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» 10/03/2015 10:09:46 AM The Snowy Mountain scheme was hugely expensive, as was the Sydney Opera House (funded by a.....
» 10/03/2015 9:13:20 AM So what happens when the -very strictly- non renewables run out? Do we just put our heads .....
» 22/10/2014 6:57:15 AM My strongest personal memory of the time was thinking it was a bit crook I was old enough .....
» 21/10/2014 10:14:14 AM Hear Hear. Gough made some very necessary and worthwhile reforms, even if his government w.....
» 29/09/2014 10:47:19 AM I think a reality check is in order. The simple unavoidable fact is, governments get elect.....
» 23/09/2014 8:18:16 AM In referencing the Falklands, I was thinking of the Sheffield, taken out by an exocet miss.....
» 21/09/2014 9:40:42 AM So which would you consider more 'Democratic' Graham: a candidate impressing one donor for.....
» 18/09/2014 6:35:13 PM So am I......
» 18/09/2014 10:14:28 AM I would suggest the true essence of Democracy is "one person, one vote". This is.....
» 17/09/2014 10:16:14 AM What a remarkably polite post Loudmouth. Now perhaps you might like to explain why I'm act.....
» 17/09/2014 8:10:03 AM With regard to population, the Devil is in the Detail. I would suggest treating global dem.....
» 16/09/2014 11:56:41 AM That is a creepy vision Pete, thanks backachya. If we were to have something like a Nation.....
» 16/09/2014 9:53:25 AM JKJ (or whatever your name is this week) I have answered your questions. You asked if I su.....
» 16/09/2014 8:28:46 AM An easy way to avoid name calling is of course if we give our real names, then there will .....
» 16/09/2014 6:31:04 AM G'day Plantagenet Pete, I didn't actually say anything about being neutral or 'non aligned.....
» 14/09/2014 12:54:22 PM Frankly Pete, I believe the smartest and cheapest defence policy Australia could implement.....
» 14/09/2014 10:43:56 AM I'm sure you're absolutely correct, Peter Lang; Mr What-ever-his-name-is would surely be m.....
» 14/09/2014 7:44:16 AM For some reason a 'wild erratic fancy' has come upon me, that perhaps refreshing memories .....
» 13/09/2014 7:48:30 AM Glancing back, I see I owe sincere apologies to Poirot; I certainly didn't agree with that.....
» 12/09/2014 4:47:59 PM G'day Pete, points ceded. But (always a but) when one is allied to the biggest bully in th.....
» 12/09/2014 4:27:58 PM Completely agree Loudmouth......
» 12/09/2014 3:13:56 PM G'day Bruce, well said. G'day plantagenet, you make some fine arguments. However, when the.....
» 12/09/2014 1:04:44 PM In forming a defence strategy, I would suggest we first need to assess the most likely thr.....
» 12/09/2014 12:48:19 PM Perhaps you should consider a cuppa and a little lie down, Jardine; you seem to be foaming.....
» 12/09/2014 11:39:58 AM The weirdness of War is that murder is illegal -unless the gumment sanctions it. Since the.....
» 12/09/2014 9:48:26 AM Why can we not keep developing the Collins? Surely by now we should be getting better at i.....
» 12/09/2014 9:39:28 AM Hear hear. Rather than supplying arms (pouring fuel onto the fire) surely a more intellige.....
» 11/09/2014 1:42:35 PM As always Loudmouth, your self-aggrandizement is impressive. Far from delivering bad 'news.....
» 11/09/2014 12:14:34 PM Sometimes Jardine, I really wonder if you bother reading your own posts, much less anyone .....
» 10/09/2014 1:19:47 PM Please show where and when I have advocated killing people Peter Ah fat?.....
» 10/09/2014 11:52:50 AM Oh thank the the Lord, Peter Wing Ah Jardine Lo Fat has raised his gaze from under the bed.....
» 9/09/2014 12:53:04 PM It is truly hard to understand, in a world where the Human population has grown from aroun.....
» 9/09/2014 8:50:06 AM And the purpose of this is? 1. Light a fire 2. Pour petrol on fire 3. Fan gently, in an ef.....
» 11/08/2014 11:07:47 AM “ ...other than his arguments are based on partisan political advocacy, or ideology or cul.....
» 9/08/2014 8:16:39 AM What indeed should we do about the IPCC. As of 2012, the IPCC had an annual budget of just.....
» 8/08/2014 9:44:51 AM Surely this must be a joke. Aitkin urges us to ignore the overwhelming evidence for man ma.....
» 25/07/2014 5:30:19 PM Yep. Thanks for proving Bertrand right......
» 25/07/2014 11:48:53 AM “... nothing can break your happiness because you can never be anything but yourself.” Fun.....
» 24/07/2014 7:40:23 PM I'm in a position to converse with people quite frequently about the pros and cons of capi.....
» 23/07/2014 10:06:27 AM Of course people who are depressed should be able to get help. Anyone who has any problem .....
» 18/07/2014 1:47:24 PM Standing up for minorities against blatant discrimination, knowing you are likely to ".....
» 15/07/2014 7:23:01 AM The simple and obvious key to maximise profits is to have the largest possible number of w.....
» 14/07/2014 1:08:10 PM I think ChrisPer is confusing cause with effect: "The inequality is dealt with under.....
» 11/07/2014 7:27:40 AM A simple answer to the problem of deficits, taxation and services is to simply do away wit.....
» 10/07/2014 7:55:59 AM The essential weakness of the Neoliberal philosophy is funding government. At the same tim.....
» 7/07/2014 12:14:14 PM Leaving Piketty aside -or out completely as largely irrelevant- it should never be forgott.....
» 7/07/2014 10:01:27 AM PS, "ouevre"? Misspelling fancy words rather detracts from the arty-farty effect.....
» 7/07/2014 9:58:50 AM I have to wonder how much or to what degree the sentiments expressed here are responsible .....
» 12/06/2014 9:56:56 AM Whatever happened to “progress”? I remember the sixties and working a 45 hour week. Then .....
» 12/04/2014 6:05:37 AM So in Spindoc's world, anyone who doesn't aspire to be a CEO is a loser? Doctors who genui.....
» 11/04/2014 1:04:05 PM Ah yes Hasbeen, but who are the real bludgers? http://www.news.com.au/finance/work/the-myt.....
» 10/04/2014 9:46:56 AM Hear Hear. Sadly, the words "Conservative Leader" is an oxymoron, since Conserva.....
» 10/04/2014 7:09:48 AM "The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of.....
» 9/04/2014 9:10:15 AM “Firstly, it would abandon any idea that the thinking individual may come to clear and cer.....
» 20/03/2014 9:44:08 AM I quite agree Phanto. My point is people can choose to be offended, and they can choose no.....
» 20/03/2014 7:20:36 AM Freedom of speech should not protect the right to broadcast lies and deceptions, and that .....
» 18/03/2014 6:39:57 AM An interesting and topical article in Australia's answer to Huffpost: http://www.burdekinh.....
» 18/03/2014 6:12:14 AM “And to think that these are professional journalists next to Brandis, failing to see the .....
» 17/03/2014 9:49:41 AM "Blind to their hypocrisy, they unjustly insulted and ridiculed this thoroughly decen.....
» 14/02/2014 11:24:09 AM The elephant in this room appears to be that we do not have 100% full employment. We haven.....
» 10/02/2014 8:24:44 PM “Judge not, lest ye yourself be judged”. Liars think everyone is dishonest; cheaters expec.....
» 7/02/2014 12:45:29 PM Sorry, don't agree with this thesis at all. I don't believe there is any evidence to sugge.....
» 6/02/2014 3:03:42 PM Valid points, Pericles. I would certainly agree that for the gumment to hand over dough to.....
» 5/02/2014 3:53:03 PM “Mr Davis (CCA CEO) remained among Australia's best-paid executives last year, earning a t.....
» 5/02/2014 11:44:31 AM I believe the co-operative structure is the only hope for... Pretty much everything, reall.....
» 4/02/2014 9:11:27 AM Definition of a conservative: someone to whom nothing is obvious until -long- after it's h.....
» 24/01/2014 7:59:37 PM 'Ah the old “lump of labour” fallacy.' Interestingly, virtually the same result can be ach.....
» 24/01/2014 11:20:44 AM Not in KJ version......
» 24/01/2014 9:34:40 AM Perhaps we should check out the Devil in the Details. Employment areas suitable for over 5.....
» 24/01/2014 8:17:57 AM I seem to be in a strangely agreeable mood today. I quite agree with Graham -and also with.....
» 13/01/2014 12:31:23 PM Or, we could simply bring car manufacturers into line with speed laws. Why is it legal to .....
» 2/01/2014 3:13:49 PM Matthew 6 “Beware of practicing your righteousness before other people in order to be seen.....
» 2/01/2014 11:40:42 AM Australia's multiculturalism has largely kept apace with it's increasing rejection of reli.....
» 15/12/2013 4:54:57 AM "The cost of housing is measured as the price of a new home (excluding land). Mortgag.....
» 12/12/2013 11:56:17 AM G'day Pericles, thanks for the link. May I direct your attention to paragraph 1.10: ".....
» 12/12/2013 10:34:56 AM One of the problems with compulsory voting is the number of people who vote for a persona,.....
» 12/12/2013 10:03:52 AM “Do you believe the Abbott gov. was elected with a clear mandate to dismantle climate chan.....
» 11/12/2013 2:23:22 PM Once again the right whingers come out with their usual catchcry: “If you criticise Capita.....
» 10/12/2013 8:48:41 AM A simple alternative to outright tariffs would be to set the highest standards in the worl.....
» 28/11/2013 9:46:22 AM Good article. It should be noted, by denialists and warmists alike, that all these hazards.....
» 23/11/2013 10:57:16 AM Quote: “Well let's have a look at what the IAC report really said. ++They provided “A simp.....
» 23/11/2013 8:54:30 AM Once again cohenite has offered a wealth of misinformation. The guidelines quoted by cohen.....
» 22/11/2013 9:02:51 AM Who do you think you are, Ted Watt? What gives you the right to decide for women you have .....
» 16/11/2013 8:59:53 AM G'day Hasbeen, more significant than Aboriginal employment stats would be women. In most o.....
» 8/11/2013 6:43:41 AM G'day Killarney, It is interesting that Nordic cultures embrace a higher tax rate, and I f.....
» 7/11/2013 7:40:33 AM The author is suggesting the Liberal Party should be 'liberal' rather than conservative, w.....
» 4/11/2013 7:22:14 AM G'day Jon J, While your criticism may be reasonable, your aim is a little off. If you'd fo.....
» 1/11/2013 7:13:56 AM Like Pericles, I find it absolutely reprehensible that people are asked to risk their live.....
» 23/10/2013 7:06:17 PM which really makes it a "user pays" taxation system, which effectively subsidise.....
» 23/10/2013 1:33:53 PM "In May 2009 the Rudd Labor government announced that Medibank would become a 'for pr.....
» 21/10/2013 7:22:06 AM Herein lies the sheer stupidity of the Neo-liberal ideology. While acknowledging that Gove.....
» 14/10/2013 5:48:26 AM Caucus voted defensively. Where's the safest place to put a back stabber?.....
» 10/10/2013 9:59:42 AM Since the time of Malcolm Fraser, the prevailing political wisdom has been “put the one ou.....
» 1/10/2013 10:45:03 AM Ph is a logarithmic scale. One unit change in scale represents a 10 fold change in hydroge.....
» 1/10/2013 6:27:32 AM Any downward movement on the Ph scale is described as “acidification” (becoming more acidi.....
» 30/09/2013 2:35:47 PM Yes, this is the age old argument against Democracy. How can my one vote possibly make a d.....
» 30/09/2013 6:13:36 AM Yep, the planet is definitely cooling. The temp at the moment where I am is only 24. Yeste.....
» 28/09/2013 10:18:12 AM G'day SPQR, I agree that the media focus on CO2 is far too narrow, but to suggest that the.....
» 27/09/2013 7:24:13 PM Between 1870 and 2004, global average sea levels rose 195 mm (7.7 in) From 1950 to 2009, m.....
» 27/09/2013 7:22:55 PM OK Loudmouth, I'll play your silly game. But since it is your game, I bags you go first. .....
» 26/09/2013 2:55:32 PM I guess it all depends on how you define "significant", Loudmouth. Personally, I.....
» 25/09/2013 8:37:21 AM "First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they attack you, then they admit.....
» 23/09/2013 10:28:04 AM Interesting article in NewScientist this morning: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn24.....
» 22/09/2013 9:34:51 AM In order to change the tides, we would have to change the orbit of the moon. To create a .....
» 20/09/2013 10:13:52 AM Notice how flat earthers always quote no warming for 17 years? Not 20, or 50 or 100, but 1.....
» 18/09/2013 6:24:24 AM If you've got a problem with your plumbing, talk to a plumber. A problem with Law? Talk to.....
» 17/09/2013 9:26:43 AM "That is complete fiction," Professor David Karoly, a review editor of the IPCC .....
» 13/09/2013 10:39:38 AM Maybe it's one of them there 'cultural' things. From the perspective of my modern mass med.....
» 12/09/2013 12:13:11 PM I would like to express my deep and sincere appreciation to Graham for supplying email ale.....
» 11/09/2013 9:32:10 AM An interesting article, although I found the punctuation a little random. More than ".....
» 11/09/2013 7:16:25 AM “Baygon, you are saying, correct me if I’m wrong, that you have no problem with taxes, reg.....
» 11/09/2013 7:13:27 AM Oh dear, I forgot that in Peter Wing Ah Jardine K Hume's world, only those who disagree wi.....
» 10/09/2013 7:56:52 AM Save us from ideologues. This is an excellent article, and correctly identifies one of the.....
» 9/09/2013 7:24:50 AM My apologies to Chrisgaff for wandering off topic; for the sake of relevance let me vote “.....
» 8/09/2013 4:31:48 PM Gosh Almighty Ben, that's brilliant! Do you realise, TONY ABBOTT actually stands for: Ther.....
» 7/09/2013 6:58:14 AM G'day Shadow, and thanks for introducing me to this novel concept; sarcasm wow! I'll defin.....
» 6/09/2013 2:58:57 PM So this is what "Gobsmacked" means. One small word for a man, one giant thread f.....
» 6/09/2013 9:29:37 AM Does anyone seriously believe that prices will go down? Do you honestly think the companie.....
» 6/09/2013 8:21:35 AM I don't contend that, Shadow. Jesus Christ does......
» 6/09/2013 7:23:08 AM For two millenia, the monstrous herd of elephants browsing contentedly in the rooms of the.....
» 18/07/2013 6:33:56 AM For decades, all we have heard from politicians is that all pay rises should be linked to .....
» 17/07/2013 8:02:57 AM G'day Fester, thanks for reinforcing my point. Can you not see the irony of the author wr.....
» 17/07/2013 7:32:36 AM To the best of my recollection, Paul Hogan was the first to advance the argument of “if we.....
» 17/07/2013 7:19:23 AM What a load of rubbish.(not you, Ludwig). Borlaug's wonderful Green Revolution was and is .....
» 15/07/2013 12:55:12 PM G'day Andras, thanks for the links; good post. G'day Fester, while I would certainly agree.....
» 14/07/2013 8:33:54 AM My parents were very strict about oral hygiene; regular tooth brushing, six month visits t.....
» 14/07/2013 8:18:59 AM The answer to the population bomb is simple and -I would have thought- self-evident. Bette.....
» 14/07/2013 7:57:53 AM "Whoever sheds the blood of a human, by a human shall that person's blood be shed; fo.....
» 5/07/2013 8:40:50 AM In my part of Qld, Ergon pays 8c a kw, but charges 32c. Considering line losses over long .....
» 5/07/2013 8:20:31 AM “At times I feel like I am caught in some sort of weird ‘Alice in Wonderland’ scenario.” H.....
» 4/07/2013 3:44:33 PM I find it passing strange that the timing of the election hasn't received more comment, or.....
» 1/07/2013 1:49:24 PM G'day Poirot, Absolutely. I think Gillard should have stood down months ago, for the good .....
» 1/07/2013 12:31:52 PM If Rudd were a genuine, rather than a Sunday Christian, he could do worse than “forgive th.....
» 11/06/2013 8:24:56 AM I think the question we always need to ask ourselves is: “then what?” We give our money fo.....
» 11/06/2013 8:21:32 AM Politicians' hypocrisy regarding wages is hardly new. Fraser famously told us to tighten o.....
» 7/06/2013 7:37:48 AM So, my back woods butcher, how are you going to do when 90% of your customers can afford n.....
» 18/04/2013 12:36:57 PM G'day David f, apathy may be reasonable, but it can't be helpful or effective. Please und.....
» 18/04/2013 10:14:58 AM G'day David f. How very peculiar. While I largely agree with your points, you seem emphati.....
» 18/04/2013 8:09:28 AM A vital first step in making politicians more independent and accountable would be to limi.....
» 18/04/2013 7:29:05 AM Here are a few phrases all guvments and a helluva lot of individuals need to practice sayi.....
» 15/04/2013 7:58:34 AM "We apparently have the highest minimum (and possibly average) 'real' wages in the de.....
» 13/04/2013 1:00:09 PM G'day Rhrosty, Reducing the purchasing power of the dollar to 65c is effectively raising t.....
» 13/04/2013 8:04:49 AM Good post, Pericles. The essential problem with our 'representatives' is they simply aren.....
» 13/04/2013 6:54:02 AM Last I heard, butchering was considered a 'skilled' trade; one has to do an apprenticeship.....
» 4/04/2013 3:32:50 PM There is a world of difference between selling off a white elephant (rail) and selling off.....
» 6/03/2013 8:55:24 AM Continued: The question is, how much of each? Which should the rep. Weigh more heavily, hi.....
» 6/03/2013 8:53:31 AM G'day Banjo, A list of the world's most democratic countries doesn't really address the is.....
» 5/03/2013 7:10:09 AM G'day Banjo, The Indonesian system is nothing like the system I envisage. My vision is of .....
» 4/03/2013 9:26:31 AM Interesting statistics, Pericles. As one who has -very deliberately- always lived in the '.....
» 4/03/2013 7:49:37 AM Jardine, I'm inclined to agree. Since we're clearly in an era of merging dialectics, the p.....
» 3/03/2013 7:22:08 AM G'day Banjo, A post on the tyranny and inhumanity of distance, particularly concerning eff.....
» 2/03/2013 12:01:16 PM “Though some idealists may have a few reserves on the question, I think it is generally sa.....
» 16/02/2013 1:07:18 PM Horsemeat in hamburgers? What are the odds on that? I'm not sure how Tesco is going to get.....
» 15/02/2013 7:20:18 AM There were a number of factors in Howard's favour; An unprecedented -in duration- mining .....
» 14/02/2013 11:05:41 AM A mate just sent me an email, which struck me as relevant to this conversation: Oxford Uni.....
» 14/02/2013 7:13:13 AM Cohenite, I agree (with your political assessment, at least). While I would much prefer to.....
» 13/02/2013 11:05:45 AM “I suppose this justifies changing every thread to what keeps you awake at night.” One can.....
» 13/02/2013 6:38:11 AM Still struggling Cohenite? Good for you. A machine which uses up valuable resources compar.....
» 12/02/2013 7:16:50 PM G'day Rhosty, you might be interested in this timely article: http://www.newscientist.com.....
» 12/02/2013 8:09:32 AM Hear, hear Everald, excellent points. As the largest cash reserves on the planet, Superann.....
» 10/02/2013 10:56:23 AM The point at which Capitalism and Democracy intercept, I would suggest, is in Taxation. Wh.....
» 10/02/2013 10:52:09 AM I must say I find it quite extraordinary the number of people who treat human systems, Cap.....
» 9/02/2013 8:18:23 AM G'day Bugsy, This is of course an excellent argument for Capitalism (at least superficiall.....
» 9/02/2013 8:17:24 AM “Businesses are built and thrive on risk...” For truth, justice, and the American Way! Rea.....
» 8/02/2013 8:27:37 AM And the problem, indeed the fatal flaw, of Democracy will be evident in the coming months......
» 8/02/2013 8:26:48 AM As a fully paid member of the “Starry Eyed”, I have a problem with both Capitalism and Dem.....
» 6/02/2013 12:01:11 PM On Line Opinion......
» 5/02/2013 1:19:05 PM I have discovered exactly one (1) good thing about getting old: now I have an excuse for b.....
» 29/01/2013 10:30:05 AM Yes, Pericles. It is remarkable how people tend to overlook the bleeding obvious, isn't i.....
» 26/01/2013 1:35:07 PM Herein, I think, lies the fatal flaw of the Democratic system. Every three years or so, th.....
» 9/01/2013 7:42:04 AM “While temperatures vary on a local and regional scale, globally it has been 27 years sinc.....
» 9/01/2013 6:25:37 AM “On Monday, the average maximum temperature across the country was 40.33 °C, surpassing th.....
» 29/12/2012 10:24:04 AM After reading all the posts so far, my favourite is still Cohenite's first: “If the clown.....
» 27/12/2012 12:53:30 PM I don't have to “believe” I'm going to have an accident in order to see the wisdom of havi.....
» 9/10/2012 8:01:10 PM Yes... I think the title of this piece reads badly, and can be misinterpreted; perhaps &qu.....
» 1/10/2012 8:00:33 AM Violence for any reason, at any level must be deplored. The fact that Australia is a relat.....
» 30/09/2012 4:34:42 PM I wonder. According to the stats -and speaking of shareholders- currently around 83% of al.....
» 30/09/2012 9:35:46 AM I think we the tax payers -and owners of our mineral wealth- are already doing more than e.....
» 30/09/2012 8:16:29 AM G'day Herbert, I think there are a number of good ideas in these posts, including your own.....
» 29/09/2012 8:26:37 AM G'day Mark, did you read the article? All of it was about just how POTENTIALLY damn far t.....
» 28/09/2012 8:30:16 AM What a peculiar argument. We have to empty the bucket, so future generations can empty the.....
» 27/09/2012 11:43:03 AM Now I am confused. First you say: “...some people are confused, which is why they're bring.....
» 27/09/2012 6:42:31 AM I've just read a fascinating -and very relevant to this thread- article on New Scientist: .....
» 26/09/2012 10:23:13 AM I feel very much like an objective observer in these debates. As a country boy, I have ne.....
» 21/09/2012 7:17:22 AM There's another one of those pesky elephants in the room. If you fly over the eastern area.....
» 15/09/2012 7:05:51 AM Hasbeen, I quite agree. I certainly have no problem with mercy killing, nor -in theory, at.....
» 14/09/2012 2:51:55 PM I have been a hunter -in my teens- , I have been a farmer who killed his own stock for the.....
» 7/09/2012 2:16:37 PM Ever noticed a vivid imagination and a sense of humour tend to go hand in hand? But rarely.....
» 6/09/2012 10:25:29 AM Who is left, and who is right? I believe wholeheartedly in Capitalism. I believe in compet.....
» 5/09/2012 3:15:33 PM The best way to help poor people is to pay them less. Yeah, that'll work......
» 4/09/2012 7:11:57 AM I find it remarkable that anyone's taking this thread seriously, much less getting hot and.....
» 3/09/2012 1:04:30 PM Truthfully, I'm starting to develop a little "man booby". It's not that flash......
» 3/09/2012 12:39:18 PM Personally, I find "growler" to be excessively masculine and aggressive for that.....
» 3/09/2012 10:45:12 AM Yes, it's funny the things people don't regret not having. As much as I like breasts, I've.....
» 2/09/2012 9:44:28 AM I find the question of desensitisation to most interesting. Surely the only way this could.....
» 31/08/2012 12:32:56 PM Hear Hear. Excellent article......
» 29/08/2012 10:03:28 AM Correction: for "17% of all species were lost", please read 17% of 'families'. (.....
» 29/08/2012 9:45:02 AM Continued... “Apart from that the Earth has recovered at least 5 times from Mass extinctio.....
» 29/08/2012 9:18:55 AM You appear to be remarkably selective, Atman. “That is that now, people cannot separate op.....
» 26/08/2012 6:36:36 AM G'day Tony, I would suggest the 'link' lies in the excessive nutrients, Not required in th.....
» 24/08/2012 3:27:07 PM Very sorry to hear you've been 'loosed' hasbeen. Imodium, perhaps? Or somethink like that......
» 24/08/2012 10:17:32 AM I don't think you can get more 'holistic' than recycling nutrients, Ludwig. For years now,.....
» 9/08/2012 7:53:07 AM "How many potential gold medal winners are herding yaks in the Himalayas? We will nev.....
» 30/07/2012 6:41:03 AM I'm not at all sure who those “near the bottom of the pile” actually are, John D., but it .....
» 30/07/2012 6:24:38 AM Definitely. But a nice dream......
» 29/07/2012 5:32:59 AM So you think immigrants shouldn't do a citizen test, John D? I tried our test before I wro.....
» 28/07/2012 7:32:10 AM I think the US is a great ad., for monarchy. Not only is their electoral system bizarre to.....
» 26/07/2012 12:14:06 PM G'day Kathoc, I think it might be more appropriate to suggest the Greens are on the nose, .....
» 26/07/2012 8:33:11 AM I think it is the least that every person over the voting age and of reasonably sound mind.....
» 26/07/2012 6:57:19 AM Funny, I don't recall anyone thinking 5c for a phone call being ruinously expensive. I do .....
» 26/07/2012 6:43:56 AM Yes, that is what I agreed to. My final comment was about compulsory voting, not compulsor.....
» 25/07/2012 10:02:18 PM Yep, I remember the PMG. I remember they used to have a depot in just about every half de.....
» 25/07/2012 9:56:50 PM No argument, Banjo. John D. convinced me I was wrong. I still think every voter should lis.....
» 25/07/2012 8:21:07 AM Dam straight Csteele, same here. I couldn't believe it when Hawke and Keating sold off eve.....
» 24/07/2012 4:41:52 PM G'day Rhosty, You have opened a can of worms. Tecknic'ly, the Labor party are the social D.....
» 24/07/2012 10:58:16 AM Yes, when you offer people freedom of speech in a 'Democratic' environment, you are likely.....
» 24/07/2012 10:25:55 AM Yeah, not sure if (or how) that would work. As Ludwig pointed out on another thread, with .....
» 24/07/2012 9:44:17 AM As an ex Democrat member, I would like to see the Band get back together, but... They'd ne.....
» 23/07/2012 12:57:08 PM Good point Ludwig. I can't recall that ever happening either. As all ballots naming the we.....
» 23/07/2012 11:25:01 AM G'day Ludwig, I think you must have missed the crucial words in my statement: “After Prefe.....
» 23/07/2012 8:47:51 AM “It is not absolutely necessary for the winner to have more than 50%.” Sorry Ludwig, not t.....
» 23/07/2012 7:10:31 AM Libs and Nationals haven't always been in tandem, and certainly not in QLD. It's also inte.....
» 22/07/2012 2:08:09 PM Individual, with all due respect... Gillard's 'getting in' had nothing to do with preferen.....
» 22/07/2012 9:16:38 AM In the late 80's I was getting 240 cents/kilo for grassfed 2 year olds, direct to Wingham .....
» 22/07/2012 8:57:10 AM In a country where all pollies are universally despised on an ALMOST equal basis, preferen.....
» 20/07/2012 7:14:42 AM G'day Kathryn, I couldn't agree more that the current job market is tough. I'm over 50 and.....
» 19/07/2012 8:39:43 AM Hear Hear Kathryn. I would personally advocate restricting Newstart payments to just 4 wee.....
» 18/07/2012 2:44:52 PM Raycom, clearly that depends on who the 'reasonable doubter' is. All those 'supposed scien.....
» 18/07/2012 7:27:51 AM I blame John McEnroe. Auz has 2 problems: 1. lack of engagement. Most Aussies just aren't .....
» 18/07/2012 6:21:28 AM Raycom, I haven't bothered to respond, firstly because we've wandered a little off topic, .....
» 16/07/2012 7:29:54 AM Sorry, missed a typo. We have cut down more than 50% of world's forests, not 70%. Or, perh.....
» 16/07/2012 7:18:17 AM Raycom, I agree the climate models are as yet incomplete, and are currently not capable of.....
» 12/07/2012 12:30:27 PM Good on ya, Runner. There you go, Hasbeen. Anyone stupid enough to believe in AGW, is also.....
» 12/07/2012 12:23:35 PM Yeah Poirot, don't be shy. Table the evidence. Go on, I dare ya. PS evidence about climate.....
» 12/07/2012 7:50:22 AM 40 years in construction -blue collar- work taught me clearly that those who most desperat.....
» 11/07/2012 12:03:42 PM Yes, Runner's positions on everything are endlessly fascinating. His God advises us to “Ju.....
» 11/07/2012 8:40:09 AM “Centrism means standing for being sensible, for behaving professionally, for acting like .....
» 9/07/2012 6:14:52 AM I can see 3 separate concepts here: Representatives, Leaders, Bosses. Can our parliamentar.....
» 5/07/2012 2:15:24 PM More than anything else, the carbon tax shows a frightening lack of imagination. The gov. .....
» 5/07/2012 1:27:13 PM What I really love is when retired politicians, like Richardson, make the "if we pay .....
» 1/07/2012 10:16:13 AM Poirot's post about being woken up at 2 am is a classic example of cultural difference. I .....
» 1/07/2012 10:04:38 AM Sorry Squeers, I don't think it's a red herring at all. If we can't agree on a standard d.....
» 30/06/2012 3:48:08 PM With all due respect, Squeers, I don't think you addressed my issues at all. The accepted .....
» 30/06/2012 7:21:40 AM “Aboriginal Australians are really the only ones who have the right to ask the question wi.....
» 29/06/2012 2:19:22 PM All these claims of 'Left Wing Influence' in the media and elsewhere today completely miss.....
» 29/06/2012 1:32:52 PM I have mates who are blackfellas (they say), I'm a whitefella. I'm not ashamed of that, an.....
» 25/06/2012 11:02:36 AM Review: “Meet the New Boss...” Far from dismantling, destroying or simply rejecting the re.....
» 24/06/2012 10:42:55 AM From my observations of Richard Dawkins, I would say he seems quite intelligent, but not p.....
» 24/06/2012 10:13:25 AM I beg to differ, KarlX. I think Poirot and Pericles have more than substantiated their arg.....
» 23/06/2012 11:31:18 AM I believe it is an individual matter, of personality, and apparently -dare of say- of gend.....
» 22/06/2012 7:07:32 PM Sincere apologies, I forgot to demonstrate the enormous size of my -rather tight- codpiece.....
» 22/06/2012 1:18:03 PM “It always amazes me that the little band of the ‘get David Nicholls and the AFA’ don’t ac.....
» 14/06/2012 8:29:27 AM “I have to emphasise again that a realistic defence policy cannot simply be about the defe.....
» 10/06/2012 7:53:29 PM I wonder, if Atheistic thoughts and principles could be quantified, anthropomorphised and .....
» 10/06/2012 7:31:17 PM continued: “Finally, if you're using a flint arrow against my machine gun I don't like you.....
» 10/06/2012 7:30:00 PM Steven, “World War 1 era "dumb" ordinance might go on working for decades. But y.....
» 10/06/2012 4:05:37 PM It appears stevenlmeyer believes his status as a 'hi-tech' 21st century citizen makes him .....
» 10/06/2012 11:18:55 AM Perfectly true, Cherful. But still only half the story. The US is now on a virtual war foo.....
» 9/06/2012 4:35:43 PM I fully agree Steven. History teaches very clearly that societies need to learn to walk b.....
» 9/06/2012 2:38:33 PM “Neanderthal”, David G? Would you describe mothers as Neanderthal, for indulging in the se.....
» 9/06/2012 7:56:56 AM While I find the insanity of War as abhorrent as any, I'm afraid I find Pacifism -as a phi.....
» 8/06/2012 12:39:23 PM Hear Hear. I suggest all governments with standing armies should be sued be sued for fals.....
» 27/05/2012 2:56:03 PM Or perhaps the reason we didn't respond to you is because we think you are a dill. "N.....
» 27/05/2012 11:38:42 AM BTW, found an interesting PDF: http://www.climatechange.gov.au/en/climate-change/understan.....
» 27/05/2012 11:37:10 AM G'day Sp.. It seems we agree on all fronts then. I too think the Carbon Tax is an ill thou.....
» 26/05/2012 4:38:29 PM G'day SP... thanks for an interesting link; although I note it's a little dated. Mate, I c.....
» 26/05/2012 10:57:55 AM I love this quote concerning some of Plimer's claims, by Michael Ashley: "It is har.....
» 26/05/2012 9:32:35 AM A good article, which raised many good points. It should never be forgotten that Capitalis.....
» 21/05/2012 7:59:15 AM Ah, that list. My apologies......
» 21/05/2012 7:37:15 AM David, I have already answered that question; twice, in fact. I find these views illogical.....
» 20/05/2012 6:23:07 PM Well David, if you weren't being sarcastic, we have a problem. Should I feel guilty, for b.....
» 20/05/2012 9:55:55 AM I think "Pugnatheism" is a wonderful word, Poirot. I hope they like it; we know .....
» 20/05/2012 6:30:45 AM Sticks and stones, David. You start by assuring me I don't have to feel guilty (a great re.....
» 19/05/2012 6:59:23 PM "I’m always intrigued by atheists whose main talent is knocking others who are actual.....
» 19/05/2012 5:43:01 PM I find it quite extraordinary that only Poirot and Pericles have taken exception to the la.....
» 17/05/2012 8:36:44 AM OTH,if we take out the negative, the statement:"'I (don't) need to be married to you .....
» 16/05/2012 10:45:34 AM G'day WmTrevor and Lorikeet, No, I meant Dan. I noted Lorikeet didn't specify who was 'out.....
» 16/05/2012 9:30:58 AM An interesting bit of stereotyping, Dan. “There is no point matching a person who is very.....
» 14/05/2012 3:58:03 PM As Disraeli said: "there are 3 kinds of lies; lies, damned lies and statistics"......
» 12/05/2012 12:14:45 PM It seems we do indeed need some new words. What should we call the (overwhelming majority .....
» 10/05/2012 7:31:04 PM “ I have a far diminished chance of finding that love if I take the easy option now and si.....
» 10/05/2012 11:25:58 AM What I find most peculiar about this thread is the almost complete lack of any mention of .....
» 10/05/2012 10:32:37 AM Herbert Stencil raises good points. The first home owners grant is a farce. It is exactly .....
» 7/05/2012 1:27:33 PM G'day Davidf kenoath works for me, although I believe some non ockers find it a little vul.....
» 2/05/2012 6:35:42 AM No shortage of supposition (or maybe suppositories) here. I love it. I think some of us ma.....
» 30/04/2012 8:42:47 PM G'day Davidf, your argument is perfectly reasonable, but I'm not sure if it's entirely rel.....
» 30/04/2012 7:59:40 PM G'day George, Your point is well taken. Although “the God Delusion” is one of the few book.....
» 30/04/2012 7:36:08 AM It does appear that I have stepped on George's ant hill, which is a little strange that mo.....
» 29/04/2012 9:18:57 PM Putting words into Einstein's mouth, AJ? Very Courageous. Rather like the courage needed b.....
» 29/04/2012 10:19:39 AM In the short article “Religion and Science”, Einstein proposes 3 progressions in religion;.....
» 29/04/2012 10:18:25 AM G'day George, I thank ye kindly for leading me back to Einstein; a man I have always admir.....
» 26/04/2012 7:12:25 PM Actually Has, I would suggest that grasses are a far more likely candidate as the human do.....
» 26/04/2012 5:01:37 PM It's an interesting, if superficially bizarre question. I have to admit, I was surprised t.....
» 24/04/2012 6:49:56 AM Reason is ultimately useless? Funny, from my reading of the Gospels, I found the legendary.....
» 19/04/2012 8:28:03 PM The battle lines have clearly been drawn between 2 vehemently opposed parties. This inevit.....
» 12/04/2012 7:07:11 PM Sadly, Luciferase, I think Bertrand Russell's already used that argument. 'If we weren't s.....
» 12/04/2012 8:08:08 AM G'day George, some interesting research happening at Caltech recently, according to this a.....
» 10/04/2012 7:43:37 AM G'day Dan, it would be pointless to go over the same ground, trying to supply all the evi.....
» 9/04/2012 8:11:02 AM G'day Dan, I would certainly agree that “science” should not be taught as dogma, or even .....
» 7/04/2012 11:47:28 AM Ah, if only it were true... Jesse Jackson was quoted as saying: “There is nothing more pai.....
» 7/04/2012 7:13:48 AM “The (God created) universe (demonstrates) nothing but blind pitiless indifference” Perhap.....
» 5/04/2012 4:41:13 PM I don't think anyone denies Qld Labor was on the nose. The problem is not being able to fo.....
» 4/04/2012 3:45:23 PM Last time I joined a conversation on this topic, I offered a link: http://www.cobourgathei.....
» 4/04/2012 10:19:48 AM My thanks to Davidf and Producer for some interesting leads. I've discovered thanks to Dav.....
» 4/04/2012 10:03:48 AM G'day JP, I have belatedly come to realise that in disagreeing with you I have broken my o.....
» 3/04/2012 7:41:56 PM G'day diver matt, No, I'm not inclined to make Pascal's wager... but then again maybe yes......
» 3/04/2012 12:29:15 PM “All I want is equality”. Hear hear, Diver Matt. Really, a simple sense of true equality i.....
» 3/04/2012 11:02:48 AM What I have come to see as most frightening about the upsurge in 'militant Atheism' is the.....
» 2/04/2012 3:53:27 PM I definitely believe our preferential voting system is more fair, transparent and comprehe.....
» 2/04/2012 8:24:08 AM The situation could also be ameliorated by Qld having a bicameral parliament, like every o.....
» 28/03/2012 2:53:48 PM "It is highly documented fact that the chronological events of GFC BEGAN long before .....
» 28/03/2012 9:45:23 AM JonJ, I can only assume you have been asleep for the past 4 years. Neoliberalism and the c.....
» 28/03/2012 6:11:22 AM Hear Hear Hasbeen, I fully agree; at least with this sentiment: "We don't actually ne.....
» 27/03/2012 2:22:02 PM Only the middle left, RObert? Are you seriously suggesting Abbott and Co. are above such p.....
» 27/03/2012 11:43:23 AM Why must it always be about winning? In the early days of the Federation, Labour (includin.....
» 27/03/2012 7:55:12 AM Australian politicians have simply forgotten they are supposed to be 'representative'. Sin.....
» 5/03/2012 6:47:47 AM Hi Rainier, I agree that Carr doesn't want the job; not only because of his long ambition .....
» 3/03/2012 11:48:25 AM I've always said, anyone who actually wants this job should be immediately declared inelig.....
» 28/02/2012 7:06:54 AM "Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to relive it". Obviously, the P.....
» 25/02/2012 7:15:33 PM The essential difference between a democratic style of government and a republican style i.....
» 23/02/2012 8:38:13 AM I think the very best we can hope for is that our pollies finally -finally!- learn we don'.....
» 4/02/2012 7:33:43 AM G'day Pericles, I'm happy to let Arjay fight his own battles, particularly as I don't alwa.....
» 4/02/2012 7:13:34 AM I'm sorry Graham, but I don't see that the total amount of money is affected in any way by.....
» 2/02/2012 12:41:57 PM I prefer to just compare myself to myself. ... ... (sigh)......
» 2/02/2012 12:23:40 PM RObert and Houlle raise valid points. I would agree on the question of time -for members o.....
» 2/02/2012 10:38:48 AM Once again we find ourselves trudging barefoot over the same stony ground. Here's a nice l.....
» 1/02/2012 9:25:34 AM At the risk of exposing my 'feminine side', I find this forum a little too confrontational.....
» 29/01/2012 11:19:55 AM These days, even the tiniest hick towns have computers. Bertrand Russell and A.N. White bo.....
» 28/01/2012 11:22:50 AM From personal experience, I think the major problem with creeping credentialism is one of .....
» 28/01/2012 10:14:10 AM Sometimes even hindsight offers less than perfect wisdom Hartcher and Young aver that even.....
» 28/01/2012 9:28:48 AM The USA isn't a democracy. It's a Republic. Strangely enough, despite being nominally cons.....
» 10/01/2012 11:14:26 AM Hi AJ, I suggest you read Sagan (and Spinoza) again. Neither gentleman suggested (as you i.....
» 10/01/2012 8:19:26 AM Continued: I also find it incredibly arrogant for any thinker to imagine that any puny hum.....
» 10/01/2012 8:17:03 AM Hi Luciferase, “Answer: "I believe God does not exist and I believe God may exist&quo.....
» 9/01/2012 7:36:29 AM Hi AJ, I would have thought you and I have been discussing the nature of Atheism for too .....
» 8/01/2012 7:09:12 AM I also don't agree that Sagan “was a victim of his times”. On the contrary, I regard Sagan.....
» 8/01/2012 7:07:56 AM Ah, where to begin... I apologise if my pedantry annoys you AJ, but I assure you dogma, im.....
» 7/01/2012 7:48:02 AM Thank you AJ, for so comprehensively endorsing the point I have been making for the last s.....
» 6/01/2012 5:38:07 PM Hey David f. you raise an interesting -if hardly original- point. As I understand it, Juda.....
» 6/01/2012 5:19:30 PM Hey AJ, I was referring to Atheism, too. In fact, I'm fairly sure T.H. Huxley was referrin.....
» 5/01/2012 7:46:06 AM I strongly believe thurmongersuckles don't exist......
» 5/01/2012 7:03:19 AM *This is a lifetime guarantee we have been offering for hundreds of years, without one sin.....
» 5/01/2012 7:02:51 AM I have to say I think Atheism was a lot more fun when it was just about “the absence, not .....
» 4/01/2012 12:01:42 PM Apologies again, Pericles; I hadn't expected anyone to take me quite so literally. I was o.....
» 4/01/2012 7:14:43 AM I'm sorry AJ, but I must beg to differ. I won't be so patronising as to suggest “you're co.....
» 3/01/2012 12:54:04 PM Sorry Pericles, it was just a silly play on words. I take it then, you would be offended i.....
» 3/01/2012 10:04:38 AM I think this article by the “Cobourg Atheist” puts the issue into a realistic perspective:.....
» 3/01/2012 10:03:42 AM I think Luciferase raises a legitimate point concerning the more 'strident' atheists, as D.....
» 31/12/2011 10:56:30 AM -cont. Peter Hume (and the other denialists) is incensed at government intervention which .....
» 31/12/2011 10:54:33 AM Hi Alice, thanks for an interesting post. I think the word in your quoted definition of “.....
» 30/12/2011 11:15:43 AM Interesting contribution, Spindoc. Which side are you on again? Are you a climate scientis.....
» 30/12/2011 8:08:30 AM Was Galileo a scientist or an activist? Darwin, scientist or activist? Watson and Crick, s.....
» 30/12/2011 6:56:38 AM As I said, why stop at WA? Every argument advanced so far as to why WA doesn't need the r.....
» 30/12/2011 6:10:36 AM Bravo David f. I have always been amazed that insanity can be used as a defence in a murde.....
» 27/12/2011 12:33:56 PM So why stop at WA? the dividing line between WA and the rest of the country is just that; .....
» 26/12/2011 8:32:01 AM Judging from what I have read of Hitchens, the man appeared to have a -quite reasonable- c.....
» 21/12/2011 8:52:58 AM “...expressed by the Chief Scientist (interestingly, not a climate scientist” This is good.....
» 16/12/2011 5:32:45 AM Thank you Brian. You encapsulated my feelings on the subject in a single sentence......
» 15/12/2011 8:10:40 AM Hi Graham, I'm not sure if it was my initial post or George's that you didn't read, but I .....
» 14/12/2011 9:21:44 PM I'm sorry Graham, but why would any non believer or -dare I use the word without invoking .....
» 14/12/2011 8:35:15 PM “Clearly you are commenting from the cheap seats and don't really know much about what is .....
» 14/12/2011 12:25:57 PM Another interesting article, Brian Holden, thank you. I agree with George -as far as I am .....
» 14/12/2011 11:55:50 AM Yeah. I'd have to say this is the kind of article that gives the so-called 'alarmist' side.....
» 14/12/2011 8:02:31 AM It really isn't necessary to resort to quoting pop psychology to address this issue. The p.....
» 14/12/2011 8:00:53 AM Back again. Good post Saltepetre, I agree entirely with your sentiments. So how do you acc.....
» 9/12/2011 7:31:15 AM The fact is, many of the things modern society requires us to do can be dehumanising. Any .....
» 9/12/2011 7:27:28 AM “ Most of the livestock farmers that I know, have quite a close bond with their animals.” .....
» 7/12/2011 8:24:35 PM Hear hear, Monika. I chose to become a vegetarian after sending 2 of my old free range pig.....
» 26/11/2011 6:15:57 AM Malthus wasn't wrong, any more than Isaac Newton was. After watching the movie “Matrix”, a.....
» 23/11/2011 8:02:58 PM I for one would be very grateful if the entire AGW thing just went away. Then perhaps we c.....
» 23/11/2011 8:02:07 PM I wonder, is it simply because we have 2 eyes that we always seek this perfect symmetry of.....
» 13/11/2011 6:31:02 PM Well I'm sorry, but I think both this article and the comments that follow completely miss.....
» 11/11/2011 2:25:03 PM My thanks to Michael for the perfect opportunity to plug my own little hobby: http://naked.....
» 11/11/2011 1:45:54 PM I think Brian Holden's argument deserves serious attention. When I was younger, if I read .....
» 29/10/2011 7:28:23 AM Who's the clever one, the one who sees a wave coming a mile away and starts moving to high.....
» 29/10/2011 6:53:15 AM Individual, I suggest you look up a dictionary to find the true meaning of 'thesaurus'. Wa.....
» 29/10/2011 6:05:25 AM Do we really want our representatives to be our 'leaders'? Do you want YOUR representative.....
» 27/10/2011 9:31:05 AM The best thing I can do here, I think, is pip Peter Hume to the post and offer a link to t.....
» 17/10/2011 10:49:01 AM I think Rolling Stone's Matt Taibbi has the right idea: http://www.rollingstone.com/politi.....
» 15/10/2011 7:43:49 AM Continued: “No it’s not. It doesn’t disadvantage us, as I have just explained. The idea th.....
» 15/10/2011 7:42:32 AM Oh my, we are getting snippy, aren't we. “The fact that you think you know better than ev.....
» 13/10/2011 8:37:59 AM Some interesting point raised. I can agree with Houe's ideas, in that the most fortunate p.....
» 12/10/2011 7:46:06 PM If only life was so simple. I suspect wars are fought not over land or territory so much a.....
» 12/10/2011 6:54:26 AM A couple of points. First, Parliament is about policy. We have a permanent public service.....
» 11/10/2011 5:24:12 PM "If anything, it will increase, rather than decrease, the potential for corruption, w.....
» 11/10/2011 4:09:54 PM How much do we pay the children in our armed services, to risk their lives for their count.....
» 28/09/2011 9:04:12 AM “Even in your worst-case scenario, if Australia were practicing free trade with another co.....
» 26/09/2011 1:57:14 PM Peter Hume Your argument might make sense if Australia was the only country offering prote.....
» 25/09/2011 1:57:49 PM “Any contribution to a discussion on protection should focus on what kind of country we wi.....
» 21/09/2011 9:33:43 AM No......
» 21/09/2011 9:24:17 AM "They aren't, and never will be, so therefore the assumptions are asinine." Hear.....
» 16/09/2011 7:50:07 PM Fascinating. Who would have thought that runner would have valid input -aside from the alt.....
» 13/09/2011 9:01:16 AM Hey 50startingagain, I know exactly where you're coming from, having suffered a disability.....
» 13/09/2011 8:01:11 AM I have to admit, after reading and participating in debates on this subject, my views have.....
» 2/09/2011 1:08:52 PM “...are wealthier then ever before, live in houses nearly twice the size which they were i.....
» 1/09/2011 9:24:34 AM Interesting use of the word “force”, there, Saul. “But there’s not much difference between.....
» 27/08/2011 9:46:41 AM SPQR, interesting moniker. Si tacuisses, philosophus manisses......
» 27/08/2011 7:54:57 AM Ah Freedom. It's almost as amusing reading affluent westerners expound on the 'freedoms' e.....
» 24/08/2011 7:57:15 AM The smart farmer, like the smart business man, knows that 'a penny saved is a penny made'......
» 24/08/2011 7:55:15 AM There are indeed two opposing camps; this is generally called a 'discussion', or an 'argum.....
» 23/08/2011 5:54:11 AM Wonder of wonders, for once I find myself on the same side of the argument as Yabby. It's .....
» 22/08/2011 12:54:40 PM Hey Jon J, great post. "...Why are you so upset that we can feed, house, clothe and e.....
» 22/08/2011 12:45:13 PM Hey imajulianutter, thanks for your informed input. 'idiot savants' are famous for always .....
» 22/08/2011 10:33:40 AM I think this is an excellent article, and I agree wholeheartedly with the sentiments. Not .....
» 30/07/2011 9:32:56 AM I would have to say Pericles' argument was by far the most pertinent to the article in que.....
» 28/07/2011 11:43:54 AM I think perhaps it should be kept in mind that all our existing state and territorial bord.....
» 27/07/2011 8:15:15 AM Hear hear, Valerie. The most ridiculous claim of 'dangerous levels of elderly people' is t.....
» 25/07/2011 8:11:13 AM Now, in response to some of the 'hyperbole'. SPQR claims: “And then, you can get on your o.....
» 25/07/2011 8:08:55 AM Sadly, It doesn't appear that I've missed too much in the last 5 days. I think what needs .....
» 20/07/2011 7:05:19 PM Hi SPQR, “It is no mere coincidence that regions of the world with the most undernourishe.....
» 19/07/2011 1:24:03 PM Hear hear, Skeptic. Speaking of 'hysteria'... Jon J suggests that 'Government' likes taxin.....
» 19/07/2011 12:32:27 PM The need to 'get off the sheeps back' is hardly new. A century ago commentators were remar.....
» 19/07/2011 8:57:12 AM “Grim, he has the sun as being the source of warming and then has a heater inside as well......
» 19/07/2011 7:39:00 AM Hi Graham, I did watch the video all the way through, and thought it was rather good. (I t.....
» 18/07/2011 7:20:40 AM I would like to personally offer my deepest gratitude to Alex Stuart for his novel and uni.....
» 14/07/2011 4:30:31 PM Once again the 'stern' Col Rouge -despite his chosen moniker- demonstrates his remarkable .....
» 14/07/2011 10:45:18 AM "without bi-partisan support..." RObert? According to dictionary.com, Bipartisan.....
» 14/07/2011 7:08:29 AM "Parties like the Greens have been around for a couple of hundred years at least...&q.....
» 12/07/2011 7:16:43 AM Ludwig, I agree. As I've argued here: http://thecomensality.com/avasay/hewsonasia/feed A t.....
» 11/07/2011 6:53:41 AM A classic case of history repeating itself. This is the GST all over again. Any PM who tri.....
» 10/07/2011 2:45:53 PM I would expect all the candidates in that electorate to very quickly revise their policies.....
» 9/07/2011 5:37:12 AM One of the major problems I have with OLO is that I've always been a sucker for an underdo.....
» 5/07/2011 7:32:00 AM Hey Dicky, as to your proposal for online voting, suggest you check this out: http://senat.....
» 5/07/2011 7:27:53 AM “Certainly loyalty to God” (a fictitious supernatural deity, belief in which is typical of.....
» 5/07/2011 7:07:21 AM As to the incredibly simplistic notion of first past the post voting, in any election that.....
» 5/07/2011 7:05:10 AM Hey Yuyie, nice cherry picking. The full quote was: 'Maybe the bumper sticker should read:.....
» 1/07/2011 8:03:57 PM Therefore, the logical error was...?.....
» 1/07/2011 2:53:23 PM "If I could be pursuaded that those who didn't vote, wouldn't complain and whinge abo.....
» 29/06/2011 11:11:35 AM "Excellent suggestion. "Bogans" don't bother to vote." Now there's an .....
» 29/06/2011 10:53:37 AM While I have always sided with the optional vote, I still found the elitist attitude expre.....
» 27/06/2011 9:53:23 AM "That said, I have absolutely no problem with our students using, for example, the MS.....
» 24/06/2011 8:57:37 PM It does appear, stevenlmeyer, that at least one perennial poster suffers from IOD. Thanks .....
» 24/06/2011 8:21:11 PM Oh dear, P., do we really have to go through banking 101 again? “Only the portion that is .....
» 24/06/2011 12:58:29 PM Gee, who would have guessed......
» 22/06/2011 3:28:04 PM Interesting link, Pericles. I suspect the best use of the 'ear candle' would be to hold it.....
» 16/06/2011 12:33:18 PM So wisdom and enlightenment lie in the cleavage? cool......
» 2/06/2011 7:45:35 PM Good article Julian, and I'm right in front of you. http://nakedhydroponics.com.....
» 27/05/2011 7:00:42 AM Hey Suze, can I leave you my number to pass on? Preferences: visually impaired and despera.....
» 26/05/2011 9:13:53 AM Peter Hume (sigh) If debates should be won by energy alone, you certainly deserve to win t.....
» 26/05/2011 7:55:51 AM Yuyutsu; (sigh); I seems I owe you an apology for suggesting you have claimed an 'arbitrar.....
» 25/05/2011 8:11:42 AM Just received an email that's vaguely topical: http://thecomensality.com/avasay/sex-after-.....
» 25/05/2011 7:57:55 AM Great link RObert, and good on 'em I say. I thought the evidence was already pretty well e.....
» 24/05/2011 2:42:30 PM As usual, your arguments are logically consistent AJ......
» 24/05/2011 10:09:40 AM With respect, Pericles, your ongoing tirade against relijun is starting to sound like an a.....
» 24/05/2011 9:08:27 AM Hi Suze, "I honestly don't believe that it is mainly a 'female thing' to feel some gu.....
» 24/05/2011 8:36:45 AM “So breathe more easily - it is increasingly unlikely that your children will become canno.....
» 23/05/2011 3:26:51 PM Peter Hume has no objection to people owning property. He also has no objection to compani.....
» 23/05/2011 3:24:44 PM Peter Hume. “It’s meaningless to talk about whether we have too much population or not eno.....
» 23/05/2011 2:24:08 PM Pericles: “Can you think of one reason why suicide-hijackers flew those planes into the WT.....
» 23/05/2011 1:51:08 PM Almost all primitive cultures have demonstrated taboos about whom one can procreate with o.....
» 23/05/2011 9:14:09 AM Has anyone noticed how many recent actors are the sons and daughters of actors? I have bee.....
» 23/05/2011 8:58:15 AM Other studies have suggested new thoughts actually create new neural connections. Perhaps.....
» 23/05/2011 8:52:42 AM I wonder how much of the ancient religions' attitudes towards sex ("dirty" etc.).....
» 23/05/2011 8:17:12 AM Hi Pericles, “I was pointing out that an absence of religious differences would have elimi.....
» 21/05/2011 8:03:28 AM "Pelican Still under the false impression that shooting people who disagree with you .....
» 21/05/2011 7:28:03 AM With respect, Pericles, to imply an absence of religion would result in an absence of war .....
» 20/05/2011 9:01:00 AM Upon reflection, weareunique, I've demonstrated how Darwinian Evolution accounts for diffe.....
» 20/05/2011 8:50:55 AM "Put simply, our miners and farmers require extra workers; our retailers desire addit.....
» 20/05/2011 7:19:49 AM Hey Trav, on the question of a 'reasonable' person making a ridiculous statement (strawman.....
» 19/05/2011 3:27:19 PM Perhaps even more to the point; what sort of a God creates beings with endlessly enquiring.....
» 19/05/2011 7:46:18 AM Okay, I'll (a little reluctantly) stand up and be counted. I'm an atheist who has -quite r.....
» 17/05/2011 6:36:43 AM There is a third way gummint can raise funds; exactly the same way everyone else does. The.....
» 16/05/2011 5:09:48 PM Hey Pelican/Squeers/Joe, is it just me, or is Runner starting to seem downright reasonable.....
» 13/05/2011 1:20:02 PM So basically, the 1000 nasty polluters are going to give some of their profits to the Gov,.....
» 13/05/2011 7:42:28 AM So basically what Yuyutsu agrees with or likes is 'religious', and anything Yuyutsu doesn'.....
» 12/05/2011 8:44:08 PM Around 80% of the population believe Global Warming is real. Around 60% of the population .....
» 12/05/2011 8:07:04 PM I thought it was a good article, and asked a lot of good questions. What about some answer.....
» 12/05/2011 7:50:43 PM Hey Joe, whether the USA's actions were defensible or not in themselves is immaterial; the.....
» 12/05/2011 3:46:40 PM With all due respect Yuyutsu, the example you offer is not of compassion, but rather of il.....
» 12/05/2011 7:25:02 AM Considering this discussion is about UN principles concerning Humankind's treatment of the.....
» 11/05/2011 12:24:00 PM "Once (not "if") the Earth no longer survives..." The survival of the .....
» 9/05/2011 11:25:56 AM Hey Jewely, I was quite surprised to find myself in direct opposition to your post about h.....
» 5/05/2011 8:20:40 AM Hey Jewels, in an attempt to avoid being accused of hijacking this thread, I'll try to res.....
» 4/05/2011 5:04:58 PM Kudos to Wobbles and of course me ol' mate Jewely; good arguments. Personally, I'm unfaili.....
» 26/04/2011 2:35:05 PM There seems to be a common thread to all arguments against the legendary 'dole bludger'; t.....
» 4/04/2011 1:14:47 PM Hear Hear Belly. Here's what I think of Paul bloody Keating, and John Robertson: http://th.....
» 4/04/2011 12:00:44 PM Valid points about new skills. My oldest daughter is hopeless at mental arithmetic, but br.....
» 1/04/2011 7:01:48 AM True enough Poirot, I recall my mother's hands were rarely still; even watching TV she wou.....
» 31/03/2011 9:03:54 PM On creativity, I have often found myself in a similar position to ( I think) James Thurber.....
» 31/03/2011 7:45:00 PM "Extremes in Australian Politics"? That's the joke. There are no extremes, when .....
» 31/03/2011 7:27:39 PM I have to agree with Rehtcub, and with Beef; it's ridiculous that some farmers reap windfa.....
» 31/03/2011 6:55:44 PM It is deeply ironical that one of the bigger issues that deeply eroded the popularity of t.....
» 28/03/2011 11:14:24 AM The other point which never fails to get me cranky, is the business of perpetually ignorin.....
» 28/03/2011 11:12:36 AM A couple of points; To all those who argue that CO2 is not 'pollution', I suggest this arg.....
» 22/03/2011 7:18:39 PM "("Well, it wasn't a core contract, you understand...")" Damn, I wish .....
» 22/03/2011 6:28:14 AM Is there an actual 'shortage of houses' Saul Eslake, or is it a shortage of houses that pe.....
» 18/03/2011 7:57:57 AM As I pointed out in a recent post in the general forum (I would never stoop to saying 'I t.....
» 12/03/2011 10:34:09 PM "Seriously, someone sitting on their bums is better than someone breaking into your h.....
» 11/03/2011 6:35:19 AM Hi Yuyutsu, while I share some sympathy for your views I find the concept of paying people.....
» 10/03/2011 2:29:33 PM Getting back to the original claim for this thread, as I recall it was Kevin Rudd who prou.....
» 10/03/2011 2:14:59 PM "Read it, and weep at the welded-on incompetence of governments, at any level and of .....
» 10/03/2011 7:15:35 AM Yes, Mattcooper, and Bazz, precisely my points. The problem has been created through cheap.....
» 10/03/2011 6:33:19 AM Hear Hear thinker 2. A very simple way to make Oz internationally competitive would be t.....
» 9/03/2011 7:12:55 AM Hi Diver Dan, with respect it was not my reasoning; I was quoting Warren Buffet. His secon.....
» 8/03/2011 6:32:15 AM In Warren Buffet's latest letter to share holders, he had this to say about housing in Ame.....
» 8/03/2011 6:24:30 AM Yes, wages and prices are funny things, aren't they? Rehctub is a butcher, I believe. In 1.....
» 28/02/2011 11:35:34 PM Personally, I am far more impressed with Wikileaks co founder John Young than with Assange.....
» 28/02/2011 12:00:00 PM Hi Belly, I'm not actually anti Rudd, in fact I quite liked the guy. I think his biggest m.....
» 28/02/2011 6:20:28 AM Hi Grateful, once again you need to reapply your 'null hypothesis'. The examples supplied .....
» 27/02/2011 10:06:44 AM Hi Belly, as far as I am aware, you have never claimed to be a diplomat, or a professional.....
» 27/02/2011 8:58:57 AM Hi Grateful, perhaps you misunderstood me. Or Perhaps you should apply your 'null hypothes.....
» 26/02/2011 7:46:21 PM "Libya is in a state of effective civil war and any Australians remaining in the coun.....
» 26/02/2011 9:48:51 AM Hi again Grateful, on the matter of evolutionary theory, it is quite natural that we would.....
» 26/02/2011 9:28:01 AM On the contrary grateful, it is religion which leaves people defenceless against evil. I w.....
» 19/02/2011 12:22:52 PM I would suggest this concept of Atheists 'hating' God comes from some confusion about the .....
» 17/02/2011 6:52:33 PM So am I to understand runner, that you believe 'worthiness' (of eternal life) has nothing .....
» 17/02/2011 1:23:16 PM Hi runner, once again you have me genuinely curious; who do you believe your "God of .....
» 16/02/2011 9:13:05 PM How does 'anti-multiculturalism' and 'racism' mesh? As a country boy, I've always been str.....
» 16/02/2011 8:25:22 PM Hey Rhian, it seems that's the whole point. This is about censorship, pure and simple. Jus.....
» 15/02/2011 8:51:31 PM Hey Squeers, I think I agree with you, although in my lexicon 'wheelbarrow' rates pretty h.....
» 15/02/2011 3:51:45 PM It is unfortunate that the word 'perversion' has such negative connotations. Technically, .....
» 15/02/2011 12:05:56 PM Hey Mikey, here's an idea; a wise man recently said: "If you're not interested in the.....
» 15/02/2011 6:07:49 AM Once again the discussion has pretty much degenerated into a “Does so too! Does not neithe.....
» 14/02/2011 8:25:35 AM Actually, I think we should be aiming for about 50% unemployment. Back in the Menzies era,.....
» 13/02/2011 6:18:19 PM Hasbeen, Keith, 'runner' likes you. Bummer......
» 13/02/2011 10:07:17 AM I'm starting to feel a little neglected; a bit like the -distressingly growing number of- .....
» 12/02/2011 8:36:01 PM Hi Kipp, with all respect due, I think your last post was rubbish. I have never been able .....
» 12/02/2011 8:46:28 AM Hi Grateful, what about David Attenborough's example, of a parasite that burrows into eyeb.....
» 12/02/2011 8:37:02 AM Veiled threat, Graham? Perhaps you should halt J Parker's 'advertising'......
» 11/02/2011 6:11:01 AM Hi Grateful, I'm curious. "In the Qur’aan it states that the purpose of creating mank.....
» 9/02/2011 12:39:09 PM Oh, well that's OK then. Just so long as you aren't one of those evil socialists who think.....
» 9/02/2011 10:52:15 AM PeterForde says: "While Australia takes great pride (before the fall?) in being an 'o.....
» 8/02/2011 7:11:48 PM On the matter of advertisers, surely a good start would be a simple disclaimer, perhaps al.....
» 8/02/2011 1:36:36 PM Hi Falcopilot, as with Philo, I can only direct you back to my original post. Which part o.....
» 8/02/2011 12:59:35 PM Hi Falcopilot, of which fixed dogma are you accusing me of?.....
» 8/02/2011 10:50:16 AM Hi Philo, may I direct you back to my opening remarks at the start of this post? The state.....
» 7/02/2011 6:31:06 AM Sorry, the last part of my last post seemed a little confused on rereading; swapping betwe.....
» 7/02/2011 6:20:31 AM Hi Lexi, yes that is pretty much it. I have trouble respecting anyone who would want to sp.....
» 6/02/2011 7:50:35 AM Hi Rusty, thanks for at least trying to address the question I originally posed, although .....
» 6/02/2011 7:08:50 AM Hi Trav. "<we have no writings from him;> Nor would we expect any." Why n.....
» 4/02/2011 9:54:53 AM Gimli has posed an interesting -if peripheral- question, which is actually better answered.....
» 4/02/2011 6:04:42 AM How many times have I heard a theist query: “if there is no God, what is the point to it a.....
» 3/02/2011 7:01:12 PM I agree a transaction tax would be an excellent idea, inasmuch as it's simplicity would ma.....
» 3/02/2011 2:56:12 PM Thanks for an interesting read, David, but it's still only the -rather strident- opinion o.....
» 2/02/2011 5:56:05 AM Hi Pelican, to be pedantic it would only be the word "atheism" that would not ex.....
» 1/02/2011 10:38:24 AM Some fascinating insights and constraints, from both sides. I find 'David' of the atheist .....
» 31/01/2011 7:50:26 PM Getup has started a petition on the levy. I quote: "There's a simple solution to fund.....
» 27/01/2011 8:25:18 PM The arithmetic is really pretty simple; the conversion rate for cattle is generally taken .....
» 13/01/2011 10:23:25 AM You've got me there, Peter. Who do you think owns all those species I mentioned? As to res.....
» 12/01/2011 6:18:24 PM “Unlike bacteria, people have the ability to rationalise resources, with a view to the fut.....
» 12/01/2011 7:36:59 AM I cannot recommend strongly enough (again), that anyone who wants to talk credibly about g.....
» 11/01/2011 8:06:42 AM "We WILL develop an alternative as soon as fossil fuel prices start to rise significa.....
» 11/01/2011 7:48:22 AM Excellent article; my compliments to Mr Swanton. The statistics on population growth have .....
» 11/01/2011 5:50:39 AM "Well, there is a hell of a lot more, Grim, contributing to pollution than 'just' coa.....
» 10/01/2011 6:50:36 PM "...is something of a non sequitur: pollution and the squandering of resources is one.....
» 10/01/2011 9:52:52 AM Are climate 'denialists' persecuted? So far, they seem to be winning. All these govmints .....
» 4/01/2011 6:21:56 AM "Nevertheless, the IPCC has been very effective in conning the media, parliamentarian.....
» 3/01/2011 5:52:24 PM Or on the other hand, we could cause the future extinction by robbing future generations o.....
» 3/01/2011 3:05:44 PM Thanks KenH for a wonderfully entertaining PDF. I don't believe I have ever seen a more eg.....
» 3/01/2011 11:08:18 AM Good point Hasbeen, and guess what. Back in 1978 I worked on the final stages of construct.....
» 1/01/2011 11:30:28 AM No PaulL, I'm suggesting we use less oil so our grandchildren can afford plastic and nylon.....
» 1/01/2011 10:11:14 AM Port Macquarie NSW. I have to admit it ain't a perfect example; After Mineral Sands left t.....
» 1/01/2011 9:08:25 AM Hear Hear. How well trained is everyone else, regarding Xmas? Although not Christians, my.....
» 1/01/2011 8:45:07 AM Rather than Cantons, why not just accept that Australia was not 'Terra Nullius" and t.....
» 1/01/2011 7:08:42 AM PaulL, peak oil has already passed, peak coal is on the visible horizon. Don't worry about.....
» 1/01/2011 6:22:56 AM Being allied to the biggest bully and most hated kid in the schoolyard is not a role I eve.....
» 30/12/2010 6:09:47 AM A wonderful quote from Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Joel Pett: "What if it's a b.....
» 23/12/2010 7:58:21 PM Apos.. U kid? I fear texting spells 'doom' for literature in general; apostrophes are a me.....
» 21/12/2010 9:17:45 AM Great article Gavin I'm behind one hunnerd percent. I've designed a system whereby we can .....
» 4/12/2010 7:00:48 AM I have 2 daughters recently graduated from the Qld school system; one of whom has chosen t.....
» 2/12/2010 7:54:50 AM Consider taxes. One of the two 'nice' things about paying taxes is, you're only expected t.....
» 2/12/2010 7:54:03 AM Gee...... I wonder if............ Deep Blue is …........... a sock puppet.... I have to ad.....
» 30/11/2010 8:49:09 AM Our current federal parliament and the recent very close result in Victoria demonstrate th.....
» 29/11/2010 10:57:32 PM "He could not be, in Luther’s terms “the crucified God” and his death could not give .....
» 27/11/2010 6:21:46 PM If we do nothing, hundreds of thousands of North Koreans will suffer and die. If we interv.....
» 21/11/2010 4:22:23 AM The point is, none of the tradies mentioned above would have an ice cube's chance in hell .....
» 21/11/2010 4:18:11 AM 'Flick'. “BTW, Western Australia covers a third of Australia.” Thank you for that fascina.....
» 19/11/2010 4:16:13 PM "The rest of Australia", Yabby? Last I heard, West Oz comprised just 10% of Aus.....
» 19/11/2010 6:30:41 AM I feel like a bit of an outsider on this thread (though that's never stopped me) being a c.....
» 19/11/2010 6:07:21 AM "Not because it shows 'high moral principles', but rather because it shows 'fine pers.....
» 17/11/2010 6:44:29 AM According to the Oxford dictionary: Economics - “1. the branch of knowledge concerned wit.....
» 16/11/2010 7:33:10 AM "They're not my logicians - they're everybody's, and we can all benefit from their wi.....
» 14/11/2010 6:45:23 AM Hey Pericles, Do Australians think 'of what they can do for their country, or what their c.....
» 14/11/2010 6:27:45 AM Hey Deep Blue, James Lovelock -the creator of the 'Gaia Hypothesis' addressed your concern.....
» 14/11/2010 6:15:21 AM Hey Riz, the significance of mountains close to the sea is that salt water can be pushed u.....
» 13/11/2010 7:48:31 AM The age of computers -and computer fallibility- has taught us the wisdom of triple redunda.....
» 13/11/2010 7:46:36 AM It's interesting to read of people decrying 'scientism', or scientific theory in this day .....
» 8/11/2010 5:04:26 PM It seems the markets and market gurus generally favour a hung parliament. Methinks a mixtu.....
» 29/10/2010 7:03:14 AM "Motherhood statement"? It was and is an Egalitarian statement; the fundamental .....
» 29/10/2010 6:06:33 AM “An apple and an orange aren’t of equal value *as an apple*, are they you dill?” No, but .....
» 27/10/2010 7:18:13 AM "We’ve established that the sexes are naturally different in their reproductive inter.....
» 26/10/2010 7:50:03 PM “If the law treats people equally - formal equality - in practice people will arrange them.....
» 26/10/2010 7:47:41 PM Robert, I accept your rebuke; my remark was over the top. I wrote in irritation. JamesH, y.....
» 26/10/2010 7:17:03 AM "Otherwise why would some people be so fixated on past examples of slavery." Per.....
» 25/10/2010 11:39:07 AM I did......
» 25/10/2010 8:54:45 AM Hey Jefferson, I thought I was fairly thorough in my view of 'equality'. 2 (apples) + 2 (o.....
» 24/10/2010 11:58:41 AM No Dane, all I have to say (and have said) is being equal does not mean being the same. In.....
» 24/10/2010 8:38:33 AM Hey Individual, I'm curious; how does discussing issues on OLO fit into your philosophy of.....
» 24/10/2010 6:19:42 AM Although not (currently) a big fan of Rudd or Gillard (or Abbott either, for that matter) .....
» 24/10/2010 6:00:57 AM Personally I find these generational disputes painted with rather too wide a brush. I woul.....
» 24/10/2010 5:16:15 AM Hey Individual, interesting line: "...these academic pseudo-intellectual females who.....
» 23/10/2010 1:09:14 PM There still seems to be a common thread in the conversation, that being equal must mean es.....
» 13/10/2010 8:13:44 PM "Lee Kuan Yew appears to have created Singapore single-handed, but he had a coterie o.....
» 12/10/2010 7:12:59 PM My reading of the Royal Society's summary leads me to believe Des Moore is either very sel.....
» 11/10/2010 7:41:59 PM Good Grief. Beelzebub, please tell me you're kidding. "The plural (i.e. "PM and .....
» 11/10/2010 1:09:24 PM What about used car salesmen?.....
» 11/10/2010 10:26:48 AM Beelzebub, congratulations on a remarkably un-insightful post. All of these "truly re.....
» 10/10/2010 8:15:12 AM The single 'good' thing about the Governor General's position is it is -nominally- apoliti.....
» 6/10/2010 5:53:20 AM The larger the organisation, the greater the gap between those at the top, and those at th.....
» 5/10/2010 7:00:32 AM In truth, Corporations hate innovation. It costs too much to retool. The exception of cour.....
» 5/10/2010 6:58:39 AM The question of the 'high standard of living' in rich capitalist countries is interesting......
» 2/10/2010 1:55:13 PM GilbertHolmes, I agree......
» 1/10/2010 8:32:27 PM “Firstly, it is a simple non-sequitur to jump from seeing a problem to concluding that gov.....
» 1/10/2010 8:28:42 PM Hey, Peter Hume. I'm guessing your post (some pages back now) prefaced 'Grim' was a rebutt.....
» 30/09/2010 9:53:03 AM Hey Duncan, if you're referring to me as one of the "critics (who) rediscovered thei.....
» 30/09/2010 6:05:09 AM From a purely ethical point of view, the endless squabbling between socialists and capital.....
» 28/09/2010 3:55:15 PM To be, or not to be... Is it nobler of the spirit to suffer the slings and arrows of outra.....
» 28/09/2010 6:51:32 AM Hey David, "Seppo" is a completely tasteless Aussie abbreviated cockney rhyming .....
» 27/09/2010 8:55:05 PM Pelican, hear hear. "On closer analysis theists believe that for those commonalities .....
» 27/09/2010 8:43:10 PM I have to say I think MTR is tilting at the wrong windmill. Manufacturers and advertisers .....
» 27/09/2010 8:11:45 PM I'm sorry GH, but I have to agree with David f. For someone criticising someone else's und.....
» 27/09/2010 6:08:15 PM Hallelujah, brother David! Let the sunshine in. (much as it grieves me to give credit to a.....
» 27/09/2010 4:45:32 PM "At the end of the day, we all have choices in life. It may not always seem fair, but.....
» 27/09/2010 11:08:18 AM "Chuck out the no hope dills. On the scrap heap if necessary, it's where they're goin.....
» 27/09/2010 7:24:13 AM To my mind, Crabsy's self revelations are basically an enlargement of the hackneyed observ.....
» 27/09/2010 6:26:55 AM As an ex boilermaker, I certainly wouldn't recommend the trade to anyone. Why would any k.....
» 27/09/2010 6:07:09 AM Hear Hear Severin. suzeonline, clearly you want what's best for your children, as all dece.....
» 25/09/2010 9:30:18 AM What surprises me most about this discussion is that 2 particular words have not been ment.....
» 25/09/2010 8:30:55 AM I really do love the concept that "All -people- are created equal..." What a sha.....
» 24/09/2010 8:09:01 PM An interesting -and remarkably candid- look into another human's head. My only regret is t.....
» 23/09/2010 4:17:21 PM Governments must prioritise necessities over luxuries. They should never use our taxes for.....
» 17/09/2010 6:19:58 AM In (belated) response to Hasbeen's post: everyone. I have already pointed out that the ra.....
» 14/09/2010 6:24:00 AM "Now, where were we? Oh yes, "guts". You see, "Johnny" (can I cal.....
» 14/09/2010 5:54:35 AM I have already made my case, and it is in broad agreement with Hazza's. MY last QLD rates .....
» 13/09/2010 6:57:48 AM Since the GG is the representative of a foreign queen, there is no place for one in a repu.....
» 12/09/2010 9:25:32 AM Houellebecq, I take your point very well. When my children came along, my wife and I very .....
» 10/09/2010 10:03:49 AM Sorry, CJ, but I don't entirely agree. "That "Girls Can Do Anything" campai.....
» 9/09/2010 6:40:57 AM Social engineering through unionism, solidarity or market forces? For thousands of years i.....
» 7/09/2010 7:44:24 AM As I said, rpg, Democracy is a weird and wonderful thing. Democracy is about the equal rig.....
» 7/09/2010 6:21:42 AM I wonder, should that not have read "storm in a C-cup"? It appears, some of our .....
» 6/09/2010 8:06:25 PM Democracy is a weird and wonderful thing. What about a ten person representative committee.....
» 1/09/2010 8:44:57 PM The real irony here is that while Abbott loves decrying the Labor party for being the tool.....
» 31/08/2010 9:07:48 AM Some interesting thoughts have been presented here. Suze and Cornflower, in my experience .....
» 19/07/2010 12:46:16 PM Yabby, all the history of this thread has proven, is that you are incapable of admitting w.....
» 19/07/2010 12:08:06 PM hey Qanda, I too will miss your knowledgeable and well reasoned posts. Hurry back. Cheers,.....
» 19/07/2010 9:18:13 AM Hey Graham, once again I have to say I find your statements to be a little 'peculiar'. Adm.....
» 19/07/2010 7:48:00 AM Hey Ludwig, while I pretty much agree with the principles of your SPP (with the exception .....
» 16/07/2010 9:54:24 PM I'm amazed that no one, anywhere, has bothered to mention this was originally an Obama sch.....
» 16/07/2010 9:09:14 PM Although I would consider myself both a republican and a democrat, this new party holds li.....
» 16/07/2010 8:19:47 PM I'm sorry Graham, but I found a couple of your lines to be a little peculiar. I did rather.....
» 15/07/2010 8:18:21 PM Peter Hume, you have written reams on this post concerning Mises' theory of Economic Calcu.....
» 15/07/2010 8:15:33 PM Col Stern. Now we come to the heart of the matter. “Bill Gates is a self made man” “Warre.....
» 15/07/2010 8:13:32 PM Yabby. I've asked you repeatedly to verify your claim that Apple had anything like a monop.....
» 14/07/2010 7:10:01 AM “TBC, what cannot be denied, is that Australian workers own 1.3 trillion$ worth of assets,.....
» 14/07/2010 7:01:10 AM Yabby, you have vacillated, prevaricated and obfuscated, but you have yet to tell us which.....
» 14/07/2010 6:59:00 AM When are you right wing libertarians going to pull your heads out of your fundamental orif.....
» 11/07/2010 7:31:07 AM Hey, Belly, I'm sorry if you found my post in any way offensive; that was not my intent. M.....
» 10/07/2010 1:07:25 PM Hey Poirot, I have Veblun's 'theory of the leisure class' where he refutes the Austrian sc.....
» 10/07/2010 12:03:23 PM Oh Yabby, Yabby Yabby. I should do my homework? ““Apples first so called "golden age&.....
» 10/07/2010 9:09:36 AM Actually, AGS1, I regard the incomes of parliamentarians to be far more important than whe.....
» 10/07/2010 8:46:06 AM I would really like to connect with the 'silent majority, here. I'm quite certain these di.....
» 9/07/2010 6:41:44 PM I conveniently forget history, Yabby? Apple computers hit the market in the 70's; the firs.....
» 9/07/2010 6:28:02 PM What I would like is a representative who is representative. I find having someone 'repres.....
» 9/07/2010 3:25:00 PM CJ and Severin, I'm afraid I have to disagree with your idea of imposing or increasing a f.....
» 9/07/2010 2:43:47 PM It seems difficult to defend a situation where 'ignorance of the law is no defence" y.....
» 8/07/2010 9:07:55 PM Sorry, a bit rushed. Victor Lebow. (and Annie Leonard)......
» 7/07/2010 10:53:33 PM Hey RObert, I guess you must have forgotten you posted this: "It can become a pointle.....
» 7/07/2010 10:35:16 PM Continued: Nice people, decent people are far more likely to use terms like “stupid arroga.....
» 7/07/2010 10:32:13 PM Hey Yabby, I love your figures. That line about poor little Microsoft, with it's pitiful 9.....
» 6/07/2010 8:10:54 PM hey RObert; that's okay, I don't think your arguments are valid either. Your suggestion th.....
» 6/07/2010 7:48:05 PM Oh joy, we have another of those 'other' libertarians here (whatever happened to Wing Ah H.....
» 5/07/2010 10:48:50 PM Hey squeers, great thread. I would suggest Capitalism, like democracy, basically sucks. I.....
» 5/07/2010 7:46:49 AM RObert, I believe the feminist (and certainly Pynchme's) points have been that all society.....
» 4/07/2010 3:26:12 PM Vanna, you're conveniently ingnoring the fact that women have had to endure negative comme.....
» 4/07/2010 12:48:20 PM "broad based agreement"? Considering the agreement between climate scientists is.....
» 2/07/2010 7:03:40 PM "Denigrating" males now, Vanna? You appear to have shifted the goal posts again......
» 2/07/2010 10:15:02 AM “As I understand it, the penalty rates on carbon will artificially raise the cost of carbo.....
» 2/07/2010 8:27:26 AM When I first started work (with David Copperfield) it was pretty much accepted that employ.....
» 28/06/2010 7:48:41 AM "Also I don't often read Bettina Arndt, but I believe she has never called herself a .....
» 27/06/2010 6:37:36 PM Hey cornflower, did you 'answer' that question (as a marketing guru charged with the task .....
» 19/06/2010 8:56:57 AM Well said RObert. I think Vanna definitely needs to take a Bex. I sympathise with your pai.....
» 19/06/2010 8:45:30 AM “I could say that, a redneck is anyone Grim says is a redneck”. Er, actually no Bigos; you.....
» 18/06/2010 7:45:26 PM I'm curious to know who the drug company intends to market this product to; women, or men?.....
» 18/06/2010 7:48:18 AM sadly, I agree Hazza. Needless to say, I'm disappointed Paterson has made no attempt to ad.....
» 17/06/2010 7:15:14 AM “My position is clear.” Yes it is, but probably not in the way you mean. As for your claim.....
» 16/06/2010 7:37:02 PM I have to say I was stunned to read the Capt. J. E. Schooley quote "were not race con.....
» 16/06/2010 6:53:29 PM Quite simply Bigos, your behaviour is racist. You made the statement: "Racism is the .....
» 16/06/2010 7:37:19 AM With very little respect at all LH, you are confusing Capital with Credit. The real Capita.....
» 15/06/2010 6:36:07 PM Unfortunately, we only have one world L.H., and that pie isn't getting any bigger. In fact.....
» 15/06/2010 2:15:56 PM What an absolute and utter crock. “As the IGR notes, even a moderately slower rate of grow.....
» 15/06/2010 7:11:27 AM Good post, Loudmouth. In all my years, I have never met a (country) redneck who didn't kn.....
» 12/06/2010 8:23:17 PM If the purpose of any article on OLO is to stimulate discussion, then clearly this one is .....
» 11/06/2010 6:53:23 AM Not my environmentalists, clownfish; although I have to concede your (and Rhian's) points......
» 10/06/2010 10:13:12 AM I'm firmly of the belief that the only way to introduce democracy in this country is with .....
» 9/06/2010 6:57:25 PM Yeah, I'd agree with that; but that's not what Lovelock said (or how he said it). The iron.....
» 8/06/2010 8:29:22 PM Hey Pynchme and David f; I think it's a little unfair to bring the ancient Greeks into the.....
» 8/06/2010 7:27:07 PM James Lovelock's Gaia Hypothesis was an observation that the Earth's atmosphere is kept in.....
» 6/06/2010 4:17:40 PM Here's my idea, for what it's worth; any organisation which can show the majority of funds.....
» 6/06/2010 8:37:17 AM A good article, Philip, but sadly, probably an exercise in futility as far as these pages .....
» 4/06/2010 7:57:06 AM Hey Dan, thanks for the link. I have to admit, I can see how, by highlighting the gaps in .....
» 3/06/2010 6:49:43 AM If you scrutinise more closely, you may realise irresponsible mutts donkey vote. The reaso.....
» 2/06/2010 8:33:56 PM I'm sure Krudd must thank his God every night for Abbott. He's the only thing that will ge.....
» 1/06/2010 7:48:10 PM "Though Justinus does not mention Jesus..." Yes, isn't it peculiar that a man wh.....
» 1/06/2010 3:26:22 PM Good one Foxy; I heard a similar one. When the man walked up to the Pearly gates, Peter sa.....
» 1/06/2010 12:20:18 PM Philo, I'm very well aware of what context is, and to whom the words were addressed. Philo.....
» 31/05/2010 4:48:17 PM Hey Philo, what about Matthew 19:21 Jesus answered, "if you want to be perfect, go, s.....
» 31/05/2010 7:53:29 AM Hey Oliver, sorry I didn't think your response required a response. I try not to respond j.....
» 31/05/2010 7:13:09 AM Hey Philo, how many thousands of times must we hear one Christian saying of other Christia.....
» 29/05/2010 7:09:09 AM I'm sorry Oliver, I really don't understand why anyone, atheist or theist, would agree wit.....
» 28/05/2010 4:28:29 PM ambishus, Foxy; very ambitious. I'd be happy if we could just get kids to spell. Was it A.....
» 28/05/2010 3:26:26 PM I agree that urban sprawl is not really the problem. Urban siting is the problem. If our m.....
» 28/05/2010 8:50:50 AM Hey, david f, I would have thought science's 'how' questions were almost invariably promp.....
» 27/05/2010 9:25:12 AM I too remember Malcolm with intense dislike. I would suggest his reign marked the beginnin.....
» 23/05/2010 6:57:25 AM CJ is quite correct to point out that evolution does not necessarily equate with progress;.....
» 22/05/2010 8:55:37 AM Just for fun, I thought I might play devil's advocate and weigh in on the ID side (althoug.....
» 6/05/2010 8:09:18 PM So what. Hands up all those who think pollution is a good thing. How about hunting species.....
» 29/04/2010 7:10:20 PM So this is where all the Aussies who don't watch sport hang out. All four of us........
» 27/04/2010 6:20:09 AM Is money really the only possible incentive, in recruitment? I'm not talking about money s.....
» 25/04/2010 7:25:52 AM Who's wearing Armani this week?.....
» 25/04/2010 7:17:10 AM I was interested in Gerry Harvey's response. According to the interview, he was with half .....
» 19/04/2010 7:17:36 PM Hey Oliver, I'm folliclely challenged, and I can't sing like Nelson Eddy (although I could.....
» 19/04/2010 6:04:07 AM "The big advantage of freedom of speech is that it lets you identify the assholes&quo.....
» 18/04/2010 10:06:20 PM I can't really comment on which country is the most boring, but to me living in the countr.....
» 18/04/2010 7:00:45 AM Hey Benk, check your own dam' 'facts'; I was expressing an opinion. Not an unreasonable th.....
» 18/04/2010 6:26:50 AM Hey Oliver, I'm thinkin' Duckie would prefer to be remembered as looking more like the fif.....
» 17/04/2010 7:10:41 AM A few months back, a skipper of an American warship made some scathing remarks about the s.....
» 17/04/2010 6:31:46 AM Yes, no, yes... Yes, small scale labour intensive farming can be very productive, and sust.....
» 16/04/2010 5:37:18 PM Hey Oliver, I have to say David McCallum has definitely looked better, -at least to my une.....
» 16/04/2010 6:13:57 AM It occurs to me that without natural (and unnatural) selection, the Ark would have had to .....
» 14/04/2010 8:44:59 PM As a devotee of science fiction (I fervently agree with C.S Lewis: “science fiction is the.....
» 14/04/2010 6:28:34 AM Meanwhile Rudd is moving in on more and more of our States' responsibilities........
» 14/04/2010 5:24:38 AM The govmint could supply both sanity and stability to the marketplace simply by replacing .....
» 10/04/2010 1:11:02 PM suzeonline, just out of idle curiosity, what was the "more effective discipline syste.....
» 7/04/2010 5:35:47 AM Rapscallion, you're right of course. It's clearly impossible to argue with a libertarian .....
» 7/04/2010 5:07:31 AM Your Majesty, I'm disappointed how much you struggle to digest a simple concept about obje.....
» 6/04/2010 5:47:05 AM Ozzie, I'm familiar with a number of people who consider their own experiences to be more .....
» 5/04/2010 7:14:43 AM Continued: “...that the political class have the moral right and duty to violate liberty a.....
» 5/04/2010 7:11:16 AM So many straw men. It just had to be Wing Ah Hume. Firstly, a small problem of temporal di.....
» 5/04/2010 6:12:39 AM I thank his Majesty kindly for throwing the word 'neatly' at me; it's not an epithet I hav.....
» 4/04/2010 7:51:00 AM I agree with Forrest Gump's assessment; the only real 'meat' in this article was the third.....
» 4/04/2010 7:21:00 AM The only true measure of 'Humanity' must be the ability to feel another's pain; to imagine.....
» 4/04/2010 6:50:49 AM Continued: “All consensual transaction that do not aggress against the person or property .....
» 4/04/2010 6:49:13 AM I have always been happy to admit you get things half right (for a wit) Wing Ah Hume. “Pov.....
» 3/04/2010 7:42:14 AM Continued: This doesn't necessarily need to imply socialism. We have -for centuries- had a.....
» 3/04/2010 7:39:45 AM The simple rationale for a growth economy is that a vast portion of humanity lives and die.....
» 29/03/2010 8:02:58 PM One of the most powerful arguments against 'intelligent design' IMHO, is the fact that far.....
» 28/03/2010 12:14:24 PM What if it's simply a bad law, Richie10? should we still be stoning to death adulterous wo.....
» 27/03/2010 6:10:49 AM AJ, it appears we have very similar religious experience, and the same reactions. On the q.....
» 27/03/2010 5:44:46 AM Speaking of twisting words, Ritchie10, no one suggested the innocent should be condemned. .....
» 26/03/2010 6:13:54 AM Ritchie 10, when Jesus defended the adulterous woman, he didn't claim she was innocent of .....
» 26/03/2010 6:00:37 AM GrahamY proposed what I thought was an interesting and legitimate study: "...It woul.....
» 26/03/2010 5:35:54 AM Ah, so in the context of showing compassion to refugees (even treating them like 'neighbou.....
» 25/03/2010 7:55:02 PM Where is the 'twist', Runner? The quotes Mikk supplied all seem pretty authentic to me. W.....
» 25/03/2010 6:31:19 AM George, I was commenting on a post of yours, not of Graham's. Indeed, I fully approve of G.....
» 24/03/2010 8:08:51 PM I agree with Chris C and -to some degree- JonJ. If we were fair dinkum about reconciliatio.....
» 24/03/2010 7:34:54 PM “Religion was seen as a tool being used by the capitalists to oppress the masses.” Exactly.....
» 22/03/2010 9:22:17 PM I've always been intrigued by the Church's support of capitalism, and condemnation of marx.....
» 12/03/2010 6:15:10 AM Going back to my comment about the forced amalgamation of councils in Qld, it's a sad fact.....
» 12/03/2010 6:13:14 AM Rhian, the link you provided was to a survey of a selected range of industries, totalling .....
» 10/03/2010 6:18:22 AM With respect Lucy, the 'average' wage -taken from averaging the highest to the lowest wage.....
» 9/03/2010 8:04:16 PM "Teachers are poorly paid"? A high school teacher with 10 years experience is ty.....
» 9/03/2010 7:50:00 PM An excellent article. I think about the only aspect of population growth that hasn't been .....
» 9/03/2010 6:52:52 PM Actually, school teachers are part of that small minority in Oz who make -or exceed- the '.....
» 8/03/2010 9:51:41 AM I'm sorry Dan, but your claim that AJ was rude in this particular debate smacks a little o.....
» 4/03/2010 6:16:26 AM I fear we are never going to win this one, AJ. Anyone who cannot grasp a principle as simp.....
» 3/03/2010 7:43:48 PM Runner, am I to understand you don't agree with Matthew 22:39? What about Luke 7, 27 throu.....
» 3/03/2010 6:08:15 AM Jp, I did give you a rational basis for a moral code; one which has existed for at least 5.....
» 2/03/2010 6:38:34 PM This nonsense about atheists having no moral code is so tired. The concept of treating oth.....
» 2/03/2010 5:51:18 PM Excuse me, Extropian1, the quote you attribute to me was penned by Peter Hume. My post was.....
» 1/03/2010 6:09:41 AM Fair enough, I accept there are some valid reasons for anonymity, but I still don't accept.....
» 28/02/2010 6:51:07 AM I've often wondered whether the more obnoxious and ill mannered posters would be so, if th.....
» 27/02/2010 6:42:03 AM Dan, I address my remarks to you because, as I said, I find you an interesting case. How h.....
» 25/02/2010 6:52:45 PM Yes Dan, it's quite reasonable to suggest Darwin was as focussed on his 'idea' as you are .....
» 24/02/2010 7:58:20 PM I have to say, you're an interesting case, Dan. As I see it, you're very much a 'love at f.....
» 21/02/2010 7:36:57 AM Thanks for an interesting article, David. On the question of eating swine, the quoted pass.....
» 21/02/2010 6:27:12 AM I found the sheer arrogance of forcing the shire amalgamations on us, when the vast majori.....
» 20/02/2010 9:24:17 AM The insulation scheme may have been rushed, and Garrett may be incompetent, but the bottom.....
» 16/02/2010 7:45:58 PM Hey David, I agree (and thanks for the link, btw, fascinating stuff). One of the problems .....
» 16/02/2010 6:02:04 AM Hey Graham, I agree with your views on the 'science project'. I would suggest if a God exi.....
» 14/02/2010 12:44:33 PM So what's the connection, stevenl? Why do you believe that those you describe as 'left' ha.....
» 6/02/2010 10:08:53 AM Hey JayB, Google John Bauskis. for a transcript of resultant proceedings: http://forum.dad.....
» 6/02/2010 7:55:17 AM I have to say I find your faith in referendums quite touching, your Majesty; particularly .....
» 6/02/2010 6:13:09 AM "Until this happens, the discussions will indeed be separate" Oops. As Pericles .....
» 3/02/2010 7:45:15 PM Peter Grimley. 4660. Since 'Peter' is such a useless name (too dam many of the basturds) m.....
» 2/02/2010 8:50:56 PM With all the respect your high office accords you, Your Majesty, might I respectfully dire.....
» 2/02/2010 5:46:30 AM Hey Dan/Michael, I guess we must have a radically different definition of the word 'debate.....
» 2/02/2010 5:14:23 AM I'm sorry, I don't accept that any rights are 'stripped away' from a jury of 12. Surely -.....
» 31/01/2010 11:48:12 AM I believe a population of 100 million is not only achievable, it may well be inevitable. C.....
» 30/01/2010 8:40:22 PM I would suggest the first, most fundamental human right should be the right to jury trial,.....
» 30/01/2010 12:39:02 PM "The more laws the less justice." Cicero "It would be better to have no law.....
» 30/01/2010 10:26:09 AM As I understand it, both in the church and in our courts of Law there can be no forgivenes.....
» 30/01/2010 6:41:43 AM I don't think anyone could reasonably deny the disaster that is inflation. The example of .....
» 30/01/2010 6:04:27 AM As an AGW 'alarmist', I would like to thank Runner for being a sceptic. I too, see common .....
» 29/01/2010 10:06:19 AM I think these 'honest questions' have been addressed; time and time again. So long as the .....
» 7/01/2010 10:47:32 AM I'm inclined to think this whole body image thing is just symptomatic of rampant consumeri.....
» 7/01/2010 10:09:51 AM Hey George, while I sympathise with your perspective, I believe I see a fundamental flaw i.....
» 2/01/2010 8:59:02 AM Hey Chris (continued) On your other point about your dog, I too have witnessed such acts b.....
» 2/01/2010 7:41:34 AM Hey Chris, I also see the sense in the semi-free market economy. What disturbs me is the t.....
» 1/01/2010 12:10:38 PM Peer Review? " In addition, a paper published in the premier scientific journal Scien.....
» 31/12/2009 7:58:07 PM Academia class Brasiliera de Ciências, Brazil Royal Society of Canada, Chinese Academy of.....
» 31/12/2009 12:24:26 PM Hey Chris, That's an interesting way of looking at things; reducing the 'drama'. If we onl.....
» 30/12/2009 6:23:37 PM Spindoc, you obviously didn't bother to follow the link. The IPCC is not the only 'franchi.....
» 29/12/2009 8:12:45 PM This link provides a list of individual scientists and scientific organisations that concu.....
» 29/12/2009 7:04:10 PM My apologies to all, particularly Chris C and King Hazza for my clumsy wording; I was work.....
» 27/12/2009 8:55:06 AM The author is correct in stating the 'world is on the brink of sliding into fascism', as n.....
» 27/12/2009 7:28:51 AM I couldn't find anything about 80% of scientists agreeing with AGW either Spindoc. Accordi.....
» 18/12/2009 10:47:52 AM An interesting article, Cameron Leckie. I think your 4 defence strategies are sensible, bu.....
» 17/12/2009 1:21:11 PM I was struck by this comment from 'themissus'. "Old men are the best men, young men a.....
» 13/12/2009 6:14:05 AM I for one am grateful to King for this article. I don't believe I can ever remember so man.....
» 4/12/2009 9:18:37 AM Csteele, as much as I enjoy your posts, I have no trouble believing in romantic love (havi.....
» 2/12/2009 10:17:54 AM Cont. I agree the Democratic system isn't perfect. Perfect democracy, like perfect sociali.....
» 2/12/2009 10:15:04 AM Hey David, thanks for another educational post; an interesting translation of Cicero. I wa.....
» 1/12/2009 8:48:27 AM I would like to draw the attention of all those posters who enjoy a stoush with Sells to a.....
» 21/11/2009 9:50:19 PM "That trade was started by socialist minded people in the US Democrat party forcing b.....
» 21/11/2009 9:12:47 PM The banks, along with all big business, have been shown the door to guaranteed wealth beyo.....
» 18/11/2009 10:32:58 PM Dear David, it's rather like the relationship between the words 'human' and 'humane' isn't.....
» 17/11/2009 6:04:57 AM Loudmouth, you're really not into humour and satire, are you?.....
» 16/11/2009 6:32:57 AM You mean, he got religisised by Gentiles?.....
» 16/11/2009 5:57:06 AM My point exactly, Pynchme. While even the most humble artisan such as I can aspire to the .....
» 15/11/2009 8:57:32 PM David, likewise. I agree, Jesus was not a Christian. Or, to put it another way, he was pr.....
» 15/11/2009 12:26:46 AM Without delving into the rights and wrongs of abortion, the question of individual rights .....
» 14/11/2009 10:30:31 PM Remarkable. For the fourth time in hundreds of posts, I find myself inclined to agree with.....
» 14/11/2009 10:09:23 PM I think -in the interests of free market libertarianism- perhaps a prerequisite would be m.....
» 14/11/2009 7:38:36 AM Wow. Much as I appreciate your generous -and I'm sure, quite sincere- offer, I'll stick wi.....
» 13/11/2009 7:40:33 PM David, I think you need to dig a little deeper. “It is quite legitimate for my bank to ch.....
» 13/11/2009 7:07:11 AM David, I don't think driving the money changers from the temple was a nutty act at all. I.....
» 12/11/2009 9:02:13 PM The difference between the 70's and now is peak oil and peak phospates. We saw a dramatic .....
» 12/11/2009 6:43:51 PM Csteele, I think it's rather more than 'intuition' which leads me to believe that riots an.....
» 12/11/2009 5:45:10 PM OK Rouge, I'll bite. "You see, it is like this… people are not critters and critters .....
» 12/11/2009 5:35:40 PM Virtually all the last pages of posts have demonstrated the logical necessity to compartme.....
» 10/11/2009 6:52:58 PM Csteele, I agree. As I wrote earlier (in agreement with Ludwig's post) we could raise our .....
» 10/11/2009 10:41:43 AM When I was young, I always thought "Judge not, Lest ye yourself be Judged" was a.....
» 10/11/2009 7:14:01 AM I agree with Ludwig's sentiment on refugees. We should increase our intake of genuine refu.....
» 10/11/2009 6:32:25 AM Seano, your point about cleaning up your own mess is valid. However, I think one of the fe.....
» 9/11/2009 7:00:35 AM In times of low income or crushing debt, the obvious thing to do is sell off some less use.....
» 9/11/2009 6:35:18 AM I think I have always been forthright in my views, and that those views could often be des.....
» 9/11/2009 6:08:45 AM I guess the main argument for a large population is to cover the cost of 'infrastructure'......
» 7/11/2009 7:52:14 PM geoffreykelley, you have my thanks. Your persistent and unrelenting misrepresentation of t.....
» 6/11/2009 6:54:39 AM I don't believe I have ever read such pitiful drivel in all my life - except for the origi.....
» 4/11/2009 9:42:34 PM Relda, I tried to keep the tone light, but I wasn't joking......
» 3/11/2009 10:23:26 PM On old mate of mine used to reckon we're all boat people. But then he (a Birpai) used to s.....
» 3/11/2009 9:13:11 PM Excellent article, George, we need more Humans to be 'human'. On the question of morality,.....
» 3/11/2009 8:05:51 PM My apologies to the forum, or at least those few foolish individuals who bother to read my.....
» 3/11/2009 7:27:14 PM Hey Relda, thanks for dipping delicately into the dangerous waters of Godwin’s Law; it all.....
» 2/11/2009 4:04:35 PM Relda, I always find it patronising when someone uses the word ‘confusing’. Since I mentio.....
» 1/11/2009 9:00:25 PM hey Relda. "Here, you show your knowledge of a spiritual principle." Really? I w.....
» 31/10/2009 8:52:24 PM hey squeers, I've had a few moderately serious accidents over the years, and personally I .....
» 27/10/2009 7:37:24 AM I agree with Shrode. Yes, these refugees should be 'processed', and their credentials chec.....
» 27/10/2009 5:48:27 AM Nope, not getting more mellow in his old age. We are still not worthy of Sells, according .....
» 27/10/2009 5:28:21 AM Dan, if that's what the majority of voters wanted, then so it would be. That prospect does.....
» 26/10/2009 6:55:48 PM Of course women's lib was necessary, and of course the situation of different laws for boy.....
» 24/10/2009 6:09:49 AM Yes Dan, I do. I won't suggest the method is infallible; I think it is possible to 'fool a.....
» 23/10/2009 6:14:23 AM 'That brings us back to the impossibility of checking whether there could have been anothe.....
» 22/10/2009 6:09:22 PM Personally, when I see more than one ellipses in the first sentence, I stop reading... I w.....
» 22/10/2009 9:49:20 AM On the question of evil, I think one of the aspects of religion in general which upsets ma.....
» 22/10/2009 6:24:32 AM Actually Dan, if you go back to my original statement: http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/t.....
» 21/10/2009 9:03:03 PM In a true democracy, representatives should have no opinions whatsoever. Their role is pur.....
» 20/10/2009 5:03:43 PM Ye Gods, I must be feverish. I find myself actually agreeing with (most of) one of Col Rou.....
» 19/10/2009 4:15:25 PM Yep......
» 19/10/2009 12:17:16 PM Hey TheMissus, I believe that lollypop men (sorry, road traffic controllers) have to do a .....
» 19/10/2009 9:33:42 AM "Had Pharoah heeded Moses’ warnings and not been so stubborn, Pharoah would have spar.....
» 19/10/2009 6:27:05 AM Dan, I'm a little confused. You appear to be rather disagreeably agreeing with me. You men.....
» 19/10/2009 6:03:48 AM "That doesn’t mean God is totally comprehensible, but most aspects of His character a.....
» 18/10/2009 7:59:16 AM Thanks AJ, for illustrating a point I have been trying to make. For the science minded, ad.....
» 17/10/2009 4:29:49 PM An excellent piece. Personally, I have always been in favour of Capitalism -when it is you.....
» 17/10/2009 3:16:40 PM Is it just me, or is Sells getting mellow, in his old age? This article doesn't seem quite.....
» 17/10/2009 10:02:30 AM The value of Capital is the amount of labour that creates it. Unfortunately, the *price* o.....
» 16/10/2009 7:50:11 PM Well, yeah. More mayonnaise, maybe?.....
» 16/10/2009 1:37:17 PM Believe it or not, it took me more than 6 minutes and 11 seconds to write that. buggar......
» 16/10/2009 1:19:38 PM VK3AUU, actually Clownfish has it right. The word 'decimation' comes from the Roman pract.....
» 16/10/2009 9:11:10 AM Dan, I'm sorry if my temporal inaccuracy bothered you so much; as I said, it was off the t.....
» 15/10/2009 7:48:36 PM After 62 pages, what strikes me most forcibly is that every time we attempt to define 'God.....
» 15/10/2009 7:12:16 PM UOG, the only credible thing you could offer a thread called 'the demise of Plain English'.....
» 14/10/2009 10:09:19 AM "I don’t look down at other people..." "What a small, envious little grub y.....
» 14/10/2009 6:12:12 AM My apologies, Blue Cross, you're right. For me, the stand out issue of this article which .....
» 13/10/2009 9:05:32 PM look, I'm afraid you have all fallen at the first hurdle. In 2009, it is essential that ev.....
» 13/10/2009 8:42:41 PM Sir Isaac Newton......
» 13/10/2009 7:53:11 PM A reasonable article; I certainly have to agree that we are all ultimately to blame. From .....
» 13/10/2009 7:03:27 PM I love the irony there Pericles: "There's a point at which the camouflage of "f.....
» 13/10/2009 6:43:05 AM Hey Pelican and RobP. You're right about semantics, Pelican. It's interesting how two word.....
» 12/10/2009 6:11:45 PM Personally Bronwyn, I'm inclined to suggest you don't cast your pearls before swine. I don.....
» 12/10/2009 5:55:25 PM Ludwig, are you seriously suggesting the Australian Liberal party should/would ever give u.....
» 11/10/2009 11:55:35 AM Actually, AJ, the only universally accepted 'fact' is that the Universe is expanding. Ther.....
» 10/10/2009 10:47:07 AM My apologies George, I meant *some* theists; I certainly didn't have you or Relda or even .....
» 9/10/2009 8:46:59 AM Dan, the reason I am always interested in reading your point of view -and George's, and Re.....
» 9/10/2009 7:01:35 AM I've just posted a comment on another thread,"Depopulate or perish". Interesting.....
» 9/10/2009 6:53:46 AM In the first place, the reason our 'wide land' is so empty, is because there isn't a lot o.....
» 8/10/2009 6:53:08 PM It seems reasonable that Iran and Israel should be treated the same, vis a vis Nuclear tre.....
» 7/10/2009 9:13:02 AM Almost forgot, George; one of those 'inconsistencies' (admittedly not so much with the Bib.....
» 7/10/2009 7:59:14 AM George, I thank you kindly for a fascinating link(s). Deacon Andrei Kuraev appears to be .....
» 6/10/2009 6:51:08 AM George, I thank you for your sympathy, but like you I didn't find my childhood 'that bad'......
» 5/10/2009 8:34:57 AM On the one hand, changes within species is generally driven by a change of environment; ei.....
» 5/10/2009 7:55:37 AM Can't supply a definitive answer on Iran, Banjo, but I suspect the fact that more than hal.....
» 4/10/2009 8:40:35 AM George, on the contrary, I would like very much for you to respond; that is why I reintrod.....
» 4/10/2009 8:27:18 AM I have admitted many times in these forums that I do not believe in a personal God who dem.....
» 4/10/2009 7:18:29 AM The very concept of nationalism is comparatively recent; probably dating back no more than.....
» 4/10/2009 6:44:32 AM Democracy 'implies' that all individuals are equal to all other individuals; at least befo.....
» 3/10/2009 5:11:50 PM "Not friggin likely, apart from a few cowards"? Are you serious? If my family we.....
» 3/10/2009 4:50:12 PM Cornflower, as it happens I agree with you on immigration, but the question here is about .....
» 3/10/2009 4:34:06 PM Relda, which of all Jesus' many miracles would you describe as “astonishing”, but not a “s.....
» 3/10/2009 8:43:58 AM I'm more inclined to agree with this article by Fred Pearce: http://www.newscientist.com/a.....
» 3/10/2009 7:51:07 AM George raises a good point. “These reflect not so much what God is (that is beyond the com.....
» 1/10/2009 10:19:45 PM Surely simplicity is in the eye of the beholder. I can't see the logic in putting human co.....
» 1/10/2009 7:33:33 AM Well said, Milgu. I love the imagery......
» 1/10/2009 7:10:16 AM AJ, I fully agree. Even the most fervent atheist must admit that religion has played an en.....
» 29/09/2009 10:58:53 PM nwick has the right of it; allowing just two supermarket chains to control 80% of the mark.....
» 29/09/2009 10:26:04 PM In 1955, interest rates on housing loans were fixed for the full term of the loan. Why is .....
» 29/09/2009 7:19:27 AM On the question of who teaches the ethics classes, I would suggest this could be covered i.....
» 29/09/2009 7:01:32 AM AJ, there is no difference in our statements, because you have used the same 'tautology', .....
» 28/09/2009 8:11:45 PM Pericles, while I'm inclined to agree with 99% of your previous post, (it pretty much work.....
» 28/09/2009 7:53:24 PM Have you heard the one about Harvard business school considering including ethics in their.....
» 28/09/2009 8:09:22 AM AJ, I listed 'secular' 'agnostic' and 'atheist' separately, because they are separate wor.....
» 27/09/2009 9:49:05 AM I think it is true the majority of theists 'inherit' their religion, or religiosity from t.....
» 27/09/2009 9:21:34 AM On this issue, I am largely in agreement with rehctub; although I don't understand the lin.....
» 27/09/2009 8:56:35 AM I would say an ethics class is a no brainer. I would go further and suggest that if we mus.....
» 27/09/2009 8:22:19 AM Recently, my oldest daughter had a party with friends and co workers (she works part time .....
» 25/09/2009 7:26:03 AM Dear AJ, I tried to be careful to word my last post as a general comment,applicable to any.....
» 24/09/2009 6:41:46 AM I feel extremely confident suggesting that these forums attract far more readers than writ.....
» 20/09/2009 9:04:17 AM David f you are right of course; I would make no claim that the Christian myth is unique o.....
» 19/09/2009 8:51:38 AM George, define "our time". We have known for several centuries that the Earth is.....
» 19/09/2009 7:31:25 AM Dear David f, you wrote: "The people who wrote the Bible wrote with the knowledge of .....
» 13/09/2009 10:33:25 AM What I most strongly object to is the clear and totally unwarranted connection between the.....
» 12/09/2009 7:20:12 AM Runner, “Judge not, lest ye yourself be judged.” “How can you say to your brother, “brothe.....
» 9/09/2009 7:40:34 PM Dear David; I remember my sunburnt country, of course, and Bellbirds, and a no. of other p.....
» 8/09/2009 5:36:12 AM I am very sorry to read of you feeling so depressed, David f. How can I help?.....
» 7/09/2009 7:56:00 PM And China is bailing out the world......
» 7/09/2009 7:21:39 PM Once again, Col Rouge, you have cleverly demonstrated the typical conservative's lack of a.....
» 6/09/2009 8:52:55 AM Hear Hear, Sharkfin. Examinator, I can't believe you have such a low opinion of Humanity. .....
» 6/09/2009 8:41:04 AM I can explain exactly how it's fair. any businessman worth his salt will seek the very bes.....
» 5/09/2009 7:27:35 PM Like others, I would make no claim to be an expert on American Presidents, but this articl.....
» 5/09/2009 11:41:04 AM "The birth narratives of Matthew and Luke are quite obviously mythic in nature and no.....
» 5/09/2009 6:27:08 AM peter ah hume, once again half right. The RESPONSE to the GFC was 'statist'. The CAUSE of .....
» 5/09/2009 6:11:05 AM I think when you get down to it, this is another example of 'Ratbag Rules'. It seems more .....
» 4/09/2009 8:32:15 PM I think Sell's point is pretty obvious. If we accept the virgin mother story, God pretty m.....
» 4/09/2009 7:55:08 PM Once again I can half agree with you, Peter Ah Hume. We have just witnessed not the crime.....
» 4/09/2009 7:21:02 PM pericles, thanks for the only laugh I've had all day. If you notice a slightly paunchy bal.....
» 3/09/2009 10:41:04 AM relda, I can only say you have left me with nothing to say. Cheers......
» 3/09/2009 10:19:01 AM Col Rouge, I'm only too happy to give credit, where credit is due; and happy to acknowledg.....
» 3/09/2009 9:10:26 AM No doubt you are essentially correct, Steven.. However, I think you are being a little har.....
» 3/09/2009 6:51:09 AM You just struck a sore nerve with me, Curm.... As one very close to the action with the de.....
» 3/09/2009 6:35:49 AM Sorry to but in on what appears to have become a private conversation, but I think on the .....
» 2/09/2009 10:20:51 PM I vaguely remember a great line by Sidney Poitier, from a movie made in the sixties: ".....
» 2/09/2009 9:59:23 PM Actually, the greatest -or worst- cause of death world wide, is gastro-enteritis. Personal.....
» 2/09/2009 9:48:18 PM "The great advantage of freedom of speech is it makes it so easy to identify the assh.....
» 2/09/2009 9:03:30 PM With one word, Peter Hume: China. I wonder how the author intends to stop the major shareh.....
» 2/09/2009 6:38:44 AM Jim, you raise an interesting point. A multi layered system based on probabilities can sti.....
» 1/09/2009 9:13:08 PM George, I also believe there does not need to be conflict between science and religion. As.....
» 1/09/2009 8:47:08 PM Good point, Piper. The age of Chivalry was a time when all people were NOT considered equ.....
» 1/09/2009 8:30:32 PM Mary, if you found my debating style overly confrontational, I apologise. These things hap.....
» 30/08/2009 9:01:57 AM Hey Dan, I thank you kindly for the history lesson. I was actually more interested in what.....
» 30/08/2009 5:27:06 AM I would like to think the concept of being able to sacrifice another comes from an age whe.....
» 29/08/2009 5:48:54 PM Dan, your views on miracles are interesting. A few years back, I used to have a few beers .....
» 28/08/2009 8:21:59 PM I'm sorry, MaryE, the point of your post is, what? Since nothing we do will in any way aff.....
» 28/08/2009 8:06:35 PM “I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, .....
» 28/08/2009 12:37:25 PM In the former, a small minority have the opportunity to 'live'. For the majority, about tw.....
» 28/08/2009 9:15:29 AM Hey Oliver. I think the tragic irony is we are only just starting to develop the wisdom to.....
» 28/08/2009 6:33:58 AM Apparently, Harry, your article is so manifestly accurate no comment is necessary. Onya......
» 28/08/2009 6:16:53 AM Modern farmers can and should know precisely how much of their chemical resource they lose.....
» 27/08/2009 12:25:01 PM Good post, RobP. I don't think the evidence that the richest people in the world are the m.....
» 27/08/2009 12:11:54 PM Thanks everyone, for some interesting observations. My specific concern was for the use or.....
» 27/08/2009 6:48:20 AM rstuart, you're right, I wasn't being entirely serious. The drip, drip just annoys the hel.....
» 26/08/2009 5:42:53 PM ericc, granted; however... First, possibly true, however... my water tank is outside my be.....
» 26/08/2009 1:52:20 PM I don't believe you are ignoring a small minority, Antonios. I think you are ignoring all .....
» 26/08/2009 11:09:00 AM Would your friends with the block of land on the beach be prepared to sell that land for t.....
» 26/08/2009 8:54:48 AM Odo, I suggest you research Tasmanian Aboriginals more thoroughly. There was a deliberate,.....
» 26/08/2009 7:04:14 AM “In Grims case, as ignorant as Malthus.” Col Rouge, I'm amazed. I had you picked for a Mal.....
» 26/08/2009 6:41:50 AM I believe, historically, the 20th and 21st centuries are going to be a 'stand out' period,.....
» 24/08/2009 10:27:08 PM Some very simple arithmetic that very few people seem to bother about: My family can live .....
» 24/08/2009 9:20:13 PM Good point Leslie. I'm surprised no mention was made of Tasmania, or indeed of many Austra.....
» 24/08/2009 7:58:21 PM Yes, there is definitely a Zen aspect there, Fractelle and Oliver. Many proponents (like A.....
» 24/08/2009 7:47:59 PM "Speaking personally, I have every faith in the ability my children and grandchildren.....
» 24/08/2009 11:54:24 AM Antonios, I disagree "Of cause there are some risks, we try to minimize them but we c.....
» 23/08/2009 9:25:52 PM Some interesting contrasts there, rehctub. You believe things are pretty right the way the.....
» 23/08/2009 9:02:14 PM Waterboy, I really think this is the crux of the matter: "...the destabilising influe.....
» 23/08/2009 8:24:08 PM A very pretty post, Fractelle. I have come to believe the most profound question thinking .....
» 23/08/2009 7:34:43 AM I posed a question to Sells earlier, because I have genuine doubts that Sells suffers from.....
» 23/08/2009 7:14:51 AM I think this article by Paul E. Marek has become topical to this discussion: http://thecom.....
» 22/08/2009 3:19:33 PM You've made a pretty good assessment of the way things are, rehctub. The question is: Do .....
» 22/08/2009 7:27:58 AM So uranium lasts 100 years. Then what? So coal lasts 200 years. Then what? When I was a te.....
» 22/08/2009 7:18:34 AM Hey Dan, long time no read. I'd have to say this is a contentious statement: "The Bib.....
» 21/08/2009 8:37:51 PM The simple meaning of the words 'non renewable' is, they are going to run out. Not 'may'; .....
» 21/08/2009 6:28:52 PM I know exactly where you're coming from, Belly. It's a source of amazement to me that the .....
» 21/08/2009 11:04:53 AM Dear PP and David f. My apologies; unlike Bronwyn every time I try to be brief, I screw it.....
» 21/08/2009 8:45:24 AM I envy you, PP. One of, if not the main, reason I come here, is because my natural family .....
» 21/08/2009 7:08:21 AM It's fascinating how 'Religion' tends to wander away from, or around the written word. Mos.....
» 20/08/2009 6:28:17 PM My sincere apologies, Col Rouge; for some reason I was under the impression you were quite.....
» 20/08/2009 1:28:17 PM Hey Oliver, good post. Might I recommend "the forbidden gospels" (can't remember.....
» 20/08/2009 1:01:34 PM Col Rouge, thank you for validating my points so comprehensively. RobP, you're probably ri.....
» 20/08/2009 7:41:15 AM Foxy and Philo I refer you to my last post, and urge you to consider the distinction betwe.....
» 20/08/2009 7:07:58 AM I'm sorry, RobP, I thought I did list the reasons, fairly comprehensively. It's difficult .....
» 19/08/2009 7:14:26 PM Waterboy and Rhian, If it were up to me, I would sack Sells, and give you the job. You see.....
» 19/08/2009 6:45:10 PM RobP, I wonder if this is really true: "I guess that people in poverty take a certain.....
» 19/08/2009 6:13:56 PM PP you crack me up. If you ever need help vacillitating anyone, you just give me a call......
» 19/08/2009 5:45:22 PM I agree with Foxy, although I can see the word 'religion' being the sticking point. For in.....
» 19/08/2009 7:54:12 AM Relda, "Faith actually enables one to escape a deeply rooted paradigm." (?) I'm .....
» 18/08/2009 1:08:43 PM You have a remarkable mind, Col Rouge. It's fascinating to see a statement like: "My.....
» 18/08/2009 10:42:53 AM I have no idea what the weather is going to be like next week, or next year, or in fifty y.....
» 18/08/2009 10:25:49 AM My sincere apologies, David. It was never my intent to 'cheapen' your post with obfuscatio.....
» 18/08/2009 7:02:27 AM Glorfindal, wasn't it G.B. Shaw who also said: "Yes I think Christianity is a wonderf.....
» 18/08/2009 6:33:48 AM Antonios raises a good point, in the need to define 'poorest'. While realistically a homel.....
» 17/08/2009 6:02:35 PM My mum used to do the thrupny bit thing in the xmas pud when I was a littlun. The dirty bu.....
» 17/08/2009 5:47:45 PM In my youth I spent a couple of nights a week at the local, giving all and sundry the bene.....
» 17/08/2009 5:08:27 PM I honestly don't understand why people like the author of this article bother. A target of.....
» 17/08/2009 2:28:57 PM Actually, water is only scarce in certain areas; there are some parts of Australia with an.....
» 17/08/2009 10:48:19 AM relda, I suppose I should thank you for supplying an example of a statement of Sells, whic.....
» 16/08/2009 11:42:40 AM Pelican, bravo. This must be a much more interesting and fruitful discussion than Sells' i.....
» 16/08/2009 8:00:00 AM So how do you define Human Being, Sells? Unlike the very thoughtful article by Stephan Che.....
» 15/08/2009 8:45:17 AM I found this to be a very disappointing article. For some reason, I thought it might be ab.....
» 15/08/2009 8:07:25 AM My Parents were a support to me not only when I was growing up, but right up to the day th.....
» 14/08/2009 7:42:02 PM David, once again I agree with more than 90% of your post. As to the chronology of colonia.....
» 14/08/2009 12:40:40 PM David, I certainly don't believe capitalism is the root of all evil; but I think there is .....
» 13/08/2009 8:03:12 AM I sincerely hope not, David. As I have said on other posts, I do not consider myself a soc.....
» 12/08/2009 6:30:26 AM David, I agree Obama is -or appears to be- a vast improvement on Bush. He is still however.....
» 11/08/2009 4:39:31 PM there are currently 2 excellent ways of storing power, which don't involve using non renew.....
» 10/08/2009 7:36:25 PM Good article by Pilger. Unbridled capitalism is nothing more than privatised imperialism. .....
» 10/08/2009 6:17:20 AM It would have to be the right people doing the sneezing, PP. How long at TAFE do you thin.....
» 9/08/2009 8:03:11 AM I'm not quite as old as Hasbeen (praise the Gods of Good Music) but growing up in the sixt.....
» 8/08/2009 2:45:31 PM "Nevertheless, to ask a believer to prove the tenets his/her world-view is built on, .....
» 7/08/2009 7:22:14 AM I'm reminded of something I read of one of the early (Arab) OPEC oil ministers, about cond.....
» 5/08/2009 12:54:02 PM Thank you, David......
» 5/08/2009 10:10:54 AM “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are en.....
» 5/08/2009 7:33:19 AM David f, I agree with many of your points, but not all. There is some evidence to suggest .....
» 3/08/2009 11:42:36 AM "However today we live in volitile economic society where every 20 - 30 years prices .....
» 2/08/2009 8:28:03 AM Hey, Miz Caro, good to hear from you again. This is an interesting and novel approach to a.....
» 1/08/2009 1:29:31 PM Antonios, I think you might be crazy. But that's alright, so am I. Sorry I didn't reply to.....
» 1/08/2009 8:03:03 AM Just for the record, Yabby, my goal has never been to convince you of my point of view. Ra.....
» 1/08/2009 7:50:40 AM I guess Philo is right that the Jewish nation suffered persecution long before JC; I suppo.....
» 31/07/2009 8:29:22 PM Pericles, that was simple unadulterated bull. Of course it was a contradiction. Go back to.....
» 31/07/2009 1:19:02 PM Hey Fractelle and PP, with you on disc world and Adams. I think the 'Golden Torc' you have.....
» 30/07/2009 9:50:03 PM Judge not, lest ye yourself be judged, Yabby. Far from being envious, I honestly can't und.....
» 30/07/2009 8:26:52 PM I'm sorry, Pericles, what was that? “Once and for all, that wretched $100 does not turn in.....
» 30/07/2009 12:53:58 PM I owned and operated a travelling farm show for several years, and as a consequence, I am .....
» 30/07/2009 10:34:43 AM I am extremely doubtful that the mechanical infrastructure costs of renewable energy plant.....
» 30/07/2009 10:06:14 AM I just can't wait to read Runner's opinion of this piece......
» 30/07/2009 9:54:33 AM It's no secret I'm a monetary reformist, and I think Sharia Banking is a step in the right.....
» 30/07/2009 8:12:23 AM I describe myself as a "de facto" atheist, as I agree with Einstein's famous qua.....
» 29/07/2009 7:59:29 PM Oliver, thank you for elucidating (or dumbing down). To paraphrase the oft mentioned Volta.....
» 29/07/2009 3:19:04 PM I accept the criticism Pericles; I was being patronising, and quite deliberately so. Stil.....
» 29/07/2009 2:32:20 PM Some might suggest the reason the very concept of class exists is because many people tend.....
» 29/07/2009 12:58:04 PM Pericles, I think the funniest line you have come up with so far was: "That was a bit.....
» 29/07/2009 12:17:37 PM I have a dvd on my shelves called 'McLintock'. It's a sixties John Wayne comedic western, .....
» 29/07/2009 11:28:29 AM Seriously, Oliver, did you expect Philo to wade through that crap and respond in kind, or .....
» 29/07/2009 9:09:12 AM Loyalty is a 2 way street, rehctub. I wonder how keen your apprentices will be to stay wit.....
» 29/07/2009 8:52:49 AM Very good point, Shadow; in fact I would go further, and suggest it can hardly be denied t.....
» 28/07/2009 3:28:21 PM I find your six points pretty reasonable, David. Having said that, I find myself being in .....
» 28/07/2009 6:44:40 AM Therein lies the difference between you and I, Yabby. Less than 10% of the population make.....
» 27/07/2009 9:38:03 PM Did I miss a memo? Does everyone here accept that the world is going to end in 100 years, .....
» 27/07/2009 9:11:34 PM goodbye capitalism, hello corporatism......
» 27/07/2009 8:19:13 PM OK, maybe I did paddle my own canoe a bit hard, but I maintain my point about tribalism is.....
» 27/07/2009 10:01:54 AM Ludwig, I strongly agree, and with Leigh, which has to be a first. We must adopt the Canad.....
» 27/07/2009 9:34:12 AM Personally, I seem to recall finding the 'verses' quite funny, and believable -in a 'Yes M.....
» 27/07/2009 8:48:04 AM I think RobP has come closest to the truth. Humans are essentially tribal, and have been s.....
» 27/07/2009 7:28:00 AM rehctub, I really don't know the exact terms of the new proposed unfair dismissal laws. I'.....
» 27/07/2009 7:06:13 AM I think the word you need to stress in your argument, Daggett, is TIME. The major problem,.....
» 26/07/2009 12:28:17 PM I'm very surprised that in all these posts there has been no mention of American imperiali.....
» 26/07/2009 11:20:14 AM Yes, Taswegian. Fully 2/3s of the planet is ocean. Of the remaining 1/3, enormous areas li.....
» 26/07/2009 10:57:15 AM I think the author is probably right. A key component of human intelligence is the ability.....
» 22/07/2009 12:41:30 PM Remain a farm and quarry? Australia has become a farm and quarry; or quarry, anyway. 50 ye.....
» 21/07/2009 3:09:33 PM Yabby, that's a terribly simplistic way of looking at awards. I can pretty much guarantee.....
» 21/07/2009 6:58:44 AM Yabby, the current federal award for fruit and veg is $17. an hour. If you thought $25 an .....
» 21/07/2009 6:37:38 AM Sylvia, I assume you're referring to Islam?.....
» 20/07/2009 5:45:28 PM I tend to agree with this article. Like it or not, religion has played a dominant role in .....
» 20/07/2009 8:26:54 AM So your employees loved working for you, despite the fact that you were offering less than.....
» 19/07/2009 7:22:06 AM Once again Yabby completely misses the point. Let me rephrase; How can (for instance) the .....
» 18/07/2009 1:11:03 PM I agree with Bruce and the others who advocate a simple tax system. Carbon trading is alre.....
» 18/07/2009 11:16:30 AM Wages have long been understood to be a major overhead in any business. The advantage of a.....
» 18/07/2009 7:26:13 AM Yes war is terrible, Yabby, thank you for pointing that out to me. The specific stat I pos.....
» 17/07/2009 9:56:13 AM Yabby and Pericles, I really think you should go back and read the article again, and cons.....
» 15/07/2009 11:46:46 AM Yabby, you and I both know a $1000. deposit in a cash account isn't going to get 2%. In fa.....
» 15/07/2009 9:51:46 AM "Does Gillard really believe society will be better off by attempting to force employ.....
» 14/07/2009 3:35:47 PM I've worked through several recessions; I remember the 'strike torn seventies', and I reme.....
» 13/07/2009 11:39:07 PM Yabby I guess we all tend to make the same mistake; oversimplifying to clarify a point. I .....
» 13/07/2009 9:44:37 AM Pericles and Yabby, I don't know if you didn't bother to check the link to fractional rese.....
» 12/07/2009 3:00:35 PM All banks -with the arguable exception of Moslem banks, and just 2 others- do it Yabby; in.....
» 12/07/2009 8:26:48 AM Just for the record Jardine, I am not a socialist; I'm a firm believer in private ownershi.....
» 9/07/2009 7:46:50 AM "Who are all these people who are worse off then 30 years ago?" Collectively, th.....
» 7/07/2009 11:29:13 PM The only real money is tax bills, as evidenced by the current crisis. As soon as credit (f.....
» 7/07/2009 5:27:19 PM “The process by which the Gates and Buffets become wealthy – profit - *is the same process.....
» 7/07/2009 5:24:59 PM “Poverty is the original and universal condition of mankind.” This is not only unsubstanti.....
» 5/07/2009 12:28:08 PM Bloody hell. I actually agree with almost half of an article by Sells. Even Runner has man.....
» 4/07/2009 8:45:45 AM Jardine, do you honestly believe the likes of Buffet and Gates, and the traditional Sultan.....
» 3/07/2009 8:52:12 AM You did manage to come up with one thing I agree with, Wing: “You have not given any reaso.....
» 3/07/2009 8:43:30 AM Yes, I see now it was nasty of me to use a circular argument to describe a linear progress.....
» 1/07/2009 1:59:31 PM Once upon a time, the rulers ruled by the strength of their arms, literally. Tribal leader.....
» 1/07/2009 12:43:36 PM As I have mentioned in numerous posts, I think predicting the weather has always been a do.....
» 30/06/2009 10:37:29 PM I don't believe ethics is about self. If a person lives totally alone on an island, withou.....
» 27/06/2009 6:00:57 AM So, no one's managed to accurately predict the weather? Gee, imagine that. What we do know.....
» 24/06/2009 11:05:04 AM For a real simple example of how Politicians can interact with their constituents, go to m.....
» 23/06/2009 12:41:14 PM "Asking someone to come up with something better is asking too much." So there's.....
» 22/06/2009 11:30:25 AM Pericles, I think the original post was advocating that politicians should work for nothin.....
» 21/06/2009 10:57:21 AM Hey Antonios, thanks for your email, though I'm not sure why; I am not an official of the .....
» 20/06/2009 10:07:17 AM I think the aristocratic class develops when tribal leaders realise they have more in comm.....
» 18/06/2009 5:19:54 PM Hey Max, can I refer you to "the mystery of banking, Rothbard". if you google th.....
» 18/06/2009 7:34:52 AM Antonios, if you place yourself somewhere between the Greens and the ALP, then you should .....
» 17/06/2009 10:04:35 PM Yes it would be great if we could just do a trade: "hey world, we're putting enough c.....
» 17/06/2009 9:38:23 PM I was particularly struck by this little gem: "In the end, the Howard government's lo.....
» 17/06/2009 8:29:15 PM hey Austin, the musicians have changed but the song doesn't change much; and with respect,.....
» 16/06/2009 10:07:32 PM It has been an interesting and educational thread. Oliver, your earlier statement: "T.....
» 16/06/2009 11:12:04 AM Hey Austin, as a westerner, I doubt Custer was worried about being in the fish. The proble.....
» 15/06/2009 9:31:37 PM Good article, and a great link to Bartlett's lecture; really good stuff. What neither Tons.....
» 15/06/2009 1:24:36 PM "One example of natural speciation is the diversity of the three-spined stickleback, .....
» 15/06/2009 9:57:45 AM Austin, you appear to be someone with some knowledge in this area; perhaps you would give .....
» 13/06/2009 9:38:27 AM 1.Stop the legality of owning houses one does not personally live in, and businesses one d.....
» 13/06/2009 9:01:19 AM Thanks for bringing up "1984", Relda; it has been on my mind. I don't think the.....
» 12/06/2009 7:53:23 AM I believe in private ownership -for everyone- and small business; yet there is no way I wo.....
» 11/06/2009 10:04:42 PM The Democrats aren't dead... just sleeping. One day a handsome prince (ss) will come along.....
» 11/06/2009 4:02:04 PM It's always a pleasure to hear from a true Christian, who has embraced the fundamental val.....
» 10/06/2009 8:39:34 PM I'd go with a Faustian compromise. If you can come up with a design -or petition, or polit.....
» 10/06/2009 8:15:30 PM A courageous article, Stephan Hagen, kudos. I wonder what the average life expectancy of A.....
» 8/06/2009 8:09:03 AM Under One God, if you sincerely wish a discussion on rationality, I would strongly suggest.....
» 5/06/2009 7:37:10 PM Naturalism:(philosophy) the doctrine that the world can be understood in scientific terms .....
» 5/06/2009 3:42:46 PM "The natural world consists of molecules, atoms, quarks, protons, neutrons, electroma.....
» 5/06/2009 11:58:31 AM "For starters, there’s one incredibly obvious reason staring you in the face: This is.....
» 28/05/2009 8:06:27 PM Dan, you pose an interesting argument. How can an atheist reason that reason is reasonable.....
» 28/05/2009 7:45:22 PM "Urk!" I guess that's a 'yes' for scenario 1. Thanks, Cornflower. I'm still quit.....
» 28/05/2009 3:49:17 PM I'm sincerely curious. How many of the men on this thread who condone, or at least do not.....
» 20/05/2009 8:04:06 PM Stephan Chelada, I liked your article. The term 'survival of the fittest' was first coined.....
» 19/05/2009 4:13:12 PM Sarnian, I agree. I have never been a fan of Thatcher, or her Guru, Hayek. That isn't to s.....
» 17/05/2009 6:37:24 PM Pericles has made an interesting and intelligent post. But... "I would personally be.....
» 17/05/2009 12:24:14 PM if state schools are so bad, then clearly they need more money spent on them, to bring the.....
» 17/05/2009 8:41:39 AM I think the time is way past due for a complete overhaul of the whole education system. Wh.....
» 16/05/2009 12:33:54 PM Congratulations, Examinator, for an excellent discussion. It's so nice to see a thread wit.....
» 13/05/2009 8:40:44 AM If everyone rents, who owns the houses? Or, to put it another way, who are the renters mak.....
» 12/05/2009 9:56:52 AM It is obscenely ironic that a Labor government should be so unashamedly elitist in all it'.....
» 12/05/2009 7:26:26 AM Keating made it compulsory that Australian workers give 9% of his/her wages to a bunch of .....
» 9/05/2009 10:01:28 AM “I would welcome a critical analysis that was able to refute the theories of freedom which.....
» 7/05/2009 8:05:50 PM The interesting thing about all the hydrogen generators I have investigated is that they a.....
» 6/05/2009 8:40:19 PM Foxy, Fractelle, fully agree hydrogen is the most abundant element in the universe, and th.....
» 6/05/2009 5:08:31 AM Speed humps recover energy corresponding to half the weight of a (four or two wheel) vehic.....
» 5/05/2009 8:19:52 PM I think the most elegant description of the problem of extracting hydrogen from water was:.....
» 4/05/2009 9:42:21 PM I have to admit, ever since the Tampa affair, I have been disagreeably surprised that so m.....
» 4/05/2009 7:04:02 PM Actually, now that I've been dragged back to this thread, I have to say I'm mystified by G.....
» 4/05/2009 6:53:46 PM Dan, I like the principle of reciprocity because for me, it has always worked. It works in.....
» 29/04/2009 5:23:09 AM The company I work for has just gone into voluntary receivership, so I for one am quite ha.....
» 23/04/2009 5:59:25 AM Mises lived through the early 20th century. He witnessed the rise of communism in Russia, .....
» 22/04/2009 6:58:04 AM Sincere apologies to all for my previous post; it was meant for another forum. Jefferson, .....
» 21/04/2009 7:09:01 PM With all due respect, George, you appear to have missed my point about frames of reference.....
» 21/04/2009 5:37:07 AM Continued from last night... But wait! If I look down (whilst standing directly over the N.....
» 21/04/2009 4:49:47 AM Jefferson, on this matter I agree with Mises. I do, however think the banks are the more v.....
» 20/04/2009 8:45:26 PM Pretty much the same way we do on Earth, David. Our galaxy is a spiral disc, with rotation.....
» 20/04/2009 5:23:07 AM Fozz, your statements about govt. being a currency monopolist, leaves out the banks' colle.....
» 20/04/2009 5:07:35 AM George, I agree. In an earlier post, Dan S. said something about a blurry line between sci.....
» 19/04/2009 5:58:05 PM Jefferson; Capitalism is about making something. Capital. Finance Capitalism is about maki.....
» 18/04/2009 9:05:02 AM "A personal God to whom we are accountable either exists or does not." And that'.....
» 18/04/2009 8:42:39 AM I think we need to distinguish between Capitalism, and finance Capitalism. It has been sai.....
» 18/04/2009 7:30:21 AM “...all encompassing Cosmos, ie existing BEFORE the big bang“ since time, as we understand.....
» 17/04/2009 5:22:47 AM Dan, I don't believe I actually endorsed the 'many worlds' or 'infinite timelines' theorie.....
» 15/04/2009 7:57:28 PM "Why is it that so many people hold a worldview (Christian theism) responsible for cr.....
» 14/04/2009 7:26:25 AM "The problem with limiting people to inoffensive speech is that powerful organised gr.....
» 13/04/2009 11:00:02 AM "A standard part of humour is the "running gag", in which the same them is .....
» 13/04/2009 8:11:39 AM George, I think my understanding of Sagan's use of the word 'Cosmos' differs somewhat from.....
» 13/04/2009 7:13:07 AM Antiseptic, I really don't know if I can make my point more clearly. I did not bother to r.....
» 12/04/2009 10:24:24 AM Antiseptic: "You responded to a perception of the tone of part of what I was saying, .....
» 11/04/2009 10:04:09 AM I believe I qualify as an objective oberver, Antiseptic, as your vitriol has -so far- not .....
» 10/04/2009 8:56:56 PM I cannot comment on "A friendly letter.." as I have not read it, but I do feel c.....
» 10/04/2009 8:54:46 AM As a free man, I have the ability not only to choose to be offensive, but also to choose t.....
» 6/04/2009 8:09:59 PM what a w(profanity deleted)er......
» 5/04/2009 7:07:17 AM Romany, I agree. In fact, I find it more interesting that people weren't aware of these c.....
» 4/04/2009 7:55:17 AM Once again we hit the eternal stumbling block. Millions of people call themselves Christi.....
» 3/04/2009 4:40:11 PM Peter, "We have Parliaments full of ignorami who have never learned to read and writ.....
» 1/04/2009 10:33:52 AM I have often been fascinated by posters who deign to comment on an article, while professi.....
» 28/03/2009 12:19:31 PM “This article is mere unweaned squalling for the teat. Before any wealth can be re-distrib.....
» 27/03/2009 5:09:43 AM Good article Tristan. Might I suggest the greatest hurdle which desperately needs to be f.....
» 25/03/2009 7:24:52 PM Wing: I do apologise for not sitting on the edge of my chair, waiting breathlessly for you.....
» 22/03/2009 11:27:46 AM AND FURTHERMORE... All those attacking Geoff Davies for the use of the term "Neoliber.....
» 22/03/2009 11:13:27 AM It is clearly impossible to refute any of your arguments to your satisfaction, Wing ah Hum.....
» 19/03/2009 4:59:57 AM Yes, thankyou David f, for confirming that which I had already stated. I still find the ar.....
» 18/03/2009 8:13:24 PM Wing, sorry, should have said look up Lombard (banking) in Wikipedia. You may also be inte.....
» 15/03/2009 8:17:09 AM Wing ah Hume, Once again, you drag the debate back to a "Socialist under every bed&qu.....
» 14/03/2009 6:26:41 PM Well said Pelican. A better model already exists. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JAK_members.....
» 13/03/2009 8:05:52 PM Economics 101. the real truth. What happens when the consumers are the producers? Every re.....
» 13/03/2009 6:53:02 PM excellent......
» 13/03/2009 6:20:19 PM Great article Geoff Davies, and hear hear, Daviy. Peter Hume, your constant panty wetting .....
» 12/03/2009 1:05:18 PM I'm really glad you're not a misogynist, KAEP. Watch out for Yabby and Houellebecq, though.....
» 8/03/2009 6:57:42 AM A very good article, Michael; well written and supported. I look forward to your next one......
» 1/03/2009 5:19:59 PM "Peter Hume explains the basic concepts in his post, and shows the errors in Keen’s a.....
» 1/03/2009 8:35:30 AM "It is obvious that those who object to any kind of theological discussion on the gro.....
» 28/02/2009 10:16:30 AM AdamD, I fear you may have missed my point. I was trying to make the comparison that, wher.....
» 26/02/2009 7:48:18 PM AdamD (among others) apparently believes that if you do not believe in evolution, you are .....
» 26/02/2009 7:01:17 PM Neilium, I'm with you, bloke. I'm currently the proud owner of a 'Virgin' credit card. It'.....
» 24/02/2009 7:18:56 PM leigh, your arrogance and lack of humanity are breath taking. 30,000 CHILDREN die every d.....
» 23/02/2009 11:42:44 AM "Both providers and borrowers make a judgement in the context of their broader values.....
» 23/02/2009 7:37:07 AM I'm sorry, Wing Ah ling, but I find your attitudes on Mises/economics no more rational tha.....
» 22/02/2009 10:19:43 AM I find myself largely in agreement with the author -if not for reasons he might admire. Al.....
» 22/02/2009 9:55:30 AM As someone who lived in a solar powered home for 10 years, I would have to say the most at.....
» 22/02/2009 7:42:26 AM Sorry Dan, it is not true. the term 'Neo Darwinism' was first coined in 1895, by George Ra.....
» 19/02/2009 8:19:23 PM Apparently, I'm impossible. Funny, I still feel the same. (An exercise in brevity, thanks .....
» 19/02/2009 7:34:26 PM Damn, Dan. I scrolled down slowly through your post and thought: I like this guy(person), .....
» 19/02/2009 7:39:54 AM I would suggest any endeavour could be likened to walking through a minefield. A fair defi.....
» 18/02/2009 7:51:16 PM And how could any sane town planner put a fun park in the middle of a sewerage plant?.....
» 18/02/2009 7:17:59 AM Runner, I must say you are remarkably selective in your treatment of evidence. "Did .....
» 17/02/2009 12:05:06 PM Dan, I'm afraid I have to disagree with you about Marx, Freud and particularly Mendel; des.....
» 16/02/2009 8:53:30 AM Sir Vivor, I think we are -largely- on the same page; even though I am a nominal atheist. .....
» 15/02/2009 11:57:13 AM With respect, David f, I did not write that quote. It came from Sir vivor. Kenny, I think .....
» 15/02/2009 9:41:25 AM This -apparently- is an example of a mature contribution to an intellectual discussion. &.....
» 15/02/2009 7:27:00 AM I for one, am a strong believer in the idea of teaching comparative religion. Pericles mak.....
» 15/02/2009 6:20:04 AM Wing Ah Ling, actually he did. In the conclusion to "Origin" -Note: not 'transmu.....
» 14/02/2009 12:31:07 PM Oh dear, Col, you really are immune to the subtleties of irony, aren't you? "Sad litt.....
» 14/02/2009 9:29:45 AM Stephan Jay Gould was a dedicated evolutionary biologist, and never admitted any 'problem'.....
» 14/02/2009 6:57:07 AM Once again Waterboy, very well put. I particularly like this paragraph: "I speak of f.....
» 14/02/2009 6:13:45 AM "So Grim, rather than trying to play the race card (in a very inept and clumsy manner.....
» 13/02/2009 2:58:24 PM You write very well, Waterboy. You come across as a reasonable, -and well reasoned- indivi.....
» 13/02/2009 9:12:48 AM What fascinates me is how anyone can actually take pride in the fact that his great great .....
» 12/02/2009 7:32:45 PM I happen to believe in AGW. I believe eucalypts -in sufficient numbers- can affect climate.....
» 12/02/2009 6:35:02 PM I think you should stand agreed......
» 11/02/2009 7:39:39 PM This is good stuff, but didn't go nearly far enough. What about plant a tree? And I don't.....
» 4/02/2009 7:18:06 PM We're still on the thread about Australia Day, right? Col Rouge, in my experience, blackfe.....
» 4/02/2009 7:11:15 PM Pericles and bushbasher, thankyou. I appreciate the clarity of your thoughts. Please note;.....
» 2/02/2009 7:31:04 PM Otokonoko, you have put your finger on that which I find most irritating about organised r.....
» 2/02/2009 7:09:01 PM Alright, this is at least 2 steps to the side, and one step backwards from the actual arti.....
» 2/02/2009 4:43:05 PM Foxy, I don't think you should have to apologise for for the Cargill quote on an Opinion f.....
» 1/02/2009 12:43:15 PM Sells, here I think you have struck the crux of the matter. "But I would say that at.....
» 31/01/2009 6:04:09 PM I have a mate who refuses to give up his outside dunny; he agrees with Leigh that 'one doe.....
» 31/01/2009 7:31:09 AM If I may continue: “All of the old attributes of God, omniscience, omnipotence, omnipresen.....
» 31/01/2009 7:28:13 AM Sells, I believe I see where you are trying to go with this, but sadly, your logic is flaw.....
» 30/01/2009 7:19:25 PM yep. In August......
» 28/01/2009 8:59:43 PM Good article. Interesting response from Rudd; yes let's have a conversation, just don't ex.....
» 28/01/2009 8:29:29 PM Well, yes, but then again, no. "The mooted return of large-scale government intervent.....
» 28/01/2009 7:59:22 PM Oh dear, Col Rouge. "I see a lot of cheap shots, suggesting that those who dare to qu.....
» 27/01/2009 5:43:09 AM What a fascinating insight into the mind of RPG. In the first place, I didn't say I belie.....
» 26/01/2009 8:25:02 AM Cheers to Dickie, Examinator and JamieAlly. Ok, let's play the 'what if' game. If AGW is a.....
» 13/01/2009 8:18:25 AM Banjo I'm not sure I agree. I would consider the USA to be a far more 'God fearing' nation.....
» 12/01/2009 10:51:50 AM Magna Carta says: "No free man shall be taken indeed imprisoned, either dispossessed,.....
» 11/01/2009 12:43:27 PM It seems to me the question hinges on whether we have courts of law, or courts of justice......
» 22/12/2008 12:46:47 PM Diocletian: you remind me of Descartes defense of his famous theorem, “Cogito Ergo Sum. A.....
» 21/12/2008 6:48:45 AM Continued... However: The 2 greatest problems which, like the elephant in the corner, neve.....
» 21/12/2008 6:40:44 AM Dr Hartwich should be congratulated for putting his opinions forward in a clear, concise a.....
» 15/11/2008 8:40:08 PM I'm rather surprised the name "Herbert Spencer" has not yet arisen. It was Spenc.....
» 15/11/2008 5:31:01 AM "Not believing in Jupiter or Zeus makes them atheists." (?) Jews, Christians and.....
» 14/11/2008 9:41:47 PM "There is really no evidence that atheists behave better or worse than Christians. Th.....
» 14/11/2008 9:09:40 PM A very interesting article which -as a piscatarian- I am largely sympathetic to. However.......
» 14/11/2008 8:09:22 PM Runner Writes: "Bushbasher weites 'actuz, the danger isn't islam, the danger is funda.....
» 11/11/2008 8:32:50 PM I'm going with the anti scientists. let's face it, the finest minds the world has produced.....
» 9/11/2008 7:40:14 AM Mr Ahmed, you open a door to a truly frightening world. What happens if -as you say- two t.....
» 29/10/2008 8:27:18 PM Postscript: Sorry, and thankyou, KatieO. I wasn't aware of the mistake you picked; that wa.....
» 29/10/2008 8:00:56 PM Bushbred, you deserve to have the last word. Oops........
» 28/10/2008 5:21:23 AM And so we come to the question of salvation, the 'great reward'. Reward for what? Leading .....
» 24/10/2008 5:09:36 AM Well said, Bronwyn. Why do people insist on making simple issues complex? I was under the .....
» 23/10/2008 8:04:15 PM And so...? Is there a page missing? The first page wasn't bad........
» 22/10/2008 9:51:41 PM Continued... Tristan, thank you for the links. I vaguely remember reading many years ago, .....
» 22/10/2008 9:49:52 PM It is always fascinating to witness how others interpret your own words. Jon J for instanc.....
» 18/10/2008 5:08:48 PM "To be fair, it's not the free traders who have requested government intervention but.....
» 18/10/2008 6:06:42 AM Very good.Where are all those free traders, who so deplore any government intervention in .....
» 12/10/2008 5:06:57 PM It is always interesting to note how different people latch on to different aspects of the.....
» 12/10/2008 4:24:19 PM Col Rouge of all people must understand the capitalist laws of Supply and Demand. So long .....
» 12/10/2008 5:24:24 AM At the risk of sounding like polycarp, and despite being (essentially) an atheist, I have .....
» 9/10/2008 8:30:58 PM The interesting thing about strikes is that they are a luxury the genuine working poor sim.....
» 6/10/2008 7:50:00 AM In reply to palimpsest; So glad you brought up the question of productivity. As an egalita.....
» 1/10/2008 9:51:27 PM Well done Passy, well written and argued. Might I suggest an article? What about unsung he.....
» 24/09/2008 5:16:04 AM Bushbred takes up a good point, made some time ago by Stiglitz and Charlton, 'Fair trade f.....
» 2/09/2008 8:29:37 PM I think Sarah Palin was an inspired choice. Clearly, McCain wants Obama to win too......
» 27/08/2008 5:09:38 PM This article is simply substandard. "We dared not release the results of the study fo.....
» 2/08/2008 7:31:47 AM "But will the fact that Australia has now committed to open-ended multi-million-dolla.....
» 22/07/2008 5:39:50 AM "Grim, the way I see it is that capitalism accepts that people act in their own self.....
» 21/07/2008 7:09:34 PM You paint a wonderful picture, Yabby, but sadly it's still just a picture. In truth, altho.....
» 20/07/2008 7:15:16 PM "Clearly its innovation that will solve climate change, through new technology. Look.....
» 19/07/2008 5:33:58 PM There are tiny sectors of the population that benefit enormously from war. Dick Cheney, fo.....
» 19/07/2008 7:16:58 AM I thank bro for his examples of unenlightened legislation, and I agree the list is endless.....
» 18/07/2008 10:16:31 PM “An emissions trading scheme will see the price of electricity and manufactured goods go u.....
» 18/07/2008 10:03:07 PM A strange article, passy. While I agree with your basic premise, I find it strange you sho.....
» 17/07/2008 5:42:02 AM Interesting argument, Mr Ness. I'm not sure Dawkins (the selfish gene) would agree with so.....
» 28/06/2008 2:42:43 PM A small, pedantic point, Celivia. Jesus actually had to defend himself and his disciples a.....
» 28/06/2008 1:48:21 PM damn you Celivia. I wish I had made those points. Bravo......
» 28/06/2008 1:02:39 PM How can it be anything but hypocritical and discriminatory for Australia to uphold minimum.....
» 26/06/2008 7:47:31 PM I have never understood why so many christians are so terrified of dying. Why do they grie.....
» 15/06/2008 7:29:05 AM I think a simpler test of how 'civilised' we are, would be in how we treat our children; b.....
» 7/06/2008 9:50:29 AM The "p" word is critical; Poverty, not Population. We have decades of data demon.....
» 16/05/2008 5:54:12 AM I would like to see classes in values, philosophy and comparitive religion. It would be ni.....
» 11/05/2008 7:35:24 PM What about your own rights, Mr Spender? Do you uphold your own right never to made by your.....
» 6/05/2008 9:15:50 PM To all those posters barking about the population problem, be of good cheer, a solution ha.....
» 22/04/2008 8:19:43 PM I agree with Goeff. It's an irony that die hard Capitalists so hate the competition their .....
» 22/04/2008 7:51:33 PM My recollection of the '99 referendum was not that the idea of a republic per se was voted.....
» 17/04/2008 8:36:10 PM So in 50 or a hundred years time, when the forests have gone and all the wildlife are exti.....
» 15/04/2008 8:42:45 PM There's no denying the UN is a monstrously undemocratic, deeply flawed organisation. One b.....
» 8/04/2008 8:54:34 PM Ah for the good old days. Remember Kenny Rogers and 'coward of the county'? The fact that .....
» 27/03/2008 7:26:45 PM While I fully agree with the point about population control, I lack the ability to 'double.....
» 25/03/2008 10:52:56 PM Congratulations on taking such a fine line in this article, Mr Yusuf. I have always been f.....
» 14/03/2008 4:36:54 AM Frankly, I think Roth didn't pursue his point far enough. The old dialectic demonstrates t.....
» 12/03/2008 8:29:20 PM Wow, SJ, you're mean. I love it. Passy does have a point. There is historical evidence to .....
» 13/02/2008 8:27:20 PM Bravo on an excellent article. Gandhi has always been one of my heroes. Like Jesus Christ,.....
» 13/02/2008 7:59:35 PM sorry Rhian, I refuse to accept the median wage quoted as $926. May I refer you to this ar.....
» 12/02/2008 7:21:01 PM Hats off to James Cumes. Well argued, well written, very sensible. thank God I'm not the o.....
» 12/02/2008 5:26:16 PM "Of course businesses export for profit. But what use is a US dollar or Japanese Yen .....
» 11/02/2008 4:14:54 PM Rhian, " The whole point of exporting is not to obtain foreign currency but to obtain.....
» 7/02/2008 7:30:58 PM An excellent and well argued article. I was interested in this rebuttal argument by Rhian;.....
» 24/01/2008 7:38:26 PM With the greatest respect, Susan Prior (ed), I found this article as second under a headin.....
» 24/01/2008 7:16:31 PM "I am a great believer in land rights for Aboriginals. They can have exactly the same.....
» 21/01/2008 5:07:44 PM After reading all the responses to this rather gentle article, I felt no compulsion to spe.....
» 3/01/2008 3:17:40 AM A clarification on a previous post: the reason I don't believe in carbon trading is not be.....
» 31/12/2007 8:49:02 PM col rouge, (by name but definitely not by nature, I guess), "banal jingoism of the ig.....
» 30/12/2007 7:25:32 PM Gee, I wonder if I could think of any outdated technologies that don't -invariably- involv.....
» 30/12/2007 6:20:39 AM Col Rouge: assuming that if one is not an unqualified fan of the existing Capitilist syste.....
» 29/12/2007 7:43:08 AM Am I still in the 21at century? This has to be the sickest, most barbaric, medieval articl.....
» 29/12/2007 4:54:59 AM Plerdsus, it shouldn't be tax payers buying carbon credits, but the companies with a large.....
» 28/12/2007 4:05:52 AM I'm with Pres. If labour manages to stay in for more than 2 terms, the libs will become (h.....
» 6/02/2007 9:43:01 PM A lawyer speaking of morality is as laughable as a politician speaking of values. Only a l.....
» 4/01/2007 7:56:15 PM "Let us look at the benefits of capital punishment:" "1.It enables society.....
» 4/01/2007 6:36:08 PM "Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or a.....
» 3/01/2007 6:41:31 PM Can there possibly be a more pathetic argument than "Oh yeah, but that's different&qu.....
» 31/12/2006 9:44:09 PM About 15 years ago I was the victim of a kinghit in a pub. Despite having a number of witn.....
» 23/10/2006 4:19:05 PM Dear boaz, if you trouble yourself to read my post a little more carefully, you might note.....
» 23/10/2006 5:20:56 AM Surely the essence of Democracy is that individuals do make a difference, by exercising th.....
» 23/10/2006 5:02:05 AM it's interesting the very pollies who think we don't need a bill of rights are now the one.....
» 22/10/2006 11:12:09 AM "Labour has an enormous opportunity here..." Labour has the same opportunity it .....
» 22/10/2006 5:57:19 AM I have always struggled to believe in God. To my mind, faith is nothing more than unsubsta.....
» 17/10/2006 8:55:29 PM All power to Mirko. I thought I was alone. Yes I probably would prefer to live in America .....
» 17/10/2006 8:22:07 PM After a taste of howard's rubber stamp senate, I think we have never needed the Dems more......
» 17/10/2006 8:09:59 PM Men, many indoctrinated in capitalism and rationalism since the 1800's, are now in positio.....
» 3/07/2006 6:48:17 PM Despite being one who despises the amorality of the capitalist system, I find I have to ag.....
» 22/05/2006 3:31:57 PM "That does not mean the Shakespeare is less literature, but be honest it is hardly re.....
» 21/05/2006 11:05:49 AM I'm impressed by so many learned people;so many experts on the history/myth of the bible. .....
» 8/05/2006 10:14:50 PM It might be interesting in this age to look at this argument in terms of 'rationalism'. A .....
» 30/04/2006 12:32:50 PM Coach, I went to the local library yesterday to borrow the one copy of the Qur'an, but for.....
» 28/04/2006 7:43:47 AM "It is part of islamic tenets as modelled by their prophet mohammad to be aggressive .....
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