either feminists or ravin.....
» 22/02/2009 5:49:33 PM TZ52HX “Col's post especially displays an incredibly bogan backwardness via the ignorant v.....
» 22/02/2009 12:51:38 PM fractelle.."Col Rouge?, I think what you have described there is a prime example of B.....
» 22/02/2009 10:46:27 AM I suppose the reporting of opinions from say Keating and Latham would be considered irrele.....
» 22/02/2009 7:36:02 AM Bushbred “do have more claim on this country than we have.” No they don’t Every Austral.....
» 22/02/2009 7:17:24 AM I gotta ask this one question the "Elephant in the Room" I assume that is a De.....
» 22/02/2009 7:05:25 AM Somehow, I think it is not the liberals who have "lost the plot" but this thread.....
» 22/02/2009 6:58:55 AM Banjo "What pathetic, weak kneed Governments we elect! Which reminds me about that ot.....
» 22/02/2009 6:52:08 AM Whistler "no. the Constitution of Australia Act was enabled by a Parliament which pro.....
» 22/02/2009 6:35:32 AM TZ52HX "Well, if The Aussie govt is wrong with it's actions, so is just about every o.....
» 21/02/2009 12:20:59 PM Ah whistler complements the article author with more silly promotions with the inept polit.....
» 21/02/2009 11:37:23 AM Banjo I agree All the bleeding heart refugee advocate whiners who got on their high horse.....
» 20/02/2009 12:48:21 PM Whistler " it matters to the people of Iceland that men collapsed the global economy,.....
» 20/02/2009 6:41:10 AM Whistler “men have legislatures, women don't.” Women have shared the rights and privilege.....
» 20/02/2009 6:21:15 AM I note the US Republicans and the Australian Liberals have lodged their opposition to much.....
» 20/02/2009 6:16:05 AM Nicky “Col, if I offended you, I apologise, it was not my intention.” No offence taken Ni.....
» 19/02/2009 8:24:49 PM Banjo “Without me bothering to look it up, i think you will find that the minor party and .....
» 19/02/2009 7:13:14 PM Nicky, I do agree with you... I write only under this logon name, have never used another.....
» 19/02/2009 7:03:42 PM Belly,” Volunteer firemen are up in arms that they have not been allowed to control burn.”.....
» 19/02/2009 5:26:02 PM Ah Examinator… I read the first part of your post and you almost convinced me you were bac.....
» 19/02/2009 4:55:16 PM Pelican "Col, I personally don't have a problem with the Red Cross or similar groups .....
» 19/02/2009 12:35:04 PM Whistler cites “that women and men bring different life experience to economic management......
» 19/02/2009 7:33:16 AM Nicky continued If the chronology on my last post seems off, it is because I wanted to com.....
» 18/02/2009 3:16:16 PM Examinator “No surprise about Col's origins just contempt for his attitude.” I consider w.....
» 18/02/2009 2:41:24 PM Belly, whilst I applaud your sentiment, I see the problem as being this: we already have .....
» 18/02/2009 12:03:40 PM Whistler “Col Rouge, you're perfectly correct, absent women's legislatures the Icelandic s.....
» 17/02/2009 11:56:09 AM CJMoron "Col the troll: << I come here to slap a few lefties >> More lik.....
» 17/02/2009 9:12:49 AM Whistler “absent provision for women's legislatures, the Islandic solution remains the opt.....
» 17/02/2009 8:40:59 AM “"some investor advocates gave Ms. Thomsen the benefit of the doubt, arguing that her.....
» 17/02/2009 8:32:16 AM Belly "We should not take it out on the hero's who have done so much , the yellow ove.....
» 17/02/2009 8:21:17 AM Examinator, enlightens us with pomposity, now addressing me indirectly. He obviously lack.....
» 16/02/2009 2:01:11 PM I agree with fixed expenditure limits for electioneering. I would like to see politcal do.....
» 16/02/2009 1:03:38 PM whistler "absent women's legislatures, women, individually, are absolved, in perpetui.....
» 16/02/2009 8:40:56 AM Anansi “ColR, you yourself are one of the few posters on OLO wallowing in the shallow end .....
» 15/02/2009 9:51:47 PM Examinator “English pride if nothing else is reactionary and anachronistic.” Oh that we s.....
» 15/02/2009 1:49:11 PM Antiseptic... "CJ Morgan:"yapity yap yap yap" Oh no, the pomeranian's gone.....
» 15/02/2009 8:18:26 AM Grim "I'll have you know I'm 7'4" tall, and my wrists still drag on the ground e.....
» 15/02/2009 7:57:48 AM CJMoron "Col the intemperate troll:" If I needed advise on trolls you would be .....
» 14/02/2009 3:26:51 PM Bronwyn “spraying the term 'socialist" around so indiscriminately.” I will spray as I.....
» 14/02/2009 1:39:22 PM Ah I can see this turning into the successor of "New Rules for OLO" thread as fa.....
» 14/02/2009 1:33:10 PM Examinator "My intention was to point out that finding scape goats is both as counter.....
» 14/02/2009 8:27:21 AM Grim "Nyah, Nyah Nyah." how mature of you... you sad little scrote... when f.....
» 14/02/2009 6:31:03 AM Had it been up to Federal Liberal – coalition, those taxes you talk of would have all been.....
» 14/02/2009 6:28:18 AM Nicky – obviously your one-eyed view of socialist welfare will always limit your vision. I.....
» 14/02/2009 6:02:49 AM Yabby – agree with you it is better not to rely on the state to hold your hand or take car.....
» 14/02/2009 5:40:19 AM I prefer men and women mixing it up and messing it up as individuals (well I like to mix a.....
» 13/02/2009 3:38:57 PM Grim “What fascinates me is how anyone can actually take pride ….” “find it hard to believ.....
» 13/02/2009 3:21:16 PM As I said earlier, Australia found the lowest rates of unemployment under the liberal coal.....
» 13/02/2009 3:17:08 PM Foxy “The fact is that immigration policies are controlled by world opinion.” One word, B.....
» 13/02/2009 2:43:34 PM Examinator “Fact: sometimes is counter productive even dangerous to burn off.” Yes but th.....
» 13/02/2009 2:28:51 PM Ahhh.... a stilletto heel led recovery.... Yep... soon we see "MasterCard" join.....
» 13/02/2009 6:17:22 AM CJMoron in centuries past is not the world of today or the last century... when Indonesia .....
» 13/02/2009 6:03:16 AM Bronwyn "And their appearance on the public record is much more likely down to the ef.....
» 13/02/2009 5:50:24 AM CJ Moron... my words were based on reading the article I referenced and reports from TV .....
» 12/02/2009 5:37:54 PM RobP "I'd agree with this comment if the market worked in a fair, even and transparen.....
» 12/02/2009 1:05:53 PM Here is some more of what caused these fires http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/green-ideas-mu.....
» 12/02/2009 7:36:57 AM As far as setting the bar for entry into the public service... What, in the private secto.....
» 12/02/2009 7:24:59 AM Foxy “The Libs want to give tax cuts- from which only the rich will benefit.” If a small .....
» 12/02/2009 6:59:13 AM Yabby “then clearly there will have to be state building codes and council approval of tho.....
» 11/02/2009 2:34:29 PM "Libs are for supporting the rich and the powerful, Labor is for equity.” I would de.....
» 11/02/2009 2:09:08 PM Foxy "I thought that burning-off was an essential part of land management practice, i.....
» 11/02/2009 10:47:47 AM "former president of the National Institute of Accountants, " Stealing and lyin.....
» 11/02/2009 10:27:41 AM I thought the ultimate for the green deceased was to be buried with the backside above the.....
» 11/02/2009 10:24:34 AM Efranke "Only an ignorant racist redneck would not concede that the achievements of W.....
» 11/02/2009 8:34:55 AM Foxy "So God started with man before creating woman... " Yep we obviously sourc.....
» 11/02/2009 8:24:02 AM Oh dickies vehemence is stirring… the ad hominines fairly dripping from the keyboard… Yab.....
» 10/02/2009 3:40:07 PM Belly “Col like it or not the polls are nearly always right. Tell you what, its not vote b.....
» 10/02/2009 1:33:24 PM Dickie “Ram-root, Retard and Rouge-rat will continue to corrupt yet another thread by ad h.....
» 10/02/2009 9:50:25 AM I remember “Thatcherism” it was the application of real world fiscal necessities, required.....
» 10/02/2009 8:05:55 AM In my first post I observed “check the quality of controlled burns which have not been und.....
» 10/02/2009 7:52:28 AM Belly “Sorry bloke but no one, ever should need to have two IDs” I agree Daggett “2 post.....
» 9/02/2009 6:58:32 PM Belly "Col Rouge Gday, see the polls? does it matter that your view is the minority o.....
» 9/02/2009 3:50:18 PM "They will leave this world a little warmer due to their rampant consumerism" .....
» 9/02/2009 2:05:38 PM PALE "We are not the only ones that have complained about your rude crude comments. .....
» 9/02/2009 1:50:40 PM Foxy "I don't think that having any more debate on this subject is going to help the .....
» 9/02/2009 12:05:45 PM Ludwig ““Although the ‘money directly where it is needed.’ Wrong” Col, could you please e.....
» 9/02/2009 10:00:03 AM “Rudd thrills me” One would be tempted with the response…. “A cheap thrill” However, .....
» 9/02/2009 9:01:32 AM Foxy I appreciate not going another round either and I also appreciate your comments on my.....
» 9/02/2009 8:27:06 AM Forrest Gump “or greater resort be made to satire where opportunity arises.” Intriguing c.....
» 9/02/2009 8:06:20 AM Maybe a Royal Commission to check the quality of controlled burns which have not been unde.....
» 8/02/2009 9:57:56 PM Yabby "is more about trying to buy brownie points with some of the electorate and mor.....
» 8/02/2009 11:28:40 AM Bushbred “if you loved hisorical Flash in the Pan, Magaret Thatcher Col, could say you are.....
» 8/02/2009 11:04:58 AM Two can play at that game There was a little gang who, alone Believed authority was their.....
» 8/02/2009 5:41:44 AM Davidf Davidf I do appreciate your well expressed sensitivity to a point I was making. And.....
» 8/02/2009 5:11:49 AM The caution expressed by Ludwig and Meredith is well founded. Apparently the incumbent la.....
» 7/02/2009 10:28:32 AM If I were a teacher in NSW, bearing in mind and the eternal carping on by the public secto.....
» 7/02/2009 10:10:23 AM CJ Morgan “that's a classically fallacious argument.” You claim the observations of the l.....
» 7/02/2009 7:37:05 AM My view is we are here to be the best we, as individuals, can be. Cakers post illustrates.....
» 6/02/2009 11:32:46 PM Arjay “We need short term legislation so that those faltering on their repayments can elec.....
» 6/02/2009 7:24:15 PM Houellebecq “I think Col probably didn't read the whole post,” I did read the whole post .....
» 6/02/2009 7:10:07 PM CJ Morgan "insidious, surreptitious or subtle" schemes designed to evade payin.....
» 6/02/2009 2:41:26 PM Bushbred “Col Rouge. . . part of not only the Master Race, but better still, the Klu Klux .....
» 6/02/2009 2:30:12 PM Bronwyn “An accountant who didn't steal from the tax office. Well, that'd have to be a fir.....
» 6/02/2009 12:41:49 AM Anansi "but endorses law breaking from other ranks (employers, most likely deserving .....
» 5/02/2009 6:54:29 PM Pelican” I was not attempting to justify merely stating what my motivations were at the ti.....
» 5/02/2009 6:38:41 PM Examinator “Sure stealing from a boss was wrong as is Accepting pay without tax stealing t.....
» 5/02/2009 4:37:57 PM Belly “I would rather die on my feet than live on my knees. Each of us, you too Col have a.....
» 5/02/2009 3:16:22 PM rainier "Can you name at least 1?" Yes.....
» 5/02/2009 2:38:54 PM James H “Neo-ruddite or gero-ruddite maybe even gero-laborism.” May I suggest “Kruddonomi.....
» 5/02/2009 2:11:14 PM Pelican “Your employer stole from you by paying sub-standard wages. You stole from your em.....
» 5/02/2009 1:50:08 PM Spikey Col Rouge quotes Margaret Thatcher: “We want a society where people are free to .....
» 5/02/2009 11:52:04 AM Foxy “As one poster stated: "You did not owe Col an apology. You were manipulated by .....
» 5/02/2009 11:37:55 AM Foxy “The size of the Aboriginal population is given as 2.4%” I used a number which came .....
» 4/02/2009 11:33:26 PM Foxy concerning your “Recollection” versus my "recollection" Your apology came .....
» 4/02/2009 11:10:28 PM Houellebecq “Col, I think we would all like to hear more about Margaret Thatcher.” Houel.....
» 4/02/2009 10:01:10 AM “If only some of the conservatives on OLO were more like that. I know there are lapses amo.....
» 4/02/2009 8:51:55 AM whistler “One law, enacted by agreement between women's and men's legislatures, interprete.....
» 4/02/2009 8:35:04 AM Evo “Col. Thank you for high-lighting that line.” You are welcome.. Antiseptic “those com.....
» 3/02/2009 11:17:56 PM Houellebecq “Could you please tell me more about Margaret Thatcher.” My knowledge of her .....
» 3/02/2009 10:35:31 PM Foxy “I can choose to ignore it.” That is and always has been your personal right Just .....
» 3/02/2009 10:45:06 AM Foxy “Above all we need to achieve a greater understanding of Aboriginal life and of the p.....
» 3/02/2009 9:12:24 AM “the “neo-liberal” experiment of the last 30 years, which allegedly pursued policies which.....
» 3/02/2009 8:01:03 AM I agree with Ludwig and StG To ask for something for free or at a discount for what one c.....
» 3/02/2009 12:20:06 AM Ooops.. I need correcting.. I brought the topic to this thread.. my apologies Foxy... .....
» 3/02/2009 12:16:16 AM Dear Foxy You brought that debate onto this thread, not me I find it discomforting, your.....
» 2/02/2009 11:46:10 PM Spikey “but they are hardly ever right in terms of their argument.” Please illustrate whe.....
» 2/02/2009 11:01:30 PM rainier "Such civilised dialogue about changing one day of the year is much too much .....
» 2/02/2009 8:11:07 PM Kulu “What is your motif for your campaign against the now well recognized body of evidenc.....
» 2/02/2009 7:47:13 PM Might I suggest that “Ettiquette” includes a one month ban for hypocrisy? On that basis w.....
» 2/02/2009 7:10:47 PM I lived and worked in London from 1978 to 1983, when the IRA were bomb and murdering in Lo.....
» 2/02/2009 4:36:24 PM Bronwyn “not an arrogant one as you wrongly interpret.” Maybe, along with your words you .....
» 2/02/2009 8:12:33 AM Dear Foxy, “There are an informal "set" of rules for behaviour in computer bsed.....
» 2/02/2009 7:01:57 AM I am a constant believer in freedom of speech not because I support people vilifying other.....
» 1/02/2009 10:31:00 PM Well we would not have had the debacle regarding underwriting bank deposits which caused.....
» 1/02/2009 1:49:48 PM Examinator “It is sad to note that both DB and Col automatically assumed that this topic .....
» 1/02/2009 5:21:33 AM So here we are, 44 pages, 263 posts… That must be a record for a general post…. Therefor.....
» 1/02/2009 4:03:10 AM Foxy “What a total waste of time, energy, and emotion this has been.” That depends on you.....
» 1/02/2009 3:23:07 AM Examinator “Seeing that I can't achieve the goals iI set for this Topic and both you feel .....
» 1/02/2009 2:36:57 AM I read the article too… sounds like Krudd has abandoned Mee-Too now he has been elected an.....
» 31/01/2009 9:31:35 AM Having returned from breakfast and read the rest of the responses may I humbly compliment .....
» 31/01/2009 7:48:50 AM Graham… I hold a similarly skeptical view of computer modeling as you and have given voice.....
» 31/01/2009 7:07:02 AM Oh to correct my errors... Belly - I did not refer to the "host" (Private Owne.....
» 31/01/2009 6:48:11 AM Meredith sincerely appreciate by your support… :- ) But a word of warning, some around he.....
» 30/01/2009 9:51:42 PM Bronwyn “Personally, I think it's a rather divisive and unhelpful diversion, but now that .....
» 30/01/2009 9:19:51 PM Examimator “You claim superior debating skills (your shot at me in a previous post) yet yo.....
» 30/01/2009 8:52:02 PM yes runner does seem to practice some double standards, possibly one set for each face......
» 30/01/2009 5:25:23 PM Bushbred “Might say, Col Rouge, I had Marksman placed in my paybook after my first militar.....
» 30/01/2009 4:51:18 PM This is a matter of forcing the majority to conform to the governments demands to regulate.....
» 30/01/2009 4:05:50 PM I recall, for all its secrecy and all its resources, the CIA did not pickup the USSR was g.....
» 30/01/2009 3:46:02 PM Examinator “In both my business degree (20years ago) and my Advance Diploma (7 years ago) .....
» 30/01/2009 2:53:57 PM Houellebecq ROFLMAO Ah you have hit it on the head… spot on “'we're the good kids now l.....
» 29/01/2009 11:31:03 PM Bushbred “not many thanks for your uneducated inhuman hardhearted opinion” You are welcom.....
» 29/01/2009 10:53:10 PM ASymeonakis, “BOAZ_David open your eyes, and be honest, brave and fair.” I wonder how you.....
» 29/01/2009 10:06:19 PM Arjay, your last post, wise words.... They blame the market and capitalism but it were th.....
» 29/01/2009 10:01:31 PM "How dare you speak to people like this." as addressed to meredith.. Hey meredi.....
» 29/01/2009 6:52:35 PM Austin Powerless “Thanks for the Australian Reality figures Col.” You are welcome AP Fo.....
» 29/01/2009 11:32:28 AM The choices and preferences of the electorate and tax payers is a better test fo quality t.....
» 29/01/2009 10:53:26 AM Banjo “can you show any practical advantages?” Exactly… made similar comment in response .....
» 29/01/2009 9:39:53 AM Belly “The lefty brand Col throws around is not wasted, every one is left of our Col Rouge.....
» 29/01/2009 9:17:36 AM Foxy “"Why do you not (as Peter Costello suggested a year or two back) bugger off bac.....
» 29/01/2009 9:01:31 AM AS “but I feel sorry for you because you avoid to see the Australian reality,” Save your p.....
» 29/01/2009 8:06:49 AM Good thread topic Houellebecq, excellent web references. I have used a photo image of my .....
» 28/01/2009 2:09:48 PM Speaking personally, I do accept Antonios Symeonakis limited comprehension of English and .....
» 28/01/2009 1:42:52 PM Leigh "So, any calls for a change in the date are absolute nonsense. " Absolute.....
» 28/01/2009 11:38:57 AM Hasbeen "The whole system of low start loans was a darling of the left. Clinton pushe.....
» 28/01/2009 11:16:14 AM Meredith, As has been the case on several threads, I agree with your perspective. I too a.....
» 28/01/2009 8:45:00 AM OZAndy “The Right have no philosophy other than self-enrichment.” Actually it was Margare.....
» 28/01/2009 8:29:03 AM Fungochumley “Proving that all things are connected in the web of life, when dickie posts .....
» 28/01/2009 8:15:03 AM Interesting posts Yabby, good responses to the Dickie hysteria. Dickie "Does anyone .....
» 28/01/2009 8:03:31 AM Antonios Symeonakis “Do not you know that about half population of Australia is non anglo?.....
» 27/01/2009 4:12:35 PM Good idea, then we can re-establish customs and migration points. I know the Scots wanted.....
» 27/01/2009 4:03:11 PM rainier, you cannot buy me, although I am sure you would not be above trading your sister.....
» 27/01/2009 2:20:43 PM PALE “Wirth re “We've got to think more about animals as sentient beings”” Why? I am uns.....
» 27/01/2009 11:53:00 AM This is the point, global warming, no identified reason. So how to influence an outcome w.....
» 27/01/2009 11:18:31 AM Houellebecq “Perhaps the problem people have these days is they think they have so much mo.....
» 27/01/2009 10:46:07 AM So Israel exercises restraint and teaser bombs... IT is a pity Hamas does not deploy &quo.....
» 27/01/2009 9:12:26 AM Examinator “You seem to have forgotten I am here for discussion not your unimaginative pla.....
» 27/01/2009 7:52:31 AM Its a good question personally, I feel we all struggle with issues, just like our forebea.....
» 26/01/2009 10:02:17 PM We need smaller Govt and less regulation.Laws and regulation do not stop people from being.....
» 26/01/2009 4:23:53 PM Examinator “British royalty stable? Since when? their history is full of internecine plots.....
» 26/01/2009 11:59:43 AM Runner “We now know how dishonest this emotionalism by pro abortionist was. Well over 95% .....
» 26/01/2009 9:55:08 AM Fractelle “the future Republican Day as Mac suggested, would be more in the spirit of incl.....
» 26/01/2009 9:22:05 AM OF course the Krudd government and its legal proposals pander to union movement. The unio.....
» 25/01/2009 11:26:43 PM ASymeonakis “Col Rouge We are independent with a foreinger as head of our state! Is not it.....
» 25/01/2009 11:22:57 PM Meredith “No, I'm not Col. “ OK, you would understand my error in assumption :- ) “I could.....
» 25/01/2009 10:38:45 PM Arjay... Krudd is pecking around like a mother hen, incapable of dealing with the challeng.....
» 25/01/2009 2:02:27 PM StG “I stopped listening to anything pro-lifers had to say when they started killing peopl.....
» 25/01/2009 1:50:19 PM Meredith I think you might be confusing Australia Day with Anzac day? For me, being an im.....
» 25/01/2009 1:27:07 PM Meredith “Col, Thanks for that support... Seems, I may have tipped a few tempers here.” Yo.....
» 25/01/2009 10:13:15 AM polpak "Racism is the providing of gain or penalty on basis of race. Racism is the .....
» 25/01/2009 10:10:11 AM meredith "That's typical of the thinking that can only call people names and only cop.....
» 25/01/2009 10:02:04 AM Chainsmoker “For the record, I wouldn't expect a government with Tony Abbott in it to beha.....
» 25/01/2009 9:46:41 AM Daviy "that there is probably nothing that can be done about Bush, but we might be ab.....
» 24/01/2009 3:03:54 PM Chainsmoker “Col is right about the vague wording which is a problem with both the existin.....
» 24/01/2009 8:01:04 AM runeer "Thankfully I really don't need your endorsement. You just ain't that importan.....
» 24/01/2009 7:49:56 AM One of the joys of a swing in the political pendulum is the opportunity of the defenders o.....
» 23/01/2009 10:53:21 PM Daviy “a focus to take a good hard look at Western society. We are certainly not all clean.....
» 23/01/2009 10:34:28 PM Runner “Col Rouges analogy with heart surgery is”…. “ nothing short of pathetic. “ Those .....
» 23/01/2009 9:52:45 PM I believe the issue of war crimes can be plainly dropped at the feet of Palestinians for t.....
» 23/01/2009 11:16:53 AM Davey1 “Do we need a war crimes tribunal to deal with the Bush administration?” No more t.....
» 23/01/2009 10:58:43 AM Foxy “Apparently we don't - it's up to bodies like the ACMA to decide, right? They've been.....
» 23/01/2009 8:09:46 AM Meredith “For a start why are you guys so under the impression that Mr Obama and his team .....
» 23/01/2009 7:44:25 AM Pericles “What a sour, sad, grumpy little article this is” Yep, our Passy must have mixed.....
» 22/01/2009 8:40:52 PM Dickie “They don’t! Catholics in the West have decreased in numbers - particularly Europe......
» 22/01/2009 9:23:38 AM I agree with merediths summation of the reverends speech. Poorly chosen words for what sh.....
» 22/01/2009 7:52:19 AM Fellow Human “You would have to agree that the Fatah autonomy was rejected by Palestinians.....
» 22/01/2009 7:38:26 AM Using graphic images of aborted fetus is an emotional cheap trick and really says alot abo.....
» 21/01/2009 2:20:07 PM I agree with TRUTHNOW78 “Whites have already embraced what you say is right.” As many as .....
» 21/01/2009 1:14:32 PM Foxy “But the problem for us with my nephew is that he doesn't accept responsiblity for hi.....
» 21/01/2009 9:40:10 AM Fellow human “Gaza is an occupied territory which means the authorities involved are Israe.....
» 21/01/2009 8:21:10 AM Rainier “It would be wonderful if the level of discussion here on this topic was of high q.....
» 21/01/2009 8:09:04 AM Foxy… “Having a bit of lighthearted fun...” OLO is not a place where no one should ever ta.....
» 21/01/2009 7:50:01 AM Examinator “Condescension isn't in my nature.” Well for it not to be in your nature, you .....
» 20/01/2009 12:01:23 PM Examinator “You over interpreted Bronwyn’s comments” Regarding “put the boot in” and “pos.....
» 20/01/2009 8:57:21 AM Gosh this thread has been open well past its use-by date and is beginning to smell much li.....
» 20/01/2009 8:47:28 AM YAbby and Ludwig. Add my support to your expressions of complete disgust at the immoral i.....
» 20/01/2009 8:35:38 AM Bronwyn “you're constantly putting the boot in to alcoholics and binge-drinkers. “ Maybe .....
» 19/01/2009 11:59:42 AM Communicat “His 'aboriginality' was taken into consideration in sentencin.” One of the pr.....
» 19/01/2009 9:39:02 AM TLTR “grazing your toe” yep, bit of overlap with the 33% wage increase thread Examinator .....
» 18/01/2009 7:12:09 PM Foxy “Getting him to admit that he does have a problem would be a big step in the right di.....
» 18/01/2009 6:50:33 PM Belly and Spikey “"Col you invite slagging matches in threads then complain about it......
» 18/01/2009 6:25:13 PM Jonothan Byrd “Showing disrespect in such a manner to ideas born of compassion is a little.....
» 18/01/2009 4:35:55 PM Jonothan Byrd “This is not a shot at omnivores, as people have to make their own minds up .....
» 18/01/2009 4:31:01 PM Ah Dickie, so nice to respond to one of your posts, it has been a long time “Unfortunatel.....
» 18/01/2009 3:01:06 PM Spikey "I rest my case!" I suppose what is as obvious your a nose on your face .....
» 18/01/2009 12:09:01 PM Bronwyn “This is a problem that has to be owned by the whole of society.” The consequence.....
» 18/01/2009 9:37:46 AM Binge drinking (teen or otherwise) is a growing problem. I suggest make the penalties for.....
» 18/01/2009 8:47:01 AM Spikey "Confucius say: "Man who love himself has no rivals." yes, one can.....
» 18/01/2009 8:36:52 AM Belly “but also sprouting the conservative line, the John Howard radical lines.” I see, s.....
» 17/01/2009 6:01:04 PM Belly “you do not however have a clew.” And “You speak of unions actions decades old, “ .....
» 17/01/2009 1:26:39 PM “that every human life has equal worth” It depends on what someone means by “Worth”. If .....
» 17/01/2009 1:02:10 PM Spikey "Go with CJ. At least when the s*x is done with you could expect a rational co.....
» 17/01/2009 7:41:31 AM Foxy “Will he still love me in the morning? You betcha! The night will guarantee that! .....
» 17/01/2009 7:07:16 AM Spikey “But boy, it seems to be beyond you.” sarcasm is the lowest form of wit And even .....
» 17/01/2009 6:35:55 AM Belly “Who looks after the under skilled . . . The fearful ones?” Sheltered workshops? Ho.....
» 16/01/2009 2:37:14 PM “Israel knows but it doesn’t care. This is dangerous.” Maybe Israel just cares more about.....
» 16/01/2009 2:17:32 PM Spikey “And no obligation, either legal or moral, for the non-unionists to accept the pay .....
» 16/01/2009 10:04:24 AM Houellebecq “Maybe if you're a private company not selling an essential service you can do.....
» 16/01/2009 8:01:10 AM Ludwig“Your main principle that non-unionists should pay something for gains they benefit .....
» 16/01/2009 7:39:34 AM Polycarp “The local bakery refused to print the childs name "Adolph Hitler" on t.....
» 15/01/2009 6:32:20 PM Foxy “So, from me to you: Mwah, mwah! (Kiss, kiss).” I blush deeply, accept graciously an.....
» 15/01/2009 3:28:41 PM "Substantiate or retract if you have any kahunas to speak of." WOW, and a deafe.....
» 15/01/2009 3:14:39 PM Humanity is driven by emotion, not reason. Our modern day Caesar’s are still shipping mor.....
» 15/01/2009 2:38:01 PM CJMoron "How unsurprising that our most objectionable resident bean counter has appar.....
» 15/01/2009 11:47:18 AM Foxy “Col's settlement to his wife must have been HUGE.” The first one got 65% assets and.....
» 14/01/2009 11:48:26 PM Not sure exactly what US law says but in English contract law 1 the historic supply of a.....
» 14/01/2009 10:50:30 AM I love PETA, they do what I believe all dingbat organizations and associations should do. .....
» 14/01/2009 10:25:35 AM Froggie “However, it is time, don’t you think, for the Palestinians to realize that they w.....
» 13/01/2009 4:54:15 PM Rob P “Didn't Kramer get into big trouble about a year ago “ Yes he did celivia I too e.....
» 13/01/2009 4:10:37 PM Daviy “Experts are people who can describe in great detail what happened after the event.”.....
» 13/01/2009 3:32:39 PM Belly “Do you not see unions, like you, provide a service to people who need it?” I have .....
» 13/01/2009 12:02:47 PM Q&A “I have opinions on subjects I am not expert in, so I defer to those that do – includi.....
» 13/01/2009 11:31:12 AM Bronwyn re profligacy, in my opinion is you are completely wrong. “We can no longer affor.....
» 12/01/2009 11:19:52 PM Belly “I have a secrete I want to share with you, I have nothing in common with you. While.....
» 12/01/2009 10:47:57 PM Examinator “My comment were aimed at pointing out that THE MORE URGENT PROBLEM is our (the.....
» 12/01/2009 11:43:50 AM Bennie “it takes real insight to connect climate with socialism. Be interesting to see the.....
» 12/01/2009 11:12:34 AM David f “How much of the Gates fortune has been built on more efficiently dealing death?” .....
» 12/01/2009 9:56:44 AM Ludwig You and I have agreed on the topic, over-population, being the biggest single threa.....
» 12/01/2009 8:52:14 AM Nicky “we need look no further than the genocide being carried out in African states, and .....
» 12/01/2009 8:01:06 AM Belly “Noted Col Rouge but ignored.” Strange to claim to note something, yet simultaneous.....
» 11/01/2009 5:01:39 PM Belly “Put me on the Spikey and C J Morgan side of the net.” You do what you want but jus.....
» 10/01/2009 2:54:58 PM CJMoron “Personally, I prefer to form my opinions about AGW based on information from repu.....
» 10/01/2009 2:12:44 PM CJMoron “Distortion, half-truths and outright fabrication are standard operating procedure.....
» 10/01/2009 6:31:11 AM Diocletian “At best, science shows what the risk is.” That is “at best” At present, ‘sc.....
» 10/01/2009 5:55:39 AM Troll-Spkiey “Ah Col, I see you are a man of sensitivity, but just lacking any subtlety......
» 9/01/2009 6:58:55 PM Spikey-troll “No amount of bluster or wordy citation from the dictionary will cover up the.....
» 9/01/2009 2:59:17 PM Spikey “Thank goodness for CJ Morgan who knows about ambit claims – “ “Ambient”: definiti.....
» 9/01/2009 10:33:28 AM Belly “No worker fails to understand the claim is ambient , a claim made to shock bosses i.....
» 9/01/2009 10:12:52 AM Houellebecq “Col that whole post to Bronwyn had me laughing out loud:-) Sorry Bronwyn. I'm.....
» 9/01/2009 7:05:24 AM Celivia “It’s true that everybody should be responsible for their own stupid choices,” We.....
» 9/01/2009 6:35:52 AM Bronwyn “You've deliberately taken one or two isolated words in an effort to make your poi.....
» 8/01/2009 3:27:56 PM Q&A “by working together in mutual respect” Based on your past repeated and unsubstantiate.....
» 8/01/2009 10:15:59 AM Mulling over decisions made by past generations, long since dead, to determine the flaws, .....
» 8/01/2009 7:58:12 AM Examinator “I reject emphatically as nonsense the notion That I am responsible for the ton.....
» 7/01/2009 1:38:19 PM Foxy “There must be a way for Israel to exist securely while allowing justice for the Pale.....
» 7/01/2009 10:38:12 AM OUG I have just wasted half a minute of my life reading your last post. I suggest, if y.....
» 7/01/2009 10:12:26 AM I would think one of the key objectives is for Hamas not to be seen as a successful model .....
» 7/01/2009 9:09:33 AM Houellebecq “I don't know if I've heard you say that before? It does have a nice ring to i.....
» 7/01/2009 8:16:32 AM Belly “Col has let his dislike of me run riot here.” Duhh? Sorry to deflate your self-pr.....
» 6/01/2009 10:09:11 PM Foxy “Security Council approved Resolution 242, making it clear that Israel should withdra.....
» 6/01/2009 3:15:10 PM Voltaire “Col Rouge, Polycarp and Gibo exemplify their ignorance of Palestinian/Israeli po.....
» 6/01/2009 1:53:52 PM Two Pro Palestinian posts and five against, make that six if you include this one. Sydney.....
» 6/01/2009 11:49:15 AM “to a crime against humanity violating the Geneva Convention.” Maybe if they stopped drop.....
» 6/01/2009 10:48:39 AM “He claims “for profit education has been a consistent failure in all times and places”, w.....
» 6/01/2009 10:20:56 AM Bronwyn “What's happened to that more decent side” He is still alive and well and thanks .....
» 6/01/2009 9:39:09 AM Daviy “First of all to Col Rouge. Does everything have to be isms?” Everything does not .....
» 6/01/2009 9:08:08 AM Cuphandle I think you and I are possibly reading from the same page. There are lies, damn.....
» 6/01/2009 8:32:55 AM Bazz “Letters of credit are just a guaranteed promise to pay are they not, and do not nec.....
» 6/01/2009 8:27:30 AM Belly “Col is concerned about reds under the bed Marxists” Not at all, I was merely ident.....
» 5/01/2009 2:24:50 PM “If the world undertook to pay cash, only spend what you have, we would never come out of .....
» 5/01/2009 10:57:28 AM Foxy “Taking sides in this conflict is really not going to help anyone. It's only going to.....
» 5/01/2009 10:35:55 AM Ah Q&A “Runner, why do you continually defy God?” Of course, when it comes to God and Sci.....
» 5/01/2009 9:10:31 AM Examinator “In the context of the 'bogan' debate” re “Child mothers who can't cook et al......
» 5/01/2009 8:37:25 AM Polycarp, if I had known you were placarding melbourne yesterday, I would have been happy .....
» 5/01/2009 7:39:07 AM We have regulations which outlaw lies in advertising. We have an advertising oversight pa.....
» 5/01/2009 7:27:35 AM TLTR “while we're on about Goethe,” – You should probably address your comments to wobbl.....
» 4/01/2009 12:00:06 PM Wobbles "None are so hopelessly enslaved as those who falsely believe they are free&q.....
» 3/01/2009 12:21:55 PM Spikey "I learned a great deal about the tactics of hypocrisy and bullying." No.....
» 3/01/2009 10:32:12 AM Arjay “Why not let all individuals take control of their super” I think you can administe.....
» 3/01/2009 10:12:52 AM CJ Moron "...in the third person, no matter how pathetically they try to bait me.&quo.....
» 3/01/2009 10:04:48 AM Passy “ability of workers to create a new world.” Only if they can find a board of manage.....
» 3/01/2009 9:36:55 AM Spikey… you found only rainier, Michaelk and fractelle to castigate me for? I am sure I c.....
» 2/01/2009 5:21:16 PM Hi C... I was retrenched when I was 17 years of Age. I have not been retrenched since but.....
» 2/01/2009 9:31:01 AM Spikey “How then do you explain the utter vitriol with which you attacked the last two pos.....
» 2/01/2009 8:54:19 AM Cuphandle… “You asked me to explain how they can tax a person who is unemployed?....the an.....
» 1/01/2009 7:42:35 PM Ah rainer, I thought you must have been banned for life, following those images of yoursel.....
» 1/01/2009 7:30:55 PM Wobbles “I suspect 2009 will be just another 12 months of opportunity for many to reinforc.....
» 1/01/2009 4:07:12 PM Spikey “your ever reactionary views” Ah thankyou, I feel it is far better to be associate.....
» 1/01/2009 11:53:53 AM The path of Middle East history is littered with the peace accords and agreements brokered.....
» 1/01/2009 11:12:23 AM Foxy “Dear Col, Again, your wicked sense of humour provides just the right touch to this .....
» 31/12/2008 4:45:59 PM “By March/April the world economy will be looking resoundingly shaky!” Um, I thought that.....
» 31/12/2008 12:55:15 PM Celivia “who then auctions off their property rather than giving the mortgagee the opportu.....
» 31/12/2008 9:34:13 AM “How sick? Here in Australia unemployment is 4.5 per cent. It will increase, but by how mu.....
» 31/12/2008 8:40:29 AM Celivia “when I read that someone intends to profit from someone else’s misery.” Consider.....
» 30/12/2008 9:04:29 AM JMCC you might find my the attitude of my “Class” (whatever that is) offensive and you are.....
» 30/12/2008 8:45:11 AM I would like to help the blind to see The deaf to hear The lame to walk And those who t.....
» 30/12/2008 8:34:16 AM I was looking around for and picked up a bargain at Harvey Norman in their refrigerator sa.....
» 30/12/2008 8:21:22 AM JMCC “this has to do with giving a helping hand to the most needy in our society, Christ w.....
» 29/12/2008 5:20:12 PM This thread and the one about marrying oneself …. I wonder where OLO is headed :-) If suc.....
» 29/12/2008 5:01:02 PM Nicky “The psychological testing used for custodial officers in most states and territorie.....
» 29/12/2008 4:42:15 PM People of a Catholic persuasion might, in some cases, consider the Papal edict a path from.....
» 29/12/2008 11:31:03 AM “Cowboy, no sane person wants AGW to be real, but no sane person discounts the science.” .....
» 29/12/2008 11:23:21 AM Nicky “have worked as an Education Officer in prisons, and believe me, some of the inmates.....
» 29/12/2008 7:30:05 AM I notice that Reuben’s hissing-fit ignores the US Supreme courts deliberations before he d.....
» 29/12/2008 6:38:48 AM I would marry me, I would even consider myself a bit of a catch… LOL Well they say you ha.....
» 24/12/2008 7:06:05 PM KevingtonBeare “I am not in the least interested in defending myself against comments from.....
» 24/12/2008 11:32:42 AM I am with bigmal. I thought of the morally righteous cause initially, until I saw that re.....
» 24/12/2008 11:18:49 AM palimpsest "in the future we'll all be driving the Holden 'Camel'" and it will,.....
» 24/12/2008 7:39:56 AM Sybil this car is now being sponsored by our Federal government. Vast amounts of tax paye.....
» 24/12/2008 7:28:00 AM Arjay “our human condition makes us feel insignificant. We at the same time are free to de.....
» 24/12/2008 7:15:59 AM Q&A “But Col dear, we are "parallel running" models against real data.” And the.....
» 23/12/2008 2:28:37 PM Ludwig “I wouldn’t have picked you as an ACCC supporter.” Oh it is one of the best exampl.....
» 23/12/2008 2:19:01 PM Fractelle” keep my promises and do not bother with reading your vitriol anymore, however I.....
» 22/12/2008 9:35:06 PM Shal “Communism works! It just hasn't been introduced right yet.’ And hopefully when it d.....
» 22/12/2008 12:13:50 PM “(Hasbeen) You either have a very simple mind, or you are deliberately distorting what I’v.....
» 22/12/2008 11:33:35 AM Whether we are approaching a point where oil availability declines or not - I think the b.....
» 22/12/2008 11:19:12 AM Yes Leigh I think he is saying “Climate scientists confirm that the large number of inde.....
» 22/12/2008 11:03:26 AM Wobbles “Our childrens' future was already sold out from under them by the privatisation o.....
» 22/12/2008 10:31:45 AM ACCC is one of the best institutions of government. It is empowered to address the imbala.....
» 22/12/2008 10:06:25 AM Q&A “Col, you’re just a plain old misguided” Ah, attacked with some of Q&A caustic wit… f.....
» 21/12/2008 5:06:18 PM Q&A"Hey Col, keep your head stuck in the mud (or under the bed) - the socialist booge.....
» 21/12/2008 10:46:08 AM Mr Denmore “Sooner or later, you and the rest of your hairy-chested mates in the libertari.....
» 21/12/2008 8:44:25 AM Ludwig “God that pisses me off! It was Visy when I wrote it, Visy when I proof-read it.........
» 21/12/2008 8:21:02 AM Ozandy “Liberals support large government too in reality” This “Liberal” does not. My obs.....
» 21/12/2008 7:57:55 AM Nicky “If this boy was as mentally disturbed as he is reported to have been, how is it tha.....
» 20/12/2008 11:22:11 AM Apologies Ludwig for not catching this thread earlier.. My view on government regulation .....
» 20/12/2008 10:59:47 AM PALE” Col Rouge You are a man of surprises and absolutely correct of course.” Thankyou f.....
» 20/12/2008 7:19:21 AM Q&A “Rudd abusing national resources is a joke, right?” Why would someone who cares “joke.....
» 19/12/2008 9:59:49 AM fractelle "if not the RSPCA who should be responsible" Good question imho the.....
» 18/12/2008 10:58:27 AM Belly when you make such precious comments as “do read my posts again and am my own worst.....
» 18/12/2008 10:23:13 AM When it comes to “looks” some things become clear You can often see from how someone stan.....
» 18/12/2008 10:05:47 AM Faustino “Some years ago I read a wide range of research which found that economic growth .....
» 18/12/2008 8:24:55 AM Belly “Col you do your case no justice with the anti left comments in every thread,” I gu.....
» 17/12/2008 5:39:51 PM Mac “Do you still think that private debt is harmless? Less ideology and more reality. Ask.....
» 17/12/2008 4:03:08 PM Fractelle “The following article about clean, sustainable and safe industries must be what.....
» 17/12/2008 4:00:58 PM Pelican I agree with much of your post except “What has happened to the Murray Darling bec.....
» 17/12/2008 10:16:12 AM Jai "Redistributing wealth once again." or as I have been describing it, over t.....
» 17/12/2008 8:21:14 AM Steel Mann from your comments, reminds me of MacQuaries Fields (2005) and the Redfern ri.....
» 17/12/2008 8:10:04 AM Stevenlmeyer “The SEC inspected Madoff in 2005 and 2007 and apparently uncovered no fraud .....
» 17/12/2008 7:51:54 AM Polycarp “You can always predict them” The unfortunate thing is the resident moron can on.....
» 17/12/2008 7:25:28 AM ASymeonakis” Do we kill a person who holds a knife and wants money for his/her drugs ? No .....
» 16/12/2008 6:33:32 PM Hey Ludwig… What you are suggesting is “compromise and mediocrity” can produce an accept.....
» 16/12/2008 6:20:06 PM “From work experience I've seen people of all ages 'off their faces' with drugs, alcohol o.....
» 16/12/2008 2:39:36 PM I am with you J Bowyer Haigh is an inveterate Howard hater, not sure why (but nor do I car.....
» 16/12/2008 11:56:32 AM Foxy “As for entertainment? That will be provided by the good conversation of the guests......
» 16/12/2008 10:36:35 AM Ludwig” The answer is getting government to undertake their duties properly by matching re.....
» 16/12/2008 9:02:19 AM I would agree with Barnes on one thing…the thirty day rule… If those who attempt to enter.....
» 16/12/2008 7:30:57 AM Gibo "Separating "porn" from "kiddie porn"? There isnt any sepa.....
» 15/12/2008 10:41:45 PM Fester “My understanding is that even with legalised and unregulated drugs, it is unlikely.....
» 15/12/2008 6:06:20 PM Oliver….”By virtual wealth, I was referring to the practise of riding of the back of a fei.....
» 15/12/2008 9:59:40 AM CJ Moron “Once again I'm so delighted I don't have bastards like you as neighbours. . . . .....
» 15/12/2008 8:58:25 AM Ludwig “lack of resources and uniformity in administering the various regulations than the.....
» 15/12/2008 8:32:45 AM Phillip Tang “The only advantage that you have given is cheap electrical goods made in Chi.....
» 14/12/2008 9:41:00 PM the best definition of an economist I have ever herd is a person who is expert in every .....
» 14/12/2008 9:31:07 PM Yabby “Col, your post hit the nail on the head!” Thanks Yabby… I, like you, have seen a l.....
» 14/12/2008 9:09:12 PM Gibo “But I do find it odd, very odd, that a grown mature man has a porn collection.” I c.....
» 14/12/2008 8:36:57 PM I had the local pool police come and advise me a couple of years ago regarding my responsi.....
» 14/12/2008 8:32:05 PM I think it is too early to comment about this matter, hence I did not however, to catch th.....
» 14/12/2008 8:25:49 PM Oliver my understanding of the actions which initiated the Depression was a collapse in co.....
» 14/12/2008 7:27:17 PM Arjay “What everyone has failed to realise,is that as more countries industrialise so the .....
» 14/12/2008 6:13:17 PM Every time I see "so and so wants more control" I see the words shouting back at.....
» 14/12/2008 6:06:23 PM Ponzi schemes are as old as Moses. We have enough legislation to sink a battle ship but t.....
» 14/12/2008 5:58:00 PM Bronwyn "Humour and goodwill shall prevail. " absolutely agree, although, it wo.....
» 14/12/2008 10:28:11 AM Regarding this "coward's cloak of anonymity", the advantage CJ has over myself.....
» 14/12/2008 9:38:33 AM Kaly “Break costs on fixed rate mortgages are massive” So what Those who took on fixed r.....
» 13/12/2008 7:50:49 AM The easiest way government can help the development of new ideas is not by doing more but .....
» 12/12/2008 9:56:22 PM fractelle "but I just can't get my head around the thought of CR and CJ at the same t.....
» 12/12/2008 2:28:38 PM Oliver “The other side to protecting, say GM in the US is; protection makes it harder to r.....
» 12/12/2008 2:15:08 PM Oliver “I posit that Flank is correct and that the lean towards Corporate Socialism is und.....
» 12/12/2008 9:16:38 AM Runner “simple fact that lust leads to more lust.” And repression leads to more repressio.....
» 12/12/2008 8:49:00 AM "The video showed a member of a Russian circus family swinging his child around a roo.....
» 12/12/2008 8:08:53 AM Yabby “Over generations they learnt to compete on a global market, without all the protect.....
» 12/12/2008 7:47:29 AM "Centre Management applying a Pay to Park fee!" I suspect, come 2009, retail co.....
» 12/12/2008 7:42:05 AM Bugsy “Actually Col, I referring to Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton, the Englishman.” .....
» 11/12/2008 12:02:45 PM Phillip Tang, pleased you agree but you then express criticism of what amount to monopolis.....
» 11/12/2008 10:49:20 AM Fester “A pertinent question is what percentage of the population is susceptible to addict.....
» 10/12/2008 3:34:16 PM “The world tried globalisation and "free-trade" and it has failed miserably.” B.....
» 10/12/2008 2:10:33 PM Arjay when our Balance of Payments becomes too onerous to finance, the exchange rate will .....
» 10/12/2008 1:40:10 PM Pelicans list – Bob Brown and Germaine G… what are you serving…;. Humble pie? Bugsy’s – .....
» 10/12/2008 1:04:03 PM Gibo “When we approve of the porn and the kiddie porn EVEN for the sake of freedoms we are.....
» 10/12/2008 12:43:49 PM Uog “col tough love means letting others suffer” I know what “tough love” is. And it is .....
» 10/12/2008 11:26:00 AM Mr Right "Perhaps they feel that our own homeless should be housed first." Doub.....
» 10/12/2008 11:14:07 AM Senior Victorian “The problem with this article is that it starts from a completely false .....
» 10/12/2008 10:37:44 AM Whatever we call the habitual use of heroin or any other “substance”, pretending it is a “.....
» 10/12/2008 9:00:01 AM Franklin “I think that would be a very much more humane situation than allowing people smu.....
» 10/12/2008 8:47:26 AM Gibo I look forward to Bart fiddling like Nero in “The Simpsons, the Fall of Rome” episode.....
» 10/12/2008 8:31:14 AM Polycarp ”This MEANS the farmers are only 25% less greedy than the supermarkets and its a .....
» 9/12/2008 7:51:48 AM As I have suggested before, Kyoto, AGW and the like are merely thinly disguised attempts.....
» 8/12/2008 1:05:17 PM Deviant Behaviour “For example full mouth kissing of someone you have just met of the oppo.....
» 8/12/2008 11:41:30 AM Just as Krudd & Co have been seem to do a 180 degree turn on a sixpence over "Inflati.....
» 8/12/2008 8:20:50 AM I recall disgraced President Nixon, when he initiated contact with the Chinese government .....
» 6/12/2008 12:12:14 PM “If bona fide refugees” And there in lies the nub Determining someones “bona fides” is p.....
» 6/12/2008 9:22:35 AM Bugsy “But you of course you would know this because you live in the real world.” I sugge.....
» 6/12/2008 9:09:10 AM Wobbles “I think there are some large capitalist corporations, such as car manufacturers, .....
» 5/12/2008 1:13:57 PM “How many other mistakes have the Board made over the years these titles have been sold? S.....
» 5/12/2008 1:04:50 PM Bugsy “High ideals usually espoused by both, dropped faster than a nympho's knickers at a .....
» 5/12/2008 11:20:16 AM You know the national economy is like a lady. She needs to be treated with tenderness and.....
» 5/12/2008 8:50:53 AM Anansi “millions of displaced persons are living in very often appalling conditions in ref.....
» 5/12/2008 7:49:43 AM Bugsy –“If you can answer that one truthfully, then you will know who the real hypocrites .....
» 4/12/2008 1:36:43 PM Polycarp I almost found myself close to a dilemma. My immediate response would be to tre.....
» 4/12/2008 1:17:46 PM “force companies to go green with legislation that has real teeth or use financial incenti.....
» 4/12/2008 8:16:37 AM Divergence, I appreciate your presentation of statistical data. Similarly franklin contr.....
» 4/12/2008 7:13:11 AM I too am set solidly against government intervention of any sort into internet access. Th.....
» 3/12/2008 3:07:19 PM Yabby, the only thing I would add to your excellent post concerns "empowers individ.....
» 3/12/2008 2:53:11 PM Jaylex “It should be possible to devise some plan under which Ford will receive funding su.....
» 3/12/2008 12:02:50 PM Those who support terrorism and terrorists reflect a set of characteristics which are inco.....
» 3/12/2008 11:42:49 AM If you think the imposts are tough now, wait until we all start paying the impost for the .....
» 3/12/2008 10:49:20 AM Examinator “Your comments are behind the 8 ball as the issues you raise has beendealt with.....
» 3/12/2008 10:22:30 AM Ludwig 1 Weaker boarder protection would have seen a flood of thousands of illegal boat-.....
» 3/12/2008 9:31:03 AM Ah “Up the workers” And “Yes Right Up ‘em ” “we march united to overthrow capitalism an.....
» 3/12/2008 8:58:52 AM I recall the use of Sarin on Japanese subway as the most significant terrorist use of bio-.....
» 3/12/2008 7:55:02 AM Examinator “Do you have any idea how much capital is needed in both Ford and their supplie.....
» 2/12/2008 1:59:18 PM Companies quoted on the stock exchanges of Australia and a lot more who are not, are all p.....
» 2/12/2008 8:06:11 AM Spikey “I tend to think that when people throw abuse about they are angry at having been c.....
» 1/12/2008 2:15:59 PM From my 35 years experience in industry’s and exposure to a variety of HR practitioners I .....
» 1/12/2008 8:13:05 AM Australia, is not a secular state, like say Turkey. Whilst religious observance is not le.....
» 1/12/2008 7:59:28 AM Spikey, or maybe that should be cork-screw (spikey but “twisted”) “But not, I presume, wh.....
» 29/11/2008 2:05:55 PM Spikey “If they did, would Col Rouge put it down to their race, national background or eth.....
» 28/11/2008 3:35:30 PM Some of us, who have seen the folly of socialism and the socialist economic profligacy bef.....
» 28/11/2008 2:32:17 PM Anansi “Not make up weird fantasies about the posters. ColR can do that too.” No fantasi.....
» 28/11/2008 10:20:58 AM Mr Right “Your contributions as an immigrant and now true-blue, fair dinkum Australian are.....
» 28/11/2008 7:46:25 AM Examinator “3 behemoth corporations crashing” If these three were to collapse and no “gov.....
» 27/11/2008 9:55:27 AM Anansi “I have some real experience living and working in third world countries. Not imagi.....
» 27/11/2008 7:42:45 AM Hasbeen, you mean, ‘Rootes’ (Hillman/Singer/Humber) who built a factory at Linwood, outsid.....
» 26/11/2008 11:53:02 AM Anansi, “compared to the approx 49 000 visa overstayers.” Who get locked up and deported .....
» 26/11/2008 11:34:11 AM This article is a bit of a rant The fact is we are all “worth” what someone else is prepa.....
» 26/11/2008 9:01:26 AM Ludwig the problem with “government intervention” in any market Imagine the Yangtze river.....
» 26/11/2008 8:42:59 AM Belly “I would not advise rushing into housing as a hedge just yet Col.” I was not advisi.....
» 25/11/2008 8:56:18 AM Rache “How can a Company - without doing a thing - be worth more in the afternoon than it .....
» 25/11/2008 8:31:03 AM Ludwig” The big three auto companies in the US appear to be in dire strife. If they go und.....
» 24/11/2008 3:10:49 PM “"interest-only" and "option adjustable rates" mortgages. These new Po.....
» 24/11/2008 9:54:27 AM “There is no single reason why there are still far less female than male-scientists,” We .....
» 24/11/2008 9:48:30 AM Bugsy “the Science Faculty is in the business of teaching "Absolute Facts", Com.....
» 24/11/2008 8:01:13 AM Bronwyn.."lost in grammatical fog." Yes - a redundant "not" between &.....
» 22/11/2008 1:18:23 PM Bugsy “accountants are more scrupulous than scientists?” The Accountancy profession is su.....
» 22/11/2008 10:41:57 AM Belly, "But will wear it at the TAB tomorrow just for you " Oh please do and wh.....
» 22/11/2008 8:47:00 AM I agree with Ph00_stains (and am still laughing a strong contender if they ever gave Nobel.....
» 21/11/2008 9:58:44 AM “Marx's ideas on religion have been widely misrepresented and misunderstood.” That statem.....
» 21/11/2008 9:41:43 AM Yabby and I thought it was like musical chairs, someone takes a chair away and when the .....
» 21/11/2008 9:38:54 AM Hi steven, I am pleased you re-entered the debate, I am holding a policy position toward C.....
» 21/11/2008 8:02:00 AM daggett “told me how exploration for petroleum and other natural resources was vastly more.....
» 21/11/2008 7:34:39 AM Belly “Respond away Col, do not however tell me you have not formed opinions about me and .....
» 20/11/2008 12:57:40 PM I agree with all you said Mr Right. There are any number of countries which Afghanis (if .....
» 20/11/2008 12:51:32 PM I wonder why the authors only referenced the 1988 George Bush Senior election. When Carte.....
» 20/11/2008 10:19:05 AM Runner “Whenever Christianity has been the dominant culture everyone has been able to live.....
» 20/11/2008 8:36:00 AM “Essentially human beings cannot afford war. Nor can we continue to breed like rabbits.” .....
» 20/11/2008 7:53:46 AM Hi Belly… I get a kick out of your one-sided view too… 68% that is how many support Rudd .....
» 19/11/2008 4:22:43 PM kartiya jim "Col, ..And I thank the good Lord for That !" mmmmm.... strange.......
» 19/11/2008 12:41:43 PM Daisym “Lest there be any doubt, I have stated two beliefs. First, is that wars will occur.....
» 19/11/2008 12:06:34 PM kartiya jim “Your Darwinian Theory of Evolution for Aboriginal People trying to live in an.....
» 19/11/2008 7:44:00 AM I see all the spin and rhetoric of his mee-too policy statements as nothing more than a “L.....
» 19/11/2008 7:31:04 AM I guess when some “science” is not the product of absolute law but mere observation or eve.....
» 18/11/2008 9:46:19 AM Johnj” Thanks guys, these gave me the biggest laughs I've had all week.” That was part of.....
» 18/11/2008 9:06:50 AM mil-observer “[John, please don't go near rougey's fish trap - like the steady empty lines.....
» 18/11/2008 8:47:13 AM kartiya jim, “Fair go Col ,Is this is your lame and archaic excuse to withhold help to tho.....
» 17/11/2008 1:20:03 PM I do not know where the author gets his assumption that censorship is the preferred option.....
» 17/11/2008 12:54:21 PM “All Australians,as we continue to enjoy the spoils of conquest, must work hard to try to .....
» 16/11/2008 4:13:29 PM Passy “Let me put a proposition to you. Without the French Revolution and Robespierre and .....
» 16/11/2008 3:51:30 PM “Does a society need atheists or Christians more?” Society does not exist. Only individu.....
» 16/11/2008 10:13:59 AM I read the first two paragraphs of this article and fell over laughing. I have this image.....
» 14/11/2008 8:15:14 AM Arjay “legal theft.” Is an oxymoron. So is the rest of your comment. As for ‘predatory.....
» 14/11/2008 7:56:28 AM “the world price of oil down to $59 yet still selling for around $1.34 a litre at outlets,.....
» 8/11/2008 10:38:13 AM “Palin appeals to American's anti-intellectualism” . . . .” Former beauty queen Sarah Pali.....
» 17/10/2008 2:26:56 PM Bronwyn “are refugees in desperate circumstances whose endeavours to seek asylum are perfe.....
» 17/10/2008 10:56:02 AM I did not realise pandering to the "intellectual vote" was a prerequisite for th.....
» 17/10/2008 8:56:12 AM “Its not good for Australian sex workers to see workers from Asia be pulled into prosecuti.....
» 17/10/2008 8:39:49 AM IF you want to increase the gap between costs per labour hour in Australia and cost per la.....
» 17/10/2008 8:08:24 AM Fozz I corrected your misrepresentation on the matter of changes to CGT. It was you who .....
» 17/10/2008 7:44:27 AM Anansi “Col,you liken housing to a mere commodity, like food.” Yes, in fact on the peckin.....
» 17/10/2008 7:38:25 AM CJ Moron “This from someone who refers to less fortunate people as "swill".” No.....
» 16/10/2008 1:18:13 PM Rache “his money went toward Accountants fees rather than to the community that financiall.....
» 16/10/2008 9:36:49 AM I too agree with Yabby’s reflections on housing and house prices Fozz “Howard's slashing .....
» 15/10/2008 2:56:02 PM Sancho "That said, daggett, by writing "CJ Moron" in every line you're maki.....
» 15/10/2008 2:51:57 PM Paull "I usually agree with you on economic matters, however I wonder how you can sug.....
» 15/10/2008 2:24:33 PM Fractelle “>>The great thing with SPECULATORS in a capitalist market, they work coun.....
» 15/10/2008 1:59:17 PM “Confidence” is the commodity which we all need but no one can ever set a price for. Mark.....
» 15/10/2008 1:24:06 PM Anansi “The sky would be falling in Col, if it weren't for taxpayers chipping in” Not nec.....
» 15/10/2008 9:07:38 AM Around 150 years ago or so, there was great debate between which part of the Americas woul.....
» 15/10/2008 8:53:47 AM Passy “Look, I am not trying to be disrespectful, but this appears to me to be a dialogue .....
» 14/10/2008 3:28:50 PM Bazzah “Politicians and the Forgotten Australians” A word to the wise, Don’t wait for an.....
» 14/10/2008 3:01:49 PM I have always considered "money" to represent "deferred consumption". .....
» 14/10/2008 11:42:53 AM Senior Victorian “The sad thing is that these authors have some responsibility for the edu.....
» 14/10/2008 7:28:28 AM Celevia “Now whom would I rather believe about Henson’s motives and purity of mind, the me.....
» 14/10/2008 7:22:34 AM 11% recovery on the DJ overnight. the sky did not fall in, after all. maybe I will ask P.....
» 13/10/2008 8:54:57 PM With the impending recession and job losses if the governmental wallies decide to follow t.....
» 13/10/2008 4:31:02 PM Passy “Col, in 1930 when the first five year plan began, Lenin had been dead for over 6 ye.....
» 13/10/2008 3:27:00 PM Agree with everything you say above Yabby (nothing new in that). Tapp I get the point of .....
» 13/10/2008 1:24:13 PM Politics is about getting out there and creating public interest. If that was the only pa.....
» 13/10/2008 12:19:34 PM Bronwyn “You can lay out example after example for the likes of simple minds like mine, it.....
» 13/10/2008 9:11:38 AM daggett "Relevance", like "intelligence" is a word which have no meani.....
» 13/10/2008 8:56:55 AM To come back to this statement Passy “You don't grasp my arguments because they are outsi.....
» 13/10/2008 8:15:16 AM Grim “So long as we are all in the market for cheap clothing, countries that do not have s.....
» 13/10/2008 7:41:23 AM Bronwyn “The majority of shares in any large listed company is always owned by other large.....
» 12/10/2008 12:50:09 PM Passy “You don't grasp my arguments because they are outside your thinking and life experi.....
» 12/10/2008 12:29:41 PM Passy “Thanks Col Rouge. You just prove my point about the right having only abuse in its.....
» 12/10/2008 9:04:04 AM fractelle "A Real Man is one who" and a Real Woman.... Is one who knows her pl.....
» 12/10/2008 8:59:48 AM Dream on from your post, I am not sure if you are agreeing, disagreeing or just making noi.....
» 12/10/2008 8:35:29 AM Bronwyn “I'd like to see some hard evidence of this so-called 'fraudulent intent not to pa.....
» 11/10/2008 10:36:40 AM Fractelle “For example; referring to the women and children who drowned on the SEIV X as “.....
» 11/10/2008 8:21:50 AM tapp "As some of us are aware The Australian Constitution has been treated with conte.....
» 11/10/2008 8:16:00 AM franklin "The fundamental question is should Australia’s humanitarian efforts to be d.....
» 11/10/2008 8:00:57 AM Belly “Col Rouge talks of a spit in the ocean in comparison the Victorian bankruptcy of so.....
» 11/10/2008 7:46:40 AM “Significantly, this included establishment of £5 million “Partnership Fund” which was par.....
» 11/10/2008 7:35:47 AM Any significance this article might have had is lost in the nature of it. People who buy .....
» 10/10/2008 2:16:06 PM Fractelle “BTW, you are wrong; the crocs inhabited the waterways long before any humans. M.....
» 10/10/2008 1:36:00 PM Passy “As Marx said "All that is solid melts into air."” And like Marx himself .....
» 10/10/2008 1:12:55 PM Fractelle “Col has demonstrated the difference between himself and we human beings, he doe.....
» 10/10/2008 9:06:32 AM Fractelle wonderful post on your part, quite lyrical ” for me, intelligence is a major ap.....
» 10/10/2008 8:51:31 AM This thread sees simple solutions to simple problems. Unfortunately, it ignores the big c.....
» 10/10/2008 7:44:13 AM Belly, "Good onya Col you confirmed a view I held about you, can you not see it was y.....
» 9/10/2008 9:05:37 PM Passy “A day at the races would have more chance of success than investing in capitalist e.....
» 9/10/2008 3:16:35 PM CJ Moron “Your claim that they sought to avoid presenting themselves to the authorities is.....
» 9/10/2008 10:20:31 AM Belly “Col you did it too, you questioned the value of posters views then gave us your own.....
» 8/10/2008 4:47:32 PM CJ Moron "Well, at least I'm discerning in the company I keep, and don't fantasise ab.....
» 8/10/2008 2:04:03 PM JW I agree with you. the idea that armchair economists, motivated by sentimental issues o.....
» 8/10/2008 1:47:42 PM CJ Moron… I ponder why anyone, capable of such cynicism as you display, bothers to breath .....
» 8/10/2008 1:26:06 PM Passy thank you for suggestion I read Marx. I will wait until the movie comes out… then .....
» 8/10/2008 7:58:26 AM My own observation of people who have succumbed to excessive (and addicted) substance abus.....
» 8/10/2008 7:52:48 AM Cuphandle “I have come to the conclusion that the whole world today revolves around drugs .....
» 7/10/2008 7:27:29 PM Passy “It is of course a myth since society is inextricably intertwined. Without the whole.....
» 7/10/2008 6:56:01 PM CJ Moron "Asylum seekers are not illegal immigrants, Col - no matter how much you'd l.....
» 7/10/2008 12:10:24 PM Bronwyn “Seeking asylum is not illegal.” But what these swill did is unlawful Because th.....
» 7/10/2008 10:40:29 AM Gibo "A walk through the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney can a walk through a ve.....
» 1/10/2008 2:33:57 PM Passy “You are viewing everything through the prism of the present profit driven anti-huma.....
» 1/10/2008 2:06:40 PM I guess if the feminists wanted to promote their gender, they would all support Sarah Pali.....
» 1/10/2008 1:57:01 PM Bronwyn “At over $1,800 per detainee per day,” It is not the price of the detainee which .....
» 1/10/2008 8:59:21 AM Graham Y "On the one hand, the banks ought to bear the costs for their own bad decisi.....
» 1/10/2008 8:50:54 AM Bronwyn “The people given low-doc loans were conned.” I refinanced a couple of years ago .....
» 1/10/2008 8:37:30 AM Oliver “Let the Free Market work. It is their right to inves, to win or loose.” I wholehea.....
» 30/09/2008 4:35:16 PM DIPLOMAN “The worst decision I ever made was to borrow money to start a business, tax dedu.....
» 30/09/2008 9:21:42 AM Freedom of expression must never be allowed to become subordinate to the will of the relig.....
» 30/09/2008 9:11:11 AM Passy “Marx wrote about the self-emancipation of the working class.” What Marx wrote abou.....
» 30/09/2008 8:50:35 AM Forrest Gumpp “Whatever the truth, this traffic seems to have stopped.” I agreed with eve.....
» 30/09/2008 8:43:25 AM I am more concerned with Muslim Terrorists fire bombing peoples houses in London because t.....
» 30/09/2008 8:36:22 AM Arjay “want new Bill enacted that stops banks foreclosing and let home owners/farmers pay .....
» 30/09/2008 8:24:33 AM DEMOS “defense of the nation is a different thing entirely. it is best done by citizens in.....
» 29/09/2008 3:53:43 PM Belly "you just had to hold your hat over your heart as you spoke to the boss, not me.....
» 29/09/2008 2:43:24 PM The fairest solution is for parents to consider their finances before having children and .....
» 29/09/2008 2:28:10 PM Its a fairly simple question. My age would now qualify me for the home guard more than th.....
» 29/09/2008 2:10:07 PM I agree, in part, with Toms article. Government likes to think it influences everything b.....
» 29/09/2008 1:59:09 PM “Steel “it's literally unbelievable that the CIA failed to detect and US internal security.....
» 29/09/2008 1:49:47 PM I agree with you Polycarp. I have to ask myself, how is it that Africa remains the basket.....
» 29/09/2008 8:55:41 AM Spikey – your reference to members shows both an unhealthy preoccupation and envy, maybe s.....
» 29/09/2008 8:40:11 AM Kipp “Siev enquiry must be held,to find the facts why people seeking a safe and better lif.....
» 28/09/2008 4:02:12 PM Passy “The idea that Lenin or Marx led to Stalin is wrong” Except, that is what actually .....
» 28/09/2008 11:41:13 AM This is another stupid thread which has no real significance or meaning. Anyones religous.....
» 28/09/2008 11:34:45 AM Cuphandle “….they were NOT selected by a higher authority to "serve" as puppet l.....
» 28/09/2008 11:15:57 AM Passy “Col Rouge, I am not sure what the point is you are making about Moldavia. I do not .....
» 28/09/2008 10:41:38 AM JamesH “”Col Rouge, I was interested in trying to engage SFJ in a discussion about Kate F.....
» 28/09/2008 10:17:02 AM Msanne “It's a government ruled by all the World's secret societies: It doesn't matter who.....
» 27/09/2008 6:46:12 PM “This philsophy of free trade and having an imbalance of terms of trade just to have cheap.....
» 27/09/2008 6:22:41 PM I am surprised you folk are even bothering to give this thread space and time. Most ".....
» 27/09/2008 6:13:17 PM SFJ “dependably tedious spleen-vents against the femomenace.” Really ? Maybe you can see.....
» 27/09/2008 1:14:50 PM Malcolm's casual and rare use Pot is the sort of thing alot of us did Bill Clinton include.....
» 27/09/2008 1:08:37 PM “I agree, thanks to the mighty taxpayers of the USA, the Wall Street Banks will continue i.....
» 26/09/2008 2:21:06 PM I would observe, the growth of the Roman empire ceased around 50AD but it was not until 14.....
» 26/09/2008 2:01:42 PM “Much of what passes for “generational theory” is simply the perpetuation of trite general.....
» 26/09/2008 1:45:01 PM “Arab - Israeli War in 1948 “ Why bench mark anything on this particular date, when the .....
» 26/09/2008 1:28:18 PM "Feminist is not a dirty word" and nor is "chauvinist" however, they.....
» 26/09/2008 8:50:46 AM Fractelle “Col, you didn't have to go back to the 80's for an example of abysmal fiscal ma.....
» 25/09/2008 12:33:12 PM “Estimates are that banks and other financers have written off about $300 billion so far. .....
» 25/09/2008 12:03:22 PM what happens when you add psychotropic substances to the swill? dickie and rainier, of .....
» 25/09/2008 11:53:44 AM The present capitalist system of exploiting minerals is for the risk taker / entrepreneur .....
» 25/09/2008 8:27:53 AM palimpsest "Seems vitally important that the 20 and 30 yo's get education or training.....
» 24/09/2008 7:24:36 PM Bugsy "I would hazard a guess that those jokes weren't from a dedicated humor site Pa.....
» 24/09/2008 2:55:17 PM Steel” Pathetic jokes are pathetic” However, plagiarizing someone elses post, the way you .....
» 24/09/2008 1:42:55 PM I think Game, set and Match to PaulL Congratulations Paul.. and Bugsy "If ever one.....
» 24/09/2008 1:36:49 PM Bronwyn “The fact that accountants can routinely charge exorbitant amounts to act as ‘proa.....
» 24/09/2008 11:06:41 AM Gosh... Bedlam (in its original form and glory). So, I assume I get to keep what I charge.....
» 24/09/2008 9:54:21 AM “In the United States for years before ENRON criminal acts have weakened the world economy.....
» 23/09/2008 2:06:10 PM A Doctor whose conscience prohibits him from addressing the expressed requests of his pati.....
» 23/09/2008 1:42:53 PM My personal view on the financial problems is I would let the market sort itself out. Th.....
» 23/09/2008 1:00:59 PM When it comes to "return on effort", I figure it is more effective to either .....
» 23/09/2008 9:06:15 AM In the one corner: CJ Morgan, Cuphandle, rainier, dickie, Q&A in the other corner Col R.....
» 23/09/2008 8:52:02 AM Fluff4 so you come to a thread and you want to post something You could start by making .....
» 22/09/2008 8:31:07 PM the title of this article needs a simple response concerning "Parents should not be .....
» 22/09/2008 2:16:40 PM Bronwyn “Yes, Col, it’s a pity those poor Americans can’t show the same foresight and skil.....
» 22/09/2008 12:04:02 PM Bennie, I think Polycarp has basically responded to your comment addressed to me. But I w.....
» 22/09/2008 10:29:44 AM So the dogs come in for a pack attack, Q&A sniffing an opportunity, sidles up to nip at m.....
» 21/09/2008 5:45:55 PM Celevia “I emotionally feel that there should be a link between the viability of the foetu.....
» 21/09/2008 3:48:38 PM lucinda9798 You answer your own question "personal growth except for finding ways to.....
» 21/09/2008 3:39:17 PM rainier and Cuphandle we all know you have lost all credibility and what the Chinese call.....
» 20/09/2008 2:11:44 PM rainier "PS. How much for your youngest daughter? Is credit card ok for you?" a.....
» 20/09/2008 1:59:50 PM Fractelle “If there is so much that is 'right' (in all senses of the word) in the Capitali.....
» 20/09/2008 10:29:32 AM What do the leftie swill fear: Other peoples individual ability Other peoples individu.....
» 20/09/2008 10:19:00 AM Sancho, well I guess with that description of me in mind, I will leave you to spot me in a.....
» 20/09/2008 9:56:06 AM I agree with gw, banjo, Mr Right, Polycarp, Forrest-Gumpp, I see fancynancy opened with a.....
» 20/09/2008 9:00:50 AM Bronwyn “Lots of PEOPLE LACKING health insurance, more like it - 45 million Americans have.....
» 20/09/2008 8:51:06 AM Foxy “Boys will be boys and so will a lot of middle-aged men.” Of course, there is a Pete.....
» 19/09/2008 8:39:14 PM “they are driven by greed and can never be satisfied.” Ah DEMOS, nothing like being speci.....
» 19/09/2008 7:10:54 PM I agree with you Robert US “I think we just have to accept that the perception in society.....
» 19/09/2008 12:56:45 PM Passy “it is the democratic rule of the working class to organise production to satisfy hu.....
» 19/09/2008 12:27:50 PM US thanks for the heads up.. I might go have alook, watch the passing parade.. I remember.....
» 19/09/2008 12:16:10 PM Josh_for_social_justice “At the same time, the pro-life movement in general must adopt a m.....
» 19/09/2008 9:31:52 AM Same old “failure because (someone’s polemic demand of the outcome) is not a perfect resul.....
» 19/09/2008 8:45:13 AM PolyCarp when we get down to definition of socialism Norman Mailer was pretty close “T.....
» 18/09/2008 10:17:02 AM Belly “Mitigation…. “ Maybe I should be more explicit, I said “That sentence seems manife.....
» 18/09/2008 9:33:10 AM Ellpus “Without Socialists there would never be any 'rights' for those except for landowne.....
» 18/09/2008 9:14:18 AM Fractelle “You were manipulated by a bully.” I guess I have superhuman powers, If I can .....
» 17/09/2008 6:53:09 PM Foxy apology accepted. I repeat, “I have always considered you, along with everyone else,.....
» 17/09/2008 1:30:57 PM Cuphandle” You asked me what I thought of "Col babie"s comments:” Actually keit.....
» 17/09/2008 10:51:10 AM Veronika, I am not scared of dogs particularly, although I have never lived with one, thus.....
» 17/09/2008 9:35:46 AM Kipp “Semantics is often used to cloud negative or derogotry comment.” And an “oversensit.....
» 17/09/2008 9:29:14 AM Stevenlmeyer sharia courts, We may not have them yet but the fashion / model has been set.....
» 17/09/2008 8:54:39 AM Belly "Col you seem to support a justice that is a scrambled egg." maybe you sh.....
» 17/09/2008 8:50:52 AM Well dears, It looks like we three witches have been joined (in the fourth post) by the lo.....
» 17/09/2008 8:37:05 AM Here is something about a Labrador, just for you veronika, www.abc.net.au/news/stories/200.....
» 17/09/2008 8:28:25 AM I have too little understanding of Malcolm Turnbull to make comment of him, although I hea.....
» 16/09/2008 10:02:15 PM Belly “Yesterdays Sydney press had a story about a theft of over a million dollars from an.....
» 16/09/2008 9:54:07 PM Rainier “someone not even invited into this discussion!” I did not realize we had to have.....
» 16/09/2008 9:37:38 PM Well Lenin said "The Goal of Socialism is Communism"... that says it all and re.....
» 16/09/2008 9:08:46 PM Foxy, the sarcasm becomes you but I have always considered you, along with everyone else,.....
» 16/09/2008 4:17:21 PM Kipp” Col. I have worked for over tens years with families, and their children with severe.....
» 16/09/2008 1:22:04 PM Foxy “You consistantly see things only from your own point of view.” Said the pot to the .....
» 16/09/2008 9:55:48 AM CJ Morgan “Now Col Rouge fantasises about "butchering" the dog whose owner he wa.....
» 16/09/2008 8:50:37 AM Foxy at last, you have started to lift your game and come up with at least a little substa.....
» 15/09/2008 7:26:54 PM Kipp “The results of CerebalPalsy occurs during the birthing process of a healthy child,an.....
» 15/09/2008 7:14:24 PM I wholly agree with daggetts first paragraph. Similarly socreatease Your right, Mr Right.....
» 15/09/2008 4:55:03 PM rainier "Hey Col, hows this for a babe! http://www.adpunch.org/images/freschello-pig_.....
» 15/09/2008 4:40:34 PM Foxy “You don't seem capable of presenting a "balanced" and an educated point of.....
» 15/09/2008 9:39:44 AM It is strange, looking back over recent US presidencies and who did what Kennedy (democra.....
» 15/09/2008 9:27:29 AM Foxy “One of the darkest blots on the British record is the forcible repatriation of very .....
» 14/09/2008 8:56:13 PM Foxy "On behalf of CJ, Dickie, et al, I'd like to remind you in the words of your bel.....
» 14/09/2008 8:46:31 PM Dickie “"keith, ever tried to put lipstick on a pig?" No but Col Rouge has - an.....
» 14/09/2008 8:17:46 PM JL Deland.. reading your post I realize why I am pro-choice (and more so than many, it wou.....
» 14/09/2008 7:50:01 PM Ah criticism from CJ… it means I must be right “Col doesn't tell us whether he attempted .....
» 14/09/2008 7:17:17 PM Foxy “Tell that to the people of the countries that the Soviet regime occupied. Look up th.....
» 14/09/2008 4:54:49 PM I agree with Polycarp. Dog owners are under a legal obligation to control their pets. It.....
» 14/09/2008 3:36:32 PM Pelican “I think dear Maggie would be mortified to know that she is being compared to Pali.....
» 14/09/2008 3:06:17 PM Cuphandle “Col Rouge: Thought you had taken the hint and "gone to ground", but .....
» 14/09/2008 2:32:21 PM HRS “Similar has been done for mass exterminations in the past in many countries, where ce.....
» 13/09/2008 4:35:52 PM Andrew Potts “You mean like all those billions of nasty perverse non-reproducing worker .....
» 13/09/2008 4:10:56 PM Veronica. I am not interested in your excuses of DEMOS. That you choose to write in defe.....
» 13/09/2008 3:57:12 PM Rainier Re Obama, Palin and their respective qualities And your previous post: “white lo.....
» 12/09/2008 1:37:55 PM This is Off topic but DEMOS Comment is Off-topic but truely contemptible and but need of r.....
» 12/09/2008 11:49:23 AM From the article “But the present political leaders in Victoria do not intend to preserve .....
» 12/09/2008 11:19:50 AM David f “I was accosted by a prostitute recently who asked me if I were interested in fema.....
» 11/09/2008 1:00:22 PM CJ Morgan "I recommend the tripe in black bean sauce" I can imagine a picture o.....
» 11/09/2008 12:49:58 PM Cuphandle, the ability to drone is all yours… did I say you are boring? Rainier “white l.....
» 11/09/2008 9:34:55 AM Polycarp “The carnal part of me looks at the 'panic' going on and finds it hilarious :)” .....
» 11/09/2008 9:14:42 AM I suppose we lack the full body of evidence which persuaded the jury to their conclusion, .....
» 10/09/2008 8:10:35 PM Cuphandle, why don't you find a life instead of giving an impression of a jet aircraft lan.....
» 10/09/2008 9:51:43 AM Cuphandle “battling against time on a "Dial-up connection"” We can all make excu.....
» 10/09/2008 9:28:37 AM “The US, Europe and now Asia teeter on the brink of recession. War stalks the planet.” An.....
» 8/09/2008 10:25:56 PM Examinator “Have you read "Buddha to Bono"” Never heard of it. “It’s a text in.....
» 8/09/2008 10:04:52 PM Polycarp YumCha in a couple of weeks in new month…. Would suit… As for the “Sarah’s” I hav.....
» 7/09/2008 8:26:13 PM Kipp “Col Rouge You have the audacity to post " And there are millions queing up to t.....
» 7/09/2008 3:57:39 PM "Some women have chosen the highway." and alot are out there desperately tryin.....
» 7/09/2008 3:34:20 PM I see rainier is his usual venal and irreverent self “Palin will be hard pressed to respo.....
» 6/09/2008 2:24:00 PM Kipp “I would love to support your belief in Maggie Thatcher,” It will be difficult for y.....
» 6/09/2008 2:09:45 PM “Fractelle is dumb” anyone who hurls ad hominines at me, thinking they will go unchallen.....
» 6/09/2008 1:38:44 PM Celevia “Has usage stopped anywhere despite draconian measures?”” Not stopped but reduced.....
» 5/09/2008 4:57:50 PM Kipp I lived in UK at the time and voted for Margaret Thatcher government. “destroyed th.....
» 5/09/2008 4:15:11 PM fester “As far as I can make out, your ideas seem more based in personal experience and tr.....
» 5/09/2008 4:04:25 PM Fester I acknowledge some people have a greater genetic propensity to addiction than other.....
» 5/09/2008 11:51:11 AM I agree with CJ Morgan, excepting, I find it hard to draw the subjective line between what.....
» 5/09/2008 11:16:32 AM I happened to listen to Giuliani’s speech which preceded Palin's presentation at the Repub.....
» 4/09/2008 6:56:22 PM Fester “I cannot understand Col's belief that a greater availability would lead to a surge.....
» 4/09/2008 4:03:17 PM Pelican “The problems lie in increasing populations and economic rationalism and the eff.....
» 4/09/2008 3:49:03 PM Bennie reading your post all I can say is you seem to be suffering from the “Poor Me Syndr.....
» 4/09/2008 1:31:16 PM Like the two previous posters, I too can see how a decision to abort carries an emotional .....
» 4/09/2008 9:24:52 AM Passy “Where does profit come from? The labour of workers. Capitalism is a system in which.....
» 4/09/2008 12:22:00 AM “Women continue to be over-represented in clerical, sales and service jobs, holding 87 per.....
» 3/09/2008 11:46:28 PM When I saw “Self sustained living” I thought it was going to be something to chew on Jaso.....
» 3/09/2008 7:25:47 PM Steel” yes like the fabric of our society will be destroyed by gay marriage.” Only when y.....
» 3/09/2008 12:32:51 AM http://books.google.com.au/books?id=5QEUyLaZYjAC&pg=PA98&lpg=PA98&dq=drug+use+legalization.....
» 3/09/2008 12:29:55 AM BMJ assumes legalisation of drugs will reduce drug related crime. I seriously doubt it wil.....
» 3/09/2008 12:28:57 AM Celivia “If there is indeed a strong connection then I’d like to see evidence of that.” E.....
» 2/09/2008 2:43:49 PM I do not get this idea of "getting old". If the Who (a much underrated band) an.....
» 1/09/2008 8:41:21 PM Sharkfin –“COL- What you say is true about businesses taking their companies to India and .....
» 1/09/2008 1:44:43 PM “may find themselves in a situation very soon where they're sitting on negative equity”. .....
» 31/08/2008 1:14:46 PM Nicky “Col Rouge, I have no alternative but to treat your post with the contempt it so des.....
» 30/08/2008 5:48:17 PM What I like about fur is the way my girlfriend looks, sprawled naked across it. The sensu.....
» 30/08/2008 2:01:56 PM Sharkfin “The point I was making is there will not be any Doctors or Nurses fit enough to .....
» 30/08/2008 1:36:20 PM Bronwyn “artists using photographs of naked children in a day and age when the same sort o.....
» 29/08/2008 9:26:26 PM The reason they are known as the “public intellectuals” is because, given a choice, no one.....
» 29/08/2008 1:59:41 PM I see ‘knuckles’, our resident Neanderthal, has taken to editing and rearranging what I sa.....
» 29/08/2008 1:57:04 PM Bugger .. . . apologies folks... that last one ended up on the wrong thread.....
» 29/08/2008 1:51:21 PM I see ‘knuckles’, our resident Neanderthal, has taken to editing and rearranging what I sa.....
» 29/08/2008 1:23:15 PM Foxy "My singing Kareoke would really be entertaining (I'm tone deaf)..." my ex.....
» 29/08/2008 1:18:06 PM CJ Morgan “Unsurprisingly, it seems that Col's not only out of step with most OLOers on th.....
» 29/08/2008 11:16:26 AM Bronwyn “A ban on adult nudes in art is a different issue to the debate in question here w.....
» 29/08/2008 11:01:46 AM Nicky “Col Rouge, I take your comments on board, but as I asked before, where do we draw t.....
» 28/08/2008 6:59:23 PM ET "Nature will generally do what is easiest so it’s a whole lot easier to create a m.....
» 28/08/2008 6:32:39 PM “They are a response to a rise in global and domestic conflicts, an oil crisis, an environ.....
» 28/08/2008 12:37:02 PM Fester “It raises the possibility of genetic testing to determine susceptibility.” Maybe .....
» 28/08/2008 12:08:50 PM Yabby "So I landed up hiring exclusively women, a bloke in there would have stuffed t.....
» 28/08/2008 12:04:05 PM I reckon an "OLO Kareoke Night" would be something not to miss... Maybe Polycar.....
» 27/08/2008 6:23:04 PM Ah Foxy… The House of the Rising Sun … great song… and I saw Eric Burdon on ABC some month.....
» 27/08/2008 3:27:44 PM Fester “A genetic predisposition puts drug addicts in a similar category to diabetics.” A.....
» 27/08/2008 9:55:14 AM Sharkfin “You and a lot like you bask in the benefits of having a huge supporting communit.....
» 26/08/2008 6:10:57 PM US agree, it seems to me some sections of the female/union/feminist movement assume 'work'.....
» 26/08/2008 4:24:15 PM Celivia “Gambling is a different social and health problem than drugs- it’s better to comp.....
» 26/08/2008 4:03:28 PM IamJoseph I fail to see the relevance of the gay community to this particular debate. H.....
» 26/08/2008 1:18:27 PM Fester “predisposition to drug addiction was probably genetic.” Yes, I am aware of that. .....
» 25/08/2008 8:51:23 PM And now is the time for all those folk who whinned on and on about not being able to affor.....
» 25/08/2008 6:13:01 PM Celivia I am not sure what you are getting at about small versus large black markets. I kn.....
» 25/08/2008 10:47:41 AM US “I think the perception is badly flawed that such a small proportion of people use drug.....
» 24/08/2008 7:39:32 PM Fractelle “The war on drugs is lost. Criminals have won.” The weak and the feint hearted .....
» 24/08/2008 6:58:39 PM PALE “No not legalize it- decriminalize it.” I could see the possibilities of that workin.....
» 24/08/2008 2:55:53 PM IamJoseph “This appears to be your fundamental error. The community DOES retain transcende.....
» 23/08/2008 5:27:37 PM IamJoseph “I have the personal right to decide The 'I' is subserviant here, to the com.....
» 23/08/2008 5:19:49 PM Celevia “Big black markets are harder to eradicate than small ones.” I disagree, it is ea.....
» 23/08/2008 3:53:00 PM So fester finds a reference which disputes the opium trade. You should read David Irving .....
» 23/08/2008 3:18:02 PM Fester “Col's view of legalisation is that it will bring about the collapse of modern civi.....
» 23/08/2008 1:36:47 PM Too easy to blame someone else for what we stick in our own mouths. I am in the same stat.....
» 23/08/2008 1:11:34 PM Blairbar "The supreme irony is that the afro-american descendants of slaves are so mu.....
» 23/08/2008 12:52:08 PM CJMorgan “I see that Col's continuing to raise the intellectual level of the debate.” As .....
» 22/08/2008 7:14:16 PM IamJoseph “even when it is clearly not artistic,” Who are you to mandate what is “Artisti.....
» 22/08/2008 4:20:26 PM IamJoseph “That the contraversial becomes elevated to cult status, like in a religion, is .....
» 22/08/2008 12:01:26 AM Fester, unable to challenge the reasoning and references in my posts, descends to whining .....
» 21/08/2008 7:42:37 PM Maybe we should use a handycap system. In the 100 metres, You get 5 cm for every base poi.....
» 21/08/2008 5:28:25 PM PALE “I approve of the death penality for dealers as its destroying our youth and our coun.....
» 21/08/2008 12:33:20 PM IamJoseph “Carnal knowledge involves actual sex with a minor “ according to reference.com.....
» 21/08/2008 11:40:04 AM PALE “Once the rot sets in many deal on a daily basis with these people without even knowi.....
» 21/08/2008 12:42:36 AM Steel "The USA has a stronger intolerance of drugs than Australia" I did not re.....
» 21/08/2008 12:36:41 AM Iamjoseph “Art, like free speech, is not above the law, and carnal knowledge is forbidden .....
» 20/08/2008 11:41:51 PM PALE “However its possible that your question is sincere.” Insincere people do not ask, t.....
» 20/08/2008 12:10:27 PM PALE “de criminalize drugs is the answer and shake off the dealers.” In this Greek island.....
» 20/08/2008 11:57:06 AM Steel I have privately concluded mil observer to be a cardigan struggling troll and comple.....
» 19/08/2008 4:21:58 PM IamJoseph “There is a stark contradiction of terms in those two statements, namely with 'd.....
» 19/08/2008 3:21:06 PM Actually I misinterpreted the use of the word ‘servant’, mainly because of the way it was .....
» 19/08/2008 2:45:57 PM Foxy “It is a question of relevance and National Identity - we need to look to the future,.....
» 19/08/2008 2:27:28 PM “unnecessary criminal law creates costs, too. So does an ineffective, too large government.....
» 19/08/2008 2:20:37 PM Celevia I agree, we are going over old ground again if you read back through my posts, y.....
» 18/08/2008 6:13:57 PM IamJoseph “I don't think so, else you would'nt have 'bad' art. Basically, art is a skill, .....
» 18/08/2008 2:13:43 PM Foxy “difficult to distinguish between the British and Australian flags..” Then it is a g.....
» 18/08/2008 1:18:31 PM "Perhaps it is too soon to expect tangible, practical outcomes from the government's .....
» 18/08/2008 1:02:28 PM Polycarp “The problem is... this can only occur because of freedom.... but where could suc.....
» 18/08/2008 12:48:05 PM CJMorgan “I did, and said so - but I'm quite astonished that only Fractelle and I have thu.....
» 17/08/2008 7:00:53 PM Mil-observer Interesting post that last one. I did ask about the origins or basis for yo.....
» 17/08/2008 6:13:43 PM Fractelle “I am trying to decipher your lengthy rants,” They are not that difficult, for .....
» 17/08/2008 3:08:41 PM mil-observer “Henson's activity against the will of myself and many others” You and your .....
» 17/08/2008 2:45:13 PM Fractelle “And it IS a mental illness that you are intent on punishing” Mental illness? .....
» 17/08/2008 2:25:20 PM Fester, you and CJMorgan have one thing in common, a capacity to rely on abuse when you co.....
» 17/08/2008 2:24:31 PM Celevia “I just want to point out that it makes no sense to outlaw a drug that is less har.....
» 17/08/2008 1:12:20 PM I asked a few simple questions at the beginning of this thread. I would prefer those ques.....
» 16/08/2008 4:01:38 PM So is this new state to operate with custom barriers and passports? Wil this new "St.....
» 16/08/2008 1:43:58 PM CJMorgan “insulting anybody who happens to argue against it.” I am arguing against Celivi.....
» 16/08/2008 2:52:36 AM Cevelia “Alcohol is, socially, more damaging than any other drug.” Only because it is mor.....
» 15/08/2008 10:31:19 PM Bowdens argument seems to be founded on “doing no harm” (per Kant) as espoused by Mills .....
» 15/08/2008 7:29:43 PM HRS “would have thought that capitalists would be more accepting of homosexuals than non-c.....
» 15/08/2008 7:00:53 PM Fractelle “The words 'harm minimisation' aren't in your vocabulary are they?” I wrote, im.....
» 15/08/2008 3:53:38 PM Steel “I think you misunderstand that statement as it's actually the reverse. You want peo.....
» 15/08/2008 12:55:11 PM Steel “The war on drugs is a sham and we are all paying” Prove that it is a sham. You ma.....
» 14/08/2008 8:56:11 PM CG I understand your profit trap point. I disagree with the disadvantage of large v small.....
» 14/08/2008 8:25:48 PM Celevia “Good point about gambling as an addiction, at least you made me think about it.” .....
» 13/08/2008 6:41:02 PM fractelle “Why do you make the huge assumption that drug abuse would increase dramatically.....
» 13/08/2008 2:25:44 PM Rstuart “making drugs illegal reduces their usage.” It does, guided by what happened when.....
» 12/08/2008 8:14:40 PM Country Girl “imputation system, I am inclined to agree,” Thanks CG, ultimately, there wo.....
» 12/08/2008 7:50:49 PM Steel “Because a certain proportion of people have bad effects doesn't mean everyone has t.....
» 12/08/2008 4:33:50 PM And whilst you are about it, consider these groups Amphetamines including ecstasy http:.....
» 12/08/2008 4:31:20 PM Fractelle to US “Prohibition and the war on drugs clearly don't work. Do you have any sugg.....
» 12/08/2008 3:26:48 PM Pericles “No politician will go hungry.” LOL you sound as cynical as I feel LOL As Ernes.....
» 12/08/2008 3:15:00 PM Billie “Joseph Lucas Australia” Australian Customs & Excise have, for many years, exercis.....
» 12/08/2008 12:41:07 PM freediver "They are only socialism by stealth if you are a socialist. If you are a ca.....
» 12/08/2008 12:31:39 PM the best case for removing company tax is, that as a non natural entity it is not a consum.....
» 11/08/2008 8:56:01 PM We are, I believe fortunate to be living in these times. Sure things have changed. I st.....
» 11/08/2008 3:58:03 PM I am a believer in diversity. When the world is reliant on a couple of dozen basic crops .....
» 11/08/2008 2:05:09 PM People who disrespect Austrlaias immigration laws and try to enter Australia without prope.....
» 11/08/2008 1:52:25 PM “we believe that every person is precious and deserves a decent chance in life and because.....
» 10/08/2008 7:28:40 PM Stevenlmeyer “In Australia, lately, we have.. ..” Australia is a nation of immigrants. P.....
» 10/08/2008 7:10:22 PM Dickie “As Sir Nicholas Stern advised, the biggest market failure of all is the global war.....
» 10/08/2008 3:38:23 PM Examinator “I agree with some of your premises but not your methodology, conclusion or the.....
» 9/08/2008 3:04:18 PM Stevenlmeyer I will give this a go OK as a member of government, I would not be able t.....
» 9/08/2008 2:45:55 PM SJF “Col Rouge and provoke me in post after post to declare times, dates, links and comme.....
» 9/08/2008 12:07:29 PM Steven;meyer” Give me a dollar figure” OK, as a “bean counter” I feel qualified to respon.....
» 9/08/2008 11:25:21 AM Examinator “As someone who has both IT and Business with dual majors qualifications” Me t.....
» 9/08/2008 11:19:45 AM Dickie “Unfortunately, Professor Flint fails to offer any alternative to the ETS.” In the.....
» 8/08/2008 5:32:54 PM billie, billie, what can I say other than as the article said- “It is truly unfortunate t.....
» 8/08/2008 3:19:04 PM We are talking about Giving someone a six month "bonus" period of extra life. Q.....
» 8/08/2008 10:48:42 AM From the article “Noam Chomsky (in Failed States: The Abuse of Power and the Assault on De.....
» 8/08/2008 10:10:44 AM Billie “REPORT FINDINGS ARE PROBABLY CORRECT” Not if the modeling is faulty. I have been.....
» 8/08/2008 9:43:08 AM We have another thread running here “countering a climate of skepticism” by Roger Jones. .....
» 7/08/2008 8:10:17 PM ASymeonakis “The USA are in decline and they have to solve many basic internal problems, 4.....
» 7/08/2008 4:09:03 PM US “Although this has now been achieved in our society, the phrase 'equality for women' pr.....
» 6/08/2008 6:07:28 PM US "If the drug is made legal, a lot of the "Gateway Drug' rational disappears.&.....
» 6/08/2008 12:32:13 PM It is a pointless question, something which cannot be undone. It is no different to sugges.....
» 6/08/2008 12:05:23 PM US “SJF is a caricacture of how I see feminists.” Maybe its me but I did not associate SJ.....
» 5/08/2008 3:47:38 PM CJMorgan, our own mouth piece of the fatuous. It always surprises me how those with nothi.....
» 5/08/2008 3:19:58 PM SJF “'Yes, the males often say things that make me wince (like Col Rouge's last post here .....
» 5/08/2008 12:52:33 PM Phil Matimein “avoid problems occurring in the future.” No problems with that. However,.....
» 5/08/2008 12:11:43 PM Only three mistakes? Here goes 1 (and absolute FIRST) fail to understand or provide for .....
» 4/08/2008 11:36:05 PM “There has been a tradition in the West of the artist being fraught, agonised, drug addict.....
» 4/08/2008 10:33:41 PM Cevilia “Why would cannabis have to be treated differently than other substances like toba.....
» 4/08/2008 12:07:13 PM OF course, going back to wearymums comment, one thing I got from my parents and which I en.....
» 4/08/2008 12:06:27 PM Wearymum “Congratulations on being evolved..” not many would agree with you . . . but th.....
» 4/08/2008 11:41:48 AM I think Costellos self exile to the back bench is a loss for both the Liberal party and th.....
» 4/08/2008 11:23:28 AM Hadz” Every pro climate change rebuttal I've seen consistently "plays the man", .....
» 3/08/2008 10:40:49 PM I have no problem with using cannabis in a controlled manner when its use facilitates a pr.....
» 3/08/2008 10:19:57 PM Veronika "What a nasty little man you are. Erk." your posts have consisted of b.....
» 3/08/2008 4:45:57 PM SJF "No. It actually defines me as someone who refuses to do other people's homework .....
» 2/08/2008 2:17:15 PM Classic stuff this “The nature of capitalism is such that it still sees the family unit as.....
» 2/08/2008 1:22:05 PM Bronwyn “Having being charged with your child's education, the teacher had every right to .....
» 2/08/2008 1:02:18 PM Phil Matimien “Those in the private sector that whinge about government processes and the .....
» 2/08/2008 12:57:14 PM SJF Am I to presume you are a fool?’ By all means … if it makes you feel better.” Well i.....
» 2/08/2008 12:36:57 PM Individual “when a well-placed slap prevents this kind of "anger" developing in .....
» 2/08/2008 12:14:18 PM I think we have exhausted this. Thanks folks for your input A few for the return of the .....
» 1/08/2008 10:03:29 AM HRS “where people are now so absorbed in themselves they no longer want to have any childr.....
» 1/08/2008 9:50:39 AM “Admission into the Civil Service is indeed eagerly sought after, but it is for the unambi.....
» 31/07/2008 6:32:13 PM "A Royal Commission into farmers' practices" I suggest before any such "Ro.....
» 31/07/2008 6:25:22 PM Steel Mann It's a good way of understanding the complexities of the society we live in.&qu.....
» 31/07/2008 11:11:01 AM Arjay “One Term Wonders". Arjay I agree, I have already used a similar term on a cou.....
» 31/07/2008 12:36:10 AM “Its cathedrals are among the West’s most magnificent artistic achievements - and they wil.....
» 31/07/2008 12:11:39 AM More of Melinda’s hysteria. Parents are those in charge of arbitrating and administering .....
» 30/07/2008 11:41:59 PM SJF, you must be suffering a cold. Your sense of the genuine is not working. I was sincer.....
» 30/07/2008 11:15:54 PM Foxy “My question is, should politics be kept out of the Olympics?” Ideally many things s.....
» 30/07/2008 4:58:37 PM Chris Lewis “although I can never hope to satisfy all with our different views and values......
» 30/07/2008 4:39:14 PM SJF “What I care about is the thoroughly misguided belief that there should be absolutely .....
» 30/07/2008 12:49:58 PM Antiseptic “hysterical, lynch-mob mentality quite clearly” You are the only one who is ta.....
» 29/07/2008 11:24:45 PM Antiseptic “Did someone mention lynch mobs?” Twice now by YOU and "hysteria" Y.....
» 29/07/2008 2:32:27 PM Antiseptic “And when banks were allowed to self-regulate, with fat profits to be made by d.....
» 29/07/2008 1:06:19 PM Chris Lewis “I am also one of those who advocate some sort of taxation to aid renewable en.....
» 28/07/2008 8:57:29 PM Belly “I believe the old fashioned idea we should not talk religion or politics is so we m.....
» 28/07/2008 8:22:39 PM Huffnpuff ““Pedophiles by the way are usually abused children” Someone else said that, I.....
» 28/07/2008 5:21:26 PM Thanks Banjo for your agreement. The issue of penalties for drug dealers is a difficult on.....
» 28/07/2008 5:05:25 PM Cevilia “I agree that killers should be prosecuted and punished. Nobody who’s responsible.....
» 28/07/2008 2:16:54 PM Antiseptic “heroin that was either extra strong, or was diluted with something else toxic......
» 28/07/2008 12:29:35 PM from the article "the Howard government was a successful performer across a number of.....
» 27/07/2008 6:57:16 PM thylacine “agreed on by a large number of scientists and disagreed by others, like you Col.....
» 27/07/2008 3:05:12 PM Celivia, I agree the economic baisis of argument ofr or against is crass and I only comme.....
» 25/07/2008 10:52:30 AM My suburb was planned in the 1970s. Nothing new in the ideals the author states. They are .....
» 25/07/2008 10:23:18 AM Jayb “Sexual abuse is not only carried out by some Catholic priests but by some ministers .....
» 24/07/2008 11:37:49 PM As a non-catholic, I might observe not “Should Catholic Priests be allowed to marry?” Bu.....
» 24/07/2008 8:30:56 PM if you type "renaissance madonna and child" into google and then go look at the .....
» 24/07/2008 4:13:00 PM Andrew Bartlett “But yes, by comparison Australia is very much underpopulated, which is wh.....
» 24/07/2008 3:43:15 PM Cevelia “Perhaps, but I’ve come across information showing a death sentence is more costly.....
» 24/07/2008 3:39:31 PM O sung wu Martin Bryant is just another case for consideration, although the be-kind-to-th.....
» 22/07/2008 5:46:24 PM Fractelle, my ‘libertarianism’ is not some form of anarchy. I consistently support the n.....
» 22/07/2008 12:08:24 PM Hi bro, I see little difference between socialism and fascism, they are beliefs which put .....
» 21/07/2008 11:16:28 AM Philips “Col wishes death on Corby NOT because marijuana kills. He wants her dead because .....
» 21/07/2008 10:56:52 AM Veronika “I didn't miss it, I just don't buy it.” Then you are addressing a separate and .....
» 19/07/2008 2:39:45 PM Sancho “As the father of economic theory, John Maynard Keynes,” Economic theory is a bast.....
» 19/07/2008 12:38:04 PM O sung wu “In closing, hang in there COL R., you've certainly got my support (I wish I pos.....
» 19/07/2008 12:32:27 PM Examinator “Facts. Deterrents don’t work they are like locks they keep honest people hones.....
» 19/07/2008 11:42:48 AM Foxy thanks for your last commentary. The US homicide rate, I suspect has a lot to do wit.....
» 19/07/2008 11:25:07 AM RobP I understand your view but do not support the “natural attrition” approach which you .....
» 18/07/2008 3:28:12 PM US "I wish I had my own free will, so I could choose how many offspring I had. Hang o.....
» 18/07/2008 11:20:46 AM Following on from another thread, we have a matter presently pending, the execution of the.....
» 18/07/2008 10:01:49 AM Stuart Walker – not sure if you are an agent-provocateur or just have a lend of us. One t.....
» 18/07/2008 7:51:07 AM Fester “Out of interest Col, what do you see as the ideological drivers of population grow.....
» 17/07/2008 10:23:15 PM Spikey “So you'd pick up your own daughters if they got into strife, but turn away from a .....
» 17/07/2008 7:43:46 PM O sung wu “that COL R. (when negatively challenged) engages in language of a kind that is .....
» 17/07/2008 7:31:33 PM Yabby is absolutely correct. Population is the single cause which promotes Global Warmin.....
» 17/07/2008 7:10:19 PM fester "And what about the time before King and Church, Col? " .... "But I.....
» 17/07/2008 4:12:40 PM People are people, they are not the property of the state they are born or trained in or b.....
» 17/07/2008 3:52:10 PM fester "When things started it was all libertarianism. Things have changed since then.....
» 17/07/2008 3:42:51 PM Anyone who has read the recent thread about Schapelle Corby will know my view but I will s.....
» 17/07/2008 3:39:01 PM Philips rather than bother with addressing you as the resident amoeba direct, I will merel.....
» 16/07/2008 5:09:11 PM Actually the question is not if they are 'accurate' but whether they are representative. .....
» 16/07/2008 4:16:29 PM ScienceLaw “I felt the debate at that time generally had moved to a higher level than your.....
» 16/07/2008 2:58:03 PM From the article “Religions promote elitism, xenophobia, intolerance, ignorance and fascis.....
» 16/07/2008 11:27:10 AM Fester “Private, public and judicial are all limbs of the same beast. For me it is more a .....
» 16/07/2008 11:06:15 AM Well said Frank. I concur with what you wrote. The redeeming quality of a secular state .....
» 16/07/2008 10:43:22 AM US “I think you are blaming drugs for people's actions.” I blame the actions of Rhea Penr.....
» 16/07/2008 10:39:47 AM philips, I have no idea who or what you are but your debating style is as rank as a three .....
» 16/07/2008 10:29:09 AM Social Benefits Reprioritizing Dickie “Superannuation was not made compulsory in this nati.....
» 14/07/2008 11:53:18 AM Foxy "You may call that "reasoned and rational," I don't!" such is t.....
» 14/07/2008 11:26:13 AM Back on Thursday, 3 July 2008 I posted some challenges to assertions by ScienceLaw which I.....
» 14/07/2008 10:55:12 AM First let me say I am not a Roman Catholic but respect peoples rights to find solace in th.....
» 14/07/2008 10:32:02 AM Foxy “And even sorrier that you chose to vent your spleen so openly on a public Forum such.....
» 14/07/2008 10:13:30 AM Too right philips, re your boom and bust cycle. However, One-Term Krudd & Co seem hell be.....
» 14/07/2008 10:09:09 AM StG “How about we cut the dole from 'unlimited' too say, 1 year of lifetime eligibility an.....
» 13/07/2008 4:22:18 PM Antiseptic “From the article:"Ms Penrose, who has a history of mental illness was als.....
» 12/07/2008 10:05:04 AM Fester “What makes a great and prosperous country is an educated population more so than a.....
» 11/07/2008 8:04:37 PM Steel “You're letting your emotions and personal concern for the mother cloud your judgeme.....
» 11/07/2008 4:06:08 PM Ludwig “I bet that if one of your daughters did slip into some sort of drug-related crimin.....
» 11/07/2008 1:46:30 PM US I would not worry about it, “One Term” Krudd and Co are about push us into recession wi.....
» 11/07/2008 1:39:12 PM "Would you still feel the same way if this was your daughter or grandchild or member .....
» 11/07/2008 12:07:58 PM What gets me with the title of this article is the idea that people are responsible for ot.....
» 11/07/2008 11:26:42 AM She did the Crime in Indonesia, she should do the time in Indonesia. She is where she is .....
» 11/07/2008 11:12:26 AM The greens were infiltrated by the rabid left years ago and have gone down hill as a conse.....
» 11/07/2008 10:24:31 AM Any alternative tax system is worth considering. The present system is cumbersome, prone .....
» 10/07/2008 2:39:21 PM Examinator “without conflict the site would be boring.” There is a difference between dis.....
» 8/07/2008 12:53:37 PM David Palmer “1. It takes two people to make a baby, so it has to be a shared responsibili.....
» 8/07/2008 12:41:35 AM David Palmer “Col what makes you think 18 women sums up the case for damaged women? The bo.....
» 7/07/2008 11:45:52 PM Examinator, “Col, at the risk of invoking your scorn” I do not scorn any ones view, only .....
» 6/07/2008 4:05:34 PM Rstuart “Col Rouge, for me is not the carbon taxes that make me nervous. When its all said.....
» 6/07/2008 3:50:29 PM Bronwyn “Col, you browbeat us incessantly on the virtue of individual rights and how they .....
» 5/07/2008 5:51:15 PM One solution Stop going soft on criminals make chld sexs attacks a capital offence and t.....
» 5/07/2008 2:37:46 PM ASymeonakis “Col Rouge Simple I discover that you are better than I thought, for me democr.....
» 5/07/2008 2:28:54 PM sung wu “service to the community and the sometimes nebulous and ambiguous directions of t.....
» 4/07/2008 3:22:27 PM Bronwyn “I understand that climate change does have a complex interplay with poverty, but .....
» 4/07/2008 12:40:51 PM I can never understand those folk who demand to impose their will over the sovereignty of .....
» 4/07/2008 10:35:33 AM Billie “Yes we should spend more on infrastructure,” The socialist response to everything.....
» 3/07/2008 11:32:19 PM ASymeonakis “You are very sensitive for the freedom of expresion! I like that! I hope you .....
» 3/07/2008 11:08:42 PM ScienceLaw” If you are willing to allow others the choice to take an action, you are de fa.....
» 3/07/2008 2:29:36 PM Users of oil, in whatever form it is applied, are the ones most suited to deciding for the.....
» 3/07/2008 1:33:07 PM On Line Opinion is, as it declares itself to be, “Opinion” It does not condition that its.....
» 2/07/2008 10:40:22 PM O sung wu I usually agree with your view, however, not this time... “You see, if the copp.....
» 2/07/2008 9:57:13 PM Ericc “Comparing global warming with the Y2K bug or the hole in the ozone layer or the thr.....
» 2/07/2008 3:26:48 PM Steel "Police are wanting to pre-approve or grant 'permission' to planned messages.&q.....
» 2/07/2008 3:08:16 PM I agree with all you say Bruce. I note from the article “Few issues require such careful .....
» 2/07/2008 11:19:54 AM From the article “For purposes of income tax and GST, it could have deemed every investmen.....
» 2/07/2008 10:29:03 AM Shadow Minister “Everyone is being mean to me, so I won't play any more. Grow up.” I was.....
» 2/07/2008 7:37:49 AM Bronwyn “You have no desire to challenge the fact that this event is costing taxpayers $86.....
» 1/07/2008 4:05:51 PM I guess if we were to consider the public cost of trials, we might do away with juries for.....
» 1/07/2008 3:47:31 PM I agree with “Anna Katzmann, SC, described the regulations as "unnecessary and repugn.....
» 1/07/2008 3:03:46 PM ScienceLaw “Our choices are subjugated every day to others' beliefs - I cannot rob a bank,.....
» 1/07/2008 2:35:42 PM Well here we are again, I agree with the skeptics and those who think the IPCC is a farce.....
» 23/06/2008 11:38:01 PM Robert “I owe much to those who have gone before.” Mostly our parents and those who know .....
» 23/06/2008 11:20:59 PM Yvonne “I've told you before; Lenin is dead and so is communism.” but his useful idiots l.....
» 23/06/2008 6:35:43 PM Foxy “I'm sure Sophia Loren could park her slippers under your bed. Or Joan Collins” Oh c.....
» 23/06/2008 6:25:42 PM I would agree with you Rob. I endeavour to space my statements out and must admit to gett.....
» 23/06/2008 6:07:58 PM Banjo “I have encounted MS and her cronies before and they are impervious to reason.” I t.....
» 23/06/2008 3:06:24 PM If an older woman were to come running after me, I would suspect it was only because she n.....
» 23/06/2008 2:35:13 PM US “Col, you're in great form here,” Thankyou US Individualism is my “passion”. It is m.....
» 23/06/2008 2:11:24 PM Joanne “Unfettered individualism has failed Australia and every other nation... Multicultu.....
» 23/06/2008 11:55:34 AM I see this thread raging on, I agree with o sung wu, “Without putting too fine a point o.....
» 23/06/2008 11:19:19 AM ASymeonakis “Gender equality is a fundamental right, a common value of the EU, and a neces.....
» 23/06/2008 10:23:10 AM Haralambos “Yes, most on OLO are sheep. Mind you, I like sheep, but they can not think for.....
» 22/06/2008 8:16:22 PM I find it quite spooky the way events in my life a mirrored in OLO debates. This weekend .....
» 22/06/2008 7:48:32 PM RobP “Col, this is eye-of-the-beholder stuff.” I can see fine, If I wanted to move some.....
» 22/06/2008 2:31:39 PM Anything which does not rely on merit is not going to produce the best outcomes. Affirmat.....
» 22/06/2008 2:00:00 PM Marilyn Shepherd ” Col I don't care if you waited in some stupid line for approval, the po.....
» 22/06/2008 12:53:09 PM Arjay "Actually I've just learnt that the Govt subsidy has not expired on LPG convers.....
» 22/06/2008 12:46:59 PM Foxy “We have chosen to emphasize personal liberty, an emphasis that can lead only to soci.....
» 21/06/2008 6:01:17 PM CJ Morgan “More like unexpectedly seeing an uncouth acquaintance at an art exhibition, and.....
» 21/06/2008 12:56:19 PM Robert “measure outcomes across large groups and across a wide range of outcomes.” Of cou.....
» 21/06/2008 12:50:08 AM Bronwyn “Trust you, Col, to latch on to a loaded term like that.” When it smells like a r.....
» 20/06/2008 6:11:52 PM Haralambos "Col Rouge, Previously I've ignored your comments." It is the wises.....
» 19/06/2008 11:49:30 PM “Us men will soon be reduced to the status of toy boys needed for the occasional bit of ru.....
» 19/06/2008 11:37:49 PM "I've noticed that Online Opinion is a bit of a boy's club. GROW UP!" That is .....
» 19/06/2008 11:33:34 PM Yvonne “Col, quite a lyrical post. I'm relieved there is some poetry in your hard conserva.....
» 19/06/2008 11:06:26 PM Bronwyn “I didn't say anything about governments managing markets.” Quote your previous p.....
» 19/06/2008 12:03:11 PM Yvonne, it please me to make you smile : - ) “And contemporary wisdom suggests the bes.....
» 19/06/2008 11:21:34 AM Arjay - Entering a hedge agreement is a voluntary action. There is no government compulsio.....
» 18/06/2008 4:39:44 PM From the article” But the SIEV-X was in fact a small and unsafe boat, without adequate fac.....
» 18/06/2008 4:04:40 PM Robert “equality of opportunity camp” That is an input measure, not output orientated. A.....
» 18/06/2008 3:32:16 PM David “"As for the Bible, well it is a book the text of which has been massaged and m.....
» 18/06/2008 1:40:12 PM Must agree with the article. The Button Plan was supposed to solve the problems of the au.....
» 18/06/2008 12:49:40 PM Hi Robert, interesting issues you raise. The long and the short of the debate is People.....
» 18/06/2008 10:21:40 AM HRS “I would have thought that infanticide and abortion are connected.” I think not. Abo.....
» 18/06/2008 9:44:36 AM Foxy “I was merely quoting the observations made in The Age - Good Weekend magazine.” If .....
» 17/06/2008 4:30:54 PM Sells “I have been a critic of liberal democracy because the much vaunted individual canno.....
» 17/06/2008 4:11:53 PM Foxy "As the saying goes, "Same bloke, different hat." And, getting a 'fair.....
» 17/06/2008 2:03:18 PM I don’t agree with the Pastor Boisoin however, I do support his right to preach whatever h.....
» 17/06/2008 1:43:53 PM “Having enjoyed historically low interest rates,” Some of us can still remember how Hawke.....
» 17/06/2008 12:49:13 PM Coms “for man today veganism is a viable option. man can maintain balanced diets without m.....
» 17/06/2008 11:45:51 AM Easytimes “Col Rouge – You did not say if support having Jewish war criminals bought to ju.....
» 16/06/2008 2:03:32 PM Fortunately or unfortunately this test means nothing. Whilst it sounds like a good idea, .....
» 16/06/2008 10:31:13 AM Coms “The only environmentally and animal welfare friendly option is veganism.” That is y.....
» 16/06/2008 10:08:35 AM Nicky “Horse racing and trotting place unreasonable distress on the animals concerned so c.....
» 16/06/2008 9:43:46 AM Antiseptic “So show me how it's "indefensible" then, dimwit, instead of trying t.....
» 15/06/2008 11:56:36 PM Foxy your deflection into the history of Hungary is deficient (nothing new in that from yo.....
» 15/06/2008 11:25:23 PM sharkfin "the left wing has latched on to global warming" yes the whole AGW thi.....
» 15/06/2008 1:20:14 PM Possum Magic "Who cannot be horrified by stories such at this" ever seen a weak.....
» 15/06/2008 1:09:40 PM Nicky your list: I dislike circuses so I never go but I do not seek to impose my choice t.....
» 15/06/2008 12:43:59 PM ASymeonakis "Col Rouge, There are good and bad employers, a good employer usually is.....
» 15/06/2008 12:36:00 PM Fractelle “Pericles and Col seem to think that they are being asked to personally fund PML.....
» 15/06/2008 12:11:49 PM "Should all war criminals be prosecuted or only some? Are some war criminals not acce.....
» 14/06/2008 9:43:15 AM I enjoy kangaroo in all its forms. It is a strong, gamey meat, like venison but I do not f.....
» 14/06/2008 9:32:18 AM Dickie “the urgent global requirement to grow more crops to sustain the poor” I think the.....
» 14/06/2008 9:11:14 AM Pericles “To be honest, you didn't do a great deal of listening when you were here, ASymeo.....
» 13/06/2008 1:31:27 PM I can understand how the left leaning swill humpers like to denigrate the USA and NATO at .....
» 13/06/2008 12:11:38 PM “Why public servants leak” Simple, with that classic sense of self entitlement, they conf.....
» 13/06/2008 11:35:06 AM The issue about gender selection is a different and separate issue to the one of a woman’s.....
» 13/06/2008 10:46:15 AM US “Well I've always thought it unfair that teenage tax payers aren't allowed to vote.” Y.....
» 12/06/2008 9:16:02 PM This business with Muslims reminds me of a group of factories, where I worked when I first.....
» 12/06/2008 8:28:27 PM Art and artistic taste can only exist in an arena of tolerance. If it is not, we all lose.....
» 12/06/2008 6:50:27 PM US” Now the law is supposed to reflect society's values. So I say, lets lower the age of c.....
» 11/06/2008 4:56:56 PM Rstuart “You caught me by surprise when you implied runner was female.” Re your point, th.....
» 11/06/2008 3:53:26 PM Nicky “You can criticize PETA, Ingrid Newkirk and Peter Singer all you like, but I would r.....
» 11/06/2008 1:14:02 PM Belly because I believe in the “system”, with all its shortcomings, I have to continue to .....
» 11/06/2008 12:48:14 PM Romany “a full feeling at a little over $5.00.” That is the myth and reality is something.....
» 11/06/2008 11:33:48 AM Q&A “I am not going to play your inane "bait and switch" games Col Rouge.” Ah Q.....
» 11/06/2008 10:47:42 AM Runner “our own liberal Prime Minister called this child porn 'revolting'.” Krudd is no a.....
» 11/06/2008 10:10:45 AM ASymeonakis “Do not worry something like that will happen with the PML etc!” Not if commo.....
» 10/06/2008 3:04:01 PM “I was disappointed with most of the replies.” Why? You asked and people responded, your.....
» 10/06/2008 2:42:25 PM Fooon, “In terms of US law a meeting of this nature is a potential violation of the Logan .....
» 10/06/2008 12:06:47 PM One of the critical reasons I migrated from UK was because I disagree with the nature of E.....
» 10/06/2008 11:09:48 AM Cuphandle “There will never be freedom and democracy across this world whilst organisation.....
» 10/06/2008 10:41:10 AM Arcticdog observes correctly, population pressures are the most significant influence bein.....
» 10/06/2008 10:23:44 AM Runner “These posts have confirmed how every person justifies their own perversions” I am.....
» 9/06/2008 10:53:25 PM As a car market Australia does not even get on the gauge. Our domestic vehicle market is .....
» 9/06/2008 10:35:39 PM Keiran “The only self-evident fact of nature here is that this whole AGW milieu is a contr.....
» 9/06/2008 7:21:24 PM ASymeonakis “am sure Obama and Rudd will improve the relations between Australia and USA f.....
» 9/06/2008 7:08:59 PM Celivia “But I don’t see why individuals (and corporations) have no problem accepting gove.....
» 6/06/2008 11:37:28 PM There appears to be some confusion about what things mean Some here seem to think Nudity.....
» 6/06/2008 11:11:42 PM Pericles “In the UK back in the sixties, it was called asset-stripping, The reason it mana.....
» 6/06/2008 11:05:42 PM Back in the 1950s the bubble car became popular, for a while. A friend of mine actually ha.....
» 6/06/2008 10:50:55 PM ASymeonakis I will ignore your spray of wannabeism. As to “I am sure USA will improve the.....
» 5/06/2008 7:00:51 PM “because of what you said - because you decided that change must come to Washington;” As .....
» 5/06/2008 6:51:05 PM Haralambos “My concern is that most people don't know much about depression, or other ment.....
» 4/06/2008 8:11:52 PM Arjay “What sort of insane banter is this Col?It sounds like ego has surpassed logic and r.....
» 4/06/2008 7:52:37 PM “is an thread about racial diversity, go and tell them for the benefits of any diversity.”.....
» 4/06/2008 7:08:51 PM CJ Moron “Keep railing on about socialism Col, you're nearly as good as Gibo.” Thank you .....
» 3/06/2008 9:27:23 PM CJ Morgan "Pass the bottle, Col." it always amazes me how you can manage to app.....
» 3/06/2008 9:16:44 PM Fractelle “Col, a single tree does not a forest make.” I realise you have affinity with v.....
» 3/06/2008 8:34:03 PM Fractelle “I hope the dear reader appreciates how I have used my Green/Left affiliation as.....
» 3/06/2008 8:17:20 PM Fractelle "Where is the Bentley? " where it has always been. As for Bentley ac.....
» 2/06/2008 10:28:04 PM Fractelle “finally see the light.” An a Damascan moment, how wonderful And I facilitated.....
» 2/06/2008 9:59:29 PM Celevia “Why should a person have to become totally dependent on a partner, in this case, .....
» 1/06/2008 10:55:52 PM Arjay “Col,why don't you argue about the topic at hand,” Because I challenged the off-top.....
» 1/06/2008 8:31:02 PM “The society, the community is on the top, individuals are part from the community, part f.....
» 1/06/2008 8:05:59 PM Yabby “*Australia has the highest per capita greenhouse gas emissions in the developed wor.....
» 1/06/2008 7:43:45 PM Gibo “I cant help feeling for "the sacked" and what becomes of them as the big s.....
» 1/06/2008 7:37:14 PM Local councillors are mandated to reflect the views and values of the people who elect the.....
» 1/06/2008 7:31:14 PM Arjay “It is the low wages of those in poor countries and not necessarily the good managem.....
» 1/06/2008 4:18:39 PM Royaler, I appreciate your reminder. IT is only through history that we can see the inher.....
» 1/06/2008 4:11:51 PM Arjay “The manipulation of the oil price by buying futures that magnify speculation by 16 .....
» 1/06/2008 4:02:17 PM Celivia “The majority of people, despite their differences in every facet of life, have ra.....
» 1/06/2008 4:00:09 PM “If you think the government must protect the whole society” Government protects the inte.....
» 1/06/2008 3:27:33 PM “tsunami in Indonesian we did not care for specific individuals but for various societies”.....
» 31/05/2008 1:47:00 PM Crickey Gibo, “Qantas and the big corps need to learn from such things” Every corporation.....
» 31/05/2008 11:00:43 AM ASymeonakis “Sole parent, low income RACE DISCRIMINATION, language problems” Sole Parent .....
» 31/05/2008 10:32:27 AM “I think paid maternity leave is more about the idea that both parents should be equally f.....
» 30/05/2008 4:08:58 PM “There should be no doubt: the Howard government was vicious, complacent, smug, and in man.....
» 30/05/2008 3:31:14 PM Gibo "Qantas is going to lay off hundreds of people and cut services all over the pla.....
» 29/05/2008 11:05:54 PM All scientists need to be listened to but All scientists are also men and women with feet.....
» 29/05/2008 10:49:04 PM Cevelia “Col, I would think that the rule “no taxation without representation” does not ap.....
» 28/05/2008 5:58:00 PM I've posted my view on the other thread, running in stereo, it would seem, to this one. I.....
» 28/05/2008 3:10:56 PM I can understand how a childs body is “beautiful”. I would hate to live in a world where,.....
» 28/05/2008 2:50:27 PM Aime “Humanity is simply a pack of greedy rouges amongst the animal kingdom who are fast d.....
» 28/05/2008 2:26:18 PM Nicky “ I agree with a bit . . but where is the "line in the sand"?” Thankyou f.....
» 28/05/2008 7:42:08 AM Ericc “I think a socialist-style government would be a giant step backward.” Lenin’s word.....
» 27/05/2008 8:22:29 PM Ericc “On some issues sustainability and freedom go hand in hand.” Of course ericc. And f.....
» 27/05/2008 7:55:19 PM “I SAY THAT WHAT HAPPENED UNTIL NOW IS AGAINST THE WOMEN, IT MAKES THEM TO DEPEND ON THEIR.....
» 26/05/2008 5:04:52 PM ASymeonakis "Fathers are at work, doing it for their families" AHHAH! If I did n.....
» 26/05/2008 1:42:22 AM Divergence “I am surprised that you are taking the side of a growthist,” I am taking the .....
» 26/05/2008 1:23:25 AM runner ".God help kids who might have you loving them one moment and then dumping the.....
» 26/05/2008 1:04:25 AM ASymeonakis”Because they are women, because they become pregnant, have birth, because they.....
» 24/05/2008 1:34:59 PM ASymeonakis"I SUPPORT MATERNITY LEAVE BECAUSE IT IS GOOD FOR AUSTRALIAN MOTHERS, AUST.....
» 24/05/2008 1:09:46 PM Runner “brainwashed by secular humanism are likely to be leaders in our nation.” Ah yes,.....
» 24/05/2008 12:35:23 PM TLTR “Ah, but runner, ask yourself - are you providing any kind of real insight” A fair q.....
» 23/05/2008 11:55:41 PM Colinsett “but neither are available in the form people would find acceptable.” Humans ar.....
» 23/05/2008 11:44:51 PM Foxy "I meant to add that without Government funding and support - none of these achi.....
» 23/05/2008 11:32:10 PM ASymeonakis “I can not expect all Australians to support it BUT I AM SURE MORE THAN 75% AU.....
» 23/05/2008 3:04:22 PM Chainsmoker “Why do we have to have gigantic corporate farms” Agree We have centrally ba.....
» 23/05/2008 2:37:53 PM Q&A “Oh yeah, scientists are not a bunch of Trotskyites or loony-leftists as you are forev.....
» 23/05/2008 2:03:46 PM Gosh this post has gone way past its useby date. When I see comments concerning “soft wea.....
» 23/05/2008 1:51:08 PM Excellent article which, refreshingly quotes from the law lords discussions and detailed r.....
» 23/05/2008 1:11:52 PM Vanilla “Your eerie ability to pick up some anti-Thatch rhetoric is very impressive.” Put.....
» 23/05/2008 12:48:26 PM Pericles "Idealism gives you a warm feeling for a while. But after a while it becomes.....
» 23/05/2008 12:39:48 PM Pericles, I figure your analysis stands up against the less-than-truthful propaganda of th.....
» 23/05/2008 7:49:28 AM ASymeonakis “Col Rouge we have Sex Discrimination Commissioner for many years” That makes.....
» 22/05/2008 4:37:48 PM Billie “Col Rouge has a new moniker.” Not me. I would suggest, on the basis of a single.....
» 22/05/2008 4:16:53 PM I am not sure of Putins Motives. I am sure that in the processes which took place through.....
» 22/05/2008 2:40:52 PM Vanilla “The Thatch was never a great one for human rights, so if she's your role model, t.....
» 22/05/2008 1:35:56 PM BD I agree with you, this thread, I thought, was established to express opinions to the th.....
» 22/05/2008 1:25:07 PM US “Exactly. BTW I'm sure you already realise for all intents and purposes the Sex Discrim.....
» 22/05/2008 12:57:38 PM T.Sett “The problem is the ingenious human solutions keep getting Pooh Poohed! I'm looking.....
» 22/05/2008 12:12:36 PM RobP "global warming"? Please read the entire sentence. Is it “significant”, .....
» 22/05/2008 11:12:10 AM "Sex Discrimination Commissioner Elizabeth Broderick " if true to her title,sho.....
» 22/05/2008 11:03:55 AM Foxy “From past knowledge and experience all projects of government funding and involvemen.....
» 21/05/2008 5:06:29 PM “There is not one source of authority - there are many.” And I believe the success of any.....
» 21/05/2008 4:04:56 PM US I like your example of “loaded questions” LOL. And just love that show (Yes Minister /.....
» 21/05/2008 3:48:56 PM Q&A “Your adhoms are tedious and bullying.” As the above quote from you suggests, yours a.....
» 21/05/2008 3:22:09 PM MHaze I do agree with your view that “human ingenuity” will prevail. It is the most under.....
» 21/05/2008 12:35:20 PM DB “(Garbage in/Garbage out).” Sometimes but not always. However, societal censorship si.....
» 21/05/2008 12:12:12 PM US “Ironically, I actually have a degree with a major in statistics:-) Not that I have eve.....
» 21/05/2008 10:40:32 AM I guess using poisons, the carcasses are useless for feeding folk. For myself, I do appre.....
» 20/05/2008 1:03:31 PM I agree with Foxy. the woman showed incredible stupidity by commiting to writing a crass .....
» 20/05/2008 12:56:52 PM DB “Col.. much to think about there... pity we don't have a coffee table between us :)” I.....
» 20/05/2008 11:57:53 AM Tristan “Col - if you really view liberal and democratic rights with contempt” I value “l.....
» 20/05/2008 11:39:23 AM “Our real challenge lies in developing a 21st century lifestyle that enables us to cope wi.....
» 20/05/2008 11:25:19 AM Q&A ” Whether you believe in AGW or not, we must adapt to a warmer and wetter world. Whet.....
» 20/05/2008 10:34:21 AM “but is this what patriarchy expects of them?” It is what a patriarchy would expect of th.....
» 20/05/2008 10:12:08 AM Belly “Come on how can you three swan around the tax impost over use of both brings via ou.....
» 19/05/2008 5:53:13 PM ristan ""Exploring the dynamic between liberal democratic consensus and the stru.....
» 19/05/2008 5:41:46 PM I would have thought it obvious. This government, with the foresight and vision to have .....
» 19/05/2008 2:49:46 PM I agree with Ludwig, this is becoming one of the more humorous OLO threads, in an ocean of.....
» 19/05/2008 1:51:50 PM Oliver “At the instant of the Big Bang, a high energy state in-which 3-D space and time we.....
» 19/05/2008 11:51:00 AM I am going to be purposely contentious. The following is not what I believe but what I th.....
» 19/05/2008 11:23:16 AM ASymeonakis “You are a hard person” Unlike many who see a supposed “goal” and then work .....
» 19/05/2008 10:57:33 AM DB Self respect, is the value which we place on ourselves. Reference point 1:They are per.....
» 18/05/2008 1:24:27 PM btw "Rape" has been depicted graphically and repeatedly throughout history. Typ.....
» 18/05/2008 1:18:30 PM thecat, Sorry to disappoint you but "Faith" is what is left when you ignore the .....
» 18/05/2008 12:46:21 PM Geoff Davies “Would anybody be interested in a CONSTRUCTIVE, POSITIVE exploration of this?.....
» 18/05/2008 12:32:07 PM Like I said on another post, If you cannot afford to have children, don't and do not expec.....
» 18/05/2008 12:22:13 PM David “The issue here is not about 'sex' or our sexual side, but of its distortion (by our.....
» 17/05/2008 2:18:38 PM “Enduring Moral values are directly connected to Spiritual values.” Not necessarily, I wo.....
» 17/05/2008 1:58:26 PM CJM “Er Col, "letting the market prevail" is exactly what has created much of th.....
» 16/05/2008 3:18:54 PM Oliver “Thanks. What is the connection you are making between free will and the Pre-Cambri.....
» 16/05/2008 1:59:45 PM “As I said at the beginning, the history of science is replete with error and fraud. In sc.....
» 16/05/2008 11:26:21 AM Pbrosnan “This is the main problem with the "sceptics" position. They sit back, .....
» 16/05/2008 11:00:32 AM “What is unexpected is that there seems to be no brake on the ever-expanding circle of non.....
» 16/05/2008 10:30:33 AM 1 God is manifest to each of us through faith. “Faith”, by definition, needs no concrete e.....
» 16/05/2008 10:15:07 AM Ludwig "But there is no doubt that sooner or later our politics WILL change to embrac.....
» 16/05/2008 10:00:54 AM Ludwig “The most significant thing about the budget is the indication from Swan and Rudd o.....
» 15/05/2008 8:52:24 PM Bronwyn “I'm not interested in an in-depth analysis of your character or your political po.....
» 14/05/2008 1:50:11 PM Aussieeagle you use the "collective" pronouns consistently in your post. As in .....
» 14/05/2008 1:24:49 PM I find the Australian ok for something which is middle of the road. The Age is and always.....
» 14/05/2008 12:19:50 PM "It seemed strange that since the early 1900's there has been such a vast increase in.....
» 14/05/2008 11:00:29 AM Taswegian “parts of Australia and I suspect NZ are about to report their warmest driest au.....
» 14/05/2008 1:01:47 AM Hi Jadele. I wholly agree with your view is children need both parents and we are their ro.....
» 14/05/2008 12:36:48 AM Ah Bronwyn “I'll pass, thanks Col. Reading your posts once is more than enough!” So shoul.....
» 13/05/2008 5:20:53 PM Labours core platitude “working families” I thought the entire labour policy was a string.....
» 13/05/2008 2:16:05 PM If marriage is about “sharing”, divorce should be about “sharing the pain”. No divorced p.....
» 13/05/2008 12:33:40 PM Passy “Infiltration? Entryism? Really, why would the radical left bother?” The first acti.....
» 13/05/2008 11:28:48 AM US “Ah Col you're a smart man.” thankyou for your comment. As I am keen to suggest, I “bl.....
» 13/05/2008 11:00:32 AM Jadele “The struggle is to find the balance.” No struggle. If you are sure to what is rig.....
» 13/05/2008 10:19:19 AM “The point of bringing this for our discussion is that it shows how any 'liberation' movem.....
» 13/05/2008 8:21:48 AM “the need to belong make us substitute our feelings for goods.” Speak for yourself. I hav.....
» 13/05/2008 8:06:11 AM Bronwyn “We've all read enough of your posts, Col, to know that Antonios' summation of you.....
» 12/05/2008 7:13:01 PM Healthwatcher “The Greens suffer the same problem that every ideology does. They seek blac.....
» 12/05/2008 11:01:06 AM lionmuri "AND This is a comprehensive addiction portal focusing on topics of alcohol .....
» 12/05/2008 10:57:56 AM ASymeonakis if you insist on digging your own “credibility grave", let me not dissuad.....
» 12/05/2008 10:30:19 AM Following the collapse of the communist system, the socialist radicals abandoned their ove.....
» 12/05/2008 9:40:40 AM ASymeonakis “For example 50% the government, (in most countries governments pay the whole .....
» 11/05/2008 9:03:49 PM ASymeonakis “Margaret Thacher . . etc.” That you see Falkland islanders as “less”, descri.....
» 11/05/2008 6:34:04 PM Keiran “Q&A, we have this comment .... you say "Wikki is ‘generally’ ok for an overvi.....
» 11/05/2008 6:06:44 PM David f Quoting me “I have made no such assumption. I merely questioned the value of inte.....
» 11/05/2008 1:58:23 PM Oliver “But immediately WWII Britian didn't attack Stalin/Russia, when the latter quaranti.....
» 11/05/2008 11:38:46 AM Bronwyn ““Flat Cat and Friends” and they loved it." I wonder what sort of lessons yo.....
» 11/05/2008 11:20:12 AM In reading these posts and some other threads too I have come to a believe david F’s view .....
» 11/05/2008 10:59:23 AM David f “We need a weaker national identity and a greater identity with the rest of humani.....
» 11/05/2008 10:34:26 AM ASymeonakis “Margaret Thatcher? Col Rouge we need sensitive leaders who understand and sup.....
» 10/05/2008 2:44:23 PM bushbred "Indeed, if you believe this troubled world now needs years of American occu.....
» 10/05/2008 12:01:08 PM Daggett “why do you think Henry Kissinger wrote” Not sure Daggett, you will have to ask K.....
» 10/05/2008 11:34:48 AM I was surprised to read Ronald Reagan’s enduring influence but then thought again. Reagan.....
» 9/05/2008 3:38:09 PM “In Sweden, women enjoy 16 months paid maternity leave at government expense” That is a l.....
» 9/05/2008 1:44:11 PM “The foregoing intelligent individuals were responsible for enormous social costs.” Only .....
» 9/05/2008 1:29:49 PM US “Regardless, media is not all powerful. Children have parents, and peers, and eyes and .....
» 9/05/2008 11:32:19 AM “Actually capitalism treats those who sell their labour power as mediocrities by denying t.....
» 9/05/2008 11:01:24 AM Trade215 “Article is an expansive ad hom attack, hence illogical.” Well said, I agree wit.....
» 9/05/2008 10:07:39 AM “Darwin's work is the basis of modern biology. One technical achievement stemming from his.....
» 9/05/2008 9:55:24 AM I think the Americans will decide for themselves who their next President will be. It is.....
» 9/05/2008 9:49:36 AM “but I wouldn’t want to exchange a reasonable welfare system that provides aid to those wh.....
» 9/05/2008 9:17:35 AM Cevelia “I look upon paying tax as buying services from the government.” It could be look.....
» 8/05/2008 4:30:28 PM David f “The forces unleashed by the intelligence of Einstein, Newton and Darwin are destr.....
» 8/05/2008 2:11:08 PM Foxy “Seeing as Australia is to become a Republic, it's only a question of when? Your qu.....
» 8/05/2008 1:26:40 PM I agree with Mr Right, observing: “Global Warming” (if it does exist) has an holistic ori.....
» 8/05/2008 11:29:52 AM Haralambos “From the moment we're born, society's rules and regulations are imposed upon u.....
» 8/05/2008 11:05:09 AM “Growth” in economic terms, is a measurement “device” used by economists to determine a fe.....
» 8/05/2008 12:10:33 AM Margaret Thatcher said "We want a society where people are free to make choices, to m.....
» 6/05/2008 11:19:42 PM “One can’t argue that there is less personal freedom in a socialist-leaning country” Disa.....
» 6/05/2008 11:15:06 PM Celevia “CR, sorry for the late reply, I’ve been busy.” No apology required, I make no de.....
» 6/05/2008 7:34:19 AM Q&A “Col, that drivel came from the Pentagon.” Not sure what drivel you are talking about.....
» 5/05/2008 9:07:31 PM Evolution “My guesstamation is that we have three hundred years, and its not to fix it,cau.....
» 5/05/2008 6:47:32 PM Just more empty words from a mediocre thinker. If all these scientist (of any old persuas.....
» 4/05/2008 11:41:33 PM "Carthage must be destroyed." And do you wonder why I keep refering to ".....
» 4/05/2008 7:58:19 PM Next “Individual rights and economic rights are now, in this culture, the greatest good “ .....
» 4/05/2008 6:13:05 PM Celivia “the very choice one person makes may restrict someone else’s choices” That is an.....
» 4/05/2008 4:21:13 PM Passy “So are you in effect a pimp for a professional dominatrix? Interesting.” No I offe.....
» 4/05/2008 3:49:56 PM Fractelle, you poor pathetic loser “One last item before I totally bail on this thread.” .....
» 4/05/2008 3:42:09 PM Pelican “Get rid of GST” I disagree, it is a broad based tax which is relatively easy t.....
» 3/05/2008 4:23:57 PM “Workers who produce our daily, taken-for-granted, goods need more from us that we are giv.....
» 3/05/2008 3:55:52 PM What merit is to be found in opening a treaty dialogue with a “nation” who were conquered .....
» 3/05/2008 1:48:47 PM US “I only ever saw the movie a clockwork orange, but I did like it and agree with your po.....
» 3/05/2008 1:20:23 PM “Today, white man's law reigns. Yet it does so illegally.” Well it is here to stay and I .....
» 3/05/2008 1:13:32 PM Q&A “well, you are the master of ad-homs” I make no secret of my “skill” in that area Q&A.....
» 3/05/2008 12:58:33 PM “that Australian nationalism dominates over any old fashioned analysis of bosses and worke.....
» 3/05/2008 12:35:45 PM Hi Cevilia sorry to delay getting back to you, I was “putting out the garbage”. My point .....
» 3/05/2008 12:09:10 PM This thread was clearly about tax, pelicans first sentence: “Thinking again about the Sum.....
» 3/05/2008 11:57:59 AM Fractelle “is always about justifying HIS choices, HIS lifestyle, I have yet to read him m.....
» 2/05/2008 4:09:48 PM I note little dickies post, he/she who has still to find and justify the posting evidenc.....
» 2/05/2008 3:43:30 PM Q&A “So you continue your bullying tactics on other threads while refusing to acknowledge .....
» 2/05/2008 3:09:32 PM US “Notice how some of the posts have proved my point.” I see it US. The source of the po.....
» 2/05/2008 2:39:17 PM Fractelle I have been reasonably patient but you are become obnoxious and so I will say .....
» 1/05/2008 8:30:54 PM US "Normalising personality through drugs and societal pressure" My first thoug.....
» 1/05/2008 8:11:08 PM Cevelia” Fractelle, . . You demonstrated that higher taxes are associated with higher equa.....
» 1/05/2008 7:33:49 PM Cevelia” Fractelle, . . You demonstrated that higher taxes are associated with higher equa.....
» 1/05/2008 11:03:00 AM Fractelle “No one has suggested that we lose individual choice,” I would suggest part of .....
» 30/04/2008 10:57:56 PM I have kept out of this bun-fest until now. My professional training (accountancy) was or.....
» 30/04/2008 7:12:21 PM Ah yes Robert “Feminism like christainity encompases a wide range of viewpoints and attitu.....
» 30/04/2008 6:53:30 PM TUS I feel similar to you and Arjay. I dislike pollution and waste and have, over the pas.....
» 30/04/2008 6:20:19 PM Gibo “It all started off one day back in 1973 in a quiet suburban firestation in Sydney, N.....
» 30/04/2008 1:41:10 PM “People are starving not because there is not enough food but because they can't afford it.....
» 30/04/2008 1:08:52 PM Celevia, thanks for your comments “But in the face of environmental threats and our (nea.....
» 30/04/2008 8:32:30 AM Passy “I am a technological cretin.” Oh you are much too modest Passy. From reading your.....
» 29/04/2008 8:52:35 PM Usual suspect thank you for your comments Re “allowing NG to owner-occupiers rather than .....
» 29/04/2008 8:18:13 PM Gecko “then we can forget about any social justice issues,” Wasting time on so called “so.....
» 29/04/2008 3:13:00 PM Grn “Doesn't sound like he wants to fix global warming, just install an eco-dictatorship. .....
» 29/04/2008 2:42:00 PM Mr Right "The best thing for us to do is ignore the lot of them. We have no control o.....
» 29/04/2008 11:24:21 AM Celivia “Secretary makes it clear that such tax system is possible” Many things are poss.....
» 29/04/2008 9:31:43 AM Mr nobody “I did not expect you to agree as it takes a certain openness to understand ‘fai.....
» 28/04/2008 6:24:37 PM Fractelle “however, your understanding of inequities in the current system is zero.” “As .....
» 28/04/2008 12:43:20 PM Next “Col, what crap.. . . If you don't like the opinion expressed, fine, but leaved the a.....
» 28/04/2008 12:10:46 PM Sonofeire, I agree. The world continues, despite humanity. Whilst claims to irreversibili.....
» 28/04/2008 11:30:50 AM Cevilia “Tax polluting behaviour rather than clean behaviour.” Who determines what is “po.....
» 28/04/2008 11:15:09 AM Mr nobody “limited understanding of what is fair,” “Fair” is an entirely subjective and .....
» 27/04/2008 2:11:03 PM Pelican “I would argue for wiser government (rather than small).” The two are not mutuall.....
» 27/04/2008 12:42:14 PM Fractelle “It was a POLL tax, Col and was the most unfair form of tax where low income pai.....
» 26/04/2008 2:54:52 PM Hi Robert, whilst I understand your value of time, basically we all have 25,000 days (or s.....
» 26/04/2008 11:36:37 AM Pelican “where legitimate tax evasion is possible.” I will correct you on this point: “L.....
» 26/04/2008 9:32:02 AM I believe we should consider: Get rid of FBT. Its is complex relative to the revenue it .....
» 26/04/2008 9:27:41 AM pelican the purpose of tax is to finance the necessary work of government. So what is th.....
» 25/04/2008 10:40:08 PM Q&A “Yep, another misguided statement from “The Book-keeper’s Guide to Climate Science”. .....
» 25/04/2008 12:45:50 PM Sancho opened with “latest attempt by Christian fundamentalists to put a fake moustache on.....
» 25/04/2008 12:13:20 PM We are each a “vested interest”. I vote on the basis of what I believe is best not just fo.....
» 25/04/2008 10:37:27 AM Gibo “In an age when men are being fired up more and more by pornography should women thin.....
» 25/04/2008 10:19:52 AM Gibo “Celtic Festival in the form of clairvoyants, card readers and other dark persons doi.....
» 24/04/2008 9:54:36 PM I see the lines are drawn, the levelers with full defence of the defenceless argument base.....
» 24/04/2008 9:47:55 PM I see the lines are drawn, the levelers with full defence of the defenceless argument base.....
» 24/04/2008 4:20:11 PM Johncee1945 “The usual railing against the poor by the right wing, from those who are usua.....
» 24/04/2008 3:38:53 PM Pynchme “Col you're a sad case if you equate masculinity with consumption of porn.” Well .....
» 24/04/2008 11:49:59 AM Any article which starts “The cloud has lifted, providing “permission” for Australians to .....
» 24/04/2008 10:18:32 AM Gibo “Belly, is just one of a number of as yet non-born againers who just want to persue c.....
» 24/04/2008 8:15:15 AM Gibo “No citizens home guard defence force!” I am with Belly on this “you are quite funny.....
» 12/04/2008 2:43:55 PM Vanilla “which has found that executing around 100 people a year” That is “sampling”, not.....
» 12/04/2008 1:50:30 PM PALEIF in the name of “Activism” sheep shipments have been sabotaged, sprayed with pig fat.....
» 11/04/2008 7:30:07 PM Cevelia “Col, about the death penalty: as a Libertarian aren’t you worried that the govern.....
» 11/04/2008 7:01:41 PM PaulL “You don't have a clue what you are talking about.” See below “Do you think that a.....
» 11/04/2008 5:37:00 PM "Its so sad to see these young ones being dragged in by the live animal exporters who.....
» 11/04/2008 3:08:37 PM Yvonne “Col Rouge, this subject must touch a sore point with you.” Not a sore point Yvonn.....
» 11/04/2008 12:03:18 PM Ah credibility is like virginity, when it is gone, it is gone forever......
» 11/04/2008 11:58:48 AM Steel “When you have two choices that are almost identical and revel in their own politica.....
» 11/04/2008 12:30:52 AM Using classical music for pop songs, I don't want to hear it but hey, some might say class.....
» 10/04/2008 10:07:33 PM Mac “As far as I understand Don Aitkin is qualified in poltical science not physical scien.....
» 10/04/2008 9:46:40 PM David Palmer “But don't worry there will probably be a global cooling scare or world war I.....
» 10/04/2008 9:30:37 PM Pynchme “The most violent we can get is the cum shot in the face. Men get off behind that,.....
» 10/04/2008 8:57:33 PM Vanilla “What to do then? Shoot his importer,” Suits me. Shoot the importer to stop him “.....
» 10/04/2008 4:04:42 PM Fractelle “I do have concerns about hardcore porn and how it stereostypes women AND the im.....
» 9/04/2008 9:28:27 PM Liam Mully “if you can show me in my post where I mentioned the below words or their impli.....
» 9/04/2008 6:50:23 PM my personal view is, whilst legalization may seem an appropriate course for say marijuana.....
» 9/04/2008 6:48:16 PM Vanilla “The death penalty? Jeez, what a square.” If that means your policies are the rou.....
» 9/04/2008 4:07:23 PM Ginx “But THAT little one liner was NOT warranted and not appreciated.” Oh, the delicate .....
» 9/04/2008 3:56:44 PM RorW “In most cases it will lead a person to view their partner (long term or short term) .....
» 9/04/2008 12:30:38 AM The use of illegal drugs is the opportunity for drug dealers to grow and increase the numb.....
» 9/04/2008 12:20:19 AM Oh Ginx, you tiresome twitt. trying to be witty. "No ducky, I wouldn't descend to t.....
» 8/04/2008 6:55:49 PM Robert "fervor of the fundies is probably not as extreme" Yes they have not star.....
» 8/04/2008 4:08:52 PM Robert “The effect was most pronounced in sexual assault committed by teenage boys - the g.....
» 8/04/2008 3:27:23 PM Rstuart, on rereading of my post I can see how you made the assumption I was referring to .....
» 8/04/2008 11:52:14 AM Pynchme “Col those links to which you refer were I think part of the Meese Commission enqu.....
» 8/04/2008 9:29:48 AM BOAZ “The only kind of 'passion' which will be cast aside if we embrace Christ is the dirt.....
» 7/04/2008 11:32:42 PM Gibo "Its a small mind that pushes aside life experience testimonies to look for vaca.....
» 7/04/2008 9:31:28 PM 1 stop As a man just decide … Why? I like images of women. Naked, clothed and semi nak.....
» 7/04/2008 8:58:00 PM BOAZ “In short..it doesn't matter how much you 'legalize' something, there is always the '.....
» 7/04/2008 5:26:55 PM BBoy “rather than fess up that you jumped to conclusions without reading what was actually.....
» 7/04/2008 4:59:00 PM NUGSY “They are true, obedient and compassion men and women full of integrity following in.....
» 7/04/2008 4:35:06 PM BOAZ “The BEST form of censorship is the voluntary kind. When the rivival exploded in Whal.....
» 7/04/2008 12:01:05 AM TLTR "I'll not recommend his comment for deletion, . . . See, that's the beauty of th.....
» 6/04/2008 11:50:02 PM Liam Mully “What if someone is addicted to porn?” What is someone is addicted to the self.....
» 6/04/2008 8:17:32 PM Gibo “If you are pro-porn StG, Bugsy, TRTL, the rest of you weaklings, you are as bad as.....
» 6/04/2008 7:49:04 PM Gibo “The pro-porners say we need to keep it..."we need it"..."we really ne.....
» 6/04/2008 7:25:15 PM BOAZ you seem to find something contentious in my view of theology. I find something cont.....
» 5/04/2008 12:55:16 PM Aardvard “An Abuse, Rape and Domestic Violence Aid and Resource Collection” it is not a pr.....
» 5/04/2008 12:40:05 PM Gibo “that porn is the "firing up" effect, the great power in inspiring those op.....
» 5/04/2008 5:22:17 AM Arjay I sincerely believe we have alot of possible solutions being peddled which are still.....
» 4/04/2008 10:59:18 PM Nugsy “Why is it that child pornography is scorned and the perpetrators hated and hunted d.....
» 4/04/2008 10:29:34 PM Ezhil” The women in society have lost their respectable status because of cinema and the g.....
» 4/04/2008 9:48:30 PM Susan P "I always try to get some balance happening. But it doesn't always work out t.....
» 4/04/2008 9:32:58 PM Gibo “I dont need evidence COL for my position.” Only God can make that claim and whilst .....
» 4/04/2008 4:22:13 PM Liam mully “I haven't read this report, but I know from personal experience that the comme.....
» 4/04/2008 3:59:13 PM BBoy “I painstakingly and explicitly wrote that I do not have any desire to curtail debate.....
» 4/04/2008 3:42:46 PM BOAZ my focus is the inappropriateness of the any theocracy to presume authority over indi.....
» 4/04/2008 11:36:49 AM The title of this thread is “Climate Change Denial Monotony” Suitable if considered as a.....
» 4/04/2008 11:11:51 AM Good posts Lev and Robert EyeOfNewt Regarding specific studies into pornography: taken fr.....
» 3/04/2008 5:25:10 PM Of course the churches try to harness the sex drive. It is one of the principle drivers an.....
» 3/04/2008 12:03:36 PM I forgot, the link to the US Dept of Justice Statistics http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/ ru.....
» 3/04/2008 10:37:10 AM David BOAZ and Gibo This is not the perfect dataset to work with but it is what I could g.....
» 2/04/2008 9:47:53 PM Arjay "Where is the hard scientific evidence to link co2 with Global Warming?" .....
» 2/04/2008 9:33:04 PM ECT what no one is talking about My first wife had ECT in UK, before I met her, for depre.....
» 2/04/2008 6:10:12 PM Ezhil My skepticism of government, The“moral credibility” of the Keating government inclu.....
» 2/04/2008 5:34:55 PM I posted this link on the other thread http://www.porn-report.com/402-performers-in-porno.....
» 2/04/2008 5:18:15 PM pelican “Turning off the TV has already been mentioned it still doesn't mean that a person.....
» 2/04/2008 4:48:24 PM Eyeofnewt “Lev so you get to determine ‘consent’ do you?“ You are construing a presumptiv.....
» 2/04/2008 3:00:50 PM The dumb ones are those who complain about TV, when if they were really concerned they cou.....
» 2/04/2008 12:22:39 PM Country boy “Yes Col, out of the hundreds of thousands scientists in the world, there are .....
» 2/04/2008 9:35:45 AM Pynchme “Col I see that you have jumped on the oppose-censorship-bandwagon” You maybe cor.....
» 1/04/2008 9:20:27 PM Re ““rape porn” is typed into Google, the very first entry out of a mere 5,320,000” Guess.....
» 1/04/2008 8:57:36 PM Jack-the-Lad “I have the right to deny the holohoax, you sure get angry when I do so.” I .....
» 1/04/2008 3:41:50 PM Country Boy “ad reducto Marxism Col?” Thankyou, CB, you have just illustrated my claim pe.....
» 1/04/2008 10:20:03 AM About 150 years ago Marx and his cronies espoused some socio-political mumbo-jumbo and som.....
» 31/03/2008 11:13:31 PM TLTR agree. Censorship of pornography remains “Censorship” I fear the pro / anti porn deb.....
» 31/03/2008 10:38:52 PM Yvonne “Welfare is not an alternative life-style. Your ex-wife clearly had no personal exp.....
» 31/03/2008 2:29:36 PM I guess it might be observed, the IPCC sowed the wind and is now reaping the whirlwind. I.....
» 31/03/2008 2:14:08 PM Billie “Its becoming clear that provision of utlities is a natural monopoly because we can.....
» 31/03/2008 12:57:47 PM Arjay “In my view,the poor need more incentive to save thus have more access to the wealth.....
» 31/03/2008 8:37:08 AM "Col, I am sorry for the delay in reply. The following link best explains and delin.....
» 30/03/2008 6:33:56 PM Fractelle I see you have discovered Margaret Thatcher. Obviously, reading my posts has pro.....
» 30/03/2008 5:58:16 PM Ezhil “The contention that the State cannot dictate terms in respect of porno cannot be ac.....
» 30/03/2008 11:43:59 AM Pynchme having gone on about posting restrictions, you then twitter on about commas and pu.....
» 29/03/2008 9:09:49 PM Billie “Competition is a wonderful thing. You really get excellent service from the subs.....
» 29/03/2008 12:36:09 PM Bronwyn “I just don’t like the laissez faire, greed-is-good, dog-eat-dog, out-of-control, .....
» 29/03/2008 11:51:46 AM Pynchme “You seem to believe that the women that you're watching are enjoying their porn p.....
» 29/03/2008 11:21:46 AM StG “Her massively underqualified opinion was a blight on the international resume of Aust.....
» 29/03/2008 11:07:06 AM “Choice of service provider is not however the forte of those in our society who are disad.....
» 29/03/2008 1:23:29 AM Marilyn shepherd “Afghan women are not getting any better deal you silly twerp.” …. “I th.....
» 28/03/2008 6:51:36 PM Steel “Ad hominems are weak, Col Rouge.” That is because there were none. Believe me, if .....
» 28/03/2008 4:16:59 PM Stevenlmeyer “But that does not mean I have to fall into the trap of debating Holocaust de.....
» 28/03/2008 3:39:52 PM “The war in Afghanistan has boosted the growing of poppies for opium.” That might be so b.....
» 28/03/2008 3:07:40 PM Yvonne thanks for your affirmative statements Regarding welfare“It is just enough to surv.....
» 28/03/2008 12:05:10 PM Fractelle “I could still happily do without such proliferation from her; seeing her name o.....
» 28/03/2008 9:33:45 AM Steel "http://www.google.com/search?q=cia+whitlam" try looking http://www.googl.....
» 27/03/2008 11:40:57 PM Pynchme “explain what you found so amusing.” This is a bit of a laugh, if you find,preten.....
» 27/03/2008 10:11:13 PM stevenlmeyer I can understand your frustration. However, we who respect freedom of speech .....
» 27/03/2008 2:59:58 PM Q&A regarding ““misguided comments by Col exemplify the issues” Maybe you could identify .....
» 27/03/2008 12:29:18 PM Arjay “The real question is that how do we insure that this human potential is harnessed i.....
» 27/03/2008 1:55:30 AM Runner “Socialist often get rich by capitalism and then preach to everyone else or even wo.....
» 27/03/2008 1:30:52 AM Steel “i think the cia had a hand in Whitlam's removal. i read that but i'm too hazy on it.....
» 26/03/2008 2:44:28 PM The bad thing about Pauline was obvious, she was clearly operating outside her intellectua.....
» 26/03/2008 12:07:24 PM I have been reading this thread, thinking of posting then deciding not to bother, it is to.....
» 26/03/2008 7:41:43 AM Diver dan “Sectarian seems to me to be the category people with my views on the subject of.....
» 26/03/2008 7:17:57 AM Bronwyn “it's a motivation that can inspire us all to greater achievement. It can also lea.....
» 25/03/2008 8:58:42 PM What we learn at school and university is insignificant to the learning we do later. Insti.....
» 25/03/2008 3:16:47 PM Q&A nice to see you back, Re “Jennifer says “We do need to relearn the lessons from the .....
» 25/03/2008 2:31:11 PM Billie “I don't think it's appropriate to make money out caring for the most vulnerable in.....
» 25/03/2008 10:31:09 AM PALEIF “How horrible for your two girls to know Mummy had to seek welfare to raise them af.....
» 24/03/2008 11:34:12 PM Arjay” Col you missed my point.My oil is money which lubricates the economic engine.” Yes.....
» 24/03/2008 5:11:03 PM Belly “Don't be a rabbit Col” Not sure what you are suggesting Belly, is it the size of m.....
» 24/03/2008 2:04:59 PM Peter Tucker “The graph below shows just how things have changed over the past 30 years.” .....
» 24/03/2008 1:38:24 PM For the benefit of yourself, you should go ask a licensed advisor. For the sake of anyone.....
» 24/03/2008 12:22:02 PM TLTR I like the wiki link. Have browsed it briefly and will return to review it further. .....
» 24/03/2008 11:25:05 AM PALEIF “Hey Col People get pretty emoitional about kids they tell me- Usually their own” .....
» 24/03/2008 11:00:56 AM Arjay “The whole capitalist system works on the premise of low wages so profits can be mad.....
» 23/03/2008 11:30:05 PM Bronwyn “I’m talking worldwide sustainability. In a globalised world where all transaction.....
» 23/03/2008 11:09:44 PM Next “Regulators regulate less and less, particularly in protecting the commons, which hav.....
» 23/03/2008 10:54:15 PM “Dad had the money and power, the others had poverty. This is the essence of economic comp.....
» 23/03/2008 10:17:21 PM Dickie “Since you lack any intellectual ability to debate the science of the topic of this.....
» 23/03/2008 12:26:22 PM Fester “One logical problem with Spencer's hypothesis is that it leaves the observed warmi.....
» 22/03/2008 12:56:18 PM Gibo “Seriously, for the health of a world,” That is big cousin of “common good” I made .....
» 22/03/2008 12:26:28 PM PALEIF “They know. They are now learning their worth is property settlement.” If ever the.....
» 22/03/2008 8:02:20 AM PALE” No All I am saying is John is a very successful high flyer biz corp director that ha.....
» 22/03/2008 7:22:55 AM Q&A “You just want to argue for the sake of argument “ Yes Q&A I can argue, it exercises .....
» 21/03/2008 10:16:20 AM DialectBlue “but it did get your attention” So does doggie doo, when I step in it. Exper.....
» 21/03/2008 10:02:59 AM Systemfailure, you head this post 50/50 shared parenting I presumed it was to be about th.....
» 21/03/2008 9:25:04 AM This article is the usual sort of anecdotal characterization of the system of free-enterpr.....
» 20/03/2008 11:43:35 PM Celivia “What kind of world would be more just, peaceful and moral” What a great question.....
» 20/03/2008 11:03:47 PM Dickie, “Big mistake to go after Q&A, a poster of modest persona with an immodest wealth o.....
» 20/03/2008 10:08:54 PM Runner “A 1997 study in British Columbia found the life expectancy of men who engage in so.....
» 20/03/2008 7:02:49 PM HenryVIII You got it. The “average”, in a normal distribution, will be exactly in the mi.....
» 20/03/2008 5:34:06 PM Bronwyn “Women sure as hell wouldn’t have led us up the garden path to the quagmire of Ira.....
» 20/03/2008 5:01:52 PM Q&A you seem in particularly arrogant / patronizing mood . “Now I really think you and t.....
» 20/03/2008 4:25:06 PM Bazz “The numbers are increasing because it has become fashionable to be a homosexual.” m.....
» 20/03/2008 2:34:11 PM Romany "If "half the population is below the average IQ", then is the avera.....
» 20/03/2008 1:51:25 PM DialecticBlue wrote “but like everyone else on this planet, he isn’t so hot at predicting......
» 20/03/2008 12:02:33 PM Yvonne “Are you seriously so convinced of the objective goodness and benefit of a pure cap.....
» 20/03/2008 10:52:54 AM As I cast off the first petals of my youth, I can look back over the elapsed time with a s.....
» 20/03/2008 10:12:43 AM Fractelle, you should know runner lacks the where-with-all to participate in debate or def.....
» 20/03/2008 9:54:16 AM ASymeonakis, “The war in Iraq, the lies, the....the... drived the westerners in difficult .....
» 19/03/2008 6:32:08 PM From living in USA for a couple of years I would observe, the USA makes too much of ".....
» 19/03/2008 5:02:51 PM Danielle “This does not provide evidence that men are better at business than women.” And.....
» 19/03/2008 4:40:25 PM Diver-dan “Me; I am forever the sectarian on the issue of the sex industry, and proudly so.....
» 19/03/2008 3:51:26 PM Billie “"Rosie the Riveter" to see how Democracy has manipulated women to achiev.....
» 19/03/2008 11:52:11 AM Im not homophobic, I just don't like poofters. Apart form that the way they carry on, I a.....
» 19/03/2008 10:14:08 AM Runner “Funny how those who want to continue to perve on women and men in slavery are tota.....
» 18/03/2008 5:08:54 PM Jennifer “All the UN IPCC models have water vapour as a positive feedback with warming, bu.....
» 18/03/2008 4:18:44 PM SJF “The most recent estimate of the value of unpaid work in Australia was $261 billion in.....
» 18/03/2008 4:06:02 PM "Learning about the Holocaust is compulsory for schoolchildren in England." Wh.....
» 18/03/2008 1:46:07 PM TLTR “Fair enough Col - I agree. But should Christians make the same efforts?” Of course,.....
» 18/03/2008 11:08:05 AM “The pornography industry makes more money than the mainstream entertainment industry” “C.....
» 18/03/2008 10:45:50 AM Forget about it! There's nothing you can do, and there is no proof that any of the shock.....
» 18/03/2008 10:30:38 AM TurnRightThenLeft, “moderate muslims appear to be hesitant in their denunciation of radica.....
» 18/03/2008 12:34:52 AM *The way the statistics are presented means they're asking not for equal treatment, but fo.....
» 18/03/2008 12:20:06 AM JamesH “the knife block in the shape of a man with knives sticking out of it.” Hey my dau.....
» 17/03/2008 11:51:23 PM Yabby “The NW shelf had heaps of gas, but few customers.” Good post Yabby. I have been re.....
» 17/03/2008 11:27:32 PM Vanilla "I honestly laughed more at Col's post of 14 March 2008 10:35:14 PM than I ha.....
» 17/03/2008 11:19:22 PM ASymeonakis “We can not use this kind of weapons to kill small groups of extremists in var.....
» 16/03/2008 11:41:43 PM Hey passy, maintaining a monologue with yourself is a bit sad, positively “passe”. At lea.....
» 16/03/2008 10:40:24 PM Yashouldabinthere “Reduction in GDP is not the end of the world, unlike the potential cons.....
» 16/03/2008 10:22:01 PM Actually the title reminds me of how dear old Henry V wacked the Frenchies when he conclud.....
» 16/03/2008 7:47:37 PM Paul L “I know it shouldn’t surprise me that there are people out there who still believe .....
» 16/03/2008 7:17:21 PM StG “No you didn't, Mr Elitist. . . . You had a hissy” No hissy here. You are just tryin.....
» 16/03/2008 3:23:48 PM Billie “"Wedge politics" is a tool of neo-cons on the right. Howard turned Austr.....
» 16/03/2008 7:13:30 AM Whitty “I believe women have the same OPPORTUNITYS as men,” If they have not they certain.....
» 15/03/2008 2:43:51 PM Re Passy “Fair go for women “ I would recommend two pamphlets for people who want to unde.....
» 15/03/2008 1:50:25 PM StG "Oh wow, venom. Lighten up big guy. Ya might wanna double check if ya took your '.....
» 15/03/2008 10:04:39 AM StG - so, it did not work for you. Don't presume we are all as inept. CJ is always good w.....
» 14/03/2008 10:49:29 PM Now back from the “sin-bin”, I can address this august thread, Do I believe in God Yes. .....
» 14/03/2008 10:35:14 PM "In a world where women are brought up being told they can have everything and 'you'r.....
» 14/03/2008 10:14:28 PM Those who do not like pornography are not required to watch or read it. Those who claim a.....
» 14/03/2008 6:51:52 PM Oh Danielle nice to see I caught your attention, between running the kids to and from scho.....
» 14/03/2008 4:44:54 PM The emotional pandering this article contains is enough to make one want to vomit. Phrase.....
» 14/03/2008 4:31:42 PM “It is not just about climatology; it is also about freedom.” Exactly, government is ther.....
» 14/03/2008 10:19:18 AM Bronwyn “To me it's just further evidence to support the idea that the world could be a ve.....
» 13/03/2008 8:59:59 PM “But that is what is needed if the embrace of democracy is not to become a ploy for bypass.....
» 13/03/2008 1:58:50 PM "Gender-orientated legislation and bureaucratic bodies to support it have been in pla.....
» 13/03/2008 1:34:07 PM keith "The former Coalition government gave carers and others bonuses, the Rudd gover.....
» 13/03/2008 11:57:19 AM "It has been the triumph of secularism that such studies have been removed from our s.....
» 27/02/2008 3:27:48 PM KGB “as far as dictators go, was Castro really that bad?” KGB simply put, A “good dictato.....
» 27/02/2008 2:50:06 PM Johnny rotten “Again Col proves his complete vacuousness on value. “ I have been patient.....
» 27/02/2008 2:31:45 PM Billie “go to The United States …. back to Margaret Thatcher's Britain. …. a chemist bugge.....
» 27/02/2008 10:30:59 AM Passy “You drive me Wilde.” Spelling it that way, should I presume you have nominated me .....
» 27/02/2008 10:21:36 AM Fractelle “Col Rouge, have amply demonstrated that you are concerned only with money and k.....
» 26/02/2008 10:32:14 PM Danielle “workers, with both shares and involvement in every aspect of company operation” .....
» 26/02/2008 10:26:41 PM Fester “Governments are run by humans and I dont think it unreasonable that they should be.....
» 26/02/2008 4:22:45 PM I am with those who read what is a naive and mildly hysterical article full of hyperbole. .....
» 26/02/2008 12:22:37 PM Bronco’s post is a bit deceptive, he ascribes it to national health and schooling yet only.....
» 26/02/2008 10:02:36 AM “These volunteers save the government many dollars and certainly contribute more to our co.....
» 25/02/2008 11:54:23 PM Passy “We are all in the gutter. However some of us are looking at the stars.” Oh I since.....
» 25/02/2008 11:42:59 PM Fozz “Care to point out a few shining examples of "pure" capitalism”” Your ques.....
» 25/02/2008 11:06:09 PM Ginx “Thatchers Boy” Thankyou, I am pleased to be associated with one of the greatest pol.....
» 25/02/2008 10:57:33 PM Passy “That showed the great potential of the forces opposed to the dictatorship.” They w.....
» 25/02/2008 10:39:06 PM Mjpb what a small minded post you made. “should be responsible for planning for their ret.....
» 25/02/2008 11:29:03 AM Daggett thanks for providing the original quote, far more eloquent than my paraphrasing. .....
» 24/02/2008 11:17:00 PM Fester “Personally, I equate the ability of a society to look after its citizens as a meas.....
» 24/02/2008 10:55:07 PM Individual “The government contributions are normally more than the personal contribution”.....
» 24/02/2008 10:19:17 PM CJ Morgan “Er, it's the name under which I trade and pay taxes, and also by which I'm well.....
» 24/02/2008 9:41:12 PM Danielle “elderly woman may never have had a job “ The important words are “may never .....
» 24/02/2008 9:10:27 PM Passy,” Typical of the McCarthyist right. No one can have a brain. No one can think outsid.....
» 24/02/2008 7:30:19 PM Tristan Ewings “regarding the 'tendency of the rate of profit to fall': I think this is ha.....
» 24/02/2008 7:06:59 PM Passy “On how to deal with a housing shortage, most hotels and motels achieve an average o.....
» 24/02/2008 6:31:28 PM “And yet, Castro has outlived them all:” No, the President of the USA has been performing.....
» 24/02/2008 5:59:28 PM Hey folks Those who are suggesting Jolanda is suffering “Munchausen syndrome” or “OCD” ar.....
» 24/02/2008 5:37:48 PM Some years ago I structured a mortgage on a house for a couple well beyond pension age. Th.....
» 24/02/2008 4:57:40 PM TarynW “not too scared to put MY real name up and I assure you I get far more hate mail th.....
» 23/02/2008 11:28:57 AM CJ Morgan “Truly fascinating that all the quotations from KGB and Col Rouge are from peopl.....
» 23/02/2008 11:27:22 AM CJ Morgan “I post here under my real name,” I would contend, because of the relative comm.....
» 23/02/2008 10:26:07 AM Oh FrankGol I see you have come to defend the honour of the dishonourable, the manhood of .....
» 22/02/2008 10:21:31 PM Jolanda “I recently made formal allegations against the Ombudsman of a conspiracy to cover.....
» 22/02/2008 10:00:17 PM "If our system respect and protect our right to express our opinion, our thoughts, ou.....
» 21/02/2008 2:24:38 PM From the article “Revolution in China may not happen tomorrow, but it will happen. And it.....
» 21/02/2008 2:05:10 PM “our convenience and self-indulgence come at the cost of a natural despoilment that most o.....
» 21/02/2008 1:29:43 PM “that are NON-ASSETT based, e.g cars, boats and holidays, have an increased interest rate .....
» 20/02/2008 9:31:24 PM CJMorgan “Australia doesn't separate its people based on the outmoded social construct of .....
» 20/02/2008 7:23:48 PM In my work, I am employed to express an opinion, efficiently and effectively. PC has no pl.....
» 20/02/2008 6:56:36 PM PALE whilst I would agree with your sentiment, that parents who do not want or choose not .....
» 20/02/2008 10:06:09 AM CJ Morgan “Col's like one of those turtles you whack at an amusement arcade.” Well at lea.....
» 20/02/2008 9:49:41 AM Ginx 15 Feb “THIS IS RACIST GARBAGE AND I ASK GRAHAM YOUNG TO REMOVE THIS POST. YOU HAVE M.....
» 19/02/2008 7:06:50 PM Another article written by another lawyer. I supposed freedom of speech applies to them t.....
» 19/02/2008 5:24:06 PM Actually to correct the scintillating military analysis. The “Vietnam War” was not actual.....
» 19/02/2008 5:00:06 PM PALE “I simply shared my feelings with you.” I too can share with you PALE “Yawn” David.....
» 19/02/2008 9:23:40 AM Vinegar Joe Thanks for the “heads up” I had not considered the history of John Passant t.....
» 18/02/2008 9:09:27 PM PALE “I found the comment directed to me extremely distasteful.” I am not sure what comme.....
» 18/02/2008 8:33:35 PM RobP “The bottom line is that much of it is not delivered effectively, or just not at all......
» 18/02/2008 6:13:14 PM Yabby “I've seen some of those so called "ladies" scramble for every single doll.....
» 18/02/2008 8:50:08 AM Mr Gerrit H Schorel-Hlavka, very adequately expressed the view which I agree with. All pe.....
» 18/02/2008 2:00:20 AM Bronco Lane “How can the like of Abbott, Andrews and Howard be Christians when they are ou.....
» 17/02/2008 11:16:40 PM Rainier “Col, I thought you were Gay?” I can understand how you would make that error rai.....
» 17/02/2008 10:49:21 PM Liam “what la-la land are you dialing in from” Liam, if you wish to challenge my view you.....
» 17/02/2008 9:56:20 PM Yabby I was tempted to refer to your previous post and change cleaning to its correct valu.....
» 17/02/2008 9:38:33 PM Belly “Let me confirm Cols view of one government department the one I worked in for 22 ye.....
» 17/02/2008 7:20:22 PM CJ Morgan “we're generally not talking about whether or not their parents were married.” .....
» 17/02/2008 6:43:45 PM Fozz” the mob that you voted for got the boot so whether you want to pay tax or not is irr.....
» 16/02/2008 1:21:20 PM From the article “Third, the 38c/litre freeze on excise in 2001 has kept petrol prices art.....
» 16/02/2008 11:37:28 AM Belly, please excuse my misinterpretation to timing. To the rest I would wholly agree. “n.....
» 15/02/2008 11:30:55 PM re my last post "actually whilst some men and women choose a polyamorous lifestyle,.....
» 15/02/2008 11:23:55 PM My this is a happy friendly thread, how are we all, feeling “sorry” for ourselves? Rainie.....
» 15/02/2008 10:58:14 PM Country gal, my last post was designed as whimsy, to insert levity into the debate, To yo.....
» 15/02/2008 10:32:51 PM FrankGol “Beware the Col Rouges of this world who tell us that a complex phenomenon like i.....
» 15/02/2008 2:11:55 PM Sam “not sure what you mean by individualism...is it an alternative word for capitalism” .....
» 15/02/2008 10:55:56 AM Foxy “This is getting a bit tedious.” Oh sorry Foxy (that is the only “sorry” you will ge.....
» 15/02/2008 10:16:21 AM Belly “say I am racist.” Oh a few do that to me too. The issue of childcare is one of th.....
» 15/02/2008 9:44:17 AM At the risk of introducing to this thread the level of irrelevance which it so richly dese.....
» 14/02/2008 5:27:46 PM Passy “All those years of activism, agitation and struggle” You make it sound like a laxa.....
» 14/02/2008 5:02:33 PM CJ Morgan “You really are an offensive, racist bastard aren't you Col?” No, my parents we.....
» 14/02/2008 4:36:06 PM Passy ”Actually Marx was elected. The International Working Man's Association.” That has .....
» 13/02/2008 6:51:54 PM Leigh, it looks like you and me might be standing alone, but that makes the debate an even.....
» 13/02/2008 6:25:33 PM Wassup – your post reminds me of someone else who used to post here. “The usual suspect” h.....
» 13/02/2008 5:55:40 PM Belly, please do not presume I was attempting to be in anyway critical of you earlier, whe.....
» 13/02/2008 5:29:32 PM HenryVIII ”Marx was no more deranged than is George Bush, Dick Cheney and Condoleeza Rice......
» 13/02/2008 4:44:36 PM Dickie “You remain not left, not right but backward. And this debate too, remains backward.....
» 13/02/2008 12:20:54 PM RobP” Here's hoping that we're in for a real change (you can call it "levelling".....
» 13/02/2008 9:51:15 AM DavidJS ” in fact they were essentially libertarian and created by hard working upright pe.....
» 13/02/2008 9:40:11 AM Belly “that will see me branded right wing and class traitor but it is true.” I was broug.....
» 13/02/2008 9:13:10 AM It is so stupid a question, I am not sure why I am bothering to respond, put it down to a .....
» 13/02/2008 12:08:49 AM ASymeonakis, “Migrants avoid the public services, they do not trust them, they have very b.....
» 12/02/2008 11:53:39 PM Belly "Still tip Obama to win or it will be a Republican white house. Not bias just w.....
» 12/02/2008 3:53:44 PM Rhian “Countries that have escaped poverty for the bulk of their populations have always s.....
» 12/02/2008 3:06:30 PM The most significant thing about Pauline Hanson was she proved the Australian system of po.....
» 12/02/2008 2:45:13 PM DavidJS “Democratic libertarianism"? Sounds like a good idea. I don't think it could .....
» 12/02/2008 10:40:02 AM Foxy “Today, no living Australian can claim innocence, Parliament has enacted the Native T.....
» 12/02/2008 9:52:26 AM Dickie “And who would know more about savage German guard dogs than you eh?” You introduc.....
» 12/02/2008 9:41:16 AM Keith “Education services, health services, policing in remote communities are funded we.....
» 11/02/2008 4:11:16 PM Rainier “As an Aboriginal person,” What % aboriginal rainier? “Leave the real world out .....
» 11/02/2008 3:45:16 PM Americans have a history of electing people who respect the office to which they are elect.....
» 11/02/2008 2:56:12 PM “It is not often you can pinpoint the decline of a great empire. For the US January 30, 19.....
» 11/02/2008 10:46:56 AM CJ Morgan “It's really very simple, Col. Your claim is only valid if you consider Aborigin.....
» 11/02/2008 10:23:06 AM Dickie “"I am an accountant by profession." Oh wonderful – fantastic” Pleased.....
» 10/02/2008 9:38:06 PM Dickie “"Trust the system, imperfect as it is, get yourself elected to where you can .....
» 10/02/2008 7:36:36 PM Passy “These are the same sort of arguments used to take the stolen generation. We were wr.....
» 9/02/2008 9:55:59 AM Dikcie “My contribution to this thread is about rescuing our highly contaminated eco syste.....
» 8/02/2008 5:06:35 PM Katheedavis I concur with your view kathee I am quite able to apologize to people I have.....
» 8/02/2008 3:51:08 PM Rainier “AS PEOPLE WHO HAVE NEVER ENTERED THE MIRKY WATERS OF PUBLIC LIFE” Oh dear, shout.....
» 8/02/2008 10:08:55 AM “They were banking their future upon him completing his degree in Australia and gaining pe.....
» 8/02/2008 10:02:38 AM Good post Leigh, of which I would only add From the article “The most encouraging part of.....
» 8/02/2008 9:46:53 AM So rainier, CJ Morgan and mike-servethepeople (I am always suspicious to the veracity of s.....
» 8/02/2008 9:02:22 AM JamesH “So the lack of suitable male partners seems to be a world wide phenomenon.” I can.....
» 8/02/2008 8:25:14 AM JHH “what are women doing to themselves, and why perhaps is more the question” I would su.....
» 6/02/2008 6:48:50 PM “Governments must summon up all of their political courage and take the opportunity to mak.....
» 6/02/2008 6:09:11 PM rainier "Well jump in anytime (have your lattes first) and take on what Col said abou.....
» 6/02/2008 9:34:02 AM The analogy used, that of a developing nation is like a child, is to suggest the developin.....
» 6/02/2008 9:17:38 AM CJ Morgan “Sorry to hear about your cardiac problems.” Please do not worry about it, I ha.....
» 6/02/2008 8:57:10 AM I have no doubt in the existence of God, put that down to a sense of faith. I do have ser.....
» 5/02/2008 12:37:00 PM Fred” The big challenge with infrastructure spending is that projects with sound benefit-c.....
» 5/02/2008 12:19:58 PM CJ Morgan.. “I see in my absence . . . “ Yes I did notice that something filled the vacuu.....
» 3/02/2008 10:04:26 PM Rainier “Now that the permit system is abolished you should have no problems entering any .....
» 3/02/2008 9:55:35 PM ponder – your play on words is a little hackneyed but what would I expect from someone who.....
» 3/02/2008 9:43:16 PM Foxy “where does Australian come into the picture? What is the difference between citize.....
» 3/02/2008 1:22:01 PM I am still pondering foxys original question “Migrants in Australia as well as the Indige.....
» 3/02/2008 1:10:19 PM Passy “In some instances (such as Paris in May 68 or Czechoslovakia in the same year) capi.....
» 3/02/2008 12:50:49 PM Rainier” I hope your heart condition gets better, no really, I hope it does.” It will not.....
» 2/02/2008 3:37:05 PM Dickie “edicts which are legislated for the benefit of all its people - not just those see.....
» 2/02/2008 3:13:51 PM Rainier” Col Rouge 103AD-2008 Died of organ failure in his chest Some say it was his heart.....
» 1/02/2008 9:27:42 PM Passy “The Australian state does not treate all equally.” “Muslim are dragged before the .....
» 1/02/2008 8:51:52 PM Desipis “The problem is that they will attempt to resolve their problems through crimes su.....
» 1/02/2008 12:15:49 PM Well if feminism has done nothing for women, it has done less for men. Therefore why do .....
» 1/02/2008 11:56:34 AM Dickie “are you conceding there are corporations who conduct their operations in an irresp.....
» 1/02/2008 10:21:11 AM Fozz “the extreme hypocracy in which they condemn the low earning recipients of welfare wh.....
» 31/01/2008 6:29:05 PM Dickie “Col Rouge. Perhaps you have not been in this country long enough to realise that A.....
» 31/01/2008 12:35:51 PM Re “I thank the land for its abundant food.” And man shall not live by bread alone. Or “.....
» 31/01/2008 12:01:16 PM Desipis “That attitude ignores . . . blah . . . the line (welfare and/or crime) than the i.....
» 30/01/2008 2:45:31 PM As someone who describes himself as “English by Birth, Australian by Choice” I feel can co.....
» 30/01/2008 2:26:38 PM Babs “a system like in NZ where midwives can be the leading care provider with referral op.....
» 30/01/2008 10:59:46 AM So it is like this, those who rely on government largesse are the “vulnerable” The “non-v.....
» 29/01/2008 7:27:42 PM Dickie “The EPA agencies, established in Australia decades ago, to protect our environment.....
» 29/01/2008 7:01:47 PM Passy “That at least should increase the intellectual level of what I assume are boring ga.....
» 29/01/2008 3:41:17 PM Belly "Self interest" drives everyone, English, American, German, Japanese. &qu.....
» 29/01/2008 1:46:24 PM Leigh “Col Rouge, You are living proof that many migrants are more Australian than some o.....
» 29/01/2008 10:30:58 AM Passy “What Stalin set up was a form of capitalism in which the state became the collectiv.....
» 28/01/2008 10:51:08 AM Willis “in fact probably in Col's case with a frisson of dark and secret pleasure.” That .....
» 28/01/2008 10:33:52 AM Rainier “Col, You remind of many I've met in the real world, gutless, pointless and pompou.....
» 26/01/2008 8:53:50 AM Vanilla “Putting aside the fact that I don't believe in the death penalty, and the fact th.....
» 25/01/2008 9:42:06 PM I would agree with what you say Leigh. I note you have incurred the (feeble) wrath of rain.....
» 25/01/2008 9:33:51 PM Rainier “If this dispossession happened over the last 50 years wouldn't you consider this .....
» 25/01/2008 12:18:40 PM Rstuart “What he is proposing is mandatory ISP filtering of web pages. Every ISP will be r.....
» 25/01/2008 11:48:38 AM Make child abuse a hanging offence. Child abuse is an offence of the worst kind, as bad i.....
» 25/01/2008 11:08:40 AM Lev “For example, is there a just moral claim to the ownership of natural resources? Many .....
» 25/01/2008 10:33:30 AM “Treating financial transactions concerning land speculation as different from other trans.....
» 24/01/2008 8:59:58 PM Gibo “All I know, as a trained observer, is that PORN IS KILLING SOCIETY.” All I know is,.....
» 24/01/2008 8:36:10 PM Tony Kevin “neither of whom wishes to name himself/herself even now . . I thought OLO had .....
» 24/01/2008 11:14:15 AM From the article “20,000 Aboriginal people fell defending their land in an ongoing war aga.....
» 24/01/2008 9:45:53 AM Bruce Haigh “Col Rouge you are a bully.” Because I dare to disagree with you? How and in.....
» 23/01/2008 12:35:04 PM Wizofaus” Col, much simpler solution: if all drugs were treated like nicotine and alcohol,.....
» 23/01/2008 12:04:47 PM Ah Bruce, your credentials describe you as “a retired Australian diplomat.” You doubtles.....
» 23/01/2008 9:55:33 AM Daggett “It is time that the negative gearing rort was scrapped.” every commercial transa.....
» 22/01/2008 1:34:36 PM All notions of “social justice” are founded in a sense of ethic and morality. Social just.....
» 21/01/2008 3:33:48 PM “governments are controlled by the brothers of the men who control the corporate businesse.....
» 21/01/2008 3:06:02 PM Runner “The obvious fruit of the pervert industry is relationship breakdown, unfaithfulnes.....
» 21/01/2008 10:42:12 AM Daggett “the income of those who are lucky enough to have two or more homes . . at the exp.....
» 20/01/2008 9:00:50 PM daggett"yab-bot wrote: "All around you people are buying homes and doing well.&q.....
» 19/01/2008 12:53:38 PM Trade215 “And like an internet stock its got no substance, just spin and hot air.” I agre.....
» 18/01/2008 3:29:59 PM Wizofaus re corporations “yet it effectively acts as a totalitarian entity, answerable onl.....
» 18/01/2008 1:25:36 PM I was listening to the president of Real Estate Institute of Victoria discussing with Neil.....
» 17/01/2008 8:43:05 AM This might be an opportune time to observe, the "bull run" might be coming to .....
» 16/01/2008 10:52:14 PM “The rationality of faith” In my interpretation of English, such a title represent a clas.....
» 16/01/2008 10:29:53 PM Desipis “government intervention never has done and never will.” The role of government is.....
» 16/01/2008 2:47:59 PM If politicians were to act in accordance with their electorates wishes, we would see a ret.....
» 16/01/2008 11:20:46 AM Yabby “It seems to me, that the market is slowly sorting things out.” As it always has do.....
» 15/01/2008 8:55:45 PM MR Smith “easiest remedies for this malaise would be phasing-out of investor tax incentive.....
» 14/01/2008 3:33:51 PM MikeServethepeople” So finance capital itself became a commodity” Finance has been a “com.....
» 14/01/2008 12:15:41 PM “The steady, relentless creation of the monster that we now confront goes back decades. It.....
» 14/01/2008 9:54:11 AM AIMEE “Nurse practitioners are not "dumbing down" any systems. How can they when.....
» 11/01/2008 12:51:10 PM Botheration “I notice you employ the tactic of *telling* people you are smarter than them .....
» 11/01/2008 11:40:10 AM Oh botheration “free expression cuts all ways, even if you don't like what they say.” Oh .....
» 11/01/2008 9:14:05 AM Kipp “Col Rouge you overlap Leigh in arrogant comment.” That you find it “arrogant” is yo.....
» 10/01/2008 6:20:27 PM Wiz “then what is it about Africans that you believe makes them incapable of running their.....
» 10/01/2008 12:37:40 PM Oh botheration, it is a racing certainty that, by deliberately opposing the monocular view.....
» 9/01/2008 10:53:01 PM oh such pompous words from Audrey Apple (is that a real name?) I particularly enjoyed “th.....
» 9/01/2008 10:04:41 PM Wiz “my rule would probably be that taxpayer funds would subsidise ticket prices by a maxi.....
» 9/01/2008 10:37:55 AM Wiz “Col, if you seriously believe the world would be a better place with no orchestras,” .....
» 8/01/2008 11:02:42 PM Q&A Goals impact on population decline Against each “goal” I assess its effect in reducin.....
» 8/01/2008 5:27:34 PM Q&A “I’ll rephrase; science is telling humanity that we have a problem.” No, some “scient.....
» 8/01/2008 6:51:24 AM Wizofaus “no professional orchestras or opera companies…. For the sake of your ideological.....
» 7/01/2008 9:36:58 PM Livingstone “Fund it through the state' is normal practice throughout the world's nations .....
» 7/01/2008 9:23:20 PM Q&A “ I have always said, it's not about the science - it's about power and control of the.....
» 7/01/2008 9:20:51 PM Q&A “Do you have any suggestions on how you might curtail population growth apart from rem.....
» 7/01/2008 11:03:15 AM Q&A “ I have always said, it's not about the science - it's about power and control of the.....
» 6/01/2008 2:24:04 PM Q&A “you know as well as any that climate-change science is much more advanced now than in.....
» 6/01/2008 12:22:44 PM West “Lets either get rid of all subsidies or stop complaining.” I agree Individual cons.....
» 6/01/2008 11:47:17 AM Geoff “Just as mice plagues are built on a period of plenty, the urban poor have built the.....
» 6/01/2008 11:09:14 AM Q&A “I would defer to any of the above “opinions” before Col’s, but that is just my opinio.....
» 6/01/2008 10:35:44 AM Wizofaus “forgo a few cents a year of your paycheque” That is you twisting words. Indivi.....
» 4/01/2008 11:32:06 PM Dr Livingstone ”Col, you are very proud and confident of your consumer/supplier 'model', b.....
» 4/01/2008 1:38:34 PM Wizofaus “to convince someone of your political persuasion that there is anything at all w.....
» 4/01/2008 12:47:41 PM Cacofonix “It is been established by numerous studies both here and in the US that taxpaye.....
» 3/01/2008 3:46:15 PM Yabby “Thats why centralised economies fail” Agree but not only central economies. The I.....
» 3/01/2008 3:12:32 PM Q&A, be as patronizing as you want. Ultimately we are dealing with opinion more than “scie.....
» 3/01/2008 12:20:57 PM Johncee1945 “Art/culture was squeezed put to the sword in the "new world order"......
» 3/01/2008 11:46:52 AM Chris C – your dissertation on lemmings…… Yawn - who cares ? not me. Wizofaus “Col, atmo.....
» 2/01/2008 3:02:27 AM Daggett “How unbelievably selfish it is that any first homebuyer should expect Joe and Mar.....
» 2/01/2008 2:39:55 AM Grim “Pity there's been no mention of patriotism, of any kind.” Of course not, I would le.....
» 2/01/2008 2:02:30 AM Chris C “Lemmings do not jump off cliffs. “ Per wikipedia “While many people believe that.....
» 1/01/2008 1:22:02 PM My understanding of the VHS / Betamax issue was, despite Betamax being a better system, it.....
» 1/01/2008 12:09:49 AM I was looking for the agenda, I note the author credentials “Amanda Sherratt was a UK nurs.....
» 1/01/2008 12:02:30 AM Ponder “Like most trends, it will pass.” But how much damage will be done to national eco.....
» 31/12/2007 11:42:40 PM From the article “Our nation needs its governments to broaden the appeal and reach of clas.....
» 31/12/2007 9:42:03 AM From the article “Our best plan of defence is not to antagonise other nations (or religion.....
» 31/12/2007 9:07:59 AM Grim “Oh, I know, what about the internal combustion engine” So you have a more effective.....
» 31/12/2007 8:39:53 AM Hello dickie Nice little spleen vent you had there. Feeling over it now? Had a lay down .....
» 30/12/2007 3:03:07 PM Dickie “Hopefully Col Rouge perused my last post on the abominable farming of battery hens.....
» 30/12/2007 2:55:07 PM Wizofaus” however it is exactly because we have democracy that it is highly unlikely we wi.....
» 29/12/2007 12:45:28 PM “we expect Intensive farming replaced by FREE RANGE for All Animals.” You might. Personal.....
» 29/12/2007 12:07:40 PM Plerdsus “A threefold increase” I agree with your assessment. Some of that increase will.....
» 29/12/2007 11:40:38 AM If we have to follow the popular vogue to label things, then this will go down as a the “m.....
» 24/12/2007 4:58:23 PM Grputland “Buildings, vehicles and machinery all DEPRECIATE.” And so too investment prope.....
» 24/12/2007 9:07:34 AM Wizofaus “This a response from glaciologist Elisabeth Isaksson:. . . . “it's too soon to .....
» 24/12/2007 8:51:35 AM Grputland ”investors subsidize themselves.” An investor must source the income to finance.....
» 22/12/2007 2:12:48 PM Grputland “Yep. In other words, the tenant signed up to subsidize the landlord's capital g.....
» 21/12/2007 2:52:54 PM I see wizofaus is bringing statistical analysis into the debate. That is a good move, som.....
» 21/12/2007 11:51:26 AM Wizofaus” If that offset wasn’t so generous, no doubt some of those investors would get ou.....
» 21/12/2007 11:24:39 AM Quick response “It's not such a big leap or logistical exercise for our taxation system to.....
» 21/12/2007 10:59:58 AM Kevin “But its obvious people don't care about their children's future” Please substantia.....
» 21/12/2007 9:33:57 AM Grputland “Now that really takes the cake.” As Marie Antoinette said “Sarcasm never work.....
» 20/12/2007 10:01:33 AM Mr Smith To correct your statement re discrimination “First-home buyers are buying a dw.....
» 19/12/2007 4:01:34 PM Charting a new course for Australia I was happy with the course we were on. There is no.....
» 19/12/2007 3:41:12 PM AJFA “There is no doubt that Mark Latham, like most people, has his character flaws.” Tha.....
» 19/12/2007 1:12:26 PM If someone, who perceives themselves primarily as an “enthic minority”, is disgruntled wit.....
» 19/12/2007 12:55:31 PM Commuter “The credit/inflation treadmill generates continuing pressure to build population.....
» 19/12/2007 10:22:59 AM Grputland “Col Rouge's housing investment model . . . seems to include everything but &quo.....
» 18/12/2007 1:54:43 PM Hello boxgum re “Do you feel good now Col Rouge? Such a tedious contribution. “ I feel wo.....
» 18/12/2007 10:48:09 AM Healthwatcher "I cannot see the connection beween the Aurukan incident and "gyno.....
» 17/12/2007 6:14:01 PM wizofaus/dnicholson “If anyone is the contradictory one, it's you Col, by apparently claim.....
» 17/12/2007 12:31:50 PM From the article “In my 60s counter-culture-influenced youth, I held a romantic torch for .....
» 17/12/2007 11:03:36 AM The "Elephant in the Room" at the Bali talkfest was "population control&quo.....
» 17/12/2007 10:48:43 AM Wizofaus / dnicholson wrote the following (above) “but ultimately as a species we do have .....
» 16/12/2007 3:09:15 PM Wizofaus/dnicholson (so much “opinion” that you need two logons, seems to me you are less .....
» 15/12/2007 8:23:37 AM carbon footprints I see a lot of posts expressing views similar to mine. Can anyone stil.....
» 15/12/2007 8:22:23 AM Dnicholson, Dearest Margaret, “we must not waste time and energy DISPUTING the IPCC's re.....
» 14/12/2007 9:40:31 AM Billie “Col Rouge what are you smoking? Stop it, its not good for you!” I was responding .....
» 13/12/2007 6:15:11 PM The article asks “Why do Protestants remain separated from the Roman Catholic Church after.....
» 13/12/2007 5:30:34 PM FrankGol “You need some 60s music as accompaniment to this Col. Come out from looking unde.....
» 13/12/2007 4:37:29 PM Q&A “I have a double degree in science and engineering, a masters and a doctorate” You as.....
» 13/12/2007 4:09:18 PM Kipp “Talking of Money Col Rouge takes the biscuit. An economic refugee from the UK!” Har.....
» 11/12/2007 1:12:12 PM I would note we vote to elect not just federal representatives in two houses. We also elec.....
» 11/12/2007 1:02:27 PM evolution "Lets keep the kangaroo for pet food." oh no, Skippy steaks sit side .....
» 11/12/2007 10:49:42 AM Alms, just $3 billion this time. When will some people get to understand, there is no dig.....
» 11/12/2007 9:58:30 AM Daggett “It is time that this Big Lie,” Under the “lassez-faire capitalism” model which y.....
» 11/12/2007 9:16:56 AM Hotrod “Isn't this speculation what most of the worlds financial markets are based on?” S.....
» 10/12/2007 11:51:31 AM I note of the IPCC - "the monopoly authority on the science." The problem with .....
» 10/12/2007 11:20:58 AM Wizofaus “You seem to prefer something like anarcho-capitalism - pray tell, what liberties.....
» 10/12/2007 10:03:54 AM grputland ‘When economic models include at least two spatial dimensions and one time dimen.....
» 9/12/2007 8:12:05 PM There are a lot of smart people in USA. I recall how Ronald Reagan was vilified by the le.....
» 9/12/2007 7:49:46 PM grputland, “because that policy would cause investors to PREFER freshly developed lots, on.....
» 8/12/2007 10:58:54 AM FrankGol “other people to get over their tragic lives” That Freudian slip of a statement .....
» 8/12/2007 10:25:43 AM Grputland” I invite him to identify the point of which I am alleged to be "profoundly.....
» 7/12/2007 4:01:03 PM I have purposely ignored this thread until now on the basis that it comes up every few mon.....
» 7/12/2007 12:25:06 PM Jay Daniel Thompson “However, he is also one who misunderstood the “ordinary Australians” .....
» 7/12/2007 11:34:30 AM Huffnpuff “YOU HAVE A SHORT FUSE IN YOUR BRAIN” Hardly, bearing in mind the last several .....
» 6/12/2007 1:35:01 PM FrankGol “So what kind of statement is this of yours: ….."? Not "plain old jud.....
» 6/12/2007 1:25:46 PM “A refusal to say “sorry” to dispossessed Aboriginals” Correction, the supposedly “dispos.....
» 4/12/2007 3:40:56 PM adventures007 “we will need to redistribute wealth internationally so as to bring in the p.....
» 4/12/2007 10:17:29 AM FrankGol “When you go to hospital, you don't ask the staff to take due care in their treat.....
» 3/12/2007 4:16:48 PM Shockadelic “Why would it be any different in Australia” If Australia had been colonised .....
» 3/12/2007 3:25:23 PM bushbred "bit like just moving the deck chairs on the Titanic." but the technoc.....
» 3/12/2007 1:20:58 PM FrankGol ”If, one dark night, you were bashed, robbed and left for dead, and someone like .....
» 3/12/2007 11:07:25 AM FrankGol “Is it a universal law of nature that the ones who think they're always right are.....
» 3/12/2007 10:35:13 AM Belly “but are we free to talk about our concerns without being called racists?” I would .....
» 3/12/2007 10:11:20 AM ybgirp"A popularity poll every three years virtually guarantees all important decisio.....
» 3/12/2007 9:57:00 AM I bet the Odds have been Fixed and the "socialist minded" want a tax levied so a.....
» 3/12/2007 7:32:16 AM Stevenlmeyer “I'm not sure you're correct.” “Jews and Parsi Indians” Tempted to suggest .....
» 1/12/2007 12:12:19 PM Huffnpuff “never bothered to answer my questions about when he was a staff admin officer f.....
» 1/12/2007 10:18:46 AM “On November 25 Australia is still going to be culturally diverse. On November 26, even mo.....
» 30/11/2007 12:46:02 PM Poverty is more about lacking the wisdom to spend effectively what one has available, rath.....
» 27/11/2007 6:14:23 PM "ALP - the natural party of government" about as natural as my dog trying to mo.....
» 24/11/2007 11:06:07 AM “human rights of indigenous peoples” should be the same as the human rights of every other.....
» 21/11/2007 12:55:22 PM TIBBS “It's people who have the "ugly obsession with women's looks".” And most .....
» 21/11/2007 12:43:48 PM Iluvatar “a bunch of right-wing, Christian racists who eschew tolerance !” At least they .....
» 21/11/2007 10:25:05 AM “the reality of the declining reputation, popularity and "soft-power" of the Uni.....
» 20/11/2007 7:47:28 AM Oh your driveling piffle, let us dissect your claims to my supposed “boasting” “I am the .....
» 20/11/2007 7:21:28 AM No one would support the notion that an employer should hold sway over the private choices.....
» 19/11/2007 9:54:49 AM Latham is a good reminder of what a closet KRudd might actually become, if Garrett’s comme.....
» 17/11/2007 3:24:04 PM RJA your all encompassing excuse “At the end of the day not everyone has the opportunity.....
» 15/11/2007 7:14:14 PM It is becoming too bothersome to get to this thread. the debate has been worked through. .....
» 13/11/2007 9:38:12 PM Pynchme ”In contrast, women are valued primarily on whether they are sexy or not” I would.....
» 13/11/2007 9:28:14 PM Shocka “An incestuous cannibalistic necrophile” Your words, not mine. If you have predi.....
» 12/11/2007 2:11:55 PM Ah the usual socialist drivel As for “Once it has learned to limit itself, the flea can n.....
» 12/11/2007 10:07:32 AM Gerritt “unborn children.” Is an oxymoron, “Regretfully too much talk about women ha.....
» 10/11/2007 3:33:12 PM Shockadelic “Your movement … Need another English lesson on "you" and "y.....
» 9/11/2007 11:30:38 AM “But the truth is that there is something horribly rotten going on in my personal world an.....
» 9/11/2007 10:51:11 AM From the article “naysayers: if you don't like lists like these, don't read them. And I ag.....
» 9/11/2007 10:33:13 AM Mr Gerrit H Schorel-Hlavka “women are dying from illegal abortions then we should decrimin.....
» 6/11/2007 7:43:15 PM Shockadelic “Your movement” I am a member of several professional bodies. I am not a memb.....
» 6/11/2007 7:26:01 PM Garretts Gaff amounts to the usual socialist mantra before the election "Me-Too, Me.....
» 5/11/2007 4:24:19 PM RJA “Disadvantaged communities that live in public housing consist of people living with s.....
» 5/11/2007 12:39:26 PM From the article “The Coalition’s targeting of the pensioner vote is forcing one set of ta.....
» 5/11/2007 12:16:59 PM ‘He (Bernard Nathanson) has publicly stated that the NARAL *faked* their statistics of dea.....
» 2/11/2007 7:31:22 PM Dnicholson “plenty big enough to sustain large amounts of genetic diversity (and quite lik.....
» 1/11/2007 7:57:36 PM Tristan Ewings “It is my guess, anyway, that you barely came to grips with my article at a.....
» 1/11/2007 7:26:01 PM Yabby “Given the low level of manufactured exports and everyone crying that we need manufa.....
» 1/11/2007 7:21:36 PM Privileged whites Redneck “The concept that all races are equal is certainly a noble one….....
» 1/11/2007 7:15:53 PM Pericles provides admirable comment in response to each of the crosses which RJA claims th.....
» 29/10/2007 7:01:08 PM Mac “analogy, or simple arithmetic.” If the debt was “public debt”, incurred by governmen.....
» 28/10/2007 4:24:33 PM RJA “Now in being honest, I would respond with a basic observation – never have I seen suc.....
» 28/10/2007 3:11:45 PM Shocka, you obviously put a lot of effort into writing your posts. More effort than I can .....
» 28/10/2007 2:58:06 PM CJMorgan “Victor Meldrew/Alf Garnett:” Oh how trite. I said previously on this or anothe.....
» 28/10/2007 2:21:42 PM Mac “We are a already banana republic,” You might be but I am certainly not. The debt is.....
» 27/10/2007 11:44:24 AM Tristam Ewings “Whether or not capitalism is 'naturally' a better system than socialism is.....
» 27/10/2007 11:04:50 AM Shocka “Because you have a simplistic approach “ I see the abortion issue as a simple iss.....
» 27/10/2007 10:45:53 AM Mac “Australia needs a development/industry policy desperately,” Any plan can only be bet.....
» 26/10/2007 8:33:15 PM Lizz-the-Yank, “Col Rouge, I did not mean to turn this into a US/Australia slagging match,.....
» 25/10/2007 10:25:18 PM Lizz-the-Yank I am not familiar with the environs of Native American Indians, however I su.....
» 25/10/2007 9:54:31 PM Wizofaus “But surely the point of prudent governmental oversight of the economy is to prev.....
» 25/10/2007 9:21:03 PM Shocka ”By your argument, a sadistic woman can torture, deform or maim her unborn, whilst .....
» 24/10/2007 7:27:07 PM CJ Morgan “Hey Col - I'm really a fun guy when you get to know me :)” Ah that explains wh.....
» 24/10/2007 6:49:34 PM a few have beaten me to the punch (eg Yabby) but here it is anyway “Thirty years ago we w.....
» 23/10/2007 8:26:18 PM “If successful, this would be a small, incremental step towards reconciliation because &qu.....
» 23/10/2007 7:56:49 PM “A fields day for the morally bankrupt conservatives” I suspect the moral bankruptcy belo.....
» 22/10/2007 11:03:09 PM Shocka “Hitler liked killing gypsies and hobos too! You guys would really get along.” Act.....
» 22/10/2007 10:39:14 PM Insignificant “All drug dealers should be executed now.” If that is what you believe, I s.....
» 21/10/2007 5:57:35 PM Shocka “Individuals can do whatever they like with their own body. The problem here is the.....
» 20/10/2007 1:03:24 PM Trotsky was all for a “global human union” along with perpetual revolution. Even Stalin r.....
» 20/10/2007 12:33:22 PM “expand the overall tax base by approximately 1 per cent of GDP…could be seen as a modest .....
» 19/10/2007 10:15:01 PM Shockadelic” She has the "right" to determine the desirability of gays, dwarfs o.....
» 18/10/2007 8:04:43 PM CJ Morgan “Indeed, they often get it wrong, including those rare cases where people have b.....
» 18/10/2007 7:40:50 PM CJ Morgan “Um, Col you old dog - notions like "British ancestral stock" For Aus.....
» 18/10/2007 7:10:35 PM Shockadelic" It cannot be proven that anybody has any rights whatsoever. Society *cre.....
» 15/10/2007 7:32:06 PM Shockadelic “What is legal or illegal, moral or immoral, can change over time.” “Alcohol .....
» 15/10/2007 7:09:24 PM CJ Morgan “I suppose that supporting the "re-colonisation" of Africa mightn't ne.....
» 13/10/2007 6:15:27 PM CJ Morgan “I suppose the overtly racist views of members of your cohorts like redneck, Col.....
» 13/10/2007 3:39:27 PM It is like the NRA debate. Its not the fault of the gun, it’s the fault of the people who.....
» 13/10/2007 3:21:41 PM Mr Gerrit H Schorel-Hlavka “When a child gives me the understanding contemplating suicide .....
» 13/10/2007 2:51:53 PM Wizofaus “who object to immigration on the grounds that it dilutes our European heritage e.....
» 10/10/2007 2:08:49 PM Wizofaus “you said you were Libertarian...so why are you concerned over trying to maintain.....
» 9/10/2007 3:34:46 PM johncee1945 “Some are extreme right wing positions…. "Women were treated as possessio.....
» 9/10/2007 12:16:12 PM Yendis “"The land belongs to all men, the rent is the benefit, it should be collected.....
» 9/10/2007 11:45:03 AM Dresdener – your arguments are reasoned and comprehensive. You very adequately destroyed.....
» 9/10/2007 11:30:06 AM Mr Gerrit H Schorel-Hlavka “that Candy Broad wants the law to be changed!” It is reasona.....
» 7/10/2007 5:07:21 PM Shockadelic “It's hypocritical of feminists..” That does not explain me, I was born and r.....
» 7/10/2007 4:50:20 PM Mr Gerrit H Schorel-Hlavka “I did write “me, as a member of society” and NOT “Me, as an in.....
» 6/10/2007 4:28:08 PM Mr Gerrit H Schorel-Hlavka, “The issue is not at all that I seek to dictate women what to .....
» 5/10/2007 4:42:36 PM Mr Gerrit H Schorel-Hlavka, “albeit I can accept that in certain (not all) rape cases it m.....
» 5/10/2007 4:14:35 PM I see a few anti-conservative socialists expelling their venom whilst they sit around enjo.....
» 26/09/2007 9:06:12 PM Yendis ” Please read my lines again. I said nothing about government owning land.” You sa.....
» 26/09/2007 5:51:09 PM Meelamay “who would prefer to forgoe any personal responsibility for ensuring their fertil.....
» 26/09/2007 2:12:51 PM Yendis” The quote from arch bitch Thatcher is quite true” Ah and Margaret would reply “I .....
» 26/09/2007 11:19:19 AM Mr Gerrit H Schorel-Hlavka “We still have this nonsense about women rights over their own .....
» 26/09/2007 11:01:14 AM As was recently said “We want a society where people are free to make choices, to make mis.....
» 25/09/2007 12:16:36 PM Oh Mary Whitehouse and others "A group of eight cells held together by the egg membra.....
» 25/09/2007 11:59:45 AM IT is useful to consider what others have said about fairness and a “just” society Quote:.....
» 25/09/2007 11:39:20 AM How many generations does a settler have to settle in a place before he (or she) becomes &.....
» 18/09/2007 4:41:56 PM I would suggest to everyone who feels disenfranchised through the abuse of supposed carers.....
» 18/09/2007 2:19:58 PM Gibo “That of obeying God.” That would depend on whose God you choose. Many folk follow .....
» 18/09/2007 1:45:39 PM Despipis “death toll for illicit drugs is about 1,000. Motor vehicles 1,600; alcohol 2,000.....
» 18/09/2007 11:19:29 AM A disabled child is a double whammy, 1 – every loving parent brings into the world child.....
» 18/09/2007 10:40:09 AM I agree with Yabby, it is an interesting question. Why do some people so vehemently oppo.....
» 17/09/2007 11:22:06 PM Haygirl “I haven't found any of your posts to be a problem.” I would hope not, what I wri.....
» 16/09/2007 4:43:33 PM Fester “One of my siblings has a problem with alcohol, and despite this, has achieved much.....
» 16/09/2007 4:12:31 PM haygirl. "Col Rouge,is it true that you were or a prison warder.Some scuttlebutt goi.....
» 16/09/2007 3:59:26 PM Shockaholic.. your last post, the usual dysfunctional hyperbole. What you would have done.....
» 15/09/2007 3:56:18 PM Fester “So you understand the nature of addiction do you Col?” Only since you ask, I unde.....
» 15/09/2007 11:24:28 AM Work commitments, Been unable to get here until today Desipis “Wow, way to cherry pick.” .....
» 12/09/2007 3:33:34 PM TurnRightThenLeft “Mostly I just think putting people to death for addiction” I did not s.....
» 12/09/2007 11:02:48 AM Yvonne “Col Rouge got a bit of a caning…. he does make a point.” thankyou for your under.....
» 11/09/2007 7:23:13 PM Despisis” Yes, they are criminal problems, but drugs only lead to these in a very small mi.....
» 11/09/2007 2:17:36 PM From the Article “Substance abuse is usually symptomatic of something greater, which these.....
» 11/09/2007 1:44:57 PM Mr Gerrit H Schorel-Hlavka, “The moment you allow a woman to willy nilly decide the right .....
» 11/09/2007 11:43:13 AM CJ Morgan “our resident misogynists to exploit,” I will tell my daughters and partner tha.....
» 10/09/2007 5:56:44 PM Shelley “You need to read some of the literature on drug use in Australia before you make .....
» 10/09/2007 2:00:56 PM From the article “drug use stems from a lack of self worth.” I knew plenty of folk who ha.....
» 10/09/2007 11:44:05 AM "In bedrooms all over the country, women are still subjected to sexual violence from .....
» 10/09/2007 11:18:27 AM Rainier “Col, are you claiming that you never masturbate?” I fail to see how you can allu.....
» 9/09/2007 12:09:12 PM Mr Gerrit H Schorel-Hlavka, “It is a bit like when you drive a car and have an accident yo.....
» 8/09/2007 2:46:21 PM Rattles “Col you are a arrogant masturbating arse-hole!” And if you worked harder, you mi.....
» 5/09/2007 2:50:47 PM CJ Morgan “Wrong, Col. It was a successful claim of Indigenous property rights under Austr.....
» 5/09/2007 2:28:31 PM Hirez “ts just so bloody simple hey- why didn't I think of it?” Maybe because, if reading.....
» 4/09/2007 5:12:04 PM From the article “I can only say that I remember writing my first newspaper article on gre.....
» 4/09/2007 10:46:30 AM Billie “in this instance you are showing your complete lack of knowledge of the damage tha.....
» 4/09/2007 10:19:53 AM Rainier “Col's unremarkable contribution, I'd rather read the words and ideas of a jurist .....
» 29/08/2007 2:35:08 PM FrankGol “I disagree …: “move on or not”” You are merely reciting excuses for why people .....
» 29/08/2007 11:54:43 AM This is a simple issue. Present Australia is the product of colonial conquest. Like it or .....
» 29/08/2007 11:19:38 AM Bronco Lane Negative Gearing for what? House investments? Share Investments? Option Trad.....
» 28/08/2007 3:51:40 PM cacofonix “ we should aim to remove copyright altogether.” Payment of copyright is to the.....
» 28/08/2007 2:26:18 PM David Palmer “but this cuts both ways, doesn’t it. A woman has “opportunity for personal g.....
» 28/08/2007 1:54:34 PM Stop&think “Yabby states that until a child is born it is not yet a person. It is this dan.....
» 28/08/2007 1:32:52 PM Hirez “I don’t understand this ‘move on’ mentality of yours, especially when it deals with.....
» 28/08/2007 10:34:44 AM Logic “And when you ask for assimilation I ask you, to what. Are we all to become aborigin.....
» 26/08/2007 3:14:34 PM Stop&think” A completely hypocritical post from Col Rouge.” Nothing hypocritical about wh.....
» 25/08/2007 2:46:48 PM Stop&think If you want a debate then bring it all on but do not bother to bore us with y.....
» 25/08/2007 2:35:57 PM Hirez ”Got your measure very well Mr. Rouge.” If you were not a moron, you would have bee.....
» 22/08/2007 3:13:08 PM I must agree with Kevin, I was wondering if Graham Young had bought a job lot of Bernie Ma.....
» 22/08/2007 11:01:31 AM Multiculturalism is a joke. It is a presumption that all things will remain the same and t.....
» 22/08/2007 10:28:51 AM David Palmer “But it is not really as simple as this, is it?” Yes it is! “So you are say.....
» 21/08/2007 2:13:56 PM Miss_Allaneous “Of all people, Margaret Tighe would have more compassion for the pregnant .....
» 21/08/2007 11:54:13 AM Schorel-Hlavka “all taxpayers are paying” All tax payers pay for single parent pensions. .....
» 19/08/2007 1:50:54 PM Mr Gerrit H Schorel-Hlavka “had not read that post of yours and as such did not borrow it,.....
» 18/08/2007 2:19:35 PM David Palmer .. your farewell suggests you are merely a hit and run merchant, having a say.....
» 18/08/2007 1:33:47 PM Johnj - I actually thought you were Scandinavia, that is where "Trolls" come fro.....
» 18/08/2007 1:31:55 PM James Purser said “Its about the right to choose. Pure and simple.” And I wholly agree. .....
» 15/08/2007 2:02:52 PM Johnj “Days unsullied by the gooks, slopes, dagoes, garlic-munchers, wogs, spicks, balts, .....
» 15/08/2007 12:40:23 PM Celivia “I disagreed with you when you were not in favour of statistics because I thought .....
» 14/08/2007 2:26:29 PM David Palmer “Abortion is bad: there are far too many of them, and so the question to our .....
» 14/08/2007 12:25:34 PM This is quite simple. The majority of Australians are from “British” ancestral stock. That.....
» 14/08/2007 11:00:25 AM Kipp “Col Rouge. You are obviously a "Big Brother" fan, and into shock jock radi.....
» 10/08/2007 2:18:12 PM Fred gets it wrong, Again...... From the article “The states had a surplus of 0.4 per ce.....
» 8/08/2007 4:09:52 PM As Felicity rightly points out, the ABC maintains a strong position in the ratings. My vi.....
» 8/08/2007 12:27:22 PM dickie "That must be an awful lot of hectares being desecrated to feed our livestock .....
» 7/08/2007 12:29:04 PM Dickie “Australia has 68,505 beef cattle properties with a national cattle herd of 24,725,.....
» 6/08/2007 6:03:24 PM Dickie “Your comprehension of the written word is poor as is that of your other buddies on.....
» 4/08/2007 10:52:08 AM Dickie ” those who refuse to acknowledge the scientific evidence where their only interest.....
» 31/07/2007 4:50:26 PM Oh more from the vegans and veggies. From my armchair understanding, the reason man evolv.....
» 29/07/2007 11:01:32 AM Suezy “so the problem of abortion is once again hidden from the public.” I thought the mo.....
» 26/07/2007 12:34:26 PM Deleted for attempting to subvert the word limit......
» 26/07/2007 11:45:59 AM I would agree with Leigh, the environment is good for anyone who wants to take control of .....
» 25/07/2007 5:07:08 PM Reading from the article “Society is reluctant to openly acknowledge core differences betw.....
» 25/07/2007 2:01:25 PM According to Nationmaster.com Australia rates 5th in the “happiness” stakes behind Iceland.....
» 24/07/2007 4:55:39 PM FrankGol “Today we learn that some of the details of a terrorism charge against Haneef pre.....
» 24/07/2007 4:04:46 PM “A toxic trifecta of drugs, alcohol and pornography is fuelling a culture of violence agai.....
» 24/07/2007 2:13:02 PM "Waving a bunch of computers at a set of bad assumptions will not turn them into good.....
» 24/07/2007 12:03:06 PM Frankgol “In the real world, assimilation means that you pretend that everyone is the same.....
» 22/07/2007 7:33:33 PM My view is that climate change is a feature evolution. Some things might accentuate it in .....
» 22/07/2007 6:59:14 PM FrankGol I note you think that “Assimilation is soooooo monophonic. No one listens to that.....
» 19/07/2007 2:17:54 PM "Before viewing The Great Global Warming Swindle, the Australian public should have k.....
» 19/07/2007 12:23:16 PM Frank “Communicat airily says: "As I understand it the transcript was leaked by his o.....
» 19/07/2007 11:56:31 AM Ah I was not expecting shared support for my view when I read the earlier posts so thank y.....
» 18/07/2007 4:23:42 PM Oh what a sad and angry individual Andrew Jakubowicz seems. “Sexual abuse of Indigenous c.....
» 18/07/2007 12:18:10 PM From the article "In Australia, we have established a culture where the public duty i.....
» 17/07/2007 6:52:54 PM PAB” The denialists lost badly on Thursday night.” That is a matter of opinion. What hap.....
» 17/07/2007 2:45:52 PM Having endured the disquieting effects of bomb scares, evacuations and driving past IRA bo.....
» 17/07/2007 10:47:01 AM yendis "Saleemul Huq is the Head of Climate Change at the International Institute for.....
» 15/07/2007 1:01:16 PM The telling words “They are working to agree a global regime for tackling climate change” .....
» 15/07/2007 12:27:03 PM Well anything which challenges the internationalist mantra will be demonized by the ABC. I.....
» 12/07/2007 1:38:06 PM Daggett “other scientfic advances which have made modern human civilisation appear to be m.....
» 12/07/2007 10:20:36 AM The whole climate debate is a smokescreen (darn poor pun) and excuse for the authority jun.....
» 11/07/2007 2:27:26 PM “There is now little doubt that climate change, driven by humanity's release of greenhouse.....
» 11/07/2007 2:00:21 PM Ian “the opportunities that the poorest have.” The problem with measuring anything on the.....
» 7/07/2007 10:47:32 PM The only union I have ever been a member of was the student union in UK, when a student, w.....
» 7/07/2007 6:04:39 PM Sowat “Well, you and Col can opt for either a civil or very UN-civil society: what will it.....
» 5/07/2007 11:35:29 AM Fdixit “The solution that immediately comes to mind is to have relativity of wages where t.....
» 3/07/2007 10:43:02 AM daggett "Thanks for this illustration of how, unlike most of the rest of us, you aren.....
» 2/07/2007 12:57:36 PM Daggett “However, the elites in control today are showing themselves to be every bit as se.....
» 2/07/2007 12:17:25 PM Ah so when the government does something the usual suspects crawl out of the wood work and.....
» 28/06/2007 4:31:01 PM The “sex-trade” can be divided into two categories: first, those freely responding to econ.....
» 28/06/2007 4:04:04 PM Daggett “Col Rouge, do you truly expect anyone to believe that you care in the least about.....
» 28/06/2007 10:56:43 AM “I agree with Bob Brown that we should plan to massively reduce the scale of coal exports......
» 24/06/2007 12:57:19 PM Ah, Andrew Bartlett, someone who has found the benefit of knowing they will always be in a.....
» 23/06/2007 10:06:41 AM Mick V “If it’s about living with the consequences of your actions, then it’s pretty relev.....
» 21/06/2007 11:51:17 AM PeterD “147, according to Mensa,” So what, plenty of psychopaths claim high IQs and frequ.....
» 20/06/2007 4:16:20 PM PeterD “Your latest crop of unadulterated verbal garbage puts you on a par with Col Rouge......
» 19/06/2007 11:52:01 AM Aqvarivs “so your opinion is valid and everyone else can bugger off.” Your rhetoric does .....
» 14/06/2007 11:33:25 AM Ah Michael K I am sure that if your mindless drivel was in the least intelligible, I would.....
» 14/06/2007 11:06:56 AM Aqvarivs “The Anti-Catholic dis means nothing to me. Your wasting words.” Learn to read, .....
» 13/06/2007 1:34:18 PM PeterD “Abortion is a choice. So are all other forms of child and adult abuse. Take your p.....
» 13/06/2007 11:06:44 AM “Despite this, however, the vast majority of Australian citizens have nothing to sustain t.....
» 12/06/2007 11:35:20 AM The issue is a moral one. Should politicians follow their own moral conscience, should th.....
» 9/06/2007 2:54:46 PM Goodthief ”We are deadlocked. I would prefer to break the deadlock. (I realise a deadlock .....
» 6/06/2007 2:41:19 PM Greenlight "200 years ago there was a relatively miniscule world population " Y.....
» 6/06/2007 2:03:06 PM Ah I often thought the roo population was running amok. In recent years we have had local .....
» 6/06/2007 11:37:52 AM Goodthief Your reasoning is good but flawed and an attempt, by stealth, to sway the debate.....
» 6/06/2007 10:00:27 AM Bazz “Sorry Col Rouge, I don't understand the connection to electrical demand. I am talki.....
» 5/06/2007 10:43:46 AM Bazz in nineteenth Century England, there were economic doomsayers predicting the end of c.....
» 5/06/2007 10:06:52 AM Goodthief “Thank you for asking so directly, as it forced me to confront my own discomfort.....
» 3/06/2007 8:32:42 PM Dan iel06 “Firstly I am an atheist.” Ah you must be responding to my statement “All the.....
» 3/06/2007 12:04:19 PM Sam, I am not a frog and I do not sit in a well. As for fathers of children who challenge.....
» 2/06/2007 1:01:36 PM Sam "ok...lets put it this way for analysis purpose...if medical procedure for unplan.....
» 31/05/2007 2:56:23 PM Pericles "in my experience they have over time stepped into a vacuum created by feckl.....
» 31/05/2007 2:47:22 PM DavidJS I would note of the four examples of ex colonies you give three were all handed ov.....
» 31/05/2007 10:05:59 AM “After all, 160 years before the First Fleet arrived, Portuguese explorer Pedro Fernandes .....
» 30/05/2007 12:56:39 PM Daniel06 “The UN clearly states that everyone has a right to life regardless of weather th.....
» 30/05/2007 11:58:16 AM Reality Check “If its pronouncements appear to be dictatorial, the reality is that it is m.....
» 30/05/2007 10:20:41 AM The current government has a decade of successes to support its claim to be the right gove.....
» 29/05/2007 5:11:47 PM I must agree with the author. “The simple fact is the majority of the burgeoning HR indust.....
» 29/05/2007 11:03:42 AM Peter D having been on the receiving end of your irrational vitriol on another thread, I c.....
» 29/05/2007 10:11:08 AM Goodthief “I will need assistance in understanding how you might have begun before concept.....
» 26/05/2007 4:19:51 PM Daniel “Personally I find abortion impossible to morally justify in virtually all cases “ .....
» 26/05/2007 12:03:00 PM This article is full of envious rot. “Celebrity” has merely replaced the older social hei.....
» 26/05/2007 11:34:55 AM Goodthief “I believe there are two people involved (the woman and the foetus)” If you wer.....
» 26/05/2007 11:12:36 AM Yvonne, Thankyou but I am also lucky with the daughters I jointly raised. They are a sourc.....
» 24/05/2007 11:42:33 AM Goodthief “Col Rouge, We can do better than the law. We can be more rational, more consist.....
» 24/05/2007 10:48:04 AM Goodthief “Col Rouge, I don’t know why you rely on the law (birth certificates) to support.....
» 23/05/2007 1:46:54 PM Sam “just a question...and so why do you think that god on judging you wont say 'you had a.....
» 23/05/2007 10:29:52 AM Re “for those who in conscience hold a view that abortion is an attack on the human rights.....
» 23/05/2007 9:29:36 AM Goodthief. My belief: we are morally bound to accept the decisions of others in regard to .....
» 22/05/2007 1:35:48 PM Lies and spin “extreme workplace regime that cuts penalties and overtime.” Offset by ne.....
» 22/05/2007 10:11:56 AM Mick V “If we searching for a good ethical base or starting point, it is hard to go past t.....
» 22/05/2007 9:31:44 AM Peter D “More verbal garbage, Col. “ And yet you present us with another wasted opportuni.....
» 21/05/2007 7:31:44 PM Good thief “I see the foetus as a dependent individual.” It is dependent, it is not indiv.....
» 21/05/2007 7:21:37 PM Peter D” Sorry, Col Rouge. Wrong on every count. You wrote that looking in the mirror. But.....
» 20/05/2007 6:18:51 PM Peter D,” So, you have reading problems, too, Col Rouge? Read what I said.” I have no rea.....
» 20/05/2007 6:04:09 PM Good thief “I regard God as sovereign and humans as equal subjects.” That you consider G.....
» 19/05/2007 9:30:43 PM Runner “Secular humanist or athiest continue to insist their view is correct and then deny.....
» 19/05/2007 8:36:39 PM Peter D “Col Rouge, you really display a remarkable ignorance, not just of what the aborti.....
» 18/05/2007 5:01:52 PM Daniel06 the unborn child is not recognized as an autonomous and independent human being, .....
» 17/05/2007 1:40:22 PM Maryse Usher, “Among the many horrendous risks of abortion listed by Planned Parenthood of.....
» 15/05/2007 1:31:50 PM Runner” One has to be morally bankrupted not to see that killing the unborn is terribly wr.....
» 15/05/2007 11:26:14 AM Bronwyn – you can post all the personal and particular evidence you like and regale us wit.....
» 10/05/2007 10:33:15 AM Rhiann “You can’t neatly separate the “good” refugees who patiently wait from the “bad” qu.....
» 9/05/2007 10:11:45 AM Rhiann” But refugees – unlike us conventional migrants – can’t sit safely and hopefully wa.....
» 8/05/2007 5:12:35 PM CJ Morgan “I would like to swap Australian "scrotes" like Col Rouge for those de.....
» 8/05/2007 4:50:19 PM Rebekka “but the fight for women's equality has a long way to go” Define “Equality” ? “R.....
» 8/05/2007 12:14:36 PM The gender mix of parliament should only be determined by The preferences of the elector.....
» 3/05/2007 3:32:18 PM grn “Everyone is avoiding the central point in Legrain's article and it's a good one: . . .....
» 3/05/2007 10:09:37 AM I see views expressed of Leigh and Sage similar to mine. As for the ignorant scrote who w.....
» 29/04/2007 12:24:32 PM From the article “But we also have to acknowledge the tragic truth that the movement for w.....
» 29/04/2007 12:02:08 PM JohnW “Now at the age of 43 I trust no one, Am a recovering alcho, and drug addict.I cant .....
» 26/04/2007 1:51:07 PM Bushbred "Furthmore, Malaysia as a Muslim country can be very proud of itself." .....
» 26/04/2007 1:40:34 PM “We only need to consult statistics to find Aboriginal people have unacceptably high incar.....
» 26/04/2007 1:26:40 PM Ah Johnny Rotten – I see you like to make fun of your betters. Well fact is you have litt.....
» 24/04/2007 3:13:14 PM Australians 'the worst Muslim haters in the world'? I guess only one nation can win the p.....
» 18/04/2007 3:55:05 PM My kids have started buying their own homes. My elder daughter aged 26 is looking to buy .....
» 18/04/2007 3:01:51 PM This is all too simple. No focus groups or projects or task forces or reference group or.....
» 18/04/2007 9:14:57 AM When you think of the prfound divisions in Labor, maybe the labor right so have more in co.....
» 17/04/2007 4:05:55 PM Ena “The woman in this story, I feel very sorry for. No women should either be forced to h.....
» 17/04/2007 8:46:17 AM Ties are wonderful things They are the bright light shining from a dark suit They are a .....
» 16/04/2007 9:58:25 AM sojourner truth "I encourage you to listen to the voices of women who have found abor.....
» 13/04/2007 5:16:52 PM children are as individual as their parents. Governments are equipped to produce standard.....
» 13/04/2007 4:59:48 PM Zoe72 “Now I am surprised and saddened at the lack of humanity displayed by some posters, .....
» 12/04/2007 3:24:16 PM Hello tricky “your reasoning is without fault. i commend you on your venacular, very impre.....
» 12/04/2007 12:09:17 PM Life gift – what a load of emotional rot – pure hyperbole and drivel, completely devoid of.....
» 11/04/2007 4:25:47 PM This point came up with my elder daughter about 2 years ago on the event of fathers day. S.....
» 11/04/2007 1:32:40 PM Zoe72 “Having been through abortion four times” I would ask – what motivated you to under.....
» 11/04/2007 11:50:42 AM Frank Gol “Why are my examples any more hypothetical than yours” your examples were specif.....
» 10/04/2007 3:00:13 PM “If John Howard can’t refrain from imposing his own personal cultural identity on the rest.....
» 10/04/2007 2:38:23 PM Aqvarivs – yes the greater avoidance of surgical or invasive proceedures the better. 61 –.....
» 10/04/2007 12:37:00 PM “wonder at the cruelty that could be meted out to a vulnerable woman by others who were ce.....
» 10/04/2007 11:08:12 AM Oh Frank your analogies become more puerile as we progress, The rape example merits thoug.....
» 9/04/2007 7:36:55 PM Frank Gol “Personal choice is a shallow concept.” A womans right to choose to get or rema.....
» 8/04/2007 8:50:37 AM Yes Frank it is ALL about choices “So the child who is bashed daily and sexually assault.....
» 7/04/2007 10:23:03 AM Oh Frank, how nice of you to notice my post and decide to respond, just what I wanted. Li.....
» 6/04/2007 1:39:05 PM Ah yes noting changes, improvement in the education budget and the welfare budget and the .....
» 15/03/2007 11:38:08 AM "This week, a lobby of judges, barristers and legal experts has accused the Howard go.....
» 15/03/2007 11:31:13 AM Succinctly put Sage – “they are not asylum seekers, they are asylum shoppers” Nice,, you .....
» 8/03/2007 9:03:01 AM Celevia “There are not many women and men who want to go back to the lifestyle of the fift.....
» 8/03/2007 8:47:50 AM Vivy “People who are too kind to others will end up poor, wether they are clever or not.” .....
» 6/03/2007 12:29:16 AM Vivy “As a former so called "idealist tosser" ……. “Teach them how to build robot.....
» 6/03/2007 12:15:51 AM David Latimer “The bravado of Col Rouge is boundless, but I'll ignore the silly personal r.....
» 5/03/2007 4:22:32 AM Here is the nub of the article “Secular progressives who placed their faith in historical.....
» 1/03/2007 2:34:16 PM "But parental leave is only guaranteed to a male employee who is the spouse of a woma.....
» 22/02/2007 6:34:28 PM Mylakhrion “Today the American court of Appeals stripped habius corpus from all detainees .....
» 19/02/2007 4:18:37 PM Arjay, “The more we give ,the more the population problem worsens.” It seems to me we ha.....
» 18/02/2007 8:54:45 AM Fester “It is yourself and col who seem to be missing the point re population. If there is.....
» 17/02/2007 7:43:11 AM Ho Hum “Meanwhile the capitalist world death machine with its drive to total power and con.....
» 17/02/2007 7:00:04 AM David Latimer “Internet posts are all talk anyway.” I am pleased you agree with my previo.....
» 13/02/2007 5:05:28 PM Jon “And FINALLY we have the real agenda of climate change! It is not about the climate, i.....
» 13/02/2007 6:32:49 AM David Latimer “only reason you feel this way is your own inertia, resisting the consistent.....
» 13/02/2007 6:10:43 AM Barfenzie “America really only became outwardly aggressive on the instigation of Winston C.....
» 12/02/2007 11:15:59 AM Rob513264 “to not make that distinction is either dishonest or naïve.” finding excuses t.....
» 12/02/2007 10:54:54 AM Robert – that is a scary tale, I have every sympathy for Grover Gale II. In practice Grov.....
» 11/02/2007 7:10:18 PM David Latimer “I cannot see what you are getting at. I have not backed away from the sugge.....
» 11/02/2007 10:23:34 AM Anti-green, contrary to billies whine“anti-green who cares about nitpicking the climate mo.....
» 11/02/2007 9:45:30 AM If we assume the correctness of our “human values” and someone else has a different set, w.....
» 10/02/2007 11:18:45 AM Spendocrat “Changing a law so I’m no longer considered a criminal would have absolutely ze.....
» 10/02/2007 10:08:10 AM Billie “As an example - at the moment the Victorian government is unable to upgrade the wa.....
» 10/02/2007 9:44:57 AM David Latimer Stated “Carbon Trading? Energy Conservation? . . . . . Wind Farms? Agricultu.....
» 8/02/2007 7:20:57 PM Spendocrat “it would not have been the only factor.” I am relying on the statements relaye.....
» 8/02/2007 7:20:12 PM Billie “Col Blimp” If you want to play games with my non-de-plume billie, try being origi.....
» 8/02/2007 5:56:09 AM Re “That can be a quite peaceful, democratic process provided that there is (1) a governme.....
» 8/02/2007 5:07:24 AM The end of the article “Australian citizen David Hicks has now been incarcerated in an iso.....
» 7/02/2007 8:13:35 PM Someone I know had a son who was murdered by his girlfriend in 2006. She (the girlfriend).....
» 7/02/2007 7:42:59 PM David Latimer “Carbon Trading…. Hey OLO! Lets move this debate forward. We got some BIG d.....
» 7/02/2007 7:12:06 PM What I never understand with the whole issue of house investment, versus any other form of.....
» 7/02/2007 6:44:38 PM “terror as the most likely cause of mega-death.” Terror actions have never generated sign.....
» 6/02/2007 7:34:04 PM David Latimer here declares “My view of Australian scientists is far different. I do not f.....
» 5/02/2007 6:35:58 PM Bobby Dazzler “Because economic prosperity is not the only issue, and in my view not even .....
» 5/02/2007 6:27:12 PM CJMorgan “However, you should be aware that when you exercise this right you often look re.....
» 4/02/2007 9:51:57 PM “Where would we need to look now to find a country as technologically unsophisticated as A.....
» 4/02/2007 9:36:06 PM “Then you can also go back to the Aus.Constitution which is only an Act from the british g.....
» 4/02/2007 9:32:25 PM “Are we, as a society, so soulless, so shallow, so socially destitute, so hopelessly self .....
» 4/02/2007 9:21:10 PM Latimer “Response to Col Rouge: Yes, you have explained that global warming is a conspirac.....
» 4/02/2007 9:00:04 PM Dioxin " WE'VE GOT BETTER THINGS TO DO " Ah, off to draw your dole cheques......
» 4/02/2007 8:46:06 PM Perseus “that to doubt the validity of the extreme projections is to also doubt the very p.....
» 2/02/2007 9:33:26 PM Fester “Col, if you can prove the null hypothesis for climate change, then do so. . . So w.....
» 2/02/2007 2:45:37 PM Fester “To debunk the hypothesis, all you need do is show an aspect of the science is fals.....
» 2/02/2007 2:34:10 PM I note in the case of David Hicks, the mother of the children he sired (I would not say “f.....
» 2/02/2007 11:59:29 AM I guess, anyone who does not want to adopt Australian Values has the choice before them, d.....
» 2/02/2007 6:32:02 AM eftfnc “they do not learn one iota about natural med's or diets.” That sounds like a prob.....
» 1/02/2007 7:48:47 PM “Can you recall one medicine ever created which CURED someone?” Are you suggesting a phar.....
» 31/01/2007 9:35:24 PM eftfnc “the drug industry delivers ever more diseases, because diseases are the economic b.....
» 30/01/2007 6:35:51 PM Lots of opportunity to spend money, more than ever before. Lots of opportunity to earn mo.....
» 30/01/2007 5:34:20 PM Volition “'cut down firms who have gotten too much better than other ones', You posting s.....
» 30/01/2007 5:05:39 PM Hedgehog “Col Rouge you are not a skeptic you are a Goose. Please remember that” And you .....
» 29/01/2007 5:18:25 PM David Latimer “Col Rouge tries to discredit the whole academic establishment. Never before.....
» 29/01/2007 5:22:00 AM Malik “I believe majority of Muslims in this country love Australia more than you” I chal.....
» 29/01/2007 4:53:55 AM TRTL “but the fact of the matter was that checks and balances are only as effective as the.....
» 29/01/2007 4:30:12 AM Country Gal ,"corporate mergers and buy-outs require ACCC approval" - you've act.....
» 29/01/2007 4:13:02 AM ChrisC” You can't claim such a vast conspiracy of both government and industry scientist,”.....
» 27/01/2007 10:21:43 AM Malik “‘Your forefathers’ or ‘your grant grant parents’ for only those who are posting ant.....
» 27/01/2007 9:48:12 AM Mungo “Do the people with better education and more resources have a duty of care for thos.....
» 26/01/2007 5:30:52 PM David Latimer Your response to my request for further detail concerning "parallel uni.....
» 26/01/2007 12:47:46 PM Amel “Col Rouge, when migrants come to live in a different country they bring apart of the.....
» 25/01/2007 6:21:47 PM I must agree with coach – Malik grow up. I will never understand people who use terms lik.....
» 25/01/2007 1:28:24 PM TLTR “The US justice system” is overseen by the US Supreme Court who sits as a separate a.....
» 25/01/2007 9:30:58 AM Amel “When people come to a country to live in some peace,and to get on with their lives s.....
» 24/01/2007 10:09:35 PM Maracas “obviously clinging to all the disinformation they can scrape up.” Not at all. I .....
» 24/01/2007 10:12:19 AM Aqvarivs – I saw a TV show where some vegan woman thought she could absorb energy directly.....
» 24/01/2007 9:21:39 AM Billie “That said, unions are the only thing standing between the workers and the bullying.....
» 24/01/2007 8:35:41 AM Billie “Nearly 30 per cent of working-age male Australians - more than 2.2 million of them.....
» 23/01/2007 8:57:04 PM RobbyH “Col is following me like a pet blue heeler” I suppose an egoist might delude them.....
» 23/01/2007 4:56:52 PM TRTL “if anyone could give me a decent reason as to why so many scientists would support t.....
» 23/01/2007 11:06:49 AM Wildcat “I started down a rebellious path” Me too, whilst possibly appearing fairly conse.....
» 23/01/2007 9:27:42 AM Fozz Re training for you “that the market alone cannot do it.” Really, the “Market” is go.....
» 23/01/2007 6:30:42 AM Tao, the world is an imperfect place. Capitalism is not a “perfect solution”. It is, like.....
» 22/01/2007 11:33:37 PM This is an interesting thread. Anti-greens analogy of three horse carriage is apt. One w.....
» 22/01/2007 11:00:24 PM I would reckon the Democrats are favourites (Not because I favour them in any way. I have .....
» 22/01/2007 6:51:10 PM Wildcat, I believe people, faced with acute loss of employment, should be entitled to unem.....
» 22/01/2007 6:22:56 PM Dioxin The familiar methods of the agitator and unimaginative communist apologist at work.....
» 22/01/2007 12:04:32 PM Wildcat “My take on that is why should they? Not everybody wants to kill animals for a liv.....
» 21/01/2007 11:55:42 PM WOW look at that tao, four posts in one hit again, surely a sign of an obsessive compulsio.....
» 21/01/2007 11:20:31 PM RobbyH “Research has already been presented but you missed it mate. No climbdown here.” O.....
» 21/01/2007 10:02:32 PM I see the apologists are out and about, Try this for size http://www.brookesnews.com/041.....
» 21/01/2007 12:33:02 PM Dioxin “the tone of the comments from the Right in this thread is fairly typical of the le.....
» 21/01/2007 9:41:09 AM RobbyH said “I have plenty of material here Col. Self researched, not at taxpayers expense.....
» 21/01/2007 8:58:33 AM Take your Marxist theories and burn them. That way they will, at least, keep you warm for .....
» 21/01/2007 8:48:02 AM I have often thought people who seek control of other people are suffering some form of ex.....
» 21/01/2007 8:45:30 AM Tao “What an absolute cheek you have to accuse me of deflecting from giving honest answers.....
» 20/01/2007 1:28:16 PM Tao “If you don’t denounce it then it is reasonable to conclude that you do support fascis.....
» 20/01/2007 12:50:52 PM Fozz why should government to organize a training programme for you? Do you expect a publi.....
» 20/01/2007 9:59:20 AM I always thought the merger of Woolworth:Safeway and Coles:Myers were not in the national .....
» 20/01/2007 9:41:03 AM Oh a bitch slapping contest, what fun. Next time maybe we could do mud wrestling. Bolt is.....
» 20/01/2007 9:11:14 AM Brightspark “like a corporation it should have on average a profit and a positive cash flo.....
» 19/01/2007 11:35:49 PM Well billie “I am happiest knowing I control the level of education my daughters received .....
» 19/01/2007 8:20:09 PM Hedgehog “Col, keep pedalling. It is so pleasing to see that you are always in the minorit.....
» 19/01/2007 7:58:36 PM RobbyH “He'd be sitting in a office somewhere paid for by the taxpayer under Howard and th.....
» 19/01/2007 4:38:00 PM Amel "If it had not been European colonialism and greed Africa would probably be the .....
» 19/01/2007 2:49:49 PM Billie “turnover rather than their profit then the corporations might pay a fairer share o.....
» 19/01/2007 1:21:23 PM Ah I see this thread has gone the way of all things, the left beating their breasts, deman.....
» 19/01/2007 10:35:45 AM Thanks Yale for the input. I guess the WayneSmiths of the world are a liability we will h.....
» 19/01/2007 10:19:22 AM I was unaware of this individual so I looked him up briefly. His biographical notes read .....
» 19/01/2007 10:01:19 AM Fozz “The entire notion of a worker being free to choose to cash out leave is built on a f.....
» 19/01/2007 12:09:38 AM Tao “You - Col Rouge - support fascist military dictatorships.” So you claim. Not that an.....
» 18/01/2007 11:39:06 PM Oh Tapp, “It is obvious that Col Rouge doesn’t even see the dictatorship of Australian pol.....
» 18/01/2007 7:58:12 PM Hedgehog “Resign, live on thin air. Your a joke Col, and every contribution you make on th.....
» 18/01/2007 9:42:11 AM “There is simply no reason at all to impose a prescriptive formula of “thou shalt nots” wh.....
» 18/01/2007 9:05:30 AM R0bert "Wayne - any comments on this? Are the claims made about your views on the Jew.....
» 17/01/2007 6:04:47 PM I would consider myself lucky. My daughters flew the nest at age 20 and 19. The elder bo.....
» 17/01/2007 10:55:40 AM I think John Howard is more astute than our posters give him credit for. I think he has d.....
» 17/01/2007 10:31:07 AM I recall reading of the dark days of the Spanish Inquisition. Terrible days. People for.....
» 17/01/2007 6:48:05 AM “It doesn’t matter what you accuse me of Col, or what excuses you make, nothing can hide t.....
» 17/01/2007 6:34:33 AM Tao “I am not going to continue this conversation with you as you have still not been hone.....
» 16/01/2007 7:22:35 AM Australia is a democracy. A democracy recognizes individual rights. Individual rights mea.....
» 16/01/2007 7:10:27 AM Oh tao, Margaret Thatcher, by being a bulwark against the evil empire has done more for mi.....
» 16/01/2007 6:41:55 AM Tao regarding “You may recall that the British ruling classes also flirted with Hitler at .....
» 16/01/2007 5:39:54 AM Meliorator “However the grass isn't always greener on the other side: while our ideal, de.....
» 15/01/2007 10:56:33 AM Water is a resource in a class of its own. Water is the one commodity for which we have n.....
» 14/01/2007 11:08:09 PM MAlik to trueaussie your wrote “I wonder how OLO management allowed these kinds of crazy m.....
» 14/01/2007 10:30:16 PM Billy “theft graft even smuggling guns and drugs into prisons have been proven.” And offe.....
» 14/01/2007 8:47:20 PM Peachy “The Israeli nation was mostly founded under the UN pre-tense of "occupied ter.....
» 13/01/2007 11:16:35 AM Tao “Margaret Thatcher considered military dictator Pinochet, a man who ran roughshod over.....
» 13/01/2007 10:28:37 AM TurnRightThenLeft US and Israeli support is a bipartisan element in American politics and.....
» 12/01/2007 9:43:26 PM To balance Tao quotes of Marx and Trotsky, I include a few from another quarter They are .....
» 12/01/2007 4:10:03 PM Spendocrat “the term 'unnatural' to be completely inappropriate” Read my previous posts t.....
» 12/01/2007 3:53:14 PM Malik “American-Salivates in this forum like easytime and col, these are the retarded peop.....
» 12/01/2007 1:11:22 PM Cowboy Joe "the apologists who lend moral and financial support because they agree wi.....
» 12/01/2007 11:00:39 AM This thread needs more focus and maybe some more aggressive “anti-lunacy” rhetoric from “r.....
» 12/01/2007 10:16:14 AM Tapp “Those who read this will find that you will either break ties with Leigh for his com.....
» 12/01/2007 6:09:03 AM EasyTimes. I agree with you. Just a bunch of malcontent anti American Crap. Selective te.....
» 12/01/2007 12:13:29 AM Wildcat, me make people angry? Maybe I just challenge a few of your values. Although, whi.....
» 11/01/2007 11:38:21 PM Still no response from tao! Tao “I can see in them humanity’s hopes and fears, and pain a.....
» 11/01/2007 11:14:07 PM Adam J Le Breton “I will happily refer U directly to the UN report if U really wish, but c.....
» 11/01/2007 2:46:12 PM Ok this reads like one of those joke threads right, you know the ones where we all sit and.....
» 11/01/2007 2:21:54 PM “IN REGARDS TO THAT COMMENT I HAD RE READ…” In the absence of being addressed specificall.....
» 11/01/2007 10:14:34 AM Tapp “And as Col has said there is only 2 minutes between democracy and undemocracy. If so.....
» 11/01/2007 9:32:03 AM Tao “Humanity has further progressed and has come to the point where, to a certain extent,.....
» 11/01/2007 9:00:44 AM Now “We will rationally plan the use of our resources to ensure that there is no starvatio.....
» 11/01/2007 8:54:17 AM Oh tao, you are deflecting again, deliberately moving from the analogy and trying to const.....
» 11/01/2007 8:02:30 AM Carsten “Even now Iran is a poor country, incapable of exerting any serious influence anyw.....
» 10/01/2007 7:09:09 PM Well posted logical. Tao needs to answer questions about his agenda / option / manifesto.....
» 10/01/2007 2:42:04 PM Bazz “I would not wory about Qantas too much. If they are silly enough to buy” I would w.....
» 10/01/2007 2:11:03 PM “Hello Leigh obviously living in the world of Col and yourself.” As far as Australia is .....
» 10/01/2007 1:45:20 PM o sung wu “I agree with your excellent summation and take on the prison system -the client.....
» 10/01/2007 9:22:15 AM Carsten “I am not condoning Saddam in any way. But there are reasons for what he did.” An.....
» 10/01/2007 8:48:55 AM Adam J LeBreton “we got WWII for our trouble, like the americans who were arming the nazis.....
» 10/01/2007 8:46:59 AM Adam J Le Breton “Many arrive without any papers at all, so to suggest that” Adam, they t.....
» 10/01/2007 8:09:59 AM Tapp the point with your statement ““Then Iraq imposing democracy interesting or to govern.....
» 9/01/2007 11:25:56 PM Adam J Le Breton “and perhaps a necessary evil to have to put up with the red necked propa.....
» 9/01/2007 10:56:42 PM Oh tubley, “OK Col etc, so what about situations where there are 2 private building next t.....
» 9/01/2007 10:22:57 PM O sung wu “It would be nice I suppose to hear the other side of the 'Katingal experiment' .....
» 9/01/2007 9:53:16 PM Tapp I noticed you are starting to repeat your statements. I know I occasionally quite del.....
» 9/01/2007 4:51:05 PM Adam J LeBreton “” ... During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revol.....
» 9/01/2007 1:04:31 PM Carsten “OK OK maybe my argument is not statistically defensible - but neither are stats t.....
» 9/01/2007 11:38:41 AM All –“Europe is near dead- America is weaker and distroying it self- and we trail about 14.....
» 9/01/2007 11:05:23 AM At least we can agree on two things 1 The manner of his trial , whilst maybe lacking in t.....
» 9/01/2007 9:39:57 AM Tapp “not bothered with the initial questions you are really not interested in debate.” A.....
» 9/01/2007 8:59:07 AM Carsten “With the examples above, of similar adjacent states, I have largely eliminated th.....
» 8/01/2007 9:03:01 PM Adam J LeBreton “I deliberately include my name as I have no shame for accusing howard et .....
» 8/01/2007 2:54:52 PM “america be removed from power.” And who will force America from Power? Oh I know, that .....
» 8/01/2007 12:21:09 PM Porphyrin “I'd like to ask, when are we going to invade China for their abuses of human ri.....
» 8/01/2007 10:13:00 AM The Author asks “Whatever happened to those popular protest songs about work and corporate.....
» 8/01/2007 9:36:09 AM Just to throw some petrol on the fire. Someone up the page was suggesting that testing im.....
» 8/01/2007 2:30:04 AM Tao “Col’s lead-into-gold-analogy, maybe it should be applied to capitalist-democratic-the.....
» 8/01/2007 2:00:04 AM Tapp “Here i am Col it just shows how ignorant you are to the voice of the people and ther.....
» 8/01/2007 1:07:38 AM Johno J “HOW TO STOP SHOOTING OF KANGAROOS:” don’t do that, I enjoy skippy on my barbeque .....
» 8/01/2007 12:51:29 AM Carl “Col Rouge, death penalty for second offence drug dealers? give me a break, I say rel.....
» 8/01/2007 12:30:37 AM Carsten “The homicide rate in North Dakota, which does not have the death penalty, was low.....
» 7/01/2007 11:11:55 AM As for “Wake up mate, you are being had and you seem to enjoy it.” I neither need or am en.....
» 7/01/2007 10:53:49 AM RobbyH “One man's view prevails. Abbott, with Howard's blessing.” Hate to question your m.....
» 6/01/2007 10:57:43 AM Goku "what's next - maybe evolution would eliminate "unncessary" parts of t.....
» 6/01/2007 10:23:11 AM I was looking for something else when I came across this website - SOVIET POLITICAL JOKES .....
» 6/01/2007 9:45:37 AM Following on from Rex & Banjo's advise I am making a point of not encouraging trolls and t.....
» 6/01/2007 4:01:14 AM Tao, yes Trotsky did fight against Stalin and the one good thing which Stalin did do was t.....
» 6/01/2007 3:22:21 AM Robbyh “"Oligarchy", not democracy at all.” You get one vote, I get one vote, t.....
» 6/01/2007 3:16:21 AM Tapp “re No regard, respect and treat people with contempt as though they were ignorant id.....
» 6/01/2007 3:03:10 AM Carsten “in the case of the US - you have a single country with a single history.” Hardly.....
» 5/01/2007 3:12:46 PM Dickie “Mimosa says the majority of Australians are animal loving people and respect the a.....
» 5/01/2007 9:44:52 AM Carsten I was not promoting the idea that one state would have a lower homicide rate simpl.....
» 4/01/2007 11:32:19 PM TAPP Parliamentary question time, that is like recess in school, they all run around screa.....
» 4/01/2007 10:59:12 PM Carsten “The murder rate of the death penalty states increased from 2002, while the rate i.....
» 4/01/2007 9:07:54 PM Tapp I am concerned with what appears to be your position on supposed “dictatorships” and .....
» 4/01/2007 4:07:25 PM I am all in favour of ladies adopting the “Brazilian” approach to hair. I could never ge.....
» 4/01/2007 9:45:22 AM wobbles “It's interesting that most of the responses have little to do with what Ellis act.....
» 4/01/2007 7:22:24 AM “Private equity, derivatives, bubbles and busts” And “When Qantas hits trouble and the bu.....
» 4/01/2007 7:01:50 AM atomictights "Voters in Australia voted Capital punishment OUT in the seventies. &quo.....
» 3/01/2007 4:25:35 PM Atomictights “Any of you that entertain the idea that it is ok if it happens somewhere e.....
» 3/01/2007 6:55:42 AM Ybgrip “Our tax-funded politicians and their rabid supporters should contemplate the adage.....
» 2/01/2007 9:54:42 PM tao "The central question is – do you acknowledge that the USSR, China, Cuba, North K.....
» 2/01/2007 9:15:19 PM Freeranger “CR, …. the only information you want to believe comes straight from the Pentag.....
» 2/01/2007 12:48:33 PM “There are no redeeming aspects to capital punishment. It is always brutal. More important.....
» 2/01/2007 7:54:07 AM All human advancement has been achieved by individuals with an emotional investment in the.....
» 2/01/2007 7:49:24 AM Capitalism is an intuitive social system. Everyone responds individually to their perceive.....
» 2/01/2007 7:39:48 AM Tao “You are using a different definition to the Marxist conception.” I believe you are r.....
» 1/01/2007 7:37:24 PM Michaelk “You exemplify perfectly a notion of a stupid, xenophobic racist in this forum de.....
» 1/01/2007 8:12:36 AM freeranger "You can take any way you like CR. You obviously want to live in a dream. .....
» 1/01/2007 7:32:24 AM Freeranger “I think there is little point in pursuing this 'justification' line. If you re.....
» 1/01/2007 7:16:09 AM Tao “Before the start of the Iraq war, millions took to the streets all over the world (in.....
» 1/01/2007 6:57:28 AM Freeranger “The justification for the statement is self evident Col Rouge if you just look.....
» 31/12/2006 7:39:06 PM Graham Young rather than “I still feel regret at the necessity of his death.” I regret th.....
» 31/12/2006 7:20:38 PM Leigh “Who is this MichaelK character? Is it really possible to write English that badly?”.....
» 31/12/2006 6:54:42 PM Yung Yong “First of all, this forum provides the opportunity to exchange ideas, visions an.....
» 31/12/2006 6:14:26 PM Rainier “Looks like you're having a ball there Uncle Col!” Nothing like “unmasking” the f.....
» 31/12/2006 1:39:36 PM David BOAZ “Share holder interest: National Interest” That is a bit of a furfy David. I .....
» 31/12/2006 12:53:01 PM Logical? Well posted. I think you are right, the wealth and liberties which capitalism b.....
» 31/12/2006 12:33:19 PM Tao “one of the most vicious reactionary right wing posters on this forum – Col Rouge” Bo.....
» 30/12/2006 2:33:38 PM Daggett “Col Rouge, You must cease” Never presume to tell me what I must and must not do.....
» 30/12/2006 12:02:34 PM Try reading from a source like US Dept of Justice instead of the internet tabloids http:/.....
» 30/12/2006 9:05:19 AM “Many of these intelligent, sentient animals” I have yet to see an assessment of the reas.....
» 30/12/2006 8:32:10 AM Bobitty “Notice how Col Rouge resorts to name calling when he is losing an argument as usu.....
» 30/12/2006 6:15:05 AM MichaelK “it is much more better than one of a million English native Australian completel.....
» 30/12/2006 5:52:59 AM Tubley “Does a non-smoking person really get to choose to enter/not enter a 'private' venu.....
» 29/12/2006 9:23:53 PM Tao “Anyway, I think I am just about finished with this thread.” Sneaking away with your.....
» 29/12/2006 3:45:29 PM I think we need to distinguish between “private” and “public” venues. Most property is pr.....
» 29/12/2006 3:30:05 PM Tao “Col Rouge said: “And don’t get seduced by anything tao says, …. “ response”As I said .....
» 29/12/2006 10:11:13 AM Bobalot “Once again Col Rouge yammers on about something on which he has no idea.” Maybe .....
» 29/12/2006 9:31:50 AM WayneSmith “Small groups don't wield as much power and power corrupts.” That is a truism......
» 28/12/2006 5:24:41 PM Michaelk, “A good example of seemingly a positive process is MWin auto-correcting, which a.....
» 28/12/2006 2:02:36 PM Given a choice of spending a month on a desert island with any of the other posters on thi.....
» 28/12/2006 7:26:11 AM Keith “East Jerusalem was mandated to the Palestinians by the UN in the 20th century. It's.....
» 28/12/2006 6:52:50 AM Tao “Marx tore your little theory to shreds long ago” I see my “theories” in PRACTICE eve.....
» 28/12/2006 6:10:32 AM Michaelk “Australia does not have a fully developed Australia culture yet,” Nowhere on e.....
» 28/12/2006 5:49:46 AM This article is worth reading. It parallels the issues which Chile faced and contexts a cr.....
» 28/12/2006 5:36:25 AM Tao the “secret” was Lenins return to Russia, not the treaty of Brest-Litovsk. The rest o.....
» 28/12/2006 5:01:38 AM I thought this was a well balanced article which offers the expectations to be derived fro.....
» 27/12/2006 7:22:01 PM I disagree with the assertion that requiring someone to be tested competent in English is .....
» 27/12/2006 6:47:45 PM Wayne “Our Government is already rapidly turning into a monster that eats up the most vuln.....
» 27/12/2006 9:57:18 AM Tao “If Lenin made a secret deal with Germany, how do you know about it?” At the time it.....
» 27/12/2006 8:39:59 AM tao “dictatorship of the proletariat”. Too many vested interests and lack of objectivity.....
» 27/12/2006 8:04:00 AM Tao “FROM THE 95% WHO PRODUCE THE WEALTH TO THE 5%” The distribution of total sales reven.....
» 25/12/2006 12:34:05 AM Horus “Agree with you about the incongruity of CEOs & the like getting paid disproportiona.....
» 25/12/2006 12:01:21 AM I am a simple soul. I believe you should pay dividends out of realized retained earnings a.....
» 24/12/2006 7:45:38 PM Remembering the system for inflation accounting in 1970s and how that ended up as a three-.....
» 24/12/2006 6:56:50 PM “So is she a self marketing genius or just a braindead blonde?” They say we have the cult.....
» 24/12/2006 1:29:45 PM Logical Yes, not my finest day for grammar (reading too many MichaelK posts). I should h.....
» 24/12/2006 9:24:18 AM MichaelK “nothing-for-non-Angloses-to-achieve Australia” “slaves to their Anglo-England-c.....
» 24/12/2006 8:57:57 AM WayneSmith “It would be my preference to cull the politicians. In fact I'd simply create a.....
» 24/12/2006 8:54:29 AM YEBIGA “Please lord help Col or smite him.” That is a first. The first time someone has.....
» 23/12/2006 9:56:32 PM Kartiya jim ”He was fined $150,000.00 and his company $300,000.00.by Justice Sackville of .....
» 23/12/2006 9:35:57 PM Ruze, I doubt whether prices will fall even when the BBs are cashing up. Likelyhood is big.....
» 22/12/2006 10:06:23 AM kartiya Jim “Funny how the rich and powerfull seem to ignore the environment and the natur.....
» 22/12/2006 9:19:40 AM I think Sylvia is correct, you need to be more specific about what you are complaining abo.....
» 21/12/2006 9:26:22 PM Mr Man, I thought you were a bit of a joke, then I found your web site, http://www.mrmen......
» 21/12/2006 7:02:51 PM Tapp “And when will you lot realise that labor and liberal are really both the same now.” .....
» 21/12/2006 4:50:55 PM Tao “potential benefits and treasures to humankind lie atrophied in the minds and bodies o.....
» 21/12/2006 10:49:25 AM Rob513264 “Wow, ‘redistributing wealth’ and ‘human sacrifice’ – now there’s a valid compar.....
» 21/12/2006 8:25:33 AM YEBIGA “I am all for a revolution. I do not think it will achieve much but it will upset t.....
» 21/12/2006 7:57:28 AM Tao “It was the destruction of the workers-movement which paved the way for the Holocaust”.....
» 20/12/2006 1:44:37 PM Yep Rex, I buggered that up good and proper but as dearest Margaret said “We want a soci.....
» 20/12/2006 1:23:17 PM Mr Man “Everything is a communist plot:” Not really, that you choose to portray what I sa.....
» 20/12/2006 6:21:56 AM Tao just as we have laws to curb the actions of people who abuse, steal and rape. We have .....
» 19/12/2006 8:26:45 PM Peter McMahon writes “Can Labor pull itself together and regain relevance, as it did in th.....
» 19/12/2006 7:41:25 PM Tao “Col, you delude yourself about what capitalism is, as could be expected from an inter.....
» 19/12/2006 2:07:19 PM SHONGA – disagree, individuals should always have the right to invest more in anything whi.....
» 19/12/2006 9:14:00 AM Rob513264 “Unfortunately many employers are not particularly sensible.” Yet “sensible” en.....
» 19/12/2006 8:12:56 AM YEBIGA “Your so Neitzsche!” Oh I think you meant “Nietzche”, how Freudian of you. Well I.....
» 19/12/2006 7:55:32 AM Steve Madden “"Pru Goward, the Sex Discrimination Commissioner, has issued a statemen.....
» 18/12/2006 7:09:04 PM Easytimes “it is just plain old revenge which really in the long run achieves nothing othe.....
» 18/12/2006 6:55:46 PM TurnRightThemLeft “Communism was the solution, and it wasn't the right one, but that doesn.....
» 18/12/2006 3:58:20 PM “While, I disagree, I accept your desire to concern yourself with only those things which .....
» 18/12/2006 3:30:10 PM “We compete, on ridiculously uneven terms, so as to be able to occasionally challenge thei.....
» 18/12/2006 12:53:12 PM “By distorting anything you might say to them in order to portray it in a more sensational.....
» 18/12/2006 7:16:22 AM YEBIGA “Instead, you entertain yourself by painting me as some kind of left wing nutter.” .....
» 18/12/2006 6:39:13 AM CJ Morgan, Regardless of my incidental misspelling of “pidgin”, you made a absolute stat.....
» 17/12/2006 10:43:22 PM Excellent Answer freediver. Australia and the modern western economies all have respected.....
» 17/12/2006 7:29:05 PM “Enterprises which are macro by their nature such as mining, banking, insurance, car manuf.....
» 17/12/2006 7:10:53 PM Rob513264 ““Union thuggery” What about Management thuggery?” Employers and Employees form.....
» 17/12/2006 5:11:26 PM YEBIGA “I feel the Howard Government has undermined this trust:” I would suspect you have.....
» 17/12/2006 4:28:37 PM Tao “All of these questions were, essentially, the same attempt to obscure the objective r.....
» 17/12/2006 4:17:23 PM CJMorgan “Col, there is no such English word as "pidgeon".” Really, try http://.....
» 16/12/2006 6:14:22 AM Rainier “But hang on, you only know and speak one language? Why is that?” Because I have .....
» 16/12/2006 5:51:20 AM Plerdsus, a reasoned view Ozbib “. Australia is responsible for his upbringing, and for .....
» 15/12/2006 8:53:08 PM This man is, by birth and by default (or the fault) of his parentage a non-Australian. He.....
» 15/12/2006 3:15:47 PM Michael K - ? ? ? ? The word "whatever" springs to mind......
» 15/12/2006 3:08:04 PM Sneekeepete “Colonel Rouge suggests trials should be conducted in an open court - I am no .....
» 15/12/2006 2:10:45 PM Darn it David, was this the Demo you referred to and I responded about rubbing shoulders w.....
» 14/12/2006 9:00:07 PM YEBIGA “the delusion Howard and you share.” I can assure you, any “delusions” which you f.....
» 14/12/2006 8:01:44 PM Oh I see the “Revenge” word being bandied around. Not a good start. I would sooner see th.....
» 14/12/2006 7:32:06 PM I would suggest, trials are conducted in open court. Sex Offenders are sentenced in open .....
» 14/12/2006 12:45:14 PM MichaelK “English semi-colony to non-Anglo-Saxons/non-Anglo-Celts” You just don’t get it,.....
» 14/12/2006 10:50:21 AM Rob513264 “I have nothing against one person having a big house..” “What I do object to i.....
» 14/12/2006 8:13:30 AM “How can we ask our immigrants to pledge allegiance to our values when we do not have any?.....
» 14/12/2006 7:53:14 AM Logic “but I think there are many who cannot get there in the way we did.” I was not advo.....
» 14/12/2006 7:42:27 AM Tao I see you have tried to answer, however, all is not as one would assume. Q1 – demonst.....
» 13/12/2006 7:35:22 AM Rob513264 “If the government really believed in fairness it would enact laws that provide .....
» 13/12/2006 7:08:35 AM MichaelK In future when talking about “English”, you might care to use some “English gramm.....
» 12/12/2006 10:30:33 PM Logic – “I respect your opinions on the conduct of business,” thank you, although I doub.....
» 12/12/2006 8:28:31 AM Steve Madden “Why did your order taker not close” I was the order taker on that one (I sa.....
» 12/12/2006 8:05:08 AM Oliver “modest manufactures often are just familial tax dodgers.” Maybe you could explai.....
» 11/12/2006 6:40:12 PM Steve Madden “They are not salesmen/saleswomen/salespersons they are order takers. Sales i.....
» 11/12/2006 2:48:04 PM Steve Madden “If you were enrolled to vote in 1984 and were a Tanzanian 18 year old reside.....
» 11/12/2006 2:04:48 PM “I ascribe to the theory that we don’t have to aspire to all the overt trappings of wealth.....
» 11/12/2006 8:35:19 AM I guess along with the responsibilities of holding public office come what appear as ".....
» 11/12/2006 8:14:24 AM Whilst it would seem that Chinese factory workers experience employment conditions which w.....
» 10/12/2006 10:38:04 PM Rainier “I'm surprised, all you are is a professional door to door hawker! . . . . . . . .....
» 10/12/2006 7:46:29 PM Tao, on the scale of “gibbering idiocy”, your statement “Further you are RELIANT ON THE S.....
» 9/12/2006 9:37:23 AM Tao “think that anyone envies you.” Even on a boring day, I could not care less about othe.....
» 9/12/2006 9:35:43 AM Steve Madden, GST, Wharf and Employment reform, that is not “doing nothing”. Arjay has mad.....
» 9/12/2006 6:27:09 AM Spider “You can ridicule my neulogical illness as much as you like for it only proves how .....
» 8/12/2006 9:15:59 PM The article reads like a publicity blurb for “Manufacturing 101”, predictable and common p.....
» 8/12/2006 8:46:00 PM Oh Spider, you must be a legend in your own lunchtime. Re “No, we are not going to allow .....
» 8/12/2006 1:34:03 PM Steve Madden “So our Govt, was elected by 39% of voters, hardly democratic.” That is Garb.....
» 8/12/2006 9:23:47 AM CJMorgan, “Those Thatcherite fanatics who migrate to Australia … incompatible with Aussie .....
» 8/12/2006 8:55:47 AM No billie, I did not see “the Navigators”, It seems an ironic name for a show which presen.....
» 8/12/2006 12:22:18 AM What an amazing load of dribble. A pile on the rhetoric of weasel words, this is just an o.....
» 7/12/2006 11:42:55 PM He seems to have done it again, challenge a Policy statement by Spider, ask a question whi.....
» 7/12/2006 11:20:37 PM "it is well known that Keating stabilised the health of the economy off the back of t.....
» 7/12/2006 11:03:50 PM Considering that troll Latham is on a generous pension, courtesy of our taxes, I would reg.....
» 7/12/2006 1:52:13 PM Leigh "CJ Morgan has discovered the word "gratuitous"." It fits perf.....
» 7/12/2006 6:53:18 AM Personally I think being forced to vote is the sort of patronising nanny value which I vot.....
» 7/12/2006 6:44:02 AM “Howard has betrayed this Nation, its constitution, and its reputation. His Australia is n.....
» 6/12/2006 9:02:13 AM Sneekeepete “whose post war achievements rest on the shoulders of an army of people who di.....
» 6/12/2006 8:08:23 AM Oh lots of beating of breast and renting of clothing. As a regular and consistent Liberal.....
» 6/12/2006 7:41:24 AM Ah Spider “A cap must be placed on property investors so that they own no more than two ho.....
» 5/12/2006 8:10:57 PM Well said Pericles. Economies run on one of two styles, the protected or the free. The b.....
» 5/12/2006 6:18:24 PM I would have thought if one is committed to coming to a country, one would have the common.....
» 5/12/2006 8:25:26 AM Billie “Australian press has been tightly controlled by Rupert Murdoch and Kerry Packer fo.....
» 5/12/2006 12:06:08 AM Steel “That reveals some paranoia, indicating your views are prejudiced in political discu.....
» 4/12/2006 11:30:35 PM Steve Madden “Better look at your Bentley lease Comrade :)” I never buy cars on payment p.....
» 4/12/2006 3:42:09 PM I congratulate Kevin on his appointment and would wish that he remains leader of the feder.....
» 4/12/2006 8:38:39 AM “Carbon trading is one thing, but what about a “Millennium Development” trading scheme? Th.....
» 3/12/2006 8:20:12 AM Funkylamb, You asked me a direct question, I take no responsibility for you disliking my r.....
» 30/11/2006 8:34:09 PM Funkylamb “So what's the war on terror - a walk in the park?” Oh I like it when people as.....
» 30/11/2006 9:25:46 AM This article is a complete fabrication, more commonly called a “pack of lies” Taking the .....
» 30/11/2006 9:02:42 AM “relying on traditional energy market forces to provide the necessary investment will not .....
» 30/11/2006 7:19:29 AM The final phrases “my concern is not which one to choose but what difference the choice wi.....
» 29/11/2006 7:40:39 AM Billie “the people I dealt with in the UK water boards envied the unified water system in .....
» 28/11/2006 8:18:05 PM Hamlet “Collective Responsibility” You are right in such pandering to populist beliefs is .....
» 28/11/2006 6:00:36 AM I believe that the family unit is the building block of what is commonly called “society”......
» 27/11/2006 5:55:06 PM Oh what a pointless moan. What I dislike is the stereotyping of men by these women who, i.....
» 27/11/2006 5:24:12 PM “significantly devalued the lifetime earnings of non-homeowners, particularly young people.....
» 27/11/2006 4:58:05 PM Billie “pay each time he travels on Eastlink.” (aka Scoresby tollway) Well if Bracks had n.....
» 27/11/2006 4:55:48 PM Dear Tristan, of course I am right USA does not have DI, I have some experience of US tax.....
» 26/11/2006 3:24:49 PM “Government monopolies” Sheltered workshops for the incompetent, through institutions whi.....
» 26/11/2006 3:18:39 PM TE “what does forcing third world nations to privatise their water “ I thought the biggest.....
» 25/11/2006 8:46:21 AM “I think the World Bank and IMF need to be reformed so as to give third world countries co.....
» 25/11/2006 6:37:47 AM Ah what an array of pent up emotion and drivel, a venerable bitch slapping contest of irre.....
» 24/11/2006 5:53:31 AM “In conclusion, my knowledge and experience of disability allows me to argue that the empl.....
» 24/11/2006 4:44:03 AM Iluvatar “I suggest you spend some time in Africa” Actually I have been there, business .....
» 23/11/2006 12:41:37 AM Liam “Right, right, Col Rouge, and the uber-capitalist China is democratic HOW, exactly?” .....
» 21/11/2006 9:52:15 AM Oh I can always tell when someone is trying to promote a barren view, that is a view with .....
» 20/11/2006 4:57:40 PM Whilst the judiciary might like to think they are appointed to “hold court over us”, they .....
» 20/11/2006 4:31:07 PM “a public national capacity to systematically evaluate potential technologies, including t.....
» 20/11/2006 1:31:36 PM SHONGA, your friend is welcome, my advise is free but I trust she will find it more useful.....
» 20/11/2006 8:26:32 AM Al Hilali is a good example of why anyone who wants to migrate to Australia should have a .....
» 20/11/2006 8:02:10 AM Kipp “To have people who have never known hunger, discuss poverty is a joke!” Same too, t.....
» 18/11/2006 10:22:29 AM Astutely observed Sage FU2 “The WTO will ONLY buy raw, harvested beans,” Actually, WTO d.....
» 17/11/2006 8:43:38 AM The last paragraph “Australia urgently needs a national plan for coping with inevitable cl.....
» 16/11/2006 9:26:34 AM SHONGA “She like I have only a high school education,” that has nothing to do with it. .....
» 15/11/2006 12:52:07 PM Shonga “I wholeheartly agree with your last post,” that pleases me. Re poverty stricken .....
» 14/11/2006 3:31:08 PM Perseus “The only people making any sort of sacrifice for global climate will be the exist.....
» 14/11/2006 10:12:52 AM Fozz “big boys squeezing off their supplies of malt, yeast and so on.” Anti trust, contra.....
» 14/11/2006 8:39:44 AM Logic “I have travelled and worked in several lands and can converse in three other langua.....
» 12/11/2006 8:18:09 PM Celevia “YOU were the one who called the Third World people ‘future feeders’.” And you a.....
» 12/11/2006 8:07:32 PM Logic Taxis and omnibuses provide an “alternative” for those who cannot drive. Specific .....
» 12/11/2006 10:06:04 AM Question – rather than a free market, who regulates the market which is allowed, because, .....
» 11/11/2006 4:24:50 PM Spider “understand that coming forth when the timing is right is about not allowing the so.....
» 11/11/2006 11:09:00 AM Cont. “environment that is beyond repair.” That will happen if the breeders keep on bree.....
» 11/11/2006 11:05:40 AM Logic, I mentioned what I do to context the stupid and derogatory name calling which Celev.....
» 10/11/2006 9:05:36 AM Spider “I admit to tribalism, I admit to some ideals of anarchy but most of all, I admit t.....
» 9/11/2006 5:35:57 PM Previous post should be to Celivia Billie “Col_Rouge there is considerable debate about w.....
» 9/11/2006 5:31:17 PM Col Selling public assets – with most of them being bought by aussie institutions, they re.....
» 8/11/2006 5:45:20 PM Ludwig “Surely we have to do what we can to be prepared for the worst-case scenario, or at.....
» 8/11/2006 1:25:33 PM I have been watching this thread for some days. Owen, the Daily Telegraph, my favourite d.....
» 8/11/2006 9:27:07 AM Spider “Why would one put forth policies when they aren't fully formulated yet?’ Then why.....
» 7/11/2006 1:57:01 AM Tristan “WSWS 'fringe Trotskyists' - and I am myself amazed what a good job they do mainta.....
» 7/11/2006 1:09:39 AM Fozz “I admire your desperation to be right. It's just that you are wrong” I support a sy.....
» 6/11/2006 5:48:18 PM Celivia “The Libs sold off Victoria's public assets” Jeff Kennett had to sell off a lot.....
» 6/11/2006 7:09:54 AM Spider – Your last post. I would have thought someone equipped with all these policies an.....
» 5/11/2006 10:14:17 PM Relda “You may not agree with Col, but in a political democracy such as ours he is quite c.....
» 5/11/2006 9:44:38 PM Fozz “I have worked at a public school for ten years.” So I take it, whatever you say abo.....
» 5/11/2006 10:51:09 AM Fozz. Public schools and public health both have vast budgets thrown at them. Have you eve.....
» 5/11/2006 9:49:38 AM Spider “essential infrastructure” Where do you draw the line on what is essential? For in.....
» 5/11/2006 1:18:09 AM Rex – the “affordability” calculation is not influenced by lending practices, although as .....
» 4/11/2006 9:26:26 AM Housing affordability – the calculation which takes a snapshot of median house prices : p.....
» 4/11/2006 7:18:40 AM Oh these poor immigrants, they chose to migrate and now, supposedly “Hindus in Britain don.....
» 4/11/2006 6:41:46 AM Celivia I would welcome improvement in public transport. However, personal the experienc.....
» 4/11/2006 6:08:09 AM SHONGA “trade” is a serious source of wealth creation and distribution for everyone who pa.....
» 3/11/2006 7:49:15 AM Parents accountability is essential if you want to have any hope at fixing this issue. We.....
» 3/11/2006 7:24:01 AM Logic “My business does not involve selling equipment to any public transport company.” H.....
» 2/11/2006 2:45:14 PM Fozz “Business for profit is not fit to have complete over things such as health, educatio.....
» 2/11/2006 12:57:15 PM PKs little hissing fit does not merit direct comment. CJMorgan –hyenas attack in packs, I.....
» 2/11/2006 7:46:31 AM A couple of points ” Most of us in the Voices for Justice lobbying group are neither econo.....
» 1/11/2006 5:53:04 PM PK I express my experience of public transport. If you want to use “public transport” go a.....
» 1/11/2006 7:42:26 AM PK “in those that refuse to change their over-consuming and polluting ways, the future eat.....
» 31/10/2006 5:26:06 PM Logic, so I am a pompous and egotistic clown? And just what do you suggest we should call.....
» 29/10/2006 4:00:23 PM Steve Madden – was that $400 an hour you received or was that $400 an hour someone else wa.....
» 29/10/2006 12:54:26 PM Bushbred – me young? Thankyou BB – I do feel younger than I am, but am dealing with my 6t.....
» 29/10/2006 12:03:08 PM PK – lunacy did not end with the fall of Berlin Wall Logic “You are so egotistical and ye.....
» 28/10/2006 9:09:41 AM Mr Ristinge “little followers such as Dr Carter, and the Stephanys’ and Cols’ – are all no.....
» 27/10/2006 10:30:49 AM Steve Madden “$27.36 plus $17 for those on state awards, who did not get the federal incre.....
» 27/10/2006 10:09:01 AM Hasbeen “"Public Transport Produces 15% More GHG, Per passenger Kilometer, Than The P.....
» 26/10/2006 5:14:49 PM Anyone who comes here and defends North Korea needs serious medication. You are defending.....
» 26/10/2006 2:20:02 PM Bobtail “Libertarians think society can purely run on selfishness and individualism.” FAC.....
» 26/10/2006 5:50:54 AM Arjay – I am with you. When we stop laughing at life, the world will be a worse place. Ma.....
» 25/10/2006 8:19:17 PM Steve Madden “irrelevant to the debate” It is very pertinent. It is people doing what the.....
» 25/10/2006 7:47:49 PM PK “Your choice… Not to see global warming, depletion of oil reserves unfavourable Terms o.....
» 25/10/2006 8:19:50 AM Rob513264 “McInnes should really be held to account” Agree but do not hold your breath. R.....
» 25/10/2006 8:12:06 AM Bushbred, I am not a fan of big-business any more than I am of big-union. Whilst most of .....
» 24/10/2006 9:35:08 PM PK “It is simple . . . impose a congestion tax on car commuters to busy areas, and a carbo.....
» 23/10/2006 10:49:15 PM I guess the first question to ask is, what measure of income should be used, GDP, GNP etc,.....
» 23/10/2006 7:18:23 PM Viviane “Yawn . . . . ” posted 2:30:50 PM The first word of your first post, Viviane. Ob.....
» 23/10/2006 6:07:11 PM Interesting points here, most around commonwealth versus state rights. Personally, I wou.....
» 22/10/2006 3:48:00 PM relda #2 I used to work in UK. in 1973 my salary increases were pegged because, under the.....
» 22/10/2006 3:45:33 PM Relda I believe people should be free to negotiate the terms and conditions which suite .....
» 21/10/2006 10:12:11 AM relda I think we are migrating from the issue. The point is, when two people make a contr.....
» 19/10/2006 10:29:15 PM Hedgehog, you flatter yourself if you think those (metaphoric) tiny spines are sufficient .....
» 19/10/2006 8:41:22 PM Relda “then every effort should be biased strongly in support of the family.” Disagree Re.....
» 18/10/2006 11:41:33 PM Hedgehog “…..appear to be in a fierce contest over which is the biggest A#$@hole. I am p.....
» 18/10/2006 11:27:24 PM Relda “self-regulatory” means without governmental underpinning, Self-regulatory means th.....
» 18/10/2006 8:59:28 AM “Family Court orders require the mothers to hand their child into the care of a person tha.....
» 17/10/2006 7:33:50 PM I found this article chillingly reminiscent of my own experience, with some minor differen.....
» 16/10/2006 2:40:30 PM Ludwig “Of course being held behind razor wire is not dignified.” I know some of the mana.....
» 15/10/2006 7:19:01 PM Jams75 “I have had 4 terminations. …. I wanted to continue with all the pregnancies but my.....
» 15/10/2006 10:57:37 AM Anti-green “7. How important is statistical variation and unpredictability in a non linear.....
» 15/10/2006 9:24:07 AM Alex, You are absolutely correct, “some understand and some do not” That much has not ch.....
» 14/10/2006 8:06:53 PM Steve Madden “My description of you as a LIAR is based on my reading of your posts on OLO,.....
» 14/10/2006 7:56:58 PM Steve Madden, “At last you have outed yourself and finally admitted you are an employer an.....
» 14/10/2006 9:53:44 AM Bob Carter “That such models can mimic the elapsed temperature curve over the past 100 yea.....
» 14/10/2006 9:16:34 AM David BOAZ “Marilyn has made actionable charges: "At gunpoint with the help of the A.....
» 14/10/2006 8:43:07 AM Steve Madden – executive remuneration packages I will repeat, what I said above “priva.....
» 13/10/2006 7:41:28 PM Relda “we need to underwrite our basic wage and bargaining structure - before a downward f.....
» 13/10/2006 7:12:28 PM Divergence - Excellent Post Although I would correct you –“The "internationalists&qu.....
» 13/10/2006 8:14:47 AM “Job security” is a myth. It has always been a myth and will always be a myth. “Job Secur.....
» 12/10/2006 2:39:02 PM Oh Marilyn “where the people are known to have been loaded on at gunpoint by Indonesian po.....
» 12/10/2006 12:51:51 PM Sage “To hold Australia responsible for the seaworthiness of the vast Indonesian fleet of .....
» 10/10/2006 3:34:24 PM Steve Madden “Col Rouge the LIAR who thinks intelligent debate is to cut and paste someone.....
» 10/10/2006 1:50:55 PM Hedgehog – I notice you repeatedly used the term “they” in your last post, Oh the big ba.....
» 10/10/2006 1:46:26 PM Steve, being called a liar by a deluded troll like you is no great upset, I suggest you ge.....
» 8/10/2006 1:13:23 PM Steve Madden “Well said, the problem with the posters who hate anyone “different” is that .....
» 8/10/2006 12:27:15 PM Billie “You really are an anachronism in Australian society. Why don't you return to where.....
» 7/10/2006 8:32:23 PM Peter Abelard, I read your first post and agreed with it. I read your response to the sum.....
» 7/10/2006 7:50:00 PM Steve Madden “You_really_are_a_nasty_little_neo-_fascist:” And you are a pretentious, lef.....
» 6/10/2006 7:39:08 PM Ludwig "So I guess we really do see things quite differently Col. But then, that is g.....
» 6/10/2006 7:32:27 PM Oh hedgehog” You have grown into a bitter twisted soul.” Not at all, I am a particularly .....
» 5/10/2006 12:14:52 PM Isky “What do you consider major development?” Well in terms of medical development we ca.....
» 5/10/2006 11:43:47 AM Hedgehog “Your crap about the individual is sickening” I am happy to rely on my view that.....
» 30/09/2006 10:38:51 AM Ludwig – ‘Huge … free enterprise turning wild” “Free enterprise” will see more participa.....
» 30/09/2006 10:04:36 AM Daggett “However those landlords who bought their properties before the housing hyper-infl.....
» 30/09/2006 9:44:12 AM Isky “Just wanted to point out that “They do not know what they do not know” applies equal.....
» 30/09/2006 9:29:47 AM Marilyn Shepherd “Col, the women in the photos were not giving their consent for thugs in .....
» 30/09/2006 9:18:32 AM Hedgehog “In a decent society these workers deserve a living wage. Got it.” We all have t.....
» 28/09/2006 8:11:16 PM Al Gore is doing what all failed politicians do, in an attempt to attract power he becomes.....
» 28/09/2006 7:52:43 PM Steve Madden “If they had a decent wage they would be able to improve their lives not exis.....
» 26/09/2006 2:51:38 PM Kalin “Censoring smutty magazines is the first step down the slippery slope toward women w.....
» 25/09/2006 6:30:34 PM Daggett “I have already shown, that in regard to housing, speculation results in many bein.....
» 25/09/2006 6:12:20 PM If this is all Tankard Reiss has to write about and OLO is so desperate for anything to pu.....
» 21/09/2006 12:01:43 PM Daggett “People who have the means to acquire commodities cheaply that may be needed by ot.....
» 21/09/2006 8:16:58 AM Numbat “You are the one condoning the killing of innocent babies just as the real fascist .....
» 16/09/2006 6:06:42 PM Sorry to be slow getting back Ludwig, Re –“ Why shouldn’t the onus be on those who profi.....
» 16/09/2006 5:44:09 PM Daggett “firstly, I don't particularly care whether or not you engage in personal attacks......
» 16/09/2006 5:13:15 PM Kenny – you are right. Doubtless the “meddlers” will and try to do otherwise (rememberin.....
» 12/09/2006 2:28:06 PM Daggett “Regarding negative gearing: to me it seems unfair that people paying off their ow.....
» 12/09/2006 1:54:57 PM Tony’s view, in every word of this missive, relates how he is feels uncomfortable with eve.....
» 10/09/2006 12:58:47 PM Ludwig "even up the wealth distribution between the home-owner and the profiteer.&quo.....
» 10/09/2006 11:20:51 AM Daggett – your digression into my past post would have been wonderfully illuminating and e.....
» 10/09/2006 10:20:27 AM Marilyn Shepherd “McConvill, Rouge, Leigh and others should learn one thing blah blah …H.....
» 7/09/2006 6:28:55 PM Daggett “Calculation of affordability of the price of a median house with reference to a m.....
» 7/09/2006 5:18:57 PM Suggesting the Australian treatment of West Papuans determines how the appeals of convicte.....
» 6/09/2006 4:35:25 PM Ludwig “I cannot see that it would be any more seriously distorted if governments were to .....
» 6/09/2006 4:21:54 PM Maximus - left wing government implementation of Marxist ideologies I would never have dr.....
» 2/09/2006 5:36:52 AM All this bulldust about housing affordability.”moral bankruptcy and buck passing blah blah.....
» 1/09/2006 12:41:33 PM Ludwig "..fact that land prices are highly inflated?" Are they? Maybe 20 years .....
» 31/08/2006 6:46:10 PM PK "Pericles: Rubbish. Enough said. " I take that as your admission of surren.....
» 30/08/2006 10:31:21 PM PK “housing is becoming less affordable when compared to average incomes over the same lon.....
» 30/08/2006 10:00:58 PM Here is one “truism” – “The FCAC report cites Family Court of Australia figures demonstrat.....
» 29/08/2006 7:37:38 PM Ludwig OK “and which can feed exorbitantly high profits into the pockets of those who are .....
» 29/08/2006 7:17:30 PM Klass Woldring “Proportional representation (PR) is a highly democratic representative sys.....
» 28/08/2006 1:25:37 PM Ludwig "Besides, what sort of market forces are we dealing with that can make the pri.....
» 28/08/2006 12:37:02 AM PK “Col Rouge, you seem to miss the point that investment in the private property market i.....
» 25/08/2006 7:58:10 AM Cute quote ““despotism may be able to do without faith, but democracy cannot”. I see noth.....
» 24/08/2006 6:43:06 PM Alan Moran “The excessive costs are purely due to government rationing of land. Many areas.....
» 23/08/2006 1:30:28 PM A quote attributed to Professor Colin Masters “Professor Colin Masters, Australia’s leadin.....
» 22/08/2006 10:36:03 PM Pericles “when it comes to talented developers….” And the operative word is “talented” M.....
» 22/08/2006 2:16:34 PM Celivia “People who stereotype will behave mostly in a negative or even aggressive way tow.....
» 22/08/2006 1:45:33 PM Billie “I would like you to tell me why its fair to rear and educate our children to have .....
» 20/08/2006 10:11:59 AM Clive Williams “Hezbollah cannot be destroyed” The defeatist believes of some is no reas.....
» 20/08/2006 9:48:20 AM Ludwig Thank you for your support of view. To build on your point "Let’s also co.....
» 20/08/2006 9:35:07 AM Sganot ”Col Rouge, the US allows dual citizenship, and millions of Americans are also citi.....
» 18/08/2006 3:21:45 PM What you see as “contradictions” are merely the manifestation of your own corrupt and mali.....
» 17/08/2006 8:32:24 PM Oh Marilyn, I don’t care about your rambling and slightly deranged opinion, someone arrive.....
» 17/08/2006 8:22:24 PM Tao “Where did you get your education from, out of a corn flakes packet” Oh tristram / ta.....
» 17/08/2006 4:46:47 AM Two issues, immigration processes and West Papuans. Confusing or adjoining the two seriou.....
» 17/08/2006 4:18:35 AM Just as the IRA are a self appointed bunch of blood thirsty terrorists and an organisation.....
» 17/08/2006 3:53:54 AM Tao “I would be quite willing go give up our calendar . . . I would quite happily give up.....
» 16/08/2006 4:52:13 PM Abe Ata “Australian, and other Western ignorance about the Arab world” I find offensive, .....
» 15/08/2006 2:22:19 AM Leigh “Tell it to the Islamic terrorists, dearie” Agree – Appeasement has never worked, t.....
» 15/08/2006 2:02:35 AM My concerns with GM is the point expressed in Saintfletcher’s post re farmers and their ex.....
» 15/08/2006 1:42:13 AM David BOAZ –re the battle of the Boyne, some folk hang on to the past when they would be b.....
» 14/08/2006 3:01:57 PM Scout “War is the easy way out - used by bullies and as we all know, bullies are just cowa.....
» 14/08/2006 2:45:55 PM Arjay, I take your point however, Iran is its own worst enemy. One way or another, the wri.....
» 13/08/2006 8:25:05 PM Tao “if Arabs/Muslims manage to drive Israel into the sea, then, in the future, the land o.....
» 12/08/2006 5:48:37 PM Marilyn Shepherd “It's the same old lunacy from Leigh and Sage…” “The government of Leban.....
» 12/08/2006 10:04:32 AM Tao / Tristan – “They (nation states) haven’t just existed for all time.” Oh to agree for.....
» 9/08/2006 4:11:25 PM Tao re munitions expended – “because they have done so much damage - but never any figures.....
» 9/08/2006 3:38:13 PM Scout “War is always justifiable.” Well a little bit of emotional hyperbole there Scout. .....
» 8/08/2006 2:41:15 PM Billie “Col Rouge you can not become a Chartered Accountant until you had completed your u.....
» 7/08/2006 11:50:40 PM Oh tao / tristan, you have been quiet for some time, been off licking your wounds? As for.....
» 7/08/2006 11:19:21 PM Philo “The intake of drugs not natural to the human body .. blah .. that the effects of th.....
» 7/08/2006 10:59:34 PM Admiral Von Schnider, Interesting measure, the misery index, I have analysed the correlat.....
» 7/08/2006 9:46:56 PM Plantagenet “John's comments are touching, but naive and surprisingly unsophisticated for .....
» 6/08/2006 12:04:26 AM Kekenidika “Was that written by some divine (sic) being who gave all the land to the Jews”.....
» 3/08/2006 2:26:11 PM Philo - You can pretend “exclusivity” by suggesting “Person’s identifying themselves as Ch.....
» 3/08/2006 2:10:56 PM Strewth: Hezbollah are a terrorist organisation which is committed to the denial of democr.....
» 2/08/2006 1:21:03 PM Tubley, “Your hypothetical analogies mean little when discussing the prospect of abortion”.....
» 2/08/2006 12:57:08 PM Hezbollah have been firing rockets into Israel for years, using the cover of civilian buil.....
» 31/07/2006 5:12:06 PM Hamlet, the number of times Lebanon has been invaded by Israel have been matched by the nu.....
» 28/07/2006 2:32:45 PM Seeker, you made a grand-standing statement which contained certain inappropriate presumpt.....
» 28/07/2006 2:19:17 PM Hamlet “I would scarcely call that creative, more like lebenstraum.” Call it what you wan.....
» 27/07/2006 3:05:52 PM Seeker said “Neither can they be forced to have sex – but they do.” Duh! Seeker – rape vi.....
» 27/07/2006 1:03:03 PM Hamlet - I do recall Menachem Begin. I do recall his involvement with the bombing of the .....
» 26/07/2006 4:20:19 PM drooge “What would you call it other than disproportionate?” As I commented, originally, .....
» 26/07/2006 12:49:17 PM Rnrofe “The use of abortion as fertility control is openly abusive of women's dignity.” D.....
» 25/07/2006 5:32:12 PM Given that no woman is “forced” to have an abortion or take any medication against her wil.....
» 25/07/2006 5:16:28 PM “Disproportionate Force” is politico speak for “I do not know what I am talking about” Th.....
» 25/07/2006 1:29:00 PM Greg Barnes opened this article with “Israel is fast becoming a failed state. The Lebanes.....
» 20/07/2006 4:48:33 PM Aka – I have no nerves, that does not mean I will turn a blind eye to stupidity. “Also as.....
» 20/07/2006 12:45:50 PM Aka – “the right to withhold ones labour is an international human right” the thugs who h.....
» 20/07/2006 12:20:36 PM Scout “however I don’t believe that the market place will solve ALL our problems in the na.....
» 20/07/2006 12:03:06 PM SHONGA “Does this mean that North Korea has the right to defend herself against the holder.....
» 19/07/2006 1:51:32 PM Lie 1 “AWAs simply have little or no impact on productivity. You don’t need facts and figu.....
» 18/07/2006 1:46:48 PM Many seem to take opportunity to criticise “choice”. I find it hard to. Why – because w.....
» 18/07/2006 11:24:29 AM The IDF responds to the commands of a democratically elected government, who’s first respo.....
» 13/07/2006 2:33:28 PM “Col, By OECD standards Australia has low employment participation” so what? I would obse.....
» 12/07/2006 4:39:43 PM Anti-Green, I concur with your view, competitive opportunity will ensure technologies whic.....
» 12/07/2006 12:49:34 PM Divergence “technology has saved us in the past doesn't mean that it can in the future.” .....
» 12/07/2006 10:48:45 AM FrankGol. Now you have chosen to address me. Your statement of complete dismissal as in “.....
» 12/07/2006 10:06:59 AM Shonga, this may come as a surprise but the rules for companies versus individuals for the.....
» 11/07/2006 4:32:12 PM Shonga, the current corporate rate of income tax is 30% flat (on each and every dollar), c.....
» 10/07/2006 6:13:02 PM One of the collective nouns for a group of “individuals” is “society”. The individual is .....
» 10/07/2006 3:28:45 AM An individuals most favored scenario will depend on ones general attitude and demeanor, op.....
» 9/07/2006 2:33:23 PM Bennie, dearest, “Col it's all about 'quality of life'. If you have any faith in qualitati.....
» 9/07/2006 2:10:58 PM Individuals had little to no choice in either 1984 or Brave New World. To be honest, sugg.....
» 9/07/2006 12:57:38 PM So, Corin “An “empowering” economic model must consider some or all of the following:” (he.....
» 9/07/2006 12:33:24 PM IMHO the whole issue of income tax needs a thorough review. I would, personally, prefer t.....
» 6/07/2006 4:28:01 PM bennie "Hmm. Col I think you are a computer. " Well bennie, if I am a computer,.....
» 29/06/2006 3:08:40 PM FrankGol “When Col Rouge seriously considers all my points (and those of other serious con.....
» 29/06/2006 2:06:46 PM Gavin Mooney states “they know what the solutions are.” THEN WHY ON EARTH ARE THEY NOT IM.....
» 29/06/2006 12:01:06 PM FrankGol “sustainable economic opportunity?” Personally I have moved twice with the inte.....
» 29/06/2006 10:12:08 AM Billie, I have negotiated my terms and conditions since the mid 1970’s by resigning when I.....
» 29/06/2006 9:52:57 AM I would have thought such a serious action of threatening the separation of power would re.....
» 27/06/2006 2:17:36 PM Anth, “The rest of the generation are over-spoiled prats who had privileged childhoods.” .....
» 27/06/2006 1:57:17 PM Pericles “I just do not get it with some people who feel that lower orders of animals and .....
» 26/06/2006 8:38:19 PM Billie “According to Kenneth Davidson in The Age the latest OECD research indicates that f.....
» 26/06/2006 4:32:26 PM Pericles “keeping animals as pets is abhorrent. Describing it as slavery is the closest I .....
» 25/06/2006 9:12:25 PM Bennie “The "cost" to the community for our car-dependent lifestyle can't be mea.....
» 25/06/2006 8:54:02 PM I might be tempted to add to the general sense of leftie hysteria which seems to be pervad.....
» 24/06/2006 9:00:07 AM PK your scenario – the variable and random influences which will challenge your ‘scenario’.....
» 24/06/2006 8:38:26 AM “It’s scandalous for the ABC to put its hand out for more money while simultaneously spend.....
» 22/06/2006 2:30:17 PM It is very simple. A tolerant society will recognise the expectations and desires of same.....
» 21/06/2006 2:19:01 PM Trish Bolton wrote “Wouldn’t you know it - the generation that hoped they’d die before the.....
» 20/06/2006 6:34:43 PM Pericles “Services should be needs-based. Col doesn't need them, so he is quite happy to b.....
» 19/06/2006 3:43:56 PM Peter McMahon Opens with “Australia is one of the most over-governed places on earth,” An.....
» 19/06/2006 1:07:27 PM Pericles There is no comparison between a health system, there to support all and thus th.....
» 18/06/2006 8:23:13 PM Founder “… education based options implemented so that in the long run, mothers AND father.....
» 18/06/2006 7:56:18 PM Sarnian “The traffic problem WILL be solved and quite soon as the price of oil continues t.....
» 17/06/2006 8:49:50 AM Pedant “There must be some creative solutions” Yep try thinking about their own future be.....
» 16/06/2006 2:50:14 PM Founder, my 19 year marriage / 20 year relationship ended about 13 years ago. My ex worke.....
» 16/06/2006 1:12:37 PM Rob Moodie wrote "I want to be gently eased out of my car and onto public transport o.....
» 16/06/2006 8:59:33 AM KAEP “Col, So, you must have got your seeing-eye-dog to look that crap up then? In the r.....
» 15/06/2006 2:02:47 PM KAEP “Monopoly” Look up “ACCC” in macquarie Look up “Federal Trade Commission” in Webste.....
» 15/06/2006 1:34:20 PM GT Don’t worry about Tristan/tao, under his regime of delusional power, “property is theft.....
» 14/06/2006 7:33:24 PM Ah the old cry “While the debate rages about whether to restrict child care facilities for.....
» 14/06/2006 1:54:57 PM Tao/Tristan “You are becoming hysterical. I’m sure the veins must be popping out of the si.....
» 13/06/2006 9:34:37 PM tao/tristan - you are just an empty vessel full of nothing but air. Who cares what you thi.....
» 13/06/2006 9:27:03 PM tristan, "You can accuse me of being anything under the sun if you like Col, but none.....
» 13/06/2006 9:03:26 PM Mr Man “Don't_mistake_me_for_some_whining_fool_who_has_no_idea_about_business_practices. I.....
» 12/06/2006 8:01:40 PM Negative geared investors are free to invest where they want. Obviously a lot of people “g.....
» 12/06/2006 3:32:24 PM Mr Man “But, unions aren’t responsible for as many deaths or the gross exploitation and cr.....
» 11/06/2006 7:21:40 PM David “What must the corporation 'do' in order to satisfy the lust of the 'shareholder' fo.....
» 11/06/2006 10:11:31 AM Ah the usual hissing fits. Now who owns corporations, well individual people own corpor.....
» 11/06/2006 9:23:50 AM Tao wrote “.... particularly as they are not actually producing anything which is useful t.....
» 9/06/2006 10:18:30 PM Scout, I am wearing my accountant hat. The exact same rules of accrual accounting for inco.....
» 8/06/2006 1:15:42 PM “Denying someone the right to be known as a committed partner to a relationship, simply on.....
» 7/06/2006 1:59:52 PM Scout “the rort that is negative gearing” If someone were to invest in shares instead of .....
» 7/06/2006 10:31:18 AM Tao “The state exists to police inequality” Define “inequality” Is “equality” when peopl.....
» 7/06/2006 10:05:55 AM The Greenpeace mantra is being chanted throughout this dribble. Suggesting nuclear energy.....
» 6/06/2006 1:52:41 PM Bring on the Raunch. As for the "feminists", Who cares! Individuals will do .....
» 6/06/2006 1:27:33 PM Philo “In any civilized society it is society itself, the law makers and the courts who de.....
» 6/06/2006 12:41:16 PM Tao Let’s put it this way, I will happily continue in my “wayward” way, voting according.....
» 5/06/2006 4:55:44 PM Tao “the self-reliant one- actually rely on the work of others to meet your every material.....
» 4/06/2006 3:16:15 PM Philo “Building a strong society means weeding out the destructive, obstructive and social.....
» 4/06/2006 1:55:04 PM Philo,”I have been around for 66 years” And I have been around for 56 years. The “Percep.....
» 4/06/2006 1:35:00 PM Robert thank you – my view, unlike Tristan, I do not seek to impose my “balance” upon you......
» 3/06/2006 2:04:46 PM Hey Robert, thanks for the support Scout “Negative gearing artificially inflates rental p.....
» 2/06/2006 2:34:38 PM Mr Agreeable, I would like to point out, the income and capital gains made through negati.....
» 2/06/2006 2:01:52 PM So, if Aboriginals have a deep mistrust of Europeans. That is their problem to deal with......
» 1/06/2006 2:29:12 PM Philo “Since 1st World Western society has developed the condom and pill etc they have rem.....
» 31/05/2006 11:48:37 PM Kay “Thanks for your post” You are most welcome Kay Mr Man Excellent post, succinct and.....
» 30/05/2006 7:00:59 PM I fail to see how giving wider news coverage to killers would reduce their anti-social beh.....
» 30/05/2006 6:24:24 PM “With over 40 million copies of the book sold into 44 different languages, it is having a .....
» 30/05/2006 6:00:28 PM I will respond on your latest article on the thread directly, thanks Bernie. “The public .....
» 29/05/2006 4:02:57 PM I find it pretentious that a bunch of childless, confirmed bachelors would claim sufficien.....
» 28/05/2006 11:11:42 AM Stalker “Col Rouge. You continually rant on about REMORSE, RESPONSIBILITY, and ACCOUNTABIL.....
» 26/05/2006 2:40:35 PM Arjay “I was a bleeding heart lefty..” Me too – typical human development, a socialist b.....
» 26/05/2006 2:16:27 PM Alchemist “Thanks col, your insults are a true indication of your primitive mentality. As .....
» 23/05/2006 5:11:27 PM This article reads like the usual bleating whines of a professional apologist. To be hone.....
» 23/05/2006 4:59:16 PM Alchemist – if you think I care about your wailing apologist attitude, think again. I was .....
» 23/05/2006 1:24:23 PM Tristan” There is hysteria about public debt and the prospect of public borrowing.” That .....
» 21/05/2006 7:16:39 PM Tristan “My ideas have never been tested in this country - which has never had anything mo.....
» 21/05/2006 6:53:23 PM Kilos “Col, you are a true master of the semantic somersault. I am in awe of you. You serv.....
» 18/05/2006 2:22:13 PM “As Joseph Ratzinger put it prior to assuming the pontiff, we “are building a dictatorship.....
» 18/05/2006 2:10:25 PM OnLine Opinion would create greater interest and debate by publishing some of Andrew Bolt'.....
» 17/05/2006 10:24:39 PM Stalker “How sad it must be to live a life of narrow-mindedness.” Judgementalist speculat.....
» 17/05/2006 9:53:30 PM Scout “I am concerned, Col, that you seem to blame people simply for being less successful.....
» 17/05/2006 8:51:08 PM kilos "I'm a fully qualified journalist having graduated from USQ with a Bachelor of .....
» 16/05/2006 1:36:41 PM Stalker “Those fitting this description and posting negative comments regarding Bernies re.....
» 15/05/2006 2:37:37 PM Tristan “In my 'ideal scenario' what was and what was not socialised would depend partly o.....
» 14/05/2006 11:44:42 AM Leigh and Robert, spot on. When Bernie has the courage to ask himself, and answer honestl.....
» 14/05/2006 10:58:22 AM Arjay, Of Course Tristan is peddling envy, when dealt with a lack of skills, envy and tear.....
» 11/05/2006 9:18:00 PM Tristan, “I-see-no-reason-to-conclude-that-public-education-is-'essentially'-inferior-to-p.....
» 11/05/2006 10:50:49 AM Tristan “Col Rouge criticises public health and education - but does not draw the natural .....
» 9/05/2006 9:02:50 PM “There is strong evidence that Australians of low socio-economic background face formidabl.....
» 9/05/2006 11:45:43 AM Now “This means less money for health, infastructure, aged care and education.” And “BTW .....
» 9/05/2006 11:32:22 AM Tristan, it is reassuring you too are confident to quote the data of nationmaster.com. Ho.....
» 7/05/2006 9:49:28 AM In terms of direct taxation, Austalia is a relatively high taxing state. However, that rea.....
» 6/05/2006 8:52:46 AM Censorship, in the vain belief that it will stop the 0.00000001% of the population from ha.....
» 4/04/2006 12:21:57 AM Maker ” but you clearly are ignorant.” Prior to the mid 19th century, abortion was not a .....
» 3/04/2006 11:59:31 PM [Deleted for abuse and poster suspended.].....
» 31/03/2006 11:47:36 PM Martin ibn Warriq “If you were to put clerical abuse in context” I will put it in context.....
» 30/03/2006 4:09:28 PM Maker “You make me sick. We don't care how much you love each other. This isnt a chat room.....
» 30/03/2006 3:40:42 PM Meg1 I see you are keeping up the vitriol, it is all you can muster. You must be frustra.....
» 29/03/2006 9:49:31 PM Mjbp “I was referring to the group you were referring to when you said: “My club rules di.....
» 26/03/2006 11:01:06 AM Meg1 “Careful, you’ll upset Col if you’re suggesting a mother hasn’t the right to kill her.....
» 23/03/2006 12:56:35 PM Meg1 “Col’s CLUB are those who accept killing of babies to term…there are significant numb.....
» 23/03/2006 10:24:23 AM "For, after a 1,450-year long encounter between Islam and what is now known as the We.....
» 22/03/2006 6:55:29 AM So Meg1, apart from self-righteous hissing fits and a diatribe of religious humbug, Since.....
» 21/03/2006 2:34:48 PM SHONGA I am pleased you learn form my comments. Maybe one day we will even see you impleme.....
» 20/03/2006 12:46:33 PM Scout “You are really clutching at straws trying to make out that Col has no respect for w.....
» 20/03/2006 12:32:34 PM Philo “Just because we can do anything we choose is not a valid reason to commit actions.”.....
» 20/03/2006 12:09:05 PM Yabby, I post regularly on a USA abortion board. This is a world wide issue, just as slave.....
» 19/03/2006 10:44:35 AM Philo “God is Spirit revealed in character, attitudes, revealed wisdom, and his creative a.....
» 18/03/2006 9:11:37 AM I Agree with you Leigh Kevin seems to be someone frustrated about not being leader but do.....
» 18/03/2006 8:28:53 AM mjpb “When I pointed out that your team has a worse track record for engaging in paedophil.....
» 18/03/2006 7:36:23 AM Meg1 “If the state disrespects the most vulnerable and innocent, there’s little hope of it.....
» 17/03/2006 12:52:24 PM mjpb “In any event your ‘team’ has a much worse track record for engaging in paedophile be.....
» 17/03/2006 9:02:27 AM Irfan "Keep going, all you racist pseudo-Christian and pseudo-Australian fruitcakes o.....
» 17/03/2006 8:33:50 AM Wibble – you are correct, I was warning, not criticising. Thank you for putting the correc.....
» 16/03/2006 8:18:37 AM Philo you r last post is just an expression of judgemental hissing fits about people who’s.....
» 15/03/2006 1:09:30 PM Meg1 “Col, you are sadly mistaken” If I am “sadly mistaken”, then present the evidence to.....
» 15/03/2006 9:02:14 AM Irfan” The Koran teaches that when giving charity, give of things you value. Australians h.....
» 15/03/2006 8:01:28 AM LAB “Nor was womankind meant to become "a sex-machine" to subdue man's lusts. Wo.....
» 14/03/2006 9:46:20 AM “As for the inquisition” Suggesting the crimes of the RCC are justified by comparisons to.....
» 14/03/2006 9:44:32 AM Martin Ibn Warriq, Monday, 13 March 2006 4:43:08 PM “Have you no empathy? Papist propaga.....
» 14/03/2006 8:40:41 AM Meg1 “Read carefully...TRUTH is UNIVERSAL...” That might be so but Catholics are but one.....
» 13/03/2006 5:47:56 PM Big Al “In the vast majority of cases, abortion creates more problems for the woman than i.....
» 13/03/2006 5:36:42 PM Sajo “your approach only works after ideas have already been formulated and developed” W.....
» 12/03/2006 11:54:36 PM Martin Ibn Warriq, ”we can do wicked wicked things. There's so much vanity and evil in me......
» 12/03/2006 11:05:53 AM Colinset I agree with much of your post I am concerned when the author of the article wri.....
» 12/03/2006 10:01:28 AM Sajo “One problem with 'bean counters'….. Few have discovered the wonderful world of scien.....
» 12/03/2006 7:57:29 AM Meg1 I am pleased you acknowledge the similarity between religions and football teams. It.....
» 11/03/2006 7:42:04 AM GW “I couldn't read the article after looking at the picture of the author. “ I admit to h.....
» 11/03/2006 7:06:42 AM Im with Yabbie, I would sooner sit around with Dave Allen and the Python team anyday. Whi.....
» 11/03/2006 6:39:06 AM Philo “My position is that if any person [including abortionist doctors] who deliberately .....
» 11/03/2006 5:53:51 AM Meg1 You still have not declared or qualified why a lady would endure 8 ½ months of pregna.....
» 11/03/2006 5:25:17 AM Here we are back on abortions. People deciding what is and what is not human. So lets .....
» 10/03/2006 3:30:10 AM Meg1 “Full-term babies delivered by at-risk mothers are normally viable - aborted or live,.....
» 10/03/2006 2:03:04 AM “I am not convinced that eradication of all censorship is a sign of a progressive society......
» 10/03/2006 1:34:34 AM What a sad little article. The author seems to think there is some correlation of action .....
» 9/03/2006 12:40:23 PM Oh Philo – “The fact is a boyfriend jumped on the stomach of his pregnant girlfriend” Oh.....
» 9/03/2006 12:19:32 PM Meg1 “Get your own life and stop trying experience it by trying to make decisions which wi.....
» 8/03/2006 1:12:30 AM Meg1 from in your tirade of vitriolic twaddle I will make one observation to a particular .....
» 8/03/2006 12:39:25 AM Philo – “one minute before the birth it would not be murder to decapitate the infant” the.....
» 7/03/2006 2:29:08 PM Reason thanks for the statement of support. “Though I see that it is a little wasted on t.....
» 7/03/2006 12:09:09 PM FrankGol and Rex May I express my support to your both for your reasoning. FrankGol, as .....
» 7/03/2006 11:47:28 AM The opening remarks “fact that the people who make all the important decisions come mainly.....
» 6/03/2006 7:43:05 AM Philo “Government funds to build Churches.” Show me where I suggested such a thing, I did.....
» 6/03/2006 7:06:39 AM Te I am neither bitter nor angry. I do stand up for what I believe and I do not kowtow to.....
» 5/03/2006 11:46:55 AM Philo “Sometimes society must impose values on persons for the good of the society.” Meg1 .....
» 5/03/2006 9:31:26 AM Mjpb “These demeaning comments are at the least disrespectful” “Disrespectful” is a subje.....
» 5/03/2006 8:02:15 AM Meg1 “I hear no agreement from the unborn whose life will end or the survivors of abortion.....
» 4/03/2006 10:02:54 AM Trade 215 the “ideal” male pill would mix an appropriate contraceptive with a reasonable d.....
» 4/03/2006 9:32:52 AM Mjpb Re your puerile attempt to vilify and claim “hate” is my motive. What seems to evad.....
» 3/03/2006 3:02:13 PM mjpb “'why let the facts get in the way of a good story'. Ah an old proverb just like .....
» 3/03/2006 6:55:24 AM The test of any politician is at the ballot box. The level of “Household debt” is a matt.....
» 3/03/2006 5:49:56 AM Mjpb “paedophile priests…” media sensationalism” Like an Iceberg, the truth is often hi.....
» 2/03/2006 3:33:10 AM Mjpb “You seem quite proud that your daughter’s relationships are out of wedlock,” Wrong.....
» 1/03/2006 12:32:33 PM Meg1, Oh dear. “Col, mjpb has fully answered re: Catholic priests” I have a small proble.....
» 1/03/2006 12:17:56 PM mjpb “Catholics legitimately can have as much sex as they want with adults of the opposite.....
» 28/02/2006 10:51:56 AM When Muslims came to Australia, they knew they were coming to a predominately European cul.....
» 28/02/2006 9:22:38 AM Arjay – and what would our Catholic colleagues, who so oppose abortion be doing to curb th.....
» 27/02/2006 5:57:41 PM TE “how terribly sad that you are not stepping forward to protect your daughters’” You do.....
» 25/02/2006 4:15:35 AM Slasher – why not? Other investments are treated on their return merits (be that positive.....
» 25/02/2006 3:51:32 AM Mjpb “committed Christians don't confine sexual activity.. ” “sanctimonious and self app.....
» 25/02/2006 2:52:15 AM Opinionat2 “Do you live under a bridge also? “ You must be well acquainted with sub-viadu.....
» 24/02/2006 4:44:12 PM Alpal “What a disgraceful article.” Yep you are right, Alpal. An article as sour as sour.....
» 24/02/2006 5:01:27 AM Irfan Nothing I read in Ted Lapkin’s article “demonised Islam”. Ted’s concluding observat.....
» 23/02/2006 2:45:37 PM MEMORYBABE “Why, gw, would Australians of Irish descent want to have the Union Jack repres.....
» 23/02/2006 1:05:37 PM I always consider it the action of the most abject and those bereft in any standards to wi.....
» 23/02/2006 9:35:42 AM Seeker my “fantasies” linger around areas of human activity far more exotic than anything .....
» 23/02/2006 9:04:47 AM Meg1 I have no fantasies about Catholic Priest. Generally their “weirdness” is enough to f.....
» 22/02/2006 3:11:39 PM I think the “ignorance” is all Irfans. The Australian has opened its editorial to differe.....
» 22/02/2006 8:53:59 AM Slasher – what a political disaster you would make. Not only do you do half the job (allo.....
» 21/02/2006 10:31:32 AM I agree with Ted – there is more than simple “reactionary influences” at work. AMSADL – I.....
» 21/02/2006 9:06:05 AM Seeker, I have no fantasies about Catholic Priests, the nearest to such would be just dark.....
» 21/02/2006 8:29:18 AM Meg1 it is said emulation is the greatest form of flattery, so suggesting I might be “gull.....
» 20/02/2006 9:23:17 PM mjpb I thought you might say that, apologists are so predictable. Well I would accept any.....
» 20/02/2006 5:15:34 AM Scout, I am sorry if what I said you might have taken as “unprovoked insult” in the past. .....
» 20/02/2006 4:30:59 AM Meg1 “diatribes of mindless, feet-stamping, slanderous generalizations on the Catholic Ch.....
» 19/02/2006 1:23:09 AM corrupt?NO!, “They have just allowed millions of potential babies to be flushed down the t.....
» 19/02/2006 12:56:25 AM Hamlet “Yabby, where does 'personhood' begin?” When “personhood begins” is an arguable po.....
» 19/02/2006 12:26:55 AM Fact The Church of Rome is an archaic organisation which tries to set its own authority up.....
» 17/02/2006 1:39:16 PM GRAY "Choice" is not the real Power. "Choice" simply allows continu.....
» 17/02/2006 7:09:18 AM Meg1 wrote “you better hope your children don't want your estate enough to use the same ra.....
» 16/02/2006 4:47:35 PM RobP “Col… anti-church” Yes RobP, you are right. I am “anti-church”. Not particularly &.....
» 16/02/2006 12:24:58 PM Taya Fabijanic “If we are to encourage Australian mothers to have more children, we need t.....
» 16/02/2006 9:17:31 AM Meg1 I am still waiting for your argument, all you have delivered is some cheap shots and .....
» 16/02/2006 9:00:40 AM Meg1 “No offer of money to help her KEEP the child, Col?” Remaining pregnant was an opti.....
» 15/02/2006 1:27:48 PM Scout “and I don't need a husband - nyah nyah nyah” My reward for being deliberately pro.....
» 15/02/2006 12:39:59 PM Meg1, “Be informed instead of voicing your ignorance on issues that try to justify the e.....
» 15/02/2006 10:36:40 AM Meg1 “RE: society's cop out-if the best any of you can offer a woman in this situation is .....
» 15/02/2006 9:04:20 AM RobP “I reckon your arguments are getting spuriouser and spuriouser.” Then that should ma.....
» 14/02/2006 1:08:58 PM All credit to you Peter, playing the hand we are dealt as best we can is all any of us can.....
» 14/02/2006 11:12:26 AM Justin86 “It is bad debating to make a mass negative stereotype…. There really is no need.....
» 14/02/2006 6:15:13 AM Meg1 “no 'simple surgery' causes that sort of trauma and sense of loss and guilt...abortio.....
» 14/02/2006 5:43:17 AM Posted by me Sunday, 12 February 2006 2:46:33 PM “Actually it is usually the pro-life bri.....
» 13/02/2006 6:06:50 AM Agree with your post David_BOAZ. As I asserted on another thread recently, Assimilation i.....
» 12/02/2006 2:46:33 PM Connor ”the issue is that RU 486 is NOT safe, it is a seriously dangerous drug whether th.....
» 12/02/2006 2:07:44 PM Justine you are the one who brought on the insults101 with your groundless and self-righte.....
» 12/02/2006 7:10:04 AM Ladies, you think life is getting “complex”? Maybe that is because the hurly and burly ex.....
» 12/02/2006 6:32:52 AM SHONGA, thanks for the apology. You bring up a good point in your comment “these Depar.....
» 11/02/2006 7:52:01 AM Syed Atiq ul Hassan “The creators, promoters and publishers of insulting material which di.....
» 11/02/2006 7:30:57 AM Shonga – you made a claim – your last post merely aludes to what you think I might have sa.....
» 11/02/2006 7:14:37 AM Alan Grey, I stated originally in my first post on this thread Kate Mannix's article was “.....
» 11/02/2006 7:02:43 AM Brougham “That's why - Col Rouge - this debate is about choice and we must speak up for th.....
» 9/02/2006 6:04:25 PM SHONGA, how would you know how to make a comparison to a human being, when you so obviousl.....
» 9/02/2006 3:13:05 PM I can understand why an abortion pill would be considered as a different class of drugs to.....
» 9/02/2006 8:18:56 AM Skippy “My point was that you’d make a terrible triage nurse.” Most likely, I would make .....
» 9/02/2006 8:03:49 AM Brougham “If this debate is about "choice" then the only choice that counts is t.....
» 9/02/2006 5:27:02 AM SHONGA – Please identify the post I made regarding UN Secretary General. I can find none, .....
» 8/02/2006 1:41:39 PM I have read Kates article twice now. I found her reasoning strange and difficult. It appea.....
» 8/02/2006 12:05:03 PM Skippy “How many abortion clinics were blown up?” The National Abortion Federation (NAF) h.....
» 7/02/2006 12:49:05 PM “I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it” It is.....
» 7/02/2006 12:02:52 PM Linda, not to deny your right to feel offended by your ex’s bad behaviour and not to excus.....
» 7/02/2006 6:51:49 AM Tubley wrote “Re “fail to answer it in your next post then I shall move on to another thre.....
» 5/02/2006 6:45:49 PM Opinionated in your comments in response to mine you included the word “likely”/ “lilelyho.....
» 5/02/2006 1:43:39 PM Nice Poem Arjay, although it lost something after editing. Meredith, liked you joke re da.....
» 5/02/2006 10:27:43 AM I agree with you Philo… our actions and compassion are what we contribute to others not th.....
» 5/02/2006 2:28:15 AM Tubley, Do woman have equal rights with men to stand in public elections? – yes, balance.....
» 4/02/2006 11:57:34 AM Reason, I welcome and need more of your posts, dealing increasingly with tubley’s and opin.....
» 4/02/2006 12:55:33 AM Hedgehog “Fabulous Col. How much do you want to stand on your head wearing a dress singing.....
» 3/02/2006 2:17:19 PM Following the breakdown of my marriage I rented a house close to the old family home which.....
» 3/02/2006 6:07:13 AM Hedgehog “Col Rouge,you spend to much time doing postings. “ When you pay me you get to s.....
» 2/02/2006 3:34:22 PM Tubley, “My statement is not void - your whole post is.” I observed your post to be void .....
» 2/02/2006 9:08:57 AM To the First, Second Fourth, Fifth and Eleventh Posters. The PM is entitled to his enlight.....
» 2/02/2006 5:37:03 AM Rainier My dismissiveness was in response to the obvious. In the history of “assimilation.....
» 2/02/2006 4:43:56 AM Billie the Lucas corporations behaviour is common among the short sighted and unimaginativ.....
» 2/02/2006 3:58:25 AM Tubley, your experience, teachers and favouritism, is void, it has nothing to do with meri.....
» 1/02/2006 6:18:04 AM Rainer Thankyou for your reply, Although I am quite perplexed. “New models of assimilatio.....
» 1/02/2006 5:11:41 AM Tubley, I thought you were a 28 year old male teacher form Queensland. Re “I've been to th.....
» 1/02/2006 3:25:02 AM I would agree with you Pericles. Governments are like surfers, they ride the waves. They.....
» 31/01/2006 1:37:22 PM Opinionated2 “Sadly you sound like an old righty” Would it be imprudent of me to ask if y.....
» 31/01/2006 9:27:10 AM Opinionated2 ”Give it a break Mate” Why? Our “current load of pollies” are elected by th.....
» 30/01/2006 8:45:31 PM Alfred, Agreed with your post, statistics excepted, Freddy’s statistics are "arguable.....
» 30/01/2006 12:54:40 PM "Merit" is the only parameter for leadership. Merit is where all attributes of .....
» 30/01/2006 12:11:28 PM Rainer on Thursday 26 January, you asked me, in that wondrously patronising style you have.....
» 29/01/2006 5:27:58 PM Robert, Profound thanks. Your post regarding myself describes the person I would wish to .....
» 28/01/2006 6:37:55 PM Friedrich, thank you, it is something for you to aspire to, However, comparison to Castro.....
» 28/01/2006 11:35:54 AM Freddy I was not selective at all. I responded to France and Germany only because you iden.....
» 28/01/2006 7:31:41 AM I had lived by myself for around 4 years. My home the domestic bastion of a “single white .....
» 27/01/2006 2:50:56 PM Agree with the scepticism to the veracity and competency of the models. I have some exper.....
» 27/01/2006 3:56:37 AM Rainier “what quantum formula you use to come to this longitudinal assimilation paradigm” .....
» 27/01/2006 2:54:53 AM Tubley “Would you judge me on my merits or would you be politically biased against the lef.....
» 27/01/2006 2:01:29 AM Tubley “You've really crossed the line now Col. How dare you profess to telling me how you.....
» 27/01/2006 1:33:08 AM Tubley – sneer all you want. I am sure you could produce a far superior list of insults if.....
» 26/01/2006 8:39:53 AM Cronulla riots lasted a few hours, were stamped on efficiently. Conversely, France suffe.....
» 26/01/2006 2:13:04 AM Tubley “Lay off Friedrich, Col.” Who are you to tell me to lay off anyone? When were you.....
» 26/01/2006 1:21:49 AM Tubley “I think the greatest human failure is that of selfish want and desire” “wealth o.....
» 25/01/2006 2:17:44 AM The real truth of this post is summed up in the words “Australian universities don't nee.....
» 25/01/2006 1:38:50 AM Pericles.. I would agree with your sentiment re appearances and practice of Chinese bure.....
» 25/01/2006 12:58:30 AM Tubley.. your idea “reasonable salary cap”. Tried and failed. That is why the Chinese are .....
» 25/01/2006 12:54:49 AM David_B “MESSIANIC” oh hardly, common sense more like. This thread is going along a paral.....
» 23/01/2006 11:09:25 PM “Unfortunately the world of manufacturing is changing. If only one could go back to Englan.....
» 23/01/2006 4:53:24 PM David_BOAZ "Don't protect lazy or inefficient' industries, but DO protect efficient a.....
» 23/01/2006 12:26:25 PM Late, I Ran out of postings David, What China has done is merely addressed the issue of “.....
» 23/01/2006 12:07:41 PM Shonga “Economics is a reletively easy science.” Actually, “economics” is a relatively “c.....
» 22/01/2006 1:22:41 PM Tubley “Whenever there is a war or some kind of violent conflict or corruption it is almos.....
» 22/01/2006 12:38:08 PM Whilst the ends may justify the means in some issues, there is never ever a hard rule whic.....
» 22/01/2006 8:54:48 AM Scout “Excellent points raised in your post Col, and it was a pleasure to read without the.....
» 22/01/2006 8:29:49 AM JT_dontmesswitme I will tell my partner and daughters about your suggestions to my misogy.....
» 22/01/2006 8:01:07 AM John Humphreys, Agree with your post John. As for Bronwyn and tubley, lack of insight or .....
» 21/01/2006 12:14:00 PM JT_dontmesswitme, your opinion of me is completely irrelevant. However, do not let that s.....
» 21/01/2006 12:03:46 PM Australian manufacturing swamped by the Chinese tsunami? The rise or demise of Australian.....
» 20/01/2006 1:36:44 PM In the rough and tough world of blokes a bit of bashing is fair game. Girls, of either g.....
» 20/01/2006 12:43:57 PM Tubley “This is my final word to you, Rouge.” Excellent! However, somehow I doubt you wil.....
» 20/01/2006 12:02:37 PM James Wrote “Positive Politics is about emphasising and fostering the positive strengths a.....
» 20/01/2006 8:30:47 AM Ludwig, I appreciated and agreed with much of your post. However, to all those who starte.....
» 20/01/2006 7:49:08 AM Tubley, I have briefly scanned what you read but it is not worthy of comment. I guess your.....
» 18/01/2006 3:51:47 PM Shonga other people making criticising of me as well as you piffling on like a bandicoot .....
» 18/01/2006 11:54:39 AM Tubley, “Col, my dear friend.” I would point out, you posted elsewhere you did not like .....
» 18/01/2006 10:55:17 AM Ludwig – not sure if you are agreeing or disagreeing with me, beyond I was obviously being.....
» 17/01/2006 8:51:36 AM LEO – as well as Indigenous Australians who dump on others too. Bronwyn “Africa managed p.....
» 17/01/2006 7:33:17 AM Tubley “So, Col Rouge and Graham, lay off the people who are saving the world and your gra.....
» 16/01/2006 6:12:03 PM I think Graham Young should be commended. “I commend you Mr Young! For your conduct in gi.....
» 16/01/2006 5:32:50 PM Bashir Goth “We will remove all the white man’s vestiges” Would those vestiges include m.....
» 16/01/2006 10:15:12 AM Hi Ludwig Agree with your view re UN being “lobbied” by powerful influences and would no.....
» 15/01/2006 10:02:33 AM Liz “Do not blame single mothers for the stupid decisions of men in government.” Were tho.....
» 15/01/2006 9:12:09 AM Excellent Responses Graham. IMHO Greenpeace cannot expect to be allowed to justify illega.....
» 14/01/2006 6:22:04 PM Coyote “The United Nations does have the potential to be a force for world peace.” Much as.....
» 14/01/2006 5:52:35 PM Oh Philo, Do not associate me with the views, thinking or rabid ramblings of “Karl Marx” (.....
» 14/01/2006 5:21:27 PM Robert “Col, a mixture of personal experience, observation and reflection.” I thought so,.....
» 13/01/2006 3:11:57 PM Philo – so you are denying the Inquisition – what next – denying the holocaust? As for “I.....
» 12/01/2006 3:57:37 AM “Because secular society has no common goals it goes along with whatever force is at hand......
» 12/01/2006 3:00:34 AM I would tend to agree with Jason and his source, Gary S Becker, people do make cost benefi.....
» 11/01/2006 4:10:34 AM Profiling- from a range of definitions this is the most apt in this circumstance – “record.....
» 10/01/2006 5:18:57 AM Sherrin Ward "Since I last posted, I have become unhappy and worried about hostile pe.....
» 10/01/2006 4:54:54 AM Ludwig The UN has failed to achieve much of its chartered objective. It is hamstrung by t.....
» 9/01/2006 7:46:53 PM Linda “And "interdependence?" - individuals coming together voluntarily to form .....
» 3/01/2006 9:17:51 AM Ludwig “I don’t understand why Australia can’t channel all of its international aid throug.....
» 3/01/2006 8:08:43 AM [Deleted for flaming, poster suspended for a week.].....
» 2/01/2006 6:22:16 PM Freidrich “I would debate you if I thought you were good enough. Others may show you more .....
» 2/01/2006 12:45:52 PM Interesting illustrations Linda About the poor drug addicts. Bit of an extreme case, a ti.....
» 2/01/2006 6:22:02 AM Some here think that taxation should be used to equalise "individual differences".....
» 2/01/2006 5:09:27 AM Hasbeen Regarding your post – it has always been my opinion that some stiff necked bureau.....
» 2/01/2006 4:38:25 AM Aka - Check the times of my posts. When I posted last I had consumed the 2 posts per 24 ho.....
» 1/01/2006 8:54:03 AM Robert – I keep all issues of costing and tax payer funding out of the abortion debate sim.....
» 1/01/2006 8:05:06 AM Taz – regardless of the “environmental sciences” by their very nature, people should not l.....
» 31/12/2005 7:46:47 PM Freidrich “Trite” Trite – definition per dictionary.com “Lacking power to evoke interest.....
» 31/12/2005 7:23:39 AM I agree wholeheartedly with the author. Strangely, I have always believed “happiness”, i.....
» 31/12/2005 6:28:19 AM Philanthropy, of any sort, demands a high degree of "subjective reasoning" which.....
» 31/12/2005 5:57:00 AM Friedrich “What I don't like is this abortion pride business. Why can't women do all this .....
» 31/12/2005 5:32:37 AM Shonga I am not interested in your political leaning, job, colour or race. I could not giv.....
» 30/12/2005 2:07:04 AM SHonga “you are either racist, or you are not” Racism is a subjective and ascribed human .....
» 30/12/2005 1:01:49 AM The most significant observation here has been from Mickijo. If you want to “solve” the pr.....
» 29/12/2005 12:11:32 PM MarkdMark “You might as well start your own mini kristall-nacht”. If you have read anythi.....
» 28/12/2005 7:39:15 PM It is only by accepting responsibility for the consequences that any “freedom” can be trul.....
» 28/12/2005 3:24:28 PM Michaelk “instantly keeping non-Anglo-Celts ouside an Australian job market if even any s.....
» 28/12/2005 2:59:27 PM Pericles “It is nonsense to then use "but I'm not as racist as other folk" as a .....
» 28/12/2005 8:56:41 AM Aka “. There was extreme pressure to abort. Whether from christian belief, faith or naivit.....
» 28/12/2005 8:10:59 AM Pericles “Should I? “ – No – no reason at all – Since, I am not “for sale”, You would, f.....
» 27/12/2005 7:50:02 AM martin callinan “Collective action and organization provides every civil benefit you know .....
» 26/12/2005 8:07:14 AM Australia is not towing the USA line - if we had gone along with the myth of Kyoto we coul.....
» 26/12/2005 7:47:21 AM Pericles - Indeed I did rate aspects of Australian society as having racist tendencies, to.....
» 24/12/2005 7:20:32 PM Pericles "So the overwhelming opinion of posters here are around 80% think Barnes is .....
» 24/12/2005 5:52:23 AM So the overwhelming opinion of posters here are around 80% think Barnes is a scumbag who s.....
» 24/12/2005 5:03:36 AM Michaelk, there is nothing “racist” in my post at all. Some English born people exercise a.....
» 23/12/2005 4:56:56 AM Michaelk “He perfectly perverts my posts as he had obviously nothing substantial to reply.....
» 23/12/2005 4:24:40 AM Pregnancy is a private matter which significantly affects 1 person, the pregnant woman, in.....
» 22/12/2005 11:53:11 AM HarryC “troll article” Spot on Sneekepete a “Handgrenade”? hardly. More a penny banger wh.....
» 22/12/2005 9:44:41 AM tus – yes the Dad role is the “tough guy” in comparison to the Mum’s role. Traditionally, .....
» 22/12/2005 9:02:39 AM Michaelk apart from quoting parts of my posts in your last post you have said absolutely .....
» 21/12/2005 1:11:26 PM HarryC "On a scale of 1 to 10, 1 being the least racist, where would you place Austr.....
» 21/12/2005 9:06:11 AM MichaelK I note your responses to my 3 points You include the following phrases in each.....
» 21/12/2005 8:11:36 AM The Author of this article and many posters here are falling into the usual populist-cultu.....
» 20/12/2005 3:41:49 PM t.u.s. you are right The parent - child relationship is critically one of the parent bein.....
» 20/12/2005 3:24:04 PM Trannie “I would call selfish being near the end and having thousands and thousands of pub.....
» 20/12/2005 7:40:20 AM I thought Daniel might be onto something but reading I come across the phrase "youn.....
» 19/12/2005 12:32:02 PM Trannie “I live week to week. Its all survival.” bring out the tissues. “because of all .....
» 18/12/2005 1:49:09 PM Trannie – “Prove it.” I don’t need to prove anything. But if you feel challenged by what.....
» 18/12/2005 7:50:33 AM Trannie - You said your family was in Adelaide. I am not so different locales mean nothing.....
» 17/12/2005 6:04:14 PM Interesting support for David Flint and interesting opposition to him having the courage t.....
» 17/12/2005 5:07:51 PM Stop hitting people “"War against Drugs" is War against People,” That is so. I.....
» 17/12/2005 1:36:03 PM The Trannie “Col there's been no advantage to me for years now based upon the social class.....
» 17/12/2005 1:03:21 PM Shonga – “Col ROUGE, - what an empty head you are, I feel sorry for your daughters,” Oh d.....
» 16/12/2005 2:40:11 PM Shonga “Redneck get a life, the majority of us don't want to kill anyone, and don't want t.....
» 16/12/2005 1:45:41 PM Before I saw what GlenWriter wrote I was thinking this article is all “fairyfloss” – sugar.....
» 16/12/2005 1:05:20 PM I agree with wre – AI is not an elected body, it is a collection of individuals who repres.....
» 16/12/2005 12:47:34 PM Fiona “Col, I think you may need to know more before commenting on people's "choices&.....
» 15/12/2005 3:08:45 PM Inner-Sydney based transsexual, indigent outcast progeny of merchant family, “Surely if I.....
» 15/12/2005 2:04:14 PM Tubley “I'm an early childhood school teacher, “ I would point out, People in prison and .....
» 15/12/2005 8:57:13 AM Inner-Sydney based transsexual, indigent outcast progeny of merchant family "The free.....
» 14/12/2005 8:21:52 AM Shonga “Col, Your arrogance is breathtaking, petulant, who do you think you are, the Queen.....
» 13/12/2005 1:03:18 PM I agree with Realist. As a baby boomer the post WWII world was a changed place form the p.....
» 13/12/2005 12:32:11 PM SHONGA “Col Rouge, and his mad mate redneck, are not only in a tiny paranoid minority, but.....
» 12/12/2005 12:00:08 PM Rainier "Good ol FIGJAM Col!" Thankyou - it is very "Astute" of you t.....
» 11/12/2005 5:13:57 PM I suggested before, multiculturaism is a halfway house to assimilation. "Integration.....
» 11/12/2005 4:54:20 PM Sneekeepete "my reference to class was founded in your categorisation of people in a .....
» 11/12/2005 4:47:43 PM David_BOAZ – I agree with your view. The issue is about the left has demands for a social.....
» 10/12/2005 1:25:16 PM hedgehog "Col, face it mate your just selfish and probably have no friends. That woul.....
» 9/12/2005 1:50:19 PM hedgehog "Col Rouge, can we sum up your last post thus " I am all right Jack&quo.....
» 9/12/2005 1:36:25 PM Sneekeepete “he (me) will soon fall to the fate of so many other self made men and suffer .....
» 9/12/2005 12:57:01 PM sneekeepete "Even if everyone else thought it to be right I would not: there is often.....
» 7/12/2005 1:03:43 PM Redneck – you are right – most people, when asked, declare they support the death penalty,.....
» 7/12/2005 5:01:50 AM Shonga “Selfish self opionated people really get my blood boiling, as if everyone was in y.....
» 7/12/2005 4:38:15 AM Yobbo “You've got no idea what you're on about mate. Perhaps you should go to the library .....
» 5/12/2005 2:10:17 PM Stan1 - Addressing the main issue – I guess I must have addressed something – or you would.....
» 5/12/2005 10:44:57 AM “That the global war on drugs is an abject failure is becoming an increasingly common view.....
» 5/12/2005 4:29:00 AM Rex - your missive about the chef - and all that happened under the existing system - it j.....
» 4/12/2005 12:36:02 PM Gw – you succinctly express my view, Would Chris Evans be squealing if it were a Labor wit.....
» 4/12/2005 12:11:20 PM I see we have a few wowsers who think we should treat Singapore like a leper, when all the.....
» 23/11/2005 8:25:06 AM Post deleted for flaming. Poster banned for one week......
» 21/11/2005 10:35:03 AM Aaron - re “Col, Can we extend that to include bribe taking, corrupt police officer's? .....
» 20/11/2005 7:54:35 AM Debra Parkes –“The recent proposal to extend the voting ban to apply to all Australian pri.....
» 20/11/2005 7:30:56 AM I agree with Banjo - when forfeiting the right of liberty for reasons of anti-social behav.....
» 20/11/2005 6:57:05 AM Anyone who excuses a rapist, for any reason is a sick person. Everyone is all appalled by.....
» 19/11/2005 2:16:57 PM Your earlier diatribe about philosophy being a science was destroyed by myself and other p.....
» 19/11/2005 11:35:46 AM Jose “ I will point out that Reason is the <Formal object (quo)> of Philosophy I wil.....
» 17/11/2005 2:59:02 AM "Necessity is the mother of invention" The supposed "problem" with &q.....
» 16/11/2005 8:59:19 AM Belly "Ever tried self employment? yes and it worked for a while but I paid too much .....
» 16/11/2005 8:46:43 AM Shonga “Those like Col Rouge, being a Tory, probably thinks Meg will vote against the gove.....
» 16/11/2005 8:27:12 AM Jose “Col,For the sake of this discussion, I request that you put forward two examples;” .....
» 15/11/2005 1:02:23 PM Rainier “workers and working class values did not begin with unions. “ I agree with that .....
» 15/11/2005 12:27:04 PM Scout “but then why would you leave an opportunity to sneer at someone with whom you disa.....
» 14/11/2005 4:25:44 AM Daniel – “you said Women have the right to determine how their bodies will be used;…., sh.....
» 11/11/2005 2:58:59 PM Timkins, as a pro-choice advocate I do not do as you have suggested pile on the abortion p.....
» 10/11/2005 3:03:16 PM I said on another post – we are talking about todays world and we are not talking about wh.....
» 10/11/2005 8:32:35 AM Realist “that comment on Aborigines was a little harsh. Every race is assimilating. I look.....
» 9/11/2005 11:25:21 AM Whoever replaces Blair and Bush are matters for the public and politicians of UK and USA r.....
» 9/11/2005 11:16:07 AM Scout “…I believe that controlling others by either wealth, stealth or might is heinous. .....
» 9/11/2005 9:37:07 AM Sage – you do fancy yourself a bit – the first job is to be preselected or post your own i.....
» 7/11/2005 1:34:22 PM Jose - A question for anyone, Is the notion that <a child acquires the right to live at.....
» 7/11/2005 1:15:56 PM Ant “Young people generally in the past have had a heightened sense of what is moral and w.....
» 7/11/2005 12:55:15 PM Sage "It's a miracle our suicide rate isn't higher." Really, I know what might .....
» 7/11/2005 12:19:05 PM Rainier "From an Indigenous perspective I couldn't agree with you more. But I doubt y.....
» 5/11/2005 2:22:31 PM Scout “the Thatcherite types who prefer to keep their power from their sisters by maintain.....
» 5/11/2005 1:50:44 PM 1 What was the environmental pressure to which the species adapted, thus evolving into hum.....
» 5/11/2005 1:10:40 PM "instinctively we know that people should be able to go wherver they want on the face.....
» 5/11/2005 11:10:16 AM Robert thank you. Yes, religion plays a strong part, not only in this debate but has play.....
» 4/11/2005 3:12:08 PM Why would the "mother's right to choose" prevail over the "child's right to.....
» 4/11/2005 2:12:38 PM Oh Dear “The truth is that the merit claim is an insult to every woman’s intelligence.” T.....
» 3/11/2005 9:03:02 PM Jose This thread is not about XYZ or Q. It is about AB(ortion) and an individuals right .....
» 3/11/2005 3:54:34 PM “a relationship with the most fundamentally inept US president that modern history has exp.....
» 2/11/2005 3:31:13 PM Jose I could not give a stuff about Lutheran Doctrine, any more than I care about Catholic.....
» 2/11/2005 11:13:06 AM "Crime is part of our terrorism problem" I think that is, in fact, the wrong wa.....
» 2/11/2005 10:46:01 AM Jose “Free choice to have sex. The natural function of sex is reproduction. So it was a fr.....
» 1/11/2005 3:04:58 PM Jose having a prolifer acknowledge the mother has some rights is a big move forward. Howe.....
» 1/11/2005 2:38:32 PM I remember when big blue (IBM) straddled the globe and the official USgovernment policy, v.....
» 1/11/2005 2:00:18 PM Andrew Bartlett is making a final bid for relevance. He and the other Democrats, having fa.....
» 1/11/2005 3:18:16 AM Jose “The reason I say that Independence is not a pre-requisite of Individuality is becaus.....
» 1/11/2005 3:01:24 AM I would like to thank Jose - his historic references to images and stars and “catholic voo.....
» 30/10/2005 3:23:39 PM Bushbred you are a man of some letters - I commend you. Having lived through UK “Wilson p.....
» 30/10/2005 2:24:29 PM Ant “Remember the legislation passed now, unless revoked, can be the underpinning of a Fas.....
» 30/10/2005 9:05:59 AM Universities and coffee bars are always hotheads of dissent and limp leftie feelings. Chan.....
» 30/10/2005 8:09:10 AM Jose “I agree, that the child achieves greater independence from the mother.” You might, .....
» 29/10/2005 12:29:43 PM Jose “The only changes during birth are environmental. Becoming separate from the mother's.....
» 29/10/2005 12:03:22 PM Rainier “Unless we learn to accept the rights of all to express their opinions, the best o.....
» 27/10/2005 1:13:17 PM Arjay “Let's keep science and ID separate,since we will need the cold hard analysis of sci.....
» 27/10/2005 12:57:13 PM So what does Eric think? A few lines for Credibility Relevance Trivialisation Funding Own.....
» 27/10/2005 10:38:59 AM Jose “Ethics and Philosophy are not dependant upon subjective thought. In Ethics and Phil.....
» 27/10/2005 10:19:26 AM Aaron “The important fact, is that similar concerns were raised then, however they were .....
» 26/10/2005 4:36:07 PM SHONGA “one gets the feeling of how it must have been in Stalinist Russia, or Hitler's Ger.....
» 26/10/2005 11:24:57 AM Jose “If you were to read my posts again, you will realise that I have been trying to crea.....
» 25/10/2005 2:16:27 PM Jose “Know this: -Ethics is a Science. -Ethics is a branch of Philosophy. -Philosophy is .....
» 24/10/2005 8:53:28 PM Their seems to be a plethora of articles concerning "mental health". I figure t.....
» 23/10/2005 8:56:55 AM Jose “This is all science. You have argued a scientific argument- that an abortion is rega.....
» 22/10/2005 8:06:48 AM Jose “What we are trying to do is to show that an already criminalized act (terminating th.....
» 22/10/2005 7:27:26 AM Cheazor "If I had my way, such archaic and out-dated institutions such as the Danish .....
» 19/10/2005 1:16:33 PM I could imagine this article being written by someone like Michael Foote – past leader of .....
» 18/10/2005 4:08:03 PM Pericles “"The Government is aware some common personal uses of copyright material i.....
» 18/10/2005 2:28:10 PM Arjay "people taking responsibility for their own actions" That is why alot fei.....
» 18/10/2005 1:59:28 PM t.u.s. as usual, you accurately observe the characters of posters and in this case the art.....
» 17/10/2005 6:18:01 PM Jose – regarding your hissing fit “NOW who's using hyperbole?” I would restate my positi.....
» 17/10/2005 8:24:48 AM Amanda’s article is position neutral. She proclaims neither support not criticism of abort.....
» 13/10/2005 9:58:27 AM "It is illegal. Prohibited. Not allowed. Against the law. Unlawful. Illegitimate. Ill.....
» 11/10/2005 3:30:21 PM Daggett “Are you presuming that because I argue that the laws are immoral and stupid, that.....
» 10/10/2005 8:20:02 PM BC2 God you are a bore – “Have you ever thought about re-examining some of the stances you.....
» 10/10/2005 3:32:17 PM Pericles "The fact that subsequently I take it upon myself to move a fully-paid-for s.....
» 10/10/2005 10:32:00 AM Pericles “Let me try once more. Can you not see the difference between a clearly separate .....
» 10/10/2005 8:40:31 AM Spendocrat “But I digress. I’ve had much experience with people with depression, manic dep.....
» 10/10/2005 7:59:54 AM Kalweb – you are spot on and llyn is wrong. Human rights protect the right to pursue, wit.....
» 9/10/2005 12:44:55 PM Daggett “Col Rouge, any system which makes criminals of most people who have used the inte.....
» 9/10/2005 12:16:33 PM BC2 "Col, I must say I'm quite astounded. I would never have expected you to concede .....
» 8/10/2005 12:26:30 PM BC2 “Such a compelling argument, and so eloquently put. Exactly what I suspected would lie.....
» 8/10/2005 11:40:22 AM Pericles "But Col, these rules don't work fairly any more. And that is what the discu.....
» 7/10/2005 11:49:58 AM I would agree with Bob. More research and less alarmism. More accurate statistical analyst.....
» 7/10/2005 11:25:49 AM Wre “Thank God Mark Latham will never be the Prime Minister of this country. The most worr.....
» 7/10/2005 11:05:22 AM I totally agree with the notion that human wellbeing / happiness / emotional wealth, call .....
» 7/10/2005 10:26:43 AM BC2 “Otherwise, shut up. “ Sorry cannot oblige – the last time I looked this was a public.....
» 7/10/2005 9:41:31 AM Pericles “Col, you are making a lot of harrumphing noises about scruffy flea bags, but are.....
» 5/10/2005 7:07:02 PM mykah "The government is not the answer! We are the answer when we take responsibilit.....
» 5/10/2005 1:27:44 PM HarryC – your comments re copyright being levied to provide artists with income and reward.....
» 5/10/2005 10:03:09 AM BC2 “Col Rouge - with respect, I would suggest that as someone who has apparently not had .....
» 4/10/2005 1:45:07 PM I agree with Alexander Deane, The only difference between today and years past is that we .....
» 4/10/2005 1:13:56 PM Rogindon “He is one of Australia's most experienced barristers, now retired, who gave his .....
» 3/10/2005 12:49:18 PM spendocrat "I was getting all geared up to challenge Col's post but then I realised t.....
» 3/10/2005 12:37:05 PM Spendocrat "Are you saying it's not even possible that someone else put drugs there?&.....
» 3/10/2005 8:08:32 AM Duec “Col, at what point did I say that I supported copyright infringement? Oh, that's rig.....
» 2/10/2005 9:07:15 AM I fully endorse Vern Hughes view, and supportive expression of tus – “Government should be.....
» 2/10/2005 8:32:42 AM Stephen Peach is right and Deuc “Copyright infringement is not theft. Theft, stealing, la.....
» 2/10/2005 8:04:19 AM ConspiracyTheory “I have pondered when corporations will plunge us into such total misery .....
» 2/10/2005 7:29:03 AM I refer you to the following link http://www.ctredpol.org/vouchers/privateschoolfundingapp.....
» 1/10/2005 2:43:24 PM rogindon a barrister is game to suggest anything including self- promotional grandstanding.....
» 29/09/2005 6:18:14 PM DavidJS “How about the co-dependency of private schools, including some of the wealthiest .....
» 29/09/2005 12:59:49 PM Redneck – “Hi Col Rouge. It looks like both Sneaky Peter and Spendocrat have both spat the.....
» 29/09/2005 10:05:33 AM Kalweb “Please tell us all of your irrefutable information to free Schappelle.” I totally.....
» 28/09/2005 12:39:59 PM sneekeepete "Capitol punishment is morally wrong: " After protesting about my c.....
» 28/09/2005 9:02:47 AM Alchemist “Collapsing infrastructure, health systems, education systems, family systems, s.....
» 27/09/2005 1:24:47 PM Their is an old standard enshrined within British Law - from which Australian Law is deriv.....
» 27/09/2005 12:37:29 PM The only basis for appointment to the bench is "Merit" regardless of any other c.....
» 27/09/2005 9:23:21 AM DavidJS "Everyone it seems except his own incompetent government which underfunds alr.....
» 26/09/2005 6:30:42 PM DavidJS “The decline of Britain as an economic power goes further back than Col Rouge sugg.....
» 26/09/2005 5:05:50 PM Alchemist wrote Post 1 “Col it appears that you have no understanding of the world, why as.....
» 25/09/2005 9:15:28 AM Alchemist “Col it appears that you have no understanding of the world,” Don’t bother with.....
» 25/09/2005 8:29:25 AM DavidBOAZ – agree with your view (original 1-4) – acceptance of parental responsibility an.....
» 25/09/2005 8:03:12 AM DavidBOAZ "COL. as a Christian, I have a right and a responsibility to call you, and .....
» 23/09/2005 3:28:34 PM BC2 Col Rouge, your hero Thatcher also said in 1986 - "A man who, beyond the age of .....
» 23/09/2005 2:20:40 PM DavidJS “Thatcher obviously took great pride in destroying collective efforts and social s.....
» 23/09/2005 8:12:28 AM DAvid BOAZ “COL I see where ur coming from, but one must also have a socially responsible .....
» 22/09/2005 1:50:43 PM Good Points you bring up Timkins. I have one view on all of this – “Blokesworld is a cele.....
» 22/09/2005 10:43:16 AM DavidJS “If Thatcher (supposedly) once said "there is no society- Once you destroy c.....
» 22/09/2005 9:29:27 AM plantagenet "So the Iraq insurgency is about the most difficult, complex and unmanage.....
» 21/09/2005 10:23:24 AM The authors write that our dream "should be, to help forge a better nation; for the b.....
» 21/09/2005 9:12:33 AM lisamaree "Is there some kind of secret stats society on this forum?" Some of o.....
» 20/09/2005 2:09:32 PM Ah Vietnam - a war waged by soldiers but lost by politicians. Westmoreland might have got.....
» 20/09/2005 11:39:12 AM Alchemist “Sadly it is people like you that have contributed, encouraged and hastened the .....
» 20/09/2005 8:59:25 AM John McFarlanes view is correct A corporation considers Staying alive Producing value .....
» 19/09/2005 3:59:29 PM I agree with Sells – the way we live is more important that just living. Like David_BOAZ,.....
» 17/09/2005 1:54:43 PM "Those with occupations such as academics, writers, artists, arts consultants are in .....
» 14/09/2005 3:11:17 PM Sneekeepete “It is usually the same kind of moral and itellectual coardice that drives peo.....
» 14/09/2005 1:40:44 PM Enaj “That's the trouble with the way we push men and women into such starkly different ro.....
» 14/09/2005 1:19:25 PM Arjay - that is a very reasonable suggestion - at least it would get them away from the bl.....
» 13/09/2005 2:16:47 PM Mr Gerrit H Schorel-Hlavka "For so far I am aware of the Constitution provides that t.....
» 13/09/2005 1:54:43 PM John Smith – I would agree with much of the sentiment of your post. However, religion can.....
» 13/09/2005 1:35:13 PM The family law courts are full of people desperately trying to rebuild their lives from a .....
» 13/09/2005 12:31:46 PM Chrismic You obviously misunderstand my position. I believe those who support this coun.....
» 13/09/2005 9:16:11 AM Kalweb – I was wondering - when I read your first post – realising you had got me wrong. .....
» 12/09/2005 1:19:32 PM Oh their are people who by their actions have reliquished their right to breath The pedop.....
» 12/09/2005 12:29:37 PM Michaelsen must have written this before the Adam Gadahn video of today. Being a "do.....
» 12/09/2005 12:16:12 PM Rainier "Col, My freedom to be in a public place and practice my freedom of speech (I.....
» 10/09/2005 6:29:07 PM Rainier " Col Rouge, Yes it was a physical and unprovoked violent attack. " The.....
» 8/09/2005 1:27:27 PM Rainier “Fraser did not enter into the usual forums of academic debate where his views cou.....
» 8/09/2005 12:39:41 PM Maybe instead of the additional expense of "advocates", Mandatory sentencing, ba.....
» 8/09/2005 9:05:42 AM Rainier "From my personal experience of being publicly vilified, racially taunted and.....
» 7/09/2005 2:27:22 PM Bill Muehlenberg and Helen Pringle both with the same article - just different words. Whi.....
» 7/09/2005 9:29:35 AM The difference between the 1970s and now is simple. Thanks to the efforts of Reagan and T.....
» 7/09/2005 8:41:40 AM I support Voltaires stand. I sincerely believe the fool will damn himself by the stupidi.....
» 6/09/2005 9:44:22 AM Mollydukes – the ”state of mind” which allows people to be happy yet “poor” is the similar.....
» 29/08/2005 3:43:55 PM Kyangadac “When people suggest that in these circumstances child petrol sniffers (most are.....
» 29/08/2005 3:13:46 PM numbat "Col Rouge: What arrant nonsense you spouted in your donation to this discussi.....
» 29/08/2005 11:57:31 AM lisamaree "CoL Rouge I disagree.... If the government insists on "helping".....
» 29/08/2005 12:57:57 AM David_BOAZ – your point regarding the Jewish farmer not clean-sweeping his field and socia.....
» 29/08/2005 12:17:11 AM Daggett “I admit that my knowledge of finance is limited, but I would suggest that a great.....
» 27/08/2005 3:43:07 PM Numbat I note the first thing you said when you initiated statement exchanges with me was .....
» 27/08/2005 2:28:08 PM Thankyou for your expressions of agreement Robert. Your suggestions regarding minimum obl.....
» 27/08/2005 1:55:53 PM Daggett 1 “Your comparison of this figure with how much could be earned on $30billion is,.....
» 26/08/2005 4:01:41 PM Mollydukes, from your comments regarding your claimed insight into Maslow - I suggest if .....
» 26/08/2005 2:25:05 PM Eleanor Hogan ““Petrol sniffers must take responsibility for their own problems.”….. This .....
» 26/08/2005 1:58:06 PM I do not care if someone is Muslim, Catholic, Buddhist, Hindu or Wican. I do not care tha.....
» 26/08/2005 11:05:51 AM “Terje” ?? I think you meant Col Rouge! Never a good sign of “competence” when you addres.....
» 25/08/2005 3:06:38 PM I went and had a look at Getup - after Graham Young first brought it to (my) attention her.....
» 25/08/2005 11:05:48 AM Mollydukes Aspirations to achieve ones full potential start with acceptance of full and t.....
» 25/08/2005 9:58:12 AM Congratulations Brian. You are someone who walks the walk instead of just talking the ta.....
» 24/08/2005 12:46:43 PM Numbat “availing themselves of child allowance, first home allowance etc. This from the go.....
» 24/08/2005 10:26:52 AM Atman “Wealth comes from wise management of money, hard work, setting goals, delaying grat.....
» 24/08/2005 10:01:21 AM Thanks daggett – for proving the very point I was attempting to make You wrote “The fina.....
» 23/08/2005 1:03:24 PM Dennis Glover "I’ll leave it to you to determine which metaphor best suits John Howar.....
» 23/08/2005 12:08:14 PM Atman "Throwing money at the poor alleviates the poverty temporarily but not the lack.....
» 23/08/2005 10:57:43 AM Well said Terje – someone will always be on the bottom just as others will always be on to.....
» 23/08/2005 9:53:28 AM Daggett – the simple realities of life – the immediate income the government would achieve.....
» 22/08/2005 12:27:57 PM Interesting article and one with which I would concur. Kyoto fails because of the point .....
» 22/08/2005 11:17:37 AM Their are a range of skills groups which drive our individual "success" or ".....
» 22/08/2005 10:03:05 AM Trinity – I quoted what you said from your own post. Suggesting “I know little about your .....
» 21/08/2005 9:15:40 PM Mollydukes – suggesting that tus and I lack understanding is rank hypocrisy when we test w.....
» 21/08/2005 8:38:02 PM Trinity “I have always believed that we waste our ingenuity and intelligence on the most a.....
» 19/08/2005 10:09:20 AM Mollydukes – I agree, you are entitled to your silly comments too. My “simplistic and naï.....
» 17/08/2005 3:45:50 PM Neohuman “I put forward arguments which others even though disagreed afforded them conside.....
» 17/08/2005 1:54:48 PM Mollydukes “Unfortunately, few of us are as intelligent as you (t.u.s.) and so sure that .....
» 17/08/2005 12:28:44 PM Kartiya – Importing skills is fine – I was allowed to migrate only when “demand” for my s.....
» 16/08/2005 7:37:27 PM Posted by Neohuman “If you couldn't flame you’d barely have anything to say. “ – an inflam.....
» 16/08/2005 3:59:02 PM It would be a naïve comment which would presume African Nations are solely to blame for th.....
» 16/08/2005 12:21:11 PM Neohuman – your suggestion regarding parental responsibility for financing the upkeep of c.....
» 16/08/2005 10:39:54 AM Robert – Thank you Kartiya - where do you draw the assumption that I am not advocating “h.....
» 15/08/2005 2:19:07 PM Timkins – “personally think that abortion is a form of human murder,” what you “personall.....
» 15/08/2005 12:07:00 PM Timkins, I might use the term “Womans Choice” only in the context that “abortion” is a pro.....
» 15/08/2005 10:05:02 AM Defining poverty - oh so boring Rather than define what people would presumably strive t.....
» 13/08/2005 4:19:26 AM Timkins "It would be interesting to know how many abortion counselling services also .....
» 12/08/2005 1:08:23 PM Anomie - WTO has a standing system of review and challenges to anti-competitive behaviour .....
» 12/08/2005 11:20:14 AM anomie “Suddenly commercial astuteness counts for nothing.. .. that because your skills a.....
» 11/08/2005 12:32:43 PM The alchemist – what a cynical view – I am not responsible for such Because the liberal/ .....
» 11/08/2005 10:24:28 AM Sorry Peter, this is just another “leftie whinge”. All the bad nasty neo-conservatives – .....
» 10/08/2005 12:17:22 PM Interesting article - When someone has decided to follow the path of terrorism it is as .....
» 10/08/2005 9:47:47 AM Bronwyn "All well and good. If the fulfilled life of living by the outcomes of your o.....
» 9/08/2005 3:01:11 PM I find this a strange article indeed – it actually criticises pornography without suggesti.....
» 9/08/2005 8:55:33 AM The “ex-colonies” have not been “denuded” of all their resources – except possibly by thei.....
» 8/08/2005 10:22:17 AM Robert – Downshifting is fine – I have done it moving from London to Melbourne and about t.....
» 8/08/2005 9:51:36 AM Garra “the cloak of anonymity affords them the opportunity to express the most objectionab.....
» 5/08/2005 10:57:49 AM Some comments alluding to "consumerism" as an attribute of "capitalism".....
» 4/08/2005 1:44:22 PM If we look at the "centres of poverty" around the world we will see alot similar.....
» 4/08/2005 1:29:13 PM I don’t see revenge as an objective for capital punishment. I see the dispensing of justic.....
» 3/08/2005 10:16:03 AM I agree with the major sentiments of GY’s article. Peoples perceptions change over time......
» 3/08/2005 9:43:48 AM Ah another bleeding heart – so people who don’t qualify as migrants and don’t qualify as r.....
» 3/08/2005 9:26:31 AM Enaj – I agree with you One thing we are is individuals. We are not the chattels of som.....
» 3/08/2005 8:59:42 AM TimM “Overconsumption of 'have to have' items is undermining our national economy” underm.....
» 2/08/2005 12:46:27 PM Peace – The first Gulf war was embarked upon to reverse the unilateral annexation of Kuwa.....
» 2/08/2005 10:01:13 AM Grey – the hippocratic Oath – a pledge undertaken by some members of the medical fraternit.....
» 2/08/2005 9:41:04 AM "Affluenza: The new illness in Australia" One of the good things about living i.....
» 22/07/2005 12:08:52 PM When someone can tell me who elected Osama Bin Laden into office, will I think he has some.....
» 22/07/2005 11:50:42 AM Trade215 “How then does a free market capitalist arrive at a logical rationalisation of .....
» 21/07/2005 12:50:09 PM Xena – “I mean they are so charming and tolerant to a range of opinions as their posts to .....
» 21/07/2005 10:27:57 AM I would not support Natasha Stott Despoja’s proposal for one reason and one reason alone –.....
» 20/07/2005 2:59:40 PM kartiya– yep and a jackass is also an ass or donkey – stupid to boot. per dictionary.com .....
» 20/07/2005 9:11:12 AM Trinity "We will never evolve as an intelligent species until we learn how to control.....
» 19/07/2005 3:21:07 PM anomie “…..But I can tell you partner is employed at a high level by the Conservative side.....
» 19/07/2005 2:59:43 PM Robert - sure "performance" misses the mark and the CEO miss out on the performa.....
» 19/07/2005 2:50:58 PM Ambo "Unless you can provide some methods that will assist Australia in eliminating t.....
» 18/07/2005 2:41:59 PM anomie, " At least one terrorist bombing survivor is firmly convinced Howard is manip.....
» 18/07/2005 2:19:25 PM Lets look at who pays the CEO’s of both private companies and public listed companies. It.....
» 15/07/2005 11:15:20 AM Well this reads like the whinging negativity of the asinine. Maybe if "Dee Dee".....
» 15/07/2005 9:42:39 AM I am suggesting all people sentenced and in gaol (culpable drivers excepted) are a social .....
» 14/07/2005 9:57:37 AM Aisha “You need the whole story; not just a quote here and there” – this point was pre-ans.....
» 13/07/2005 1:21:58 PM Giving credence to the convicted is like letting the alcoholics run a brewery or junkies t.....
» 13/07/2005 12:09:25 PM Aisha "Col_Rouge; the IRA were acting in OPPOSITION to Christ’s teachings, what has t.....
» 12/07/2005 1:13:12 PM Xena and Robert I do recall the support the North American Irish community lavished on t.....
» 12/07/2005 8:48:47 AM No one should be expected to defend their faith because of the actions of others. No Musl.....
» 11/07/2005 9:49:54 AM Hutlen - The embedding of journalists into frontline positions in the Iraq war, IMHO was a.....
» 8/07/2005 12:57:19 PM tlen " disagree. Racism comes from the side of privilege. " Disagree - racism i.....
» 7/07/2005 9:20:56 AM Choice – I agree with your sentiment entirely. A murder based on an “emotional response”.....
» 6/07/2005 2:35:01 PM "Let's get serious about public transport" I think "public transport".....
» 6/07/2005 9:23:44 AM Ah Garra – think what you like about me – write what you want – I will take comfort in the.....
» 5/07/2005 3:54:26 PM Posted by Rainier "Its quite obvious to me that those men who praise Howard type with.....
» 5/07/2005 3:17:37 PM Posted by hutlen "I contribute to a research fund for a cure for schizophrenia. Is th.....
» 5/07/2005 11:35:57 AM "Deep down in our national psyche, we are still the superior white, and they, the Asi.....
» 5/07/2005 9:10:30 AM Garra "Col's line of thought rarely makes sense, except perhaps to those who share hi.....
» 4/07/2005 1:44:02 PM Dunart – I am not sure what credentials you may or may not claim for understanding the dyn.....
» 3/07/2005 5:51:24 PM Prisons work with the physical reality of enclosure - that is largely to do with the plain.....
» 3/07/2005 5:29:35 PM I agree with much of what Rhian has written. The biggest problem Africa faces is the abse.....
» 30/06/2005 1:13:32 PM Tieran "Sadly governments of today don't aspire to high ideals they only look to the .....
» 29/06/2005 1:12:14 PM I would agree with you Bruce – the title itself "Howard Government, Howard Judiciar.....
» 24/06/2005 1:40:14 PM Paul Keating brought all that he had to Australian Politics That all that he had was med.....
» 23/06/2005 9:16:18 AM quoting from Daniels article - 1 “Ultimately, we know our lives are built on a fragile sys.....
» 23/06/2005 8:57:09 AM Elspeth McInnes opening statement illustrates the difficulty she, Elspeth, faces in trying.....
» 21/06/2005 1:37:49 PM Ah an Australian Republic One of the great - "Who Cares" questions of modern tim.....
» 15/06/2005 8:44:03 AM Stuart Rees talks about immigration officials “stereo-typing” asylum seekers and proceeds .....
» 8/06/2005 6:25:00 PM Mandi “they have not sought out Australia to live in” So they were out for a Sunday row .....
» 8/06/2005 7:50:26 AM Albert “Does it matter that they came across half the world to get here? The fact is they .....
» 5/06/2005 6:35:17 PM Albert – the decline in the number of illegal immigrants seeking “economic refugee” status.....
» 5/06/2005 1:08:40 PM Ringtail "Col, you are no more privy to the full evidence than any of the posters her.....
» 5/06/2005 12:45:51 PM An old pragmatist saying “If it ain’t broken – why mend it?” Simply our current detention.....
» 28/05/2005 8:56:10 AM Garra “Lastly, I find Col's last post above quite offensive, given that his schadenfreude .....
» 28/05/2005 12:29:17 AM 20 years - beats life - and it beats the death penalty - two appeals to go - and she alrea.....
» 26/05/2005 4:15:01 PM Steven Freeland focuses on pertinent and significant aspects of this case. Without pre-emp.....
» 25/05/2005 11:46:04 PM Better to burn the candle at both ends than go to the grave having never lit its flame. K.....
» 25/05/2005 8:27:36 PM Timkins “There could be different issues, but eventually they combine I think, and if ther.....
» 25/05/2005 9:28:21 AM Timkins – you are talking about two separate and distinct things – 1 The issue and incide.....
» 24/05/2005 5:07:06 PM Ambo – “Before anyone goes off on an insulting rant (Col)” since it is not your practice t.....
» 24/05/2005 9:04:15 AM Donahoo’s article is profoundly sad. It reads like a projection of personal experiences Fo.....
» 24/05/2005 8:30:28 AM We are discussing an individuals right to seek the existence or exit of their choice. We .....
» 24/05/2005 12:22:07 AM Timkins "There are marriages that fail, but marriage remains the best general system .....
» 23/05/2005 6:37:06 PM Ringtail – when someone calls me a four letter word I respond in a manner they are likely .....
» 23/05/2005 4:28:19 PM Garra- your suggestion, like most of your posts, is asinine. To suggest I would abandon a .....
» 21/05/2005 4:31:53 PM You are right Arjay – when people like Di attack me with personal insults I respond with s.....
» 19/05/2005 9:32:15 PM Philo "From the fatalistic and depressed attitudes expressed here it is obvoious the .....
» 19/05/2005 8:58:57 PM Arjay – I do not know if the Corby woman is innocent or guilty I am not her judge, I have .....
» 19/05/2005 5:17:08 PM Laurie – agree with your sentiment entirely. As one who has been twice married twice divo.....
» 18/05/2005 11:58:03 PM Have you seen the way they demolish tall buildings ? - they take out (blow out) the lower .....
» 18/05/2005 11:45:09 PM Thanks for the agreement Philo – Agree the individual is the unit of all action, decision,.....
» 18/05/2005 9:39:25 AM The complaints aired in this article can be reduced to a simple response based on one shor.....
» 17/05/2005 5:48:57 PM This article is a little premature – of a trial and a judgement for a start – so what is t.....
» 17/05/2005 5:21:34 PM This is an active little thread - so I will add my view - Christian beliefs should guide t.....
» 17/05/2005 8:39:24 AM Timkins I agree with your view – although the excuse (aptly), as you say, goes further “A.....
» 12/05/2005 9:41:04 AM Arjay - disagree - the necessity was as real as fighting the Japanese in WWII and the war .....
» 10/05/2005 10:08:19 AM Now the line ‘social marginalisation, economic disadvantage and oppressive stereotyping t.....
» 10/05/2005 9:38:02 AM Oh another article about the horrors of sexism, the demonizing of consumerism and damning .....
» 9/05/2005 11:20:00 AM I agree with you boazie – Wayne seems to forget - In the past, some folk actually voted f.....
» 9/05/2005 8:07:48 AM Mollydukes “You missed the whole point of my sentence and you also seem to be imagining th.....
» 9/05/2005 7:44:37 AM Mollydukes "As another of the previous posts pointed out, it is quite well known that.....
» 5/05/2005 4:13:51 PM Hey tus - thanks for the support - you and I see the world through similar eyes - some her.....
» 5/05/2005 2:34:20 AM Mollydukes – I am pleased you noted - my disgust of communism, just like any other malevol.....
» 5/05/2005 2:07:30 AM Hi David – thanks for the welcome – I was not aware I had been away – I guess just we have.....
» 4/05/2005 9:04:36 AM Grey you are right – the problem with war – it is fought under conditions of some stress a.....
» 4/05/2005 8:50:00 AM Di - I see, when your points fail, you think you can turn the clock back 200 years and pr.....
» 3/05/2005 11:53:15 AM SpaceCowMooMoo “You're views are typically USA fan-boy perspective. Probably dismayed the .....
» 3/05/2005 10:01:01 AM We live in a changing society where there is a constant review and assessment of values. H.....
» 3/05/2005 8:25:09 AM This is really a question of whether “Church” is and wants to be a part of or apart fr.....
» 3/05/2005 8:08:37 AM The context of Vietnam need be looked at not as an isolated issue but in the context of th.....
» 3/05/2005 7:47:57 AM Xena – somewhere along the chain of a dozen countries these people passed through and recr.....
» 2/05/2005 7:56:24 AM Xena “Col, just what part of desperately fleeing for your life don't you understand?” I g.....
» 30/04/2005 8:47:02 AM Di – I gave the reference to the definition of “equivalent” - I suggest any dispute you .....
» 30/04/2005 8:27:58 AM re Russell Crowe – maybe the author has simply discovered a sin – “Envy” of course it just.....
» 29/04/2005 9:02:35 AM Di Any “credibility” for your view was flushed down the pan with – and I quote you “Our d.....
» 26/04/2005 2:49:54 PM The important line - "In January of this year we decided it was no longer financially.....
» 26/04/2005 11:55:18 AM Ah “human rights” – the fundamental right to exercise ones own discretion in words and spe.....
» 26/04/2005 10:01:06 AM Arjay – “Col Rouge, you should consider writing a book;” Thanks for the suggestion Arjay –.....
» 26/04/2005 9:40:20 AM Not being a Roman Catholic the Popes view of the world has no significance to me. Doubtles.....
» 22/04/2005 3:43:25 PM Aker – if you think the idea of multiple subgroups of politicians all with the conflicting.....
» 22/04/2005 3:19:01 PM Brownie "For every single-mother-bludger, there is a single father out there somewher.....
» 21/04/2005 12:12:13 PM Penekiko In any democratic system a degree of compromise with others is unavoidable. Prese.....
» 21/04/2005 9:49:05 AM Didi – maybe you can produce some reason for overthrowing both the “contact” and “sanctity.....
» 21/04/2005 9:35:15 AM Enaj is that your personal excuse or are you simply being patronising and inventing obstac.....
» 20/04/2005 4:04:21 PM Merit is the only measure of suitablity - that no or few women contribute to an area of de.....
» 20/04/2005 7:53:40 AM Aker – the point with elections is they are an imperfect process. You can have either a co.....
» 19/04/2005 10:00:54 AM Suggesting Labor must do anything is like demanding a eunich go forth and multiply - The .....
» 19/04/2005 9:46:33 AM I must admit the incidence of spoiled votes is a concern. I would suggest, having spent h.....
» 19/04/2005 9:37:18 AM Interesting article – the significance of “nurture” as a facilitator to “learning”, I beli.....
» 19/04/2005 8:55:40 AM Mykar – you hit upon the nub and the lie of all “equality” based arguments, that we are re.....
» 18/04/2005 9:01:32 AM Ringtail – maybe your pontification is indicative of your own prejudices Karen – since yo.....
» 16/04/2005 2:37:56 PM Xena – “Obviously” the “bleeding obvious” was obscured from your view – why else would the.....
» 16/04/2005 8:15:29 AM Xena – we are all the subject to our own prejudices and virtues. What you claim as prejudi.....
» 15/04/2005 7:36:36 AM Shoshana “Asylum seeker numbers world wide have gone down significantly in the last couple.....
» 14/04/2005 4:43:58 AM George Thomas is joining two debates to make one – abortion and the Schiavo case. King So.....
» 14/04/2005 4:01:00 AM Shoshana “I’m a bit perplexed as to why you insist that asylum seekers are “flouting our l.....
» 13/04/2005 10:21:10 AM Miranda “Suicide amongst pre-pubescent children is almost unheard of. Except in Australian.....
» 13/04/2005 9:06:58 AM This reads like a bit out of classic labour party manifesto of 1950’s… (and some claim the.....
» 11/04/2005 4:14:38 PM On the matter of the rule of law versus anarchy – A number of individuals seem to be inte.....
» 11/04/2005 8:38:06 AM BOAZ_David “may wish to 'run' but its a pity you have left little of substance in your wak.....
» 10/04/2005 12:35:39 PM David_BOAZ I would suggest small minorities connecting with other small minorities to form.....
» 10/04/2005 12:24:41 PM If I still lived in UK I might well be a fervent republican. I live in Australia and havi.....
» 9/04/2005 8:04:20 PM David BOAZ – that we agree is reassuring – I see the whole debate as the right of Australi.....
» 9/04/2005 9:13:19 AM As is the way, I agree with you TUS... those who indulge in (in fact descend to) compariso.....
» 9/04/2005 12:14:09 AM Garra “To claim that the majority of people who risk everything to get here by boat are 'e.....
» 8/04/2005 8:48:26 AM It is not the "hand" we are dealt that matters - it is how we decide to play th.....
» 8/04/2005 8:42:46 AM I am not Roman Catholic. I have never and will never be. I disagree with the presumption o.....
» 8/04/2005 7:32:45 AM Numbat “Col you sound s-o-o-o patronising ..... Very glad you are not the immigration mini.....
» 6/04/2005 9:38:59 AM I am not sure where all the bitterness is coming from but lets face it 1 Governments are .....
» 6/04/2005 8:21:00 AM As an approved migrant, who had to wait and stand in line, I find nothing wrong (or repugn.....
» 5/04/2005 12:56:37 PM Cranky – laws are designed to accommodate the likely circumstance. They should not be desi.....
» 5/04/2005 8:34:12 AM I heard Mr Windshuttle interviewed on the radio. He seemed reasoned any lucid to me. His v.....
» 5/04/2005 8:02:59 AM Leslie poses the following question “The question is whether he will finally allow the evi.....
» 4/04/2005 12:23:37 PM Oh Mollydukes - neither Maggie nor I are under any delusions or confusions (as was discove.....
» 2/04/2005 12:06:40 AM Mollydukes "So how do children learn when the parents don't have the skills and don't.....
» 1/04/2005 9:19:28 AM I was born and raised in the UK – one of the reasons I wanted to migrate to Australia was .....
» 1/04/2005 8:44:49 AM “So what does it mean to be a man?” If you need to ask the question it means you probably.....
» 30/03/2005 7:51:21 PM Mollydukes – what you deem as patronising is entirely up to you. However, to correct what.....
» 29/03/2005 4:15:23 PM omygodnoitsitsitsyou - pointless rant - shame you could not bother to break it up into par.....
» 29/03/2005 10:25:42 AM Mollydukes – I am not being patronising, as you claim. I was observing t.u.s. and I share .....
» 28/03/2005 6:03:04 PM Cranky "The only question is who has the right to make the decision?” I attempted to.....
» 27/03/2005 8:33:44 PM Mollydukes –“If they have equal rights then why are they not using them to their best adva.....
» 27/03/2005 11:15:53 AM I experienced a TIA in 2000 - a mild stroke which rendered me with slurred speech, no cont.....
» 27/03/2005 10:40:35 AM Morganzola” I think that sex should be illegal for all people, except for 1 married 2 Ch.....
» 25/03/2005 3:50:42 PM Mollydukes – “People in the bush do not have equal access to communication technology.” T.....
» 25/03/2005 3:21:04 PM The problem as I see it is we are trying to legislate for attitude with laws which work to.....
» 25/03/2005 2:55:53 PM Helens article displays the problem of all government - the exercising of "compassion.....
» 25/03/2005 2:36:02 PM Morganzola and Deuc – agree entirely with your posts. Unlike the claims in the article, t.....
» 24/03/2005 8:41:57 AM Oh all upright and uptight. Good to see what happens when we stir up the mud and the bott.....
» 24/03/2005 7:53:06 AM Bozzie – a woman’s body, an embryo/fetus might use it to develop in but only one entity ca.....
» 23/03/2005 11:10:53 AM Seeker – the “risks” life present, in a healthy relationship, are experiences to be share.....
» 22/03/2005 11:26:22 PM Chek Ling – whatever your opinion of “Australia” at the time of Federation may or may not.....
» 22/03/2005 10:51:21 PM Isabelbirner “forcible abortion.” – is no different to “enforced pregnancy” – both represe.....
» 21/03/2005 11:41:36 PM Fi "Some comments posted in response to this article amount to racial vilification an.....
» 21/03/2005 5:23:41 PM What is the "age of consent" supposed to be about - I would suggest it is that m.....
» 21/03/2005 4:51:54 PM I would have thought the first agenda of the UN was to support the rights of citizens of a.....
» 21/03/2005 4:07:11 PM Bozzie – firstly you distinguish between viable and non-viable fetus. So I take it you ap.....
» 21/03/2005 10:40:16 AM Isabelberners / Helen Pringle – I guess Editors do have a valued part to play. To all fat.....
» 19/03/2005 9:03:56 AM Pericles – your comments regarding the number of posts exactly mirror my thoughts before I.....
» 18/03/2005 1:40:48 AM Oh Timkins – you still don‘t get it These are the only one significant “statistics” you n.....
» 17/03/2005 1:22:06 AM Brazuca “I take it this is all your subjective opinion, Col. Funny, then, that you should .....
» 15/03/2005 11:53:02 PM Andyman – that you were “duped” shows some serious limits in your ability to read people (.....
» 15/03/2005 11:03:33 PM Brazuca – “how do you know which subjective opinion is the correct one if there's more tha.....
» 15/03/2005 3:13:17 PM Andyman - as a male and a divorced father let me advise you on this – at no time was it my.....
» 14/03/2005 11:26:47 AM DavidJS – My mind is made up - Abortion is not Murder! Abortion is a procedure a woman m.....
» 14/03/2005 8:52:39 AM I recall some years past when "Noddy" books were banned from schools in UK and E.....
» 13/03/2005 5:48:25 PM Brazuca – why your comparative reference to Jews (I note you have done same on another top.....
» 13/03/2005 5:31:39 PM Brazuca – interestingly enough Nazi Germany made it illegal for "Aryan" women to.....
» 10/03/2005 3:46:57 PM "If, in this bordering-on-hegemonic neo-liberal world, " Anything which starts .....
» 9/03/2005 11:58:15 PM BigAl30 No one is asking you to have a hand in anything – The pro choice perspective de.....
» 8/03/2005 11:20:26 AM More bun fights - I think Mr Ruddock is reasonable in his expressionsw of support It is t.....
» 8/03/2005 8:34:35 AM The "small stick" could well comply and be called a "blunt instrument".....
» 7/03/2005 1:34:09 PM Deborah – children are of course our future – I guess our present has some bearing on this.....
» 7/03/2005 1:12:58 PM I stayed out of this bun fight for the simple reason is to advocate the obvious is really .....
» 7/03/2005 10:37:25 AM BOAZ_David “I do support political 'influence' by Christians in a prophetic sense, as I do.....
» 7/03/2005 9:49:15 AM Jaxxen – from your post “the child in the womb is NOT a "guest”” – argue that with B.....
» 5/03/2005 3:18:47 PM Respecting womens voices and choices David_BOAZ – “I'm beginning to understand WHY Singap.....
» 4/03/2005 11:10:58 PM BigAl30 – me in denial – not at all – maybe that satisfies your need to compartmentalise a.....
» 4/03/2005 1:33:53 PM Robert “What happened to those who agree with the Authors viewpoint?” I do not know – may.....
» 4/03/2005 11:22:14 AM Anyone following these postings will realise which way I view this issue - of course it is.....
» 4/03/2005 10:15:32 AM BigAl30 – Read my posts – “It is just her body” – not yours – so you don’t get to have a s.....
» 4/03/2005 9:42:22 AM Seeker – I am a father of two 20+ daughters. My ex-wife never “looked at me sideways” duri.....
» 3/03/2005 6:03:09 PM seeker - I fail to see what “pro-choice” has to do with imposing limits on the opportunit.....
» 2/03/2005 1:22:30 PM If racial slurs are a consequence of Freespeech then we should all get used to suffering s.....
» 2/03/2005 12:59:02 AM Pericles – a few points from your posts 1 "when does life begin". IMHO “Life.....
» 1/03/2005 11:59:37 PM There is a balance between the rights of the sex offender, having done his time for his cr.....
» 1/03/2005 7:11:45 PM Hi BOAZ_David I was wondering what happened to your posts…. I am a father. I disagree w.....
» 28/02/2005 3:52:38 PM I quote Bill Muehlenberg "It (the embryo / fetus) is the natural guest of a mother.....
» 28/02/2005 3:37:00 PM Timkins you have missed ther point - as Helen wrote and I concurred with, The issue of &qu.....
» 27/02/2005 7:13:01 PM Jaxxen – “displaying Prejudices”? Please enlighten me to my supposed “prejudices” – So I.....
» 27/02/2005 1:44:28 PM Timkins – "There can be “choice” for some in society, but when it comes to abortion, .....
» 26/02/2005 5:56:23 PM MJB Re” . What is freedom?” “Freedom is Responsibility - It is the right of the individ.....
» 26/02/2005 9:27:25 AM Bozzie – I am sure late term abortions are performed for a variety of reasons – because so.....
» 25/02/2005 7:03:24 AM "but we are consistent in our aspiration to be parents" That statement lost it .....
» 24/02/2005 11:17:24 PM Bossie – check the stats – the vast majority of abortions are performed in the first trime.....
» 24/02/2005 1:50:58 PM MJB “Your case .. is rather purile.” It a classic Pro-Life tactic. Denigrate and demean.....
» 22/02/2005 1:17:21 PM I agree with the Article - the voilinist analogy is accurate / appropriate. Who has autho.....
» 22/02/2005 8:43:24 AM BOAZ_David "You are defining child abuse based on 'community sentiment'......" .....
» 22/02/2005 8:32:32 AM ozaware "Mr. Graeme Samuel, Australian Competition and Consumer Commission chairman, .....
» 22/02/2005 8:23:57 AM BOAZ_David "The only type of 'viewpoint' I object to being allowed to be proclaimed p.....
» 21/02/2005 9:46:05 AM ozaware - the challenge is to preserve the rights of the individual from every quarter. L.....
» 21/02/2005 9:28:03 AM David "Col, the Jewish Lobby and Bracks along with the ICV were all linked to that mo.....
» 20/02/2005 11:20:13 PM Posted by BOAZ_David, Wednesday, February 16, 2005 1:12:03 PM Col, Passion is no substit.....
» 19/02/2005 6:51:52 AM Habib plays on a Western sense of fair play and legal nicities to hide his agenda. To an.....
» 19/02/2005 6:33:16 AM Interesting view their Timkins "I get the feeling that a job was done on them, as t.....
» 19/02/2005 6:24:27 AM The whole point of this judgement is it illustrates the horror which is produced by censor.....
» 19/02/2005 6:06:30 AM Trade 215 - you sound too much like me In a world of safety nets, baby bonuses and equal.....
» 18/02/2005 9:42:12 AM Timkins, Thursday, February 17, 2005 11:11:37 AM Well put - I totally agree - May I be a.....
» 17/02/2005 9:24:46 AM I can see how this article, which I agree with, would upset the old-guard of the socialist.....
» 16/02/2005 12:45:56 PM When in prison, sex offender prisoners are quarantined and "protected" from the .....
» 16/02/2005 8:32:58 AM Of course with the best intentions of the donors, the export of democracy has not always w.....
» 15/02/2005 12:59:21 PM Graham Y - I Agree with your view - the "real" role of teachers is to develop in.....
» 15/02/2005 9:18:55 AM Morganzola - since the posts are not editted or moderated, your claim merely indicates tha.....
» 14/02/2005 7:34:05 AM Keeping this to the matter of education (no point in spinning off into the la-la land and .....
» 11/02/2005 7:32:52 AM Arjay - yes I before I left UK I felt like organising a petition to demand the Danes retur.....
» 10/02/2005 12:32:08 AM David – Abortion - The Right to exercise Choice is what distinguishes “Life” from mere “E.....
» 10/02/2005 12:08:00 AM Timkins "However my main concerns are now for the young and their education, and whet.....
» 9/02/2005 4:07:12 PM David - I was talking about the article - not my life - which is one of structure, love, a.....
» 9/02/2005 3:07:04 PM Oh Ericc - the closest I have seen to a raid on a business premises by a political activis.....
» 9/02/2005 8:13:56 AM Interesting bit of insignificant literary fluff It is like this, we are all indivuals. Wo.....
» 9/02/2005 7:50:14 AM I lived in London in the 1970's when the IRA were happily bombing Oxford St etc. It is po.....
» 6/02/2005 7:20:53 AM An army of educators seems to have had little effect on certain parts of the world. After.....
» 4/02/2005 9:19:10 AM BOAZ-David Thank you for your acknowledgement / agreement I was interessted mainly in th.....
» 1/02/2005 12:04:36 AM Timkins - your theory - "switching political parties is better than not switching&qu.....
» 31/01/2005 12:13:20 PM Timkins "Personally I don’t think it is a very healthy time for Australian politics,.....
» 31/01/2005 11:56:12 AM I agree with the sentiment of the article You cannot have freedom of expression without f.....
» 31/01/2005 6:15:51 AM I have read this article a number of times before posting here. I feel sorry for Mark Chr.....
» 31/01/2005 5:31:20 AM BOAZ_David I posted according to the contents of the article You posted something which .....
» 30/01/2005 10:28:06 AM BOAZ_David Sorry I did not bother to read all your rant I saw the length of it, read th.....
» 29/01/2005 2:42:54 PM BOAZ_David I see little in your post to either defend or object to the article in questio.....
» 29/01/2005 8:31:20 AM Oh a Latham apologist One characteristic Latham shared with his mentor (Whitlam) - a capa.....
» 29/01/2005 8:18:02 AM The problem with "Debt and Interest Relief" is you surrender the direction of th.....
» 29/01/2005 7:59:09 AM Here we go - when a (I suppose) labor supporter cannot accept criticism of their "lea.....
» 28/01/2005 3:01:39 PM The comparison - Tsunami to Darfor is niave. How can someone compare a natural disaster t.....
» 25/01/2005 8:33:33 AM I fully endorse the sentiments expressed by Jim Wallace in this article. Curb freedom of .....
» 23/01/2005 6:34:26 PM The author lost my support in his first sentence. Attempting to compare the outburst of s.....
» 23/01/2005 6:18:43 PM Well this little whinge defines the writer more readily than the Coalition. Just a few p.....
» 17/01/2005 4:30:35 PM Hi Bob – Personal Responsibility is the essence which makes society work. If everyone con.....
» 20/12/2004 12:51:27 PM You tell us “Years of incarceration have made me a successful failure.” “tagged, bagged.....
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