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» 22/09/2016 12:27:08 PM A few points here: Not owning a home is not the disaster some make out, as we see in an e.....
» 23/07/2016 5:55:00 PM I think the author has taken what Sonya Kruger actually said, way out of context, to suit .....
» 13/07/2016 12:38:45 PM Hang on, if put to vote, most Europeans would highly likely vote to leave the EU, as they .....
» 9/07/2016 2:42:23 PM *just more than you do.* Oh yeah... Its just your bad luck that I happen to have both a S.....
» 9/07/2016 1:18:20 PM Paul, the Swiss know pretty well what Hitler was thinking, which is why they came through .....
» 9/07/2016 11:06:21 AM Paul, if you know anything about Switzerland you would know about the alps. Hitler knew pe.....
» 8/07/2016 7:57:36 PM *While Switzerland is great for tourists, it's closer to North Korea for its citizens.* O.....
» 6/07/2016 8:55:34 PM SteeleRedux, I remind you that WA was always an export State. In the 60s and 70s, our expo.....
» 6/07/2016 7:01:19 PM https://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/wa/a/31991412/wa-a-149b-loser-in-tax-rip-off-as-sa-asks-.....
» 5/07/2016 11:21:06 PM With all due respect Hasbeen, Turnbull is not of the left. He believes in free enterprise,.....
» 5/07/2016 8:52:05 PM http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/technology/startups-mourn-wyatt-roy-loss/news-sto.....
» 5/07/2016 8:37:31 PM *Firstly, voters remember how they were dudded by the Abbott-Credlin govt.* Yup some do. .....
» 5/07/2016 8:16:41 PM Well perhaps the planet should provide some family planning for hundreds of millions of th.....
» 5/07/2016 4:15:15 PM Well it seems that Xenophon was the bigger winner, as much of the swinging vote who in the.....
» 5/07/2016 1:18:47 PM *Turnbull was clearly seen as public enemy number one by voters without any party loyalty......
» 4/07/2016 8:05:43 PM *How can Turnbull remain PM with 50% of AU going against him . Labor started out 21 seats .....
» 4/07/2016 1:37:03 PM *not long after they will be surprised to find the island conducting a referendum to exit .....
» 3/07/2016 9:48:48 PM *the electorate has left the liberal party in no doubt of what we think of Turnbull, & his.....
» 28/06/2016 5:30:00 PM Poirot, we have a free trade agreement with America. We do not pay them a fee. We have fre.....
» 28/06/2016 8:30:21 AM Poirot, you made my point for me, it is essentially a game of chicken. So we shall see who.....
» 27/06/2016 2:57:10 PM Poirot, essentially what we now have, is a game of chicken. The Hawks within the EU want t.....
» 27/06/2016 11:11:47 AM Poirot I remind you that the British Govt has not triggered Article 50, simply gave the ch.....
» 27/06/2016 9:27:00 AM *My main point on this thread has been incredulity that there appears to be no significant.....
» 27/06/2016 8:14:15 AM Poirot, there is a stand off going on about this very fact in Switzerland, where the Swiss.....
» 26/06/2016 8:45:13 PM *Where is your considered analysis of UK prospects in light of the vote to exit the EU wit.....
» 25/06/2016 8:03:13 PM https://www.youtube.com/attribution_link?a=UyZGv_V3RJA&u=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D2gm9q8uabTs%26feat.....
» 25/06/2016 5:39:34 PM *The EU administration is highly efficient.* Is that why they move the whole shindig to S.....
» 15/06/2016 7:35:08 PM *And Yabby, about half the conservatives I know will cheer if Turnbull loses.* Hasbeen, y.....
» 15/06/2016 1:13:46 AM http://www.smh.com.au/world/hillary-clinton-links-saudi-arabia-to-terrorism-and-the-world-.....
» 13/06/2016 10:22:10 PM Clearly not yet enough Americans have been shot, even despite the regular mass shootings, .....
» 13/06/2016 4:44:42 PM Some conservatives still don't get it. Emotions drive alot of voters and sometimes they do.....
» 13/06/2016 4:29:56 PM Many people arn't aware of just how powerful the Muslim armies once were. There was a time.....
» 13/06/2016 11:51:21 AM Shadow, Wahabism is a much more hate preaching, militant version of Sunni intrepretations......
» 13/06/2016 9:27:41 AM Shadow, I think you misunderstand the problem in the first place. Militant Islam really ca.....
» 6/06/2016 11:05:24 AM Poirot, it is a shame that you can't read the AFR article, for it explains the whole thing.....
» 5/06/2016 6:41:22 PM Err Poirot, Maquarie are of course largely a so called investment bank, rather than a depo.....
» 5/06/2016 4:30:23 PM Poirot, Costello saved us from the GFC, by having appointed a tough banking regulator prev.....
» 5/06/2016 2:21:40 PM Poirot, Costello not only paid off past debt, he also paid 50$billion into the Future Fund.....
» 5/06/2016 12:00:23 PM Your idea does not make sense Rehctub, as then a large company making a loss, would be cla.....
» 5/06/2016 11:14:55 AM .*it was significantly smaller when Labor left office.* It was zero when Howard/Costello .....
» 28/05/2016 10:43:01 PM *The important thing is to believe in life and have hope in a better future, and be part o.....
» 25/05/2016 1:59:12 AM The author misses the point completely. Fact is that the majority of the public wanted Tur.....
» 17/05/2016 9:26:45 AM Fair enough Poirot. As long as its on twitter or in a cartoon, you will know about it :) .....
» 16/05/2016 10:33:41 PM http://www.afr.com/technology/new-startmesh-fund-raising-20m-to-back-startups-20160511-got.....
» 16/05/2016 9:25:03 PM Poirot, the change in Superannuation laws is hardly a hard right position. I think that th.....
» 16/05/2016 9:05:47 PM *Thus, when one talks about animal use for human benefit, one must talk about how these an.....
» 11/05/2016 5:33:00 PM Cut company tax and who benefits? Shareholders. So who owns those large corporations? 2 Tr.....
» 9/05/2016 6:32:19 PM Malcolm is smart enough to understand that to win, he has to win the voters in the middle,.....
» 9/05/2016 11:49:48 AM * Down at 'Aldi'* Aldi have an efficient supply chain, with minimal staff and don't reall.....
» 5/05/2016 10:52:03 AM I think it reflects that a man who understands business, as distinct from a trade union le.....
» 4/05/2016 11:22:39 AM People seem to be forgetting the elephant in the room. Saudi Arabia has over the last deca.....
» 28/04/2016 7:30:40 PM Roscop, in Australia today, marriage is little more than a formality. People today live to.....
» 28/04/2016 5:11:58 PM Roscop, I have already listened to the sound clip and nowhere did the father claim that th.....
» 28/04/2016 10:31:30 AM Roscop, your hypothetical above is not what was claimed to be happening by the father. h.....
» 28/04/2016 12:04:07 AM Onthebeach, I don't know about your friends but I would fall over laughing or feel insulte.....
» 27/04/2016 4:40:39 PM "You can wish upon him" Roscop, I do not "wish upon people" Are you i.....
» 27/04/2016 3:20:59 PM I am sure that is what you think Roscop, for you have not yet once shown in any way, that .....
» 26/04/2016 4:51:59 PM Fair enough Roskop, endocrinology is clearly not your strong point, so perhaps this articl.....
» 26/04/2016 12:19:41 PM Well no Roskop, what I put first and foremost is the kids and it would be foolish to deny .....
» 25/04/2016 6:30:32 PM http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/media/broadcast/60-minutes-to-midnight-as-ali-ala.....
» 25/04/2016 3:59:22 PM Onthebeach, clearly thousands of professional journalists don't hold such a black and whit.....
» 25/04/2016 2:10:24 PM Hang on, wallet journalism is used every day in the commercial media, nothing unusual abou.....
» 25/04/2016 11:50:20 AM Tara Brown is an intelligent woman, but thinking that reason would prevail in the Middle E.....
» 24/04/2016 3:13:21 PM https://www.hrw.org/news/2015/01/19/interview-women-unequal-under-lebanons-law You may ha.....
» 24/04/2016 9:34:45 AM *Australia’s fundamentally flawed family law legal system.* Ah Roskop, so you think it sh.....
» 23/04/2016 8:05:26 PM According to my reading, the father had been denying the mother any contact with her child.....
» 22/04/2016 9:12:43 PM Roscop, there is in fact a global convention called the Hague Convention, to deal with the.....
» 22/04/2016 7:52:56 PM Roskop, well in this case the mother clearly did a stupid thing in actually trusting her e.....
» 22/04/2016 6:57:31 PM Roscop, I can't remind you of anything, as I don't know anything about the case which you .....
» 22/04/2016 4:26:52 PM So a smart guy like me could come along, open an exchange for Aussie shares in Singapore, .....
» 22/04/2016 1:53:15 PM So what will the father be charged with? He took these children from Australia, in the goo.....
» 22/04/2016 1:34:56 PM The largest share traders are of course our Super Funds, as Australian workers have around.....
» 18/04/2016 10:36:23 AM *But there were no signs of wages induced inflation, and anyway the claim that it's necess.....
» 16/04/2016 9:33:45 AM *but in most of the country it didn't, and the unemployment rate didn't get anywhere near .....
» 16/04/2016 9:15:51 AM Aidan, I think that somehow you are missing the point. Yes everybody knows that Australia .....
» 15/04/2016 4:17:25 PM *The Labor party do indeed misunderstand the situation. As do the Liberals, the Nationals,.....
» 15/04/2016 10:21:43 AM Aidan, I was rather amused last night, when Mr Bowan of the Labor Party appeared on the ne.....
» 14/04/2016 7:58:46 PM http://www.afr.com/news/policy/budget/aaa-threat-as-bad-as-banana-republic-days-jpmorgan-2.....
» 13/04/2016 3:25:12 PM *but the explanation is ill thought out.* Aidan, given that the information comes from th.....
» 13/04/2016 9:30:37 AM http://www.afr.com/news/economy/federal-debt-load-pushing-against-aaa-boundary-warns-nab-2.....
» 12/04/2016 8:17:09 PM *and will inevitably cost the taxpayers more in the long run.* No it won't, Aidan. Techno.....
» 11/04/2016 12:11:52 PM *It appears Malcolm Turnbull has failed to understand the importance of internet reliabili.....
» 9/04/2016 2:19:20 PM Aiden, most of your questions are answered here: http://www.malcolmturnbull.com.au/archiv.....
» 7/04/2016 9:41:58 PM *and the cost of delivering FTTP has also fallen, there is no technical excuse to waste mo.....
» 7/04/2016 2:23:04 PM *Which well sums up the methodology of right-wingers when it comes to "innovation&quo.....
» 7/04/2016 11:07:07 AM *The Snowy Mountains Scheme was built to last hundreds of years, the Sydney Harbour Bridge.....
» 7/04/2016 10:01:35 AM Haha Poirot, you are clearly unable to differentiate your deep hatred of MT, from what is .....
» 6/04/2016 10:09:50 AM *And yes I will even vote for Shorten to get rid of Turnbull.* Hasbeen, it is well known .....
» 5/04/2016 3:40:05 PM Whew Poirot, I thought you might have some real reasons for your opinions, clearly not, ju.....
» 5/04/2016 2:27:00 PM * He bloody well not clever "politically" - he's hopeless.* He is Prime Ministe.....
» 5/04/2016 11:39:20 AM Poirot, you are clearly way out of your depth, when it comes to how entrepreneurs think, d.....
» 5/04/2016 10:44:48 AM *Btw, I agree with your take that Turnbull is demonstrating an entrepreneurial bent in his.....
» 4/04/2016 11:14:33 PM *I think he's a vacuous clod* You might well think that, but I would note that you are un.....
» 4/04/2016 9:01:36 PM *So here's our fabulous leader proposing to make a seismic change to our country's taxing .....
» 31/03/2016 5:06:51 PM The reality is that Hilary is the least worst option in the US elections, so a win would n.....
» 30/03/2016 12:53:55 PM *I find it hard to believe that Americans would want to suffer another 8 years of what the.....
» 15/03/2016 12:41:16 PM *then it is up to you to justify why its ok to kill them before 12 weeks gestation.* I t.....
» 14/03/2016 12:12:42 PM We seem to be going around in circles here, Rhys. Once again, no child is being killed whe.....
» 11/03/2016 4:09:42 PM *the words "Disgusting and evil" were not mine. They were used by Yabby to descr.....
» 11/03/2016 12:56:55 PM One has to wonder what the true agenda of the Vatican is in all this. They campaign in all.....
» 10/03/2016 3:58:10 PM Rhys, the population issue is a global one, not an Australian one. Even if every Australia.....
» 10/03/2016 12:56:26 PM Oh dear, the religious trying to use semantics again to push emotional buttons, nothing ch.....
» 10/01/2016 6:39:52 PM *The country does not need to borrow just to stay afloat financially.* We can do as we d.....
» 10/01/2016 3:11:08 AM *Current account figures bear very little relationship to currency movement expectations* .....
» 8/01/2016 1:34:53 PM *there is no reason for the RBA to keep our rates higher than any other country or group o.....
» 7/01/2016 4:32:03 PM Aiden, you need to understand interest rates in comparative terms, as interest rates in ot.....
» 7/01/2016 1:39:47 PM *We no longer try to keep the dollar up when the market expects it to fall; instead we let.....
» 6/01/2016 11:50:58 PM Aiden, if only life were so simple! Feel free to dream. The Australian Govt can borrow as .....
» 6/01/2016 5:13:11 PM *And if we fail in that, the market will adjust the value of our dollar to a level where w.....
» 6/01/2016 1:33:33 PM Aiden, the US current account deficit is around 2.3%. 6% is banana republic stuff, if main.....
» 5/01/2016 7:20:49 PM "Whether our creditors want their money back is immateriial, as we don't have to redu.....
» 5/01/2016 4:34:26 PM Some very valid points as of course this whole debate is fundamentally about an ideology, .....
» 12/12/2015 2:58:02 PM We know what happened, when the Catholics intensively lobbied George W Bush and he cut fun.....
» 4/12/2015 10:27:23 AM One thing is sure, the Vatican are amazing, behind the scenes lobbyists. They continue to .....
» 2/12/2015 12:04:21 PM Oh dear. The Catholic lobbyists, they never stop. Best you preach to the few interested. T.....
» 1/12/2015 9:13:47 PM I thought that Houllie made some great points, that it is not a black and white issue, as .....
» 1/12/2015 12:20:47 PM http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alastair-crooke/isis-wahhabism-saudi-arabia_b_5717157.html?i.....
» 28/11/2015 1:35:35 PM I have only read some of the posts on this thread, but I am very surprised at some of the .....
» 10/11/2015 3:24:14 PM Andrew Denton did a superb job in discussing this very topic on Q&A last night. I hope tha.....
» 6/11/2015 9:57:54 PM Great article, David. I think it is disgusting that we basically can torture our oldies, .....
» 22/10/2015 10:26:36 AM Ima, the US bible belt is not just a small minority. They run whole states in the South. .....
» 20/10/2015 7:29:25 PM *the fundies are a small minority of Protestant Christians.* You should spend some time i.....
» 20/10/2015 5:59:00 PM *every Christian on earth other than Catholics would gladly donate container loads of cond.....
» 19/10/2015 8:41:44 PM Whilst the poor are expected to try and feed unlimited children, as they cannot afford fam.....
» 13/09/2015 7:54:58 PM If so many countries are "full" of people and can't cope with losing some land f.....
» 11/09/2015 6:04:23 PM There is clearly a demand for sex which is created by nature. That will not go away. Even .....
» 12/08/2015 12:56:06 PM People need to want to help themselves. If people in those camps simply picked up the rubb.....
» 29/06/2015 8:24:22 PM Marriage follows our natural instincts, in that it is based on pair bonding, which is comm.....
» 7/05/2015 8:10:42 PM In terms of cost versus potential benefits, I don't think that building the odd desal plan.....
» 6/05/2015 1:42:55 PM The Swiss have a great system in place, run by Exit Switzerland, which is a separate organ.....
» 13/04/2015 10:06:26 AM It already exists. Farm Management Deposits......
» 31/03/2015 1:41:54 PM Not quite correct, David. How a business is privatised is critical and is often done badly.....
» 2/03/2015 3:47:56 PM I have to agree and I think this topic goes beyond the Fed Govt saving a few pennies right.....
» 2/03/2015 3:26:28 PM *What I'm against is compelling any physician to cooperate if that then conflicts with eit.....
» 22/01/2015 12:26:04 PM Josephus, I have always maintained that running a church is an extremely good business. I .....
» 21/01/2015 11:01:15 PM Josephus, I personally don't have an issue with probate, as long as it is reasonable, as I.....
» 21/01/2015 11:44:30 AM Josephus, I think you are forgetting what would be one of the main income streams for chur.....
» 17/01/2015 5:28:54 PM Aiden, historically people had large families, when they had sex on a regular basis, as is.....
» 17/01/2015 1:17:48 PM So see the problem globally, which it is. Let's say my heart is torn by those "Save t.....
» 16/01/2015 10:04:56 PM Josephus, there is no report there as to what the Catholic Church does with its profits in.....
» 16/01/2015 8:18:27 PM Josephus, if churches are so generous in the third world as is claimed, ( not spending NGO.....
» 9/01/2015 10:19:48 AM I remember being forced to learn latin. I remember the hours of sitting there like a parro.....
» 7/01/2015 5:15:56 PM Dear Foxy, If demand is as great as you claim, then there should be no problem with letti.....
» 7/01/2015 3:36:38 PM Foxy, the above is not evidence. It is opinion, highly likely written by somebody who make.....
» 7/01/2015 6:28:41 AM *I think we need “strong support” from government whatever language we choose as our compu.....
» 6/01/2015 6:41:27 PM Ms Bishop is completely wrong on this topic, as I stated ages ago on this very forum. Take.....
» 19/11/2014 10:44:35 AM The body is what dna uses, to pass itself from generation to generation......
» 18/11/2014 5:46:47 PM This is yet another example of the dangers we face, when religion dominates Govt. People m.....
» 29/10/2014 2:30:07 PM The veneer of society is very thin. Educate all you want, which is easy in times of plenty.....
» 27/10/2014 8:54:36 PM *Moreover violence is not a choice, it's an impulse conceived and executed by a crude or t.....
» 27/10/2014 1:14:48 PM Lillian, the struggle for resources will always exist, as Darwin noted, far more are creat.....
» 26/10/2014 5:01:49 PM *Note the resource grabs going on by mining and landgrabbing western countries and ponder .....
» 13/10/2014 4:21:53 PM Poirot, I agree with you. If they are giving people Tylonelol to deal with it, we are in d.....
» 13/10/2014 2:24:59 PM http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/11/world/africa/officials-admit-a-defeat-by-ebola-in-sierra.....
» 11/10/2014 12:29:26 PM Great article, well written. If we had more of that kind of clarity of thought within the .....
» 5/01/2014 1:16:26 PM So Arjay, was she wearing her seat belt?.....
» 1/11/2013 2:15:46 PM The live trade is critical to farmers in WA and NT. It is a complicated subject, well over.....
» 4/10/2013 1:03:15 PM The reality is that whatever people have, they want more. So expectations keep rising, the.....
» 15/09/2013 3:24:18 PM Alexander, I'm in touch with friends who work on ships, work as part of ESCAS supervising .....
» 15/09/2013 12:29:31 PM Alexander, most Australians are city based and live in Eastern Australia. The live trade i.....
» 12/09/2013 10:26:05 PM Ludwig, if there were stuff ups in Bahrain and Pakistan, they could have been avoided with.....
» 12/09/2013 6:54:17 PM Foxy, I think it varies by State, but most stations are leaseholds anyhow. When you sell a.....
» 12/09/2013 2:18:17 PM Ludwig, if anyone wants to process all livestock locally, they are free to do so. Buy them.....
» 11/09/2013 8:32:23 PM Ludwig, I'm for leaders which show good judgement. I have yet to see this apply to Kelvin .....
» 11/09/2013 1:52:41 PM I could think of nothing worse for agriculture. Thomson has campaigned heavily against liv.....
» 9/09/2013 11:48:57 AM *I'm sure Tony would have mentioned the Lindsay candidate's sexuality if the candidate had.....
» 8/09/2013 2:04:46 PM *Gawd....you do realise that the LNP doesn't "think". It takes orders.* Gawd P.....
» 8/09/2013 1:19:08 PM Now now Poirot, one female bitching about how another female looks, should be below you an.....
» 8/09/2013 12:51:56 PM Oops Poirot, the libs won and not the greens :) Personally I'd like to see Chris Back from.....
» 8/09/2013 12:41:12 PM I think that Hawke and Richardson summed it all up beautifully last night, when they menti.....
» 6/09/2013 8:38:26 PM Poirot, our economy has been propped up by the mining investment bubble, which is slowing .....
» 6/09/2013 4:56:57 PM Your problem Poirot, is that Australia is not a large economy and the Australian Dollar is.....
» 6/09/2013 1:59:38 PM Hehe, as if we should take note of what people in France think. France is a great example .....
» 6/09/2013 1:57:13 PM Alan, your previous analysis was wrong, as I pointed out. It hasn't suddenly corrected its.....
» 5/09/2013 6:08:14 PM Poirot, if you ever read the Perth Sunday Times, you will notice that Murdoch gives it his.....
» 5/09/2013 1:52:10 PM Quite simple, Poirot. It did not change the US elections, Obama still won, but it made him.....
» 5/09/2013 6:06:49 AM http://www.rba.gov.au/speeches/2013/sp-ag-100413.html The graphs in that speech explain i.....
» 4/09/2013 9:34:00 PM Oh nonsense. The big picture is quite straight forward. Australia rode on the sheep's back.....
» 4/09/2013 5:34:14 PM Alan, when it comes to globally competitive economies, countries like Switzerland and Sing.....
» 4/09/2013 10:34:13 AM Alan, you remain confused. Murdoch has made money from tabloid journalism, which is common.....
» 3/09/2013 12:22:24 PM *The problem is that about half of what they write on economics is true – and the other ha.....
» 2/09/2013 8:19:31 PM Alan, you still don't get it. No matter what Murdoch thinks, people are not silly. Just as.....
» 31/08/2013 6:35:06 PM Interesting but I hardly ever read a Murdoch paper. The best journalists, who actually und.....
» 31/08/2013 10:07:38 AM Bazz, there is overcapacity of container ships, so it would be pointless to run them at to.....
» 30/08/2013 5:58:19 PM Bazz, the cost of sea freight is in fact a tiny part of the final cost of most products. Y.....
» 30/08/2013 11:55:51 AM Well no, its actually increased our standard of living, especially for our poor, who now c.....
» 28/08/2013 2:05:37 PM SD, I think you will find that it is all about fierce competition, where the consumer is k.....
» 27/08/2013 9:28:16 PM * but it would increase our nation’s wealth and with wealth comes comfort* Well no, Sonof.....
» 27/08/2013 11:28:21 AM It is simplistic to just blame China and cheap labour for everything. For just look around.....
» 26/08/2013 9:40:58 AM http://www.rba.gov.au/speeches/2013/sp-ag-100413.html There you go Alan, just for you......
» 26/08/2013 1:25:58 AM Alan, go and tell the Greeks that high debt is the way to solve their problems! Fact is th.....
» 24/08/2013 4:29:19 PM *Australia could increase its debt to six times current levels and still have lower debt t.....
» 23/08/2013 4:42:34 PM Well there is the rub, Alan. When Govts make economic decisions, they have long term impli.....
» 22/08/2013 7:59:24 PM Alan the flaw in the argument is that no other country had created the combination of fact.....
» 22/08/2013 10:58:20 AM Costello saved us from the GFC, as it was his policies, taken earlier, which set things up.....
» 19/08/2013 3:47:54 PM I have to agree with you, Poirot. It is very poor policy. People who earn 150k$, don't nee.....
» 6/08/2013 12:32:08 PM *Cutting rates further will relieve cost pressures for some, but will do nothing to reduce.....
» 25/07/2013 3:06:45 PM *Confected emergency - anyone?* More a question of principles and reality, Poirot. The re.....
» 24/07/2013 1:39:12 PM Poirot, people undertake desperate acts, to lead a better lifestyle. Just look at the Mexi.....
» 19/07/2013 7:33:30 PM *My understanding of family planning is that it is effective when offered* Exactly!.....
» 10/07/2013 4:35:32 PM *Humans are a successful species which will continue to increase in numbers for the forsee.....
» 10/07/2013 12:42:00 PM A great article, which highlights what some of us have been saying for the last 30 years. .....
» 21/06/2013 5:21:05 PM Sheesh, they just don't get it. Farmers don't process livestock, they sell them. For those.....
» 25/05/2013 2:32:16 PM Rehctub, a lot of the coal mines are already losing money. That is why Rio for instance, h.....
» 24/05/2013 2:09:50 PM Australia is simply not competitive any more. To produce a car here, it costs twice what i.....
» 21/04/2013 5:45:27 PM I'm not sure how it is these days, but when I lived in Paris in the 70s, there was hardly .....
» 19/02/2013 10:19:49 PM Sonofgloin, failure of figures remains your fatal flaw it seems. Nobody in any survey on .....
» 19/02/2013 2:08:28 PM I think its quite possible, Rehctub, as its food. That does not mean toilet paper, shampoo.....
» 19/02/2013 9:01:53 AM http://www.businessspectator.com.au/bs.nsf/Article/Dont-blame-Coles-for-our-woes-farmers-p.....
» 19/02/2013 8:30:06 AM http://wsm.wsu.edu/researcher/WSMaug11_billions.pdf There you go, Sonofgloin, some intere.....
» 18/02/2013 9:23:18 PM *Just saying Yabby that Australia is a bloody expensive place to live, and “that” exploita.....
» 17/02/2013 8:02:09 PM *What they don't tell you is that they now sell much less premium than they used to* Rehc.....
» 17/02/2013 2:10:42 PM Rehctub, its all about supply chain efficiencies. Coles was a wreck when Wesfarmers took i.....
» 15/02/2013 10:33:13 PM *The playing field is massively tilted in their favour.* Not really, Poirot. The game is .....
» 23/01/2013 5:30:42 AM Kahn is brilliant and I love his website. I wish it had been available, when I was a kid......
» 15/12/2012 7:32:41 AM Pelican, you misunderstood my points. Farmers produce primary products, which includes liv.....
» 13/12/2012 5:34:43 PM *I don't agree with live exports. There is no reason why meat cannot be processed here and.....
» 13/12/2012 1:59:01 PM Pelican, fact is that right now, vegan activists are swamping the social media and are usi.....
» 13/12/2012 9:03:13 AM The thing is Pelican, at the moment the animal liberation movement are riding on the back .....
» 21/11/2012 6:27:09 PM *Many prostitutes do not want to be in the business but see no way out.* Many people do b.....
» 21/11/2012 2:00:55 PM So let me see. If I go to the pub, tell her a heap of lies about how great she looks and p.....
» 21/11/2012 10:57:48 AM Suze, there have been a number of cases, like the Rossiter case, where people of sound min.....
» 20/11/2012 9:55:04 PM Suze, most people even when extremely ill, can still suck through a straw. In Switzerland .....
» 20/11/2012 5:46:20 PM Suze, the way I understand it is that in Switzerland, it is the patient themselves who ad.....
» 19/11/2012 3:50:45 PM A great article, thank you! Sadly we are up against the power and money of the Vatican on .....
» 17/11/2012 9:35:24 AM *They call it science but really it is fantasy.* Funny that Runner, but a scientifically.....
» 16/11/2012 3:21:33 PM *he failed and lost Congress* Not really McCackie. Obama is after all still prez, twice n.....
» 16/11/2012 11:23:49 AM Not really, Jonathon. For the way things were going under George, we were heading for a gl.....
» 15/11/2012 10:18:47 PM *Soul food?* Hehe, Poirot. More likely those flowers lovingly tended on that grave, are e.....
» 15/11/2012 7:27:14 PM *If you commit your life to God by becoming a priest and you can't keep your attention on .....
» 15/11/2012 1:51:00 PM *Having an erection is no excuse from turning one's attention away from God.* Hehe Yuyuts.....
» 15/11/2012 11:04:13 AM *With God besides him, taking all his focus, why should he need another?* It's exactly th.....
» 14/11/2012 2:43:34 PM Hang on Jonathon. Your hero George, drove the US economy into a ditch and nearly caused t.....
» 12/11/2012 8:03:54 PM *If we are to further discuss these questions, all the issues, including the tax avoidance.....
» 12/11/2012 4:38:32 PM Well 579, we have an alternate method. We are farmers, we produce food, we don't come to y.....
» 12/11/2012 2:57:56 PM *we are talking about a serious situation* So are child abuse, spouse abuse, pet abuse an.....
» 12/11/2012 1:55:57 PM In that case 579, we'd better not trust you with having kids, a partner or a dog, in case .....
» 11/11/2012 1:19:21 PM *but say and do nothing about 5-6 year old girls here* Banjo, I don't think that the two .....
» 11/11/2012 10:30:55 AM 579, the Pakistani Govt is accountable and that is why Gillard has asked their PM to launc.....
» 11/11/2012 7:20:56 AM *myself and other supporters of animal rights* Crackup, the problem is that some of you b.....
» 10/11/2012 2:18:54 PM *they had quail the other day and duck a few weeks before that* Tony, that is probably be.....
» 10/11/2012 1:21:54 PM *The english eat mutton. It should be in the butcher shops here.* Its in Coles here, but .....
» 10/11/2012 11:31:41 AM If Australians really want less live exports, then they should take note of what meat proc.....
» 9/11/2012 3:19:18 PM Well yes 579, as is the first time ever that Australian livestock have been hijacked at th.....
» 9/11/2012 11:02:17 AM Well no 579, we don't bring in sheep on boats through quarantine. It is illegal. Sheep gen.....
» 9/11/2012 10:39:30 AM *They could have taken them to Somalia and just given them to the people there.* Well no .....
» 9/11/2012 8:30:59 AM *But FGM, Honor killings, 1.000 a year,is seen as not worth talking about.* Well I think .....
» 8/11/2012 9:34:19 PM http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/regional/countryman/a/-/news/15319620/actions-of-bahrain-.....
» 8/11/2012 4:42:08 PM *critcise those who have stated, substantial, well thought out and researched ideas and su.....
» 8/11/2012 4:35:19 PM *that from this point on, due to racial and demographic factors the future election of ano.....
» 8/11/2012 2:33:28 PM Yes 579, they were breeding animals and breeding animals are shipped around the world, fro.....
» 8/11/2012 2:18:01 PM Well the women's vote went to Obama. The republican white male archaic view on this subjec.....
» 8/11/2012 2:05:39 PM *not anti poirot, she is OK but gee I grow weary.* Actually Belly, I have a soft spot for.....
» 8/11/2012 10:23:41 AM *US politics only affects us financially. Other than that I really don't give a damn.* We.....
» 8/11/2012 8:02:22 AM *So you are saying "....[it] might as well be us." * No Poirot, I am saying tha.....
» 7/11/2012 8:52:13 PM Hehe Keith, for once I tuned in to Fox News, to hear all their lame excuses as to why they.....
» 7/11/2012 7:56:04 PM *If live trade was made illegal what would happen here?* Exactly what happened last time,.....
» 7/11/2012 7:16:19 PM Oops Keith, perhaps its time for you to girl up. Another total failure at predicting the U.....
» 7/11/2012 2:27:13 PM 579, there are is this little pesky problem called customers. They make choices. If they d.....
» 7/11/2012 12:31:25 PM Bazz, the problem with thist last shipment was not about the money. Bahrain had been a goo.....
» 7/11/2012 11:36:05 AM *It is best just not to do business with them.* Except Bazz, it is totally unrealistic. F.....
» 7/11/2012 8:33:00 AM I thought that this topic would be raised and of course its being discussed by city peopl.....
» 6/11/2012 6:48:01 PM Rhys, you remain confused. If it hasn't been born, it's not a child. It becomes a child at.....
» 5/11/2012 7:37:37 PM *We should be celebrating the conception and birth of every baby, regardless of how inconv.....
» 5/11/2012 3:17:38 PM So far just the odd one Graham, but nothing near as bad as it once was......
» 5/11/2012 9:53:05 AM Poirot, he probably wanted you to stand at the pissoir and beat him at a peeing competitio.....
» 4/11/2012 9:35:01 PM *essentially, all our acts in each and every moment of our lives requires emotion as a com.....
» 3/11/2012 4:22:14 PM *Laughable is your assessment of the Socialist Obama on the US Economy.* Well I'm in grea.....
» 3/11/2012 2:19:15 PM *That is about the only thing I can find not to like about him.* In that case Hasbeen, yo.....
» 2/11/2012 3:07:45 PM The problem here is not so much Romney, but the baggage that he carries with him. That in.....
» 1/11/2012 2:23:52 PM *That apology is still owing* Well no Keith, but given the fact that you seem unable to r.....
» 30/10/2012 3:18:58 PM *It seems that in March 2008, when I acknowledege my prediction was wrong* Well here is t.....
» 30/10/2012 2:36:16 PM I think you will find Everald, that this has already been promoted around the globe, as th.....
» 29/10/2012 11:58:04 PM Well no Keith, for in 2008 the GFC was still very much happening. Things were in a downwar.....
» 29/10/2012 7:24:02 PM Well that is easy then. If the pill and those abortions are so evil, those Catholic hospit.....
» 29/10/2012 6:57:23 PM *You tell me an increase from 24 to 32 (Blue chip Shares)and security is a better bet than.....
» 29/10/2012 9:50:38 AM Keith, pointing out that your predictions are simply wild speculation, as distinct from ot.....
» 28/10/2012 9:13:39 PM *It will resonate with the vast majority of the electorate, will leave Obama a figure of r.....
» 28/10/2012 1:49:38 PM I don't believe that Australia Post needs to be sold. The thing is, when it comes to parc.....
» 27/10/2012 2:02:43 AM *Pretty good that is at giving taxpayer money in chunks of up to half a billion* Half a b.....
» 27/10/2012 1:15:34 AM I'll more likely appreciate the wisdom of Pericles, Keith, rather then your wild guesses, .....
» 26/10/2012 5:42:40 PM Hasbeen, you would have had to click on and read the URL which I linked to, to understand .....
» 26/10/2012 4:08:38 PM Belly, the thing is even some people with firefox have had some problems, as the thread sh.....
» 26/10/2012 3:57:25 PM *These students have a responsibility to go home & raise their own countries standards not.....
» 26/10/2012 2:00:15 PM Hopefully Obama will win once again, he deserves to, after picking up the total mess left .....
» 26/10/2012 9:50:40 AM Let me see. We are stealing doctors from places like Bangaladesh and Nigeria to work in ou.....
» 25/10/2012 1:37:55 PM Another test around the site to give you feedback, Graham. So far working fine. This is wo.....
» 25/10/2012 11:41:30 AM Hi Graham, Well I've been reading various articles this morning, so far no problems, so I.....
» 24/10/2012 9:44:42 PM *Perhaps you should, as the article points out.* Pericles, the article was more about jus.....
» 24/10/2012 9:27:31 PM Well Rehctub, hopefully farmers will then produce less, as the young ones arn't going to w.....
» 24/10/2012 8:08:04 PM Well this time the page has downloaded ok, with only the advert on the top and not on the .....
» 24/10/2012 9:48:08 AM *Of course they should, Yabby.* Well that is what we are fighting for Pericles, as Harrad.....
» 24/10/2012 9:22:13 AM I still think that my problem here is due to the software used by the advertisers and thei.....
» 23/10/2012 9:32:22 PM *The context here is "enforced population stabilization", of the kind that Ludwi.....
» 23/10/2012 2:31:07 PM *"Population stabilization" is the ultimate pipedream of the ultimate authoritar.....
» 23/10/2012 9:52:11 AM Rehctub, you miss the point. Drinking milk prices are largely subsidising manufacturing m.....
» 22/10/2012 2:39:45 PM http://www.ccfmtn.org/leave-legacy.htm I particularly like this Catholic advert, stating .....
» 22/10/2012 1:34:31 PM I watched the SBS documentary and I found it very interesting. There is no good reason not.....
» 22/10/2012 1:17:54 PM Ooh Houllie, I have my porn bookmarks on the desktop, which is more convenient :) But I ha.....
» 22/10/2012 11:05:51 AM Methinks that perhaps GM have already made a longer term decision on this one. Already we .....
» 22/10/2012 11:00:17 AM Okey dokey, I had another, this time closer look. I do actually have IE 9 :) I also checke.....
» 22/10/2012 10:43:33 AM http://www.dairyaustralia.com.au/Statistics-and-markets/Production-and-sales/Milk/Drinking.....
» 21/10/2012 10:06:57 PM *Perhaps the quotes reflect the cost of living in Australian cities, Yabby?* More like th.....
» 21/10/2012 7:21:16 PM *Now for this who think online provides the same number of jobs, pull the other one I say,.....
» 21/10/2012 6:24:21 PM I use Internet Explorer 8 as my browser and I've been having an issue with loading OLO pag.....
» 21/10/2012 6:08:46 PM *if you know what you're doing.* Well there is the rub, Rawmustard. Most non IT people do.....
» 21/10/2012 3:11:52 PM *Most of those jobs have gone to India.* Not really, Rawmustard. When they ring you from .....
» 21/10/2012 1:43:33 PM *I would also suggest the big two could continue cheap milk sales, but wear the discounts .....
» 21/10/2012 11:46:24 AM Rehctub, let me give you an example of the sort of difference that the net can make. I saw.....
» 21/10/2012 9:47:42 AM http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/-/news/15148704/teen-web-entrepreneur-makes-mark/ Rehc.....
» 20/10/2012 2:43:24 PM *You're right raw mustard, except, these jobs you speak of have already been created * No.....
» 19/10/2012 7:41:09 PM Well that was quite amusing, Arjay. You trying to justify your mix-up of 3 billion versus .....
» 19/10/2012 7:05:09 PM The problem here is that the Pakistani Govt itself, speaks and acts with a forked tongue. .....
» 19/10/2012 6:49:28 PM Oh deary me. We actually beat Finland and Luxemburg! It cost millions and millions and now.....
» 19/10/2012 4:51:08 PM http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/gpr/14/3/gpr140302.html Pericles, perhaps you should read .....
» 19/10/2012 1:40:31 PM *Soils are supposed to be alive with micro-organisms, not dead and fed with chemicals.* Y.....
» 19/10/2012 8:58:19 AM "If a smallholder in Central Africa can double the yield on his small patch of land&q.....
» 18/10/2012 1:30:53 PM *On that basis, the way is now open to the pros and cons of Catholicism, open season on re.....
» 18/10/2012 10:21:50 AM *you have hijacked a perfectly reasonable discussion to suit your own population-control a.....
» 17/10/2012 5:44:04 PM *But, jeez, now I feel like millionaire - so fortunate.* Some good points there, Poirot......
» 17/10/2012 5:31:28 PM *It is now seen as the entrench prejudice against women.* Gawd I love it. The feminists m.....
» 16/10/2012 10:42:00 PM Deary me Arjay, what a confused analysis from you, but I guess I can't expect any more fr.....
» 16/10/2012 2:20:23 PM Ah Cheryl, Africa still at 4.5 children per woman right now and only going down, because p.....
» 16/10/2012 8:40:15 AM There is of course another way to stop all those starving babies, Kevin. If the Vatican s.....
» 16/10/2012 6:31:21 AM *I am in favour of euthanasia for other animals, just as for humans.* Ah Nick, but you ar.....
» 15/10/2012 1:44:28 PM *When fear sets in and people lose faith,no amount of rate cuts will revive our economy.* .....
» 14/10/2012 11:09:57 PM http://www.perthmint.com.au/metalprices_bullion_coins_and_bars_buying_selling.aspx Sounds.....
» 14/10/2012 9:47:30 AM Well all this just confirms what I have been saying all along, ie the veneer of society i.....
» 12/10/2012 2:11:31 PM *If the 'authorities' ever get around to catching the b@stards who did this, I'll shout ev.....
» 11/10/2012 7:15:14 PM *Yes, I believe veganism is a ‘deeply important ethical statement’ because it is about opp.....
» 10/10/2012 2:08:50 PM *I think you and I are pretty even in the last word stakes.* Well Poirot, that is just my.....
» 10/10/2012 2:03:40 PM Deary me, it sounds like our old friend Nicky might be back, this time under another name .....
» 10/10/2012 1:44:53 PM Csteele, personally I see a huge difference between somebody who might express outrageous .....
» 9/10/2012 5:35:50 PM *but a broad church of the public do know the facts * Well that is the whole point Kipp, .....
» 9/10/2012 4:57:26 PM Gawd, more city slickers commenting about an industry which they simply don't understand a.....
» 7/10/2012 5:40:34 AM http://www.smh.com.au/world/indonesias-jihad-factories-uncovering-nurseries-of-terrorisms-.....
» 5/10/2012 9:33:35 PM *less animals are bred and slaughtered for human use, therefore wild animal numbers will m.....
» 5/10/2012 2:58:03 PM *What turned him was the deployment into Saudi Arabia of thousands of American troops who .....
» 4/10/2012 5:18:33 PM *And for some reason these scared little (invariably) men are middle aged or older.* Well.....
» 3/10/2012 2:27:38 PM *So a riot by some idiots in Sydney is more egregious than the assassination/murder of an .....
» 2/10/2012 8:05:48 PM *An individual not eating/wearing/using animal products is not going to lead to a bunch of.....
» 2/10/2012 1:50:42 PM *Just as we didn't load up boats full of Italians or Vietnamese when a small group did wro.....
» 2/10/2012 9:39:11 AM *if you are going to post things on a thread where a good proportion of the contributors a.....
» 30/09/2012 7:39:16 PM *I’ve already explained, a best case scenario for animals we farm is in an animal sanctuar.....
» 30/09/2012 5:22:43 PM *Ask runner if he would like to see a return to blasphemy laws and I think you will get a .....
» 30/09/2012 1:45:56 PM We've discussed that one before, OUG, like when I asked Runner if I should kill my neighbo.....
» 29/09/2012 2:28:35 PM You are of course quite correct Csteele, fundamentlist judaism is indeed an issue which th.....
» 29/09/2012 7:18:31 AM *I don’t think dying in itself is suffering,* Well that is the key point Nick, its not. .....
» 28/09/2012 7:30:42 PM *Sorry for leading you astray* Sheesh Poirot, you can lead me astray anytime :).....
» 28/09/2012 3:10:07 PM *by a previous non-constitutional government forced to agree to inequitable terms under du.....
» 28/09/2012 12:35:13 PM Lets play another hypothetical, Csteele. I offer you millions for the right to see if ther.....
» 28/09/2012 12:11:08 AM *One individual choosing not to eat and wear animal products is not going to end all of th.....
» 27/09/2012 1:36:17 PM *three groan men against our girl* Sheesh Poirot, sounds like you have us all groaning :).....
» 26/09/2012 10:14:15 PM *Not bringing someone into existence doesn’t harm anyone (because they are not someone yet.....
» 26/09/2012 9:49:13 PM Belly I agree with you. I am sure that both Poirot and Csteele are lovely people, but clea.....
» 26/09/2012 8:21:57 PM Nick, the problem remains your flawed philosophy. Whatever makes you think that "dyin.....
» 26/09/2012 5:36:29 PM Belly, an interesting link and I like the quote below: *I think in a way we are being too.....
» 26/09/2012 2:58:08 PM *Note that the Brits were "investing in capital" only as far as their own intere.....
» 26/09/2012 2:23:57 PM *Note that the workers lived in humpies fashioned from flattened oil drums* Note that peo.....
» 26/09/2012 1:07:03 PM *D'Arcy hired geologist George Bernard Reynolds to do the prospecting in the Iranian deser.....
» 25/09/2012 8:31:58 PM *The US didn't seem too perturbed with the knowledge that Saddam was gassing the Iranians*.....
» 25/09/2012 8:00:12 PM *we only need to glance at Iran where the US through the CIA overthrew heir democratically.....
» 25/09/2012 6:59:15 PM *Why not focus on what is best to do in our society, right now?* Well I am Nick and the p.....
» 25/09/2012 3:23:34 PM No need to Google at all, Pete. Show me where the greens have put a limit on the number of.....
» 25/09/2012 2:23:33 PM *Yet, I'd be interested to know the numbers of Muslims who have been killed and maimed by .....
» 25/09/2012 1:21:59 PM Oh I think all this is fairly easily explained. Csteele is a romantic at heart and he is .....
» 24/09/2012 8:49:13 PM http://www.jayhanson.us/page80.htm Nick, this is what happened, when they released 29 dee.....
» 24/09/2012 8:42:26 PM *There is nothing “natural” about confining animals for our use* Interesting that you thi.....
» 24/09/2012 5:08:20 PM *Other animals such as lions kill out of necessity, we kill other animals for trivial reas.....
» 24/09/2012 12:22:49 PM *So when I read Yabby as saying 'NO MORE JEWS!'* Well there is the problem Csteele, in yo.....
» 24/09/2012 9:30:19 AM *This, according to Yabby, is 'Kumbaya culture', 'paper thin' with the 'laws of the jungle.....
» 23/09/2012 11:16:56 PM *But surely, the worst thing anyone can do to an animal, whether we're talking about a far.....
» 23/09/2012 12:43:32 PM It was Christian slaves which powered alot of Muslim boats, if you go back a few hundred y.....
» 22/09/2012 8:39:04 PM *I'm not all that impressed with rounded citizens, who can't earn a living.* Well that is.....
» 22/09/2012 7:21:07 PM Ah DiamondPete, if only things were as hunkydory as you claim. Fact is as more muslim asy.....
» 22/09/2012 1:32:47 PM The thing is Csteele, there remains one major unresolved issue between the Islamic world .....
» 21/09/2012 5:48:20 PM Ah Poirot, we love you just as you are :) The thing is, a test of your method is there fo.....
» 21/09/2012 1:45:15 PM What a load of codswollop. If you want to bore kids to death and encourage them to leave .....
» 20/09/2012 4:00:50 PM Well yes Poirot, I know I am right about that and yes, civilisation as its called, is just.....
» 20/09/2012 2:09:45 PM *You and the others are reacting in a typical human manner to a "perceived" thre.....
» 19/09/2012 2:14:42 PM *Honest to God, you are my hero!" Yep.* That is what those female groupies normally.....
» 18/09/2012 5:27:13 PM Well that is where its all changing, Hasbeen. A sensible business plan today would be to h.....
» 18/09/2012 12:13:18 PM *they would have to drop meat, seafood and produce. May happen one day, who knows, it will.....
» 18/09/2012 5:24:56 AM *The Christian scriptures are JUST as full of uneducated, ancient evil and violence as the.....
» 17/09/2012 9:57:10 PM *to a greater extent in the riot - to a lesser extent on this thread. Driven by fear most.....
» 17/09/2012 9:33:17 AM Csteele, the Nazis were not exactly religious. They also tried to kill communists, marxist.....
» 16/09/2012 7:42:07 PM *with Christians delivering the Holocaust and the genocidal mass slaughter in the Yugoslav.....
» 16/09/2012 7:04:36 PM An interesting observation Pericles and one that I ponder about sometimes. I don't claim .....
» 16/09/2012 5:35:32 PM Ah Poirot, sometimes its also good for a laugh, especially when stuff happens in real life.....
» 16/09/2012 1:45:52 PM *I'm going to sit next to Siddhartha and listen to the river.* Well Poirot, that is exact.....
» 14/09/2012 8:58:24 PM So Pericles, let me ask you a question. Next time that you fill out your tax return, will .....
» 14/09/2012 9:22:03 AM Anthony, you remain totally confused, but that does not suprise me. Politicians can do go.....
» 13/09/2012 10:47:53 PM Bad luck Anthony, for I have only the very best cigars, right here :) So you can stick you.....
» 13/09/2012 9:03:12 PM *Wall st ring any bells?* I have a great memory Anthony, but also a good understaning of .....
» 13/09/2012 6:38:29 PM *Given that these same people practically never have a say in creating the problem, I can'.....
» 13/09/2012 6:30:22 PM Of course half the housework done by housewives, is cleaning up their own mess, so who wo.....
» 13/09/2012 4:48:37 PM Well yes Marylin, 1948 and well out of date. Not dealing with the swarm of economic refug.....
» 13/09/2012 11:13:07 AM *I suspect you'd find the food is worse than your mother's.* Hardly a valid comparison Pe.....
» 13/09/2012 10:57:29 AM The reality is that Govts can't keep spending more than they earn and the interview with R.....
» 13/09/2012 10:30:56 AM I think there may be a bit of paranoia creeping in here. I live in the country, where ever.....
» 13/09/2012 10:18:16 AM Oh if only it were that simple. Julie forgets the law of unintended consequences. Fact is .....
» 12/09/2012 8:40:09 PM *All refugees have to cross borders and if they have to cross more than one border they ar.....
» 12/09/2012 7:56:24 PM *So, any thoughts on how much is a sensible amount?* Yes Pericles. What it costs to evalu.....
» 12/09/2012 10:46:51 AM *I can see them queuing up right now, with their worldly possessions in a small shopping b.....
» 11/09/2012 9:29:10 PM *Afghan refugees we are torturing after they flee our war is sort of the point* Deary me,.....
» 11/09/2012 8:10:58 PM Housework.... I'm from the old school, that is woman's work :).....
» 11/09/2012 8:08:27 PM People get the Govt which they deserve, Rectub. So they pay for the consequences of their .....
» 10/09/2012 8:21:19 PM Arjay, I'll keep it simple. There are derivatives and there are derivatives. Let me give y.....
» 10/09/2012 4:37:09 PM *we really don't have to give that outcome any serious consideration at all.* Well yes yo.....
» 10/09/2012 2:12:35 PM *I was in unbelievable pain: and, had VAS been available, I would have grabbed at it there.....
» 9/09/2012 1:50:58 PM *This meant that for every dollar of deposits they could create a loan of $ 333.00.* No i.....
» 7/09/2012 3:23:57 PM SM, there are indeed good rational reasons to question what the European super trawlers ar.....
» 7/09/2012 12:00:32 PM *One of the major problems over the last 10 years has been the relative insignificance of .....
» 7/09/2012 4:49:33 AM Poirot, people have been trading things and moving goods around, since they started walkin.....
» 6/09/2012 10:53:37 PM Poirot, I think you confuse globalisation with human greed, which was going on long before.....
» 4/09/2012 6:54:04 PM *I lean more towards defending employee rights, only because I think there is already grea.....
» 3/09/2012 9:29:41 PM *The trick is how to keep them honest* Well that is the point, Pelican. Power corrupts, w.....
» 3/09/2012 9:20:06 PM *We have brutalized those susceptible ones in the X and Y generations with playstations an.....
» 3/09/2012 4:48:29 PM SM, given that the odd baby has lost its penis due to circumcision, it even safer to leave.....
» 3/09/2012 2:58:19 PM *Suggesting that this procedure is delayed until the male is an adult is similar to argue .....
» 3/09/2012 1:54:24 PM *Not so!* Ah Houllie, the joys of Google and the net! Who knows, perhaps SM's son might .....
» 3/09/2012 11:34:42 AM *Those with or without are equally happy with the status quo, which is not an argument eit.....
» 3/09/2012 9:11:12 AM *You lot make out that by having the right to own a gun, means we will all go out and decl.....
» 2/09/2012 10:18:13 AM AFAIK, Tony Abbott was the Health Minister when the libs cut the number of doctor trainin.....
» 1/09/2012 8:28:14 PM *Of the people that have had the procedure, I have yet to meet anyone that regrets it.* W.....
» 1/09/2012 4:40:36 PM *Here I constantly go on record, CONDEMNING the CFMEU and HSU.* Ah indeed you do, Belly. .....
» 1/09/2012 1:28:23 PM *Not even the HSU got that much.* Well seemingly they did, Belly. Just google it. 350K fo.....
» 1/09/2012 10:34:26 AM Well Belly, what we can see is that the union business, is clearly lucrative. I too could .....
» 1/09/2012 10:29:41 AM You missed the point, SM. Just because something might perhaps have claimed health benefit.....
» 31/08/2012 10:17:44 PM *This is really an argument about parental rights to consent to medical procedures for the.....
» 31/08/2012 9:56:30 PM *earn upwards of 100,000 a year* Well Belly is free to correct me, if I am wrong, but fro.....
» 31/08/2012 8:18:42 PM *There has to be a balance and both the industry unions (eg. chambers of commerce and the .....
» 31/08/2012 5:18:38 PM *Yabby if only you knew. It is about zero* Hehe Belly. So you think that people like your.....
» 31/08/2012 2:45:15 PM *To stop a human being from developing in is no different if you prevent fertilisation via.....
» 30/08/2012 4:57:37 PM Yeah Belly, but its not just this union. Look at the HSU. These are not the only ones. T.....
» 30/08/2012 2:32:59 PM All this union stuff is a bit of a worry, Belly. So tell me, why does every second union o.....
» 30/08/2012 11:13:44 AM *If you're jealous coz you lost yours, then blame your folks and stop trying to make every.....
» 30/08/2012 11:01:12 AM I've heard of other close nuclear calls, like when the Russians has nuclear armed subs nea.....
» 30/08/2012 10:49:10 AM Deary me runner, how hard and heartless is your heart, as you flush those poor little sper.....
» 29/08/2012 7:32:20 PM *the most religious country in the Western world would have to be the Vatican.* Ah of cou.....
» 29/08/2012 12:58:07 PM *Simple reversible procedures, like a vasectomy or tubal ligation, would prevent some of t.....
» 28/08/2012 8:42:40 PM *A fetus has a brain, it is not fully developed but it is fully human* Kyles, a baby has .....
» 28/08/2012 4:20:04 PM Kyles, we have been though this before in earlier posts. A human sperm too is a being wit.....
» 25/08/2012 2:44:36 PM *Bombing Iran will ignite the fuse of Armageddon!* Well it could be worse, David G. Iran .....
» 25/08/2012 11:29:26 AM Well its just a case of " I told you so". Its been made clear to whites that it.....
» 24/08/2012 10:09:14 PM *According to the UNHCR, Pakistan continues to host approximately 1.7 million refugees* I.....
» 24/08/2012 9:56:46 PM *So Yabby, a sperm is human and a being, hence it is a human being? Really? But a zygote i.....
» 24/08/2012 3:40:21 PM *If you want to “stop the flow” then you have to somehow stop the US and its allies waging.....
» 24/08/2012 10:08:29 AM *This is supposed to be the people's house* Well yes Arjay, but its a house for debate, n.....
» 24/08/2012 10:01:04 AM That is all very well Julian, but of course mixed in with those nutrients are also the 83.....
» 24/08/2012 12:00:42 AM The transplanted brain question is not as far fetched as it might seem, Rich. There have a.....
» 23/08/2012 2:18:11 PM *They have the DNA of the man in whom they were manufactured.* Ah Rich, but they are not .....
» 23/08/2012 12:38:34 PM *I raised the matter of falsification of data - and you respond with bias. They are not th.....
» 23/08/2012 12:27:08 PM *Sort of like skin cells or hair* Not really, Rich. They are not carbon based lifeforms w.....
» 22/08/2012 11:53:43 PM Hehe Alan, so you tell me to read accurate information, and then give me an article by an .....
» 22/08/2012 9:08:03 PM *A sperm cell is not an organism* Not so RichG. It is an individual being that moves abou.....
» 22/08/2012 2:03:18 PM *and is a living organism* Indeed RichG, the zygote is an organism with potential. But it.....
» 22/08/2012 1:43:01 PM *You oversimplify, as usual* Well yes, Poirot. In 350 words, I cannot write an epistle, I.....
» 22/08/2012 10:19:39 AM *As to "advisers" - they're the ones who toodle along from the World Bank, WTO a.....
» 22/08/2012 9:57:04 AM *When were you here last, Yabby?* Ah Alan, but I am there every day. Courtesy of CNN, BBC.....
» 21/08/2012 11:53:26 PM *Maybe our grandparents weren't so dumb...* Many of our grandpartents lived in fear and m.....
» 21/08/2012 8:07:03 PM *The answer is for sex to be reserved for marriage only* Ho, ho, ho, this is the 21st cen.....
» 21/08/2012 4:33:58 PM *Our invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 has forced millions more to flee to Pakistan and has .....
» 21/08/2012 12:09:05 PM *The only thing that can rehabilitate clapped-out soils in any long-term way is to get the.....
» 21/08/2012 11:13:53 AM *But it doesn't rebut the assertion that the "encouraged" overuse of pesticides .....
» 21/08/2012 11:08:45 AM *I sincerely hope they send us the 3 million Afghans they are booting out of the country* .....
» 21/08/2012 10:58:07 AM *The microbes that live and maintain the soil's vitality have been destroyed through the u.....
» 21/08/2012 9:05:09 AM Alan, what surprises me is that you seemingly are not learning much from the disaster in F.....
» 20/08/2012 12:41:44 PM *Don’t use the millions of displaced people in the world as an excuse for not trying this .....
» 20/08/2012 10:21:54 AM *Because Australia does not lock up English-speaking whites in off-shore detention – as Ma.....
» 19/08/2012 5:35:37 PM Ah Sonofgloin, so you are actually a rich real estate owner and are not paying 14% interes.....
» 19/08/2012 2:24:24 PM You just forgot one thing, SPQR. The present Govt, encouraged by the Greens, are booking .....
» 19/08/2012 11:11:34 AM Sheesh Sonofgloin, you are a worry sometimes, you really are. But quite human of course as.....
» 19/08/2012 10:49:18 AM Well Alan, I would certainly not provide them and all their extended families, cushy benef.....
» 19/08/2012 8:12:38 AM *Iran ranks first worldwide in terms of having the largest number of road accidents with 3.....
» 19/08/2012 8:02:55 AM *Those found not genuine are sent home.* Oh come on Alan, you arn't really that gullible,.....
» 18/08/2012 9:33:17 PM *Then I take some of theirs, the one they paid 3.5% for and pay them 14% for the privilege.....
» 18/08/2012 7:56:07 PM *Right now the CBA are paying 0.01% interest on savings accounts with balances up to $49,9.....
» 18/08/2012 6:26:43 PM *It just changes the total investments into the CBA by the Australian superanuation segmen.....
» 18/08/2012 5:19:02 PM http://www.triapartners.com/resources/documents/12-04-17_00_Investment_Mergers%20spur%20su.....
» 18/08/2012 3:15:03 PM *I’ll give you a tip Yabby. Any money thrown down the throat of a pokie stays in our econo.....
» 18/08/2012 2:17:58 PM *they are the nominees of the banks that own them...lol* No Sonofgloin, they are nominees.....
» 18/08/2012 2:09:43 PM Poirot I'm suggesting that Assange is probably doing what he loves, doing, ie being the ce.....
» 18/08/2012 1:44:14 PM Poirot, a snip from your article: *The South American country has said Mr Assange's human.....
» 18/08/2012 12:54:56 PM Poirot, I think that he's a drama queen, who loves all the attention and all the easy sex .....
» 18/08/2012 12:37:01 PM Steven, I know that you lived in South Africa. If you ever want to understand the Central .....
» 18/08/2012 12:28:41 PM Alan, of course boat people are treated better. No waiting around in refugee camps for a d.....
» 18/08/2012 12:07:37 PM *why did you post the 20 top CBA shareholders from 2005.* Quite simple, Sonofgloin. 2005 .....
» 17/08/2012 8:49:59 PM *Yabby, no-one is suggesting Australia take 2 million Hazaras. Just a fair share* Not qui.....
» 17/08/2012 7:12:05 PM Alan, you are of course ignoring the central argument, raised by the recent report that ev.....
» 17/08/2012 1:42:13 PM Just a typo, Sonofgloin, which you would have known. It should have read AMP......
» 17/08/2012 8:47:51 AM http://www.commbank.com.au/shareholder/2005annualreport/shareholding_information_fr.asp S.....
» 17/08/2012 12:01:35 AM Sonofgloin, AMP runs Super funds on behalf of people like you. Banks run super funds on be.....
» 16/08/2012 11:40:45 PM Hang on Alan, Australia has been taking 13'000 a year, that has been the annual quota. Tha.....
» 16/08/2012 10:38:34 PM Oops Sonofgloin, you clearly don't have the foggiest, what Nominees actually do. They don'.....
» 16/08/2012 7:41:31 PM *Yes, it is crowded. But that's 90% of the fun.* Fun for you rich ones perhaps, Pericles......
» 16/08/2012 7:06:12 PM Alan, we still accept refugees, as we have done in the past. There is a difference howeve.....
» 16/08/2012 5:32:30 PM *But I don't think it justifies them charging nearly 50% of our bills for networks, do you.....
» 16/08/2012 1:46:38 PM Well anyone who opens their eyes, can see where the money is going. They had to replace a .....
» 16/08/2012 11:46:14 AM Ok Sonofgloin, lets talk facts. So all companies are evil, because one made a healthy prof.....
» 16/08/2012 9:21:55 AM Sonofgloin, in the past 30 years, the real standard of living of working Australians has i.....
» 16/08/2012 9:10:25 AM A good article, which shows that Gillard is all about political spin on this one too. I .....
» 16/08/2012 12:00:30 AM Alan, I think you need to get your mind around the fact that Australia cannot save the wor.....
» 15/08/2012 11:37:27 PM *what a lame example of the need for improving infrastructure, scrub fires over in the wes.....
» 15/08/2012 11:26:31 AM An interesting article, Steven. I think that there are many little reasons, which all add.....
» 15/08/2012 9:06:55 AM Singapore is hardly going extinct. The locals are simply reacting to the fact that the pla.....
» 15/08/2012 8:57:50 AM Well they urgently needed to invest more in poles and wires. Fact is that the old systems .....
» 14/08/2012 10:59:07 PM *Yes. They can request the treatment cease and they go onto palliative care providing a co.....
» 14/08/2012 10:27:08 PM *If a person wishes to take their life, I do not think that they should involve others.* .....
» 14/08/2012 5:25:22 PM Belly, I read the article and it just confirms what I have been saying all along. A few qu.....
» 14/08/2012 4:48:44 PM *For Australia, the acceleration of mining investments by China and India in Africa* Hang.....
» 11/08/2012 10:46:53 PM Well no Runner, because I am not making any claims, unlike yourself. I am highlighting the.....
» 11/08/2012 9:22:02 PM Oh I clearly get it, Runner. Your saviour stops you from doing kiddie porn and stops you f.....
» 11/08/2012 8:32:44 PM *desperatley need a Saviour* Ther real worry here, Runner, is the implications of what yo.....
» 10/08/2012 3:11:36 PM So runner, if your wife bought you a Fleshlight for your birthday, would she be buying you.....
» 8/08/2012 2:54:13 PM *but more the issue of people taking the lives of others without their permission under th.....
» 7/08/2012 5:01:57 PM I have to agree with you Ludwig, I loved the pictures! I am impressed. Its funny how art c.....
» 5/08/2012 10:05:29 PM *and introduce chemical genocide of peoples rights.* Er hang on Josephus, that is give pe.....
» 4/08/2012 7:42:50 PM *but rather freedoms gained through education, opportunity, more equitable access to resou.....
» 3/08/2012 2:11:06 PM *I'm happy in my trench thanks.* That's fine Csteele. We'll just get all the girls pregna.....
» 3/08/2012 11:30:49 AM *Actually, it was never really up there as an issue* Maybe for a Cheryl, who lives in bli.....
» 2/08/2012 6:43:15 PM *but we should never be talked into being stingy with food aid while they take that journe.....
» 1/08/2012 11:26:25 AM *It wasn't only Bush my friend.* I agree with you on that one, Csteele. I mentioned Bush,.....
» 31/07/2012 7:57:38 PM http://www.economist.com/node/21558564 There ya go. Even the Economist agrees that giving.....
» 31/07/2012 6:23:00 PM *The more countries are lifted from poverty, the higher the child survival rate and theref.....
» 29/07/2012 1:47:55 PM The thing is Poirot, it seems to me that you would like us all to focus on the big picture.....
» 19/07/2012 8:00:14 PM *The author should be commended for acting in the national interest by addressing the side.....
» 5/07/2012 8:07:04 PM Hehe, these people smugglers are showing up the Australians, for the suckers that they rea.....
» 3/07/2012 10:49:41 PM Nah Anthony, I simply regard myself as one of the few Australians who has some common sens.....
» 3/07/2012 10:22:29 PM I watched Bloomberg last night and an old American oil baron came on, thrilled at the pros.....
» 1/07/2012 6:21:13 PM *So lamb's out and you have switched to dairy?* Nope, I simply refuted your claim that fa.....
» 1/07/2012 5:23:49 PM *Farming families are going to be measurably better off in relative terms when all things .....
» 1/07/2012 4:06:49 PM *Who ultimately pays? The consumer of course* Ah, I can just see it now, Csteele. *Dear O.....
» 1/07/2012 1:54:38 PM *The ALP showed that they were willing to compromise to achieve a solution to asylum seeke.....
» 1/07/2012 1:44:10 PM *so the end result is this land is now some of the land that is selling for $200K per lot,.....
» 1/07/2012 11:20:09 AM Americans would make perfect sense. Just think of all those heavy diesel mechanics, exact.....
» 1/07/2012 11:15:26 AM *The cost of block of land has gone from $7500. to $200,000 plus* This is what makes no s.....
» 30/06/2012 10:46:41 PM Yeah, so how many million does Clive want? If you want millions, I could easily backload o.....
» 30/06/2012 2:53:47 PM Well of course we are not serious about stopping the boats, SPQR. We dangle the first pri.....
» 30/06/2012 2:44:53 PM *Show me the money* Csteele, if it costs the coop directly or indirectly, does not matter.....
» 30/06/2012 11:09:54 AM *Labour sending them to the wall? Really?* That was not what I claimed, Csteele, you shou.....
» 29/06/2012 8:14:37 PM Well Belly old mate, I don't think that you can blame the debacle that we face, all on the.....
» 29/06/2012 4:07:30 PM *I submit that the greens and Labor do not care one iota about the deaths* I'd have to di.....
» 28/06/2012 9:41:13 PM This article certainly proves one thing. Women are indeed the champions, when it comes to.....
» 28/06/2012 5:01:24 PM *It doesn't mean he loses civilisation.* Nah, just big cities as we know them. Take the e.....
» 28/06/2012 3:45:26 PM I watched Christine Milne last night on ABC TV, put forward the Greens solution. It just .....
» 28/06/2012 12:27:02 AM *Distance will soon cost money, and so will burning carbon* In that case Bazz, first of a.....
» 27/06/2012 5:57:29 PM We can change that very quickly Marylin, by changing the terms under which we abide by the.....
» 27/06/2012 5:17:33 PM *but we cannot dictate how many arrive here and ask for protection.* We certainly can Mar.....
» 27/06/2012 4:12:20 PM Sorry Marylin, but despite you wanting to bemother them all, Australia cannot save the wor.....
» 27/06/2012 1:19:38 PM http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/more-news/people-smuggling-crisis-advice-given-on-duping-.....
» 26/06/2012 10:00:48 PM *My bet is that it would be accepted by the people, same as in Ireland, Italy and France, .....
» 26/06/2012 6:17:30 PM http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-pandemic-bird-flu-transmissible-air.html I heard ab.....
» 25/06/2012 10:45:07 PM The thing is, Cohenite, that you can offer absolutaly no solutions, apart from man plunder.....
» 24/06/2012 8:27:55 PM *Women in the most fertile nations do not have a choice.* So give them a choice, Cohenite.....
» 24/06/2012 12:38:43 PM http://opinion.inquirer.net/9489/family-planning-in-thailand-ph Cohenite, Banjo posted th.....
» 24/06/2012 12:31:35 PM Great post Banjo, I meant to comment earlier, but my internet connection is really playing.....
» 23/06/2012 2:26:05 PM I read exactly what you wrote, Cohenite and you miss the point entirely. The problem is n.....
» 23/06/2012 12:10:36 PM *Whilst hundreds of millions of women in the third world don't have enough education, to k.....
» 23/06/2012 11:49:54 AM *If people are well off they will not breed* Not quite correct, Cohenite. People will hav.....
» 22/06/2012 8:02:47 PM *The traditional way for people to deal with overpopulation was to start killing each othe.....
» 22/06/2012 2:41:26 PM *I dips me lid.* Which might just make you a bit of a hypocrite Pericles, if you are havi.....
» 22/06/2012 12:50:37 PM Whilst hundreds of millions of women in the third world go without family planning, often .....
» 20/06/2012 7:04:34 PM *Now this country needs to grow the hell up.* No Marylin, you need to grow up by realisin.....
» 20/06/2012 6:51:10 PM *How many handfuls of rice can you get for the dollar value of a condom. How many condoms .....
» 20/06/2012 12:36:57 PM I think its really going to depend on how much they charge. I would happily subscribe to t.....
» 20/06/2012 12:09:10 PM The carbon tax is just another reason, along with others, to justify manufacturers shuttin.....
» 19/06/2012 11:08:00 PM *How do you know?* I know Jardine, because I happen to be involved in the food production.....
» 19/06/2012 8:22:17 PM *These laws have massively shut down – oops “worked better with” (by stopping) the product.....
» 19/06/2012 10:47:35 AM The 4 corners programme showed what a joke the "thorough vetting of asylum seekers&qu.....
» 19/06/2012 7:15:35 AM *It made my skin crawl with embarrassment to hear Gillard lecturing the world leaders on h.....
» 18/06/2012 2:38:37 PM *thoughtlessly prolonging their miserable existence, and perpetuating the cycle of over-po.....
» 17/06/2012 8:01:10 PM *If we take away all the humans, there's no value in the environment to speak of* Given t.....
» 17/06/2012 6:31:39 PM *on the basis that the environment has value over and above (other people’s) human interes.....
» 17/06/2012 2:34:56 PM *The laws surely must be changed for the sake of equity* Well yes. Politicians should hav.....
» 17/06/2012 2:01:14 PM *There are so many richly undeserving snouts in the public trough* I completely agree wi.....
» 17/06/2012 1:36:10 PM *The green movement, by shutting down production all over the world on the basis that the .....
» 17/06/2012 11:13:43 AM *Profit can't be created from nothing, it depends on exploiting need, both at the level of.....
» 15/06/2012 4:14:05 PM *Therefore, Ludwig’s argument that the solution to poverty is to cut population is not com.....
» 14/06/2012 8:43:49 PM *I recall you telling me that the banks were poor and that they did not collude...1% profi.....
» 13/06/2012 3:31:57 AM http://weather.unisys.com/upper_air/ua_shem_500p.gif There you go Poirot, that is what ne.....
» 12/06/2012 3:33:38 PM Well clearly this one went over Anthony's head by a long shot. So Yuyutsu is not alone......
» 12/06/2012 12:02:22 PM *not where you're forced to view products that you won't be buying from them anyway - but .....
» 11/06/2012 6:53:04 PM *You can write off your fuel, your social outings, your phone bill, your whatever * Well .....
» 11/06/2012 9:24:17 AM *What we have now is rampant abuse of the UNHCR agreement where "refugees" are g.....
» 11/06/2012 9:11:56 AM *These retailers are being screwed and, considering that paid parking was introduced mid l.....
» 10/06/2012 11:05:33 PM *We, the ordinary people on the street have to pay tax on turnover, no write-offs for us* .....
» 10/06/2012 9:17:56 PM Dear Lexi, If the Safeway store suits you better, that is clearly the place for you to sh.....
» 10/06/2012 8:38:24 PM Rehctub, just because somebody hangs their shingle out, does not mean that they are worthy.....
» 10/06/2012 8:29:20 PM Well for me its people such as David Attenborough and Jane Goodall. They have an understan.....
» 10/06/2012 3:30:24 PM *"They" can play all sorts of games with money but without energy nothing but no.....
» 10/06/2012 2:19:07 PM Bazz, I have an Economist app on my Ipad, which is about various country figures and the .....
» 10/06/2012 12:41:25 PM *At over $4 a gallon they had the option of paying for food, or petrol or the mortgage.* .....
» 10/06/2012 9:42:50 AM Bazz, be careful that you don't try to force the figures to fit into your pet theory, rath.....
» 9/06/2012 7:53:38 PM Individual, the problem is not a flat tax. Rates can be moved in various directions, with .....
» 9/06/2012 7:43:05 PM Bazz, last time I checked, we had something like a 1.3 trillion$ economy, so the 18 billio.....
» 9/06/2012 3:46:59 PM *Thus, his "current account" would ne negative for that year* Exactly. So follo.....
» 9/06/2012 3:05:33 PM Hasbeen, you are quite correct. The economic tea leaves are full of uncertainty and prices.....
» 9/06/2012 2:52:01 PM Peak Oil indeed Bazz. You only have to have a look at the Economist current account figure.....
» 9/06/2012 1:31:39 PM *There are cut backs in health, jobs, education, libraries* Gawd Lexi, horror of horrors......
» 8/06/2012 10:22:03 PM *Don't complain about the big companies making huge profits* Well I'm not complaining. I .....
» 8/06/2012 7:53:57 PM *No write-offs.* Individual, that truly was a blonde moment. Let me see, if Coles pays 80.....
» 8/06/2012 6:45:10 PM Nobody made that claim, StG. If you watched the show, you'd realise that those who do arri.....
» 8/06/2012 5:30:04 PM I saw the programme Banjo and it certainly verified what you and I have been saying all al.....
» 8/06/2012 3:36:15 PM You can give it as many shots as you like David, that does not seem to change your confus.....
» 8/06/2012 3:31:11 PM *But it seems that Yabby, Peter, et al, aren't the type who let facts spoil a good theory......
» 8/06/2012 3:23:33 PM *it is time for Australia to forge a National State for the 21st Century and get rid of th.....
» 7/06/2012 11:26:24 PM *You equate Marius Kloppers' comments with the economic tea leaves.* Anthony, people like.....
» 7/06/2012 10:19:34 PM Dear Lexi, It certainly does clarify things for me. If the Govt had to spend 100 million$.....
» 7/06/2012 9:14:28 PM David, if you read yesterday's AFR, on page 4 you will find an article detailing the 8.5 .....
» 7/06/2012 7:59:20 PM *And our continuing economic performance alone would justify reelection.* Hehe Anthony :).....
» 7/06/2012 7:46:34 PM Perhaps the author needs to talk to the wives of FIFO workers. They have no intention of g.....
» 7/06/2012 5:58:36 PM http://www.smh.com.au/news/nswbudget2008/popes-visit-will-cost-taxpayers-139m/2008/06/03/1.....
» 7/06/2012 5:51:21 PM *However, deductions which don't apply to other industries reduce mining companies taxable.....
» 7/06/2012 3:24:47 PM *A bit of a different scenario to a Royal visit.* Well yes, a royal visit would be cheape.....
» 7/06/2012 11:57:53 AM Lexi, I seem to recall that we spent around 100 million on the pope circus, when he came .....
» 6/06/2012 10:00:30 PM *There's always someone at the top sitting on a gilded perch. It's what mankind does.* We.....
» 6/06/2012 4:47:06 PM *With tax breaks, they pay very little tax compared to other industries.* They are hardly.....
» 6/06/2012 3:50:36 PM *Being a confident cook myself, I used to enjoy the show, but I don't watch anymore due to.....
» 6/06/2012 3:14:33 PM David, figures for companies like BHP are fairly public and are well known. At the time of.....
» 6/06/2012 2:25:36 PM *If it's part of your yearly salary, then I guess it is owed to you* Nope Houllie, its ju.....
» 6/06/2012 1:18:45 PM *Why do we need a head of state of a foreign country?* Well we don't Lexi and she's reall.....
» 6/06/2012 12:33:46 PM Belly, see it this way. The whole Lizzie 2 shindig is a huge money spinner for the British.....
» 6/06/2012 12:25:31 PM *14% is not sufficient tax on companies making massive profits from Australian resources.*.....
» 4/06/2012 9:36:22 PM Houllie, you are not working class. You are "really smart but just could not be bothe.....
» 4/06/2012 8:56:24 PM Poirot, capitalism simply enables people to obtain capital, which is required for many inn.....
» 4/06/2012 8:13:32 PM Sheesh Lexi, its time for me to get the violins out here :) Poor self employed architect .....
» 4/06/2012 6:32:04 PM *And yet people formed societies and institutions and community and shared beliefs.* Well.....
» 4/06/2012 3:51:15 PM Squeers, I see that people usually put self interest ahead of the communal good......
» 4/06/2012 2:45:13 PM *Well why should employees pay tax, while business owners claim everything as a business e.....
» 4/06/2012 2:34:45 PM *I don't really believe in human nature, apart from the basic drives--survival, procreatio.....
» 4/06/2012 12:15:14 PM *I do not see the bleak picture that you're painting regarding the carbon tax.* Well of .....
» 4/06/2012 10:40:00 AM Houllie, I don't actually see the dancing and the cooking as the same thing. I suspect tha.....
» 4/06/2012 9:15:30 AM *The other side of the coin that employers can no longer rely on loyalty from their staff......
» 4/06/2012 9:04:23 AM I think that a whole lot of Aussies are belately waking up to the fact that great food exi.....
» 3/06/2012 7:24:32 PM *Only some 500 big polluting industries will be paying it* Not so Lexi, they pass it on. .....
» 3/06/2012 6:33:21 PM Ah Lexi, clearly accounting is not your strength. I remind you that the GST is refundable .....
» 3/06/2012 5:00:21 PM Ah 579, that post makes more sense than the previous one, for indeed it is all about moder.....
» 3/06/2012 4:12:10 PM *The use of cream, oils, and cheeses is for an era that was uninformed.* 579, I remind yo.....
» 3/06/2012 2:50:47 PM *One wonders if they have any interest in this nation's future.* Lexi, the real question .....
» 3/06/2012 1:25:32 PM Divergence, at moments like this it sometimes pays to not just rely on a poll in the SMH, .....
» 2/06/2012 2:03:44 PM *particularly us do-nothing layabouts in the Eastern States* Ah Pericles, I of course nev.....
» 2/06/2012 1:15:52 PM *Wouldn’t be a much better idea to say no to any further mining expansion, given the level.....
» 2/06/2012 1:03:30 PM *People who want to top themselves, have multiple choices, that don't necessarily include .....
» 2/06/2012 11:52:18 AM *It's interesting that the opponents of both euthanasia and gay marriage are now doing the.....
» 2/06/2012 11:43:17 AM *What on earth is going on here??* Ludwig, our economy simply reflects the reality of how.....
» 1/06/2012 4:33:28 PM *Humans just incapable of moderation--but that's the capitalist way rather than human natu.....
» 1/06/2012 2:55:49 PM Ludwig, your problem is one of the law of unintended consequences. The reality is that Au.....
» 1/06/2012 2:02:18 PM *It is widely recognised prevention is better than cure and that investments in risk reduc.....
» 1/06/2012 11:44:13 AM The vulnerable are people like Mr Rossiter of Perth, who was trapped in his own body by hi.....
» 1/06/2012 6:00:02 AM *It's kinda hard to explain* Well Poirot, I guess we can just call it primordial instinct.....
» 31/05/2012 11:33:54 AM *I am concerned that what will happen is this: The 457 visa holders reach the end of their.....
» 30/05/2012 11:00:46 PM *The real problem is under-employment and that's due to the deliberate casualisation of th.....
» 30/05/2012 9:06:44 PM *I was driven by ideology * Well that kind of explains it all, Squeers. Get your thrills .....
» 30/05/2012 8:57:04 PM *To begin Arts students learn practical research, reasoning and writing skills;* Sheesh T.....
» 30/05/2012 7:37:05 PM *The even bigger problem is cars in Oz are status symbols and extensions of egos.* Oh com.....
» 30/05/2012 4:08:41 PM *6. Foreign owners made 40 cents in profit. Now tell me again, who is being ripped off her.....
» 30/05/2012 3:14:32 PM http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/-/newshome/13811688/cash-incentive-fails-to-bring-job-s.....
» 30/05/2012 12:55:00 PM *A survey last year in Melbourne reported four out of five skilled migrants as unemployed .....
» 29/05/2012 7:41:23 PM *The number of medical students is limited by the number of university places the governme.....
» 29/05/2012 3:09:08 PM *Seal? Oh yes please! A man who appeals to a woman's imagination is the one who gets her......
» 29/05/2012 2:28:49 PM *BHP Billiton is 76% foreign owned and Rio Tinto is at 83% and are both listed as foreign .....
» 29/05/2012 12:12:10 PM There was a sad documentary on Niger the other night. People are hungry and the UN wants m.....
» 29/05/2012 12:04:13 PM Ah well, there was I, hoping that this could be turned into a bout of lingerie mud wrestli.....
» 28/05/2012 7:33:36 PM *And as dead as the brain movements in the heads of those who think standing stunned in th.....
» 28/05/2012 6:10:31 PM *Foreign owners made 40 cents in profit.* In that case Rache, you had better rush out wit.....
» 28/05/2012 6:04:41 PM *The lowliest labourers working in a mine earn vastly more than say Day Care workers, who .....
» 28/05/2012 2:12:02 PM http://www.smh.com.au/business/howes-crying-wolf-on-foreign-workers-20120528-1ze6y.html B.....
» 28/05/2012 12:03:19 PM *I don't imagine these people you mention would be having a hard time of it living on 'onl.....
» 28/05/2012 11:02:56 AM *Finally the wealthy pay more tax as they have MUCH MORE wealth... Gina Rineheart is now w.....
» 28/05/2012 10:01:42 AM Yvonne, as it happens where I live is near a town where a great many of the workers are fl.....
» 27/05/2012 9:30:44 PM *Coal-burning for aluminium smelting was on its last legs years ago* Well that's it. Rio .....
» 27/05/2012 8:19:58 PM *It is because we spend very, very little money on actually educating our people for the k.....
» 26/05/2012 10:21:52 PM *if I was to turn - it would be passionate, intelligent, sexy souls like Poirot, that I'd .....
» 26/05/2012 8:22:47 PM *you can’t blame me or Paul Howes* Ludwig, I certainly don't blame you. For you are a cl.....
» 26/05/2012 3:37:52 PM *Their balance of payments and GDP have been reduced because of the cost of oil, ie the Br.....
» 26/05/2012 12:15:30 PM *So it sounds as though it is more a case of overseas workers being brought in regardless .....
» 26/05/2012 10:32:09 AM Ok Ludwig, let me try and explain it so that even a botanist can understand it :) Howes i.....
» 24/05/2012 7:47:38 PM Rehctub, that is actually not quite the case. I gather that HP employs something like 300'.....
» 24/05/2012 6:39:19 PM http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/30/world/asia/30shanghai.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all Chris, i.....
» 24/05/2012 3:48:26 PM *The oppositions job is to kick shins. That has nothing to do whether he will be a good PM.....
» 24/05/2012 3:08:08 PM SM, I actually happen to agree with you that the carbon tax will be a nail in the coffin o.....
» 24/05/2012 1:08:15 PM http://www.climatespectator.com.au/commentary/abbotts-carbon-tax-deception-point?utm_sourc.....
» 23/05/2012 2:43:46 PM *There's plenty of other people's money to go around* Only if you are kidding yourself an.....
» 23/05/2012 2:33:24 PM http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programme_for_International_Student_Assessment Chris, one of.....
» 23/05/2012 1:52:31 PM http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2011/10/31/whats-wrong-with-education-its-not-teac.....
» 22/05/2012 6:26:09 PM *That’s what is so offensive to those who think the way to save the world is to dictate ho.....
» 21/05/2012 7:05:22 PM Repeat after me, Shira : Australia cannot save the world. Australia cannot save the world......
» 21/05/2012 3:08:03 PM *And while there may be an overpopulation problem in parts of the world, there isn’t one h.....
» 21/05/2012 2:15:41 PM Humans are not rabbits, Cheryl, but given the right circumstances, they breed and live lik.....
» 21/05/2012 12:09:27 PM I recently watched a documentary about poverty in the Phillipines. A thirty seven year old.....
» 19/05/2012 6:15:41 PM I wish I was wrong, Grim, but the last paragraph of the posted URL kind of said it all, so.....
» 19/05/2012 5:26:25 PM http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/-/newshome/13417612/doctor-barred-for-doing-male-snip/ .....
» 19/05/2012 2:05:46 PM I haven't followed this debate here closely, but I would like to point out that an atheis.....
» 18/05/2012 8:38:26 PM *you can be sure that Jesus is repulsed by man's idea of 'gay'marriage* Well I'm not so s.....
» 18/05/2012 7:30:13 PM Sheesh Marylin. I must remember to use underage crew for my next shipment of asylum seeker.....
» 18/05/2012 7:23:27 PM *What you need to ask yourself, runner, is whether Jesus would vote to reopen Nauru?* Lol.....
» 18/05/2012 4:54:04 PM *420 c / kg live today.* Yup, but that is carcassweight, not actual live weight. Live wei.....
» 18/05/2012 2:20:20 PM *They stain the movement!* Sure they do, Belly. Which is my point exactly. There are unio.....
» 17/05/2012 12:37:57 PM *I am quite prepared to see how he goes as PM.* That's all very well Banjo, perhaps you a.....
» 17/05/2012 7:07:30 AM *In sitting around that table to get the EBA Unions do not bring guns!* They don't need g.....
» 16/05/2012 6:52:24 PM *Today,some employees, by SACRIFICING WAGE RISES get 15% super* Ah Belly, is it those pub.....
» 16/05/2012 2:47:07 PM *And face it,we got to 9% by workers taking wage cuts as super contributions.* Oh come on.....
» 16/05/2012 1:42:35 PM Well this is it, everybody is scrapping about people rather then policies which will bene.....
» 15/05/2012 2:04:55 PM My politics is very much issues based, not party based, unlike many posters. Judging by To.....
» 15/05/2012 12:03:38 PM *but I think contraception is preferable to starvation as a means of slowing population gr.....
» 14/05/2012 12:37:22 PM *150 million children around the world still suffer malnutrition* Well yes Rhian. The mor.....
» 13/05/2012 1:37:22 PM You problem 579, is that you are seeing Australia through the eyes of a bubble, which may .....
» 12/05/2012 12:17:47 PM Ah Let's Talk, but I am semi retired and no welfare involved. Ive paddled my own canoe in .....
» 11/05/2012 8:25:15 PM *If the likes of Reinhart and Palmer - multivillionaires- paid their proper share* Err ho.....
» 11/05/2012 7:22:45 AM *Yabby if its not possible to make a quid why are you involved.* Belly, I got involved in.....
» 10/05/2012 8:54:18 PM Keating and Costello were both great politicians who made a long term difference to Austra.....
» 10/05/2012 8:46:14 PM *Send east in bulk, to one central spot/warehouse. Quote a pick up price, and empty the st.....
» 10/05/2012 7:03:43 PM *not to completely abandon attempts to help people in developing countries * Rhian, I wa.....
» 10/05/2012 3:17:57 PM Sheesh, all these crazy people! Just shag the girlfriend all that you can and after a year.....
» 10/05/2012 3:13:02 PM *direct aid money to organisations like Marie Stopes International that provides reproduct.....
» 10/05/2012 2:56:49 PM *Sheep numbers do need increasing badly. $ 150 each live, no wonder you cant sell a chop.*.....
» 10/05/2012 11:33:12 AM Belly old mate, this is not about you flogging some carcasses to your friends, this is abo.....
» 9/05/2012 10:28:24 PM http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/more-news/aus-aid-foreign-programs-plagued-by-fraud/story.....
» 9/05/2012 7:32:48 PM *only when I hear those people who cry "tax avoidance" at major multinationals, .....
» 9/05/2012 3:37:38 PM *Fortesque Metals had yet 'to write the tax department a cheque for tax owed'* Indeed cst.....
» 9/05/2012 9:40:09 AM *It also reduces the likeliness of Australia increasing its presence in the U.N., another .....
» 9/05/2012 9:22:01 AM I actually agree with you on this one Csteele and I raised the Google tax issue on anothe.....
» 9/05/2012 6:39:55 AM Oh come on SM, the comment was hardly anti semitic. That is what was told to me by people .....
» 9/05/2012 6:02:53 AM *There are other reasons that some areas might not be explored because of the cost of ext.....
» 8/05/2012 2:37:12 PM Dear Lexi, Well clearly the stats show that you are very wrong. A majority of Americans th.....
» 8/05/2012 2:14:50 PM Whatever makes you feel better, SM, justify it as you will. Reality prevails, you were ne.....
» 8/05/2012 1:58:09 PM *I do not want the Gov to take any risks in an oil search because I am convinced that ther.....
» 8/05/2012 1:41:32 PM *but it is nice not to have to* Oh come on SM, washing under the foreskin is hardly a hug.....
» 8/05/2012 1:26:45 PM SM, when I was a kid, I still remember my dad teaching me to wash my penis every day, incl.....
» 8/05/2012 10:45:49 AM http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/08/17/u-s-circumcision-rates-on-the-decline/ Dear Lexi.....
» 8/05/2012 10:26:25 AM *But join in with Rechtub is giving us that poem over and again.* I'm not giving you that.....
» 8/05/2012 9:03:30 AM Let's Talk, its workers who are deserving heroes, its lazy scum who expect others to work .....
» 8/05/2012 6:16:57 AM *so much so that in the USA an uncircumcised penis is considered a deal breaker by many* .....
» 7/05/2012 10:43:17 PM My kindhearted care and empathy extends to those who get out of bed and help themselves, o.....
» 7/05/2012 8:32:06 PM *So what is your position on this? Big oil or Big government?* I guess they could nationa.....
» 7/05/2012 4:29:37 PM http://www.appea.com.au/oil-a-gas-in-australia/oil.html Bazz, according to APPEA, we have.....
» 7/05/2012 4:09:14 PM *When you simply give up and say this or that won't work, it's time to get out of the way......
» 7/05/2012 12:06:36 PM *In Australia the bottom line is the oil majors are closing refineries.* Well of course t.....
» 7/05/2012 10:47:21 AM *Oil discovery for the world peaked in the 1960s. I cannot believe that big oil has not be.....
» 7/05/2012 9:56:26 AM *So you will have to cope with that.* Well yes 579, just don't invest in farming, invest .....
» 6/05/2012 8:15:32 PM *By the way in Venezuela at least the population is getting some of the profits from oil* .....
» 6/05/2012 5:29:36 PM *There's plenty of people to feed and it's a renewable product.* Well that is exactly why.....
» 6/05/2012 4:05:51 PM *If we had leaders who had any brains or morals at all, they would act decisively and nati.....
» 6/05/2012 3:56:07 PM *Come on Yabby. I am giving you driverless farm equipment, gigantic diversified acreage an.....
» 6/05/2012 2:22:54 PM One of the questions which Julie and her political mates need to answer, is why have they.....
» 6/05/2012 1:29:09 PM *If miners can have driverless trucks, so can farmers* Ah 579, you clearly arn't much goo.....
» 6/05/2012 11:31:06 AM *Bigger farms do make cense, you are less likely to be decimated by drought if you have a .....
» 5/05/2012 6:54:54 PM I'm not sure whom you bank with Pericles, maybe its also different in different parts of A.....
» 5/05/2012 2:57:43 PM There ya go 579, a dairy farm is not a cropping farm. The second largest cropping farm in .....
» 5/05/2012 2:23:41 PM *Farms will be gigantic acreage's and listed on stock exchange. Head office will be in the.....
» 5/05/2012 1:40:55 PM *The industrial model can't sustain itself and eventually must contract. How that pans out.....
» 5/05/2012 1:27:00 PM Well I'm not sure as to who is going to do all the work. The average age of farmers in Aus.....
» 5/05/2012 12:51:11 PM *My biggest gripe about banks is that their people appear to be caricatures, complete with.....
» 5/05/2012 7:36:25 AM *you'll desperately look around for any explanation for a set of data other than the simpl.....
» 4/05/2012 5:20:27 PM *advertise your best rate and stop all the moaning and self serving justifications* Hang .....
» 4/05/2012 1:42:18 PM Ah Let's Talk, so now you want me to read another book, to explain the flawed data. Perhap.....
» 3/05/2012 2:35:31 PM *I'm going to have to find out more about what opponents of circumcision have to say - and.....
» 3/05/2012 2:29:32 PM *My suggestion is we stop the export of the gas so that the drilling will be slowed down a.....
» 3/05/2012 2:24:12 PM Learning Chinese is great for the author and for those interested and with an aptitude. So.....
» 3/05/2012 11:25:35 AM *We already have NG and as it stands now we could increase the drilling at a slower rate t.....
» 2/05/2012 7:45:03 PM Lets Talk, my point is that Australians are the world's biggest gamblers and lose 15 bill.....
» 2/05/2012 5:59:02 PM http://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/abs@.nsf/mf/8684.0 Oh come on, Let's Talk. Australians in .....
» 2/05/2012 4:59:24 PM *I don't think you're actually concerned with Australian workers at all Mr Yabbi.* I cert.....
» 2/05/2012 2:09:57 PM *The real problem is that we are flat out selling our natural gas for export when we shoul.....
» 1/05/2012 9:09:45 PM Startingagain, if 5-7 Grand could fix training, life would be a breeze, but it ain't that.....
» 1/05/2012 7:37:34 PM 50 starting again, so why don't more Australians bother to train for some skills? Its not .....
» 1/05/2012 7:23:08 PM *The GFC was all the fault of government employees, wasn't it* Nope, the GFC was the faul.....
» 30/04/2012 8:41:08 PM *It’s the role of those who design policy to analyse those before a policy is put in place.....
» 30/04/2012 10:47:01 AM Steven, I think that the whole thing will kind of balance out in the end. America won't be.....
» 30/04/2012 9:42:52 AM *Do we sell our metals that much cheaper by the boat load, than by the truck load* Hasbe.....
» 30/04/2012 9:20:06 AM Oh well, it will just be back to Daisy the cow, some chooks and fruit trees on 5 acres. Th.....
» 29/04/2012 1:11:26 PM Steven, I agree with you that Samsung are a company to watch, they invest huge amounts in.....
» 29/04/2012 11:44:35 AM Hi Steven, No, I don't have an Iphone, but I have a couple of Ipads, they are also assembl.....
» 29/04/2012 10:44:39 AM Yes Steven, nanotech and biotech are two more. I think that the Arjay's of this world, sim.....
» 29/04/2012 5:08:19 AM http://www.ustr.gov/countries-regions/southeast-asia-pacific/australia Arjay, we spent 21.....
» 28/04/2012 3:59:28 AM *Trouble is Yabby that higher mineral prices induce more mining development and, ultimatel.....
» 27/04/2012 9:36:28 PM *The truth is that those jobs can never return* Well the truth is that most people don't .....
» 27/04/2012 7:59:43 PM That is actually quite a clever PR stunt by VW, for the factory is clearly built to impres.....
» 27/04/2012 7:41:55 PM *The possibility of a higher mining tax, bank super profit tax, and removing the superannu.....
» 27/04/2012 10:01:05 AM Last weeks Economist special report on manufacturing and how it is changing, made for inte.....
» 26/04/2012 8:58:53 PM *Again because govt is at an advantage when borrowing, and need not pay dividends to share.....
» 26/04/2012 2:41:10 PM As it happens Cheryl, I know a fair bit about aquaculture. As they say, if you want to mak.....
» 26/04/2012 11:41:32 AM Hehe Cheryl. Restocking our fishstocks :) http://e360.yale.edu/feature/massive_outbreak_o.....
» 26/04/2012 10:48:40 AM Tristan, Australia is also one of the few countries where people don't pay tax on the pro.....
» 26/04/2012 10:34:45 AM *Potential fund-raising mechanisms could include a move to either 75% or 50% Dividend Impu.....
» 25/04/2012 10:54:36 AM *We can still try to leave simpler lives which consume fewer resources.* We can indeed Da.....
» 24/04/2012 8:57:49 PM *Once a person has moved beyond poverty they may have enough if they have inner resources......
» 24/04/2012 6:08:32 PM *Yabby.......Dont you mean "man made" virus.* No I don't, Planet 3. Viruses and.....
» 24/04/2012 12:03:14 PM It's an interesting question, Graham. The thing is, Sarkozy and Berkel have been the ones .....
» 23/04/2012 6:59:28 PM *In Finland students learn two languages as well as their mother tongue, so why can't we?*.....
» 23/04/2012 2:28:58 PM Well David F, if you look at the history of earth over the billions of years, humans have .....
» 23/04/2012 2:11:36 PM *The internet is interactive, which has got to make it a whole lot more appealing, with Tw.....
» 21/04/2012 5:04:07 PM Cheryl, your new tack is as flawed as your old tack. Fact is that population is a global.....
» 21/04/2012 1:56:38 PM *Why don't the anti-people lobby talk about Africa? Why do they want to cut foreign aid to.....
» 21/04/2012 10:08:38 AM Well Poirot, this Pixie Dust is certified genuine and comes to you for a mere 19.95 plus p.....
» 20/04/2012 8:46:31 PM Wow, Poirot has given me an award. Why thank you, Poirot :) Hey, there is no problem with.....
» 20/04/2012 6:39:31 PM *Some things elevate your perception and enhance your experience of the world - and they a.....
» 20/04/2012 2:47:39 PM *In order to transmit the awe of discovery and realisation (or even to get to get to that .....
» 19/04/2012 5:37:07 PM *I will never agree to allow the noise, chaos and commercialism that comes out of that box.....
» 19/04/2012 2:52:20 PM Well I think that there is some kind of intelletual snobbery that goes on, when it comes t.....
» 19/04/2012 1:59:27 PM Poirot, if you can find a copy of Daniel Goleman's "Emotional Intelligence", it.....
» 19/04/2012 9:43:37 AM Poirot, from my list of quotable quotes: Science is the poetry of the real world. Richard.....
» 19/04/2012 3:37:01 AM Poirot, symbols depend on the eye of the beholder. Now take modern art. A true story, from.....
» 18/04/2012 5:36:23 PM *and fashioned it to represent appropriate vessels to contain and nurture the message and .....
» 18/04/2012 10:29:34 AM *Yet, you don't seem to grasp that buildings enclosing [what is deemed] "sacred space.....
» 18/04/2012 9:22:17 AM Sheesh, all these grumpy old men :) I have two satelite dishes, one for free to air, the .....
» 18/04/2012 3:33:21 AM http://www.dubai-architecture.info/DUB-GAL1.htm So Poirot, is religion behind the archite.....
» 17/04/2012 9:29:30 PM 579, there are good reasons why workers are marched off the premises, once they are dismis.....
» 17/04/2012 8:52:11 PM But Poirot, we don't just have a rational mind. We think and we feel. They can often confl.....
» 17/04/2012 6:57:46 PM Cohenite, if only it were that simple. We already have laws which are working pretty well,.....
» 17/04/2012 4:59:57 PM *The material point is its symptomatic of human society, or the human condition, and it ca.....
» 17/04/2012 3:10:05 PM *None of which changes the fact that the festival was costly to attend, and in comparison,.....
» 17/04/2012 3:01:16 PM Of course a company should be allowed to choose its workers. Anyone who has spent time on .....
» 17/04/2012 2:04:55 PM Well of course the author has a position. As I understand it and he is free to point it ou.....
» 17/04/2012 10:25:27 AM So poor Mr Nicklinson has the choice of starving to death, the same choice that they gave .....
» 15/04/2012 6:39:30 PM Actually Squeers, what I really dread is a society as one that you are implying, where Gov.....
» 15/04/2012 2:06:51 PM *I have been a fairly hard taskmaster on the anti-pops and doom and gloomers.* Not really.....
» 15/04/2012 1:47:18 PM I'd have to disagree with you, Squeers. Govt funding is limited and so it should be. Govt .....
» 14/04/2012 9:28:55 AM Squeers, I've since done some homework on that story. It seems that its Govt money which w.....
» 14/04/2012 7:37:47 AM http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/-/newshome/13417612/doctor-barred-for-doing-male-snip/ .....
» 13/04/2012 2:39:54 PM *As for hospitals or hospices for terminal folk, that would directly contradict their ethi.....
» 13/04/2012 2:13:59 PM *Christians start schools, hospitals, aged-care facilities, run soup kitchens, and provide.....
» 13/04/2012 11:55:52 AM *If they want to address the cronyism and irrationality of our society, for instance, why .....
» 11/04/2012 8:33:56 PM "Whoever does any work on the Sabbath, shall be put to death" Exodus 35:2 So t.....
» 11/04/2012 12:40:09 PM Dan, your URL is amusing, in that it tries to use natural selection and the fossil record .....
» 11/04/2012 7:33:21 AM *As though the whole human race and all it's generations of geniuses were the dupes of not.....
» 10/04/2012 11:50:39 AM *Absolutely nothing of any depth was discussed.* The problem there, Squeers, was in your.....
» 10/04/2012 8:05:55 AM Poirot, I watched the debate. I wish they had extended it by another hour, for IMHO it rev.....
» 9/04/2012 7:37:10 PM *You see I want to be around on the day when Tony Abbott exceeds John Howard's time as PM......
» 9/04/2012 2:10:27 PM *The Catholic or any other church should not be aiming at credibility, they should be aimi.....
» 8/04/2012 5:03:31 PM Dan, I was highlighting runner's mistake. The Christian viewpoint on evolution theory is h.....
» 7/04/2012 9:56:32 PM *wouldn't it be nicer to at least have someone who was attractive to look at.* Hehe Habee.....
» 7/04/2012 8:44:08 PM *The real economy is collapsing .I'm down by 50% this year* That is what happens Arjay, w.....
» 7/04/2012 2:20:28 PM *no one does because its a load of c_ap. Of course JP is not 'smart' enough because he isn.....
» 7/04/2012 12:25:25 PM I agree with you, Lexi. Many people could handle the Liberals, but they don't want Abbott,.....
» 6/04/2012 10:04:47 PM *If there is no evil and no good in an atheistic universe I find it hard to see how there .....
» 6/04/2012 3:28:32 PM *Well, I hope that Dawkins gets beyond this infantile point-by-point demolition of superst.....
» 6/04/2012 2:51:37 PM For those who have not heard, Q&A on ABC TV, will be hosting a debate between Dawkins and .....
» 6/04/2012 9:29:25 AM Arjay, if you read and think a bit about what was posted, you'll notice that I did not co.....
» 6/04/2012 9:08:55 AM *At the end of the day it is our sense of empathy that underpins and sustains human morali.....
» 6/04/2012 8:26:07 AM *In true soviet style, there is also a law that allows inspectors to stop and search vehic.....
» 5/04/2012 6:44:27 PM http://www.smh.com.au/environment/conservation/indonesian-court-backs-palm-oil-company-ove.....
» 5/04/2012 6:30:08 PM *The banks become almost as incompetent as government, as they get bigger. Perhaps that's .....
» 5/04/2012 2:41:17 PM *When I took it up with them, they suggested term deposits. If I wanted this money in term.....
» 4/04/2012 7:35:32 PM Hasbeen, there is a difference between a link and no link, which is what the banks are try.....
» 4/04/2012 2:18:29 PM *My thoughts are we make it too easy not to work.* Belly, I quite agree with you. I know .....
» 4/04/2012 12:15:23 PM Permaculture in terms of it being a way to produce food, is indeed a great system. I think.....
» 4/04/2012 9:08:08 AM That sounds more like a "grumpy old man" post to me, Hasbeen. I think that the R.....
» 3/04/2012 6:25:13 PM LOL Spindoc :) Actually this is an old black and white picture which I've had for about 15.....
» 3/04/2012 4:24:07 PM *Most will look at it as the day before Easter bunny day or Easter egg day.* Well exactly.....
» 3/04/2012 2:25:57 PM *You have one life and if you forgo the "encounter" it is a life less lived* Bo.....
» 3/04/2012 10:16:04 AM *Therein is the peace and joy of living life to the full with death becoming just a final .....
» 3/04/2012 7:48:33 AM *They are all insane and seriously think that a winnable nuke war is possible.* So which .....
» 2/04/2012 8:54:46 PM *None can explain these the South Tower anomolies of 911 and will never dare to attempt* .....
» 2/04/2012 2:46:42 PM *and it places a burden on the medical profession when there is an expectation that they c.....
» 2/04/2012 11:03:42 AM The reality is that we all face a tragic ending, its just a question when and how. Worki.....
» 1/04/2012 1:46:57 PM Interesting points, Pericles. Most normal, rational adults would have to concede that Arja.....
» 1/04/2012 1:23:18 PM *You can't have it both ways.* Well you can, 579, but you need some smart brains to do it.....
» 1/04/2012 10:23:08 AM Individual, yup I saw the original story on tv, amazingly cruel. They were cutting off the.....
» 30/03/2012 6:57:15 PM I agree with you, Haygirl. I think its just another way for insurance companies to make m.....
» 29/03/2012 9:20:06 AM *Taking potshots at what you presume are the biases in the survey, or vegans, or "sub.....
» 28/03/2012 5:01:55 PM Perhaps Lauren could address an issue which more city people might understand a bit about.....
» 28/03/2012 3:20:18 PM Banjo, yup but its not just teens. Right now some of the farming forums are being flooded .....
» 28/03/2012 2:11:51 PM The thing is, this topic is far too complex for most suburban people to understand and the.....
» 26/03/2012 3:07:34 PM *Well, that would be every human since the capacity for language is one aspect which sets .....
» 25/03/2012 9:36:57 AM *If elected to government, the Coalition will work with the States and Territories with th.....
» 22/03/2012 6:05:41 PM DreamOn, as it happens, astacology is something that I know a bit about. Put it this way,.....
» 19/03/2012 10:27:28 PM Ludwig, Kay knows exactly how to programme his Karma section, given that he invented it. S.....
» 19/03/2012 7:02:42 PM http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&NR=1&v=_U36vZJFIuY Ludwig, this is a utube.....
» 19/03/2012 5:20:28 PM http://www.fish.wa.gov.au/docs/pub/IdCrayfish/IdCrayfishPage05.php?00 There you go DreamO.....
» 17/03/2012 8:35:04 PM Oh I am very addicted, Ludwig. Nope I can't sing, I'd crack the windows :) The Oasys has i.....
» 17/03/2012 7:14:38 PM If you like Pink Floyd Ludwig, this is a guy with an Oasys doing his Pink Floyd. Just amaz.....
» 17/03/2012 6:51:29 PM All great stuff, Ludwig! In the last few years my music passion is fooling around with so.....
» 17/03/2012 2:28:42 PM http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/-/newshome/13190701/hancock-breaks-silence/ It sounds .....
» 17/03/2012 11:37:32 AM Yup Ludwig, thats a great driving song, makes me want to drive faster.. I love good blues.....
» 17/03/2012 11:26:05 AM Sheesh, now there is a great marketing opportunity. Green friendly sex toys!.....
» 16/03/2012 9:24:29 PM *I've got off on Mozart's 39th, a bit of Dvorak, and a Brahms piano recital* Pffffft to M.....
» 16/03/2012 8:51:07 PM I will admit though, I am a bit out of my depth when it comes to banking.* Fair enough Re.....
» 16/03/2012 3:46:44 PM I doubt it Pericles. But then I was thinking how fortunate that you are for other reasons......
» 16/03/2012 12:42:23 PM *The banks make a killing, fail to pass on rate cuts, and get propped up by the tax payer*.....
» 16/03/2012 9:44:12 AM *To me it is one of the most miraculous aspects of being a person (as opposed, say, to bei.....
» 15/03/2012 7:14:21 PM *While polls do consistently return an 80% vote for assistance to die the question cannot .....
» 14/03/2012 11:01:42 PM Paul, I am quite prepared to debate the issue in any which way that you want. But lets est.....
» 14/03/2012 6:37:28 PM *At no time did I say that the constitution was invalid;* Well you are clearly implying i.....
» 14/03/2012 5:38:37 PM *for Yabbie's benefit, that the correct name for our nation is "Commonwealth of Austr.....
» 14/03/2012 5:06:46 PM http://www.adelaide.catholic.org.au/sites/SouthernCross/features?more=1557 Indeed Paul, t.....
» 14/03/2012 3:45:54 PM *Much of that infrastucture was paid for by a disproportionately high percentage (on a pop.....
» 14/03/2012 2:41:28 PM *Iron Ore mining belongs to AU as a whole, any reason to say otherwise has long past it's .....
» 14/03/2012 11:10:23 AM *the advertising campaign mounted by the miners claiming that the tax would be the end of .....
» 14/03/2012 10:59:36 AM Its not often that I agree with Bandt's politics, but on this issue I certainly do and it .....
» 13/03/2012 8:19:57 PM This is where I think that the education system can really play a role. One really good t.....
» 13/03/2012 5:22:55 PM *More like the share price will go down when the kids want a liquidation Sale!* Its far m.....
» 13/03/2012 11:29:47 AM I had a look at your URL, Bazz. Lots of people claim to be able to predict the future, but.....
» 13/03/2012 6:48:20 AM Individual, I'm not saying that young Australians are so switched on. I think that we have.....
» 13/03/2012 6:35:41 AM http://www.businessspectator.com.au/bs.nsf/article/peak-oil-shale-gas-fracking-energy-nucl.....
» 12/03/2012 9:59:16 PM *Ahhh, Yabby, have you missed that, the Chinese and no doubt others are buying copper ingo.....
» 12/03/2012 4:43:41 PM *Unfortunately it is not just recycling that is the answer, after all you never get 100% r.....
» 12/03/2012 3:48:16 PM *We are born with our characters pretty much intact, which accounts for the enormous diver.....
» 12/03/2012 3:28:07 PM *It is simple, the resources needed to make all Chinese moderately well off are not availa.....
» 12/03/2012 3:13:07 PM *My problem with it is 'what about the jobs it takes away'? * Rehctub, when I bought this.....
» 12/03/2012 8:10:32 AM Arjay, nearly every nation that I can think of, including Japan, China Iran and many more,.....
» 12/03/2012 7:15:21 AM Rehctub, now you might understand, why internet businesses are such an attractive option, .....
» 11/03/2012 8:56:47 PM Arjay, so what if China becomes an economic powerhouse? Why will it matter? People in Japa.....
» 11/03/2012 5:52:52 PM *They are worked on by engineers with sense not Uni graduates with papers. Same goes for D.....
» 11/03/2012 4:51:51 PM Not so Individual, we need both. Let me give you an extreme. How would you design a 747, w.....
» 11/03/2012 4:10:06 PM *I think you are mistaking modern day male and female humans for prehistoric human* Not .....
» 11/03/2012 3:53:39 PM Individual, that is purely a question of what is studied. No, we don't need more philosoph.....
» 11/03/2012 2:15:32 PM *When Australians have so much education that they're too qualified to work.* Well Indiv.....
» 11/03/2012 2:04:11 PM *I wrote that after picking my jaw up off the ground by yabby’s absolutely mind-blowing hu.....
» 11/03/2012 1:17:48 PM *The larger an organisation becomes, the more bureaucratic, & less efficient it becomes, j.....
» 11/03/2012 8:39:12 AM *So after the retailers 50% or so markup, this $2.00 item sold for $37.50.* That is exac.....
» 10/03/2012 8:37:17 PM http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/shortsharpscience/2009/01/eye-burrowing-worms-national-t.....
» 10/03/2012 5:08:54 PM There are many good reasons, Anthony. Firstly, a Govt is not a company. The lazy balance s.....
» 10/03/2012 4:53:28 PM *Yabby and I have clashed more times than I care to remember on this forum* Well that is .....
» 10/03/2012 1:51:25 PM I don't see why the present situation in the economy, is such a bad thing. Australian priv.....
» 9/03/2012 9:24:06 PM Oh my mind is very much open, Killarney. I just don't rely on Meerkat Manor to understand .....
» 9/03/2012 8:43:39 PM *It was a time when the world economy was enjoying a long speculative-driven boom. Good lu.....
» 9/03/2012 3:50:58 PM *So what about the women? Didn’t they have to ‘reduce their powerful primate urge’ to trav.....
» 9/03/2012 11:30:23 AM *Yabby, skills are a huge problem, trouble is, young ones just can't see the Forrest for t.....
» 8/03/2012 8:41:27 PM The problem starts with the parents, Individual. They mindlessly pop out kids and then thi.....
» 8/03/2012 8:33:35 PM Gawd Thinker 2, you are becoming a grumpy old thing, you really are. You remind me of that.....
» 8/03/2012 6:00:19 PM *Compared to that few believe that Iran could develop comparable H-Bombs in the next 20 ye.....
» 8/03/2012 5:52:26 PM Yes we have a problem, Rehctub. We need less people trained as shop keepers or burger flip.....
» 8/03/2012 12:04:31 PM I didn't bother to read the information about Victoria, Thinker 2. You had made some wild.....
» 8/03/2012 9:21:12 AM Pete, I think that Israel is kind of between a rock and a hard place here. They would be f.....
» 7/03/2012 10:35:33 PM Pericles, I think it goes a something like this: "We protest against you filthy capi.....
» 7/03/2012 9:41:54 PM *But, yes, it's nothing but spires and pointy things for miles in any direction in some pl.....
» 7/03/2012 7:46:02 PM *The Business Spectator link you posted Yabby, panders to it's constituents(the rich and p.....
» 7/03/2012 7:26:32 PM I think that Pete has summed it up about right. The thing is, Saudi Arabia has made it cle.....
» 7/03/2012 5:56:44 PM Deary me Stephan, you certainly got out of the wrong side of the bed this morning. Go back.....
» 7/03/2012 1:25:20 PM The amusing thing about the occupy protestors was that they were running around, iphones i.....
» 7/03/2012 9:17:39 AM *I've never subscribed to the cultural belief that men's libidoes are much stronger than w.....
» 7/03/2012 8:59:14 AM *The council however has other ideas,* and *meanwhile, the towns just sit helplessly a.....
» 6/03/2012 9:33:18 PM *A house there rents for around $3000 per week, while the same house in the suburbs of Bri.....
» 6/03/2012 9:19:49 PM Sheesh, they already drive us nuts with calls from Indian call centres, now they are tryin.....
» 6/03/2012 9:13:11 PM *I was wondering what the predominantly male contributors to this thread feel is an 'adequ.....
» 6/03/2012 7:01:28 PM There is of course an easy solution to all this. If the Taliban, AlQueda etc, put on unifo.....
» 6/03/2012 6:39:09 PM *we are driven by the same motives and needs as those of the our clients* Yup, every crea.....
» 6/03/2012 12:51:36 PM http://www.ccfmtn.org/leave-legacy.htm Well this is still one of my favourite money extra.....
» 5/03/2012 8:04:27 PM http://www.businessspectator.com.au/bs.nsf/Article/BHP-Billiton-unions-Qantas-Rio-Tinto-Qu.....
» 5/03/2012 6:05:48 PM *No honest person could deny the huge increase of child abuse by non biological fathers mo.....
» 5/03/2012 4:37:56 PM *What if infanticide had been practised on those advocating infanticide?* Ah Tac, if I wa.....
» 5/03/2012 3:48:19 PM Sounds to me like the author is trying to blame something, anything, to justify some women.....
» 5/03/2012 12:03:40 PM *China will find it cheaper to buy & transport our gas, than to harvest & transport their .....
» 5/03/2012 10:44:34 AM *Found myself absolutely bombarded with calls, letters and emails seeking more* Thats a g.....
» 5/03/2012 8:57:11 AM *I enjoy my creature comforts and my idea of roughing it is a 3 star motel.* Well yes Sq.....
» 5/03/2012 8:08:55 AM I follow the CO2 debate with interest, but I don't claim to know the answers about long te.....
» 4/03/2012 1:34:45 PM http://www.perthnow.com.au/money/the-tricks-they-try-to-cash-in-on-the-dying/story-e6frg2u.....
» 4/03/2012 10:49:35 AM Well its not just private corporations. It pees me off that I am expected to pay CSIRO 25$.....
» 4/03/2012 10:32:35 AM Great point SPQR, I think that Squeers would fit in wonderfully with the Amish, although I.....
» 3/03/2012 6:34:16 PM *The heart is deceitful above all things* Ah Individual, that is what old Jeremiah wrote .....
» 3/03/2012 6:21:20 PM *Without Keating, Labor would be a poll-driven, economically illiterate, intellectually ba.....
» 3/03/2012 2:27:29 PM *The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked; who can know it?* Clear.....
» 3/03/2012 2:22:28 PM *Despite rising consumption in the developing world, industrial countries remain responsib.....
» 3/03/2012 12:58:18 PM *almost nothing is made to last* Nonsense Squeers. That is purely a question of choice. Y.....
» 3/03/2012 10:46:31 AM *I'm not noticing any reduction in the goods available or a corresponding rise in their co.....
» 3/03/2012 9:14:42 AM *Beyond that I've argued that our system is dependent on economic growth, which is dependa.....
» 2/03/2012 7:57:12 PM *You have shown no such thing* I certainly have Stephan, but all that you are showing is .....
» 2/03/2012 5:25:04 PM JP, I think that genes are all about our potential, they then interact with our environme.....
» 2/03/2012 3:10:48 PM Ah JP, you are not rude at all, its a valid question. As I pointed out, what matters is in.....
» 2/03/2012 1:52:21 PM *But if nothing really matters Yabby, why do you bother with participating in these forums.....
» 2/03/2012 1:38:04 PM *Deliberately destroying that information to achieve the point where it cannot live any mo.....
» 2/03/2012 10:30:12 AM *ultimately there really are no rules, there is no better (or worse), and nothing really m.....
» 2/03/2012 9:24:07 AM Dear Lexi, Well of course I am right lol. The figures are plain as day. But keep floatin.....
» 1/03/2012 11:08:25 PM Ah Thinker 2, not a peeps from you about my quoted figures. It seems like you were wrong a.....
» 1/03/2012 6:44:07 PM *and Yabby is convinced that his completely arbitrary determination of when life begins is.....
» 1/03/2012 4:00:26 PM *How about when a heart is present?* So Krist-f, if we give you a heart transplant from a.....
» 1/03/2012 2:55:45 PM *You have the same DNA today as you did the day you were conceived* Interestingly every c.....
» 1/03/2012 12:23:16 PM *EVERY life is precious* Let's get real here, Pete. That is great pontification etc, easy.....
» 29/02/2012 7:29:41 PM http://www.loansense.com.au/historical-rates.html Another statistic for you, Thinker 2, i.....
» 29/02/2012 7:21:37 PM http://www.abs.gov.au/AUSSTATS/abs@.nsf/allprimarymainfeatures/B4DEE8EADE6ACC5ECA257204002.....
» 29/02/2012 2:27:43 PM *Yeeeeep. I've never forgotten any of my farts.* So Houllie, do you pull the blanket/shee.....
» 28/02/2012 11:09:41 PM *that, I would re-word as "business took advantage of a complicit and compliant Gov't.....
» 28/02/2012 8:23:10 PM *I can provide the figures that prove this Yabby* Well you can't Thinker 2, because you a.....
» 28/02/2012 3:26:25 PM Dear Lexi, So now we can add poor judgement to your list of abilities. Clearly you have .....
» 28/02/2012 2:49:59 PM *Wrong again. I do not rely on the information of only one academic.* Dear Lexi, given th.....
» 28/02/2012 2:12:11 PM Dear Lexi, Workchoices is once again handing over extortion power to unions. http://www......
» 28/02/2012 11:11:44 AM Well the facts speak for themselves, Lexi. See you go and bog this down about Abbott and a.....
» 28/02/2012 10:41:08 AM Oh deary me, Lexi. One day you are going to have to get over this "I am just a poor l.....
» 28/02/2012 9:32:40 AM *now he's probably more suited to his current job.* You are probably quite correct there .....
» 28/02/2012 9:26:03 AM Rehctub, the thing is that alot of American companies are quite innovative, are operating .....
» 27/02/2012 8:48:27 PM *but are there other hidden (pheremonal) forces at work?* Apparently there are, Pelican. .....
» 27/02/2012 8:34:37 PM *but at the cost of now owning nil profit generating infrastructure of our own.* Best you.....
» 27/02/2012 5:17:43 PM So there we have it, Belly old mate. All that major kerfuffle for no good reason The ALP d.....
» 26/02/2012 8:35:27 PM Lexi, I remind you that Costello operated in the same global economy as Greece, Spain, Ita.....
» 26/02/2012 1:50:39 PM *it seems to me that he was exactly what he was prepared to do as he sat next to Howard fo.....
» 26/02/2012 11:51:06 AM *and Costello still hadn't nurtured the strength of character to force Howard out. It was .....
» 26/02/2012 10:25:10 AM *His stash of savings would have lasted five minutes compared to the billions required sti.....
» 26/02/2012 9:27:35 AM *And seeing us through the global financial crisis was no small feat* Hang on Lexi, it wa.....
» 25/02/2012 5:46:31 PM *And btw Yabby, imo the vast majority of today's youth are as fine, in potentia, as they e.....
» 25/02/2012 4:37:06 PM *And got it wrong in removing Rudd.* You still don't get it, Belly. The people who were c.....
» 24/02/2012 10:54:25 PM *People, voters, public, want one candidate Caucus another.* Well Belly, I remind you tha.....
» 24/02/2012 7:25:00 PM http://www.ccfmtn.org/leave-legacy.htm Sheesh, I love that Catholic line: "Convert .....
» 24/02/2012 10:59:26 AM Of course its all about Kevie, for IMHO what we have here is a bitter man, wanting to get .....
» 23/02/2012 9:17:48 PM *Bur it's the powers that be - the reigning system that encourages parents to shower their.....
» 23/02/2012 6:27:33 PM *Kevin 07 or Gillard is Black Caviar vs a donkey.* Belly me old mate, methinks that you h.....
» 23/02/2012 11:27:49 AM Poirot, oh its so easy just to blame "the system". If it was just "the sys.....
» 23/02/2012 10:50:36 AM *it is disingenuous to treat sexual intercourse and pregnancy as diseases* Sorry Raycom, .....
» 23/02/2012 8:53:31 AM *I were a brickie's labourer at 15* Well there you go Squeers. As matter of fact we still.....
» 22/02/2012 8:54:24 PM *How dare young people aspire to something better than fruit-picking or checkout operators.....
» 22/02/2012 7:43:57 PM Australia has exactly the same problem as America. Too many qualified as little then burg.....
» 22/02/2012 4:47:11 PM *To define the provision of human contraception and abortion services as health care, is p.....
» 21/02/2012 9:43:27 PM No matter which way the religious try to distort the language, a zygote is not a person. A.....
» 21/02/2012 9:27:20 PM Come on Mishka, lets face reality. If they think that they have any chance, the Catholic C.....
» 21/02/2012 3:14:22 PM Oh I fully agree Joe, that it is not a good example. I also fully agree that the two bungl.....
» 21/02/2012 1:39:50 PM *The GOP don't lose on social issues as their values are intrinsically beneficial to socie.....
» 21/02/2012 1:25:55 PM http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/nation/queensland-teacher-jailed-for-helping-suicide-.....
» 20/02/2012 11:47:37 PM Sounds to me Joe, that whilst you sometimes write great posts, in this case, your nick of .....
» 20/02/2012 2:23:14 PM *The Church doesn't even enforce its dogma about contraception on Catholics, let alone non.....
» 20/02/2012 2:07:56 PM DebbieG, clearly the operations of Exit Switzerland work very well. There is no good reaso.....
» 20/02/2012 12:14:59 PM DebbiG, you clearly don't know much about how Exit Switzerland operates. Perhaps you shou.....
» 20/02/2012 9:39:24 AM *To change the law would be to show reckless indifference to those in our community who, f.....
» 19/02/2012 11:24:32 PM Well its a shame to see labor destroying itself like this, but they are doing it all thems.....
» 19/02/2012 11:15:01 PM Ah Yuyutsu, you clearly haven't read the "infallible truth" from Mishka's cathol.....
» 19/02/2012 8:59:57 PM *but my guess is you don't go to Mass and haven't done so in a long time.* Lol Mishka, I .....
» 19/02/2012 5:22:43 PM *I find you incoherent on the matter on contraception. Papal infallibility has nothing to .....
» 18/02/2012 3:37:20 PM *If you run a humanist organisation and advertise for employees who only support your huma.....
» 18/02/2012 2:14:45 PM *This way, however, most people exist anesthetised and in reasonable comfort while the meg.....
» 18/02/2012 12:37:04 PM *I can't see how one can become so obscenely wealthy in a morally right way.* An interest.....
» 18/02/2012 12:09:42 PM *American women, including the 98 percent of Catholic women who have used birth control, h.....
» 17/02/2012 11:24:47 PM *but nothing quite matches up to those tight flares I wore in the seventies. They were wor.....
» 17/02/2012 9:44:57 PM So 579, you mean like the treasurer giving the banks a hard time, even though he knows tha.....
» 17/02/2012 8:31:41 PM So Mishka, if Jehovahs Witnesses employers decide that they won't fund any operations invo.....
» 17/02/2012 4:29:12 PM *An employer should not have to offer or pay for anything that goes against his conscience.....
» 17/02/2012 12:46:40 PM A few points Mishka. The super fund certainly has the right to decide where it invests it.....
» 17/02/2012 11:58:47 AM *It is a totalitarian enforcement of an extreme feminism that sees children as something t.....
» 17/02/2012 11:44:02 AM *As vanna pointed out, she is not obliged to discuss them, or even disclose them.* Pericl.....
» 17/02/2012 9:26:47 AM Lol Poiroit, before I read your second post I was wondering to myself what colour my own s.....
» 16/02/2012 9:08:51 PM Ah Arjay, you look at money in the wrong way. See it as simply a medium of exchange. So re.....
» 16/02/2012 7:58:58 PM *It is in the interests of all Australians that we support Catholic organisations like sch.....
» 16/02/2012 7:48:51 PM *Aw shucks, Yabs - now you think I'm a controlling woman....* Nope Poirot, I don't think .....
» 16/02/2012 2:59:21 PM Sheesh Poirot. Perhaps your partner should buy you an axe for your birthday. That should k.....
» 16/02/2012 2:15:32 PM I actually have a bit of fun with all of this, for every now and then I have visitors from.....
» 15/02/2012 6:20:32 PM *No woman I know would utter that sentence* Dear Lexi, ah you have friends just like you......
» 15/02/2012 2:19:40 PM Its some years ago now, but we were at a mate's place one Sunday, about to head off to the.....
» 14/02/2012 5:44:31 PM *Where is the joy and humility, runner?* Ah Poirot, the answer will be "Just you wai.....
» 14/02/2012 2:10:17 PM Thanks for the link, Forrest Gumpp, I had wondered what all the fuss was about. I read Jen.....
» 14/02/2012 9:42:37 AM Interesting analysis, Pericles. Here is one that is interesting too, from Felix Zulauf. .....
» 14/02/2012 7:45:19 AM *Well the English of Shakespeare, Keats, the Bronte sisters and Jane Austen, not to mentio.....
» 13/02/2012 5:36:41 PM *About these people that would like to see the world's pop diminished by 90 percent: Why w.....
» 12/02/2012 10:15:08 PM *While the small banks may get shafted,their CEO's and directors usually clean out the cof.....
» 11/02/2012 8:40:47 PM Arjay, sounds to me that you believe that our banks are about to collapse. If you really b.....
» 11/02/2012 6:39:01 PM But Arjay, if the banks are sucking the lifeblood out of your productivity, what on earth .....
» 11/02/2012 2:15:16 PM Arjay, banks are an absolutaly critical part of our economy. Without them, everything stop.....
» 11/02/2012 12:47:42 PM *i cant vote with mine...my pension provider might claim to have had* ROFL OUG, so you to.....
» 11/02/2012 11:33:24 AM *yabby..is one you..clearly are/one heck any_one..that owns shares in a pension* I did no.....
» 10/02/2012 4:36:19 PM *They own you Pericles just like everyone else in the West* Sheesh Arjay, now you have me.....
» 10/02/2012 10:07:00 AM One needs to understand a little about the Australian food supply chain to realise that th.....
» 9/02/2012 9:38:25 PM Sheesh Arjay, your posts are nearly as entertaining as the Larouche website, which I somet.....
» 9/02/2012 3:07:17 PM *John allows that chiropractic has benefits for back problems - it's the rest of it that i.....
» 9/02/2012 11:38:44 AM *Yes,not one comment from dim witted posters on OLO.They don't want to know the truth,let .....
» 9/02/2012 11:19:36 AM Its going to be all black and white on this thread. Perhaps its time that universities go.....
» 5/02/2012 10:44:43 PM *It's the spirit of the human being, which can fill me with more joy than anything in the .....
» 5/02/2012 8:38:35 PM Poirot, Harradine showed how much damage a single Catholic politician can do. Other politi.....
» 5/02/2012 4:56:20 PM *It's not just about fulfilment; it's about the fact too that while we find fulfilment the.....
» 5/02/2012 4:35:40 PM *Love and treat one another as we would like ot be treated is a golden rule here* Exactly.....
» 5/02/2012 7:25:57 AM *The looming problem we face, is a decline in risk takers,* You are actually correct on t.....
» 4/02/2012 8:33:02 PM *OK, so why do we need the "science" of advertising and marketing if it's free c.....
» 4/02/2012 6:33:09 PM *Your're the one who brought up Bangladesh and you can't escape the fact that there are et.....
» 4/02/2012 4:22:39 PM *merely offered my critique as to the reason women have been let off the leash. My point b.....
» 4/02/2012 2:48:49 PM *The only cure is for the poor countries to get themselves out of the Malthusian trap, as .....
» 4/02/2012 2:40:59 PM *It's happening because it suits capitalism to allow it,* Poirot, this is where I have a .....
» 3/02/2012 7:55:56 PM *I do find it hard to ignore the big issues, though the ladies seem to easily reduce every.....
» 3/02/2012 3:29:00 PM *It would also explain why a woman like me inhabits OLO and why those others don't.* Poir.....
» 3/02/2012 3:05:44 PM http://www.businessspectator.com.au/bs.nsf/Article/Shoten-calls-Toyota-after-IR-criticism-.....
» 2/02/2012 9:13:08 PM *As I said it is the whole system including neo-liberal thinking around free markets of wh.....
» 2/02/2012 8:53:16 PM Well there is the problem, Webby. People like yourself, who think that your religious dogm.....
» 1/02/2012 10:55:42 AM *It's so rigid that I've been fascinated to see that when I occasionally make a contributi.....
» 31/01/2012 10:44:38 PM The author is of course, quite correct. The UN Convention is 60 years out of date, so toda.....
» 31/01/2012 10:07:13 PM *Ciggarete smaoke would have to be one of, if not the only form of legal littering.* Not .....
» 31/01/2012 2:27:31 PM *So now I'm wondering what it is that attracts me to OLO. Perhaps the subject matter here .....
» 29/01/2012 6:09:22 PM *but women don’t actually talk more than men* Well Rhian, IMHo that one is still up for d.....
» 29/01/2012 10:56:37 AM *I haven’t complained about glass ceilings or women’s lower average earnings or even toile.....
» 28/01/2012 11:04:20 PM *where women sat out in the car in the car park and drank because they we're allowed in th.....
» 28/01/2012 9:40:01 PM *but universities have to compete with the rest of the world for high-profile academics* .....
» 27/01/2012 8:59:42 PM *University elites are renumerated at the same obscene level as other elites and frankly y.....
» 27/01/2012 8:32:32 PM http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-419040/Women-talk-times-men-says-study.html Rhi.....
» 27/01/2012 5:57:13 PM *“women are far better at complaining and lobbying then are men”* Err hang on, Rhian. I p.....
» 27/01/2012 8:35:03 AM *cannot supply sufficient doctors or other professionals, and the trades cannot attract ap.....
» 26/01/2012 8:31:48 PM *only that human accomplishment is no longer appreciated* No Squeers, its about prioritie.....
» 26/01/2012 7:41:49 PM *Might I suggest you get an Humanities degree--Philosophy, History, Anthropology, English .....
» 26/01/2012 6:05:18 PM *and it is their choices that determine their ultimate financial position,* Exactly, that.....
» 26/01/2012 3:56:22 PM *Can't you do something to bring down the price." Why would they?* No different to y.....
» 26/01/2012 9:39:01 AM *huge corporation are beyond the control of the individual and must answer to share holder.....
» 25/01/2012 10:04:20 PM Last time I checked, women were spending around 300 million $ a year on Botox. I have no i.....
» 25/01/2012 9:41:27 PM *Does anyone honestly think that the capitalist has a moral conscience?* Its an interesti.....
» 25/01/2012 7:15:55 AM DD, I think our whole vocational training system needs examination and an overhaul. The nu.....
» 24/01/2012 7:11:53 PM *The majority of kids (who are not academic) go through one of the best vocational trainin.....
» 24/01/2012 5:29:53 PM I think Houllie makes a valid point, we are educating them in the wrong courses. Australia.....
» 22/01/2012 1:59:34 PM Great points, Divergence! http://www.smh.com.au/national/prolife-push-in-labors-ranks-20.....
» 21/01/2012 8:22:41 PM *yabby while I am not too popular with you at present.* Actually Belly, you are quite wro.....
» 20/01/2012 9:11:43 PM Arjay, if you are so convinced of your beliefs, why don't you draw up a nice list of the a.....
» 20/01/2012 9:03:02 PM *They make no sense whatsoever, but they're so damned entertaining.* Sheesh, don't encour.....
» 20/01/2012 1:53:48 PM *The author's central argument is that '... what many people do when presented with a crit.....
» 19/01/2012 9:49:09 PM *It is said that 200 families control the USA.As George Carlin says,"it is a big club.....
» 19/01/2012 2:03:51 PM *I don't believe that your erection is dependent on my subordination.* Easy fixed, Meghan.....
» 19/01/2012 9:44:23 AM *I challenge anyone to tell me this isn't true?* What is not true, Rawmustard? That the r.....
» 18/01/2012 6:32:46 PM Arjay, if your day job doesen't work out, you could always try writing movie scripts for H.....
» 18/01/2012 4:55:38 PM *The only thing that shocks me is that grown adults are stupid enough to believe we came f.....
» 18/01/2012 11:50:27 AM I actually thought of Runner on Sunday night, when 60 Minutes broadcast a programme about.....
» 16/01/2012 1:56:08 PM *If an employer wants staff to work unsociable hours then they should pay penalty rates.* .....
» 16/01/2012 9:55:14 AM http://globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com/2012/01/06/gps-special-re-airs-fixing-education/ .....
» 12/01/2012 8:14:46 PM Thinker 2, I don't believe that there is a master servant relationship. Now take the small.....
» 12/01/2012 4:27:23 PM *So your saying it is necessary and incumbent upon taxpayers to prop up anyone's non viabl.....
» 12/01/2012 11:01:16 AM *Why would euthanasia be different?* Divergence, because of the reality of realpolitik. N.....
» 11/01/2012 8:59:53 PM *I think NZ should tell them (Heinz) to rack off and make their sauce in the country the p.....
» 11/01/2012 3:18:55 PM Ah Arjay, that will be huge relief for the Americans. For years they have correctly pointe.....
» 11/01/2012 8:49:50 AM *Cut out the middle man,ie US $ is what China and Japan are thinking.* So Arjay, lets say.....
» 10/01/2012 9:26:53 PM So Thinker 2, lets cut the waffle. Should the Govt provide Ford, GM and Toyota with furth.....
» 10/01/2012 8:34:16 PM *I asked you the number of Swiss nationals provided assisted suicide annually. The figure .....
» 10/01/2012 7:26:11 AM *which listed a cumulative 112 assisted suicides over a twelve year period* Not so, Feste.....
» 9/01/2012 11:23:56 PM *Is that the right way to calculate the figure? Does it include all the foreigners assiste.....
» 9/01/2012 10:14:13 PM *The person has to be suffering from an incurable disease, which can be predicted to have .....
» 9/01/2012 6:44:09 PM *A much better idea is to use preventative medicine to keep the often tragic old and frail.....
» 9/01/2012 4:09:02 PM *Yabby,is just too simplistic* Lol Arjay, no doubt it is, for you. Nothing would appeal t.....
» 8/01/2012 12:41:08 PM *I'm not being a smartarse Yabby. I am merely trying to make sense of what you are saying*.....
» 7/01/2012 8:48:33 PM *For instance, it should be the suicide subject who actually presses the syringe or takes .....
» 7/01/2012 6:32:48 PM *And of course, past misdemeanours by Christians do not discount the positive impacts Chri.....
» 7/01/2012 6:24:27 PM *Assisted suicide is, however, possible and legal; according to article 115 of the Swiss P.....
» 7/01/2012 2:35:24 PM *The means to enable a peaceful death are readily obtainable and inexpensive* Err, not wh.....
» 7/01/2012 10:58:03 AM *So what you you and Yabby are proposing is a bureaucracy to deal with the decision to kil.....
» 6/01/2012 9:09:05 PM *because Govt now represents business, not the public.* Thinker 2, do you really think th.....
» 6/01/2012 8:47:14 PM I bought an Ipad 2 in May, mainly because I wanted to understand what all the Apple fuss .....
» 6/01/2012 3:46:22 PM http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/Specials/International_year_of_chemistry/Health_&_Research/Ass.....
» 6/01/2012 11:39:03 AM *You are describing assisted suicide, which involves a person of sound mind making a decis.....
» 6/01/2012 10:35:50 AM Fester, please take the time to read the Swiss article and then explain what you object to.....
» 6/01/2012 8:29:28 AM I guess as a director of an organisation fighting voluntary euthanasia etc, the author ha.....
» 5/01/2012 8:16:00 PM *A married couple could afford to have one of them at home to raise kids if desired. Now t.....
» 5/01/2012 8:05:00 PM *If your skills are inadequate to provide you with the standard of living you desire, go g.....
» 5/01/2012 3:13:59 PM *We have growth because we employ more energy in the process.* Only to a point, Bazz. You.....
» 5/01/2012 11:27:45 AM *Take an item, a CD will do.* But Rectub, the Cd is outdated technology and you cannot st.....
» 5/01/2012 9:52:26 AM Bazz, I think the US has a similar problem to Aus, in terms of overservicing by retail. So.....
» 4/01/2012 7:18:47 PM *You are actually bound by your dogmas as much as any religous group,* Not so, Runner. In.....
» 4/01/2012 7:11:08 PM I'm not sure about the law changing Rehctub, its a commercial deal so I doubt that the Go.....
» 4/01/2012 2:22:05 PM *Ten years ago, one weeks turnover would pay a years rent, 20 years ago it was more like t.....
» 4/01/2012 11:28:39 AM *seek out the best price, even if it is off the net, a practice you know full well costs l.....
» 3/01/2012 2:35:08 PM *I don't think any banks are very safe until they recognise that we are operating under di.....
» 3/01/2012 7:27:16 AM Ok Rehctub, I will correct you. With things like iron ore and in WA generally, royalties a.....
» 2/01/2012 12:12:46 PM *A percentage based royalty would fix that as well.* Well we already have that. Its paid .....
» 2/01/2012 7:29:05 AM Rehtub, you'd have to read up the financials of the major banks to add it up, but its ofte.....
» 1/01/2012 7:27:42 PM *however, if anyone should pay super profits tax, it's them.* Hang on Rectub, the banks r.....
» 1/01/2012 2:13:45 PM *Considering your only tool for forcing banks to pass on rate cuts is 'guilt', you are pla.....
» 31/12/2011 8:15:14 AM http://www.ozshots.com/20060228_Kangaroo/ Hang on, thats what real Australians look like......
» 31/12/2011 7:27:37 AM Inidividual, I agree with you. Capitalism is a great contraceptive and if people had to pa.....
» 30/12/2011 8:05:03 PM Funnily enough Runner, I particularly mentioned the Swiss system. http://www.exit-geneve......
» 30/12/2011 5:08:45 PM *My maternal urges were unsatisfied, however, with just one. Only after adopting three chi.....
» 30/12/2011 9:29:04 AM Interesting question, Graham. But then as a kid I remember believing in Santa and that mad.....
» 30/12/2011 8:59:30 AM *This to me is an excellent argument as to why we should abolish the states altogether in .....
» 29/12/2011 11:25:02 PM Sheesh, how would Vanna cope without all those womens magazines? He'd be bored!.....
» 29/12/2011 5:26:26 PM *Not to mention that the far closer proximity of a number of European countries has been n.....
» 29/12/2011 12:11:46 PM *The point is, Yabby, that it wouldn't end there.* Its an interesting point Pericles, but.....
» 29/12/2011 8:44:39 AM *if your mother had also died that wouldn't have made you unhappy either* Roscop, your de.....
» 29/12/2011 1:03:44 AM *I have lived and worked in WA, and enjoyed myself there immensely* In that case I will c.....
» 29/12/2011 12:53:45 AM Suze is quite correct here, Runner. Under Swiss law, "depression" does not quali.....
» 28/12/2011 9:29:07 PM *Saudi Arabia is a great example. Of its current labour force of 7.3 million, 80% are non-.....
» 28/12/2011 3:20:51 PM I watched the BBC's "Hardtalk" programme last night. It was about a man, who su.....
» 28/12/2011 2:32:32 PM Iran can't block the Straits of Hormuz, for if it did, that would be seen as trying to bla.....
» 28/12/2011 2:14:37 PM *The author failed to consider the growing inequality in Australia, as a root cause of chi.....
» 26/12/2011 8:22:27 PM http://www.exit-geneve.ch/Exempleoas.pdf There you go, Lindy. This is how it works in Swi.....
» 26/12/2011 11:01:19 AM You are correct on one point, Mac. It would do the Eastern States a great deal of good, to.....
» 25/12/2011 8:53:05 PM Mac, you sound like some misogynistic husband, telling his bride that she could not cope w.....
» 24/12/2011 3:02:21 PM *West Australians seemed to have forgotten all about it during the war.* Ah come on Mac. .....
» 23/12/2011 9:08:23 PM *Of course, if we give the west Christmas island when they go, they'll be the ones copping.....
» 23/12/2011 4:16:41 PM *if you are serious about creating safe and moral legislation on the issue* Well there is.....
» 23/12/2011 2:14:02 PM *OK, I'll go easy on you.* Its not often that you get it all arseabout, Houllie, but this.....
» 23/12/2011 7:20:20 AM Ah Runner, we know that you prefer the good old Christian way here. Encourage your daughte.....
» 22/12/2011 9:08:54 AM *you have forgotten that euthanasia isn't suicide. If it were, anyone could simply go off .....
» 21/12/2011 6:26:17 PM *Yabby, but it's a pity you base your views on your prejudices instead of cold hard facts......
» 19/12/2011 8:10:18 PM *I am interested in the Green notion of decriminalizing transport of asylum seekers with n.....
» 19/12/2011 9:45:00 AM *In fact, you're delusional about the political power of Catholicism in this country* Abs.....
» 18/12/2011 10:49:17 PM Who is to blame? Our Australian bleeding hearts are to blame. Unable to think things throu.....
» 18/12/2011 7:33:25 PM Deary me Tony, not that old broken record yet again. If people had to pay 8000$ for an Au.....
» 18/12/2011 9:24:10 AM *That said, a referendum wouldn't bother me, though I suspect most people would think it w.....
» 17/12/2011 8:51:53 PM Plenty of Catholic politicians, Lindy. They don't have to belong to a Catholic party. We s.....
» 17/12/2011 6:36:53 PM I hate to break it to you Lindy, but the majority of Australians are overwhelmingly in fav.....
» 17/12/2011 1:32:16 PM Lindy, IMHO the Catholic Church shot itself in the foot with its backward contraception po.....
» 16/12/2011 11:28:41 PM *When they tell someone they will be excommunicated if they do something, it is a warning .....
» 16/12/2011 6:06:41 PM *The bishops can't threaten to excommunicate someone because it happens automatically. All.....
» 16/12/2011 2:21:26 PM With all due respect, Lindy, just your say so is not a good enough source for me. So I've.....
» 16/12/2011 9:05:38 AM An interesting point, Salpetre. Perhaps you have noticed that there are all sorts of threa.....
» 15/12/2011 5:00:52 PM A sense of balance or relevance Mishka? The way I understand things, any organisation whic.....
» 15/12/2011 10:31:53 AM Mishka, as we have established, the Church considers masturbation a grave sin, and as we k.....
» 14/12/2011 10:19:42 PM Mishka, why should I quote Dan Brown? Fact is that the press has exposed some of the going.....
» 14/12/2011 9:46:10 PM Grim, I'd say that my posts are educational. All that we have seen so far from you, is som.....
» 14/12/2011 5:18:38 PM Mishka, if you know so much about the Catholic Church, why don't you just come clean. As .....
» 14/12/2011 4:31:56 PM Grim, I certainly did not dodge the mulesing question. Given post limits, I simply did not.....
» 14/12/2011 4:11:26 PM Mishka, I think you will find that Catholic doctrine and the effort to enforce it, varies .....
» 13/12/2011 7:28:56 PM Salpetre, I feel great empathy for the many victims of the Catholic Church. I quoted you a.....
» 13/12/2011 11:27:22 AM Well Mishka, I wasn't discussing death camps, but something as simple as masturbation, to .....
» 12/12/2011 9:19:18 PM *It's a means of determining right and wrong* So tell me something, Mishka. Let's say a c.....
» 12/12/2011 2:03:19 PM *when the time comes to let compassion overtake the old-fashioned religious superstitions .....
» 12/12/2011 9:17:35 AM The Swiss could already be ahead of the Dutch on all this. Last time I checked, they had .....
» 9/12/2011 9:58:10 AM *Any activity which requires one to bottle or compartmentalise their emotions erodes one's.....
» 8/12/2011 12:26:17 PM http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1812250,00.html Ah Salpetre, lucky you that.....
» 8/12/2011 10:55:23 AM Lol Mishka, so finally by 2010, the old pope sets up an "independant" authority .....
» 8/12/2011 8:52:01 AM *Only in farming societies are animals reduced to mere commodities, before and after they .....
» 7/12/2011 1:58:34 PM Mishka, I am sure that your local parish accounts for every cent of what lands up in the c.....
» 7/12/2011 11:08:49 AM Deary me, this article just shows me how some city people are totally losing touch with t.....
» 7/12/2011 10:46:56 AM TeeZed, I can't comment on your figures quoted, as it would not be an informed comment, I .....
» 7/12/2011 10:29:53 AM Mishka, the Catholic Church does indeed run schools and hospitals. They also receive huge .....
» 6/12/2011 10:16:12 PM JPS, what they pay Joyce, frankly does not matter in the bigger scheme of things, if he g.....
» 6/12/2011 7:35:08 PM *Fact is when you pay less.... YOU GET LESS wether you think so or not and that includes S.....
» 6/12/2011 7:19:12 PM *but the real evil driving the farm is the same as it ever was, the profit motive* Not re.....
» 6/12/2011 7:05:36 PM *We are all human organisms.* Indeed we are, Mishka. But of course not all human organism.....
» 6/12/2011 2:46:58 PM *That is a very trusting statement. I think it would end up in the bosses pocket.* 579, I.....
» 5/12/2011 11:17:01 PM *but I would rather my dogma than your dogma that says that the state and people of goodwi.....
» 5/12/2011 11:07:22 PM *However, this project is set to continue expanding* Well there you go, Poirot. The US is.....
» 5/12/2011 10:54:40 PM Deary me, Lexi, the Murdoch press would love readers like you, who suck in ever word witho.....
» 5/12/2011 6:26:53 PM I can see it now Arjay, The USA are after you! Nevermind, we'll hand the OLO hat around .....
» 5/12/2011 6:22:24 PM *BTW ; short-term overstayers are not included in the given figures* Err, that is less th.....
» 4/12/2011 3:14:44 PM *As you well know, I am not referring to "backpackers," but to those who pay vas.....
» 4/12/2011 10:37:04 AM One would think that if Catholics were so against abortion, they would have every reason t.....
» 4/12/2011 10:24:03 AM Lexi, not a word of a mention of false papers, as you claimed. Visa overstayers indeed th.....
» 3/12/2011 8:56:10 PM Lexi, a single swallow does not make a summer. One single refugee who thought of using for.....
» 3/12/2011 1:46:10 PM Dear Lexi, You have no idea as to what I have or have not googled. You just make these as.....
» 3/12/2011 12:26:50 PM *Without all of the costs of the Ponzi economy there would be more funds available to trai.....
» 3/12/2011 12:10:07 PM Why thank you Shadow Minister. Your link makes my point for me. Not a mention of "for.....
» 2/12/2011 11:12:03 PM Fester, I agree with you that we should be training more people. But its a bit much to exp.....
» 2/12/2011 10:56:24 PM I've read those articles too Lexi, and your memory is flawed. People come in on tourist v.....
» 2/12/2011 8:53:54 PM Dear Lexi, You are making the wild claims, you provide the evidence......
» 2/12/2011 8:43:50 PM *There is a large skilled labour force there which could easily meet the needs of the mini.....
» 2/12/2011 5:11:47 PM Oops Lexi, you clearly forgot that travelling using forged documents is of course a crimin.....
» 2/12/2011 4:45:05 PM Poirot, no I don't think its about potential. Its about what constitutes a person, versus.....
» 2/12/2011 12:00:16 PM Gawd Lexi, our customs service must be frigging hopeless. 60'000 coming in with false pape.....
» 2/12/2011 10:45:42 AM Poirot, size is not the issue. Its having the bits that actually can let it function. The .....
» 2/12/2011 10:06:58 AM *Abortions are of embryos and foetuses, not zygotes, and most occur at 10-12 weeks when th.....
» 1/12/2011 9:22:51 PM *What about the 60,000 illegal refugees (presumably by plane)?* Ah Lexi, you mean those b.....
» 1/12/2011 9:16:19 PM *Many of the products coming from China are inferior and end up in land fill.Why not produ.....
» 1/12/2011 7:42:50 PM Completely forgotten here is that one company's protective tariff becomes a higher input c.....
» 1/12/2011 7:27:00 PM Last time I checked Mischka, the god of the old testament had no problems with killing off.....
» 1/12/2011 4:03:04 PM *Funny enough most pushing ethics classes refuse to think for a moment when it comes to ki.....
» 1/12/2011 10:19:11 AM Deary me, another Western guilt trip article. So should the Americans not have invented e.....
» 1/12/2011 10:07:58 AM *Conscience is developed through the granting and witholding of love in childhood and can .....
» 29/11/2011 5:34:58 PM HunnioBunnio, I too am against animal cruelty. The problem with the live trade debate is t.....
» 28/11/2011 1:11:01 PM The shutdown last week of a Victorian pig abattoir over animal cruelty issues, shows that .....
» 28/11/2011 10:25:02 AM I've often heard it said that the Greeks still think that the world owes them a living, fo.....
» 27/11/2011 4:43:38 PM *Those who currently create all the new money,have all the power.They are the private bank.....
» 26/11/2011 2:12:26 PM *Yabby, it's funny how you being a farmer can sit there in support of those who have singl.....
» 26/11/2011 9:52:20 AM *You see big business can run on small margins,, but small ones can't.* That is exactly w.....
» 26/11/2011 9:20:45 AM *His way of avoiding depression? Write off the debt, bankrupt the banks, nationalize the f.....
» 25/11/2011 2:43:47 PM *There's no customers coming through the doors and you blame the govt* Ah 579, the Govt s.....
» 24/11/2011 8:28:58 PM *More like it's been a marathon game of pass-the-parcel between bankers, speculators and g.....
» 24/11/2011 2:15:48 PM Salpetre, sometimes its not how much is spent, but how its spent, which is the crucial que.....
» 23/11/2011 10:10:22 PM *Maybe the warm weather is affecting everybody.* Perhaps its just hot flushes, Pelican :).....
» 23/11/2011 6:14:52 PM If the author wants to help people in PNG, perhaps he can preach to his Catholic brothers,.....
» 23/11/2011 10:09:56 AM We don't need material eqaulity, for that would be unfair. It would penalise those who wor.....
» 23/11/2011 10:02:10 AM *no good planting super in a super fund these days, they make no money.* TBC, they make a.....
» 22/11/2011 11:00:11 AM *All the investors and the mining companies are interested in as you rightly point out - i.....
» 21/11/2011 9:27:41 PM *Capitalism has proved the perfect system for the display of conspicuous consumption - whe.....
» 21/11/2011 4:30:34 PM *Try stepping out of the mainstream while residing amidst it - you'll find you not only ha.....
» 21/11/2011 4:15:46 PM *you have to remember even if you are getting a small energy gain it is not enough, you ha.....
» 21/11/2011 1:23:33 PM *Yabby said; Energy is energy. Well it isn't necessarily so !* Ah but it is Bazz, and it .....
» 21/11/2011 9:14:22 AM *Rampant consumerism had not raised it's ugly head.* Hang on Pelican. Going shopping is n.....
» 20/11/2011 8:47:39 PM Rehctub, there is no looming food shortage, for alot more could be produced, if it was wor.....
» 20/11/2011 5:26:00 PM I don't think you are going to go hungry just yet, Rehctub. The price of wheat right now .....
» 20/11/2011 2:26:24 PM *but if a bonobo presented herself to me..i could easilly say no* Gawd OUG, I think you h.....
» 20/11/2011 1:34:36 PM *The relevant hunting drive encompasses cunning, planning, preparation and weapons fabrica.....
» 20/11/2011 9:56:21 AM *Even whole communities established on an ethos of sustainable, fulfilling and modest live.....
» 20/11/2011 9:36:27 AM Interesting question, Salpetre. I think its probably a bit of both, ie nature and nurtur.....
» 19/11/2011 6:05:42 PM http://www.dlwaldron.com/bonobos.html There you go OUG, sometimes pictures say more then .....
» 19/11/2011 12:45:47 PM *How you can have an "efficient" service devoted to excellence that is maximally.....
» 18/11/2011 2:31:27 PM *It certainly neesd another look from the ground up rather than the top down.* Exactly, P.....
» 17/11/2011 8:21:16 PM Well it seems to me that some of these Depts need what any good business would occasionall.....
» 17/11/2011 2:06:30 PM *Some of the biggest rip-offs have come via outsourcing government functions.* Pelican, t.....
» 17/11/2011 12:26:16 PM It seems to me that alot of people are confused by the many kinds of "banks". W.....
» 16/11/2011 10:20:39 PM *if you deposit $100 then the Bank can loan say $1000 to somebody else, and the margin is .....
» 16/11/2011 7:45:38 PM Indeed Sonofgloin we have and you seemingly still can't read a balance sheet. Rehctub, ba.....
» 16/11/2011 4:25:01 PM JP, people, like other species, are influenced by their genetic makeup, which has a biolog.....
» 16/11/2011 12:07:24 PM Rectub, banks nett return on assets is around 1%. So if they dropped interest rates by 1%,.....
» 16/11/2011 11:56:28 AM *Biology is completely amoral* JP, there is no objective morality, so its basically your .....
» 15/11/2011 9:34:43 PM *as if evolution/biology was deliberately heading toward some goal.* Perhaps it just appe.....
» 15/11/2011 3:07:25 PM Indeed JP, that is why we had the evolution of empathy. We can show that other primates d.....
» 15/11/2011 2:00:38 PM *are you saying that you believe humans are nothing more than biological, material entitie.....
» 14/11/2011 10:12:43 PM *Instead of fresh meat cut by the butcher while you were there, we can get "convenien.....
» 14/11/2011 9:09:48 PM *Why we aren't pushing LPG more and even Natural gas with our vast resources is beyond me......
» 14/11/2011 8:14:44 PM Yeah Bazz, but its not all gloom and doom next month either. You have to see the whole big.....
» 14/11/2011 7:12:15 PM *Well there you go, buy property and forget QANTAS.* Given that our property is now some .....
» 14/11/2011 5:06:38 PM *So, where does all the profit come from that keep the grey gypos on the road consuming pe.....
» 14/11/2011 3:30:36 PM *Well, if all that can be expected is 3-5% then it rather shows it's a foolish investment......
» 14/11/2011 3:17:26 PM I've told you before Rectub, the world is changing, especially with the advent of the inte.....
» 14/11/2011 3:08:03 PM Bazz, I think that you are getting your wires crossed. In 1971, Hubbert predicted that in.....
» 14/11/2011 3:01:44 PM *but I am also disturbed by the analogy of likening my lips to a baboon's reddened genital.....
» 14/11/2011 2:27:58 PM *Who cares if QANTAS folds?* Well TBC, it seems that the 35'000 employees care so much ab.....
» 14/11/2011 2:14:36 PM Bazz, my figure is quite accurate and comes directly from Pulitzer prize winning author D.....
» 14/11/2011 9:49:01 AM Poirot, the way I understand it, "The Naked Ape" was the first of Desmond Morris.....
» 14/11/2011 9:29:58 AM Belly, I don't hate Eastern Australians. I just think that you blokes live in a complete e.....
» 14/11/2011 8:50:46 AM *I mean, lipstick? What's the deal with that?* Pericles, Desmond Morris in "The Huma.....
» 13/11/2011 9:57:59 PM Actually Bazz, Hubbert did get a few things wrong. In 2010 US production was 4 times high.....
» 13/11/2011 5:34:59 PM *If we all take from this earth, it will fail, and you know it.* Well then people had bet.....
» 13/11/2011 5:28:29 PM http://www.mediastatements.wa.gov.au/Pages/default.aspx?ItemId=145882& There ya go, Belly.....
» 13/11/2011 1:23:00 PM *In fact farmers may well, and should benefit over all, maybe not in current plans.* Geez.....
» 13/11/2011 10:23:13 AM *while farmers (and any other manufacturers) produce carbon not only as living creatures b.....
» 12/11/2011 9:18:17 PM Deary me, Lexi, don't start preaching about fairness in our society. West Australian farm.....
» 11/11/2011 8:28:17 PM Congratulations Graham! It certainly is a milestone. Keeping the wheels on the cart in a.....
» 11/11/2011 8:09:51 PM *As always, you identify the villains incorrectly.* Not so Thinker 2. You simply don't un.....
» 11/11/2011 5:50:02 PM *Is Spain/Italy/Portugal/ Ireland/Great Briton/ list continues, are their problems about p.....
» 11/11/2011 2:06:44 PM Dear Belly, Now you know that under that sweet exterior, Lexi in fact has a filthy imagin.....
» 11/11/2011 12:18:13 PM *tax's are spent on us all mining profits not so.* Actually Belly, not quite correct. Awa.....
» 10/11/2011 9:49:28 PM *BHP is not going to leave Australian shores if the government institutes a better tax reg.....
» 10/11/2011 7:43:43 PM Ah DD, but coccidiosis also happens in broilers etc. That is why they put coccidiostats in.....
» 10/11/2011 2:04:19 PM *It is the food which keeps them happy, not the extra space contemplated in the legislatio.....
» 10/11/2011 12:43:14 PM *The conscious awareness level of a chook, is one level up from a sea squirt!* DD, you re.....
» 10/11/2011 11:09:53 AM The Eurozone is really just a giant vendor financing scheme for Germany. Politicians were.....
» 9/11/2011 9:26:32 PM Ah Lexi, the merchant bankers just love people like you. They would be creaming their jean.....
» 9/11/2011 8:11:31 PM *it is about sharing some of the largesse along the chain of production. Afterall taxpayer.....
» 9/11/2011 4:07:30 PM *So there is no problem with taxing their actual profit, surely?* TBC, there is no proble.....
» 9/11/2011 2:52:33 PM *This step is a step in the right direction. We can't continue with what we've been doing .....
» 9/11/2011 11:33:04 AM *We are talking SUPER profits here which still sees large mining companies making profits .....
» 8/11/2011 10:52:25 PM * We own the gold but have not shared in the increasing dividends for our gold.* You rema.....
» 8/11/2011 1:42:01 PM *So those people who chunter on that denying the people a referendum is a denial of democr.....
» 7/11/2011 6:31:31 PM Lexi, your new author is as badly informed as the last one. Joyce is in fact making money .....
» 7/11/2011 3:59:19 PM *The company is not merely an independent business identity. It might no longer be a solel.....
» 7/11/2011 10:01:24 AM *The AFR is a business representing business interests,* Gawd Lexi, there was you claimin.....
» 6/11/2011 10:43:52 PM *but you can certainly train children to believe things and act in certain ways independen.....
» 6/11/2011 10:30:12 PM Dear Lexi, No wonder I lost you, if you did not read what I'd written. As they say, you c.....
» 6/11/2011 6:01:23 PM *Without the workforce the company would not have been so successful to date.* Without pl.....
» 6/11/2011 4:10:53 PM *Truth in discussions such as these is rather subjective* Nope Lexi, its all about the fa.....
» 6/11/2011 1:29:16 PM Dear Lexi, I already read your google link and can only suggest that you find better sourc.....
» 6/11/2011 12:55:48 PM *It seems that some people are impressed by a little conjuring and a company acting like a.....
» 6/11/2011 12:04:42 PM *Men need to realise that they can choose to control their stone age impulses.* OTOH Moll.....
» 5/11/2011 8:42:53 PM *Look at twins, some identical twins are so different from each other and yet they came fr.....
» 5/11/2011 8:31:09 PM *Actually it can be denied- even a few years before the selloff I flew Qantas and the pric.....
» 5/11/2011 10:23:13 AM http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/addiction-a-brain-disorder-new-definition/story-e6frf.....
» 5/11/2011 10:07:57 AM Hazza, Rehctub is simply pointing out that Australians claim to want jobs. Those jobs migh.....
» 5/11/2011 9:42:48 AM *what exactly is your point?* My point is Hazza, that I don't have to agree with Holden's.....
» 5/11/2011 9:23:58 AM Fair enough Hazza, as a typical consumer, you want a Rolls Royce service at a "Great .....
» 4/11/2011 8:53:20 PM *If he were to lose gamble and the referendum, simply because the people did not understan.....
» 4/11/2011 7:39:07 PM So there we have it, Formersnag. You don't actually believe the Christian story yourself, .....
» 4/11/2011 6:36:41 PM *rather than the result of an under-achieving individual who is simply failing to hold the.....
» 4/11/2011 6:24:55 PM *I don't recall a referendum on the issue* No need to Bazz, we don't hold referdums on mo.....
» 4/11/2011 1:02:45 PM I agree with the author to a point. Our will is far less free then we think. Hormones, lig.....
» 4/11/2011 12:43:53 PM I would have supported a referendum in Greece, for good reasons. Firstly, it would have c.....
» 3/11/2011 8:04:38 PM *Which do you think Joyce fits under?* Quite simple. Joyce got the job because he had the.....
» 3/11/2011 5:18:09 PM *he could have rejected his pay rise,* The devil is in the details Hazza, which you need .....
» 3/11/2011 4:18:53 PM Gawd, just leave Kevie where he is, flying around the world first class, living in luxury .....
» 3/11/2011 2:56:35 PM *Yabby, christianity is full of positive morals & ethics.* Ah Formesnag, I do in fact kno.....
» 3/11/2011 1:01:18 PM *He shouldn't have to make a living will to indicate he wants to live. Life should be the .....
» 3/11/2011 11:31:31 AM *I said nothing about sticking someone in a home, etc.* No Mishka, for its easy to pontif.....
» 3/11/2011 9:45:24 AM *Euthanasia takes advantage of the elderly and fails to accord them basic respect.* Gawd .....
» 2/11/2011 3:01:44 PM *Joyce was perfectly free to act in many other ways* Err Hazza, a gun was put to his head.....
» 2/11/2011 2:04:44 PM *Australia needs another airline on every internal route. Open them up let the best win.* .....
» 2/11/2011 10:50:33 AM Complete nonsense, Formersnag. The implication of your claim is that you only have a hear.....
» 2/11/2011 10:15:20 AM Well yes, people can indeed learn to transcend tribalism. But never forget, the veneer of .....
» 2/11/2011 10:01:50 AM Poirot, the fight between management and workers at Qantas has gone on for years. Both sid.....
» 2/11/2011 9:10:09 AM *Also, nobody put a gun to Joyce's head and forced him to keep his payrise, or for that ma.....
» 2/11/2011 7:49:41 AM *Quantas held its passengers and this country to RANSOM* Hehe Belly, sorry mate, but that.....
» 1/11/2011 8:17:11 PM *Hasbeen, about the only solution I can suggest at this distance is to get a new TV mast a.....
» 1/11/2011 12:05:05 AM Actually, for some reason, this whole dispute brought back memories for me of a bloke whos.....
» 31/10/2011 10:28:18 PM Diver Dan, in this case I'll prefer to rely on the West Australian aviation writer Geoffre.....
» 31/10/2011 9:12:01 PM Rehctub, today's West Australian quotes baggage handlers as averaging 74k$, engineers ave.....
» 31/10/2011 11:31:14 AM *Two million for the asking, and yet you ramble on.* Actually 579, that is not quite corr.....
» 31/10/2011 11:21:32 AM As always, the devil in all this is in the details. According to Paul Sheehan, Tony Shel.....
» 30/10/2011 7:10:14 PM Poirot, of course it affects interests other then the airline. As did the rolling strikes .....
» 30/10/2011 3:32:18 PM *Surely you can't be serious in thinking it's a clever response?* Of course I am serious,.....
» 30/10/2011 12:09:10 PM Nope 579, that is to be exact, 96% of shareholders. All shareholders get a vote on the sal.....
» 30/10/2011 11:09:23 AM 579, if you check you will find that 97% of the shareholders gave Joyce his payrise, so hi.....
» 29/10/2011 9:56:52 PM *That is a modern business. Profits above all else.* Lets put it this way, Shaggy. If you.....
» 29/10/2011 9:14:59 PM Actually, I think that Joyce is playing this quite cleverly, lets hope he sticks to his gu.....
» 29/10/2011 7:56:33 PM *This national pride has a cost without doubt but those in power and shareholders are obvi.....
» 28/10/2011 5:37:14 PM *but, historically, the town square is in part a space for public expression* Well Perth .....
» 28/10/2011 2:02:42 PM Pericles, you really do have the patience of a saint. UOGs posts are pure gibberish to me.....
» 28/10/2011 1:51:43 PM *But it shows a farier alternative (than we have in Australia and the US)* But its not a .....
» 27/10/2011 9:02:20 PM *How did the Bank of America get $75 trillion of worthless derivatives on its books?* Arj.....
» 27/10/2011 11:29:38 AM *Yet she endorses the slaughter by abortion of 100,000 babies per year in Australia, and m.....
» 27/10/2011 10:35:12 AM A good article, Jennifer. However I think that there is a difference. The USA is the most .....
» 26/10/2011 11:57:31 PM Csteele, I assume that you were referring to myself and not to Belly. Rather then deposi.....
» 26/10/2011 9:52:37 PM *Squeers asked, what are Dawkins' ethics and what is their source? It's a good question.* .....
» 26/10/2011 7:57:38 PM *Csteele is on the money Yabby, if you'll excuse my pun.* You are seemingly as badly info.....
» 26/10/2011 2:36:03 PM *Please don't nitpick the figures, they are purely approximations* Lol Steele, that is th.....
» 26/10/2011 2:12:37 PM The author's article indeed highlights the flaws of veganism as as a philosophy. A great .....
» 26/10/2011 1:46:10 PM *Unfortunately the big end of town often decries any suggestion of collective interest unt.....
» 25/10/2011 11:05:03 AM *People will eventually have to accept that more are going to live in inner city apartment.....
» 25/10/2011 8:37:26 AM Pericles, I agree with you. George Trumbull is a great example of boards screwing up compl.....
» 25/10/2011 12:47:30 AM Csteele, I know the difference very well. The fact is that in terms of return on equity, b.....
» 24/10/2011 9:56:10 PM *and only those with their heads in the sand or snouts in the trough would be against.* N.....
» 24/10/2011 8:04:54 PM Interestingly, the London protesters who have set up their 50 tents, have released their &.....
» 24/10/2011 4:20:31 PM *Why can't a place like Melbourne support a continuing protest? It could add colour and vi.....
» 24/10/2011 2:51:18 PM Its an interesting but difficult question, Pericles, but I do see two sides of the coin. .....
» 24/10/2011 12:09:28 AM *What have they achieved?* Well Oto, they got to play their bongo drums and play their gu.....
» 22/10/2011 5:57:35 PM Of course there is a food crisis in Africa. All those women popping out 6-8 babies, no fam.....
» 21/10/2011 10:00:23 PM *How dare a minority aspire to move in the direction of those that brought disintegration .....
» 21/10/2011 9:49:02 PM *Who knows what really happened?* Well on an early news report, the boys who caught him, .....
» 19/10/2011 8:40:20 PM *we need MORE ordinary jobs for people who do not have the intellectual horsepower &/or se.....
» 19/10/2011 3:15:47 PM Hehe, I love it. Hold a demonstration and then figure out what you are demonstrating about.....
» 19/10/2011 9:35:49 AM http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/10/17/the-top-1-executives-doctors-and-bankers/ So.....
» 18/10/2011 7:37:52 PM *Personally, I think the biggest liability here is what I like to call the "equal pay.....
» 18/10/2011 3:21:16 PM Well there you go Poirot. Much easier for you to be poor, then you don't have to worry abo.....
» 18/10/2011 12:15:37 PM Poirot, yes the size of the US debt is huge, but its all about confidence. People are stil.....
» 18/10/2011 11:17:53 AM Indeed Poirot, Europe is the problem, because the market thinks things through to some ext.....
» 17/10/2011 10:12:16 PM Rawmustard, nope, I think that Arjay is wrong. At the end of the day, profits from Reserve.....
» 17/10/2011 8:17:02 PM Arjay, you really do need a nice cup of tea and a good lie down. Then perhaps ring for hel.....
» 17/10/2011 6:21:53 PM *Can you enlighten us as to where they went wrong....and why do things seem to be operatin.....
» 17/10/2011 5:24:15 PM *however you can only fool people some of the time, people are beginning to see through th.....
» 17/10/2011 4:32:50 PM *C'mon, Yabby, you're a critic of the likes of Bush and Cheney and their merry band of neo.....
» 17/10/2011 1:57:15 PM *but many people from the Right and Left are no longer accepting the lack of ethics so dom.....
» 17/10/2011 9:01:15 AM Oh Rawmustard, if only the whole Wall St saga was as simple as press headlines made it to .....
» 16/10/2011 7:29:41 PM *but protesting at the government's policies that led to the GFC.* Well in that case Peli.....
» 16/10/2011 6:29:45 PM Oh the poor unions lol. Look, if the engineers, pilots and twu want to manage the company.....
» 16/10/2011 6:21:00 PM Pelican, in that case the demonstrators should be demonstrating in Washington, in front of.....
» 16/10/2011 1:36:11 PM *Tribal man tends to be less innovative than civilised man, yet there is no comparison bet.....
» 16/10/2011 12:14:57 PM I googled the name of the Sydney campaign organiser on this. All the expected references .....
» 16/10/2011 11:00:45 AM http://news.discovery.com/animals/chimpanzees-self-awareness-110504.html Poirot, all that.....
» 15/10/2011 10:21:57 PM *Your bonobos haven't the capacity to reflect on their condition. When they're not engaged.....
» 15/10/2011 8:24:37 PM *we have time to reflect. This a luxury not afforded to other species as they are required.....
» 15/10/2011 6:51:38 PM I'll have to agree with Pericles on this one. Fortunately for us, dna molecules happen to .....
» 14/10/2011 5:55:11 PM http://www.oshoquotes.net/category/osho-quotes-on-life/ There you go, Poirot. Houllie is .....
» 14/10/2011 5:01:03 PM *this dispute is near over believe me* Whatever happens to the dispute Belly, the problem.....
» 14/10/2011 4:52:25 PM *but whether the people who spilt it have actually learned from their mistakes* To answer.....
» 14/10/2011 2:46:06 PM *But here, in our forum some, who graduated from the school of failure to understand, with.....
» 14/10/2011 2:09:08 PM The cult mentality is fairly easy to explain. People are after all social, tribal creature.....
» 14/10/2011 1:40:37 PM Pericles, you are quite correct in one way. Yup, lots of poor management decisions were ma.....
» 14/10/2011 10:47:51 AM Tristan, the miners already do pay far more taxes, then other companies. Only some of tho.....
» 13/10/2011 6:54:18 PM *Why not support more resource-rent taxation* Because if you push it too high, Tristan, i.....
» 13/10/2011 4:42:08 PM Be careful of what you wish for, Tristan. For the law of unintended consequences, is never.....
» 13/10/2011 3:17:01 PM Your problem Tristan, is your perception of the world. Life is not fair, it never will be......
» 13/10/2011 11:57:31 AM *No offense taken yabby but no way I would work for you.* Well of course not Belly, for o.....
» 13/10/2011 9:32:03 AM Ah Belly, but once again, you see all this from your limited perception, failing to stand.....
» 12/10/2011 9:15:58 PM There is of course no magic or mystery about love, but certainly false expectations due in.....
» 12/10/2011 8:58:46 PM *So if we produce more diesel, will the local consumer be asked to pay average world price.....
» 12/10/2011 7:37:29 PM Actually Belly, these days I think of you every Sunday, when I pick up my Sunday newspaper.....
» 12/10/2011 5:59:34 PM Oh Belly, I have far better ideas then any union man. Flat rate, all included for each ho.....
» 12/10/2011 12:26:45 PM Sheesh Belly, methinks you should go back to work, you clearly miss your old job :).....
» 11/10/2011 9:35:11 PM *And diesel. Where will the diesel come from to build the dams and irrigation channels?* .....
» 11/10/2011 9:09:35 PM Shaggy, you are quite correct. The thing is, management has to think about the next 20 yea.....
» 11/10/2011 3:13:04 PM Belly, I see many great qualities in you. I think that you are a man of integrity and a ma.....
» 11/10/2011 2:55:49 PM I heard an interesting interview this morning, on the radio. IIRC, the fellow was a journa.....
» 11/10/2011 10:10:16 AM Belly, for you its all very interesting, which unions are which and all the details. The g.....
» 10/10/2011 10:20:16 PM *You would think he invented the computer* Bazz,Jobs did in fact invent the computer whic.....
» 10/10/2011 9:39:22 PM *If you place the same restrictions on employers in China that we have fought tooth and na.....
» 10/10/2011 9:27:22 PM *Yabby, you've been around long enough to know that the garage calendars are hung in prote.....
» 10/10/2011 7:29:53 PM Oh we know what you wrote, Formersnag, its there in black and white for all to read. But.....
» 10/10/2011 7:15:01 PM *And the risk should never be the domain of an employee and is the sole domain of the busi.....
» 10/10/2011 5:04:05 PM *Yabby one thing if we ever meet, you will not tell me I am an old fart,bet on it.* Thats.....
» 10/10/2011 4:37:09 PM *I encourage all women to think about this issue deeply, and engage with it--most of their.....
» 10/10/2011 4:18:52 PM *as there does appear to be a number who do seem to have the solutions for most everything.....
» 10/10/2011 12:48:10 PM *christian forgiveness always has required REPENTENCE, first.* Ah Formesnag, so as a goo.....
» 10/10/2011 12:34:54 PM *Why are unionists any different than you, who puts a price on your product/work?* Lol Be.....
» 10/10/2011 12:12:28 PM *It is more a matter of minimising damage to those Australians employed by QANTAS as the c.....
» 10/10/2011 9:14:08 AM Belly, I've read the articles in the Australian and to me it highlights where the problem .....
» 10/10/2011 12:25:56 AM TRTL, thanks for the article about ryegrass. What I think it will come down to in the end,.....
» 9/10/2011 8:15:48 PM *You try not to value the past, and ignore today. A special blindness that locks out the v.....
» 9/10/2011 1:55:04 PM *The crossing of Ken Henry over to the board of a major bank, shows you how much of a revo.....
» 9/10/2011 9:02:57 AM *Let us look backward for a time* That is exactly the problem, Belly. Some old fellas tel.....
» 8/10/2011 8:38:40 PM *As it happens I have suggested alternatives; a wealth and assets cap* What a foolish ide.....
» 8/10/2011 6:46:39 PM *NO australian child will be safe until all ANTI christian, ANTI social, loony left, human.....
» 8/10/2011 6:38:19 PM Belly, you seem to miss the point entirely. Its not about 1 in 5 workers, its about attit.....
» 8/10/2011 4:06:01 PM Bazz, nobody has ever been accurate about prediting the price of oil. Hubbert, who came up.....
» 8/10/2011 2:15:00 PM Shaggy, I fully agree with you. I used to deal with Ansett every week, what a mob of arrog.....
» 8/10/2011 1:34:16 PM Its not all your claimed gloom and doom, Bazz. Yergin's book makes for interesting reading.....
» 8/10/2011 12:40:00 PM Belly, people in business have competition. Not so for unions. So you are comparing apples.....
» 8/10/2011 9:09:25 AM http://www.amma.org.au/home/home/media_publications/publications.html#ReportsPapers Belly.....
» 7/10/2011 8:32:51 PM http://www.news.com.au/business/oil-rig-workers-on-2000-a-day-as-mining-execs-warn-of-high.....
» 7/10/2011 8:17:58 PM http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/national/laundry-staff-can-earn-more-than-420k-a-year-on-.....
» 7/10/2011 4:40:56 PM *I time and again, my union too, became an employers safety net! yes a trade union* That .....
» 7/10/2011 2:21:00 PM You would never admit it Belly, I accept your bias :) But union thuggery is back. Why? B.....
» 2/10/2011 9:23:30 PM *you're getting close, in fact the Public Service makes up more than 40%* Individual, whi.....
» 2/10/2011 6:42:52 PM *yes & who makes up the bulk of shareholders ? Public Servants of course as only they can .....
» 2/10/2011 5:16:37 PM Ah Squeers, no I had not read your link. The old energy chestnut. The 800 page book I'm w.....
» 2/10/2011 1:35:27 PM Poirot, of course I'll have the last word :) The thing is, just because we use resources,.....
» 2/10/2011 12:06:43 PM *The engineers designed them to take multiple impacts of the larger 707 the biggest passen.....
» 2/10/2011 11:56:22 AM *but footprints are only measurable by what it materially taking place* Poirot, if you wa.....
» 1/10/2011 2:24:15 PM *I really don't believe that we have value for money.* Individual, that is really up to t.....
» 1/10/2011 1:21:39 PM *If Qantas can afford the insane benefits for their hierarchy than they should be able to .....
» 1/10/2011 10:50:59 AM *Makes for a pointless, one-sided discussion. A bit like trying to teach your goldfish to.....
» 30/09/2011 9:57:34 PM *What I said was rhetorical, it's up to you and everyone else to hopefully "think abo.....
» 30/09/2011 9:02:07 PM *Yabby, at the rate Coles and Woolwsorths are importing cheap food, we won't have any farm.....
» 30/09/2011 8:53:03 PM *Well, it's true that 300 million Americans consume the equivalent resources to 2.3 billio.....
» 30/09/2011 8:15:02 PM *Yeah, sure : )* Actually Poirot, its quite rational. If some can breed like rabbits, the.....
» 30/09/2011 7:39:36 PM *The word "need" has lost its meaning; needs are now manufactured. There's no ne.....
» 30/09/2011 3:03:47 PM *Perhaps it is because 'workers' are not the owners of the business and any attempt at tha.....
» 30/09/2011 9:25:51 AM Sorry, that was Sarnian, not Rhian......
» 30/09/2011 9:24:56 AM *We could get stuck in and make them ourselves.* We could indeed Rhian, so then with our .....
» 29/09/2011 9:03:27 PM *I know you think you know "my type", but none of the people in my "phone r.....
» 29/09/2011 7:24:58 PM David, I read the article, what you are referring to is largely a question of social welfa.....
» 29/09/2011 6:59:02 PM *Yabby, rubbish, those melbourne club rich now have 10 times more wealth than they used to.....
» 29/09/2011 3:13:25 PM *It seems to me, like all societies, to behave as a collective organism. It moves forward .....
» 29/09/2011 2:51:44 PM *Those who were around in the bad old days of protection can remember a wealth of cheap Au.....
» 29/09/2011 10:12:42 AM *So the price of the latest electrogimic would go up here? We can manage with out or even .....
» 28/09/2011 7:21:58 PM I don't claim to be all knowing, Poirot. I simply don't wear my little heart on my sleeve.....
» 28/09/2011 1:20:53 PM Poirot, I lived in Africa for a number of years in my youth, so I know all about other per.....
» 28/09/2011 1:02:30 PM *using CO2 to promote algae growth for fuel production will be worthwhile* Hasbeen, it wi.....
» 28/09/2011 10:42:19 AM *They're human, but they're not human like us, are they.* Ah Poirot, feel free to create .....
» 28/09/2011 10:16:35 AM *Labor in Vietnam is now 30 cents per hour.For us to compete we will have to live like the.....
» 28/09/2011 9:56:03 AM *And it's not only children who are exploited in the rush to make trinkets for the West.* .....
» 28/09/2011 8:06:33 AM Rehtub, there is far more going on in this field then you might think or be aware of. Its.....
» 27/09/2011 1:02:23 PM *Are you saying that humans aren't conditioned by the culture in which they are immersed?*.....
» 27/09/2011 10:26:42 AM *these are deep waters. As for myself, I don't pretend to be above my cultural conditionin.....
» 27/09/2011 10:19:32 AM *Why am I not surprised that you can never fathom lives and circumstances so different fro.....
» 27/09/2011 8:37:05 AM *The parents of those children had little choice as well* Oh come on Poirot. You make chi.....
» 27/09/2011 8:18:11 AM Doesen't say much for parents, Poirot, when they sell their kids into slave labour......
» 26/09/2011 1:46:44 PM *Industrialism usurped his autonomy in this respect by taking the means out of individual .....
» 26/09/2011 11:37:12 AM *if you put your head up and say that you take any motivation from Marx's philosophies reg.....
» 22/09/2011 11:59:58 AM http://www.angusrobertson.com.au/book/the-quest-energy-security-and-the-remaking-of-the-mo.....
» 21/09/2011 8:31:32 PM Poirot, I read Passy's blog and sometimes used to read his articles, when he preached his .....
» 21/09/2011 7:47:59 PM *The Zulu, Xhosa, Swazi, and Ndebele peoples?* They are all part of the Bantu, which migr.....
» 21/09/2011 5:49:59 PM *Of course you have a point* Well Mollydukes, that was my point. *But I don't think that.....
» 21/09/2011 2:19:47 PM Mollydukes, I'll answer your question this way: If you think that the smartest people in.....
» 21/09/2011 1:40:58 PM David, you did mention thousands of years of culture in the region and if you check your h.....
» 21/09/2011 12:36:05 PM *There might be a culture of violence and rape in South Africa now, but it does not reflec.....
» 21/09/2011 12:21:09 PM *Of course, people buy all this stuff because corporations say the should. They use clever.....
» 21/09/2011 11:46:37 AM *and the disrespectful 'Nutter' * Lol Nutter, do you often shoot yourself in the foot and.....
» 21/09/2011 11:33:49 AM The question arises as to what is destroying what? In the end, the present global problem.....
» 20/09/2011 3:06:46 PM http://www.rape.co.za/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=875 Last time I checked, .....
» 19/09/2011 11:39:29 PM *Go back and look at Michael Lardelli's words.* Renew, I read it earlier but took little .....
» 19/09/2011 10:32:16 PM *Sustainability is more important that automation.* Well Vanna, whilst the global populat.....
» 19/09/2011 9:45:32 PM *There are now too many people,* I fully agree with you Vanna, so you are preaching to th.....
» 19/09/2011 9:13:53 PM *But it doesn't change my stance that the FIRB policy must be changed to reduce or make ha.....
» 19/09/2011 8:29:29 PM Oops Lexi, you are sensitive about having become a grandmother. That's just my sense of hu.....
» 19/09/2011 8:11:08 PM Vanna, so why should exports be treated any differently then products produced for the loc.....
» 19/09/2011 6:01:58 PM Lexi, amazingly, when it comes to agriculture and producing food, I am actually quite well.....
» 19/09/2011 3:51:25 PM Sheesh Nutter, I thought that the figures were plain as day. But if you can't refute them.....
» 19/09/2011 3:47:58 PM *and that in the future we may well be buying our food from China.* Gawd Lexi, now they a.....
» 19/09/2011 3:40:31 PM *The entire sheep supply chain from the paddock to abattoir (or the live sheep transporter.....
» 19/09/2011 11:40:00 AM Dear Ozideas, they probably would, if they were available and somebody formed a supply cha.....
» 19/09/2011 9:56:21 AM So Valerie, next time I need a lemon, rather then spend 80c, do you think I should go hunt.....
» 19/09/2011 9:39:44 AM *If an exporter wants to export something, they will have to show that their product meets.....
» 18/09/2011 10:20:24 PM *I know that there is a limit to how much productivity can be wrung from automation.* Rat.....
» 18/09/2011 6:06:52 PM *If the local dictator gets difficult they will simply give him more.* In that case Bazz,.....
» 18/09/2011 2:26:36 PM *From my perspective, I class mindless junk as anything unnecessary to sustaining life.* .....
» 17/09/2011 11:25:46 PM *Already Chinese and Indian companies are looking for other places to buy their coal and i.....
» 17/09/2011 7:22:45 PM Vanna, foreign investors invest here for the same reasons that our companies invest in oth.....
» 17/09/2011 5:03:07 PM *The cost of shipping a container across the Pacific has risen so much that bulky cheap pr.....
» 17/09/2011 2:27:01 PM *They've managed to cause the average person in the street to believe that if they continu.....
» 17/09/2011 2:17:46 PM *This discussion is quite irrelevant, free trade and its stablemate globalisation are alr.....
» 17/09/2011 11:57:25 AM *You can’t say the quality of government is dependent on the will (or lack thereof) of the.....
» 16/09/2011 6:58:06 PM *I actually think the suicide rate among God deniers (except for suicide bombers) would be.....
» 16/09/2011 3:31:20 PM *Our political system is incapable of properly managing the all-powerful push from the big.....
» 16/09/2011 3:10:49 PM *The LNP is both socially & economically "liberal" in that they are socially, pr.....
» 16/09/2011 10:59:33 AM *At least in one way religion solves the issue for many and then they can just get on with.....
» 15/09/2011 7:57:11 PM It seems to you, Nutter? You clearly don't bother to inform yourself too well, just wild c.....
» 15/09/2011 2:15:19 PM Actually Houllie, I think that with very little effort, you'd certainly have the brains to.....
» 15/09/2011 12:29:02 PM One of my favourite tv programmes is the Gruen Transfer, these advertising guys spend the.....
» 15/09/2011 9:44:02 AM Nutter, you still don't get it, but that does not suprise me. If you've ever owned bank s.....
» 14/09/2011 8:04:01 PM http://webskeptic.wikidot.com/federal-reserve-system There you go Nutter, some more skept.....
» 14/09/2011 4:45:54 PM There you go, Nutter. http://www.usagold.com/federalreserve.html Unlike yourself and Arj.....
» 14/09/2011 2:39:16 PM *You still don't accept the parallels, Yabby, despite the fact that you quite obviously se.....
» 14/09/2011 11:17:49 AM *But then again our values are somewhat different. In my world it isn't seen as all that p.....
» 14/09/2011 10:57:35 AM *Your answer demonstrates that you consider the "core" philosophy applies only t.....
» 13/09/2011 9:48:16 PM Dear Lexi, The following quote from your website might help: *Our intention is not to ar.....
» 13/09/2011 9:37:08 PM Nutter, one of my experiences about life is that people who don't have much, invariably t.....
» 13/09/2011 6:36:21 PM *It is all very familiar, the cry from this forum "Christianity good, Islam bad".....
» 13/09/2011 3:05:01 PM Lexi, Waleed Ali indeed does a fine job at giving an Australian lawyer's perspective of th.....
» 13/09/2011 1:02:43 PM *Yet I'm sure that you would welcome them into Australia.* Lexi, I would? So claims you l.....
» 12/09/2011 11:04:02 PM *Inferring that "Christianity is the religion of love," is just as much a fallac.....
» 12/09/2011 5:22:22 PM http://www.federalreserve.gov/aboutthefed/bios/board/default.htm Nutter, there is a list .....
» 12/09/2011 2:59:35 PM *The problem is the legal restrictions which the Convention imposes* Yup. The problem is .....
» 12/09/2011 2:37:57 PM *It is true the Fed Res pays a dividend to the Federal Government. But that is hardly the .....
» 11/09/2011 10:18:35 PM *"Education" translates into another nicely oiled cog in the consumption and end.....
» 10/09/2011 3:14:56 PM *Yabby, while all of that is technically correct,* That's all it needs to be, Formersnag......
» 9/09/2011 7:56:41 PM http://webskeptic.wikidot.com/federal-reserve-ownership There you go Arjay, just to clear.....
» 9/09/2011 7:41:50 PM *Think about it, what REAL difference is there to the average pleb on the street between S.....
» 9/09/2011 2:39:40 PM *Most women in the porno industry also have drug and alcohol problems, and sexually transm.....
» 9/09/2011 12:35:33 PM *And we've learned nothing!* Actually not so, Poirot, if you look at the stats, Australia.....
» 9/09/2011 11:31:13 AM *but the infrastructure to help people live rewarding lives was overlooked.* Hang on Poir.....
» 8/09/2011 7:16:07 PM *You see if the NSW Liberal government increase mining state tax then that's okay, But if .....
» 7/09/2011 10:51:26 AM *Where do all the other nations in the world send their refugees to, to be processed off-s.....
» 7/09/2011 10:41:16 AM *In reality for cultural reasons few Arabs, Asians or Africans would want to come here if .....
» 6/09/2011 10:33:27 PM *Life though, is hardly about 'balance' is it* Of course it is, TBC. We think and we feel.....
» 6/09/2011 8:27:15 PM Lexi, dreaming is wonderful, but life is about balance. Reality does not go away, when you.....
» 6/09/2011 2:08:51 PM *Of course I'm for on shore processing. What sane person isn't?* Err Lexi, most sane peop.....
» 5/09/2011 10:41:16 PM *What I am upset about is that she didn't choose an all female cabinet. Maybe if she had d.....
» 5/09/2011 3:49:26 PM *BTW: I may be a lot of things - but being predictable - I'm proud to say - isn't one of t.....
» 5/09/2011 11:01:38 AM Ah Lexi, just as I expected from you. A wishy washy feelgood answer and a refusal to answe.....
» 5/09/2011 10:15:51 AM I actually give Julia Gillard alot more credit then many others on OLO do. Her real proble.....
» 4/09/2011 7:18:34 PM Lexi, I'll make the point again. We should express in legislation what we are prepared to .....
» 4/09/2011 5:47:40 PM Formersnag, manufacturing has become so globalised and specialised, that you could not aff.....
» 4/09/2011 3:02:50 PM Lexi, sweet lady that you are, you continue to show a large naivety about human behaviour......
» 4/09/2011 5:54:19 AM Speak for yourself, Arjay. If you are living a life enslaved to your debts, then perhaps y.....
» 3/09/2011 8:30:16 PM Formersnag, you insist on using 19th century thinking to address problems of the 21st cent.....
» 2/09/2011 2:18:30 PM Its interesting that nobody is mentioning plain old union greed, as a reason why many comp.....
» 2/09/2011 10:19:07 AM http://www.cattlefacts.com.au/ArticleAustBeefHistory98Comp.htm There you go Formersnag, a.....
» 1/09/2011 8:31:15 PM *Until then, both Labor and the LNP are trolling the depths of moral responsibility.* Ah,.....
» 1/09/2011 8:14:15 PM *but between 1945 & 1965 we had full employment despite a tsunami of migrants & a baby boo.....
» 1/09/2011 2:13:44 PM A very good article, Saul. Sadly the economically illiterate are rather common on OLO. But.....
» 31/08/2011 3:36:21 PM *Oh, and no-till does involve fuel, for slashing or mechanical trashing of stubble, and th.....
» 31/08/2011 12:54:53 PM Actually the most amusing part of this story, is checking out the adverts on sites such as.....
» 31/08/2011 9:22:52 AM Poirot, Diamond makes that simplistic mistake of focussing on oil and metals for his calcu.....
» 30/08/2011 8:17:12 PM *SOG response: They had three targets and scrambled for none.* I can just see the headlin.....
» 30/08/2011 8:11:13 PM *But, this IS the argument <Its just a question of time??* Sure its just a question of.....
» 30/08/2011 11:39:58 AM *How did the BBC know it would collapse in 20 minutes? Controlled Demoliton perhaps?* Lol.....
» 30/08/2011 10:38:17 AM *That's all very well, but what about the American who has a modest family of two offsprin.....
» 30/08/2011 10:22:49 AM Sonofgloin, perhaps you should read the link that I posted, a bit more closely. WTC 7 cove.....
» 30/08/2011 9:21:12 AM *If I had six children in India, the lot of us collectively would still have a smaller glo.....
» 29/08/2011 10:53:54 PM Poirot, Fred might differ, but Fred could well be wrong. It is a little simplistic to try .....
» 29/08/2011 3:07:57 PM The question really comes down to the numbers. Qantas comes from the days of heavy union r.....
» 29/08/2011 1:40:56 PM *It is Man who has destroyed that balance, and principally Western Man, through over indul.....
» 28/08/2011 10:45:11 PM http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WTC_Building_7 There you go Arjay, all public information, q.....
» 28/08/2011 9:26:18 PM *All these mad 'conspiracy theories' have been just that...mad theories.* Suze, you are o.....
» 28/08/2011 8:08:00 PM *The solution for most peasant farmers, of course, is to top up the nutrient (purchased fr.....
» 28/08/2011 4:01:39 PM *Production efficiencies, within the confines of the necessary sustainability model, will .....
» 27/08/2011 5:13:37 PM *So you expect the third world to exercise restraint when it comes to procreation, but the.....
» 27/08/2011 11:21:23 AM *the population explosion is a direct result of agricultural and industrial revolution and.....
» 27/08/2011 10:15:47 AM *To use my mouse plague analogy again, the millions lifted out of poverty are comparable t.....
» 25/08/2011 10:28:18 PM *The result would be people such as yourself, who want to buy nearly everything from outsi.....
» 25/08/2011 8:04:46 PM *But I'm constantly outraged at the intensity of pressure put on developing countries by t.....
» 25/08/2011 7:48:09 PM *although there are an increasing number of countries now on the verge of economic catastr.....
» 25/08/2011 1:53:06 PM Oops Vanna, Australians have of course taken to Apple, Amazon, Facebook, Twitter, Google, .....
» 25/08/2011 10:54:15 AM Hang on Poirot, you really are a bit one eyed in your views. Money lenders have been arou.....
» 24/08/2011 8:32:20 PM Vanna, US agriculture did not decline, it changed, as it did in Australia. So did manufact.....
» 24/08/2011 6:51:09 PM Vanna, I think your analysis of the US economy is a little simplistic. Yes, manufacturing.....
» 24/08/2011 4:50:50 PM Diver Dan, 300m$, given the Govt culpability in all of this and seen against 6 billion ass.....
» 24/08/2011 4:41:52 PM *What's smartarsed about telling something like it is?* Poirot, cos its the easy thing to.....
» 24/08/2011 2:39:29 PM Poirot, its fairly easy to sit on the sidelines and pass smartarsed comments about India, .....
» 24/08/2011 12:34:33 PM *The wool price initiative was a classic example of the ability of certain industries to f.....
» 23/08/2011 2:44:10 PM *Oh Yabby, Yabby, Yabby The world is not as neat and tidy as you may think. Markets rise .....
» 22/08/2011 8:26:48 PM Actually Pericles, I don't fit into your "latte sipping feelgood Greenie" catego.....
» 22/08/2011 6:19:49 PM *Why else would you want to close every industry other than quarrying?* Formersnag, I am .....
» 22/08/2011 3:17:37 PM *Why should the wool industry have been left to die, when the price of wool is currently a.....
» 22/08/2011 11:11:05 AM http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/features/how-wool-was-pulled-over-investors-eyes/stor.....
» 22/08/2011 10:46:03 AM I'd suggest that "Homo Destructor" would be quite suitable......
» 22/08/2011 10:42:43 AM Belly, I was simply responding to Suze, who made the valid point about Ron Paul and the fa.....
» 21/08/2011 8:24:49 PM Suze you are quite correct! Paul wants to ban abortions, next he'll be talking to the Lord.....
» 21/08/2011 8:12:06 PM *so entrepreneurs in Australia won’t get much help from the Australian public.* Not so Va.....
» 21/08/2011 3:34:13 PM *That was my point. Why?* Antiseptic, the press clearly saw the amusing and controversial.....
» 21/08/2011 12:57:28 PM *Now, I'm not sure what the gender of the directors has to do with the business decision,*.....
» 20/08/2011 3:53:00 PM *They could supply for $2.00 into my store, excellent quality products that cost me $14.00.....
» 20/08/2011 10:32:44 AM *but there is also a demand for quality goods.* You are quite correct there, Baygon. Back.....
» 19/08/2011 8:41:13 PM *so they can spend it on imported movies from Disney or the latest gadgets from Apple.* T.....
» 19/08/2011 6:15:14 PM *the quality of some goods has improved, some have gotten worse* Well Formersnag, what is.....
» 19/08/2011 2:04:17 PM http://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/abs@.nsf/Previousproducts/1301.0Feature%20Article262005?ope.....
» 18/08/2011 7:58:07 PM *When a single income could raise a family, pay off a house, and allow the husband and wif.....
» 18/08/2011 6:08:15 PM *The kind of economy described as being desirable is exactly what we had between 1945 & 19.....
» 18/08/2011 2:45:27 PM You are treading on dangerous territory there, Baygon. The law of unintended consequences .....
» 18/08/2011 11:44:36 AM *One thing that I would advocate is a tax on the export of gas.* They are already taxed. .....
» 16/08/2011 2:02:01 PM Lillian, if Roundup was banned, quite frankly people would simply starve to death, as it i.....
» 15/08/2011 10:33:07 AM Belly, sadly the debate in public is going to have to continue, because so many are so ba.....
» 15/08/2011 12:01:02 AM *Wouldn't AU be better off value adding instead of selling whole* Clearly not, or they wo.....
» 14/08/2011 2:07:35 PM I still think that Desmond Morris was correct, when he wrote "The Human Zoo". T.....
» 12/08/2011 11:03:17 PM *and then the financial institutions began to falter and fall by the wayside - and voila! .....
» 12/08/2011 9:30:44 PM I can just see your scenario unfolding Arjay, as those rich kids text each other on their .....
» 12/08/2011 3:30:41 PM http://www.smh.com.au/world/stereotype-of-the-underclass-does-not-apply-20110811-1iowa.htm.....
» 11/08/2011 10:33:48 PM Jayb, its your kind of ignorance, along with that of the Vatican, that is actually part of.....
» 11/08/2011 9:02:33 PM There is a much simpler solution, Quantum. Just give third world women a choice. You are n.....
» 11/08/2011 8:55:22 PM *welfare represents something like 2 percent of the federal budget).* Not so, Lexi. Last .....
» 10/08/2011 5:35:24 PM *Why so many youth unemployed....free trade, globalization and the dismantling of tariff b.....
» 9/08/2011 9:26:23 PM *What is causing it?* Many small reasons make one big reason. Via the benefit of smart ph.....
» 9/08/2011 9:09:12 PM *Can we do anything,really truly anything to avoid these problems.* Yes we could, Belly. .....
» 9/08/2011 9:03:15 PM *Solar rebates have drastically reduced my power bill* Well that is the problem Hazza. Yo.....
» 7/08/2011 12:37:57 PM Sheesh, in that case I'd better have the last word.........
» 6/08/2011 7:18:15 PM *How many BREAM or LEED certifications ? * I actually looked those up, Rob, as my final p.....
» 6/08/2011 4:59:29 PM *For these reasons we need governments policies, regulations and economic instruments.* T.....
» 6/08/2011 3:01:47 PM *Yabby it is the FED who control Congress by virtue of creating all the money its needs to.....
» 6/08/2011 2:14:59 PM *yet no one questions it.* Ah Arjay, but we do question it, but at least try to understan.....
» 6/08/2011 11:46:34 AM Ammonite, every good businessman knows that the most certain thing in business is constant.....
» 6/08/2011 11:38:32 AM Rob, if all countries had low population densities like Australia, we would not have a glo.....
» 5/08/2011 8:17:32 PM *AVERAGE AUSTRALIAN will play in the crumbles under the table of the rich, but for how lon.....
» 5/08/2011 10:22:25 AM But of course every con man with an idea will also be queueing up to take advantage of any.....
» 5/08/2011 10:21:29 AM *you have already suggested several times that the use of renewable energy could generate .....
» 5/08/2011 9:18:58 AM I follow this debate a bit on Bloomberg and to me what seems to be developing is a politic.....
» 4/08/2011 12:33:00 PM Rob, just because the EU rushes into something, does not mean that its a good idea. Note t.....
» 3/08/2011 5:29:27 PM *What do you propose to do about the Vatican standing on contraceptives ? * Raise it poli.....
» 3/08/2011 2:25:17 PM http://www.mariestopes.org.au/how-we-help/where-we-work/our-global-partnership-programs L.....
» 3/08/2011 11:16:40 AM *Poverty demands, that families are large, as not every child born is going to sustain his.....
» 3/08/2011 11:04:13 AM *O.K., the population control is extremely important, but we can not do about it as much a.....
» 2/08/2011 8:59:11 PM http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/jun/25/u2-bono-tax-protest-glastonbury Lexi, Bono mi.....
» 2/08/2011 2:25:26 PM Lexi, as a good Catholic, perhaps you can give Carindal Pell a ring and tell him to start .....
» 2/08/2011 12:21:09 PM Lexi, I think you will find that Marie Stopes do a great deal of good in the third world, .....
» 2/08/2011 9:44:23 AM *I suggest that we will burn all of them at the stake. We are back in the dark ages.* Wel.....
» 1/08/2011 10:09:29 PM Actually Lexi, evolutionary psychology is pretty good at predicting what you will donate. .....
» 1/08/2011 8:57:30 PM *but at least some of us are capable of seeing the big picture, and casting a critical eye.....
» 1/08/2011 5:36:39 PM Rob, the thing is, you want to blame all the world's woes on corporations. As if Govts ca.....
» 1/08/2011 2:20:39 PM Hehe Houllie, I love your thinking:) But of course you will be shot for being the messenge.....
» 1/08/2011 2:10:28 PM I read an article this morning about the financials of the global solar panel manufacturer.....
» 1/08/2011 12:02:24 PM Rob, I am not sure of the point that you are trying to make here. Bush wanted to get reel.....
» 1/08/2011 11:40:33 AM *Ethically, it is a much bigger problem!!* Squeers, that is highly debatable. Your urge t.....
» 1/08/2011 12:30:11 AM http://oldarchive.godspy.com/life/Gandhi-on-Sex-Marriage-and-Birth-Control-by-Daniel-Vitz......
» 31/07/2011 10:35:00 PM *Yabby the percentage you trotted out is a percentage against an aspect of GDP, not the pe.....
» 31/07/2011 7:32:13 PM *"The earth has enough for everyone's needs, but not for some people's greed."* .....
» 31/07/2011 6:35:15 PM Ah, another of Poirot's favourite anti western gurus :) Never mind that in my lifetime, t.....
» 31/07/2011 6:21:21 PM *I have previously stated that double standard is O.K. in the context of the corporate and.....
» 31/07/2011 1:30:24 PM Yes Poirot, I know that as a good old leftie you'd be lost without evil Western conspiracy.....
» 31/07/2011 1:18:58 PM Ludwig, Sonogloin has no idea what is going on in the West. He can't think beyond his litt.....
» 31/07/2011 12:28:43 PM http://www.dfat.gov.au/geo/fs/aust.pdf There ya go Sonofgloin, all nicely classified for .....
» 31/07/2011 12:09:24 PM *Developed countries which have excess of these food items reduce their prices and export .....
» 31/07/2011 11:38:24 AM Gawd Poirot, so you found some corruption! Go and read why the World bank and IMF were se.....
» 31/07/2011 10:49:28 AM Ah come on Poirot, no need for your Western guilt trip. If anyone exploits people in the t.....
» 31/07/2011 10:29:44 AM Ludwig, as a botanist you would have a copy of Darwin's Origin of Species on your shelf so.....
» 31/07/2011 12:00:39 AM *My point is that corporations have been treated in a totally different way than SME or in.....
» 30/07/2011 6:25:58 PM Rob, there is a huge difference between financial institutions. Investment banks are banks.....
» 30/07/2011 4:47:13 PM Gawd Gertrude, next you'll be expecting farmers to come to your house and cook your food f.....
» 30/07/2011 2:07:39 PM *Question – how many generations of fishermen do we have to train before they “get it”?* .....
» 30/07/2011 1:36:00 PM *Pick up the discarded packaging that is strewn around the family Christmas tree and count.....
» 30/07/2011 1:16:58 PM Arjay, an embryo is not a person, it is an organism. Next you will be wanting rights for s.....
» 30/07/2011 1:10:06 PM Rob, AIG are not a bank, but an insurance company. They were saved to stop millions of Ame.....
» 30/07/2011 12:53:40 PM *I’m all right Johannes” stuff the kaffa* Actually Sonofgloin, it was more like "tim.....
» 30/07/2011 11:11:37 AM Ludwig, you can't really judge road traffic in the wheatbelt right now. Everything has sto.....
» 29/07/2011 9:40:55 PM LOL Gertrude, frankly I don't care what you do. But if you make claims on OLO, as an infor.....
» 29/07/2011 9:19:02 PM *a consultancy that works with the not-for-profit sector on strategy development, campaign.....
» 29/07/2011 6:48:19 PM Wel Gertrude, if under your claimed system farmers don't need to do the course, then farme.....
» 29/07/2011 6:40:43 PM *we have to be prepared for many Katrinas in the years to come with climate change occurin.....
» 29/07/2011 6:39:32 PM *Yabby, You have an idealistic approach to the corporate law and how the corporate world o.....
» 29/07/2011 6:12:57 PM *Just a reminder to our WA bretheren that fifty years ago WA was a commercial non entity c.....
» 29/07/2011 3:46:28 PM Come on Gertrude, get real! I've seen all the so called interent meat trading sites, where.....
» 29/07/2011 3:35:32 PM Ludwig, your docile approach is all very well, but I assure you that the meek don't inheri.....
» 28/07/2011 11:47:09 PM *but i watched in on the news- Aussie wide they said 120K * I watched the news too, Gertr.....
» 28/07/2011 11:37:41 PM *Firstly, isn’t growth supposed to generate wealth well over and above the costs?* Well i.....
» 28/07/2011 9:15:24 PM *The public turned out one hundred and twenty thousand Australia wide a month ago.* More .....
» 28/07/2011 9:00:10 PM Arjay, if Ron Paul was for freedom, he would not be trying to ban abortions. Fact is that .....
» 28/07/2011 7:30:03 PM Actually Rob, much of this discussion comes about because many people simply do not unders.....
» 28/07/2011 7:16:58 PM Ah Arjay, you mean that Ron Paul was who part of the Republican party under Bush, who nea.....
» 28/07/2011 7:00:56 PM No 50 thousand Getrude, all the demos in total were a bit over a thousand or so. The bigg.....
» 28/07/2011 2:15:10 PM Arjay, Rothchilds are not a central bank and banks cannot take profits out of central bank.....
» 28/07/2011 2:05:22 PM I think that is a bit of a cop out and a simplistic view of why we stopped much manufactur.....
» 28/07/2011 1:51:02 PM See Gertrude, you are so out of touch with the industry, that you don't even understand it.....
» 28/07/2011 1:36:13 PM *So, in what ways do you think WA is not getting a fair deal?* Firstly Ludwig, minerals d.....
» 28/07/2011 9:47:00 AM *The fact AMIEU and Abattoir owners and thousands of others have long lobbied the trade ba.....
» 28/07/2011 9:31:53 AM I am all for secession of WA and the use of the continual threat of secession, to get a fa.....
» 28/07/2011 9:17:01 AM *It is the Bankers and Wall St who own the shares in the Oil Companies* Funny that, Arjay.....
» 27/07/2011 10:07:57 PM Gertude, the reaon that pastoralists are left stranded is because Ludwig ran scared about .....
» 27/07/2011 8:51:11 PM *Those are the findings of a well respected research source.* So you claim. But anyone wh.....
» 27/07/2011 7:55:27 PM The reality is the the USA simply cannot afford the war in Afghanistan anymore. Too many A.....
» 27/07/2011 5:52:08 PM *btw those figures have been proven o the jobs* No Gertrude, those figures have not been .....
» 27/07/2011 3:46:04 PM FWIW Rob, the answer will most likely come from corporations and silicon valley entreprene.....
» 27/07/2011 3:31:12 PM *Re funding- play your silly games- break it up if you wish.* No silly claims Gertrude, b.....
» 26/07/2011 10:09:53 PM *Gertrude isn’t telling porkies* Yes you are Gertrude and your claim was totally ridiculo.....
» 26/07/2011 11:17:22 AM *where is the investment into renewable energy by the big oil companies?* That is the que.....
» 26/07/2011 10:47:08 AM *These feed lots just like live exports are costing each household about $880.00 a year in.....
» 26/07/2011 10:25:44 AM http://www.moreesolarfarm.com.au/Home.htm You only need to look, Ammonite. Right here und.....
» 24/07/2011 9:00:18 PM *Otherwise, we do not have a chance to survive on this planet as a species by the end of t.....
» 24/07/2011 6:52:31 PM *Nothing else justifies our inaction and inertia than the energy sector greed and the gove.....
» 24/07/2011 11:33:57 AM *Yabby, yes the AWC appears to be doing very well in terms of habitat protection for rare .....
» 24/07/2011 11:12:17 AM *Unless you are multimillioner, not a mum and dad investor, your savings will rarely give .....
» 23/07/2011 9:16:45 PM * I am with you regarding Corporate greed, on both the Shareholders and CEO salaries.* Ha.....
» 23/07/2011 11:16:12 AM Ludwig, I think I already answered your question. Economies grow because people want more......
» 23/07/2011 6:49:18 AM http://www.australianwildlife.org/Home.aspx Australian Wildlife Conservancy are an alread.....
» 23/07/2011 6:39:34 AM *If we want to have an universal access to the modern health system, education or clean wa.....
» 22/07/2011 6:05:21 PM DD, the problem with Western food aid is that in the end it can become a way for those in .....
» 22/07/2011 12:34:36 PM *We have all become greedy, but corporations are much greedier.* Rob, people who work for.....
» 21/07/2011 9:29:40 PM Its not all gloom and doom, DD. I note in today's press that the Australian Govt had alrea.....
» 21/07/2011 8:01:12 PM Ah, just wait until those dairy farmers get clobbered with those extra charges for running.....
» 21/07/2011 4:10:44 PM DD, I think that you will find that every aid agency on the planet will rush there. It is .....
» 21/07/2011 1:59:52 PM *Actually, the greed or competition factor is not just human nature, it is a fundamental e.....
» 21/07/2011 12:38:58 PM Ludwig, if its all corporations to blame as you seem to claim, what are all those millions.....
» 21/07/2011 12:34:04 PM It eventually hit Bob Geldorf, what part of the problem was, when he went back 20 years la.....
» 20/07/2011 5:48:15 PM Rob, corporations are run according to the rules of a country and those rules are determin.....
» 20/07/2011 2:00:10 PM Ah rstuart, country people don't give up that easily, they are far too resilient. So there.....
» 20/07/2011 11:51:35 AM *You forgot two things, Yabby* Rsruart, I never forgot anything. OLO is full of people co.....
» 20/07/2011 11:13:38 AM There is no such thing as corporate greed, for corporations are mere paper entities, they .....
» 20/07/2011 11:09:39 AM *Why should we protect other life forms?* Lexi, from my understanding of biology, without.....
» 19/07/2011 10:04:45 PM *Ahh, that statement makes your feelings about us city folk clear at last. I'm glad to see.....
» 19/07/2011 8:56:55 PM *I'm a little intrigued that 75% of these highly efficient farmers lost money last year. W.....
» 19/07/2011 7:50:00 PM *So again you plead poor on behalf of your local sheep farmers. Are the flocks down to a s.....
» 19/07/2011 5:55:35 PM *Believe it or not, the most ardent supporters of the carbon tax are the richer members of.....
» 19/07/2011 10:11:33 AM rstuart, that was AWC or the Australian Wool corporation. Indeed their wool mountain was .....
» 18/07/2011 8:19:48 PM *this oversupply of sheep was a mess of the sheep industries own making. The AWB was one b.....
» 18/07/2011 5:14:14 PM Funnily enough I have nothing against Julia personally, but right now she is going on radi.....
» 17/07/2011 8:24:17 PM *But you know it is nothing more than that. If you were offered nothing, would you take it.....
» 17/07/2011 5:14:39 PM *life goes on, night follows day, and the farmer raises his prices* Ah that would be wond.....
» 16/07/2011 8:29:13 PM *Scare and fear mongering doesn't do the Liberals any credit* Lexi, sounds more like you .....
» 16/07/2011 2:54:15 PM *And contrary to what you say, this makes us one of worst mobs on the planet, not one of t.....
» 15/07/2011 4:58:45 PM *You'll be taxed, and then you'll pass the tax on (and then some, apparently) to the consu.....
» 14/07/2011 8:33:22 PM Poirot, no matter what the right did, I doubt if you would vote for them. More likely a ch.....
» 8/07/2011 9:39:57 PM Hi Belly, yes I saw that one, thanks. We'll let the inquiry dig up the truth. There was ce.....
» 8/07/2011 1:59:32 PM Actually Gertrude, you don't have public support for any ban. You just have a very noisy g.....
» 7/07/2011 8:49:54 PM *A ban on live exports could be done with a gradual phasing out as proposed by Xenophon an.....
» 7/07/2011 5:25:29 PM Ah Gertrude, but of course you and Lyn are behind the times. We reached a protocol of int.....
» 7/07/2011 1:39:13 PM Gertrude, the minister does not have to be a control freak, to control the industry. If a.....
» 7/07/2011 6:51:18 AM Morgan, your point is as logical as saying that because Tiger airlines have a safety prob.....
» 6/07/2011 11:27:23 PM *No real backbone there but none expected.* Its not about backbone Pelican, but about fac.....
» 6/07/2011 8:10:01 PM Yes SM, I heared the good news a short time ago! They will do what they have been doing in.....
» 6/07/2011 5:52:11 PM Belly, you and I figured out a simple solution right at the start of the debate on this to.....
» 5/07/2011 11:18:19 PM Gertrude, we have heard it all before dear. The would be and could be and the plans. Now g.....
» 5/07/2011 11:03:17 PM Gertrude, to be honest, you've ranted and raved for years, but so far haven't achieved any.....
» 5/07/2011 10:16:42 PM No Gertrude, the problem is that you don't understand the basic logistics of livestock far.....
» 5/07/2011 6:22:23 PM http://www.abc.net.au/rural/news/content/201107/s3261745.htm This is why I am so passiona.....
» 5/07/2011 5:23:51 PM *falling for the spin from the meat and livestock people on this issue.* Sheesh, quite co.....
» 5/07/2011 11:02:24 AM Banjo, interesting article. Without steel, it will be interesting to see how they build th.....
» 4/07/2011 9:25:54 PM Ah, at last the reds, the anarchists, the protest vote, animal liberation and a few other .....
» 4/07/2011 8:02:19 PM *This is already standard practice in the Commonwealth public service* Well it would be. .....
» 4/07/2011 7:49:19 PM *It’s the luck of history as to where Australia’s mineral wealth ends up* Nor really Davi.....
» 4/07/2011 7:27:57 PM Actually Gerturde, you continue to show extremely poor judgement, but that is not new. As .....
» 4/07/2011 2:27:53 PM Well Poirot, there is in fact one good point. Women keep complaining that men should be m.....
» 4/07/2011 8:59:30 AM *Well we can speak of the whats ifs & sit on our veranda chewing our cud.* Speak for your.....
» 3/07/2011 7:50:44 PM Morgan, it is really up to individuals where they decide to work. But in my experience, if.....
» 3/07/2011 5:41:32 PM Gertrude, I have little to say to your many wild claims. Indonesia made it clear this yea.....
» 3/07/2011 2:16:26 PM Morgan, there are plenty of pragmatic and intelligent people in the sex industry, who do v.....
» 3/07/2011 1:59:06 PM http://fw.farmonline.com.au/news/nationalrural/livestock/cattle/senate-inquiry-to-scrutini.....
» 3/07/2011 11:07:37 AM Arjay I know full well how fractional reserve banking works. Banks cannot lend out all th.....
» 3/07/2011 10:55:31 AM Morgan, the unintended consequences of the AA campaign, remain to be seen. If the station .....
» 3/07/2011 10:36:07 AM *Women with low self-esteem but physically attractive find 'easy' money to be gleaned from.....
» 2/07/2011 11:54:25 PM Banjo, there is an interesting article in the Weekend Australian, which I have a copy of, .....
» 2/07/2011 9:37:05 PM *Jobs- Jobs jobs. Recent figures still on the table now estimate its closer to 60 thousand.....
» 2/07/2011 8:20:40 PM *will provide the service for the demand by men to have unconditional sexual gratification.....
» 2/07/2011 6:30:22 PM *Both genders have been complicit in the rupturing of the traditional paradigm by seeking .....
» 2/07/2011 2:02:17 PM *and this male-driven construct is so enamoured by all that glitters that he has elevated .....
» 2/07/2011 1:47:26 PM *We dont want feed lots* Gertrude feedlots are quite legal and the animals do well. What .....
» 2/07/2011 12:08:00 PM Arjay, the very nature of lending money that was previously banked, increases the money su.....
» 2/07/2011 11:59:30 AM Gertrude, we have been over the live trade issue, over and over and over again. There is .....
» 2/07/2011 10:47:58 AM *Depositor money should and can be loaned out* Well Arjay, that is all that banks do, whi.....
» 2/07/2011 10:26:41 AM *As I have stated before, not all farmers agree with the MLA.* Ammonite, who ever claimed.....
» 2/07/2011 9:51:20 AM So Arjay, would you like to deny banks the right to lend out money which they borrow from .....
» 1/07/2011 8:59:42 PM http://qcl.farmonline.com.au/news/nationalrural/agribusiness-and-general/political/gillard.....
» 1/07/2011 7:21:44 PM Gawd here we go, the best friend is back. Gertrude, you are so predictable. Good intentio.....
» 1/07/2011 3:15:48 PM *I am trying to say is Wellards hold the key for now & should be pushing to ship them with.....
» 1/07/2011 2:23:40 PM *and being head of the corporation you have no moral obligation to anyone but yourself? To.....
» 1/07/2011 2:17:33 PM Gertrude, there is far more involved in quarantine protocols then a few ticks. But I won't.....
» 1/07/2011 12:29:43 PM *Yabby unfettered capitalism just doesn't work* Who talked of unfettered capitalism? Ther.....
» 1/07/2011 11:41:04 AM *None have had criminal charges levied against them - for the damage they did. * Ah Lexi,.....
» 1/07/2011 11:26:06 AM *that do not address the flaws in unfettered capitalism* Nothing to do with capitalism Pe.....
» 1/07/2011 11:12:27 AM *How much profit is enough?* What if the business is running at a loss?.....
» 29/06/2011 10:50:24 PM Gertrude, not paying roadtax on fuel for machinery that does not drive on roads is not a s.....
» 29/06/2011 8:12:18 PM 597, you make my point for me. Its not federal funding that builds roads, but money sent e.....
» 29/06/2011 6:33:45 PM http://www.4bc.com.au/blogs/4bc-blog/cattle-ban--lack-of-wisdom/20110629-1gpup.html Belly.....
» 29/06/2011 6:11:41 PM Actually Belly, its the empathy I feel for the hardworking West Australian men and women .....
» 29/06/2011 5:03:46 PM Ammonite, nasty is never the problem, but stupidity sure is, as your post shows. But then .....
» 29/06/2011 12:18:43 PM *find a name other than Australia* Err Belly, AFAIK since before federation, this place w.....
» 29/06/2011 10:42:56 AM *There is an issue in the cities in the east that shows a lack of understanding about the .....
» 29/06/2011 3:13:16 AM Country Gal, you really have to live over here to see how WA is treated as a second class.....
» 28/06/2011 8:35:40 PM Gertrude, the Elders plant and others were stunning animals long before this kerfuffle bro.....
» 28/06/2011 5:18:24 PM Gertrude, the Indonesians are upset with Ludwig, because in Asian culture there is a thing.....
» 28/06/2011 2:20:19 PM *Wrong they are refusing to stun!* Nonsense. Companies like Elders run their own abattoir.....
» 28/06/2011 1:07:11 PM Belly, WA has some great horses, like one called CAN DO, another called MAKE IT HAPPEN. Th.....
» 28/06/2011 10:53:41 AM Gertrude, if you want to learn something about various slaughter methods and associated pr.....
» 28/06/2011 9:39:49 AM Better if WA secedes from the East. Canberra is totally out of touch with WA and their rec.....
» 27/06/2011 8:40:53 PM 597, those cattle can't be moved south, the numbers don't stack up. Bos Indicus is regarde.....
» 27/06/2011 1:02:29 PM Perhaps 4 Corners should make a documentary warts and all, of humans gasping for their las.....
» 26/06/2011 6:29:47 PM Morgan, if the majority of Australians agreed with AA, then they would give up eating meat.....
» 26/06/2011 3:17:23 PM Actually, "Kerryanne" has done a wonderful job on OLO, for she has made my point.....
» 26/06/2011 2:48:33 PM Jennifer, your premise that woman are paid less then men because "womens work" i.....
» 26/06/2011 11:50:19 AM *Women do not hold sexual power any more than men do* Sheesh, in that case men will have .....
» 25/06/2011 4:36:19 PM *Australia has minimal chance in any niche when faced with that type of competition.* Not.....
» 25/06/2011 2:11:52 PM *The more we import, the less likely we are ever going to value add, and the knowledge bas.....
» 25/06/2011 11:19:17 AM Banjo, on old bloke that I know, bought his wife and axe for her birthday, as she was comp.....
» 24/06/2011 7:08:19 PM *Don't patronize me Yabby* Actually Bronwyn, I was more offended by you thinking that we .....
» 24/06/2011 6:55:31 PM *in order to finance the legitimate benefits accruing to a rapidly growing older populatio.....
» 24/06/2011 5:29:25 PM Morgan, Animals Australia intend to throw thousands of Australians out of work, clearly yo.....
» 24/06/2011 3:17:58 PM Ahh, some good news at last. I just got a press release from MLA and they are coming up wi.....
» 24/06/2011 12:50:56 PM *In short, gender up there, (brain) sex down there (between the legs.)* Ah Jennifer, but .....
» 24/06/2011 12:32:03 PM *A frequent comment from the Iraqis who arrived here in the early 2000's was they'd never .....
» 24/06/2011 8:01:39 AM Bronwyn, if Soviet troops were driving around Australian streets, I'd suggest that a few A.....
» 24/06/2011 12:05:03 AM *Your comments here are as cringe-worthy as those of the Australian on the program tonight.....
» 23/06/2011 11:48:48 PM Ah, now we've come full circle. Back to what Belly and I had suggested in the first place.....
» 23/06/2011 6:21:10 PM *For those capable of feeling empathy for another's plight, this program will provide food.....
» 23/06/2011 10:15:36 AM Pericles, it is probably just you :) Fact is, we have starving children now, yet we use l.....
» 22/06/2011 10:23:52 PM Ah Gertrude, you remain confused as ever, so nothing changes :) As a matter of interest, .....
» 22/06/2011 9:28:43 PM Gertrude, I have not shifted my game at all. I still agree that abattoirs should be built .....
» 22/06/2011 7:29:26 PM Ammonite, we've been through all this before, years ago, when you were posting under anoth.....
» 22/06/2011 10:27:48 AM http://www.smh.com.au/environment/animals/ritual-slaughter-without-stunning-raises-domesti.....
» 22/06/2011 10:19:06 AM Yes I saw the first programme and the producers will clearly achieve their objective of pu.....
» 22/06/2011 10:06:19 AM The Indonesians do in fact have something to complain about. Australia is clearly a sovere.....
» 21/06/2011 9:46:30 PM Country Gal, great to read your informed post. We need more informed country women to post.....
» 21/06/2011 9:13:47 PM *He buys aviator glasses, a nifty french cap, leather gloves and goes shopping for a (coug.....
» 21/06/2011 8:40:59 PM Well the smart pride of lions would lay about in the sun enjoying themselves. They'd keep .....
» 21/06/2011 7:12:40 PM Hehe Gertrude, you mean they want all the levies paid here to them, instead? Fact. Austra.....
» 21/06/2011 6:46:09 PM *Australia does not enforce that rule here.* Gertude, you know full well that I am correc.....
» 21/06/2011 5:16:56 PM Csteele, what Australia has done so far is show that we are a sovereign risk to deal with......
» 21/06/2011 5:05:48 PM Ammonite, indeed I showed that you do not practise what you preach. The fact that you are .....
» 20/06/2011 9:46:54 PM This debate actually got bogged down, but in the real world we simply have different kinds.....
» 20/06/2011 8:03:56 PM *are retailed in France at the local bakeries, who are catering for their local customers .....
» 20/06/2011 1:38:04 PM *You guys are doing neither, except remaining stuck with your wheels spinning and running .....
» 20/06/2011 12:25:46 PM *and I like my steak aged, I dislike the "market" meat, which is not aged and is.....
» 20/06/2011 11:31:22 AM http://fw.farmonline.com.au/news/state/agribusiness-and-general/general/wa-farmers-unite-f.....
» 20/06/2011 11:16:42 AM Morgan, just because a couple of politicians have introduced a bill, hardly shows that the.....
» 20/06/2011 10:45:51 AM *I completely disagree that all produce in Europe is from Spain* I never claimed that all.....
» 20/06/2011 10:29:03 AM *The MLA failed to take any action* Ammonite, it is not the role of MLA to run meatworks......
» 20/06/2011 9:02:53 AM Lexi, great post and I loved the story! It just shows that farmers are very practical peop.....
» 20/06/2011 8:52:59 AM Brigit, there are a number of things which could explain the differences. Firstly you are .....
» 19/06/2011 5:27:53 PM http://www.smh.com.au/environment/animals/slaughterhouse-operator-apologises-for-cruelty-2.....
» 19/06/2011 3:37:33 PM Poirot, on both sides, ie Christianity and Islam, progress was made by thinking people in .....
» 19/06/2011 2:58:12 PM Poirot, if you do a bit more homework, you will find that a number if Islamic libraries to.....
» 19/06/2011 2:51:23 PM I think the Csteele has just shot himself in the foot by admitting to signing a petition, .....
» 19/06/2011 1:41:10 PM *It was left to the Islamic world to gather and store ancient knowledge.* Hang on Poirot......
» 19/06/2011 1:27:24 PM *Everyone signed, all this after a rather excellent Indian beef curry my wife had dished u.....
» 19/06/2011 10:31:37 AM Belly, I read the article about Rudd sleeping out. But so did 100 CEOs, leaders of Austra.....
» 19/06/2011 10:13:44 AM The good news is that the weekend demonstrations against the live trade, were pretty much .....
» 19/06/2011 10:08:18 AM Country Gal, I seem to recall that you are an accountant. You would clearly understand the.....
» 18/06/2011 10:56:08 PM Not so Suze, live exports to Indonesia have simply been temporarily suspended, until close.....
» 18/06/2011 10:17:34 PM *and the much steeper increase in developing countries' populations is a direct effect of .....
» 18/06/2011 8:28:24 PM Even better news Lexi, which you might not hear in the East, but in Perth, farmers doing t.....
» 18/06/2011 7:20:45 PM Belly, I have to disagree with you. I certainly don't think that Abbott should be running .....
» 18/06/2011 11:53:52 AM *My slaughtering abilities remain with shooting and dressing rabbits.* Well exactly, Ammo.....
» 18/06/2011 9:40:54 AM *You guys are doing neither* Ammonite, we actually analysed the problem, rather then just.....
» 17/06/2011 6:42:23 PM *Whatever suggestion I or others have made* Ammonite, all heart and a lack of informed op.....
» 17/06/2011 4:09:59 PM *If you are happy to see it take a 15% hit and laugh it off then I think the producers sho.....
» 17/06/2011 2:50:59 PM You forgot to point out, Ammonite, that David came from the corn flakes packet, for of cou.....
» 17/06/2011 2:17:59 PM Belly, I empathise with your position, but I don't even think its Gillard. Its simply the .....
» 17/06/2011 1:06:12 PM *my brother's decision is about not wanting to support an industry that permits their anim.....
» 17/06/2011 7:02:46 AM Lexi, I'd say that the total ban was slapped on, for pure political expediency. Animals Au.....
» 16/06/2011 8:27:53 PM http://fw.farmonline.com.au/news/nationalrural/livestock/cattle/money-behind-abc-footage/2.....
» 16/06/2011 7:06:13 PM Gertrude, yes the Australian animals will be fine. It is not very difficult to close the .....
» 16/06/2011 6:44:52 PM Banjo, thanks for your kind words. The funny thing is, I haven't even sold to the live tra.....
» 16/06/2011 4:21:19 PM *The abattoirs in Australia that were closed can be reopened with the recovery of the 40,0.....
» 16/06/2011 11:18:25 AM *Let's even up the world and let the perpetually-disadvantaged have a fair go* I think yo.....
» 16/06/2011 11:00:31 AM *What you are suggesting is preposterous* You just don't get it, Gertrude. Australian ani.....
» 16/06/2011 10:18:19 AM It is of course the Greens screaming loudest about ending all live exports. What a great r.....
» 16/06/2011 9:17:14 AM Gertrude, I am not interested in any multi trilion$ businesses, I am quite happy where I a.....
» 16/06/2011 9:05:32 AM *--but stop all exports and imports, including people via the airline industry, and it's p.....
» 16/06/2011 3:32:07 AM *Yabby, you're welcome to your view that we in the West may be entitled to the bounties of.....
» 16/06/2011 3:20:10 AM Gertrude, I am not interested in halal hubs. I've put forward a way to improve animal welf.....
» 15/06/2011 9:59:10 PM *Why should they pay for equipment in Egyptian plants – even if they could.* Well they cl.....
» 15/06/2011 7:47:24 PM Gertrude, well its a fact. If AA had bothered to organise some simple equipment in the Egy.....
» 15/06/2011 6:56:30 PM *- while there are parts of the world which are underpopulated - Africa, for example * So.....
» 15/06/2011 2:49:49 PM Morganzola, you remain confused. The live trade is worth a billion, Indonesia is only a pa.....
» 15/06/2011 1:35:52 PM *Your view, like that of MLA and other representative groups and websites, seems to be tha.....
» 15/06/2011 12:25:11 PM Spike Milligan of course summed it up quite correctly. Flying is perfectly safe, its cras.....
» 14/06/2011 8:24:04 PM Morganzola, did you even bother to read the Scot Braithwaite letter, the link which I post.....
» 14/06/2011 7:36:29 PM No cherry picking, Clownfish. I was comparing countries with a similar standard of living,.....
» 14/06/2011 6:35:54 PM *You are not allowed to kill people because we recognise that humans have a "right to.....
» 14/06/2011 6:20:48 PM *Make sure people are healthy, rich and educated. Especially women.* Funny that, Clownfis.....
» 14/06/2011 5:18:44 PM *We have no way Yabby of forcing other countries to do anything* Gertrude, you haven't th.....
» 14/06/2011 2:42:06 PM *When I was born in the mid 60's, the world population was 2.728 billion.In the 57 years s.....
» 14/06/2011 1:17:35 PM *I have yet to hear anyone volunteering to make even the tiniest gesture towards solving t.....
» 14/06/2011 9:29:31 AM *I don't recall any participant in this discussion as promoting a vegan agenda, except for.....
» 14/06/2011 7:13:26 AM *and cry at the images in my head of cattle screaming crying having their throats cut ten .....
» 13/06/2011 9:50:03 PM No ad hominems Pelican, simply pointing out the reality that like many other posters on he.....
» 13/06/2011 9:18:37 PM *If it wasn't for knitters farmers would lose a whole market for their wool. :)* Err Peli.....
» 13/06/2011 7:20:03 PM *there is no way the IMF would let a trival sexual scandal bring disrepute on such a power.....
» 13/06/2011 7:05:29 PM By the way Pelican, you really should get out of Canberra a bit more often, to see what i.....
» 13/06/2011 6:34:47 PM Gertrude, we've all heard about your you beut halal marketing scheme, for years and years......
» 13/06/2011 3:20:53 PM http://theland.farmonline.com.au/blogs/farmonline-opinion/a-letter-to-four-corners-from-we.....
» 13/06/2011 2:21:14 PM *But Yabby is and should know better.* Ammonite, I am not about to dumb down for you, so .....
» 13/06/2011 8:27:34 AM *Australia would be better served by looking back to a day we stopped the cruelty not the .....
» 12/06/2011 8:45:25 PM *There are only two intellectually honest and consistent positions to take on animal right.....
» 12/06/2011 7:48:43 PM Yup, Gertrude is back, this subject is to her like cocaine to a junkie:) Belly, what thes.....
» 12/06/2011 12:35:47 PM *If we miss the boat, and Indonesia looks elsewhere for their beef, well good luck to them.....
» 12/06/2011 9:57:24 AM Gawd Ammonite, you are of course well behind the times with your Govt reports etc. http:/.....
» 11/06/2011 8:20:19 PM Pericles, you missed a vital part of Arjay's websites. They commonly want to sell you a ye.....
» 11/06/2011 8:02:53 PM *Yes Yabby, ranting about the supposed 'housewives' in animal welfare groups would only se.....
» 11/06/2011 7:52:02 PM Morganzola, most are not animal welfare groups, but animal rights groups, something very d.....
» 11/06/2011 9:46:08 AM *Here's a novel idea; in addition to RE-OPENING the abattoirs that were closed to take adv.....
» 11/06/2011 9:21:54 AM *had producers and their representative organisations taken notice of those animal welfare.....
» 11/06/2011 9:09:23 AM Suze, indeed farmers drive imported 4wds, the local industry has never bothered to make t.....
» 10/06/2011 10:29:33 PM *where they were interviewing W.A. farmers, and they certainly said they knew about the fa.....
» 10/06/2011 7:47:51 PM The sad part is that it seems to be impossible to expect any kind of common sense from alo.....
» 10/06/2011 12:00:09 PM *the Meat and Livestock industry knew about the atrocities committed* Suze, who knew? Far.....
» 10/06/2011 9:05:23 AM Suze, let me explain it this way to you. If you and your husband got paid once a year and .....
» 9/06/2011 10:41:29 PM Belly, you are quite correct. A couple of us, with some common sense, could sort this one .....
» 9/06/2011 9:30:23 PM Belly, the problem now is, the Joe Ludwig, in his efforts to placate the hysterical housew.....
» 9/06/2011 11:31:28 AM Ammonite, you did not offer solutions, all you did was show a lack of understanding of the.....
» 9/06/2011 10:12:12 AM Suze, the hysterical housewife brigade are everywhere, urban housewives who simply don't u.....
» 8/06/2011 9:57:16 PM Banjo, you are quite correct, some of the AA stuff is off the planet stuff, away with the .....
» 8/06/2011 8:40:07 PM Belly, I agree with you, Joe Ludwig is under immense pressure, now that the hysterical hou.....
» 8/06/2011 9:40:59 AM Suze, every day we hear reports of some of you suburbanites abusing pets. So do we push fo.....
» 7/06/2011 3:35:58 PM The RSPCA does a fine job dealing with cruelty to animals that occurs every day, in our ci.....
» 7/06/2011 9:25:04 AM Belly, the problem with people like Wilkie, is that they are way out of their depth. Clear.....
» 6/06/2011 10:22:27 PM *Anyway, rightly or wrongly, 'people' already feel guilty anyway. If a carbon tax takes aw.....
» 5/06/2011 10:45:36 PM *aren't we the poor misguided non smart people, or are we:)* Well Lea, I can only judge b.....
» 5/06/2011 9:36:17 PM *Shall we ignore them because they are irrational?.* Yup. Better to judge then by what th.....
» 5/06/2011 8:40:53 PM *Food prices have been falling, in real terms, for decades. Show farmers a few dollars and.....
» 5/06/2011 8:31:15 PM *Humans applied human ingenuity to a problem and came up with a solution* Quite correct C.....
» 5/06/2011 8:19:16 PM So how many of these people attending, have never bothered to install even a solar hot wat.....
» 4/06/2011 10:47:10 PM Danielle, there are lots of questions about this debate, which remain unanswered. People w.....
» 3/06/2011 8:46:25 PM Rehctub, small business will continue, but what small business is feeling, is a rapidly ch.....
» 3/06/2011 8:28:37 PM Danielle, for the meat to be halal, the heart needs to be pumping. That is why much halal .....
» 3/06/2011 10:14:19 AM Well that is the interesting thing Rehctub, there have been a number of very credible peop.....
» 2/06/2011 11:19:31 PM *and we should discontinue supplying stock to them untill we are satisfied our standards a.....
» 2/06/2011 8:40:43 PM Belly, I can't see where Rehctub had a go at me lol. Perhaps you confused his copy and pas.....
» 1/06/2011 10:37:31 PM *That saw the demise of much of the Meat Industry, that single decision to lift the restri.....
» 1/06/2011 9:41:17 PM *Explain why South America isn't undercutting us on live-exports if they can do so so very.....
» 1/06/2011 9:26:31 PM Salpetre, the stun gun boxes are quite a simple design, they were actually shown right at .....
» 1/06/2011 6:17:53 PM Err Custard, clearly you don't follow the industry too closely. When companies like Wammco.....
» 1/06/2011 4:14:44 PM *The only way to combat it is to refuse trade or to export frozen meat.* Ah, now there is.....
» 1/06/2011 1:21:36 PM Crackup, you played the race card. I simply responded to it. I am certainly not ignoring .....
» 1/06/2011 12:19:58 PM Crackup, if you watched the start of the documentary, they in fact showed a short clip of .....
» 1/06/2011 11:47:41 AM *So, I like to make my own similar jump, all being fair, and state these women's objection.....
» 1/06/2011 11:06:23 AM *RSPCA and other animal welfare organisations in this country should apply pressure on our.....
» 1/06/2011 9:42:29 AM Salpetre, building another meatworks in the NT is regularly examined, but things arn't tha.....
» 1/06/2011 9:29:24 AM What seems to have been lost in the fog of this discussion, is that MLA has in fact starte.....
» 31/05/2011 9:37:03 PM *I am convinced we in Oz would all be far better off if all live animal export for slaught.....
» 31/05/2011 6:38:42 PM *if Halal preparation is dictated, it is accomplished on animals that have already been re.....
» 31/05/2011 6:02:08 PM Belly, IMHO Crackup's post is typical of those who use OLO to vent their frustrations. But.....
» 31/05/2011 2:36:45 PM Lovekat, the Middle East is one of our largest meat markets. Most boxes coming out of a g.....
» 31/05/2011 2:07:11 PM Hang on, plenty of Halal meat is produced in Australia, using stun guns. So the situation .....
» 31/05/2011 11:47:54 AM Lexi, I did google it. The WA farmers federation comment is some months old, the new cost .....
» 31/05/2011 11:41:51 AM *and deny them access to residency here in our country, so that they cannot indulge their .....
» 30/05/2011 9:46:29 PM http://www.nff.org.au/read/2085/carbon-tax-cripple-nations-farming-sector.html Lexi, perh.....
» 30/05/2011 7:58:01 PM Dear Lexi, You are quite correct. Now apply those points to your own debating skills and .....
» 30/05/2011 5:10:48 PM I am all with you there, Houllie. Like Lexi, I bet she's never even bothered to install so.....
» 30/05/2011 5:06:35 PM *This entire discussion is like putting a donkey in front of a cow, one is braying, and th.....
» 30/05/2011 3:40:22 PM Lexi, no need to go to parliament, the CSIRO has just published a free book online, explai.....
» 30/05/2011 11:08:02 AM Lexi, my point is very valid indeed! Solar hot water is stupidly simple and it works. Yes.....
» 30/05/2011 10:57:00 AM *Apple have applied their expertise in user interface to make it very easy to use.* Ah To.....
» 29/05/2011 7:47:33 PM So there you go Lexi. Solar hot water available, has been doing a wonderful job for 30 yea.....
» 29/05/2011 5:07:50 PM Lexi, a question. Do you have a solar hot water system on your roof?.....
» 29/05/2011 1:07:47 PM *between licks and tummy rubs ringing my mobile until I found the spot to dig it up.* Lol.....
» 28/05/2011 10:02:53 PM Neutral, well yup, the tablets do look a bit lightweight, the Ipad is pretty thin. So far .....
» 28/05/2011 7:54:44 PM Neutral, I had a bit of a look at the App store and under the business section I saw a co.....
» 28/05/2011 2:04:46 PM Suze, patience is a virtue! You'll get one. But if you only want it to read books, then an.....
» 28/05/2011 1:55:05 PM *if Jesus Christ is not Lord and Saviour in ones life then they will not go to heaven-have.....
» 28/05/2011 9:22:13 AM Fester, thanks for that link, it makes the point. What chance do the poor have, when the .....
» 27/05/2011 7:33:50 PM Csteele, where I live, out in the sticks, luckily there is a mobile tower not far away. Th.....
» 27/05/2011 12:35:24 PM *The West achieved zero pop growth (absent immigration) it without anyone planning for it,.....
» 27/05/2011 12:25:15 PM Lots of little reasons added up, often make one big reason, so it is with net shopping. .....
» 26/05/2011 10:50:54 PM *so I don't have to drop my pants and run around the room.* Clownfish, whatever gets you .....
» 26/05/2011 9:30:07 PM Arjay, yes we know all about your version of voodoo economics! Central banks, as other b.....
» 26/05/2011 9:21:42 PM Csteele, thanks for the suggestions. I'll have to check out some of them. When I do check .....
» 26/05/2011 2:47:02 PM Houllie, not so in my case, I do try and justify what I do and spend, even to myself. It .....
» 26/05/2011 2:28:32 PM Oh predictions for the future are not that difficult. We'll add nearly another billion pe.....
» 26/05/2011 11:12:01 AM *Oh the privelege of our lives when our needs are so taken care of, and even our wants are.....
» 26/05/2011 10:45:09 AM Pelican, I'm actually semi retired these days, mostly doing the things I want to do, rath.....
» 25/05/2011 9:05:02 PM Saul, I think its just a question of time now. As economic might moves to Asia, the Europe.....
» 25/05/2011 6:26:32 PM http://shop.skeptic.com/merchant.mvc?&Screen=PROD&Store_Code=SS&Product_Code=b144HB There.....
» 25/05/2011 2:26:17 PM I bought myself and Ipad about a month ago, partly out of curiosity about how Apple do thi.....
» 25/05/2011 10:45:59 AM *I find it interesting given the hoopla, that those who are 'helping the plannet' are only.....
» 25/05/2011 9:10:08 AM Funnily enough I found both the NSW solar tariff decision and the WA iron ore royalties to.....
» 24/05/2011 3:42:42 PM Divergence, I think that it comes down to how many votes are at stake, both for and agains.....
» 23/05/2011 8:19:38 PM A reality check Arjay. Bush the father was so piss weak, that he didn't even take out Sad.....
» 23/05/2011 8:09:31 PM *Yabby, I can't for the life of me understand why Runner won't answer your' very serious q.....
» 23/05/2011 7:07:18 PM Ah of course, Poirot! I bet you've been reading Chompsky again :).....
» 23/05/2011 6:49:52 PM http://www.smh.com.au/world/chinese-urged-to-put-war-on-pedestal-20110522-1ez0q.html Ther.....
» 23/05/2011 2:23:03 PM *Its all about me me me me me me me me* Not so Runner. Its about the fact that sexual urg.....
» 23/05/2011 2:12:39 PM *If the fundamentalists are so powerful, why have they lost on virtually every other issue.....
» 23/05/2011 2:00:19 PM The more common street language for Strauss-Khan would be "up himself" That sai.....
» 23/05/2011 1:54:02 PM *Belly,you and Yabby are fighting the losing battle* Im am? I'm not fighting any battles .....
» 22/05/2011 6:30:24 PM *Immoral adults ensalved by lust are not helping the situation by pretending their own per.....
» 22/05/2011 10:50:41 AM http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_World_Order_(conspiracy_theory) There you go, Arjay. The.....
» 21/05/2011 9:06:50 PM Arjay, its interesting to note that you defend nutcase extremist Islamists, but you are co.....
» 21/05/2011 7:06:25 PM I notice in today's Finanancial Review, that Shell are about to start building the first o.....
» 21/05/2011 6:48:22 PM Arjay, I don't think you'd even notice your own contradictions, if you fell over them your.....
» 20/05/2011 6:15:17 PM *finally someone out there who speaks my language!* Ah Squeers, finally there are two of .....
» 20/05/2011 5:59:23 PM *that Australia exports only about 25% of its agriculture at second-stage production* Wel.....
» 20/05/2011 5:48:48 PM Thinker 2, feel free to continue your "woe is me" campaign. Feel free to spew yo.....
» 20/05/2011 2:22:08 PM You make a valid point there Robert. But the thing is, if a female has been duped by some .....
» 20/05/2011 1:07:03 PM *Prophets Gore, Flannery and others will continue to rake in the millions* Sheesh, talk a.....
» 20/05/2011 11:11:23 AM Actual brain size is not that critical Graham, otherwise elephants would be far smarter th.....
» 20/05/2011 10:15:43 AM The market could indeed work wonders for food security, if it had been allowed to operate .....
» 20/05/2011 9:52:31 AM *now you get in on the act accusing anyone who suspects the U.S. often indulges in it's ow.....
» 19/05/2011 11:06:01 PM *Pakistan, the way it got the Nuclear bomb, and distributed it to others.* That is not th.....
» 19/05/2011 10:56:57 PM *or is it in fact your priorities that are the determining factor here, not the best inter.....
» 19/05/2011 5:18:30 PM *False! Only the politicians themselves are responsible for their oppressive actions, not .....
» 19/05/2011 3:11:06 PM *It seems to me that this would fit with Julian Assange’s arrogance and disdain for author.....
» 19/05/2011 10:17:49 AM Thinker 2, when I employ people I pay them around 30 $ an hour. I think that's fair money .....
» 18/05/2011 7:23:20 PM *Business people would prefer to pay them cash on one hand in order that they avoid paying.....
» 18/05/2011 7:00:56 PM Ah James, how easy it is to be an armchair critic, with the benefit of time and the safety.....
» 18/05/2011 2:47:32 PM *How the hell do you know?* Cleary I am am better informed then you are. Read his many cl.....
» 18/05/2011 2:06:35 PM *OBL offered no resistance in any meaningful sense of the word.* James, you don't have a .....
» 18/05/2011 1:52:46 PM The thing is Jocelynne, in today's society, women have all the sexual power. Not all are i.....
» 18/05/2011 12:35:29 PM Bin Laden had openly declared war on America and openly encouraged the shooting of America.....
» 18/05/2011 2:40:47 AM *When the brain dies, there is just endless sleep* More like great worm food, Suze :).....
» 17/05/2011 2:12:03 PM All that the author has done is confirm what we already know: religion is based on hope an.....
» 17/05/2011 12:37:17 PM *In saying that there are people who do take advantage of the system but they are not the .....
» 17/05/2011 10:28:03 AM Pelican, your sense of social justice is all very sweet, but you are up against the realit.....
» 16/05/2011 9:37:25 PM *nor see it prudent to acquiesce to needs or views of business* Its not business, Thinker.....
» 16/05/2011 9:21:50 PM There is your problem right there Tristan, ie attitude. Life is not a straight line. Peop.....
» 16/05/2011 7:29:37 PM *but it was a hard slog* Ah Pelican, you poor little thing :) I remind you that nobody is.....
» 16/05/2011 7:02:57 PM *Free trade and globalisation work to enable a small elite grow richer* Nonsense, trade a.....
» 16/05/2011 2:58:57 PM Not so Pelican. Where have I ever suggested or encouraged farming or business subidies? R.....
» 16/05/2011 2:22:04 PM *Take a look at who is not employing people at risk of long term disadvantage, and make th.....
» 16/05/2011 2:10:17 PM *I for one am somewhat opposed to online shopping, simply because it costs jobs* But it a.....
» 16/05/2011 12:35:18 PM *and ensured any job I applied matched my needs. For the most part it turned out fine.* A.....
» 16/05/2011 12:30:54 PM Ah clearly some people want a Nappy State. The Govt ready to change your nappies, at a mom.....
» 15/05/2011 10:49:52 PM *This is mainly due to the increases in costs associated with running a business* Absolut.....
» 14/05/2011 9:42:46 PM *underpinned by capitalist greed* It's not capitalism that is greedy, Saoirse, its a whol.....
» 14/05/2011 2:38:02 PM *It probably wasn't him.* Ah Arjay, in that case the Pakistani Govt will be able to annou.....
» 14/05/2011 12:55:23 PM *and a team with a 'proven track record' of sound economic management and budget surpluses.....
» 13/05/2011 8:22:37 PM Arjay, I understand that you are trying to retain face here, but you really arn't very goo.....
» 13/05/2011 6:02:33 PM *In 2004 it was done by fraudulent voting machines.* James, if the evidence is so clear, .....
» 13/05/2011 2:45:00 PM *At one point, in the mid 90's, I made more money than the prime minister, to much in fact.....
» 13/05/2011 9:31:49 AM Arjay, I remind you that when Bush took over, Clinton had the place in reasonable shape, w.....
» 12/05/2011 9:59:57 PM *If you must insist on rewriting history do some research beforehand* Ah, there you go Ja.....
» 12/05/2011 8:01:36 PM *I think it is pretty certain now that there were no WMDs in Iraq nor did the US governmen.....
» 12/05/2011 7:48:37 PM *& old bushie & a little Specialist Training in the Army* Ah there ya go Jayb, without sp.....
» 12/05/2011 2:19:19 PM Wow, I just love the conspiracy theorists. Amazing, they have nearly convinced Pelican now.....
» 12/05/2011 2:04:06 PM *One would have thought that these primitave people would have had enough trouble feeding .....
» 12/05/2011 11:49:49 AM *"...natural selection had already sculpted wolves into self-domesticated 'village do.....
» 11/05/2011 3:55:41 PM http://www.smh.com.au/technology/biz-tech/how-google-australia-escapes-the-taxman-with-a-l.....
» 10/05/2011 2:05:37 PM *or working farm dogs. While it is true that these animals are not given a choice,* Peric.....
» 9/05/2011 1:26:50 PM Belly old mate, see it this way. Methinks that most likely OUG needs his daily therapy an.....
» 8/05/2011 10:28:33 PM *and besides what would a female know anyway * Ahhh, poor Lexi, the female victim. Pull t.....
» 8/05/2011 12:43:46 PM Lexi, we got sidetracked because you claimed that Obama had been snubbed. You continue to .....
» 8/05/2011 9:51:19 AM BTW this is off topic, but Poirot, I thought of you when I saw an interview on Charlie Ro.....
» 8/05/2011 9:34:42 AM For those interested, the History channel has been screening an interesting documentary on.....
» 7/05/2011 10:53:43 PM Lexi see it this way. Its basically like saying that men are taller then women. That is tr.....
» 7/05/2011 9:36:52 PM You still don't understand the girl guy thing, Lexi. If girls get an invite, its endless .....
» 7/05/2011 8:26:27 PM *I would make the assumption that US President Obama was not happy at being excluded from .....
» 7/05/2011 5:14:40 PM *I blame the capitalist system* You are free to do so Saorise, but I think you are wrong,.....
» 7/05/2011 4:14:30 PM *So are you saying that people can't communicate opinions concerning the betterment of soc.....
» 6/05/2011 8:59:06 PM *The numbers are either outright fabrications or fudged* They could well be the official .....
» 6/05/2011 7:44:52 PM Sheesh OUG, for once I bother to read one of your posts for a change and not an ounce of c.....
» 6/05/2011 7:10:29 PM *There are around two billion people world wide who will have nothing to eat tonight. Whic.....
» 6/05/2011 5:51:43 PM http://www.economist.com/blogs/dailychart/2011/05/world_population_forecasts Steven, this.....
» 6/05/2011 10:22:39 AM *Ask yourself why the process would need subsidies if it really were economically viable* .....
» 6/05/2011 10:06:27 AM Poiroit, you make a valid point, ie the difference one man can make and I think perhaps ma.....
» 5/05/2011 9:14:57 PM *Yabby never fear the very left fill a phone box at the ALP conference* Belly, yup I know.....
» 5/05/2011 7:43:10 PM *In the state, women make up 90% of the labour force and earn, on average, $400–$500 per w.....
» 5/05/2011 2:49:36 PM "does anyone agree that the conversion of one of the USA's main cereal crops -corn- t.....
» 5/05/2011 2:34:06 PM *shame the "details" keep changing every 24 hours, don't you think.* Not reall.....
» 5/05/2011 9:50:52 AM All very valid points Steven. But the rising population is a global issue which we are ign.....
» 5/05/2011 9:15:54 AM Ah Poirot, now it all makes sense. A chardonay socialist!.....
» 4/05/2011 10:46:54 PM *then how could such a disparate group pull off such a complicated event such as 911.* Er.....
» 4/05/2011 9:54:02 PM *Stg your comments are just trying to distract people from the reality* Not so Arjay, the.....
» 4/05/2011 9:18:39 PM *Btw, I'm always interested in synchronicity and such like...* Poirot, that is just how t.....
» 4/05/2011 8:16:39 PM *I have worked with many people in law enforcement and the stories about some of the broth.....
» 4/05/2011 7:00:09 PM Csteele, there was word coming through on the American networks that bin Laden was dead an.....
» 4/05/2011 5:31:01 PM Well there ya go, I've often thought that Poirot and Csteele commonly display poor judgem.....
» 4/05/2011 11:55:14 AM *I agree with Geoffrey Robinson, the best outcome would have been to bring OBL to court* .....
» 4/05/2011 10:08:59 AM *Despite this view, I don't always think there is respect shown the sex worker. Much of th.....
» 3/05/2011 9:56:13 PM *And even if it's true that he was as presented - how do we know they got him? We only go .....
» 3/05/2011 9:17:45 PM Arjay, I know exactly what Jason Burke wrote in his book. It is pretty detailed. Sorry, b.....
» 3/05/2011 8:14:37 PM Poirot, indeed the grandmommy effect can matter, especially in some species of birds. In .....
» 3/05/2011 5:20:46 PM *It is the men who are taking this article personally.* Pelican, a number of men, me incl.....
» 3/05/2011 9:41:40 AM *For what its worth...been there done that for 20 years (not dating sites)married to a hig.....
» 2/05/2011 11:18:43 PM Arjay, I actually have Jason Burkes book in my bookshelf and nowhere that I can remember,.....
» 2/05/2011 11:00:06 PM Unique, I refer to "you" as anyone who fits the criteria, nothing to do with Uni.....
» 2/05/2011 9:42:22 PM I'm thrilled for Obama, that he has been able to put this feather in his cap. Good on him,.....
» 2/05/2011 7:55:55 PM *In countries where there is poverty the need for a man to look after you is part of survi.....
» 2/05/2011 7:42:59 PM *A female colleague of mine admitted to me that she has female friends who treat their mar.....
» 2/05/2011 2:31:08 PM *But more importantly, marriage in the absence of prostitution would tend to cartelise fem.....
» 2/05/2011 10:20:47 AM *I think Yabby is talking on a global level* Ah, at last a poster who is thinking! The re.....
» 2/05/2011 9:36:06 AM Suze, I think we have already come up with the answer about China. The Spectator article m.....
» 1/05/2011 8:23:25 PM *the legal ability to say 'no!' to any man wishing to access the 'vaginal patent' gives wo.....
» 1/05/2011 8:04:01 PM Saoirse, I agree with you, houses have become too expensive, but they have also doubled in.....
» 1/05/2011 7:03:19 PM Yes indeed Saorise, today there are far more wealthy Australians then ever before, most of.....
» 1/05/2011 6:48:11 PM *And what about all the men who chase rich women?* Err which rich women Suze? Oh you mean.....
» 1/05/2011 3:09:00 PM An interesting article in the Spectator, Steven. It highlights that Asians are far more pr.....
» 1/05/2011 11:51:11 AM *That is not for the majority of women I am acquainted with* Ah Pelican, you make that cr.....
» 1/05/2011 10:19:45 AM *Maybe they are further along the evolutionary pathway than other men?* ROFL Suze :) I a.....
» 1/05/2011 9:21:13 AM Suze, male scientists did come up with a great solution, its called the pill. If it fails,.....
» 30/04/2011 7:38:32 PM Suze, perhaps you should head for the kitchen and do the gladwrap test. Run your finger o.....
» 30/04/2011 7:34:06 PM *However, if BOTH use contraception if neither want a child/pregnancy, then wouldn't that .....
» 30/04/2011 6:01:03 PM Not so Suze. For of course having sex is normal and natural. Its not illegal either. Just.....
» 30/04/2011 12:20:37 PM Perhaps the Chinese are simply a bit more pragmatic about having abortions, as are the Jap.....
» 29/04/2011 10:36:39 PM *New Guineans and their penchant for beautiful feathers in the headdresses of the men - se.....
» 29/04/2011 9:47:43 PM *If I can be forgiven for being bitter and twisted for a moment* Ok Thinker 2, given your.....
» 29/04/2011 2:30:14 PM *And Camilla leaps over the pews, streaks down the aisle and throws herself at Wills screa.....
» 29/04/2011 11:25:02 AM *The royal wedding is expected to give the UK economy a $4.65 billion boost.* Ah, there w.....
» 28/04/2011 10:30:43 AM Why would you want to do anything at all, Thinker 2 ? Because whatever you do, other then.....
» 27/04/2011 5:12:18 PM *if they're pensioners, are battling to buy food every week. That's life and death stuff.*.....
» 27/04/2011 9:27:49 AM Ah Rectub, but we don't have 7 day trading in Western Australia. So those evil places like.....
» 27/04/2011 9:15:56 AM Cteele, I did in fact read it all some time ago. But what matters more is how the courts i.....
» 27/04/2011 9:00:14 AM *So long as my shares are performing well, little else matters.* Ah Rectub, I could say t.....
» 26/04/2011 10:30:26 AM *Sheridan may well make some valid points in his article* Well that was the point of link.....
» 25/04/2011 9:43:39 PM http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/opinion/un-convention-misunderstood-and-its-not-worki.....
» 25/04/2011 4:11:30 PM *We are the ones doing the damage.* Poirot, your guilt trip is very sweet and I am sure w.....
» 25/04/2011 3:52:22 PM *Yabby silly stuff and not on subject 22% are in unions, thuggery? then that would be gutl.....
» 25/04/2011 3:07:40 PM *Perhaps in the long run it will be smarter to share that good fortune a little more than .....
» 25/04/2011 3:00:07 PM *Naive? Hardly. Idealistic possibly* Nope Csteele, Naive it is. If people abuse the tax c.....
» 24/04/2011 1:40:12 PM *We as a country got past those concerns and moved on to become one of the countries advoc.....
» 24/04/2011 1:28:10 PM Sonfogloin, your WWF heritage of total greed shows through here. http://www.theaustralian.....
» 23/04/2011 1:56:30 PM *It is quite possible that the same will result from the BP spill in the Gulf.* Sarnian, .....
» 22/04/2011 9:05:26 PM *and in any case the industry, what Fredric Jameson has called a "spacial" diale.....
» 22/04/2011 8:49:29 PM *These people have had their applications REJECTED! That is why they are upset.* So they.....
» 22/04/2011 11:56:32 AM Err come on blokes. Australia is a soft touch. They know we are a soft touch. To demonstra.....
» 22/04/2011 9:37:32 AM *Yabby I am afraid you are wrong, first the majority of WA workers by far, are not unionis.....
» 21/04/2011 11:33:14 PM *But what about economic growth, Yabby?* Squeers, just recently I downloaded an amusing l.....
» 21/04/2011 8:04:37 PM I'm sorry if you took my smartarsed comment the wrong way Pericles, I did put a smiley in .....
» 21/04/2011 3:39:52 PM *the modern Western version is only a more sophisticated adaptation of the age old mediums.....
» 21/04/2011 1:18:15 PM *Crowds of self interested business and other groups constantly scream we want more.* Whi.....
» 21/04/2011 1:07:35 PM *This comfy unsustainable world has been driven my male innovation from the start of the I.....
» 21/04/2011 12:53:25 PM Jewely, if you are paying 2.50 per banana, then your husband earns far too much money :) .....
» 21/04/2011 12:53:00 PM Jewely, if you are paying 2.50 per banana, then your husband earns far too much money :) .....
» 20/04/2011 10:43:05 PM Rehctub, you and Belly have the same problem, you are both getting old, dreaming about how.....
» 20/04/2011 4:15:47 PM Belly old son, much as I like you, I need to remind you that I seem to recall that you wen.....
» 20/04/2011 12:34:10 PM Pericles, what I am pointing out, is that this whole frigging circus that we have built in.....
» 20/04/2011 10:25:53 AM *What inhibits women's advancement is not women's skills, capacities, abilities or courage.....
» 20/04/2011 10:11:25 AM I think that Dick has actually written a very good article, but posters like Cheryl and Pe.....
» 20/04/2011 9:49:58 AM *Dick Smith recently ran TV ads where his staff were a happy multicultural group of people.....
» 20/04/2011 9:36:19 AM *both you and yabby seem to call for better income for your selves and have no thought for.....
» 19/04/2011 4:17:37 PM Pelican, you should know by now that I think highly of you. I've said before that I think .....
» 19/04/2011 10:39:02 AM *would my work earn me as much as yours did you? Ir reward for effort only for some?* Bel.....
» 18/04/2011 7:08:31 PM Err Pelican, just to clear up a slight misunderstanding. Farming is my hobby and passion, .....
» 18/04/2011 5:56:14 PM *Yes it is. The cost of doing business is built into the price and that means all costs, i.....
» 18/04/2011 3:13:22 PM Dear Suzey, I am happy to hear that things are resolving themselves. Darwin was correct,.....
» 17/04/2011 8:07:25 PM Dear Suzey, Sounds like in your courting days you did far too much eating and drinking, p.....
» 17/04/2011 6:51:40 PM Ah Jewely, it seems you just need to find a more talented bloke to write the agony aunt re.....
» 15/04/2011 8:12:02 PM *I dunno Poirot, most of the chains people struggle against are self inflicted* Well exac.....
» 15/04/2011 3:41:23 PM *I would welcome argument. I "want" to be shown to be wrong* Well that's been d.....
» 15/04/2011 11:11:20 AM The thing is Squeers, IMHO you are on little but a feelgood exercise, which ties in with .....
» 14/04/2011 1:08:50 PM *woke up; all you’re doing is keeping the rich bastards rich—polluting the planet for them.....
» 13/04/2011 12:42:39 PM Sheesh Houllie, don't take this the wrong way, but you remind me of the smartest of my thr.....
» 10/04/2011 1:00:14 PM The genie is out of the bottle on this one, has been for a while. What we have is ever mor.....
» 7/04/2011 2:54:12 PM *I had no idea some little gland thing could get scarred for life and remind us.* Jewely,.....
» 6/04/2011 7:34:26 PM *because surely only the super rational/hormonally challenged ones would choose an abortio.....
» 6/04/2011 4:49:38 PM *Yabby did you just say women can’t overcome their emotions to make rational decisions?* .....
» 6/04/2011 2:57:43 PM *"Mr Right" who told her that he loved her, wants to get married and have kids, .....
» 4/04/2011 10:35:46 AM Ah Houllie, you make some valid points. The rat race is the perfect place for rats! That.....
» 2/04/2011 10:21:42 PM *It makes no sense* Fester I can only quote you the commonly quoted figures in the press,.....
» 1/04/2011 12:09:31 PM *If that equity goes very far negative our friendly banks will be there calling in the loa.....
» 1/04/2011 11:49:57 AM Poirot, yup I'd agree. People in cities have a choice, many choose to have everything don.....
» 1/04/2011 11:20:29 AM *Many who have recently become home owners could not survive, economically, if values drop.....
» 1/04/2011 11:10:02 AM Poirot, what your Lord Ernie was describing would have been very much about necessity bein.....
» 31/03/2011 6:04:55 PM Poirot, I think you could be right about BLU, even if he won't admit it. As for the rest,.....
» 31/03/2011 2:16:07 PM *After all there's a reason that "anal" is part of the word. :-)* Ah, there are.....
» 31/03/2011 12:12:46 PM Poirot, I'm commonly criticised for being too analytical, but you must be worse then me :).....
» 30/03/2011 7:01:31 PM UOG, as usual I can't make head or tail of your posts, so I won't bother to try to reply. .....
» 30/03/2011 11:52:02 AM Actually this debate reminds me of one that I once had with an anthropologist, about the d.....
» 29/03/2011 8:57:12 PM BTW Poirot, if you dust off your tv and tune in to SBS at 7.30 WA time, like tonight, pret.....
» 29/03/2011 8:49:04 PM *Yabby, you need to do more reading* Lol Lexi. I will agree that when it comes to reading.....
» 29/03/2011 5:57:25 PM *And this is that the infernal little beasts are constantly on the alert, perpetually unea.....
» 29/03/2011 3:22:36 PM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2oMmLWdKz70 There your go Lexi, the power of human instinc.....
» 29/03/2011 2:04:31 PM *Close...though not spot-on....but enough to get you a pass mark :)* Fair enough, Poirot......
» 29/03/2011 9:10:23 AM *No doubt you picture me in flowing dresses, dripping and rattling with beaded trinkets, c.....
» 28/03/2011 9:01:44 PM *"Homo sapiens" have spread to every continent, frequently driving other animal .....
» 28/03/2011 8:24:14 PM *Obviously you're both harbouring a secret crush on me* I doubt it, Poirot, for if I real.....
» 28/03/2011 6:20:32 PM *What will be the long term health results?* There you go Arjay, my long term prediction .....
» 28/03/2011 1:43:29 PM *That commitment must include our capacity to love each other as human beings, to remember.....
» 28/03/2011 11:10:22 AM Poirot, if you're quoting Choprah, then IMHO you are simply on the fairy flock treadmill, .....
» 27/03/2011 9:09:57 PM Lexi, we can easily bog ourselves down in semantics here. There are many definitions of ma.....
» 27/03/2011 8:45:45 PM *And until we get you out of the leadership my party is facing decades in the other side o.....
» 27/03/2011 1:07:40 PM *I find it fascinating that you and Yabby waste no time in putting the boot into anyone wh.....
» 26/03/2011 1:25:55 PM *It's our perception that rules our lives.* It certainly does and those perceptions could.....
» 26/03/2011 10:44:50 AM *Considering science is so proud of its analytic method, it's rather a glaring and a prior.....
» 25/03/2011 10:10:45 PM *I dislike and disagree with the propensity, in many disciplines, to explain away human be.....
» 25/03/2011 9:06:12 PM *It's such a convenient rationale, with no empirical evidence to back it up; it's just so .....
» 25/03/2011 4:46:57 PM * People in such situations never experience the fulfillment of creating the article in it.....
» 24/03/2011 10:34:07 PM * I do suspect, however, that people watch the cooking shows more for entertainment than i.....
» 24/03/2011 4:15:27 PM Poirot, I think that you are jumping to wrong conclusions, in your haste to condem our pre.....
» 23/03/2011 1:26:44 PM *But we need a little honesty too. And, like all business people, that is in short supply*.....
» 22/03/2011 9:39:11 PM * but they can only do that because no one counts the cost of their damage as part of the .....
» 22/03/2011 7:45:58 PM Rehctub just has this thing about banana farmers, for some reason. They would only make up.....
» 22/03/2011 2:33:42 PM *So, how about a scheme that takes the 'excess profits' from the 'lucky farmers' and gives.....
» 20/03/2011 10:06:10 PM *If history is anything to go by, they won't stop at sex* Vanna, last time I checked you .....
» 20/03/2011 8:46:51 PM *Prostitution is not “work”, nor is it a “profession”.* Of course its a profession. Peopl.....
» 20/03/2011 2:03:37 PM Ah Vanna, it seems to me that you have been watching too many Hollywood movies, rather the.....
» 18/03/2011 10:55:18 AM Yuyutu makes some very valid points. But its these broad judgemental statements of yours V.....
» 17/03/2011 9:43:03 PM *In fact, by selling their bodies, prostitutes are using no brains at all, while the rest .....
» 17/03/2011 11:10:27 AM Ah I love this feminist logic . If a girl marries a rich guy or gives it away for free, th.....
» 14/03/2011 9:47:44 PM *"The unexamined life is not worth living!" said Socrates thousands of years ago.....
» 14/03/2011 5:02:17 PM Squeers, its always refreshing to watch a David Attenborough documentary, which focuses o.....
» 9/03/2011 5:23:42 PM *The last refuge in lack of any other argument in a discussion is to use the “conspiracy t.....
» 9/03/2011 9:19:49 AM *House prices plummeted leaving the asset value of the property a worth below the borrowed.....
» 9/03/2011 8:56:08 AM Ah Sarnian, so now you think that our ABC and SBS are part of this global consipiracy to s.....
» 8/03/2011 11:11:35 PM *The media octopus that spreads around the World is being very successful in suppressing n.....
» 4/03/2011 8:04:03 PM *"Wonderful capitalism" can roll along as long as its adherents can participate .....
» 4/03/2011 2:10:39 PM A good article, Jennifer. Melinda AFAIK, is a Catholic. Their beliefs seemingly have very .....
» 24/02/2011 5:09:23 PM *Eating less" can mean anything from 1% less to 100% less, which is far from being a .....
» 24/02/2011 1:37:12 PM *And tell me yabby do you think tobacco tax covers health costs?* Indeed they do. The wor.....
» 24/02/2011 9:39:33 AM *tax it out of existance my answer* They are already doing that Belly. Clearly you are ou.....
» 23/02/2011 1:40:58 PM *Eating is essential in order to live. Smoking is not.* Ah, but overeating is not essenti.....
» 23/02/2011 10:02:50 AM *It is as simple as... not smoking that next cigarette.* Ah Pericles, you mean as simple .....
» 22/02/2011 11:57:33 AM *If I had a dollar for the number of people who have bemoaned the fact they ever took up s.....
» 21/02/2011 6:35:54 PM Belly, I like you too bloke, but that has nothng to do with what we are discussing. I sim.....
» 21/02/2011 10:49:24 AM Its a furphy to suggest that smokers are costing society all this money. Govts earn many b.....
» 21/02/2011 10:35:21 AM Bazz, yes Howe wants union control of aluminium, there was an article about it in last wee.....
» 19/02/2011 5:21:45 PM *Yabby, tell us all you know about Paul Howes, whoops, sorry forgot that was it in with so.....
» 19/02/2011 1:11:44 PM *And will carry out any dirty deed to stop its workers being paid going rates.* Come on B.....
» 16/02/2011 6:22:38 PM Whatever Berlusconi's history, I find the present charges amusing. Even our law has the sa.....
» 14/02/2011 7:37:51 PM *Who are the biggest poker machine owners in the Country?* Aspley, yes indeed, both Coles.....
» 12/02/2011 1:04:04 PM http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switzerland_during_the_World_Wars This article is perhaps a .....
» 10/02/2011 10:26:01 PM *My suggestion would be that they have made huge cuts to costs. Staff, outgoings and suppl.....
» 10/02/2011 1:52:17 PM *So it seems to me that on the one hand we have a lion here...* Seems to me, that we have.....
» 10/02/2011 9:37:42 AM *Yabby, don't tell me you fell for that 3% crap. Most of their prices are down by 10 to 20.....
» 9/02/2011 8:57:24 PM There is of course, much jealousy of the Swiss. Such a little country, with so few resour.....
» 9/02/2011 8:31:41 PM *A classic example of abuse of power, denial of responsibility and lack of supervision/reg.....
» 9/02/2011 4:33:45 PM I've always maintainted that if they had named somebody as wise as Paul Collins as pope, .....
» 9/02/2011 4:21:48 PM *a dossier containing statements, reports and wiretap transcripts which are alleged to dep.....
» 9/02/2011 2:15:35 PM Perhaps OLO should chat with organisastions like Westpac, for some advertising revenue. Ga.....
» 9/02/2011 2:03:06 PM *Example 1: Downward price pressure placed by supermarkets on milk producers at the cost e.....
» 9/02/2011 1:45:47 PM *guaranteeing the depositors anonymity, so that if they happened to "disappear"......
» 5/02/2011 7:38:49 PM *Claiming that a loan is interest free, when in fact the interest has been collected in ad.....
» 4/02/2011 10:46:51 PM You raise an interesting point there Sonofgloin, namely how much do we babysit the consume.....
» 4/02/2011 10:05:30 PM *There is enough wealth in the high incomes obtained by Gina, Clive palmer and others.* M.....
» 3/02/2011 10:33:43 PM Sheesh, things are moving along on this thread. We now have Pericles as the potential next.....
» 3/02/2011 8:37:00 PM I love it ! The Greeks totally screw things up and rather then face the music, we'll talk .....
» 3/02/2011 8:27:34 PM Fair enough, Sonogloin. When it comes to banking, we have much hollering on OLO, but litt.....
» 3/02/2011 2:59:45 PM Ah that is easy, Pericles. Sir Les Patterson, so typically Australian !.....
» 3/02/2011 10:00:04 AM Sonofgloin, I remind you that Keating deregulated the banking system. So there are all sor.....
» 2/02/2011 9:21:38 PM *or you haven’t got a solution to the issues you raised so what did you raise them for?* .....
» 2/02/2011 9:00:04 PM The idea is quite simple really, Rehctub. If people rush to Coles to buy their cheap milk,.....
» 30/01/2011 8:57:19 PM Yes indeed Cornflower, neuroscience is one of my hobbies, I have mentioned it many times o.....
» 30/01/2011 3:50:52 PM Ah Cornflower, I am surprisingly good at understanding the statistics which matter. I ac.....
» 30/01/2011 2:13:29 PM *First you foolishly claim there have been no multiple killings with guns after Howard's e.....
» 30/01/2011 1:24:48 AM Cornflower, the evidence has been presented, of the drop in mass shootings in Australia. Y.....
» 29/01/2011 11:04:32 PM *In this and in all other areas of regulation, government should base policy on evidence* .....
» 28/01/2011 9:22:19 PM You are of course quite correct, Poirot. But methinks that Cornflower is like a dog with .....
» 28/01/2011 8:44:21 PM Csteele, Wicki is a pretty open website. If anyone can show that the information is not cr.....
» 28/01/2011 8:35:43 PM *I just want to screw the wealthy.* Its all relative, Squeers. With your big house, we ju.....
» 28/01/2011 2:56:56 PM *For Australia at least 40% of our entire beef supply and 80% of all beef sold in supermar.....
» 28/01/2011 2:31:31 PM *that the only solution is to increase taxes* Come on SM. Abbott was going to clobber com.....
» 28/01/2011 2:24:26 PM Well yes, we can expect problems with fruit and vege supplies, due to all the bad weather .....
» 28/01/2011 1:53:20 PM *I realize my grammar, argument construction and editing have suffered from posting off a .....
» 28/01/2011 1:48:29 PM *For Australia at least 40% of our entire beef supply and 80% of all beef sold in supermar.....
» 28/01/2011 12:36:23 PM http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drone_attacks_in_Pakistan There you go, Csteele. Lots of mil.....
» 27/01/2011 1:08:51 PM *My feeling is you're presenting a somewhat romanticized picture here, which, if not alrea.....
» 27/01/2011 9:04:10 AM Interestingly, most beef, lamb etc produced in Australia, is not done by industrial farmin.....
» 26/01/2011 6:30:53 PM *the solution is to keep their hands from the levers of government* Exactly Csteele, but .....
» 26/01/2011 10:15:44 AM *Are we feeding a pink revolution here?* Most likely we are Belly, but that also exposes .....
» 24/01/2011 7:11:39 PM Csteele, one swallow doesen't make a summer. Sure there are people backing the Taliban, bu.....
» 23/01/2011 1:29:59 PM *Religious extremism only takes hold when a society is on it's knees* Not so, Csteele. Ma.....
» 22/01/2011 12:56:02 PM Now where the whole story changed, was really in bin Laden's religious education. He was .....
» 22/01/2011 12:45:20 PM Csteele, the Americans had troops in Saudi Arabia at the invitation of the Saudis. Why? Be.....
» 21/01/2011 6:02:56 PM Csteele, the Taliban ran Afghanistan for years, I used to read about their barbarity in th.....
» 21/01/2011 9:08:18 AM You make my point for me, Csteele. The Taliban had the choice of handing over bin Laden t.....
» 20/01/2011 10:30:08 PM *Why do you think we have to give you solutions?* Because solutions Jennifer, is what it'.....
» 20/01/2011 9:02:14 PM Fair enough Jennifer. I didn't think you had a solution to the fiasco. We'll just wear o.....
» 20/01/2011 8:57:42 PM *We've had no mass shootings since.* Ah Cornflower, that is what I actually wrote. And it.....
» 20/01/2011 2:19:04 PM *But you are excluding for instance, multiple murders such as the more recent Melbourne ga.....
» 20/01/2011 2:00:03 PM Nah Blue, no heroism. If you crunch the numbers and do the checks, you will find that the .....
» 20/01/2011 11:27:00 AM *Get ripped off OR go to the beach......not a hard choice, is it.* Fair enough Blue. Let .....
» 20/01/2011 9:27:15 AM *And so too for my children who I take to our local library usually every Sat morning.* Y.....
» 20/01/2011 9:10:16 AM *A pour case of too many chiefs. 25% of Australian small business are just wasting their t.....
» 19/01/2011 8:45:24 PM So there you go Tooteaz, if you are an employer, then you must be rich. In that case, unio.....
» 19/01/2011 7:25:30 PM Tooteaz, Australians have seemingly voted against workchoices. That means that if you can.....
» 19/01/2011 5:23:25 PM *Which part of “It’s my opinion that we need to re assess our commitment to domestic refug.....
» 19/01/2011 3:45:47 PM http://edition.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/2011/01/18/ac.kids.guns.new.law.cnn?iref=allsearch.....
» 19/01/2011 3:08:25 PM I think that libraries are great places, but I also think that their use by date is alread.....
» 19/01/2011 1:41:02 PM Err yes. We are a tribal species by nature. We care first and foremost about those close t.....
» 19/01/2011 9:57:20 AM *It is unlikely that licensed gun owners would have sold their firearms over a cheap gun s.....
» 19/01/2011 7:45:48 AM Oops Csteele, you seem to be confusing citizens and residents. Fact is that Afghanistan h.....
» 18/01/2011 9:18:55 PM Come on Jennifer, be honest now. You and other refugee advocates would be screaming blue .....
» 18/01/2011 8:53:56 PM *Heh, heh, you only claim knowledge of the gun laws* Nope Cornflower, I can claim a prett.....
» 18/01/2011 2:00:27 PM *You cast about as wildly and as unsuccessfully as anyone might for differences to explain.....
» 18/01/2011 12:44:30 PM *What I wouldn't want to see is that teacher bashing the bully because then we end up the .....
» 17/01/2011 10:02:55 PM *And what do we do when the bully is the most technologically advanced, militarily focusse.....
» 17/01/2011 8:49:25 PM I think you will find Jennifer, that global sentiment is changing. The real villain seems.....
» 17/01/2011 7:52:47 PM *Then, because we're trade in commodities by volume, it would fall rapidly leading to majo.....
» 17/01/2011 7:28:57 PM *You oppose research into violence and evidence-based policy, but why?* Cornflower, where.....
» 17/01/2011 4:32:30 PM *Horses' apples, that is not scientific 'proof' of anything* Cornflower, its proof enough.....
» 17/01/2011 3:04:00 PM We have the evidence, Cornflower, but you continue to ignore it. The US have around 300 m.....
» 17/01/2011 12:47:30 PM *I believe the use of drone missile strikes by the CIA in Pakistan to be wrong. My respons.....
» 17/01/2011 8:10:15 AM *You have substituted "they have little choice" for "[their government] not.....
» 16/01/2011 7:55:28 PM Cornflower, the evidence is quite clear. Gun thefts have dropped by two thirds for instan.....
» 16/01/2011 7:27:57 PM http://www.aph.gov.au/library/pubs/rp/2000-01/01rp05.htm Sounds to me like the Federal Pa.....
» 16/01/2011 6:47:55 PM http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1812250,00.html That is just one example, P.....
» 16/01/2011 5:15:26 PM *>>There are clear lessons for the third world.<< Were you always this patron.....
» 16/01/2011 11:19:35 AM *The research quoted was peer reviewed, then and since and confirmed.* Yes, Cornflower, I.....
» 15/01/2011 8:47:26 PM *and will only give some despot leader an easier task of taking your life and liberty from.....
» 15/01/2011 6:06:49 PM *There is no need to withdraw from the convention. The pacific solution complied to the le.....
» 15/01/2011 5:49:34 PM Interesting Cornflower, that your evidence was compiled by a woman associated with the Int.....
» 15/01/2011 2:00:20 PM *The Howard inspired 'gun controls' have not produced any reduction in gun crime which was.....
» 15/01/2011 12:55:31 PM Louthmouth, you are free to quibble about the details of the China policy. The way I under.....
» 15/01/2011 9:07:44 AM *However, no person with criminal intent will be stopped or even seriously impeded by the .....
» 14/01/2011 9:37:22 PM Csteele, the question that you are ignoring, is one of intent. If you or anyone can show,.....
» 14/01/2011 8:42:13 PM Divergence, some very valid points! Loudmouth, I think you are bogging yourself down with.....
» 14/01/2011 4:55:22 PM *You conveniently skate past the simple, incontestable fact that Switzerland has more guns.....
» 14/01/2011 3:06:42 PM *Of course we should judge, it was a bloody funeral for God's sake! If they were so sure o.....
» 14/01/2011 2:30:29 PM Poirot, yes I have a Swiss background. *Measurable results and value for money is what I .....
» 14/01/2011 8:27:21 AM Ah Cornflower, I was just waiting for you to bring up the Swiss example. The American gun .....
» 13/01/2011 11:04:28 PM *Under your rules why is one action more reprehesible than the other?* To me its quite st.....
» 13/01/2011 10:14:46 PM *So Yabby, what's your explanation for Howard not changing our asylum seeker laws when he .....
» 13/01/2011 7:58:11 PM *We can't refuse them because somebody else might be more deserving. There really isn't an.....
» 13/01/2011 6:24:00 PM Gawd Rawmustard, sounds to me like you have been watching far too many hollywood movies! .....
» 13/01/2011 4:21:59 PM *So Yabby, let me see if I've got this right ..... The people of Africa, South America and.....
» 13/01/2011 10:49:22 AM But Csteele, it seems beyond you that their goals are quite different. One is to kill inno.....
» 13/01/2011 9:23:53 AM Oops Csteele, I did in fact post a link on this thread, sorry. Taliban killings of civilia.....
» 13/01/2011 12:12:44 AM *We do know there was a CIA drone strike on a funeral with hundreds of mourners at it and .....
» 12/01/2011 10:27:22 PM *I want you to tell me the difference between the drone strike on the funeral I posted det.....
» 12/01/2011 9:57:23 PM Come on RawMustard. You would have had to google to find that one. Whereas mass shootings.....
» 12/01/2011 9:30:24 PM *It comes as a surprise that you are actually a Green, Yabby. Say it isn't so !* Ah there.....
» 12/01/2011 4:34:17 PM *So it follows that the population of Africa should be around four times Europe's. Similar.....
» 12/01/2011 4:25:03 PM *Yabby, Japan was not built on service industries; it was built on producing products for .....
» 12/01/2011 3:16:09 PM *Yabby if you take manufacturing from an economy it wilts and so do the citizens* Sonofgl.....
» 11/01/2011 5:55:49 PM Ah Pericles, but now its you who is preaching gloom and doom, about Japan! Japan indeed .....
» 11/01/2011 2:57:07 PM *There is a boat for Bangladesh waiting for you.* Now there is a place for you, Cheryl. Y.....
» 10/01/2011 10:43:03 PM *Yes well there would be, since there are 300 million people in the US, compared with 21 m.....
» 10/01/2011 8:57:18 PM *45.000 of them, keeping the feral populations down, just for you, and you....and of cours.....
» 10/01/2011 8:39:13 PM *Drone attacks cause a rise in terror attacks* That is nothing more then your speculation.....
» 10/01/2011 6:36:13 PM I'm with Suze on this one. Last time I checked the stats, something like 100'00 people a y.....
» 9/01/2011 9:28:09 PM *and is rooted in their unwillingness and incapacity to adapt to the changed marketplace. .....
» 9/01/2011 10:27:14 AM Pelican, in principle both you and Gerry are correct. But public sentiment does not work t.....
» 8/01/2011 10:03:02 AM http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101105/ap_on_re_as/as_pakistan There you go Csteele, yet ano.....
» 7/01/2011 8:17:47 PM *Remember, I'm only a name on a screen.* Yup Cheryl, that is all that you are. But when t.....
» 7/01/2011 2:20:41 PM Well there you go again Cheryl. You throw anyone with a basic understanding of biology, in.....
» 6/01/2011 10:31:59 PM *It's all the Catholic Churches fault! The CC are an easy target.* Cheryl, your constant .....
» 6/01/2011 2:52:07 PM *Lets cut to the chase - what we have here with Yabby and a few of his mates is a diatribe.....
» 5/01/2011 10:25:41 PM There is a verse in the Koran, Csteele, which basically implies that the ends justify the .....
» 5/01/2011 8:26:26 PM *You make a few unsubstantiated and personal assumptions about my domestic position* Not .....
» 5/01/2011 6:51:01 PM *Our women have choices NOT to have children. Your point about religion being a major caus.....
» 5/01/2011 6:02:48 PM What a foolish suggestion! If he was, diplomats around the world would accept that our Go.....
» 5/01/2011 4:23:14 PM *Look at the growth curves beyond 2050 - they go down* Err Cheryl, the growth curves don'.....
» 4/01/2011 11:49:02 PM *Well yes, it's apples and oranges* Nope Loudmouth, its not apples and oranges. The law s.....
» 4/01/2011 10:08:24 PM *So would I be right in surmising that the pro-American Sauds give money to the Wahabs so .....
» 4/01/2011 9:00:35 PM *I'm fascinated by the fact that most of the funding for Muslim extremist organisations em.....
» 4/01/2011 6:09:10 PM *C'mon Yabby. She asked him to wear a condom and it was reasonable of her to assume that h.....
» 4/01/2011 5:49:00 PM The drones are by far the most effective and efficient means of taking out Al Quaeda and T.....
» 3/01/2011 11:25:07 PM Dear Csteele, I too am at my post limits, but here goes anyway. I have in my life, act.....
» 3/01/2011 10:37:08 PM *Excuse me could you please tell me if you are a serial unprotected sex freak before I dec.....
» 3/01/2011 10:04:04 PM *If I had been armed with the information now in the possession of those who may now come .....
» 3/01/2011 9:22:53 PM *If that partner then refused to take an STD test I would be very pissed off and if I had .....
» 3/01/2011 6:15:26 PM *Germany has a youth unemployment rate of 20% that they are admitting to* Err so what? Yo.....
» 3/01/2011 2:53:24 PM *he retired in 1980 and said we have no way of producing anything of substance to save our.....
» 3/01/2011 1:21:18 PM * we produced for the internal economy, and we were self sufficient. Now we are not and ha.....
» 3/01/2011 12:10:08 PM Banjo, the very nature of ever more complex manufacture means the days of making eveything.....
» 3/01/2011 11:51:09 AM *Our customer base for specialist products such as the thing you mentioned or the shocks f.....
» 2/01/2011 9:00:57 PM *Yabby, retail provides a large amount of female employment, as well as flexible work for .....
» 2/01/2011 8:36:39 PM *I have spoken to many ppl in business and many have told me how importing from China has .....
» 2/01/2011 8:15:50 PM China is not a command economy anymore. The Chinese Govt controls the bigger picture of po.....
» 2/01/2011 7:47:49 PM *You will find positive and negative book reviews about everyone. Not sure what your point.....
» 2/01/2011 7:12:08 PM I'm sure that quite a few retailers are complaining, but the way I read the tea leaves, it.....
» 1/01/2011 4:48:27 PM *It is therefore something of a disappointment to finally reach the end of this book and d.....
» 1/01/2011 1:05:41 PM *However, reading something does not make it right - that is what you are suggesting.* No.....
» 1/01/2011 8:53:55 AM Sonoflgloin, I did put a smiley in there, but never mind. Yup, I wish you and the rest of .....
» 31/12/2010 8:22:26 PM *I too read a wide range and have had access to many economic documents, forecasts and bri.....
» 31/12/2010 4:14:31 PM Pelican, there are zillions of books written. Many do it, just to make a living, somebody .....
» 31/12/2010 3:54:06 PM Hang on there Sonofgloin, you are getting ahead of yourself lol. You claim to already face.....
» 31/12/2010 1:16:27 PM Well I think that alot of truth is finally coming out on this thread. Belly, yes you have.....
» 31/12/2010 11:20:22 AM http://www.indexmundi.com/australia/youth-unemployment-rate.html Oops Sonofgloin, Austral.....
» 31/12/2010 8:30:00 AM Sigh UOG, you create your own confusions, your really do. Disposable income is what is le.....
» 30/12/2010 9:49:09 PM *In an artistic and clinical way of course.* Sheesh, I love the concept. The OLO Calender.....
» 30/12/2010 5:28:14 PM Sonofgloin, the figures in the AFR are quoted by Alan Mitchell, their economics editor. Hi.....
» 30/12/2010 3:04:22 PM *"Every woman needs to feel like a sex symbol at least once in her life"* Well .....
» 30/12/2010 2:56:27 PM *Pel we spent less than last year because the banks tightened credit, I don't know of any .....
» 30/12/2010 2:47:22 PM *Do you want ,truly, an end to weekends? Socializing, family time, sport need weekends. Do.....
» 30/12/2010 10:45:06 AM *Another book recmmendation: Bob Ellis 'The Capitalism Delusion'* Ah Pelican, now you wan.....
» 30/12/2010 9:59:26 AM *We are hard-wired to factor 'sexual attractiveness' into our assessment of each other...b.....
» 30/12/2010 9:38:26 AM *Yabby why are many meat distributors and companies so resistant then to a more extensive .....
» 30/12/2010 9:24:53 AM *Workers want to have weekends to be with the kids and Friends. For half a century ,more, .....
» 30/12/2010 8:56:30 AM Ok Pelican, so you can't read and understand the words :) It says nowhere in that article.....
» 29/12/2010 9:18:19 PM Personally, I think that our perception of what is beautiful, changes over the years. Yes.....
» 29/12/2010 8:57:58 PM http://sj.farmonline.com.au/news/nationalrural/grains-and-cropping/general/beef-taste-tend.....
» 29/12/2010 1:37:22 PM *overtime on holidays is fair, just as the boss charging a service fee on such days. you s.....
» 29/12/2010 1:17:18 PM *My claim was yabby that the quality of meat (ie. taste/tenderness) has deteriorated over .....
» 29/12/2010 9:51:13 AM I read the online version of your article Pelican, which states nothing like your claims. .....
» 28/12/2010 11:38:09 PM *or are you going to ignore your own comment about why US consumers should not have access.....
» 28/12/2010 6:50:37 PM *68% of our GDP comes from flipping burgers* Err, not just flipping burgers, Sonofgloin. .....
» 28/12/2010 2:50:49 PM *THAT LAW was in place under Bob Menzies is it is not new.* Belly, I don't care if that l.....
» 28/12/2010 2:18:09 PM *You don't know anything about my work history Yabby nor what information I have been priv.....
» 28/12/2010 11:56:55 AM *as "your" corporations have bought and continue to buy all the tradable assets .....
» 28/12/2010 12:24:52 AM *how would I cope and survive working on a $42,000 income or less, raising 3 or 4 children.....
» 27/12/2010 11:34:43 PM *So is imposing or undertaking sexual intercourse with a woman who is drunk and unable to .....
» 27/12/2010 10:20:19 PM *It might be Yabby, but none of us other than those in the room know what really happened......
» 27/12/2010 10:07:44 PM *Ah so the meat exporters only flog the crap stuff? Why did you in another thread some tim.....
» 27/12/2010 2:23:27 PM *According to the retail traders association this Xmas is definitely the worse for retail .....
» 27/12/2010 10:43:08 AM Hehe, Assange is calling Sweden the "Saudi Arabia of feminism". http://www.thea.....
» 26/12/2010 3:22:48 PM *Thanks Yabby, you did not state which claim previously - I am alas not a mind reader.* .....
» 24/12/2010 4:09:09 PM *Nobody is stopping any of you from lobbying for change or withdrawal from the Convention......
» 24/12/2010 2:53:48 PM *You are all missing the point.* Absolutaly not briar rose, but you might be. *Then we w.....
» 24/12/2010 12:19:08 PM *If you don't like how we do things in this country you can always leave.* That sounds a .....
» 24/12/2010 11:28:55 AM *Did you know that the royalty rates for iron ore are 2.5% of value* PaulL, I think you h.....
» 24/12/2010 9:32:58 AM *The Convention was never intended to apply to migrants who roll out a world map and strat.....
» 23/12/2010 9:41:54 PM Ah, if only life were so simple, as Mervononomics09. But I do understand that some of the .....
» 23/12/2010 8:50:50 PM *In January this year, well before WikiLeaks began dumping US diplomatic cables on the web.....
» 23/12/2010 2:45:13 PM *Now, if Simone Young were to put on a Western Bulldogs guernsey...* The media is purely .....
» 23/12/2010 9:47:23 AM *But mine is that the whole thing was stage-managed to the last detail, and our Julia was .....
» 22/12/2010 7:54:18 PM *That is a responsible democracy whose voters are "educated" in the vital import.....
» 22/12/2010 7:27:50 PM *but then, the charges in question only carry a maximum penalty of two years imprisonment*.....
» 22/12/2010 3:17:25 PM *But like all such institutions, it doesn't stand scrutiny; even a cursory examination is .....
» 22/12/2010 2:30:21 PM *But... our Julia, "folksy"?* I think so, Pericles. She's certainly not being p.....
» 22/12/2010 1:23:19 PM *Along comes a mechanism that allows transparency and even the promise of confirming these.....
» 22/12/2010 10:44:12 AM Hang on, we did in fact have our "30 second rapist", so our laws are clearly qui.....
» 22/12/2010 10:35:35 AM The author needs to see all this, from the perspective of a news journalist. Every day the.....
» 21/12/2010 8:42:21 PM *was a rush to judgment in an attempt to display solidarity with her U.S counterparts - as.....
» 21/12/2010 3:53:40 PM *And what is the major capitalist success story of the last ten years? China.* Not really.....
» 21/12/2010 3:38:00 PM Come on Shadow Minister, even you would have been unable to keep a straight face and not l.....
» 21/12/2010 3:26:01 PM http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/confidential-swedish-police-report-detail.....
» 21/12/2010 3:16:00 PM http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/politics/conspiracy-fears-at-fever-pitch-20101220-1930r.html.....
» 21/12/2010 9:02:36 AM http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/confidential-swedish-police-report-detail.....
» 20/12/2010 7:40:04 PM * For some reason, we in Australia seem to think that we should be excluded from the probl.....
» 20/12/2010 6:52:27 PM So tell me SM, why don't the liberals have the testicles to renegotiate the UN 1951 Conve.....
» 20/12/2010 3:11:12 PM *Ninety-four per cent of Greens and 73 per cent of Labor voters disapprove of her critical.....
» 20/12/2010 10:05:01 AM Fester, I agree with you. But right now, all that needs to happen is for people to sail fr.....
» 19/12/2010 8:40:48 PM Divergence, you are quite correct, in Japan, Korea etc, CEO salaries are much lower then i.....
» 19/12/2010 3:46:45 PM *OK. Let's here your solution to the problem * Foxy, there would be people in Govt who co.....
» 19/12/2010 3:32:48 PM Good old Julian! It sounds like he pissed off a few feminists, by sleeping with them and t.....
» 19/12/2010 2:25:10 PM *Wesfarmers have sold out and gone broke though havent they Yabby?* Not so, Unique. Clear.....
» 19/12/2010 2:11:49 PM *By treating all refugees equally.* Well there is your snag Fester. According to the UN 1.....
» 19/12/2010 12:17:07 PM It seems to me that a couple of things are happening. Firstly technology change, secondly .....
» 18/12/2010 10:14:45 PM All this is a direct result of feelgood politics, encouraged by our emotionally engulfed, .....
» 18/12/2010 5:13:55 PM *Human ingenuity is converted, literally, into commodified use and exchange values.* Err .....
» 18/12/2010 2:10:59 PM *No one bats an eyelid at the appalling disparities at large in the world, which have &quo.....
» 17/12/2010 9:50:45 PM *In my time in heavy industry I was aware of many decisions made because a CEO had a brain.....
» 17/12/2010 3:55:22 PM Philo, there are no demons. There are certainly those with genetic predispositions to cer.....
» 17/12/2010 2:18:38 PM *When has the chief executive of a bank, or a speculator in derivatives, ever invented any.....
» 17/12/2010 12:12:34 PM Sheesh UOG, there was silly old me thinking in terms of genes, dna etc. In a way you've .....
» 17/12/2010 12:06:19 PM *About the bugger in the third world with eight kids, you have absolutely no factual under.....
» 17/12/2010 9:14:10 AM *Local prices have meant paying more for less than prime cuts of meat within Australia whi.....
» 16/12/2010 5:08:38 PM *drunks are haunted..by those dead...needing their drink * There we go UOG. The fact that.....
» 16/12/2010 3:40:13 PM *the reason that so many human beings go to bed hungry every day or die because of malnutr.....
» 16/12/2010 3:25:49 PM Interestingly none of the god squad have been able to show that in biblical times, they ha.....
» 15/12/2010 5:19:29 PM *For these lenders the rate could easily be discounted by a few percent* SM, that in fact.....
» 15/12/2010 4:26:32 PM *Try stopping a female rabbit who wants to reproduce. She’ll find a way, even without Hugh.....
» 15/12/2010 2:06:51 PM Pelican, you have seemingly been working in Canberra for too long. I make one precise poi.....
» 15/12/2010 5:45:27 AM http://www.mentalhelp.net/poc/center_index.php?id=50 There you go, Boaz. I guess they did.....
» 15/12/2010 4:50:52 AM *My butcher is the farm gate for the most part so no diddling there just great tasting ten.....
» 14/12/2010 10:40:46 PM Sheesh I'm running behind here. I finally just got around to reading the last of the weeke.....
» 14/12/2010 9:39:07 PM *But do you know what, the Wright brothers, Edison et al didn't do it for the money.* No.....
» 14/12/2010 7:55:32 PM *This is just bloody-minded ideological clap-trap.* You are speaking for yourself here, S.....
» 14/12/2010 7:04:24 PM I've been watching some of the banking inquiry on TV and its highly amusing. The elephant.....
» 14/12/2010 1:57:00 PM *Local prices have meant paying more for less than prime cuts of meat within Australia whi.....
» 14/12/2010 1:22:33 PM *Our own country is full of people who could be content to be CEOs with incomes of less th.....
» 13/12/2010 10:37:10 PM Pericles, frankly I think you are fightng a lost cause here. I watched the news tonight. .....
» 13/12/2010 8:33:15 PM *Now Yabby is a good instance of the fallen modern cynic, who profits and withers simultan.....
» 13/12/2010 4:26:27 PM *Most thoughtful people will not be surprised at the revelations ... hardly world-shatteri.....
» 13/12/2010 3:37:39 PM *If it is true that Australian farmers only provide 10% of the country's food needs...* W.....
» 13/12/2010 11:12:13 AM *We need a fair balance not the current 90% foreign 10% Australian ratio* Well that is ce.....
» 13/12/2010 8:36:47 AM *We are just a bunch of hicks from hicksville, it would appear* Well Pericles, it all ble.....
» 12/12/2010 2:00:04 PM http://www.austal.com/index.cfm?objectid=CE9A579D-65BF-EBC1-2B2FA8460BFE2C23 There we hav.....
» 11/12/2010 6:52:41 PM Bazz, high oil prices can affect economies, but the GFC was a whole lot more then that. Oi.....
» 11/12/2010 12:58:55 PM *The problems I see is bureaucrats legislating to make being self sufficient harder, becau.....
» 11/12/2010 10:44:51 AM *No, but every time it moves, or gets processed, energy costs get added on.* True Bazz, b.....
» 10/12/2010 5:10:11 PM *A few, very few, in these days of its broke throw it a away and buy another, services rep.....
» 10/12/2010 2:34:04 PM Sheesh UOG. Has it ever occured to you, that if you spent the time that you seemingly spen.....
» 10/12/2010 2:13:23 PM *Net energy is the key to any growth.* To a certain point Bazz. But don't forget, service.....
» 9/12/2010 4:34:38 PM *This cost will rise and rise until nobody can afford it.* Afford it for what Bazz? Gold .....
» 9/12/2010 1:23:40 PM *We have become so immersed in our prosperity, and cocooned in our comfort zone, that we h.....
» 8/12/2010 11:08:16 PM Vanna, your analytical skills here are a little simplistic. The Italian birthrate is low .....
» 8/12/2010 10:19:40 PM Bazz, you are trying to accurately predict the future, when you don't know all the variabl.....
» 8/12/2010 9:32:35 PM Deary me, poor old George. For so many hundreds of years, religion was such an easy busin.....
» 8/12/2010 5:42:06 PM *As for another country finding it has minerals and taking our markets, not very much chan.....
» 8/12/2010 2:03:32 PM http://www.news.com.au/business/business-owner/sold-aussie-web-gurus-hit-web-jackpot/story.....
» 8/12/2010 1:40:18 PM One thing is for sure, we live in interesting times! Boaz, if you have enough money to i.....
» 7/12/2010 9:45:43 PM Australians remain exposed to the world's global credit markets, to the tune of roughly 60.....
» 7/12/2010 7:16:37 PM *what you probably mean is that from your point of view the "perception" of your.....
» 7/12/2010 5:01:30 PM *Taxpayers should be able to access far more information than they currently do including .....
» 7/12/2010 4:06:41 PM *If you act, speak, morally and ethically, then you have nothing to worry about. OTOH, if .....
» 7/12/2010 2:52:30 PM Silly me. I still have an old fashioned view on all this. I respect others rights to confi.....
» 7/12/2010 8:37:25 AM *If the RCC didn't care about argument, then why do they spend so much time engaged in it?.....
» 6/12/2010 9:05:27 PM *The Taliban want to encourage the belief that they are being attacked because they are Mu.....
» 6/12/2010 7:40:04 PM *You also obviously have not seen how much water their is in the Kimberley's in WA.* I ce.....
» 6/12/2010 7:29:03 PM Pelican, a very good post. Vanna wears his bias on his sleeve. *especially when the Catho.....
» 6/12/2010 4:38:45 PM *but the companies are employing their employees as little as 2 and 3 days a week, which i.....
» 6/12/2010 2:13:31 PM *our Eastern coast who wasted billions on desalination plants because the gurus said it wa.....
» 6/12/2010 2:07:43 PM No Vanna, I don't agree with the above. The church, as any church, can say whatever it lik.....
» 5/12/2010 7:37:01 PM *if Yabby's reading, don't worry mate, exemption for yokels* I did read that Squeers and .....
» 5/12/2010 7:23:31 PM *and had kept the top personal tax rate at 66.6% and had enough intelligence to raise the .....
» 5/12/2010 6:56:32 PM * So to attack the hierarchy is to attack people for making what they believe to be moral .....
» 5/12/2010 2:12:36 PM *not attacking an organisation you have a difference with.* Fester, that depends on the o.....
» 4/12/2010 9:14:25 PM Hang on Arjay, Lowy has been working on this passionately for years now. Australian footba.....
» 4/12/2010 4:09:02 PM *You can of course buy pumps for your garage and pump it into your cars gas tank.* Well t.....
» 4/12/2010 2:55:25 PM *We could find ourselves running out before the alternatives are proven if we keep exporti.....
» 4/12/2010 1:06:44 PM *Whatever happens we have to have a crash course of economising on oil gas and coal consum.....
» 3/12/2010 10:23:48 PM Vanna, your author has a point. Its not the Catholic Church that is the problem, but the l.....
» 3/12/2010 8:03:23 PM *and some of your statistics were made up by the abortion industry.* Of course they were .....
» 3/12/2010 5:23:00 PM Vanna, the popes method of crossing your legs for Jesus, has proven to be a dismal failure.....
» 3/12/2010 5:09:08 PM Paul Murray made some interesting comments about all this, in Wedneday's AFR. Our net fo.....
» 3/12/2010 2:44:17 PM OUG just don't want to come clean with himself here and admit that he's an addict who can'.....
» 3/12/2010 2:09:25 PM *it would seem to be exceeding stupidity to be freighting cheap, unrefined coal around the.....
» 3/12/2010 12:44:21 PM Whew, 46 million $ to obtain a single vote! Luckily we lost, or the cost would have run in.....
» 3/12/2010 12:38:51 PM *We can’t compel China or anyone else to stop burning coal, nor are poor and developing co.....
» 2/12/2010 8:40:18 PM * I don't think for one minute the measures I recommend are going to come off.* Fair enou.....
» 2/12/2010 6:31:39 PM *Its simply trendy to be critical of the Catholic church.* I should hope that its finally.....
» 2/12/2010 1:56:23 PM I'm one of those wise people who state that "I know that I don't know" when it c.....
» 2/12/2010 1:34:40 PM *People outbreed their resources and overexploit their environment, so living conditions t.....
» 1/12/2010 9:18:36 PM *As for research, wander through a shoping center or hardware store and try and find somet.....
» 1/12/2010 8:49:39 PM Luckily most of the first world, including most Catholics, takes little notice of what the.....
» 1/12/2010 9:59:23 AM Poirot, sorry but I don't do the Western guilt trip thinggy. I've spent enough time in Afr.....
» 1/12/2010 9:21:35 AM Pelican, your banana story happened to Australian farmers, but in terms of lamb and in rev.....
» 30/11/2010 10:10:34 PM Aha Pelican, so if I disagree with you, it must be a personal attack. I learn something ne.....
» 30/11/2010 9:15:59 PM *FT does not mean lower prices for consumers. The same happened when Australia started exp.....
» 30/11/2010 7:02:17 PM *The real issue here though is ethical. We cannot go on hiding behind national borders, as.....
» 30/11/2010 2:41:07 PM To address this topic, we really need to analyse why marriage evolved as a cultural insti.....
» 30/11/2010 2:09:05 PM *The necessary innovations should not be market-driven, but publicly-funded and conservati.....
» 29/11/2010 8:45:06 PM *gave us the GFC* Hang on Squeers, don't blame the economic system, when the political sy.....
» 29/11/2010 3:44:57 PM *you've made that plea before, but it just doesn't wash.* Squeers, of course it washes. W.....
» 29/11/2010 2:31:29 PM Squeers, what you are totally overlooking, is that innovative people need capital investme.....
» 29/11/2010 2:22:36 PM *Yabby why do you persist in this blanket perception of 'the workers' as all lazy layabout.....
» 29/11/2010 11:53:00 AM *none of your fatalism and rationalism is worthy a response. I think it's worth seeing wha.....
» 28/11/2010 1:41:40 PM *Yabby it is not what is in my mind or yours it is simply is this image suitable for the p.....
» 27/11/2010 9:40:48 PM *that this company set out to waste a large sum of its advertising money to offend their w.....
» 27/11/2010 5:18:00 PM *Humanity has indeed been in a passive, fatalistic, indeed evolutionary, position hitherto.....
» 27/11/2010 10:21:32 AM *The Poms were just lucky to find the place "Terra nullius" and we are the inher.....
» 27/11/2010 10:06:58 AM Arjay, Murdoch became famous, by being a publisher of tabloids. AFAIK, his only attempt at.....
» 27/11/2010 7:07:27 AM *What do you think Belly is the intent of Murdoch in letting "Building What?" ai.....
» 26/11/2010 11:05:00 PM *Gee really, so where's the action on climate change? which isn't exactly a recent phenome.....
» 26/11/2010 8:13:30 PM *And Yabby, while its o-so humble of you to be satisfied with your lot, neither your oppor.....
» 26/11/2010 3:18:02 PM * I agree that that we can live without growth, but such a dispensation would not BE capit.....
» 26/11/2010 11:08:01 AM *Pray tell what image you think Calvin Klein was trying to portray.* That depends on what.....
» 26/11/2010 10:30:07 AM *You guys are getting caught up in concepts of sexual fantasy rather than simply asking is.....
» 26/11/2010 9:47:39 AM The last food crisis was caused by prices, which had been too low. People took surplus sto.....
» 25/11/2010 10:24:40 PM Meantime of course Arjay, we have a little problem it seems. The Paris Hilton of politics.....
» 25/11/2010 9:43:19 PM *This ad was professionally produced and would have cost a lot to make.Name the TV station.....
» 25/11/2010 11:55:23 AM *That’s why they produce this sort of ad. Because it works!* Exactly Ludwig. I think that.....
» 24/11/2010 11:10:21 PM *Communists by definition want a classless society based on shared ownership of the means .....
» 24/11/2010 9:42:54 PM See the bright side Belly. We are at the arse end of the world, even if its a cute arse. .....
» 24/11/2010 5:05:56 PM Sonofgloin, indeed all the 4wds that I have purchased for ages, are made in Thailand. I dr.....
» 24/11/2010 2:06:06 PM Ah Sonofgloin, just blame those evil politicians for giving consumers a choice. How shock.....
» 24/11/2010 1:08:27 PM *It is about where to draw the line - and this one crosses it.* Sheesh, there was silly o.....
» 24/11/2010 11:13:34 AM *A ban on billboards and other stuff that can distract drivers would also be a damn good i.....
» 24/11/2010 8:53:17 AM Well clearly this billboard is working very well as advertising. Congratulations to the ag.....
» 23/11/2010 1:07:04 PM *Work choices needs to go even further and flexibility needs to be made available to the w.....
» 23/11/2010 12:20:41 PM Well I just found this top little headline amusing: *If you're still at work, it's after .....
» 23/11/2010 7:15:34 AM *The value of the unpaid overtime worked in Australia is over $70 billion a year* Ah, tho.....
» 23/11/2010 7:04:07 AM Ken, the most valuable thing that climatologists can do for farmers, is to understand enou.....
» 22/11/2010 5:43:27 PM *You are telling us more about your own upbringing or experience rather than the Christian.....
» 22/11/2010 1:26:17 PM *Children who do Religious Ed obtain a basis and foundaton for Ethics.* Hardly so, Boaz. .....
» 22/11/2010 11:54:58 AM Hasbeen, your one Sydney swallow, does not make a summer. Fact is the average Australian .....
» 22/11/2010 9:56:13 AM Sonofgloin, I think you will find that the largest asset held by households are in fact th.....
» 21/11/2010 7:14:56 PM Ah Sonofgloin, your lack of talent with numbers continues. I am not surprised lol. http:/.....
» 21/11/2010 1:53:55 PM What amuses me is how you guys continue to cling to your nostalgic view of how things used.....
» 21/11/2010 12:45:00 PM *I have supplied our Yabby the numbers that show one generation ago household savings in A.....
» 21/11/2010 12:06:58 PM *Indian population had stability till 1800 - colonisation, dispossession of land started t.....
» 21/11/2010 10:27:54 AM *The point is, none of the tradies mentioned above would have an ice cube's chance in hell.....
» 21/11/2010 10:15:07 AM *93,000 motor mechanics nation wide earn an average of $800.00/ week.* I did in fact chec.....
» 20/11/2010 6:26:51 PM *who prefer to hold to the old orthodoxy that weather and climate are beyond our understan.....
» 20/11/2010 10:53:58 AM *We have no manufacturing industry therefore we have no ongoing jobs in that segment* Tot.....
» 19/11/2010 10:00:13 PM *They create money from nothing in their computers to equal the inflation* Sheesh, I must.....
» 19/11/2010 9:54:15 PM *Does that mean they will soon be able to stop asking for more taxpayer handouts?* Ah, th.....
» 19/11/2010 6:20:00 PM *We sold the Australian Wheat Board yesterday.* We did indeed, Sonofgloin. Thank goodness.....
» 19/11/2010 6:00:29 PM *As a small businessman, my charge out is $140./hour. Unfortunately, I can't actually pay .....
» 19/11/2010 2:34:54 PM *Whereas in the fifties and sixties tradesmen were comfortably middle class, now they are .....
» 19/11/2010 10:49:51 AM *If Obama was competant, why hasn't he got the middle east sorted out?* Did it occur to y.....
» 19/11/2010 10:27:01 AM *What do you reckon that would amount to, Yabby?* Ah Pericles, not even Boaz would have e.....
» 19/11/2010 12:27:27 AM Lets put it another way Arjay. Saul actually understands the big end of town, how it func.....
» 18/11/2010 11:16:37 PM Rhian, I think you are setting your hopes far too high, to expect any kind of rational dis.....
» 18/11/2010 11:08:00 PM *Teleprompter skills, yes. People skills, no.* Ah Proxy, so you prefer the Palin method, .....
» 18/11/2010 6:47:54 PM *Americans I know are horrified at his kowtowing to the tyrants of the world.* Ah Amicus,.....
» 18/11/2010 11:50:00 AM *If they have 7c in the dollar (Yabby) 'profit' that would be a $140,000,000 profit on a t.....
» 16/11/2010 9:53:12 PM Free trade agreements are of course extremely important, especially to a small country lik.....
» 16/11/2010 3:01:16 PM *the peasants would be wise to retain their knowledge of the diversity and self-reliance i.....
» 16/11/2010 2:35:42 PM *If the energy companies have to pay it.. woopee...just deserts.* Ah but there is the rub.....
» 16/11/2010 9:38:12 AM *The concept that we need foregin multinationals to improve quality and bring in technolog.....
» 15/11/2010 8:58:05 PM Poirot, I don't think that the Chinese will continue polluting as they have been. They are.....
» 15/11/2010 7:42:16 PM http://www.dfat.gov.au/geo/fs/aust.pdf Well despite all these claims of China being the s.....
» 15/11/2010 2:33:06 PM Vanna, I haven't followed the CSR story too closely, but I gather that they want to invest.....
» 15/11/2010 2:19:44 PM SM, I stand corrected and used the wrong words in "clapped out" The issue with .....
» 15/11/2010 5:49:47 AM Methinks that you are approaching this one all arsed about,Boaz. http://new.dpi.vic.gov.a.....
» 14/11/2010 10:40:30 PM *The offer has been accepted, just the paper work to be completed.* Well Vanna, they have.....
» 14/11/2010 6:47:54 PM *The COST of our elec is projected to go UP UP and AWAY over the next few years... why?* .....
» 14/11/2010 3:33:07 PM Bazz, look at it this way: The 6 million $ man can right now as we speak, write out a che.....
» 14/11/2010 3:04:01 PM *Part of my plan into which I did not expand would be a market for spare fuel ration.* Ah.....
» 14/11/2010 10:53:03 AM *The other way around; 93c in the dollar retained for themselves and shareholders* Unique.....
» 13/11/2010 7:22:17 PM Bazz, it would be far too complex and open to corruption for Govts to ever sort that out, .....
» 13/11/2010 5:47:35 PM *Cross off of CSR sugar. Now owned by an Asian company.* Not yet Vanna, but they have mad.....
» 13/11/2010 3:12:30 PM *ANNUAL INCOME $12,000,000 (or LOSS if bloc goes to another provider)* Ah, if only life w.....
» 13/11/2010 1:17:22 PM http://www.smh.com.au/environment/energy-smart/nsw-to-slash-costly-solar-feedin-tariff-201.....
» 13/11/2010 1:08:05 PM For those interested, this weekend's Weekend Financial Review has a 3 page article about w.....
» 13/11/2010 10:57:53 AM *I wonder how many of the mining companies operating in WA that you enthuse about are actu.....
» 13/11/2010 8:10:30 AM *Other exports cost us jobs... for example, live cattle export cost us around 250,000 jobs.....
» 12/11/2010 4:58:01 PM *The government should be at present designing a rationing scheme, writing the programs to.....
» 12/11/2010 4:50:29 PM *It is sobering to remember that I once supplied raw materials to 6 companies in Sydney al.....
» 11/11/2010 1:59:05 PM *But once this God-given wealth is all fetched up we're going to have to compete in the re.....
» 10/11/2010 10:52:17 PM *I promise you, it ain’t boring.* Well clearly it is flawed, because you forgot to mentio.....
» 10/11/2010 5:57:49 PM http://www.ausstats.abs.gov.au/ausstats/free.nsf/0/72525342F0994FA6CA25750C0013CB6D/$File/.....
» 10/11/2010 4:15:00 PM Sonofgloin, given your innacuracy to read figures, I'd be happy to read the URl that you .....
» 10/11/2010 2:51:57 PM To be fair to Squeers, he is not alone. The halls of academia are loaded with indivuals wh.....
» 10/11/2010 12:07:49 PM Vanna has a bee in his bonnet about this. http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/-/newshome/8.....
» 10/11/2010 8:41:45 AM *and we have 2% of it in savings that is one tenth of the savings percentage of GDP of thi.....
» 9/11/2010 8:33:09 PM Fair enough Songofgloin, I'll hold your hand and make it even easier for you. http://www......
» 9/11/2010 6:49:34 PM *But the socialist future WILL be "green" for that matter* So you claim, but it.....
» 9/11/2010 6:31:47 PM Sonofgloin, it seems like your own research is confusing you. For you are confusing terms .....
» 9/11/2010 5:20:33 PM *Where's that surplus yabby? * Amicus, you are confusing annual budgets, with federal deb.....
» 9/11/2010 2:32:58 PM *When did the GFC happen .. under Obama's watch* Err not so Amicus. Lehman crashed in Sep.....
» 9/11/2010 1:11:24 PM It seems to be a foible of human nature, for people to commonly blame eveyone but themselv.....
» 8/11/2010 9:46:56 PM *The reality is that it is only if we have genuine free will that we can actually know any.....
» 8/11/2010 9:04:57 PM Belly, I certainly believe you. I had alot to do with Qantas cargo, over many years. The .....
» 8/11/2010 2:20:16 PM *yet you deny that we have free will.* JP, the evidence suggests that your will is not as.....
» 8/11/2010 10:57:21 AM *In 2008, the proportion of pre-tax profits as a percentage of total assets was 1 per cent.....
» 8/11/2010 10:41:03 AM JP, you are free to believe in ghosts if you wish. That is your choice. Given that you ar.....
» 8/11/2010 10:14:53 AM Belly I believe you. Something I am trying to get throught to Pelican on another thread, i.....
» 8/11/2010 9:55:53 AM *Ya, and you know what, Yabby? It is far easier to be ignorant, and even a fool in this wo.....
» 7/11/2010 6:28:10 PM *But Yabby you are the one advocating the feathering of nests by the fat and wealthy overr.....
» 7/11/2010 1:30:04 PM *All you see is 'blaming profits' and are unwilling to look at the big picture. It is not .....
» 7/11/2010 1:10:42 PM Belly, things might be different in your particular case, I can't judge that. Contracting .....
» 7/11/2010 12:55:37 PM Dear Squeers, We simply look at things from totally different perspectives. You focus on .....
» 7/11/2010 10:23:19 AM *This is particularly pertinent when there is lack of compeitition, price fixing and other.....
» 7/11/2010 8:57:34 AM Dear Squeers, Fair enough, as I thought, you are simply guessing. I think you will find .....
» 6/11/2010 11:14:32 PM *Most mental illness is not organic at all; it's a social disease* Squeers, I would say t.....
» 6/11/2010 7:19:34 PM *The same percentage of us own homes, but we have nothing in the bank.* Speak for yoursel.....
» 6/11/2010 5:13:31 PM Sonofgloin, we owe a great deal more then 90 billion lol. Of the 2.2 trillion $ that our b.....
» 6/11/2010 2:41:30 PM http://www.smh.com.au/business/use-your-brain-before-joining-the-lynch-mob-20101105-17hfm......
» 6/11/2010 2:32:00 PM *I have yet to see similar criticism from yourself re your faith in market forces and the .....
» 6/11/2010 12:51:02 PM Pelican, labor shifted to the right with Hawke and Keating, who realised that the old stau.....
» 6/11/2010 12:16:55 PM *Well Yabby I again find you defending those "with" and denigrating those ".....
» 5/11/2010 10:55:32 PM *500 million out of poverty there, 500 million into poverty in western developed nations* .....
» 5/11/2010 9:34:32 PM *Yabby when I purchased my current home 18 months ago I fixed my mortgage for 3 years* Gy.....
» 5/11/2010 9:21:44 PM Rawmustard, I am sorry to hear about your personal misfortune. I also acknowledge that bus.....
» 5/11/2010 7:31:52 PM *which would consist of the entire profit if nationalized, as opposed to a portion of it.*.....
» 5/11/2010 2:58:27 PM Merv09, I've read your points before, about returning to the good old 50s to 70s, which yo.....
» 5/11/2010 12:49:42 PM *I actually prefer the current inertia - this way the sociopaths can do less harm.* I agr.....
» 4/11/2010 9:04:42 PM *No Fees -Profit goes back to benefitting THE COMMUNITY rather than greedy CEO's who swim .....
» 4/11/2010 3:12:35 PM *Photo of WP ceo's new digs included* Ah Boaz, given your history as an intellectual ligh.....
» 4/11/2010 2:11:14 PM Come on Shadow Minister. You are no fool. You know very well that this whole drama is bein.....
» 4/11/2010 12:21:40 PM Some years ago I read a book about brain function, written by Susan Greenfield, that well .....
» 4/11/2010 11:01:29 AM *Hmm, I wish I could have a business that takes a hit and still returns 6.4 billion in pro.....
» 4/11/2010 9:00:14 AM *Nationalising the banks under workers' control would be a good first step in doing that.*.....
» 4/11/2010 8:19:45 AM Ah, Boazy watches channel 7 and sucks in every word, like most gullible consumers. http:/.....
» 3/11/2010 9:46:05 PM *How are your bank shares going Yabby?* My bank shares are doing ok Arjay. It is precisle.....
» 3/11/2010 5:41:21 PM Anyone is free to correct me, but I gather that the heads of our top universities, earn ar.....
» 3/11/2010 4:58:00 PM *but I would like to suggest that we start a government debit card, to be issued to all we.....
» 3/11/2010 2:15:24 PM SM, you are judging this one very wrongly. Hockey has screwed up big time in a rush to at.....
» 3/11/2010 11:23:41 AM *Regarding the US elections - people can only make decisions with the information given to.....
» 2/11/2010 10:57:05 PM Ah wonderful, so they all trip over to Christmas Island, all expenses paid, plus a great w.....
» 2/11/2010 8:41:53 PM *However, if you've taken the trouble to check out my links to tar sands mining in Alberta.....
» 2/11/2010 5:30:43 PM *Speak for yourself and not for others.* Groky, you can be assured, I am not alone on thi.....
» 2/11/2010 5:10:28 PM *The attitude that Australian products are "more expensive and often shoddy" is .....
» 2/11/2010 3:14:09 PM *the Madoff scandal wasn't part of the GFC* Bjelly, in fact it was, as the disease was th.....
» 2/11/2010 1:19:19 PM *so Centerlink could start to encourage (or enforce) welfare recipients to buy Australian .....
» 1/11/2010 11:02:55 PM Bjelly, alot of very wealthy people certainly became destitute due to the Madoff saga. The.....
» 1/11/2010 4:35:18 PM Vanna, some people are simply unemployable. In WA they are struggling to find restaurant s.....
» 1/11/2010 2:25:53 PM *Surely there is something wrong with the world when those individuals and corporations wh.....
» 1/11/2010 12:19:52 PM *Why brass, made from our zinc & copper, should be cheaper in Asia than Australia escapes .....
» 1/11/2010 10:02:45 AM Pericles, I was thinking of something like Sausage software. The way I remember it, these.....
» 31/10/2010 4:57:50 PM Well Groky, its quite simple really. We have no intentions of being your experimental gui.....
» 31/10/2010 4:50:48 PM *Without coal exports the country would be bankrupt* Vanna, you seemingly have no idea as.....
» 31/10/2010 11:38:18 AM Hasbeen, they will just have to trawl through the backbenchers and check for talent. As i.....
» 31/10/2010 11:30:09 AM Vanna, anyone in Australia who thinks they have the talent, can develop software and marke.....
» 30/10/2010 10:42:31 PM *Sin is the problem and Christ and his forgiveness and renewal is the answer. "Believ.....
» 30/10/2010 10:13:40 PM Arjay, yet again. Money is a means of exchange. Banks do not create it from nothing, unl.....
» 30/10/2010 9:19:41 PM The problem is, the ramifications of all this, are still being played out now, with the co.....
» 30/10/2010 5:28:30 PM *With some effort, the education department could have formed teams of Australian companie.....
» 30/10/2010 2:34:32 PM Ah runner, I have news for you. Without a mother earth, you'll have nothing, no runner no .....
» 29/10/2010 10:17:53 PM *Those who produce this new money own this new production* Arjay, Pericles and I have bee.....
» 29/10/2010 7:57:45 PM *The drones of the capitalist system are out in force on this thread* Not drones Squeers,.....
» 29/10/2010 12:50:47 PM *So I don't know how you can say "I never mention population". I'm acutely aware.....
» 29/10/2010 11:29:19 AM Ah, the human foible of envy returns once again. Personally I am quite pleased that the ri.....
» 29/10/2010 11:14:21 AM The author is a litte confused here. http://www.acumenfund.org/ The acumen fund does exa.....
» 29/10/2010 9:18:01 AM *People like me are heroes* That's the worry Groky, people like you who believe their own.....
» 29/10/2010 9:11:06 AM Vanna, whatever floats your boat. If boats are your thing, so go for it. Its entirely your.....
» 28/10/2010 11:37:58 PM *Maybe I can breed enough socialists to take over.. ?* Sheesh Squeers, I have heard the f.....
» 28/10/2010 10:17:58 PM Belly, it seems to me that you are seeing this all from your own personal perspective, whi.....
» 28/10/2010 7:47:03 PM http://cba.republicast.com/ar2010/#p=92&c=0&v=1 There you go Sonofgloin, I'll even hold y.....
» 28/10/2010 7:34:26 PM *what a joke that you believe the banks run on 1% net,* Sonofgloin, I really can't help i.....
» 28/10/2010 3:49:21 PM *But he has to work to earn the money.* Err Vanna, if you ask her to provide a service, e.....
» 28/10/2010 3:38:16 PM Pericles, I guess my main point was, that banks can't be expected to act as venture capita.....
» 28/10/2010 1:59:41 PM One of the major papers did an online survey on this. When I voted, something like 8000 p.....
» 28/10/2010 12:33:59 PM *I think you will find that there are a very large number of start up companies in the US .....
» 28/10/2010 10:58:44 AM *And find a way to help Banks lend to start-ups, where mortgaging the family home isn't a .....
» 28/10/2010 10:36:08 AM *and most prostitutes are also con artists* Vanna, you make these massive, generalised st.....
» 28/10/2010 10:14:04 AM *I think of you as a rather prickly at times mate.* Fair enough Belly, see whatever you w.....
» 27/10/2010 7:57:20 PM *I would think that prostitution is more likely to lead to drugs* More likely Vanna, that.....
» 27/10/2010 5:33:06 PM *One group of unions would sell their mums for cash, and do miss use the system.* Well th.....
» 27/10/2010 5:02:51 PM FWIW RawMustard, I see very few rip offs in the grocery trade and usually when it happens,.....
» 27/10/2010 3:07:35 PM *NSW has by far the best OHXS system* The way I understand it Belly, the NSW system diffe.....
» 27/10/2010 2:36:10 PM *where everything we bought was much cheaper than the so-called Australian "discount&.....
» 27/10/2010 2:23:06 PM *because they are taking money from men* So vanna, do you think that women owe you a free.....
» 27/10/2010 2:14:01 PM *number one being the sustainability issue* Dear Squeers, If sustainability is your no o.....
» 27/10/2010 12:30:03 PM *You are clearly a victim of incessant capitalist propaganda* Perhaps some of us just see.....
» 27/10/2010 12:10:33 PM *A better idea would of course be to impose a wealth cap of say a million dollars a head (.....
» 27/10/2010 10:00:48 AM Sonofgloin, I don't need to refute anything. I am simply pointing out, that many of the he.....
» 26/10/2010 8:54:23 PM *and always hoped for a large family with her hubby. They were blessed! lol.* Well in tha.....
» 26/10/2010 5:06:41 PM *Yabby stick your super and banks where the sun doesn't shine for anyone excepting you per.....
» 26/10/2010 4:22:42 PM *Not joking Yabby, I've seen them change the bag machine at the bakery from one wrapper to.....
» 26/10/2010 2:16:52 PM *but I draw the line at being sold a water logged, chemical cocktail as food for 3 times t.....
» 26/10/2010 12:52:18 PM *One girlfriend with six kids early twenties down to 8 years old] and she for one will be .....
» 25/10/2010 7:57:51 PM *W and C are great ones now for forcing you to buy more with 2 for $5 or 1 for $3,59.* Pa.....
» 25/10/2010 7:28:52 PM *Development depends on a population's producing more than it needs for bare subsistence (.....
» 25/10/2010 2:35:43 PM Yes, Aldi suits some, but not all. They are owned by two of the world's richest men, a cou.....
» 25/10/2010 2:26:20 PM *Exactly, and the more prostitution there is, the more likely a woman only thinks of a man.....
» 25/10/2010 1:09:22 PM *They use men for money. Men have a sex drive, and prostitutes exploit that sex drive to g.....
» 25/10/2010 11:34:20 AM I'm not sure from where this conservative streak enters the WA liberals. Perhaps from ner.....
» 25/10/2010 9:44:11 AM I think that Woolies and Coles, overall provide pretty good value for money actually. They.....
» 24/10/2010 6:22:28 PM *and now the magnificent class struggle going on in France, with its potential to not only.....
» 23/10/2010 10:45:00 PM Sonofgloin, if you check the timing of my post, it was around 60seconds after yours. In ot.....
» 23/10/2010 8:37:33 PM *What the hell is an "economic migrant" anyway? Do you really think it is such a.....
» 23/10/2010 8:24:37 PM *Joe Hockey called for Wayne Swan to take action on the gouging by the big banks which cou.....
» 22/10/2010 10:53:11 PM *Costello was unelectable as PM and Howard knew this. And the irony of this was that Howar.....
» 22/10/2010 5:08:53 PM Samsung, you clearly did not watch too many parliamentary debates, where Costello used to .....
» 22/10/2010 3:09:39 PM Perhaps the biggest mistake that the liberals made, was not realising that they needed Co.....
» 22/10/2010 10:02:40 AM *I think I offended Yabby with my quip about 'is he/she a disciplinarian!* Not really Gil.....
» 21/10/2010 9:51:19 PM *My suggestion was that it will result in the creation of another pariah state, locked awa.....
» 21/10/2010 4:48:01 PM *it suggests at best he is prepared to profit (if that is the right term) from his spokesm.....
» 21/10/2010 2:03:24 PM *Have you checked the studies referred to or just read the book?* MJPB, I read the book, .....
» 21/10/2010 12:04:26 PM Deary me, here we go again. The UN 1951 convention is 60 years out of date. Today it's b.....
» 20/10/2010 9:35:00 PM *And it may even be a fact that monogamy is uncommon in the animal kingdom because they ar.....
» 20/10/2010 7:43:55 PM *I want some of that crack you're smoking.* Ah that explains alot, Groky :) My advice to .....
» 20/10/2010 12:11:30 PM * In commercial terms, miracles are marketing tools that help consolidate and increase the.....
» 20/10/2010 10:43:14 AM *Not all 'Religious Zealots' or 'Catholic Church' participants are 'anti-abortion' and/or .....
» 19/10/2010 8:59:10 PM *People, STOP trying to pretend that a fetus is not human.* Rudy, you continue to create .....
» 19/10/2010 6:46:56 PM Ah Rudy, this is what happens when schoolkids like yourself jump to conclusions, before in.....
» 19/10/2010 6:08:33 PM *What you're clearly 'implying' Yabbs is that mothers determine the gay sexual orientation.....
» 19/10/2010 4:45:02 PM Rudy, show me where I claimed that the mother was to blame. Do you actually read what oth.....
» 19/10/2010 3:21:00 PM Gilbert, it explains why cooperation and altruism evolved as worthwhile characteristics, f.....
» 19/10/2010 2:59:47 PM *And, no, it is not just a clump of cells or part of the women's body it is an entirely se.....
» 19/10/2010 12:43:59 PM *Physiological stress in the mothers womb can also exert effects on development.* Bugsy, .....
» 19/10/2010 10:44:17 AM Gilbert, it seems to me that much of you are trying to explain, is already covered in evol.....
» 19/10/2010 10:22:07 AM Andrew actually makes a very valid point. In my last business, I took a very different ap.....
» 18/10/2010 11:27:19 PM *They "believe" a fetus, or "zygote" if ya wanna be adamant about the .....
» 18/10/2010 9:38:55 PM I guess the conclusion to all of this is that interesting as it was at its time, today Mar.....
» 18/10/2010 6:46:02 PM Ah Rudy, but you are chopping and changing your wording, then still claiming to be correc.....
» 18/10/2010 5:20:11 PM *My points remains 100% intact: 1)The life of an "individual" person begins at c.....
» 17/10/2010 11:07:38 PM *Don't sell yourself short Yabby. You can claim your love just like you can claim your pow.....
» 17/10/2010 9:59:20 PM *life begins at conception* Life continues at conception. The eggs and sperms that you no.....
» 17/10/2010 6:12:09 PM All, Pericles is in fact one of the smartest posters on OLO and most have a high regard fo.....
» 17/10/2010 3:56:24 PM Squeers, I searched for Marcuse's concept of Essence on Wicki, nobody has bothered to even.....
» 17/10/2010 10:41:59 AM *which would explain why you believe self-interest is the driving force behind human natur.....
» 16/10/2010 11:25:51 PM *It helps to ease the conscience of those involved in the abortion by "believing".....
» 16/10/2010 10:19:12 PM *You can't imagine any other world* I certainly can, Squeers. The very thought of somebod.....
» 16/10/2010 5:52:53 PM The way I see it Steven, is this: A being is not a person. You have a person, when you ha.....
» 16/10/2010 5:48:01 PM *And since neither of us has lived under "really-existing socialism",* Perhaps .....
» 16/10/2010 8:50:32 AM Read what the Bible says about God's love for children: According to God's law, children.....
» 15/10/2010 11:36:46 AM *For revolutionaries it is better to die, better to risk violence, than to live demeaned.*.....
» 14/10/2010 8:38:32 PM Beelze, there are indeed good reasons to flog off QR rail. All this was discussed in the m.....
» 14/10/2010 4:07:48 PM http://www.charlierose.com/view/interview/11226?sponsor_id=1 There you go PH, the transcr.....
» 14/10/2010 10:01:10 AM This is actually a fascinating topic, but the author has hardly scratched the surface of t.....
» 13/10/2010 10:03:36 PM *'Runner, exactly what do you want? '* Oh we know what runner wants, he has posted enough.....
» 13/10/2010 8:25:14 AM *Maybe own, but not control* Not so Beelz, for of course every worker can choose which su.....
» 12/10/2010 11:06:19 PM *Excuse me. Their agenda is to save lives just as the anti-slavery movement (also founded .....
» 12/10/2010 10:55:47 PM *the chickens have come home to roost.* The chickens are doing fine Arjay, clucking away,.....
» 12/10/2010 10:42:29 PM *they have reached a degree of conformity which has wiped out individuality to a remarkabl.....
» 12/10/2010 5:09:24 PM *Grok, who has poured their years into looking at the angles, the hows and whens, and flit.....
» 12/10/2010 4:56:01 PM *I think pro-choicers worry that pro-life Christians are trying to tell women what they ca.....
» 12/10/2010 4:39:11 PM *A nice thought, but just a drop in an ocean of problems, Yabby.* Well its around 20 bill.....
» 12/10/2010 2:28:57 PM *Standard of living means material things, there is no standard of living for the workers,.....
» 12/10/2010 11:01:36 AM Sheesh, so the free press did not just fall for the activities of a paid for lobby group, .....
» 11/10/2010 2:34:31 PM FWIW, all credit to Antiseptic, for his honesty. I wish that those posters who have compla.....
» 10/10/2010 4:37:37 PM *Every thing you say can be fixed with one act of parliament.* Ah, if only life were so s.....
» 10/10/2010 1:11:19 PM PH, interesting figures about the Ikea investment. It seems like we have similar rorts hap.....
» 10/10/2010 12:52:25 PM 579, don't ever try investment for a living, you would soon go broke. For a a start, you .....
» 9/10/2010 8:12:11 PM *These are the companies that need large excise imposed on them so more don't follow your .....
» 9/10/2010 6:08:41 PM Sheesh Poirot, your last link has a banner over the top of it, making the website's agenda.....
» 9/10/2010 10:49:32 AM Gilbert, it seems to me that you and Grok tend to take what Marx claimed about human beha.....
» 9/10/2010 9:29:16 AM *You want the employer to reap the rewards of their innovation or risk but don't want the .....
» 8/10/2010 8:24:52 PM *but we can take something good from either end of the spectrum to create a stable, organi.....
» 8/10/2010 5:35:05 PM Dear Poirot, When people buy 6ha plots for 3000$ to irrigate, its hardly bigtime farmers .....
» 8/10/2010 12:44:50 PM Alan Kohler, on his "Business Specatator website, makes some interesting comments th.....
» 8/10/2010 10:29:32 AM *you just want to see the world through your eyes and cannot see that some people want mor.....
» 8/10/2010 9:46:16 AM Dear Poirot, No, for I know that some Chinese companies are not state owned and do make a.....
» 7/10/2010 9:26:09 PM *Are people really that ambitions Houlley? I don't think so* I think that Houllie is righ.....
» 7/10/2010 5:12:11 PM *But it's not funny how corporations value human beings (their value is based upon how muc.....
» 7/10/2010 1:12:12 PM *No difference between owning your home and owning BHP* Ah Mikk, but BHP is not owned by .....
» 7/10/2010 9:42:39 AM *I'm interested in the effects that large scale industry for profit has on indigenous popu.....
» 6/10/2010 9:58:17 PM *due to the fact that private individuals are allowed to make self-interested decisions co.....
» 6/10/2010 11:30:11 AM *In short, unless we steer the ship, we will not be pushed where we want to go.* In short.....
» 6/10/2010 11:13:57 AM *genuine democratic socialism where workers themselves decide what is to be produced to sa.....
» 5/10/2010 9:28:14 PM *I highly doubt you learned anything other than the 'wogs' certainly weren't 'up to snuff'.....
» 5/10/2010 10:15:00 AM Dear Poirot, I traded with India in the 70s. At the end of it all I walked away, shaking .....
» 5/10/2010 7:50:27 AM *As to Yabby's claim that innovation somehow belongs to Capitalism, this is simply nonsens.....
» 4/10/2010 10:44:20 PM I read the article Poirot. Your writer makes some valid points, then totally screws up on .....
» 3/10/2010 1:23:03 PM *FYI: a clearcut forest never actually just "regrows".* It does when it was rep.....
» 3/10/2010 11:49:45 AM *Ever seen a clearcut forest..?* I certainly have and I've seen it regrow. I've also seen.....
» 3/10/2010 7:57:00 AM *What's sad is seeing the likes of Yabby wilfully taken in by this propaganda [deleted ref.....
» 2/10/2010 9:33:07 PM I sometimes watch "Venture" on Bloomberg tv, with Cris Valerio. Commonly its ab.....
» 30/09/2010 10:12:48 PM *However as fuel depletes rationing will divert fuel to food production, fertiliser, defen.....
» 30/09/2010 1:22:59 PM *For this kid, the world sends daily reminders that he (or she) is a disgusting, sinful cr.....
» 30/09/2010 11:03:46 AM Bazz, a standard 40 ft container holds 67 cubic metres, IIRC. Tonnage wise they can hold a.....
» 29/09/2010 8:55:17 PM Some years ago I read an amusing book called "Sex Lives of the Popes". Clearly .....
» 28/09/2010 11:16:19 PM Ugg boots Vanna, Ugg boots :) ......
» 28/09/2010 8:42:08 PM Ah Vanna, I think its just all that US tv that is rubbing off. We also have plenty of Auss.....
» 28/09/2010 4:55:55 PM *Why don’t they build an Australian bike and ride around on it?* Why would they want to d.....
» 28/09/2010 2:40:40 PM *As for Kloppers his speech confirms my opinion - the man is a well-paid nut.* You undere.....
» 27/09/2010 5:31:16 PM I quite agree there, popnperish. Good old family planning could work wonders in the third .....
» 27/09/2010 6:38:53 AM http://www.commerce.wa.gov.au/LabourRelations/PDF/Publications/IndustryOverviewManufacturi.....
» 26/09/2010 9:20:53 PM *Your scenario falls apart because it assumes that Al Queda will, magically, completely co.....
» 26/09/2010 12:55:39 PM *The continuous insistance that tarrifs would make everything more expensive and of lesser.....
» 26/09/2010 10:50:41 AM *and feeding silly hypothesis that depend on assuming simple things like ethanol not reall.....
» 25/09/2010 9:51:09 PM *There is no 'global Jihad' Yabby, this is the problem.* Yes there is Hazza, in the minds.....
» 25/09/2010 8:37:31 PM The point I am trying to get through to you Hazza, is that violent Islamism is not just go.....
» 25/09/2010 3:01:36 PM *Because they thought it would be inferior or inefficient, and an imported product would a.....
» 24/09/2010 9:29:30 PM Belly, this is the way I see it: Obama is indeed seeking an exit strategy, but has decide.....
» 24/09/2010 1:29:43 PM *and nobody has yet tried to harm Switzerland.* Not so Hazza. Already in 1970, the PLO bl.....
» 23/09/2010 9:56:00 PM *Now that's a cheap shot yabby* Not really Rehctub. I am simply judging by your past post.....
» 23/09/2010 9:11:04 PM *Link?* Hazza, that was around 8 or so years ago. No, I never saved a link lol, but it wa.....
» 23/09/2010 9:01:28 PM *You're dead on Yabby, but don't forget bureaucracy,* I fully agree, RawMustard. Some of .....
» 23/09/2010 9:06:01 AM *THIS is the point you are missing. The Al Queda/Taliban coalition are only one single Isl.....
» 22/09/2010 8:51:56 PM *manufacturing begets other jobs, the flow on effect.* Manufacturing also costs other job.....
» 22/09/2010 8:11:46 PM *Stop cheap imports!* Ah Rehctub, that is easy to say, for you who are rich! What about .....
» 22/09/2010 3:09:36 PM Now noboby, but nobody who is informed and with any credibility, is arguing what you are a.....
» 22/09/2010 12:44:02 PM *We only buy Middle Eastern stuff because it (Was) sold cheap and means preserving our own.....
» 22/09/2010 5:39:52 AM I think the people have already voted on this one. When the last liberal Govt tried to fre.....
» 21/09/2010 10:57:49 PM *but that option is not available to everyone particularly to larger populations in the ci.....
» 21/09/2010 10:51:55 PM You are quite correct Rojo, the real price of wheat has dropped dramatically in the last 5.....
» 21/09/2010 9:15:01 PM *It IS a null point because every single country has an alternate fuel and infrastructure .....
» 21/09/2010 8:54:43 PM *But as you so often like saying Yabby that is the system we are dealing with and because .....
» 21/09/2010 9:38:16 AM *In order for world wheat prices to drive up the price of bread, they would have to stay h.....
» 20/09/2010 9:08:17 PM *Yabby, your point about ratio of fuel dependencies IS irrelevant because in a fuel crisis.....
» 20/09/2010 5:41:18 AM http://www.news.com.au/national/muslim-women-protest-against-push-to-ban-burka-in-australi.....
» 19/09/2010 10:59:47 PM *Yabby, seeing all fuel technologies are new, I don't exactly see how the percentage of us.....
» 19/09/2010 9:55:36 PM *Neither you Pericles,stevenlmeyer,stg have the courage or the intellect to take me on.* .....
» 19/09/2010 5:37:09 PM *there's coconut oil vehicles* ROFL Hazza :) We Aussies burn a million barrels a DAY. How.....
» 19/09/2010 2:39:32 PM *we now have vehicles powered by ethanol, fruit/nut oils, hydrogen and direct electricity .....
» 19/09/2010 5:12:23 AM Hazza, you are not even trying to understand the very basics. Here, I will make it a bit .....
» 18/09/2010 9:25:21 PM In 1978, Jim Jones, of the Peoples Temple, convinced around 900 of his followers to commit.....
» 18/09/2010 3:42:48 AM Sheesh Hazza, so according to you we don't need ME oil, because of course everyone has ple.....
» 17/09/2010 8:42:41 PM *WE would simply stop buying their oil unless they kept it cheap, and increasing our conve.....
» 16/09/2010 10:06:31 PM Now you seem to think that if the US behaved like Sweden or Switzerland, all would be fine.....
» 16/09/2010 9:31:22 PM No Hazza, what I am saying is that you refuse to understand and inform yourself about the .....
» 16/09/2010 2:46:17 PM *Please, did you get that one from FOX?* No Hazza, I did not, as I don't get Fox. But I a.....
» 14/09/2010 7:17:18 PM *As the US Empire winds down and it cannot afford to finance military expeditions to remot.....
» 13/09/2010 10:55:20 PM Wrong Hazza, I have been debating this stuff on the internet for 15 years now. I first hoo.....
» 13/09/2010 8:38:21 PM *My point is it still doesn't matter;* You are free to believe that Hazza, but the eviden.....
» 13/09/2010 2:25:48 PM *To imply that they're going to convince people to blow themselves up over us just because.....
» 13/09/2010 10:34:45 AM *which, interestingly enough, never go specifically to Al Queda because Al Queda's primary.....
» 13/09/2010 10:14:59 AM *So according to Houelly women resent being at work and they'd much prefer to be financial.....
» 13/09/2010 9:55:47 AM *Also, I personally rather there be a country for all the fundamentalists to go to, than t.....
» 12/09/2010 9:13:04 PM Johnny30, in response to your post: My opinion was indeed of a general nature. I only eve.....
» 12/09/2010 7:42:35 PM I'm with Obama on this one. Al Queda did in fact use Afgahnistan as a staging post for the.....
» 11/09/2010 9:14:25 PM Ok Foxy, here is my 5c worth of wisdom :) I actually had a very amicable and friendly div.....
» 10/09/2010 9:21:55 PM *Given that already there are signs that the NBN costing is going to blow out, and the min.....
» 9/09/2010 9:17:34 PM SM, at some point it would be maybe nice to think that the Liberals put the future of the .....
» 7/09/2010 10:43:04 PM Ok Foxy, try to see it this way :- if your hubby only brought home a paycheck, in months w.....
» 7/09/2010 9:20:30 PM *Nobody is hiding the information that being a nurse or a teacher pays poorly * Life is r.....
» 7/09/2010 7:29:20 PM *My Carman product of choice is her deluxe fruit muesli... 14% fat, 20% sugar, and a fair .....
» 7/09/2010 6:02:34 PM *I don't care if Yabby or Antiseptic resent women generally and it shows in their comments.....
» 6/09/2010 11:18:07 PM *1. The increasingly right wing bias of the site* CJ, I think that is a little unfair. I .....
» 6/09/2010 10:53:16 PM *I have come to the conclusion that all the naughty, money grabbing, job stealing, single .....
» 6/09/2010 9:02:09 PM It's not just Kellogs, but others too. Uncle Toby's is now owned by Nestle. I bought their.....
» 6/09/2010 8:33:18 AM *You dare not say: "I don't know" or "I may be wrong"* Ah Grateful, b.....
» 5/09/2010 11:06:32 PM CJ, I've long ago stopped seeing the world as black and white, more just as lots of shades.....
» 5/09/2010 8:22:41 PM *It's interesting that a recent study of the National Centre for Social and Economic Model.....
» 5/09/2010 4:01:40 PM *Your sarcastic comment about sexual power is a new low, even for you.* Suze, there is in.....
» 5/09/2010 1:55:47 PM *Simply because it has applied only to men for so many years up until now Yabby. Isn't it.....
» 5/09/2010 6:20:35 AM *People just quit the instant they heard the instruction.* Ah Grateful, if it were only s.....
» 4/09/2010 9:57:16 PM Oops Grateful, I got it wrong, Ali Dashti's books was called "23 years" I must h.....
» 4/09/2010 9:43:43 PM *In any case TRUTHNOW78, if these women in the US are making more than men in the same job.....
» 4/09/2010 11:17:36 AM *A religious person is not in denial of his belief or trying to get rid of his religion. T.....
» 3/09/2010 10:28:03 PM *I voted Green for the first time this election because I was unhappy with Labours back do.....
» 1/09/2010 9:07:42 PM Squeers and Gilbert. I'm sorry that you took my comment personally, but I mentioned neithe.....
» 1/09/2010 2:59:13 PM * I believe there are greater community and environmental advantages for local production......
» 1/09/2010 10:10:48 AM *An addict does not want to be an addict* Well not quite Grateful, for of course self del.....
» 31/08/2010 9:07:45 PM *But I take considerable satisfaction that if we all go together when we go, we'll take yo.....
» 31/08/2010 8:14:31 PM To take it further Pelican. Regarding your favourite topic, garlic. Since you raised this.....
» 31/08/2010 6:56:16 PM *Lets just say your intuition was completely wrong.* LOL Unique, I have never claimed to .....
» 31/08/2010 4:12:51 PM *How can you compete with cheap labour? Mechanisation has an initial investment cost and t.....
» 31/08/2010 8:04:43 AM *One of the ironies is that often imports don't lead to cheaper prices for consumers in an.....
» 30/08/2010 8:59:27 PM Well clearly you did not live happily ever after, Unique. So I guess my point was yes, wo.....
» 30/08/2010 8:41:23 PM *Addiction DOES matter, it always matters and that's the point about being an addict. When.....
» 29/08/2010 11:29:17 PM So there we have it from Dreamer. I tirade of abuse, meantime he's not really aware of wha.....
» 29/08/2010 12:20:14 PM *So, for example, if instead of spending money and time on alcohol and gambling people, pe.....
» 28/08/2010 5:27:15 PM *Clearly it would be wrong to say, as you did, that coercion would be necessary, because M.....
» 28/08/2010 2:08:21 PM A couple of points Mikk. Firstly much of the third world is still actively tribal. In Afr.....
» 27/08/2010 10:46:34 PM *And that is simply, whilst say with coal you have to locate it, dig it up and then transp.....
» 27/08/2010 12:48:22 PM *'Boat people' are only an issue for the xenophobic and/or racist minority* CJ, if your t.....
» 26/08/2010 10:04:22 PM **Yappy* you really have no idea at all about what you are talking about and seem incapabl.....
» 26/08/2010 7:40:55 PM *We need leaders who lead and set an example of tolerance and honesty not poll following m.....
» 26/08/2010 10:10:30 AM *I live and experience my life often more intuitively and with common sense which has not .....
» 25/08/2010 8:59:23 PM *There might, for example be a company run by the Australian govt that sells sawmill parts.....
» 25/08/2010 7:50:34 PM *Paul Keating abolished the Wool Marketing Scheme resulting in the price being traded down.....
» 25/08/2010 2:43:28 PM *you are only considering the issues within the confines of the current economic model* E.....
» 24/08/2010 10:26:58 PM *-It doesn't count the costs associated with adapting productive assets to producing what .....
» 24/08/2010 6:59:16 PM TBC, you clearly don't follow the financial and investment news. I can assure you that Ch.....
» 24/08/2010 5:14:13 PM *but I recall hearing a price of 3c a litre for the gas we export to China.* TBC, years a.....
» 23/08/2010 10:39:14 PM *Hope you have been listening to what the ever popular Bob Katter has got to say about fre.....
» 23/08/2010 8:34:01 PM *The problem is peak demand. Anything to help reduce peak demand like encouraging people t.....
» 23/08/2010 7:57:37 PM *"Encouraging diversity and local self-reliance is obviously a significant shift away.....
» 23/08/2010 7:43:39 PM *Let us move with the times and admit it is time that Australia had PPL (join the rest of .....
» 23/08/2010 12:18:34 PM * My neighbour has just put 36 PV panels on his roof and the power company will be paying .....
» 22/08/2010 12:33:37 PM That certainly was an interesting evening's tv. I thought of you Belly, and your predictio.....
» 21/08/2010 10:20:29 PM Sonofgloin, if you are paying around 20c per kw/h, I doubt if anyone is ripping you off. I.....
» 21/08/2010 5:18:46 PM http://www.integral.com.au/wps/wcm/connect/ba917780405ac16db1fdb9dccb7f5ab5/2010+IE+Energy.....
» 21/08/2010 8:51:25 AM My last electricity bill here in WA works out to 3$ a day, for 15 units or KW/H per day. .....
» 20/08/2010 10:42:04 AM It's an interesting question Graham. As far as I am concerned, it confirms to me that Abb.....
» 17/08/2010 10:47:59 PM *I think it works thus.The ordinary retail banks can create new loans equal to 9 times the.....
» 17/08/2010 4:15:38 PM *but will not have the wild loaning ratios of banked $1.00 for $9.00 created in their comp.....
» 17/08/2010 9:19:51 AM *Nothing could be less democratic. The wealthy have millions or even billions of votes wh.....
» 16/08/2010 9:45:46 PM *Our farming communities have been having the life sucked out of them by free trade for lo.....
» 16/08/2010 9:19:30 PM *The main problem with it is that we are all just living our organic lives, doing what we .....
» 16/08/2010 1:02:20 PM *Nations should be able to choose what they import based on need not forced to accept good.....
» 16/08/2010 9:31:34 AM Gilbert, farmers largely produce things, where they have a comparative advantage. Such as .....
» 15/08/2010 9:27:35 PM *Getting the RBA to do it's job is the major part.It shuold not be loaded by large corp in.....
» 15/08/2010 8:06:17 PM Oh I can just see it now. Farmers and other efficient exporters, lumbered with all these e.....
» 15/08/2010 6:28:01 PM *Our balance of trade is positive,we export more than we import.It is our balance of money.....
» 15/08/2010 1:12:28 PM I think you will find Arjay, that Visa and MasterCard work a bit like franchises. So the m.....
» 14/08/2010 9:54:54 PM Pelican, I responded to your claim that the Chinese one child policy was a disaster. From .....
» 14/08/2010 7:33:20 PM *That is like saying research on cancer is a waste of time because it is a feelgood idea.*.....
» 14/08/2010 1:21:44 PM *The population was merely replaced when millions of male babies grew up to find there wer.....
» 13/08/2010 9:45:31 PM * I won't even describe it as a "right", although I think it comes pretty close .....
» 13/08/2010 8:33:44 PM *How did America become what it is today? "Bring us your outcast...." is how* S.....
» 12/08/2010 8:04:32 PM Sheesh, so those naughty people in Perth are buying air conditioners in massive numbers. .....
» 12/08/2010 12:51:19 PM *But I disagree that what Australia does is irrelevant. Australia has had a big impact in .....
» 12/08/2010 10:31:45 AM This is all wonderful feelgood stuff, but Bob of course forgets that this is a global issu.....
» 11/08/2010 10:35:32 AM The New York Post eh Proxy? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Post Voted as the leas.....
» 10/08/2010 1:48:21 PM *It's fascinating to watch how your bias subverts your ability to reason.* Not so Proxy, .....
» 9/08/2010 10:43:56 PM Not so Proxy. A large share of America is still doing very well. Just look at how they scr.....
» 9/08/2010 9:00:42 PM Ah Boazy, all your religious cult activity is clearing affecting you. Obama is an extreme.....
» 9/08/2010 7:29:00 PM *The miners had a warchest of *hundreds of millions* to spread fear; and were in an 'unhol.....
» 8/08/2010 4:38:52 PM *BECK is NOT on about 're-elect the Republican Party'* Yup, Beck admits its not about pol.....
» 8/08/2010 4:20:01 PM *Calm down, take a deep breath, and say to yourself "it will be all right, don't worr.....
» 8/08/2010 2:20:07 PM *We all know hard working, conscientious men and women who toil away for years but never g.....
» 8/08/2010 1:05:03 PM *Like grader drivers, you have to be born to do it, you don't ever learn it, if you don't .....
» 8/08/2010 12:11:21 PM Deary me Boazy. Beck, along with Sarah Palin, the tea party, the bible thumpers, all happy.....
» 7/08/2010 11:09:56 PM http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vocational_education Benk, if we look at countries like Germ.....
» 7/08/2010 8:17:12 PM Ah Proxy, you seem to conviently forget the role of the SEC in regulation of the US financ.....
» 7/08/2010 6:04:18 PM *is an early indicator of the level of objectivity you bring to the debate* Not so Proxy,.....
» 7/08/2010 3:17:24 PM Obama might well be on the nose right now, but then when the trailer park trash gets psych.....
» 6/08/2010 10:38:07 PM *To the contrary, wives would prefer to be with their menfolk, especially where they have .....
» 6/08/2010 9:43:21 PM *The debate does not centre on whether the mining industry should be nationalised with pub.....
» 6/08/2010 4:12:29 PM *And yes, you are quite right about the requirement for trained boiler maker welders, but .....
» 6/08/2010 2:23:58 PM *however a search of The West Australian on any Wednesday, or Saturday will conclusively p.....
» 5/08/2010 9:19:47 PM Perhaps we need to go back to the idea of having a continuing open thread, where forum rul.....
» 5/08/2010 12:05:16 AM http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/05/27/2910780.htm Sheesh, the median house price .....
» 4/08/2010 8:46:20 PM Yes indeed, we know that hormones affect human behaviour. Not just humans, but other speci.....
» 4/08/2010 8:18:04 PM *Answer the question: how much is a life worth? The anti-pops premise is that we (Australi.....
» 4/08/2010 5:13:29 PM *The median salary would be much lower.* So what evidence do you have for your claims Arj.....
» 3/08/2010 10:20:14 PM *while wages have increased with inflation,over the last 30 yrs they have progressively la.....
» 2/08/2010 10:33:13 PM *Tut,tut Yabby,you are getting all emotional* That is very sweet of you Arjay, but I'm no.....
» 2/08/2010 8:05:09 PM *Yabby,If you are in the counterfeiting criminal business,why would you pay a foreign comp.....
» 2/08/2010 2:54:28 PM *her silence on the issue is due to the reluctance to admit breaking up a marriage, and th.....
» 1/08/2010 10:27:04 PM *Slashing programs left, right and centre, ordering government workers off the job...the s.....
» 1/08/2010 7:43:09 PM *And that is what it is happening - a banking license to print money.* Not so Pelican. We.....
» 30/07/2010 8:55:33 PM We can learn a great deal from the Americans here. They are after all the most religious o.....
» 29/07/2010 11:58:48 AM *that while people liked talking about doing something about the environment they objected.....
» 28/07/2010 7:33:49 PM Deary me, yet another cheap shot at the supermarket chains. If you don't like them, don't .....
» 26/07/2010 11:27:35 PM Sophie has every right to dream, it's what young people do. The cold, hard facts of reali.....
» 19/07/2010 3:00:48 PM Grim, the problem is that you refuse to accept that the Commodore was a toy, designed to b.....
» 19/07/2010 2:46:10 PM *if the big companies want skills then why not make them pay for those skills.* Curmudgeo.....
» 19/07/2010 1:02:28 PM *The essence of good leadership in a democracy is to be able to tell the electorate unplea.....
» 19/07/2010 12:08:32 PM The author's article is full of holes in the real world. Yes, we can train our own hairdr.....
» 19/07/2010 11:40:51 AM The author makes some valid points about the foodmiles story. Its another one of these &q.....
» 19/07/2010 11:21:17 AM I Have to agree, Pyne is a pain in the arse, he really is. He was too, when in Govt, pushi.....
» 19/07/2010 11:09:53 AM *Back in the real world, I'd like to think that Americans are wise enough to work out that.....
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» 17/07/2010 10:38:06 AM *1. Are the numbers of boat-people so large they present a danger to Australian autonomy?*.....
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» 16/07/2010 8:56:23 AM *Ah, the old boat people as economic immigrants furphy.* No furphy CJ. Mexico to USA, Afr.....
» 15/07/2010 11:39:32 PM *These so called 'God given' abilities have given the Moguls the 'liberty' to allocate fun.....
» 15/07/2010 11:30:05 PM *Basically, your statement was false. “The one company who held the monopoly on a great op.....
» 15/07/2010 11:08:10 PM *The few refugees who make it to our shores* Ah Dickie, that is because in the past, it w.....
» 15/07/2010 2:28:52 PM You keep missing the point Briar. Unlike you, most Australians don't want unlimited open b.....
» 15/07/2010 12:37:29 PM *Could they be made up of Australian citizens?* They are indeed Australian citizens. But .....
» 14/07/2010 11:01:40 PM *and they also own vast tracts of Australia, including all the mineral wealth* Not so TBC.....
» 14/07/2010 8:39:12 PM *Capitalism is the anomaly - it is not the normal state of affairs* Not really Poirot. In.....
» 14/07/2010 7:52:02 PM *What does interest me is that nobody throws in the "fairness" card when we're t.....
» 14/07/2010 12:06:40 PM *There is no way you can describe the domination of Woolworths or Coles (for just one exam.....
» 14/07/2010 11:20:22 AM *Aussie workers don't 'own' (have total control over) those assets until they reach retire.....
» 14/07/2010 10:56:51 AM *you have yet to tell us which year Apple achieved anything like the 90% market share that.....
» 13/07/2010 11:37:14 PM *The world's unfair. Work with it* You don't say? Does that perhaps explain your bias tow.....
» 13/07/2010 10:47:11 PM TBC, what cannot be denied, is that Australian workers own 1.3 trillion$ worth of assets, .....
» 13/07/2010 8:52:40 PM *and I'll write one in defence of Marx.* Perhaps Squeers, you might like to elaborate on .....
» 13/07/2010 8:33:39 PM *Well, how do you explain all the advertisements in backpacker magazines for lawyers who'l.....
» 13/07/2010 2:38:04 PM There are in fact solutions. Firstly the 1951 UN Convention needs updating by 60 years, so.....
» 13/07/2010 11:52:08 AM *I was clarifying Yabby's misconception that all people who arrive by plane and overstay t.....
» 13/07/2010 10:12:11 AM *You stated that TBC has no concept of modern China* Er where did I state that, Severin? .....
» 12/07/2010 9:13:23 PM *the aboslute MIRACLE of Capitalism is wasted on these ingrates, isn't it?* Not really, T.....
» 12/07/2010 8:13:18 PM TBC, that is all old hat. You seem to know even less about modern bizz then I thought. Of .....
» 12/07/2010 6:40:54 PM *$110 Vanitas silk undershorts* Ah TBC, you clearly don't have a business bone in your bo.....
» 12/07/2010 6:25:24 PM Severin, I will say it even more slowwwwwly for you. The 50'000 constantly refered to inc.....
» 12/07/2010 5:21:10 PM *I think we should take the people who are arriving by boat and are judged to be refugees .....
» 12/07/2010 3:29:18 PM *Yabby once referred to the entrepreneur being like the cave-man hunter. No cave-man worth.....
» 12/07/2010 2:16:55 PM Briar Rose, if you read the Sheridan article, there are around 16 million who would qualif.....
» 12/07/2010 2:05:12 PM *just because a few wealthy eccentrics make a fetish of appearing poor, and a few more are.....
» 12/07/2010 10:42:38 AM http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/opinion/un-convention-misunderstood-and-its-not-worki.....
» 12/07/2010 10:18:54 AM *What is the use of attaining wealth in a competitive system, after all, if you don't flau.....
» 11/07/2010 7:01:57 PM *Otherwise we get the situation as now in Germany, where people are using coal-fired elect.....
» 11/07/2010 1:07:07 PM *Yabby... I buy tyres from the UK because here they cost about $65 each, plus postage.* W.....
» 10/07/2010 8:04:13 PM TBC, I am sure that bike riding will catch on once again in a big way, when oil prices ris.....
» 10/07/2010 3:12:08 PM *Oh Yabby, Yabby Yabby. I should do my homework?* Yup Grim, you should! Until 1989, Apple.....
» 9/07/2010 11:26:59 PM *Keep that one for the xtians and others on OLO who feel the need to keep rooting-for-gods.....
» 9/07/2010 8:03:54 PM *And yes, on the aircons and bike riding.* TBC, I'm not sure what you mean there. So wou.....
» 9/07/2010 7:35:20 PM *they were one of the few and now about the only company to offer a complete hardware/soft.....
» 9/07/2010 2:50:43 PM *Moderation, unfortunately, is not a quality that humans excel at - which is a great pity,.....
» 9/07/2010 11:24:09 AM *Few women I know, whether it be in the workplace or socially, ever find the time, or have.....
» 8/07/2010 11:25:05 AM *to rush to the defence of poor, maligned Bill Gates.* That is hardly the case, Severin. .....
» 8/07/2010 10:21:41 AM CJ, I have indeed wondered if an ear job is easily possible! It's just that I know that .....
» 7/07/2010 11:16:12 PM *Hey Yabby, I love your figures. That line about poor little Microsoft, with it's pitiful .....
» 7/07/2010 10:51:33 PM *Comments that target a woman for how she looks, rather than her ideas, are designed to do.....
» 7/07/2010 12:28:26 PM *The moguls love blokes like you!* Squeers, you do seem to have a chip on your shoulder a.....
» 6/07/2010 10:45:26 PM *Boyfriend is in this case a sexist and abusive way to talk of our leaders partner* Hang .....
» 6/07/2010 10:31:40 PM Poirot, that sounds quite plausible, but I'm not sure what your point is. The figures I've.....
» 6/07/2010 8:24:25 PM *It really doesn't appear to occur to them that others, far from being jealous of the obsc.....
» 6/07/2010 12:35:01 PM *to appreciate the "ethics" of these entrepreneurial projects, or the fact that .....
» 5/07/2010 10:54:46 PM http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/special_report/1999/06/99/world_population/381340.stm Perhaps .....
» 5/07/2010 7:23:50 PM *The sentence therefore means that ANYBODY (male or female) can copy the worst behaviours .....
» 5/07/2010 11:47:47 AM *It is irrelevant as to whether or not the catholic church or any other religions are anti.....
» 5/07/2010 11:41:20 AM *just like a communist country is under the thumb of communism, capitalism is under the th.....
» 4/07/2010 10:30:56 PM *If the political will is there that can guide capitalism, then it can be done. But of cou.....
» 4/07/2010 5:58:56 PM *it is that it encourages the desire for higher populations ie. more people = more consume.....
» 4/07/2010 2:35:31 PM Squeers, you can accuse capitalism of enabling human innovation, thus dragging hundreds of.....
» 4/07/2010 1:43:13 PM Severin, for the benefit of the record, I was going along quite peacefully on this thread,.....
» 4/07/2010 11:55:43 AM *That is not humour. It is just bullying.* Sheesh, I stuck a smiley in there and you clai.....
» 4/07/2010 11:44:23 AM *Economics describe merely the methods, not the goal or purpose of human endeavour.* Ster.....
» 4/07/2010 11:25:35 AM Unique, you are looking at population/religion locally, I am looking at it globally. But .....
» 3/07/2010 9:02:50 PM The value of a degree is really up to the applicant and depends on their plans. It makes .....
» 3/07/2010 8:07:03 PM *It is Capitalism that is driving endless growth in population and consumption.* Not so M.....
» 3/07/2010 7:08:41 PM *he over compensates with hostility to any hint of intellect.* Hostility? ROFL Severin. C.....
» 3/07/2010 4:05:20 PM *The most salient point about the mining tax brouhaha to me is that it demonstrates the ex.....
» 2/07/2010 7:45:33 PM Rehctub, I think that that the Govt would be foolish to budget on nearly any of this money.....
» 2/07/2010 6:11:34 PM I think if you asked the Chinese, would they rather go back to starving, as they were 25 .....
» 2/07/2010 5:55:59 PM *I agree with Yabby. Not to worry, probably won't happen again.* Ah well Severin, things .....
» 2/07/2010 2:46:25 PM Poirot, the last PM who refused to change was in fact Fraser. Howard as treasurer, nearly .....
» 2/07/2010 11:59:15 AM Well, I think that Julia deserves a gold star here :) Life is about compromises and she's.....
» 2/07/2010 8:13:43 AM Not so Benq, because of course Mr Costello started making reforms 10 years before that. Th.....
» 1/07/2010 10:24:20 PM *And if we wouldn't have had the stimulus package - the entire country would have gone dow.....
» 1/07/2010 2:09:48 PM Sounds to me like the author is reinventing the wheel here. For of course companies alread.....
» 1/07/2010 2:05:56 PM *we are all more than just our sex; we all have the same characteristics, strengths and we.....
» 30/06/2010 9:26:33 PM Foxy, I guess the information that I read is simply a bit different to yours. For one, I .....
» 29/06/2010 7:47:29 PM *You obviously haven't watched the news lately, where a top mining company director expres.....
» 29/06/2010 3:53:21 PM *and he even met with the directors of the mining companies and indicated that he was ope.....
» 29/06/2010 12:41:46 PM *The reality is that people vote for a Prime Minister. They vote for the leader of the Lab.....
» 29/06/2010 11:18:21 AM I think that Jennifer has it all wrong here. Fact is that we did not elect Rudd as presid.....
» 28/06/2010 8:10:43 PM Pelican, much of OLO is twaddle. But at its core, its still a good thing. Its much the sa.....
» 28/06/2010 7:56:48 PM *but I haven't been following your ongoing war against the women of OLO all over the forum.....
» 28/06/2010 3:16:17 PM *On the contrary - from the posts given, they understood only too well. However, in your o.....
» 28/06/2010 11:02:11 AM *I just wonder what any of it has to do with the ostensible topic of the discussion, i.e. .....
» 27/06/2010 9:35:41 PM *Indeed, they just make you look like a sad and embittered old man.* Hehe CJ, what wondef.....
» 27/06/2010 8:35:04 PM CJ, you clearly had not been following the thread comments. Foxy got her titties in a tan.....
» 27/06/2010 8:27:23 PM *or is that tag only reserved for whom you disagree.* Yup :) *I would love to believe in.....
» 27/06/2010 6:58:39 PM *pollution and other damage to the natural environment has been caused by the world's bigg.....
» 27/06/2010 5:24:09 PM *Both major parties are spinning the same old economic twaddle to which we are all accusto.....
» 27/06/2010 4:06:31 PM *Gawd, Yabby - what is it with you and women?* Absolutaly nothing CJ, but in this case I'.....
» 27/06/2010 3:50:56 PM Err Severin, yes indeed, ships register all over the world, is it illegal? Do they make th.....
» 27/06/2010 3:32:27 PM *remember the electric car scrapped by GMH back in the 80's?* Of course it was scrapped, .....
» 27/06/2010 5:01:40 AM Gawd, there was silly me thinking that the age of biology had well and truly arrived and t.....
» 26/06/2010 2:55:27 PM Bob Geldorf learnt the hard way, when he was going to solve the hungry people problem. Whe.....
» 26/06/2010 2:42:29 PM Kevie only has himself to blame for this one. for he clean forgot the fundamantals of poli.....
» 26/06/2010 1:49:29 PM *Yabby, people blaming "big biz" are about as paranoid as people ranting that th.....
» 25/06/2010 11:11:32 PM *I suspect that big biz and whatever other factions have engineered matters.* One thing a.....
» 25/06/2010 9:10:01 PM *Areas where we have made technological advances such as solar, wind and thermal power are.....
» 25/06/2010 8:46:36 PM *Those that voted for Labor candidates in the last election voted for the Labor Party led .....
» 24/06/2010 9:39:14 PM Julia is clearly a great wordsmith, who knows how to push the punters emotional buttons an.....
» 24/06/2010 10:00:36 AM They are already going nuts in the Pilbara. A dozen crane drivers on a major site are hold.....
» 24/06/2010 5:32:31 AM I guess it just goes to show why we have to be really careful about where we invest our ha.....
» 23/06/2010 6:33:09 PM Examinator, you really can't get your little mind around this, but I will prevail. If I c.....
» 23/06/2010 4:29:27 PM *Corporations motives are purely selfish - to exploit cheap labour and resources on an int.....
» 23/06/2010 1:22:45 PM Foxy, corporations certainly have economic power, but that is their role. They just don't .....
» 22/06/2010 11:28:44 PM http://www.smh.com.au/business/mining-kevs-77-effective-tax-rate-20100617-yhw2.html Foxy,.....
» 22/06/2010 11:26:49 PM *The size and economic power of the major corporations are immense* Absolutaly. They crea.....
» 22/06/2010 5:40:17 PM *A CEO put retrenched 2000 people out of work to increase the share price by 10cents* The.....
» 22/06/2010 2:58:09 PM Foxy, one way to understand what happens in the corporate world, with the allocation of as.....
» 22/06/2010 2:46:27 PM *All "property" is theft* I'm not sure what you mean by that one, Mikk. If you .....
» 22/06/2010 12:20:41 PM *Arrogance is corporations foisting products onto an misinformed public.* Severin, corpo.....
» 21/06/2010 11:15:00 AM *Just as we like to know whether food has been produced free of antibiotics, artificial fe.....
» 20/06/2010 8:43:35 PM *They aren't altruistic they want Quid pro Quo. Business bang for their buck.* Examinator.....
» 20/06/2010 5:23:29 PM *Who was paying for it prior to GM? Why are we being forced to eat GM products if we don't.....
» 20/06/2010 5:06:20 PM http://www.smh.com.au/executive-style/culture/buffetts-call-to-billionaires-20100617-ygxn......
» 20/06/2010 4:08:05 PM *Points like historical Qantas, Telstra are base around a world culture that doesn't exist.....
» 20/06/2010 3:46:05 PM Pelican, I guess they will be kept separate, if somebody pays for them to be kept seperate.....
» 20/06/2010 1:33:09 PM Pelican, labeling laws do indeed need to be practical in the end. Given the fact that most.....
» 20/06/2010 11:04:37 AM Bazz, I think there is indeed quite alot going on. Those 147$ per barrel oil prices woke u.....
» 19/06/2010 9:40:34 PM Pelican, the way I understand it, this really comes down to what we have agreed with other.....
» 19/06/2010 3:26:41 PM *I think that you are all arguing in vein.* Hang on Bazz, we argue for fun! I've read you.....
» 19/06/2010 2:52:45 PM *The privatization of these industries have resulted in the loss of choice and redress to .....
» 18/06/2010 11:33:28 PM *they are quaking in fear that if we the people go after BP for this and make them pay* L.....
» 18/06/2010 9:29:41 PM Deary me Severin, theoretical economists who seem to be mostly labour party supporters and.....
» 18/06/2010 9:21:36 PM *In many if not most instances the interests are opposed* Rubbish. It is in the interests.....
» 18/06/2010 11:35:31 AM That's more your normal spirit dickie dear, a little late night whiskey in the cuppa tea, .....
» 17/06/2010 9:21:09 PM Deary me Dickie dear, your aging brain cells are showing, they really are. Now we know th.....
» 17/06/2010 3:44:26 PM Hehe Severin, I thought that would burst your boil :) You deserved it. Pass smartarse comm.....
» 17/06/2010 3:01:40 PM *but if Yabby overhears me he'll accuse me of being a commie* Not really Severin, for I c.....
» 16/06/2010 8:53:25 PM ROFL Examinator, corporations are about being realists, keep the sensitive bit for your lo.....
» 16/06/2010 8:07:48 PM Examinator, ok, so you cannot answer my points, I did not expect you to. Perhaps sometime.....
» 16/06/2010 7:58:14 PM Dickie dear, yes we know you have a chip on your shoulder about mining companies, but you .....
» 16/06/2010 2:24:07 PM *You are trying to argue the equivalent of excusing the excesses of a genocidal army becau.....
» 16/06/2010 10:39:01 AM Examinator, I don't need to explain anything away. I watched some of those interviews on B.....
» 15/06/2010 7:39:41 PM *Yabby's convenient memory ignores the endless lists of businesses and individuals who hav.....
» 14/06/2010 11:26:56 PM *Apparently Four Corners tonight is doing something about the failure of the banking indus.....
» 14/06/2010 6:04:50 PM *While the world mourns the willful destruction of the Gulf of Mexico* Ah the melodrama......
» 14/06/2010 2:46:23 PM *So Yabby you think this comes down to a choice between the value of labour and the value .....
» 14/06/2010 10:51:05 AM *but you must concede that no other group compares with the greed of the big end of town.*.....
» 14/06/2010 10:32:12 AM *power to influence public opinion, which in a "democracy" is the ultimate power.....
» 14/06/2010 9:59:19 AM Individual, I actually happen to agree with you on that one. I had a major drama trying to.....
» 13/06/2010 6:57:59 PM Cornflour, targets are set by boards and they are answerable to shareholders. The largest .....
» 13/06/2010 3:11:51 PM *Maybe because everyone is getting greedier, consumers, business and shareholders alike* .....
» 13/06/2010 1:32:11 PM *Corporations today simply don't care about the customer just their profit.* Rubbish. Its.....
» 11/06/2010 9:27:02 PM *These miners are largely multi-national corporations* Ah Mr Denmore, but those corporati.....
» 11/06/2010 8:01:23 PM *We are only talking about just over twenty thousand people in thirty years coming on boat.....
» 11/06/2010 7:51:04 PM *Talk to a group of economists - same education, same reading experience and yet many diff.....
» 11/06/2010 4:49:03 PM Pelican, doing a course on business, teaches the very mundane, boring stuff, not what I am.....
» 11/06/2010 2:44:06 PM *yabby, yabby, yabby, the money argument just does not wash. If you met some of these peop.....
» 11/06/2010 2:31:47 PM *but it's heart has been in the right place and this is important to me.* It might be to .....
» 10/06/2010 9:47:46 PM *they are the ones you deride as economic migrants just wanting a better life (what a teri.....
» 10/06/2010 7:49:42 PM *You seem to forget that I have run a business.* Yup you did and you gave up. Now you tal.....
» 10/06/2010 2:00:27 PM Pelican, one gold star for you, for so cleverly trying to slither out of the Venezuela com.....
» 9/06/2010 9:05:37 PM *There is absolutely no doubt about character assassination of the PM,* Your maternal con.....
» 9/06/2010 12:02:08 PM Pelican, your comment about Venezuela at the time matters, because it gave me an understan.....
» 9/06/2010 11:02:35 AM *Yabby that is just not so. Banks will bankroll anything they think will turn a profit* W.....
» 9/06/2010 10:42:50 AM Hang on Pelican. Last year BHP paid 6.3 billion in tax, they are hardly avoiding it. On to.....
» 9/06/2010 10:25:47 AM *I don't see why I am being forced to subsidise them, by selling my children's inheritance.....
» 8/06/2010 10:44:46 PM *relentlessly character assassinating the P.M.* Ah poor Kevie. Never mind the porkies, th.....
» 8/06/2010 9:11:48 PM * argue on the merits of your view rather than attack the assumed work ethics of those who.....
» 8/06/2010 8:19:54 PM *no Yabby, the Sri Lankans on the boats are not taking the places of the people referred b.....
» 8/06/2010 7:57:12 PM *The miners being targeted by these measures are majority owned by massive multinational c.....
» 8/06/2010 9:40:35 AM *About half our intake is from UNHCR referred cases,* Exactly. And if it were not for ric.....
» 8/06/2010 9:29:57 AM *I would be if it were on my wages as a wage earner under $100K but we are talking about a.....
» 8/06/2010 8:36:20 AM *The hysteria whipped up by the mining industry on this is worthy of a Hollywood Oscar.* .....
» 7/06/2010 9:15:31 PM *but thousands of Burmese refugees have been displaced in Bangladesh for many years, they .....
» 7/06/2010 6:25:33 PM Well its all good news girls. Every day you're getting older, soon the wrinkles will set i.....
» 7/06/2010 6:15:01 PM *Time to pay up or phuck off.* Yes Custard, we know that if you had any say, you would so.....
» 7/06/2010 3:32:29 PM Sonofgloin, I'm not an apologist for banks, but trying to get you to see the big picture o.....
» 6/06/2010 10:30:53 PM http://www.westpac.com.au/docs/pdf/aw/ic/fy09-fullyearprofit-asx.pdf Sonofgloin, the abov.....
» 6/06/2010 8:29:11 PM *or is it a charitable thing, a public service from the banks to us.* Sonofgloin, in fact.....
» 6/06/2010 8:08:59 PM *Just saw on Tele that BP spent $50 million on a TV apology. if that ain't the clearest ex.....
» 6/06/2010 7:45:04 PM *On top of which, with all the State Governments being Labor* Hehe, I always did think we.....
» 6/06/2010 6:02:28 PM Oops Custard, I think you will find that onshore minerals actually belong to the States, n.....
» 6/06/2010 1:41:43 PM *The banks are gouging people as miners gouge the earth,* The reason that banks make so m.....
» 6/06/2010 1:25:34 PM WEA, I find it interesting how you judge "doing it tough". No overseas holidays.....
» 5/06/2010 8:30:10 PM *A few do, but the majority don't.Looking at over inflated house prices, bloated Govts and.....
» 5/06/2010 7:58:19 PM http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/06/02/2261962.htm According to this story OUG, Ql.....
» 5/06/2010 5:26:23 PM Oops Mikk, Chernobyl was caused by Govt, you the people. Given that pipelines in the Nige.....
» 5/06/2010 5:08:25 PM My quoted tax comes from tax accountants who have worked it out Belly. Your Wayne Goose is.....
» 5/06/2010 4:42:50 PM Mikk, you did not have to mention it, for that was the implication. According to you, gree.....
» 5/06/2010 1:22:30 PM *These greed driven miscreants cannot be trusted with our environment and wellbeing.* Ah,.....
» 5/06/2010 1:02:16 PM OUG, the key word in my point was NET, as distinct from GROSS. Big difference. If the Gov.....
» 5/06/2010 9:45:04 AM Sheesh Belly, I'd like to know where your wise men are, for they sure arn't in that mob wh.....
» 4/06/2010 9:10:26 PM *We could have the most amazing country on the planet,* You miss the point Arjay, and a n.....
» 4/06/2010 6:58:53 PM *In less than a decade other country's will impose higher tax's not unlike this* Good gri.....
» 4/06/2010 2:03:48 PM *I suggested previously that in lieu of further taxation, the corporate sector funds infra.....
» 4/06/2010 10:50:45 AM *I stand against the bloody insulting view miners are not lieing here but Rudd and Swan ar.....
» 3/06/2010 8:15:52 PM *and currently have a $100m private war chest to spend on blowing the effect of a mining t.....
» 3/06/2010 7:31:03 PM *are miners more upset with unions being back on site than the tax? can it be a chance?* .....
» 3/06/2010 2:05:58 PM OUG, the smoke from all that weed is now really getting to you. A coal seam three foot th.....
» 3/06/2010 10:24:12 AM OUG, you don't have a worry in the world there. You just keep smoking that weed, float on .....
» 2/06/2010 8:53:05 PM Come on Belly, now it seems that the claimed 100 million was bunkum too. They are all goi.....
» 2/06/2010 8:41:43 PM *vested interests overstate the extent of Australia's debt.* LOL Thinker 2, Australia owe.....
» 2/06/2010 8:20:09 PM Let me see, the Immigration Dept needs another 500 million, as the first 500 million didn'.....
» 2/06/2010 7:58:59 PM *That surplus was NOT the result of any particular talent or genius from Mr Costello or th.....
» 1/06/2010 8:49:46 PM *it not a science and depends very much on your social and political outlook.* Nope Pelic.....
» 1/06/2010 8:13:18 PM *The latest Newspoll shows the Greens have jumped six points in six weeks to score 16 per .....
» 1/06/2010 7:41:20 PM *just don't know why Woolies and Coles don't push a more Aussie grown/made agenda.* Well .....
» 1/06/2010 7:28:45 PM *Company tax was 45% in 1990; it is 30% soon to be 28% in 2010.* The reason they changed .....
» 1/06/2010 7:36:28 AM Wobbles, as it happens, most of the profits from mining companies have gone back into new.....
» 31/05/2010 10:48:00 PM Sonofgloin, they might represent tax revenue, but it would depend on the tax office accoun.....
» 31/05/2010 9:16:02 PM *Free trade is a furphy and just opens up new opportunities to exploit the poor. Competiti.....
» 31/05/2010 8:58:57 PM Sonofgloin, your figures don't make a lot of sense, are you even allowing for dividend imp.....
» 31/05/2010 8:38:36 PM Sheesh, I'm falling behind here. I've been out seeding oats, so that you lot can have your.....
» 30/05/2010 9:50:36 PM Pelican, some time ago you mentioned about the virtues of shopping at Aldi. I then pointed.....
» 30/05/2010 9:09:24 AM thinkabit, according to the Economist, the Greek State owes Greek banks 8% of their total .....
» 29/05/2010 9:26:00 PM *No one has as yet pointed out exactly how a Greek default could cause major unforeseen ne.....
» 29/05/2010 9:14:34 PM *The mining companies have done their best to create a hysteria over the tax* Rubbish. Th.....
» 29/05/2010 8:56:14 PM *That is why it is so important for Aussie consumers to buy local wherever possible.* Wel.....
» 29/05/2010 8:55:27 PM *do your homework prior to investing capital,* Sheesh Pelican, you clearly lack business .....
» 28/05/2010 9:02:51 PM *So what if they change the tax rules? The government changes things for me every Budget t.....
» 28/05/2010 8:51:16 PM *if that perspective reflects the true, accurate, quantifiable truth.* We now know exactl.....
» 28/05/2010 8:33:59 PM *I fully endorse Examinator regarding your lack of business ethics.* Severin, you know s.....
» 27/05/2010 8:35:54 PM Fozz, the miners in the syndicate buying their own railway, would have crunched the number.....
» 27/05/2010 8:13:46 PM *Simply put we were better off in 1975 no matter how we try to trade off our myriad of &qu.....
» 27/05/2010 7:29:24 PM *Yabby these miners were not here to pay the tax for the benefit of Australia and were act.....
» 27/05/2010 7:01:57 PM *It will never change until the fundamental cause is removed. Capitalism.* Ah Mikk, you r.....
» 27/05/2010 3:04:24 PM The first problem with this new tax, is that it shows that our present politicians have le.....
» 27/05/2010 2:56:44 PM Examinator, I have passed no judgement as to what is right and wrong, but simply pointed .....
» 27/05/2010 11:37:35 AM *especially if as one poster argued somewhere that "without mining we would be a bana.....
» 27/05/2010 11:19:00 AM Sonofgloin, indeed we have a housing bubble, which affects those wanting to live closer to.....
» 26/05/2010 11:21:37 PM *The hysterical argument that investment in Australian resources will collapse forever wil.....
» 26/05/2010 10:32:28 PM *Spending money on your own requirements e.g. railways for iron ore transport etc is not t.....
» 26/05/2010 8:13:25 PM That is a very tricky one Pelican, for the following reasons. When AWB were nailed, somet.....
» 26/05/2010 7:57:18 PM *they can afford to contribute more to their countries economy, then why would they think .....
» 26/05/2010 2:48:32 PM The cheap toaster has saved people billions! How much do you think those 10$ shirts would .....
» 26/05/2010 1:42:06 PM Sheesh, luckily Hawke and Keating were smart enough to start removing import duties! Who b.....
» 25/05/2010 9:41:27 PM *It's possible that mining investment could be lost because of the Mining Tax Yabby, but n.....
» 25/05/2010 7:18:24 PM *This outlines the interview but the thrust was that it's demand not tax that rules the mi.....
» 25/05/2010 1:12:25 PM *As the global financial crisis passes the mining boom has returned and once again the ben.....
» 24/05/2010 2:33:03 PM The author is quite correct, the Govt has just shot itself and Australia, in the proverbia.....
» 23/05/2010 9:41:36 PM You are clearly missing the point completely, yet it was the point on which this thread wa.....
» 23/05/2010 8:41:50 PM Ah Foxy, in evolutionary terms, I guess it matters on which appendage and why it was selec.....
» 23/05/2010 7:30:37 PM *Yabby, Comon, tell us why males are attracted to breasts. Also why some females like to g.....
» 23/05/2010 2:42:07 PM *but men are forced to sneak peaks at them for fear of being caught looking? Can any women.....
» 22/05/2010 11:28:36 PM *A woman's life is not black and white as you depicted above Yabby.* It is as black and w.....
» 22/05/2010 9:48:55 PM *This is not the sort of freedom we need * Err speak for yourself, Dominic P, for the res.....
» 22/05/2010 8:53:27 PM Monica, what you are implying is that some women simply don't know what they want from lif.....
» 21/05/2010 8:58:51 PM *Do you not loose the right to a private life, I think you do.* The problem with that Pau.....
» 21/05/2010 5:30:10 PM Belly, just today they had John Seymour from Price Waterhouse Coopers on ABC rural. He say.....
» 21/05/2010 2:22:12 PM Belly, as it happens I know all about the new mining super tax, I've made it my business t.....
» 21/05/2010 12:26:35 PM Pericles, the way I understand it, the banks actually own the Eftpos system, so I have a W.....
» 20/05/2010 8:54:33 PM Deary me, not the Catholics again. They just can't get over their guilt about sex. I gue.....
» 19/05/2010 9:03:30 PM Belly, my politics is not party based, but issue based. I was a Hawke, Keating, Costello s.....
» 19/05/2010 11:40:26 AM *Lying is an interesting aspect of this debate.* I heard an interesting quote recently, w.....
» 18/05/2010 10:24:11 PM *this time outside the gates of Cockburn Cement in Munster and the hunreds of ordinary but.....
» 18/05/2010 8:26:57 PM Examinator, Lynsay Tanner knows as little about business as you do, and that is the proble.....
» 18/05/2010 8:04:47 PM *Assuming some accuracy to the claim, * Ah, there is your first trip up point, Dickie. Is.....
» 17/05/2010 9:44:17 PM UOG, sounds to me like you are getting all confused there. Coal seam gas is one thing, it.....
» 17/05/2010 2:05:23 PM *He should be judged well in the effort given to shielding the country from the financial .....
» 17/05/2010 12:46:52 PM Pelican, just remember Jessica Watson, you can do anything! :).....
» 16/05/2010 8:17:17 PM *I've never had to resort to wearing banana leaves. Hmmmm....the idea sounds rather attrac.....
» 16/05/2010 7:24:27 PM *Unfortunately as we age we have no choice I guess but to suck it up and do our best to co.....
» 16/05/2010 2:39:20 PM *are as sterile as the sterlisation programs they propound.* Cheryl, you crap on with thi.....
» 16/05/2010 11:26:29 AM Dickie dear, I find it rather amusing that you find Norwegians such good managers, given t.....
» 16/05/2010 9:52:25 AM *The mineral wealth belongs to this country despite the thinking of some here that we own .....
» 15/05/2010 6:23:00 PM Micheal, given that inflation runs at around 3-4%, if you invested your money in a bank de.....
» 15/05/2010 3:12:03 PM Examinator, you make my point for me. You are frankly too stupid to understand this disput.....
» 14/05/2010 8:51:08 PM Hehe, I didn't think that Foxy could answer my umm hard question :) Its ok Foxy, it might.....
» 14/05/2010 7:57:39 PM The authors have clearly confused their figures. 7 billion$ is just royalties. Miners pay .....
» 14/05/2010 2:38:56 PM *The nations that possess the resources have the upper hand and the companies just have to.....
» 14/05/2010 11:49:17 AM *It would be madness and counterproductive to eradicate profit as there would be no incent.....
» 14/05/2010 1:57:31 AM Oops Dickie, that female prisoner who went around killing people, she is female just like .....
» 13/05/2010 9:19:30 PM Dickie dear, last time that I can remember, you claimed to be a woman. Do I now crucify yo.....
» 13/05/2010 7:06:19 PM *The mining industry is screaming of unfair taxes and are threatening to take their ".....
» 13/05/2010 5:53:13 PM *[but not you farmers..nor the miners* You have a little problem there OUG, farmers and m.....
» 13/05/2010 1:42:22 PM *For the companies to say they will stop mining and the industry will collapse is posturin.....
» 12/05/2010 9:14:10 PM *just like the miners...stealing it direct from the dirt...WE ALL OWN* Sheesh OUG, last t.....
» 12/05/2010 7:28:45 PM *Now, how about stepping back and letting them work out for themselves who, out of you and.....
» 12/05/2010 7:24:55 PM *One of the few things about city life that I miss is going to the movies - DVDs don't qui.....
» 12/05/2010 7:10:57 PM Yup Rectub, we are having a great year with lambs. They kept the price so low for so long .....
» 12/05/2010 4:37:35 PM Not so Examinator. The fact is that if you want to throw around insults as you did, which .....
» 12/05/2010 12:36:03 PM *Obfuscation 101, throw in ad hominem to cover your mistake and ridicule topic raised and .....
» 12/05/2010 10:43:06 AM Hehe Pericles, a while back I was watching three parrots just outside my breakfast window,.....
» 12/05/2010 10:08:33 AM * constantly seeking ways to fleece fees and charges out of ordinary Australians,* Sheesh.....
» 12/05/2010 9:56:24 AM *There's no way we will ever convince the other* Pericles absolutaly, but this is more ab.....
» 11/05/2010 7:38:36 PM *I find the constant background hum of a city, interspersed with the occasional siren, ext.....
» 11/05/2010 5:10:08 PM Mikk, the little problem that you face is the law of unintended consequences, when you ove.....
» 11/05/2010 4:55:22 PM Your problem sonofgloin, is that Woolies and Coles are both public companies, so we can fo.....
» 11/05/2010 4:01:54 PM *Many, mothers particularly, missed family.* Hasbeen, you hit the nail on the head with t.....
» 11/05/2010 3:03:38 PM *dealing with what is effectively a non-renewable resource, with multiple competing purcha.....
» 10/05/2010 7:58:18 PM Pelican, it does not matter if money is printed or not. The RBA could write an IOU to othe.....
» 10/05/2010 7:41:28 PM Nope Pericles, no kidding, its the latest in dairy technology. The first ones I heard abou.....
» 10/05/2010 3:48:32 PM Pericles, I thought I had you about right. It must be something to do with our genes/envir.....
» 10/05/2010 3:22:31 PM Examinator, you are dribbling yet once again. Now listen to a fellow like Marius Kloppers.....
» 9/05/2010 10:20:58 PM *The tragedy is that the likes of Shadow minister, Yabby, Hasbeen et al and the great unw.....
» 9/05/2010 10:06:32 PM Ah Pelican, as you know I think its the greatest thing going! I certainly would never agai.....
» 9/05/2010 8:35:00 PM Pelican, you have to understand the reasons why we seperate central banks from politically.....
» 9/05/2010 11:09:42 AM Arjay, I've said all along that the stimulus was not required in the first place and as we.....
» 9/05/2010 12:06:28 AM Ah Pelican, you are such a charming lady, with so many talents, but numbers is not one of .....
» 8/05/2010 12:54:41 PM Ok Dickie dear, its great to see that you have conceded about BHP ownership and that this .....
» 8/05/2010 2:48:38 AM Hehe Dickie dear, at least you sometimes still have a sense of humour :) Those shareholde.....
» 7/05/2010 7:03:39 PM *He was there to protect me and certain right wing forces might not like what we were doin.....
» 7/05/2010 6:22:29 PM *My childless status would be understood by you if you had actually read my contributions .....
» 7/05/2010 5:21:24 PM *Larry Silverstein hired suicide pilots to fly planes into New York buildings* Good grief.....
» 7/05/2010 4:10:33 PM http://www.bhpbilliton.com/annualreports2008/2008-business-review-and-annual-report/annual.....
» 7/05/2010 9:07:09 AM *Oh I forgot - it's all about you, isn't it Yabby?* No Severin, its about explaining to p.....
» 7/05/2010 8:58:41 AM Rehctub, you make a very valid point. The big winners from all this, will be the Chinese. .....
» 6/05/2010 11:22:42 PM Suze, for once and for alltimes, finally get it through your head, condoms ruin great sex......
» 6/05/2010 10:43:50 PM Mikk, nobody claimed that Canada was loaded with iron ore and coal, but those are just two.....
» 6/05/2010 9:33:42 PM *However, the bores on pastoral stations have been closed due to the cancellation of pasto.....
» 6/05/2010 7:02:48 PM *Perhaps if we go down your route of a tax levy, we could use some of those mining taxes t.....
» 6/05/2010 4:16:14 PM Dickie dear, the "dear" refers to you as an "old dear" or grandma, rat.....
» 6/05/2010 9:06:56 AM Dickie dear, miners dig holes in the ground, because you the consumer demand it. You use p.....
» 5/05/2010 11:10:39 PM *Secondly re jobs, well we don't need more jobs at the moment.* Sheesh Pelican, I will re.....
» 5/05/2010 7:52:32 PM *Australians who also pay taxes to provide infrastructures to support the towns and the pe.....
» 5/05/2010 3:31:50 PM *but the Animal instint Analogies used over these 33 pages are to my mind too superficial .....
» 5/05/2010 11:03:35 AM *Yes if I had the money and there were no environmental issues, I would invest in mining g.....
» 4/05/2010 10:33:57 PM *but structuring our future well being around mining is a mistake.* Ah Baygon, you are cl.....
» 4/05/2010 9:28:25 PM *So, in other words, it's all the reasonable child can expect is - if its dad is present a.....
» 4/05/2010 11:25:55 AM Ah Peter, some interesting points! However your ideas are not new, we can learn much fro.....
» 2/05/2010 8:50:47 PM Squeers, you raise some interesting points, so I shall add my 5c worth. The only ones who.....
» 2/05/2010 2:03:52 PM *Twice* Good grief Belly, it must be about to snow in coastal NSW :) Ah well, that is go.....
» 1/05/2010 8:34:04 PM Belly, you miss the point completely. I will be the first to agree that the liberals righ.....
» 1/05/2010 5:43:29 PM Poirot, you sound confused. What on earth are you doing, going to Coles or Woolies, if you.....
» 1/05/2010 2:19:46 PM *Rudd in my view understands we need better health care,* Belly, you miss my point entire.....
» 1/05/2010 11:50:51 AM Ah Belly, you continue to be very tribal by nature, fair enough, that is you. Your party, .....
» 1/05/2010 11:32:05 AM Mikk, you are clearly not a very good housewife :) For then you would have a pantry, just.....
» 30/04/2010 9:39:19 PM *I could just as easily, and do, maintain that many, various and beautiful young women hav.....
» 30/04/2010 11:08:21 AM In a way Belly, you highlight the problem. You are so keen on politics, that your crystal .....
» 29/04/2010 10:26:20 PM In some ways, this is actually a really sad story, for this country is just loaded with op.....
» 28/04/2010 5:42:50 PM Hehe Pelican, better yet, if you should one day perchance land up single again, just give .....
» 27/04/2010 9:21:12 PM Sheesh Cherful, sounds like you want me to write my life story here :) So rather then wri.....
» 26/04/2010 9:33:36 PM *So as you see, I don't subscribe to any form of determinism;* Squeers, I read alot of Fr.....
» 26/04/2010 2:49:16 PM *But I'm more interested, Foxy and Yabby, in what you make of my (and the book's, 'The Myt.....
» 25/04/2010 10:17:58 PM So to sum it up, we know that serial monogomy is natural , as it exists in nature, amongst.....
» 24/04/2010 10:22:18 PM CJ, lets just say that I've had an interesting love life over the years. That included som.....
» 24/04/2010 8:34:45 PM *I never hear men speak about soul mates, only women, I think men are more practical about.....
» 24/04/2010 11:02:33 AM Pelican, I think what has changed for the positive today, is that people have choices and .....
» 23/04/2010 3:18:49 PM *Have you ever been jailed - some people refer to them as 'holiday resorts' too,* CJ, I w.....
» 22/04/2010 9:18:28 PM Foxy, as a librarian you should have no problem having a look at a book written by anthrop.....
» 22/04/2010 7:49:10 PM *Although you know that 90% of asylum seekers who arrive in Australia by boat are subseque.....
» 21/04/2010 9:32:29 PM *We have these gifts but 90% of us don't know it , Wake up Australia !* People know it Ga.....
» 21/04/2010 9:20:18 AM I'll vote for any party, which finally has the testicles to do what should have been done .....
» 21/04/2010 8:43:36 AM Oh no Arjay, that was hardly an ad hominem, more like a bit of good advice! I find your d.....
» 20/04/2010 8:54:35 PM *Pericles and Yabby are dinosaurs with beaker frog syndrome.They have yet to realise that .....
» 19/04/2010 10:07:10 PM Deary me Arjay, next you will be slitting your wrists. I remind you that Obama is far sma.....
» 19/04/2010 7:50:51 PM Hehe, I have news for you Arjay. My only real concern is that you are going to die of worr.....
» 18/04/2010 9:42:40 PM Alot of these people simply don't seem to understand the basics. You can keep trying to p.....
» 18/04/2010 9:20:08 PM Pelican, I accept that the whole trade, free trade story is counter intuitive. For that v.....
» 18/04/2010 2:41:30 PM *You are assuming I am the one not living in the real world* Pelican, well I did show you.....
» 17/04/2010 4:12:57 PM Next we have political agendas. When for instance Saudi Arabia decided that they would gr.....
» 17/04/2010 4:00:35 PM Pelican, you need to get back to fundamentals, then you will understand it. Now its a fac.....
» 17/04/2010 11:17:08 AM CJ, that is probably because in Switzerland, learning some kind of trade is just about con.....
» 17/04/2010 10:24:23 AM But Pelican, nothing is stopping anyone in Australia from growing garlic. Those who do, ha.....
» 16/04/2010 9:44:13 PM *Unsurprisingly, given the tortoise-slow pace with which Obama's "change" is tak.....
» 16/04/2010 7:18:51 PM Pelican, I mentioned Aldi for good reasons. Your claim earlier in this thread was that imp.....
» 16/04/2010 2:28:29 PM I have to agree, boredom is largely a state of mind. I have a curious nature, so am always.....
» 15/04/2010 7:18:34 PM *If a company was foolish enough to sell computers at overly inflated prices they won't ge.....
» 15/04/2010 5:31:14 PM *Why would you import lamb that you didn't need?* Who said that they don't need lamb? Why.....
» 15/04/2010 5:08:37 PM CJ, in that case your problem is with the design of the queue. Even if more are taken each.....
» 15/04/2010 2:47:08 PM *The Chinese have only shot themselves in the foot if other nations react with action* Pe.....
» 15/04/2010 2:29:41 PM CJ, applications to live in Australian, are taken at any Australian Embassy around the wo.....
» 15/04/2010 11:16:25 AM Pelican, I've read the best in depth analysis about the Stern Hu case, on Asia Times Onlin.....
» 15/04/2010 10:46:29 AM Hang on, I want a politician who shows good judgement, not a chest thumping one who is see.....
» 15/04/2010 10:26:39 AM *It is false because the number of asylum seekers who come here by air with falsified pape.....
» 14/04/2010 9:22:29 PM *Now, after ten months in hell* Err hang on, taxpayers coughed up something like 300 mill.....
» 14/04/2010 4:50:10 PM *Yabby (my petal) :)* Sheesh, you made my day now :) *All that is very good if you are t.....
» 14/04/2010 4:08:41 PM *I referred to the toilet seat issue as it is apparently of great angst for some people - .....
» 14/04/2010 2:12:34 PM Its really quite simple Belly. In many marriages there are little power games going on, be.....
» 13/04/2010 8:16:56 PM *Why does China matter?* Sheesh Pelican, we will have to go back to basics here :) Austr.....
» 13/04/2010 8:03:38 PM *That is why they ignore obvious links between homosexuality and child abuse.* Runner, I .....
» 12/04/2010 3:47:45 PM Csteele, Mullah Omar, head of the Taliban and ex ruler of Afghanistan, in fact escaped on .....
» 12/04/2010 2:22:35 PM *It seems to be in the news every day and triggering off countless forums.* Much the same.....
» 12/04/2010 10:33:39 AM *How about then installing someone as Pope who is committed to "sweeping the filth&qu.....
» 12/04/2010 9:15:45 AM *Now he was referring to 'escalation of force' instances at checkpoints* Ah Csteele, but .....
» 11/04/2010 5:41:04 PM *If by that you mean the Emissions Trading Scheme. That will be paid for by the polluters,.....
» 11/04/2010 2:19:30 PM The housing bubble really got going in the Howard years, for a number of reasons. More imm.....
» 11/04/2010 9:59:41 AM Arjay, I don't follow NSW politics in particular, but by what I've read in the financial p.....
» 10/04/2010 9:16:11 PM Tapp, I think you will find that around Australia, electricity charges are due to rise, fo.....
» 10/04/2010 7:26:04 PM Foxy, the very idea of privatisation, is that you actually create competition, so that peo.....
» 9/04/2010 8:44:56 PM Cornflower, the Sunday Times article did not try to "prove" anything. It was sim.....
» 9/04/2010 8:24:15 PM *We introduced trade sanctions against Iraq and South Africa for humanitarian reasons, why.....
» 9/04/2010 7:58:23 PM *even hitting them over the head with a mallet of evidence will produce no result* Hehe P.....
» 9/04/2010 11:25:59 AM Csteele, I put it to you that drones, especially as they improve over time, will actually .....
» 9/04/2010 10:49:27 AM Cornflower, my figures are based on Perth, as its a market that I know about. The Sunday T.....
» 8/04/2010 8:47:43 PM *killing 14 Al-Qaeda leaders.* Your figures are flawed csteele, for the deaths only refer.....
» 8/04/2010 10:13:11 AM Rehctub, indeed profits are tax free. The little old lady who bought a house 40 years ago .....
» 8/04/2010 9:31:08 AM *I however can talk from insiders view, government management is the failure* Belly, I ag.....
» 7/04/2010 9:23:24 PM *Militants now sneak into villages two at a time to sleep, he said. Some homeowners were r.....
» 7/04/2010 8:44:39 PM *The lure of making money from houses has taken money and resources away from the manufact.....
» 7/04/2010 8:19:11 PM *Why is it now that everyone complains so much?* Foxy, because people have short and flaw.....
» 5/04/2010 8:15:41 PM *It also means that casuals miss out on the shifts and they also have bills to pay.* Pel.....
» 5/04/2010 7:59:50 PM The BBCs "Dateline" journalists had a discussion on this topic, which I found mo.....
» 2/04/2010 12:14:18 PM *One of the aspects of "civilization" over the years has been the acceptance tha.....
» 1/04/2010 10:26:23 PM *It's taken us this long to gain our excellent working conditions in this country - we're .....
» 1/04/2010 9:04:29 PM *And yes I probably do need to get off this high horse.* You probably should, csteele. Fo.....
» 1/04/2010 5:24:11 AM Deary me csteele, do you even know what life was like in Afghanistan when the Taliban rule.....
» 31/03/2010 10:31:36 PM http://web.youngmuslims.ca/online_library/books/milestones/hold/index_2.htm Not so csteel.....
» 31/03/2010 7:46:02 PM *The natural extension of this is that if one day someone in a cave in Waziristan decides .....
» 31/03/2010 5:54:04 PM http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/politics/how-obama-moved-in-for-the-kill-20100329-r85u.html .....
» 29/03/2010 9:26:55 PM Steven the thing is, you will never have to actually deliver or prove anything, just push .....
» 29/03/2010 8:33:01 PM *Some have more choices and opportunities than others, but this idea of 'purpose' is rubbi.....
» 29/03/2010 6:33:17 PM Aha, so its back to name calling, when Keith trips up over the hedging question, as he has.....
» 29/03/2010 9:56:57 AM http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/queensland/pastor-leaves-800k-richer/story-e6freoof-111.....
» 28/03/2010 8:39:39 PM Keith, the reason some Americans are angry is because they are human and need somebody to .....
» 28/03/2010 6:36:42 PM Keith, what your reasoning seems to come down to, is that because Obama hasn't rushed out .....
» 28/03/2010 1:33:33 PM Richie, the two little *, one at each end of the sentence, meant I was quoting and it came.....
» 28/03/2010 10:41:27 AM I think it was Dawkins who pointed out that we are the bodies which dna uses, to pass itse.....
» 26/03/2010 10:58:24 PM *Similarily it is far to soon to assess the effectiveness of George W. Bush's Presidency.*.....
» 26/03/2010 7:16:25 PM *Benny Hinn, an American televangelist, left Australia after his last visit with nearly $1.....
» 26/03/2010 2:40:09 PM Keith, Obama's claim was that he has the ability to show good judgement, something which i.....
» 25/03/2010 8:08:15 PM *Yes Obama is a total failure.* He is? Lets look at bit of history here. Clinton leaves .....
» 24/03/2010 10:14:01 PM Bashing the big two, Coles and Woolies, has almost become a sport for Channel 7. Its prett.....
» 21/03/2010 8:57:51 PM Oops Arjay, this is what you will find, if you search Wiki for information about the Glass.....
» 21/03/2010 1:33:47 PM Forkes, what went on in Afghanistan under the Taliban for years, was well publicised in th.....
» 21/03/2010 1:09:36 PM Fester, I guess alot will depend on how Govts change the tax structure. The thing is, if a.....
» 20/03/2010 8:37:50 PM *Back before LE there was a huge trade for sheep meat with most of it going in to 'cheap s.....
» 20/03/2010 6:43:50 PM I certainly see a role for electric cars and I'll think they will become pretty popular, m.....
» 20/03/2010 10:24:19 AM Hang on Arjay, it was Bush/Cheney/Republicans who dished out large tax cuts, then went on .....
» 19/03/2010 9:43:29 PM *You cannot solve a problem of debt by creating more of it.* Arjay, Ron Paul is a republi.....
» 19/03/2010 8:09:52 PM Rehctub, the problem is not subsidised freight. Just this week, one of the agents in the k.....
» 19/03/2010 5:48:53 PM *My interest in all this is to get investments in renewable energy and ways of reducing th.....
» 19/03/2010 2:08:05 PM The money will basically come from everyone's super fund savings, so Costello is correct, .....
» 19/03/2010 10:39:13 AM So the actual cost of a lamb, broken down and ready to go to the consumer, is between 5.70.....
» 19/03/2010 10:25:07 AM *Two things caused the present shortage. A huge drought in the early 90's and live export......
» 18/03/2010 9:11:09 PM Well there is always the old amusing saying that you should not let marriage intefere with.....
» 18/03/2010 8:32:14 PM *Welcome to new posters, please say something controversial, so we can disagree.* Hehe Be.....
» 17/03/2010 9:55:44 PM *It is not practical for me to monitor the firms my super fund invests in, and then to mon.....
» 17/03/2010 8:21:41 PM Rehctub, I did not say that we should ban imported cars, I said that you should not be a h.....
» 17/03/2010 2:06:09 PM *So there's an intrinsic cost in the money-creation process. I think that's what you're sa.....
» 17/03/2010 9:44:42 AM Ngarmada, the Govt gave nothing away for free, but basically undertook a commercial insura.....
» 16/03/2010 11:00:55 PM Half of all marriages land up in the divorce courts, which is a messy business alot of the.....
» 16/03/2010 10:59:35 PM *and you decided that we should give up our city apartment and go and live somewhere back .....
» 16/03/2010 9:44:16 PM Ngarmada, I think that is an interesting question, but frankly I don't think that the big .....
» 16/03/2010 8:28:16 PM *But that can be deposited at another bank and a second loan made against it of $83. And s.....
» 16/03/2010 3:24:29 PM *I have mates with butcher shops who make many times that of the PM with limmited educatio.....
» 16/03/2010 10:14:55 AM *I said charging interest on money created out of nothing is unearned income.* Well that .....
» 15/03/2010 9:33:46 PM *This is why WA is often non-competetive in the market place.* Rehctub, the marketplace t.....
» 15/03/2010 9:22:43 PM *The following banks control the Govts of the West and decide who the next US president wi.....
» 15/03/2010 9:08:58 PM *Europe may never get over its disdain for Mr Bush. But they may someday come to realise t.....
» 15/03/2010 7:10:50 PM *even though most of the "loan" is not of previously-earned wealth but of money .....
» 14/03/2010 11:24:02 PM *I have mates with butcher shops who make many times that of the PM with limmited educatio.....
» 14/03/2010 10:39:18 PM Ah Benk, all you have pointed out is how difficult it is, to find a good CEO! Yes, many c.....
» 14/03/2010 10:16:54 PM Wow Arjay, 8000 supporters hey! Let me see, the US has a population of 300 million, that i.....
» 13/03/2010 9:18:34 PM Deary me Arjay, you are not the smartest little pea in that pod, you really arn't. Pericl.....
» 13/03/2010 6:16:17 PM Lol Arjay, we know all about your so called "fountain of knowledge". Its either.....
» 13/03/2010 10:00:52 AM *Compare this with the redistributed money to poorer people who now benefit and for exampl.....
» 12/03/2010 10:06:49 PM *I just wonder how many move their whole lives OS just to save on tax?* Ozzie, there are .....
» 12/03/2010 8:30:22 PM Arjay, it is not a question wether we can produce something. It is a question wether we c.....
» 12/03/2010 6:59:27 PM *since the masses lose incentive to excel beyond their mediocrity.* So in other words Arj.....
» 12/03/2010 1:46:36 PM *The greater the disparity the greater the gap between those who can live well and those w.....
» 12/03/2010 12:14:28 PM *Do you really feel many highly paid individuals would move OS and leave family, friends, .....
» 12/03/2010 11:55:41 AM Ah Peter, perhaps people don't understand it, because your theory is flawed. What you are.....
» 11/03/2010 9:15:13 PM *Unless you can show how stamping paper creates real wealth, then you *are* too stupid to .....
» 11/03/2010 7:32:02 PM Peter, you continue with your straw man tactics, so I will make it even simpler for you to.....
» 11/03/2010 7:15:45 PM *No one is worth hundreds of millions as a CEO.It is the upper and middle managers who do .....
» 11/03/2010 5:58:10 PM Peter, repeating your own straw man arguments over and over again, is not going to win you.....
» 11/03/2010 3:58:44 PM *I don't think you can compare a push for higher wages for lower income workers with highl.....
» 11/03/2010 1:32:15 PM *I would also suggest that greed is fine, providing it's on a level playing field* Examin.....
» 11/03/2010 10:36:44 AM Pelican, I think you will find that human greed runs right through society and that those .....
» 10/03/2010 10:35:17 PM Sorry, but I kind of remember what things were like when the Taliban ran Afghanistan. Hand.....
» 10/03/2010 10:09:19 PM *How can we justify this level of largesse?* Quite easily Tumblegum. People are paid what.....
» 10/03/2010 9:05:33 PM *he's practically identical to your bloke, just not as cunning.* Hmm, on this occasion I .....
» 10/03/2010 8:51:35 PM *The claims of the inflationists, to create prosperity by credit expansion, cannot withsta.....
» 9/03/2010 7:30:23 PM *The risk-averse could deposit their money at 100% backing, with no return (because it cou.....
» 9/03/2010 2:07:34 PM I have to agree with Graham here. This is all about sly politics, trying to buy enough vot.....
» 9/03/2010 11:45:01 AM Peter, printed pieces of paper only make up a very small fraction of the money supply. All.....
» 8/03/2010 9:15:04 PM Peter, people can store their wealth, in any form that they like. They only need to conver.....
» 8/03/2010 8:53:34 PM Ok Mandy, I'll bite and give you my 5c worth. At some point we have to accept the realiti.....
» 8/03/2010 12:59:45 PM *It should be entirely for the parties to decide,* Peter, it is already up to the parties.....
» 7/03/2010 8:43:37 PM Arjay, you are not the smartest pea in the pod lol, you really arn't. What the US has to .....
» 7/03/2010 7:04:45 PM Peter, I think you'll find that the world's central banks decided that annual inflation of.....
» 7/03/2010 6:54:09 PM *He can't smell that good that it would hide all of his other dubious charms!* Ah Suze, i.....
» 7/03/2010 1:40:38 PM Oops Arjay, its all gloom and doom, time to slit your wrists or jump out of that window :(.....
» 7/03/2010 9:52:00 AM Suze, you are making the flawed assumption that people get into relationships for rational.....
» 5/03/2010 10:28:08 AM It seems to me, that you are presenting an either-or scenario here Brian. We can choose to.....
» 4/03/2010 11:22:50 PM Hang on, don't blame the media, for giving the public, what they want! Most media websit.....
» 4/03/2010 11:58:35 AM The point to be remembered, is that iron ore is still dirt cheap. At around 6c to 10c a kg.....
» 3/03/2010 6:55:19 PM *Yabby – it is curious that you speak favourably of altruism and self-interest in the same.....
» 3/03/2010 5:23:42 PM *Morality is basically an agreed set of principles between members of a society, no matter.....
» 3/03/2010 2:34:49 PM *please tell me what basis there is for moral values beyond one’s own personal preferences.....
» 28/02/2010 1:36:35 PM *As an example, CJ Morgan was 'stalked' by Ludwig just recently.* Oh what nonsense! That .....
» 26/02/2010 6:12:17 PM *There is an etiquette that should be observed in posting* But Foxy, there is a huge diff.....
» 26/02/2010 2:53:12 PM *When someone attaches unkindness to criticism, they're angry. Angry people need to critic.....
» 25/02/2010 7:07:40 PM If that is your aim, then perhaps OLO needs more common kind of female topics. "Days .....
» 19/02/2010 11:18:41 PM RawMustard, for all your chest thumping and feelgood stuff, I don't think that you are giv.....
» 18/02/2010 9:43:11 PM It seems to me that in Australia we believe in the so called separation of the powers, whe.....
» 18/02/2010 9:31:24 PM http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osborne_(computer_retailer) Pericles, my Osborne came from t.....
» 18/02/2010 11:29:10 AM Pericles, you clearly weren't following the story, as it unfolded over time! Sometimes, wi.....
» 17/02/2010 9:07:45 PM That was actually an interesting story Rstuart, so I'll tell it to you from my perspective.....
» 17/02/2010 4:27:28 PM cont. Your points have in fact been valuable, as they made me write down exactly what I h.....
» 17/02/2010 4:24:24 PM *did you get around to replacing Outlook Express, or did you simply pay up?* Pericles, I .....
» 16/02/2010 9:21:07 PM Arjay, since Obama was elected, he has shown that he keeps an open mind, then constantly d.....
» 16/02/2010 9:01:41 PM At last I can catch up here, for I have been tinkering all day, but with big toys, not off.....
» 15/02/2010 8:58:03 PM *So all your rabbiting on about loving a tinker-free life with Microsoft was simply code f.....
» 15/02/2010 2:13:46 PM *From experience, I know that it would be easier to introduce runner to Wicca.* ROFL Peri.....
» 14/02/2010 11:51:45 PM *Actually, there is a reason why it won't.* Rstuart, that remains to be seen. Changing th.....
» 14/02/2010 7:23:38 PM *Obama extended the war into Pakistan and yabby has the audacity to call him a seeker of p.....
» 14/02/2010 6:28:47 PM *So true. But what about the cost of your latest move to Windows 7? Including the cost of .....
» 14/02/2010 10:54:16 AM *You have to spend 15 minutes with Google to check. And if it doesn't, you are out of luck.....
» 13/02/2010 9:29:10 PM Emotions do indeed play a huge role in elections and politcians know it. Karl Rove worked .....
» 13/02/2010 8:08:43 PM RawMustard, sadly I am just a humble peasant, so not as smart as your kids. This week I or.....
» 12/02/2010 11:01:59 PM *And the cloudless skies - during summer.* Fair enough Foxy, you live in Melbourne and cl.....
» 12/02/2010 10:36:03 PM Joel, what it comes down to is that most girls love schmalz. That is the reality of the fe.....
» 12/02/2010 9:10:18 PM *You must be that rare bird who doesn't have to spend many frustrating hours whenever the .....
» 12/02/2010 8:40:16 PM Back to my points to Pericles, I'll come to the other points in time, one by one. As for.....
» 12/02/2010 9:53:32 AM Pericles, I went through the "I hate Microsoft" phase, then one day it dawned on.....
» 11/02/2010 10:11:13 PM *The Whitsundays - would not be hard to take. Whether its - Airlie Beach, or - Hamilton or.....
» 11/02/2010 9:44:03 PM At least CJ admits to knowing little about economics. Luckily he and the Greens have nothi.....
» 10/02/2010 9:54:46 PM I've travelled heaps, around Europe, parts of Africa and parts of Asia. Then time in the U.....
» 10/02/2010 9:42:29 PM *Ever heard of Red Hat, Ubuntu, Novell?* Rstuart, clearly they are not doing such a good .....
» 10/02/2010 3:31:54 PM *I was simply addressing your proposition that you need to be a software tinkerer to use a.....
» 10/02/2010 10:04:00 AM *but are those involved in exploration and drilling necessarily contenders for ownership?*.....
» 10/02/2010 9:33:30 AM *it seems to me that you are committing the fatal flaw of seeing the world through your na.....
» 9/02/2010 11:42:34 PM *why do we balk at the idea of Australia (the Australian people) owning a project like Gor.....
» 9/02/2010 11:21:33 PM *I could rant on and on about the injustices perpetuated on society by the use of Microsof.....
» 9/02/2010 11:35:26 AM Sounds to me like the Young abattoir is part of the restructure of agriculture, that has b.....
» 8/02/2010 9:58:05 PM *By all accounts 'rump steak' should be around $45 per kilo and 'Lamb chops' about the sam.....
» 6/02/2010 10:41:21 PM *We could reduce the size and waste of our cities (impact) simply by having smaller houses.....
» 6/02/2010 8:34:33 PM I actually don't have a problem, if they restrict how much can be drawn at any one time. I.....
» 5/02/2010 7:41:42 PM Rehctub, IMHO our super is about as safe as the Australian economy and as none of us can p.....
» 4/02/2010 9:21:28 PM Sells continues to view the world, through his narrow perspective. Last time that I chec.....
» 3/02/2010 10:15:49 PM Arjay, you seemingly can't help yourself with your conspiracy fetish! You are trying to t.....
» 31/01/2010 10:09:03 PM Thanks for trying rstuart. I do appreciate it. I've been reading quite a few of the revie.....
» 31/01/2010 7:47:56 PM http://www.softpedia.com/progViewOpinions/Evolution-for-Windows-43304,.html rstuart, I tr.....
» 31/01/2010 6:50:01 PM Examinator, you are clearly quite naive about the business world, especially big business......
» 31/01/2010 6:26:36 PM Belly, I've switched to Windows 7, as my old girl was regularly crashing, things get fairl.....
» 30/01/2010 7:10:47 PM I've used Outlook Express for years and years. So shock, horror, when I upgraded to Window.....
» 30/01/2010 6:57:07 PM Ah Examinator, my reasoning is simply more thought through then yours :) Anyone can join .....
» 30/01/2010 9:09:17 AM No matter which way you look at this one, more and more rainforests are being chopped down.....
» 30/01/2010 9:01:01 AM Pericles, IMHO daggett should pay you for an accurate and so far free psychology consultat.....
» 30/01/2010 8:00:16 AM Individual, if we only grew crops, where there is no risk, you would frankly starve. Agri.....
» 29/01/2010 10:26:29 PM *It's the corporations I don't trust the life science corps are in reality simply the re-b.....
» 27/01/2010 7:59:11 PM Dear Foxy, You did not read the Wickipedia website did you? It is far less biased. In re.....
» 27/01/2010 7:25:41 PM *If it's such a big deal for you guys - then take my advice and don't have anything snipp.....
» 27/01/2010 2:56:20 PM Foxy, a snip from Wickipedia: *There are several hypotheses to explain why infant circumc.....
» 26/01/2010 9:54:32 PM Suze, I'm with you on this one! It sounds like this kid is lucky, protected from his grand.....
» 26/01/2010 4:09:00 PM Loudmouth, I certainly did not claim that you were religious, merely letting the rhetoric .....
» 26/01/2010 2:49:45 PM Now Foxy, for the REALLY big question :) Some parents, for various reasons, hand over the.....
» 25/01/2010 5:04:53 PM Loudmouth, if my mom had not popped me out, I would not know a thing about it, so it frank.....
» 25/01/2010 9:11:45 AM *If they had described the noise as "like a very large rabbit, farting", would y.....
» 24/01/2010 9:46:36 PM Ok Foxy, so we can sum it up for you: Never mind the cellulite, stretch marks and wrinkl.....
» 24/01/2010 11:27:29 AM Loudmouth, I remind you that Singapore and Hong Kong have very low birthrates. Fact is if .....
» 23/01/2010 8:59:34 PM Ok, so the truth is slowly coming out. Ouf Foxy is not the youngest anymore sleek skin and.....
» 23/01/2010 9:50:44 AM *If Haiti was to create it's own currency then the international cartels will not then tra.....
» 20/01/2010 2:47:49 PM Foxy, how many of you librarians offered to take a 10-20% pay cut, so that the jobs of you.....
» 19/01/2010 9:16:15 PM *Under Jeff Kennett - quite a lot happened - that would have been quite difficult - withou.....
» 18/01/2010 9:42:06 PM *Its time for Canberra to show some integrity and leadership and get rid of Summenats.* Z.....
» 18/01/2010 9:37:10 PM *But how would declaring upfront that I am a gay, liberal, filthy rich single man, educate.....
» 18/01/2010 1:13:50 PM Foxy, perhaps from your perspective its a huge move, but for people who have travelled reg.....
» 17/01/2010 5:50:21 PM Poirot, I read your link, which sounds to me that it is more about your own political view.....
» 17/01/2010 2:16:35 PM Poirot, I read your links. Haiti's problems are far greater then the "evil capitali.....
» 16/01/2010 2:27:44 PM Poirot, yes indeed, the earthquake in Haiti is a very sad story. It sounds like the US, as.....
» 15/01/2010 7:37:02 PM Graham, that is great news. The efforts of you and your crew are much appreciated! *new c.....
» 14/01/2010 10:55:05 PM Deary me, next thing runner will be telling us that he agrees with Pat Robertson, that the.....
» 13/01/2010 10:39:55 PM There you go Arjay, there is a peoples bank for you, the Fed! 45 billion in profits, paid.....
» 11/01/2010 6:44:32 AM Poirot, if you read the FAQ about the World bank, it hardly sets out to rip off poor count.....
» 10/01/2010 10:05:25 PM Pynchme, perhaps most blokes simply designate that stuff as "womens work" :) *T.....
» 10/01/2010 9:51:40 PM I could be wrong, but I'd suggest that perhaps Herman has a hidden agenda here, like hopin.....
» 10/01/2010 12:54:45 PM *Harping about what radical extremists believe - only ignores the fact that all religions .....
» 10/01/2010 12:28:18 PM *we can do other things besides bonk and produce babies.* Pynchme, well I should hope so!.....
» 10/01/2010 12:12:55 PM Poirot, nations build dams for many reasons, including hydro power, water for cities,indus.....
» 9/01/2010 9:48:10 PM Rehctub, to be really honest, I think you are perhaps missing the point as to what is real.....
» 9/01/2010 7:39:31 PM *I aspire to make a difference in Australian politics and, ultimately, world politics* Oo.....
» 9/01/2010 7:24:50 PM *People don't just migrate to the slums because they think they have any kind of future or.....
» 9/01/2010 11:46:05 AM I'll have to disagree with the author of this article. Anyone who thought that some magic.....
» 7/01/2010 1:07:52 PM *I'm inclined to think this whole body image thing is just symptomatic of rampant consumer.....
» 6/01/2010 6:58:17 PM *What does this mean? First, Mwinga can afford to send his ten children to school and give.....
» 6/01/2010 6:38:28 PM *There will always be someone more beautiful more brainy more elegant more skilled than on.....
» 5/01/2010 9:54:20 PM *The current prosperity of Christian countries owes everything to the secular Enlightenmen.....
» 5/01/2010 4:05:52 PM Daggett, I have not examined the matter in detail, but to the best of my knowledge, who wr.....
» 4/01/2010 5:19:26 PM Daggett, I am not even trying to explain why the building collapsed in a manner that looke.....
» 4/01/2010 2:55:05 PM Daggett, if you read the history of that building, it certainly was not a typical design. .....
» 3/01/2010 9:15:42 PM * It is hypocritical in the extreme for Abbott only the other day arguing about safety and.....
» 3/01/2010 1:47:43 PM http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7_World_Trade_Center Ah, now that sounds much more plausible.....
» 3/01/2010 1:31:15 PM *Then tell me what influence the Pope has on the behaviour of populations in Africa, the f.....
» 2/01/2010 9:24:57 PM *Most of today's foreign workers come from the Asian subcontinent, the Philippines and oth.....
» 2/01/2010 2:44:13 PM Michael 2, we are well aware of biochar and its potential, its not yet being done on a com.....
» 2/01/2010 1:30:59 PM *Shanty towns with horrific living conditions - are a part of the urban scene in these are.....
» 2/01/2010 11:00:21 AM *I would like to suggest farmers start putting more carbon in their soil.* Michael 2, I w.....
» 31/12/2009 2:04:26 PM Foxy, to answer your question, there are a number of reasons. The interesting thing is h.....
» 30/12/2009 6:21:40 PM Sancho, you are of course correct, South America is very much Catholic and in recent years.....
» 28/12/2009 7:11:23 PM *How can Iran possible be a threat to anyone?* You still don't get it Arjay. If a nutcase.....
» 28/12/2009 6:36:55 PM *The Church operates from a position of power and, not surprisingly, wants to stay there. .....
» 27/12/2009 5:30:42 PM *The failure of WHO to be able to do anything during this period to which I referred -- se.....
» 26/12/2009 11:47:49 PM *My point is simple. The Catholic Church issues doctrines as a package. You don't take som.....
» 26/12/2009 9:12:51 PM Arjay, whilst you are busy dreaming up new conspiracy theories, you are going to have to c.....
» 26/12/2009 5:38:51 AM *To me, it seems that without having sex, people won't make babies and the world won't be .....
» 24/12/2009 2:13:05 PM *Solar panells come with a 30 yr guarentee.* Ho ho ho Desmond, you are clearly more trust.....
» 24/12/2009 2:02:04 PM Yawn, more Vatican spin from Ratzinger. I guess he needs to say something to impress his d.....
» 23/12/2009 3:52:29 PM *We had five kids in six years* Sheesh, personally I would have used a credit card to get.....
» 23/12/2009 8:07:15 AM I'm not wrong Belly. No business can buy something at 60c and sell it at 20c and survive f.....
» 22/12/2009 11:17:51 PM Agronomist, I'd say that this thread is more about UOG getting his conspiracy fix for the.....
» 22/12/2009 11:14:20 PM Sheesh Arjay, and there was silly old me, thinking that preventing the Taliban from once .....
» 22/12/2009 10:31:19 PM *If every house in au had a solar system don't you recon it would make a difference in the.....
» 22/12/2009 3:00:58 PM *750 kwh's Exported @ .60 cents / kw = $ 450 Paid as credit* Ah Desmond, so in fact you a.....
» 21/12/2009 9:49:24 PM It's not just in SE Queensland, Ludwig. An electrician friend of mine, who only works in .....
» 19/12/2009 9:08:47 PM Now now Foxy, your smoking reminder was a particularly poor example :) It would be more .....
» 19/12/2009 6:16:38 PM Sounds to me like the tragedy of the commons is alive and well. The Chinese refuse to sig.....
» 19/12/2009 3:55:40 PM *A little while back, our PM cited a couple of hot days in Adelaide as proof of AGW,* Tha.....
» 17/12/2009 10:52:01 PM Oops Arjay, I note that Bernanke has just been annointed Time's "Man of the Year".....
» 17/12/2009 9:33:49 PM *If a 'tragedy' begins then we will deal with * So you claim Jon J, but the reality is qu.....
» 17/12/2009 9:18:06 PM Foxy, I'd say that would be a correct observation. Once people are married, they have snar.....
» 16/12/2009 9:34:51 PM *How can the Global Reserve Banks be the most powerful institutions on the planet when the.....
» 16/12/2009 11:48:55 AM Deary me Kellie, sounds like you are on a severe Western guilt trip, with that article. I.....
» 15/12/2009 11:38:59 PM So let me get this right Foxy. What you seem to be implying, is that if little Johnnie, wh.....
» 15/12/2009 11:30:55 PM For those interested, if you can still obtain a copy, last weekend's Weekend Australian ma.....
» 15/12/2009 10:45:11 PM The real problem Arjay, is that we have a shortage of houses being built, compared to our .....
» 15/12/2009 10:10:27 PM *The fair taxation of both is to tax on the basis of real gain, not nominal gain. Is it an.....
» 15/12/2009 4:58:54 PM Your profit burbs, is in the equity that you have in your house, which is in today's Dolla.....
» 15/12/2009 2:23:22 PM * And I don't know about you but it's been a while since my pay-rise was more than 4% p.a......
» 13/12/2009 11:48:05 PM RawMustard, sure, when Greenspan was in charge of the Fed, we can say with hindsight that .....
» 13/12/2009 5:12:13 PM Arjay, it seems that anyone in the US can go along to the US Mint and buy coins made of va.....
» 13/12/2009 2:56:10 PM *Ron proposes that a number of private mints make coins with precious metals.* Arjay, per.....
» 12/12/2009 8:07:22 PM *Women given testosterone during a trial got into fewer arguments.* Ah Ludwig, that shoul.....
» 12/12/2009 11:57:58 AM Bushbaser, as it happens I don't "read Bostom", but the link came up, when I sea.....
» 11/12/2009 10:14:36 PM *to suggest that the minaret ban isn't an example of religious intolerance is just ludicro.....
» 11/12/2009 9:24:39 PM The author claims to write for a living. Let's hope that nobody paid him for this bit of n.....
» 11/12/2009 11:14:18 AM *Why is it that you believe that we should emulate their intolerance?* Pericles, I am not.....
» 10/12/2009 9:08:54 PM *I would also avoid living in a country where they have a form of religious observance tha.....
» 10/12/2009 11:30:25 AM *What I am picking up is that people like Yabby would willingly support forced sterilisati.....
» 9/12/2009 9:25:55 PM They are cheek to cheek in Dhaka, but perhaps Cheryl never did make it to the slums. I n.....
» 9/12/2009 7:52:16 AM *I also said it wasn't clear whether it's the fairest way of doing things.* RobP, what I'.....
» 7/12/2009 11:30:05 PM *What's clear is that these boat people have taken the risk and are mostly up for the chal.....
» 6/12/2009 5:19:04 PM *If Oz goes it solo and takes a big bunch from a refugee camp, the UN or other interest gr.....
» 5/12/2009 9:47:28 PM *The problem with taking migrants from refugee camps as you've suggested before is the pot.....
» 5/12/2009 12:44:38 PM *isn't evidence, unless it came from someone in authority on the ship.* Well I grant you .....
» 4/12/2009 9:08:45 PM *What Ian is really saying is the most climate scientist are lying, that they are doing it.....
» 4/12/2009 5:21:24 PM * you my boy * Ho-ho-ho, along comes mother hen Bronnie, to rescue one of her chickens in.....
» 4/12/2009 2:01:09 PM *I would suggest that you all pack up and take a holiday to the United States* Oh I did j.....
» 3/12/2009 11:18:50 PM *though their religion alone is now denied full freedom of expression.* You miss the poin.....
» 3/12/2009 9:12:07 PM *What am I supposed to think? You keep forgetting the thread, perhaps?* Not so rstuart. I.....
» 3/12/2009 4:20:30 PM *But since they hadn't refused to get off the boat,* Yes they did refuse to get off the b.....
» 2/12/2009 9:21:12 PM *45% of children living in the state of Louisiana today, live under the poverty line. Thes.....
» 2/12/2009 6:02:49 PM Great post Horus! Methinks that rstuart is just playing silly buggers now, fully aware th.....
» 2/12/2009 12:28:35 AM *Come on, Yabby. Very few farmed animals have sex – even fewer get to do it because they c.....
» 1/12/2009 10:21:04 PM The issue is far more complex, then simply a bit of intolerance, as many are suggesting. .....
» 1/12/2009 10:00:27 PM *Why not wait until Copenagen and see what the rest of the world, the 'real CO2 generators.....
» 1/12/2009 7:09:50 PM Ah Rstuart, you remain confused by the rundown of events. From your very own article I quo.....
» 1/12/2009 4:34:03 PM *And let's kill this ridiculous idea of humane killing of farmed animals. -To take that li.....
» 1/12/2009 4:19:58 PM *I said that if refugee status is claimed by someone fleeing a peaceful village because a .....
» 1/12/2009 11:09:22 AM *I'm actually busting to do a course on Arabic and Islam to learn for myself the truth.* .....
» 30/11/2009 11:39:24 PM There are of course good pragmatic reasons why Catholic priests are banned from marrying. .....
» 30/11/2009 11:27:59 PM FWIW, Switzerland is a very regulated society. No, you can't just build any building as yo.....
» 30/11/2009 7:07:00 PM *I had sacrificed a couple of yabbies to this fish before I finally hooked him.* So there.....
» 30/11/2009 6:46:40 PM What is wrong with the ETS is that it is particularly bad for small business, in particula.....
» 30/11/2009 6:22:36 PM *If it was 30, then that is 38% acceptance - a definite improvement on the 90%* You are d.....
» 30/11/2009 1:42:51 PM *Wild because the war they are fleeing from is now over so if it didn't succeed before the.....
» 28/11/2009 12:18:04 AM *this frame of mind must be supported by an objective situation".* Ah rstuart, but t.....
» 27/11/2009 10:18:05 PM *This is evident in the energy industries of petrol and gas.We are paying too much for it......
» 27/11/2009 5:55:55 PM *One small example is that of 'automated chechouts' now being used in selected supermarket.....
» 27/11/2009 5:32:46 PM *Onshore asylum seekers?* Rstuart, I thought that the Human Rights Commission website tha.....
» 26/11/2009 10:37:01 PM *Another glib Yabbyism.* Not so RobP. Police forces around the world will verify that the.....
» 26/11/2009 3:57:13 PM Banjo, You are indeed correct. The 90% is constantly bandied around by the bleating hearts.....
» 25/11/2009 10:07:01 PM *Err he didn't take them to where they demanded to go, and they did accept that.* Err the.....
» 25/11/2009 2:47:39 PM *That last step could be anything from just accepting what is on the form, to insisting th.....
» 24/11/2009 11:34:06 PM Rehctub, the world does not owe you a living. Where we have a problem today, is not the c.....
» 24/11/2009 10:47:25 PM So what you are implying Suze, is that people have kids to satisfy their own self interest.....
» 24/11/2009 9:55:59 PM I watched a documentary on BBC TV over the weekend, called "Hot Cities". This e.....
» 24/11/2009 9:26:40 PM *It is difficult to describe in words the maternalistic feelings that sweep over when you .....
» 24/11/2009 8:11:34 PM *so now do you agree we will end up taking refugees TPV's in?* That depends on the Govt a.....
» 23/11/2009 11:07:42 PM *yet the resulting outcry forced us to give 150 permanent residency.* Ah of course rstuar.....
» 23/11/2009 3:29:36 PM *A link giving some background?* You really can't remember anything rstuart. Here is one .....
» 22/11/2009 9:24:16 PM *You claim the convention has loopholes, and we should be naming Australia's terms. But sa.....
» 22/11/2009 1:35:05 PM http://www.smh.com.au/business/learning-from-the-great-depression-20091113-iens.html Ross.....
» 21/11/2009 9:56:08 PM * But for some reason you can't bring yourself to say that. In fact, have you said what yo.....
» 21/11/2009 11:34:30 AM It seems to me that if we join the dots, our taxation system has as much to do with the pr.....
» 21/11/2009 9:25:39 AM *You will get no argument from me that refugees should return to their homeland once condi.....
» 19/11/2009 8:19:59 PM The interesting thing will be when another alleged sinking boat rings the Maritime Centre .....
» 19/11/2009 8:15:20 PM *This quality is extolled as a virtue in business, but thought badly of when people use it.....
» 19/11/2009 2:10:58 PM Me thinks that alot of the CO2 from power stations, will very possibly be used to grow alg.....
» 18/11/2009 11:22:47 PM *and the mentioning of unpaid overtime that many workers here do* I heard that too, Const.....
» 18/11/2009 10:43:35 PM * I.Q. this is our genetically inherited raw intelligence capacity* Spindoc, with respect.....
» 18/11/2009 8:47:34 PM *Agree 100%, but it is not just diplomacy.* So call it politics rstuart. Imagine if the L.....
» 18/11/2009 12:17:43 PM *So "double incomes" may have been the cause, rather than the effect, of more ex.....
» 18/11/2009 11:45:30 AM *You could say it’s a case of “Who dares wins”. In other contexts, like in business, that’.....
» 17/11/2009 3:34:28 PM *There's much more variety today which is a good thing. And that's been brought about beca.....
» 17/11/2009 2:49:29 PM *The three types are “Head”, solving by thinking, “Heart” solving by emotion and “Body” so.....
» 17/11/2009 10:06:16 AM The author makes some great points, with which I fully agree. What is evident is that tho.....
» 16/11/2009 3:14:50 PM *they don't recognise what they're doing, even when it's pointed out to them* Hang on the.....
» 16/11/2009 1:46:51 PM *The Australian Government needs to begin an education program within Australia on what it.....
» 16/11/2009 1:20:27 PM *As for our system for vetting asylum seekers, it is designed with the convenience of Gove.....
» 15/11/2009 10:52:02 PM *Yabby, you can bully me all you like* Err hang on Bronnie, I don't bully you lol. Fact i.....
» 15/11/2009 9:03:12 PM *This is a plain human emotion at work – and if that’s all it is, it should not be a hangi.....
» 15/11/2009 1:34:47 PM *As of November 10, only 138,000 of the original 294,000 remained in the camps. A big chal.....
» 15/11/2009 10:54:35 AM Animus RobP? Lol, because I make valid points of reason, because I am a skeptic, because.....
» 14/11/2009 8:49:51 PM *The livestock emissions, on their own, will cause significantly more warming in the next .....
» 14/11/2009 3:47:56 PM *Right now the 78 have done a much better job of this of you and thus have completely outf.....
» 14/11/2009 3:07:53 PM I have to agree with Robert here. The religious certainly have no moral claims here, given.....
» 13/11/2009 10:57:20 PM *If the Viking King were moored at Christmas Island the refugees would be frog marched off.....
» 13/11/2009 3:20:11 PM *I am proud to be a citizen of a country that honours its promises, Yabby.* That is very .....
» 13/11/2009 2:47:42 PM *Our government needs to be far more focussed on manufacturing for our long term security .....
» 12/11/2009 10:34:30 PM *As Minister for Small Business and Tourism, his achievements on behalf of small business .....
» 12/11/2009 10:02:33 PM rstuart, I remind you that the 1951 Convention is voluntary, for there is no international.....
» 12/11/2009 9:52:29 PM *Okay compared to Australia's domestic use figures of 176m3/p/y South Africa's is 82, Egyp.....
» 12/11/2009 11:18:01 AM RobP, if I do as I please on an Australian aircraft, or anywhere in Australia for that mat.....
» 12/11/2009 8:26:38 AM *Six months ago we installed such a system and coupled with the new lightglobes have reduc.....
» 11/11/2009 7:17:57 PM *Many are fearful of 78 boat people because of what they represent but don't think any fur.....
» 11/11/2009 4:22:03 PM *Yabby, it could also mean they’re not so stupid as to settle for a country like Indonesia.....
» 11/11/2009 11:58:29 AM *That assumes that blackmail is going on.* RobP, of course its blackmail! They refuse to .....
» 11/11/2009 9:39:23 AM RobP, I read the article, it goes on about the 78, missing the point entirely. Principle i.....
» 10/11/2009 10:23:24 PM *As to resources we strip six times the amount of water from our environment per capita co.....
» 10/11/2009 6:55:53 PM There is no doubt, the religious right are absolutaly obsessed with sex! When I was a te.....
» 10/11/2009 6:23:39 PM Csteele, indeed global fertility rates are dropping, but due to the increased population, .....
» 10/11/2009 5:44:09 PM I think its wise for Hockey to express what he actually believes in a religious sense, if .....
» 10/11/2009 12:33:36 PM *As a wealthy country shouldn't we do something to help the world ride out the population .....
» 10/11/2009 12:08:55 PM Rstuart, perhaps you missed this post, on one of the Bartlett threads: *Come on Mr Bartl.....
» 9/11/2009 8:34:16 PM *he must have been holding his own for too long* Lol Horus, you have CJ all figured out :.....
» 8/11/2009 6:34:11 PM *I’m holding my own in this debate, thank-you Yabby* Ah but the truth is slowly being rev.....
» 8/11/2009 2:36:32 PM I tend to agree with StevenMeyer on this one, this seems to be more a case of a one off, a.....
» 8/11/2009 1:29:19 PM *BTW, your measured and well-reasoned posts are much appreciated. :)* Translated that mea.....
» 7/11/2009 8:07:17 PM *not all unexpected arrivals are pulling swifties and not all are kosher either. The truth.....
» 7/11/2009 2:17:39 PM RobP, that is an intelligent and very fair question, which is a welcome change on this th.....
» 7/11/2009 11:12:24 AM Bronwyn, I frankly could not give a stuff what you think of Paul Sheehan or his opinions. .....
» 6/11/2009 9:49:20 PM *One error is that completing a PhD in creative writing or photography means that the stud.....
» 6/11/2009 7:55:21 PM Not so TZ, I might be blunt, I might not be PC, but I tell it like it is. Its exactly for .....
» 6/11/2009 6:32:16 PM http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,26312324-421,00.html Ah it won't be long now and we'.....
» 6/11/2009 4:27:12 PM *They've been demonised by just a handful of bitter people on this site.* TZ,flapping you.....
» 5/11/2009 10:53:17 PM *It shows such an old fashioned contempt towards females* You are indeed correct Smithy. .....
» 5/11/2009 7:03:44 PM *It’s because these countries are not signatories to the Refugee Convention* Not so Bronw.....
» 4/11/2009 11:13:47 PM *Some sections of our community have simply lost their humanity.* Not so TZ, some section.....
» 4/11/2009 10:59:45 PM Bronwyn doesn't know it, but I actually have a soft spot for her :) She reminds me so muc.....
» 4/11/2009 10:36:05 PM *By your logic they should still be risking their lives in unseaworthy boats to get there*.....
» 3/11/2009 10:13:27 PM *If that was so I would expect to see asylum seekers from all nearby poor countries. Inste.....
» 3/11/2009 8:05:42 PM *We have spent, what, 5 or so years trying to do just that. So far no one from either side.....
» 2/11/2009 8:19:36 PM *No I didn't - I just asked you for a source for it* You accused me of dishonesty. I migh.....
» 2/11/2009 8:02:41 PM *The problem is far deeper that the topic posed.* Sheesh Examinator, you will never get i.....
» 2/11/2009 2:04:49 PM *But as CJ's example shows they are now more often than not just unsubstantiated hearsay* .....
» 2/11/2009 10:08:38 AM * if we put up the barricades and turn our backs on our neighbours in need? We have to tak.....
» 1/11/2009 11:17:39 PM *shows an appalling inhumanity by anyone who is happy to subject people to this type of li.....
» 1/11/2009 9:27:19 PM *You are still arguing by extremes. I didn't say eliminate farming of animals* Examinator.....
» 1/11/2009 2:25:24 PM *Bronwyn Re: “Amnesty International has stated that the camps are filthy, overcrowded and .....
» 1/11/2009 11:24:24 AM *Violence will only up the stakes the pirates will simple become more violent in response*.....
» 1/11/2009 11:12:11 AM *Sorry old mate, that's a load of self interested justification.* Examinator, once again .....
» 1/11/2009 10:21:53 AM According to the Weekend Australia, Kevie nominated three reasons for a big Australia. Na.....
» 1/11/2009 9:38:12 AM This one is commonly discussed in the press these days, by people who throw all kinds of f.....
» 1/11/2009 8:47:46 AM Examinator, even in Western Australia, we have access to the news media! According to the .....
» 31/10/2009 6:09:51 PM *it will bleed votes from its base. That's why it won't want to stray too far from the ide.....
» 31/10/2009 3:29:34 PM Rob, any people caught in the middle would be processed according to the Geneva Convention.....
» 31/10/2009 8:49:45 AM Yes piracy is a growing problem for a simple reason, it pays them to do it! What happene.....
» 30/10/2009 10:36:44 PM My Google bar blocks any pop ups, they were driving me nuts when I tried to read the news .....
» 30/10/2009 8:32:38 PM *As they say, there's nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come. The trouble .....
» 29/10/2009 10:42:56 PM Stupidity is your only excuse on this one CJ, so we'll have to leave it as that excuse. N.....
» 29/10/2009 9:30:41 PM I guess Catholic pharmacists who want to push their views onto their customers, could alwa.....
» 29/10/2009 9:22:45 PM The obligations of a developed economy, would be to have fair, intelligent and cost effect.....
» 28/10/2009 9:28:25 PM *i bred pigeons/fish/weed,using the mendelism and other teqniqu* UOG methinks its all tha.....
» 26/10/2009 12:59:02 PM CJ, most of them won't have to queue up at all, but will be able to return to where they l.....
» 26/10/2009 12:21:42 PM CJ, the attempt at strawman arguments simply is not working for you, I'm afraid. So quit t.....
» 25/10/2009 10:34:30 PM *THERE IS NO QUEUE.* Yes there is a queue CJ. The Dept of Immigration clearly have a meth.....
» 25/10/2009 1:42:36 PM Ludwig, the CJ case is actually quite an interesting case, for here we have a man who clai.....
» 24/10/2009 2:53:07 PM *but when we have got it wrong, people have been sent back to be killed* So how many have.....
» 23/10/2009 2:02:21 PM *and the same old mutts* Sheesh, some of those mutts seem quite smart to me, as some mutt.....
» 22/10/2009 2:03:41 PM *We must also urge Indonesia to become a signatory to the Refugee Convention.* Lol Bronwy.....
» 20/10/2009 9:59:00 PM CJ, it is my intention to see things as they are and it is my intention that if we have a.....
» 20/10/2009 7:50:20 PM Well according to this story in the SMH, the smugglers are moving in on anyone in Sri Lank.....
» 20/10/2009 12:18:53 PM Yes indeed Jennifer, there is much sadness and sorrow in the third world. So the question .....
» 20/10/2009 9:53:57 AM CJ, don't ever try to make a living as a psychologist, its not your strong point. But keep.....
» 19/10/2009 5:40:20 PM Gawd Arjay, your information is about 10 years old and the world has moved on. Meantime A.....
» 19/10/2009 5:27:00 PM *So it's just a an unverifiable and very likely untrue factoid you thought you'd throw int.....
» 19/10/2009 5:07:24 PM *It should be remembered that the top one percent of taxpayers receive nearly 40% share of.....
» 19/10/2009 9:25:16 AM *for the halving of the due CGT rate (something brought in by the Howard government which .....
» 18/10/2009 10:19:07 PM *you do seem blissfully ignorant of some apparently quite serious acts of racism that occu.....
» 18/10/2009 6:07:56 PM *It is a rational and pragmatic approach. It is also consistent* A rational and pragmatic.....
» 18/10/2009 1:57:22 PM CJ, I have never denied, that odd racist incidents take place everywhere. But I have the i.....
» 18/10/2009 1:46:49 PM *It will be fascinating to see how this plays out.* You are quite correct there Pericles!.....
» 18/10/2009 1:27:39 PM *having a few thousand of those who are refugees arriving by boat doesn't actually cause a.....
» 17/10/2009 8:54:17 AM *Ah, so it's all the wicked Catholics fault, Yabby?* No Clownly not all, nobody claimed t.....
» 17/10/2009 8:41:53 AM *and fly the Aboriginal flag in the town.* Wow CJ, there must be huge racial problems, if.....
» 16/10/2009 8:15:16 PM * But this left refugees at risk of being returned to danger. Italy has recently adopted a.....
» 16/10/2009 2:57:09 PM *I advocate assisting developing nations to become prosperous, well-educated liberal democ.....
» 16/10/2009 1:02:42 PM CJ, what I am claiming is that all things considered, the races get on extremely well. Y.....
» 15/10/2009 10:58:14 PM Yes indeed CJ, 35 years ago WA was a different place to what it is today, you are showing .....
» 15/10/2009 10:36:01 PM *As am I. However the difference is that I am for giving all people a choice, not foisting.....
» 15/10/2009 2:46:53 PM * but some acknowledgement that people out there are suffering and we're capable of helpin.....
» 15/10/2009 10:00:53 AM * by saying yesterday that the Government's policy struck a balance between the hardline a.....
» 15/10/2009 9:19:36 AM Clowny, sheesh, you were certainly not the smartest puppy in the litter, you really weren.....
» 14/10/2009 10:10:59 PM *but that is how it was perceived by many people in a major allied western society.* Rexy.....
» 14/10/2009 3:13:58 PM Bazz, you are not the first to raise the issue of larger boats. In previous discussions, .....
» 13/10/2009 11:21:20 PM *So, what's your (final) solution?* My final solution is quite simple, Clowny. If all wom.....
» 13/10/2009 10:18:53 PM *All I've asked for is the right not to be liquidated by murderous fanatics* Just relax C.....
» 13/10/2009 9:16:37 PM *Being poor does not mean you qualify as a refugee under the convention* Nobody claimed t.....
» 13/10/2009 7:40:32 PM *If Australia wants to be anything more than an insular bit player in international affair.....
» 13/10/2009 10:54:37 AM *that boat people are all economic refugees prepared to leave their cultural moorings, fam.....
» 12/10/2009 9:59:23 PM *So this makes it OK for Australia to be racist?* Sorry Rexy, but it wasn't racist. Was a.....
» 12/10/2009 7:34:38 PM *while Ludwig, Yabby et al continue to wax hysterical over a tiny percentage of boat peopl.....
» 12/10/2009 3:30:14 PM *But if they were not really needy why did they bother to come? Adjusting to life in Austr.....
» 12/10/2009 3:16:44 PM *are you really proud that pretty much the rest of the world sees us as a bunch of racist .....
» 11/10/2009 11:26:10 PM * but I sleep better knowing you're a long way away just the same. :)* ROFL Bronwyn, many.....
» 10/10/2009 8:32:09 PM Bronwyn still doesen't get it, that her bleeding heart solution is the very cause of the p.....
» 10/10/2009 3:08:09 PM The headline on the front page of this weekend's "Weekend Australian", kind of s.....
» 10/10/2009 2:28:34 PM Perhaps many of our local inventors are a little biased, overestimating how clever their .....
» 9/10/2009 5:36:09 PM *The days of the holy zygote are well beyond us" flies in the face of reason* Nonsen.....
» 9/10/2009 3:52:51 PM JP, emotional language is not going to do it for you. I see no evidence that in this case,.....
» 8/10/2009 11:06:35 PM *I don't see many articles arguing for women to be able to take on many husbands.* Pelica.....
» 8/10/2009 9:21:37 PM *Yabby and Pericles have their own hidden agendas* Sheesh, now my cover has been blown. I.....
» 8/10/2009 3:13:56 PM *...it wasnt till taliban destroyed the wholr crop did usa see an issue worthy of invading.....
» 8/10/2009 11:03:05 AM *especially the “big four”, whose reputations have suffered during the global financial cr.....
» 7/10/2009 2:16:59 PM Oh I can think of a very good reason! We'd land up with a whole lot of blokes with 4 wive.....
» 7/10/2009 2:08:33 PM *Crikey! You've got a strange obsession with other peoples' sex lives there, yabby* Not s.....
» 7/10/2009 9:02:45 AM * I was irritated that banks didn't pass on the new rate to mortgagees when rates were goi.....
» 5/10/2009 11:27:37 PM *but they certainly *are* species-ist; and there's only one species they seem happy to ear.....
» 5/10/2009 2:49:00 PM Arjay, JFK has been gone for around 45 years now, the world has moved on. Yes indeed, co.....
» 4/10/2009 9:39:55 PM Arjay, I am happy to debate with anyone who has half an ounce of common sense and access t.....
» 4/10/2009 8:11:47 PM CJ, that was a rather stupid and ignorant comment. Fact is a like lots of people, but am p.....
» 4/10/2009 7:32:52 PM So there we have it! One per normal, gobbledygook, loony rant from UOG and nothing from A.....
» 4/10/2009 7:25:24 PM Ludwig, I'm with you on the rugrats, I've never had a desire to have any, just a desire to.....
» 3/10/2009 9:54:05 PM So Arjay, perhaps you had better mention what you would do, if you were Obama. Pack up an.....
» 3/10/2009 6:59:06 PM *If my family were endangered by an outbreak of war around my home, I would regard it as n.....
» 3/10/2009 3:44:30 PM *I'll worry about the real issues of fairness and justice.* If you worried about the real.....
» 2/10/2009 9:09:11 PM Arjay, both Japan and China have played pretty dirty in the trade wars, making sure that t.....
» 2/10/2009 7:40:10 PM *The temptation now is to take what they cannot produce in order to get out of debt.* Er .....
» 2/10/2009 4:57:54 PM *There is no evidence or reason to think that vesting decision-making instead in bureaucra.....
» 2/10/2009 4:37:04 PM *There's no fairness in confining refugees to waiting helplessly in squalid and overcrowde.....
» 1/10/2009 5:19:34 PM *If they lived just one month amid the misery of the developing world, as I have for fifty.....
» 1/10/2009 3:00:01 PM *As if the movement of 10,000 refugees would make a gnats testicles difference to anything.....
» 1/10/2009 12:23:04 PM *As they regard human use of natural resources as being ipso facto bad for "the envir.....
» 30/09/2009 12:08:14 PM http://www.immi.gov.au/media/fact-sheets/60refugee.htm The figures here are quite interes.....
» 30/09/2009 12:02:00 PM There is no "one size fits all" here. I'm still of the opinion that there is som.....
» 28/09/2009 7:43:48 PM I think you haven't really thought this one through Arjay. The problem is this: If Iran h.....
» 28/09/2009 12:32:58 PM *I am DYING to see what sort of syllabus they come up with and what sort of buffoons they .....
» 27/09/2009 8:21:18 PM *I can't see why the 'hellhole' description would have any sane person rolling on the floo.....
» 26/09/2009 10:31:48 PM *You want to cut birth rates? Help poor people get richer and better educated. It's the be.....
» 26/09/2009 7:29:11 PM *However it takes 17,000 litres of water to produce one kilo of beef* Perhaps we had bett.....
» 26/09/2009 7:16:33 PM I fully agree with CJ and Bronwyn on this one, in fact its a subject I've raised before on.....
» 26/09/2009 2:12:59 PM *Yabby and his ilk continue to sweat bricks over boat people* No Fraccy dear, we don't sw.....
» 25/09/2009 10:28:06 PM *What Yabby and ilk fail to grasp is that most of these people don't come from camps or pl.....
» 25/09/2009 9:04:30 PM *What do you suggest? I am always looking for ideas.* Well Chris, you asked, so I will t.....
» 25/09/2009 7:06:43 PM *Overall there has to be a better way for business to include workers in other aspects of .....
» 25/09/2009 4:34:38 PM Ah, but Kevi wants to win the next election and for that he needs a healthy economy. Build.....
» 25/09/2009 4:18:35 PM *Or is that alright if many make a profit from their second, third, and fourth houses, whi.....
» 25/09/2009 10:22:14 AM Fraccy, you still don't get it and you never will. The debate about boat people is not abo.....
» 24/09/2009 2:52:12 PM *It must really annoy you that Aust govts keep on adopting policies that help lower income.....
» 24/09/2009 2:41:39 PM *There are other countries that would happily take a large portion of Aus share of primary.....
» 24/09/2009 10:12:44 AM *There numbers are rising and how we address them is a test for any advanced society.* Gi.....
» 24/09/2009 8:53:23 AM *Given the above correction perhaps you can show me where in history deterrents against de.....
» 23/09/2009 8:55:49 PM There was an interesting article in today's West Australian, about car gas conversions. At.....
» 23/09/2009 8:05:50 PM Pericles, I'd say that Arjay and other conspiracy nuts are simply not aware, how profitabl.....
» 23/09/2009 3:26:37 PM *but it's the push factors, not the pull factors, which predominantly determine the number.....
» 23/09/2009 2:25:37 PM *has $150 left at most to buy extras (including clothes) and save for house.* Well it see.....
» 23/09/2009 12:33:06 PM *The argument that stopping boats will save lives is a complete furphy. The exact opposite.....
» 23/09/2009 11:32:58 AM I'm with you on this one Ludwig, for everyone knows that the present govt is simply playi.....
» 23/09/2009 11:11:52 AM *Perhaps Rechtub could enlighten us on how to avoid meat that has been processed via the f.....
» 22/09/2009 5:33:44 PM Fractelle, you are free to use natural gas, any day that you wish. Its far cheaper then pe.....
» 22/09/2009 10:47:34 AM Ok, to add a little bit of reality to all the dreaming :) Firstly, we only know that we h.....
» 22/09/2009 7:41:12 AM *The Future Fund (which exists mainly to fund the future superannuation of politicians) ha.....
» 21/09/2009 6:53:34 PM *Although I wonder if there are quite a few managers out there on their way up the ladder .....
» 21/09/2009 2:27:12 PM *Surely no-one is 'worth' more than $5M for the work they do. I am not talking about profi.....
» 21/09/2009 12:59:31 PM Rache, the question is not if privatisation is a good or a bad thing, that is a separate q.....
» 21/09/2009 12:19:49 PM Perhaps the author should take a look at our current account deficit, which is as high as .....
» 21/09/2009 12:08:25 PM *The fact that you think you know more than God shows what state your heart is in* No run.....
» 20/09/2009 9:09:20 PM *However, there is a difference between your house and a monetary investment. You've gener.....
» 20/09/2009 4:00:27 PM *As a general principle, where’s the justice in merely handing over your cash and receivin.....
» 20/09/2009 3:18:11 PM This is actually a true story. In the country, people have a PO Box at the post office and.....
» 20/09/2009 1:54:35 PM I saw an interview this morning on the Insiders, with Martin Ferguson. It seems that the .....
» 20/09/2009 1:14:13 PM *I sell tasmanian beef and lamb as it is guaranteed 'steroid' and 'hormone ' free.* Rehct.....
» 20/09/2009 11:10:03 AM *When was the last time that shareholders made business decisions in a private company?* .....
» 19/09/2009 8:29:45 PM *Why not put it in the bank and earn a term deposit instead. It's much safer* Come on Rob.....
» 19/09/2009 2:25:01 PM RobP, I read Peter Ryan's article and IMHO, he is doing little more then what you are doin.....
» 19/09/2009 1:28:54 PM *Logically there has to be incentives for business. We have lost that old "a little b.....
» 19/09/2009 11:01:40 AM *Business success is a factor of management - not ownership and to suggest that a company .....
» 18/09/2009 9:33:48 PM *Does Howard bear some responsibility for putting Telstra on the market in the first place.....
» 18/09/2009 7:43:31 PM *Where is the "fat and lazy Govt monopoly" in that?* RobP, the majority owner o.....
» 17/09/2009 10:14:49 PM *It is also my understanding that what was handed over to the Future Fund was a substantia.....
» 17/09/2009 8:26:01 AM A man walks out to the street and catches a taxi just going by. He gets into the taxi and .....
» 16/09/2009 11:49:28 PM You are posting some good ones Dave, so here is one for you ! True Romantics! AUSTRALIAN .....
» 16/09/2009 7:21:05 PM *You're forgetting that super funds have the advantage of not having to put all their eggs.....
» 16/09/2009 6:56:08 PM *virus means dead/sick..not fittest surviving..or as if of null affect..not evolution* We.....
» 16/09/2009 6:38:23 PM *Keep the wages low so we can compete with offshore companies.* Now where did I say that .....
» 16/09/2009 2:35:20 PM Rather then "modern" awards, unions seemingly want to take us back to the dark a.....
» 16/09/2009 2:20:39 PM *I’m not sure you will get much sympathy either from non-share owning Australians* I've g.....
» 15/09/2009 9:13:10 PM *An old confusius saying he who die with fat belly dies with smile on face. With all this .....
» 15/09/2009 7:30:19 PM *give an example of a genetic mutation..or an evolutionary process..which can be seen to i.....
» 15/09/2009 12:37:28 AM The children began to identify the flavors by their color: Red.....................Cherry.....
» 12/09/2009 4:03:18 PM Arjay, productivity keeps increasing, in efficient sectors of the economy. Farming, mining.....
» 12/09/2009 2:37:32 PM *,>>...ahhh but what of the energu that traveled allong those atoms...as nerves/musc.....
» 12/09/2009 1:56:28 PM Arjay, you still don't get it and I don't think you ever will :) The economic gurus will .....
» 12/09/2009 12:56:58 PM Goldman bankers behaving badly #2 … “A millionaire banker offered an escort girl Ł500,000 .....
» 11/09/2009 12:46:33 PM Why on earth would they consider banning prostitution? The implication is that its ok to .....
» 11/09/2009 11:14:42 AM The fact is that Governments cannot make any decision which threaten the lights to go out......
» 11/09/2009 10:50:09 AM Sheesh, I did not need to guess who had started this thread :) Arjay, just relax and see .....
» 10/09/2009 10:24:21 PM *There's an absolutely huge literature about it* Yup CJ, I read lots of it, but perhaps j.....
» 10/09/2009 7:45:47 PM *Yabby – Seems you have not yet realised that it was the human male who asserted that only.....
» 10/09/2009 3:43:39 PM *though no doubt marriage was invented (by man of course) to accommodate the male’s sexual.....
» 10/09/2009 3:02:43 PM Well look at it this way Foxy. Given another generation or so about every 20 years, just .....
» 10/09/2009 12:10:45 AM Ahhh, some wonderful jokes ladies, congratulations! Keep em coming, its a shame that not .....
» 9/09/2009 8:56:33 PM *Do you think that a politician should be outed because he cheated on his car allowance. W.....
» 8/09/2009 11:33:52 PM *We slaughter our unborn and then complain about cruelty to dolphins in Japan.* Yeah, we .....
» 8/09/2009 10:52:50 PM *The common connection with Brogden to that of Della Bosca is that they both resigned beca.....
» 8/09/2009 9:40:34 PM *It failed to recommend mandatory quotas for women on boards* I should frigging hope so, .....
» 8/09/2009 9:28:14 PM Deary me, this whole story seems to basically be about Rupert. He's spent his whole life .....
» 7/09/2009 8:08:39 PM Banjo, in answer to your question, Buss covers that one. It seems that at ovulation, women.....
» 6/09/2009 11:04:39 PM *So out of the eleven richest and most successful people in Australia* Dickie dear, inher.....
» 6/09/2009 5:32:48 PM *It has always ensured the actions and decisions of previous administrations stay in the p.....
» 6/09/2009 3:57:18 PM A man and his wife are on a nude beach. They are just sitting there, when all of a sudde.....
» 6/09/2009 3:48:15 PM Dickie dear, your list is rather meaningless, in that it contains a number of younger blok.....
» 6/09/2009 10:39:12 AM *Current research clearly shows that the 'other woman' is vastly more likely to be an aver.....
» 5/09/2009 10:20:22 PM *We are more than the sum total of our electro chemical reactions.* Nobody claimed that .....
» 5/09/2009 8:46:35 PM *There are women out there who are attracted to older men for other reasons beside the on.....
» 5/09/2009 4:47:50 PM *Perhaps a little too simplistic a generalization to be worth much.* Not so Examinator, a.....
» 5/09/2009 3:15:30 PM *The interesting question is WHY, otherwise ordinary people, are able to score sex partner.....
» 5/09/2009 2:37:16 PM An Irishman an Englishman and a Scotsman were sitting in a bar in Sydney. The view was fan.....
» 4/09/2009 7:39:13 PM A woman from New York was driving through a remote part of Arizona when her car broke dow.....
» 4/09/2009 3:20:56 PM Ethel loved to speed in her wheelchair and charge around the nursinghome, taking corners o.....
» 4/09/2009 3:08:29 PM *Why cannot he come up with irrefutable scientific evidence that God does not exist?* Ray.....
» 3/09/2009 8:12:48 PM With all the serious discussion on OLO, time for a bit of humour: It was Postman Pat's la.....
» 3/09/2009 6:16:59 PM *It is a well known fact that since time immemorial, crusty old codgers have dangled their.....
» 3/09/2009 4:00:21 PM * Unlike your amateur dabbling, my intellectual investigation involved a couple of decades.....
» 2/09/2009 1:47:27 PM * and Yabby's is that what we do is influenced by our surroundings* RobP, my view is that.....
» 1/09/2009 6:09:47 PM *Come on Yabby - that's equivalent to me saying that sheep farming is about shearing, not .....
» 1/09/2009 2:43:34 PM *Not so sure we are all that successful as a species CJ.* Well exactly! The story ain't o.....
» 31/08/2009 2:20:12 PM *I've had the discussion with Yabby several times about the place of neuroscience in the m.....
» 30/08/2009 11:43:40 PM *rather it's one of the critical distinctions between humans and animals that we've evolve.....
» 30/08/2009 8:44:09 PM *The assignation of gender roles is cultural, rather than biological* Not so CJ, or the w.....
» 30/08/2009 2:03:58 PM *To be even clearer - your idea of woman as 'nurturer' and man as 'pioneer' is maladaptive.....
» 29/08/2009 2:18:49 PM Well for blokes there is always an option, as this poor bloke in China finally decided :).....
» 28/08/2009 9:41:57 PM Grim, your answers have all pretty well been figured out by evolutionary psychology. At .....
» 27/08/2009 9:43:07 PM Pelican, unions cashing in is only half of it. http://www.businessspectator.com.au/bs.nsf.....
» 27/08/2009 7:52:09 PM The reality is that beggars cannot be choosers and given Australia's monthly current accou.....
» 27/08/2009 7:43:20 PM *Power so overwhelmingly given to the employers was not so new in the dark ages.* http://.....
» 27/08/2009 2:48:46 PM *the Catholic church continues to put up road blocks making it difficult/ discouraging wom.....
» 27/08/2009 2:38:39 PM *He voted NO.* Grim, let me elaborate on that. I personally don't care what they think of.....
» 26/08/2009 10:52:28 PM The facts show that there are a multitude of women who absolutaly thrive in Australia and .....
» 26/08/2009 8:48:36 PM Well Grim, to be brutally honest, once the worms move in to recycle you, you won't be ther.....
» 26/08/2009 2:53:45 PM *you’re about to say “oh you’ll be divorced in the end” or “you’re only together to save m.....
» 26/08/2009 11:26:18 AM Piper, you only need to go to middle and upper class suburbia, to find them in their tens.....
» 26/08/2009 9:12:10 AM *The 1951 Refugee Convention has become dysfunctional and is in great need of overhaul.* .....
» 26/08/2009 8:43:52 AM dickie dear, yes we know that crabs and scabies can spread like wildfire in those old peo.....
» 25/08/2009 10:48:37 PM *So where are you Yabby, I stuck on in for you and you've left me out to dry!* I'm right .....
» 24/08/2009 3:08:00 PM Antonious, the world is full of people like you, with a political agenda. If you hear anyt.....
» 24/08/2009 9:50:44 AM *yet your brain does not seem as open to other peoples ideas or experiences, particularly .....
» 23/08/2009 8:26:16 PM Piper, Dickie hates Yabby so much that she throws anything she can think of at him. She do.....
» 23/08/2009 2:23:53 PM Fraccy dear, just because I don't post on a thread, does not mean that I don't read what i.....
» 23/08/2009 10:11:55 AM *our brain is what makes us human and separate us from the animals.* Ah Antonious, your p.....
» 22/08/2009 7:05:53 PM Piper, to really understand how emotions effect us constantly, you need to understand how .....
» 22/08/2009 2:16:42 PM *FYI Yabby is in his 50's, he certainly has a mind-set that is from the 50's* Now to Frac.....
» 22/08/2009 12:33:39 PM *Okay hormones effect emotions which in some can completely mess with a decision making pr.....
» 21/08/2009 9:13:42 PM Piper, yes indeed there are cases of mothers who know that the future baby will be deforme.....
» 21/08/2009 3:40:12 PM *'Houllie, beware you too could wind up like Yabby - alone and paying a fortune to root a .....
» 20/08/2009 8:33:32 PM Dickie dear, you make my point for me. Fact is that even for BHP it is very difficult to f.....
» 20/08/2009 2:26:02 PM Wow Mary E, that last post would just about qualify you to join the OLO sisterhood club. C.....
» 20/08/2009 10:31:42 AM "The HoHoHo Factor!" Ho ho ho indeed :) Another classic Pericles post! Philo.....
» 20/08/2009 10:13:55 AM The WA Dept of Health produced a great little website to assist in educating 14-17 year ol.....
» 20/08/2009 9:58:42 AM *However, I advise you to read some more and read more widely.* Hehe Pynchme, your ignora.....
» 19/08/2009 7:57:06 PM *I don't know any parents recommending prostitution as a good career move* I don't know a.....
» 19/08/2009 4:49:27 PM *I know what a mobile phone is - you are just so insulting* Fraccy I should frigging hope.....
» 19/08/2009 1:03:43 PM *wouldn't it be more "practical" for men to stop giving away their sperm ? Maybe.....
» 18/08/2009 11:32:02 PM Sheesh Philo, you continue to try and make out that the early Xtians were a civilised and .....
» 18/08/2009 9:59:32 PM Ah Antonious, there seem to be good evolutionary reasons for all that! As a wise female f.....
» 18/08/2009 5:13:17 PM *I am going to ask you to do something very difficult - to empathise* ROFL Fractelle. Spe.....
» 18/08/2009 2:20:58 PM *Yabby, you are an idiot and I am embarrassed for your mother, unless your mother taught y.....
» 18/08/2009 12:32:25 PM Sheesh, they say that men and women (in general-not always) see the world through quite di.....
» 18/08/2009 10:08:30 AM Antonious, I quoted you my source, Wickipedia is referenced, if you want to check on where.....
» 17/08/2009 8:05:26 PM *A report by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) states that Afghanistan was neari.....
» 17/08/2009 6:18:02 PM *Soon or later women from poor countries will follow the western women and reduce the birt.....
» 16/08/2009 8:25:56 PM Hmmm OUG, I wonder if you read the article that I linked to. If you did, then did God for.....
» 16/08/2009 2:52:09 PM http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,25717923-5002700,00.html The religious on .....
» 15/08/2009 10:50:05 PM Ah Ludwig, sounds to me like those Qld goils just can't help themselves having impure tho.....
» 15/08/2009 8:09:51 PM *Everybody want's THEIR morality to prevail, and for it to be enshrined in law.* Ah Mary .....
» 15/08/2009 7:33:23 PM *For me, the problem with religious opposition to euthanasia is that they wish to force th.....
» 14/08/2009 2:40:41 PM *Can you change pope's mind? NO! Can you change Muslim religious leaders minds? NO! Can yo.....
» 13/08/2009 11:48:15 AM *It is npt that we can not but that WE DO NOT CARE OR TRY AT ALL,* Nope Antonious, its t.....
» 12/08/2009 6:04:39 PM *I think you need to accept that bin Laden is a Muslim because his true desire was already.....
» 12/08/2009 2:33:51 PM *The other alternative is we aren't and therefore Yabby is correct we are totally the prod.....
» 12/08/2009 11:28:23 AM Banjo, saltbush is doing ok, with lots of farmers planting them these days, on salt affect.....
» 11/08/2009 9:56:34 PM *VERY LAZY AND OUR GOVERNMENTS WORK FOR THE CORPORATIONS AND THEIR FINANCIAL SUPPORTERS NO.....
» 10/08/2009 10:06:39 PM *may be even drop an eccy or two* Ah, that could explain the depression! As Susan Greenfi.....
» 10/08/2009 12:46:37 PM *A medically supervised passing gives them the best chance by FAR for a less distressing a.....
» 10/08/2009 12:28:08 PM *he now become a high specialist doctor check his "cliends" remotle and publish .....
» 9/08/2009 9:40:21 PM Sheesh Fraccy, looks like you have a great admirer there, there is hope for you yet :) An.....
» 9/08/2009 7:14:24 PM *And hence I have no reason for supposing my brain is composed of atoms.* Pynchme, clearl.....
» 9/08/2009 12:51:49 PM * legislation can be drawn up with enough administrative safeguards to prevent abuse * Fo.....
» 8/08/2009 6:07:03 PM *BUT THIS CHEMISTRY IS ADVANCED almost fully controled from human beings!* You miss my po.....
» 8/08/2009 3:10:01 PM *On testosterone and estrogen, as Examinator has noted these hormones are not just about a.....
» 8/08/2009 2:41:49 PM *Why does the medical profession pursue a vigorous therapy that benefits no one except the.....
» 7/08/2009 10:43:16 PM Well for what its worth, I think that what will happen to FP is what usually happens when .....
» 7/08/2009 9:53:36 PM *Sure the man should be allowed refuse food and medication like many others have done in t.....
» 7/08/2009 3:24:45 PM *Thank you good Sirs for sharing that information with us.* You are welcome Dickie. You a.....
» 7/08/2009 2:12:29 PM * I feel a bit guilty saying this but he should stop feeling sorry for himself he can stil.....
» 7/08/2009 12:22:55 PM *I suppose that, as a feminist, I lean more to putting this difference down to social cond.....
» 6/08/2009 11:00:33 PM http://www.thewest.com.au/default.aspx?MenuID=77&ContentID=160515 If you think that life .....
» 6/08/2009 1:56:39 PM *The International Energy Agency announces 10 years till global peak oil* Ah Eclispe, but.....
» 6/08/2009 11:56:33 AM Ah Dickie, I have actually had a copy of "The Floating Brothel" here in my libra.....
» 5/08/2009 10:33:06 PM *Yeah, sure, we mothers hide behind bushes, jump out on unsuspecting men, attach their dic.....
» 5/08/2009 10:04:20 PM *and don't let Rupert Murdoch buy all of your newspapers!* Don't worry about Rupert. He's.....
» 5/08/2009 8:47:45 PM *Fathers in Australia have been deserting wives and children since the first fleet where o.....
» 5/08/2009 2:37:26 PM * without really getting to the crux of the problem.* Well the crux of the problem is tha.....
» 4/08/2009 12:01:53 AM *You confuse fact with subjective interpretation.* Well Pymchme, biology is generally bac.....
» 3/08/2009 9:56:51 PM *Ahh Yabbs, I see now, it's up to the "woman" to make good choices, but not the .....
» 3/08/2009 9:06:09 PM Eclipse, no I am not against New-Urbanism, for I know it suits some people to live that wa.....
» 3/08/2009 8:15:22 PM *And if an old bloke my age can understand that basic biology, then surely anyone should b.....
» 3/08/2009 12:57:46 PM *Remember, 97% of freight in this country is done by truck.* Yes Eclipse it is, but again.....
» 2/08/2009 8:11:45 PM *Did you get that Pericles? Yabby?:* Deary me Dagget, so now I should get my knickers in .....
» 2/08/2009 7:40:59 PM *Hey Arjay… colonies (group/flocks whatever they are called) of monkey’s that have never c.....
» 2/08/2009 10:27:57 AM *Give it 5 to 10 years, and New Urbanists will be laughing so hard at all your trumped up .....
» 1/08/2009 10:10:10 PM *dare to ask...why do we love..to hate others? or is it just me?* OUG, you need to separa.....
» 1/08/2009 3:26:07 PM *I am not against you personally, just LE itself.* I know that Rehctub. I am not against .....
» 1/08/2009 12:48:29 PM *Rather, my goal has been to help you to demonstrate to all the readers at OLO just exactl.....
» 31/07/2009 11:15:50 PM Ah Eclipse, your mistake of course is to seek one magic bullet, when the future is all abo.....
» 31/07/2009 10:06:49 PM Sheesh Arjay, frankly I think its very decent of Pericles not to send you a bill, for all .....
» 31/07/2009 10:02:57 PM Eclipse, quite frankly methinks that you are getting your tits in a tangle over nothing. .....
» 31/07/2009 9:37:55 PM *Currently, around 73% of Australian households are in debt. * You are quite correct Grim.....
» 31/07/2009 9:13:03 PM * I'm probably showing my complete ignorance of the industry here, but it's a thought.* V.....
» 31/07/2009 8:41:40 PM *Well at least we are getting somewhere yabby, you do recognise that LE costs jobs.* Not .....
» 31/07/2009 9:50:05 AM Sure Rehctub would be against live exports, for butchers act out of self interest and want.....
» 30/07/2009 10:13:40 PM *How can any person believe they are 'worth' a million dollars a year (and much, much more.....
» 30/07/2009 9:12:46 PM * I'll be happy to argue about the physical reality; like how bankers are all filthy stink.....
» 30/07/2009 12:56:46 PM *The consumption of a 4 month old animal, like lamb is disgusting.* Desmond, lambs are co.....
» 30/07/2009 11:20:14 AM Well yes, we are all humans. Chimps and bonobos are our closest relatives, sharing around .....
» 30/07/2009 9:53:04 AM *We CAN get through this with clever, clean, green city design that is comfortable and tre.....
» 28/07/2009 7:08:49 PM *There is little left of that system today, and money does seem to play a more important r.....
» 28/07/2009 11:16:57 AM *while I worry for the 90%,* Grim, your worry is of course unfounded, for we know that on.....
» 28/07/2009 1:23:55 AM *i was further reminded just minutes ago...a show on sbs,called something like the darksid.....
» 27/07/2009 8:58:01 PM *Oh to be in the same tax bracket as the guy I'm paying to represent me.* There of course.....
» 27/07/2009 7:57:32 PM *oug provides a valuable service, keeping us abreast of the latest conspiracy theories.* .....
» 27/07/2009 2:55:14 PM *Be prepared to go up and not out.* Well lets take a look at how people lived, before all.....
» 27/07/2009 12:54:57 PM Sheesh, I did mention somewhere that I thought humanity was stupid enough, to eventually .....
» 27/07/2009 11:56:49 AM *Agriculture needs to be moved away from its heavy reliance on fossil fuels (including for.....
» 27/07/2009 10:42:31 AM E Knox, if you want to understand how society lands up with haves and have nots, google fo.....
» 26/07/2009 3:30:36 PM *Yabby, I am glad to see you green! for how many hours my friend?* About 35 years now Ant.....
» 25/07/2009 11:27:56 PM Antonious, if you think about it for a while, it will eventually hit you that Australia ac.....
» 25/07/2009 10:59:04 PM LOL Cornflower, in a way I can relate to what you are saying, as when I was in my late tee.....
» 25/07/2009 2:36:35 PM Lol Cornflower, in a past life I was that bad boy, but living in the country, where everyb.....
» 24/07/2009 10:57:41 PM *Pericles.Jim Rogers was not drunk.Perhaps tired but right on the money in terms of bailou.....
» 24/07/2009 10:18:18 PM We went on to the jewellery department where she picked out a pair of diamond earrings. Le.....
» 24/07/2009 10:13:58 PM Well given all the bad blood, perhaps time for some humour :) I always try to see the lig.....
» 24/07/2009 8:45:11 PM *The extra money was used to pay off the land/house and get a start* Actually Banjo, I bl.....
» 24/07/2009 7:31:48 PM Australia has clearly learnt nothing from the high rise developments in places like the US.....
» 24/07/2009 4:05:56 PM * that those areas of food production that can adapt to mechanization and bulk handling wi.....
» 24/07/2009 2:50:41 PM *You say it ought not to cost that much, that the manufacturers are scumbags who should ma.....
» 24/07/2009 11:16:44 AM *The money does not have to come from somewhere. Banks can create bank money by a simple e.....
» 23/07/2009 7:50:57 PM *As a humanist I find that the only reason we get cheap o/s products is the exploitation o.....
» 22/07/2009 10:47:31 PM *Yabby, Shame on you for buying imported tinned fruit.* Err hang on there Banjo. I just s.....
» 22/07/2009 9:37:26 PM Its ok Fractelle. We understand. After all those years, going from bloke to bloke, now at.....
» 22/07/2009 3:36:29 PM *And free trade in food has not led to cheaper prices for consumers only larger slices of .....
» 22/07/2009 3:19:14 PM *50 years ago, Australia had a (small) manufacturing industry* Indeed it did Grim, for Au.....
» 22/07/2009 2:59:23 PM *In Italy, where about 90% of the population profess Catholicism and 30% are active, they .....
» 22/07/2009 10:22:00 AM *The smart nations are those who have not bought into the free trade myth.* So says Pelic.....
» 21/07/2009 11:30:57 PM * I wouldn't exactly draw attention to Americans' health. Sadly they have about the worst .....
» 21/07/2009 10:19:01 PM *You did not have any other choice. There are not many from your community in Australia.* .....
» 21/07/2009 8:15:52 PM Antonious, what I understand is that you are extremely passionate about the things that yo.....
» 21/07/2009 6:42:09 PM *1. Each one of them feel weak, feel that is under threat and prefers to live all together.....
» 21/07/2009 5:59:26 PM * reductions in the fertility rate (births per woman) has come as a result of increased st.....
» 21/07/2009 5:41:51 PM * they're just trying to claw back some of the rights workers had 10-20 years ago,* Grim,.....
» 21/07/2009 11:56:28 AM If you really want to help the poor in these poorest areas, perhaps its time to provide th.....
» 21/07/2009 9:29:59 AM *Do you really think Aussie workers should be competitive with countries with lower wages .....
» 21/07/2009 9:05:54 AM *42% of the Australian land mass leased to a small number of hands with very low lease, fo.....
» 20/07/2009 6:44:38 PM *The question should be why we allow the pharmaceutical industry to make huge profits from.....
» 20/07/2009 5:41:07 PM *I have had 'GM information' stalls at markets & fairs. The thousands who signed petitions.....
» 20/07/2009 3:45:16 PM *If you are strong in your faith for the markets (consumers) to decide - why not let the m.....
» 20/07/2009 1:32:18 PM Grim, things were not structured around any awards, they were structured around the needs.....
» 19/07/2009 11:43:31 PM *by agreement between women's and men's legislatures since women and men value work diffe.....
» 19/07/2009 11:34:45 PM *We have a HUGE family here on great expanses on land; we'll all welcome ya!* I'm told th.....
» 19/07/2009 10:25:10 PM *People who do keep themselves in good shape save taxpayer's money. Should they be rewarde.....
» 19/07/2009 4:27:28 PM *Why should anti-GM consumers pay more for something they once enjoyed at a non-premium co.....
» 19/07/2009 3:34:06 PM *All the anti-GMers want is to not eat it - a reasonable request which elicits an 'all fur.....
» 19/07/2009 3:19:26 PM Grim, just because you seemingly lack the innovative entrepreneurial skills to think of wa.....
» 19/07/2009 12:57:05 PM Whew, fortunately even politicians are smarter then many of the cowboys posting on this th.....
» 18/07/2009 5:59:45 PM *Using some imagination, every idea I proposed could work for both employees and employers.....
» 18/07/2009 1:58:22 PM *How for instance, can the average corner store hope to compete with the buying power of C.....
» 18/07/2009 9:56:28 AM *Children are dying, to pay off debt.* Grim, you are mixing up a mumbo jumbo of facts, to.....
» 17/07/2009 8:56:21 PM *One mention of Sarah Palin and you see Nazis, Jewish persecution, Psychopaths and the Ku .....
» 17/07/2009 8:44:07 PM Well the 14.31 an hour is a bit misleading, the way I understand it. That applies if its .....
» 17/07/2009 3:29:32 PM *I mention Sancho because I find his reference to Dickens entirely pertinent to the discus.....
» 17/07/2009 11:10:13 AM *ongoing and inevitable inflation, debt relief for starving children, the continual wideni.....
» 16/07/2009 8:04:18 PM A very factual article. Many a gullible Western business man has been taken to the cleane.....
» 16/07/2009 11:43:27 AM OUG, it sounds like according to you, the size of the economy should be goverened, by the .....
» 16/07/2009 10:34:15 AM *we got conned to turn in our valuable silver for their..[the feds]valueless nickle...* R.....
» 15/07/2009 8:21:21 PM No Sancho, I am arguing that you have your wires crossed in a number of places. It was no.....
» 15/07/2009 3:20:45 PM Grim, I just checked the Westpac website and if you have 5k plus and commit to lending for.....
» 14/07/2009 10:45:27 PM Ah, the old "envy of the rich" human foible, keeps bugging many Australians, as .....
» 14/07/2009 9:34:07 PM *Yabby the real free market has not been allowed to operate.The reserve banks of the world.....
» 14/07/2009 9:18:13 PM Why are Australian companies less innovative then companies in other parts of the world? I.....
» 14/07/2009 11:20:26 AM *ONE BANK[westpac]...pays 21 billion to the fed [or some fed]...one smallish bank in the g.....
» 14/07/2009 10:24:49 AM *as i suspected your afraid your quoted numbers wont stand up in light of other numbers yo.....
» 14/07/2009 10:02:33 AM *After the $900 is spent, it inevitably winds up back in the (or 'a') bank again, at which.....
» 13/07/2009 10:06:37 PM I am always bemused when people claim to be able to accurately predict the future, for alo.....
» 13/07/2009 8:55:03 PM *Australia is the star of the financial meltdown and other countries are asking Swan for a.....
» 13/07/2009 8:45:44 PM Grim, sorry but I don't do Utube, for my net connection is a mobile one, with a 1 Gig mont.....
» 13/07/2009 8:11:02 PM Arjay, its simplistic to think that just an increase in the money supply, is responsible f.....
» 12/07/2009 11:29:21 PM *...every asset should be sold off [on the web...and 25 percent tax paid on true...[real v.....
» 12/07/2009 9:03:17 PM Arjay, in accounting terms, yes the money is created, as it again vanishes, when the loan .....
» 12/07/2009 3:31:34 PM Grim, it seems to be that you suffer the same misunderstanding as Arjay, which I have been.....
» 12/07/2009 2:49:52 PM Ok Arjay, I did a bit of homework for you, so that you can try to understand it all. So I .....
» 12/07/2009 1:42:04 PM *of how banks can lend many times more money into the system than they borrow* Ah Grim, y.....
» 12/07/2009 1:33:27 PM Yes Fozz, we import a whole lot of cheap and crappy low value consumer goods from China. T.....
» 12/07/2009 12:26:53 PM Arjay, in Australia it is APRA, which regulates so called ADIs or authorised deposit taki.....
» 11/07/2009 7:39:26 PM * I thought that NOW Chinese take our iron ore for nohing!* They still want it for less, .....
» 11/07/2009 2:40:32 PM *THE ONLY WAY FOR HUMANS TO STAY ALIVE IS THE SPACE* Deary me, what a frigging bunch of d.....
» 11/07/2009 2:22:17 PM Fozz, things like redundancy pay and pro rata long service leave pay, are the sorts of thi.....
» 10/07/2009 9:46:10 PM *Even Ben Bernanke has talked of "leverage" of 30 times real deposits which even.....
» 10/07/2009 7:33:15 PM *That a lot of what used to be free or very cheap has not been factored into the measures .....
» 10/07/2009 7:17:56 PM *Put simply, if an employer simply “can’t afford” to pay the legislated minimum wage then .....
» 10/07/2009 10:54:32 AM *No one else but banks are allowed to create money.The details of which banks and how they.....
» 10/07/2009 2:23:02 AM *Yabby writes that countries can't agree on anything. Ok then Yabbs, I guess that's a good.....
» 10/07/2009 12:10:34 AM Ok UOG, now we officially know that you are too stupid to debate this topic :) You seem t.....
» 9/07/2009 9:17:51 PM *The solution to any worldwide refugee situation is achieved by a coordinated effort by AL.....
» 9/07/2009 8:55:07 PM *The risks come with the territory, and neither governments nor workers are obliged to scr.....
» 9/07/2009 7:45:04 PM Arjay, banks by law have to keep a % of their total loan book as liquid reserves, like cas.....
» 9/07/2009 5:17:31 PM *they have a responsibility to invest some of it in innovation.* FP, you simply dreamed t.....
» 9/07/2009 12:00:35 PM *I have a suggestion for Kevin.Why not let the Credit Unions create money in their compute.....
» 9/07/2009 11:35:36 AM Wow, all these great terms and conditions! A bloke would have to be a fool, to start his o.....
» 8/07/2009 7:53:34 PM *and that banks seldom lend for innovation yet innovation is the generator of increased we.....
» 8/07/2009 4:08:23 PM *We should never have sold the CBA or any of the state banks since they did the job of the.....
» 6/07/2009 10:10:42 PM Sheesh, everyone is busy attacking everyone, the key points are being missed yet once agai.....
» 5/07/2009 3:57:37 PM Lol Mister, judging by your posts, we "know" that you have no qualifications :) .....
» 4/07/2009 2:16:15 PM CJ, I certainly don't think that Australia is so much more racist then anywhere else in th.....
» 1/07/2009 11:42:23 PM Well children, you are going to have to open your doors even more in future. For a new tre.....
» 1/07/2009 10:58:07 PM * if they follow the advice, are guaranteed a physical and spiritual health of far higher .....
» 1/07/2009 3:20:15 PM Ok Foxy, so maybe you are just a bit shy. There is actually a funny story behind that one.....
» 1/07/2009 2:36:17 PM Now come on girls, be daring! Try a short skirt and no knickers :).....
» 1/07/2009 2:28:37 PM *Until last week, illegal foreigners were immediately detained at detention centres and pu.....
» 1/07/2009 12:11:43 AM *The FACT is, people entering this country illegally at airports often, in fact very often.....
» 30/06/2009 11:13:16 PM *I have noticed a shift in attitude in both you and Yabby.Your defence of the Fed is not s.....
» 30/06/2009 4:41:40 PM *The US has lost a lot of their manufacturing industry and in reality like us,don't have r.....
» 30/06/2009 4:30:39 PM *Gotta protect myself against against the MULTITUDE of desperate terrorists in leaky boats.....
» 30/06/2009 3:21:46 PM *Strong deterrent messages from the Australian Government are not cutting through.* Ah Fo.....
» 29/06/2009 5:27:22 PM RobP, Goyder certainly means business and I think he's very smart and very sincere. But I .....
» 29/06/2009 10:51:00 AM RobP, a great deal of the changes going on within the reorganisation of Coles right now, a.....
» 28/06/2009 8:43:38 PM RobP, yes the market sets wage rates, but we also have minimum wage protection. As it happ.....
» 28/06/2009 4:04:33 PM RobP, welcome to the real world! Yes, some people will do mindless boring jobs and do it .....
» 28/06/2009 11:06:54 AM Ah Maxi, I have read your posts and already think I know the real problem. Your hatred of .....
» 27/06/2009 11:57:03 PM Arjay, you still don't get it. Lets say that the average worker did lose 7000$. It is chi.....
» 27/06/2009 11:39:51 PM Max, there is one thing that has always impressed me about WA rural types. When they have .....
» 27/06/2009 8:53:41 PM Arjay, the Fed could indeed have done nothing last September, just folded its arms, when t.....
» 27/06/2009 8:31:00 PM This weeks prices in WA at Coles - the specials Bananas 2.79 a kg lettuces 89c each pink .....
» 27/06/2009 2:27:41 PM 60 Minutes recently ran an interesting story about human dna testing. Its come a long way .....
» 26/06/2009 12:54:49 PM An interesting article by a clearly well informed author! I wonder if Martin has an opini.....
» 25/06/2009 11:29:42 PM Whilster, there well might be men who just love that concept with other men, just not in m.....
» 25/06/2009 10:14:04 PM Given the non ending squabbles between men and women in relationships, it seems to me that.....
» 25/06/2009 7:35:43 PM ROFL OUG, writing ditties and storing silver under the bed are clearly more up your ally t.....
» 25/06/2009 3:11:00 PM Yawn OUG, so what have you got your knickers in a twist about now? I just thought of a li.....
» 25/06/2009 10:45:09 AM Arjay, just a little reminder. There have been around 90 attempts to assassinate US presid.....
» 24/06/2009 9:35:50 PM *I suspect that most of what we sell goes to the middle and upper classes.* That depends .....
» 24/06/2009 8:15:29 PM *there is an industry that is getting financially rewarded out of proportion to what it ac.....
» 24/06/2009 3:05:13 PM Divergence, interesting post. I remind you that a great deal of the meat which we produce,.....
» 24/06/2009 1:44:21 PM RobP, Max is simply jumping from consipiracy theory to consipiracy theory right now. Yes, .....
» 24/06/2009 11:25:59 AM *The sole purpose of the majority of these extra positions in the chain is to make money f.....
» 23/06/2009 7:27:04 PM http://www.smh.com.au/ftimages/2005/04/14/1113251725602.html There you go Max, that's Bri.....
» 23/06/2009 5:20:14 PM * Do you see anywhere in the published figures the total cost of management, including all.....
» 23/06/2009 2:50:06 PM *The figures, from the New South Wales Bureau of Crime Statistics, show 2336 women faced c.....
» 23/06/2009 1:10:11 PM *damn Yabby, those pesky women objecting to perpetual male supervision again!* Ah Whistle.....
» 23/06/2009 1:06:01 PM * forget the clever accounting* So is that what it is eh Maxi. The shareholders would lov.....
» 23/06/2009 11:07:17 AM *can you imagine men still argue fear of women is valid!* Well Whilstler its not unknown .....
» 23/06/2009 10:56:17 AM So a question. If Coles and Woolies are doing the ripping off, why does it not show in the.....
» 22/06/2009 9:50:08 PM *and what you're doing now - is simply stirring. I know that you fully understand the poin.....
» 22/06/2009 8:21:44 PM *Considering people have to pay rent, food, transport and all the other things involved wi.....
» 22/06/2009 3:07:57 PM *Those in the worst conditions, earning little money and having to obtain social security .....
» 21/06/2009 11:11:57 PM *It's the ideology of greed, which leaves no room for social equity, compassion or the ide.....
» 21/06/2009 9:50:02 PM Ah Foxy, I was calling you a turkey, even if an endearing one, for writing such uninformed.....
» 21/06/2009 5:43:34 PM *In difficult financial times - this can't go on. And that's something that you should be .....
» 21/06/2009 2:55:51 PM ROFL, you two turkeys know about as much about Switzerland, as most ignorant Americans kno.....
» 20/06/2009 8:49:41 PM Arjay, I remind you that despite every male in Switzerland doing their 17 weeks of trainin.....
» 20/06/2009 8:04:37 PM *Question to ask, what does the community of the future need most?* Fractelle, interestin.....
» 20/06/2009 7:14:10 PM Foxy, sometimes you write some interesting posts, but that last one was plain ridiculous. .....
» 20/06/2009 3:53:52 PM Well I'm going to disagree with all you old farts here and agree with Brett :) I did 17 w.....
» 20/06/2009 3:26:51 PM None of you seem to be aware of the huge demographic problem that we are heading towards. .....
» 20/06/2009 3:10:55 PM Foxy, the mining boom really got going in around 2004. Costello had been paying off our de.....
» 19/06/2009 9:07:56 PM *We are and have been swimming in debt for a decade and Costello didn't notice..."* .....
» 19/06/2009 8:24:29 PM Ludwig, I'm trying to explain to you what drives this whole thing, for I think that you ar.....
» 19/06/2009 1:29:47 PM So RobP, it seems that you want a nanny in your life. In that case you should maybe have m.....
» 19/06/2009 11:37:23 AM *What hard stuff did he do that made a difference for the ordinary Joe living in suburbia?.....
» 19/06/2009 9:43:38 AM *The foreign debt of the Costello economy went up to around the highest per capita in the .....
» 18/06/2009 11:12:43 PM Ho ho ho Ludwig, methinks that you really are kidding yourself, about how politics really .....
» 18/06/2009 8:19:36 PM Examinator, you are clearly out of touch with today's agriculture.They got rid of the supe.....
» 18/06/2009 7:55:14 PM RobP, what Costello thought or was doing, was regularly reported in the financial pages by.....
» 18/06/2009 3:59:22 PM *As someone who has always worked, is buying her own home and would rather gouge out her e.....
» 18/06/2009 12:36:44 PM *It provides a good take on Peter Costello.* Actually Foxy, no it does not. Its just a yo.....
» 18/06/2009 11:12:06 AM The global population is still growing at 80 million a year, so the whole Australian popul.....
» 17/06/2009 8:50:01 PM * A lot of noise from the vested-interest big business sector, yes.* Oh no, its far more .....
» 17/06/2009 6:52:47 PM *The community wouldn’t have protested if Costello had knocked Keating’s baby bonus on the.....
» 17/06/2009 2:29:09 PM *I know you are a misogynistic old goat* Ah Fractelle, you misuse the term. Check out wha.....
» 17/06/2009 12:30:08 PM You lot seem to forget that its people who are driving the more growth economy. Politician.....
» 17/06/2009 10:08:13 AM Whistler, it seems to me that you don't know the meaning of the word. You still can't ge.....
» 17/06/2009 9:22:14 AM I find it rather amusing, that some people dislike Costello because of his smirk. Hey, lik.....
» 17/06/2009 9:07:44 AM *"women crash the global economy and then run around endlessly nagging men to do some.....
» 16/06/2009 8:37:19 PM *Like wheat etc that actually costs more per tonne than it yields. (that is if you factor .....
» 16/06/2009 9:25:49 AM He'll certainly have no financial worries, for his parliamentary pension, given that he w.....
» 15/06/2009 10:20:48 AM *Isn't "making cups of tea in town" just where you want them to be, while you al.....
» 14/06/2009 2:49:58 PM *If men feel dismay at (supposedly) doing all the dirty work, as you claim, then there's n.....
» 12/06/2009 8:42:54 PM The 5 year old girl was a very sad story indeed, its a long story. To cut it short, when t.....
» 12/06/2009 8:37:08 PM *"It is never the woman's fault" which, of course is untrue; women can behave as.....
» 11/06/2009 10:31:17 PM *Truth is, business is not rocket science and business people are mostly not rocket scient.....
» 11/06/2009 4:06:32 PM Ah SJF, your last little outburst about Antiseptic, simply shows your own lack of ability .....
» 11/06/2009 3:50:25 PM Hang on there Marko, you are verging on the ridiculous. Perhaps the Taliban should stop h.....
» 11/06/2009 3:35:38 PM Nasho, I don't think its that people don't care, but the whole baby boomer generation is f.....
» 11/06/2009 9:46:27 AM *Never owned one though so I don't know how necessary it is to act so distant from them.* .....
» 10/06/2009 11:07:57 PM *The silence and denial all around us helps the abuse to continue.* There is actually som.....
» 9/06/2009 9:36:13 AM Pymchme, perhaps you should be embarrassed for posting such a stupid comment in the first.....
» 8/06/2009 10:20:34 PM *Hey Yabby, as far as I can see, a home-mortgage IS Usury, unbridled!.* Of course Maxi. H.....
» 8/06/2009 9:20:30 PM *But maybe I should feel fortunate to find an enjoyment from my pets that is beyond the co.....
» 8/06/2009 9:14:02 PM Nasho 23, you make many valid points, but I am afraid that the reality of the gravy train .....
» 8/06/2009 8:18:26 PM *Problems of overgrazing and overfishing would surely be ameliorated by the reduction in p.....
» 8/06/2009 7:58:00 PM *and steer it onto that thread where I destroyed Diamond's claims about "Rwandan over.....
» 8/06/2009 10:22:26 AM *can anyone seriously suggest that the male is trained to focus on an animal but can't see.....
» 8/06/2009 10:16:10 AM *self-regulation cant work with greedy money-grubs such as yourself..as revealed by the ve.....
» 7/06/2009 11:28:59 PM All that effort UOG, yet no links to show that anyone was given 7 trillion $, let alone ju.....
» 7/06/2009 10:13:11 PM Ah, just as I thought, UOGs claim was nonsense, the insurance industry never got 7 trilli.....
» 7/06/2009 9:28:32 PM Clearly you are still dreaming on, Dream On. If you followed the present crisis in America.....
» 7/06/2009 9:10:58 PM *[..thus even insurances/underwriters got their 7 trillion in govt bailouts* ROFL UOG, wh.....
» 6/06/2009 10:29:12 PM UOG, the board of governors determines policy, the 12 reserve banks impliment that policy......
» 6/06/2009 9:53:31 PM *regardless of how undignified BOTH might APPEAR* Hehe Pynchme, sitting on the toilet is .....
» 6/06/2009 8:31:27 PM *that men are entitled to treat females any way they want; use their bodies any way they w.....
» 6/06/2009 8:17:39 PM *I personally find it objectionable these claims that the high costs of product are a dire.....
» 6/06/2009 2:16:42 PM Arjay, where is your evidence that the 12 US Reserve Banks, own shares in US media compani.....
» 5/06/2009 8:02:13 PM *fed reserve SYSTEMor rather the system within the system that takes the cream well before.....
» 5/06/2009 2:24:22 PM UOG, you have as many conspiracy theories about the Fed, as you do about everything else :.....
» 5/06/2009 9:46:38 AM Arjay I know that you are in love with your conspiracy theories, so won't let the truth ge.....
» 4/06/2009 9:54:30 PM Bernanke was on Bloomberg yesterday, being interviewed by a Senate finance committee. He m.....
» 4/06/2009 8:27:16 AM Arjay, not so, I am prepared to discuss anything, as long as it makes sense, is thought th.....
» 2/06/2009 11:04:03 PM Arjay, I'm really not sure what your point is. The RBA is in control of the money supply i.....
» 2/06/2009 4:44:50 PM *After all, that’s what advocacy groups do – they automatically stick up for their members.....
» 2/06/2009 10:19:11 AM DreamOn, what large listed companies do is certainly not creative accounting, or they woul.....
» 1/06/2009 11:56:47 PM Arjay, there are many things which affect inflation. For one if workers want pay rises abo.....
» 1/06/2009 8:08:40 PM *By vitue of removing the banks's ability of creating inflationary money the NMF would hav.....
» 1/06/2009 3:07:58 PM *The world is growning under the strain of over population.* Yup it is, for they are bree.....
» 1/06/2009 1:15:23 PM *For the last time: The girl was NOT one of the groupies.* Ginxy dear, when a chick start.....
» 1/06/2009 1:01:22 PM Either the author is not the brightest of little buttons, or he perhaps has some agenda to.....
» 31/05/2009 10:41:37 PM I haven't followed the posts on this thread for a while, but have just read a few and have.....
» 31/05/2009 3:05:24 PM There you go Arjay, at least you got a patronising pat the on the head from examinator. A.....
» 30/05/2009 7:57:13 PM UOG, how much is enough? Whatever we decide it to be. In my case I think I have enough, to.....
» 30/05/2009 2:52:03 PM *If Pericles or Yabby read this,duck,since they will spitting chips with the venom of a Ki.....
» 30/05/2009 2:30:21 PM When Bunnings Warehouse Trust, who own about 60 of those Bunnings buildings, issued a righ.....
» 30/05/2009 2:26:36 PM UOG, all that you are showing is that you don't understand the fundamentals of the share m.....
» 30/05/2009 10:33:10 AM Pynchme, I hardly think that evolution theory is dated. With blokes like this guy around, .....
» 29/05/2009 8:25:58 PM Arjay, what I think is that you simply don't understand the big picture here. Fact is the .....
» 29/05/2009 7:21:12 PM *Yabby's response is rather coy for such a self-professed libertine, employing the 'neithe.....
» 29/05/2009 2:29:03 PM *also have invested in stamps...books/art..[not that modern s-crap]..as well as diversifie.....
» 29/05/2009 11:05:04 AM Ah UOG, you would have just made Arjay's day. No more worries about Australia's debts, for.....
» 28/05/2009 8:34:05 PM *So they have been paying her money to keep quiet. Hush money?* Sharkfin, you should have.....
» 28/05/2009 2:09:08 PM *Has the penny dropped yet Yabby?* Lol Arjay, you do have a sense of humour. What would y.....
» 27/05/2009 10:10:27 PM *I think this girl was set up by these football players even to the point of taking her ho.....
» 27/05/2009 9:18:59 PM UOG, all you are doing, is digging your self an ever deeper hole here. I fully agree with .....
» 27/05/2009 5:20:37 PM UOG, I seldom bother to decipher your mumbo jumbo posts these days, but I made a bit of an.....
» 27/05/2009 2:54:53 PM *but rather that breeding will be sustainable, in part indexed to the base line of the saf.....
» 27/05/2009 10:30:34 AM Pelican, each year when the budget appears, the major papers do a budget breakdown. I gene.....
» 26/05/2009 7:51:30 PM *OLO is not-IS NOT:- currently a forum that is female friendly. I made a comment about fem.....
» 26/05/2009 7:36:16 PM Arjay, your last post suggests to me, that you don't even have a clue, what role the share.....
» 26/05/2009 2:52:39 PM Err hang on Fractelle. I post many posts which nobody finds insulting. Some however dish .....
» 25/05/2009 7:59:37 PM *As stated in the article, the footy players don't go for strong, confident women, they go.....
» 25/05/2009 7:49:47 PM There certainly is a good case to be made for better sex education classes in Australia, w.....
» 25/05/2009 5:53:22 PM *If you take the simplistic Yabby-evolutionary-biology-is-destiny POV from this, then what.....
» 24/05/2009 8:39:09 PM Ah CJ, you lost your bet, for in fact I speak fluent German and a bit of French, enough to.....
» 24/05/2009 3:15:03 PM *There has been some pretty outlandish logic on this thread, I got confused......{-_o}!!* .....
» 24/05/2009 2:34:04 PM *ie when the country can no longer afford to pay pensioners a minimum "australian&quo.....
» 24/05/2009 2:19:14 PM *Peter you got that right my copy is in use daily it is just the right size to stop my bed.....
» 24/05/2009 2:13:14 PM *There are more important things to do in schooltime than teach material merely because of.....
» 24/05/2009 1:54:58 PM Actually Arjay, if you manage to ever tune in to Bloomberg, quite alot of those members of.....
» 23/05/2009 9:54:41 PM *What must be remembered is that these fit healthy strong young men are extremely attracti.....
» 23/05/2009 2:43:59 PM *Kevin Rudd need not go into debt,just borrow from our own RBA.* I seem to recall Mugabe .....
» 23/05/2009 8:48:52 AM Arjay, it seems to me that you are taking a simplistic approach to all of this, because yo.....
» 22/05/2009 10:53:49 PM Arjay, I know that you don't want to hear it, but Pericles is correct about money, the ban.....
» 22/05/2009 6:49:38 PM *This would mean that sperm from a lot of men is being channelled into one woman – the ver.....
» 22/05/2009 2:21:28 PM *The groupie slags might lose interest, or just develop into fans and not *^^!*^'s!* Ah G.....
» 22/05/2009 11:45:32 AM *Governments waste many more dollars on 'spin' projects and the bottomless pit of Defence .....
» 22/05/2009 12:58:26 AM Ah there you go Pychme, four posts in a row, you got it all off your chest and should feel.....
» 22/05/2009 12:24:58 AM Ah DD, but I am not complaining. Simply pointing out to you that you had your financial k.....
» 21/05/2009 8:56:45 PM *Yabby, I think the group sex thing needs to ultimately go from everywhere* RobP, fair en.....
» 21/05/2009 6:49:22 PM *How can you be so sure? * RobP, if people arn't being locked up for rape, then that is t.....
» 21/05/2009 2:42:59 PM Antonious, thanks for your comment. Yes on this matter, we largely agree. On other subject.....
» 21/05/2009 10:13:39 AM Manorina, you make some very valid points. Ozbib, surely you can teach kids rational thin.....
» 20/05/2009 11:28:44 PM *Unless of course this is the day they finally come for you and lock you away because you .....
» 20/05/2009 10:34:25 PM *over to you Yabby, ie did you ever fund your future?* Yup. I will never in my lifetime, .....
» 20/05/2009 9:59:11 PM RobP, if your previous post was interpreted differently to how you meant it, I was not th.....
» 20/05/2009 6:44:32 PM *Surely the footballers would have a clue that some of the women who vie for their attenti.....
» 20/05/2009 2:50:45 PM *That doesn't mean that because she asked for it originally, she wasn't abused and the bad.....
» 20/05/2009 10:19:14 AM You can't really compare the European situation with Australia. In Europe you only have to.....
» 20/05/2009 12:49:10 AM *Do you mean apart from not meeting Foxy , Fractelle, Bronwyn, Pelican, Romany, Oh hell mo.....
» 20/05/2009 12:15:27 AM *I would never have described myself as being "straight-laced," but perhaps in t.....
» 19/05/2009 10:37:38 PM DD, my post clearly went above your head, but such is life. My point remains that total s.....
» 19/05/2009 8:58:08 PM Ginxy, you still don't get it, but then perhaps you are just so busy defending the sisterh.....
» 19/05/2009 8:34:03 PM *Howard experts said OAPensioners cost less than 1% of the $111 billion So why are you bas.....
» 19/05/2009 10:56:44 AM *So the needy not the greedy benefit.* Sharkfin, that line of Belly's kind of sums it up .....
» 18/05/2009 11:53:53 PM Sheesh Foxy, you are a worry, you really are. Last week we had a story on 4 Corners, abou.....
» 18/05/2009 9:53:04 PM *please break this up the thread is about OAP, not Lonely Mothers Pension* Divorce Doctor.....
» 18/05/2009 8:19:37 PM Aha, the plot thickens! *But since then the New Zealand Accident and Compensation Commiss.....
» 18/05/2009 4:52:18 PM * the millions poured into highly profitable private companies, coal, oil, etc* Maxi, whe.....
» 18/05/2009 4:38:05 PM *Yabby, what codswallop, using ‘basic evolutionary biology’ to excuse what happened.* Ana.....
» 18/05/2009 12:42:29 PM *Poor China will find that the white mans contract is not to be trusted and once again per.....
» 18/05/2009 11:13:46 AM CJ, I have no idea why some footballers are keen on circle jerks. I've never been in their.....
» 18/05/2009 10:29:50 AM Nasho, I am sure that many would like to see a higher pension, but it has to be balanced a.....
» 17/05/2009 9:43:20 PM Sheesh CJ, you are a worry, you really are. This debate has so many sides to it and all yo.....
» 17/05/2009 8:04:06 PM *Yabby, because the root cause of the problem in this situation is men acting badly. Women.....
» 17/05/2009 3:12:24 PM Csteele, I read the old testament and it told me to kill my neighbour for working on the s.....
» 17/05/2009 10:19:06 AM *Did you pummel your chest after you wrote that Yabbs?* No Ginxy dear, I did not. But I a.....
» 16/05/2009 9:58:35 PM Its all a huge conspiracy theory! Just ask mil-observer! Only his guru, Mr Larouche, has .....
» 16/05/2009 8:48:54 PM Foxy, it sounds like the girl picked and chose whom she slept with, not just any of them o.....
» 16/05/2009 5:01:02 PM *Therefore all "loose" women should be rounded up and incarcerated.* No Foxy, l.....
» 16/05/2009 2:09:43 PM Sheesh Cheryl, you and MO are not the brightest posters, you really arn't. All these litt.....
» 16/05/2009 12:36:22 PM Yes Foxy, it answers the question for me. It seemingly shows the urgent need for the educa.....
» 15/05/2009 1:37:29 PM The thing is Foxy, once again you seem to think that it is the blokes who need to change. .....
» 15/05/2009 1:21:55 PM *Nope, I just won the argument, in detial, point-for-point* Hehe MO, in your little mind .....
» 14/05/2009 11:15:06 PM dear Foxy, The perception of a problem, is very much in the eye of the beholder. As a fr.....
» 14/05/2009 10:13:25 PM http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,25477148-421,00.html This story add a bit of intrigu.....
» 14/05/2009 2:54:11 PM Back in my young and wild days, I can remember waking up on the odd occasion with a sore h.....
» 14/05/2009 11:20:35 AM *What creates this weakness in you * Oops Foxy, there was silly me, being rational and lo.....
» 14/05/2009 10:51:36 AM MO, you do a great job at shooting down your own strawman arguments. Clearly you are havin.....
» 13/05/2009 9:45:36 PM *I agree with you about Jewely - she's probably the smartest of us all.* Well this thread.....
» 13/05/2009 8:06:47 PM *Can it be definitively established that the foetus is not human?* KMB, sure a foetus is .....
» 13/05/2009 3:31:17 PM KMB, you are a newby poster on OLO, but let me assure you, its been discussed to death and.....
» 13/05/2009 2:59:29 PM *Let people make their own choices about how many children they have. I believe we have no.....
» 13/05/2009 10:29:03 AM *We used to burn coal and natural gas - now we can use the sun to make steam* What about .....
» 12/05/2009 8:04:25 PM *many other posters here who are railing againts the anti-populationists are all for women.....
» 12/05/2009 11:43:55 AM Ok UOG, we know that you are proud that you learned to use your google bar, claimed as a g.....
» 11/05/2009 10:50:54 PM Ok, I will remember to send them a donation for Planned Parenthood do some great work, in .....
» 11/05/2009 7:51:48 PM Examinator, you can waffle on and try as many times as you like, you can introduce as many.....
» 11/05/2009 2:40:16 PM So who is actually promoting "forced sterilisation"? It seems to be mainly in .....
» 10/05/2009 10:49:16 PM *To believe such things must surely be akin to accepting a religious dogma.* Fester, I th.....
» 10/05/2009 10:33:58 PM *Rules be damned.* Examinator, the Viet Cong did not know the rules and look what happen.....
» 10/05/2009 2:15:11 PM *while studies of other animals show a pack mentality which also works for the good of the.....
» 9/05/2009 7:29:27 PM Examinator, you are a great one for shooting down your own strawman arguments. Perhaps you.....
» 9/05/2009 12:20:57 PM *Ah, but there is of course more to the brain then just urges. We are the product of our p.....
» 8/05/2009 10:27:09 PM *We are indeed greater than the sum of our primal urges* Ah, but there is of course more .....
» 8/05/2009 5:21:37 PM *Let me say that again. They are advocating sterlisation programs for third world women. T.....
» 8/05/2009 12:09:34 PM *Only Cheryl or Mil-ob would think that this is a great situation* Of course those two ca.....
» 7/05/2009 8:36:12 PM Well sorry folks, but I certainly saw the humour and wit in Houllies posts and enjoyed the.....
» 7/05/2009 4:35:47 PM *Religious ideology also contributed to the country's deepening demographic problems. The.....
» 6/05/2009 8:49:24 PM *I think we'd all like you to write down more bible quotes.* Err Houllie, don't encourage.....
» 6/05/2009 2:38:18 PM Pericles, I tend to blame it on well meaning parents of our generation. Many said that th.....
» 5/05/2009 11:04:12 PM *The question of what benefit is derived from a growing population forms the basis of my o.....
» 5/05/2009 10:04:50 PM *Logically then hard wiring would necessitate the male being frustrated in the number of a.....
» 5/05/2009 8:48:54 PM I guess this article shows the difference in intelligence between journalists like Pilger,.....
» 5/05/2009 2:09:04 PM Pelican, great post with lots of truisms! But I agree with Houllie, forget the "victi.....
» 4/05/2009 8:40:13 PM Rhian, this snippet from your URL matters: *Improvements in contraceptive technology are .....
» 4/05/2009 6:39:57 PM *Yabby, the fact is some men and women are born good looking and whether they intend it or.....
» 4/05/2009 2:25:33 PM Ah Foxy, don't take snippets of mine out of context please. This is what I wrote: *But yo.....
» 3/05/2009 9:52:32 PM *It's fair to acknowledge that Julian Simon made mistakes, nonetheless, his general thesis.....
» 3/05/2009 8:40:54 PM Well PF, as you know, I don't often quote religious books lol, buuut, we do have the old h.....
» 3/05/2009 8:20:25 PM *I reckon you've enjoyed yourself here, haven't you Yabbs?* Umm yup. A bit of mental gymn.....
» 3/05/2009 2:59:12 PM No, no, no PF, its those friggin swines that are the problem! Its called swine flue for g.....
» 3/05/2009 11:29:50 AM Fractelle, my comment about gay magazines was related to Romany, who seemingly was not imp.....
» 2/05/2009 8:41:01 PM *GET A LIFE YOU WEAK INSECURE LITTLE WALLY'S).* That's the real fear Ginxy. A life with s.....
» 2/05/2009 11:39:30 AM Ah, that is very sweet of you Foxy, how you rush to the defence of one of your OLO sisters.....
» 1/05/2009 9:22:00 PM *i wouldnt have had to waste all day finding out where the swine that made the flue gets h.....
» 1/05/2009 8:09:33 PM UOG, you might believe that God gave you the ability to google, but rest assured that the .....
» 1/05/2009 7:34:09 PM So there we have it then. Fractelle is pissed off at alot of men, but not all, because th.....
» 30/04/2009 8:43:55 PM Well MOs posts are about as crazy as the newspapers put out by the CEC, so he could well b.....
» 30/04/2009 8:19:09 PM *Men and women are treated in different ways and different patterns of behaviour are exp.....
» 29/04/2009 11:18:48 PM *Even when men and women do similiar jobs, they have different titles and pay scales. * F.....
» 29/04/2009 9:24:34 PM *Then a person's individual human qualities, rather than their biological sex, would be th.....
» 28/04/2009 9:49:14 PM *the real culprits in this anti-human population growth canker are the greens led by bob b.....
» 28/04/2009 3:06:30 PM Bushbasher, fyi I was having a lighthearted dig at Bronwyn, for on another thread she wrot.....
» 28/04/2009 10:23:58 AM * I have never held all men to blame* Very true Fractelle, so you blame most men. Somebod.....
» 27/04/2009 8:19:17 PM *Men control the media.* Foxy, both men and women work in the media. The media gives peop.....
» 27/04/2009 7:52:49 PM Ah Keith, it was of course your friend George, who appointed Cox as the chief regulator of.....
» 27/04/2009 7:27:59 PM *I agree that advertising uses such stereotyping which really insults the integrity of bot.....
» 27/04/2009 1:52:35 PM *Unlike some here, Ludwig, you do have a heart. Please listen to it. :)* Translated from .....
» 27/04/2009 1:34:56 PM *I suggest you read about the Muslim Brotherhood.* Ah Examinator, but out of the Muslim B.....
» 27/04/2009 1:22:59 PM The BBC "World Debate", had a debate about the topic of a global sustainable pop.....
» 27/04/2009 1:06:48 PM *The problem is, those values of border protection are inconsistent with the values Austra.....
» 27/04/2009 12:56:02 PM *But the prevalence of the male gaze does mean that women judge themselves harshly and fin.....
» 26/04/2009 10:48:58 PM Ginx, in a way you make my point for me, as all the kerfuffle with asylum seekers from the.....
» 26/04/2009 2:30:18 PM Ginx, I think you are confusing the figures for asylum seekers, with those of refugees. Y.....
» 26/04/2009 2:14:34 PM To answer the question, I think that Obama has a more modern worldview, as much has chang.....
» 26/04/2009 1:45:11 PM Given this discussion, when I picked up the papers today, I spotted a copy of "Zoo&qu.....
» 25/04/2009 11:03:50 PM *Ho hum - yet more wild guesses about my sex life, it seems!* Romany, that is highly unli.....
» 25/04/2009 7:45:13 PM *We as a country are contracted international agreements to take refugees.* Duh Examinato.....
» 25/04/2009 4:58:56 PM Ah Fractelle, according to Romany it seems that the witchity grubs were the problem, but n.....
» 25/04/2009 3:21:37 PM *BUT I very much doubt that New Idea has found use by women as a masturbatory aid.* Perh.....
» 25/04/2009 2:35:08 PM There are two sides to this debate and the pirates do actually make a valid point: Along t.....
» 25/04/2009 2:11:24 PM I spoke to a friend of mine yesterday, who operates a small business working on mining ma.....
» 25/04/2009 12:36:33 PM Ok its related to what Rehctub is saying, but Robert Gottliebsen wrote an interesting arti.....
» 25/04/2009 1:38:23 AM CJ, I thought I had spelled it out quite clearly, but it seems not clearly enough for you......
» 24/04/2009 9:36:15 PM *This entire thread is an essentially dishonest attempt to stir up the latent xenophobic s.....
» 24/04/2009 9:13:56 PM *American people are not idiots.* Err that is highly debatable :) Twice they voted for G.....
» 24/04/2009 7:13:47 PM *We may find that they satisfy similar corners of the brain, or something like that.* I t.....
» 24/04/2009 6:49:18 PM *If Australia (and other wealthy nations) were to set up their own processing centres ther.....
» 23/04/2009 10:04:11 PM *The article acknowledges that too many people is bad he simply gives PERSPECTIVE and OBJE.....
» 23/04/2009 8:55:25 PM *You mentioned that the UNHCR criteria defining a genuine refugee was stricter that what t.....
» 23/04/2009 12:25:44 PM *I learnt long ago that Yabby's heart is well and truly ruled by his head. * Well I shoul.....
» 23/04/2009 11:29:12 AM CJ sorry, I did not mean to ignore your question. I gather that there is already a UNHCR p.....
» 22/04/2009 8:25:16 PM Ah Examinator, as usual you show a lack of wisdom :) It would of course be very easy to i.....
» 22/04/2009 2:09:49 PM I love all this Western guilt trip stuff! So if I live in Mauritius, strip farm the fores.....
» 22/04/2009 1:45:25 PM *It takes more than a good story to fool the hard-nosed bureaucrats whose decisions seal t.....
» 22/04/2009 8:55:18 AM Foxy, I think we speak a different language here in Western Australia, for terms that we c.....
» 22/04/2009 8:27:18 AM I agree with Bugsy, the days of the gold standard have long gone. Today I see money as ju.....
» 21/04/2009 8:34:09 PM Foxy, for me there certainly is a point, but it goes well beyond the standard Govt spin, p.....
» 21/04/2009 2:18:53 PM Foxy I saw that interview. So what is your point?.....
» 21/04/2009 2:11:49 PM Hasbeen, twenty years ago I put in a solar hot water system. Its been great for 20 years, .....
» 21/04/2009 9:45:33 AM Antiseptic, I've hed a few shares in companies like Origin and Boral for years now. If the.....
» 20/04/2009 9:18:52 PM *courtesy of a mass-media that's milking the isssue for all it's worth.* Come on CJ, you .....
» 20/04/2009 8:06:03 PM Antispectic, the way I understand it, the bottle exchange system is a completely different.....
» 20/04/2009 2:22:34 PM Ah rstuart, but you also have to pay for is double time plus costs for when he is not atte.....
» 20/04/2009 1:05:57 PM *Today I went to the local service station to swap my 9Kg BBQ gas bottle* Ah that was on .....
» 19/04/2009 11:14:17 PM *What's the big deal about a few hundred 'boat people'? * CJ, at some point you have to t.....
» 19/04/2009 12:48:51 PM Sheesh, logic and reason seem to be in short supply on OLO at times. Now either asylum se.....
» 18/04/2009 11:31:10 PM Now now Foxy, you just stick to your friggin bicycle and don't you scratch the paintwork o.....
» 18/04/2009 9:34:04 PM This is a tricky one to answer, for I don't think that the author, or anyone else for that.....
» 18/04/2009 2:37:13 PM Well we could argue about the speed thinggy Fractelle, for the Tesla is not exactly slow. .....
» 18/04/2009 2:10:28 PM http://www.teslamotors.com/index.php There you go Fractelle, that shows you the potential.....
» 18/04/2009 1:51:19 PM *Setting fire to their boat when they become a liability wouldn't count as a "good&qu.....
» 18/04/2009 10:49:04 AM Ah Mikk, perhaps you have not thought about this one too well, or you would realise that i.....
» 17/04/2009 11:28:29 PM If I got it right, that is what I heard Kevin07 say about people smugglers. Now either our.....
» 14/04/2009 8:50:35 PM UOG, ah of course, it is all a conspiracy, they are all gangsters, every word on every web.....
» 14/04/2009 2:52:23 PM UOG, I am not sure what your point is. AIG is now largely owned by the US Govt and it was .....
» 14/04/2009 2:42:57 PM *It's way too early to get overexcited about much of this.* I agree with Wobbles on that .....
» 13/04/2009 7:41:34 PM If we go back 100-150 years, when people lived without all that energy, they did pretty we.....
» 13/04/2009 1:24:53 PM Ok, this is a definition of love from about 30 years ago, by Nathaniel Branden, from ".....
» 12/04/2009 10:41:07 PM *People generally do not want to hear negative things about Obama.He is engaging in the fo.....
» 12/04/2009 8:36:30 PM Ah, that is easy, I have quit so many times :) My problem is not so much quitting, but st.....
» 11/04/2009 9:08:29 PM Foxy, that is a lovely poem and indeed would reflect what you are all about. I know some.....
» 11/04/2009 4:35:52 PM Well the chimp idea is not so silly after all. Males just kind of take their ladies ".....
» 11/04/2009 1:06:13 PM For those interested, two URLs from our own Reserve bank, showing what happens to profits,.....
» 11/04/2009 12:59:04 PM Here is an interesting URL from the BBC. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/798816.....
» 10/04/2009 10:35:11 PM Ah, there is of course nothing like a good conspiracy theory, to keep the masses occupied .....
» 10/04/2009 9:08:14 PM Foxy, Mother Theresa gave many speeches on contraception and abortion, including when she .....
» 10/04/2009 3:21:03 PM *to the truth that lies in their heart.* The truth is that the heart pumps blood, Foxy :).....
» 10/04/2009 2:49:54 PM Loudmouth, it is a little naive of you to blame all cultural practises in the third world .....
» 10/04/2009 1:55:21 PM Arjay, I don't do Utube, as I have mobile broadband where I live, which means 1Gig per mon.....
» 10/04/2009 11:24:14 AM *and I'll repeat, the greatest threat to peace in the world was the tendency of women to r.....
» 10/04/2009 10:51:18 AM Arjay, it is UOG who preaches no interest. It is against Islam. So they charge you in othe.....
» 10/04/2009 12:43:44 AM Arjay, the gold standard was dropped over 30 years ago. You have still to get your mind ar.....
» 9/04/2009 7:57:08 PM Loudmouth, I snipped this from the Gutmacher Institute URL which was provided earlier in t.....
» 9/04/2009 2:36:22 PM *The feeling or emotion that I associate with love is just not capable of being directed i.....
» 9/04/2009 2:15:54 PM Loudmouth, yes we know about all those indirect connections and those noble goals. Give it.....
» 8/04/2009 2:40:29 PM Loudmouth, the education of all women in the third world is indeed a noble goal and we sho.....
» 8/04/2009 1:28:36 PM Graham, I do appreciate the effort that you put in, to make OLO such a great forum. I can.....
» 8/04/2009 1:18:57 PM Great post Pericles, your wisdom is appreciated! I think and read about this kind of stuf.....
» 7/04/2009 11:09:57 PM Arjay, you think of money in the wrong way. It is simply a means of exchange. Those notes .....
» 7/04/2009 11:00:51 PM So another question arises. Is grieving based on self interest?.....
» 7/04/2009 8:45:22 PM *simply offering women simple, free slow-release contraceptive implants, locally, for free.....
» 7/04/2009 8:39:40 PM Wobbles, I remind you that Australia has gone into this, in relatively extremely good con.....
» 7/04/2009 4:06:30 PM *Hmmm. But I don’t think loved is based on that actually. As I said initially, love can be.....
» 6/04/2009 9:03:52 PM So Kevin is taking money from my back pocket and putting it into my front pocket. Duh! Ne.....
» 6/04/2009 8:51:03 PM Its been interesting to read what other posters have to say on the topic. My conclusion wa.....
» 5/04/2009 10:37:44 PM Arjay, I have no need to follow any conspiracy theory trails, for the Fed comes under the.....
» 5/04/2009 9:28:40 PM Romany, what say that I play the diplomat for once and pass that topic on for you to creat.....
» 5/04/2009 2:27:23 PM *Personally, I'm with Graham on this - we need some new, interesting topics rather than ki.....
» 5/04/2009 10:54:20 AM *as other country's can sell us items cheaper than we can make them.* Belly, just this mo.....
» 5/04/2009 10:42:30 AM Arjay, you are free to believe your conspiracy theories about the Fed Reserve if you wish......
» 4/04/2009 10:03:55 PM *Far from changing, he is just more of the same* Actually not so, but the less enlightene.....
» 2/04/2009 10:25:24 PM *Yabby,we are not good at manufacturing because we believe in fairness* Arjay, if that w.....
» 2/04/2009 8:33:48 PM *Not for a second do I like selling any of my country, but thats what international trade .....
» 2/04/2009 3:29:13 PM *Apologies for mentioning an insult* An insult Fractelle? You have got to be kidding! SNA.....
» 2/04/2009 2:12:58 PM Belly, I think you will find that Rio is listed on both the ASX and London, as it has shar.....
» 2/04/2009 1:07:01 AM *(in fact CJ Morgan was referred to as a "snag" on another thread)* Sheesh Frac.....
» 1/04/2009 8:03:57 PM Belly, this has nothing to do with the peril. Fortesque have just taken on a 15% investmen.....
» 1/04/2009 10:25:32 AM *18% thats the amount they want to buy, not a controlling interest,* Ah Belly, but the de.....
» 31/03/2009 9:27:44 PM Duh, of course it's a feelgood exercise, but if it makes people feel good, it serves a pur.....
» 31/03/2009 2:37:49 PM *Except how do you get the man to admit he's got a problem when he won't discuss it?* Fox.....
» 31/03/2009 1:44:33 PM *Did we stand in the way of Japan owning so much?* Well this is quite different, as its t.....
» 30/03/2009 11:40:33 PM By the way Runner, it is not over for you yet, lol. When that so called "evil" .....
» 30/03/2009 10:30:39 PM Belly, never mind any China trips, they simply don't matter. What really matters is how t.....
» 30/03/2009 8:57:44 PM *Yabby Your ignorance knows no bounds.* Err Runner, your fanaticism seemingly knows no li.....
» 30/03/2009 8:20:51 PM *Your personal emotional interests are driving your conclusions.* Err not so Examinator, .....
» 30/03/2009 6:27:39 PM Dear Foxy, I do actually know of a single case like that, where the guy reckoned that she.....
» 30/03/2009 3:50:43 PM Ah Fractelle, you got it wrong once again, but we are used to that by now. For it is fema.....
» 30/03/2009 10:37:58 AM Fractelle, I also have sufficient intelligence to show why your post is wrong. For you and.....
» 29/03/2009 6:28:59 PM Fractelle, there are actually huge benefits to living on one’s own terms. In one thing Ant.....
» 29/03/2009 1:15:37 PM * Yabby, men are not a single homogenous group* Err Fractelle, nobody has claimed that th.....
» 28/03/2009 8:56:44 PM *She and you completely miss the point that the 'woman's needs' are often more complex* B.....
» 28/03/2009 1:44:21 PM CJ, around 2 years ago, a dedicated SNAG like yourself, preached to me the joys of his fam.....
» 27/03/2009 10:23:46 PM Examinator, so let me get this straight. I was a good 25 years older then my staff and bec.....
» 27/03/2009 6:56:32 PM Examinator, I threw Freud and Jung out, around 30 years ago. Perhaps you should swat up yo.....
» 27/03/2009 2:19:10 PM It seems to me that Mirko has his wires crossed here. What most mum and dad shareholders w.....
» 27/03/2009 1:19:20 PM *That's interesting. I don't remember seeing any quotation marks or links or references* .....
» 27/03/2009 5:29:51 AM Actually Romany, alot of what I wrote in that last post came straight from Bettina herself.....
» 26/03/2009 11:53:29 PM *I take it she ignores the thousands of unborn babies murdered as a sacrifice to convenien.....
» 26/03/2009 9:36:09 PM Well I find Bettina Arndt's one line response of her findings quite refreshing and for goo.....
» 25/03/2009 10:50:29 PM * I had just finished replying to Yabby about his obsession with sex...* Sorry Foxy, but .....
» 25/03/2009 10:21:40 PM *However, she's not qualified to speak on behalf of people who's experiences differ from t.....
» 25/03/2009 2:59:30 PM *I'm not saying that sex is unimportant in a relationship, all I'm saying is that there's .....
» 25/03/2009 1:12:48 PM Col, good to see you back. I was concerned that the big heart attack might have struck. F.....
» 24/03/2009 9:03:48 PM "The marriage didn't end because of my ex's loss of libido" Come on CJ, be hone.....
» 24/03/2009 1:46:13 PM *unless or until we stop denying genetic influences, we will fail in this.* Exactly Max, .....
» 24/03/2009 10:09:57 AM Arjay, ok so you think that Wickipedia have it all wrong and that you know better. Fair en.....
» 23/03/2009 11:29:58 PM Arjay, you too can read what the Federal Reserve does, why it was formed and who gets what.....
» 23/03/2009 6:52:00 PM CJ, miners are rather common in WA and mining is not the only industry where blokes put up.....
» 23/03/2009 3:43:43 PM *Aren't you guys aware that it takes considerably more than one average income to service .....
» 23/03/2009 1:55:49 PM Arjay, I once gave you a Wickepedia link, which showed that any profits that the Fed makes.....
» 23/03/2009 1:11:52 PM *Indeed, the constant revisionism of the Prophet's biographical material is just absurd du.....
» 23/03/2009 12:35:04 PM *Some blokes here don't seem to realise that the days of man the hunter/breadwinner and wo.....
» 22/03/2009 1:31:01 PM *Bettina Arndt tries to confirm the wife is mostly to blame for a sexless marriage* Nope,.....
» 22/03/2009 12:30:43 PM Maximillion makes extremely valid points there, Foxy. Your relationship sounds wonderful,.....
» 22/03/2009 12:19:23 PM *There's always two sides to each argument. For every argument that's presented - there's .....
» 22/03/2009 9:33:42 AM Yabby is angry* Hehe, is that so? I could have fooled me lol, for I knew nothing about it.....
» 22/03/2009 12:07:20 AM A female friend once told me that a woman will make a long list of qualities that she seek.....
» 21/03/2009 11:50:00 PM Foxy, we are not even discussing women going for somebody else, we have not even gotten th.....
» 21/03/2009 5:57:42 PM *Women live their ENTIRE lives from cradle to grave viewing the world from a male perspect.....
» 21/03/2009 3:34:38 PM *But this is a whole different thing to cheating with a partner when sex is freely availab.....
» 21/03/2009 12:12:19 PM *Men still try to make women feel obligated to fulfil men’s sexual needs and this is best .....
» 21/03/2009 11:42:58 AM Foxy, if you are interested in all this stuff, it would pay to read up a bit on evolutiona.....
» 20/03/2009 9:26:30 PM Ah Webby, no anger at all, just a very low tolerance, for stupid, ill informed people :) .....
» 20/03/2009 8:53:07 PM *Natural family planning according to Catholic teaching involves no pills * Ah, I just lo.....
» 20/03/2009 6:36:24 PM *I tend to think the 'natural urges of men' approach is just an excuse for bad behaviour.*.....
» 20/03/2009 6:21:51 PM *Small families do in not in any way enhance a womans long term health prospects.* Hang o.....
» 19/03/2009 8:40:56 PM *To me, prostitution is not acceptable and I am happy to state that publicly.* I'm not su.....
» 19/03/2009 7:09:05 PM *Abortionists around the World believe we are overpopulated and it will be up to Governmen.....
» 18/03/2009 9:54:45 PM *Yabby it is seemed that you prefer businesses to act withouht limits to do what they want.....
» 18/03/2009 2:01:04 PM Ah Webby, your problem here of course is that your very own Catholic Church has accepted e.....
» 17/03/2009 10:40:45 PM *You actually DO have your own dogmas. From what I've seen of the content of your posts yo.....
» 17/03/2009 9:05:16 PM *To say that men do this, of women do that .... has to be qualified by the word - "So.....
» 17/03/2009 8:50:02 PM *If a CEO is worth more than the Prime Minister they clearly don't need to be bailed out.*.....
» 17/03/2009 7:46:06 PM *My point is /was that neither brand or price is a guarantee of quality and that in realit.....
» 17/03/2009 4:46:19 PM *Built-in Obsolescence is a major factor preventing a move towards a sustainable and equit.....
» 16/03/2009 9:54:26 PM *Think out of the box.* ROFL Examinator ! For the last 30 years or so, just about any ser.....
» 16/03/2009 7:18:51 PM *Yabby, the trouble is that you cannot buy Australian tomatoes anymore. Well you certainly.....
» 16/03/2009 6:17:22 PM Spin Examinator? I put it to you that my point was a logical and rational deducation in re.....
» 16/03/2009 2:22:25 PM *Contrary to Yabby’s self correcting view of capitalism the reality is that the larger pla.....
» 15/03/2009 10:05:08 PM *You have your own dogmas.* Not so Webby, because for me, all information is tentative an.....
» 15/03/2009 8:49:04 PM Sorry Runner, no babies or children involved in abortion, it is you who are trying to rein.....
» 15/03/2009 6:52:15 PM *think again life style for the majority of Ausies will inevitably take a battering.* So .....
» 15/03/2009 1:50:05 PM Ah Pelican, in years I am in my mid 50s. You might well be younger in years, but perhaps n.....
» 15/03/2009 12:46:30 PM Pelican, there are good reasons why banks don't pass on all interest rate cuts. Fact is th.....
» 14/03/2009 1:40:48 PM *This has happened to many products and the notion that by somehow introducing tariffs thr.....
» 14/03/2009 12:41:06 PM *Our bodies arise at the final judgment* Not so Webby, what we can show is that bodies l.....
» 14/03/2009 10:41:58 AM Sorry Runner, no children involved at all. So you remain confused. I saw an interview rec.....
» 13/03/2009 11:11:57 AM *I have an image of Yabby in Africa tossing out handfuls of condoms which are grabbed by t.....
» 12/03/2009 11:29:44 PM Well, a bit of a recession to be honest, is not such a bad thing, it brings values back to.....
» 12/03/2009 11:13:22 PM *Good grief woman how did this happen.* Ah, when the masses think that all will be well, .....
» 12/03/2009 1:38:50 PM *and Divine words from the Scriptures speaks of the sacredness of human life from the begi.....
» 12/03/2009 9:51:29 AM *To give you a feel of being treated with condescension, I deliberately referred to you in.....
» 12/03/2009 9:03:50 AM Some of these members of the god squad, seem to live in their own little dream land, far a.....
» 11/03/2009 7:56:27 PM Antonios, I am indeed a supporter of Barack Obama, but what you are suggesting and he is s.....
» 11/03/2009 2:39:01 PM Well good on Stephen Smith of the ALP for bringing about these changes! They are years ove.....
» 11/03/2009 1:48:14 PM *I think you stand on the extreme right side of the new-conservatives.* Antonios, you are.....
» 11/03/2009 1:20:36 PM *You don't treat female posters to OLO with any respect,* Fractelle dear, respect is earn.....
» 10/03/2009 9:52:46 PM *The dirty little secret was hidden from view by the booming commodity price fig leaf. * .....
» 10/03/2009 4:52:01 PM Fractelle dear, sweety pie, honeybunch, Yup, anyone could be raped, men too. Men have a .....
» 10/03/2009 4:28:07 PM *Yabby, the problem with this argument is that the ownership of the ordinary shareholder i.....
» 9/03/2009 11:31:06 PM *Workers are not empowered shareholders - they have no say in how these companies are mana.....
» 9/03/2009 10:33:18 PM *one way that workers at the coalface (should that be solarface) can share in the wealth o.....
» 9/03/2009 2:43:52 PM *THE REAL, THE BIG PROBLEM IS IN CUSTOMERS HEAD!* Ah Antonios, slowly you get it :) If N.....
» 9/03/2009 2:10:45 PM *Is it actually fair that the people who do the work and get their hands dirty only receiv.....
» 9/03/2009 1:40:20 PM Fractelle, of course education goes along with availability of family planning services, I.....
» 9/03/2009 10:20:14 AM Cheryl, education is just one part of it, availability of family planning materials and se.....
» 7/03/2009 12:27:18 PM *If we are going to reduce population why not start by killing a few more animals. * That.....
» 6/03/2009 7:25:02 PM Ah TRTL, you clearly have the potential talent to be a preacher :) You could sock it to t.....
» 6/03/2009 12:24:05 PM *To me, the Church should have shown more 'humanity' in this matter. If it could not show .....
» 6/03/2009 9:51:28 AM *Yabby, there is no reason to expect price rises on home grown/manufactured goods if inter.....
» 5/03/2009 9:43:49 PM Sheesh Pelican, with those sorts of policies, having you as PM, I would have to play devil.....
» 5/03/2009 10:17:00 AM *someone described the situation in Rwanda where the people in an area of great fertility .....
» 4/03/2009 9:21:29 PM *Many years later I can see that I followed the programming of nature as all species do.* .....
» 4/03/2009 10:29:17 AM *Shipping is responsible for about twice the emissions of carbon dioxide as aviation. * E.....
» 4/03/2009 10:09:52 AM The author seems to have forgotten the real problem here. For years the EC and US have pai.....
» 3/03/2009 6:26:08 PM *The fuel used and the carbon emitted to transport products, that in many cases can be gro.....
» 3/03/2009 9:11:40 AM *Women are now competing with men and on men's terms.* Bronwyn, that might be the case in.....
» 2/03/2009 8:16:09 PM Gee whizz Whistler, if you think that things are so bad, you had better grab your fishing .....
» 1/03/2009 9:46:35 PM *prescribed at law as men's legislatures,* so untwist your knickers Whistler, call them .....
» 1/03/2009 6:45:20 PM *Do you understand Yabby? This is the real telstra today, FAT AND LAZY!* Ah, but you shou.....
» 1/03/2009 4:22:24 PM Antonios, I think its pretty safe to say that without MS, there would not be a PC industry.....
» 1/03/2009 2:37:16 PM *Yabby do not worry Bill Gate will not go in prison,* Well lets us hope not, for I will .....
» 1/03/2009 1:50:28 PM *produced weak government which oversaw the collapse of the global economy by a male domin.....
» 1/03/2009 12:56:29 PM *No, I don't worry about laziness. I'm much more worried about greed.* I guess that is de.....
» 1/03/2009 9:49:07 AM *men collapsed fishing.* Whistler you really do seem to have a chip on your shoulder abou.....
» 28/02/2009 12:42:49 PM *I just think you're trying to turn us into decorated f--kdolls for the pleasure of men,&q.....
» 27/02/2009 4:22:03 PM *I don't think we'd be wanting more and more at all, if it weren't for the aggressive adve.....
» 27/02/2009 1:54:57 PM I don't believe that the problem is capitalism, the problem is human nature. Some people w.....
» 27/02/2009 1:39:01 PM *Are you disputing women have been appointed as Prime Minister and heads of two of Iceland.....
» 27/02/2009 7:33:12 AM So to sum it up Whistler, you have no evidence for your claims, that is just how you feel.....
» 26/02/2009 11:16:06 PM Whistler, I see nowhere, where the article provides any evidence for its claims. Fact is.....
» 26/02/2009 6:48:45 PM Ah Antonios, the people working in space research will love you lol. All that money and j.....
» 26/02/2009 1:48:34 PM *If you measure such attitudes on a pessimism/optimism scale, with Eeyore as zero and Poly.....
» 26/02/2009 1:34:25 PM *The Icelandic solution attempts to swing individual bargaining in women's favour, in a we.....
» 25/02/2009 9:16:02 PM Whistler, I remind you that women are people and we have spent alot of time and effort to .....
» 25/02/2009 7:57:24 PM Whistler, in that case the wording of the constitution can be changed, to reflect the real.....
» 25/02/2009 2:53:25 PM *Telstra as one of the worst examples.* Spindoc, but even in this case, Telstra having so.....
» 25/02/2009 1:36:07 PM Whistler, it sounds to me that you are getting your nickers in a twist over a bit of sema.....
» 24/02/2009 11:29:17 PM Whistler, it seems to me that you confuse being under supervision, with being held account.....
» 24/02/2009 9:54:11 PM *We come in these placed to educate people * That is the problem Gertrude. You actually b.....
» 24/02/2009 8:22:47 PM *Maybe it's management and not ownership that makes the difference.* Ah very true! If we .....
» 24/02/2009 8:03:48 PM *A strong human, a smart human, a human who won the death could support and save not only .....
» 24/02/2009 2:28:16 PM *is obstacle free and imminent.* Hehe, I have news for you sweetheart :) You still don't .....
» 23/02/2009 10:06:46 PM *You and other like you are environmental new-conservatives.* Not at all. I simply have a.....
» 22/02/2009 10:29:37 PM Easy Times, you are seemingly not silly, so would know the definition of sustainability, s.....
» 22/02/2009 9:50:08 PM *Yabby You’re terrified of debating the meat industry.* Rubbish. I simply don't think tha.....
» 22/02/2009 8:09:09 PM Gertrude, you have hijacked countless threads on OLO, this case was simply too much for me.....
» 22/02/2009 2:10:16 PM *So why don’t you ask Nicky what she’s doing and her friends to assist instead of just pic.....
» 21/02/2009 10:34:37 PM *Yabby We have an office to run for starters and I personally have hosres that must be car.....
» 21/02/2009 9:54:05 PM Whistler, there are no mens legislatures. There are peoples legislatures, made up of both.....
» 21/02/2009 9:18:42 PM *Yabby – its dogma like yours which the original article I posted is trying to over come. .....
» 21/02/2009 7:06:01 PM *Or do you see it like I do that it is an unnecessary part of life that with time we will .....
» 21/02/2009 1:21:28 PM *the Icelandic solution is inequitable.* I have not followed the Iceland story, apart fro.....
» 20/02/2009 10:17:48 PM *You missed that is the only place Gertrude is happy, for starters.* Fair enough Gertrude.....
» 20/02/2009 12:46:20 PM Actually crooks on Wall St have done the damage to the global economy and the women in ch.....
» 19/02/2009 11:14:56 PM Ok Gertrude, I will sum up the position as I see it thus far. You are free to show where I.....
» 19/02/2009 9:40:02 PM Gertrude, my point was actually about 150'000 cows dying in your state right now, I though.....
» 19/02/2009 12:55:24 PM *men have made a right mess of it", * Err, so can we assume, that women who IIRC mak.....
» 19/02/2009 10:01:56 AM There have been plenty of arguments of substance presented Whistler, but I think they are .....
» 19/02/2009 9:56:23 AM You are a worry Gerturde, you really are. Here you are on OLO preaching Gertrudanomics, w.....
» 18/02/2009 6:36:28 PM Well there we have it Whistler. Absolutaly no support for your crazy ideas. Best you pick .....
» 18/02/2009 2:24:43 PM Ok Mil Observer, now we know what you think. You hate the system, you don't give a stuff a.....
» 18/02/2009 10:26:23 AM Whistler, it seems to me that you don't understand the difference between smut and basic b.....
» 17/02/2009 11:27:14 PM *What a completely irrelevant point you make - unless we're concerned about some "rac.....
» 17/02/2009 10:41:05 PM Col, you know that I agree with you and no doubt you have read enough of my posts, to conc.....
» 17/02/2009 10:17:02 PM *but the higher premium approach is the rational one for the insurers to pursue, rather th.....
» 17/02/2009 8:05:13 PM *Beyond a certain point it's cheaper to let houses burn down and build them again when nec.....
» 17/02/2009 12:39:48 PM *Live Exporters taking 40 million in subsidies from Public Purse* The article says no suc.....
» 17/02/2009 9:32:26 AM Whistler, the news that came out in the hearing was not old news, but news from a couple o.....
» 17/02/2009 8:36:17 AM Er no, the system has not collapsed, but what I have been predicting will happen, is now h.....
» 16/02/2009 8:31:04 PM *Now converting investment into strong net export growth also requires higher saving which.....
» 16/02/2009 5:08:14 PM Actually it was not just Thomson that was the problem, but a number of women who were at .....
» 16/02/2009 4:38:46 PM That is not so clear at all. What is clear is that she was not enforcing what she could ha.....
» 16/02/2009 1:32:19 PM StG, alot of people think that chook contains less fat, as it is harder to see, being a s.....
» 16/02/2009 1:18:35 PM *absent women's legislatures, women, individually, are absolved, in perpetuity, of all bla.....
» 16/02/2009 8:12:28 AM Whistler, of course Obama is being asked to look at more regulations. That does not mean t.....
» 15/02/2009 9:10:45 PM *Re bunckers Double brick. These people often do not have a lot of money.* This is often .....
» 15/02/2009 1:58:50 PM *regulators, able or incapable, did what weak and ineffective men's legislatures, discombo.....
» 14/02/2009 10:07:44 PM Whilster, I think you are whistling in the wind on this one :) If you check it out, those.....
» 14/02/2009 9:17:33 PM Ah so the truth is finally coming out. Nicky, the supporter of a militant union like the W.....
» 14/02/2009 1:25:47 PM *gender apartheid, in the form of discrimination against women, self-evidently caused the .....
» 14/02/2009 1:09:02 PM Foxy, arson is only one part of the story and solving it, which you never will, as there a.....
» 14/02/2009 9:33:05 AM Antonios, you can't compare New Orleans with this situation as you tried to do, for in tha.....
» 13/02/2009 8:16:30 PM *The authorities had plenty time to rescue the people from the high risk areas but they di.....
» 13/02/2009 6:49:12 PM *my guess is that equity is essential to the provision of certainty.* Ah, that is your pr.....
» 13/02/2009 2:21:05 PM *I can't recall any Popes endorsing promiscuity to accompany their anti-contraception stan.....
» 13/02/2009 1:43:35 PM Ah, of course they will. There is no doubt that the shopping gene is deeply inbedded in th.....
» 12/02/2009 2:36:35 PM Gertrude here is the website: http://www.barricadegel.com/ I don't know if this stuff is.....
» 12/02/2009 2:18:38 PM Come on, lets get real here, the old papa is past it and should be out tending the roses i.....
» 11/02/2009 2:46:18 PM rstuart, you miss the point. If bunkers should become mandatory, as Dickie suggests, then .....
» 11/02/2009 1:32:20 PM *So Yabby, I'd say your pricing is out by a factor of 10 or so.* Ah, but this is not abou.....
» 10/02/2009 9:59:56 PM Ah Dickie, you should have been a public servant. Easy peasy, just force people to spend 1.....
» 10/02/2009 1:19:36 PM *An argument against frequent broadacre burning policies and their limited effectiveness w.....
» 9/02/2009 10:40:26 PM *In December 2007, DEC (WA) allowed a convoy of trucks to proceed * Gawd, Dickie and her .....
» 9/02/2009 8:02:28 PM *BTW grass doesn’t grow where there is tight tree cover.* Examinator, I think you are mis.....
» 9/02/2009 2:27:40 PM I've been through a 60'000 acre fire, these ones are much larger. We learnt a great deal f.....
» 8/02/2009 9:49:10 PM *Where the opposition is letting the Australian public down is in not examining the propos.....
» 7/02/2009 12:38:42 PM I think that we should strive to be happy and enjoy every day, for it is all about enjoyi.....
» 6/02/2009 11:42:56 AM Foxy, its basic evolution theory. Males have evolved with the urge to impregnate females. .....
» 5/02/2009 11:07:15 PM *I had a total crush on my English Lit. lecturer....He slept on the couch, but my holiday .....
» 5/02/2009 10:06:10 PM *Mr Bush didn't do this Yabby * Actually Meredith, he did. As Prez, for most of the time .....
» 5/02/2009 1:48:38 PM *That is only one of several striking positive outcomes the US achieved under his custodia.....
» 5/02/2009 1:34:42 PM So when did Japan start this so called cultural tradition of harvesting whales in the Sou.....
» 4/02/2009 7:19:36 PM *My point was that people *do* want production line work. * So you claim. Yet meatworks i.....
» 4/02/2009 12:59:10 PM *1st ‘people don’t want production line work’* Examinator, in that case why haven't they .....
» 3/02/2009 7:55:34 PM *For Australia to compete successfully with Germany we need a change in social attitudes,*.....
» 3/02/2009 12:48:57 PM *who exports live animals and chops up puppies.* Err dickie, lets get these things straig.....
» 2/02/2009 12:38:55 PM *With automated factories necessitating skilled engineers and designers there is little ne.....
» 2/02/2009 12:24:27 PM David, Australian industry had time, all they did was pocket the profits and raise costs f.....
» 2/02/2009 10:25:20 AM *Putting tariffs on imported manufactured products would give Australian industries more o.....
» 1/02/2009 9:22:08 AM *Yes, how dare I want to make a living from being a writer?* Spikey, you can dare whateve.....
» 31/01/2009 2:05:40 PM *I cannot make a living on a 10% royalty basis and there's got to be a better and fairer w.....
» 31/01/2009 7:50:43 AM I buy quite alot of books and gave up on Australian booksellers over 10 years ago. Once Am.....
» 30/01/2009 10:55:14 PM *I object vigorously to MY taxes being spent to prop up cruel farmers and an evil, despica.....
» 30/01/2009 9:26:50 PM *Errr.... just to remind you Yabby that the contributions you refer to came from the taxpa.....
» 30/01/2009 6:25:31 PM *Has anyone yet informed you Dumbo that Merino sheep are NOT indigenous to Australia?* Di.....
» 29/01/2009 11:10:24 PM *it is quite obvious even to the intellectually challenged that people who have animals ha.....
» 29/01/2009 10:44:11 PM *Most of them plait their armpits and smoke pot.* Hehe Dickie, now we know how you pass y.....
» 29/01/2009 8:26:29 PM *I don't feel the need to clarify my position on farming any further for the benefit of th.....
» 29/01/2009 2:29:49 PM Nicky, I think that you have made your disdain for livestock farming and livestock farmers.....
» 28/01/2009 10:55:10 PM *Of course not Yabby dear and Jack the Ripper was such a kindly soul!* Exactly dickie dea.....
» 28/01/2009 9:56:15 PM *Animal welfare and meat eating to many are not mutually exclusive; the majority of member.....
» 27/01/2009 11:49:31 PM Nicky dear, so sink your catty little claws into the RSPCA, if you wish. I think that wha.....
» 27/01/2009 6:45:20 PM Oh deary dear me. Now our Dickie is trying to apply her housewifely skills to growing whe.....
» 27/01/2009 3:43:32 PM *There is no 'bitchiness' within the animal advocacy movement beyond one group. Everyone e.....
» 26/01/2009 10:37:20 PM Sheesh, I love this female logic :) Because some fish in Queensland has two heads, I in We.....
» 26/01/2009 9:07:14 PM *Why do animal welfare groups need to be so numerous?* Belly, because they are all squabb.....
» 25/01/2009 11:38:46 AM Ah well there we have it. One moment we were discussing a valid philosophical question abo.....
» 25/01/2009 11:27:45 AM *where we are singled out for 'special' verbal treatment of a morally derogatory nature,* .....
» 24/01/2009 4:03:30 PM *His connection of 'right' with 'white' was racist in the extreme..* Ah, poor BD, you sen.....
» 24/01/2009 2:20:06 PM *What is so unbelievable is that he'd ok a racist jab on such a momentous occasion... * O.....
» 24/01/2009 2:06:34 PM Err Dickie, you own your pet, as slaves were owned. It is there purely for your amusement .....
» 24/01/2009 1:26:16 PM *As Obama did not criticise Lowery’s choice of words it is reasonable to assume that he en.....
» 24/01/2009 1:11:13 PM *I reiterate: Humans are not anatomically built to catch or rip up a beast for consumption.....
» 23/01/2009 8:05:38 PM *Since you are an English migrant and my ancestors are not,* Sheesh, I will have to waste.....
» 23/01/2009 2:41:47 PM Toot toot, here come the OLO sisterhood, peddling away on their bicycles to defend comrade.....
» 23/01/2009 8:31:38 AM Dickie, your post is about as ignorant as I have seen on OLO, but then you do let your lit.....
» 22/01/2009 8:17:49 PM *Federal Minister for Population Welfare Chaudhry Shahbaz Hussain outlined the following i.....
» 22/01/2009 5:33:50 PM *When the posters here who argue the most vehemently in favour of the exploitation of anim.....
» 22/01/2009 5:13:56 PM Ludwig, thanks for the link. America is of course the most religious Western country on ea.....
» 21/01/2009 11:09:21 PM *Those who believe that the majority of Catholics in the West adhere to the Church's edict.....
» 20/01/2009 9:13:08 PM *yabby I too have a question for you. Why do you bother?* Belly, lets say that many littl.....
» 20/01/2009 8:36:44 PM *Add my support to your expressions of complete disgust at the immoral intervention of the.....
» 19/01/2009 6:55:33 PM *It is scientific fact that Australian agriculture is not sustainable;* Nonsense Nicky. W.....
» 19/01/2009 4:20:14 PM Jonathon, hehe, because I ask valid questions which you cannot answer, you claim that I sh.....
» 19/01/2009 9:54:22 AM http://www.smh.com.au/news/opinion/women-in-developing-countries-denied-choice/2009/01/18/.....
» 18/01/2009 9:23:29 PM *If animals were not produced for meat, they therefore cannot suffer.* Ah Jonathon, but i.....
» 18/01/2009 6:03:52 PM *Are you implying that being a vegetarian or vegan is “leading no life at all”? * Absolut.....
» 18/01/2009 5:10:08 PM *Hunt and voracity are unnatural to him... On the contrary his hands are made to pick frui.....
» 17/01/2009 6:26:03 PM Dickie dear, sorry but I don't do Youtube, its not a good idea, if one has a mobile broadb.....
» 17/01/2009 12:54:38 PM *Solve that, you solve overpopulation.* TRTL, clearly it is not that simple, as my exampl.....
» 17/01/2009 11:54:04 AM *Governments are supposed to mitigate that constant push for expansion from the business s.....
» 16/01/2009 10:45:14 PM *Vested-interest, profit-driven, continuous-growth-at-all-costs big-business forces are al.....
» 16/01/2009 7:27:28 PM *And my grateful thanks to Yabby once again, who persistently and unwittingly contributes .....
» 16/01/2009 5:05:29 PM *for there are potentially thousands of good people, who sooner or later, may access these.....
» 16/01/2009 2:07:04 PM *Contraceptive prevalence in West Africa is among the lowest in the world, yet studies con.....
» 15/01/2009 6:52:46 PM *The point remains - populations naturally stabilise when they reach a certain level of ed.....
» 15/01/2009 5:12:06 PM *What was the intention of using the word 'housewifely', Yabby?* Bronwyn, in the past, th.....
» 15/01/2009 1:39:57 PM *It’s a marketing angle* That is the problem Bronwyn, they are basically a bunch of spin .....
» 14/01/2009 9:01:09 PM *I am well aware of it, but have no desire to remain part of it, and so I am on my gradual.....
» 14/01/2009 11:29:14 AM *a fish is a fish is a fish, and it is simply wrong to take its life, just as it is wrong .....
» 13/01/2009 5:46:49 PM *In a. recent interview an African tribesman was asked what he thought about the fact that.....
» 12/01/2009 8:56:10 PM *I’ve got to ask; what’s point of addressing all the other stuff if we are just going to c.....
» 11/01/2009 6:38:52 PM *It feels for you, it loves, can be angry, can hate and can get much trapped with re-occur.....
» 11/01/2009 4:43:33 PM Ludwig, the Weekend Australian magazine just before Christmas carried a story about what .....
» 10/01/2009 10:02:09 PM *Celivia. Sure homosexuality is an addiction.* Whew, thank Darwin we have some rational .....
» 9/01/2009 2:17:58 PM I really can't comment if Cook got his wires crossed about what the pope said, or if the t.....
» 8/01/2009 11:23:54 PM *YABBY... you keep on saying that the partition plan 'stole' land.* Poly, I think that yo.....
» 8/01/2009 2:12:31 PM So let me see now. Dawkins writes 673 pages about evolutiion theory and your two major gri.....
» 8/01/2009 12:56:52 PM *if god isnt love then you wrong god,..* Ah UOG, it just shows how much humans could lear.....
» 8/01/2009 7:20:33 AM Wrong once again UOG, this is what The Ancestors Tale is all about snip The renowned biol.....
» 7/01/2009 9:58:23 PM *"Arabs rejected the (very fair) partition plan and declared war"* Err Poly, if.....
» 7/01/2009 9:50:14 PM Ah Pynchme, how sweet of you to stick up for a fellow believer. Now of course you two can .....
» 7/01/2009 2:28:51 PM *that is a curious word'implemented'you..could explain how evolution is implimated?* Nope.....
» 7/01/2009 1:21:41 PM This article was written to focus on American agriculture, but I am in no doubt that corpo.....
» 7/01/2009 12:59:22 PM I don't blame Israelis for not accepting that they are bombarded with rockets and should n.....
» 7/01/2009 7:56:36 AM UOG, you are a slow learner you really are lol. Your problem is that you won't accept how.....
» 6/01/2009 11:16:14 PM UOG, given your posts, I don't need to say anything lol, you are busy digging your own hol.....
» 6/01/2009 3:38:15 PM * god reveals new facts to me here is the lastest* Aha, it seems that now UOG is hearing .....
» 6/01/2009 11:30:08 AM *anyhow im over it[thanks for trying yabby]..im stcking with god...* You just do that UOG.....
» 5/01/2009 7:30:07 PM http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prebiotic_evolution Ah, but it could have been an rna soup! .....
» 5/01/2009 6:03:57 PM UOG, there is indeed a mountain of evidence, but once again, it does not come in a single .....
» 4/01/2009 8:30:21 PM UOG, if you can prove that life began more then once, you are free to do so and win fame, .....
» 4/01/2009 1:18:51 PM *we all know what a theory is* You know as a lay person what you call a theory, but you c.....
» 4/01/2009 9:12:48 AM Ok UOG, your first lesson should have taught you why your confusion was about the word &qu.....
» 3/01/2009 10:31:04 PM *The elites are of the most use to society when they are putting forth ideas which are jus.....
» 2/01/2009 11:56:04 PM *That is, it's best for society in an upward-striving sense that the strongest should domi.....
» 2/01/2009 7:42:07 PM *but he can never, ever leave it or its locale, ever agin.* Wow, what a punishment! I thi.....
» 2/01/2009 12:11:38 PM Oops UOG, all those parts, just a little different shape. Remember how the beaks of Darwi.....
» 1/01/2009 10:33:33 PM Deary me, so now our google girl is trying to count nucleotides to prove that Jesus loves .....
» 1/01/2009 2:51:25 PM *Me too and the solution, in Darwinian terms, would be ADAPT.* Nature has already adapted.....
» 1/01/2009 2:24:01 PM Deary me, this is what we land up with, when we have a poorly educated religious nut, lear.....
» 1/01/2009 1:07:39 PM More likely George will be remembered as the not too smart US prez, who was the plaything .....
» 1/01/2009 9:14:07 AM Romany, that was a wonderful post! A big gold star for you :).....
» 31/12/2008 2:22:04 PM *We are all but one part of a wider and more complex natural system (regardless of who we .....
» 31/12/2008 2:04:05 PM No no Ludwig, I bought the cheapy for 39.99! In electronics, the parts cost a few cents, s.....
» 30/12/2008 1:37:16 PM *when is a big profit margin ethical and to be respected as good business acumen and when .....
» 30/12/2008 12:52:24 PM *Darwin himself recommended that we love science but not worship it; he said that it shoul.....
» 30/12/2008 10:39:00 AM Well Keith, you are free to drop the ad hominems and produce some reasons. Now, your next .....
» 30/12/2008 8:39:41 AM *How long would it be before your little dolls business would be destroyed by the $2 store.....
» 29/12/2008 6:22:06 PM Deary me, the nutcase fundies are at it again, they can't help themselves. Fact is that .....
» 29/12/2008 5:56:20 PM *Yabby: Is saying because Bush supports a policy of sexual abstinence till marriage all of.....
» 28/12/2008 9:45:06 PM I asked the girl at the bank how people are spending it, for if they have a few kids and a.....
» 28/12/2008 1:47:59 PM *yes they also post them off to doll doctors who re-rubber the worn out bits,* Ah Meredit.....
» 28/12/2008 12:50:23 PM Actually Bromwyn, they had a documentary about those realdolls on SBS some months ago. I w.....
» 28/12/2008 12:15:14 PM *Now either you are ignorant about all the problems in the third world caused by this kin.....
» 28/12/2008 12:03:53 PM Arjay, yup studying primatology is pretty interesting and certainly tells us quite a bit a.....
» 27/12/2008 10:22:23 PM Ah Ludwig, here is your solution ! :) http://www.realdoll.com/cgi-bin/snav.rd?action=view.....
» 27/12/2008 8:19:01 PM *I suppose what matters is our abilitiy to adapt to change.* Great point Foxy, but it doe.....
» 27/12/2008 4:13:20 PM Ah Keith, you clearly missed the question mark, for I posed it as a question, so perhaps i.....
» 27/12/2008 1:13:18 PM *Yabby, I think it is clear from my last post that it is untenable to attempt to match the.....
» 27/12/2008 10:41:02 AM *In that absense of a Creator who says "love your neighbour as yourself" can any.....
» 27/12/2008 10:27:03 AM *How would you level the playing field between recreational and work activities?* The poi.....
» 26/12/2008 9:03:31 PM *We want work environments to be as safe. But for many recreational activities, safety is .....
» 26/12/2008 7:45:58 PM "On the Origin of Species" was first published 150 years ago. The Economist has.....
» 26/12/2008 7:21:23 PM *The whole point of having a better regulatory regime is to eliminate or greatly reduce do.....
» 26/12/2008 12:04:48 PM *So when it comes to operating complex and dangerous machinery, such as a mustering helico.....
» 25/12/2008 4:16:50 PM *And I never MENTIONED family planning.* Paul, quite correct, my mistake, for I typed Pau.....
» 24/12/2008 6:59:27 PM *George did far more then stop money being spent on the abortions in the third world. He a.....
» 24/12/2008 8:18:36 AM *If they do it in work time with the knowledge and condonement of their boss, then yes you.....
» 23/12/2008 9:12:07 PM Ah Paul, if you had read the links that I posted and had done a bit of homework, you would.....
» 23/12/2008 2:12:40 PM *Of the many folks I've dealt with over the years, the overt Christians, the ones really p.....
» 23/12/2008 11:24:33 AM * If it only involved the idiot perpetrators then fine, I’d say; go right ahead and kill y.....
» 22/12/2008 6:40:46 PM *The have cherry picked a few minor related issues and tried to debunk the overall asserti.....
» 22/12/2008 6:20:23 PM *Balance, Yabby. It’s all about finding the right balance. A certain amount of basic train.....
» 22/12/2008 10:55:07 AM *But the other side of the coin is that accidents do happen pretty damn often, and they ar.....
» 21/12/2008 9:31:37 PM *You are very concerned about ‘excessive’ regulation. But you seem to just take for grante.....
» 21/12/2008 7:47:39 PM *and is the US or George's Strategy. Nothing to do with the Ugandans at all, Yabby.” * Ke.....
» 20/12/2008 9:05:27 PM *It is a fundamental role of government to make sure that their revenue base matches or ex.....
» 20/12/2008 8:46:05 PM *But even your reference clearly states that the impetus for the abstinence only program i.....
» 19/12/2008 9:53:54 PM *It was one of those lessons I've never forgotton. ie Flexibility especially in times of c.....
» 19/12/2008 9:03:10 PM *thinking people set out to deliberately upset you and then find yourself throwing up your.....
» 19/12/2008 1:27:51 PM *Well, the same sort of behaviour exists in the public service, except that the motivation.....
» 19/12/2008 10:18:52 AM *Ahhhh Yabby check your figures in relation to supplies of iron ore and coal.* Ahhh Keith.....
» 19/12/2008 10:11:04 AM Hehe Keith, if that is what you believe, then that is what you believe. I can't help you, .....
» 18/12/2008 8:21:25 PM *I think you might.* Ah Keith, but you think wrong. But then as we have seen from your .....
» 18/12/2008 8:17:14 PM Argentine tried it with farming exports, they failed miserably. Now try playing those game.....
» 18/12/2008 10:44:12 AM *Where outside of the public service would you find a much better standard of commonsense .....
» 18/12/2008 9:22:22 AM *I did not claim it did not assist with the movement or handling of the material wealth ot.....
» 18/12/2008 9:11:25 AM *History wil record the Democrats in Congress started the economic implosion and it was no.....
» 17/12/2008 10:31:00 PM I don't see why there needs to be a conflict. For years, Japan, Taiwan and now China, hav.....
» 17/12/2008 9:49:13 PM Belly, yes alot of the time, it is in fact the parents fault! Every time that my mother t.....
» 17/12/2008 2:40:46 PM * he as president has never tried to impose his personal belief on his fellows. * Is that.....
» 17/12/2008 2:28:02 PM *The simple argument about building or repairing infrastructure is going down that road do.....
» 16/12/2008 10:56:21 PM Ludwig, my brother works for the public service, in a different State and different field .....
» 16/12/2008 10:08:17 PM *You've missed the AIDS relief to Africa ... obviously in-sufficient.* Goodness me, you'v.....
» 16/12/2008 1:18:19 PM *The US population elected Bush. They should be asking themselves some serious questions, .....
» 16/12/2008 12:08:32 PM *A cop out.* No cop out Keith, more like my response to what I think is basically a troll.....
» 16/12/2008 10:54:30 AM *Of course! And one of the most basic components of commonsense is to have a resource regi.....
» 15/12/2008 6:35:01 PM *The Aussie worker buys it on credit.This borrowed money is supplied by foreign interests*.....
» 15/12/2008 12:04:36 PM Personally I feel that the sooner they stop brainwashing little kiddies with nonsense abou.....
» 15/12/2008 9:09:29 AM *but IMO the problems are more closely linked to a lack of resources and uniformity in adm.....
» 14/12/2008 10:57:46 PM *Entre - Yabbies in Pernod, served on a bed of rice with a salad of beetroot leaves, red o.....
» 14/12/2008 4:10:04 PM *Again Yabby you've got it wrong. Here's the un-obvious, tax exports ... to the point wher.....
» 14/12/2008 2:23:09 PM *The reality is that we have serious structural problems with almost no manufacturing.* A.....
» 14/12/2008 12:34:22 PM Col, your post hit the nail on the head! In a past life, I pioneered an innovative export.....
» 12/12/2008 1:05:22 PM You need to get serious and start to think about who really is being baled out here. Its n.....
» 11/12/2008 10:57:08 PM Sheesh, on a night like this, I would say hang the expense and book the entire restaurant .....
» 11/12/2008 8:39:22 PM It seems to me that many economists don't stop to think how the average punter thinks and .....
» 11/12/2008 3:59:51 PM *A sizeable amount of that was raw materials. * So what if it was raw materials? Mining a.....
» 11/12/2008 3:48:57 PM Ok Keith, however you describe yourself, its your problem not mine. Call yourself a prick .....
» 11/12/2008 9:47:23 AM *and it was retailing in a Mosman store for $8000.00 and in one instance $15,000.00.* But.....
» 10/12/2008 9:41:47 PM *They weigh an average of 22 kilos so they cost me $114.40. I don't know where your butche.....
» 10/12/2008 7:53:26 PM Arjay, I remind you that our trade account for September was actually around the 3 billio.....
» 10/12/2008 2:42:14 PM Poly, the question of the price of meat is a bit like asking, how long is a piece of strin.....
» 10/12/2008 12:21:15 PM I agree that a company should not directly run its own super scheme, for obvious reasons. .....
» 10/12/2008 11:56:48 AM *Dear Yabby...so you would concede that homosexual attraction is a malfunction in the brai.....
» 9/12/2008 11:00:00 PM *Much prayer likewise saves the day.* Ah Gibo, if only life were so simple. I remind you .....
» 9/12/2008 3:06:44 PM *You are one sick bastard Yabby * Deary me Dickie, you really did have a bad hair day! Bu.....
» 9/12/2008 2:45:56 PM *Last night Alan Kohler explained that GM in the US has 3 times as many pensioners as it h.....
» 8/12/2008 10:32:31 PM In philosophical terms, Pericles is of course absolutaly correct, but few pet owners think.....
» 8/12/2008 9:17:09 PM *And until workers and citizens are so organised as to make a greater process of redistrib.....
» 8/12/2008 5:59:47 PM *our over-reliance on foreign borrowing* Ah, they are the key words. I gather that our ba.....
» 7/12/2008 1:36:32 PM *3. Leaving people to languish in refugee camps indefinitely is unreasonable and cruel. I .....
» 6/12/2008 8:39:46 PM *That's why if we had a large number of humanitarian visas and it was known that if you ar.....
» 6/12/2008 7:55:32 PM Thank you Veronika. An intelligent poster with a great sense of humour, you should post mo.....
» 5/12/2008 1:42:31 PM *However apart from being rather insulting to everyone who has contributed here* Dearey m.....
» 5/12/2008 10:21:46 AM Poppies Keith? Not a poppy in sight anywhere lol, just the odd prickely pear cactus. Perh.....
» 4/12/2008 10:42:48 AM Actually Keith, I was trying to get you to think for once in your life, perhaps think a li.....
» 3/12/2008 1:58:50 PM *Capitalism divides society into two main classes, the ruling class (for example, factory .....
» 2/12/2008 10:52:53 PM *But of course Yabby. Darwin did write that:- "In the struggle for survival, the fitt.....
» 2/12/2008 9:31:02 PM *Yabby, I thought Matthew Scully's writings would be beyond your comprehension. I rest my .....
» 2/12/2008 7:22:27 PM *It is a commentary on the level of science in Australia that the Garnaut Review can produ.....
» 2/12/2008 10:53:18 AM *Nicky is not objecting to people eating chickens* Ah Dickie, there we have your mistake .....
» 1/12/2008 10:59:05 PM *but which part of “brutalised” do they not understand?* Ah Dickie, but which part of &qu.....
» 1/12/2008 3:04:53 PM *You've mismanaged your money.* Thank you oh wise one :) Let me see now;- My original B.....
» 1/12/2008 2:25:29 PM We forget of course that executives are not employers, but honcho employees, with their sn.....
» 1/12/2008 2:15:17 PM *any animal, be it a sheep, a cow, a goat, horse, camel, dog or cat, rabbit, rat or mouse,.....
» 1/12/2008 2:02:35 PM Ludwig, the problem with your theory is that when you give Govt employees a monopoly, as y.....
» 30/11/2008 8:05:03 PM *Are you making 330%? for that was my profit margin on my bet in the Melbourne Cup.* Hehe.....
» 28/11/2008 8:30:56 PM Ah Keith, just to remind you that BHP hit 31$ today. So much for your understanding of the.....
» 28/11/2008 8:12:29 PM *Yabby I made comment to your posts to Foxy which showed a man insulting a woman for no re.....
» 28/11/2008 7:31:09 PM Err Nicky, my posts clearly go over your head, for I have answered any intelligent questio.....
» 28/11/2008 1:40:53 PM *So your not terribly bright raising 'that argument but thanks anyway.* Err Gertrude, bef.....
» 28/11/2008 10:16:59 AM *I would also like to see all Live Animal Exports added to that list.* Well Gertrude, you.....
» 27/11/2008 1:53:31 PM *Yabby, to compare any European country's demographics and immigration with Australia is l.....
» 27/11/2008 1:39:02 PM *It's a question of appropriate behaviour, fairness, and being judged as an individual reg.....
» 26/11/2008 10:28:53 PM *So pick up your spade and put it where it belongs!* Exactly Foxy, digging up the truth! .....
» 26/11/2008 10:21:24 PM *That honour belongs to that little country Switzerland.* Funny that you should say that......
» 26/11/2008 9:59:44 PM *Your reference to women sleeping their way to promotions - is a most inappropriate statem.....
» 26/11/2008 9:24:16 PM Well Foxy, you have not convinced me that women are so badly discriminated against, for w.....
» 26/11/2008 4:24:41 PM Ah but Keith, my investment strategies are doing just fine! I remind you that once again,.....
» 25/11/2008 10:27:34 PM The housing market and the share market are quite different in the way that they react. In.....
» 25/11/2008 2:28:09 PM *Yabby has also the singular view that only farmers deal with "adversity"; he ha.....
» 25/11/2008 1:56:55 PM *The source that expouses Creationism as some sort of "science" also suggests th.....
» 25/11/2008 1:41:48 PM *As a consequence every resettlement place taken by such an Iranian asylum seeker resulted.....
» 24/11/2008 1:27:48 PM *Not all women are risk averse, not all men are chest beating hunters.* Of course not, b.....
» 24/11/2008 12:25:43 AM Well said Bruce, you just keep rallying on the troops :) CJ, we will have to agree to dis.....
» 24/11/2008 12:04:25 AM Deary deary me, one of the things that amuse me about the animal libber threads, is that I.....
» 23/11/2008 9:01:31 PM Keith, I have the Weekend Australian, but no business insert in my copy. But I'm reasonabl.....
» 23/11/2008 3:01:34 PM *Heard it all before Yabby. And what a truly disgusting "human being" you are. Y.....
» 23/11/2008 2:51:06 PM *I also understand that the big picture consists of individual lives which each have value.....
» 23/11/2008 2:30:54 PM Fractelle, Fiona Woods shows that women certainly get plenty of publicity, when they stand.....
» 23/11/2008 2:12:54 PM Ah Foxy, with a great poster like you responding, I don't need to add anything on Sarah Pa.....
» 23/11/2008 8:11:52 AM Ok Belly, I'll explain it how I see it, rightly or wrongly :) I see money as just another.....
» 22/11/2008 10:53:04 PM *there is simply no justification for bringing animals into the world to kill them.* Rubb.....
» 22/11/2008 10:03:31 PM *but no human with a beating heart could fail to be moved by the kind, intelligent, finely.....
» 22/11/2008 7:48:56 PM Gawd Nicky, you just can't help yourself, you really can't. No morals, because I disagree.....
» 22/11/2008 6:10:35 PM Keith, Yes I know that the Dow dropped 90% in the 30s and yes I still call you a nervous.....
» 22/11/2008 2:58:33 PM *History has been made folks, whether some of you like it or not. It's happened!* Very .....
» 22/11/2008 2:42:15 PM Sheeeh, I guess alot of women were home minding the kids, cooking, cleaning and doing laun.....
» 22/11/2008 10:29:45 AM Nicky dear, do try and get a grip on some kind of rational thinking, for it is you who is .....
» 21/11/2008 6:45:14 PM *most are owned by city speculators who got stuck with them.* Belly, in a market economy,.....
» 21/11/2008 6:32:43 PM *There is also the small matter of rampant pirate activity in the Gulf of Aden and off the.....
» 21/11/2008 6:11:22 PM *Talking of not having lost until you sell is unwise , we may never see shares sold at las.....
» 21/11/2008 12:31:30 PM *I always worry when major apparently stable businesses lose vast amounts of equity for no.....
» 21/11/2008 9:20:24 AM Ah Belly that is easy. The magic money fairy comes along and voila, now you see it, - pooo.....
» 20/11/2008 5:33:12 PM *Neither have I ever stated that I fear death,* You don't need to state it in words, for .....
» 20/11/2008 10:19:28 AM Dear Keith, What a cute way of trying to divert from your claim of the "greatness&q.....
» 19/11/2008 8:03:55 PM *History will recognise Bush as one of the most successful presidents ever * Hehe Keith, .....
» 19/11/2008 7:40:23 PM *The greatest threat to ongoing food production is low prices,* Ah, smart man Rojo, you u.....
» 19/11/2008 11:47:17 AM Ah Poly, but I quoted the Stanley Miller experiment for a good reason! You Godsquad membe.....
» 19/11/2008 7:41:53 AM Dickie dear, rest assured that if my dogs had as little common sense as you and Nicky, the.....
» 18/11/2008 5:35:41 PM Nicky, your lack of intelligence and ignorance, really knows no limits! Where did I say th.....
» 18/11/2008 1:39:19 PM Ah Poly, but you are overlooking the very fundamentals, due to lack of information. Lets j.....
» 18/11/2008 12:43:54 PM BD, the problem here we have here with you religous types, is that apart from a few anti e.....
» 18/11/2008 5:12:18 AM Nicky, it is yet another sign of your stupidity, when you pass judgement in situations wh.....
» 17/11/2008 5:01:50 PM *because he is too irresponsible to have his dog/s neutered * Deary me Nicky, your area o.....
» 17/11/2008 12:31:07 AM Ah Nicky, but you are going from the assumption that eating other species is abuse. I disa.....
» 16/11/2008 7:43:58 PM *I surround myself with like minded people who I can encourage and whom can encourage me* .....
» 16/11/2008 2:19:22 PM Daggett, the "Al Qaeda" name has as much to do with the FBI as anyone. Its about.....
» 15/11/2008 2:37:20 PM *the records show George Bush was US President from 2000 to 2008. Get over it Bennie ... h.....
» 15/11/2008 1:42:57 PM Daggett, nope, I don't rely on Utube for conclusive evidence, but feel free to do so if yo.....
» 15/11/2008 1:21:46 PM Geoff, I'm not disputing the 45 % factory farmed figure, for there is much intensive produ.....
» 14/11/2008 11:09:23 PM *Do you think that people convince themselves that something is true when they know it’s n.....
» 14/11/2008 10:36:14 PM There is of course another point here. Its not uncommon for females to be extremely free w.....
» 14/11/2008 9:37:40 PM Cevilia, if you think about it, all this stuff, as with religion, has a similar effect. ie.....
» 14/11/2008 9:03:16 PM Ok Geoff, according to the article that you linked, you are a member of animal liberation......
» 14/11/2008 1:08:58 PM Daggett, last time I remember, the US had a 50$ million bounty on bin Laden's head. Do you.....
» 13/11/2008 11:02:41 PM *The animal's own heredity/eating preferences have absolutely nothing to do with it. * Of.....
» 13/11/2008 8:24:47 PM Geoff, one of the complaints that I have is that many greeny academics on this topic, are .....
» 13/11/2008 7:53:19 PM Nicky of course I answered your question. My personal ethics and the free market, are quit.....
» 12/11/2008 10:57:58 PM *Al Gore lost ... get over it... hohoho* Ah Keith, but of course revenge is sweet. Obama .....
» 12/11/2008 10:21:06 PM Nicky, of course I answered your question. You clearly did not read my last response, or d.....
» 12/11/2008 8:16:12 PM Ah, but what our Daggett clearly overlooks, is the fact that the photo on his conspiracy w.....
» 12/11/2008 7:52:47 PM Funny that you should say that Nicky, for right now I have 6 puppies running around the ki.....
» 12/11/2008 1:18:25 PM Corners Daggett? Hehe, you are as silly as Nicky :) I've never seen one yet. One of the .....
» 12/11/2008 11:13:55 AM Hehe, so after Daggett fails to convince anyone that Osama is an angel and that 911 was du.....
» 12/11/2008 7:59:59 AM Nicky dear, attempts at ridicule are not going to make a point for you. There are plenty o.....
» 11/11/2008 7:28:38 PM *I don't look for pats on the head, and I sure as hell am not so arrogant as to suggest th.....
» 11/11/2008 1:31:02 PM OMG, dickie has found a new website! Wow! Social policy heh dickie. Pity that that don't .....
» 10/11/2008 11:55:33 PM *Poor Yabby, I back you into a corner every time I want to.* Nicky dear, sheesh, I wish y.....
» 10/11/2008 11:18:13 PM Nicky dear, just a small detail, perhaps you don't watch or read the news. If you check, .....
» 10/11/2008 10:37:21 PM Nicky dear, hehe how easy it is to go through life, simply oblivious to what is happening .....
» 9/11/2008 10:37:23 PM Wow Dickie, thank you! I was not aware that you attributed to me, such amazing powers! D.....
» 9/11/2008 5:54:10 PM *NO one night stands.* Ooh, I think that as people get older, they get more set in their .....
» 9/11/2008 5:27:22 PM Keith, I certainly don't rely just on CNN for my opinions, it is one of many sources. Bloo.....
» 9/11/2008 2:41:08 PM Banjo, sorry but the present financial crisis really did blow up in the last few years, wh.....
» 9/11/2008 2:31:18 PM Rehctub, let me point out again, that what Qld banana growers do receive, has absolutaly n.....
» 8/11/2008 1:44:08 PM *and it really makes no difference to us who the actual President is.* Ah Banjo, but that.....
» 8/11/2008 11:04:24 AM *Bit surprized that your comments are not more practical.* LOL Banjo, I'm not quite sure .....
» 8/11/2008 10:38:49 AM Oopsy daisy Dickie dear. I remind you that WA is a State dominated by farming and mining. .....
» 7/11/2008 10:18:41 PM *Last time I looked, WA was still part of Australia.* Wow Nicky, what wisdom! Is that why.....
» 7/11/2008 2:12:10 PM Foxy, I am delighted for you! Do bear in mind however, that it is possible that Barack wr.....
» 7/11/2008 2:02:41 PM *can at least gain work in our processing and handling facilities.* Rehctub, speak about .....
» 7/11/2008 1:46:29 PM Keith, your bias is clearly showing through here. I remind you that Obama won by a far gr.....
» 7/11/2008 10:24:28 AM Err David, that is not what I wrote. If you knew me even a little bit, you'd know that I d.....
» 6/11/2008 10:24:06 PM *The favourite Sunday Lamb roast would once again become affordable to most instead of a d.....
» 6/11/2008 5:56:07 PM *The facts are that many farmers in the past have done evrything in their power to avoid t.....
» 6/11/2008 5:32:25 PM *Courage, experience, planning and thorough preparation are far more important in this wor.....
» 5/11/2008 9:23:08 PM *I am looking forward to sailing around the world in my yacht.* Well keith, I wish you g.....
» 5/11/2008 8:32:59 PM Well said Foxy! Karl Rove swung the elections for Bush and Cheney, by using fear. We land.....
» 5/11/2008 7:04:52 PM Ah the comedy continues! Nicky the vegan in proverbial bed with a butcher :) Rehctub, I s.....
» 5/11/2008 3:48:14 PM I've just watched the Obama victory speech and even I shed a few tears of joy :) This is.....
» 5/11/2008 1:33:00 PM Oops keith, its clearly not your week this week. First you were wrong on the horse race, .....
» 4/11/2008 9:39:46 PM *and legs for $6 per kilo. Farmers were fetching around $6 per lamb.* And so rectub, you .....
» 4/11/2008 8:43:39 PM Sheesh, no wonder hardly anybody takes the animal welfare threads seriously, this could be.....
» 4/11/2008 7:40:41 PM *I don't think you are at all wise.* I am sure you don't Keith, but then clearly you show.....
» 2/11/2008 5:10:50 PM *Now Kerry Obrion told the Australian public they received more letters about live exports.....
» 2/11/2008 3:21:35 PM Keith, there is this little thing called wisdom. Its about realising that you know what yo.....
» 1/11/2008 10:43:37 PM Dear richie, If according to you and others, god created the heavens and the earth and .....
» 1/11/2008 10:37:19 PM *Thats why we disagree on shipping off our raw materials and our jobs to ME and China.* G.....
» 1/11/2008 10:22:45 PM *Dear Fractelle, My bible tells me that God loves YOU , yes YOU , * Ah Fractelle, all is .....
» 1/11/2008 10:02:40 PM Great post Foxy, I agree with you. Not only me, but most of the rest of the world. The Eco.....
» 1/11/2008 9:42:57 PM *We have witnessed the lies, the deceit, the vindictiveness against a Sarah Palin because:.....
» 1/11/2008 1:41:08 PM *Guys like Farrel Till really frighten me. I know what goes on after death for apostates......
» 1/11/2008 1:29:58 PM Yes Nicky, Tony Burke did chip a million $ of Govt money towards the farmer campaign to im.....
» 31/10/2008 1:54:27 PM *Is there any reason why WA farmers should get more handouts that those in the Eastern sta.....
» 31/10/2008 1:12:05 PM *You know and we know that none of what you claim is true.* On the contrary, the evidence.....
» 31/10/2008 12:55:11 PM Shadow Minister, the real truth is that no matter how much CEOs are paid, many are still m.....
» 31/10/2008 9:41:45 AM Deary me, our same old animal liberationist, who thinks we should not be farming livestock.....
» 30/10/2008 7:58:17 PM *and the same Christian rightists are fond of shouting “kill him” at anti-Obama rallies.* .....
» 30/10/2008 7:52:25 PM *Forcing a proportion of people to starve because someone else's population is increasing .....
» 30/10/2008 2:09:44 PM *Any person with that level of talent is worth far more, and is probably donating 80% of h.....
» 30/10/2008 1:42:22 PM *Like one of my elders says "just accept it as truth, and dont let the brain take con.....
» 29/10/2008 9:44:20 PM Gibo, the thing is, the evidence clearly shows that the bible is flawed, so why take notic.....
» 29/10/2008 8:49:08 PM * Access to appropriate reproduction technology is key to sustainable development. It is h.....
» 28/10/2008 9:44:08 PM The thing is Gibo, today religion is biiig business! I note in today's West, an article a.....
» 28/10/2008 1:31:02 PM Hopefully the elections in a week will turn things around, when Obama hopefully wins. He u.....
» 27/10/2008 8:36:18 PM Arjay, some snips from Wickipedia: The Federal Reserve System is an independent governmen.....
» 27/10/2008 7:32:51 PM Arjay, any Govt can print money. Result is that money then loses its value through inflati.....
» 26/10/2008 2:00:59 PM *Creation Says everything reproduces after its own kind and everything I have witnessed in.....
» 26/10/2008 1:01:12 PM Sadly much of the Australian industrial relationshions system is still based on the Britis.....
» 26/10/2008 12:44:03 PM What is of course forgotten, is that there are also many benefits to a bit of a recession......
» 25/10/2008 9:28:07 PM *Should more us manage our own funds and endeavour to protect our wealth, personally? * O.....
» 24/10/2008 2:28:12 PM Graham, No matter what you approve or don't approve, I think that you would be well aware.....
» 22/10/2008 11:25:23 PM *as wealth and economic security rise, so a family chooses to have less children. * Berni.....
» 22/10/2008 11:03:54 PM "However, we've gotten off the topic of Australian visas for foreign sex workers".....
» 21/10/2008 12:30:57 AM *Particularly Yabby's contention that all women need to do if they want sex is to ask whil.....
» 20/10/2008 10:11:26 PM *Yabby, I’d like to know your sources. Mine say that KP's personal income tax was embarras.....
» 20/10/2008 2:54:11 PM *but somehow men are never mentioned let alone judged for their moral behaviour.* That is.....
» 20/10/2008 12:41:09 PM *>>The great thing with SPECULATORS in a capitalist market, they work counter-cyclic.....
» 19/10/2008 10:41:24 PM *Thanks Col, I was looking for a definition for "PARASITE".* Actually Fractelle.....
» 18/10/2008 10:01:01 PM *Why shouldn't I do it? Because the moral majority say that sex is so precious and so sacr.....
» 18/10/2008 2:40:41 PM *However I wonder if you can see any lodical reason why the Aus sex industry needs protect.....
» 17/10/2008 9:38:23 PM *Where are our workers?* Thats a good question Arjay. Why don't those people out there on.....
» 17/10/2008 1:57:28 PM *Spokesman Brian Sullivan said the agency and Congress wanted to increase homeownership am.....
» 16/10/2008 7:43:48 PM *Because it would wipe-out thousands of thirty-something YUPPIES with $600K mortgages.* O.....
» 16/10/2008 2:12:12 PM *No matter, we paid the bill for his share ourselves.* Rache, I once saw somewhere how mu.....
» 15/10/2008 10:09:54 PM *There are numerous examples of Aust inventions being bought by foreign powers because our.....
» 15/10/2008 9:39:31 PM *In my experience it tends to be women who make a lot of noise about other womens looks. *.....
» 15/10/2008 9:28:03 PM The Economist has said for years, that Australian house prices are not sustainable. Ok, s.....
» 14/10/2008 9:51:13 PM Arjay, you have to separate our current account and our trade account here. Our trade acc.....
» 14/10/2008 9:13:24 PM *I am a socialist of the heart.* Ah your first mistake Passy. The heart pumps blood, noth.....
» 13/10/2008 3:27:28 PM *But to say that history has changed so much is to miss the fact the world is still divide.....
» 13/10/2008 2:55:41 PM *I repeat, the idea of workers 'owning' companies and having a say is a total fiction.* I.....
» 13/10/2008 6:33:05 AM *Few workers have any idea which companies their super funds have invested in. How can you.....
» 12/10/2008 11:33:57 PM The world population keeps growing at 80 million a year and nobody says boo. Its just a gi.....
» 12/10/2008 9:10:11 PM *No one has laid a punch on me.* Passy, stop kidding yourself. If after 100 years of this.....
» 12/10/2008 10:05:43 AM *Can somebody explain to me the difference between persons wanting a plasma screen or a ho.....
» 10/10/2008 2:11:39 PM *The real issue hers is nobody wants to take any responsibility inside the corporate world.....
» 9/10/2008 8:31:59 PM Colinsett, great points! It even hit Bob Geldorf, when he went back 20 years later. I wa.....
» 9/10/2008 8:16:51 PM *A day at the races would have more chance of success than investing in capitalist enterpr.....
» 8/10/2008 11:10:36 PM *they will use it as an excuse to rip us even more. Betcha.* Ah Pericles, clearly time f.....
» 8/10/2008 10:40:44 PM *If the farmers in Afghanistan, planted food, rather than poppies, their food supply would.....
» 8/10/2008 7:42:24 PM *As the castle of capitlaism collapses* Passy, I remind you that the present problems wer.....
» 7/10/2008 10:10:19 PM *and replace it with a democratically planned economy run by workers - socialism.* Hehe P.....
» 5/10/2008 1:27:04 PM * also definitely include Alchohol and nicotine and gambling and porn.. * The thing about.....
» 5/10/2008 12:33:40 PM *I have as much control over my investments and the decisions my fund makes as I as a wor.....
» 4/10/2008 11:20:36 PM *Workers don't own companies through super funds. The funds do.* Passy, its not my fault .....
» 4/10/2008 2:36:46 PM Keith, I think you fail to notice the changes going on in the world, over time. When I was.....
» 4/10/2008 12:10:56 PM *So yes, I agree, weak governments are at fault,* Well that was exactly my point. If poli.....
» 4/10/2008 11:56:09 AM *So the wealth the Coles workers create goes in the main to the banks.* Actually not so, .....
» 3/10/2008 9:47:56 PM *This critical piece of information was buried in the fine print and not pointed out to th.....
» 3/10/2008 8:11:13 PM Ok Passy, you clearly don't know the answer, as I expected. As a matter of interest, its .....
» 2/10/2008 10:22:03 PM Ok Passy, so clearly you would include say Coles, in your list of evils, making a profit. .....
» 2/10/2008 9:37:22 PM *On the other hand, the democrats, who stacked the boards of Fanny Mae and Freedie Mac ins.....
» 2/10/2008 8:37:09 PM Chris, the way I see it that de Bono was a bit of a pioneer about thinking, I give him cre.....
» 2/10/2008 2:25:30 PM *8. Recognise the US exports food.* So they are back to being peasants, with debts way o.....
» 2/10/2008 1:54:47 PM Passy, it seems to me what throws you, is the word "profit". At the end of the .....
» 1/10/2008 2:27:51 PM *"Even if you were 50", & almost dead was left out of your selfish, self obsesse.....
» 1/10/2008 1:52:27 PM *warning that foreigners were willing to hold ever-depreciating US financial assets only b.....
» 1/10/2008 9:49:05 AM http://blogs.theage.com.au/business/archives/2008/09/failures_catastrophic_for_us_economy......
» 30/09/2008 8:45:52 PM *In Australia unlike the US the banks can sell up your mortaged property and hound you for.....
» 30/09/2008 7:09:45 PM *as he put it from each according to their ability to each according to their need* This .....
» 30/09/2008 2:45:53 PM Arjay, IMHO you should be pretty careful about what you believe, that comes from the LaRou.....
» 30/09/2008 2:37:07 PM It seems to me that the author is quibbling over trivia, ignoring substance. De Bono's ha.....
» 29/09/2008 7:28:54 PM Passy, the many failed attempts that you list to introduce your brand of socialism and all.....
» 28/09/2008 4:17:10 PM *why are 3 billion people malnourished and 1 bn starving when the world produces enough fo.....
» 28/09/2008 2:33:32 PM *Socialism is the democratic control of society through truly democratic vehicles so that .....
» 25/09/2008 9:16:10 PM *One of those problems may be a spill over into the productive economy as US workers bear .....
» 25/09/2008 12:46:20 PM *Fact: I am a green-power customer purchasing accredited renewable energy* Which means Di.....
» 24/09/2008 11:23:40 PM Ahh, Dickie is clearly finding the plain questions too hard to answer, so best to try and.....
» 24/09/2008 2:57:10 PM gw, I certainly did answer your original question. If God's rules are posted on the moon, .....
» 24/09/2008 2:08:30 PM There are of course plenty of pensioners, who are now sitting on pretty valuable real esta.....
» 24/09/2008 1:58:49 PM *"What evidence would you need to completely change your religious / non-religious be.....
» 24/09/2008 11:50:27 AM *Strange that it’s now vanished from the thread eh Yabby?* Not strange at all Dickie dear.....
» 23/09/2008 9:35:06 PM *What are you? A luddite? * Paul L, I think you will find that Dickie follows a touchy, f.....
» 22/09/2008 2:09:03 PM It seems to me that nowhere is the real crux of the American housing problem discussed. I.....
» 22/09/2008 1:53:33 PM Belly, nope, I never regret what I type, or I would not write it in the first place. Perha.....
» 21/09/2008 2:35:24 PM *A pox on all trucks during peak times in our cities* Sheesh, how dare those trucks deliv.....
» 21/09/2008 2:28:17 PM Ahh, such kind and considerate people on OLO! Bronco and Dickie for instance, want to be a.....
» 21/09/2008 11:15:07 AM Arjay, that might be the case in your patch of Sydney, but that is certainly not the case,.....
» 21/09/2008 10:53:26 AM *Country WA has never, but never, been ignored by any WA government of any persuasion,* C.....
» 20/09/2008 9:33:00 PM *Living standards have fallen here a lot in comparison to the 1980's* Arjay, 25 years ago.....
» 20/09/2008 3:45:52 PM Jack, if you go back through your papers, the West gave the last Liberal Govt a hard time......
» 20/09/2008 3:03:55 PM *Enron was another group that manipulated the market by dubious means all under the watch .....
» 20/09/2008 12:15:57 PM I certainly don't blame globalisation, for we all benefit from globalisation, every day. .....
» 20/09/2008 9:40:37 AM *There was nothing wrong with the Labor policies* The real problem is that you actually b.....
» 16/09/2008 8:05:06 PM *while he cannot rise above gender-based insults* Wow, this is interesting! A female who .....
» 16/09/2008 11:29:59 AM *Doubtless the American people will decide for themselves, who they will elect and I doubt.....
» 16/09/2008 12:10:24 AM Exactly Nicky, the dog winds itself on your knee, depending on how fast it is running and .....
» 15/09/2008 11:59:01 PM *Unfortunately the Brookton H'way is still only a country road,( single lane working). * .....
» 15/09/2008 11:41:46 PM *kneeing a dog in the chest viciously enough to wind it is not, and is not much different .....
» 15/09/2008 9:48:14 PM According to a article in today's West, Sarah Palin hired at least 5 of her old schoolmate.....
» 15/09/2008 9:38:17 PM *but out of all the suggestions so far that's probably the most humane and practical one.......
» 15/09/2008 7:33:22 PM *If a dog came to you and jumped up on you.. and started tearing at your clothes and skin .....
» 15/09/2008 2:42:34 PM *Previous Liberal/National coalition governments have done exactly nothing for the ordinar.....
» 14/09/2008 7:51:32 PM *He must be doing a good job on those detergent adverts* Nothing at all to do with any ad.....
» 14/09/2008 5:18:52 PM *Like I said, you need to be able to see the potential, based on the present.* I will hav.....
» 13/09/2008 11:23:22 PM Err of course the lack of jobs has nothing to do with the fact that the Australian sheep p.....
» 13/09/2008 10:55:18 AM Ah Dickie, but just how gullible and ignorant you are, shows up once again, to us more inf.....
» 12/09/2008 10:45:00 PM The problem with Hurricane Sarah is that she shows as little good judgement as Dubya show.....
» 12/09/2008 10:34:17 PM Nicky dear, sweetheart, precious, the problem is that you just don't get it! What you are .....
» 12/09/2008 4:06:13 PM *Australian farmers who partially skin sheep alive (mulesing)* Dickie, best that you run .....
» 12/09/2008 10:02:07 AM Goeff I think they should all compete. If cane ethanol is cheaper, so make the stuff. AF.....
» 11/09/2008 4:54:48 PM *Grain biofuels are an immoral, uneconomic,* Goeff, we will have to agree to disagree on .....
» 10/09/2008 9:20:01 PM Oops Nicky, clearly not a girl of your word! About leaving, you clearly missed us :) So p.....
» 10/09/2008 3:16:07 PM Yes houses are far too expensive and they are too expensive and not being built, not becau.....
» 10/09/2008 3:07:20 PM Well the great news about the elections, was the rise of the Nationals. Finally the regio.....
» 10/09/2008 2:50:51 PM Dickie dear, thanks for telling me that I was abandoned, for its the first that I have hea.....
» 9/09/2008 11:34:01 PM Nicky dear, what a great way of avoiding answering those hard questions! Thats fine, its m.....
» 9/09/2008 9:56:31 AM *I have not condemned all farmers (evidenced by my respect for PF and her achievements)* .....
» 8/09/2008 8:35:27 PM *You lot would make a good little Honours project for a Psych student* CJ, you have hit t.....
» 7/09/2008 11:25:10 PM *As Lord Devlin said:* Dickie dear, frankly I don't care what some British lord said. I c.....
» 7/09/2008 3:14:33 PM Frankly Bronwyn, I really don't care, what touchy-feely posters such as yourself, make of .....
» 7/09/2008 1:53:32 PM Jl Deland, many thanks for that interesting URL. The reader comment from the woman in her .....
» 7/09/2008 1:44:45 PM *try to buy favours by "sponsoring" Animal Welfare Strategy conferences. * Ah s.....
» 6/09/2008 11:52:37 PM *they are just what you want to hear.* Ah Nicky, you mean just like the AA, Peta and othe.....
» 6/09/2008 10:19:12 PM *indeed for perhaps the first time this US election is about the future of the planet.* T.....
» 6/09/2008 8:11:33 PM Oops Nicky, me thinks that this press release from MLA, which speaks for 45'000 farmers, m.....
» 6/09/2008 2:55:07 PM *Yabby and Mad Dog are sick, demented, excuses for humanity, * Hehe, so says a 50kg leigh.....
» 6/09/2008 9:10:36 AM *The Holy See's insight is especially important for social policy topics as diverse as pov.....
» 5/09/2008 11:30:52 PM *It is pointless going down the same old path with Yabby time and time again on every thre.....
» 5/09/2008 10:21:04 PM *I am heartened by the thoughtful way in which Obama deals with issues. I am concerned tha.....
» 5/09/2008 9:07:56 PM *and the worst of the farmers at that.* Hehe, those poor sheep lol. Grazing contentedly i.....
» 5/09/2008 12:52:25 PM David f, sure there is influence, there is even the butterfly effect, but that is a bit di.....
» 4/09/2008 8:43:21 PM CJ, thanks for those. I'd say that if Sarah Palin becomes VP, perhaps Prez, the best job t.....
» 4/09/2008 1:57:08 PM *No way its going to feed me unless I become a fruit bat.* Ok Belly, you grow some extra .....
» 3/09/2008 8:39:22 PM *The chances of the USA electing its first African-American President grow stronger daily......
» 3/09/2008 2:01:30 PM In principle I agree and have been arguing for some time, that small town, rural living, .....
» 3/09/2008 1:51:02 PM *Clearly, McCain wants Obama to win too.* Hehe I love it and wish it were true :) Sounds.....
» 2/09/2008 9:45:56 PM Some details about what Ausra are doing. Sounds like it won't be so long for them to start.....
» 2/09/2008 7:53:28 PM Education is always the key in the longer term Nicky, but suit yourself. Keep calling them.....
» 2/09/2008 5:55:52 PM Hehe, first we have Chaney, now Sarah Palin. There was me, thinking things could not get a.....
» 2/09/2008 2:47:43 PM *has certainly influenced me to cease purchasing anything that's "Made in China".....
» 1/09/2008 9:23:27 PM Er hang on folks, its not all gloom and doom just yet :) Stuff is happening! http://www.b.....
» 1/09/2008 9:00:51 PM Fractelle, I pointed out to you why mostly women post on the animal welfare threads, you h.....
» 1/09/2008 12:15:01 PM *I was just getting so tired of the same old personal insults from Yabby.* Err Fractelle,.....
» 1/09/2008 9:50:49 AM Dickie, we understand the differences in sheep behaviour. Its due to temperament and can b.....
» 31/08/2008 7:08:40 PM Oops Nicky, you are getting older lol. You clearly have forgotten, what you have written i.....
» 31/08/2008 1:38:20 PM Fractelle, of course I defend myself! Has it ever occured to you, that the insults which N.....
» 31/08/2008 1:06:51 PM Banjo, yup Marron are in the South West, but there are 90'000 farm dams in WA and a great .....
» 31/08/2008 12:17:16 AM Sheesh CJ, thanks for that! 50% will do :) Bronwyn, your rural roots clearly fell off som.....
» 30/08/2008 9:15:51 PM *It's a sad state of affairs that courts and governments rely upon the sorts of "paid.....
» 30/08/2008 9:06:04 PM *you are totally intractable when it comes to animal welfare issues.* Nope, I discuss the.....
» 30/08/2008 1:58:12 PM *I think you will find a good heart there. If our opinions comes from experiences,* Evo, .....
» 30/08/2008 11:44:12 AM Banjo, in WA about 70-80% of livestock never see a saleyard, as few farmers trust them, so.....
» 30/08/2008 11:26:59 AM Ah Bromwyn, you just stick up for the sisters. They need all the help that they can get :).....
» 29/08/2008 11:55:56 PM *Yabby, on the other hand, seems to have no problem with pretty much any degree of cruelty.....
» 29/08/2008 6:11:49 PM *I cant help but thinking that the sheep was quite happy doing what it was doing* It prob.....
» 29/08/2008 5:57:15 PM Nicky, for heavens sake, what arguments you buy or don't buy are frankly irrelevant. It is.....
» 28/08/2008 10:06:00 PM *I suspect it is the high cost of processing here* Banjo, that is only part of the story......
» 28/08/2008 8:21:09 AM *Here was your big chance.* My big chance?. Hehe, you really do have a screw loose......
» 27/08/2008 8:50:08 PM Dear Foxy, Thanks for your post, but one last point... I seem to recall some months ago,.....
» 27/08/2008 8:40:52 PM *Yabby, you will support any argument for animal cruelty if there is a quid in it, and you.....
» 27/08/2008 7:35:33 PM Foxy, you are correct, I did not quibble about the detailed population, the point was abou.....
» 27/08/2008 5:41:54 PM Gertrude, your last post highlights why I seldom bother even to respond to your posts thes.....
» 27/08/2008 5:17:51 PM *If she worked for me, she would not find me obliging at all, unless she was irreplacable .....
» 27/08/2008 4:39:11 PM Bazz, an article that might interest you. http://www.businessspectator.com.au/bs.nsf/Arti.....
» 26/08/2008 8:45:53 PM *i.e. "fake" and not sheepskin* Err, Ugg boots are made of sheep skin. Fake one.....
» 26/08/2008 7:29:15 PM * he goes into auto-pilot and expresses the opposite view as a matter of course.* Nicky d.....
» 26/08/2008 2:23:53 PM Actually they don't manage my money Bazz, as I run my own super fund. I feel that their ch.....
» 26/08/2008 12:51:29 AM *They haven't yet - for the majority of the Chinese population.* Not so Foxy, things have.....
» 25/08/2008 10:31:24 PM Ooh Belly, I would not panic about superannuation just yet. Most companies would have thei.....
» 25/08/2008 9:34:22 PM *There was 300 comments on one forum I was reading and many of them expressed they literal.....
» 25/08/2008 7:49:46 PM Ah Foxy, but you make the tragic mistake that many of us arrogant Westeners make. You loo.....
» 25/08/2008 12:19:29 AM I watched the closing ceremony tonight and I must say, I was impressed! China has come .....
» 25/08/2008 12:13:10 AM For heavens sake Nicky, the only one with a biased opinion is yourself, due to your flawe.....
» 24/08/2008 10:00:10 PM Dickie, you are free to watch Landline on Monday mornings, when it is repeated on ABC, to .....
» 24/08/2008 6:18:38 PM *Yabby, of course, would think Tony Burke was the eighth wonder of the world* There we ha.....
» 24/08/2008 2:35:43 PM Landline ran a great story on Tony Burke. Credit to Tony for take the time to inform himse.....
» 24/08/2008 2:25:56 PM Ok girls, well just stick to the Ugg boots. Its either that or the skins get thrown on the.....
» 24/08/2008 2:22:59 PM *She even sometimes begs me to have a dessert so she can justify having one herself.* Heh.....
» 24/08/2008 2:10:08 PM *What happens to the trillions invested in oil?* I think that should be the last of your .....
» 23/08/2008 10:42:37 PM *What I do object to however, is school bully tactics as this metadiscussion is displayin.....
» 23/08/2008 10:26:47 PM *but in truth why from 147 to 114 so quickly?* Belly, if you follow commodity markets, th.....
» 22/08/2008 9:14:25 PM *That's not what online opinion should be about* Ok Foxy, in that case perhaps we should .....
» 22/08/2008 12:38:45 AM *Some 230 million cattle, 246 million sheep and 175 million goats on the continent are sup.....
» 21/08/2008 4:28:38 PM *because we are back to the gender-based insults* Nicky dear, the problem is not that you.....
» 20/08/2008 8:07:46 PM *Yabby, as always - not good enough. 40,000+ dead animals (and rising) is not good enough,.....
» 20/08/2008 7:52:56 PM *how old were these little creatures? * Those "little" creatures weighed up to .....
» 20/08/2008 2:24:04 PM *If 40,000+ dead animals a year is having regard for animal welfare, clearly they're not v.....
» 20/08/2008 9:48:26 AM *perhaps your animals would prefer, given the opportunity, to live a normal, NATURAL lifes.....
» 19/08/2008 8:49:46 PM *If these savages pay only for live animals and not dead ones* If? Sheesh, I thought that.....
» 19/08/2008 8:39:44 PM *although they have been known to chase cats and rabbits. They have yet to catch either so.....
» 19/08/2008 3:50:10 PM *Live exporters concerned with the welfare of animals? I think not.* Its quite clear Dick.....
» 19/08/2008 2:18:45 PM *Yabby, your animals do NOT live natural lives* Hehe, my animals are out there in nature,.....
» 19/08/2008 4:02:04 AM *Yabby, I understand but why have those controlling oil prices changed their minds? No rea.....
» 18/08/2008 7:47:52 PM Dickie dear, you might as well have searched for the Titanic. Fact is that boats can sink.....
» 18/08/2008 12:30:56 AM Ah Dickie, you comment without even viewing the programme or reading the transcript, but i.....
» 17/08/2008 11:50:05 PM *Their lives are simply different to those of your dogs, that's all.* Nicky, you sound ju.....
» 17/08/2008 10:47:24 PM *If they (the pigs and chickens and hens) were dogs and cats, the courts would be full of .....
» 17/08/2008 1:45:52 PM *When Aboriginal people regain their dignity and manage and mind their "own business&.....
» 16/08/2008 10:16:36 PM *What is the special quality possessed by indigenous peoples from all over the planet that.....
» 16/08/2008 2:45:05 PM *May I ask what in the world bought oil down to todays prices? Or for that matter what too.....
» 10/08/2008 9:15:52 PM Nicky, we can check in those pigs for a private suite at the Hilton if you wish, as long a.....
» 8/08/2008 12:15:54 PM Err Philips, I can't see any whining, simply some blokes making some valid points. If you.....
» 8/08/2008 10:51:12 AM *but hey, YOU yourself could go to the judge FREE of cost and depose the fact Buttercup si.....
» 7/08/2008 10:52:56 PM *Of course you are well aware that I'm from pastoral lands - sheep country* I am well awa.....
» 7/08/2008 10:07:00 PM Philips, the fact is that under today's marriage laws, marriage can be far more lucrative .....
» 7/08/2008 9:53:17 PM *The most important thing to consider is that Costello is absolutely entrenched in the con.....
» 7/08/2008 9:29:45 PM Dickie dear, clearly the brain cells are dying fast in that old peoples home. What is unw.....
» 7/08/2008 8:21:33 PM Err Nicky, so the reality that some females have strong maternal instincts is an insult? I.....
» 2/08/2008 2:55:46 PM Well this is quite a win for the Vatican, as to give them credit, they are one of the most.....
» 2/08/2008 2:28:52 PM PF, you continue to confuse two very different markets. Westernplains, Otway and yourself.....
» 1/08/2008 7:29:21 PM *Like I said, free range is the ultimate in pork and I target the top end of the market.* .....
» 1/08/2008 3:58:43 PM Whilst many posters express all sorts of idealistic and romantic notions of how Australia .....
» 1/08/2008 3:10:09 PM PF, you are trying to compare apples with oranges here, two quite different markets. One .....
» 23/07/2008 9:50:04 AM *plenty of sex and fun in older age actually extends our lives .* Jim, I'm sure that old .....
» 22/07/2008 9:39:20 PM *The Saudis -and the rest of the oil producing nations- can sell their oil for 10 times wh.....
» 22/07/2008 4:21:05 PM Antonios, you misunderstand market economics and our system, if you think that large corpo.....
» 21/07/2008 10:05:00 PM *Capitalists hate competition, and try to stifle it where ever possible. Equally Capitalis.....
» 21/07/2008 9:23:59 PM *They are put on them for profit because you might get a few extra bucks for them.* There.....
» 21/07/2008 6:37:25 PM Antonios, if you think about it long enough, you will one day realise that the title shoul.....
» 21/07/2008 6:16:27 PM *A great many inventions can be attributed to the government sponsored- space race, includ.....
» 20/07/2008 2:51:54 PM *Yabby I do think that Bill Gates, like all bosses, "screws" his workers.* Pass.....
» 20/07/2008 10:35:27 AM Nicky, of course my livestock have far more freedoms then your dogs. You have told us enou.....
» 19/07/2008 10:52:12 PM *The title is appearing as 'populate oF perish', not 'populate oR perish', so actually it .....
» 19/07/2008 8:04:40 PM *said nothing about nature at all.* Nicky, the article said a great deal about nature, bu.....
» 19/07/2008 7:09:59 PM * just where do profits come from then? Out of some magic pudding or from the labour of wo.....
» 19/07/2008 11:41:09 AM *Only putting the burden on the polluting industries and not allowing them to pass it on t.....
» 18/07/2008 11:14:34 PM What Lomborg is saying, actually makes sense to me. Australia can pontificate to the worl.....
» 17/07/2008 10:42:39 PM George, the thing is, the headline clearly states that George Pell "says" etc. .....
» 17/07/2008 6:12:54 PM George, on the day in question, there were a number of press reports claiming that is what.....
» 17/07/2008 3:02:38 PM http://www.insidebayarea.com/ci_9662208?source=most_emailed There you go Nicky, a bit of .....
» 16/07/2008 10:18:12 PM "Genetic modules in the mind are intrinsic to being human, we would never fall in lov.....
» 16/07/2008 8:22:09 PM *As for being "efficient and "productive", that tells us with absolute clar.....
» 16/07/2008 3:00:56 PM Oops, the adminstrators must be having a bad hair day, that's not how I spelt the title. .....
» 16/07/2008 10:10:40 AM *They just want to eat, drink and be merry for tomorrow they die* Yes some in society do .....
» 15/07/2008 11:41:53 PM *Have you abandoned the view that people are machines? * GP, my view has always been that.....
» 15/07/2008 9:36:09 PM Dickie, I am deluded because you believe in the Karma fairy? There is as much evidence, as.....
» 15/07/2008 6:01:02 PM GP, organisms of various species do in fact have brains, that can be programmed by their e.....
» 15/07/2008 3:11:28 PM Cardinal George Pell has been in the news again, claiming that the West needs to "pop.....
» 15/07/2008 2:52:21 PM *Karma Yabby, Karma.* Karma Dickie, is simply your version of the Catholics judgement day.....
» 15/07/2008 12:22:44 AM Nicky I remind you that graziers, which is most Australian farmers, do sheep or cattle, no.....
» 14/07/2008 11:42:50 PM Nicky, of course you want to stop the trade, for as part of the animal liberation movement.....
» 14/07/2008 8:28:47 PM Over and over the same crap you go Nicky, zzzzzzzzzz. I told you before, 4 million sheep .....
» 14/07/2008 11:12:44 AM *I wouldn't waste my time reading the propaganda in the rags you subscribe to * If you ar.....
» 13/07/2008 11:29:31 PM *I actually subscribe to those journals and saw nothing.* I guess old age is setting in d.....
» 13/07/2008 10:19:29 PM *Oh good, Yabby. Please provide us with a link please.* Gawd woman, it was discussed in d.....
» 13/07/2008 7:45:49 PM For you Nicky, I would hardly lift a finger lol. You are simply not worth the bother. Ther.....
» 13/07/2008 2:09:41 PM Demo, you will find that ammonium nitrate, in Australia anyhow, is mainly used for explosi.....
» 13/07/2008 11:03:14 AM Deary me Nicky, what melodrama. The animals on my farm lead far more free and natural live.....
» 12/07/2008 10:24:37 PM *It is also a reminder that pretending population is the problem is an easy excuse for div.....
» 12/07/2008 8:05:47 PM *you do a great job of that yourself, telling us what is "common practice" on Au.....
» 11/07/2008 8:53:03 PM *It is an easy thing to say that we are machines but the implications are enormous – compl.....
» 11/07/2008 7:33:55 PM Nicky, of course its not rubbish, its basic economics, but that is clearly a field you kno.....
» 10/07/2008 11:40:19 PM *To do things that have an appearance of being moral, but which are actually motivated by .....
» 10/07/2008 8:18:04 PM All that you have shown so far Nicky, is how little you understand about how economies wor.....
» 10/07/2008 2:59:36 PM Ah Dickie, another fanatic. Perhaps you have a point. Those evil farmers are actually goin.....
» 10/07/2008 11:59:05 AM *What do you say to the thief now?* You say to your thief exactly what we say to our thie.....
» 9/07/2008 11:37:41 PM Funnily enough Nicky, economists agree with me, a few left wing animal liberationists, who.....
» 9/07/2008 10:59:43 PM *Now it clearly can, * Now it can? I remind you that farming and mining still dominate ex.....
» 9/07/2008 2:04:07 PM *I do agree however, that Priests should not be forbidden to marry, and the RC Church ackn.....
» 9/07/2008 9:43:42 AM *With more intensive agriculture, production can easily be increased. In 1950 India had a .....
» 8/07/2008 9:05:18 PM Not much seems to change, when it comes to the top hierarchy of the Catholic Church. They .....
» 8/07/2008 8:18:35 PM *Modern farming generates $103 billion-a-year in production for the national economy (unde.....
» 8/07/2008 10:04:52 AM The author has clearly never read much about primatology, or he would understand that mora.....
» 7/07/2008 11:13:37 PM *And why should you not pay for the fuel (and gas guzzlers) you use, regardless of where y.....
» 7/07/2008 7:43:11 PM Er Nicky, farmland is farmland. Efficent farmers can exist anywhere in Australia. You will.....
» 6/07/2008 10:43:23 PM Demo, the URl below contains some figures for the Tesla. Perhaps the company has it wrong......
» 6/07/2008 10:07:14 PM *And I take it that it is your own estimation that you are efficient.* Actually not so. O.....
» 6/07/2008 9:08:12 PM Nicky, you don't need to organise any transport. The live shippers are doing it all. Those.....
» 6/07/2008 8:07:31 PM * Perhaps we may be able to follow up wool boycotts with boycotts of Australian meat, and .....
» 6/07/2008 5:00:57 PM Nicky, the abortion issue is not irrelevant at all, for you make similar claims to the Cat.....
» 6/07/2008 11:15:42 AM Ludwig, I don't think that the present infrastructure is going to go away in a hurry, so p.....
» 6/07/2008 12:51:16 AM Ludwig, all those car types could play a role, but this is the way I read it. The hybrid (.....
» 4/07/2008 3:20:53 PM *The articles were all structured around enhancing agriculture in order to sustain increas.....
» 4/07/2008 11:16:04 AM Yup they are, the potential is enormous! http://www.teslamotors.com/index.php shows wha.....
» 3/07/2008 7:52:35 PM *No "animal loving" group would consider such an involvement if it worthy of the.....
» 1/07/2008 11:21:48 PM Dickie, your propaganda is similar to that of your old employer, the Catholic Church, as t.....
» 1/07/2008 8:26:02 PM Err Dickie, you mean a license should be removed, because a few sheep were shipped at the.....
» 1/07/2008 10:47:11 AM *There are farmers today too who seem to find a lot of time to spend in front of the compu.....
» 1/07/2008 10:12:55 AM *As a government employee myself I know how hard the ones around me work* Now now Bronwyn.....
» 29/06/2008 11:03:04 PM I don't know so much about equal power in relationships. By what I've seen, females, in th.....
» 29/06/2008 7:56:16 PM Its not just the Amazon, but also in Africa, Indonesia, PNG etc. I guess if we keep addin.....
» 28/06/2008 11:24:52 PM *Nature has a rule, populate or perish, and looking at the statistics, anglo-saxons in the.....
» 28/06/2008 1:54:01 PM *I want to hear what plans there are to reduce our dependence on fuel complete with time l.....
» 28/06/2008 1:41:38 PM *Polygamy in this modern age is filth. * It is? I would be more concerned with two of the.....
» 27/06/2008 7:18:36 PM Sheesh Nicky, you are so ignorant about farming, it is quite ridiculous! Fact is that rai.....
» 27/06/2008 12:12:36 PM Dickie, at some point you either can or cannot address serious agronomic issues, the impli.....
» 27/06/2008 4:19:29 AM What manipulation of nature, Nicky? The fact that we shot those lambs, rather then let the.....
» 26/06/2008 9:20:59 PM *But if all the hard work "isn't worth it", I guess you'll all have to find some.....
» 26/06/2008 2:18:12 PM Country Gal, you make some very valid points. Family feuds and who controls the cheque boo.....
» 26/06/2008 4:59:32 AM *Yabby, don't be dense, there's a good boy.* Me dense Nicky? You clearly don't have the f.....
» 26/06/2008 4:41:26 AM Hehe, this sounds like straight out of "Desperate Housewives" :) So our two tru.....
» 25/06/2008 9:12:44 PM Dear Foxy, Oh I carry no baggage lol. The thread was going quite well until along came Di.....
» 25/06/2008 8:49:32 PM *had the farmer not bred the animals in the first instance the disaster would not have hap.....
» 25/06/2008 8:13:38 PM Ah, but where you girls have your philosophy all screwed up, is that if you refuse to supp.....
» 25/06/2008 7:55:53 PM *My daughter, happily married to a wonderful guy, describes these "sad old bastards&q.....
» 23/06/2008 10:48:26 PM ROFL Dickie, I am much younger then you. Young enough to be your toy boy, but I'm not into.....
» 23/06/2008 10:00:58 PM Nicky, I don't really care if they respect me in the morning lol, especially if they are y.....
» 23/06/2008 5:25:06 PM *Of course they are. When we have reduced the human body to mere sex objects then anything.....
» 23/06/2008 2:41:11 PM "It just means these women are taking what they want...it's about time. Men have done.....
» 23/06/2008 11:03:22 AM It seems to me that car companies have already decided what to do and nearly all major man.....
» 22/06/2008 8:31:11 PM Nicky, don't you worry, I took it up with the Govt lol. But they sent me to the Productivi.....
» 22/06/2008 8:19:43 PM Dear Foxy, Well I guess old Hugh tries to keep up the image, due the magazine etc, but yo.....
» 22/06/2008 2:11:37 PM *Seems that some human males are also cuckoos.* Not just men, but in most species that p.....
» 22/06/2008 11:56:59 AM Ah Nicky, you forget that the pencil pushers in various Govt Depts do not have the intelli.....
» 21/06/2008 9:14:35 PM Arjay, to cheer you up, the experts are saying that oil will probably trend down to 100-1.....
» 21/06/2008 8:09:21 PM Well Nicky, I'm going to let far more experienced people then you with your silly philosop.....
» 21/06/2008 7:52:28 PM Getrude, I can't answer your question about feedlots, as I don't run one that is accredite.....
» 20/06/2008 8:52:51 PM Nicky open your eyes. Cars crash, people drive in them. Planes crash, people fly in them, .....
» 20/06/2008 7:31:31 PM *Didn't I say that we'd get the same old claptrap from Yabby as we always do? * We get th.....
» 20/06/2008 7:18:59 PM *There is plenty of oil for the next 60yrs* Arjay, iron ore or coal are not about to run .....
» 20/06/2008 3:14:20 PM Nope, supply and demand, drive the price of oil. Hedge funds simply reflect what the marke.....
» 20/06/2008 2:58:20 PM Nicky, I preach the gospel according to Yabby and nobody else. As it happens, what MLA hav.....
» 19/06/2008 10:28:46 PM Dickie, you clearly never bothered to read the news report, to which I posted a link. It w.....
» 19/06/2008 9:55:45 PM http://www.teslamotors.com/index.php There is your answer, that is what is possible today.....
» 19/06/2008 8:31:02 PM Peta are clearly a vegan cult, as fanatical as many religious cults. As we can see from N.....
» 19/06/2008 6:45:55 PM .* Your link is the weakest I've ever witnessed * Well then see for yourself: http://www.....
» 19/06/2008 3:08:59 PM Dickie dear, as another Peta supporter, I am not surprised that you are trying to shoot th.....
» 19/06/2008 10:17:06 AM *Any reader with half a brain will see them for the paid stories that they are.* Nicky, s.....
» 18/06/2008 9:30:48 PM *Morse's whole series of articles are fairytales.* Nicky, you repeat the same dogma over .....
» 18/06/2008 8:44:51 PM *until Ian McLachlan made such a fool of himself on television. * Err Nicky, you mean whe.....
» 18/06/2008 6:53:08 PM *Yabby, a live exporter* I am? Actually I'm a farmer, who started getting into debates ab.....
» 18/06/2008 4:38:42 AM What we know Nicky, is that you will use any old excuse to try and rubbish the live trade,.....
» 17/06/2008 9:15:49 PM *So long as there was food on the shelves at all.* Well I certainly don't think that this.....
» 17/06/2008 7:50:34 PM Ok Nicky, so you can't pinpoint a single "fairytale", as you claimed. A number o.....
» 17/06/2008 12:37:30 AM Nicky dear, so please point out, what in the articles that Cameron Morse wrote, was a fair.....
» 16/06/2008 9:23:40 PM I remind Nicky and Mr Right, that anyone is free to buy those sheep and slaughter them in .....
» 16/06/2008 6:33:51 PM Trams are fine in cities. The good thing about high oil prices, I think that all sorts of .....
» 16/06/2008 5:07:41 PM Ah easy fixed. Just buy one of these! http://www.teslamotors.com/index.php Why do we thi.....
» 16/06/2008 3:00:54 PM *But any farm animal that is not profitable would meet the same fate really.* Every creat.....
» 16/06/2008 10:35:31 AM AQIS would be well aware, that there are a bunch of fanatical vegans, doing what they can.....
» 16/06/2008 12:17:11 AM * But they are WORKING dogs, of course.* Err hang on, my dogs are working dogs. They have.....
» 15/06/2008 8:35:45 PM *Yabby, you typically failed to mention that 140-odd people gathered was in one suburb of .....
» 15/06/2008 6:22:49 PM Dickie dear, err around 40 million died, they were eaten. We can't keep all the little da.....
» 14/06/2008 11:38:26 PM *And if you really did, wouldn't it always be with you? * Well no, as that is not how bra.....
» 14/06/2008 8:53:37 PM Oh, those details are all in the OLO archives somewhere. Last November, I read on the AA w.....
» 14/06/2008 7:50:37 PM *And we keep on keeping on, and we are media and technologically savvy enough to be good a.....
» 14/06/2008 2:48:38 PM Best you buy those sheep Dickie, and give them to the starving children. They are for sale.....
» 14/06/2008 12:32:54 PM Err Dickie, you will find its more like 40 million or so that were shipped and died. Thats.....
» 14/06/2008 2:00:15 AM *the urgent global requirement to grow more crops to sustain the poor,* err Dickie you du.....
» 14/06/2008 12:02:22 AM *The link is referenced perfectly properly, in accordance with academic principles. All yo.....
» 13/06/2008 8:00:48 PM Err Nicky, has it ever occured to you that every man and his dog who think they can make a.....
» 13/06/2008 2:45:49 PM *According to many who advocate abortion, the fetus is not human.* Of course its human, y.....
» 13/06/2008 10:41:07 AM *Hmm...I'm hearing 'voices'..and I don't much like what they are saying.* Sounds like a b.....
» 13/06/2008 10:31:35 AM *I made my point/s. I have given up going over the same old ground with you.* Nicky you h.....
» 13/06/2008 10:20:45 AM CJ, they would last about 5 minutes in farming, as they simply don't understand what it is.....
» 12/06/2008 10:59:17 PM *Strange that Yabby. I could have sworn you told us some time ago that your live sheep exp.....
» 12/06/2008 9:22:31 PM Whatever you want to accuse farmers of Nicky, I can assure you that the magic fairy is not.....
» 12/06/2008 9:10:17 PM But Foxy, in that case your problem is you and not the system. Considering people whom yo.....
» 12/06/2008 8:42:12 PM *They put a population of reindeer on an island (INTERFERING with nature and for no appare.....
» 12/06/2008 7:58:02 PM *Men and Women alike will no longer feel the pressure of having to conform to some stereot.....
» 12/06/2008 7:50:08 PM *The question remains, how will the hungry multitudes of the future be able to afford to p.....
» 12/06/2008 2:30:53 PM There are of course more questions which NicknDick don't want to, or cannot answer. If.....
» 12/06/2008 5:45:58 AM *Strange that you, Yabby and the cowboy fail repeatedly to comment when there is overwhelm.....
» 12/06/2008 5:24:19 AM *and look what PETA has achieved with mulesing.* Yup, huge numbers of sheep will die mise.....
» 11/06/2008 8:23:57 PM *Read the "Five Freedoms", it's not rocket science.* Which of course ignores th.....
» 11/06/2008 3:10:11 PM *Karma is alive and well. * Nothing to do with Karma lol, just accept the laws of nature,.....
» 11/06/2008 7:40:03 AM *We don't have equally rampant breeding of horses, for example, simply because people don'.....
» 11/06/2008 7:26:47 AM *Not man enough to apologise, Yabby? I thought not.* So Dickie, you think that I should a.....
» 10/06/2008 9:33:31 PM *Yabby, you are not doing the maths. You deliberately put too many animals together, they .....
» 10/06/2008 9:02:29 PM *Yabby, you're clearly a liar. Always have been?* Where did I lie Dickie? As it turns out.....
» 10/06/2008 5:43:34 PM *How does government subsidisation on the production of ethanol and biodiesel from grain f.....
» 10/06/2008 9:33:58 AM Dickie, what a Dummkopf you are! Rushing off to jump to conclusions, without even checking.....
» 9/06/2008 10:10:41 PM *Yabby, for God's sake, do the maths* You do the maths Nicky, but first learn something a.....
» 9/06/2008 8:19:59 PM *No animal should be born for no better purpose than to spend its short life being brutal.....
» 9/06/2008 8:14:27 PM *No animal should be born for no better purpose than to spend its short life being brutal.....
» 9/06/2008 6:04:16 PM As a matter of fact Dickie, Hajj lambs bought by the Islamic bank, go to huge meatworks o.....
» 9/06/2008 3:48:21 PM *It's just that you people are dealing with a corrupt and compliant RSPCA * Of course Nic.....
» 9/06/2008 12:35:14 PM *I've been very busy commenting on international animal welfare threads and alerting citiz.....
» 9/06/2008 8:23:34 AM *You wouldn’t know an elastrator from your jock strap. You prefer to maim and slash. * Wr.....
» 8/06/2008 7:59:14 PM *Fact is Yabby, you, in typical fashion, are lying - you are a cheat. That fact was establ.....
» 8/06/2008 3:22:18 PM *In fact so many it made the Yabby very nervous which got his knickers in a twist where he.....
» 8/06/2008 2:27:32 AM Ah Dickie's melodrama, nearly good enough for another Mills and Boons tear jerker, trying .....
» 7/06/2008 11:24:32 PM Sheesh Dickie, only 3'960'000 healthy sheep of the 4'000'000. How tragic! Time to get your.....
» 7/06/2008 7:21:16 PM Ah Nicky, clearly those sheep would have been much better off, if they had been transporte.....
» 6/06/2008 2:26:24 AM Pelican, research for agriculture in general is being cut back, unless its directly indust.....
» 5/06/2008 10:55:25 AM *Anyway, most organic farmers do not use this sludge so you can rest easy* Pelican, I can.....
» 5/06/2008 12:17:01 AM *I, unlike you, are not so “gullible” as to believe that government regulators and operato.....
» 4/06/2008 11:47:53 PM *Yabby, if you did not continue to keep breeding more animals than you can properly care f.....
» 4/06/2008 10:29:54 PM *A large percentage of that faith hold different, non-fundamentalist, views on the subject.....
» 4/06/2008 10:14:04 PM *I think that real "karma" would be for you people to have to face up to the ani.....
» 4/06/2008 5:34:27 PM *I am quite sickened by the tone this thread has taken.* Err Nicky, I remind you that it .....
» 4/06/2008 5:01:08 PM I was once told by a female friend, that when it comes to partner selection, women will dr.....
» 4/06/2008 4:38:16 PM *and the rotting, carcinogenic animal flesh inside you.* Written like a true fanatic Nic.....
» 3/06/2008 11:54:06 PM *We "normal" farmers, Yabby?* Yes Dickie, we normal farmers. Of the thousands o.....
» 3/06/2008 9:49:05 PM *A recent Landline episode featured a group of farmers in Young NSW producing high nutrien.....
» 3/06/2008 9:37:54 PM http://www.abc.net.au/landline/content/2006/s2240246.htm There you go Dickie, a url from .....
» 3/06/2008 9:22:06 PM *It’s time the issue of population growth was put high on the climate change agenda, * El.....
» 3/06/2008 9:05:22 PM *While I prefer to purchase organic products wherever possible, I also endeavour to glean .....
» 3/06/2008 8:42:52 PM *It's unfortunate and inconvenient in the extreme that you have to do things like "ta.....
» 3/06/2008 4:31:19 PM Food prices are high (in relative terms) because oil prices are high. Oil producers are ca.....
» 3/06/2008 3:34:22 PM *Where is the Bentley? Is it off the road having its Lipstick Fridge overhauled?* Ah Frac.....
» 2/06/2008 7:43:04 PM *WRONG Yabby, everyone knows that the perfect woman can't think and loves housework.* Act.....
» 2/06/2008 2:28:39 PM *quite capable of performing minor repairs around the home or on my car. People tell me I .....
» 1/06/2008 10:43:21 PM http://www.abc.net.au/worldtoday/content/2008/s2252539.htm Well this guy, who seems to kn.....
» 1/06/2008 10:30:29 PM *I opt for self-reliance, I can rely on that. Certainly a better option than putting faith.....
» 1/06/2008 9:15:09 PM Ah Pelican, I might be more open minded about all this then you are! For I am on record on.....
» 1/06/2008 3:56:47 PM Arjay, the way you are going, you are going to die of worry :(. Short term, you can switc.....
» 1/06/2008 9:38:25 AM *I would ask you to keep an open mind Yabby, I know it is hard to change the habits of a l.....
» 31/05/2008 9:25:46 PM *Australia has the highest per capita greenhouse gas emissions in the developed world* It.....
» 31/05/2008 12:59:41 PM *Anything that has grown without chemicals and artificial fertilizers has to be better as .....
» 31/05/2008 9:35:01 AM Nicky you still don't get it and you never will, because you are trying to debate issues t.....
» 31/05/2008 9:03:30 AM *the difference between us is that you like to dish it out but can't take it, and we do no.....
» 30/05/2008 7:49:29 PM Nicky, your recollection is clearly not very good, for you have tried to be a smartarse an.....
» 30/05/2008 1:48:50 PM *Now, Yabby, did I not see you contributing to the thread about the artist who painted (?).....
» 29/05/2008 10:04:03 PM Well Nicky sure seems to be following the animal liberation philosophy, as promoted by Sin.....
» 29/05/2008 8:06:39 PM *The department advises that producers are not utilising veterinary services.* Err Dickie.....
» 29/05/2008 7:19:10 AM *And why should we do anything about getting you people products you require in the course.....
» 28/05/2008 9:41:54 PM *Any anaesthesia, myopinion - or a mere painkiller? No, I thought not.* Any thoughts of g.....
» 28/05/2008 9:38:01 PM Peta are a radical vegan group, who don’t let the truth interfere with preaching their dog.....
» 28/05/2008 7:51:54 PM Ah Nicky, so now you seem to be excluding the Jordanian Royal Family from your “savages” i.....
» 28/05/2008 7:05:42 AM *Yabby, which words are they that you suggest I should eat? I'm a bit mystified about that.....
» 28/05/2008 6:36:05 AM *I find it mind boggling that you support organizations whose policies are to destroy the .....
» 27/05/2008 9:47:09 PM Oops, Nicky and others will now have to eat their words about them all being a bunch of s.....
» 26/05/2008 8:09:21 PM *One thing I've learned about child sexual abuse of any kind is that one of the biggest ch.....
» 25/05/2008 11:40:54 PM *Since Canberra has an airport, 5 star hotels, access to electronic media, vegetarian rest.....
» 25/05/2008 8:56:12 PM Arjay, OTOH its not that difficult to switch to gas either, tens of thousands have done it.....
» 25/05/2008 5:38:43 PM Bronwyn, you have got me curious now, so I googled and found this: *When the First Fleet .....
» 25/05/2008 3:48:32 PM *The one who claims that staring at naked girls in puberty is not likely to turn many men .....
» 25/05/2008 1:44:27 PM *this is from the woodside link poor woodside [yea right]* Well you are free to take your.....
» 25/05/2008 1:25:10 PM Where I will always have a problem with this debate, is that to me, nakedness is associate.....
» 24/05/2008 7:27:49 PM *There is nothing inherently sexual about a nude human body of any age. In my opinion thos.....
» 24/05/2008 4:03:27 PM Nicky, the reason to quote the first website, was to show that even you can learn about ne.....
» 24/05/2008 3:50:07 PM * regardless of how well it is referenced and scientifically established.* Ah you mean Ni.....
» 23/05/2008 10:49:29 PM *Here is the link where you can advise the author of her error:* The question is Dickie, .....
» 23/05/2008 3:56:38 PM *Cattle was 28 million* Ah ok, so it wasn't 180 million cattle, but 28 million, plus some.....
» 23/05/2008 11:39:05 AM *Neuroscience is a highly complex and multi-faceted field of which endocrinology is just o.....
» 23/05/2008 11:03:44 AM *Come on now, is anyone who knows that this country has 180 million cattle * Only nobody .....
» 22/05/2008 10:11:15 PM *Yabby, wisdom is nothing of the sort, and you know it.* Nicky, clearly you are not wise,.....
» 22/05/2008 8:56:38 PM *Yabby, you are so simplistic* Nicky, I remind you that knowledge is about knowing a lot .....
» 22/05/2008 4:19:39 PM *If anyone who has raised just one of these animals from infancy and received the love an.....
» 22/05/2008 4:08:14 PM Deary me Nicky, so because I discuss neuroscience, about which you seem to know nothing, i.....
» 21/05/2008 9:03:57 PM *Yabby has an obsession with hormones, and his aunties, from an earlier post.* Now now Ni.....
» 21/05/2008 8:54:40 PM *Your notion of "nature" is that animals live only as long as you (humans genera.....
» 20/05/2008 9:07:51 PM http://www.smh.com.au/news/conservation/kangaroo-cull-protest-blunder/2008/05/20/121118277.....
» 20/05/2008 8:43:27 PM *I do have an office, but that does not mean I work exclusively in it,* Ok that confirms .....
» 19/05/2008 11:11:31 PM *BTW, what makes you think I work in an office? You have no way of knowing what I do or wh.....
» 19/05/2008 10:29:26 PM *For pete's sake, it is disrespectful!* Eftfnc, respect is earned for various reasons, no.....
» 19/05/2008 8:27:14 PM *I went once with a pig, with whom we also visited various other venues.* Sheesh Nicky, t.....
» 18/05/2008 2:52:39 PM Yes Nicky, they are different, but they are also related. Understanding the differences an.....
» 18/05/2008 9:48:42 AM Where I see a future, or would like to experiment with, is the so called "lamb in a b.....
» 18/05/2008 9:26:42 AM Nicky, the industrial relations system in the East has similar problems in times of drough.....
» 18/05/2008 9:05:11 AM *Catholic numbers are declining.* Numbers are declining in the West, as more and more tel.....
» 17/05/2008 9:46:24 PM *Clinton's claim to leadership wasn't reaffirmed by his colleagues immediately after the a.....
» 17/05/2008 9:11:25 PM *Yabby, you are not a qualified veterinarian either, so are not in a position to objective.....
» 17/05/2008 9:05:04 PM *I'm confident you will have much in common* You can be as confident as you like Dickie, .....
» 17/05/2008 5:47:59 AM *How could anyone entrust leadership to someone who shows such poor judgement and exercise.....
» 17/05/2008 5:39:29 AM *Money will trump objectivity every time, and you know it.* Absolutaly not so, if you don.....
» 16/05/2008 7:54:24 PM * But you're talking about people who make money out of animals one way or another includi.....
» 15/05/2008 10:52:55 PM *this is an example of the sort of boorish and chauvinistic behaviour women have worked lo.....
» 15/05/2008 9:09:03 PM *By the way Yabby where do they park their aeroplanes and helicopters these days?* Which .....
» 15/05/2008 8:34:08 PM Gawd, the way its going, anyone with a bit of personality and a sense of humour won't be .....
» 15/05/2008 8:22:39 PM *Nevertheless, I have not yet met a "90 plus year old" who is in good health - n.....
» 15/05/2008 2:02:52 PM Dickie, perhaps you should take your hand off it. Rojo's posts have been some of the most.....
» 14/05/2008 8:49:12 PM *Yabby, what a coward you are! A trip west was beginning to look a bit enticing.* Nicky, .....
» 14/05/2008 8:36:07 PM MI, why is my concept absurd? At the end of the day, most bank profits land up in the acco.....
» 14/05/2008 9:40:19 AM MI, I remind you that virtually all working Australians are bank shareholders, as the shar.....
» 14/05/2008 5:33:00 AM *BTW, how does he know how old people are? Divine intervention?* Actually Nicky, when pos.....
» 13/05/2008 10:49:29 PM *Maybe you guys should do a nude demo in favour of your industry of choice...* Oh no need.....
» 13/05/2008 10:18:07 PM *We truely need a a bank that is owned by the account holders.* That is probably already .....
» 13/05/2008 10:01:30 PM Nicky, I notice that your favourite website mentions people frolicking in the nude in Syd.....
» 13/05/2008 6:01:05 PM Nicky, I think you are wrong about the so called international campaign, as people are awa.....
» 12/05/2008 8:34:06 PM Nicky, the East has a history of building meat plants, due to the free market in the past......
» 11/05/2008 11:57:35 PM Nicky, the bulk of the frozen/chilled export meat comes from the Eastern States, where the.....
» 11/05/2008 11:33:13 PM Nicky, no disappointment, simply an observation. Perhaps she is your partner. I really don.....
» 11/05/2008 8:29:44 PM Ok Nicky, I will tell you why the WA meat industry is so bad, although I have mentioned i.....
» 11/05/2008 8:05:44 PM Sheesh, amazing how Alex and Nicky bounce off one another. Sounds more like perhaps old fr.....
» 11/05/2008 2:55:36 PM *I'd suggest that the livestock industry and the animal welfare movement would be pretty m.....
» 11/05/2008 8:00:17 AM Alex, you seem to be making the same mistake that Nicky does, expecting perfection from da.....
» 10/05/2008 8:26:26 PM Alexandra, you seem to be showing some bias, for IMHO Rojo is in fact extremely polite, un.....
» 10/05/2008 4:08:15 AM *Something a bit rational would make a nice change. Nicky* Ah, you mention the rational, .....
» 9/05/2008 10:24:09 PM Dickie, the British and rest of the EU are of course free to open up their markets to Aust.....
» 9/05/2008 12:21:21 AM Well Dickie, Edward de Bono wisely pointed out that the mind works by association, its not.....
» 9/05/2008 12:03:37 AM *Ban Live exports and replace with chilled.* No Gertrude, no need to ban anything. We hav.....
» 8/05/2008 8:52:48 PM Nicky, if AA exposed this seven years ago, then they have had 7years to go to the ME and d.....
» 8/05/2008 8:30:59 PM *Many countries are reluctant to import from that country.* Err Dickie, according to one .....
» 8/05/2008 3:28:20 PM *The argument that Rojo and Yabby put up is fallacious since other nations, anxious to sup.....
» 8/05/2008 2:58:40 PM *Clearly farmers become desensitised to this practice and my hosts had scant regard for my.....
» 8/05/2008 2:43:43 PM Dickie dear, best you stick to office work lol. Have you ever seen what a sheep does, whe.....
» 8/05/2008 10:16:17 AM *When abuses to animals from other countries have been filmed they've said "but they.....
» 8/05/2008 9:45:07 AM On the other hand Gibo, perhaps you and other so called prophets, might just be suffering .....
» 7/05/2008 7:19:02 PM *The point about not sending Australian animals to these people to butcher is the moral p.....
» 7/05/2008 7:00:13 PM *There are twice as many Ethiopians now as when Bob Geldof launched his appeals in the fam.....
» 6/05/2008 6:35:31 PM Err Gibo, not only do we in WA have 15 million tonnes of grain storage, we have 150 years .....
» 6/05/2008 9:54:56 AM Gibo, methinks that you city slickers don't have a clue, as to what is going on in your ow.....
» 6/05/2008 8:22:41 AM An interesting URL from the BBC, discussing rice production in Ghana. http://news.bbc.co......
» 5/05/2008 9:31:56 PM Nicky dear, what animals would do, given the choice, would depend on the species. Swallows.....
» 5/05/2008 8:04:24 PM Nicky dear, not a corner in sight anywhere, but keep imaging whatever makes you happy lol......
» 5/05/2008 4:47:50 PM NIcky dear, perhaps you just imagine the corners. I in fact can understand this debate fro.....
» 4/05/2008 9:14:56 PM Ah Dickie, that is why we do mostly freerange in Australia, consumers are free to buy it! .....
» 4/05/2008 5:33:22 PM *What is remarkable is the rate of progress. Who would have believed that photovoltaic cou.....
» 4/05/2008 11:16:55 AM *We KNOW Yabby just responds with unfounded insults when he is backed into a corner. Some .....
» 3/05/2008 11:03:26 PM Well Arjay, there is much debate going on, about using LNG to power vehicles, which seems .....
» 3/05/2008 8:18:16 PM Gertrude, I don't think you understood a word of that, but never mind. So I shall explain .....
» 3/05/2008 2:06:25 PM Getrude dear, I had dealings with AQIS on virtually a weekly basis for 14 years. But that .....
» 2/05/2008 7:57:33 PM Dear Nicky, yes we know that you should have been a traffic cop, so that you can follow yo.....
» 2/05/2008 2:52:55 PM Dear Nicky, yes we know that you should have been a traffic cop, so that you can follow yo.....
» 2/05/2008 2:32:29 PM Daggett, in 1935 the Australians realised that war was coming and that they might not be a.....
» 1/05/2008 11:03:11 PM * I understand that in Fremantle that they rarely attend the loadings of ships, and of cou.....
» 1/05/2008 8:42:05 PM Nicky, what happens to sheep from the saleyards, most of the time has little to do with fa.....
» 1/05/2008 10:59:51 AM Nicky, sheep on a truck are not much different to school kids on a school bus. You are jum.....
» 1/05/2008 10:02:20 AM Billie, I think you will find that a lot of that accreditation stuff is tied up with Work.....
» 30/04/2008 11:35:53 PM Es scheint as ob unser Fuechschen, in Deutchland's Konjunktur interessiet ist! Da die E.....
» 30/04/2008 10:21:44 PM Dickie dear, no I don’t worry about that PC crap. I’d rather say what I think, let others .....
» 30/04/2008 9:49:17 PM Hehe Nicky, you would last only a few months, as a farmer. Mind you, plenty of academics h.....
» 30/04/2008 8:11:29 PM Daggett, I remind you that in 1942, there was hardly much worth calling “technology”, life.....
» 30/04/2008 2:19:10 PM *Let's build a society where production occurs democratically to satisfy human need, not t.....
» 30/04/2008 2:07:54 PM The IQ assessment is dropping Dickie dear, yours seems to be heading below 70 now :) *The.....
» 30/04/2008 8:18:31 AM *through excessive repetition, red herrings, personal attacks and other debaters' tricks......
» 30/04/2008 12:06:04 AM *Having said that. I can't want for Yabby's critique of the www.liveexportshame.com websit.....
» 30/04/2008 12:04:06 AM *BTW, why are they orphaned?* Because mommy is either very stupid or does not care. Not a.....
» 29/04/2008 9:16:44 PM *In a global sense OJD is only a recent problem in Australia. In every country with signif.....
» 29/04/2008 9:24:03 AM *you asked if I approve of hitting lambs on the head? Of course I don't. What a silly ques.....
» 28/04/2008 11:24:59 PM Ah Nicky, as expected, you will even believe fiction to try and run down your favourite ha.....
» 28/04/2008 8:26:19 PM *Only bringing about populations of educated, earning women with full rights under the law.....
» 28/04/2008 8:17:50 PM Daggett, I will keep saying it, as long as you keep repeating your crapola that Australian.....
» 27/04/2008 10:26:21 PM Ok Nicky, we’ll start on the first page. Your banner headline states that “animals exist .....
» 27/04/2008 7:35:42 PM *I am still waiting.* Daggett, well keep waiting lol. Anyone who reads the posts can note.....
» 27/04/2008 7:10:58 PM Nicky, you really led us to oxytocin, by accusing me of sexism. Today the science is far .....
» 27/04/2008 6:49:46 PM Nicky, what you are, is extremely fortunate to be living in one of the most secular countr.....
» 27/04/2008 12:21:35 AM Nobody claimed that Nicky. But fact is, your boyfriend would not have an erection, were it.....
» 26/04/2008 11:51:30 PM *Yabby, you once again resort to the sexist debate when you're backed into a corner* Hang.....
» 26/04/2008 10:20:23 PM Nicky, I don't know if your farmer friend runs 3 sheep as pets, or 8000 as a commercial fl.....
» 26/04/2008 9:57:25 PM Nicky, the real red herring, is you trying to mix up religious beliefs with meat productio.....
» 25/04/2008 9:59:43 PM Tony I agree. Call me every single name under the sun, its great therapy and will make you.....
» 25/04/2008 9:31:08 PM *I fully agree with Yabby, that we must do something for the other twelve million animals .....
» 25/04/2008 8:51:45 PM Nicky, your favourite website is full of mistakes, due to lack of knowledge about livestoc.....
» 25/04/2008 4:21:19 AM Ah Nicky, but you again missed the point. Nations change and influence from other nations.....
» 24/04/2008 9:20:37 PM *It has been made perfectly clear, time and time again, that you cannot change the thinkin.....
» 24/04/2008 9:06:31 PM *The feminist idea of women being forced to procreate, to satisfy the egos of evil and bru.....
» 24/04/2008 8:46:32 PM *is not capable of expressing an animal welfare perspective in any terms that might cost d.....
» 24/04/2008 10:19:45 AM Nicky, farming is made up of all sorts of people, with lots of rational debate going on an.....
» 23/04/2008 9:26:53 PM Nicky, in your case and in Dickie’s case it is certainly true, you have both expressed you.....
» 23/04/2008 8:21:19 PM Nicky, clearly the standards are world's best practise, who has higher standards? If the .....
» 23/04/2008 8:06:06 PM Dagget, unlike you, I don't break into pangs of terror, every time somebody writes somethi.....
» 23/04/2008 7:48:34 PM Gertrude, you are ignoring my point completely. I am not talking of Malaysia, not even Aus.....
» 23/04/2008 10:20:20 AM Nicky, last time I checked, around 16 million animals were imported by the ME for slaughte.....
» 23/04/2008 12:01:55 AM *people generally are on aircraft by choice and in full knowledge of the risks.The same ap.....
» 22/04/2008 11:12:32 PM Gertrude, I remind you that the ME is not one place, but many places. You have rich and y.....
» 22/04/2008 8:42:37 PM No red herrings Dagget, either you can think about the big picture or you can't. Meantimes.....
» 22/04/2008 8:29:02 PM Hehe, I love it, Nicky the subsistance farmer :) Gertude, your posts are as confusing and.....
» 22/04/2008 7:57:01 PM Ah Nicky, just shows the massive improvements going on in the industry! Now the Becrux, pl.....
» 22/04/2008 10:09:30 AM *They are basically scared, terrified of these animals. Which is why they rip their eyes o.....
» 22/04/2008 9:35:11 AM *if you have that much property fuel costs should not be too much of a burden, nor should.....
» 21/04/2008 7:46:10 PM *The PETA approach seems to have worked pretty well with mulesing* The Peta approach mean.....
» 21/04/2008 3:12:35 PM Daggett, AFAIK, mining companies need a rehabilitation plan, to restore things after minin.....
» 20/04/2008 3:12:14 PM Nicky, with the kind of stuff going on, you really have to question as to why anyone shoul.....
» 20/04/2008 2:37:48 PM *however, politicians completely disregard the opinions of anyone who does not support wha.....
» 20/04/2008 2:07:33 PM No thoughtless attitude at all Daggett. Britain flogged a lot of it’s oil off for 10$, ver.....
» 20/04/2008 6:48:40 AM Nicky, so what if the Deneb is 30 years old? If the hull is sound then its not a problem. .....
» 19/04/2008 7:06:10 AM Dickie dear, read your own posts, spewing vitriol and hatred of farmers. Nicky calls them .....
» 19/04/2008 6:43:46 AM No Daggett, what I am saying is that I don’t think that the future of Australian manufactu.....
» 18/04/2008 11:07:04 PM *It is an indictment on Australia when other countries are sufficiently civilised to respo.....
» 18/04/2008 10:29:56 PM *Surely a female captain would make sure the animals were well cared for .... right?* She.....
» 18/04/2008 9:22:07 AM Tony, in the 50s and 60s, Australia rode on the sheep's back. That sheep eventually collap.....
» 18/04/2008 7:18:42 AM Nicky, your posts are nearly as melodramatic as those of Dickie. Never mind the reality, e.....
» 17/04/2008 8:47:37 PM Nicky, your few taxes would do little but pay a tiny bit towards your own salary. Last ti.....
» 17/04/2008 3:47:26 PM Daggett/cacafonix, show me where I said that manufacturing exports were a significant par.....
» 17/04/2008 2:50:41 PM Now now Dickie dear, don't try and crawl out of it with a heap of semantic claims. Investi.....
» 17/04/2008 7:22:31 AM *So sheep get hot and thirsy here. And there are cruel farmers who leave them that way.* .....
» 17/04/2008 4:43:52 AM Tony, yes tax has to be deducted etc, but everyone pays that. There is still good money a.....
» 16/04/2008 10:32:11 PM Ah Dickie, go back to the pages I referred you to and the individual programmes. Even fo.....
» 16/04/2008 10:08:05 PM Gertrude, what do you want me to say about your website? The RSPCA have just had an adver.....
» 16/04/2008 8:45:43 PM Dickie dear, thanks for the many compliments and the melodrama. Unfortunately none of it .....
» 16/04/2008 8:32:45 PM Gertrude, Dubai is so wealthy, they don't need MLA money. Take a look on the internet, as .....
» 16/04/2008 4:42:07 PM Nicky, I thought of you today, whilst off to go shopping. A truckie from the livestock ind.....
» 16/04/2008 12:47:18 PM Daggett, if John Howard had cancelled the elections and had declared martial law, Australi.....
» 16/04/2008 10:09:26 AM Nicky, you of course make the fatal flaw of thinking that money and ethics are mutually ex.....
» 16/04/2008 12:01:19 AM *what pieces of paper (in the form of real achievements - qualifications) * First lesson .....
» 15/04/2008 8:43:24 PM I see that Haiti has had food riots, with the rising price of food. Given that they are mo.....
» 15/04/2008 8:20:24 PM Daggett, clearly your logic is not very logical :) Voting for a Govt is one thing. Lettin.....
» 15/04/2008 4:19:14 PM *So where are the links? Or is the claim simply another lie - another fantasy cooked up by.....
» 15/04/2008 10:56:42 AM Ok, I will explain it a bit better for you Nicky. You, who claim to be university educate.....
» 15/04/2008 10:42:27 AM *Really? More lies. I have read the MLA's A/R:* Good to see that you have found the link .....
» 15/04/2008 10:32:32 AM *Presumably if John Howard had cancelled the 2007 elections and had declared martial law, .....
» 14/04/2008 9:19:18 PM Dear Nicky, If the Indonesians were not using them, your little AA spy and her camera wou.....
» 14/04/2008 9:09:37 PM Hehe, what a pair of comedians we have in Dickie and Nicky, more like Laurel and Hardy :) .....
» 14/04/2008 10:07:14 AM Daggett, you have yet to point out why consumers voting with their wallets every day, is n.....
» 14/04/2008 9:48:19 AM Nicky, you and I certainly look at the world from quite different perspectives. You will f.....
» 14/04/2008 9:23:16 AM *Having worked extensively as a Director, I can assure you that you can make an Annual Rep.....
» 13/04/2008 11:38:06 PM *collected by federal government.* Exactly Gertrude, collected by the Govt, levies paid f.....
» 13/04/2008 11:10:03 PM Nicky, you make my point for me. You don't have the foggiest about what MLA are up to or h.....
» 13/04/2008 8:20:17 PM Hehe, you girls crack me up, you really do. You are so badly informed that you could not o.....
» 13/04/2008 4:45:15 PM *Someone who got too close to her at an airport not long ago described her as "grubby.....
» 13/04/2008 3:48:55 PM Yes Nicky, I followed the Saudi story, it is one story. It was taken up by CNN, highlighte.....
» 13/04/2008 3:17:58 PM Daggett I certainly did not dodge your question. For anyone who thinks a bit, it is bleedi.....
» 13/04/2008 9:52:34 AM *we are talking about people who still publically flog, imprison and stone to death femal.....
» 12/04/2008 9:13:36 PM *Prositution goes back to the first women who saw she could make extra bucks from it, for .....
» 12/04/2008 8:59:44 PM Daggett, why on earth would Australia want to compete, making pairs of shoes that wholesal.....
» 12/04/2008 8:28:22 PM Wow dickie, you certainly have talent for writing melodrama! Of course we don’t want to le.....
» 12/04/2008 10:14:02 AM *Travel, Clothing Hairdressers* Hehe, I reckon they will be falling off their chairs laug.....
» 11/04/2008 9:40:02 PM *I don't recall ever seeing them advocating not eating meat.* Actually not so Robert. To .....
» 11/04/2008 8:46:36 PM MLA and what it does, is decided by the 45'000 farmers who vote and are levy paying member.....
» 11/04/2008 3:30:19 PM *In these circumstances, the hope that Australia can ever profitably manufacture any produ.....
» 11/04/2008 9:34:37 AM Nicky, nobody said that merinos are highly stressed, so don't misquote. Merinos are just .....
» 11/04/2008 6:18:04 AM Nicky, no matter what MLA does or farmers do, you will spew your vitriol. Ok, we have come.....
» 10/04/2008 9:19:14 PM *Since early Christian times the occupation of prostitute in the West has been anything bu.....
» 9/04/2008 8:28:05 PM Err Dickie, you are scraping the bottom of the barrel of ideas now :) http://daac.gsfc.na.....
» 9/04/2008 9:19:00 AM PF, I'm not sure about their campaign, but I recently heard an interview with one young la.....
» 8/04/2008 9:51:48 PM *Yabby admitted as much himself when he said that Merinos are highly stressed animals (so.....
» 8/04/2008 3:31:53 PM I have yet to note a single person within the animal liberation movement, who has thought .....
» 8/04/2008 2:55:25 PM Dickie, I am not a mouthpiece for any industry, I have no association with any group. I si.....
» 7/04/2008 7:39:41 PM Bronwyn, judging by how you described how you think that things look on a livestock ship, .....
» 7/04/2008 12:33:34 AM *Any weight gains I think can be reasonably attibuted to the bulk rubbish they are fed fo.....
» 6/04/2008 10:58:40 PM *Secondly, have you noticed that when he has nowehere to go* ROFL Nicky, I always have s.....
» 6/04/2008 5:42:58 PM *Cruelty is cruelty no matter how you dress it up.* Yes, but if depends on how you defin.....
» 6/04/2008 2:29:24 PM Pelican, what you call “insults”, I call “being blunt” What Bromwyn calls “arrogant” I cal.....
» 5/04/2008 11:33:54 PM *Yabby are you for real?* Yup, here I am :) *Blind freddy can see this trade is cruel.* .....
» 5/04/2008 8:04:43 PM “RSPCA Australia scientific officer Melina Tensen said many birds died because of overstoc.....
» 5/04/2008 3:01:01 PM Dickie’s post kind of makes my point. No doubt Singer’s book has been on her bookshelf :) .....
» 5/04/2008 1:32:02 PM *Australia could do more to promote the banning of live exports at the global level which .....
» 4/04/2008 11:13:54 PM *I really don't think that Dickie and I constitute a "farmer hating" community, .....
» 4/04/2008 8:26:09 PM Nicky, taking peoples dogs for a walk or paying people pensions, all add to GDP, that does.....
» 4/04/2008 5:56:24 PM *More efficient delivery = more money for Australian farmers. I would think that was blee.....
» 4/04/2008 2:55:47 PM *Crawford considered how best she could "pass the buck". * So now you are accus.....
» 4/04/2008 10:32:52 AM Ah there we have it. The same little band of animal activists, who one minute preach about.....
» 4/04/2008 12:26:23 AM *but agriculture is all but dead.* Hehe Nicky, apart from feeding you lot every day, agri.....
» 3/04/2008 9:12:57 PM Hehe Nicky, you know about as much about economics as about farming, which is about sweet .....
» 3/04/2008 4:33:36 PM Clearly the bible got it wrong runner, for the heart of man does little but pump blood. Pe.....
» 3/04/2008 3:31:10 PM There is an interesting article in this week's hardcopy of Farm Weekly. It seems that both.....
» 3/04/2008 2:40:25 PM Ah Gibo, the endless Christian concern about sex. No wonder the Muslims are gaining on you.....
» 3/04/2008 9:22:27 AM Nicky, Peter Dundon is paid by MLA and so what? The problem is your wrong perception that .....
» 2/04/2008 10:06:43 PM http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2007/s2206158.htm There you go Gertrude. In your own b.....
» 2/04/2008 8:41:30 PM Nicky, I certainly don’t sidestep how animals are treated in the ME. I just don’t take you.....
» 2/04/2008 12:36:34 AM David Suzuki is correct, in the longer term biology will always rule over economics. It is.....
» 2/04/2008 12:11:39 AM Rehctub, I am suprised that Harvey Beef are marketing over your way, as they have the whol.....
» 31/03/2008 10:34:11 PM Gertrude, do you even live in the real world, or in the world of history? Kerry moved on .....
» 31/03/2008 10:11:15 PM Dickie, you remain ignorant as ever on OLO! There is no point in taking or not taking PFs .....
» 31/03/2008 8:20:43 PM *the pain-killer Tri-solfen is provided for mulesing by selected vets in every state.* I.....
» 31/03/2008 4:05:55 PM Suzuki is correct, humanity has gone from 1.5 billion to 6.6 billion in about a hundred ye.....
» 31/03/2008 3:13:42 PM *just because they bred too many and they stopped producing the best wool* Nicky, you gi.....
» 31/03/2008 2:47:59 PM Arjay, the poor do benefit from higher share prices through their super funds, who effecti.....
» 30/03/2008 11:12:06 PM Nicky, you are correct, lots of people have lots of agendas, but one thing you cannot disp.....
» 30/03/2008 9:18:10 PM Gertrude, this is where you drift on on your little conspiracy theories, which are basica.....
» 30/03/2008 8:29:19 PM Nicky, the live shippers pay fee for service, just like the meatworks do. Its just that li.....
» 30/03/2008 3:35:47 PM *What women want is a fair go and no-one male or female is going to get 'a fair go' until .....
» 30/03/2008 2:40:28 PM PF, I have no need to complain, for the Peta anti mulesing campaign does not affect me in.....
» 29/03/2008 11:00:47 PM Sorry Dickie, but because a product has been developed, does not mean that it is readily a.....
» 29/03/2008 8:35:19 PM Nicky, it seems to me that you don't have the foggiest about how AQIS work within the food.....
» 29/03/2008 12:51:56 PM *due to the Australian livestock industry's refusal to use any pain relief for surgical p.....
» 28/03/2008 9:31:26 PM The sad reality of the anti mulesing hysteria, is that merino sheep are going to be the bi.....
» 28/03/2008 9:24:51 AM Col, I agree, ratings can change and do. But in the case of the subprime mortagages, they .....
» 28/03/2008 8:56:41 AM Hehe Gertrude, a starry eyed dreamer like yourself would last about 3 minutes in the meat .....
» 26/03/2008 9:09:22 PM *If Yabby feels that the meat industry in WA is so appalling, perhaps he should be talking.....
» 26/03/2008 2:06:03 PM Hehe, not likely PF :) West Australia has far too many other good points, to keep me here......
» 26/03/2008 7:43:20 AM *You have been ripped off mate* My point exactly! What goes on in the West Australian mea.....
» 25/03/2008 11:49:14 PM Foodmiles are a great marketing ploy, but that is about it. What we can show is that lamb.....
» 25/03/2008 11:20:22 PM *Avoid cheap lamb as farmers don't usually sell lamb cheaply,* That might be the case in .....
» 25/03/2008 9:32:09 PM *The obivious problems both here and the US was the loaning of money to people who could i.....
» 25/03/2008 2:41:57 PM *The difference is.....the issues we raise are rather more tangible regading Islam and its.....
» 25/03/2008 1:43:21 PM *I think the veggie fast food stores might be my next step. It would be a real eye opener.....
» 24/03/2008 10:20:51 PM *Relax - none of the above, it's just a matter of curiosity* Oh I am always relaxed lol, .....
» 24/03/2008 8:54:46 PM So Nicky, why are you doing so much investigating? Are you writing some kind of reports fo.....
» 24/03/2008 8:16:30 PM According to my dictionary, a cult is a religious group whith its own special rituals, es.....
» 24/03/2008 8:04:25 PM *Money is most certainly a commodity.* I agree with Pericles on this one. We've dropped t.....
» 24/03/2008 11:24:18 AM *I'm currently having a look at - the use of electric/electronic prod devices, particularl.....
» 23/03/2008 12:53:33 AM Nicky, being pretentious does not give your arguments any kind of intellectual validity, .....
» 22/03/2008 7:42:11 PM *but I do think that you should prove them to be relevant to an argument before you use th.....
» 22/03/2008 10:04:28 AM I don't see why you have a problem with that Gertrude. For meat to be halal, the Koran say.....
» 22/03/2008 8:09:09 AM *Your words, so visual, so poetic ...Yabby ... But to which species are you referring?* D.....
» 21/03/2008 9:26:44 PM Well Nicky, I've been mixing concrete, main thing is that the job is progressing. All the .....
» 21/03/2008 6:15:50 PM There would actually be very little difference in quality, between what is classified as l.....
» 21/03/2008 1:39:26 PM *What exactly is this law of the jungle* Danielle, its basically about Darwinian evolutio.....
» 20/03/2008 2:57:00 PM Romany, I’ve never tried the helicopter to cure anyone’s menstrual cramps, so it seems tha.....
» 19/03/2008 9:55:44 PM Danielle, there is nothing at all wrong with business ethics. But today, to survive, depen.....
» 19/03/2008 2:08:48 PM Well its a global problem, far beyond our RBA. As large borrowers, we will be affected, in.....
» 19/03/2008 10:14:11 AM *Yabby keeps quoting the sum of money garnered by high clas hookers and Heather Mills. I t.....
» 18/03/2008 8:28:46 PM *Ethics is now being taught in MBA's and other courses. Let's hope those who do these cour.....
» 17/03/2008 11:02:33 PM *The way the statistics are presented means they're asking not for equal treatment, but fo.....
» 17/03/2008 10:56:57 PM Rehctub, I actually quoted from your statement. The point is that its competition that ke.....
» 17/03/2008 10:24:52 PM Arjay, I havent heard of us buying back gas from China, but yup, in the early 2000s, they.....
» 17/03/2008 8:25:27 PM *We have had a more aggressive tarrif reduction regieme than most and are now suffering th.....
» 17/03/2008 2:51:33 PM *The women I know who have successsful businesses, started very small, and didn’t borrow u.....
» 17/03/2008 2:27:33 PM *but I think attributing any criticisms to gender or hormonal issues is just a little inap.....
» 16/03/2008 9:34:42 PM *Imagine how expensive meat would be if we butchers applied a 700% mark up.* Ah Rehctub, .....
» 16/03/2008 2:34:18 PM Ah SJF, what you are implying is that when it comes to salaries, men have better negotiati.....
» 16/03/2008 1:50:17 PM Goeff, I once followed an internet discussion between Ethiopians and Eritreans and it was.....
» 16/03/2008 1:06:25 PM * but do you truly think we can maintain our standard of living while peddling 20 million .....
» 16/03/2008 12:56:24 PM Deary me Nicky, you clearly missed out in the sense of humour department. Do you have no .....
» 16/03/2008 9:29:07 AM KGB, I’m not aware that Malthus put a date on things, but I’ve never followed his writings.....
» 15/03/2008 10:07:28 PM Ahh, I think that perhaps Ginx is just facing her change of life period. They get irritabl.....
» 15/03/2008 8:33:07 PM Romany, yup it’s a discussion. That is what I am doing. Its not me mentioning the sisterho.....
» 15/03/2008 12:58:00 PM Nicky, you are free to question how healthy it is. As we know from nutritionists, a balanc.....
» 15/03/2008 12:45:00 PM The reason that gas has gone up in price is because oil has gone up in price. The price of.....
» 14/03/2008 10:33:29 PM *No one wants to talk about population control because its too difficult.* Well, lets say.....
» 14/03/2008 9:31:33 PM *you need a brain transplant you patronizing git!* Ah Ginx, fun and friendly as ever I se.....
» 14/03/2008 8:44:58 PM *$5 PER SERVE of meat per day IS too expensive for the average punter.* But that was your.....
» 14/03/2008 8:37:29 PM *Women, indeed, have entrepreneurial flair. They can turn an old idea on its head and crea.....
» 14/03/2008 8:13:47 PM *$5 PER SERVE of meat per day IS too expensive for the average punter.* Given that an ave.....
» 14/03/2008 1:45:26 PM The present wheat price spike has many causes. One of them is that the price of wheat a co.....
» 13/03/2008 9:28:14 PM *Excellent point re Branson. He's such a tosser.* Vanilla, sounds like Branson will be ab.....
» 13/03/2008 8:57:37 PM *as a nutritionist with a very rusty degree* Clearly its very rusty, for I don't know of .....
» 13/03/2008 7:37:45 PM *Lamb leg @ $25 = about $5 per serve=$20 meat course ONLY for ONE meal.* Actually, that k.....
» 13/03/2008 1:28:22 PM *Vanity is discouraged in male circles and encouraged in female ones.* Exactly! Its femal.....
» 12/03/2008 8:55:45 PM Err hang on, its a bit of a cop out to just blame society, culture, their job or men, for .....
» 11/03/2008 10:04:53 PM *I was actually referring to beef. I am in QLD and we export most of our Animals Live.* T.....
» 11/03/2008 9:13:23 PM *but maybe a dictionary might 'complement' the other skills in your posting repertoire!* .....
» 11/03/2008 8:22:11 AM *What man would pay that much ...?* Sounds like the Gov. of New York State was one of the.....
» 11/03/2008 3:32:30 AM Gertrude, did you actually read the ABARE document, for which I provided a link? Did you .....
» 10/03/2008 7:56:46 PM *Ah, Yabby, would that this were true: then none of us would have anything to worry about......
» 10/03/2008 7:15:12 PM *Imagine the uproar if we butchers raised our prices to 70 times as much.* Rehctub, you .....
» 10/03/2008 11:14:40 AM *I was actually referring to beef. I am in QLD and we export most of our Animals Live* Ge.....
» 9/03/2008 3:17:47 PM *any female person from prostitutes who charge $1000 a time to posters who disagree with s.....
» 9/03/2008 2:30:44 PM *Furthermore, it is our 'poor bleeding heart farmers' that are to blame because after all .....
» 9/03/2008 2:11:32 PM Gertrude, whilst I appreciate that you at least have a sense of humour, unlike Nicky, I fi.....
» 9/03/2008 11:27:56 AM *in whose opinion is a 1% death toll acceptable? * Nicky, in the opinion of nearly everyo.....
» 8/03/2008 9:23:20 PM Err hang on, its not all one way. Women, when still young and pretty enough, have enormous.....
» 8/03/2008 6:38:22 PM *It's interesting that you're not able to answer my questions about MLA's activities in t.....
» 7/03/2008 9:12:27 PM *One minute we "can't tell these people what to do" and the next we can.* Nick.....
» 7/03/2008 7:57:50 PM Gertrude, as a closet veggie, you would not have the foggiest about what is in Australia's.....
» 7/03/2008 8:10:41 AM Gertrude, there is hardly a thread that you would not try to turn into one about live expo.....
» 7/03/2008 3:47:10 AM Nicky, your understanding of all this is about as naďve as George Bush. Of course you can’.....
» 6/03/2008 12:13:43 PM You are quite correct PF, Coles did get a wrap over the knuckles. Not only that, Coles wer.....
» 6/03/2008 10:03:27 AM *I fear if the cruel live trade isnt stopped Australian familes will only have memories of.....
» 6/03/2008 8:29:09 AM “Housewife” Nicky, refers to your qualifications in the field of livestock production. You.....
» 5/03/2008 8:21:54 PM *It is a nice feeling when you can establish a good relationship with the butcher or indee.....
» 4/03/2008 7:59:26 PM *and many businesses chose to remove weekend penalty rates regardless of how hard their st.....
» 4/03/2008 5:24:04 AM Sheesh Nicky, you even lack a sense of humour. What a sad person you are. No, I generall.....
» 3/03/2008 10:38:55 PM Nicky, you could always tune in to "Desparate Housewives", to understand what ho.....
» 3/03/2008 10:06:27 PM *Maybe, but he does have a point … and he does have a job.* Well maybe he has a job, beca.....
» 3/03/2008 9:02:55 PM *Ending the live export trade will not send farmers to the wall either* Nicky, how do yo.....
» 3/03/2008 12:57:05 PM *A new climate-modeling study indicates that as the world warms, CO2 will cause more pollu.....
» 2/03/2008 9:00:09 PM All the best Foxy, I wish you a speedy recovery. If you miss us, you might just have to u.....
» 2/03/2008 2:53:19 PM Ah Dickie, your last post says it all... You did mention that the buzzards are circling a.....
» 2/03/2008 2:46:57 PM *Anyone who believes that expotential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either.....
» 1/03/2008 10:47:41 PM Ah, our prophet of gloom never stops. She is bound to die from too much worry :) All thes.....
» 1/03/2008 8:54:52 PM *'Who Killed the Electric Car'. Very interesting insight into the recalling and destructio.....
» 28/02/2008 10:22:04 AM Most likely caused by the massive increase in the use of Ice. Speed used to make them feel.....
» 27/02/2008 11:03:24 PM Capitalism works for a good reason, its based on results, not bogged down about good inten.....
» 27/02/2008 10:03:43 PM *the democratic rule of the working class through its own institutions so that production .....
» 27/02/2008 2:53:23 PM Perhaps Dickie should pick up the phone and ring her old employer, the Catholic Church, an.....
» 27/02/2008 1:58:47 PM Err Dickie, changing the subject is not going to save you, but we can address those points.....
» 27/02/2008 12:13:30 AM Hehe, so shipping, by far the most efficient method of transport, is the problem. Plus o.....
» 26/02/2008 3:04:29 PM So let me see. The Vatican continues to encourage people to breed like rabbits and wants t.....
» 26/02/2008 2:03:29 PM Bazz, yes I read the article and you overlook many factors, which change the whole state o.....
» 25/02/2008 9:36:31 PM *To be realistic the politicians would be too frightened to do this until it was too late......
» 25/02/2008 9:18:53 PM *Males need to raise themselves up to the womens level and not bring the women down to the.....
» 24/02/2008 9:10:43 PM Pelican, the present rise in inflation is going to be more difficult to contain, for its c.....
» 24/02/2008 8:52:58 PM *"Marx" is irrelevant to the present world.* Exactly. Today there is something .....
» 24/02/2008 2:05:26 PM *We have to make governments accountable, you can call it grizzling if you like.* Pelican.....
» 23/02/2008 8:36:41 PM No Pelican, of course not all poverty is caused by gambling, but blowing 13 billion on gam.....
» 23/02/2008 4:50:47 PM Pelican, if you don't realise the signficance of gambling related to poverty, then feel fr.....
» 22/02/2008 6:57:56 PM *Believe me - surviving on welfare is no easy task.* Well the general idea is that you go.....
» 22/02/2008 6:45:29 PM Pelican, if you really want to help the poor and working poor, then shut down all pokies t.....
» 22/02/2008 1:28:16 PM *Back in the 50s, & 60s we had a much more benign way of controlling inflation. And whats.....
» 22/02/2008 1:09:49 PM *The whole point of the argument is that if we don't do something fairly drastic about red.....
» 21/02/2008 8:46:15 PM Ooh, Countryboy, AFAIK most large cities have urban sprawl around them, where quarter acre.....
» 21/02/2008 4:41:23 PM 100 years or so ago, people coped quite well without oil. They'd have a quarter acre bloc.....
» 21/02/2008 4:35:36 PM *Across the world it is the poor who live in areas of greatest environmental degradation: .....
» 20/02/2008 10:34:33 PM Arjay, it is fairly pointless trying to shoot the messenger. Fact is that there is someth.....
» 20/02/2008 1:15:10 PM *The US and the Western world must clearly understand the reasons why a small but dangerou.....
» 19/02/2008 7:41:53 PM Ah Foxy, its great to know that you can turn to us men, when you need some wisdom :).....
» 19/02/2008 6:53:32 PM Foxy, I'm sure god had all sorts of good intentions when he created women, but clearly he .....
» 19/02/2008 6:13:48 PM *The problem is these critics who might ordinarily have no strong opinions about religion .....
» 19/02/2008 9:35:01 AM *I am rather fond of the Queen.* *Old school of prudishness-Yes I will nod to that* Well.....
» 18/02/2008 10:37:23 PM *We are natural enemies in a way -you and I, so you would not expect me to be tripping ove.....
» 18/02/2008 7:27:21 PM *speaking of gentlemen – which of course I am ‘not accusing you of.* Whew, at least that'.....
» 18/02/2008 2:11:07 PM I was once told by bunch of females, that schmalz is actually what they want to hear. &qu.....
» 18/02/2008 1:25:15 PM *I left it in the supposed capable hands of 2 males ....* Well PF, given that you chose t.....
» 17/02/2008 9:34:36 PM Its ok ladies, we men understand. We understand that you are happiest, dreaming away, mu.....
» 17/02/2008 12:44:05 PM *Better the government saved all the tax payers money and withdrew from pretending they kn.....
» 17/02/2008 12:30:59 PM Well of course women are necessary! Who else would do the washing, ironing, cleaning etc?.....
» 15/02/2008 11:09:55 PM *We are short-sighted and think mainly of ourselves. We fight, we breed and we die - just .....
» 15/02/2008 9:56:16 PM Gertrude, you are free to shoot the messenger, its common practise on OLO. Ok whatever, I .....
» 15/02/2008 8:28:20 PM Well Gertrude, believe whatever you will. We will have to agree to disagree. The internet .....
» 15/02/2008 1:42:32 PM "If you were to blindfold monkeys," Ah Philip, but we are not talking about bli.....
» 15/02/2008 1:24:25 PM Gertrude, the sort of players that are required, are not about to contact you via the inte.....
» 14/02/2008 8:46:06 PM Gertrude I have always claimed that you are going about things the wrong, way, but I have .....
» 14/02/2008 5:49:40 PM In WA its about half, 3 million versus 4 million or so. For Australia as a whole, its abo.....
» 14/02/2008 12:53:49 PM *Doing good and avoiding evil is meaningful only within a religious framework.* Absolute .....
» 14/02/2008 11:17:13 AM I gather that the super delegates carry about 20% of the votes, so they could still change.....
» 14/02/2008 11:05:05 AM Gertrude, I remind you that we are a major food exporting nation, so not about to rely on .....
» 13/02/2008 9:11:45 PM *Also I didnt get into the Museling because your all wrong. Wrong Sheep - wrong country.* .....
» 13/02/2008 3:24:43 PM *What they argue is that its not their job to fix it.* Gertrude, that argument is about a.....
» 13/02/2008 2:37:53 PM Col, I'm not into conspiracy theories either, I'm simply going by my understanding of the .....
» 13/02/2008 10:37:15 AM Gertrude, what Lyn said was highlighted by * *, you even snipped it. *This is only fixab.....
» 12/02/2008 1:07:56 PM Well Gertrude, that quote was taken from this mornings Farmonline, as stated by Mrs Bradsh.....
» 12/02/2008 11:35:17 AM Gertrude, the real point here is that the veggie movement have no right to try to force th.....
» 12/02/2008 10:56:53 AM Ok Pelican, so explain to me how workers would be better off, paying three times as much f.....
» 11/02/2008 10:19:57 PM Ok Pelican, so answer me these questions. Who are the winners and losers in the globalisat.....
» 11/02/2008 8:15:27 PM Gertrude, however many times I have questioned your sanity, I concede that you are about t.....
» 11/02/2008 5:29:20 PM *The tin of tomatoes from OS are not much cheaper than, if not equal to the cost of an Au.....
» 11/02/2008 1:28:30 PM Gertrude, Lynne Bradshaw was on radio today, saying that the live trade should stop now! .....
» 11/02/2008 1:03:08 PM *Locally grown is the way to go* Pelican, as a consumer you are free to make that decisio.....
» 11/02/2008 11:05:33 AM *The western media has been very slow to pick up on the biggest story around--- that weste.....
» 10/02/2008 9:19:07 PM *Who these days can save even 5% for a house with two parteners working in 12 mths?* Oh l.....
» 10/02/2008 8:24:49 PM *I think most people know RSPCA are not over the top and they have not suggested farmers d.....
» 10/02/2008 6:07:43 PM *Caucus-goer Paul Steven-Miller, a former White House policy adviser to ex-president Bill .....
» 10/02/2008 2:14:27 PM I have yet to see any passage in the Koran, which mentions wearing a Burqa. IMHO thats mor.....
» 10/02/2008 1:43:28 PM *It will be too late to help the billions of people who are finding out that their food co.....
» 10/02/2008 12:58:49 PM But Arjay, Govts are not in the energy business, companies are. Yes, there is NW gas comin.....
» 10/02/2008 9:10:41 AM I'm not sure what you think is BS Arjay. THE NPAT figures for Coles and Woolies are common.....
» 9/02/2008 10:05:07 PM *Cheap energy/food underpins our living standards* Thats your real problem Arjay, you hav.....
» 9/02/2008 8:52:21 PM Dear Foxy, I think it is hard to deny, that Hillary got to where she is, due to being mar.....
» 9/02/2008 7:21:30 PM *That's why I'm hoping that an intelligent woman will make it as President. * Foxy, I rem.....
» 9/02/2008 7:11:27 PM *It was a peoples bank..and people friendly..I remember it.* All that religion must mean .....
» 9/02/2008 1:38:56 PM Well what people like Dickie do, is simply blame those "evil corporations", when.....
» 9/02/2008 11:37:50 AM Gertrude, the Australian public do not believe that the livelyhoods of thousands of farmer.....
» 8/02/2008 10:08:53 PM *Welcome Tick and VRWC. I note this is your first attempt at "debating" matters .....
» 8/02/2008 11:04:10 AM *Please try to remember Yabbs you are getting yourself all confused.* ROFL Gertrude. Afte.....
» 8/02/2008 1:26:56 AM Gertrude, you do not represent the Australian public, even if you mostly think that you do.....
» 7/02/2008 5:12:18 PM *Yabb`s is convinced that Australians are far too stupid to slaughter their own Animals.* .....
» 7/02/2008 1:00:32 PM Whew, luckily the 45'000 farmers who own MLA, have such a great organisation to make their.....
» 7/02/2008 10:23:46 AM *I think it wouldn't matter what role women had in society, they will never be happy with .....
» 7/02/2008 8:43:11 AM *The first woman, especially, was one screwed-up unit who'd obviously embraced Islam becau.....
» 6/02/2008 7:59:31 AM * I don’t think morality is subjective. If it were, I don’t think we’d bother having discu.....
» 5/02/2008 8:34:27 PM *How could that be so?* Lets face it girls, we let you think that you are ahead to make y.....
» 5/02/2008 2:48:33 PM *Mad cow disease is the result of the cow spending too much time in the company of an inco.....
» 5/02/2008 2:42:07 PM *Are Americans ready to have an African American president? I doubt it, the time is not ri.....
» 5/02/2008 2:24:35 PM *McCain was also seen as someone who could re-establish respect for the US in the world,* .....
» 5/02/2008 2:04:01 PM Nah PF, cows vary in behaviour. Some are placid and enjoy being milked, so that makes life.....
» 4/02/2008 9:41:30 PM Goodthief, methinks that you still don't get it. Your morality is little more then your su.....
» 4/02/2008 9:28:36 PM Whew, there are advantages to being male. We have other things on our minds, whilst you gi.....
» 3/02/2008 6:54:25 PM *Their proud owners use them to think with :)* Ahh, but at least that makes them uncompli.....
» 3/02/2008 6:29:09 PM *But this doesn’t mean we “should” survive. I have a reason for saying we should.* Goodth.....
» 3/02/2008 12:55:51 PM Dickie, you worry me, you really do. Here I go, offering a market based, environmentaly f.....
» 3/02/2008 12:25:35 PM *the brown snakes on Guam are not the deadly version we see here in oz.* PF it seems that.....
» 2/02/2008 6:21:17 PM *I was rather hoping to hear something more impressive than self-interest.* You can hope .....
» 2/02/2008 2:48:31 PM *He needs to explain why, in the absence of God, altruism and empathy are “good”.* Actual.....
» 2/02/2008 2:30:42 PM Actually Col, merchants of environmental gloom such as Dickie, can also provide new busine.....
» 2/02/2008 2:00:47 PM Gertrude, given that you don't like brown snakes, you could always put them to good use. B.....
» 1/02/2008 8:17:00 PM *Tony Burke will find himself under seige. I can't imagine how we could have finished up w.....
» 31/01/2008 7:31:14 PM Gawd, we have a bunch of old grandmas on this thread :) Now let me see, rabbits are aroun.....
» 30/01/2008 5:19:13 PM Nicky, nobody claimed you were alone in being a fanatic, there are quite a lot out there. .....
» 29/01/2008 9:18:05 PM *you don't know my dogs!* Nicky, you are not the first motherly type, to claim the innoce.....
» 29/01/2008 6:52:46 PM *As just one of them, grain production per person peaked in 1984, and in terms of days of .....
» 28/01/2008 10:54:23 PM Umm Josh, I don't think that Dawkins was stumped at all. It just took him a bit of time to.....
» 28/01/2008 10:28:35 PM Nicky, frankly your milder version of despising me, is a huge improvement on Dickie, whose.....
» 28/01/2008 5:46:41 PM *I despise intensive farmers infinitely more than I do free range ones.* Nicky, I cannot.....
» 28/01/2008 1:50:20 PM *Remember Noah took a couple of everything on his boat trip.* So Jim, are you telling me .....
» 28/01/2008 1:22:15 PM Nicky, the ideology behind your vegetarianism, I can only judge by what you have written s.....
» 27/01/2008 7:38:00 PM Rojo, I have one acquaintance who claims to be a vegetarian, although she eats fish and a .....
» 27/01/2008 1:55:59 PM *If atheists are correct then we are all nothing but worm food.* One thing that I know GP.....
» 27/01/2008 9:59:41 AM Rojo, I read the BBC article and I have no doubt that those sorts of figures could be prod.....
» 26/01/2008 6:36:59 PM *I have never seen a mutitude of "markdown" prices in any of the supermarket mea.....
» 26/01/2008 12:11:42 AM Err hang on Nicky. Last time your girl Ingrid from Peta was on tv, I seem to recall that s.....
» 25/01/2008 8:09:19 PM *Take Albert Einstein for example, he was a vegetarian.* Oops Gertrude, Einstein became a.....
» 25/01/2008 7:42:16 PM Well Nicky, there clearly is a bit of pain involved in childbirth, but we haven’t decided.....
» 25/01/2008 1:21:57 PM Sounds like these pastoralists have had their pistols as part of their licences for years,.....
» 25/01/2008 1:05:04 PM *I believe that they are here for their own reasons, and they have the right to be what th.....
» 24/01/2008 9:52:26 PM Nicky, you are of course free to deny evolution theory, despite its overwhelming acceptanc.....
» 24/01/2008 7:51:31 PM Nicky, whatever species, we are all born for reasons of natural selection, as proposed by .....
» 24/01/2008 12:54:03 PM *It seems some animal protection organisations would really like to see farm animals disap.....
» 24/01/2008 12:37:02 PM Arjay, the price of shares in the end has to be related to the profitability of companies.....
» 24/01/2008 8:53:31 AM *Perhaps its time woman ran this country.* Gertrude if you ran this country, frankly I'd .....
» 23/01/2008 10:22:16 PM *a sick or wounded animal with the back of an axe .* Ah Jim, I am sure that all the anima.....
» 23/01/2008 8:28:23 PM *I buy bones and other stuff for my dogs at butchers' shops, as much as I find the smell a.....
» 22/01/2008 8:34:32 PM *there is no such thing as cruelty-free meat, since an animals has suffered and died so th.....
» 22/01/2008 7:32:25 PM Is Mise, you make a good point. Station cattle are of course extremely wild and the city c.....
» 22/01/2008 7:23:56 PM *This is why Kevin Rudd is already cutting back on Govt spending.He is preparing for the c.....
» 21/01/2008 10:08:31 PM *but several people around here have, and just left them in the gutter.* Nicky, where th.....
» 21/01/2008 2:12:26 PM *Now that our individual future security is tied to the stock market via compulsory supera.....
» 20/01/2008 4:44:46 PM Sharemarkets go up and they go down, so I don't see that as a problem. Where I see a prob.....
» 19/01/2008 7:22:38 PM *You seem to be getting a little desperate here - playing the man and not the ball, as the.....
» 18/01/2008 8:46:28 PM *I hate moving house more than almost anything else I can think of at the moment. That's o.....
» 18/01/2008 7:01:23 PM *The biggest pressure depressing home building is state and local government infrastructur.....
» 17/01/2008 7:29:30 PM I think you will find that there are already a whole heap of venture capital companies wor.....
» 17/01/2008 1:35:16 PM Desipis, I remind you that the bank spread on housing loans used to be around 4% plus, its.....
» 17/01/2008 9:09:28 AM Daggett, things go wrong every day, all over the world. People deal with them. I far pref.....
» 16/01/2008 10:21:54 PM *Sodium Nitrite (poison) to keep it on the shelf longer looking fresh* You seem to forget.....
» 16/01/2008 10:01:59 PM *it is a dangerous and indefensible practice,.* ROFL Nicky. My dogs would think that you .....
» 16/01/2008 7:39:49 PM *Unfortunately it'll do that through something called a depression. I don't know about you.....
» 16/01/2008 9:51:35 AM *what happens to all this meat that is obviously NOT sold due mainly to price and customer.....
» 16/01/2008 3:03:24 AM *No riding on the back of a utility for these slaves either!* There you go Nicky, trying .....
» 15/01/2008 9:30:12 PM It seems to me, that the market is slowly sorting things out. A larger and larger % of Ame.....
» 15/01/2008 8:58:24 PM *if I cut your leg off while you are conscious you are going to feel it a hell of a lot mo.....
» 13/01/2008 5:13:28 PM Daggett, I am more and more convinced that deep within your dna, you just might have a con.....
» 13/01/2008 1:04:19 PM *If Zimbabwe had oil, Mugabe wouldn't last 5 minutes.* Exactly. The problem however, is t.....
» 12/01/2008 7:38:39 PM *He stated that the overseas markets for Halal meat cannot be met because the live trade g.....
» 12/01/2008 12:40:09 PM *What have I done?!* Well you could always go back to what you did in the past and post a.....
» 12/01/2008 12:11:04 PM Yet another whole post from Daggett, with absolutaly nothing to do with housing. Ah well .....
» 11/01/2008 10:05:35 PM *But back to the point! I say NO to exports.* Evolution, you are free to say that. You ar.....
» 11/01/2008 8:50:13 PM Nicky, the letters don't need to be from "veggie groups", but from people lobbie.....
» 11/01/2008 1:15:51 PM *Live Exports certainly was a major issue with the public to force Kevin07s team to addres.....
» 11/01/2008 12:57:58 PM *Do we have to be barbaric? Could we please go with the method that involves the quickest .....
» 10/01/2008 11:32:25 PM Nicky, frankly the Australian public just don't know enough about live exports and I don't.....
» 10/01/2008 10:22:43 PM *and throw out these neo-cons that have lead America to a place where it is despised rathe.....
» 10/01/2008 10:02:24 PM For those interested in livestock handling, how they think, why etc, Temple Grandin is pre.....
» 9/01/2008 4:57:08 PM Nicky, I gather that there is an issue in Europe, with lambs being carted from Britain to .....
» 9/01/2008 12:58:15 PM Penny, true we don’t know about central nervous systems. That’s why I have asked a Govt ve.....
» 8/01/2008 8:22:31 PM Ah Penny, finally we might have some productive discussion for a change. I actually put i.....
» 8/01/2008 1:11:29 PM Q&A, the UN might well have all sorts of noble goals, but at the end of the day they still.....
» 8/01/2008 10:42:34 AM Ah, more abuse and ad hominem attacks and no substance from dickie, this is all so predict.....
» 8/01/2008 6:37:11 AM Daggett, I remind you that its you dragging this thread away from housing, to politics and.....
» 8/01/2008 6:06:17 AM Yes Penny, some Arabs do follow their holy book literally. So do some Westerners. Ever hea.....
» 7/01/2008 8:53:27 PM *the men have just as much responsibility.* Yup, but its always the women left holding th.....
» 7/01/2008 8:23:50 PM Penny, MLA publish various magazines for growers, discussing all sorts of things that they.....
» 7/01/2008 5:23:01 PM "Savings & debt are hardly synonymous.” Smithy, you simply missed my point about the.....
» 7/01/2008 1:59:41 PM Dickie, my point was to Penny, who I understand is far better informed then you are, so wo.....
» 7/01/2008 6:52:06 AM Rojo, I have long ago given up trying to make sense of Pale’s posts, but you can keep on t.....
» 6/01/2008 9:52:52 PM Goeff, I would remind you, that Australia hardly matters, when it comes to the global scen.....
» 6/01/2008 9:05:41 PM *Why are they less important than farmers making a fast buck?* A fast buck Penny? ROFL. T.....
» 6/01/2008 8:05:28 PM Penny I am sure that unions say all sorts of things, to justify their role. How accurate t.....
» 6/01/2008 7:04:36 PM *Do you have any suggestions on how you might curtail population growth apart from removin.....
» 6/01/2008 5:22:39 PM Daggett, I don’t mind admitting that for a long time I was against the privatisation of Te.....
» 6/01/2008 12:57:15 PM Daggett, what is "phoney" labour view or "genuine" labour view is not .....
» 6/01/2008 12:20:25 PM Err dickie, old age and the buzzards circling must be starting to affect you :) I remind .....
» 6/01/2008 4:56:53 AM Dickie, if you bothered to check, the Australian sheep flock in 90/91 was 170 million. Its.....
» 5/01/2008 8:45:58 PM Nicky, for once scratch that brain for a minute. The sheep flock has halved since the earl.....
» 5/01/2008 4:20:51 PM Froggie, I think you'll find that the speculators, as with oil, have already moved into th.....
» 5/01/2008 3:58:47 AM Penny, you clearly did not bother to read the Jewish Shechita document that I referenced f.....
» 4/01/2008 11:27:39 PM So Penny, given that 80% of so of sheep exports come from WA, which regional areas collaps.....
» 4/01/2008 10:37:18 PM Daggett, yup I did not respond to your question, for good reasons. Firstly I don’t dance .....
» 4/01/2008 8:30:34 PM Now I remind you Penny, that right now, Saudi Arabia alone earns one thousand million Doll.....
» 4/01/2008 7:55:38 PM Penny, as it happens, economics is one of my strengths. I’ve read these reports, Most are .....
» 4/01/2008 1:36:09 PM Daggett, you still don't get it, but I doubt if you ever will. WA is populated at the rat.....
» 4/01/2008 1:20:32 PM Well it is to me. Dickie, who constantly tries to claim the upper moral ground, will now h.....
» 4/01/2008 2:30:04 AM Oh Penny, I get it very clearly indeed! The sheep could go on the Queen Mary, exporters co.....
» 3/01/2008 7:07:18 PM The author makes various references to the African sub Sahara region. Fact is that this a.....
» 3/01/2008 11:35:36 AM Now to your further points. So what if the Becrux had a bad trip? Do you think that 747s n.....
» 3/01/2008 10:14:20 AM Ooh Penny, its just as easy to judge your intelligence by your posts. Academic qualificati.....
» 2/01/2008 11:28:25 PM *I get paid far more than $20 an hour or $40K, too.* Well Penny, please show us that you.....
» 2/01/2008 10:32:05 PM Well there we have it folks! Dickie preaching her little line in the sand of morality or r.....
» 2/01/2008 1:55:06 PM *It seems some people just have no capacity for empathy.* Daggett, its fairly foolish to .....
» 1/01/2008 11:50:16 PM "The bottom line seems to me to be that the farmers want the biggest "bang for t.....
» 1/01/2008 11:37:57 PM Ah Dickie, who dislikes David Attenborough, as he shows the truth about nature. Best to ju.....
» 1/01/2008 10:59:18 PM IIRC, O'Brien agreed that the first thing we need to do is increase our animal welfare eff.....
» 1/01/2008 9:57:23 PM Perhaps its best to just let consumers decide, what they actually like. They will soon vot.....
» 1/01/2008 5:27:06 PM *the housing bubble is largely responsible for a near tripling of household debt.* Smithy.....
» 1/01/2008 12:28:47 PM Daggett, you sound confused :) One minute you preach the dreaded threat of peak oil, next .....
» 30/12/2007 11:50:50 PM Smithy, I did some research today. on the growth of the financial services industry in the.....
» 30/12/2007 1:49:37 PM Smithy, indeed the RBA document makes some very valid points! Their focus is on the word “.....
» 29/12/2007 9:29:41 PM Smithy, this weekends Financial Review contains a special report on real estate, listing e.....
» 29/12/2007 4:35:51 PM PF, AFAIK they adjust the straw summer and winter, so in summer they take advantage of the.....
» 29/12/2007 2:47:04 PM PF, sounds like you have lucky pigs on your farm. The pictures I've seen in the press here.....
» 29/12/2007 12:21:45 AM Daggett, the HTSA was set up to solve social inequality in housing, but you have to relate.....
» 28/12/2007 5:19:44 PM *Note, Yabby, ALL levels of South Australian society, not just the 'poor'* Daggett, perha.....
» 28/12/2007 1:30:04 PM Gertrude, once again, I don't see the pig farming story as black and white as you all do. .....
» 27/12/2007 11:16:41 PM Nicky, I'd say that the pig story is quite predictable and will be interested to see if I'.....
» 27/12/2007 10:42:11 PM Ah you are in trouble now Belly. The girls have their broomsticks out of their closests, s.....
» 27/12/2007 9:09:18 PM I read a great quote recently: *Knowledge is a process of piling up facts, wisdom is in th.....
» 27/12/2007 4:59:38 PM “consciously abusing your account on this forum” Hehe Daggett, come on, get real! Just be.....
» 26/12/2007 6:27:22 PM Smithy, to clear up one point, I am not a landlord, nor do I use negative gearing to buy h.....
» 26/12/2007 1:18:27 PM FP, yup the super levy has made a huge difference, although it has also made some of our e.....
» 26/12/2007 10:48:20 AM Smithy, I’ve read through your URLs and let me snip a quote from the RBA: “an unusually s.....
» 24/12/2007 10:53:42 PM Ooh dickie, you have given me a few ideas now. I of course run a commercial operation and .....
» 24/12/2007 10:28:00 PM Billie, yup Swiss homes are much better built then the old Aussie 3 by 1 fibro, alone due .....
» 24/12/2007 1:30:31 PM Smithy, the article posted on OLO today, about the Swiss housing market, makes for interes.....
» 23/12/2007 6:16:20 PM Billie, my figure for the median house price in Glenroy, came from the REIV website. As to.....
» 23/12/2007 11:45:53 AM Ok Wiz, I looked up the first one, Glenroy. The median house price has gone From 260k to 3.....
» 22/12/2007 3:33:33 PM Smithy, at the end of the day, negative gearing is still about spending a dollar to save 5.....
» 21/12/2007 11:05:16 PM Ah Gertrude, thats good news about the computers, the spelling might finally improve! Ok,.....
» 21/12/2007 10:18:04 PM Wiz, I think quite a few people invest in the housing market, as it’s the only way they kn.....
» 21/12/2007 9:53:53 AM Daggett, I simply see your situation from a different perspective then you do. Had your li.....
» 21/12/2007 12:37:38 AM Ah, such romantic poetry Dickie. Now perhaps you can write one about those cute little pig.....
» 21/12/2007 12:24:05 AM Dickie, I remind you that Australians slaughter and devour tens of millions of chickens, d.....
» 20/12/2007 9:08:52 PM Wiz, denying investors a legitimate business expense, but expecting them to pay taxes on p.....
» 20/12/2007 9:20:13 AM Country Gal, you are quite correct, many people can and do work from home, IT etc will ass.....
» 20/12/2007 7:53:23 AM *Rest assured Yabby your own Armageddon is nigh. But your time is nigh and we shall rejoi.....
» 19/12/2007 2:06:26 PM *Take a look at another Australian initiative that is being financed out of Palo Alto http.....
» 19/12/2007 1:40:22 PM Smithy, you misrepresent my claims. Nowhere did I state that home renovation was “the” dri.....
» 19/12/2007 9:46:05 AM Ah Dickie, a story online, just for you! http://www.farmonline.com.au/news_daily.asp?ag_i.....
» 19/12/2007 9:09:12 AM *In the late 1980's my then partner and myself, believing that housing prices were only g.....
» 18/12/2007 10:57:23 PM *Of the adult sheep slaughtered in Australia, 0.5 to 1 percent are condemned due to cheesy.....
» 18/12/2007 9:53:13 PM ROFl Dickie, I just love it when somebody who hasn't the foggiest about Australian agricul.....
» 18/12/2007 12:46:59 PM "we are not total drongoes." Actually it seems that you are Dickie :) You clea.....
» 18/12/2007 12:38:27 PM "this is not the majority of Australia's farm land." Actually Lino, most of Aus.....
» 18/12/2007 12:11:48 PM Smithy, your continued confusion continues, because as you stated earlier, you think that .....
» 17/12/2007 8:10:49 PM Merry Christmas to you too Gertrude. Dickie deserves what she gets from me. She's rude an.....
» 17/12/2007 6:13:18 PM *we do have to look after own first and foremost: after all, that's what billions of years.....
» 17/12/2007 9:43:07 AM Smithy, yes the graph covers owner-occupiers. Isn’t that who you are concerned about? Wha.....
» 16/12/2007 9:45:42 PM http://observer.guardian.co.uk/world/story/0,,2228284,00.html This is exactly why we need.....
» 16/12/2007 12:57:10 PM Perhaps Africa should start to see that women on that continent have access to family plan.....
» 16/12/2007 10:55:40 AM Daggett, nothing dishonest about export focus in WA. I remind you that we also have some o.....
» 15/12/2007 5:29:58 PM Country Gal, certainly in this area, 30years ago there was still a huge debate going on as.....
» 15/12/2007 1:16:42 PM Gertrude, I am more and more convinced that you don't have the foggiest about how this ind.....
» 14/12/2007 11:54:58 PM Wiz, perhaps CG and I understand this argument far better then you think, as we have lived.....
» 14/12/2007 7:51:20 PM *Biofuels are an abomination! We will very soon be unable to feed the ravenous hordes of p.....
» 14/12/2007 3:14:52 PM Wiz, in checking around for affordable housing in the Melbourne area, I’m sorry for not ta.....
» 14/12/2007 11:35:42 AM Actually, Julian Simon got it very wrong. Being an economist who understood nothing about .....
» 13/12/2007 10:09:10 PM Wiz, you might not have blamed baby boomers, but some have. The way I see it, there are ma.....
» 13/12/2007 2:55:10 PM Last time I checked, Australia in fact had huge amounts of gas available from the NW shelf.....
» 13/12/2007 2:05:09 PM Mr Smith, my point is that this argument is far more complex, due to a number of variables.....
» 12/12/2007 7:38:37 AM *They are there in inform them of ALL offers .* Gertrude, I think its completely lost on .....
» 11/12/2007 2:54:31 PM Dickie, if you really are concerned about polluting the oceans, go back in history a littl.....
» 11/12/2007 2:29:01 PM *now the banks get it instead.* Ah Mr Smith, but the banks don't keep it! Look up the top.....
» 10/12/2007 9:11:22 PM *The farmers would chase the Muslims out of town and you well know it.* Rubbish Gertrude .....
» 10/12/2007 8:51:16 PM Mr Smith, prime real estate can be purely about location, even if a slum stands there. I .....
» 9/12/2007 10:57:21 PM Gertrude, you clearly have not been to many saleyards! Country people, unlike city people,.....
» 9/12/2007 8:01:20 PM Wiz, if owning a second existing property was illegal, who would finance rental homes? Not.....
» 9/12/2007 2:16:31 PM Demos, local cockies have already lifted their game in being some of the world's most effi.....
» 9/12/2007 2:05:34 PM Gertrude, you ask what I really think. I've told you before, if anyone wants to meet farme.....
» 8/12/2007 11:52:25 PM Freddington, I’m not ignoring the study, simply looking at the bigger picture. When those .....
» 8/12/2007 5:59:39 PM Daggett, to me all knowledge is tentative. I will change my mind tomorrow, if you can put .....
» 8/12/2007 1:39:28 PM Lol Gertrude, we have actually learnt lots! Given Dickie's love of animals and fantasies a.....
» 7/12/2007 10:13:31 PM ROFL Dickie! If after all this time, given your claimed intelligence and caring, that is t.....
» 7/12/2007 10:07:34 PM Mr Smith, of course owning your home is a business! Its your largest investment and living.....
» 7/12/2007 9:00:01 PM Dickie, the USA is overloaded with people just like you. They know little about the natura.....
» 7/12/2007 3:25:08 PM Wiz, I have to agree with Country Gal. Your particular circumstances sound particularly fo.....
» 6/12/2007 10:20:06 PM "Frankly I do not differentiate between other species and little kids. They are all t.....
» 6/12/2007 9:48:32 PM "First-home buyers do not." First home buyers certainly do gain, they just gain.....
» 6/12/2007 3:53:52 PM Dickie, its high time you educated yourself a little about nature. You are correct, along.....
» 6/12/2007 9:46:37 AM Dickie, I don't think that you have the foggiest, as to how the oceans food chains work. P.....
» 5/12/2007 8:34:48 PM Deary me Dickie. So if we burn you and you have silicone breast inplants, thats going to .....
» 5/12/2007 7:04:05 PM Wiz-Nic, frankly if there was land available within 30 minutes of the city for 120k$, I wo.....
» 5/12/2007 6:48:27 PM Oops Dickie, I don't think you know one hell of a lot about livestock nutrition, or that o.....
» 5/12/2007 2:13:16 PM *This utter crap you post about jobs is a lie.* Pale, err Gertrude, interesting that you .....
» 4/12/2007 10:24:20 PM *this whingeing, consortium of rock apes* Statements such as the above, of course show wh.....
» 4/12/2007 7:43:37 PM Nic, houses are much cheaper in the US, as land is less regulated, therefore cheaper. More.....
» 4/12/2007 3:21:23 PM Dickie, now to your failures in life :) Did I say anywhere that I don't make typos or spe.....
» 4/12/2007 1:43:21 PM Pale, I can call you Gertrude if you wish :) Names don't really matter to me, facts do. Bu.....
» 4/12/2007 1:17:01 PM Rojo, with canola it really depends how you can use the residues after crushing. Not so lo.....
» 4/12/2007 8:14:42 AM BTW Nic, if you didn't hear the report on last night's PM programme, here is the transcri.....
» 3/12/2007 10:28:30 PM Many points are being ignored here. Some very smart venture capitalists claim that they c.....
» 3/12/2007 2:50:54 PM "A ludicrously ridiculous statement and a bald-faced lie." Dickie, perhaps you .....
» 3/12/2007 1:54:59 PM “but the risk-return ratio is still far more attractive than, say, investing in the stock.....
» 3/12/2007 1:25:01 PM Pale, I am being honest in claiming that the whole debate is far more complex then your bl.....
» 2/12/2007 11:08:27 PM Nic, the most speculation going on, is still with peoples own homes. IMHO houses should b.....
» 2/12/2007 8:42:01 PM There is an interesting programme on SBS at the moment, examing the relationships between .....
» 2/12/2007 2:12:03 PM Nic, I just think its simplistic to blame it all on “speculators”. There are many small re.....
» 2/12/2007 11:53:40 AM Around here, everyone chips in when there are major fires and its all voluntary. The last .....
» 1/12/2007 11:24:35 PM Wiz, nope, I base my knowledge on the city of Perth, which is a good mix of retail, indus.....
» 1/12/2007 9:13:29 PM "However this obviously is limited in both an absolute and relative sense." Lev.....
» 1/12/2007 4:17:26 PM Ah, there is your problem Dickie, your dealing with death. Perhaps you are just terrified .....
» 1/12/2007 2:33:17 PM OMG, trust Dickie to bring up that old chestnut! Dickie I remind you that the Titanic and .....
» 1/12/2007 1:19:10 PM "Common sense also dictates it - relatively few people want to be a long way from the.....
» 1/12/2007 12:47:05 PM "Your just scared because yu know once the final leg of this story is disclosed it wi.....
» 30/11/2007 10:59:31 PM "Subsidise 25% of the interest on the mortgage and reap the negative gearing from the.....
» 30/11/2007 9:28:11 PM "I believe he was a good man at heart and had great passion for the job and for Austr.....
» 30/11/2007 8:47:32 PM So let me see, if in 2000 I'd bought BHP shares instead of land that only costs, my 8$ inv.....
» 30/11/2007 7:35:19 PM “carries the implication that we would be better off if we did not have a government etc” .....
» 30/11/2007 3:56:43 PM “Where the individual is forced, by punitive taxes and / or legislation to live in the mo.....
» 30/11/2007 2:50:21 AM Daggett, your views about Cuba clearly tells me something about your political persuasion......
» 29/11/2007 9:27:17 PM The big losers in the AWB enquiry have been the farmers, the big winners have been rich la.....
» 29/11/2007 9:07:07 PM "How about it Greg?" Umm Pale, have you considered that perhaps Greg is so busy.....
» 29/11/2007 7:32:24 PM "While their may be other factors, the principle cause is property speculators" .....
» 29/11/2007 7:18:57 PM Wiz, you are comparing the efficiency of the Govt sector with what? WA produces over 40% o.....
» 28/11/2007 10:28:42 PM Daggett, nobody claimed that Costello was an economic genius, simply that he was a very go.....
» 28/11/2007 4:06:53 PM Wiz, you are correct, some people do want a nanny state and Govts to do everything for the.....
» 27/11/2007 10:00:13 PM "You see..without agreed values not only do we have you and I acting like chickens an.....
» 27/11/2007 9:50:12 PM Daggett, the way we measure unemployment, inflation etc, is AFAIK by internationally agree.....
» 26/11/2007 8:00:48 PM Pale, you still don't get it lol, but I don't think that you ever will, so I am not holdin.....
» 26/11/2007 6:01:14 PM http://www.farmonline.com.au/news_daily.asp?ag_id=47107 Fester, there is apparently a sim.....
» 26/11/2007 5:09:05 PM Daggett, your opinion or others opinions really don’t matter when we look at the figures, .....
» 26/11/2007 12:53:00 PM As they say, many small reasons can make one big reason. I don't see a Lib loss as such a .....
» 26/11/2007 8:14:20 AM "but not so much because of the age of the girl... its more because of the age of the.....
» 26/11/2007 12:00:40 AM Pale, the Nationals have not deceived our farmers at all. The real problem is your underst.....
» 25/11/2007 11:44:31 PM Fester raises a very valid point. We haven't scratched the surface yet, when it comes to t.....
» 25/11/2007 10:58:19 PM "It might be argued that sex with 9 yr old girls does not 'harm' them..and there are .....
» 25/11/2007 2:46:45 PM BD, so what are you going to do, if one day one of your sons comes home and comes out of t.....
» 25/11/2007 2:28:05 PM Well its kind of all panning out for the best. The Libs had nearly 12 years and were getti.....
» 24/11/2007 4:41:29 PM JF, perhaps people thought that the earth was flat, because of the bible reference to the .....
» 24/11/2007 12:03:08 PM JF, a few points. Firstly humanism is not a religion. There are Xtians who claim to be hum.....
» 23/11/2007 9:10:21 PM Angela, there certainly is freedom of religion in Australia and it would be great if there.....
» 23/11/2007 7:55:02 PM Wiz, I think you will find that the share market is already prepared to pump money into na.....
» 23/11/2007 2:21:20 PM "it takes about the same amount of corn to fill a tank in 4WD as it does to feed a fa.....
» 22/11/2007 2:28:52 PM "From every perspective other than the purely short-term commercial, conventional agr.....
» 21/11/2007 1:35:29 PM Julian, I think you overestimate the role of money and underestimate the role of religion,.....
» 21/11/2007 1:04:56 PM "it can be argued that we have a greater responsibility than other developed countri.....
» 20/11/2007 9:08:52 PM "The obvious object of the original posting was 'Greens-bashing'." Actually not.....
» 20/11/2007 2:22:33 PM "Balancing humanitarian needs with ecological sustainability is arguably going to be .....
» 19/11/2007 10:12:52 PM "but try finding a sex offender in prison who is not or was not into pornography. &qu.....
» 19/11/2007 9:43:33 PM "Yabby, can I advise you that I am feeling really good." Thats good news Dickie.....
» 19/11/2007 4:43:55 PM Thanks for your posts, CJ and Ludwig. What I am trying to find out is what do the Greens c.....
» 19/11/2007 1:32:16 AM I've never heard of a human case Dickie. Perhaps one exists somewhere. If its contagious, .....
» 18/11/2007 10:16:49 PM Ok, so what would be the Bob Brown/Greens response? Take forever more millions of refugee.....
» 18/11/2007 10:09:29 PM Bad luck Dickie, but Scabby Mouth does not affect humans and does not kill sheep. Animals .....
» 18/11/2007 5:12:19 PM Anything to help with your education Dickie, as clearly you have lots to learn! Nope, yo.....
» 18/11/2007 1:39:20 PM http://www.arabnews.com/?page=1§ion=0&article=103447&d=12&m=11&y=2007 There you go Di.....
» 18/11/2007 12:55:41 PM Ok, a philosophical question :) World population keeps growing at 80 million a year, as .....
» 15/11/2007 12:30:26 PM Foxy, schmalz still works everywhere, some just do it better then others. Look at where it.....
» 15/11/2007 7:20:49 AM "Maybe Yabby, although we are seeing a quite amazing amount of concern about climate .....
» 14/11/2007 10:01:49 PM "Women like schmaltz? - Boy, that's so yesterday... " Yet it still works today......
» 14/11/2007 7:57:14 PM "The women can't stand him which I find puzzling." Ah thats easy. Women often p.....
» 14/11/2007 6:33:02 PM "Woof!" "Ding-a-ling-a-ling!" Shocka, with all that woofing and ding.....
» 13/11/2007 9:57:33 PM "A psychological breakthrough is what we need Yabby." Ludwig, I don't think tha.....
» 13/11/2007 5:45:30 PM "But there's the whole problem, Yabby: that *something inbetween*. Not so simple at a.....
» 13/11/2007 2:08:11 PM We'll see what new technology brings, but frankly I'm pessimistic and think that the ".....
» 12/11/2007 8:27:46 PM "Don't you think if there were a conspiracy, that's *exactly* what they'd want:".....
» 12/11/2007 6:28:22 PM Sheesh Pale, perhaps you should get into the brumbyburger business :).....
» 12/11/2007 1:27:59 PM "all the levers of power are in the hands of the politicians guild, none in the hands.....
» 12/11/2007 12:51:06 PM There are a number of points here that need addressing. I read somewhere that Indonesia's.....
» 11/11/2007 7:49:27 PM ROFL Shocka. Clearly those years of JW preaching affected you far worse then I had though.....
» 10/11/2007 12:44:26 PM " I was born and raised a Jehovah's Witness, so have every right to call them loony c.....
» 9/11/2007 10:24:44 PM Well Dickie, best you stick to eating happily farmed free range lamb or pork!.....
» 9/11/2007 12:10:52 AM Frankly Pale, IMHO if you had some kids or grandkids in your life, you might be less obses.....
» 8/11/2007 2:20:00 PM "Stick to the blood money and your wholesale export slaughter Yabby - no skills requi.....
» 7/11/2007 10:25:24 PM “Those with an IQ beyond 2 digits know that any Westernised abattoirs in the Middle East a.....
» 7/11/2007 6:42:07 PM "The Turkish Muslims aren't having any of this business either. Established slaughter.....
» 7/11/2007 6:20:48 PM "My understanding is that New Zealand export prime lamb and have such acceptance in E.....
» 7/11/2007 4:00:04 AM "Your bleeding heart quotation has nothing to do with the Middle East" Islam ha.....
» 6/11/2007 10:30:33 PM Ok, to carry this over from the other thread, let me quote from your website Dickie, to co.....
» 6/11/2007 10:01:48 PM Ah Pale, perhaps Mcgauran is not so silly. Perhaps he "reads between the lines".....
» 6/11/2007 8:38:34 PM "Europeans have most thoroughly bought this message - that is why they have the lowes.....
» 6/11/2007 8:30:41 PM "Women who died from illegal abortions *knew* the risks and took them." What a .....
» 6/11/2007 7:58:45 PM "Crikey can`t you think while your reading?." Pale, perhaps you should try read.....
» 6/11/2007 9:21:30 AM "What are you on? Its dollar for dollar. Industry and the Government from OUR public .....
» 6/11/2007 7:53:50 AM "MLA live off `us` the public. It is - WE the public that pay with our public tax fun.....
» 5/11/2007 8:13:51 PM No blunder Dickie, but a question. You along with other Australians benefit from agricultu.....
» 5/11/2007 4:43:09 PM Dickie I remind you that the Govt co research one for one payment is about 20% of the MLA .....
» 4/11/2007 10:55:45 PM Pale, I think that people like McGauren are simply aware that groups like yourself and AA,.....
» 4/11/2007 9:51:34 PM "Or dont you think Australia has the brains to cash in on value adding?" Clearl.....
» 4/11/2007 3:42:25 PM "The number of women dying from illegal abortions was around 200-250 annually." .....
» 4/11/2007 12:17:45 PM "It's not "anything goes", is it?" You miss the point. Abortion in WA.....
» 3/11/2007 5:07:44 PM “You appear to echo the sentiment that the environment is more important than people.” D.....
» 2/11/2007 6:54:10 PM "If you don’t agree, which one of you is going to go and tell black people to stop ha.....
» 2/11/2007 3:34:59 PM Daggett, of course Perth real estate is booming! Everything else is booming too, as people.....
» 1/11/2007 11:05:03 PM "I invite the author to try and survive on $14,000/year or less - and find out what p.....
» 1/11/2007 10:15:24 PM "Didn't I just say abortion must be justified according to specific criteria!" .....
» 1/11/2007 6:03:34 PM “"Live exports out of NZ have continued right up to the recent suspensions," sai.....
» 1/11/2007 8:37:49 AM Graham, I welcome the change to page by page downloads, its far quicker. My only comment w.....
» 1/11/2007 8:26:51 AM "very few of us *don't* have money invested in banks or super funds that put money to.....
» 31/10/2007 10:47:44 PM "Because the animals are not killed immediately, it's uncertain if the shipments will.....
» 31/10/2007 10:06:11 PM "That is to cease breeding animals for live export. My sole intent is to lobby to pro.....
» 31/10/2007 8:17:30 PM "who, I might add, can be just as capable of picking losers as government agencies.&q.....
» 31/10/2007 7:53:51 PM "Live exports out of NZ have continued right up to the recent suspension." Boll.....
» 31/10/2007 1:53:38 PM “I’ve suggested slaughtering animals humanely in Malaysia, you will not even consider it.”.....
» 30/10/2007 9:06:10 PM “Do you know why ? Because NZ made a promise to faze out the cruel live trade and actuall.....
» 30/10/2007 5:19:29 PM Ah Dickie, so you reason that because Australia was only concerned with David Hicks, that .....
» 30/10/2007 2:11:43 PM Ah, as I thought.... You cannot answer my points of reason, but then you never could. Best.....
» 30/10/2007 2:06:41 PM Wiz, companies that manufacture for the local market, will have an advantage over imports,.....
» 30/10/2007 1:43:49 PM "Although regular shipments of live sheep from New Zealand to the Middle East for sla.....
» 29/10/2007 8:48:24 PM Yoohoo Dickie. This is where we discuss animal welfare and animal liberation, your pet top.....
» 29/10/2007 8:35:24 PM “But it's still an example of government intervention in the market, and it would cost si.....
» 29/10/2007 4:33:21 PM "While I agree that reference to animals may be off topic, it is relevant to the auth.....
» 28/10/2007 10:18:46 PM “I might as well argue that Australian manufacturing has been slowly failing despite gove.....
» 28/10/2007 7:17:29 PM Wiz, I think you will find that Swiss companies like Nestle, Roche, Novartis, Schindler, S.....
» 27/10/2007 8:26:01 PM "Abortion remains unlawful unless it is justified under the (amended) health legislat.....
» 27/10/2007 8:09:22 PM Mac, given that Australians have 2.4 trillion$ worth of assets, why should 500 billion of .....
» 27/10/2007 12:51:10 PM Mac, our current account reflects a lack of savings by ordinary Australians, as much as an.....
» 26/10/2007 6:11:45 PM Mac, I'm not into party politics, but issue politics. A couple of points regarding your l.....
» 26/10/2007 4:42:36 PM Some people have mentioned religious zealots, as a possible reason for not changing the 2 .....
» 25/10/2007 10:43:48 PM Demos, whilst your intentions might be very noble, in reality things are just not that sim.....
» 25/10/2007 3:01:09 PM Two posts a day is often limiting in the Articles section of OLO. Personally I think that .....
» 25/10/2007 2:54:54 PM Wiz, you are right, 2 posts is restricting. Perhaps everyone could send GY an email, sugge.....
» 24/10/2007 3:32:24 PM "My wife and I are constantly frustrated how hard it is to find Australian-made goods.....
» 24/10/2007 2:57:32 PM I think that the California fires prove the point yet once again. Forget global warming. .....
» 24/10/2007 2:22:18 PM "That figure includes coffee serving, waiting on tables and many other services that .....
» 24/10/2007 9:47:31 AM Pale, I have made it clear many times, that I am not involved with the live trade. That do.....
» 23/10/2007 11:37:27 PM "That we CAN’T stop cruelty in ME." I know thats what you believe Pale, althoug.....
» 23/10/2007 10:31:25 PM Pale, you are not dealing with the question, but I didn't expect you to. But at some point.....
» 23/10/2007 9:35:32 PM "Recent predictions have been for a tripling of food prices within 5 years" Som.....
» 23/10/2007 3:13:51 PM "reveals some type of twisted rationale or extreme ignorance on how animals are proce.....
» 23/10/2007 8:42:01 AM "I AM exporting... never as much as now... and I beat the Chinese. My products are no.....
» 22/10/2007 8:02:09 PM Nic, nobody has to realistically go from low skilled manufacture to IT prossional. Some ou.....
» 22/10/2007 2:30:05 PM Dnicholson, sure free markets are not perfect. But perhaps a great deal better then the hu.....
» 22/10/2007 11:54:41 AM "which protectionist policy has had the biggest impact on global and domestic economi.....
» 22/10/2007 9:11:16 AM "Just remember you raised Landmark. " Err hang on Pale. You keep raising AWB, o.....
» 21/10/2007 7:00:23 PM "Yabby, what's your point here: Catholics like killing people? (Yet oddly, opposed to.....
» 21/10/2007 2:05:01 PM "Twist language as you like, rejecting the words "body" or "person&quo.....
» 21/10/2007 11:09:01 AM Pale, your response highlights my point exactly. Blind ideology, not reasoned thought, is .....
» 20/10/2007 2:04:33 PM For those obsessed about the evils of the Middle East, there is in fact another practical .....
» 20/10/2007 10:07:16 AM Pale, if its that simple, well then no need to get your knickers in a twist about the live.....
» 19/10/2007 8:08:21 PM "If Australia banned the live export of animals it would bring to the fore Australia'.....
» 19/10/2007 7:12:38 PM "Yabby, democracy is government by the people (That's me!)." Well thats the poi.....
» 18/10/2007 11:07:08 PM http://www.shechitauk.org/downloads/A_Guide_to%20Shechita_July_2004.pdf So let me read ab.....
» 18/10/2007 8:41:57 PM According to the religious, marriage is the answer. So let me see, if a 20something year o.....
» 18/10/2007 8:06:09 PM Spiders eh Dickie? Your venom is showing! I remind you that male spiders are usually fairl.....
» 18/10/2007 2:44:34 PM Pale, your post is the normal, confusing gobbledygook. Its time that you moved on with the.....
» 17/10/2007 9:39:33 PM "I just don't understand why then do so many go out of business." Rojo, there a.....
» 17/10/2007 6:18:39 PM Actually Country Gal, on this one you had better stick to accounting :) Being from NSW, I .....
» 16/10/2007 9:04:42 PM Well this is the real problem Dickie. Uninformed housewives like you, who seem to want to .....
» 16/10/2007 5:58:55 PM Dickie, given your clear lack of knowledge about sheep, most likely you would not know the.....
» 16/10/2007 4:45:10 PM Well Dickie, firstly I remind you that alot of pastoralists nearly went broke farming meri.....
» 16/10/2007 4:24:56 PM "Which means they could get *pregnant* 400 times (not have 400 children!)." Whi.....
» 16/10/2007 2:29:34 PM "If she can get pregnant 400 times, then she can get 400 abortions. Follow your own l.....
» 16/10/2007 1:59:18 PM Adolph was quite correct Dickie, as we have seen on OLO. The anti live sheep brigade simpl.....
» 15/10/2007 8:52:29 PM Dickie, perhaps you salivate over your lucrative weekly pension check, if you think that f.....
» 15/10/2007 1:18:09 PM Shocka, you can run off with all sorts of your own speculations, but my statement is accur.....
» 15/10/2007 1:03:23 PM Dickie, I've provided you with a reference point. MLA. Their claims, their expenditure is .....
» 14/10/2007 2:51:25 PM Scotty, your ignorance and arrogance seem to have no limits. Before making any more stupid.....
» 14/10/2007 11:02:33 AM Dickie, you are free to contact MLA and obtain copies of their annual reports. Farmers pay.....
» 13/10/2007 10:53:37 PM Ah Dickie, our well meaning, farming hating dreamer, who thinks much like AA, that we shou.....
» 13/10/2007 8:44:42 PM "Despite claims of being an animal welfare organisation Animals Australia has not inv.....
» 13/10/2007 8:12:30 PM "Yabby has stated *five times* so far, that women have 400 chances to get pregnant. D.....
» 13/10/2007 2:38:23 PM "Your compassion for animals is astounding!" Thank you Scotty, for I do care a .....
» 13/10/2007 6:26:27 AM Ah Shocka, but the problem is you! You pick and choose what it is that is natural, that yo.....
» 13/10/2007 12:02:55 AM "do not work against God's intent" Oops Dickie, I didn't know you were a god fa.....
» 12/10/2007 9:41:45 PM Dickie, I don't need to go to Mr McGauran. I only need to open a farming paper and read th.....
» 12/10/2007 8:30:12 PM "It is obvious that the processed meat exports are more economically profitable than .....
» 11/10/2007 2:32:06 PM Rather then carried away with left/right brains, it might be better to teach students what.....
» 11/10/2007 1:47:19 PM "This isn't "on demand", which only exists in the ACT." In reality it.....
» 10/10/2007 12:13:15 AM "The only way the heart can change is to bring it to Jesus Christ" The heart pu.....
» 9/10/2007 8:33:25 PM "Sperm and ova alone are your own body, merged together they're a *new* body." .....
» 8/10/2007 11:10:57 PM Sapper, you seem to miss the point entirely. So Fidel did a better job then Batista, when.....
» 8/10/2007 10:31:09 AM "You have to be born again to be christian (John3:3)." Sheesh, I was born ok th.....
» 8/10/2007 10:02:49 AM Chris, 700mb is 70% of my monthly wirelss broadband allowance, so I am not about to blow i.....
» 7/10/2007 9:33:44 PM Wiz, like you, I admire Plimer for his stance in the creationist debate. He is clearly no .....
» 7/10/2007 5:56:30 PM wiz, you might not be on a guilt trip, but alot of people are. Not only about this topic, .....
» 7/10/2007 3:38:29 PM "It is becoming apparent that in Australia we are not competitive unless we are subsi.....
» 7/10/2007 12:14:44 PM "No, but the demanding women are the same: feminist ideologues." Oops Shocka, p.....
» 7/10/2007 12:04:09 PM “As long as there is a dollar to be made from burning oil, coal or gas, and no immediate .....
» 6/10/2007 10:48:58 PM "it seems that we are still planning to mill forests into copier paper, cardboard car.....
» 6/10/2007 7:21:03 PM Hehe Wiz, you can regulate all you want in parts of Africa, its about survival of the fitt.....
» 6/10/2007 1:35:05 PM "My suggestion is to find ways of reducing emissions that have other benefits: e.g. s.....
» 6/10/2007 11:02:06 AM "It has everything to do with the human spirit and the power of community." Chr.....
» 6/10/2007 10:52:13 AM "because of a lack of technology and knowledge that allows more intensive farming of .....
» 5/10/2007 8:03:37 PM Wiz, I have to disagree with you about population. Humanity has gone from 1.5 billion to 6.....
» 5/10/2007 4:40:22 PM "A large, prosperous middle class is necessary to maintain a strong domestic economy .....
» 5/10/2007 2:42:48 PM Wiz, I can think of plenty of regional areas around the world that create huge amounts of .....
» 5/10/2007 10:34:22 AM Wiz, what the US shows is that land is the problem and if cheap land is available, then ho.....
» 5/10/2007 9:01:57 AM "When we over exploit what is available to make ever increasing profits (a fundamenta.....
» 4/10/2007 7:45:05 PM I can’t see how more housing relative to demand, would not reduce prices. The problem is t.....
» 4/10/2007 4:25:33 PM "Viva Cuba !!" That might well happen, once the dictator Fidel, finally falls .....
» 4/10/2007 3:39:22 PM Wiz, I think that what Keating’s experiment shows, is that there can be unintended consequ.....
» 3/10/2007 11:56:20 PM Wiz, if you google "Keating negative gearing" there are a number of references a.....
» 3/10/2007 6:22:35 PM Whatever gets you through the night, Shocka... :).....
» 3/10/2007 4:44:22 PM European farming subsidies have now started to change. They were consuming a larger and la.....
» 3/10/2007 2:21:22 PM "and has not, in any of his many hundreds of speeches, revealed any overt signs of hi.....
» 3/10/2007 12:37:34 PM Wiz, some points about your last two posts. A while ago I read an article in the Economis.....
» 3/10/2007 11:36:48 AM "You see consumers have a budget and allocate $x towards meat and produce and if thes.....
» 2/10/2007 9:37:23 PM Wiz, I don't think that manufacture has to collapse, it has to restructure away from consu.....
» 2/10/2007 7:35:26 PM Wiz, whilst I think that in the past, the Australian labour market has been way too overre.....
» 2/10/2007 7:04:23 PM "What about secure housing, free health, free education and free child care?" E.....
» 2/10/2007 6:49:23 PM Actually not so, just a word mix up. Given that I commonly call people by wrong names, (a .....
» 1/10/2007 11:24:29 PM "many of us would argue that Howard has also "put his pet theories above the int.....
» 1/10/2007 10:57:25 PM "The nations of Hispanic America refuse birth control, overpopulate and expect the US.....
» 1/10/2007 10:07:02 PM As to your comment about efficient appliances, once again that’s a global issue. Manufactu.....
» 1/10/2007 8:47:01 PM "that doesn't automatically mean that a bunch of competing private firms will do any .....
» 1/10/2007 4:08:42 PM "I would not rush to judgement of Raul or Fidel Castro for being reluctant to hold fr.....
» 1/10/2007 3:00:54 PM Wiz, regarding your comments as to privatising electricity supply, I don’t know enough abo.....
» 30/09/2007 11:04:37 PM "My suspicion is that the usually tenaciously argumentative right-wing ideologues qui.....
» 30/09/2007 10:45:37 PM So in cases where the free market is truly operating, I fail to see how Govt could or shou.....
» 30/09/2007 9:37:32 PM Wiz, ok I’ll give you my opinion to your questions. I don’t think that the issue is as bl.....
» 30/09/2007 2:07:59 PM Wiz, I agree that spending on r&d is important and not wasted, as so often is the case. Bu.....
» 30/09/2007 1:21:35 PM "Excuse me Yabby, monkeys aren't primates?" Shock, horror, I actually got one w.....
» 29/09/2007 9:57:45 PM We've been discussing various economic systems around the world and two posts per day is p.....
» 29/09/2007 9:42:30 PM Daggett, nope the Castro questions were not answered on the other thread, more like excuse.....
» 29/09/2007 1:49:50 PM Daggett, you are free to shoot the messenger, in this case the Economist, but I happen to .....
» 29/09/2007 1:26:40 PM Shocka, monkeys and primates are a little different. We humans are classified as primates......
» 28/09/2007 9:24:49 PM "I once made the mistake of taking seriously an article which depicted Hugo Chavez Pr.....
» 28/09/2007 8:49:07 PM "Daggett, Govt planned economies have failed everywhere, including here. If an indust.....
» 27/09/2007 11:44:44 PM Wiz, if you are in Andrew’s electorate, then I hope that you kick him out :) Much too keen.....
» 27/09/2007 5:02:29 PM "He just rationalises that nothing can be done, so we should just go on with business.....
» 27/09/2007 4:43:32 PM "Yabby, I'm afraid Reginald P. Wimpleton was using your *own* arguments, so he's your.....
» 26/09/2007 9:32:25 PM "Divorce is the fruit of hard hearts." Hearts do nothing but pump blood Runner,.....
» 26/09/2007 9:08:16 PM "There is a common link between pornography and child abuse" Sheesh, so thats w.....
» 26/09/2007 2:46:20 PM One point that always amuses me when this argument about "poor workers" and &quo.....
» 26/09/2007 1:56:32 PM Ah Shocka, thats where you are your friend Reginald are wrong. Slavery, like abortion, is.....
» 26/09/2007 9:22:44 AM " I'm all too aware *you* have a one track mind." Shocka, I do exactly what mor.....
» 26/09/2007 8:44:04 AM Daggett, read up a little as to what happened around the world. China, USSR, Eastern Europ.....
» 25/09/2007 10:05:00 PM The Nordic countries have one distinct advantage. No sun, sand and surf to amuse people, a.....
» 24/09/2007 5:27:45 PM "Most those positive indicators to which you referred (which in any case are flawed) .....
» 24/09/2007 4:42:03 PM Shocka, I spent 30 years giving those things thought and consideration, then realised tha.....
» 24/09/2007 3:59:54 PM Shocka, there are lots of ways to see or imagine lots of things, the world is full of frui.....
» 24/09/2007 12:16:57 PM ""A group of eight cells held together by the egg membrane is now a child!".....
» 24/09/2007 9:50:36 AM Daggett, you forget of course, that Telstra was a complacent, lazy big fat monopoly, with .....
» 24/09/2007 1:32:51 AM Daggett, Govt planned economies have failed everywhere, including here. If an industry col.....
» 23/09/2007 4:35:07 PM "Here we go with the population growth nonsense, which wouldn't occur if we stop immi.....
» 23/09/2007 3:25:23 PM "Then, Poof! Priscilla her fairy godmother appeared." Shocka, this isn't kiddie.....
» 23/09/2007 2:05:11 PM "my point as to why this country's suppsedly brilliant economic managers have allowed.....
» 23/09/2007 1:33:08 PM Geritt, the argument is not misguided at all. The world has simply changed a bit, you have.....
» 22/09/2007 9:33:57 PM Fester, I think you will find that there is intense pressure on both political parties, wh.....
» 22/09/2007 2:10:28 PM "unless we import millions more workers into a country running out of water and arabl.....
» 22/09/2007 1:06:13 PM "If immigration carried an economic advantage for Australians I would be all for it,&.....
» 22/09/2007 10:19:01 AM "What have you got against Anglo Celtic babies? Are you a racist?" Why should I.....
» 22/09/2007 8:13:46 AM "Authority. Control. Power." Once again Shocka, you have missed the main point......
» 21/09/2007 2:24:30 PM "then why can't the Government simply withhold approval for the odd mining project he.....
» 21/09/2007 7:18:18 AM "If anyone wants to know where uncontrolled immigration is likely lead us" Who .....
» 20/09/2007 10:46:41 PM "Meatworkers wages are hardly a major cost anyway," The are actually THE major .....
» 20/09/2007 7:56:48 PM "The argument that people from outside Australia can be made to accept such miserably.....
» 20/09/2007 2:50:44 PM Lots of rhetoric but little substance in your post Shocka, but I don't expect much more fr.....
» 19/09/2007 10:53:38 AM Shocka, to understand this issue you need to know a little about brains and their developm.....
» 18/09/2007 10:20:45 PM " most of what is being said is hype, slant, theory (RC conspiracy as well), hypothes.....
» 18/09/2007 4:57:07 PM "A "person": 1. is conscious." Back to jail you go Shocka! Are you sa.....
» 18/09/2007 10:11:49 AM Great article, which highlights some of the misery in the third world, caused by the influ.....
» 16/09/2007 11:05:13 PM "Now the prices of vegetables, that have to be transported hundreds of kilometres, wi.....
» 16/09/2007 9:24:52 PM "Your participation in this forum is becoming tiresome." Well then don't read m.....
» 16/09/2007 5:21:13 PM "Inviting Jesus into our lives is the greatest freedom from fear and uncertainty anyo.....
» 16/09/2007 1:09:31 PM Oops Shocka, into the slammer you for life, convicted of murder. They were both people, w.....
» 16/09/2007 11:08:48 AM ”So you can die from abortion, you can die from childbirth, you can die from choking on a .....
» 15/09/2007 8:03:08 PM "and Yabby parrots the familiar and discredited argument" Err hang on Daggett, .....
» 15/09/2007 1:26:02 PM Tribal instincts seem to be a common human genetic trait. People seem to cling to the past.....
» 15/09/2007 12:12:19 PM ”Why not allow a penis to ejaculate in your vagina only when you are ready to raise childr.....
» 14/09/2007 11:21:34 PM Somebody else raised the name of Gail Kelly and thats the first person I thought of, when .....
» 14/09/2007 8:52:57 PM Shocka, so let me get this straight. You think that women should be forced to have childre.....
» 14/09/2007 7:04:53 PM Fester, median house prices would vary in every state. In places like WA they have rockete.....
» 14/09/2007 11:57:41 AM Gerritt, nearly everything we do has consequences, including walking down the street. That.....
» 13/09/2007 8:11:57 PM Shocka, I remind you that billions of his dna cells go down the sewers on a regular basis.....
» 13/09/2007 7:51:31 PM "fill out the form, staple the receipt to the envelope, address the envelope, find an.....
» 13/09/2007 9:23:14 AM "Both men and women securely bundled in plastic, swimming in spermicidal and her on t.....
» 12/09/2007 11:57:10 PM "Yabby and and Rhian sound like self-satisfied I'm alright Jacks who just happen, for.....
» 12/09/2007 8:17:12 PM "What makes you think politics is rational? Politicians appeal to emotions." Ve.....
» 12/09/2007 6:14:58 PM "I was hoping to continue earning $200+ to $500+ per day." Well Billie, if you .....
» 12/09/2007 9:53:55 AM Gerritt, its all very nice if one is living perfectly,as you claim to be, but I assure you.....
» 11/09/2007 6:26:01 PM As to resources, it depends how far you think that we should go in raping and pillaging th.....
» 11/09/2007 10:28:36 AM "Some of us live in a state of fear. Where do you live?" Oh Kanga. I certainly .....
» 11/09/2007 9:10:13 AM Gerritt, having sex is not exactly illegal and neither should it be! So your comment was v.....
» 10/09/2007 11:33:10 PM "I view that a woman who is so loose with the right of an unborn baby to have an abor.....
» 10/09/2007 11:21:13 PM "so you might like to consider how long it would take graduates today to pay off thei.....
» 10/09/2007 10:45:32 PM "William Jefferson Clinton what an attractive man, JFK and RFK those two brothers wer.....
» 10/09/2007 8:35:59 PM Well I think that BD should really consider becoming a muslim. With four wives, he would .....
» 10/09/2007 3:17:40 PM "as we continue the slide down the slippery slope of moral degeneration" Well I.....
» 10/09/2007 7:46:48 AM "For what reason, other than sheer financial desperation, would any worker contemplat.....
» 10/09/2007 7:29:36 AM Aqva I don't misread your posts at all. You are blaming the evils of feminist empowerment .....
» 9/09/2007 9:44:31 PM Shesh Aqva, you continue to go in circles. I remind you that its your beloved Catholic Ch.....
» 9/09/2007 2:41:42 PM Daggett, at some point you have to separate as to how much of what you feel is a feelgood .....
» 8/09/2007 9:43:07 PM Daggett, it seems to me that in your hatred for Howard, you are confusing philosophies. I.....
» 8/09/2007 2:46:20 PM "As long as we have whackos over here in WA who are still advocating secession, const.....
» 8/09/2007 2:32:50 PM Hehe, not much changes on the Pale threads. It seems to me that if these girls arn't squab.....
» 8/09/2007 1:51:39 PM Hmm, I don't see this issue as black-white, labour-liberal, as many do. My politics is is.....
» 7/09/2007 6:45:07 PM "although I dispute his conclusion that the best way to achieve this is to grow our p.....
» 6/09/2007 8:28:25 PM "and their fears of having any moral considerations for ewe and me." Aqva, I ha.....
» 6/09/2007 2:19:13 PM Given that WA is ignored in general anyhow, apart from taking Dollars to fill federal coff.....
» 5/09/2007 10:44:22 PM Aqva, to claim that everyone becomes intellectually "stunted" because fathers ha.....
» 5/09/2007 4:27:56 PM "Seems to me you cant answer a simply question." Its not about can't, its about.....
» 4/09/2007 11:21:26 PM Aqva, indeed I have praised both Cevilia and Pericles for being IMHO some of the best post.....
» 4/09/2007 8:36:35 PM "so is justified to attach herself financially to a man, who is to be enslaved to the.....
» 4/09/2007 9:13:38 AM Well BD, with you I see it a bit like the pot calling the kettle black. The Christian Tal.....
» 3/09/2007 11:30:00 PM They say that an electorate gets the politicians that it deserves and there could be some .....
» 3/09/2007 8:57:58 PM At the end of the day, around 8% of Australians bother to go to churches, so the Christian.....
» 3/09/2007 8:18:08 PM Aqva, my views have nothing to do with feminism, everything to do with what is fair and ju.....
» 3/09/2007 2:07:16 PM BD, as usual you miss the point completely! Paris Hilton is a bimbo, making money out of .....
» 2/09/2007 7:50:46 PM "First you say you cant get them because they are all on ice- Now its changed to – th.....
» 2/09/2007 2:45:39 PM James, I have not studied the law to the endth detail, to agree with you or not. What I d.....
» 2/09/2007 11:45:01 AM Pale, under our free speech laws, you still can't say whatever you like about people and d.....
» 2/09/2007 11:21:19 AM Aqva, attempts at ridicule, don't make your point, just show you up as ridiculous :) Clea.....
» 1/09/2007 9:59:57 PM "but which IF known would change the public perception OF those situations AND the 'C.....
» 1/09/2007 8:39:45 PM Pale, you still don't understand that modern economics is not totally focussed around your.....
» 1/09/2007 3:29:08 PM Robert, yes lots of sad stories of intolerance out there. I happen to believe that sexual.....
» 1/09/2007 3:15:32 PM "He had no damned right to impose his religious beliefs on the general population of .....
» 1/09/2007 2:13:00 PM "All our meat should be leaving the country in a box so we keep the jobs in Australia.....
» 1/09/2007 11:42:32 AM Aqva, you keep overlooking the different biology, in your quest for so called equality. Th.....
» 31/08/2007 9:33:52 PM Well I'm farming, and last year was a real wake up for me. How different people handled a.....
» 31/08/2007 8:32:32 PM "I think we can be quite certain that the AMA would strongly object to being asked to.....
» 31/08/2007 8:19:16 PM "True agnostics are rare. I also believe, however, that life is far more interesting .....
» 31/08/2007 3:34:48 PM "LETTTS not just single out 'Churches'.... how about we address such problems across .....
» 31/08/2007 12:14:42 PM "if women knew before hand that men would not be compelled to pay child support again.....
» 30/08/2007 8:12:47 PM Aqva, the differences between men and women, are as they are, because of the difference of.....
» 30/08/2007 1:59:36 PM "or the atheist who innately judges whether something would be moral or not in this d.....
» 29/08/2007 9:32:35 PM Aqva, you are free to shoot the messenger, but reality does not go away, when we close our.....
» 29/08/2007 1:26:58 PM "But if it doesn’t, our society will find itself in terminal decline (just check out .....
» 28/08/2007 8:41:33 PM "Women should consider whether or not they can afford to raise a child before they en.....
» 28/08/2007 8:25:33 PM But Runner, given your posts, you would just LOVE the US bible belt, in the south! Church.....
» 28/08/2007 8:01:51 PM "Is 25 weeks the time we can "first describe the development of the brain" .....
» 28/08/2007 11:42:53 AM "Once again there are sweeping generalisations and dogmatic-sounding assertions such .....
» 27/08/2007 11:09:59 PM Well Pericles has a point about dogs! Take the poor old dog owned by Dickie. Not a bone in.....
» 27/08/2007 10:06:23 PM Whew, thank Darwin that Australia got the convicts, whilst most of the religious fanatics .....
» 27/08/2007 4:31:59 PM I can just see it all now David: Lets say you have been living on your family plot, which .....
» 27/08/2007 4:07:29 PM "My challenge to Celivia and other pro choicers on this thread is, “do you agree that.....
» 27/08/2007 1:01:09 PM "Would this not translate into "until a child is born it is not yet a person&quo.....
» 26/08/2007 11:54:26 PM "I also wonder whether you are chuffed at the possibility of the ACCC protecting wool.....
» 26/08/2007 11:38:47 PM "Yabby states that until a child is born it is not yet a person." I said no suc.....
» 26/08/2007 9:46:33 PM Nope Fester, the ACCC is not exactly irrational. What you will have is when large interna.....
» 26/08/2007 6:10:47 PM We could discuss this topic at length, with people who are are least a little informed, bu.....
» 26/08/2007 3:17:50 PM Godess, the question is, do you really believe everything that Peta puts on their website .....
» 25/08/2007 10:28:17 PM "If it happens, a human person will always be the result." Absolutaly not, its .....
» 25/08/2007 3:30:46 PM stop and think, it seems that you miss the point. Murder applies to people, killing applie.....
» 25/08/2007 3:21:28 PM Gerritt, your reasoning might not be based on religious grounds, but you certainly seem to.....
» 24/08/2007 10:41:14 PM Its asually amusing, when a well meaning, farmer hating ignoramus like yourself Dickie, tr.....
» 24/08/2007 8:07:10 PM James, I think you miss the point. The legislation gives the ACCC the option to act, it do.....
» 24/08/2007 2:56:00 PM Pale, I think you miss the point of the legislation. What we have had is a group like Peta.....
» 24/08/2007 10:07:12 AM David, what I am is intolerant of the intolerant. Religious fundamentalism looms as an eve.....
» 23/08/2007 2:53:03 PM "you see everything through the coke-bottle lenses of Christianity. Unfortunately, th.....
» 23/08/2007 2:07:04 PM "The religious anti-abortion lobbyists seem to obsess over the fact that sex happens .....
» 22/08/2007 11:00:06 PM David, you don't need to be convinced of the first tremester argument. Given that your fo.....
» 22/08/2007 10:44:05 PM "If anyone here thinks that under circumstances of imposed poverty from energy source.....
» 22/08/2007 2:27:39 PM "Yabby, If you need a crutch in life, use crutches. Some of us do not need crutches.&.....
» 22/08/2007 10:03:46 AM "There are plenty of men who had a one night stand never intending to have a child wi.....
» 21/08/2007 9:24:36 PM "I comfort myself with the truth of a "simple Gospel for a sinful world" &q.....
» 21/08/2007 8:46:30 PM "No one with a brain will go backwards" Hehe Kaep, I'm not sure of your age, bu.....
» 21/08/2007 7:22:31 PM Go back 70-100 years, lots of people still lived in villages, on their quarter-half acre b.....
» 21/08/2007 7:14:31 PM "Likewise so with a woman, when she takes her body outside and use it with another pe.....
» 21/08/2007 2:02:59 PM "Please do not write any rude word about Christianity or Islam or any other religion......
» 20/08/2007 8:33:57 PM "by 7 weeks the unborn child can suck its thumb." David, because you keep repea.....
» 20/08/2007 12:18:07 AM "Change the words but murder is murder." Well Runner, next time that you ejacul.....
» 19/08/2007 11:36:08 PM "and why most of those who opposed intelligent design did so for theological reasons,.....
» 19/08/2007 11:16:07 PM "Your racism is showing in that snide comment." Aqva honey, my racism? I remind.....
» 19/08/2007 7:03:50 PM Hehe BD! Have you read any of his books? Quite frankly in intellectual terms, Dawkins mak.....
» 19/08/2007 1:31:12 PM Aqva honey, no "I hate God" rants at all, as you foolishly presume. It's "I.....
» 19/08/2007 11:14:28 AM "I do not demand women to procreate at all, merely state that if they take the decisi.....
» 18/08/2007 11:00:56 PM "white women shore do like that abortion, they jus gotta show who's got the power. Te.....
» 18/08/2007 9:47:31 PM "It will be abortion simply on demand at any stage of pregnancy." So GP, if abo.....
» 17/08/2007 10:21:03 PM There is an interesting programme coming on CNN next week, for those who are interested. .....
» 17/08/2007 8:46:28 PM David, I'm not sure how many previous abortion threads that you have followed on OLO, but.....
» 16/08/2007 5:35:57 PM "Denial of heaven and hell does not for one moment mean they don't exist." Runn.....
» 16/08/2007 5:23:34 PM "However sex is not a commodity like drugs or alcohol – it is a binding together of t.....
» 16/08/2007 8:01:21 AM "1/ Love God with all your heart 2/Love your neighbour as yourself." Sheesh, my.....
» 15/08/2007 7:44:13 PM "it is really no one elses business but the couple who do the coupling or similarly t.....
» 14/08/2007 10:10:31 PM "The only place abstinence has proven a failure is in those silly enough not to liste.....
» 13/08/2007 10:20:24 PM "Which is why I'm more worried about the Christian political activists than Muslims -.....
» 13/08/2007 4:02:37 PM Hmmm, I think this is an issue of internal Islamic politics. What is really halal or not, .....
» 13/08/2007 3:19:53 PM Well there is your problem, for a start you claim that abortion is bad. I happen to disagr.....
» 13/08/2007 3:10:35 PM "Most Englishmen of the day considered that a life of unrestrained licentiousness cou.....
» 12/08/2007 11:55:30 PM "No amount of sex education will change a persons habits if they are not taught self .....
» 9/08/2007 9:50:22 AM "I'd rather moralistic "religious zealots" in parliament than nihilistic de.....
» 8/08/2007 8:29:47 PM "No worries about the starving millions of humans who could be feasting on much of th.....
» 7/08/2007 8:39:38 PM Pale, what Australian Muslim leaders think, really does not matter. 96% of the Australian .....
» 7/08/2007 1:56:49 PM "60% of all Australians are now overweight or obese. Obesity tripled between 1985 - 1.....
» 7/08/2007 1:49:40 PM "It is black and white" Pale, your passions and emotions might be black and whi.....
» 6/08/2007 10:04:01 PM "if you went to the southern US, you might find many exceptions to your hearsay opini.....
» 6/08/2007 10:44:48 AM I agree with you on this one PF, although I gather that this one is not just about Halal, .....
» 6/08/2007 10:34:47 AM I certainly think that its dangerous, to have people at the highest level of Government, i.....
» 6/08/2007 12:09:40 AM "I rest my case!" Ok so rest it, perhaps time for that cup of tea and a lie dow.....
» 5/08/2007 7:03:08 PM "What I have recommended is a reduction in consumption of meat" Well Dickie, th.....
» 3/08/2007 8:32:43 PM Dickie, perhaps your doctor should have visited Europe, where people have eaten healthy ba.....
» 2/08/2007 8:38:38 PM Most Aussies have no idea what is happening in the countryside, as they live in the cities.....
» 2/08/2007 5:30:01 PM "Any ladies want some rib-eye?" Lol Alzo, they'll marry you, then send you out .....
» 1/08/2007 8:23:47 PM "The last meal of Grauballe man, one of the well-preserved iron age bodies, found in .....
» 1/08/2007 1:53:49 PM "It appears that most accredited scientific forums on the web are concerned about the.....
» 31/07/2007 2:38:50 PM "In reality it is more concerned with intensive farming practices and is using the gl.....
» 30/07/2007 2:08:52 PM Now let me see. My ewes and lambs happily graze the pastures. If they didn't, the pastures.....
» 25/07/2007 11:44:27 PM "Our economy has largely shifted away from a situation where practically every motiva.....
» 24/07/2007 3:07:05 PM Ludwig, that line was actually a quote from Demos, that I had snipped. Personally I don'.....
» 24/07/2007 10:34:30 AM Philo, you are free to hang on until your last breath and so you should be, but many other.....
» 23/07/2007 8:41:57 PM Philo, the dna that created me, is pure organic chemistry, no ghosts or spirits in sight a.....
» 23/07/2007 5:07:23 PM "if you can get along without the cooking, cleaning and sex, i urge you to live alone.....
» 22/07/2007 1:18:23 PM "If "heaven" is some kind of mental gymnastics in the here-and-now, that's .....
» 20/07/2007 10:45:08 PM "The after-life is strictly for spiritual enlightenment." Dickie, I thought abo.....
» 20/07/2007 9:31:37 PM "Nowhere in the old testament is there any hint of parallel about sexual joys in the .....
» 19/07/2007 10:46:27 PM The self congratulation society is clearly doing well on this thread! Speculation about th.....
» 18/07/2007 3:50:34 PM "I put mental masturbation right up there with the other. Both enjoyable exercises an.....
» 17/07/2007 11:04:14 PM ROFL Aqva. I admit, I prefer the KISS principle. Keep it simple stupid! In my late teens .....
» 17/07/2007 9:44:44 PM Steven, I think that you massively overestimate the abilities of the US in today's world......
» 17/07/2007 3:17:13 PM "There is a free agent operating within the chemistry, and it is that free agent that.....
» 17/07/2007 3:02:40 PM "I think that if the Straits of Hormuz were to close tomorrow we could rely on the US.....
» 17/07/2007 2:30:24 PM An extremely good analysis, dealing with the core of the problem. Few people actually unde.....
» 16/07/2007 10:08:32 PM "And it isn't that I'm religious." But you are religious Aqva. You try to defen.....
» 16/07/2007 8:57:27 PM "We take none of the organic chemistry into our spirit of who we are." There ar.....
» 16/07/2007 8:48:29 PM "The Saudis have spent at least US$87 billion propagating Wahhabism abroad during the.....
» 16/07/2007 3:10:24 PM "How do we know that we have no use of them in the afterlife?" Quite simple Spa.....
» 15/07/2007 6:34:03 PM "Hormones, ligands, peptides, they all affect human behaviour, we can show that.".....
» 12/07/2007 2:47:07 PM "however love is more than brain chemistry." Oh yeah? In that case my dog must .....
» 12/07/2007 7:32:17 AM "as long as I get to know where the hell I end up after the long jump!" Ah that.....
» 11/07/2007 10:56:37 PM "Many other male species either share the rearing of their young, or take over comple.....
» 11/07/2007 9:53:08 PM Danielle, I read a bit about Jayne's hypotheses, but to me it simply opens a can of worms .....
» 10/07/2007 8:42:04 PM "Sacrificial love is pure, as a mother for a child. That love is eternally pure and h.....
» 8/07/2007 9:43:21 PM "There was no non-scripture box on the form at all. So I drew and ticked my own, writ.....
» 7/07/2007 8:23:39 PM "there is always an answer from a sceptic to dowse the ever enquiring human mind.&quo.....
» 7/07/2007 8:07:45 PM "The theory (no rational evidence) that one species can magically become another has .....
» 6/07/2007 9:37:03 PM "It's madness, most of us strive to get better, do better, amass more than the other,.....
» 6/07/2007 7:59:52 PM "when we get a real leader in the white house we'll take the war to Iran, Saudi Arabi.....
» 5/07/2007 8:48:13 PM Ah Coachy, you are confused lol. Monkeys have tails, us primates don't and we are classifi.....
» 4/07/2007 11:03:09 PM Celivia, if you think about it, most of the religious nuts on here, are in fact atheists b.....
» 4/07/2007 8:32:41 PM Most likely E. Just another case of schizophrenia, as we now know it, a fairly common me.....
» 2/07/2007 2:50:18 PM Some good points are raised by Irfan. Perhaps Hirsi Ali does in fact have some flaws in he.....
» 30/06/2007 6:32:20 PM We should do things, where we have a comparative advantage. Mining and farming happen to b.....
» 28/06/2007 2:19:13 AM If you have more and more people, on a limited amount of land, with limited and scarce res.....
» 25/06/2007 9:47:00 PM I would be surprised and amazed, if the OPEL group manage to supply any kind of credible a.....
» 25/06/2007 8:13:46 PM "The farmer is of dishonourable character." ROFL Steel, your attempts at being .....
» 24/06/2007 9:30:19 PM "U need to be pretty desperate to use the Dutch system as a model to follow." R.....
» 23/06/2007 11:24:09 PM "Secular humanism has proved to be a massive failure ignoring the need to teach such .....
» 23/06/2007 2:59:42 PM "how about if someone came into the religious schools and lectured for half an hour e.....
» 22/06/2007 9:36:29 PM "Efficient management of a finite resource seems the only intelligent course of actio.....
» 22/06/2007 9:08:36 PM Well if we take a closer look at the "Tragedy of the Commons", an economic theor.....
» 20/06/2007 9:27:48 PM Well Peter D, what you have not explained, is the rights of that potentially cute baby, wh.....
» 20/06/2007 2:12:00 PM "Firstly, the flood of Noah. If such a world wide flood were true, what evidence woul.....
» 17/06/2007 11:33:42 PM "finding it much easier to make stuff up about God or ignore him than purify my heart.....
» 17/06/2007 9:32:26 PM Aqva, I would not get carried away with brainstems... At 25 days - the embryonic brain re.....
» 16/06/2007 9:31:34 PM "I am not anti any religion, but refuse to be blind to the horrors, cruelty, injustic.....
» 15/06/2007 10:43:19 AM http://www.guardian.co.uk/pope/story/0,,2102534,00.html Well there we have it. It seems t.....
» 14/06/2007 2:55:36 PM "Young women get pregnant, not due to a maternal desire for children, but overwhelmin.....
» 12/06/2007 8:31:12 PM "I'd say since it is the womens choice whether she has sex and not the mans" Aq.....
» 11/06/2007 8:05:14 PM "I agree with the bioethicist who argue that a foetus has achieved personhood." .....
» 10/06/2007 9:52:47 PM "This is about people for everyone." Aqva, if this is about people for everyone.....
» 10/06/2007 3:00:55 PM Here we go again! Martin with his "the sky is falling, muslims will outbreed the Xtia.....
» 8/06/2007 10:20:56 PM Peter D, I remind you that millions of potential children are flushed down toilets every m.....
» 7/06/2007 8:56:49 PM "Seems there’s a problem with getting the message across about prevention. Facts and.....
» 6/06/2007 8:51:55 PM Aqva, actually when I was a kid, my mother unfortunately decided that I was to be a Catho.....
» 6/06/2007 9:34:43 AM "What the Church actually strives to do is ingrain in it's followers a sense of atten.....
» 4/06/2007 10:44:23 PM Celivia, as we can see by the many various Xtian cults and sects, the bible verses can be .....
» 3/06/2007 8:04:48 PM "So far it is the most robust and solid case put forward." Hehe Daniel, you are.....
» 2/06/2007 8:56:21 PM Aime, all I do is state the bleeding obvious, as I actually have some understanding of the.....
» 2/06/2007 3:19:46 PM More bible quotes, put together by Ralph Nielsen, so I'll paste them, just for Mick :) GO.....
» 1/06/2007 8:18:30 PM What keeps getting ignored in these debates, is what the best way to deal with drought is......
» 1/06/2007 7:58:06 PM Daniel, you really need to start to differeniate between a human organism and a person, th.....
» 31/05/2007 10:05:35 PM "Surely, it is sufficient that those who maintain these views, uphold them in their o.....
» 30/05/2007 9:43:02 PM "Why persist with a sinking ship and then demand subsidies and welfare to constantly .....
» 30/05/2007 3:42:29 PM Celivia, you have made some great points, but many of them far too rational for this threa.....
» 29/05/2007 10:28:14 PM "I found Yabby's response re rape a little disturbing. (Remarkable that the women onl.....
» 29/05/2007 10:31:11 AM Goodthief, where I live, its so close to nature, as I see the story of life-death-life etc.....
» 28/05/2007 9:01:22 PM "We could compare a new-born baby’s brain to that of a developing foetus." Ronn.....
» 27/05/2007 10:42:05 PM Ahhh Peter D, calling me names, does not win you any brownie points nor any intellectual p.....
» 26/05/2007 9:55:40 PM "But why do you divert the discussion from the article's topic of surgical abortion, .....
» 26/05/2007 12:42:44 PM "You know from my post that I wasn’t really suggesting a slaughter, but saying that k.....
» 24/05/2007 8:15:23 PM "If the foetus is not a human, then you can kill it without any discussion or any nee.....
» 23/05/2007 9:25:01 PM “The zygote,embryo,fetus is a person and it looks like a person should look at that stage.....
» 22/05/2007 9:14:53 PM "This is why they can't even see what a 2 year old can see when it comes to an unborn.....
» 22/05/2007 3:36:52 PM Maryse, my first question would be, what on earth are prolifers doing, praying outside abo.....
» 21/05/2007 8:26:24 PM Goodthief, to have a thing called objective morality, you need an objective arbiter and w.....
» 20/05/2007 2:22:33 PM "If Labour had good advisors they would have introduced our co-joint venture as a pol.....
» 20/05/2007 1:47:36 PM "The evidence for objective morals is the fact that we are all having this discussion.....
» 19/05/2007 8:21:06 PM "Secular humanist or athiest continue to insist their view is correct and then deny a.....
» 19/05/2007 12:16:43 AM At the end of the day, the question of abortion is a subjective question, given that there.....
» 18/05/2007 11:45:55 PM Wendy, I know that you think that Dr Ali is wonderful, but I remind you that he is not the.....
» 18/05/2007 9:38:42 AM "although all the indications are that it is savages we are talking about here (wonde.....
» 17/05/2007 11:20:57 PM "they overlook the fact that sex is, by its nature, a procreative act." Goodth.....
» 17/05/2007 9:04:59 PM I think there are no clearcut black and white issues here, all relationships are different.....
» 17/05/2007 8:29:13 PM Nicky, your QE2 comment kind of says it all. It doesent matter what ship these sheep are .....
» 17/05/2007 8:01:25 PM Wendy, I don't think you understand the Hajj lamb trade. Its a religious festival, millio.....
» 17/05/2007 3:43:31 PM Its actually not so breaking news. The meat processors haven't even read it yet, so it rem.....
» 16/05/2007 8:28:47 PM Nicky, of course I know about the separation of the powers. You miss the point entirely. W.....
» 16/05/2007 3:52:38 PM "Why would you choose to be a Catholic if you don't agree with their stand on life is.....
» 16/05/2007 2:49:57 PM You are confusing the standard of living with quality of life. What we can show is that o.....
» 15/05/2007 7:51:20 PM "but popes should have no place to make these threats to politicians especially not i.....
» 14/05/2007 8:27:18 PM Gadget, no, your postulations are wrong, you miss the point, but that does not surprise me.....
» 14/05/2007 8:02:05 PM Waterboy, I guess the argument could be made that prostitution is more moral then marrying.....
» 14/05/2007 7:56:33 PM Oops PF, she's really told you now :) I havent heard any results, but what it came down t.....
» 13/05/2007 10:25:40 PM Dickie, men dislike condoms for much the same reasons as you girls dislike showering in yo.....
» 13/05/2007 8:16:35 PM May the hippies of the 60s, who are now the golden oldies, rise yet once again to change t.....
» 13/05/2007 8:08:03 PM LOL Gadget, if you don't yet know the difference between a zygote, foetus, baby and a chil.....
» 13/05/2007 7:47:23 PM PF, the animal libber groups can say whatever they like, with seeming impunity. Look at so.....
» 13/05/2007 1:47:49 PM LOL Wendy, so you believe that you have all these readers out there. I do actually know o.....
» 12/05/2007 9:10:19 PM "Clearly, by any definition, abortion is baby killing. When an abortion is 'chosen', .....
» 12/05/2007 8:40:59 PM "I do wonder why religions oppose this when they promise "paradise" after w.....
» 12/05/2007 8:21:31 PM Oops, must be bundy night on the Gold Coast :) Given that hardly anyone, except a few mos.....
» 11/05/2007 10:09:49 PM Antje, I remind you that the recent case against Peta has shown that animal libber groups .....
» 10/05/2007 10:31:05 PM "I’m waiting for someone to propose an alternative view, even a better one. We could,.....
» 10/05/2007 9:42:29 PM Wendy, given your claim to posts I made, show me where I made those posts. Please don't pu.....
» 10/05/2007 9:19:22 PM Any good chemists out there, please give us a possible easy recipee for Nembutal, so that .....
» 10/05/2007 9:08:35 PM Wendy, the Govt does not favour live exports. They simply understand that there a huge ma.....
» 10/05/2007 6:03:19 PM LOL Bugsy :) For those interested, MLA, with support from farmer organisations, has answer.....
» 10/05/2007 3:23:33 PM "Your so called advise yabby in fact is how I told you it would work ages ago. I clea.....
» 10/05/2007 2:59:33 PM Wendy, I think you are confusing Rojo and myself. He clearly seems like one of the few on .....
» 10/05/2007 9:11:08 AM Wendy I can only be amused by your comments as to who said what in one phone call long ago.....
» 10/05/2007 9:01:52 AM "I'm sure Yabby would agree that such behaviour towards animals is quite acceptable a.....
» 9/05/2007 8:35:12 PM "I told them I would advise against that. I explained others had tried to break into .....
» 9/05/2007 8:16:13 PM Vivy, based on your logic, we would have to ban say cars, matches, knives and a host of ot.....
» 9/05/2007 10:29:20 AM Wendy, I don't blame FF of PGA for not putting your info on their website, as that would i.....
» 9/05/2007 10:12:29 AM I must say that I was bemused and impressed, by that bunch of oldies in the programme, who.....
» 8/05/2007 8:15:04 PM Well Wendy, if you really think that WA farmers might be interested in your ideas, do exac.....
» 8/05/2007 8:03:30 PM "Certainly such a deeper harm is involved in prostitution since that which is by its .....
» 7/05/2007 3:21:52 PM Wendy, we've been over all this stuff before. Perhaps Tim and Co just don't find your orga.....
» 7/05/2007 2:44:50 PM "There is nothing amoral about sex. It happens to be a very human need and is a need .....
» 6/05/2007 10:04:42 PM "you are so right, the only workers on very good pay belong to militant unions with s.....
» 6/05/2007 9:17:27 PM ROFL David, look mate, you love your religion, but to be honest, I don't have a religious .....
» 5/05/2007 11:16:40 PM Wendy, methinks that the economic argument about the proverbial sheep, in contrast to the .....
» 5/05/2007 9:19:50 PM It seems to me that alot of people just won't accept that the world has changed. One minut.....
» 5/05/2007 2:50:18 PM "I am a reluctant contractor who wants award protection." The other option of c.....
» 4/05/2007 9:02:03 PM "God Created the Universe and observes from a distance like looking into a fishtank.&.....
» 4/05/2007 8:45:41 PM I certainly don't think he should go. I don't agree with his opinion, but I accept his rig.....
» 4/05/2007 2:51:34 PM "The ever rising profitability of companies, dividends to shareholders and gross infl.....
» 3/05/2007 10:27:28 PM "As it stands now, choice is something that those in the lower part of the labour mar.....
» 3/05/2007 10:21:08 PM Fozz, you are clearly from the old British school of "them and us" and have neve.....
» 3/05/2007 9:03:02 PM A quote in today's West Australian from Julia: "Australian women don't need Bill Hef.....
» 3/05/2007 8:47:45 PM Goforit, now you are addressing a different issue altogether. Fact is we've gone from 1.5.....
» 2/05/2007 10:52:21 PM Only 35.20$ an hour Billie! ? My god, the poor dears would be starving :) The reality is,.....
» 2/05/2007 9:39:12 PM Sheesh, everyone misses the point! Why not just let people themselves decide what they wan.....
» 2/05/2007 8:33:26 PM Goforit, I remind you that the Khoi, San and pygmies lost virtually everything, includng t.....
» 30/04/2007 2:34:37 PM Goforit, you clearly suffer from Western guilt. If you check history and even now, you wi.....
» 28/04/2007 9:11:05 PM "If you have an intelligent option that will solve the "how", then you migh.....
» 28/04/2007 3:09:11 PM Aqva, I can't help but be amused by your audacity:) You spend a whole thread, arguing agai.....
» 27/04/2007 10:54:22 AM FrankGol, you've listed it very well! After some time we realise which posters are the gem.....
» 26/04/2007 8:33:24 PM Eclipse, you have to understand why little oil was discovered for years. I remind you that.....
» 26/04/2007 4:55:16 PM Aqva, if you open your eyes just a bit, you will see quotation marks around the remark. Pe.....
» 26/04/2007 12:43:39 AM "Perhaps it would be prudent for Yabby to invest in a water diviner!" Umm Dicki.....
» 25/04/2007 9:48:17 PM "You may not believe that we have any particular right to a living wage or fair and d.....
» 25/04/2007 3:38:39 PM I don't have a problem with people wanting the right to withdraw their labour. As long as.....
» 25/04/2007 3:16:48 PM "for the stunned blamers who cant read, o.k. liz and yabby." Seems you who can'.....
» 25/04/2007 2:48:19 PM Eclipse, I watched that show. It was a bit of a yawn, as there was nothing that we didn't .....
» 24/04/2007 9:10:18 PM "I don't get your behaviour - Attack a poster for outlandish comments that they DIDN'.....
» 24/04/2007 11:46:46 AM Eclipse, now where did I say that fossil fuel supply would not be a problem? I just don't .....
» 23/04/2007 9:45:19 PM Sheesh, I am sure that the Saudis are trembling in their boots now, in case they can't sel.....
» 22/04/2007 9:55:08 PM "What if we rezoned our cities around dense and diverse New Urbanism principles, and .....
» 22/04/2007 2:53:28 PM Ahh Eclipse, its not all gloom and doom just yet you know... On population, its a global .....
» 21/04/2007 1:53:29 PM "I'm not sure I agree with everything Ted Trainer writes about capitalism needing to .....
» 20/04/2007 11:36:36 PM "I am doing my best not to smoke those filthy cigarettes though I use only filtered o.....
» 20/04/2007 9:23:51 PM Well whatever we do, if its not sustainable, eventually the wheels will fall off the cart .....
» 20/04/2007 2:28:30 PM "as investing in extreme poverty is what's going to diminish the need for families to.....
» 19/04/2007 9:29:26 PM Pericles, great points! I once heard what the CEO of the Red Cross in Aus earned. Thats th.....
» 18/04/2007 9:02:47 PM Aqva, frankly I have to question your credentials, for I’ve seldom debated with a poster w.....
» 17/04/2007 10:01:20 PM Dickie, I recently read a study which showed that high oxytocin levels make women more gul.....
» 17/04/2007 9:52:48 PM “Only advocates of abortion as contraceptive hype abortion as female empowerment.” Aqva,.....
» 17/04/2007 10:36:11 AM Aqva, either you don’t read what I’ve claimed, or you just want to argue for the sake of i.....
» 16/04/2007 9:21:05 PM Aqva, trying to ridicule what I didn’t say, simply tells me that you have no substantive a.....
» 15/04/2007 9:30:15 PM I know all about the baby dangling business Aqva. I lived in Africa for a few years. You m.....
» 15/04/2007 11:00:18 AM Wow Aqva, you see conspiracy theories that nobody else sees or claims. Are you perhaps inv.....
» 14/04/2007 10:19:28 PM Nicky, I am well aware that you and Dickie are two of a kind. Both know little about the d.....
» 14/04/2007 9:16:20 PM Aqva, methinks that you are unaware of the huge political spin machine which operates from.....
» 14/04/2007 10:33:53 AM Aqva, you seem to be confused. I certainly do not hate Christians. Why should I waste all .....
» 13/04/2007 2:58:46 PM Sheesh, if you girls could only now apply that kind of imagination to your sex lives, it m.....
» 13/04/2007 2:43:47 PM TLTR, according to the Panorama transcript, the pro lifers seem to believe that they repre.....
» 12/04/2007 9:22:12 PM Frank, if you check the facts, you’ll find that Uganda used the ABC method to reduce HIV. .....
» 12/04/2007 3:21:51 PM Kuwait Dickie? ROFL. Sheesh, you must be desparate, to quote Kuwait as a reason for Austr.....
» 11/04/2007 11:17:27 PM "Every sperm is not sacred but every child deserves to be wanted." Spike, a gol.....
» 11/04/2007 9:17:52 PM "Speaking of being informed – why not educate yourselves on the REAL effects of abort.....
» 10/04/2007 10:49:20 PM Ok a question. Is Melinda yet another Catholic, pushing their pro life agenda? Is she part.....
» 9/04/2007 9:10:54 PM West, you'll have to stay tuned, to the next thrilling installment, about the future of pl.....
» 9/04/2007 1:02:13 PM "Production is social, and ownership of the means of production will be social, ".....
» 7/04/2007 8:37:23 PM Tao, you are so bogged down with all these old theories, that you forget to look at the bi.....
» 7/04/2007 4:07:40 PM "What really matters is the power and the will of governments to mitigate it. And thi.....
» 7/04/2007 3:50:48 PM Candide, great posts! I share a similar experience to you, although I'm not into the relig.....
» 6/04/2007 11:48:39 PM Now come on Peter, you can't be serious. What % of the population bother with going to chu.....
» 6/04/2007 2:34:46 PM Ludwig, you want to stop and think about what "big business" actually is. Yup, y.....
» 6/04/2007 2:01:23 PM Tao, we all benefit from each others labour, as part of normal relations with others. When.....
» 5/04/2007 10:05:15 PM "Just as in my relationship I was told “you are nothing” and treated accordingly, in .....
» 4/04/2007 10:11:23 PM Snake, thanks for your post, I fully agree with you. If Abbott, Andrews, Pyne, Pell and o.....
» 4/04/2007 2:41:11 PM Tao, you just don't get it lol. If you look at our rise in standard of living, its largel.....
» 4/04/2007 2:06:24 PM "Collusion amongst influential farm lobbying groups, regulators and governments ".....
» 3/04/2007 10:42:33 PM I watched the SBS debate on euthanasia tonight and all I can say is "Christopher Pyne.....
» 3/04/2007 8:05:10 PM Rob, I have no idea what the neo con song is, for I don't follow their ideas or opinions, .....
» 3/04/2007 7:39:01 PM Dickie, the way you are going, you are goint to die of worry :) 24D has been used around .....
» 2/04/2007 8:57:31 PM Cuba? ROFL You mean that country, where everyone risks their lives to escape, where a dual.....
» 2/04/2007 5:37:00 PM Rob, you miss the point yet once again. Given the population of a nation, there will alway.....
» 2/04/2007 2:43:08 PM "Luckily, they can no longer get their hands on 2,4-D Amicide 50" Given how bad.....
» 2/04/2007 5:59:54 AM "I guess this means your theory falls apart or perhaps you would Care to explain why .....
» 1/04/2007 10:53:14 PM "why do you describe Christian schools as the 'Christian Right' " David, I gues.....
» 1/04/2007 9:59:56 PM CountryGal, I think I know where farmers are getting it wrong. Now lets take a customer li.....
» 1/04/2007 1:59:49 PM Tao and Rob, no flaws in my thinking at all! The thing is, there are alot smarter people t.....
» 31/03/2007 2:52:16 PM "That is why so many Politicians of all persuasions send their kids to private school.....
» 31/03/2007 2:08:14 PM The problem with religious schools, is that they take little 5 year old innocent children .....
» 31/03/2007 1:58:28 PM "that is when the revolutionary-struggle will begin in earnest" Tao, you want t.....
» 29/03/2007 9:49:47 PM Deary me Dickie, there you go, getting your knickers in a twist, about those “evil farmers.....
» 29/03/2007 2:29:04 PM CountryGal, around here we just use silos and store oats and lupins. I've just been using .....
» 28/03/2007 9:38:39 PM All this talk of lawn clippings and donations might be great touchy-feely stuff and satisf.....
» 28/03/2007 8:48:49 PM I think whats being overlooked in this discussion, is how the world has changed in the las.....
» 27/03/2007 2:18:26 PM Thanks GountryGal :) I can just imagine some entrepreneur looking at Billie's list of lur.....
» 26/03/2007 10:52:07 PM Oh I am sure, that various spin will be published on this topic. Numbers can be crunched t.....
» 24/03/2007 2:11:07 PM I think that you are blaming the wrong fellow there West. You are correct, bad management .....
» 23/03/2007 10:23:04 PM Nope Wendy, what it needs is a change of mindset, in the present State Govt. Alot of th.....
» 23/03/2007 1:16:30 PM Wendy, I'm just going to stick to the real issues affecting WA here, in the meat industry......
» 23/03/2007 1:01:58 PM Nah Tao, in socialism the govt bureaucrats run things and screw everybody! As nothing is d.....
» 22/03/2007 8:50:13 PM West, IMHO the whole industrial relations system in Aus is pretty backward, as its based o.....
» 21/03/2007 8:40:44 PM "Perhaps if the majority of wealth in the world wasn’t in the hands of the few, who u.....
» 21/03/2007 1:47:49 PM "If I was an exporter I wouldn't pay more than $10.50 for a sheep!" Well Piggy,.....
» 20/03/2007 2:18:16 PM CountryGal, your husband might well be on the right track, for you have seen on here what .....
» 20/03/2007 12:49:41 PM What you people overlook of course, is that workers, with their 1 trillion$ of super fund .....
» 19/03/2007 11:25:51 PM LL, at some point you have to accept basic evolution theory. As Darwin pointed out, far mo.....
» 19/03/2007 6:37:04 AM LL, you miss the point. Recycling is part ot nature. Even you will be chewed up and spat o.....
» 18/03/2007 9:58:35 PM CountryGal, you are being far to kind to veggies. Just stick to a good old Dorset/Texel/Do.....
» 17/03/2007 11:29:19 PM LL, I have been to the Middle East. I would be far more concerned with the welfare of the .....
» 17/03/2007 8:25:45 PM Sheesh, I will have to have a word to my two dogs! They spend half their days, doing natur.....
» 16/03/2007 10:34:22 PM Tao, thanks for contradicting yourself and replying to my post :) I remind you, that one o.....
» 16/03/2007 9:06:57 PM Hehe, the workers of Australia have united enough, to virtually own the 1 trillion$ invest.....
» 15/03/2007 10:30:02 PM "the 457 Temporary Visa programme is alive and well in WA and the inclusion of the me.....
» 15/03/2007 10:11:05 PM Tao, your theories have been tested to death and failed, as history shows. Time and time a.....
» 15/03/2007 8:11:43 PM "Yabby is never far away with his/her totally myopic support of "not sending far.....
» 14/03/2007 8:25:26 PM Oh dear, we have been through all these old chestnuts time and time again on OLO. Sounds l.....
» 4/03/2007 10:45:25 PM Wendy, I remind you that farmers interests are represented by two farming organisations, P.....
» 4/03/2007 9:25:05 PM Wendy, I don't want any fees lol. I am simply telling you the reality of the situation her.....
» 4/03/2007 8:00:39 PM Thats the problem Wendy, you don't know :) You can come up with all the theories, all the.....
» 4/03/2007 7:46:34 PM I can't see why it should be seen as a subsidy. Most of those taxes are in fact taxes that.....
» 4/03/2007 1:33:37 PM Ok here is a suggestion of good federal policy for you: Can all export marketing grants, .....
» 4/03/2007 1:04:19 PM "Why don't we have a competitive export-orientated economy? " Quite simple, bec.....
» 3/03/2007 9:15:16 PM Rojo, you are quite correct, there is a huge price difference! Given that most of these an.....
» 3/03/2007 7:52:12 PM "Come on Yabby this bloke up here for get twelve bucks for his goat which is then sol.....
» 1/03/2007 9:46:47 AM Wendy its not 50% whatever. Its 50% of money spent here in universities and research insti.....
» 28/02/2007 9:42:04 PM "MLA are funded by levies and the Government fifty x fifty Yabby." Wendy, you a.....
» 27/02/2007 8:33:02 PM "Since Australian farmers do not spend money to prevent animals suffering in Australi.....
» 25/02/2007 2:35:06 PM Well if you look at it from a historical perspective, the old prof made some valid points......
» 25/02/2007 3:34:00 AM Rex, your proposal makes far more sense then waving placards on wharves, just wanting to s.....
» 24/02/2007 2:00:58 PM Rex, I actually don't have a problem with Alan Carpenter, I think he's a smart fellow. If .....
» 24/02/2007 10:27:50 AM Rex, thanks for your post, its a welcome change. Lots of people comment on those legs, so.....
» 24/02/2007 12:43:18 AM "Anyway your a bit Rich. You are on record complaining about the Uns buggerying up pl.....
» 23/02/2007 10:47:02 PM Paleit, I think the real problem is your jumping to conclusions about what Kevin Rudd said.....
» 23/02/2007 11:52:47 AM "Many ordinary people hearing names like LandMark and Westfarmers DONT connect that w.....
» 21/02/2007 11:07:35 AM Well, perhaps Kevin is actually a smart fellow, who understands the great deal of misinfo.....
» 19/02/2007 7:39:48 PM Dickie, livestock breed all by themselves, no need for humans to interfere or do anything......
» 18/02/2007 7:20:07 PM Clearly Dickie and her cohorts don't have the foggiest about farming! Last I looked, farm.....
» 17/02/2007 10:14:39 PM Heather's notion that we should all be kind to animals, is one that I basically agree with.....
» 15/02/2007 9:57:30 PM Heather, you are free to try to use semantics, to make yourself feel better and justify y.....
» 14/02/2007 10:48:21 PM Heather, if there is a problem in one particular saleyard, in one particular State, thats .....
» 13/02/2007 10:30:25 PM "There is reported evdience that some animals are skinned while alive and conscious a.....
» 13/02/2007 8:43:59 PM Dickie, I remind you that virtually the whole lamb and most of the beef industry, are in f.....
» 12/02/2007 4:40:51 PM Wow Dickie, all that name calling! Perhaps its the orange hair that did it :) You clearly.....
» 12/02/2007 1:36:37 PM "We have already a “Big Debt Truck” it is called Government and its Bureaucracies; &q.....
» 11/02/2007 9:17:09 PM Heather, at some point you have to stop worrying about what others think and learn to reas.....
» 8/02/2007 7:28:46 AM "But most of all, by a stubborn resistance to God, and ill will to His grace." .....
» 7/02/2007 2:02:56 PM I'm not so sure why anyone thinks that that is amazing. The human species, with its slight.....
» 5/02/2007 7:55:03 PM "Another thing they dispise is the kind of mindless ideological ranting offered by Ya.....
» 5/02/2007 5:53:29 PM "I reiterate, population problems are a product of poverty;" You have it exactl.....
» 4/02/2007 1:28:08 PM Tony, the rest of us have done some thinking too, not just those that happen to agree with.....
» 3/02/2007 7:31:01 PM "People stop having kids when they become affluent." Caritas, perhaps you have .....
» 3/02/2007 1:48:16 PM For those serious about making stuff happen, WA is the place to be. Not just the NW. Lots .....
» 3/02/2007 1:28:37 PM Actually Dickie, I think you'll find that farmers are very much behind live exporters, tha.....
» 2/02/2007 4:17:51 PM FU2, I have an old geography school book from the 60s, in which it states that it was ille.....
» 2/02/2007 9:25:41 AM Brightspark, I remind you again and again, that the debt you talk about is not our country.....
» 2/02/2007 12:20:25 AM Billie, I know nothing about you, your personal experiences, what jobs you looked for, why.....
» 1/02/2007 5:12:43 PM "Don't care where your Nokia handset is manufactured. The IP (and profits) remain in .....
» 1/02/2007 2:41:37 PM Iluvatar, I remind you that the Dulmont Magnum had an Intel microprocessor. Aussie made y.....
» 1/02/2007 6:10:38 AM "It's been said that Australia is "a farm, a quarry and a nice place to visit&qu.....
» 31/01/2007 8:36:40 PM ROFL Dickie, clearly you don't know the first thing about sheep! You city types, still do.....
» 31/01/2007 3:13:18 PM "for other more innovative countries to value add to them and make a larger profit pe.....
» 31/01/2007 2:05:42 PM Wow Dickie, thats now two of you, out of two million! I remind you that the chief of the.....
» 30/01/2007 1:06:05 PM "So I say let the market decide because actions speak louder than words." Your .....
» 29/01/2007 7:17:30 PM Maxine is as bright as they come and any added intelligence on either side of the politica.....
» 28/01/2007 9:58:43 PM Poor old dickie is still getting her nickers in a twist :) Dickie, if chucks are a proble.....
» 27/01/2007 1:16:03 PM Clearly David doesent understand evolution theory! His ancestors were hunter-gatherers aft.....
» 27/01/2007 12:19:00 PM Yup, the world has changed Brightspark, but I doubt that you will put the genie back in th.....
» 26/01/2007 10:59:34 PM " The labour shortage is a furphy in nursing (wildcat), teaching, work in northern Au.....
» 26/01/2007 9:47:49 PM Well its all ended happily! Woolies got their advertising cheap, the farmers got 4.8$milli.....
» 26/01/2007 7:17:09 PM Best you just stick to eating the canned tuna Dickie, most of which is caught and canned o.....
» 26/01/2007 5:12:29 PM "re the Cowra abbattoirs - the owners have a local reputation for being MEAN," .....
» 25/01/2007 8:34:40 PM Wildcat, I think there are various explanations, not just one. Its in fact a trend in high.....
» 25/01/2007 8:04:15 PM So what are the feminists with hairy armpits and chips on their shoulders then ? :).....
» 25/01/2007 11:55:44 AM Wildcat, I remind you that people have eaten meat since forever, but obesity was never a p.....
» 25/01/2007 8:26:05 AM Clearly its not just WA that hasn't got enough meatworkers. According to this story, the s.....
» 24/01/2007 9:27:01 AM http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6355412,00.html kind of shows Cheney's ar.....
» 23/01/2007 9:21:34 PM I think alot of people are missing the point here. I certainly don't think that we need .....
» 23/01/2007 9:04:46 PM "Leaving aside the tax aspect, every aspect of a supermarket's supply chain is optimi.....
» 23/01/2007 10:49:36 AM Rojo, hehe good point! On the other hand it also pays to stand back and look at the figure.....
» 22/01/2007 8:16:43 PM The figures on price disparity are in fact quite public. We also know a great deal about f.....
» 22/01/2007 8:01:11 PM Wildcat, making a living somehow is part of nature. Everyone does it their way. Those who .....
» 22/01/2007 12:44:41 PM Ah Wildcat, you've made my point for me. Clearly there are jobs out there, but Aussies hav.....
» 21/01/2007 8:28:56 PM "He assumes that we all have shares in these operations that control the supermarkets.....
» 21/01/2007 2:03:01 PM Well I see it as a win-win situation, so can't see a problem with it! The CWA are not exa.....
» 20/01/2007 9:37:57 PM "I don't blame 'em either Yabby. I'd much rather die than become an animal murderer.&.....
» 20/01/2007 1:25:05 PM Brightspark, your corporation analogy is a particularly bad one. People are free to join o.....
» 19/01/2007 8:40:25 PM Given that the republican supreme court stole the election from Al Gore and handed it to .....
» 19/01/2007 7:23:26 PM "The question that still remains - how can you sell goods and services to customers w.....
» 18/01/2007 11:48:32 PM Billie, you are quite correct. Businesses are not the Salvation Army, nor the Red Cross. T.....
» 18/01/2007 8:48:39 AM Brightspark, I don't think that we put anybody on the scrapheap. Its not the Govt's role t.....
» 17/01/2007 11:06:51 PM Billie, the closure of Blundstone is clearly an issue between its customers and the family.....
» 17/01/2007 6:03:20 PM Brightspark, the paying off of Govt debt has had a huge effect. For a start, no billions .....
» 17/01/2007 5:38:18 PM Well Aqva, I have some good US friends, from the NE by the way. They claim that the South .....
» 16/01/2007 11:09:30 PM Wildcat, there is an economic theory, written some time ago, called the "Tragedy of t.....
» 16/01/2007 10:20:36 PM "You mistake your extreme left outlook and emotional attacks on America and Bush for .....
» 16/01/2007 10:02:12 PM "My question is: Do gay men produce sperm or ovum? Are they capable of fulfilling a m.....
» 16/01/2007 2:08:40 PM "Especially a country who at grass roots is working hard and spending billions to mak.....
» 16/01/2007 1:45:45 PM Brightspark, I remind you that the Fed Govt has virtually no debt, most of the debt we hav.....
» 15/01/2007 7:54:38 PM Well Billie, perhaps some of those car workers will have to move industries, to where the .....
» 15/01/2007 1:33:04 PM Aqva get real. Bremer was the one who liquidated the Iraqi army, result was hundreds of th.....
» 15/01/2007 1:20:44 PM Ah Wildcat, what you of course forget, is that today I have choice! I can buy an el cheap.....
» 14/01/2007 10:31:47 PM "the Menzies Mckeon government, things were much then better they are now, for exampl.....
» 14/01/2007 9:56:01 PM "The United States has the biggest national economy in the world, with a GDP for 2006.....
» 13/01/2007 2:17:02 PM "Australian citrus growers declared recently that orange prices had risen from $80 a .....
» 13/01/2007 1:48:40 PM I think there are huge regional differences here, but it seems people are unhappy, if the.....
» 11/01/2007 10:50:21 PM "But I prefer to try to understand the WHY, even if I dont like something. So thank y.....
» 8/01/2007 11:05:03 PM Ah Dickie, seeing the questions about your rhetoric were becoming increasingly hard for yo.....
» 7/01/2007 5:17:29 PM "Ask your supermarket manager/ grocer/ baker/ butcher for products made out of import.....
» 6/01/2007 11:48:58 PM "I've put my case up. Now its time for someone to post how capital punishment IS a de.....
» 6/01/2007 12:22:05 PM "Stick to the issue, Yabby. Anaesthetic!" Well dickie, if you have a bee in you.....
» 5/01/2007 7:38:39 PM "However, in the case of the US - you have a single country with a single history. On.....
» 5/01/2007 7:26:22 PM Dickie, you made more then a trivial error. What your comment in fact suggests is that you.....
» 4/01/2007 10:06:34 PM "I could give you a good crutching so you wont get flyblown? No anaesthetic, mind you.....
» 4/01/2007 8:37:38 PM "How to explain this? I believe it is because capital punishment teaches society that.....
» 3/01/2007 8:25:47 PM "Speaking personally, I support the notion of hanging Sadaam Hussein. I would, equal.....
» 3/01/2007 8:07:10 PM Well what the old papa did is a form of clever debate. If you think something, quote whoev.....
» 2/01/2007 10:16:51 PM "To answer a post of Robert's, I don't think it's because Hussein was a celebrity tha.....
» 2/01/2007 2:53:56 PM "Discussing this with him at Christmas, his comment was that westerners do not really.....
» 1/01/2007 11:24:25 PM Well I had my thoughts about Saddam, when I knew that they were about to string him up. He.....
» 29/12/2006 2:58:04 PM Well Tao, clearly your job was to make yourself feel good, as you havent achieved much els.....
» 28/12/2006 11:37:38 PM Pericles, hugely interesting links and also right at the cutting edge of science, so I'd s.....
» 26/12/2006 8:22:43 PM "Without their dedication, I doubt that you would be the bearer of news revealing sli.....
» 24/12/2006 10:21:28 AM Dickie once again arrogantly assumes to know what I or anyone else might be thinking. Arr.....
» 23/12/2006 10:51:52 PM Well, still no clearcut answers as to Tao's solutions for the world. Clearly a bit of verb.....
» 23/12/2006 1:00:55 PM Dickie, clearly you are no Pamela Anderson, so no point having you as a pin up girl for Pe.....
» 22/12/2006 11:12:16 PM Well slavery and Hitler were the law once, that does not make the law right, just legal at.....
» 22/12/2006 10:51:29 PM Well Tao is yet to state his clear agenda, but reading between the lines it sounds kind of.....
» 20/12/2006 10:35:29 PM "The only way to teach values in School is to teach law, teach kids that there are co.....
» 19/12/2006 1:31:13 PM "There must be a creeping suspicion that something is wrong as secular humanism cuts .....
» 17/12/2006 1:49:52 PM Tao you still don’t get it, but I didn’t think you would. Of course there still is poverty.....
» 16/12/2006 5:00:08 PM Tao, in 1990 I hired a young 17 year old girl in my business, fresh from school.. Whilst h.....
» 16/12/2006 12:04:57 PM "This is why scientists, those very intelligent people, can be so narrow, so uncultur.....
» 15/12/2006 2:41:24 PM "Yabby, what would happen if everyone started their own business at the same time?&qu.....
» 14/12/2006 8:45:10 PM Tao, I've heard plenty of extremely left wing Europeans refer to themselves as wage slaves.....
» 14/12/2006 5:41:34 PM HH, many thanks for the discussion, it was always clear to me that there could be no agree.....
» 14/12/2006 2:02:58 PM "Turn on your TV early on Sunday morning and you will get a does of secular Christian.....
» 13/12/2006 11:15:54 PM Tao, whichever way you want to argue it, fact is that Japan is one of the wealthiest count.....
» 13/12/2006 9:27:01 PM I think the religious will always try to dream up reasons to put down the various secular .....
» 13/12/2006 12:54:08 AM HH, of course embryos are not referred to as corpses. You might well freeze and unfreeze e.....
» 12/12/2006 11:56:19 PM Well just to piss everbody else off :), I've kind of achieved financial security and I di.....
» 12/12/2006 12:20:50 PM HH, I remind you that cryopreserved bodies were declared clinically dead, before the proce.....
» 11/12/2006 10:08:33 PM Tao, I think you are living in dreamland, if you think that a third world economy, where p.....
» 11/12/2006 2:08:16 PM HH- yes you contain the same string of dna as you did when you were conceived, but you mig.....
» 11/12/2006 1:40:20 PM Tao, whilst watching a TV doco about conditions in one Chinese factory might have pushed y.....
» 10/12/2006 8:15:16 PM "And according to you Chinese factory workers have never had it so good, and its gett.....
» 10/12/2006 1:04:37 PM "You see.. YABBY..and others....mantra 'GO HI-TECH' has one fatal flaw..the CHINESE a.....
» 10/12/2006 12:48:13 PM HH, what your argument boils down to, is basically a question of semantics. One definitio.....
» 8/12/2006 10:48:53 PM BD, I think you still don't get the idea of the global economy and comparative advantage. .....
» 7/12/2006 1:13:52 PM "Killing a zygote is murder." Its been great to see that reason has prevailed i.....
» 7/12/2006 12:25:08 PM Well Wiz, the reality from WA might well be to sail em up the coast, to a plant in Indones.....
» 6/12/2006 9:34:30 PM I welcome Kevin and Julia to the leadership! It sure lifts the standard of political debat.....
» 6/12/2006 2:03:45 PM Cris, no disdain for altruists at all. Simply an understanding about why so called “selfle.....
» 5/12/2006 9:19:34 PM BD, on this one you clearly confuse me! You claim to be a Xtian, so when 2 billion people .....
» 5/12/2006 7:23:22 PM Cris, I’m not saying anything is preferable, simply that its acceptable and most of the We.....
» 4/12/2006 9:25:26 PM Nicky, you are free to dream all you want! My point is that if your dreams get carried awa.....
» 4/12/2006 8:51:49 PM Cris, I remind you that there is no such thing as objective morality, simply our subjectiv.....
» 3/12/2006 8:21:59 PM "Well then we should have shown far more appreciation for Paul Keating as an intellig.....
» 3/12/2006 3:37:18 PM I have to agree with you on this one Graham. I'm not looking for leaders that I love as th.....
» 3/12/2006 2:25:57 PM "Please afford those who hold supernatural philosophies/beliefs the same respect you .....
» 1/12/2006 9:55:56 PM Cris, to me the most important thing for kids to know is that they were really wanted from.....
» 1/12/2006 2:48:20 PM "We actually need animals in the mix to keep the eco system going. Over cultivation o.....
» 1/12/2006 11:32:47 AM Cris, rather then trust your judgement, given your obvious agenda, well meaning as it may .....
» 1/12/2006 8:01:56 AM Nicky, given that you won’t even apply the five freedoms to farmers, clearly you don’t pra.....
» 30/11/2006 8:30:36 PM Nicky, I remind you that herbivores have been farting on this planet for a long time :) It.....
» 30/11/2006 2:58:22 PM Well Cris, what I have learned is about the dangers of the slippery slope of taking too mu.....
» 30/11/2006 10:00:45 AM Nicky, yup I read all the so called evil things that us people who farm pigs, cattle, shee.....
» 29/11/2006 10:28:07 PM HH, given the options, you did not answer my moral dilemma question, but I had good reaso.....
» 29/11/2006 8:05:40 PM Nicky, the list of diseases that can affect sheep is as long as your arm. If you are reall.....
» 29/11/2006 1:24:49 PM Cris, what I meant seems bleeding obvious to me. Unless humanity lives sustainably and tha.....
» 29/11/2006 8:02:05 AM Nicky, one of the hardest things to explain to non sheep people like yourself, is the natu.....
» 28/11/2006 7:57:14 PM HH, when I mention “practical” in a certain context, let me put to you again the weird sou.....
» 27/11/2006 11:33:18 PM Cris, I'm sorry if I expressed myself very unclearly or if you misunderstood my post. I w.....
» 27/11/2006 10:35:08 PM Nicky, in 2001 I was actually a customer of AQIS, so received detailed reports about how t.....
» 27/11/2006 8:50:53 PM I’m not running away from any point Nicky, but I don’t agree with your moral decency comme.....
» 27/11/2006 4:10:39 PM Cris, a good judge is one who can see the big picture and look at things from various pers.....
» 27/11/2006 3:20:07 PM Holyshadow, you were clearly never a member of your school debating team I suggest that yo.....
» 27/11/2006 8:08:22 AM PF, very good point! I think that even pale would have had to laugh at her own last post :.....
» 27/11/2006 7:10:19 AM Nicky “everyone knows” is not an answer lol. I simply pointed out the myth of your claim. .....
» 26/11/2006 10:27:02 PM "In all of these options not one life is experimented upon or destroyed." Cris,.....
» 26/11/2006 9:23:34 PM My my holyshadow, may I suggest that after today's posts, you try getting out of the other.....
» 26/11/2006 10:55:38 AM "It is pretty clear that your 'wealth of knowledge' hails from a quick Google before .....
» 26/11/2006 10:31:37 AM "My earlier statement **I go further and suggest we should not detrimentally interfer.....
» 26/11/2006 9:55:26 AM "Benny is a farmer and I suggested to Graham he call a number I gave him to speak wit.....
» 26/11/2006 9:40:21 AM Nicky, Cameron is certainly impartial compared to you lol. Read his paper, plenty of quest.....
» 25/11/2006 9:24:24 PM Fester, as a matter of beside the point, I'd like to congratulate you on your great questi.....
» 25/11/2006 8:55:44 PM "It would seem Farmer, that Yabby is targeting you believing you to be someone else w.....
» 25/11/2006 8:38:44 PM Nicky, lets face it, we could not put you on a boat as an impartial observer, as you are c.....
» 25/11/2006 8:32:55 PM Antje, PF has asked you before to explain your holy grail of creek fed, but you never have.....
» 24/11/2006 11:14:15 PM Nicky, interesting that you should go around and measure the length of sheeps wool, to see.....
» 24/11/2006 10:54:28 PM Sheesh, I go and get some work done and come back to 6 pages of comments! HS, I certainly .....
» 24/11/2006 12:16:20 AM Cris, the fact that I was born is mere chance. As a child, my mother commented many times .....
» 23/11/2006 11:52:51 PM ROFL alleged farmer, now we have a hobby farmer with a few pet Wiltshires and Shropshires,.....
» 23/11/2006 4:25:27 PM "I have recently turned down an offer for my prime lambs from a farmer up in the irri.....
» 23/11/2006 10:51:43 AM No puzzle about this debate at all Cris. I realise that I am here by cheer chance. Had my .....
» 23/11/2006 12:25:40 AM http://www.marinelink.com/Story/ShowStory.aspx?StoryID=201497 Thats just a couple that I .....
» 22/11/2006 10:27:07 PM Cris no conflict at all, you should read the context in which they were written. One was a.....
» 22/11/2006 10:02:31 PM Nicky, the world is full of bureaucratically minded business consultants, who can tell peo.....
» 22/11/2006 4:59:18 PM http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Australia "Western Australia, with about 10% of.....
» 22/11/2006 3:22:25 PM Ok so let me sum it up so far: First we have our fearless GoldCoast animal libbers, they .....
» 21/11/2006 11:52:25 PM Cris, I certainly am answering HH's questions, just in a differnt way then you might like .....
» 21/11/2006 4:54:44 PM HH-the line that I draw in the sand, is in fact pretty well now becoming the accepted one .....
» 21/11/2006 2:20:13 PM ROFL Ozgirl, good to see you have now become a sheep farmer :).....
» 20/11/2006 11:26:21 PM HH, I see the world in such a different way then you do, that frankly I can't make head or.....
» 20/11/2006 4:37:15 PM Ok, you want my honest opinion, I printed out your 5 page submission over lunch and read i.....
» 20/11/2006 3:18:31 PM HH-what I am saying is that the basics of morality evolved in various social species, as i.....
» 19/11/2006 11:52:15 PM Umm Nicky, just to inform you, a country that does not pay its bills needs to borrow from .....
» 19/11/2006 11:10:13 PM Nicky, of course I will include you, as you are yet another ill informed city slicker, pas.....
» 19/11/2006 9:48:15 PM "This trade exists because of greed. Farmers were happy to see meat workers' jobs dis.....
» 19/11/2006 1:52:01 PM Cris, one of the interesting things about reality, is that it does not go away, when we cl.....
» 19/11/2006 12:54:59 PM Perhaps its time that the Archbishop contemplated his navel and accepted the role that rel.....
» 18/11/2006 11:51:40 PM Cris, I remind you that the heart is a pump, no more. It can be a pigs heart, an engineere.....
» 18/11/2006 10:27:26 AM HH- you are free to speculate about angels, martians and gods if you wish, but if we look .....
» 17/11/2006 4:04:54 PM HH, the Catholic dictionary tells us that Boethius’s definition of person “can hardly be c.....
» 17/11/2006 3:15:50 PM Well I for one, certainly wish PF well, if she decides to take on the free range pig farmi.....
» 16/11/2006 8:20:51 PM Cris, thats fine, as you correctly note, for many people the brain is a total enigma. If y.....
» 16/11/2006 12:23:44 PM What about umm let me see "Free Range Pigs" -farming happy, healthy pigs the na.....
» 16/11/2006 8:02:35 AM HH, a person is somebody with a human brain, a cell has no human brain. When you are aslee.....
» 15/11/2006 8:08:55 AM Ok to add my 5c worth here :) PF, you are clearly an intelligent lady who knows lots abou.....
» 15/11/2006 7:59:52 AM HH, if Jack is in a deep coma, its a bit like Jack being asleep. He has a human brain whic.....
» 14/11/2006 8:09:50 PM HH, conception just happens to be where you have drawn your particular line in the sand. I.....
» 14/11/2006 8:00:25 AM "The report by R Nicholson in 2002 showed each tax paer forking out around $650.00 PA.....
» 13/11/2006 11:08:32 PM HH, questions of where to draw moral boundaries, come up in society on a constant basis. W.....
» 13/11/2006 10:52:49 PM Nicky, ok I will give you a break! You are free to check out the MLA budget and explain to.....
» 13/11/2006 8:52:42 PM "It turns out that MLA receives grants only for r&d, all the rest of the budget is fi.....
» 13/11/2006 1:51:17 PM HH, the moral question as to what has a right to life is a subjective one, as we have no e.....
» 12/11/2006 10:55:29 PM "Your now telling the public that no pulbic funds go into MLA, or livecourpe. It does.....
» 12/11/2006 10:32:18 PM "I for one, don't consider an embryo to be a human being" TLTR, I have to agree.....
» 12/11/2006 9:58:58 PM "I think if you have something to say on a public forum that you want people to consi.....
» 12/11/2006 3:22:53 PM "Your arguement to some extent is a nonsense..for everything in our economy is funded.....
» 12/11/2006 2:23:33 PM "You may have a point that some pple sit on here and argue amongst themselves, but th.....
» 12/11/2006 11:13:45 AM "Every embryo is unique and is therefore by definition, rare." Unique embryos a.....
» 11/11/2006 3:23:59 PM "Definition of an organism - any living thing. That does include people." Sure .....
» 11/11/2006 3:09:04 PM I think that some posters are under the false impression that if a poster starts a thread,.....
» 11/11/2006 2:56:27 PM GZ, yup you can make certain claims and set boundaries to the negative, but I can claim a .....
» 10/11/2006 9:35:59 PM "we have all passed through many stages in life.. and ALL of us have at one stage bee.....
» 9/11/2006 9:53:11 PM (1) we know exactly what a tooth fairy looks like; (2) we have all the magic to force a to.....
» 9/11/2006 8:38:15 PM GZ, its common wisdom, but less common knowledge then you think. Plenty of religionists w.....
» 9/11/2006 2:22:48 PM "I wonder what all these animal groups actually do with the donations and funds they .....
» 8/11/2006 11:38:33 PM "And it has removed your own humanity as well. We might as well declare it every many.....
» 8/11/2006 2:54:54 PM Well I really do think that there are solutions, they are just perhaps different to what m.....
» 6/11/2006 11:26:16 PM Runner, I grant you that understanding 3 billion plus years of evolution, the evidence for.....
» 6/11/2006 8:34:57 PM It seems to me that Andrew does not know a lot about farming. You can farm anywhere, its .....
» 5/11/2006 10:32:08 PM "It is extraordinary that you cite an example of inconsistency as an example of consi.....
» 5/11/2006 9:52:24 PM Runner, the only evidence we have about souls, is that they were a great invention by anci.....
» 5/11/2006 9:38:44 PM Well if the truth be known, Remco's banana republic, would not even have bananas to trade,.....
» 5/11/2006 1:39:06 PM "or pseudo science groups that teach we evolved from apes." Umm Runner, not pse.....
» 5/11/2006 1:07:02 PM Antje, yup Telstra have brought out NextG for yuppies and their laptops, but monthly fees .....
» 5/11/2006 12:53:41 PM "Is it really consistent to hold that certain types of comments are or are not accept.....
» 4/11/2006 7:39:34 PM Well Antje, the Catholics were horrified when they brought up Mother Theresa and the Pope .....
» 4/11/2006 7:20:54 PM Dickie, the snip should be available for both genders, when they want it. Thats the point,.....
» 4/11/2006 2:21:15 PM Well there is actually an economic theory on all this, called the tragedy of the commons. .....
» 4/11/2006 1:43:07 PM "argue does not change the simple fact that we are made in God's image! " Shees.....
» 4/11/2006 9:33:28 AM Well I wish that Graham installed a button to just download the last 10 posts, rather then.....
» 3/11/2006 5:06:02 PM No cultural ignorance at all YngN. Fact is that plenty of surveys have shown that many wom.....
» 3/11/2006 Ok let me get this straight here: "*You need a chain of vegetarian fast food stores......
» 2/11/2006 10:21:41 PM There is a clear correlation between poverty and family planning. If women in Africa are f.....
» 2/11/2006 2:51:57 PM "Why is there 60,000 Muslims in Egyptian prisons held without charge then? Be objecti.....
» 2/11/2006 2:22:27 PM Well Remco, its all quite simple. Free up the labour market in the meat industry and farme.....
» 2/11/2006 10:10:29 AM Well Nicky, I've seen my share of anemic looking vegetarians, so am not so convinced of yo.....
» 1/11/2006 11:19:24 PM "If alternative meats and products, vegetarian if you like, were eventually returning.....
» 1/11/2006 10:17:03 PM "Why shouldn't China and India and other developing nations be allowed to increase th.....
» 1/11/2006 3:33:15 PM Ok Remco, I will explain it slower, until you do get it. I happen to think that the ratra.....
» 1/11/2006 7:01:08 AM Sheesh Remco, it seems to me that you remain confused :) One moment you call for market ba.....
» 31/10/2006 10:34:16 PM "you will have an element of choice about how, and even possibly when, you die,".....
» 31/10/2006 9:14:35 PM "Yabby's is "Wannabe Wannabe"" ROFL Rainier. Actually Yabby simply ma.....
» 31/10/2006 8:53:50 PM Well Nicky, sweet and innocent as you sound, you have to get your mind around reality. The.....
» 31/10/2006 3:04:59 PM Remco I think its you who don't get it! Australia spends 90 billion on welfare, most of it.....
» 30/10/2006 9:59:21 PM Well Remco, lets look at another angle of this. If you city slickers have no income, you g.....
» 30/10/2006 7:52:49 PM Rainer, perhaps you should have :) Actually I know quite a few academics who hate their .....
» 30/10/2006 3:40:03 PM Few in the West know much about Sayyid Qutb, but a read of his "Milestones", is .....
» 30/10/2006 2:20:07 PM "How amazingly self centred are those that can lay claim to public money to practice .....
» 29/10/2006 10:17:38 PM "Yet I see you all behaving like nothing more than a bunch of old biddies in a consta.....
» 29/10/2006 9:36:45 PM Education is a key, but IMHO aptitude is the secret. You can force people to learn all sor.....
» 28/10/2006 10:08:05 PM Wayfarer, if you check your post of Friday the 27th, I snipped your post word for word, so.....
» 28/10/2006 9:52:33 PM No porkies at all, just confusion as usual in the Gold Coast girls club! Fact is anyone .....
» 28/10/2006 2:48:27 PM "Everyone on here has used more than one name..to have access to more posts and variu.....
» 28/10/2006 2:18:50 PM Actually not so West. The real problem with Australia is that it started off with a Britis.....
» 28/10/2006 2:02:15 PM Actually Antje, the real problem was your jumping to conclusions. "Not so long ago&qu.....
» 27/10/2006 9:23:13 PM West, fact is that neither you nor I can predict what effects the new IR laws will have o.....
» 27/10/2006 8:54:47 PM Amitarian, I am not apologising for anyone. Fact is the HL made a big case about violenc.....
» 27/10/2006 8:39:43 PM Remco, if farmers gave up as easily as you encourage, when they hit a snag, frankly you wo.....
» 27/10/2006 3:26:35 PM A venture does not have to be about money, it can be about anything. Nobody is destroying .....
» 27/10/2006 2:22:33 PM Well as it happens I am about the same age as you are. A friend of mine, about my age, use.....
» 27/10/2006 12:05:57 PM Antje, I think the real problem is that you are trying to use this forum as a constant adv.....
» 27/10/2006 11:13:56 AM West, Australia is made up of all sorts of people. Look around you, plenty are thriving an.....
» 26/10/2006 10:30:25 PM West, you completely forget that even the head of the employers, is in fact an employee, a.....
» 26/10/2006 9:25:22 PM Remco, I come from the most efficient farming district in Aus, namely West Australia. Note.....
» 26/10/2006 3:19:28 PM Remco, you are either confused or dodging the question. The economic efficiency of most f.....
» 26/10/2006 2:42:30 PM No West, I am not saying that at all. I am saying that consumers ultimately decide the val.....
» 26/10/2006 2:17:36 PM "Yes millions of Animals are killed in Australia- by bolt or gun if in the bush norma.....
» 26/10/2006 11:46:37 AM West, you are free to claim that your time is worth whatever you like, the same with your .....
» 26/10/2006 11:04:42 AM "If agriculture is prepared to pay decent wages, or the workers get tax incentives an.....
» 26/10/2006 10:43:28 AM "People’s time is worth far more than any business can afford." In reality, peo.....
» 25/10/2006 10:44:25 PM I certainly think that the PFdot imposter, is a worrying development on OLO. I note that t.....
» 25/10/2006 8:12:20 PM Remco, you of course miss one vital point! If we compare farmgate prices of the commoditie.....
» 25/10/2006 3:07:59 PM "Australia is not dependent on an export economy" Hehe West, what do you think .....
» 25/10/2006 2:46:02 PM "Perseus, get it, 3 per cent is 3 per cent and that sector seeks to get taxpayer hand.....
» 25/10/2006 11:47:56 AM Banjo, you are free to be against using labour on short term visas, but you have yet to st.....
» 24/10/2006 11:45:51 PM Graham, funny that you should raise that point :) When I first joined the net in 1995, the.....
» 24/10/2006 10:31:54 PM Well Angelo, its quite simple. If Aussies don't want the jobs, they won't let us bring in .....
» 24/10/2006 9:56:42 PM "I should think a fee and/or providing identity will largely reduce the incidence of .....
» 24/10/2006 9:48:51 PM "you're extremely naive if you believe one word of truth comes from any Australian pu.....
» 24/10/2006 8:56:57 PM Ok Batman, I'll add my 5c worth :) Try and look at the big picture. At the end of the day,.....
» 24/10/2006 10:11:24 AM Divergence, thanks for your post. Virtually all workers in Aus are benefitting from the mi.....
» 24/10/2006 8:19:13 AM Well in today's SMH there is an article claiming that over 80% of rapes in the UK are asso.....
» 24/10/2006 7:58:02 AM Well I have to say I'm glad that some of that multiple id thinggy ended, it was becoming a.....
» 23/10/2006 3:28:32 PM "Where is your evidence that my opinion is "uninformed"?" Ok sheesh L.....
» 23/10/2006 2:49:10 PM "Live animal exports is definitely one case where money outweighs human decency. The .....
» 23/10/2006 2:14:38 PM "Despite what you have heard lots of them still dont use the net. Wouldnt have it on .....
» 22/10/2006 10:31:17 PM "I think Yabby that all this stuff about roos dying in drought is just a red herring .....
» 22/10/2006 9:13:41 PM "not many roos die of hunger..not saying it doesnt happen though" How do you kn.....
» 22/10/2006 9:02:11 PM "I suppose that workers like those would be more likely to earn better money in other.....
» 22/10/2006 8:19:52 PM Ok Taurus, so read what the CSIRO says about roos dying of hunger. http://www.csiro.au/fi.....
» 22/10/2006 8:08:15 PM "What do you know? How many victims of pornography have you interviewed systematicall.....
» 22/10/2006 1:57:44 PM Taurus, when you have a largescale drought as now, you can hop as long as you like, if oth.....
» 22/10/2006 10:42:22 AM "Not so. Aussie workers could be marched in." Not so FG, not in today's society.....
» 22/10/2006 10:11:01 AM Great article, great points and a very sad story. People in city ivory towers closed down .....
» 22/10/2006 9:52:33 AM "I am personally not interested in responding to your comments, which have little to .....
» 21/10/2006 8:24:44 PM "If the farmers could guarantee 40 hours per week min. at $20 per hour there would be.....
» 20/10/2006 8:24:17 PM "A girl or woman is sexually assaulted every couple of minutes in the U.S. The number.....
» 20/10/2006 7:32:36 PM Taurus, I for one will try to never lose my sense of humour. You can take the "intell.....
» 20/10/2006 10:33:21 AM Wenny, I'm not sure if you understand how the art of politics works. The libs may well con.....
» 19/10/2006 11:10:57 PM I've just been reading the Weekly Times, a Victorian farming paper, plus watching the news.....
» 19/10/2006 10:29:49 PM "A girl or woman is sexually assaulted every couple of minutes in the U.S. The number.....
» 19/10/2006 10:12:34 PM Rachel, who are intelligent posters on here is a matter of opinion:) PF, good points abou.....
» 19/10/2006 9:14:14 PM Actually Steve, city slickers still do rely very much on farming. Take away ag exports fro.....
» 19/10/2006 3:36:53 PM Steve I was not having a go at you. To be honest, I don't know the rules about dole eligib.....
» 19/10/2006 2:51:29 PM Well my point is this Steve, if you want to make it fair, so make it fair. If somebody wit.....
» 19/10/2006 1:59:24 PM Well I think that any kind of voting button is a bad idea. Lots of people once believed t.....
» 19/10/2006 10:38:28 AM Actually Banjo, if you look at my post on Graham's farmer subsidies thread, I have already.....
» 19/10/2006 10:11:18 AM PF, once again you make some very good points! Most of the points brought up now, as simpl.....
» 19/10/2006 9:09:06 AM "Yabby, I suspect your argument assumes that demand for beef is completely elastic an.....
» 18/10/2006 9:17:00 PM Well benny, get used to it, doctors are people just like you or I, I am fairly sure that H.....
» 18/10/2006 7:24:30 PM Ok to add my 5c worth, which will take more then 1 post :) Once again this is not a black.....
» 18/10/2006 6:40:24 PM Celivia, Hugh is clearly wrong in some of the claims he made two years ago, but then the i.....
» 17/10/2006 5:41:49 PM RT, it would be nice if you could actually discuss live exports and stick to the thread, r.....
» 17/10/2006 8:32:39 AM Wizard, that article was only the first of five that was published in the Countryman in Ju.....
» 16/10/2006 8:51:04 PM PF, exactly! I don't think its occured to Rachel/Taurus, that farmers pop in to their hous.....
» 16/10/2006 2:25:52 PM Its clearly not well known Rachel, just various claims by various animal welfare groups, a.....
» 16/10/2006 12:14:16 PM "..well kangaroos can move around at will at least, sheep are locked away and kept pr.....
» 15/10/2006 11:13:51 PM Umm, your funding sounds like hocus pocus to me. Firstly farmers prefer to own their farms.....
» 15/10/2006 8:15:33 PM "However the real facts are animals are trucked thousands of miles from state to stat.....
» 15/10/2006 4:55:47 PM Sigh PF. I miss you already. We'll have to do all that again soon :).....
» 6/10/2006 5:44:18 PM "Attraction (with a view to marraige and maybe reproduction in the normal scheme of t.....
» 6/10/2006 2:41:43 PM "Until all farmers denounce both these barbaric practices," antje and wendy umm.....
» 5/10/2006 9:13:10 PM "For most of human existence, humans have been brutish, violent, and interested in ha.....
» 5/10/2006 11:28:40 AM Yareckon, foxes are still shot on a regular basis, not for skins, never have been around h.....
» 4/10/2006 10:14:25 PM "And If being a "feminist" means aspiring to a world in which women and gir.....
» 4/10/2006 5:16:38 PM Well Rachel, we don't want to be accused by the animal libbers of discrimination now do we.....
» 3/10/2006 11:19:32 PM Dickie, if you'd been in the outback you would know that pigs squeal like hell alot of the.....
» 3/10/2006 7:47:29 PM Dickie, happy to discuss facts! Fact is about a million babies a year in the US alone are .....
» 3/10/2006 1:40:45 PM "On the upside, one can take heart that some sectors of our community are more evolve.....
» 2/10/2006 10:01:36 PM "but would like to hear your reasoning on what appears to be your indifference to the.....
» 2/10/2006 8:23:53 PM "Therefore,our concerns will reduce farmers' profits" Actually not so Dickie, w.....
» 2/10/2006 1:26:29 PM "Yabby, I thought you may have been in to the dorpers and damaras? Or are they crossb.....
» 2/10/2006 12:23:15 PM "Im all boobies ,hair ,nails and butt but you guys you just love it.." Umm quit.....
» 30/09/2006 11:17:33 PM "Yabby Im a girl..pig crap is not my thing..:)" The thing is Ozgirl, farming is.....
» 30/09/2006 8:35:57 PM Ozgirl, quite frankly your posts remind me of a school playground in Kiddiesville, where l.....
» 30/09/2006 4:53:45 PM "The Pope has spoken before about these matters" The pope would not have the fo.....
» 30/09/2006 4:11:34 PM "The Public Say Ban Live Exports." The public say no such thing. The public kno.....
» 29/09/2006 9:14:50 PM ROFl Ozgirl, I am fine. I'm simply fussy when it comes to whom I hangout with. Don't you w.....
» 29/09/2006 5:47:39 PM "Your view that they are the Christian Taliban is so ridiculous." Actaully in t.....
» 29/09/2006 2:46:47 PM PF, AFAIK it just made business sense for them to move to shelters. Those concrete buildin.....
» 29/09/2006 2:36:57 PM Yup I saw the programme. Looks like Philo perhaps did too and has now gone to ground about.....
» 29/09/2006 8:11:01 AM "No business is going to abandon sheds that could be worth millions and put their pig.....
» 28/09/2006 11:05:18 PM Well sure its fact Ozgirl, fact is that as time passes, men are less slaves to their testo.....
» 28/09/2006 10:42:27 PM "You guys get the good deal compared to Catholics. ( :" Well MJ, perhaps that e.....
» 28/09/2006 9:35:15 PM "Then they should acknowledge that nothing the American military does there can work .....
» 28/09/2006 8:43:53 PM "You cannot discredit the majority of posters on there as 'hypocrites'." Umm Oz.....
» 27/09/2006 6:24:52 PM "You middle men are the ones against it for your trade dollars!" Umm not sure w.....
» 27/09/2006 9:49:40 AM Antje, I'm not really sure what you are getting your knickers in a twist about there, make.....
» 26/09/2006 8:46:35 PM I think that there are all sorts of people with all sorts of motivations out there. Some .....
» 26/09/2006 8:27:35 PM Kalin, you have to be careful what you label "terrorists". Its not as black and .....
» 26/09/2006 3:12:04 PM "Such colourful hyperbole is not conducive to rational argument." Kalin you are.....
» 26/09/2006 2:53:32 PM I'm sure that the animal libbers mean well, but to me their posts show a clear lack of kno.....
» 25/09/2006 8:40:09 PM Kalin, you forget that the US funded some of those Jihadi groups and trained some, in orde.....
» 25/09/2006 8:16:43 PM "(look out tamyn has just ripped that kid off the tit and is racing for the keyboard).....
» 25/09/2006 2:28:20 PM So Taryn, let me get this straight. You seem to be saying that you have no problem with ri.....
» 25/09/2006 2:07:11 PM In response to your question Kalin, let me ask you a question. If I came to your house and.....
» 25/09/2006 9:54:51 AM I agree with Celivia, its the cult leaders that are the problem, usually not the members, .....
» 24/09/2006 11:30:44 PM "There are numerous advantages to the Patsy style of government, particularly in a de.....
» 24/09/2006 9:19:09 PM Taryn, how you see yourself and how others see you are sometimes not the same. I notice t.....
» 24/09/2006 8:08:00 PM Celivia is right, the churches thread was once again off topic and yup, those points that .....
» 24/09/2006 4:12:04 PM We get much sanctamonious preaching on OLO from animal libbers, about what should and coul.....
» 24/09/2006 11:11:33 AM "Its the greedy little middle man who wants to stop live exports" ROFL Antje, i.....
» 24/09/2006 12:00:34 AM Celivia, I think you miss the points I am trying to make. I am trying to see the world, no.....
» 23/09/2006 9:48:19 PM Celivia, I explained the deaths story, explain to me where my reasoning is wrong. Have you.....
» 23/09/2006 8:37:14 PM Snout, yup about your post, but thats exactly the problem. If a world leader is regarded .....
» 23/09/2006 8:14:01 PM Taryn, alot of that stuff from Hugh is old stuff, from years ago. In 2005 new standards w.....
» 23/09/2006 3:09:17 PM "Four Corners is equally subversive so it will pander to your opinion." What ab.....
» 22/09/2006 10:28:15 PM Philo, the Bretheren might be up your moral alley, but I too have lots of questions about .....
» 22/09/2006 9:27:19 PM http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/5369198.stm discusses threats made to Pakistan, by .....
» 22/09/2006 8:21:33 PM "["whats 38 thousand dead sheep from stress on boats' For eg" Taryn, thats.....
» 21/09/2006 9:01:20 PM Great article and great logic, but I'd say that you are more an exception rather then the.....
» 21/09/2006 1:52:51 PM MJ, you are correct, lots of defaming going on, like claims about the live export trade, w.....
» 20/09/2006 6:54:36 PM "Defaming someone’s business without thorough investigation of the facts" Ok Ce.....
» 20/09/2006 10:01:55 AM "Combine the best of both worlds. Use as many natural inputs as possible, look at eve.....
» 19/09/2006 8:28:53 PM Rupert, yup, the middle ground is the idea. At the moment we kind of have two extremes. W.....
» 19/09/2006 7:45:26 PM I still think that a standard is needed, somewhere in between normal farming and organics.....
» 19/09/2006 3:20:07 PM "Question to You is will you still do that?" Wendy, no I would not still do tha.....
» 18/09/2006 2:34:28 PM "If you wish to be taken seriously then you need to take other people seriously as we.....
» 18/09/2006 12:54:49 PM "I don't hold much hope for Yabby who raison d'etre is to diss everything" Actu.....
» 17/09/2006 8:33:50 AM Wendy you are free to be obsessed about the live trade and claim that things happen which .....
» 16/09/2006 11:41:37 PM Celivia, nobody has attacked the Catholic Church about its role in politics more then I ha.....
» 16/09/2006 11:03:16 PM Rofl Wendy, with your passion and imagination, perhaps your true destiny is to write Mills.....
» 16/09/2006 9:36:15 PM "Could it be because controlling sex is a woman’s primary tool in gaining compliance .....
» 16/09/2006 2:59:55 PM Scout, I was not even thinking of her comments to me, but to others like Graham and Philo .....
» 16/09/2006 9:41:33 AM "38,000 sheep died in transit and this is acceptable?" Umm, given the 4 million.....
» 15/09/2006 11:52:35 PM Celivia, life is a great leveller. Wether you are a sheep or a Celivia, your fate is much .....
» 15/09/2006 11:26:40 PM Sadly, some of the nutter animal lib groups like Peta, claim that he was evil! http://www.....
» 15/09/2006 11:00:51 PM Well Celivia, judging by your last post, when the worms finally devour your carcass one da.....
» 15/09/2006 10:49:04 PM Celivia, your posts once again highlighted to me, the so called city-country gap. You are .....
» 15/09/2006 10:30:19 PM I've commented on all this on the other AW thread. An up to date objective analysis of the.....
» 15/09/2006 10:02:05 PM Alchemist, I don't know if you have ever studied the Swiss version of democracy, but I qui.....
» 15/09/2006 3:48:36 PM Philo, the thing is that the Catholic Church, coming from the papa himeself, has ackowledg.....
» 14/09/2006 8:57:02 PM Looks like I've run out of posts on the AW thread, but as everyone seems to be posting on .....
» 14/09/2006 6:06:09 PM Wendy, your last post was frankly a heap of mumbo jumbo, I certainly could make no sense o.....
» 14/09/2006 5:26:34 PM Alchemist, I agree with your concept, in both computers and politics, but I think that onl.....
» 14/09/2006 11:07:30 AM Wendy dear, your contribution to Middle East animal welfare through your taxes, would be a.....
» 13/09/2006 11:35:44 PM Pigfarmer, marketing freerange meat, compared to factory farmed stuff, comes down to simil.....
» 13/09/2006 10:34:04 PM Celivia, I am sure you did not know this. Lots of stuff that you don't know, that happens .....
» 13/09/2006 10:23:31 PM Wendy, the press, including the rural press, is full of stories of labour shortages in nor.....
» 13/09/2006 9:50:49 PM Pigfarmer, do you have the foggiest business skills or knowledge about marketing at all? Y.....
» 13/09/2006 9:29:59 PM Alchemist, I believe that some people have the intelligence to change things for the bette.....
» 13/09/2006 7:24:11 AM Pigfarmer, sounds to me like you have an understanding marketing problem. Here is an exam.....
» 12/09/2006 11:18:50 PM Ozgirl, why thank you :) Feel free to email me on bonobo@westnet.com.au and I will answer .....
» 12/09/2006 10:22:20 PM Alchemist, I admire the deep philosophical thoughts that you have, but I think you vastly .....
» 12/09/2006 10:00:42 PM "re Kangaroos This is one of the largest cruel mass slaughters in human history and c.....
» 12/09/2006 9:33:25 PM Like the saying goes, "never let the facts interfere with a good story". How tru.....
» 11/09/2006 11:47:18 PM My God Benny, 600 thou of your money (plus 20 million others) for animal welfare in the Mi.....
» 11/09/2006 9:10:44 PM Pigfarmer, if your sheep are not footloose, its not hard to change your management. Perhap.....
» 11/09/2006 3:43:44 PM Scout, one of the most interesting things about the live export debate that has really hit.....
» 11/09/2006 3:23:49 PM Antje, to answer your questions, yes far more jobs are created then lost, especially in re.....
» 10/09/2006 10:28:36 PM "it is a shame you cannot transfer that passion over to another animal issues, since .....
» 10/09/2006 5:23:21 PM Rofl Wendy, imagining things about what you claim I said to discredit me, is not going to .....
» 10/09/2006 2:57:51 PM Wendy, its all old footage and you know it. But of course that interferes with your little.....
» 10/09/2006 2:38:45 PM Antje, the thing is, we don't live in Russiastan or similar. You cannot compel people to d.....
» 10/09/2006 1:40:57 PM Antje, lives exports is an industry, because it makes rational sense to have it as an indu.....
» 8/09/2006 2:45:48 PM Scout, what should I recant anything? My point is, that I am philosophically above the chu.....
» 8/09/2006 1:38:33 PM Ok just to really upset everyone I'll add my 5c worth here:) The problem here is a philos.....
» 8/09/2006 1:26:03 PM Rofl Wendy, of course Fletcher speaks against live exports! The one company who stand to e.....
» 7/09/2006 11:03:59 PM Given what seems to be Wendy's support for Fletchers, I'd like to ask her to find out, why.....
» 7/09/2006 3:47:21 PM Celivia, the first thing that needs to happen, is for some accurate information to be made.....
» 7/09/2006 12:52:58 PM Scout, I am certainly not always negative, except on this topic, as I think that on the li.....
» 7/09/2006 12:32:47 PM Celivia, Wendy and others have their little agenda to shut down the live trade, using hist.....
» 6/09/2006 9:08:27 PM Wendy, quite frankly I have no interest in the many squabbles going on, within your so cal.....
» 6/09/2006 3:28:42 PM Wendy I know exactly what my agenda is. The band of farmers who have joined me know it too.....
» 6/09/2006 10:08:36 AM Celivia, I understand your point. The thing is however, that some people are acting much l.....
» 5/09/2006 11:14:14 PM Wendy, you mentioned live exports, so I did. Meat plants train their own staff in WA. It.....
» 5/09/2006 8:38:54 PM Oops Wendy, clearly those children don't want to work in meat works anymore! Teys just had.....
» 5/09/2006 11:25:46 AM "When farmers are offered a "take it or leave it " price for their stock a.....
» 4/09/2006 9:47:18 PM "We are not the farmers enermy the middle man and live ship owners are." Wendy,.....
» 4/09/2006 8:52:26 PM Philo, you are stretching things a bit, talking about Christianity, town planning and what.....
» 4/09/2006 10:13:29 AM Ozgirl, you are quite correct. There are plenty of local animal welfare issues that need a.....
» 3/09/2006 10:49:08 PM Benny, yup Wammco knocked back countless orders from Japan, until they got 45 Chinese work.....
» 3/09/2006 7:43:28 PM http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/5309376.stm There ya go Strewthy ! At least the Je.....
» 3/09/2006 7:22:28 PM No contradictions at all Meg, perhaps you are just slow to understand:) The CC certainly .....
» 3/09/2006 11:32:46 AM Scout, I know what you are saying, but I have at times also followed the debate going on w.....
» 3/09/2006 10:52:20 AM Wendy, I know you mean well, but to put it bluntly, your model is totally unworkable in a .....
» 3/09/2006 10:26:26 AM Put it this way Strewthy, a secular State by stealth is better then yet another Islamic re.....
» 2/09/2006 11:46:12 PM Well Strewthy, I guess its my kind of sense of justice coming out. If you read history, Me.....
» 2/09/2006 10:27:55 PM Rex, you are correct about the WA potatoe saga, but that has more to do with Govt policy. .....
» 2/09/2006 3:34:09 PM The thing is Philo, we live in a rational world. If you say go to court, to prove your cas.....
» 2/09/2006 11:20:51 AM You are correct Meg, modern popes havent gone around killing people, hopefully they would .....
» 2/09/2006 10:43:51 AM Scout, it could be done, but would have to be done quite differently to what people are su.....
» 1/09/2006 8:38:56 PM CC, I'm sorry you are disappointed, but not much I can do about it. I'm really not sure wh.....
» 1/09/2006 8:13:02 PM I think outside the square all the time Meg, thats why I've done well in life! The thing i.....
» 1/09/2006 7:01:10 PM Well I've read the PACAT report, posted by Wendy, from cover to cover. I can't see anywhe.....
» 1/09/2006 9:16:06 AM Benny, you are free to shoot the messanger all you wish :) I will keep pointing out realit.....
» 1/09/2006 12:46:15 AM "The KKK 'used to have' ...black African slaves in Mississippi 'burned at the stake. .....
» 1/09/2006 12:36:46 AM Whewww, where do I start. Lots of faults in what you have written there Wendy. Lots of fau.....
» 31/08/2006 9:53:11 PM Wendy, as far as I am concerned, Landmark were bought from Wesfarmers, as AWB were concern.....
» 31/08/2006 6:49:54 PM CC, skeptics certainly are open minded to anything. Their point is, thousands of people ev.....
» 31/08/2006 12:51:55 PM Benny I only tend to discuss WA, as thats the area I have alot of knowledge about. I gener.....
» 31/08/2006 12:23:36 PM I think its a valid topic, because religion can be clearly shown to be a business! Think .....
» 31/08/2006 11:38:44 AM The press have every right to be skeptical and questioning about Catholic politicians. T.....
» 30/08/2006 8:39:22 PM "If using it makes any sense then oil producers and/or retailers will pick it up with.....
» 30/08/2006 7:48:52 PM Ahh, we have three new posters on OLO today, all posting their first posts on this thread......
» 30/08/2006 1:11:34 PM Benny you are quite correct, there is good and bad treatment of livestock, including in Au.....
» 30/08/2006 11:28:50 AM Once again Meg, you have proved your ignorance and arrogance. You clearly don't like to h.....
» 30/08/2006 11:12:09 AM Scout, I am actually not focussed on trade there, just focussed on the reality of the WA s.....
» 30/08/2006 12:37:50 AM Yes I saw the Willesie story. I also heard about the guy who jumped into the lions cage in.....
» 30/08/2006 12:24:47 AM David, in the jungle, the strongest thinks he is king, only to be surprised in the end, b.....
» 29/08/2006 11:53:11 PM Well I've just spent the day up in Dowerin, a field day where thousands of farmers meet e.....
» 29/08/2006 11:08:21 PM Tenny, you say my question on religion and geography is strange and then note one single e.....
» 29/08/2006 10:49:14 PM Meg, you have shown absolutaly nothing, except make vague conspiracy theory claims, withou.....
» 29/08/2006 10:07:50 AM David, one of the problems we have IMHO, is the very fact that so many Americans are quite.....
» 28/08/2006 10:06:08 PM Graham, why on earth should oil comapnies be interested in ethanol? It just adds to their .....
» 28/08/2006 8:48:05 PM Scout, good idea to start a new thread. Just to inform you, Wendy is a nice lady, we had.....
» 28/08/2006 8:18:07 PM Tenny, glad to hear that so many things make you feel good. Perhaps thats why you do them,.....
» 28/08/2006 7:52:48 PM Cory, these days they make some larger loaves, but the old standard loaf of bread contains.....
» 28/08/2006 7:30:11 PM Wendy, droughts are not yet predictable. Things might be fine today, drought in two months.....
» 27/08/2006 10:31:51 PM Wendy dear, I know that you have an emotional obsession with live exports, but I was abou.....
» 27/08/2006 10:05:19 PM David, I remind you of one of our major problems right now. A monkey is running the world'.....
» 26/08/2006 2:56:51 PM Since we've been discussing water supplies, demographics, poverty and Africa, here is an i.....
» 26/08/2006 10:19:16 AM Tenny, your so called heart singing etc, perhaps explains why religion matters to you. It .....
» 25/08/2006 8:55:53 PM David, I will have to read some of your other posts, to get a drift as to where you are co.....
» 25/08/2006 8:14:35 PM Epi, I think that some of the posters so far on here are answering your question! In fact.....
» 25/08/2006 3:29:36 PM What I have shown Meg, is that your conspiracy theory about bottled water and political d.....
» 24/08/2006 9:44:23 PM Hypothesis, you forget of course, that the religous have a history of persecuting those, w.....
» 24/08/2006 1:52:41 PM Amber, perhaps in your part of the world, metal tanks are common, certainly not here in WA.....
» 24/08/2006 9:48:33 AM "Education on sex does not reduce abortion in Australia. The trainee Nurses and Medic.....
» 23/08/2006 8:50:43 PM "The West has the military, economic and diplomatic power to make a difference.".....
» 23/08/2006 8:29:03 PM Graham, sorry for my seemginly wishy washy response :) but I don't think its as clear cut .....
» 23/08/2006 7:52:48 PM Meg, you should read what I wrote! I never mentioned bores. I mentioned tanks, as an addi.....
» 23/08/2006 11:19:11 AM "One instance is the absurdity that in the driest continent on earth we should be tal.....
» 21/08/2006 11:18:13 PM Of course there are infrastructure costs involved in putting in a rainwater tank Meg, but .....
» 21/08/2006 9:16:08 PM I think what we are seeing in the Middle East, is that tribalism is still very much the pr.....
» 20/08/2006 5:23:08 PM David and Marylin, Quite amazing that you think that our pollies or the US should be the .....
» 20/08/2006 3:55:38 PM "I'm far more worried about the real, wholesale mega terrorism of the US of Israel, t.....
» 20/08/2006 3:22:44 PM It seems that there is a bit of a development on this story. My politics is issue based, n.....
» 20/08/2006 3:09:21 PM Graham, I printed out and digested Lester's article. IMHO the issue is so complex, only th.....
» 20/08/2006 12:31:19 PM Meg, given that Westpac earnt about 2000 million, plus paid another appr. 600 million in t.....
» 19/08/2006 4:38:35 PM Bazz, how many litres of water do you use to clean your teeth ? :) If you wash dishes, do.....
» 19/08/2006 4:14:30 PM Graham, I guess we could extend that argument and say that the 300g steak that you ate for.....
» 19/08/2006 3:46:35 PM I agree about transparency and inclusiveness. The question for me is how far religious ide.....
» 19/08/2006 10:15:09 AM Meg, some people connect the dots and come up with conspiracy theories :) What do you call.....
» 18/08/2006 8:03:48 PM Graham, I'm less concerned about the supply side, then you seem to be. I think the market .....
» 18/08/2006 2:35:10 PM The Federal Government funds nearly 30 pregnancy counselling hotlines. All of them are run.....
» 18/08/2006 1:53:24 PM Wendy, I would be happy to advise you, you can contact me at bonobo@westnet.com.au Howev.....
» 17/08/2006 2:05:05 PM Wendy, I know you mean well, but I think you totally misunderstood what I said in my last .....
» 16/08/2006 7:17:41 PM I think you might be jumping to conspiracy theories about corporations yet once again, Me.....
» 16/08/2006 10:56:01 AM My comments were actually meant in a bigger picture sense, then your little patch of Queen.....
» 15/08/2006 4:04:55 PM Meg, your posts simply reflect your arrogance. If you had been half decent, you would hav.....
» 14/08/2006 3:06:22 PM Meg, I am suprised that you are against water recycling, given that your theology promotes.....
» 12/08/2006 3:57:36 PM CC, ask your doctor what the placebo effect is. He should explain it to you. Nope your bis.....
» 11/08/2006 11:04:57 PM Ahh Seeker! Sounds to me like you would be best to stick to the el cheapo fantasy, at leas.....
» 11/08/2006 10:53:34 PM CC, I thought I had in fact answered your questions, in my own philosophical way, just not.....
» 11/08/2006 3:10:14 PM Snout, you are going way above Meg's head here, expecting her to know about Aussie Science.....
» 11/08/2006 8:08:07 AM Wendy, thanks for your post. I am sure that you mean well, but the problem here is not abo.....
» 10/08/2006 10:28:50 PM Scout, I will look for that book, next time I visit an ABC bookshop. Sounds like just up m.....
» 10/08/2006 5:16:55 PM Celivia, there is lots in the press about live exports, but its mainly in the WA rural pre.....
» 10/08/2006 2:35:14 PM I'm not sure why you posted that here Wendy, given that you asked me to post on the animal.....
» 10/08/2006 6:47:42 AM Dear CC, one Nathanson swallow does not make a summer lol. Abortion has been around for fa.....
» 9/08/2006 7:51:03 PM Fact is Observer, that I do care about animal welfare, but I also care about informed and .....
» 9/08/2006 10:26:14 AM Meg, once again your philosophies are flawed, but then I did not expect anything else :) .....
» 9/08/2006 9:53:54 AM Observer, I have checked out the websites and what I see is lots of dreaming and talk. I .....
» 8/08/2006 7:11:24 PM Steve, the problem with Wendy is that she is trying to apply Eastern States ideas to the s.....
» 8/08/2006 2:18:06 PM "She had a life of beauty and suffering, truly extraordinary. If we want eternal life.....
» 8/08/2006 9:26:19 AM Wendy, further to our discussion on the other list, what comes through is that you really .....
» 7/08/2006 8:52:00 PM Wendy, I mentioned the live trade, because you have mentioned it, on numerous occasions. Y.....
» 7/08/2006 5:45:13 PM Strewth, once again you completely miss the point! If Hezbollah fires thousands of rocket.....
» 6/08/2006 9:46:46 PM I watched a story on 60 Minutes tonight, of a Canberra couple who have adopted two Ethopia.....
» 6/08/2006 8:00:38 PM Celivia, I think the whole problem comes back to the religious lobby. They are small in nu.....
» 5/08/2006 9:23:13 PM Ah Philo, sounds to me like you fear the great Islam invasion... Islamic countries are ac.....
» 5/08/2006 12:28:27 PM Rex you make some good points! Once again, religion is part of the problem, rather then a .....
» 3/08/2006 10:23:05 PM Strewth, as a matter of interest, the Economist of 29th July mentions the "thousands .....
» 3/08/2006 4:54:29 PM "Does anyone consider adoption anymore?" Grace, I'm sure that would be a soluti.....
» 3/08/2006 3:53:56 PM Philo, if I followed your holy book, I'd have to kill my neighbour for working on the sabb.....
» 3/08/2006 3:30:08 PM Hehe Strewth, me thinks I'm right about the troll bit :) BTW, no zionism involved here, j.....
» 2/08/2006 9:52:35 PM Strewth, I get the impression that you simply enjoy taking on the role of a troll on here......
» 31/07/2006 11:20:36 PM "God said, 'I give you a heart wise and shrewd ... " Clearly your god is confus.....
» 29/07/2006 2:46:24 PM Philo, it was me who put forward the argument of the 400 and clearly its gone above your h.....
» 27/07/2006 3:47:58 PM Philo, you miss the point again as usual. Sure a human foetus is human, so is a human piec.....
» 26/07/2006 8:47:36 PM Col, great points as usual, but they are clearly over most of their heads.... Runner, a f.....
» 24/07/2006 10:52:36 PM Ruby, I think safety is extremely important, but it has to be compared with the statistics.....
» 24/07/2006 3:52:43 PM The question arises, if this drug is so bad, then why is Melinda not supportive of the sp.....
» 23/07/2006 10:43:20 PM The very sad thing about this story, is how Iran is making money out of this war, at the c.....
» 17/07/2006 10:31:18 PM Runner, you are clearly confused :) A child is not a child until it has been born. Simil.....
» 17/07/2006 8:55:34 PM Irfan, the sad thing about this dispute, its that its once again religious nuts fighting r.....
» 16/07/2006 9:16:00 PM "Can't really trust co-ops either, just look at Wesfarmers now, formerly our own co-o.....
» 3/07/2006 10:05:51 PM One further point, whilst I think of it. You seem to think that Gates and Buffet must have.....
» 3/07/2006 9:39:25 PM Meg, everything I do and claim is based on facts. Problem is, that people like you don't h.....
» 29/06/2006 10:06:27 PM Billie, the problem is that the WA economy is quite different from that in the East, but w.....
» 29/06/2006 9:40:36 PM Yet another post full of absurdities and straw man arguments Meg. By what you’ve written,.....
» 28/06/2006 10:37:20 AM Meg, your appeal to the ridiculous and absurd yet once again, makes most of your post as f.....
» 27/06/2006 10:04:19 PM Billie, I was not even thinking of Northern Australia or what happened 30 years ago. Today.....
» 27/06/2006 6:29:00 PM Socrates, conditions and pay are already pretty good. The real problem is that many Aussie.....
» 26/06/2006 9:27:18 PM Billie, we certainly need guest workers. Working in Australia is basically optional for Au.....
» 25/06/2006 2:26:21 PM Bollocks Meg, I never mentioned a BBQ with anyone. Show me where or apologise, as once aga.....
» 24/06/2006 9:33:54 PM Lol Meg, no wonder you need hope to satisify your emotional needs! Clearly your memory is .....
» 20/06/2006 10:55:54 PM Lol Meg, the mountain of evidential proof for evolution theory is so large, it makes Evere.....
» 20/06/2006 2:32:40 PM Philo, modern brain imaging technologies have made it possible for us to have glimpses of .....
» 18/06/2006 10:54:34 PM "What you have said is such nonsense. Please explain why the humblest of creatures pr.....
» 18/06/2006 3:53:29 PM Meg, you really should read my posts a bit more closely, to see what I actually wrote1 Per.....
» 18/06/2006 12:44:15 PM Paulb, personally I take no notice of what happens in Botswana or Swaziland, as both are s.....
» 17/06/2006 5:43:45 PM Bushbred, your posts raise the question as to what is worse for farmers, the greed of tra.....
» 17/06/2006 4:25:18 PM Philo, the real problem is your mindset. You think that by lecturing religion, you can mak.....
» 16/06/2006 7:47:44 PM I am not anti life at all Meg, in fact I am pro happy life and anti suffering. The differe.....
» 16/06/2006 3:23:47 PM Paulb, I never avoid numbers, if they are meaningful. If they are used to compare apples w.....
» 15/06/2006 11:16:22 PM "I suppose you wish Africa reflected the same morals as Australia where condoms and t.....
» 15/06/2006 7:06:06 AM Paulb, my point is that if you start with a flawed assumption, your number crunching is no.....
» 14/06/2006 10:45:52 PM "You can't charge rogue and corrupt corporations." You most certainly can! If t.....
» 14/06/2006 10:19:30 PM Tony,you will find that alot of surveys are done in Africa, regards "unmet needs".....
» 14/06/2006 9:24:46 PM Well at least there is some honesty about the intentions of corporations. They bring toget.....
» 13/06/2006 11:45:08 AM Meg, you still miss the point entirely, as you continue to brag about what a selfless and .....
» 11/06/2006 11:27:00 AM Meg, spikey chains and whips, as you know, are part of Opus Dei beliefs, which is a cult w.....
» 10/06/2006 4:33:13 PM Philo and Paulb, what you guys don’t seem to understand, is the minds of teenagers! They a.....
» 9/06/2006 8:55:55 PM "Charity work does not make up for bad philosphy." Whew, how very true indeed. .....
» 9/06/2006 1:23:19 PM Paulb, there is a clear pattern as to what works regards teen pregnancy and hiv etc, all o.....
» 8/06/2006 10:57:53 PM Scout, this morning I went to a meeting of a group, trying to establish a biodiesel plant......
» 8/06/2006 9:01:36 PM Paulb, your url suggests exactly what I was highlighting. Failure rate is referred in term.....
» 8/06/2006 8:25:39 PM ROFL Meg, now I must be unhappy and troubled or even bitter, because I highlight some of t.....
» 7/06/2006 6:04:02 PM Paulb, you'll find that when most scientific studies talk about condom failure rate, they .....
» 7/06/2006 3:29:56 PM Scout, I kept the FR supplement about the 06 budget. The forecast is 91.7 billion for welf.....
» 7/06/2006 10:03:58 AM Meg, I never chose to join any church, so I never had to choose to leave any either. The.....
» 6/06/2006 2:27:52 PM "it simply makes you more aware and thoughtful about the choices you make..." M.....
» 6/06/2006 2:17:11 PM "Also the subsidies provided by government to corporations far exceeds the welfare bu.....
» 6/06/2006 2:04:20 PM Amel, if you read the bbc link, you will see that experts agree that its more complicated .....
» 5/06/2006 1:34:14 PM Amel, there are many reasons for the bush meat crisis. It became a crisis long before the .....
» 5/06/2006 1:17:25 PM Scout, I don't take a dim view of the younger generation at all. There are plenty out ther.....
» 4/06/2006 4:02:01 PM Scout, I think you need to look at this topic in terms of degrees. Nobody questions that p.....
» 4/06/2006 3:23:08 PM "Thats so far from the truth, many many Africans don't eat chimps, its not the reason.....
» 2/06/2006 8:29:58 PM "In fact, 88 percent of students who pledged virginity in middle school and high scho.....
» 1/06/2006 3:41:17 PM "And all this time we are told it is the fault of religion! Well, it is in a way, but.....
» 31/05/2006 11:16:34 PM Tony, the conclusions reached, were that an increasing imbalance of land, food and people,.....
» 30/05/2006 9:18:35 PM Philo, I had not even mentioned HIV in my post, but am happy to discuss it. Its interestin.....
» 30/05/2006 7:03:31 PM "Religious ideology also contributed to the country's deepening demographic problems.....
» 29/05/2006 7:38:26 PM Reality Check, those bonobos evolved to be smart enough to understand that sex is natural,.....
» 29/05/2006 12:42:32 AM Well there we have it! Opus Dei, sounds like a cult within a religion, worth billions of .....
» 28/05/2006 4:11:27 PM Now now Philo, you are going way out of your depth here! Xtianity seems to have developed.....
» 27/05/2006 10:00:29 PM I've just spent an hour watching a David Attenborough documentary and once again learnt mo.....
» 26/05/2006 3:19:08 PM "This is true of theology which is best described as “faith seeking understanding”. B.....
» 25/05/2006 8:03:49 PM "As such they are not open to proof as the sciences are." Religion certainly is.....
» 24/05/2006 10:41:56 PM Sells, I’ve read your other article and will make a few comments: Yes, people are concerne.....
» 22/05/2006 9:41:55 PM Sells, you might be a scientist, but as one swallow does not make a summer, one scientist .....
» 20/05/2006 3:06:56 PM Lol Scout, I read his link and IMHO there are various flaws, but that’s another long story.....
» 19/05/2006 10:47:55 PM Tristan, you seem largely ignorant of the fact as to how good the welfare sector has it in.....
» 19/05/2006 10:30:49 PM "I am constantly amused by the writers to this forum who are afraid that the church i.....
» 18/05/2006 8:52:26 PM MOS, we don’t need cars, computers, TVs and lots of things, you are free to give up the lo.....
» 17/05/2006 11:08:38 PM David, I commentend about control, as I was asked about it. To my knowledge I had actually.....
» 17/05/2006 10:31:09 PM DF, I wish that religion would give up on trying to control people and their lives and jus.....
» 17/05/2006 9:58:03 PM MOS, personally I disagree with factory farming. But I don’t think that if you raise anima.....
» 17/05/2006 4:48:04 PM Rob, I think you missed the point of the argument. If you want to leave the poor and middl.....
» 16/05/2006 10:21:29 PM Lizey, you are not meant to cheat on OLO, lol, but limit your words to 2 posts a day per t.....
» 16/05/2006 8:52:43 PM Tristan, your claims of "hundreds dying and suffering" sound a touch melodramati.....
» 16/05/2006 8:36:19 PM MOS, what is ethical or moral, is a question of subjective opinion. My point is that farmi.....
» 15/05/2006 10:56:09 PM Religion always has and still tries to claim credit, for all sorts of things to justify it.....
» 15/05/2006 8:35:17 PM "Please, don't anyone fool themselves into thinking that their meat had a happy life .....
» 15/05/2006 7:57:11 PM Tristan I think that you have a flawed opinion of what most people think. I have yet to me.....
» 14/05/2006 11:22:25 PM Tristan, to assume that Govt debt does not matter, is kidding yourself. 5% interest on say.....
» 14/05/2006 4:20:43 PM Tristan a suggestion. Before you think about politics, perhaps you should improve your ski.....
» 14/05/2006 3:30:15 PM Sheesh, more strawman arguments from you Meg, as you invent imaginary friends of mine, or .....
» 13/05/2006 5:30:54 PM Tristan, I certainly hope that Govt is tough when dishing out welfare. After all, people a.....
» 13/05/2006 1:15:26 PM MJ, if the church cherrypicks about natural law when formulating its dogma, then clearly i.....
» 12/05/2006 8:36:35 PM Sheesh, this is getting interesting now, as the truth is revealed! Meg seems to think tha.....
» 12/05/2006 8:15:01 PM Tristan, if you did your homework, you’d find out that Ikea, Tetra Pak and other large Swe.....
» 12/05/2006 10:24:07 AM Te, no doubt you are busy, with all that praying, going to mass and then to confession, to.....
» 11/05/2006 9:20:18 PM "All this other stuff is fascinating but not relevant." Rose, you make good poi.....
» 11/05/2006 8:38:51 PM MOS, the picture I paint is not too optimistic, its where pig farming is heading, as its s.....
» 11/05/2006 8:05:31 PM I think tht people are kidding themselves, if they think that by raising the GST to say 20.....
» 10/05/2006 8:59:09 PM The author might be a bit behind the times here. The old concrete bunkers are the past in .....
» 10/05/2006 11:01:35 AM Tristan, I’m sorry to hear about the bad treatment that your grandma received. Hopefully y.....
» 9/05/2006 11:21:44 PM "There are no scientific proof that homosexuals are born “that way" (except for .....
» 9/05/2006 10:56:44 PM Lots of points here, I will address a few of them. The World Comptetitivness Report is a .....
» 8/05/2006 7:59:56 PM Aka thanks for your kind words lol. Perhaps you missed the smiley after the youth comment,.....
» 7/05/2006 4:25:20 PM Ahh Tristin, but of course you make some classic mistakes, I will just put it down to your.....
» 7/05/2006 3:46:42 PM Scout, many thanks for your comments. I read Cardinal Pell’s comments this week, mentioni.....
» 6/05/2006 9:59:48 PM Hang on, whoah lol. The CGT was lowered, but inflationary effects were not accounted for u.....
» 5/05/2006 3:03:15 PM MJ, ok next couple of points: Hitchens clearly has a lot of evidence, which he has offered.....
» 5/05/2006 10:19:59 AM MJ, this whole problem that we have, was really created when your church came up with its .....
» 4/05/2006 8:36:13 PM "Nature gives teenagers the ability to reproduce. Why on Earth shouldn't they?" .....
» 3/05/2006 9:51:02 PM Maximus, thanks for your response. I have to admit that I would have dreaded the thought o.....
» 3/05/2006 8:05:06 PM ROFL Meg, whilst you have absolutely no talent in the areas of philososphy, economics, neu.....
» 3/05/2006 12:15:25 PM "just exactly which political/morality version are they going to get?" Quite si.....
» 3/05/2006 9:17:22 AM MJ, your church tries to force women to have children that they don’t want and often can’t.....
» 2/05/2006 3:44:25 PM Meg you really are an expert on spin! First you distort what I have written, then you crit.....
» 2/05/2006 3:24:16 PM Sheesh Coach, you have no idea how many times that religious nuts have predicted the end o.....
» 2/05/2006 7:12:33 AM BD, perhaps you should put down the holy book for once in your life and learn what nature .....
» 2/05/2006 12:11:44 AM Te, if I only believed in the value of my own life, I would not be here, arguing for the l.....
» 1/05/2006 3:11:58 PM Te, your flawed perceptions of the world seem due to your inability to see it through othe.....
» 30/04/2006 11:13:25 PM Te, some of the biggest critics of Catholics are in fact other Christians! Each convinced .....
» 30/04/2006 9:29:52 PM BD, we all have aptitudes in life for some things, not for others. Rest assured that you h.....
» 30/04/2006 2:13:10 PM MJ, you make the fundamental flaw of assuming that morality and ethics are grounded in Chr.....
» 30/04/2006 3:58:51 AM "Yabby would give us 'moral anarchy' :) "Im-a watchin you boy"" Umm B.....
» 29/04/2006 8:29:11 PM Dianne, you are quite correct, HIV certainly can be transmitted by vaginal sex. I guess t.....
» 28/04/2006 8:01:21 PM Te, ok I will answer your question by providing you with some imformation that is unlikely.....
» 28/04/2006 7:17:14 PM A few weeks ago I went to a reunion of a bunch of friends, who had hardly seen each other .....
» 28/04/2006 11:02:13 AM Te you really do need to read more then the Catholic Spin Weekly or whatever, for your inf.....
» 27/04/2006 10:38:17 PM "then you put that bit into that bit, wiggle it around a bit, and the next thing you .....
» 27/04/2006 11:07:04 AM Great article Lyn, with many valid points! No doubt the Christian Taliban will fight you a.....
» 27/04/2006 10:49:06 AM MJ, you still have not answered the question. Do you think that a 9 year old who is raped,.....
» 27/04/2006 5:19:43 AM Te the World Health Organisation is a medical organisation, providing independent medical .....
» 25/04/2006 1:56:24 PM Question is Te, who actually lives in fairyland here ? :) All this stuff has been hashed o.....
» 24/04/2006 1:45:50 PM Te, the deaths of tens of thousands of women are due to illegal abortions, performed in ba.....
» 23/04/2006 3:56:22 PM Te, the reason those women die, is that that its illegal, under the threat of jail, for an.....
» 22/04/2006 2:11:20 PM MJ, sometimes I get the distinct impression that first world catholics like you, have no i.....
» 21/04/2006 7:23:56 PM Te, I am going to have to ask Graham to give me some extra daily posts, considering I have.....
» 21/04/2006 11:20:54 AM MJ, has it ever occurred to you that present day Arabs use much the same justifications fo.....
» 20/04/2006 11:38:31 AM Te dear, no doubt as a little kiddie, the concept of a soul was brainwashed into you as th.....
» 19/04/2006 2:35:06 PM Church law WAS implemented Meg, history shows what a disaster that was! Apart from a highl.....
» 17/04/2006 3:07:14 PM Te, it is quite common for people to go into complete denial, when faced with reality. Cle.....
» 17/04/2006 7:32:43 AM "Bin Laden encourages killing of innocents" Bin Laden encourages killing of tho.....
» 16/04/2006 10:42:22 AM "If Church dogma was adopted it would not happen." MJ, you show similar logic a.....
» 14/04/2006 6:43:41 AM Meg, clearly my posts are passing over your head, for if I present a number of arguments f.....
» 12/04/2006 8:47:19 PM MJ, sadly the effects of the policies of the Catholic Church, kill far more women in the t.....
» 11/04/2006 9:21:21 PM Meg, tolerance means letting others make decisions about their lives, free from religious .....
» 10/04/2006 3:15:49 PM MJ, if people like you and Meg, who are obsessed with the abortion rate, want it reduced, .....
» 9/04/2006 2:14:12 PM Meg, your company is less good then you think! Einstein was not a Christian and certainly .....
» 8/04/2006 9:27:30 PM One of the amusing things about the pious and religious fanatics,is how they can keep kidd.....
» 8/04/2006 10:09:16 AM MJ, the difference in abortion rates between England and Holland has long been explained, .....
» 7/04/2006 10:18:45 AM MJ, all these things have been analysed in a huge way around the world. The Dutch story is.....
» 6/04/2006 9:35:06 AM The problem with the Catholic Church is that it doesent just preach to its flock, it tries.....
» 5/04/2006 2:44:11 PM "If they complied with Church policies they would be alive." MJ, as a humanitar.....
» 4/04/2006 8:08:25 PM Tubley, your figures are meaningless, whats your point? MJ, the Catholic Church uses ever.....
» 3/04/2006 11:25:14 PM MJ, I've been away, so havent read your Buddhism urls. Suffice to say, Japan, without much.....
» 2/04/2006 4:47:17 AM Hehe Meg, you clearly havent been to many rock concerts, where teenybopper girls faint at .....
» 1/04/2006 11:26:38 AM Martin, lots of people do good in society, without being religious. Look at Fred Hollows. .....
» 30/03/2006 3:18:05 PM Meg dear, the ludicrous part of your statement was referring to Hitler. Btw, he was a Cath.....
» 29/03/2006 9:52:17 PM "Experimenting with them may be ok if you have abandoned regard for life, but in esse.....
» 27/03/2006 10:11:33 PM Te you are quite correct. What those who see and think at the same time can observe, is th.....
» 26/03/2006 4:20:25 PM Meg, I am happy to hear that you sort your rubbish and have taught the little old lady dow.....
» 25/03/2006 9:17:23 PM Shonga, alot of companies that have done well in Australia, have done so because they are .....
» 25/03/2006 2:30:01 PM The American notion that CEOs need to be paid tens of millions of dollars to peform, is a .....
» 24/03/2006 9:24:50 PM Meg, yes I support abortion up to the end of the first tremester, which should be the righ.....
» 23/03/2006 3:45:35 PM Meg, I fully aware that a tremester = 3 months. My argument has stayed the same all along......
» 22/03/2006 9:39:42 PM Billie its clearly pointless to even think of reasoning with Meg, as is evidenced by her p.....
» 21/03/2006 10:00:31 PM LAB, no wonder people around the world regard Europeans as an arrogant bunch, as we try to.....
» 21/03/2006 4:59:52 PM Wibble, for the very sake of democracy and to avoid religious tyranny, people like myself,.....
» 21/03/2006 7:29:33 AM Oops, my last post went to the wrong thread, its should have gone to the semantics one sor.....
» 20/03/2006 2:19:19 PM LAB, you might define morality as a conscious thought process, but if individuals naturall.....
» 19/03/2006 10:51:21 PM "We all have the capacity to kill another person." Philo, that is where I disag.....
» 19/03/2006 4:51:18 PM Scout, I've known a few women who had to make a decision about abortion and its quite trau.....
» 18/03/2006 6:16:08 PM LAB, the link between the 2 philosophies is made by the Catholic Church. If you had looked.....
» 18/03/2006 12:21:00 AM Philo, the reality is that women in the third world have a huge unmet need for family plan.....
» 17/03/2006 8:15:12 AM I have moved no goalposts at all Meg, you just don't understand the issues. Womens right t.....
» 17/03/2006 7:35:36 AM Meg, your Catholic Church accepts evolution theory, they just don't apply it to their dogm.....
» 16/03/2006 9:30:27 PM Col, Scout and Wibble, thanks for your posts on here, I always enjoy them. So keep posting.....
» 16/03/2006 10:58:53 AM Wibble, you make some great points, I agree with alot of them, but I think that they go ri.....
» 15/03/2006 10:17:13 PM Philo, the problems of Africa have always been many. Its been a basket case since we've kn.....
» 15/03/2006 2:11:09 PM ALB, I think you are kidding yourself, if you think that you will teach men to respect wom.....
» 14/03/2006 9:51:37 PM Philo, you are correct, at conception another organism is created. So what? They can be cr.....
» 14/03/2006 10:04:53 AM Te, no I don’t give money for human projects in Africa. I’ve been there and I am aware tha.....
» 13/03/2006 9:34:47 PM Meg, if a species evolved to regularly kill each other, they would not have survived. Duh,.....
» 13/03/2006 5:39:08 PM Meg, perhaps your church should answer why it selectively insists on natural law, only whe.....
» 13/03/2006 9:43:32 AM ALB, the evidence shows that morality is grounded in biology. Social species evolved to ge.....
» 12/03/2006 11:41:24 PM "Just imagine being shut in a box with no light and no sound all on your own for eter.....
» 12/03/2006 2:13:15 PM Meg, fyi some years ago I subscribed to a number of email lists published by your anti abo.....
» 12/03/2006 6:32:20 AM Meg, as usual your religious dogma prevents you from clear thinking, but then that is to b.....
» 11/03/2006 3:04:44 PM Great article Gary! The only way to deal with the intolerant, is to be intolerant of their.....
» 11/03/2006 11:24:53 AM "I note you persist with your opinion that a fully chromosomed conceived human is not.....
» 11/03/2006 3:23:02 AM Te, the very thought of spending forever with Meg and those old popes would be my idea of .....
» 10/03/2006 8:55:14 PM Meg, the morning after pill is legally seen as a contraceptive pill, not an abortion pill......
» 10/03/2006 2:34:55 PM "My position is that if any person [includind abortionist doctors] who deliberately t.....
» 9/03/2006 11:29:53 PM "at what point in any of my posts is there 'emotional engulfment'? Surely not when I .....
» 9/03/2006 2:39:14 PM Philo, muscles can move as a reflex action, with a head on a body or not. They respond to .....
» 9/03/2006 11:44:47 AM Meg and Te, perhaps you emotionally engulfed types should spend a bit of time learning wha.....
» 8/03/2006 11:03:58 PM Philo, you continue to use melodramatic language, to promote your cause. A 12 week old org.....
» 8/03/2006 7:30:44 AM ROFL Meg, do you have any idea how many women miss a pill some days and then take two the .....
» 8/03/2006 12:22:02 AM GP, again its easy to get bogged down in semantics here. In my understanding of the brain,.....
» 6/03/2006 9:45:27 PM Meg, WHO promotes 14 contraception methods. The Catholic version is the most likely to fai.....
» 6/03/2006 1:57:02 PM Meg, you still don't get it lol. You clearly cannot empathise with women in the third worl.....
» 5/03/2006 7:58:34 PM Meg, early withdrawel and sterilisation have nothing to do with evil corporations lol, jus.....
» 5/03/2006 3:24:44 AM Meg you might be a good little Catholic, but half the time you are unsure what your own ch.....
» 4/03/2006 9:37:36 PM Opinionated, you clearly miss the point once again, as usual :) Clearly 64 countries out .....
» 4/03/2006 6:32:19 AM Meg, nobody around the world lobbies against women having rights to family planning, like .....
» 3/03/2006 9:49:48 PM Opinionated, I hope that you noticed that 2200 companies from 65 countries were involved i.....
» 3/03/2006 2:12:57 PM GP, I'm not claiming total determinism as some do. What I am saying is that there are many.....
» 2/03/2006 10:48:23 PM ALB, you are free to use melodramatic language, if that keeps you occupied, that does not .....
» 2/03/2006 9:04:05 PM GP, now to free will. fMRI machines are showing us what goes on in the brain, so neuroscie.....
» 1/03/2006 11:34:32 PM GP, rather then looking at evolution as a fluke, you have to see it as a numbers game. Eve.....
» 1/03/2006 10:52:14 PM "You seem quite proud that your daughter’s relationships are out of wedlock," U.....
» 1/03/2006 9:29:14 AM GP, clearly we have different definitions of morality, but then its an ambiguous term. I .....
» 1/03/2006 8:48:24 AM Odsoc, but you miss the whole moral argument here! How moral is it for EU and US Govts to .....
» 28/02/2006 9:13:35 PM "I thought your view was that people should have any type of sex their subjective mor.....
» 28/02/2006 3:14:38 PM Opinionated, you are clearly a young whippersnapper or you would be aware that there was o.....
» 27/02/2006 10:31:53 PM Opinionated, I find it quite amusing that you are doing lots of worrying about the wheat i.....
» 27/02/2006 8:56:39 PM GP, to answer your questions further, so that we don't bog down in semantics, we need a co.....
» 27/02/2006 2:25:30 PM Opinionated, the real problem and noise is coming from people obsessed with bringing down .....
» 27/02/2006 12:39:20 PM GP, you forget of course that the bible was used my many to in fact justify slavery. So mu.....
» 26/02/2006 11:20:33 PM Te, rofl, if somebody came to my house and touched my private parts or exposed themselves,.....
» 26/02/2006 9:30:56 PM Osdoc, I thought that the point you raised might be self evident, but let me explain. Tak.....
» 26/02/2006 12:40:21 PM "Without divine guidance people like to have power without conscience. Powerful peopl.....
» 25/02/2006 9:15:24 PM Opionated, I know what WA wheat growers think lol, I live in the West and grow wheat among.....
» 25/02/2006 8:23:19 PM Opinionated, I think there have been developments. The guy who testified for instance, tha.....
» 25/02/2006 5:01:22 PM It could easily be argued that the man acted irrationaly and immorally, for good reasons. .....
» 25/02/2006 1:35:26 PM As some posters have pointed out, there are indeed moral issues where laws are required, i.....
» 22/02/2006 10:16:07 PM My understanding of the reproductive process is fine Meg. What you flushed down the toilet.....
» 22/02/2006 9:51:50 PM Klaas, it could of course be argued that the subsidies that the EU and US provide, is a fo.....
» 21/02/2006 11:13:18 PM I just think that alot of posters here have their own political agenda, or are ignoring th.....
» 21/02/2006 9:39:18 PM Meg, I said that bonobos and chimps shared 99% of dna with humans, so they are a little di.....
» 21/02/2006 9:18:58 PM "It could have looked for other markets or store the harvest. Australians must determ.....
» 21/02/2006 11:43:46 AM The Catholic Church is partly responsible Meg, for it is organisations associated with the.....
» 20/02/2006 6:24:01 PM Meg, there is indeed lots of on topic stuff, when discussing sex and RU 486. If the church.....
» 20/02/2006 2:01:56 PM I think a few people ignore the real reason we went to Iraq. Personally I still think its .....
» 20/02/2006 1:33:08 PM "Scientific evidence will contradict you there, so I won’t labour the point as you in.....
» 19/02/2006 11:21:10 PM Hi Kay, ROFL, the questions we get on OLO :) I gather that when missionaries went out to.....
» 19/02/2006 3:28:25 PM "Once upon a time the decadent sexual behaviour allowed today would be called shamefu.....
» 19/02/2006 1:40:40 PM "The point about abortion is, the embryo / foetus, whilst its exact position on the j.....
» 18/02/2006 11:45:39 PM "If abortion is ok, i.e., it is ok to destroy human life, who are you to decide at wh.....
» 18/02/2006 11:25:10 PM "Nonsense." Ok read for yourself, to see that you are deluded :) http://www.in.....
» 18/02/2006 2:12:48 PM MJ, perhaps you should read the Catholics own description of the reformation period. http:.....
» 18/02/2006 11:17:26 AM "Can I ask how you define 'person'?" Hamlet, I'm not the first one to think abo.....
» 17/02/2006 10:15:18 PM Sheesh, so many theorists out there, so few understand realpolitik that sometimes applies......
» 17/02/2006 9:34:00 PM "The current population growth is 1.7% [including Muslim growth at 4.2%] and of that .....
» 17/02/2006 6:10:18 PM "and the best protection of the individual and their rights is a Christian society&qu.....
» 16/02/2006 8:55:20 PM "With RU486, the issue of late term abortions is irrelevant. RU486 is designed to ret.....
» 16/02/2006 4:49:23 PM MJ, sorry I missed your post there. I'm just glad that reason has prevailed in parliament .....
» 16/02/2006 9:25:48 AM Credo, a person has a functioning human brain. A dead person is no longer a person, its a .....
» 15/02/2006 10:33:56 PM "Show me the section in the New Testament which justifies your statement ? Note.. NEW.....
» 15/02/2006 4:45:02 PM "Why is it that all Muslim & Islam bashing books is written by an 'Ali' or 'Mohamed' .....
» 15/02/2006 4:28:01 PM Maelorin, nobody operates globally as the Vatican does, in a huge way. Usually behind the .....
» 15/02/2006 3:48:55 PM There there Meg, now that you got those two long rants off your chest, no doubt you feel b.....
» 15/02/2006 12:21:35 AM "The wound in your heart may not yet have healed." Clearly the old papa was not.....
» 14/02/2006 9:22:01 PM "FH: Right! So an honest illiterate Sheppard in the middle of nowhere decide to inven.....
» 14/02/2006 12:33:51 PM Justin, you are clearly not a Catholic, or don't know the doctrine very well. No more mast.....
» 14/02/2006 12:24:46 AM "Why is it that we drag out the ole 'Catholic' bit to beat our politicians with as o.....
» 13/02/2006 11:36:22 PM "EVERY society is judged by history by the way they treat the weakest and most vulner.....
» 13/02/2006 10:36:29 PM I actually think that a whole lot of society's problems could be reduced, if we start to a.....
» 12/02/2006 11:43:19 PM "You say that we are” forcing the views of one religion onto the remainder of the Aus.....
» 12/02/2006 3:59:51 PM Sheesh, this thread is proving one thing, ie. how religion is centered in the emotional ce.....
» 12/02/2006 3:17:10 PM Francis, in most countries of the Western world, abortion is available without question, u.....
» 11/02/2006 10:29:36 PM I guess the issue is, how different cultures and different people within those cultures, c.....
» 11/02/2006 2:52:13 PM The problem will remain that if religions are political by nature, anything but free speec.....
» 11/02/2006 1:05:40 PM Martin and Friedrich, I note your lack of empathy for women and their situations. I guess .....
» 10/02/2006 8:56:02 PM "Women's rights begin in the womb is brilliant!" It certainly is Martin, for as.....
» 10/02/2006 7:09:03 PM Syed, there is a simple way to stop people giving religion a hard time. Keep it out of pol.....
» 10/02/2006 7:33:50 AM Realist, the thing is that you can't force people to move to areas where there is employme.....
» 9/02/2006 11:06:12 PM Graham, great article, but I think a few points are being missed. I've been following the .....
» 9/02/2006 10:23:31 PM I was rather disgusted that so many men voted against the bill in the Senate today. As a m.....
» 9/02/2006 11:16:07 AM Micheal, legally you are correct, but slaverly was legal once, so was Hitler, so what is l.....
» 9/02/2006 2:21:00 AM "I’d encourage you to ask specific questions about faith, don’t be afraid. Belief in .....
» 9/02/2006 1:54:28 AM Whew, one thing that this thread is proving, is that with all this vitriol about religion,.....
» 7/02/2006 10:09:29 PM Michael, ok I'll try and explain in a few words. Iraq is a long term Aus market for wheat......
» 7/02/2006 8:43:13 PM Salam, I think you really need to do some navel gazing as to why it is that various people.....
» 7/02/2006 9:19:23 AM My point is that with all these so called trade boycotts, its the little people who are th.....
» 6/02/2006 11:25:53 PM "Why do people complain about enforcing doctrine in the Catholic church when it could.....
» 6/02/2006 9:46:36 PM "Money is thier god, decency and principles come a very poor second." Umm hedge.....
» 6/02/2006 8:06:40 PM I think that Irfan has written a thoughtfull and balanced article. Its so easy to always b.....
» 6/02/2006 7:22:49 AM Philo, if you really want to understand what Gorbachev is about, read an interview with hi.....
» 5/02/2006 10:28:39 PM "Nothing has proven christianity wrong, though many critics have tried and will cont.....
» 5/02/2006 4:30:34 PM Watching somebody slowly die of cancer in their last stages, is a very sad and traumatic e.....
» 5/02/2006 4:09:56 PM "Had the contract been lost they would have been berated for incompetence.The US is f.....
» 5/02/2006 11:33:24 AM "You chose a bad example. What happened to Clinton is a result of him being a flounde.....
» 4/02/2006 9:27:55 PM "I don't understand why people don't see population as an issue without borders, the .....
» 4/02/2006 9:04:27 PM "an agnostic has to begin with the dogma "it is more reasonable when faced with .....
» 4/02/2006 3:59:05 PM Philo, you of course forget, that it was the wisdom of Gorbachev, understanding the failin.....
» 4/02/2006 3:36:52 PM "You say yours is the superior place. How do you know?" By my ability to reason.....
» 3/02/2006 9:03:37 PM "Well they were also the only ones to argue against it with any seriousness." Y.....
» 2/02/2006 11:06:10 PM "But the beginning point cannot be seen as anything other than Christianity's expecta.....
» 2/02/2006 9:27:10 PM "I can very well see that Yabby cares little about the conventions of dialogue etc.&q.....
» 2/02/2006 9:08:09 PM "Let’s talk about pregnancy and motherhood" Tubley you are correct, women evolv.....
» 2/02/2006 2:41:59 PM Fide, you misunderstand science. In science all knowledge is tentative. Yup, there are als.....
» 1/02/2006 10:16:48 PM Syed, thanks for a well written article, you raise some interesting points. The holiday q.....
» 1/02/2006 10:19:41 AM Opinionated2, thanks for informing me that glass is transparent :) All the women of merit.....
» 31/01/2006 10:52:21 PM "So back to Yaby’s point about “its not really fair to force women to provide a cheap.....
» 31/01/2006 8:49:35 PM "Does anyone have any real answers as to why there are so few female politicians?&quo.....
» 31/01/2006 9:47:16 AM "Women deserve to be represented by women so that Australia is seen as a truly repren.....
» 30/01/2006 10:49:12 PM "Wake up man you are in Australia now. Christianity is the dominant culture. Since yo.....
» 30/01/2006 9:35:36 PM "And it is wrong to create them with their destruction in mind" That is simply .....
» 30/01/2006 6:47:35 PM "I would appreciate it if you would not slander religious thinkers for their faith, g.....
» 29/01/2006 10:42:30 PM To Davo: "You would find that even if immigrants were to be settled in rural areas i.....
» 29/01/2006 10:22:07 PM "try reading "Genesis; the story we haven't heard" by paul borgman" P.....
» 29/01/2006 1:31:17 PM "Let's not be coy, only the capital cities will get the immigrants and for example th.....
» 28/01/2006 5:25:01 PM Andrew, you are very much mistaken, if you think that Islam is not a political religion. I.....
» 28/01/2006 5:06:11 PM ROFL, this thread is turning into a comparison of househusband notes :) Well just to drag.....
» 28/01/2006 4:27:40 PM "And what does the church have to do with Christ anyhow, it is a body of sinners, imp.....
» 28/01/2006 11:12:18 AM Somebody has to create Australia's wealth and export industries and its us here in WA who .....
» 27/01/2006 8:09:02 PM You miss the point completely Al. No other worldwise institution, spends so much time and .....
» 27/01/2006 3:19:44 PM "I would be interested to understand how even a christian community as radical (in it.....
» 27/01/2006 12:21:34 PM "He did absolutely nothing in the way of domestic work. His mother was partly to blam.....
» 27/01/2006 8:47:16 AM Martin, your Spengler of course leads to a Catholic website. http://tcrnews2.com/ You are.....
» 27/01/2006 12:49:27 AM "If we start actually having larger families we could solve our own problems and conc.....
» 26/01/2006 1:52:42 PM "* Have a 5 year moratorium on immigration so we can assess the true direction that m.....
» 26/01/2006 12:18:17 PM "But tell me how does one answer the question "Do you think my penis is too smal.....
» 26/01/2006 10:36:10 AM "You cant tell us that we look fat in the morning in that dress even if we asked or c.....
» 25/01/2006 10:51:54 PM Tubley, I simply don't see the unfairness that you see, all based on gender lines. I see a.....
» 25/01/2006 8:05:11 PM I don't believe in the oil company conspiracy theory. I think that Govt deals with short t.....
» 25/01/2006 12:08:37 PM Well I think thats exactly where the CSIRO could be doing something. There are plenty of a.....
» 25/01/2006 11:01:42 AM "But my main argument is that people should get equal recognition for what they achei.....
» 24/01/2006 9:38:00 PM Tubley, the male/female thing is not about 50/50, more like a spectrum and we get all type.....
» 24/01/2006 9:10:38 PM On a world scale, the story of the overfished oceans is a sad one indeed. Even so called s.....
» 24/01/2006 10:36:27 AM Al, personally I prefer people who are honest, I am not into spin. If they have a religiou.....
» 22/01/2006 10:51:21 PM Well Wendy, you are free to switch off the lights, chew an apple, think of England or the .....
» 22/01/2006 10:17:05 PM Martin, tonight there was a programme on SBS about Pope Alexander 6th and his sexual explo.....
» 22/01/2006 9:46:12 PM David, your theories won't work, you need a comparative advantage. Our basic infrastructur.....
» 22/01/2006 3:46:09 PM Fide, many of the questions posed on this thread by many posters, are in fact quite explai.....
» 22/01/2006 3:28:39 PM "the longest surviving institution on the planet." Martin, clearly longevity wa.....
» 21/01/2006 10:13:47 PM "He must have some redeeming qualities or consider giving him the flick" Pete, .....
» 21/01/2006 10:05:31 PM Oh I don't think that a bit of male bashing is going to hurt us guys. Perhaps women just n.....
» 20/01/2006 11:59:40 PM Martin, lots of religions/churches have been started by lots of people. Xtianity was cobbl.....
» 20/01/2006 10:13:04 PM Martin there are religions who have been around alot longer then the Catholic Church and g.....
» 20/01/2006 4:59:39 PM Well its like this... Women seem fussier then men when it comes to housework. Seeing they .....
» 20/01/2006 4:31:04 PM "The only thing 'inevitable' is that labor rates in Australia are unsustainable for a.....
» 19/01/2006 11:33:00 PM Rather the re evaluating stem cell research, perhaps its time that the Catholics reviewed .....
» 19/01/2006 10:53:47 PM Shonga I'm sorry to hear about your health problems. I have less faith then you in the exp.....
» 19/01/2006 2:59:19 PM David, sheesh you really should put down that bible and perhaps subscribe to the Economist.....
» 19/01/2006 2:39:27 PM "Yes you are right, white people have a lot to answer for." Umm, before you rus.....
» 18/01/2006 10:42:18 PM "Do you support a social security system and if not, what is your suggested alternati.....
» 18/01/2006 9:41:38 PM Pericles- well written and informed post! BD- your post was a bit like religion, lots of d.....
» 18/01/2006 2:46:53 PM Shonga don't take this personally, for I don't know you, its more a point I am trying to m.....
» 18/01/2006 2:35:56 PM I don't blame alot of manufacturers if they go offshore. Wages are an issue only in some i.....
» 16/01/2006 8:46:07 PM Read my post again Al. I say most women "could create 400 etc" which is true.You.....
» 16/01/2006 5:06:12 PM David van Gend seems to take a Catholic view on most things and thats his choice I guess. .....
» 16/01/2006 2:19:00 PM DF, you forget of course that nobody is forcing Catholics to have an abortion or partake i.....
» 16/01/2006 10:57:01 AM "Christ died for us and there is nothing we (the believers) could ever DO to repay hi.....
» 15/01/2006 2:42:34 PM "A year or so ago I attended a Church of about 1,200 people in the south of Sydney an.....
» 14/01/2006 2:30:09 PM "Western civilization is overwhelming the product of Christianty." Hehe, stop k.....
» 13/01/2006 9:58:32 PM "Australia has the opportunity to be a leader in areas such as renewables and organic.....
» 13/01/2006 8:59:44 PM The biggest problem for Africa is not Europeans, but Africans themselves, African leaders .....
» 13/01/2006 8:42:56 PM "The middle east is not getting better, it is collapsing rapidly as is most countries.....
» 13/01/2006 3:58:16 PM "don't rely on Alchemist as he tends to just repeat :)" You could be wrong ther.....
» 12/01/2006 9:38:26 PM David! As I've said before, I understand that there are those who are philosphically chall.....
» 12/01/2006 3:33:52 PM I think that Saul is very brave to forecast anything, in today's uncertain world. When you.....
» 12/01/2006 2:47:12 PM Ok so answer me a question if you can.... I've been watching the news, watching thousands .....
» 12/01/2006 12:26:01 AM Doug you are quite correct. I have become intolerant of the intolerant! Fact is that alo.....
» 11/01/2006 5:46:40 PM The author misses some important points. Liberal democracies are not a problem, but a reli.....
» 11/01/2006 4:35:32 PM "Eventually, you are privileged enough to never hear a crap pressed in heads by case .....
» 10/01/2006 10:32:44 PM "Rather than devolve more power from the state, we should be drumming into the next g.....
» 10/01/2006 10:17:15 PM "How easy, how convenient it would be to turn our minds around to this manner of thin.....
» 9/01/2006 9:07:06 PM Sherrin, I am sorry to hear that you are alarmed, but I think its without reason. People m.....
» 9/01/2006 7:44:20 PM Ok my 5c worth, seeing everyone is giving theirs... There is some truth in the saying tha.....
» 9/01/2006 6:57:46 PM " thus leading to intercourse by those who would be unable to bear children. That sho.....
» 8/01/2006 10:42:21 PM Yngun, one last point that I forgot. You claim that the fundies are doing ok in Africa, du.....
» 8/01/2006 8:24:59 PM Yngun, I read your blog and have a few comments. You fundies still don't get it. You can t.....
» 8/01/2006 4:29:25 PM Al its not for me to do anything. Most women could create about 400 little human organisms.....
» 8/01/2006 1:14:38 PM Sherrin the anti abortion movement is a worldwide movement, principally driven by the Vati.....
» 8/01/2006 12:45:51 PM Alan the real difference is that I accept the laws of nature and you don't, but take a rel.....
» 5/01/2006 9:13:50 PM Philo, you should travel a little more! As everywhere, there are plenty of opportunities f.....
» 5/01/2006 1:09:19 PM Well Wendy, you need to understand all the benefits of the live export trade too. Here in .....
» 4/01/2006 10:59:25 PM Sergei, I'd like to congratulate you on the best post I have seen this year on OLO! If it .....
» 4/01/2006 9:36:22 PM Well I had alot of respect for Packer. I admired the fact that he lived life on his terms......
» 4/01/2006 9:05:05 PM Alan, looks like we can get bogged down in semantics here, but thats ok :) My trusty old .....
» 4/01/2006 3:46:58 PM Philo, in most of Europe, religion plays a part in name only, in terms of governance. The .....
» 4/01/2006 9:01:23 AM Jersey I'm sorry you feel that way, but in fact I had good reasons for asking Sherrin and .....
» 3/01/2006 10:36:09 PM Philo, I think you are pushing your luck if you try to let religion take the credit for th.....
» 3/01/2006 8:11:34 PM Sherrin you can search around the net and find every kind of argument imaginable on just a.....
» 3/01/2006 3:31:57 PM Alan you miss the point completely and confuse philosophy with theology. At the end of t.....
» 3/01/2006 1:21:02 PM "Belief is more powerful then genes or any other physical reality. May God open your .....
» 2/01/2006 9:34:35 PM Yngun, I am not amazed that scientific types, people who understand evolution theory etc, .....
» 2/01/2006 2:06:21 PM Abortion invariably boils down to religion, a bit like the ID debate. Many anti abortion a.....
» 1/01/2006 10:28:03 PM DF, once we leave religion out of the picture, there might well be arguments about abortio.....
» 1/01/2006 12:25:37 PM Thanks for the interesting and well written article Alan. I think I will refer to the rel.....
» 1/01/2006 12:12:59 PM Well my prediction is that the so called "tragedy of the commons" will apply in .....
» 31/12/2005 1:33:12 PM " The problem is getting all countries to undertake reasonable emissions cuts" .....
» 31/12/2005 11:01:07 AM DF, the abortion rate might be unacceptable to you, the anti abortion lobby and certain po.....
» 30/12/2005 6:55:57 PM The question was asked in WA when abortion was legalised, only perhaps in simplified terms.....
» 30/12/2005 4:51:12 PM Sherrin, as the saying goes, if it quacks like a duck etc. Fact is that most of the anti a.....
» 29/12/2005 9:16:09 PM The problem with the whole Kyoto story, is that Australia burns quite a bit of energy for .....
» 29/12/2005 2:29:02 PM Friederich I know your fascination with God, but us agnostics will believe you when there .....
» 29/12/2005 2:15:03 PM Friederich, no I don't go to lodge meetings. Yes I dislike the Vatican, for good reasons. .....
» 28/12/2005 10:51:13 PM Friedrich, sorry to dissapoint you, but in my case counselling on abortion would not help .....
» 28/12/2005 10:15:04 PM It always amuses me when members of the godsquad, preaching the mantra of the holy ovum an.....
» 27/12/2005 9:16:48 PM Sherrin I nearly fell of my chair laughing at your comment about mantras. Compared to the .....
» 27/12/2005 8:47:28 PM I don't believe in the religious dogma about the holy sperm and ovum, considering that mos.....
» 27/12/2005 10:32:01 AM Friedrich no I don't read Getrude Stein. Justin you raise many points, which I can't answ.....
» 26/12/2005 4:16:20 PM Now now Numbat, I'm glad that you got all that off your chest and now perhaps feel better .....
» 25/12/2005 10:55:20 PM Justin, your imagination goes well beyond your ability to reason it seems. A bunch of divi.....
» 25/12/2005 2:47:03 PM Numbat get used to the laws of nature. Most women shed around 400 eggs in their lifetimes,.....
» 24/12/2005 9:54:47 AM Maracas you won't even start to convince people like Friederich to think along those lines.....
» 23/12/2005 11:03:59 PM Very well written Abe. The problem remains, that democracy is about more then one vote one.....
» 23/12/2005 9:25:36 PM Nope Al, do your homework. The shape of something can even happen in Madame Tussauds, does.....
» 23/12/2005 9:11:36 AM Steel I agree with much of what you write, but I think that the Islamic world has alot of .....
» 23/12/2005 6:23:48 AM Umm Friederich, you should have mentioned that's your subjective opinion, no more. So no n.....
» 22/12/2005 10:32:32 PM Sounds to me like Greg is just after attention, so he has to say something controversial t.....
» 22/12/2005 10:13:08 PM Every woman on this planet should have the right to family planning and abortion in the fi.....
» 20/12/2005 3:21:23 PM I respect the rights of people Al, not a few dividing cells. They are simply the product o.....
» 19/12/2005 11:06:10 PM Well Dianne, evolutionary psychology has shown that turning the other cheek is a dismal fa.....
» 19/12/2005 1:04:17 AM "You claim that what the Secular Humanists have done is different from Church lobbyin.....
» 19/12/2005 12:46:39 AM Sheesh Dianne, that was quite a post... I am happy to hear about your perceived intelligen.....
» 17/12/2005 11:55:31 PM Scout-Dianna, by the sounds of things, luckily for you and for me,we both live far enough .....
» 17/12/2005 1:08:50 PM Well Irfan, racism can be a two way street. When mobs of Lebanese youths finally stop cal.....
» 17/12/2005 12:55:02 PM Al perhaps you should read Richard Dawkins, he will explain to you how complexity arises f.....
» 15/12/2005 10:41:33 PM Excellent article Robin! The god/gods of the gaps will continue, because people don't both.....
» 15/12/2005 10:06:40 PM Bosk, no untruth at all, as you claim. I am simply better informed :) Read what Tanweer Ah.....
» 14/12/2005 11:46:09 PM Bosk... Yes I was generalising, I thought it was bleeding obvious lol, but clearly not obv.....
» 14/12/2005 9:19:19 PM Bromwyn, I think you are talking nonsense actually. Hundreds of thousands of migrants come.....
» 13/12/2005 11:38:20 PM Irfan, the real issue is that its up to the Lebanese-Muslim community to figure out why Le.....
» 13/12/2005 11:07:24 PM Well Salam, I migrated to Australia about 30 years ago. I have never had a problem, neithe.....
» 13/12/2005 10:25:54 PM Al there is a huge difference between philosphy and theology. We can reason about one, the.....
» 12/12/2005 2:26:40 PM I don't believe that the Cronulla situation is about economics. There are plenty of poor p.....
» 11/12/2005 9:28:35 PM Well I agree, Australia is and should be a secular state, where religion is but a lifestyl.....
» 11/12/2005 6:05:43 AM Al you missed the points I was trying to make. You clearly don't have a problem with theol.....
» 8/12/2005 10:24:06 PM Ok Al, I will use up my valuable 2nd post for the day to explain further the principle I a.....
» 8/12/2005 9:38:39 PM Al I think the Catholic Church really needs to navel gaze a bit as to what it really is. I.....
» 7/12/2005 11:43:33 PM Sheesh Bromwyn, only yesterday I was mentioning the Qutb-Zawahiri- bin Laden connection of.....
» 7/12/2005 10:17:45 PM Philo, the question is actually more on topic then you think, for its about claimed litera.....
» 7/12/2005 3:17:03 PM Tama, thanks for your post. Let me put it this way.... You might know a little about neuro.....
» 7/12/2005 11:01:15 AM Ok whilst everyone is trying to destroy everyone elses version of religion, I have a quest.....
» 6/12/2005 12:39:18 PM I disagree with you. Read what Bin Laden actually wrote and where his philosphies come fro.....
» 5/12/2005 8:39:03 PM FH on the stand that you take, I wish more xtian people would say the same, only that way .....
» 5/12/2005 7:14:07 PM Bromwyn I can't help but comment on your posts to Ludwig, as I disagree with you :) Fact i.....
» 5/12/2005 3:44:53 PM Meredith, we also have a choice between a secular society and a xtian one and I prefer a s.....
» 5/12/2005 3:28:23 PM Hehe... I just knew she'd be a catholic who reads the Humanae Vitae :) Yup I read it years.....
» 4/12/2005 5:55:48 PM Graham thanks for a great website! Travel broadens the mind, but so does interesting debat.....
» 4/12/2005 10:56:24 AM Geer, nothing convenient about what I wrote lol. While not wanting to turn this thread int.....
» 3/12/2005 11:03:53 PM Philo, correct me if I am wrong, but your post implies that you think that religion has so.....
» 3/12/2005 9:21:41 PM Al the data on ru 486 has been done to death on these boards. There is clearly no problem......
» 3/12/2005 11:23:01 AM Philo you did not understand the point I was making. There is a huge difference between pe.....
» 2/12/2005 10:40:52 PM I really think that a crucial issue is being missed here! Its a question of our rights and.....
» 2/12/2005 7:00:04 PM Al thanks for the comment. Fact is I have every right to ask if somebody is a Catholic. If.....
» 1/12/2005 10:36:44 PM Ok I checked, some of the Catholic websites say that she is part of the pro life movement......
» 1/12/2005 10:19:49 PM The reason not more work has been done on this is quite logical. The Americans did a lot o.....
» 1/12/2005 2:38:03 PM Perhaps Donna Harrison can tell us if she is a Catholic, or part of the US fundamentalist .....
» 30/11/2005 11:31:16 PM Yup, biodiesel from algae is one of a number of alternatives for future energy needs. But .....
» 30/11/2005 11:10:54 PM FH, I read your blog and I think you miss the point of a modern secular democracy. The sep.....
» 30/11/2005 4:17:58 PM FH, you miss the point I was trying to make. To many Muslims, Islam is not just a lifestyl.....
» 29/11/2005 10:19:29 PM FH, yes Islam is growing, but that is more a question of demographics. Abortion, birth con.....
» 28/11/2005 10:59:51 PM Rupert, ok let me try to explain... The whole Islam story is perhaps a little more complex.....
» 28/11/2005 8:57:11 PM GOD LOVES CHILDREN According to God's law, children are not persons but the property of .....
» 27/11/2005 8:45:44 PM Philo, what continues on, is your dna, in your kids. The soul is a human concept, going ba.....
» 26/11/2005 11:30:56 PM Well Philo, its a bit like this: If we read history, then yes, Islam has been a violent re.....
» 25/11/2005 2:38:33 PM Goldbrick thats for your comment. When people use words that are basically gibberish, I us.....
» 25/11/2005 2:19:56 PM Tama, first question. Are you a Catholic? Both Poland and the US are two countries where .....
» 23/11/2005 10:22:22 PM Hi Philo, thanks for your question. I actually have lots of answers. One of them is that d.....
» 23/11/2005 9:22:13 PM Sheesh Goldbrick, some people think Islam is weird, but after reading your post, I have to.....
» 22/11/2005 6:24:52 AM "In fact it takes more oil to plant clover than it takes to make the fertaliser the c.....
» 21/11/2005 9:50:56 PM Brown's article overlooks the fact, that not all farming systems are as energy dependant a.....
» 21/11/2005 5:34:04 PM I think what people have to understand is that if you believe in a religion which is also .....
» 20/11/2005 4:21:38 PM "Seek and you shall find. God searches your heart, you could find Him there. " .....
» 19/11/2005 11:03:04 PM Somehow an important point is being missed here, namely that religion is very much a quest.....
» 18/11/2005 11:22:02 PM We live in a secular democracy, which means that religious tyranny of whatever kind, shoul.....
» 17/11/2005 9:59:32 AM Everyone seems to be looking for one so called magic pill, when the answer will come from .....
» 14/11/2005 5:09:09 PM Things will only start to happen when economics forces them to happen. The solution will b.....
» 14/11/2005 4:25:00 PM Reason, all I can say is excellent post! One gold star for you and please post again :) H.....
» 13/11/2005 3:42:41 AM Hamlet I agree with most of your last post! The age of consent is a line in the sand that .....
» 12/11/2005 1:34:52 PM Hamlet, regarding your sticking point of different kinds of love, as you say, we cannot ig.....
» 11/11/2005 11:09:33 PM Hamlet, you are correct, we should not ignore our evolutionary past. OTOH Nature does not .....
» 10/11/2005 11:11:53 PM Hamlet I have Jared Diamond's book, so know what you are refering to. I think you miss the.....
» 10/11/2005 10:04:11 PM Hamlet, perhaps you are correct and you just see things from an old fart's perspective :) .....
» 7/11/2005 9:39:12 PM I don't believe its all gloom and doom. Already the first WA farms have grown their own ca.....
» 7/11/2005 3:29:05 PM Al, you really are going to have to inform yourself a bit better then quoting the lady dow.....
» 6/11/2005 12:57:49 PM The answer to the Muslim question is going to have to come from the Muslim population them.....
» 6/11/2005 12:22:59 PM Mac, the figures in Europe are far better then 1- 100'000 which you quote. Even at those f.....
» 5/11/2005 9:57:53 PM Al, you might query my statistics, but perhaps you should get yourself a google bar :) My .....
» 4/11/2005 10:32:36 PM The present Govt is through bad policy, ignoring one way to assist global poverty. It is f.....
» 4/11/2005 9:56:46 PM I live and work in the middle of a farming area, so perhaps am more qualified to comment t.....
» 4/11/2005 3:29:58 PM Al, regards teen pregnancies, the statistics show that a country like Holland, with a grea.....
» 3/11/2005 11:50:42 PM Big Al, you miss the point entirely. A secular society needs tolerance to function. Be it .....
» 3/11/2005 9:00:29 PM DLC, using emotive language as you do, "murdering babies" is exactly that, but n.....
» 2/11/2005 10:39:34 PM Justin, thank you for your comment. Perhaps you should differenciate between a zygote, a f.....
» 2/11/2005 9:59:42 PM Umm, a couple of joined cells are not an umborn baby! Its my understanding that the produc.....
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