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» 26/08/2016 10:01:02 PM Maybe I ought to do a follow up of my 2011 piece, Some facts about the Middle-East. See: .....
» 19/01/2016 1:14:53 PM Hasbeen, Still fighting the good fight over climate I see. But 'm afraid it's over old .....
» 19/09/2015 9:17:33 PM Errh, Suze I believe his real name is: משה מלקו.....
» 18/09/2015 5:17:01 PM Constance Oh dear. I regret to say the diagnosis is confirmed. Untreatable tertiary JO.....
» 17/09/2015 8:19:18 PM Constance LOL Do you think you may have a bad case of JOD (Jew Obsession Disorder)? I b.....
» 15/09/2015 3:41:32 PM What makes me think the Libs probably made the right choice in going with Turnbull was Bil.....
» 7/08/2015 12:16:14 PM Definitions: Income tax (n): The punishment inflicted on people who are not rich enough t.....
» 16/07/2015 2:04:31 PM Hi Mac You wrote: >>Agreed, although I think that luck was a major factor in our s.....
» 16/07/2015 11:00:03 AM Hi mac I thought you might respond. You wrote: >> so the 'mad mullahs' could argu.....
» 16/07/2015 9:32:49 AM References and a comment: For information on Iran's missile program see this on the websi.....
» 25/06/2015 4:28:36 PM LOL Shadow Minister & Aidan Trying to figure out which of Rudd, Gillard or Abbott is the.....
» 24/06/2015 11:26:58 AM To Aidan: Murdoch, Shmurdoch. The only worthwhile criterion is my last one. >>Is.....
» 23/06/2015 3:44:37 PM >>How bad is Abbott really?>> It depends on your benchmark. If you're compar.....
» 8/02/2015 7:42:41 PM Cobber the hound wrote: >>Don you have taken the Dunning–Kruger effect to a whole n.....
» 29/01/2015 7:33:03 AM Hi SteeleRedux Thanks for the link. Fascinating. As an avid sci fi fan I've been interes.....
» 26/01/2015 5:14:48 PM Joe Hockey apropos of something or another said that a baby born today could live to 150. .....
» 20/01/2015 5:36:55 PM At Graham's request I'm elaborating a little. However I'm afraid my rather clinical descri.....
» 20/01/2015 1:25:12 PM >>... our parties remind me of professional football teams, focussed on winning. Mos.....
» 20/01/2015 12:15:19 PM Heather Barnett: What humans can learn from semi-intelligent slime Slime molds are smarte.....
» 14/11/2014 4:20:45 PM Peter lang wrote: >> I am advocating least cost energy>> It really depends o.....
» 13/11/2014 2:45:44 PM >>Nuclear power is the least cost way to generate low emissions electricity.>>.....
» 13/11/2014 9:31:01 AM >>How interesting that you would agree with two comments that support your ideologic.....
» 13/11/2014 9:13:29 AM >>How interesting that you would agree with two comments that support your ideologic.....
» 12/11/2014 6:50:53 PM One area that fascinates me is artificial photosynthesis - doing what plants do only bette.....
» 12/11/2014 10:37:25 AM McCackie >>Private R&D would be a lot higher, much which is research is "Just .....
» 11/11/2014 2:08:36 PM I think this is something of interest to China watchers. Almost Half of China's Rich Want.....
» 11/11/2014 1:44:42 PM LOL Rhosty You do know the following bit of Chinese history: --Growth took off when Deng.....
» 11/11/2014 12:49:24 PM The subtitle is: >>At any rate, more than half of R & D expenditure in Australia se.....
» 3/11/2014 4:36:04 PM I'm a contrarian here. I believe the best thing that could happen to the USA would be the.....
» 24/10/2014 10:16:29 AM LOL Does Spurr really think emails are a secure and confidential form of communication? .....
» 20/10/2014 9:29:10 AM My understanding is that the Greens don't want to sell coal to anyone. When the whole fue.....
» 17/10/2014 10:14:41 PM Is Mise wrote: >>Why do you think that Muhammad was illiterate?>> A more per.....
» 5/10/2014 12:04:17 PM Two further points: About terminology. I've used the word "denier" to describe.....
» 5/10/2014 11:25:05 AM LOL Hi Spindoc, what part of >>The intellectual battle is over and science wins a.....
» 3/10/2014 1:36:04 PM >>Stevenlmeyer as I understand your argument the test of a scientific hypothesis is .....
» 2/10/2014 9:14:00 PM At least one utility is "feeling the heat". This from Reuters: >E.ON's conve.....
» 2/10/2014 8:38:15 PM The intellectual battle is over and science wins again. As even the Wall Street Journal ac.....
» 13/04/2014 7:56:07 PM >> what do you think the ripping of over a billion a year from our defense budget by.....
» 18/03/2014 10:56:26 AM James O'Neill wrote: >> It is particularly the case with Ukraine because its curren.....
» 18/03/2014 10:25:41 AM Would Ukraine be better off without Crimea and it's Russian speaking Eastern parts? There.....
» 28/02/2014 7:17:19 PM >>I fear the day when technology overlaps our humanity. It will be then that the wor.....
» 28/02/2014 5:51:32 PM Video on Google's self-driving car. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdgQpa1pUUE And then .....
» 1/02/2014 10:03:11 AM I'd like add a note of realism to this debate. While I think the Indonesian economy is li.....
» 31/01/2014 9:41:41 AM Foxy It's not so much individual research programs as how to engender a culture of commer.....
» 29/01/2014 9:04:19 PM Foxy, I think I made it clear what sort of learning I had in mind. In the late 1960s the.....
» 29/01/2014 8:29:44 PM This thread is getting bizarre. I doubt the Indonesians have any intention of invading Au.....
» 29/01/2014 4:50:58 PM SteeleRedux wrote: >>Just to get this clear you want us to follow Israel's lead by .....
» 29/01/2014 9:22:25 AM Josephus wrote: >> I suggest you visit Israel and see for yourself if they are the .....
» 29/01/2014 8:37:04 AM >>Also, what the Suseonlines' of this world don't comprehend is that there is no oth.....
» 28/01/2014 5:31:15 PM >>A war with Indonesia would last about three days with Australia coming out on top .....
» 28/01/2014 2:08:54 PM You can read about startup genome here: http://techcrunch.com/2012/11/20/startup-genome-r.....
» 28/01/2014 10:50:46 AM Here is a link to Benyamin Netanyahu's speech at Davos. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uB.....
» 24/01/2014 4:11:49 PM >>He also explores its [Christianity's] role in fostering the rise of universities, .....
» 22/01/2014 8:47:00 PM OK I don't know why states have national religions but many do. See: http://en.wikipedia......
» 18/01/2014 7:34:52 PM Pete, Just to be clear. Both the Lucas Heights reactor and German submarines at a discou.....
» 18/01/2014 2:43:48 PM mac: "Insurance" is the only reason that makes sense. I've also wondered wheth.....
» 18/01/2014 10:25:44 AM mac wrote: >>The reference was to small countries, which I thought was implicit, &g.....
» 17/01/2014 8:29:58 PM mac wrote: >>Interesting, apparently the trick for any nation to build nuclear weap.....
» 17/01/2014 5:12:27 PM James I'll take the "plantagenet option" on your question. Once you call Israel.....
» 17/01/2014 9:32:59 AM Yeah Pete, I knew that bit of history. FYI the US also got my native South Africa started.....
» 16/01/2014 11:30:02 PM To David Long I think you are giving the corrupt mullahs too much credit. They are happy .....
» 16/01/2014 12:54:50 PM David Long, Yep, sets it out very well. And I'm sure the Saudis can do the same calcula.....
» 13/01/2014 7:27:20 AM WmTrevor >>Police officer William Potts of Detroit, Michigan for the creation and .....
» 12/01/2014 10:22:59 PM Peter Lang >>Question: What would be the effect on the levelised cost of electricit.....
» 9/01/2014 4:39:08 PM Arjay wrote >>Stevenlmeyer they won't use Thorium reactors because they won't have .....
» 9/01/2014 11:24:11 AM Grumbler >>Unfortunately facts will not convince a large proportion of the populati.....
» 8/01/2014 8:32:18 PM A very well written article. There is no such thing as absolute safety. Nuclear is, howev.....
» 8/01/2014 3:09:05 PM Just out of curiosity. How did a discussion on "Person of the Twentieth Century".....
» 6/01/2014 8:54:29 AM WmTrevor suggest Fritz Haber And you've changed my mind. Thinking it over I would have t.....
» 6/01/2014 8:25:22 AM SPQR wrote: >>My nomination goes to the persons responsible for the internet,>&g.....
» 5/01/2014 8:47:18 PM TIME Magazine famously chose Albert Einstein as its person of the twentieth century. Some .....
» 2/01/2014 9:11:31 AM >>The second posits that if Australians were more knowledgeable about Muslims they w.....
» 30/12/2013 12:44:43 PM Out of curiosity does anyone here appreciate my original post was intended to be at least .....
» 29/12/2013 8:57:46 AM SPQR I certainly think MPs who purport to believe in global warming must be seen to be ta.....
» 28/12/2013 2:48:52 PM If you're elected a member of parliament you have to abide by the following conditions. -.....
» 20/12/2013 4:17:48 PM David Singer, You are an idiot. In fact you're an embarrassment. Probably Graham will d.....
» 18/12/2013 12:38:26 PM Hi Pete Yep I agree with one quibble. For now Indonesia is a non-threat. By 2030 ..? I'm .....
» 18/12/2013 12:24:15 PM Yassar Arafat's personal wealth was estimated to be US$1.2 billion in 2002. http://en.wiki.....
» 18/12/2013 12:13:28 PM Thanks for that Pete. What's your opinion on Australia's nuclear options?.....
» 17/12/2013 6:32:55 PM Nukes are the great equaliser. They are the only way a small country can deter larger neig.....
» 15/12/2013 10:49:43 AM Foxy, What one Earth is there in my posts that make you suspect it could be intended as s.....
» 14/12/2013 2:18:07 PM The more I think about Peppa Pig the more enraged I become. Do we ever see pigs wearing t.....
» 14/12/2013 1:08:15 PM >>Even the cartoon character Peppa Pig pushes a weird feminist line that would be cl.....
» 13/12/2013 10:13:14 AM Oh dear. Regarding Syria Tony Abbott said something to the effect that it wasn't the good.....
» 12/12/2013 7:02:16 PM I hope the TPP does not come to pass. At least not in the form currently envisaged. Howev.....
» 12/12/2013 12:34:10 PM Burnside unmasked!.....
» 28/11/2013 5:26:25 PM Graham wrote: >>I was very happy to post this article on the assumption that one th.....
» 19/11/2013 6:18:52 PM >>Step two fund students, not schools>> Agreed with one proviso. The funding .....
» 19/11/2013 5:47:28 PM I'm beginning to think Mark Twain's comments about the weather can equally be applied to s.....
» 17/11/2013 11:07:46 AM There are signs that the link between economic growth and CO2 emissions is weakening. Fro.....
» 17/11/2013 11:02:26 AM Luciferase People who rely on cherry-picking junk science sites like WUWT are not amenabl.....
» 15/11/2013 6:05:59 PM Poirot Nice graphic. Thanks Cohenite wrote: >>Now both ice area and extent are bo.....
» 15/11/2013 11:24:33 AM Hmmm cohenite I googled with the words "cowtan, way, uah, kriging, temperature, inve.....
» 15/11/2013 10:28:18 AM >> Given the perceptions around Labor's economic management, it looks like the next .....
» 14/11/2013 11:00:28 PM Poirot In this case I think cohenite MAY have a point. I say "MAY" because I s.....
» 14/11/2013 6:04:11 PM LOL SPQR I have some sad news for you. I hope you're sitting down while you read this. .....
» 14/11/2013 5:26:13 PM Poirot, Interesting link. Thanks. I'd missed that one It's actually even worse than it l.....
» 13/11/2013 6:40:50 AM For those interested in whether Typhoon Haiyan is linked to global warming, Nature sums up.....
» 12/11/2013 7:23:29 PM Poirot As I said in my previous post, most decision makers in most serious countries now .....
» 12/11/2013 11:58:26 AM Poirot, According to Pew Global, even in the US 40% of those surveyed saw climate change .....
» 12/11/2013 10:46:03 AM Ozdoc As bad as the "fake sceptics" are, the CLIMATE CELEBRITY CIRCUIT (CCC) do.....
» 11/11/2013 8:03:06 AM >>In the speech itself he referred to many people who think climate change is potent.....
» 7/10/2013 9:00:13 PM cohenite wrote: >>The main driver to world population increase is Islam; what do th.....
» 7/10/2013 10:26:21 AM >>Australia can, and should, act unilaterally, regardless of where the rest of the w.....
» 7/10/2013 8:49:08 AM A few more points. Ehrlich along with people like Flannery, Suzuki and Al Gore are NOT cl.....
» 7/10/2013 8:43:04 AM Oh well I'll just add my tuppeny ha'porth to forestall the usual crowd who claim global wa.....
» 6/10/2013 4:59:59 PM Loudmouth, I'm not sure that the US and Iran are still "enemies." What have the.....
» 6/10/2013 1:50:10 PM >>Groups inside Israel as well as the Israeli lobby in the United States are trying .....
» 6/10/2013 1:35:39 PM Individual, In western countries most graduates work in the private sector. In Australia .....
» 5/10/2013 9:02:08 PM Individual The most commonly used global ranking is the Academic Ranking or World Univers.....
» 4/09/2013 7:34:09 AM >>While political commentators and journalists are obsessed with opinion polls refle.....
» 25/08/2013 11:56:54 AM Lexi: >>The burden of proof is on your shoulders.>> What does the evidence s.....
» 24/08/2013 8:35:08 AM Poirot You do not need to be a fan of the Abbott maternal leave policy to understand that.....
» 23/08/2013 9:20:38 PM Rhian We all know heartwarming tales of refugees who have made good. Some groups, notably.....
» 23/08/2013 6:38:23 PM >>Well the Magna Carta which is the basis for all common law is over 800 years old, .....
» 23/08/2013 4:44:39 PM Ever since I arrived here I've been told Australia is "a nation of immigrants." .....
» 13/08/2013 11:50:18 AM This could work Probably will......
» 23/07/2013 11:31:39 PM Hi Poirot The PNG plan may, or may not, comply with so-called "International Law.&qu.....
» 23/07/2013 6:31:24 PM Question: Will the PNG plan survive a court challenge? If not will Rudd or Abbott or who.....
» 22/07/2013 4:14:44 PM Marilyn Shepherd, Monday, 22 July 2013 4:07:49 PM: >>It is not politically brillian.....
» 22/07/2013 3:54:41 PM This from Anthony Lowenstein in The Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/201.....
» 18/07/2013 4:04:12 PM For a bit of perspective on Egypt, and Syria, I recommend: Syria and Egypt can't be fixed.....
» 9/07/2013 12:20:42 AM Looks like Syria and Iraq will each require a three-state solution. Egypt could implode. .....
» 27/06/2013 2:59:01 PM >>what comes next, war or peace?>> War is usually a safe bet. The question i.....
» 16/06/2013 11:19:32 PM Everything Snowden has "revealed" is already in James Bamford's well-documented .....
» 23/05/2013 7:39:48 PM The full name of Pakistan is: "The Islamic Republic of Pakistan." (Islām&#.....
» 17/05/2013 10:09:45 AM >>An avenue of old fig trees was marked for removal. The bureaucrat said that the tr.....
» 9/05/2013 8:47:42 PM mac It is a characteristic of leftards that they are brave upholders of free speech until.....
» 9/05/2013 3:41:06 PM mac wrote: >>..Christians need to be redefined as a "race", so they shoul.....
» 9/05/2013 11:24:00 AM Posted by WmTrevor, Thursday, 9 May 2013 10:28:39 AM wrote: >>I fully support the r.....
» 9/05/2013 8:46:49 AM I'm afraid Alex Perrottet will not like my reply. Any belief system including Christianit.....
» 26/04/2013 4:50:58 PM Naah, this is just another beat up. The bacteriologists have learned from the climatologis.....
» 23/04/2013 5:23:04 PM Let me break this into three separate questions 1) Should Australia be researching algal .....
» 19/04/2013 11:33:50 PM LOL For a while there Ms Soderlind had me fooled. But then I came across this: >>.....
» 19/04/2013 12:07:00 AM >>Israel should be taken out of the world equation ASAP!>> Not sure what you .....
» 18/04/2013 4:42:32 PM Rhys Jones asks: >>stevenlmeier, how does Israel have the capacity to turn off the .....
» 18/04/2013 1:20:33 PM Raycom Just to be clear I am no fan of Gillard's. I think in many way's she has been ext.....
» 18/04/2013 11:58:31 AM We are entering an interesting era in the M-E. --The M-E is becoming less important as a .....
» 18/04/2013 11:36:52 AM >>For those celebrating, instead of dancing on her grave why not criticise the Iron .....
» 15/04/2013 4:07:30 PM Shadow Minister, (Monday, 15 April 2013 8:15:06 AM) And tomw, (Monday, 15 April 2013 9:2.....
» 12/04/2013 4:58:13 PM >>some Leftie decides>> Talking about "left" and "right" .....
» 12/04/2013 4:04:24 PM There is no serious political debate in Australia or anywhere else in the English speaking.....
» 29/03/2013 4:54:03 PM David Singer You wrote: >>Denigrating Jews and delegitimizing the Jewish state wil.....
» 27/03/2013 6:07:28 PM Greg Sheridan had a piece in The Australian titled: Obama leaves Labor adrift on Mid East.....
» 22/03/2013 7:36:53 AM News of Obama's visit: >>President Obama thaws icy past with Israel Prime Minister .....
» 21/03/2013 5:47:22 PM Prompete wrote: >>Stevenlmeyer, I think you have introduced a fascinating element t.....
» 21/03/2013 9:05:30 AM This is all moot anyway. Peace is impossible. --State-sponsored and mosque sponsored Jew.....
» 16/03/2013 1:10:46 PM Bowo88 wrote: >>Pity on you haters, Indonesia is on it's way to fulfill it's true p.....
» 16/03/2013 11:13:11 AM Proud to be Indonesian wrote: >>The actions of some fringe groups (akin to America'.....
» 15/03/2013 6:03:48 PM Proud to be Indonesian wrote: >>@smayer: Copying and pasting from the internet wi.....
» 13/03/2013 7:10:23 AM Proud to be Indonesian: See: IN RELIGION’S NAME http://www.hrw.org/sites/default/files/.....
» 12/03/2013 9:46:19 PM Jardine K. Jardine, Tuesday, 12 March 2013 8:12:54 AM >>This raises the interesting.....
» 5/03/2013 1:27:29 PM Many people think Israeli, and Jewish, thinking is dominated by the Holocaust. I do not wa.....
» 5/03/2013 1:25:17 PM McCackie, Many people believe that Israel was an illegitimate state from the outset, that.....
» 5/03/2013 6:17:53 AM Hasbeen The scenario I described will only come to pass if Israel is backed into a corner.....
» 4/03/2013 8:02:16 PM Leaving aside the usual conspiracy theorists I and "Israel is the root of all evil&qu.....
» 4/03/2013 8:30:47 AM And this from the US Air Force's "Air University" http://www.au.af.mil/au/awc/.....
» 4/03/2013 8:19:36 AM You cannot divorce nuclear weapons from other weaponry. We either negotiate genuine, verif.....
» 3/03/2013 7:16:44 PM Wafa Samir Ibrahim al-Biss was sentenced to 12 years in prison. She was released in 2012 a.....
» 3/03/2013 6:11:27 PM (Continued) Excerpt from From Snopes: >>Everything up to and including "a war.....
» 3/03/2013 5:58:01 PM I get a lot of stories about this or that outrage. Most of them are urban legends so I alw.....
» 2/03/2013 3:29:41 PM Kactuz wrote >>Note also that Mohammad, a man who dedicated 10 years of his life to.....
» 1/03/2013 5:40:49 PM Hear hear! I refer you to my article of 11 September 2012: If Gonski is the answer what .....
» 1/03/2013 11:53:51 AM First full disclosure: I do NOT seek to make abortion illegal. At least in the first trim.....
» 1/03/2013 11:41:07 AM Diver Dan wrote: >>...Since Bush, Howard and all, declared war on Islamist's follow.....
» 1/03/2013 8:32:48 AM >> I look forward to a stoush between him and Jewish school providers when young Ali.....
» 28/02/2013 7:08:19 PM Y'know people in nice, safe Australia love demonising a country surrounded by genocidal ne.....
» 28/02/2013 8:31:17 AM Peter Murphy wrote: >>Making 'fine points' about whether a group is defined by 'rel.....
» 27/02/2013 8:53:32 AM Oh what utter tosh. A continent that had seen the publication inter alia of Chrysostom's .....
» 26/02/2013 10:29:44 PM Dan >>...Yer, but you are referring to rhetorical quotes; the speeches you referenc.....
» 26/02/2013 8:49:18 PM >>How much intolerance must we tolerate? >> Good question. How about these g.....
» 25/02/2013 8:00:27 AM Yep, Can't argue with this one. Only one comment. Beware, markets can stay irrational l.....
» 23/02/2013 9:24:07 AM Well cohenite I guess on this one we're on the same side :) You're quite right about one .....
» 22/02/2013 8:22:26 PM Loudmouth wrote: >>In 2013, 1300 years after Mo made up his fabulous story, a garbl.....
» 22/02/2013 5:43:54 PM Loudmouth On Arab TV they are showing movies of the Holocaust and saying: "Next tim.....
» 22/02/2013 3:02:21 PM This from today's Australian newspaper: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/opinion/cut-paste.....
» 20/02/2013 9:47:25 PM LOL Bugsy, That's what makes it so hilarious. It is obvious from cohenite's posts that he.....
» 20/02/2013 1:44:39 PM WmTrevor, 20 February 2013 10:18:58 AM asks: >>Is this point of view from Oct 2009 .....
» 20/02/2013 10:07:18 AM I want to get back to the Makarieva, Ghorshkov and Sheil paper because it is important. F.....
» 19/02/2013 10:11:41 PM cohenite wrote: >>She uses nothing except basic physical considerations. Something .....
» 19/02/2013 2:16:43 PM Hi Don, I agree that putting publicly funded research behind a paywall is a disgrace! I .....
» 19/02/2013 11:58:05 AM Hi Don, I agree with your latest post subject to two qualifications. (1) We've discussed.....
» 18/02/2013 10:52:20 PM LOL Cohenite, Your posts are becoming bizarre. Makarieva and Ghorshkov proposed their &q.....
» 18/02/2013 1:28:37 PM Curmudgeon, Monday, 18 February 2013 10:15:18 AM wrote: >>The paper should have gon.....
» 18/02/2013 9:22:52 AM This is an interesting tale and I'm grateful to Don Aitkin for publishing it. However I'm .....
» 6/02/2013 12:39:22 PM I think it is a bit early to declare victory. One of the most obnoxious elements of the p.....
» 6/02/2013 9:56:07 AM >>Without a Bill of Rights, free speech is not a right in Australia. It is implied i.....
» 5/02/2013 7:18:01 AM And so the game of nations is played. C'est la guerre......
» 4/02/2013 9:00:58 PM DEN71, I am not passing moral judgments. I am not saying USA Good, China Bad. I am takin.....
» 4/02/2013 9:05:03 AM >>More specifically, the Prime Minister's unwillingness or inability to articulate a.....
» 4/02/2013 8:52:08 AM I am something rare for someone of my advanced years, a third generation atheist. I don’t .....
» 2/02/2013 8:30:37 PM Mr Meyerowitz-Katz (cont'd) Here is an example of what "Saint" Chrysostom had t.....
» 2/02/2013 7:47:50 PM Mr Meyerowitz-Katz, Throughout history few people have ever said "I hate Jews for no.....
» 2/02/2013 6:47:46 PM Just for the record: On 25 August 2012 at 8:27:36 AM David G posted the following: >&.....
» 2/02/2013 3:27:33 PM Further to my previous post: I want to re-iterate that when I write "China" I m.....
» 2/02/2013 2:59:25 PM Chris Lewis Thanks for the link to the Prospect article. What especially caught my eye w.....
» 24/12/2012 5:05:17 PM Kipp asks: >>what about all the aid Israel receives, would you agree that should al.....
» 24/12/2012 4:02:34 PM Jayb That's a great video. I also highly recommend the book Mr. Sirolli mentions. See: .....
» 22/12/2012 10:21:26 PM Well at least events in Egypt and Syria have silenced all the hype about an "Arab spr.....
» 11/12/2012 7:44:18 AM LOL Sometimes I wonder what people who advocate a "war on drug" have been smoki.....
» 10/12/2012 1:08:37 PM Readers may also be interested in this piece on Pettis' Financial Blog: When the Growth M.....
» 8/12/2012 3:39:25 PM Anthonyve wrote: >>More than 50% of Palestinian children are suffering from illness.....
» 8/12/2012 12:56:38 PM >>More than 50% of Palestinian children are suffering from illnesses directly relate.....
» 7/12/2012 11:00:45 PM >>80% of Jews in the USA voted for Obama ….>> For the record. Obama got 70% .....
» 7/12/2012 7:34:25 PM Well David Singer, every generation of anti-Semites has it's rationalisations. Jews are &q.....
» 4/12/2012 6:07:10 PM My concluding remarks for this thread (cont'd). "Climate sceptics" and "Gr.....
» 4/12/2012 5:44:59 PM My concluding remarks for this thread (cont'd). There are scientists, real scientists as .....
» 4/12/2012 5:16:58 PM My concluding remarks for this thread (cont'd). Prompete wrote: >>The only real wo.....
» 4/12/2012 5:14:28 PM My concluding remarks for this thread. Candide, Curmudgeon Sorry, accidentally dropped l.....
» 3/12/2012 4:36:15 PM SPQR Your last post is so weak I've wondered whether I should respond. For the edificati.....
» 3/12/2012 3:37:33 PM Chris Lewis >>I am amazed that people can be so sure that he world is actually cool.....
» 3/12/2012 11:11:24 AM voxUnius and others The following peak scientific bodies have issued position papers warn.....
» 3/12/2012 7:07:35 AM I know the usual gang don't want to hear this but I think the intellectual battle has alre.....
» 2/12/2012 7:48:03 PM Hi Jay I agree Trophy is an impressive defence system. However I think the IDF and other .....
» 2/12/2012 8:15:51 AM Poirot, sonofgloin LOL As I've stated many times I do not enter into discussions on the .....
» 1/12/2012 10:54:23 PM sonofgloin wrote >>My personal view is that Israel ...stop treating the Palestinian.....
» 28/11/2012 6:13:03 AM OUG Last few flurries of links before 7 December? Oh well, have a nice life :-).....
» 23/11/2012 7:34:19 AM Alan LOL I think you are an example of why fact checking is unlikely to have much of an .....
» 22/11/2012 8:09:31 PM imajulianutter I assume you mean "peace" not "peave" What augurs wel.....
» 22/11/2012 4:42:14 PM Alan Fact checking is going to have much less of an impact on politics than you seem to t.....
» 22/11/2012 4:25:24 PM Alan wrote: >>For those who claim a broken promise is a lie, which delegitimises a .....
» 22/11/2012 3:16:25 PM oug wrote: >>you will be happy to note that from 7 dec you can do as you like cause.....
» 22/11/2012 10:34:43 AM A few reality checks Mr Aitkin. --Concern about global warming does not equate to being a.....
» 22/11/2012 10:21:21 AM Hi Alan The facts remain these: Howard: --Howard said the GST was out forever. --Howar.....
» 21/11/2012 5:54:51 PM OUG Out of curiosity How many readers do you think click on all those links you scatter .....
» 21/11/2012 1:53:34 PM Marilyn Shepherd wrote: >>Eveyone has the right to seek asylum.. There is nothing t.....
» 21/11/2012 11:38:12 AM Hasbeen wrote: >>This from a mind that actually lectures our gullible uni students......
» 21/11/2012 11:33:46 AM Chek As stated in the opening statement of my previous post: >>Fact checking is a .....
» 21/11/2012 8:59:13 AM >>Perhaps Australia’s two-year tenure on the Security Council will be an opportunity.....
» 20/11/2012 9:52:13 PM Fact checking is a good start and it should apply to businesses and media outlets as well .....
» 19/11/2012 9:40:20 PM Let me clear something up here. A ceasefire brokered by a Muslim Brotherhood president of.....
» 19/11/2012 8:13:06 PM Imajulianutter wrote: >>It is astonishing to see the Western Liberal Democracies li.....
» 18/11/2012 7:24:21 PM Further to my post of Friday, 16 November 2012 7:25:48 AM This piece in the Philadelphia .....
» 18/11/2012 12:56:01 AM Avw You forgot Egypt ruled by a Muslim Brotherhood / Salafist alliance with a tendency to.....
» 17/11/2012 10:06:19 AM LOL Daffy Duck You write >>...is...any one who puts forward a conservative and/or .....
» 16/11/2012 4:03:32 PM >>They could not forget that he [Obama] bailed out the huge banks>> Errr, I .....
» 16/11/2012 3:55:35 PM LOL David G, James O'Neill...[9/11 Truther extraordinaire :) ] Maybe we evil Jews will.....
» 16/11/2012 7:43:33 AM >>When Anwar Sadat declared in public that he was willing to visit Jerusalem, .....&.....
» 16/11/2012 7:25:48 AM Given Egypt's near-catastrophic economic situation Egyptian President Morsi's room for man.....
» 9/11/2012 7:30:46 PM Squeers A correction: I wrote: "…that ABC popinjay Garnaut!" I meant to writ.....
» 9/11/2012 7:28:39 PM Hasbeen old son, Let's have a reality check here. Firstly, like you I'm a hasbeen or, i.....
» 9/11/2012 12:21:57 PM A few points: --I deplore the fact that so many really awful people have hijacked a scien.....
» 9/11/2012 12:17:55 PM SPQR writes: >>Listen, Steven, you come across as a reasonable guy. And I can see f.....
» 8/11/2012 9:35:24 AM JulianC It was never a neck-and-neck race. That was a bit of media spin by innumerate pol.....
» 8/11/2012 8:13:59 AM Poirot FYI HANSEN In 1988 Hansen testified on global warming before the US Congress. He.....
» 7/11/2012 8:00:52 PM JulianC wrote: >>Thank heavens, Obama finally mentioned The Climate, in his victory.....
» 7/11/2012 6:15:34 PM See my post of Tuesday, 6 November 2012 11:18:02 AM The betting markets called it right. .....
» 6/11/2012 3:06:13 PM Hasbeen wrote: >>the promoters of the scam have had to cheat, lie, & "hide the.....
» 6/11/2012 11:18:02 AM The pollsters may think it's a tight race but not the punters. On Betfair Romney is a 3 -.....
» 6/11/2012 10:59:49 AM Poirot In the end most people will believe what they want to believe and find rationalisa.....
» 6/11/2012 10:20:11 AM Leo Lane's last post gives the impression that Japanese scientists dissent from the consen.....
» 5/11/2012 6:21:36 PM IT'S GLOBAL WARMING STUPID Front cover of Bloomberg Business Week, one of the most influe.....
» 5/11/2012 6:10:50 PM mac wrote: >>Drone submarines seem like the ideal choice.>> Unmanned autonom.....
» 5/11/2012 3:06:44 PM Robert LePage wrote: >>They are a weapon of offence and unless we are contemplating.....
» 2/11/2012 11:53:18 AM Rhrosty wrote: >>For mine, life actually begins with a beating heart!>> That.....
» 2/11/2012 11:01:57 AM America seems to be going through one of its periodic bouts of religious fervour. The last.....
» 1/11/2012 9:56:02 AM Cont'd One of the problems with any debate on climate is the parasites that attach themse.....
» 1/11/2012 9:19:35 AM Thanks Poirot. I was especially fascinated by the GRACE piece. I had no idea the technol.....
» 1/11/2012 7:01:29 AM Poirot And others who may be interested in real science. This link may be of some intere.....
» 31/10/2012 9:59:54 PM CHERFUL As I said, there's an "expert" for every occasion. Want to know how to.....
» 31/10/2012 9:06:13 PM LOL CHERFUL It turns out there are "experts" to cater for every need. Want to .....
» 31/10/2012 2:21:06 PM More news on the trial of the Italian seismologists. From New Scientist Bugged phone dee.....
» 31/10/2012 12:02:10 PM This from http://www.breastcancer.org.au/about-breast-cancer/risk-factors.aspx >>.....
» 31/10/2012 11:55:30 AM This is one of those pieces where I want to yell "get a grip." The lifetime ris.....
» 31/10/2012 10:11:46 AM Graham Cooke wrote >>I'm not going to be drawn in to 9/11 conspiracy theories>&g.....
» 31/10/2012 8:52:35 AM Cohenite writes: >>Extreme weather is now the 'hotspot' of AGW propaganda;>> .....
» 30/10/2012 8:09:52 PM I wondered how often a flurry of small quakes was followed by a big one. Or, to put it ano.....
» 30/10/2012 7:49:16 PM Cohenite wrote: >>Cyclone Sandy ... is nothing out of the ordinary.>> LOL E.....
» 30/10/2012 3:16:08 PM When I'd had time to absorb 9 / 11 attack I concluded that the occupants of the World Trad.....
» 30/10/2012 11:12:46 AM LOL diver dan I was wondering when someone would bring up Israel. I thought it might be y.....
» 30/10/2012 10:13:13 AM I wonder whether Syria could split into three mutually antagonistic statelets? In some way.....
» 24/10/2012 8:51:16 AM This may see counter-intuitive. Italy is not known for its financial probity. In fact the .....
» 16/10/2012 6:54:21 PM I have to agree with Tony Lavis - up to a point Many parents who send their kids to gover.....
» 11/10/2012 1:58:57 PM >>US’s last chance in Afghanistan: reconciliation with the Pashtuns>> Who nee.....
» 9/10/2012 10:13:59 PM I defend the right Of Alan Jones to say what he likes on air. I also defend the right of .....
» 2/10/2012 8:51:48 PM SO WHAT WOULD FEYNMAN HAVE SAID ABOUT GLOBAL WARMING? Poor old Feynman. He must be turnin.....
» 2/10/2012 8:44:27 PM Oh dear Once upon a time there was a man called Copernicus. Well actually his name was Mi.....
» 30/09/2012 2:54:46 PM Does no one want to take up the challenge of suggesting additional globalisation topics fo.....
» 29/09/2012 6:15:34 PM sonofgloin LOL If only Australia still had politicians like Bob Hawke. Belly, Why do w.....
» 29/09/2012 6:01:25 PM I'd like to encourage contributors to this thread to think beyond the increasingly sterile.....
» 29/09/2012 5:52:59 PM Personally I think the most significant development since 1945 has been the globalisation .....
» 28/09/2012 9:13:03 AM Former Prime Minister John Howard calls the Gillard Government's new history curriculum &q.....
» 25/09/2012 8:01:01 AM csteele wrote: >>Indeed we are literally spending hundreds of millions of dollars c.....
» 24/09/2012 7:53:39 AM csteele accuses me of "fear mongering" If warning about possible future dangers.....
» 22/09/2012 9:20:15 AM >>I have greater difficulty understanding why someone like stevenlmeyer would be mix.....
» 21/09/2012 7:06:14 PM Yabby, Poirot, I think it is reasonable to talk use the term "evolution denier&quo.....
» 21/09/2012 11:22:56 AM James O'Neill wrote: >>A dismembered, weak Syria also just happens to suit the Zion.....
» 19/09/2012 7:53:04 PM LOL Lexi The one thing Lowenstein isn't is a "significant Jewish voice." Meanw.....
» 16/09/2012 10:29:33 AM David Singer, OK, so you concede there is a problem with enforcing what you call "in.....
» 15/09/2012 9:04:24 PM David Singer A bit of realpolitik --Every country justifies its actions by invoking so-c.....
» 15/09/2012 8:45:54 PM If I were an Egyptian Christian I'd definitely be making plans to make tracks. This from .....
» 15/09/2012 7:21:14 PM Reality check folks Indonesia, our most important neighbour, with ten times our populatio.....
» 14/09/2012 9:23:37 AM For once David Singer you actually have something interesting to say. I think with the op.....
» 12/09/2012 8:05:01 PM >>What is the world's most powerful and violent "ism"? >> Remember .....
» 12/09/2012 12:21:19 AM Hi Otokonoko Yes, I do know many public schools are using the internet and I should have .....
» 11/09/2012 7:37:30 PM >>Forty or fifty years ago, women had many fewer opportunities in the marts of trade.....
» 11/09/2012 7:33:13 PM I want to clear up a few points: Kenny, all our children went to public schools. I am a.....
» 5/09/2012 2:25:51 PM My word we do seem to have quite a coterie of Holocaust deniers on OLO......
» 4/09/2012 10:34:07 AM Al-Qaeda in Burma is a Burmese problem. Al-Qaeda in Bangladesh is a Bangladeshi problem. .....
» 2/09/2012 9:04:47 PM David Singer I really do think you should follow Deborah Lipstadt's example and refrain f.....
» 1/09/2012 7:32:07 PM Hi Danielle Iran has a nuclear armed strategic rival called Pakistan, allied with another.....
» 31/08/2012 11:03:27 PM Danielle, "Dropping a bomb on Israel" would spell the end of Iran. I mean tha.....
» 31/08/2012 5:51:58 PM Prompete I doubt the Iranians will be so foolish as to attempt to close the Straits of Ho.....
» 31/08/2012 11:47:11 AM Yabby wrote: >>The planet could be spinning with little but ants and cockroaches on.....
» 31/08/2012 11:40:00 AM Mr. Imonti sums up the situation very well. The Saud Family is feeling distinctly uncomfo.....
» 30/08/2012 8:57:35 AM In 1999 Australia invaded the Indonesian territory of East Timor. At least that's how many.....
» 30/08/2012 8:50:34 AM Brian Holden, mac, SPQR, Tobamas, Rhian I felt depressed for days after finishing this ar.....
» 29/08/2012 7:48:32 AM To Brian Holden: Despite the focus on Iran I think the most likely trigger for a nuclear .....
» 29/08/2012 7:42:10 AM Readers may also be interested in this piece in the Guardian, 28 November 2010. Saudi Ara.....
» 28/08/2012 9:02:49 PM >>How Britain could become the most admired of nations>> Admired by who? May.....
» 27/08/2012 7:54:38 PM For the life of me I cannot see Africans prospering. The best I can see is a few elites g.....
» 27/08/2012 8:06:15 AM Drab: Well here is Representative Michele Bachmann, a former Republican candidate, on the.....
» 26/08/2012 3:05:31 PM Oh wow, David Singer, you've been arguing with a real live Holocaust denier! See post b.....
» 25/08/2012 9:57:00 PM Atheist Foundation of Australia Inc,wrote: >>The tyrannical dictators to which you .....
» 25/08/2012 7:29:18 PM Atheist Foundation of Australia Inc wrote: >>And before we get the defensive mechan.....
» 25/08/2012 6:19:24 PM David G, The_Iron_Webmaster Here is my only response to the pair of you: The Last Letter.....
» 25/08/2012 4:36:28 PM David G Never mind, I'm sure Israel won't nuke Iran unless they really deserve it ;-) At.....
» 25/08/2012 12:46:10 PM LOL Arjay Next time you plan to participate in a stunt like that let me know. I'd love to.....
» 25/08/2012 12:20:02 PM David G wrote: >>but what of the gigantic dead-zone that will be created when Israe.....
» 25/08/2012 11:55:34 AM Yabby wrote: >>Those with qualifications have a choice, >> And increasingly .....
» 25/08/2012 8:12:43 AM David G wrote: >>The creation of Israel will prove to be mankind's greatest mistake.....
» 24/08/2012 10:46:36 PM BTW folks in case you think my previous post is a joke in bad taste, it isn't. I quite li.....
» 24/08/2012 10:30:40 PM >>burying the past, faking the future>> Does the region have a future? Or is.....
» 24/08/2012 4:29:47 PM Hasbeen writes >>It doesn't matter where you look, Africa, Asia, the Pacific or the.....
» 24/08/2012 4:15:32 PM csteele wrote: >>When religious groups decide to really get involved and use the lo.....
» 21/08/2012 6:02:30 PM To tell the truth folks I'm not really interested in religious arguments. I'm more interes.....
» 20/08/2012 11:26:46 PM Folks Question: What are the implications for the Gulf theocracies if youth there really.....
» 19/08/2012 5:29:11 PM That's the headline in the Arabic News Digest, an online journal based in the United Arab .....
» 19/08/2012 4:57:04 PM csteele You are making the mistake of assuming that when I talk about China morphing into.....
» 19/08/2012 9:34:07 AM Shadow Minister wrote: >>Growth rates of 8-10% p.a. are fantastic, but probably sus.....
» 18/08/2012 1:36:11 PM Belly wrote: >>Yet if it falls and the wrong nation rises? America may well look li.....
» 18/08/2012 12:13:22 PM In a previous article, "Is the USA in 'irreversible decline'?" I argued that Chi.....
» 18/08/2012 11:03:32 AM Correction: I wrote: >>Imagine a war in Australia in which one out of five people .....
» 18/08/2012 10:54:26 AM I think the tone of my article makes it clear that I am an Afro-pessimist. The world has .....
» 4/08/2012 1:16:03 PM Graham, thank you for your kind words. A few extra points. The TFR of immigrant groups i.....
» 4/08/2012 8:44:25 AM Jos I am not setting out to ridicule anybody. I'm merely pointing out the facts such as t.....
» 3/08/2012 9:06:25 PM david f Urbanisation does play a role. Back when I was part of a team calculating TFRs in.....
» 3/08/2012 3:11:59 PM csteele wrote >>...why this is about Muslim countries and why we should note “that .....
» 3/08/2012 11:02:50 AM Pericles Actually I agree with you that these are not sensible questions. The trouble is.....
» 3/08/2012 7:59:13 AM >>conservatives focused on growing the cow and keeping it free of the parasites>&.....
» 2/08/2012 8:09:27 PM Incidentally this is how G. K. Chesterton put it: >>The whole modern world has divi.....
» 2/08/2012 8:02:34 PM Thanks folks I saw this on the Scientific American website and I was wondering how Austra.....
» 2/08/2012 1:26:53 PM I think posters need to remember the six mistakes we make in thinking (Not original but I.....
» 2/08/2012 10:27:52 AM Narrative 1 Once upon a time people lived in societies that were unequal and oppressive, .....
» 30/07/2012 8:53:06 PM Danielle My guess is that Taylor is part of a coterie that does not like Israel. Israel b.....
» 30/07/2012 7:00:48 PM LOL Danielle The article is simply a skeleton on which the author hangs some Israel bashi.....
» 30/07/2012 8:07:25 AM Y'know David G I never realised just how crazy Pakistan was until I was privileged to att.....
» 30/07/2012 7:36:12 AM LOL David G >>Steven, I know there is a disorder called Severe Religious Derangemen.....
» 26/07/2012 6:37:57 PM James O'Neill I answered David G on another thread. See: http://forum.onlineopinion.com.....
» 26/07/2012 5:34:43 PM Thanks Yuyutsu David G, Arjay Let me spell it out for you. I grew up among Holocaust su.....
» 26/07/2012 3:34:31 PM Hi David G You're slipped a decimal point old son. We happy band of "racist religio.....
» 26/07/2012 3:02:27 PM David G How do you win a game of chicken? In one form of the game two contestants drive .....
» 26/07/2012 1:36:12 PM I think to some extent the Syrians are caught in the cross-fire of a proxy war between Ira.....
» 26/07/2012 10:05:59 AM Oh well, As some Iranians have said, and many Arab commentators have re-iterated, Israel .....
» 23/07/2012 9:29:15 PM csteele wrote: >>Are you going to put forward the argument as you did with Omar tha.....
» 21/07/2012 4:14:34 PM mac, The Tea Party and the West-hating left have this in common. They allow their ideolog.....
» 21/07/2012 4:07:09 PM LOL csteele You don't know much about the ancient world do you? Most farms or villages .....
» 21/07/2012 8:49:33 AM Csteele Very few people within the Roman Empire were actually citizens. Most weren't You.....
» 20/07/2012 2:49:36 PM mac As you point out the Eastern Roman Empire persisted until the fifteenth century, unti.....
» 20/07/2012 2:24:06 PM mac, csteele How much do we actually know about the fall of the Roman Empire? Most of wh.....
» 20/07/2012 10:32:54 AM Thanks I was going to get the book. Now I shan't bother. The paragraph you quote is typic.....
» 19/07/2012 5:15:42 PM Hasbeen wrote: >>David G, the main thing wrong with the western mind is that it has.....
» 18/07/2012 8:04:28 PM Here's a more pertinent question: Why is (the West - CROSSED OUT) Australia unprepared fo.....
» 18/07/2012 6:32:11 PM James O'Neill wrote: >>One should also be mindful of the fact that US global hegemo.....
» 17/07/2012 8:34:25 PM It is worth reading Oil: The Next Revolution THE UNPRECEDENTED UPSURGE OF OIL PRODUCTION.....
» 17/07/2012 8:32:41 PM David G wrote: >>Your worship of American Universities is entirely misplaced.>&g.....
» 17/07/2012 7:07:45 PM David G My piece was not about whether the Americans are the good guys or the bad guys. I.....
» 17/07/2012 8:04:37 AM This piece bears out my personal experience in Australia. I have encountered many people w.....
» 13/07/2012 5:58:11 PM Rhrosty wrote: >>American housing undervalued? They are still building new ones! Pe.....
» 13/07/2012 2:43:36 PM I am disappointed that this important topic attracts so few comments. I'll add my tuppeny.....
» 13/07/2012 1:32:35 PM Saranian wrote: >>You say "while you do not subscribe to the theory that the U.....
» 11/07/2012 7:15:50 AM I'm glad I was able to give everyone - well, almost everyone - something to chuckle about......
» 10/07/2012 11:40:07 AM LOL Bugsy, I shall remember Cox-HEAD accumulators! And if anyone can harness HEAD A-hole.....
» 2/07/2012 7:22:16 PM Australia should withdraw today. Afghanistan is not worth the life of even one more Austr.....
» 22/06/2012 12:13:27 PM I'll risk a prediction Whatever the outcome of the current political impasse, a decade fr.....
» 22/06/2012 12:05:15 PM I really am old......
» 21/06/2012 10:15:24 AM To me this year's White House race looks like Carter versus Dewey. I don't mean Truman ve.....
» 17/06/2012 1:04:20 PM Dan Lewis wrote >>Anyway, South Africa is now a complete basket-case>> I wou.....
» 14/06/2012 4:38:30 PM I just hope the Gillard government has the sense to steer clear of any involvement in the .....
» 12/06/2012 9:02:13 PM Hasbeen wrote: >>Hay Anthony, is that anything like the new hockey stick paper by .....
» 12/06/2012 8:49:21 PM Bugsy, >>His Honours degree does not mention Flood geology at all, in fact it is qu.....
» 11/06/2012 9:28:05 PM annb wrote: >>I think a defence policy is a bit like an insurance policy>> N.....
» 11/06/2012 5:28:06 PM This is one of the most bizarre threads I've seen on OLO. Here is some homework for those.....
» 10/06/2012 5:50:33 PM Grim World War 1 era "dumb" ordinance might go on working for decades. But you'.....
» 10/06/2012 2:58:55 PM DavidG, I am well aware of the dangers of a militarised world. I am also aware of the dan.....
» 10/06/2012 1:22:23 PM David G wrote: >>We must change the human mindset...>> Oh is that all? LOL .....
» 10/06/2012 12:56:47 PM Grim wrote: >>All weaponry and ordinance must be produced domestically…>> To.....
» 9/06/2012 4:38:44 PM A few points: To me the most astonishing thing about the WikiLeaks document dump is that .....
» 9/06/2012 4:01:24 PM I have as little respect for pacifists as I do for so-called "neutral" Switzerla.....
» 8/06/2012 5:46:14 PM David G wrote: >>Nowhere among the comments is anyone talking about achieving peace.....
» 8/06/2012 5:35:15 PM Tony Lavis Thank you for the link to the truthism website. But I think you should warn p.....
» 8/06/2012 12:31:07 PM Yeah, Neutral Switzerland? During the cold war it was surrounded by NATO countries that .....
» 8/06/2012 11:35:33 AM >>Dear Keith, There’s plenty of geological evidence for Noah’s flood.>> LOL .....
» 8/06/2012 10:49:37 AM Nohj wrote: >>Regarding the big flood; I found what looked like sea shells in the d.....
» 8/06/2012 8:59:09 AM I wouldn't call the Bible a book. It's more akin to a collection of documents that I find .....
» 7/06/2012 4:19:02 PM Rhrosty wrote >>If freedom of speech is not moderated to exclude certain topics, in.....
» 7/06/2012 1:20:21 PM Yuri I have to agree with Shadow Minister. >>Speech is either free or it is not>.....
» 7/06/2012 11:01:29 AM I am very pleased that Israel has a seaborne nuclear strike capability. It ensures the con.....
» 28/05/2012 11:05:45 PM Unfortunately I did not get invited to Saudi Prince Al-Waleed Bin Talal's sons' Bar Mitzva.....
» 28/05/2012 10:56:25 PM >>And not while the Jewish lobby has such ownership of the MSM around the world>&.....
» 25/05/2012 4:52:17 PM csteele If you still entertain doubts about the theocratic tendencies of the Indonesian s.....
» 25/05/2012 2:10:54 PM csteele (cont'd) Let's consider my original post and the sad case of Alex Aan who "......
» 25/05/2012 1:49:22 PM Hi csteele, Paul Keating is entitled to his opinions. Let's be clear what I think about .....
» 25/05/2012 11:50:55 AM ZandR, I long tuned out of ABC Classic FM. Fortunately here in Melbourne we have 3MBS. S.....
» 25/05/2012 11:03:11 AM Peter West is WRONG WRONG WRONG about ABC. He is WRONG! ABC does NOT stand for "Any.....
» 25/05/2012 8:02:59 AM csteele asks whether I am beating a kettle drum when a door chime would suffice. Well, am.....
» 24/05/2012 10:03:21 PM Danielle wrote: >>Whether Indonesia eventually becomes a "Jihadi" state i.....
» 24/05/2012 9:35:04 AM Csteele wrote: >>Dial it back mate. You are at a 10 while the evidence you have put.....
» 23/05/2012 9:17:50 PM Danielle: Thank you for the Jakarta Post link. Interesting although the numbers look a bi.....
» 23/05/2012 11:23:37 AM Y'know individual, the essence of democracy is not merely the right to do those things tha.....
» 23/05/2012 9:52:27 AM McReal wrote: >>There is not the tradition of polyamory though, is there…>> .....
» 23/05/2012 8:51:19 AM Peter Mac Indonesians are not "monsters" any more than, say, North Koreans, Sud.....
» 23/05/2012 8:29:00 AM From Andreas Harsono of Human Rights Watch. No Model for Muslim Democracy (NY Times 21/05.....
» 22/05/2012 6:53:51 PM SPQR I am sure such criminal acts occur in Australia and in every other country on Earth......
» 22/05/2012 6:02:24 PM Individual wrote: >>in a few years it'll be too late. People just refuse to wake up.....
» 22/05/2012 3:01:55 PM Hi Belly, It's not about Lady Gaga It's about mob persecution of everybody who is not th.....
» 22/05/2012 12:01:25 PM Pedr Fardd wrote >>The best thing we can do is… learn about the history of Afghanis.....
» 22/05/2012 11:40:38 AM Pedr Fardd wrote: >>So NATO/ISAF never rarely cared about the Hazaras or the women .....
» 22/05/2012 10:50:39 AM So Lady Gaga's Indonesia concert was banned at the behest of Muslim religious groups. But.....
» 20/05/2012 8:42:36 PM Aw Leah, Karsh is such a spoilsport trying to disrupt a glorious global hate movement wi.....
» 20/05/2012 7:56:07 PM I wouldn't like to be a Hazara, Ahmadiya or a Shia in Pakistan. Pakistan's one and only s.....
» 20/05/2012 1:48:17 PM Aaah dear old Neve Gordon at it again. For anyone who wants to understand the psyche of t.....
» 12/05/2012 6:39:30 PM Rhrosty, Aah, Germany, the new poster boy for "progressives." A high wage econ.....
» 6/05/2012 10:05:04 AM In 1999 I wrote: What do you get if you blend the [German] D-Mark with the [French] Franc.....
» 6/05/2012 8:23:17 AM The question is, Bazz, what can the downstream states do? Also, would the Chinese leaders.....
» 5/05/2012 7:14:13 PM csteele, I apologise if I've misrepresented your views. I am far from certain that the U.....
» 4/05/2012 5:48:32 PM Squeers What you and your pet do in the privacy of your home is none of my business. I c.....
» 4/05/2012 5:15:58 PM Long ago I concluded that freedom does not simply mean the freedom to do what Steven Meyer.....
» 4/05/2012 10:01:14 AM Well csteele, here's the bottom line To me the CCP leadership look like any other power e.....
» 2/05/2012 11:18:30 PM csteele No I am definitely not ignoring Africa. I come from there. Call me racist if you.....
» 2/05/2012 7:32:26 PM Csteele wrote: >>It is an interesting proposition that economic liberalisation lead.....
» 30/04/2012 8:26:05 PM Lexi It's a difficult question. Both Taiwan and South Korea achieved economic "lift .....
» 30/04/2012 9:02:49 AM Hi Bazz Yep demography is another issue facing China. As a pundit in the Economist magazi.....
» 30/04/2012 7:57:26 AM Interesting story Hasbeen I once did some work for a South African company that designed .....
» 29/04/2012 11:31:09 PM Just to add a few more points which the 350 word limit did not permit: (1) Rising manufac.....
» 29/04/2012 12:14:40 PM Another BTW Yabby Interesting you mention Samsung. I've got them pegged as a company to w.....
» 29/04/2012 12:09:00 PM Yabby wrote: >>The thing is, assembling the ipad is only a tiny fraction of its fin.....
» 29/04/2012 11:05:40 AM Hi Yabby, 3D printing is one of the technologies I had in mind under the rubric of nanote.....
» 29/04/2012 9:31:05 AM Yabby, It goes even further than that. In the important technologies of the future such a.....
» 28/04/2012 6:53:45 PM Here's the generally accepted script. The USA is in irreversible decline. China will suppl.....
» 27/04/2012 10:17:15 PM Trouble is Yabby that higher mineral prices induce more mining development and, ultimately.....
» 27/04/2012 8:56:40 PM Hi Yabby, You wrote: >>Most people simply don't understand the amount of technolog.....
» 27/04/2012 6:15:07 PM 50startingagain asks: >>How much German government money went it there car glass ho.....
» 27/04/2012 9:49:49 AM Pericles You're quite right. As manufacturing productivity continues to grow exponentiall.....
» 26/04/2012 8:50:33 PM ...USA? REPATRIATING JOBS: U.S. MANUFACTURING GAINS MOMENTUM http://www.businessweek.com.....
» 26/04/2012 7:49:34 PM How to build a Volkswagen The transparent factory. See: http://www.youtube.com/embed/nd5.....
» 25/04/2012 12:20:59 PM Great video csteele, thanks. To me one of the scariest is Robosnake: See: http://www.you.....
» 24/04/2012 6:52:12 AM LOL The poor little innocent Iran story again......
» 23/04/2012 6:45:26 PM BTW Hasbeen, Interesting that the Australian Navy taught you the basics of flying. In t.....
» 23/04/2012 6:41:31 PM Hasbeen, I thought you knew! The one in Canberra is a prototype PMbot. She's a beta vers.....
» 23/04/2012 4:08:32 PM This is silly. Needed for what? Needed by whom? Is planet Earth "needed?" Fo.....
» 23/04/2012 2:34:26 PM Fair enough Hasbeen but thirty years ago the sizeable insurance company for which I worked.....
» 23/04/2012 7:53:56 AM Planet 3 wrote: >>Soon there will be no need for humans:)....then what?>> Th.....
» 22/04/2012 10:44:42 PM Three words missing from this article: 1. Saudi 2. Arabia 3. Turkey Saudi Arabia has s.....
» 22/04/2012 3:02:27 PM One day you may see one of these walking up your street dropping off letters and parcels: .....
» 6/04/2012 12:44:50 PM Menaduechun And others who are a bit carried away by tales of an "Asian millennium&q.....
» 4/04/2012 8:00:14 AM Belly Snopes and Factcheck are not hoax sites. And, in a different sort of way, neither .....
» 3/04/2012 8:53:43 PM Incidentally Arjay, OUG Whenever I see something that looks a bit suspect I rely on two m.....
» 3/04/2012 8:32:40 PM OUG Just thought I'd let you know that despite 1,520,000 Google hits for antichrist+ufo+m.....
» 3/04/2012 8:27:23 PM Lexi You wrote: >>..what you're proposing in the interests of "science,".....
» 3/04/2012 8:02:56 AM OUG wrote: >>i googled your words http://www.google.com/search?q=Obamacare+mandated.....
» 3/04/2012 7:00:58 AM Arjay Some people have had chip implants. These include some Mexican law enforcement offi.....
» 2/04/2012 8:11:43 PM Lexi I always had a soft spot for Bob Katter. I admired him for resisting the temptation .....
» 2/04/2012 7:00:44 PM Lexi wrote: >>Not going to happen.>> Well Lexi that would be a loss for scie.....
» 2/04/2012 4:28:09 PM Wobbles wrote: >>you can’t “unvote” if things don’t work out as you expect.>>.....
» 2/04/2012 1:23:59 PM R0bert asks: Just what are the measures [that determine whether Tony Abbott is as bad as .....
» 2/04/2012 12:13:27 PM I know many of you think ZAP virus is some sort of joke. But it isn't. The proof: http:.....
» 2/04/2012 11:07:12 AM grputland LOL Are there any posters on this thread who show signs of having been ZAPped?.....
» 2/04/2012 11:01:47 AM Bob Carr's first speech on his first day in the Senate was devoted to attacking Tony Abbot.....
» 2/04/2012 10:36:30 AM Well Arjay's threads are always fun. But let me try and bring some sanity to this discuss.....
» 30/03/2012 10:55:21 PM IS THIS REALLY THE ASIAN CENTURY? Starting around the ninth century the Europeans began b.....
» 30/03/2012 6:38:48 PM A few more snippets. Hindu mathematicians had discovered "Pythagoras'" theorem .....
» 30/03/2012 6:29:59 PM Hindu mathematicians also invented our modern decimal numbering system. They had the marve.....
» 29/03/2012 1:38:59 PM michael_in_adelaide wrote: >>If you want to be afraid of a nuclear nation then look.....
» 29/03/2012 10:05:55 AM The Saudis have made it clear they will "go nuclear" if Iran, their strategic ri.....
» 28/03/2012 4:34:57 PM Here are the answers: 1. Gender? Male 2. Age: 60+ 3. Have you watched the ABC Four Corn.....
» 19/03/2012 8:16:29 AM That is a very interesting system they have in Singapore. I think it could be introduced .....
» 19/03/2012 7:19:05 AM Loudmouth Tom Hanks is not really the dimwit he played in Forrest Gump. Russell Crowe is.....
» 18/03/2012 6:02:13 PM You guys are all fantasizing. WikiLeaks US Government document dump revealed nothing that.....
» 18/03/2012 8:28:11 AM csteele For once I am wondering about a conspiracy. Sheldon Adelson is a shrewd business.....
» 17/03/2012 1:01:28 PM Arjay, Rick Santorum is beyond my power to satirise. In fact I do not think even Monty Py.....
» 17/03/2012 9:55:55 AM LOL I have a feeling that very little is going to change......
» 17/03/2012 8:52:49 AM See: Devil in the details http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/02/22/10478701-devil-in.....
» 17/03/2012 8:44:56 AM Well, on the bright side, there has been a precipitate drop in human fertility across the .....
» 17/03/2012 8:28:27 AM Poirot, You have history on your side. Throughout history and pre-history, when species .....
» 17/03/2012 7:44:57 AM This from Der Spiegel Germany's Failing Environmental Projects http://www.spiegel.de/int.....
» 16/03/2012 12:07:43 PM Paul1405 The question I raised was not whether the US military "handled" the af.....
» 16/03/2012 7:23:24 AM Paul1405 I have the feelng that no matter what the evidence - or lack of evidence in this.....
» 15/03/2012 8:14:30 PM The story that a group of drunken US soldiers carried out the Afghan massacre appears to h.....
» 14/03/2012 7:16:31 AM That is the suggestion of S. Matthew Liao, professor of philosophy and bioethics at New Yo.....
» 13/03/2012 7:32:50 PM In fairness guys I did tick the humour box on this one. :-) OUG, Arjay, Hasbeen seems to.....
» 13/03/2012 7:49:07 AM Well I'll leave you all with this thought. We'll have to wait and see what emerges from a.....
» 12/03/2012 3:40:20 PM Point is Lexi, We know about My Lai. Calley's sentence may have been inadequate but we kn.....
» 12/03/2012 3:17:41 PM A number of pundits have commented on Australia's educational decline. For example, Kevin .....
» 12/03/2012 2:36:16 PM >>Humans on boths sides of this war have been used by the Military Industrial Comple.....
» 12/03/2012 11:14:01 AM On Sunday one or more members of the US military murdered sixteen Afghan civilians, nine o.....
» 9/03/2012 11:20:17 AM Is state run compulsory mass education a viable proposition? Isn't the sort of equine fer.....
» 9/03/2012 10:58:23 AM Pericles wrote: >>Frankly, if human rights are a problem in China, the 1.4 billion .....
» 8/03/2012 6:14:48 PM The Iranians may have gone further than most people think if this report from AP is correc.....
» 7/03/2012 5:01:44 PM I have to agree with prialprang's post. Google translate is only the beginning and that's.....
» 3/03/2012 7:46:20 PM A bit of history. In the early 1990s the US built an air base in Botswana neighbouring So.....
» 3/03/2012 7:30:47 PM There is never going to be a satisfactory answer to all this. However compared to most int.....
» 2/03/2012 10:14:02 PM Pericles, Do the people who peddle this tripe about Fukushima really believe what they're.....
» 1/03/2012 9:03:38 AM Ms Bishop fails to point out the profound implications for Australia of a Chinese growth s.....
» 26/02/2012 3:10:52 PM SPQR wrote: >>How can you with any degree of seriousness offer odds about what will.....
» 26/02/2012 2:59:32 PM Oh dear Hasbeen I have never heard any theory that you would die if you exceeded 60 miles.....
» 26/02/2012 12:09:12 PM Hi Hasbeen It is possible that I could win the powerball lottery not once, not twice, but.....
» 26/02/2012 7:56:56 AM Fester wrote: >>Maybe, but no source of error has been found as yet.>> Techn.....
» 25/02/2012 5:26:41 PM Loudmouth, You sum it up very well. It's a caldron. Just to add to the volatility Iran .....
» 25/02/2012 5:10:10 PM Leaving this bizarre discussion on "chosen-ness" aside for the nonce and returni.....
» 25/02/2012 12:38:57 PM Have I got this right? Is it all about the importance of NOT being Tony? (With apologies.....
» 25/02/2012 10:57:12 AM OUG wrote: >>lol are seen to gain mass? lol>> I see I cannot fool you. You .....
» 25/02/2012 8:49:30 AM StG The equations of Einsteinian special relativity (SR) say that as a particle speeds up.....
» 24/02/2012 2:35:29 PM See: Loose cable to blame http://bigpondnews.com/articles/Technology/2012/02/24/Loose_cab.....
» 23/02/2012 9:22:09 PM Arjay, LOL I guess this guy must also be a Khazar http://a2.twimg.com/profile_images/16.....
» 23/02/2012 6:16:16 PM Palloy The ostensible reason the Howard government gave for building a new reactor at Luc.....
» 23/02/2012 12:57:06 PM Palloy wrote: >>your assertion that they can just buy it [medical isotopes] is wron.....
» 23/02/2012 10:32:07 AM michael_in_adelaide wrote: >>The thought of Abbott as prime minister is almost too .....
» 23/02/2012 8:37:32 AM The trouble is that all the wannabe PMs on offer are so unappetising. I am hardly a Gilla.....
» 22/02/2012 6:55:19 PM Back to the real world. --Iran, a relatively poor country, has expended enormous resource.....
» 22/02/2012 9:39:15 AM Pericles, Tio miljoner kronor per månad. Det är kostnaden för att säkra din hemlighet. Ja.....
» 21/02/2012 9:03:23 AM Loudmouth You have to hand to the Swedes, they are masters of deception. Almost no one kn.....
» 20/02/2012 10:54:29 PM Arjay, If NASA had the technology to fake a landing on the moon back in 1969 you can be s.....
» 20/02/2012 5:06:00 PM Arjay wrote: >>What happened to Gaddifi's 130 tonnes of Gold which was $18.7 billio.....
» 20/02/2012 12:57:28 PM Shadow Minister You shouldn't believe everything you read. The official figures are all w.....
» 19/02/2012 2:55:22 PM Loudmouth, They're all excellent questions but I do not have any excellent answers. I t.....
» 19/02/2012 12:15:00 PM Otokonoko wrote: >>As for Assad himself, well, he needs only look at the fates of G.....
» 19/02/2012 10:23:55 AM Loudmouth wrote: >>Perhaps none of us here have any real idea of how incredibly com.....
» 18/02/2012 5:10:02 PM 579 wrote: >>Isn't it best to move in, than to watch from the outside>> What.....
» 18/02/2012 11:34:54 AM Syria, like most conflicts, is not one between "good guys" and "bad guys.&q.....
» 18/02/2012 9:51:28 AM Hi Mishka Gora UMC Did you read the article I linked? A further quote: >>Neptune.....
» 17/02/2012 10:03:20 PM Mishka Gora, See: http://newyorklawschool.typepad.com/leonardlink/2012/01/nj-administrat.....
» 17/02/2012 6:47:10 PM UNITED METHODIST CHURCH ISSUE: The "gay marriage" issue appears to refer to a 2.....
» 17/02/2012 6:20:53 PM LOL, The court picked on a soft target. I'm looking forward to seeing what happens when.....
» 16/02/2012 3:15:08 PM Thanks to the Greenies research on nuclear power generation, the cleanest, safest form of .....
» 16/02/2012 2:24:31 PM >>Point: China walks along the edge of a precipice. It's a dangerous journey. We (th.....
» 2/01/2012 6:33:04 PM Graham, There is growing evidence that having some sort of religious faith and being affi.....
» 1/01/2012 1:05:03 PM Humphrey wrote: >>Steven, I feel it is incumbent on me to once again point out that.....
» 1/01/2012 10:11:26 AM LOL This is turning into quite an entertaining thread. I'll put in my tuppeny ha'porth .....
» 1/01/2012 10:03:35 AM To understand what is really going on here you need to remember that the regime is both in.....
» 31/12/2011 11:07:02 AM >>They tend to cling steadfastly to the paranoid delusion that the entire medical pr.....
» 30/12/2011 2:26:29 PM Bazz, In the unlikely event that Iran tried blocking the Straits and in the HIGHLY unlike.....
» 30/12/2011 1:01:39 PM McReal wrote: >>Conflating vaccination with Big Pharma is unreasonable & unnecessar.....
» 29/12/2011 8:18:18 PM >>Increasingly, we live in a culture of fear and distrust. Don't trust the governmen.....
» 29/12/2011 6:28:26 PM eyejaw I am old enough to recall the terrifying polio epidemic of the 1950s. Two of my sc.....
» 29/12/2011 5:12:49 PM >>Jenny Goldie has interests in population, peak oil and climate change. She is an a.....
» 29/12/2011 4:45:49 PM Further to my previous post about plunging fertility. As ever the devil is in the details.....
» 29/12/2011 4:34:22 PM Peter Hume wrote: >>And so the recommended means to cut our fertility rate is...?&g.....
» 29/12/2011 3:01:05 PM Hi Bazz The Straits are around 25 miles wide. However there are only two dredged shipping.....
» 28/12/2011 8:32:02 PM Bazz, (1) I doubt the Iranians are crazy enough to attempt a blockade of the Straits. (2.....
» 28/12/2011 2:18:50 PM Well we may soon discover whether Iran is able to block the Straits of Hormuz. Iran Threa.....
» 21/12/2011 10:39:02 PM >>It could be quite legal for Iran to block the Straits of Hormuz, blocking 40 perce.....
» 9/12/2011 11:16:36 AM I'll risk a forecast. I can foresee one of two scenarios. (1) The mainly middle class Mu.....
» 5/12/2011 10:55:47 AM >>None of this is in the papers>> Christian Science Monitor: http://www.csmo.....
» 4/12/2011 7:22:37 PM Shadow Minister wrote: >>The greens are the party with lofty ideals with no regard .....
» 3/12/2011 12:24:42 PM I, for one, would not mourn the disintegration of the Greens......
» 30/11/2011 8:04:42 PM >>Australia needs to be proactive in tackling climate change at the UN Climate Summi.....
» 30/11/2011 4:19:05 PM LOL OUG At least you're not accusing me of some nefarious Zionist plot this time. ;-).....
» 26/11/2011 7:45:54 AM CORRECTION: I wrote: >>The existence or non-existence of the "hotspot" i.....
» 25/11/2011 7:47:57 AM rpg You need to get your facts right. Two points about Galileo. --He was far from an am.....
» 25/11/2011 7:35:25 AM Let's examine Plimer's use of the word chaotic. Weather systems are chaotic. Chaotic syste.....
» 25/11/2011 7:34:12 AM Leo Lane, In quoting Plimer you are yourself APPEALING TO AUTHORITY. Why you choose to b.....
» 25/11/2011 7:31:08 AM Graham We'll just have to agree to differ. The existence or non-existence of the "ho.....
» 24/11/2011 7:13:12 AM New scientist carries a piece on attempts to sue energy companies for events that, so liti.....
» 22/11/2011 7:31:00 AM Have we, in fact, detected the hotspot? All papers assume on this topic assume we can mod.....
» 22/11/2011 7:26:32 AM Some general comments: Many sceptics seem to think that climatologists as a group are eit.....
» 18/11/2011 11:51:52 AM Leo Lane wrote: >>There is no demonstration of the “hotspot”, …There is no proof th.....
» 18/11/2011 11:34:15 AM Graham pointed me to an interesting report on a not yet published paper. A NEW, LOWER EST.....
» 18/11/2011 10:21:27 AM I shall now deal with the "hotspot issue." I had forgotten about that episode. .....
» 17/11/2011 5:33:09 PM rpg I think you have a poor understanding of scientific publishing. It's a competitive bu.....
» 17/11/2011 7:00:32 AM THE DOG THAT DOESN'T BARK A CONUNDRUM Inspector Gregory: "Is there any other point .....
» 17/11/2011 6:54:12 AM LEO LANE, ATMAN As WOBBLES has pointed out, Plimer's book is riddled with lies. Not error.....
» 17/11/2011 6:48:18 AM Herbert Stencil, As I have made clear I am an amateur. I am not in a position to evaluate.....
» 16/11/2011 7:30:08 AM A few comments: HOBBY SCIENTISTS I don't want to give the impression that amateurs can n.....
» 15/11/2011 9:00:01 PM Hi Graham Realistically, I think you do need a certain level of smarts to get to grips wi.....
» 15/11/2011 7:22:21 PM Bugsy, Yes, I should define what I mean by amateur. In the 21st century a person who mee.....
» 15/11/2011 6:46:36 PM Peter Hume and others As BUGSY has noted: I am NOT appealing authority. If I had said &.....
» 11/11/2011 8:50:25 PM >>Not least of the spate of most recent arrivals have been the followers of Islam,.......
» 11/11/2011 2:17:11 PM David Jennings wrote: >>You don't get a whiff of that from Divine MSN and Dane's co.....
» 11/11/2011 2:11:16 PM Diver Dan wrote: >>...Australians dwelt comfortable inside the confines of cultural.....
» 4/11/2011 11:12:23 PM This is all taurine fertiliser. The idea that the lenders did not know the Greeks were coo.....
» 4/11/2011 1:25:49 PM donkeygod wrote: >>There’s no conceivable scientific objection to any of them>&g.....
» 4/11/2011 10:32:39 AM Matt Ridley, like most climate "sceptics," mis-states the question: The questio.....
» 4/11/2011 9:43:18 AM Well I sure hope Matt Ridley is correct. Because this non-expert will risk one forecast. .....
» 3/11/2011 8:12:02 PM David f wrote: >>The title of the string is “Can we transcend tribalism?” not “We c.....
» 3/11/2011 5:21:09 PM David f People of different "tribes" seem to have difficulty living together in.....
» 3/11/2011 4:04:27 PM Paul Russell raises an excellent issue. I was not aware that elder abuse was such a seriou.....
» 3/11/2011 3:53:31 PM >>Desmond Tutu and Martin Luther King were not members of parliament...>> So .....
» 27/10/2011 3:06:43 PM McReal wrote: >>It's not just the Jews that have been persecuted by Christians or M.....
» 26/10/2011 11:50:45 PM When I first read this piece I thought it was a spoof. Maybe it is. Bottom line, I would.....
» 26/10/2011 11:04:53 PM Gary Bouma Jews, like me, have lived in polities in which church and state were united. .....
» 22/10/2011 8:05:53 AM >>“The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. Th.....
» 21/10/2011 6:43:55 AM I quoted Massimo Pigliucci above: >>…many, perhaps most, people don’t actually want.....
» 20/10/2011 7:06:31 AM OK, I shall put in my tuppeny ha’porth. To quote Massimo Pigliucci: >>…many, perh.....
» 19/10/2011 6:36:19 AM BTW, protests in Israel are quote common. Have been for as long as I can remember and I'm .....
» 19/10/2011 6:21:48 AM Amazing A thread about Chinese oppression in Tibet morphs into a thread about Israel. Ex.....
» 18/10/2011 6:57:38 AM Ninth Tibetan, a Nun, Immolates Herself in Anti-China Protest http://www.nytimes.com/2011.....
» 16/10/2011 2:49:09 PM Antispetic wrote: >>...given the scale of DEforestation since has not resulted in a.....
» 16/10/2011 1:21:57 PM Hasbeen, Interestng post. My understanding is that the population of Central and South A.....
» 16/10/2011 12:58:04 PM Hi Antiseptic The article I linked from the Stanford University website explains Nevle’s .....
» 15/10/2011 1:48:45 PM CORRECTION: I wrote: >>Several viruses, notably smallpox and measles, depopulated .....
» 15/10/2011 12:15:40 PM Belly wrote: >>Indonesia will never rule this region.>> I never said it woul.....
» 15/10/2011 11:05:53 AM After the medieval warm period (WMP) the world experienced a distinctly chilly era between.....
» 15/10/2011 8:04:55 AM Belly wrote: >>We should consider these slaves, murder and torture victims on our d.....
» 14/10/2011 6:40:10 PM I can only speak for myself. Does my life have some cosmic significance? I doubt it. Bu.....
» 14/10/2011 4:19:35 PM Belly asks: >>Do you think this country will over night grow a back bone?>> .....
» 14/10/2011 3:20:19 PM For those who want to know a little more about West Papuan history see: http://en.wikiped.....
» 14/10/2011 1:16:57 PM Hi Dr. Gunn Sorry, should have checked up on your previous articles before making my comm.....
» 14/10/2011 10:53:31 AM Don’t worry. Australian TV channels give little coverage to events in our nearest neighbou.....
» 14/10/2011 9:29:14 AM For those interested in the history of debt deflation theory this landmark piece by Irving.....
» 14/10/2011 9:12:31 AM Yep, Quite right. And I would like to refer readers to an article Prof. Keen published i.....
» 13/10/2011 2:41:23 PM Two and a half cheers for Dr. Gunn’s piece. Two minor quibbles. First: How many people .....
» 10/10/2011 7:37:36 PM Dane, re your last post. Hear! Hear!.....
» 9/10/2011 2:34:21 PM David Singer The relevant passages are right at the start of chapter one. I cannot cut .....
» 9/10/2011 12:54:50 PM David Singer wrote: >>Why don't you just state the explanation Deborah Lipstadt giv.....
» 9/10/2011 11:02:14 AM David Singer, Did you know that Deborah Lipstadt, arguably the world’s foremost authority.....
» 8/10/2011 10:50:49 PM Hi Rusty, The lines between the various disciplines are breaking down and I think there i.....
» 7/10/2011 4:09:54 PM Some additional questions: Should we have a Nobel Prize for technology? Would Steve Job.....
» 7/10/2011 4:03:39 PM Dane, Great post. Thanks. The Acolyte Rizla, Before reading the outpourings of certain .....
» 7/10/2011 3:29:09 PM Truth to tell I never pay much attention to the peace and literature Nobels. There is usua.....
» 7/10/2011 2:54:10 PM Pericles wrote: >>And the Business Spectator reference was just obiter dicta. Hartw.....
» 7/10/2011 9:09:40 AM OK, so the people of Afghanistan like us. That’s nice. Now will someone explain to me wh.....
» 7/10/2011 8:38:44 AM Pericles wrote: >>Stop taking Business Spectator articles so seriously>> LOL.....
» 7/10/2011 7:57:56 AM Bugsy, TrashcanMan Incitement to violence, NARROWLY DEFINED, is not the same as comment.....
» 6/10/2011 11:11:45 PM Bugsy wrote: >>The reason it makes me physically ill to even think about defending .....
» 6/10/2011 9:50:08 PM Bugsy wrote: >>Likewise, while I really do believe in freedom of speech, I will NOT.....
» 6/10/2011 9:13:06 PM TrashcanMan wrote: >>Yet here you are, trying to protect the right of people to rac.....
» 6/10/2011 5:51:17 PM runner I suggest that whether different races are, well, different, is not the issue. Wh.....
» 6/10/2011 4:56:07 PM Other than to people living in Arab countries does all this actually matter? If an Al-Qae.....
» 6/10/2011 4:20:19 PM When is an Aborigine an Aborigine in the commonly accepted Australian sense of the word? .....
» 6/10/2011 3:29:45 PM Pericles and others A bit of perspective. The German legislators were being asked to vo.....
» 6/10/2011 2:37:12 PM Hi Pericles I am bemused rather than outraged. I take your point that not every member o.....
» 6/10/2011 12:30:15 PM Lexi and Polpak If you look at the questions put to the German legislators here's what th.....
» 5/10/2011 2:26:00 PM Bugsy wrote: >>I really think you should be clearer.>> Fair comment. On rer.....
» 5/10/2011 1:40:15 PM King Hazza In South Africa some iconoclastic pundits used to label members of parliament .....
» 5/10/2011 1:18:33 PM Bugsy wrote: >>Well, if they were going to vote for the EFSF, I would certainly wan.....
» 5/10/2011 12:26:09 PM >>...A TV crew had asked MPs some basic question about the nature of the EFSF [Europ.....
» 4/10/2011 6:09:26 PM David Singer wrote: >>#To stevenlmeyer Sorry but my decision stands. If you have a.....
» 4/10/2011 7:40:00 AM Pericles wrote: >>….I certainly hope to be around then, stevenlmeyer, sound in mind.....
» 4/10/2011 7:10:40 AM David Singer wrote: >>#To stevenlmeyer I would prefer that you post your criticism.....
» 2/10/2011 3:59:52 PM David Singer wrote: >>If you are prepared to state your specific objections to anyt.....
» 30/09/2011 9:54:45 PM Squeers wrote: But in his [My] eagerness… he misses a major focus of the article: <Ad.....
» 30/09/2011 8:25:28 PM Squeers wrote: >>But how many of the "manufactured goods or commodities" .....
» 30/09/2011 6:31:22 PM Sorry, obviously clocked prematurely. Shannah tova David Singer. A suggestion for a new.....
» 30/09/2011 5:47:41 PM Pericles wrote: >>I think he is saying there's no point in bankrupting yourself put.....
» 30/09/2011 5:32:38 PM The trouble with Keen’s piece is that, like Ricardo’s defence of free trade, it is neat, p.....
» 30/09/2011 4:34:49 PM Hasbeen Photosynthesis takes place in two stages. The first stage, photolysis, splits wat.....
» 30/09/2011 3:41:17 PM We're going to run the experiment - that is to say humanity is going to continue pumping g.....
» 30/09/2011 3:33:54 PM Shannah tova David Singer.....
» 30/09/2011 2:43:08 PM >>There is no evidence that the majority of muslims in the middle east want an Islam.....
» 30/09/2011 2:35:48 PM In a previous post I explained how some scientists are trying to improve the efficiency of.....
» 25/09/2011 6:19:40 PM For once Arjay I agree with you......
» 24/09/2011 7:48:22 PM Bugsy LOL, Some posters do seem to live in a science-free zone. Incidentally strictly t.....
» 24/09/2011 7:26:40 PM Pericles, LOL, just noticed your latest post. Nice one :-).....
» 24/09/2011 7:24:56 PM SPQR From your latest posting I infer you don't have the faintest idea why most physicist.....
» 24/09/2011 3:14:43 PM What is the point of this discussion? I was born in South Africa in 1945 and lived there .....
» 24/09/2011 2:03:38 PM Oh well, let’s talk about dark matter. What keeps the planets orbiting the sun? Why don’t.....
» 24/09/2011 1:27:27 PM Belly, Just to be clear. I am not a pacifist. There are things worth fighting for. My a.....
» 24/09/2011 12:40:47 PM Mollydukes you put it very well. Science is a constant effort to improve our understandi.....
» 24/09/2011 11:38:01 AM rehctub There are severe mandatory sentences for people smugglers. It's not clear that th.....
» 24/09/2011 10:33:29 AM Sorry David Lewis but you’re not facing reality. A REALITY CHECK FROM THE ASIA TIMES: &g.....
» 24/09/2011 9:23:18 AM Poirot It’s not merely “Western” corporate interests. As my previous post shows, Saudi A.....
» 24/09/2011 8:43:58 AM Well, things are certainly hotting up in the “food wars.” The biggest land grab in histor.....
» 24/09/2011 12:21:25 AM In the 1840s astronomers discover that the orbit of the planet Uranus deviates slightly fr.....
» 23/09/2011 1:36:14 PM Belly, Thank you for your kind words. Don't get me started on the greenies. Never mind a.....
» 23/09/2011 12:47:21 PM >>GENEVA (AP) — One of the very pillars of physics and Einstein's theory of relativi.....
» 23/09/2011 10:39:43 AM CORRECTION I wrote: >>A C4 plant needs only around 300 grams of water to produce .....
» 22/09/2011 8:30:02 PM In summary: --Plants use light to split water into hydrogen and oxygen producing high ene.....
» 22/09/2011 11:06:54 AM Hi Lexi and thank you for your kind words. If you're really interested in learning more I.....
» 18/09/2011 9:11:13 PM I like the way G.K. Chesterton put it 90 years ago: >>The whole modern world has di.....
» 18/09/2011 10:17:28 AM Pelican I agree. Ideologically there is little that divides the two major parties. Most.....
» 17/09/2011 2:29:23 PM Pelican wrote: >>That first post is a classic. It looks like it is not politically .....
» 17/09/2011 1:55:16 PM Poirot, Thanks for posting the link. Lexi, Sorry I do not know of anything with a compa.....
» 16/09/2011 6:17:06 PM And just to demonstrate that this is an ongoing story: New Twist on Life’s Power Source .....
» 16/09/2011 6:11:41 PM Thanks Lexi Yep, science is endlessly fascinating. To quote Steven Weinberg: >>The.....
» 16/09/2011 4:04:56 PM Here is the net photosynthesis equation: 6CO2 + 12H20 + light photons - C6H12O6 +.....
» 13/09/2011 7:51:26 AM Bugsy wrote: >>Is he [Hicks] not a white working-class Australian man? Is there no .....
» 11/09/2011 3:27:23 PM Antiseptic Examples of pathological altruism abound. It well describes many of the so-cal.....
» 11/09/2011 12:55:31 PM It had to happen DUTCH SCIENTIST FIRED FOR FAKING DATA See: http://the-scientist.com/20.....
» 11/09/2011 12:17:51 PM A fishy story. Are they nuts? Oily fish and nuts 'cut chance of food allergies' See: ht.....
» 11/09/2011 11:31:40 AM So how would the world be different if 9 / 11 had never happened? Would the US economy be.....
» 11/09/2011 10:06:15 AM Pelican, So far as I can tell it's the real deal. Which raises a question. Is the OGC (.....
» 10/09/2011 1:37:17 PM BTW folks I cannot recommend the British Government's pocketbook on excellence highly enou.....
» 10/09/2011 12:59:58 PM This is turning out to be a like really awesomely excellent world class totally transparen.....
» 9/09/2011 8:23:45 AM Here’s a sample of what I got when I googled with the words “centre” and “excellence” this.....
» 8/09/2011 3:50:52 PM None of this is news to those of us who were never deceived by the usual airheads blatheri.....
» 8/09/2011 2:47:12 PM Way back in 1999 I applied for a job as a statistician with a large Australian company I’l.....
» 26/08/2011 2:59:19 PM King Hazza wrote: >>...sadly our governments are too busy sending $1000 bribes to b.....
» 25/08/2011 8:41:36 PM LOL Pericles, You wrote: >>Economists cannot forecast the future any better than a.....
» 25/08/2011 2:36:27 PM Last night the topic on Radio National’s Australia Talks was innovation. The blurb reads a.....
» 21/08/2011 9:52:17 AM LOL Given the sort of chaos bankers have spread across the globe in the past few years I .....
» 20/08/2011 3:19:40 PM Should you execute footy players or footy teams that repeatedly violate codes of conduct? .....
» 19/08/2011 5:59:49 PM How do you know the whores weren't sexy? On the whole I prefer real whores to political w.....
» 19/08/2011 5:29:50 PM >>I want my politics sexy again.>> Posted by AJR, Friday, 19 August 2011 4:24.....
» 19/08/2011 5:17:34 PM But Belly As every poker play will affirm, honesty is definitely NOT always the best poli.....
» 19/08/2011 11:17:17 AM Hasbeen, Just to be clear I am not an admirer of Gillard or the ABC. But neither am I de.....
» 18/08/2011 2:00:57 PM Has Abbott lost whatever chance he thought he had to become Prime Minister? First this in.....
» 17/08/2011 10:55:10 AM Hasbeen, we can have long discussions about solutions. But do you see any signs that Gill.....
» 17/08/2011 10:40:58 AM >>This is the danger that the US dollar may lose its standing as the global reserve .....
» 17/08/2011 9:35:04 AM Yep, Absolutely See my piece The Australian Dutch Disease and the Norwegian Cure http.....
» 12/08/2011 3:14:01 PM >>If 10 percent of Australians are smart, how is it that only 2 percent of them list.....
» 12/08/2011 11:49:50 AM Hasbeen, I think you've got it!.....
» 11/08/2011 8:42:17 PM The preferred strategy for Australian governments is to tax the populace into health. The .....
» 11/08/2011 5:33:13 PM >>British PM David Cameron failed to say that those on the streets should be aware t.....
» 9/08/2011 7:58:03 AM >>WW2 was not Hitler's vision, it was the result of his vision being hijacked by the.....
» 8/08/2011 8:43:08 PM >>Is the decision to downgrade America's credit rating a sign of a hegemon in declin.....
» 8/08/2011 7:51:53 PM I have emailed Dr. Morgan the text of my post above. Let's see if we get a reply......
» 8/08/2011 7:40:20 PM Sigh Here we go again. >>Global Islamophobia differs from older forms of racism…&g.....
» 6/08/2011 3:34:40 PM We are coming up for the 70th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbour. Suppose the Japa.....
» 26/07/2011 5:36:10 PM One night he got very Bizet trying to Keep The Customer Satisfied. He had a Hard Day's Nig.....
» 26/07/2011 3:41:06 PM What did Beethoven do when he returned to his store after Beatling off to the local Coles?.....
» 25/07/2011 8:15:17 PM nd then there was the one about young Beethoven. He had a music shop in his home town. Whe.....
» 25/07/2011 8:13:13 PM Well here’s a joke from Apartheid era South Africa. We are back in the days of President P.....
» 25/07/2011 6:52:29 PM plantagenet I know it's a bit long winded but it's worth a read......
» 25/07/2011 5:13:46 PM OK this links to a youtube video of Hitler in "full froth" http://www.youtube.c.....
» 25/07/2011 5:01:41 PM Houellebecq Humour is both subjective and context dependent. The sight of a funny little.....
» 25/07/2011 12:40:17 PM NEWSFLASH to kman and Jay World War 2 ended 66 years ago. I'll bet neither of you were bo.....
» 25/07/2011 12:22:10 PM If any of China’s neighbours ever suspect that the US may not be able to help them keep Ch.....
» 24/07/2011 11:23:06 PM One point does need to be made. If the US does implode and the situation in Asia begins d.....
» 24/07/2011 10:52:06 PM Cutting to the nub of the matter. I agree that >>…the United States [is] consumed.....
» 24/07/2011 7:23:01 PM Poirot, Thank you for that beautiful Wodehouse quote. I think that to be a humourist, o.....
» 24/07/2011 4:27:45 PM Lexi Thank you for reminding me of Peter Ustinov. Yep, his droll humour enthralled me bac.....
» 24/07/2011 2:00:02 PM OK, I cannot resist this one from the Daily Mail: HEADLINE: >>Who are you calling .....
» 24/07/2011 1:07:35 PM Nope Jay, yours don't do it for me. Poirot, what are your favourite Wodehouse books? Mor.....
» 24/07/2011 10:42:52 AM My introduction to Aussie TV humour was “Hey Hey It’s Saturday.” I didn’t find it funny. .....
» 22/07/2011 4:32:24 PM Belly, Now you are being unfair. I am not a Murdoch fan. I need no convincing that his m.....
» 22/07/2011 4:07:16 PM Fair point Bazz. But there's nothing to stop the Fairfax newspapers adopting the tabloid .....
» 22/07/2011 4:04:53 PM Well said Amicus. You do not need to be a Murdoch fan to find the The self-righteousness .....
» 22/07/2011 10:40:43 AM Questions for all those posters who seem to regard the Murdoch press as the arch villains .....
» 22/07/2011 9:56:41 AM Let’s have a reality check here. Employees of News of the World broke the law. Charges ha.....
» 22/07/2011 9:36:01 AM Huh? Come again? What?.....
» 17/07/2011 8:46:51 AM >>It's just a logo - not a political statement.>> I half agree. Che is a log.....
» 15/07/2011 1:52:02 PM wobbles Forget "socialism." How do you explain the "Che" phenomenon?.....
» 14/07/2011 10:11:39 PM Sunflower wrote: >>the Murdoch organisation is criminal because they tap phones ill.....
» 14/07/2011 4:05:31 PM Sunflower, Alan Austin As I think I’ve made abundantly clear, I am not a Murdoch media fa.....
» 11/07/2011 8:25:52 AM >>Maybe that's why you'll never see anybody wearing a T-Shirt celebrating the the op.....
» 10/07/2011 8:04:54 PM >>A seminar was organised by the Progressive Youth Front (PYF) to commemorate the 83.....
» 10/07/2011 4:15:30 PM Alan wrote: >>...those of us who value integrity and decency must withdraw our patr.....
» 9/07/2011 11:22:52 AM Where did you see the in depth coverage of these issues? Where did you see pieces in the B.....
» 9/07/2011 11:19:07 AM Alan wrote: >>I am yet to find one by another news outlet targeting the Conservativ.....
» 8/07/2011 3:26:57 PM Alan Austin wrote: >>...News International is used to getting away with things>&.....
» 8/07/2011 3:06:01 PM Pericles wrote: >>The transvestite vicars of England may now indulge in their salac.....
» 7/07/2011 7:20:11 PM Alan Austin I am not a fan of the Murdoch media. But, you see, one of the things that i.....
» 7/07/2011 5:48:26 PM Custard, Jordan too has significant shale deposits. They would benefit enormously from an.....
» 7/07/2011 5:24:54 PM Lexi Investing in shale oil is placing a bet on the future price of oil. If demand for oi.....
» 7/07/2011 5:04:38 PM Unlike the ABC, News Corporation’s media outlets need to attract eyeballs. On the day when.....
» 7/07/2011 12:04:15 PM Lexi Don’t rush to buy shares. This is still a high risk venture. I wouldn’t expect to se.....
» 7/07/2011 10:16:54 AM A few additional points --Both the US and China have vast shale oil deposits. Even if onl.....
» 6/07/2011 9:46:46 PM So says the headline in the Globe and Mail. See: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-o.....
» 3/07/2011 1:38:35 PM Saltpetre I cannot think of a single reason that justifies the costs in lives and dollars.....
» 2/07/2011 3:34:31 PM The Afghan economy is headed for the gurgler anyway. From the NY Times: >>Over the.....
» 1/07/2011 12:29:32 PM >>Who really did carry out the attacks on the Intercontinental Hotel?>> I don.....
» 30/06/2011 8:33:08 AM Banjo There’s plenty of guilt to spread around. NONE of the countries involved have behav.....
» 29/06/2011 10:10:58 PM Hi Banjo As I pointed out, the ECB CAN manipulate the value of the euro against the USD a.....
» 29/06/2011 1:16:55 PM This is ludicrous The euro, like the Aussie dollar, floats. You cannot just “devalue” it......
» 28/06/2011 2:02:27 PM Col Rouge wrote: >>The Republicans resisted the payment of Money-for-Failures>&g.....
» 28/06/2011 11:20:53 AM Pericles, Ammonite, Poirot, and others. Stable, sustainable banking depends on a BALANCE .....
» 28/06/2011 9:50:13 AM Probably for the first time in my life I found myself nodding in agreement as I read one o.....
» 27/06/2011 7:28:53 PM Aquarius wrote: >>No matter which way Israel comes out on top.>> Well, that’.....
» 26/06/2011 9:05:21 AM csteele I think it very unlikely that Israel would ever be accepted into the EU. Since it.....
» 25/06/2011 11:58:19 PM Yuyutsu wrote: >>Israel at this time needs a strong and united Europe that will hel.....
» 25/06/2011 6:49:20 PM LOL Individual Following my usual policy I am NOT going to debate the merits and demerits.....
» 25/06/2011 12:19:41 PM csteele While Turkey is still going through the motions I think they’ve given up on joini.....
» 24/06/2011 8:25:45 PM Hi King Hazza No, as a matter of fact I rarely get any news from a Murdoch outlet for the.....
» 24/06/2011 12:59:57 PM Pundits in both The Guardian and the Financial Times are forecasting the demise of the EU .....
» 20/06/2011 4:18:12 PM I’ll content myself with correcting two scientific inaccuracies here. --Depending on weat.....
» 20/06/2011 3:39:59 PM The question is incorrectly framed. I would not want anybody to head the IMF because I th.....
» 17/06/2011 2:44:30 PM Take the iPad. Final assembly takes place in China. Therefore every iPad shipped to the U.....
» 8/06/2011 7:00:19 PM >>Arab spring looking bleak for West>> It looks even bleaker for the Arabs. T.....
» 3/06/2011 5:19:40 PM >>we may inadvertently be helping to raise, train and arm the next generation of ter.....
» 3/06/2011 5:15:22 PM Excellent article. Hear hear!.....
» 30/05/2011 8:09:07 PM Lexi asks: >>..So how much actual power would a US President have and can he really.....
» 30/05/2011 4:36:27 PM I suppose I am not disappointed in Obama because I never had great hopes for him or any ot.....
» 30/05/2011 9:35:28 AM Many decades ago in a galaxy far away in another country young Steven attended Camps Bay P.....
» 26/05/2011 8:19:50 PM One forecast with at least an outside chance of proving correct in the coming decade must .....
» 26/05/2011 3:10:19 PM I think all these forecasts are plausible. I’d be surprised if at least half of them did n.....
» 25/05/2011 8:04:28 AM SPQR Interesting piece in New Scientist. I had missed it. Some of my fellow Jews reject .....
» 25/05/2011 7:51:48 AM Camo I think you put it very well. To say that those of us who have had experience with .....
» 24/05/2011 8:50:36 PM Yassir wrote: >>I thought the readers of online opinion might actually have an opin.....
» 24/05/2011 8:20:46 PM Deadly I would have been more impressed with your friend if he had cited sources for his .....
» 24/05/2011 7:39:39 AM Helena I am well aware that Arabs too are considered Semites. The term anti-Semitism wa.....
» 23/05/2011 6:59:06 PM Just thought I'd add an update on Egypt's situation from the Asian Times: The hunger to c.....
» 23/05/2011 5:49:31 PM ShelO wrote: >>..I want the world that my grandchildren grow up in to be one in whi.....
» 23/05/2011 12:13:18 PM ShelO How easy it is to buy into (feel-good myths) rather than get a (real) education. A.....
» 23/05/2011 9:53:09 AM OK so a cleric pontificates on a scientific topic on which he is demonstrably ignorant. A.....
» 23/05/2011 8:30:00 AM OK, so there are people (like me) who loathe Islam. You're a Muslim and that upsets you. Y.....
» 22/05/2011 8:12:22 PM Banjo A few points about the “Jewish Courts”. Suppose you and I enter into a contract. I.....
» 22/05/2011 11:53:06 AM BANJO I am relieved there is at least one poster here who understands that I am NOT doing.....
» 22/05/2011 9:21:41 AM Belly wrote: “Climb out of that PC box” LOL, I don’t think anyone has ever accused me o.....
» 21/05/2011 11:41:10 PM Loudmouth / Joe I need to make one point. I don’t know how much contact you’ve had with t.....
» 21/05/2011 10:51:04 PM Loudmouth / Joe The short answer is that a democratic state must support the right of a w.....
» 21/05/2011 7:06:05 PM SPQR Australia is a tiny country located in a region in which Muslims are the dominant po.....
» 21/05/2011 6:42:43 PM Belly, Yes I am Jewish. No I do not want Australian laws to be changed to accommodate Je.....
» 21/05/2011 6:09:37 PM Joe(Loudmouth) REALITY CHECK (1) The Muslim proportion of the population of Australia wi.....
» 21/05/2011 5:21:44 PM Belly, I think you will agree that I am not exactly an Islam-friendly sort of guy. I hav.....
» 20/05/2011 3:48:59 PM OUG wrote: >>think why..was..the translation you supplied..even translated>> .....
» 20/05/2011 3:40:04 PM csteele wrote: >>Surely a primary one [consideration] ought to be that we retain ju.....
» 20/05/2011 10:14:41 AM csteele I really don't know enough about this case to comment. The synagogue in questio.....
» 19/05/2011 8:11:49 PM Oh, one other thing OUG You linked to an article by Brian Whitaker titled "Selective.....
» 19/05/2011 7:50:18 PM OUG wrote: >>Hamas Cleric has been MISSTRANSLATED ...!>> Was he mistranslate.....
» 19/05/2011 2:32:37 PM csteele I have no opinion on this. It sounds like some kind of a messy husband - wife fi.....
» 19/05/2011 1:27:22 PM Pericles wrote: >>The term "between consenting adults" would seem appropr.....
» 18/05/2011 10:06:44 PM Banjo As I said in my post, I do not think mariage contracts in Australia could or should.....
» 18/05/2011 9:38:50 PM Apparently DSK's accuser is an African immigrant to the USA. So the head of the IMF alleg.....
» 18/05/2011 8:19:32 PM Let me put a slightly different take on this. Two people, call them X and Y, enter into a.....
» 16/05/2011 6:06:08 PM Hi Belly I'm sure that some people are born with long telomeres and others with shorter o.....
» 16/05/2011 5:28:39 PM Morganzola wrote: >>Everybody seems to agree that the case warrants further investi.....
» 16/05/2011 2:24:46 PM Do the telomeres know. There's really not much I can add to this piece from The Independe.....
» 16/05/2011 12:23:43 PM What I find interesting is that the ABC piece left out all the background which has emerge.....
» 16/05/2011 9:42:58 AM >>What is lacking is an understanding of the raison d’etre for the current discourse.....
» 15/05/2011 8:04:16 PM Lexi The figures from your latest post do look compelling. Obviously we need to take atr.....
» 15/05/2011 6:06:01 PM Lexi wrote: >>In WA the cases have more than doubled since 1980. There were 37 case.....
» 15/05/2011 4:08:18 PM For what it's worth Pelican, I also think there needs to be further investigation. However.....
» 15/05/2011 12:29:42 PM This ABC news item caught my eye. NSW HEALTH DENIES BIRTH DEFECT CLUSTER http://www.abc......
» 14/05/2011 4:34:10 PM DEVELOPMENTS IN EGYPT The Muslim Brotherhood and various Salafi sects appear to have sign.....
» 14/05/2011 12:26:14 PM Ammonite A few points: You write: >>he [Steven] needs to believe that everything .....
» 14/05/2011 11:53:00 AM Poirot, I am not an apologist for the IMF or the World Bank. On the contrary I have frequ.....
» 14/05/2011 10:05:03 AM Poirot, Re your posts of Friday, 13 May 2011 6:37:18 PM & Friday, 13 May 2011 10:35:54 P.....
» 13/05/2011 5:51:15 PM Poirot, At what point do the Egyptians stop the blame game and take responsibility for th.....
» 13/05/2011 10:29:58 AM Pericles A sovereign wealth fund (SWF), which is essentially what I’m proposing, would no.....
» 13/05/2011 9:13:21 AM Yes, Australia does have a VERY bad case of Dutch disease. I've posted extensively on this.....
» 12/05/2011 5:23:47 PM Human Rights Concerns in Post-Mubarak Egypt Posted on Wednesday, May 11, 2011 by Isobel .....
» 10/05/2011 9:04:35 PM This piece in The Guardian is of interest: Egypt is still ruled by an iron fist http://w.....
» 9/05/2011 8:27:49 PM Egypt Christians protest in Cairo after church attack http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-mid.....
» 9/05/2011 2:24:50 PM Hi csteele As I said the best gauge of Egyptian sentiment would be a free and fair electi.....
» 9/05/2011 12:46:35 PM Belly, If and when the Egyptians get around to holding free and fair elections we'll lear.....
» 9/05/2011 11:17:30 AM 12 dead in Egypt as Christians and Muslims clash http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/midd.....
» 9/05/2011 9:46:27 AM Slight problem >>The composition of hydraulic fracturing fluids has become a key po.....
» 9/05/2011 7:47:02 AM CHERFUL I'm not actually debating you. I don't waste time on hopeless projects. My prime.....
» 8/05/2011 2:54:27 PM Nhoj LOL I know. I've been feeling red-faced about that stupid typo for days. I was hop.....
» 8/05/2011 7:41:47 AM CHERFUL wrote: >>I once got called a racist on this forum because I said the Jews w.....
» 7/05/2011 10:59:24 PM LOL Nhoj Surely you mean 狐狸 news?.....
» 7/05/2011 3:06:11 PM With reference to runner's last post, I want to clear up another point. I am NOT asking w.....
» 7/05/2011 12:31:49 PM A point of order folks. I did NOT ask whether YOU believed in AGW. AGW is always an int.....
» 7/05/2011 11:32:53 AM Chinese regulators suspend TV crime and spy dramas See: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/enterta.....
» 6/05/2011 3:02:12 PM csteele wrote. >>Perhaps you meant to say you didn't discuss Turkey as such.>>.....
» 6/05/2011 10:45:06 AM Yabby, Probably the worst thing that ever happened to the food market was EU subsidies. .....
» 6/05/2011 10:09:07 AM It is interesting isn't it......
» 5/05/2011 10:54:21 PM Csteele Rightly or wrongly I’ve never thought of Turkey as a Middle-Eastern country. That.....
» 5/05/2011 4:30:30 PM IS IT POSSIBLE TO OVERDOSE ON "DIVERSITY"? I realise that coming from a member .....
» 5/05/2011 3:10:38 PM According to Newspoll “78 per cent of voters believe in climate change and most attribute .....
» 5/05/2011 12:46:04 PM Diver Dan, I largely agree with what you wrote and in retrospect I think I should have ad.....
» 5/05/2011 9:57:58 AM Hi Yabby I agree that population, food and water are all global issues. However they appe.....
» 1/05/2011 12:25:37 PM AN UNMARRIED MOTHER IN BRITAIN This case is not comparable with the situation in China an.....
» 1/05/2011 12:19:08 PM WHY ARE THERE SO FEW UNMARRIED MOTHERS IN JAPAN? >>Yoshiko found she was pregnant a.....
» 1/05/2011 9:32:34 AM Peter Hume, Thinker 2 Thank you for your kind words: You may enjoy this piece on Aristar.....
» 30/04/2011 12:16:40 PM OUG LOL I know you will find this hard to grasp but I’ll try anyway. Even if I don’t c.....
» 30/04/2011 10:39:20 AM Or can anyone think of a luckier man? Other than Columbus' crew of course. They were equal.....
» 30/04/2011 10:32:18 AM Hi suzeonline Or perhaps they get married as soon as they discover the woman is pregnant......
» 29/04/2011 6:30:53 PM As the schoolboy version of history has it, in 1492 people thought the Earth was flat. Whe.....
» 29/04/2011 11:11:23 AM Report from the UN Refugee Agency, 23 June 2009 http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/country,,,Q.....
» 29/04/2011 9:33:34 AM Graham Thom is trying to square the circle. There are two approaches we can take to asylu.....
» 29/04/2011 9:13:21 AM Joachin & LEGO, For people who want an understanding of the reality of living under Islam.....
» 29/04/2011 8:16:23 AM PaulL My comment was entirely about the quality of the "intelligence" gathered .....
» 27/04/2011 4:40:00 PM Lexi I agree with your analysis. I not only thing a nuclear war is possible, I think it .....
» 27/04/2011 2:27:21 PM I continue to be surprised at how unsurprising are the WikiLeaks cables. Latest “revelati.....
» 27/04/2011 8:25:40 AM Oops and I forgot Arjay. Glad to have been of service to you too ;-).....
» 27/04/2011 8:21:40 AM suzeonline, There is no question in my mind that AQ or its affiliates would use nukes if .....
» 26/04/2011 2:47:34 PM Are you scared? Do you feel intimidated? I think it reasonable to assume that if you do p.....
» 26/04/2011 10:28:25 AM Why do we have to see people as either all good or all bad? Why do we find it so difficult.....
» 21/04/2011 2:51:10 PM >>A man was jailed for two years in Western Australia recently (Brendon McConnell) f.....
» 20/04/2011 8:19:23 PM CORRECTION Seneca, I've just been informed of a typo. Not FOFO but FOMO So line of my .....
» 20/04/2011 6:24:22 PM Well thank you for that Lexi And for THINKING OF ME while doing your research on penis si.....
» 20/04/2011 6:21:10 PM Seneca wrote: >>As I endlessly read about BDS etc etc I do wonder why so many Austr.....
» 20/04/2011 4:17:13 PM Rhys Jones For information only. You wrote: >>..but I don't think anyone equated .....
» 19/04/2011 10:25:20 AM Dear Lexi, You write: >>I've got a few questions. How does one measure the size of.....
» 18/04/2011 2:17:01 PM While I am no fan of Nelson Mandela's good buddy, Mumammur Gadaffi, I don't see why UK / F.....
» 17/04/2011 3:39:06 PM Hasbeen LOL If the possums in our neighbourhood were humans I'd probably be calling the .....
» 16/04/2011 12:15:45 PM Hi Banjo Here is a link to an interesting collection of penises. http://www.sciencephoto.....
» 15/04/2011 4:53:50 PM You probably think this is some kind of a crude joke. Well you’re wrong. It turns out the.....
» 15/04/2011 4:40:00 PM "Prediction Is Hard, Especially About The Future." This line is variously attri.....
» 11/04/2011 5:14:42 PM Is Nelson Mandela’s good buddy, Muammur Gadaffi, a psychopath? Does he sound erudite to L.....
» 10/04/2011 9:42:32 AM >>My allegation that all four Goldstone Commissioners were biased because of the pub.....
» 9/04/2011 2:38:00 PM LOL csteele Let me answer all your questions --I am Jewish --I am a supporter of Israel.....
» 8/04/2011 3:19:10 PM David Singer, csteele wrote: >>This is coming from a man who denigrates the author.....
» 8/04/2011 10:00:42 AM David Singer wrote: >>If you favour kangaroo courts stacked with people who have bi.....
» 8/04/2011 8:57:53 AM Hear, hear! What else can I say?.....
» 7/04/2011 2:54:06 PM David Singer, Oh dear. And oh dear. Do you seriously believe Goldstone’s recanting will.....
» 6/04/2011 8:27:30 PM Am I my Afghan and Pakistani sister's keeper?.....
» 4/04/2011 10:59:54 AM >>Posted by lockhartlofty, Friday, 1 April 2011 11:28:22 AM >>This country ne.....
» 3/04/2011 8:03:20 AM Arjay As I said, I'm not discussing Israel. I'm discussing the Greens. I hope this thread.....
» 2/04/2011 2:58:32 PM Lexi, If Brown’s position is as you say that’s fine. But that is not the impression I get.....
» 1/04/2011 5:21:59 PM Since submitting this post a member of the Greens has drawn my attention to the following .....
» 1/04/2011 1:59:42 PM Quote from The Australian, 1 April 2011: >>[Senator elect] Rhiannon was quoted … as.....
» 25/03/2011 4:49:18 PM I do not think the Iranians will allow the Alawite clan that rules Syria to be overthrown......
» 25/03/2011 1:37:50 PM Pericles Interesting you should mention scientology. One of my objections to "hate s.....
» 24/03/2011 4:28:02 PM Pericles Am I a “genuine” person? I genuinely loathe Islam. Is “loathing” equivalent to .....
» 24/03/2011 2:21:23 PM This is the most depressing piece I've read in a long time. God spare me from religios - .....
» 24/03/2011 1:20:20 PM Pericles To reinforce Aime's previous post. You know and I know what the consequences wo.....
» 24/03/2011 12:40:23 PM After many evasions and attempts to change the subject Richard Dawkins finally extracts an.....
» 24/03/2011 6:50:44 AM At this point the bien pensant usualy make some comment about the thread having become a &.....
» 24/03/2011 6:49:07 AM Pericles, In your post of 21 March 2011 2:50:45 PM, you berate Aime for expressing what y.....
» 23/03/2011 8:52:42 PM >>Aime, What do you call a person who can't recognise a typo when they see one? (h.....
» 23/03/2011 7:07:06 PM Pericles I accept that you do not attack religions. That's fine. Until quite recently nei.....
» 23/03/2011 6:49:05 AM Hi SPQR, Austin Powerless Thank you for your support. I am not going to enter into the d.....
» 21/03/2011 4:46:01 PM Lexi Deveny is free to choose whatever she likes as the target of her humour. And I am f.....
» 21/03/2011 3:47:34 PM Lexi I have never made any secret of my loathing for Islam. But that is not the point. If.....
» 21/03/2011 6:49:30 AM Lexi wrote: >>Whatever happened to your very strong pro "Freedom of Speech&quo.....
» 20/03/2011 9:58:21 PM I emailed a slightly edited version of my original post to Tony Jones with a copy to Deven.....
» 20/03/2011 9:08:20 PM Well I've just finished watching an episode of Midsommer which, as usual, I thoroughly enj.....
» 20/03/2011 5:31:10 PM I also note that "Miss Marple" is diversity challenged. Perhaps the next series.....
» 20/03/2011 4:45:29 PM Well I tuned in to a BBC current events program and what were they debating? --Was it nuc.....
» 20/03/2011 4:14:22 PM My only gripe against Catherine Deveny, alleged comedian and occasional panelist on Qanda .....
» 12/03/2011 3:19:11 PM a597 wrote: >>Can some one tell me! how long does it take to lose your indig; statu.....
» 12/03/2011 10:35:39 AM Runner writes: >>Should the evolution fantasy be true you could come to no other lo.....
» 11/03/2011 1:52:22 PM mac and others I really REALLY REEEAALY! wish the exponents of "multiculturalism&qu.....
» 10/03/2011 9:48:51 AM >>..it would be interesting to know just what sprang into people's minds when the qu.....
» 1/03/2011 7:21:49 AM Mac Grateful is playing a game with you. TECHNICALLY he is correct. Islam, the religion,.....
» 28/02/2011 4:28:58 PM Amicus This from The Guardian: >>More than 3 million US government personnel and s.....
» 28/02/2011 4:10:36 PM Grateful, mac Here is a link to a youtube video in which Yusuf Islam expresses a desire t.....
» 28/02/2011 3:39:51 PM Kenny, >>What I find most interesting about this whole issue is everyone wants to t.....
» 28/02/2011 11:54:12 AM suzeonline wrote: >>Are the bulk of posters to this thread happy enough with the le.....
» 28/02/2011 8:56:36 AM Amicus wrote: >>it's interesting that the liberals are all cheering madly about the.....
» 28/02/2011 8:32:47 AM Provided WikiLeaks has not suborned espionage, hacked into any computer systems or stolen .....
» 28/02/2011 8:26:25 AM suzeonline, Just to re-iterate what mac says: In one respect "multi-culturalism&quo.....
» 27/02/2011 11:02:14 PM suzeonline wrote: >>The 'white' invaders of the day certainly had no problems refus.....
» 26/02/2011 3:41:20 PM From eccollect >>in our society race and culture are frequently used synonymously,&.....
» 25/02/2011 7:11:45 PM Excellent article. And I'm glad someone understands the difference between multiracialism.....
» 25/02/2011 5:13:13 PM BPT I think you're flogging a dead horse here. For good or ill lifestyles have changed. M.....
» 25/02/2011 4:56:57 PM To Lexi re: >>If I prayed to a god And it was different to yours, Would you reason .....
» 25/02/2011 11:34:27 AM For those who can be bothered here is more about Bountiful BC: http://www.ctvbc.ctv.ca/se.....
» 25/02/2011 9:29:13 AM Y'know this could get really interesting. Archie marries Brenda, Charlotte and Desdemona......
» 24/02/2011 10:54:44 PM The more I think about this thread the more crazy the whole multi culti agenda seems. Peo.....
» 24/02/2011 9:29:27 PM Lexi, No that linked web page does not clarify anything. So some people think Muslims, J.....
» 24/02/2011 4:15:01 PM Pericles wrote: >>Our own home-grown Imam, Cardinal Pell, holds similar views, in t.....
» 23/02/2011 12:58:21 PM I have to agree with Bazz. As Auguste Comte said, demography is destiny. Total fertility .....
» 23/02/2011 11:33:12 AM Pericles I think you are trying to pick a fight with me for what might be called "tr.....
» 23/02/2011 10:23:13 AM Hi Pericles, You ask why I mention Pakistan. It is difficult sometimes to get your thou.....
» 22/02/2011 2:37:48 PM As a member of a tiny minority within the much bigger Australian society I have to hope th.....
» 22/02/2011 12:00:02 PM F_H wrote: >>For decades, the Muslim brotherhood is the scarecrow used on western n.....
» 21/02/2011 9:01:23 PM Well F_H Maybe you're right to be optimistic. Maybe not. Only time will tell. I knew a l.....
» 21/02/2011 4:44:50 PM A number of people have been comparing Egypt to Turkey. I think this piece in Newsweek d.....
» 21/02/2011 11:40:18 AM Bazz Interesting link. Thinks. I happened to hear this segment on the BBC World Service .....
» 21/02/2011 9:11:34 AM I’ll venture a proposition of my own. A decade hence the bulk of the Egyptian people will.....
» 16/02/2011 7:00:24 AM There is another point that needs to be made about democracies. They have a relatively fre.....
» 16/02/2011 6:36:09 AM individual It’s a matter of degree. In Australia, for example: In theory: --The governm.....
» 15/02/2011 7:33:59 AM Fellow_Human Here's a prediction. No matter what happens in Egypt in the next few days o.....
» 14/02/2011 10:26:54 PM Fellow_Human wrote: >>Mr El Baradei doesn't appear to be representing but very smal.....
» 14/02/2011 9:27:55 PM Some predictions: Whatever happens in Egypt in the next few weeks or months, a DECADE hen.....
» 9/02/2011 6:33:26 AM You guys do realise this is a spoof?.....
» 6/02/2011 3:32:08 PM Seems some feminists object to the word “woman”. It contains the word “man” you see. They .....
» 6/02/2011 1:19:26 PM Belly, Tell me about it. Stress will do that to you. In 1995 I weighed in at 78-79 Kg. T.....
» 6/02/2011 8:22:40 AM Hi Belly, AGIR There is some evidence that “weight cycling” – losing then putting on weig.....
» 3/02/2011 2:43:54 PM Are you desperate enough to undergo a faecal transplant? Yep, that’s exactly what it soun.....
» 1/02/2011 9:46:17 PM Richard Tsukamasa Green Yep. Absolutely right. Most revolutions end in tears for those .....
» 17/01/2011 9:01:11 AM Pericles wrote: >>It is of constant fascination to me that when discussing Western .....
» 10/01/2011 3:18:26 PM I want to endorse Jedimaster's suggestion that posters read the piece on funding panels on.....
» 10/01/2011 10:00:34 AM Bugsy, I wish I could dismiss Ridd’s article as bunkum. Unfortunately it isn’t. As you k.....
» 5/01/2011 12:38:44 PM Cicero’s maxim , If you want peace prepare for war (Sivis pacem para bellum) is as relevan.....
» 20/12/2010 4:12:39 PM LOL as I said David Singer, You are a glutton for punishment. Why do you keep doing this.....
» 19/12/2010 3:31:28 PM LOL David Singer You really are a glutton for punishment......
» 10/12/2010 4:38:49 PM lentaubman You have made my day! Ban DHMO!.....
» 24/11/2010 7:11:58 AM bonmot In the end people will believe what they want to believe. I'm afraid a measured as.....
» 24/11/2010 7:09:13 AM I think what has startled me most about this thread is the flat rejection by so many poste.....
» 23/11/2010 10:41:41 PM I sincerely hope this is intended as a spoof. If not the author is one sad puppy......
» 23/11/2010 10:39:25 PM Tom Tiddler I look forward to reading your paper.....
» 23/11/2010 6:10:06 AM I'm afraid that my day job is interfering with my online pontificating. Ludwig, Thank yo.....
» 19/11/2010 11:19:06 PM Geoff Your defence of Phil Jones is taurine fertilizer. I’ve heard it ad nauseam and I fi.....
» 19/11/2010 11:24:15 AM Bonmot I do think Tom Tiddler has a point. We should be gathering data more intensively. .....
» 19/11/2010 11:08:26 AM Tom Tiddler Bonmot has said what I intended to say. Submit your research to a reputable p.....
» 19/11/2010 10:58:53 AM Ken Nielsen Thank you for your kind words Geoff Davies: Excerpt of email from Phil Jone.....
» 18/11/2010 10:22:55 PM I for one think a Royal Commission is an excellent idea......
» 18/11/2010 7:30:55 AM EVIDENCE FOR THE EXISTENCE OF THE SIGNAL To me the most convincing evidence of the existen.....
» 18/11/2010 7:19:23 AM IPCC I have little confidence in the IPCC process. and have not quoted it. Rajendra Pacha.....
» 18/11/2010 7:15:43 AM Ho hum bitey, bon mot and others Thank you for your kind words. A few comments: GREENHO.....
» 31/10/2010 4:02:21 PM I take your point Graham. John Webb has not come up with any grand theory that explains th.....
» 29/10/2010 5:32:44 PM I would argue that Galileo was the most famous figure of the 16th Century, Newton of the 1.....
» 29/10/2010 3:07:13 PM Am I envious of people with 30 megabucks of readies? You bet I am. I am looking at a new .....
» 23/10/2010 9:35:39 PM mac, Pericles, BAYGON I suggest that the following are the three essential rules for runn.....
» 22/10/2010 4:29:23 PM The author has defined multiculturalism in such a way that no reasonable person could obje.....
» 22/10/2010 11:12:14 AM The Blue Cross Good point. Can't fault you on that......
» 21/10/2010 8:57:42 PM Samsung I said US AND European bankers. That includes the Brit bankers. I hereby nominat.....
» 21/10/2010 2:32:37 PM Dole bludgery (DB) is defined by the following equation: DB = NSB – VA – ESA Where: NSB.....
» 21/10/2010 12:15:21 PM KSW wrote: >>But it seemed significant that those with the most power to shape idea.....
» 21/10/2010 11:25:40 AM [Deleted for abuse.].....
» 21/10/2010 9:26:23 AM [Deleted for profanity and immoderate language.].....
» 21/10/2010 8:08:11 AM Could it just be a case of a slow news period? The footie season has ended. The election i.....
» 20/10/2010 8:43:48 PM LOL Arjay Newsflash. In case you hadn't noticed I AM a member of a minority group. Have .....
» 20/10/2010 8:06:16 PM lentaubman I want to congratulate you for your balanced posts on this thread. I think you.....
» 20/10/2010 7:05:56 AM Pericles Retrospectivity is certainly an issue. New taxes should be phased in gradually f.....
» 19/10/2010 8:45:42 AM Hasbeen asks >>Steven, just where would you invest/park your future fund?>> .....
» 18/10/2010 7:30:41 PM LOL ALGOREisRICH You really need to get with the program. The one sin for which there can.....
» 18/10/2010 7:01:06 PM Australia is suffering a bad case of "Dutch Disease". I can't improve on the IM.....
» 18/10/2010 6:20:09 PM Snake I’m afraid my day job sometimes stops me responding as soon as I’d like. I think w.....
» 16/10/2010 9:08:27 PM We have divine_msn who thinks abortions are OK right up to the point of birth. Yabby says.....
» 16/10/2010 5:11:35 PM QUESTION TO ALL THOSE WHO FAVOUR ABORTION ON DEMAND: divine_msn wrote: >>As far as.....
» 16/10/2010 4:45:20 PM Australia is not the only country wrestling with these issues. See: WHEN MULTICULTURALISM.....
» 16/10/2010 3:07:27 PM Don't some ignorant people realize that the West is locked in an existential struggle with.....
» 16/10/2010 3:04:21 PM Of course every time some commenter writes 'Zionist',he/she really means 'Jew' http://al.....
» 16/10/2010 10:39:43 AM Horus Looks an interesting book. I’ve ordered it. Pericles, Gibbon was not the last wor.....
» 15/10/2010 4:17:37 PM Well of course Gillard jumps in synch. Didn't you know that the political assassination o.....
» 15/10/2010 3:26:42 PM I guess it boils down to this. What is the difference between a nation and groups of mutu.....
» 15/10/2010 1:47:49 PM IMPORTANT NEWS FLASH Guess what? Rupert Murdoch is Jewish. Yes really. RUPERT MURDOCH .....
» 15/10/2010 12:40:39 PM ALGOREisRICH I am sticking to my guns. And Islam is not the only dimension of “diversity”.....
» 15/10/2010 10:56:46 AM I’m sorry to say Pericles that we again seem to be in agreement. ;-) The cholesterol stor.....
» 14/10/2010 2:37:09 PM Without cholesterol you die. Cholesterol plays an important role in making and repairing c.....
» 12/10/2010 7:43:27 AM Danielle Your uncle has a point. The real world that science is slowly uncovering is so m.....
» 11/10/2010 10:06:11 PM Hi Danielle, Yes devout Muslims take the koran literally. Yes they are creationists. Se.....
» 10/10/2010 1:39:10 PM ALGOREisRICH It should not surprise you that Pericles knows a thing or two about ancients.....
» 10/10/2010 11:40:43 AM mac wrote >>I couldn't think of any country that's less vulnerable to pressure from.....
» 10/10/2010 6:42:22 AM Still waiting grateful. Where did I write “...most Muslims abuse children”?.....
» 9/10/2010 8:42:44 PM grateful, I went cycling. Then I went out for dinner with friends. I came back. I logged .....
» 9/10/2010 12:26:00 PM Grateful, You allege I wrote “...most Muslims abuse children?” You suggest I owe an apo.....
» 9/10/2010 9:21:03 AM Grateful Apology accepted. I am glad you were able to stop binge drinking – if indeed yo.....
» 8/10/2010 8:57:32 AM LOL Pericles, I doubt grateful was born into a Muslim family. He does seem to have someth.....
» 7/10/2010 7:53:52 PM LOL Bugsy & Pericles I may as well put in my 2 cents worth. What does “ascend” mean in t.....
» 7/10/2010 3:26:10 PM Note to Mohamed Qasem re my previous post. Try this for next time Hah, you stupid infide.....
» 7/10/2010 2:51:35 PM Pericles Thank you for taking up the cudgels on my behalf. I am afraid however that a cer.....
» 7/10/2010 8:39:35 AM In case OLO posters want to know the specific con grateful is trying to pull, here it is. .....
» 7/10/2010 7:56:13 AM Pelican wrote >>Isn't it funny how human rights can be cherry picked from the array.....
» 7/10/2010 7:37:31 AM In case posters don't get it grateful is playing the game of "scientific miracles in .....
» 7/10/2010 7:03:35 AM grateful After that DISGUSTING stunt you pulled claiming your sister had been murdered I'.....
» 6/10/2010 5:12:02 PM The independents are enjoying their 15 minutes of fame. Maybe they’ll be able to stretch i.....
» 6/10/2010 4:55:32 PM LOL Jay of Melbourne I agree that Muslims deny any fact that contradicts their religion. .....
» 6/10/2010 3:41:10 PM For those who don’t know, Mossad is Israel’s equivalent of the CIA. Indonesia’s President.....
» 6/10/2010 3:00:31 PM Peter Hume wrote: >>You and I, and everyone who reads this, have been forced for de.....
» 6/10/2010 10:06:30 AM LOL, Does this guy have a day job? From where I'm sitting it looks as if the governmenta.....
» 5/10/2010 9:02:29 AM But can a near bankrupt super-power with a polity almost as dysfunctional as that of Saudi.....
» 5/10/2010 8:30:00 AM mac wrote: >>The author of the article advocates the development of a 'multi-cultur.....
» 4/10/2010 8:58:30 AM Message to Melinda Tankard Reist I think the point you are missing Ms Tankard Reist, is t.....
» 3/10/2010 7:24:01 PM Pelican, For once I find myself in agreement with you. I think it's about funding for &qu.....
» 2/10/2010 12:11:33 AM Rehctub wrote: >>…we must come to the realisation that the days of a 'free ride' mu.....
» 1/10/2010 7:41:59 PM Fomersnag, Hasbeen A fuel tax is not a “TIME OF USE” charge. You will never get rationa.....
» 1/10/2010 2:57:25 PM Hi Pericles I've just come back from a walk. I can report a marked absence of burning bar.....
» 1/10/2010 1:26:30 PM With ONE exception, noted below, ALL public transport users should pay the FULL COST of us.....
» 1/10/2010 11:09:39 AM If someone could explain to me what the term "multiculturalism" means I would be.....
» 27/09/2010 6:01:28 PM LOL mac and David G Enjoy your America-bashing. I have a feeling you are not going to en.....
» 27/09/2010 4:19:55 PM Danielle, Thank you for your kind words. David G I understand that for you the US is som.....
» 27/09/2010 12:22:31 PM Reg Little wrote: >>Modern Australia has been totally defined and highly privileged.....
» 23/09/2010 2:06:30 PM Thanks David It was actually a long time ago but sometimes I get flashbacks - especially .....
» 23/09/2010 1:17:31 PM Alice, You are mixing up your personal abhorrence for certain acts with human rights. Wo.....
» 22/09/2010 9:39:14 PM Thanks Pericles I'm over it now. I should not have let myself get so emotional......
» 22/09/2010 12:43:03 PM Bugsy wrote: >>Upshot: overpopulation cannot happen because people will die>>.....
» 22/09/2010 12:00:15 PM NEWSFLASH Relax, human population will not reach 10 billion by 2060. More like 3-4 billio.....
» 21/09/2010 11:25:04 PM GRATEFUL! I have never before been angry with anyone on OLO. This is a debate forum and m.....
» 21/09/2010 8:13:35 PM Is what Pericles says correct? Marwa el-Sherbini was not your sister. You realy are a pie.....
» 21/09/2010 8:07:21 PM Jockey I think you're about 99% right. Let me put something to you. I do not know wheth.....
» 21/09/2010 2:28:53 PM Grateful wrote: >>Atheists tend to argue are follows: <<The world is evolvin.....
» 21/09/2010 11:16:47 AM Bugsy, Yes, theocrats of ALL stripes should never be appeased. But in practice, in 2010, .....
» 21/09/2010 10:11:42 AM Grateful I had read about the murder of Marwa el-Sherbini but did not know she was your s.....
» 21/09/2010 9:45:15 AM Bugsy, Just to be clear I have never advocated banning Muslim migrants. Given Australia’s.....
» 20/09/2010 8:26:05 PM LOL David f The ‘ol Islamic Defence Reflex or IDR. We dare not subject Islam or a Muslim .....
» 20/09/2010 5:59:05 PM Where is Pericles and his junior partner, CJ Morgan? Why aren't they here accusing you al.....
» 20/09/2010 5:55:27 PM David f wrote: “..it is one thing to despise a belief system and another to despise the h.....
» 20/09/2010 3:35:16 PM David F My Concise Oxford Dictionary gives two definitions for “prejudice”. 1. Preconcei.....
» 20/09/2010 11:14:41 AM Do Catholics, like Muslims, merit their very own ‘ophobia? Should Catholic-ophobia stand.....
» 20/09/2010 10:00:15 AM David f See my comment on: http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?article=11002 L.....
» 20/09/2010 9:59:04 AM LOL David f take note The 'ophobia bandwagon is well and truly rolling.....
» 19/09/2010 8:15:54 PM LOL David f If I let every bit of taurine fertiliser I encounter make me "uncomforta.....
» 19/09/2010 12:39:07 PM David f Re your post on “Islamphobia”: With which of these statements do you DISAGREE? .....
» 19/09/2010 12:59:04 AM ChrisPer We associate "altruism" with something good. A doctor who joins Doctor.....
» 19/09/2010 12:36:39 AM Further examples of "altruism"? http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/aug/25/tal.....
» 18/09/2010 3:17:19 PM Most Muslim suicide bombers mostly seem to keep their activities "in house". Tha.....
» 18/09/2010 1:50:40 PM LOL Horus Well put!.....
» 16/09/2010 3:22:59 PM lentaubman You could well be right. Fortunately I get about on a bicycle so $10 a litre .....
» 16/09/2010 3:19:47 PM Let's get to the nub of the matter: "Burning a holy book is the clear manifestation .....
» 16/09/2010 10:13:35 AM Pericles, I consider Spiegel to be absolutely the best source of information about Europe.....
» 14/09/2010 10:45:52 PM THREE CHEERS FOR ANGELA MERKEL Germany's Chancellor seems to be the only Western leader w.....
» 14/09/2010 7:49:05 AM jorge, I loathe Islam. I would not be FOCUSING on Islam if it were not for the threat app.....
» 14/09/2010 7:47:00 AM Jjplug >>In which case would you be happy for radical Muslims to freely and far mor.....
» 13/09/2010 7:14:07 PM LOL Pericles You said: "Agreed. But it is one of those acts that we are required to.....
» 13/09/2010 6:15:49 PM Johnny Rotten The difference between Muqtedar Khan and me is that if Khan wanted to burn .....
» 13/09/2010 12:58:12 PM R0bert, Johnny Rotten, The bottom line here is not which brand of superstition is worst. .....
» 13/09/2010 11:15:50 AM Pericles, This is not about whether Islam is good or bad. Even if Islam were the wonderfu.....
» 13/09/2010 9:35:35 AM "This is America, the beacon of freedom" Yep. That is why Americans are free .....
» 12/09/2010 11:33:54 PM In fact mac here is the koran in comic book form Mohammed's "Believe it or else".....
» 12/09/2010 11:18:11 PM LOL mac If you read the koran you will see that Muhammad was an earlier incarnation of Mo.....
» 12/09/2010 5:32:12 PM Bigmal, Get with the program. All these terrible things that Muslims do to women are not .....
» 12/09/2010 12:43:20 PM Sigh Here we go again. Congratulations Arjay, your monomania has hijacked yet another t.....
» 11/09/2010 5:46:32 PM Foxy, The authorities cannot just "step in" as you put it. They need a legal ba.....
» 11/09/2010 2:12:55 PM Rpg wrote: "Sooner or later someone who wants to stir the pot will burn a Koran and .....
» 11/09/2010 12:30:53 PM Briar I doubt anyone is "behind" Jones. I think with Jones, what you see is wha.....
» 11/09/2010 8:27:01 AM Foxy, The fact is that, Muqtedar Khan's preposterous interpretation of the US constitutio.....
» 10/09/2010 5:39:21 PM Grateful asks: "…what about my right to security:" You have the same "rig.....
» 10/09/2010 12:21:20 PM Muqtedar Khan If you are reading this I hope it has dawned on you that while OLO posters .....
» 10/09/2010 9:45:36 AM Piss Christ revisited I would never produce a photograph such as "Piss Christ" .....
» 9/09/2010 12:24:44 AM But when did you say it Martin N? I said it as part of defending my dissertation in 1969......
» 7/09/2010 10:06:32 PM I have discovered a new constant of nature. With due immodesty I call it "Meyer's con.....
» 31/08/2010 8:08:45 AM Pelican, I heartily endorse your post of Tuesday, 31 August 2010 12:18:47 AM. To paraphr.....
» 30/08/2010 6:20:11 PM Pericles, has it occurred to you that Arjay himself may be a false flag operation? Just .....
» 30/08/2010 9:52:34 AM "Australia's multicultural experiment remains a work in progress, relationship by rel.....
» 29/08/2010 10:03:58 AM This thread is hilarious. Give up Pericles and enjoy the show......
» 27/08/2010 11:51:02 AM LOL Oh well if you're living in cloud cuckooland there is no possibility of sensible disc.....
» 27/08/2010 11:15:28 AM David G How would the Saudis react to a nuclear Iran? My guess is they would go nuclear .....
» 27/08/2010 11:03:37 AM Jay Shhhh must not say nasty things about the dear old Muslims. Of course we all know the.....
» 24/08/2010 6:14:02 PM CJ Morgan, Ludwig, pemmy, just_dulcie, Rhys Stanley, Pericles etc How are you going to en.....
» 12/08/2010 7:17:13 PM For once I find myself agreeing with you Pericles. Are the words offensive? Yes. Would I.....
» 11/08/2010 6:56:29 PM Joe Do I personally think the Uighars and Tibetans should be allowed to break away from C.....
» 11/08/2010 4:37:24 PM Joe writes: "Aren't we all better than that ?" No. We aren't. Maybe we should .....
» 11/08/2010 1:32:26 PM Daeron, I'm aware of everything I've said and why I've said it. The US sees Indonesia as.....
» 11/08/2010 12:50:03 PM Hi Bazz, Thought this might interest you. Solazyme is one of the leading contenders in th.....
» 10/08/2010 10:33:07 PM Joe, Here's the thing. Australia is powerless. Let me repeat that in caps. AUSTRALIA IS.....
» 10/08/2010 5:12:30 PM The title was supposed to be: "What does "tolerance" mean?.....
» 10/08/2010 3:41:39 PM David f I became interested in fungi when I started reading stories like these: Obscure .....
» 10/08/2010 3:34:02 PM Daeron asks whether Australia should support Vanuatu against Indonesia at the UN. Let's s.....
» 10/08/2010 11:30:08 AM Writing in the August 2010 edition of Scientific American, the internationally renowned ph.....
» 10/08/2010 10:40:27 AM Bashdar Ismaeel writes: "The basis of any nationalist struggle is primarily ethnicit.....
» 9/08/2010 1:46:46 PM At last the US Federal Drug Administration has approved a treatment for hypotrichosis. You.....
» 9/08/2010 8:54:12 AM David f You are correct. The problem is "true believers" of whatever stripe. I .....
» 8/08/2010 6:02:52 PM "Two things pose an overwhelming threat to the planet as we know it, climate change a.....
» 8/08/2010 5:53:24 PM FIRST AUSTRALIANS SECOND AUSTRALIANS THIRD AUSTRALIANS? "This brings us to the fourt.....
» 8/08/2010 3:27:55 PM David f wrote: "However, the idea that atheists are somehow less virtuous than relig.....
» 8/08/2010 11:23:13 AM LOL grateful I'll give you credit for persistence with the rider that persistence in foll.....
» 5/08/2010 8:09:47 AM Bazz You expected a sensible answer about a complex question from a politician! I am afra.....
» 3/08/2010 8:24:56 PM Bazz European agricultural land covers about 1 million square km. So even if you took all.....
» 2/08/2010 5:18:36 PM Bazz wrote: "Algae is a problem. One study showed the ponds need to supply Europe wo.....
» 1/08/2010 10:50:06 AM Grateful I am well acquainted with the works of Bernard Lewis. Prior to the emergence of .....
» 31/07/2010 8:35:51 PM Grateful says: "...why not provide us with some examples of Jewish fundamentalism. .....
» 31/07/2010 6:21:59 PM Grateful, Ayaan Hirsi Ali on the difference between Christianity and Islam. Christians s.....
» 31/07/2010 11:42:08 AM BTW for those of you who like a really man sized CONSPIRACY THEORY here's one. WHO DONE K.....
» 31/07/2010 11:37:32 AM Arjay wrote: "...Russia has the technology to reach really deep oil.Abiotic oil ..th.....
» 31/07/2010 10:59:28 AM Severin There are many paths to the DIVINE COMEDIAN. I have found one path. You have fou.....
» 31/07/2010 10:40:52 AM OK Fair comment Severin. Though I have to say that none of the Christians I know personall.....
» 31/07/2010 9:13:01 AM Grateful wrote: "I have always ascribed to the criteria of "proof beyond a reas.....
» 30/07/2010 6:03:15 PM Amicus, I was being a bit jocular. I do realise that not everybody can commute by bicycle.....
» 30/07/2010 9:27:20 AM "…An item in Forbes earlier in the month, “Saudi Arabia's House Of Cards”, peels back.....
» 28/07/2010 1:59:42 PM The really sad thing is that either Gillard or Abbot will be PM. There's not much to choos.....
» 25/07/2010 7:48:57 PM Examinator wrote: "To accuse me of that (spruiking a nefarious Zionist conspiracy) i.....
» 20/07/2010 1:00:29 PM LOL examinator Ever determined to see a nefarious Zionist plot. For the record: --I do .....
» 19/07/2010 11:57:13 AM Examinator I haven't the faintest idea what point you are trying to make. You are over-es.....
» 19/07/2010 9:08:25 AM Well, I don't know about India's politics being "transparent". The word "By.....
» 18/07/2010 6:51:07 PM Arjay wrote: "Obama does the bidding of Wall St and the US Federal Reserve" Re.....
» 18/07/2010 2:58:35 PM Obama is in deep trouble with the US electorate. I think this piece in today's Guardian su.....
» 18/07/2010 12:09:47 PM David f & grateful I put it to you both that the existence, or non-existence, of God is U.....
» 14/07/2010 8:52:29 AM "If China is Plan A for resource exporting countries, what is Plan B?" There is.....
» 13/07/2010 10:49:05 AM You cannot actually travel at the speed of light - we think. If you travel at close to th.....
» 13/07/2010 10:23:40 AM Tanveer Ahmed This is addressed to you personally. Call me "culturally insensitive&.....
» 12/07/2010 11:51:04 AM David G writes: "It amazes me how humans love someone to hate! Australians are no di.....
» 12/07/2010 9:18:18 AM I'm glad this isn't a "everyone who wants strong border control is a racist" pie.....
» 11/07/2010 4:45:46 PM Fester In the late 1940s old age pensioners in the UK could get free tobacco discount vou.....
» 11/07/2010 9:59:45 AM Y'know the bottom line here is this: The evolutionists have better arguments But the fun.....
» 9/07/2010 2:12:27 PM Fester, Jefferson, Just a thought On average fat smokers who never exercise cost the tax.....
» 9/07/2010 1:14:13 PM Alice Aslan is the author of "ISLAMOPHOBIA IN AUSTRALIA" See: http://www.islamo.....
» 6/07/2010 3:01:16 PM For those who are genuinely interested: For a few dollars you can purchase an excellent a.....
» 6/07/2010 2:00:17 PM Horus Like you I have great difficulty in believing a Muslim living in a Western country .....
» 6/07/2010 9:31:23 AM "The report describes the health conditions and outcomes among Aboriginal and Torres .....
» 5/07/2010 2:45:46 PM LOL and LOL and ROFLMAO The secularists here really don't get it. YOU HAVE LOST THE BA.....
» 5/07/2010 10:48:09 AM An open letter from "secular parents". The phrase is becoming almost a contradi.....
» 4/07/2010 8:04:02 PM Cont'd: When it comes to Jew baiting Luther has his rivals among Muslims. Unlike the long.....
» 4/07/2010 7:13:43 PM Grateful asks: "For example, would you defend Martin Luther's right vilify of Jews i.....
» 3/07/2010 1:08:57 PM LOL I sense the start of a feeding frenzy for those poor souls afflicted with IOD* *IOD .....
» 3/07/2010 1:04:48 PM Hi Pynchme, There are certain professional associations such as the accountants that requ.....
» 3/07/2010 8:46:48 AM I find the comments here very interesting. First a point. Obviously, as Foxy and Oliver.....
» 1/07/2010 10:11:31 PM rexw And others I agree that if one is capable of taking one's own life there is no poin.....
» 1/07/2010 8:39:32 PM StG I wish you luck in your chosen new career. If you need a qualification to make progre.....
» 1/07/2010 3:02:40 PM AGIR Two points: --We are dealing with averages. In a particular case some people may pu.....
» 1/07/2010 10:48:52 AM nohj People who have a financial interest in the outcome should have zero input in the de.....
» 1/07/2010 10:35:47 AM "More honesty would make politicians' jobs easier," says Geoff Carmody. Would i.....
» 1/07/2010 9:38:08 AM Perhaps not as much as you think. See: http://www.businessweek.com/bschools/content/jun20.....
» 1/07/2010 9:00:29 AM As OLO posters probably know, I am strongly in favour of "active" euthanasia. Th.....
» 30/06/2010 2:14:09 PM I listened to the lecture - yes all of it It is an incoherent collection of truisms. Kate.....
» 29/06/2010 8:23:10 PM OK, So Gillard is a ruthless politician who seized the moment. That's what ALL successful.....
» 28/06/2010 10:41:50 AM Oh bollocks. This habit of labelling anyone who has a different opinion on certain matter.....
» 27/06/2010 11:55:00 PM Horus We have not been paying reparations to Aborigines. We have been paying bribes to re.....
» 27/06/2010 8:20:24 AM individual, csteele, This is cloud cuckooland stuff. There is a reason people all over th.....
» 26/06/2010 2:52:06 PM csteele I'm not sure that teaching hospitals would help. I also doubt that the HORRIFIC .....
» 26/06/2010 11:07:55 AM Hmmm csteele, I thought not......
» 26/06/2010 12:32:20 AM csteele What do I think? I think on THIS thread we should focus on the unutterably DISGR.....
» 24/06/2010 7:59:46 PM This is a very depressing thread. polpak sees "racism" in a simple statement of.....
» 24/06/2010 7:49:24 AM My actual point is that there is a "humanitarian crisis" - to use one of the pun.....
» 23/06/2010 10:54:09 AM I am not sure if China is really succeeding in "harmonising" the West. Or anybod.....
» 23/06/2010 10:37:04 AM Thanks for the links david f......
» 23/06/2010 10:24:06 AM polpak, Any racism in this post exists entirely in your mind. I saw The Ghost in your Ge.....
» 23/06/2010 8:30:19 AM OK, here is the key: Each series of bracketed numbers below provides selected data for ea.....
» 22/06/2010 5:18:34 PM Rhys Jones Are you being deliberately obtuse? By the time someone with Alzheimer's was k.....
» 22/06/2010 2:49:32 PM csteele I am not defending the lack of freedom in Singapore. I am simply pointing out tha.....
» 22/06/2010 1:02:22 PM Here is a link to a piece in he Guardian newspaper on Turkey: http://www.guardian.co.uk/c.....
» 22/06/2010 12:30:41 PM David f You are right about labour unrest in China. Grayzie, you are right about the dan.....
» 22/06/2010 12:22:24 PM Here are ten population groups listed in ALPHABETICAL order: (1) African-Americans (2) A.....
» 22/06/2010 10:09:25 AM A question for Rhys Jones What does it mean to be a "live human"? Is someone i.....
» 22/06/2010 9:39:45 AM Custard, I don't think the US "needs" Turkey. Nor does it need "Kurdistan&.....
» 22/06/2010 9:24:18 AM The real problem is Alzheimer's and other forms of dementia. I have seen one person die o.....
» 22/06/2010 9:04:29 AM Mao a "capable" leader. Hmm. Let it pass. In the interests of full disclosure,.....
» 22/06/2010 8:37:39 AM csteele, Singapore is a city state. You cannot compare a geographically compact city to a.....
» 21/06/2010 10:34:17 PM csteele I put it to you that the biggest problem facing the Turks today is the absence of.....
» 21/06/2010 9:20:49 PM As Niels Bohr put it: Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future. Howeve.....
» 21/06/2010 4:25:56 PM By coincidence I saw this after completing my last post: It is about South Africa and the.....
» 21/06/2010 4:17:53 PM csteele Actually Churchill was not entirely wrong. For some Jews the Bolshevik revolution.....
» 21/06/2010 2:52:02 PM A few additional comments that I could not get into the 350 word limit. (1) Turkey is not.....
» 21/06/2010 2:32:18 PM Foxy, Antipathy to Jews predates Christianity. In fact, to paraphrase Winston Churchill, .....
» 21/06/2010 1:35:54 PM Thomas Friedman is a NY Times journalist. Here are four questions Turks asked him: One: D.....
» 21/06/2010 12:29:23 PM David f I am not going to argue with you about whether the Holocaust is applied Christian.....
» 21/06/2010 11:05:18 AM For once I have to agree with Foxy. When it comes to sheer evil Stalin and his henchmen ar.....
» 21/06/2010 9:01:33 AM I wonder how the Indonesian government would view a growing Chinese naval presence in East.....
» 21/06/2010 8:32:57 AM Interesting argument. Which is worse? Christianity or Islam? Well here's my two cents wor.....
» 20/06/2010 2:20:22 PM Graham, I join David f in thanking you for allowing free and open discussion on this foru.....
» 20/06/2010 12:46:53 PM david f What about the biggest scam of them all - tax breaks for religious organisations?.....
» 20/06/2010 9:42:01 AM Again I am in agreement with Grateful. Do join in the discussion at Muslim Village. A lin.....
» 20/06/2010 12:08:10 AM David f wrote: "...With the exception of Turkey and Afghanistan all the Islamic coun.....
» 19/06/2010 10:26:17 PM I don't really think there is any doubt that paedophilia is a mainstream part of contempor.....
» 19/06/2010 2:55:55 PM Must agree that Joan Hickson is the best ever Miss Marple and David Suchet is superb as Po.....
» 19/06/2010 12:42:21 PM CJ MORGAN asks: "So Steven - how many discussion groups do you belong to that are de.....
» 19/06/2010 11:42:29 AM On the whole MV posters like mango are great contributors to what Dr. Johnson called the &.....
» 19/06/2010 11:16:08 AM Grateful For once we are in accord. I have been following Muslim Village Forums for some .....
» 19/06/2010 12:54:33 AM grateful I have no idea what you're driving at with your last post. All I know is that y.....
» 18/06/2010 9:35:01 PM Severin, Re your post of Friday, 18 June 2010 9:58:38 AM With respect I think you are mi.....
» 18/06/2010 5:24:31 PM Ponder, LOL You beat me to the punch. If we privatised the atmosphere we could charge p.....
» 18/06/2010 10:28:56 AM How wicked of BP To give us what we demand Cheap(ish) oil from 'neath the sea And from the.....
» 18/06/2010 9:43:01 AM AJ Philips wrote: "Christianity was lucky enough to be dragged kicking and screaming.....
» 17/06/2010 10:14:05 PM Grateful I would be, well, grateful, if you were to answer ALGOREisRICH's question. Wou.....
» 16/06/2010 11:58:41 PM Grateful, ALGOREisRICH, mikk, pelican, Severin, david f And others, Would you or someone.....
» 16/06/2010 8:37:14 PM Grateful This is all a bit of a red herring. I for one don't care whether you are a &quo.....
» 15/06/2010 11:16:42 PM Rhian wrote: "Though I happen to believe his [Mann's] work is shonky, the best place.....
» 15/06/2010 3:01:20 PM Here is a link to the satirical video: http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/04/26/climate-.....
» 15/06/2010 12:45:28 PM Yess wee must doo sumthing abowt English spelling. English speekurs arr not as intelleejen.....
» 15/06/2010 11:19:15 AM The Simon Singh case illustrates how laws restricting free speech WILL be misused. Not M.....
» 13/06/2010 6:01:53 PM Paul1405 asks: "Is this not all a part of the freedoms of Capitalism that we all so .....
» 9/06/2010 12:23:38 AM We could also consider sending Hanson, Bush's last treasury secretary and architect of the.....
» 8/06/2010 5:35:29 PM A perfect example of Meyer's rules of online discussion. See: http://forum.onlineopinion.....
» 8/06/2010 4:23:50 PM For a piece on Madoff in prison see: http://nymag.com/news/crimelaw/66468/ Madoff stole .....
» 8/06/2010 11:24:17 AM Foxy Your last post misses my point. There are many conflicts and situations about whic.....
» 7/06/2010 11:51:14 PM Now a bit of statistical homework for those who are interested. It's called "Spot the.....
» 7/06/2010 11:15:51 PM So far I have been dealing only with "above the line" pieces. At the time of w.....
» 7/06/2010 7:28:56 PM Some statistics on the extent of IOD (Israel Obsession Disorder) Online Opinion posted pi.....
» 7/06/2010 6:38:34 PM Custard, Notwithstanding the fact that Iran is shia while Turkey and most of the "Um.....
» 7/06/2010 4:01:49 PM Foxy wrote: Doubly pleased that you've read Antony Loewenstein's book. Because then you'r.....
» 7/06/2010 11:17:18 AM To return to one of the topics of the original post. There is little doubt that the AKP g.....
» 7/06/2010 10:21:15 AM CJ MORGAN I can only speak for myself. It's a habit from the days when I used to prepare.....
» 7/06/2010 10:12:21 AM LOL Foxy, Let's see. You write: "I suggest that you broaden your outlook ...".....
» 6/06/2010 7:37:56 PM Foxy, My blinkers are off. Actually they were never on. I know exactly what I'm dealing w.....
» 6/06/2010 5:29:02 PM I think I have discovered a new psychological disorder. I call it IOD for "Israel Obs.....
» 6/06/2010 1:15:55 PM CJ MORGAN If you opposes Victoria's "Racial and Religious Tolerance Act" then I.....
» 6/06/2010 12:14:57 PM LOL Let me get this straight. We're not going to discuss the well-documented oppression .....
» 6/06/2010 9:41:49 AM CJ MORGAN wrote: "Rest assured that if blasphemy laws are mooted by any religious or.....
» 4/06/2010 7:34:48 PM Why are we still discussing this in 21st Century Australia? Why is sexual orientation even.....
» 2/06/2010 11:58:28 PM Take for example the thread: "Intelligent design: scientifically and religiously ban.....
» 2/06/2010 9:39:03 PM examinator For the umpteenth time. Though I posed the question my personal answer is: N.....
» 2/06/2010 7:53:01 AM Wobbles wrote: "We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert the.....
» 1/06/2010 6:26:58 PM In fairness CJ Morgan it was you who brought up Islam / Muslims in your first post on this.....
» 1/06/2010 2:57:01 PM I am reformulating the first rule: REGARDLESS OF THE ORIGINAL TOPIC as an online discussi.....
» 1/06/2010 1:39:15 PM All of us are familiar with Godwin's rule. One formulation is as follows: "As an onl.....
» 1/06/2010 12:00:48 PM My expectations vis a vis the KRuddster government were low and I have not been disappoint.....
» 1/06/2010 9:23:02 AM WESTRALIS Just to clear something up. I posed the question: "Should Yusuf Islam (.....
» 31/05/2010 11:40:44 PM Here is a better link http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoi.....
» 31/05/2010 11:16:39 PM I have now watched that video a dozen times. It is beyond grotesque. It is TERRIFYING. .....
» 31/05/2010 10:49:07 PM I tried but failed to find youtube footage of Cat Stevens wishing to see Salman Rushdie bu.....
» 31/05/2010 5:48:19 PM Pericles wrote: "You know perfectly well that not all Germans were Nazis, whereas al.....
» 31/05/2010 4:02:46 PM LOL Foxy, I completely agree with your post of Monday, 31 May 2010 3:33:02 PM.....
» 31/05/2010 2:28:33 PM Benq asks: "Crackcup, are you afraid that boat people will do to us what our ancesto.....
» 31/05/2010 11:39:16 AM The only "haters" who really worry me are those who hate - and therefore refuse .....
» 31/05/2010 8:35:01 AM Michael, My problem with religion has nothing to do with creationism or intelligent desig.....
» 30/05/2010 8:19:51 PM Pelican As I have said on other threads, I do NOT regard Islam as a significant threat. P.....
» 30/05/2010 2:21:19 PM I think I need to clarify my own position here. I am NOT endorsing "80 and out".....
» 30/05/2010 12:38:08 PM CJ Morgan The trouble is that what you seem to regard as "Islamism" mosque-atte.....
» 30/05/2010 9:59:21 AM With friends like the English Defence League Israel may not need enemies. I suspect that.....
» 30/05/2010 9:50:05 AM Cornflower, Supposing my child had a serious illness. Supposing further there existed a d.....
» 30/05/2010 9:04:19 AM About having "an agenda" Yes I do have "an agenda." My agenda is to m.....
» 30/05/2010 8:36:58 AM Mikk wrote: "All Australians should be taught the ways of the real owners of this la.....
» 30/05/2010 2:19:22 AM Two Fascisms collide English Fascists: http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/may/28/english-.....
» 30/05/2010 12:13:25 AM LOL Foxy You say Stevens' comments were taken "out of context" Here's what the.....
» 29/05/2010 5:51:19 PM Here is a link to a contemporaneous account in the NY Times: http://www.nytimes.com/books.....
» 28/05/2010 5:18:36 PM In Britain the National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) sets the parameters for t.....
» 28/05/2010 11:59:27 AM This according to Wikipedia: QUOTE On February 21, 1989, Yusuf Islam [formerly Cat Steve.....
» 28/05/2010 10:00:12 AM Hear hear. I am 64. When I turned 60 I made a decision. If I start dementing I am going t.....
» 28/05/2010 9:48:11 AM LOL Pericles I don't know about the interchanges between you and ALGOREisRICH. But given .....
» 27/05/2010 7:20:54 PM Just to be clear I dissociate myself from Arjay's post. The conquered do not owe the con.....
» 27/05/2010 6:26:56 PM gundubuldany I'm probably going to be called a racist for this post but here goes anyway......
» 27/05/2010 6:17:43 PM This is the one that blew me away. http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18523-dna-20-a-n.....
» 27/05/2010 1:58:08 PM Yuyutsu asks: "…do you actually believe then that some god who was created in man's .....
» 27/05/2010 12:32:41 PM Bollocks, bollocks and more bollocks Yuyutsu wrote: "To measure God by the world, s.....
» 27/05/2010 10:35:30 AM Stop their pocket money! That'll put a halt to the little buggers' consumption......
» 27/05/2010 10:25:10 AM Belly And others With respect, I think this is the wrong question. I do not know whethe.....
» 26/05/2010 9:51:27 PM Pericles, Re your post of Tuesday, 25 May 2010 6:02:30 PM Are you saying that, yes inde.....
» 25/05/2010 4:34:52 PM Pericles Christianity, Hinduism & Judaism are indeed also belief systems. So is Zionism. .....
» 25/05/2010 3:25:09 PM LOL CJ MORGAN There we go again with the I-word as in "Islamophobe". Actually .....
» 24/05/2010 5:33:22 PM Foxy wrote: "You really need to respect the right of others Steven, to disagree with.....
» 24/05/2010 1:43:34 PM Foxy wrote: "Prejudice has made damned experts of us all!" Yes it has. Spot .....
» 24/05/2010 12:26:59 PM IF YOU WANT PEACE PREPARE FOR WAR! This saying is usually attributed to Publius Flavius V.....
» 23/05/2010 9:41:08 PM Foxy I am afraid your last post is a piece of self-righteous humbuggery.....
» 23/05/2010 3:40:14 PM Foxy wrote: 1) kesatuan dalam keragaman. And - 2) hidup dan membiarkan hidup. These ar.....
» 23/05/2010 2:12:02 PM ONE UNDER GOD wrote: "your a funny-boy..steven..." I'm not being funny at all......
» 23/05/2010 11:24:54 AM ONE UNDER GOD I would like to introduce you to your Islamic counterpart. Meet: kaanansa.....
» 23/05/2010 9:23:33 AM When I said "good quality" I did not mean in a "genetic" sense. I mea.....
» 22/05/2010 9:14:41 PM ALGOREisRICH You are missing the point. So did the Herald Sun. Asian immigrants and the.....
» 22/05/2010 5:43:32 PM ALGOREisRICH I have been following the adventures of Ezra Levant for some time. Here is h.....
» 22/05/2010 4:55:49 PM Israeli scientists are among world leaders in the brand new field of "regenerative me.....
» 22/05/2010 2:54:36 PM Runner Meet your Islamic counterparts. http://muslimvillage.com/forums/index.php?showtop.....
» 22/05/2010 11:53:38 AM CJ MORGAN There is no doubt that Muslim Village and OLO add to what Samuel Johnson called.....
» 22/05/2010 10:04:11 AM ALGOREisRICH The "Muslim Village Forum" website has long been a source of fasci.....
» 21/05/2010 5:49:24 PM Pericles asks why "We don't actually see any Muslims here making outlandish claims an.....
» 21/05/2010 5:02:52 PM RACE WAR TIME BOMB screams the front page of the Herald Sun newspaper of 19 May. It is a s.....
» 21/05/2010 2:27:07 PM Pericles, Foxy, You are missing the point. None of us believes the bible or koran is som.....
» 21/05/2010 1:49:23 PM Mohammad Ali I have to agree with mac. Multiculturalism and immigration are two separate .....
» 21/05/2010 10:38:46 AM LOL David Singer You wrote: "I won't be responding to any of your [mikk's]comments.....
» 20/05/2010 11:44:59 PM It is really hard to do justice to Israel's achievements in sci-tech. In my previous post.....
» 20/05/2010 10:47:30 PM Haroon Consider: Narrated Abu Said Al-Khudri: Once Allah's Apostle went out to the Musa.....
» 19/05/2010 9:24:37 PM This is good news David. But it does not begin to describe the magnitude of Israel's achie.....
» 19/05/2010 8:19:36 PM This seems an appropriate thread to point out that tomorrow, 20 May 2010, is the world's f.....
» 18/05/2010 2:04:25 PM Vanna wrote: "Ironically, theories regards evolution are themselves evolving." .....
» 18/05/2010 1:39:55 PM A politician admitting he sometimes tells porkies. http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/201.....
» 18/05/2010 12:57:37 PM Pakistan is doomed anyway - as this BBC ASSIGNMENT program illustrates: http://www.bbc.co.....
» 18/05/2010 10:29:03 AM A question I've been pondering since +- 1990. Will Europe become Islamised? Will it become.....
» 18/05/2010 9:30:52 AM vanna "Punctuated equilibrium" is a theory about the way Darwinian evolution th.....
» 17/05/2010 2:01:40 PM What the KRuddster has going for him is the simple fact that Australians rarely kick out a.....
» 17/05/2010 8:22:49 AM Question to all protagonists on this thread: I should care what religiously inspired frui.....
» 13/05/2010 8:51:05 AM Houellebecq wrote: "[She was fired] because she had run out of tricks and was resort.....
» 8/05/2010 1:30:27 PM The British election results have got more thinking about electoral reform. Here is the .....
» 7/05/2010 2:47:38 PM A few comments The argument that more people will give greater economies of scale is ridi.....
» 6/05/2010 7:38:44 PM cornonacob asks: "Is there a part two where you tell us exactly how we could impleme.....
» 5/05/2010 7:37:17 PM Kipp The Atlantic is neither UK nor Tory nor a "rag". It is generally considere.....
» 4/05/2010 5:10:28 PM ChrisPer and others In 2008 Obama got 78% of the Jewish vote. In 2004 Kerry only managed.....
» 4/05/2010 1:59:01 PM David G Nevertheless immigration is shaping up to be an issue in the UK. From the Telegr.....
» 4/05/2010 10:53:07 AM Pericles, CJ Morgan Ever wonder why evidence to the contrary just seems to strengthen som.....
» 3/05/2010 4:19:40 PM LOL David G Of course I don't think the Earth is flat. Everyone knows it's shaped like a .....
» 3/05/2010 10:53:10 AM OF COURSE ISRAEL CONTROLS THE USA! Democritus is being ingenuous in pretending not to not.....
» 2/05/2010 6:28:59 PM Let's hope this idea is never resurrected. The idea of a Great Firewall of Australia to m.....
» 29/04/2010 5:18:10 PM Pericles You and me both mate! But does it matter?.....
» 29/04/2010 11:03:45 AM Peter, A change to the preamble is probably the LEAST of the Uniting Church's problems. .....
» 29/04/2010 8:50:42 AM suzeonline Hear, hear! Spot on......
» 28/04/2010 10:43:17 AM Natalie Hunter, Let me tell you a secret. It's probably the worst kept secret in Australi.....
» 28/04/2010 10:15:13 AM CJ Morgan, Why do WE fight? AUSTRALIA is fighting in Afghanistan because both the Howard.....
» 28/04/2010 8:14:55 AM Goldman Sach's "$hitty" deal. Scroll down and watch the video http://news.goog.....
» 27/04/2010 5:44:19 PM Stan, Arjay I suggest you both buy bicycles......
» 25/04/2010 6:05:12 PM LOL Pericles, These posts of Arjay's do provide an occasional bit of comic relief......
» 24/04/2010 3:27:33 PM Y'know I begin to understand how the bankers get away with robbing us blind. Every time so.....
» 24/04/2010 9:17:13 AM Foxy wrote: "From my understanding, Iran is developing nuclear power plants not wepo.....
» 23/04/2010 12:57:18 PM Well there's religious indoctrination. And then there's religious indoctrination: http://.....
» 22/04/2010 10:08:00 PM Foxy I did get that you were joking. But I am serious in asking why you of all people, .....
» 22/04/2010 6:50:47 PM examinator I haven't believed anything bankers say since 1977. That's when I went to work.....
» 22/04/2010 6:49:36 PM Foxy wrote: "As for your other references. I need more evidence please? ;-)" .....
» 22/04/2010 8:12:20 AM http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/04/20/jon-stewart-takes-on-gold_n_544102.html I can th.....
» 21/04/2010 8:08:01 PM Foxy, --Iran is not developing nuclear weaponry. --George Bush did not have Iraq's oil r.....
» 21/04/2010 7:52:20 PM Here is a link to a transcript of the Abdullah's interview with WSJ http://online.wsj.com.....
» 21/04/2010 12:22:16 AM Proxy One variant of the game of chicken is as follows. Two cars drive towards each othe.....
» 21/04/2010 12:03:37 AM Vanna wrote: "My guess is that you would want to develop a brand new planet, populat.....
» 20/04/2010 2:32:35 PM BRIAN HOLDEN the world is going to change in ways old-fashioned lefties like you cannot be.....
» 18/04/2010 4:46:16 PM Maybe this will convince the creationists http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEcEwPszfrE And.....
» 15/04/2010 10:20:42 AM David Singer wrote: "If you are arguing for the abandonment of international law the.....
» 4/04/2010 8:56:37 AM David Singer, Watch this clip http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npjOSLCR2hE Take note of .....
» 4/04/2010 8:41:54 AM Baygon wrote: "(even though the judiciary administers the laws passed by parliament......
» 29/03/2010 12:35:44 PM Peter Sellick Here is my promise to you. Provide me with some real hard evidence that th.....
» 29/03/2010 10:17:06 AM Yabby wrote: "There is clearly huge money to be made out of religion,..." You'.....
» 28/03/2010 11:25:13 AM Every day I say a little one sentence prayer: Thank you God for making me an atheist. My.....
» 24/03/2010 10:17:48 PM I expected KRudd to make an ass of himself and he has not disappointed......
» 23/03/2010 9:55:16 AM Joel I think you misunderstand what it is to be an atheist. First a definition. In what.....
» 23/03/2010 12:44:43 AM Joel, Since you apparently do not believe in God you are first and foremost an atheist. .....
» 16/03/2010 7:56:26 AM In 1774 James Hutton, the founder of modern geology, embarked on a solo expedition to coll.....
» 15/03/2010 10:19:49 AM Can you imagine the furore if, in 2010, teachers at a boarding school were to throw fire c.....
» 14/03/2010 9:30:03 AM Arthur Conan Doyle writing to his mother from Stonyhurst School in 1872. Conan Doyle was 1.....
» 28/02/2010 4:35:24 PM David Singer And as I've said for the umpteenth time, most Muslims do not agree with what.....
» 28/02/2010 12:24:44 AM we are unique I "hold this view" because it is factually correct. We do not sha.....
» 27/02/2010 10:24:49 PM Singer wrote: "I do not agree with your claim that the Muslim 23% of humanity will n.....
» 26/02/2010 8:48:55 AM Plantagenet wrote: "Thank Christ Australia has none of those misfortunes" (The .....
» 26/02/2010 7:26:47 AM Mikk, I do not claim that "every muslim is a rabid jew hater" any more than I w.....
» 25/02/2010 7:18:54 AM LOL David Singer, You really do enjoy flogging dead horses. --The Hashemite monarchy con.....
» 19/02/2010 3:58:00 PM Davids f and Singer I call 'em as I see 'em. And what I see is that one fifth of humanity.....
» 19/02/2010 7:20:36 AM David Singer Write out a 100 times: Regardless of what the GOVERNMENTS of various Muslim.....
» 18/02/2010 7:03:08 AM Mikk wrote: "I have also seen reports that the Arabs see the Jews as just one more i.....
» 17/02/2010 3:07:49 PM LOL Nina, Obviously you have been rattled. But never mind. Nobody is forcing you to have.....
» 17/02/2010 12:06:22 PM Dear Mr. Singer, I apologise for my comments on your smoking habits. It seems your inabil.....
» 17/02/2010 8:31:43 AM LOL Thanks rstuart. Interesting post.....
» 16/02/2010 2:03:42 PM mikk: For the reasons I set out in my first post, peace is impossible. For better or wors.....
» 15/02/2010 9:46:42 PM A few observations and comments: --There may or may not have been a Palestinian people pr.....
» 14/02/2010 10:19:32 AM David f It's not only Marxists who have difficulty with the implications of evolution. Mo.....
» 12/02/2010 5:35:31 PM StG Individuals are infinitely variable in their beliefs. For example, it is hardly contr.....
» 12/02/2010 2:04:31 PM Thank you, thank you and THANK YOU for "The Double Tongued Dictionary". See: h.....
» 12/02/2010 9:33:14 AM Graham: It's not only Christians who have problems with evolution. Most Jews are secula.....
» 11/02/2010 11:46:42 AM I do not know to what extent the burqa has been a political symbol in France up till now. .....
» 6/02/2010 1:41:18 PM Dear Foxy, No! No! No! No! No! No! No! No! No! No! No! No! And NO! In case you haven't .....
» 5/02/2010 1:13:13 PM Plantagenet China is not "propping up the US economy". Buying US dollar denomin.....
» 5/02/2010 9:36:33 AM The Australian Government Preventative Health Taskforce credits the cigarette tax (CT) wit.....
» 1/02/2010 5:20:48 PM Coates misses the point. No serious economist doubts the benefits of mercantilism PROVIDED.....
» 26/01/2010 9:40:13 AM LOL Pericles, I note that you have – again – failed to define "mozzie-baiting" .....
» 25/01/2010 2:35:29 PM Pericles, Now this is what I REALLY call "mindless Mozzie-baiting": http://www.....
» 25/01/2010 8:28:00 AM StG I'm glad we've moved away from "Terminator". That was never what I had in m.....
» 24/01/2010 11:16:17 PM Pericles wrote: "… no religion has a monopoly on terrorism…." You understate .....
» 24/01/2010 10:44:39 PM Apologies, I posted the wrong link. See: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lULl63ERek0 As .....
» 24/01/2010 10:01:17 PM StG Just to set the record straight. The combat robots I have in mind are NOT "ter.....
» 24/01/2010 11:53:30 AM StG I did not say "controversially deployed". The Guardian piece said that. I w.....
» 24/01/2010 10:45:48 AM Lucy wrote: "...you are just trying to justify to yourself why you can be a bully to.....
» 23/01/2010 11:46:24 AM Or, at least, Big Eyes in the Sky will soon be watching Britons. So reports the Guardian. .....
» 23/01/2010 9:25:40 AM I used to be a frequent visitor to the Chinese Governments Xinhuanet website. See: www.xi.....
» 23/01/2010 7:46:17 AM Lucy, When I read some of your posts I wonder. Are you yanking my chain or are you being .....
» 22/01/2010 7:34:05 AM Lucy wrote: "A person should be able to live here without being vilified because of .....
» 20/01/2010 8:06:30 PM Lucy, You are missing my point. I know what the law states. But my point is this: TH.....
» 20/01/2010 9:00:55 AM The work of Henderson-Sellers and McGuffie receives support from a recent study by two Rus.....
» 20/01/2010 7:39:26 AM David Jennings asks: "Was the lobotomy painful?" Nope. In fact it was voluntar.....
» 19/01/2010 3:33:31 PM Shada Islam, The following comments concern CONTEMPORARY Islam. I emphasise the word &quo.....
» 19/01/2010 12:49:02 PM Graham wrote: "In another essay on OLO Stephen Keim suggested that a legal action mi.....
» 19/01/2010 12:34:24 PM Shadow Minister The Arabs have learned their lesson. They no longer think in terms of inf.....
» 18/01/2010 10:19:08 AM Dr Davies, Perhaps you can give me an example of a legitimate use of the word "trick.....
» 18/01/2010 10:02:31 AM It is now 34 days since George Monbiot accused Ian Plimer of lying and fabrication. The ac.....
» 18/01/2010 9:46:48 AM Foxy, We moved here because in South Africa we felt we were playing Russian roulette with.....
» 17/01/2010 10:57:13 AM Shadow_Minister Permit me a correction. Israel has not suffered an attempted invasion s.....
» 15/01/2010 10:44:42 AM Well Bushbred you have a quarter century on me. I hope that when I'm 89, if I make it that.....
» 14/01/2010 7:59:08 AM Bronwyn, examinator, rstuart, Perhaps we have all been too dismissive of the ability of m.....
» 13/01/2010 11:05:32 PM Bushbred, Just to clear up a few points in your posts on this thread. --50 years ago, in.....
» 11/01/2010 3:24:03 PM A POINT OF ORDER I assume Monckton is referring to James Hansen's article in New Scientis.....
» 10/01/2010 6:16:01 PM Spindoc, The analogy with Galileo is false. Plimer has a remedy. He can sue Monbiot and t.....
» 10/01/2010 3:23:59 PM Bronwyn, Sorry I should have been more explicit. I have ZERO faith in the ability of a m.....
» 10/01/2010 12:43:39 PM People who complain about full body scanners at airports are ludicrous. There is no great .....
» 10/01/2010 9:06:43 AM Examinator, It is possible to be both a scientist and a businessman. Ian Plimer presented.....
» 9/01/2010 11:25:24 AM CJ Let me rephrase my last post. Professor Plimer, It is now 25 days since George Monbi.....
» 9/01/2010 8:59:45 AM It is now 25 days since George Monbiot accused Ian Plimer of lying and fabrication. The ac.....
» 8/01/2010 9:56:03 PM Religion in action: http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/2010/01/20101815720872.....
» 8/01/2010 8:04:38 AM Some quotations from the Monbiot – Plimer debate on ABC. In every case I am quoting Monbio.....
» 6/01/2010 10:22:06 AM Individual, If you really want to know how we date rocks and rock paintings there is a hu.....
» 2/01/2010 2:50:32 PM Well new year has certainly started with a "bang" in Pakistan. http://online.ws.....
» 30/12/2009 10:43:23 PM CJ Morgan You call it "vilification of Islam" I call it exposing a vile totali.....
» 30/12/2009 1:33:25 PM LOL CJ Morgan You are tying yourself in knots. "As ever, I'm arguing for tolerance.....
» 29/12/2009 10:19:31 AM LOL CJ Morgan AND KRISTIN PLEASE TAKE NOTE. In truth to me Jung along with Derrida, Freu.....
» 29/12/2009 7:24:53 AM CJ Morgan, Bushbasher, TheMissus, Grateful Note Kristin's post of Monday, 28 December 200.....
» 28/12/2009 9:53:42 AM HermanYutic, Here's the thing. I DON'T FIND THIS FUNNY. I think it is in EXCREMENTALLY .....
» 28/12/2009 1:33:14 AM Bushbasher wrote: "...as if one needs to be an expert to critique yutic's blatantly .....
» 26/12/2009 11:57:10 AM Bushbasher describes Muslims as "underdogs". Muslims make up 20% of humanity. T.....
» 26/12/2009 10:55:56 AM Bushbasher wrote: "with an understanding that your "the" actually makes no.....
» 23/12/2009 7:40:40 PM LOL CJ Morgan You do like those words "Islamophobe" and "Islamophobic".....
» 23/12/2009 6:57:24 AM Pericles wrote: "I see it as a spectrum of discourse that has vulgarity and coarsene.....
» 21/12/2009 10:06:53 AM To hold up as an example of good governance the US with its gerrymandered constituency bou.....
» 20/12/2009 4:12:21 PM LOL Pericles, I was kidding you. Anyway I give them about that amount every month.....
» 19/12/2009 5:13:19 PM DIPLOMAN, A point of order. By the time of Galileo the rotundity of the Earth had long b.....
» 19/12/2009 5:02:22 PM Grateful Please do not quote me out of context. There appears to have been little to no .....
» 19/12/2009 11:00:58 AM Glad you all like it. Everyone here has probably heard of the Hubble Space telescope. Les.....
» 18/12/2009 11:15:18 PM Pericles, From the tenor of your post time stamped Friday, 18 December 2009 10:51:33 AM I.....
» 18/12/2009 4:50:16 PM Shadow Minister Most people here have never lived in a country where the media are censor.....
» 18/12/2009 4:26:54 PM Scroll to the bottom to see cool video. Also:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDd8R0xlkNA&f.....
» 18/12/2009 4:07:48 PM Just for the sheer beauty of it all http://www.skytopia.com/project/fractal/mandelbulb.ht.....
» 18/12/2009 3:43:00 PM Has dark matter finally been detected? See: http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2009/dec/17.....
» 18/12/2009 2:08:09 PM Agreed Foxy, In retrospect I regret starting this thread. That's why I am making no furth.....
» 18/12/2009 1:44:42 PM Pericles wrote: "Words have been employed throughout history to kill people. ".....
» 18/12/2009 10:47:24 AM Foxy, You are one of the very few people I've encountered in Australia who understands th.....
» 17/12/2009 2:42:22 PM Oh dear, The topic of this thread is changing to which superstition is the more frightful.....
» 17/12/2009 11:48:56 AM LOL Foxy, Back in 1965 I was a "communist" according to an apparatchik of the A.....
» 17/12/2009 10:57:16 AM An excellent article Mr. Scissors. A few additional points. In order to maintain the peg.....
» 17/12/2009 10:05:11 AM I don’t much like Andrew Bolt. He's a rabblerouser. But I've never seen him tell an outri.....
» 17/12/2009 8:19:43 AM CJ Morgan as usual distorts my posts. I was not "quoting Andrew Bolt as an authorit.....
» 17/12/2009 12:00:19 AM Grateful wrote: "We are not dealing with very intelligent people here." LOL S.....
» 16/12/2009 11:09:10 PM CJ Morgan Yes I do know that in some cultures people are "betrothed" and the ma.....
» 16/12/2009 10:42:13 PM Bushbred To the best of my knowledge the last time Australian troops fought in South Afri.....
» 15/12/2009 8:50:57 PM Let me get this straight. Daisy, THEN JUST EIGHT YEARS OLD, was removed to stop her ".....
» 15/12/2009 6:49:24 AM Arjay, If Union Oil wants to build a pipeline in Afghanistan let them raise a private arm.....
» 14/12/2009 6:07:25 PM Afghanistan is not worth the life of even one more Australian soldier or the expenditure o.....
» 13/12/2009 7:03:43 AM Interesting post John Dawson if that's who you are. I mean no offence. You may be John Daw.....
» 12/12/2009 10:17:30 PM John Dawson Are you the John Dawson mentioned in the piece Foxy urges us to read titled &.....
» 12/12/2009 6:58:45 AM I need to correct something that CJ Morgan wrote. I severed my last links with academe tw.....
» 11/12/2009 8:11:10 PM Foxy, Thank you for drawing my attention to the case of Trevorrow v South Australia Here .....
» 11/12/2009 3:49:59 PM StG Most of the people I've met who believe passionately in the stolen generation have ha.....
» 11/12/2009 10:14:45 AM AXIVANTOTO IS THE CAUSE OF THE WORLD Axivantoto is a schoolboy. What "we" think.....
» 11/12/2009 10:05:27 AM A few additional comments I do not question that many aboriginal children were removed fr.....
» 9/12/2009 10:32:41 PM Bugsy, The production of isotopes was the rationale given for the new Lucas Heights react.....
» 9/12/2009 8:57:52 PM I had never heard of the "stolen generation" until I arrived in Australia. Short.....
» 9/12/2009 8:03:42 PM Examinator, For now Australia does not need a nuclear deterrent. Our land is, as the sayi.....
» 9/12/2009 6:38:17 AM Hasbeen, You promised me some research that demonstrates that increasing CO2 levels are c.....
» 8/12/2009 10:07:23 PM Especially Andy1 they pretend the laws of physics do not exist. Scepticism is good. Deni.....
» 8/12/2009 1:02:48 PM LOL Col Rouge, There is a young man called Rouge Whose ignorance of climatology is huge N.....
» 7/12/2009 10:53:58 PM Hasbeen, Disappointing. You promised me some research that showed how atmospheric water.....
» 7/12/2009 11:23:23 AM Hasbeen, THAT IS VERY INTERESTING If it is possible to demonstrate that a negative feedb.....
» 7/12/2009 10:19:55 AM Well speaking of OBJECTIVITY Col Rouge, Let's start with some OBJECTIVITY about simple ph.....
» 7/12/2009 8:29:44 AM Your body needs energy. So does the Earth if it is not to freeze. Your body gets its ener.....
» 4/12/2009 11:55:16 PM Ozzie asks: "I wonder what life would be like for aboringines if whites had not arri.....
» 3/12/2009 7:34:04 PM nalood100 I do not know what TheMissus' source is. But here is a source. http://www.huf.....
» 3/12/2009 9:25:12 AM THE DOG THAT DIDN'T BARK (AND THE DOG THAT ONLY YELPED A BIT) "Is there any point t.....
» 1/12/2009 8:00:42 PM Fellow_Human At bottom I don’t think this has anything to do with minarets. I think the v.....
» 30/11/2009 10:48:51 PM What do I do to chill out? Cycle.....
» 30/11/2009 7:29:16 PM Examinator, I certainly do not claim to be able to follow Horava's maths myself. But I fi.....
» 30/11/2009 7:20:24 PM odo, I have little doubt that a referendum on cutting back immigration would succeed in A.....
» 30/11/2009 1:07:03 PM Scary indeed CJ Morgan. I wonder what would be the outcomes if other European countries h.....
» 30/11/2009 12:59:44 PM Ever since I can remember the major roadblock to progress in physics has been the inabilit.....
» 26/11/2009 10:52:58 PM Here's an example of where this is leading: Andrew Bolt suggests the data showing a warmi.....
» 26/11/2009 3:02:59 PM JBowyer wrote: stevenlmeyer You assert "no this does not discredit all the science b.....
» 25/11/2009 7:48:21 PM Bronwyn wrote: "Monbiot is not at all persuaded that these emails discredit the whol.....
» 25/11/2009 7:18:21 AM More from George Monbiot: "...But there are some messages that require no spin to ma.....
» 25/11/2009 6:54:00 AM Examinator, For the umpteenth time – whatever umpteen is – this is NOT, repeat NOT, one m.....
» 23/11/2009 10:29:19 PM Examinator Phil Jones to Michael Mann, 3 February 2005: Excerpt: "If they ever hea.....
» 23/11/2009 11:40:01 AM rstuart I mostly agree with your last post. I should have placed greater emphasis on the .....
» 23/11/2009 9:57:55 AM Sancho, I am not a climate change denier. On the contrary I think the case for anthropog.....
» 22/11/2009 10:10:32 PM Bronwyn, You don’t need a "random sample" to prove fudging. I have managed to .....
» 22/11/2009 7:30:26 PM Correction. It turns out the BBC has reported on the hacking of the Climate Research Unit.....
» 22/11/2009 1:44:21 PM Shadow Minster You wrote: "The fetus continues developing as an individual until a.....
» 22/11/2009 10:04:30 AM If this story in the Wall Street Journal is correct the answer is yes. http://online.wsj......
» 21/11/2009 10:13:41 PM Examinator LOL Surely you jest. You write: "I find the assumption that girls/wome.....
» 21/11/2009 5:23:05 PM Continued: Peter Singer, the well-known "ethicist", advocates killing deformed .....
» 21/11/2009 5:04:26 PM Examinator, Take a deep breath. I agree with your last post. You are obviously an unwitt.....
» 21/11/2009 3:53:08 PM TO ALL POSTERS I phrased my original post badly. I should have used "pro-choice".....
» 20/11/2009 11:24:36 PM CJ Morgan, I am not sure why I have to provide evidence that women "routinely, or ev.....
» 20/11/2009 10:05:19 PM LOL csteele, let me rephrase: THIS IS A CHALLENGE TO PEOPLE WHO ARE PRO-CHOICE Not pro-a.....
» 20/11/2009 4:44:20 PM For the purposes of this thread I am referring to abortion used as a means of birth contro.....
» 20/11/2009 4:07:21 PM Let me get this straight. Ms Wilson purports to expect religious folk to be kind to their.....
» 16/11/2009 11:53:27 AM Jon.Jay "…lies, damn lies and statistics" indeed. But, more to the point, SLE.....
» 13/11/2009 4:04:56 PM Csteele Glad you liked the link. Like you I would like to see Australia less dependent o.....
» 13/11/2009 3:37:52 PM The British House of Lords recently published a report on immigration. See: http://www......
» 13/11/2009 8:06:10 AM Csteele In an effort to bring this thread back to the topic. Are you saying that the int.....
» 12/11/2009 7:18:26 AM Bazz, I think you are looking at this the wrong way around. Chinese and Indian civilisati.....
» 10/11/2009 6:59:43 AM I am intrigued that no one here has been able to cite a single study that shows net benefi.....
» 9/11/2009 1:19:23 PM The JamesH, TheMissus, The whole premise of this article is flawed. Boey provides ZERO e.....
» 9/11/2009 6:32:23 AM Examinator Here's the rub. Usually when the government announces an important policy it .....
» 8/11/2009 5:02:19 PM suzeonline, You have not actually explained how large scale immigration will benefit the .....
» 8/11/2009 10:32:24 AM In the interests of transparency we are a family of immigrants. The four of us arrived her.....
» 8/11/2009 7:05:14 AM Belly asks: "Can we change that part of the world?" The answer: NO! And eve.....
» 7/11/2009 7:09:00 PM Cornflower, If there was enough vaccine to go around giving some of it to employers so th.....
» 7/11/2009 3:52:06 PM Runner --I do not need you to demonstrate to me that much of contemporary terrorism has a.....
» 7/11/2009 7:40:15 AM Why are Wall Street Bankers getting supplies of swine flu vaccine ahead of schools and hos.....
» 7/11/2009 7:26:48 AM Belly wrote: How do we know he [Hasan] is Muslim? The fact that he reportedly shouted &q.....
» 6/11/2009 7:22:25 PM LOL runner I of all people am hardly an apologist for Islam. But this is piffle. People s.....
» 2/11/2009 9:33:08 AM This evades the central question. The Commonwealth will do a better job of urban planning.....
» 30/10/2009 11:29:54 AM This reads like a vacuous response to a vacuous statement by a vacuous politician......
» 29/10/2009 6:56:22 AM This is all taurine fertiliser. The issue for Rudd & Co is not whether there are a few Tam.....
» 26/10/2009 10:25:11 PM Since creating this thread I’ve found it was the topic of a recent BBC Discovery program w.....
» 26/10/2009 12:05:49 PM For a video that explains the hydrologic cycle in very simple terms see: http://www.youtu.....
» 26/10/2009 10:30:15 AM See: http://pseudomonas-syringae.org/Outreach/outreach-images/Psyr_72.jpg What makes it .....
» 23/10/2009 3:15:16 PM Desmond wrote: "obese people cost everybody higher medical costs, and insurance.&quo.....
» 23/10/2009 9:35:27 AM More seriously, For the sake of our kids: --More phys ed in school --More walking and l.....
» 23/10/2009 8:25:45 AM In the interests of transparency I shall make a declaration of interests. I am in favour.....
» 23/10/2009 6:56:16 AM No Philo, I'm afraid this will not do. As the linked article makes clear, Catholic clerg.....
» 22/10/2009 7:48:19 PM Individual I think that Steven Weinberg put it best. "Good people will do good thin.....
» 22/10/2009 4:58:57 PM Since CJ MORGAN did import Islam into this thread I thought I would reinforce my point abo.....
» 22/10/2009 11:23:47 AM Oh dear CJ MORGAN, there you go again with your favourite cuss word. Islamophobe. But wh.....
» 20/10/2009 10:33:47 PM LOL CJ MORGAN Not that hoary old chestnut! Can't you be a little more original than to c.....
» 20/10/2009 7:24:00 PM EXAMINATOR wrote: "There IS no moral right to get stuck into/vilify someone/religion.....
» 20/10/2009 7:24:16 AM PETER SELLECK, it is NOT the creation legends that disturb me about the bible. It is the.....
» 19/10/2009 4:26:06 PM Examinator, With respect you are missing the point. Why, in a secular state, does religio.....
» 19/10/2009 11:55:11 AM LOL Rusty I am indebted to you for introducing me to "Project Steve". Steven .....
» 19/10/2009 6:57:07 AM It looks as if Australia will get a human rights act. See for example: http://www.humanri.....
» 17/10/2009 3:31:40 PM Shadow Minister wrote: "God is not the cause of the world. But will probably be the.....
» 12/10/2009 7:34:25 AM Pericles, Daggett: Here is MY VERY OWN 9/11 CONSPIRACY THEORY Most of the "issues&q.....
» 11/10/2009 10:35:08 PM BTW Millikan is certainly one of the more intiguing figures of early 20th Century physics......
» 11/10/2009 10:06:43 PM OUG A correction to OUG's previous post. Robert A. Millikan won a Nobel in 1923. See: .....
» 10/10/2009 6:54:37 PM Examinator wrote: "No-one has considered multiple party gay marriages" I beg t.....
» 10/10/2009 2:56:00 PM LOL RobP The "Jewess" you are thinking of was probably Lisa Meitner. Together w.....
» 10/10/2009 8:36:07 AM I'm glad you all like this thread. Examinator, RobP, Robby22, Pied Piper When deciding o.....
» 9/10/2009 4:42:40 PM My runners up for "Person of the 20th Century" would be Werner Heisenberg and Ma.....
» 9/10/2009 3:37:45 PM In 2000 TIME Magazine dubbed Albert Einstein the "Person of the Twentieth Century&quo.....
» 8/10/2009 7:32:28 AM LOL Gusi, Consider this scenario. Man KT marries women A, B, C and D. Woman C discovers.....
» 7/10/2009 6:02:32 PM LOL examinator, For once we find ourselves in agreement. Quick, check to see whether thi.....
» 7/10/2009 7:01:56 AM Afghanistan probably was a haven for terrorism. It probably will be again. Ditto Pakistan......
» 6/10/2009 10:25:37 PM LOL Jon J Is that a genuine quote or did you make it up? On second thoughts it must be g.....
» 6/10/2009 7:12:56 AM Bugsy wrote: "They are on a losing team, that's why they're terrorists." For o.....
» 6/10/2009 6:52:07 AM For those who are interested here is some youtube footage of the winner of the DARPA urban.....
» 5/10/2009 9:12:38 AM Mr. von Brasch I strongly endorse the sentiments you express. You have put the case aga.....
» 4/10/2009 9:19:57 PM LOL examinator There you are nefarious Zionist plot detector turned up to maximum sensiti.....
» 4/10/2009 4:19:14 PM A few additional points I have always been sceptical of the ability of terrorist organisa.....
» 4/10/2009 1:37:20 PM So Iran has the know-how to make WMDs (See http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE5.....
» 3/10/2009 1:14:12 AM LOL Bugsy, If berating me gives you "great pleasure" then I am glad to be of se.....
» 2/10/2009 5:19:45 PM LOL Bugsy, Do get over yourself. You write: "I am not exactly sure what you are ho.....
» 30/09/2009 11:25:16 AM Pericles If having an appendix increased the likelihood that, say, you will die before ha.....
» 30/09/2009 8:15:17 AM Bugsy, If you are truly interested you should, at the very least, be reading New Scientis.....
» 29/09/2009 7:48:35 AM Examinator, I am not trolling. We have state school systems that are so dysfunctional the.....
» 29/09/2009 7:35:19 AM LOL Pericles, "modern medical care and sanitation practices,…" is, in evolution.....
» 28/09/2009 2:05:48 PM Rstuart, I doubt we shall see atheists vanishing for two reasons: --At most we inherit a.....
» 28/09/2009 1:52:52 PM Hi Bugsy, As I've pointed the article I linked is but one of many. They all point in the .....
» 28/09/2009 9:30:17 AM This is fun. We have a dysfunctional over-bureaucratised school system that cannot effect.....
» 27/09/2009 10:30:01 PM Hi Bugsy, There have been a number of papers on the effects of "assortative mating&q.....
» 27/09/2009 6:17:08 PM Grim wrote: "I think it is true the majority of theists 'inherit' their religion, or.....
» 26/09/2009 3:56:10 PM CJ MORGAN, How dare you! We thoroughly enjoyed our free periods twice a week. In summer .....
» 26/09/2009 2:25:26 PM Rstuart I think you are probably right. My own feeling is that the human ecological niche.....
» 26/09/2009 12:19:52 AM Mikk I made a forecast. I was hoping for a discussion. OVERSIMPLIFIED explanation of twi.....
» 25/09/2009 12:50:40 PM Burbs wrote: "You could probably link that german children of the 20's and 30's had .....
» 25/09/2009 10:44:50 AM Aaah examinator I was wondering whether you would appear, nefarious Zionist plot detector.....
» 24/09/2009 9:08:57 PM Sancho, KMB? Sorry old son, you'll have to help me out there. I looked in acronymfinder.....
» 24/09/2009 2:31:38 PM LOL mikk You appear to think I am a "believer". I am not. To answer the variou.....
» 24/09/2009 10:41:16 AM Let's put together several strands of research. STRAND 1 There is no "religion gene.....
» 23/09/2009 8:17:21 AM George, Your post reflects a major plank in Stark's case. Given the nature of European so.....
» 22/09/2009 9:46:55 PM Hi Oliver, Rodney Stark does have peer review journal articles. Here is a link to his web.....
» 22/09/2009 8:37:54 AM LOL examinator, I know your views - including an unparalleled ability to detect nefarious.....
» 22/09/2009 8:06:38 AM Wobbles, I find it difficult to accept "a stagnant 500 years of ignorance … in the W.....
» 21/09/2009 10:43:36 PM Hi RobP Round about the year 1000 AD various people started experimenting with curved gla.....
» 21/09/2009 6:12:58 PM A few more points I could not make within the 350 word limit of my original post. Popular.....
» 21/09/2009 2:11:00 PM Dear Prof. Lynch I entirely support your stance against censorship. Both SBS reporters an.....
» 21/09/2009 1:23:39 PM Myth: The Roman Empire falls. Europe, in the grip of anti-scientific Christianity, lapses.....
» 3/09/2009 8:14:29 AM CJ MORGAN wrote: "...I'm going to wait for a less despicable example before I protes.....
» 2/09/2009 7:45:31 AM StG You attack people for their beliefs all the time. You are attacking me now for my bel.....
» 31/08/2009 12:07:34 PM I find Steven Lewis' and Peter Wertheim's self-righteous piece in The Australian of 18 Aug.....
» 27/08/2009 11:31:33 AM Excellent article. I carried out an analysis of one clinical trial called JUPITER. You c.....
» 27/08/2009 10:44:26 AM OK, let me rush in where angels fear to tread. Was there a stolen generation? I know a n.....
» 26/08/2009 7:56:05 AM Chris Lewis asks: Is John Pilger’s negative view of US leadership justified? Steven Meye.....
» 25/08/2009 5:41:40 PM Odo Up to a point I agree with you. Not every mass murder should be labelled a "geno.....
» 24/08/2009 11:32:58 PM Foxy, Well said. Once again Stalin's atrocities get airbrushed out of history. The prob.....
» 13/08/2009 7:54:43 AM Taner wrote: "…do a search on the amount of innocent human lives lost within the las.....
» 13/08/2009 12:07:07 AM Themistocles, Kactuz There is a certain kind of self-righteous pundit who, on finding him.....
» 11/08/2009 4:20:47 PM CJ Morgan, Thank you for your compliments. I am as proud to bear the label "Islam-.....
» 11/08/2009 2:58:06 PM More regulation Curmudgeon? By who? The same people who audited Madoff for two years an.....
» 11/08/2009 8:37:02 AM You raise an interesting point Horus. Did Hitler think of himself as a Christian? Was he i.....
» 10/08/2009 2:55:29 PM Nice try kactuz If Cicek responds it will be along the lines of "You are taking a fe.....
» 9/08/2009 9:43:08 PM Pericles, Foreign Policy is a highly respected to journal to which I happen to subscribe......
» 9/08/2009 12:13:26 PM cj morgan (whisper it) wrote: "I think that Australia needs more Orhan Ciceks and fe.....
» 9/08/2009 11:14:08 AM Fractelle, While at school more decades ago than I care to remember I wrote a story about.....
» 8/08/2009 12:18:48 PM Congratulations OUG! This thread is now a week old. In multiple posts you have managed to.....
» 8/08/2009 10:29:11 AM TR, LOL, well put. Let's look at the "respect" issue that CJ MORGAN raises. C.....
» 7/08/2009 5:48:49 PM Mr Cicek, Let me offer you a reality check. You may believe "Allah" transmitted.....
» 1/08/2009 3:38:59 PM Oliver, The number of coincidences that have to come together to make chemically based li.....
» 1/08/2009 12:36:27 PM Just to clear a few things up. I personally doubt the existence of an "intelligent d.....
» 1/08/2009 10:29:09 AM The following statements could both be true. -Religions are false -God exists At least .....
» 30/07/2009 8:18:07 AM Seems the French are not the only people engaged in "What to wear imperialism". .....
» 27/07/2009 3:35:26 PM I should point out that the enlightenment project is not merely under attack from religion.....
» 27/07/2009 1:54:18 PM CJ MORGAN wrote: "The rise of aggressive Islamic fundamentalism probably acted as so.....
» 27/07/2009 8:50:47 AM PERICLES, I can name at least one man who counts himself as a liberal who has defended Da.....
» 26/07/2009 5:29:04 PM In retrospect I suppose I never was a true Leftie. I was living in South Africa and was ag.....
» 25/07/2009 5:56:41 PM Shadow Minster I LOVE that analogy. Mind if I use it – with attribution of course? suzeo.....
» 25/07/2009 9:54:24 AM This year has been pregnant with anniversaries. 400 years ago Galileo pointed a telescope .....
» 24/07/2009 11:50:40 PM Examinator I am not proposing to "punish" anyone. Most overweight or obese Aus.....
» 24/07/2009 2:19:16 PM Examinator Nobody is saying that only fat people get heart attacks or that only smokers g.....
» 24/07/2009 1:01:15 PM On a current topic, should you allow yourself to be vaccinated against swine flu when a va.....
» 24/07/2009 7:57:28 AM Suzeonline On Q&A last one of the panellists, Dr. Charlie Teo, a neurosurgeon, made the f.....
» 23/07/2009 8:17:29 PM There are some interesting points being raised here. Could you for example walk up Glenhu.....
» 20/07/2009 7:27:45 PM I WANT A KINDLE! I WANT A KINDLE! I WANT A KINDLE!.....
» 20/07/2009 7:23:07 PM CJ MORGAN, Weirdly we are probably on the same side on this one as well. However let's te.....
» 20/07/2009 6:06:51 PM Examinator, Even if we ran the most efficient healthcare system possible, cutting costs, .....
» 20/07/2009 9:56:16 AM Yabby, You are correct. On average FAT SMOKERS have the lowest lifetime healthcare costs......
» 20/07/2009 9:16:11 AM OUG, I am not going to bother to respond to your conspiracy theories. I think we all know.....
» 19/07/2009 3:06:23 PM OUG, And the relevance of your last two posts to the topic of "How far should a secu.....
» 19/07/2009 11:39:29 AM "You have advanced kidney cancer. … A drug called Sutent slows the spread of the canc.....
» 19/07/2009 10:22:30 AM OUG For some reason an Australian court has decreed that denying the Jewish Holocaust tha.....
» 19/07/2009 12:32:58 AM Foxy, For once we seem to be in total agreement – in principle. I do have a pragmatic qui.....
» 18/07/2009 4:28:00 PM Foxy, Let's test what you wrote using specific cases. Do you think there should be gende.....
» 18/07/2009 1:35:20 PM In 2004 many Christians objected to the National Gallery of Victoria's display of "Pi.....
» 16/07/2009 8:16:17 AM For those who have not been following the news about Stern Hu, here are some links: http:.....
» 15/07/2009 3:10:20 PM I hope all the climate change sceptics here are right because the chances of a meaningful .....
» 11/07/2009 1:38:24 PM Ho Hum Quote from your second link: "If science were truly a method for unrestricte.....
» 8/07/2009 3:53:07 PM This is a topic close to my heart. I shall add an erstwhile practitioner's perspective. S.....
» 1/07/2009 8:50:58 AM Perhaps. But, writing in the Guardian two days ago, Denis MacEoin is less sanguine. See:.....
» 28/06/2009 8:13:42 PM Leigh, I am not deceived about the nature of Islam. I consider contemporary Islam to be t.....
» 28/06/2009 8:10:28 PM StG No I do not consider the use of combat robots cowardice. I consider it smart. To para.....
» 28/06/2009 1:44:03 PM Pericles, For once I find myself in agreement with you. Wonders will never cease. :-) Ju.....
» 28/06/2009 12:55:51 PM Stormbay, What's changed is this. In the past the leaders may have "sat on the hill.....
» 28/06/2009 12:15:10 PM More thoughts: In the past soldiers WENT to war. They were on a battlefield. They knew th.....
» 28/06/2009 12:15:56 AM I am reading "WIRED FOR WAR". It is a book about combat robots. The subtitle is .....
» 30/05/2009 3:07:02 PM Foxy, If I thought I could gain an advantage by playing on my gender or ethnicity I'd pro.....
» 30/05/2009 11:35:42 AM NEW DEVELOPMENTS. ASymeonakis, CJ Morgan, Foxy You may be interested in this from Associ.....
» 29/05/2009 4:13:45 PM CJ MORGAN accuses KMB of cherry picking an out of context quote. Here is a link to the com.....
» 24/05/2009 5:43:48 PM Foxy asks: "Was Hitler more evil than Stalin? Or was Stalin more evil than Hitler?&q.....
» 23/05/2009 11:42:10 AM First a correction. Lithuania suffers net e-migration not im-migration. This brings me .....
» 23/05/2009 9:57:38 AM Foxy, Again I am sorry if I am hurting your feelings but facts are facts. POPULATION DEC.....
» 21/05/2009 11:15:08 PM Foxy, You will find no argument from me when you assert that communists got a free pass f.....
» 21/05/2009 8:16:37 PM Foxy, It's not my article. It's der Spiegel's article. If you have problems with it you s.....
» 21/05/2009 3:49:43 PM For an Australian there really are only two foreign languages worth learning. They are Man.....
» 21/05/2009 2:39:30 PM Yes according to this article in Germany's der Spiegel magazine which describes the activi.....
» 12/05/2009 8:04:18 AM Go to Google news and type "Pakistan" in the search box. You will get a stories .....
» 6/05/2009 3:04:51 PM EXAMINATOR, (Re: Sunday, 3 May 2009 5:43:25 PM) Why this case? I counselled against brin.....
» 3/05/2009 3:36:59 PM ROMANY, Let’s apply your principles to the Toben case. So far as I am aware Mr. Toben's s.....
» 3/05/2009 9:51:23 AM Well said MAXIMILLION.....
» 3/05/2009 8:59:47 AM Eggplant! Yecch!.....
» 3/05/2009 8:30:31 AM KMB, nice one! (re your latest post) ARJAY, Voltaire's famous statement is as relevant i.....
» 2/05/2009 12:52:44 PM EVO, Apologies if I misunderstood you. FOXY, I don’t see how we could have discussed th.....
» 2/05/2009 10:43:15 AM HORUS, Thank you for your kind words. I agree. It is not merely religious fundamentalists.....
» 1/05/2009 6:23:12 PM Frederick Toben, Australia's notorious Holocaust denier is not exactly my favourite person.....
» 1/05/2009 5:38:02 PM I cannot comment on the merits or otherwise of the ACCC case against Pratt. However the wa.....
» 27/04/2009 7:51:54 AM Mil-observer, By all means let's invade the Cayman Islands, etc. Then again we could sim.....
» 26/04/2009 7:22:16 PM 'Let us be moved not only by the remembrance of war-time killing and suffering but also, ….....
» 11/04/2009 10:53:22 PM Bronwyn and others, I'm impressed. Obviously OLO punters are statistically savvy. You ar.....
» 11/04/2009 12:16:07 PM Lies, damned lies and statistics! How well do you understand risk? Consider a disease ca.....
» 7/04/2009 10:10:15 AM What does it take to make an institution change its mind? It seemed like an elegant solut.....
» 7/04/2009 9:58:59 AM CJ MORGAN, FRACTELLE Almost everyone, even our old friend BOAZ, believes they hold their .....
» 1/04/2009 7:58:15 AM We were polygamous (and polyandrous) for most of human history. The question is not why so.....
» 30/03/2009 5:51:54 PM Hi R0bert As I said in my original post, I see no downside. People should be free to make.....
» 30/03/2009 12:23:09 PM The Chinese proposal that consumers, rather than producers, take responsibility for their .....
» 30/03/2009 12:15:22 PM LOL Max, Foxy, Be careful. You're laying yourself open to charges of "Mozzie whackin.....
» 29/03/2009 7:23:41 PM Hi Banjo, I wonder whether it is as straightforward as you or your correspondent in the A.....
» 29/03/2009 1:24:23 PM A lawyer friend has pointed out some issues that may tax the legal profession. Why are la.....
» 29/03/2009 9:38:39 AM I may as well start by saying that I have no problem with polygamy, polygyny and polyandry.....
» 28/03/2009 9:19:51 PM Hi Foxy, Supposing a baggage handler from Luton Airport called, not Jalal Ahmed, but John.....
» 28/03/2009 9:59:12 AM Foxy, Horus, thank you for your kind words. (1) Do media ORGANISATIONS attempt to manipul.....
» 27/03/2009 8:40:29 AM Here is how the Guardian website treated a recent news item. http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk.....
» 16/03/2009 7:16:49 AM Those "activists" who, like BAYGON, are not comfortable addressing human rights .....
» 15/03/2009 10:29:40 PM BAYGON writes: "Human rights activists have consistely maintained the position we mu.....
» 15/03/2009 7:11:18 PM The situation in Pakistan continues to develop. Here is an article in the German magazine,.....
» 8/03/2009 2:49:22 PM Oh bollocks! At the time Hilaly made his comments he was Grand Mufti of Australia and Ima.....
» 8/03/2009 9:11:47 AM Let's take another look at Afghanistan where a huge intervention is under way. USA Today .....
» 5/03/2009 8:25:13 AM Cont'd Again a reminder. I am talking about what actions the AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT, not i.....
» 5/03/2009 8:23:31 AM BAYGON You suggest sanctions against Zimbabwe. The Zimbabwe economy is such a wreck that.....
» 3/03/2009 7:08:42 AM Fractelle, OK quid pro quo. I do not believe and have not said Australia should "sh.....
» 2/03/2009 2:41:50 PM Perhaps those of you who are keen to intervene in the affairs of other countries would obl.....
» 2/03/2009 12:42:02 PM David f, Philo. Refugees are a separate issue. Taking in people who succeed in escaping a.....
» 2/03/2009 12:31:06 AM In a Newsweek article titled "Learning to Live With Radical Islam" pundit ".....
» 17/02/2009 2:23:02 PM LOL Pericles, The document is a bit "Orwellian." Maybe something along the lin.....
» 17/02/2009 12:54:44 PM TR It is not only monotheistic religions that "bottom out into xenophobia." To .....
» 17/02/2009 12:00:11 PM Hi Bronwyn You wrote: "They must then, I guess, be attributing 68% to genetics and.....
» 17/02/2009 8:33:17 AM An interim report from the National Health and Hospitals Reform Commission.* Yawn. Sou.....
» 16/02/2009 10:42:36 PM Sancho wrote: "I think it's more likely than not that the subcontinent will be a rad.....
» 16/02/2009 1:47:20 PM Breaking news on Pakistan's war. According to the NY Times, the Pakistani Government and .....
» 16/02/2009 9:38:42 AM Last night SBS' Dateline aired a segment on the war in Pakistan's tribal areas. It was cal.....
» 10/02/2009 6:48:33 AM Rainier, The protesting students were not merely wearing Che T-shirts; they refused to ta.....
» 9/02/2009 12:07:45 PM The religious assault on civil liberties is only just beginning. See for example the atte.....
» 9/02/2009 12:01:18 PM Is this the birth of a new religion? A long time ago in South Africa I saw a group of uni.....
» 31/01/2009 5:19:13 PM The elephant in the room is the digital reader. Amazon's "Kindle" is a "gen.....
» 22/01/2009 8:23:29 AM Fellow_Human, It may be that you consider the establishment of a Jewish state to be a mon.....
» 22/01/2009 7:49:45 AM Fellow_Human, Col Rouge, Let me deal with the question of the Palestinian "refugees&.....
» 21/01/2009 7:49:53 PM Mac, Personally I think the US should try to engage with Iran. However the chances of a s.....
» 21/01/2009 7:40:45 PM Fellow_Human For the moment let us forget the long history of who did what to whom, of wh.....
» 20/01/2009 9:52:22 PM LOL Arjay, Amazing how some people manage to bring Israel into everything even where, as .....
» 19/01/2009 2:49:39 PM This article from the Times of India indicates the danger is not negligible. Both countrie.....
» 19/01/2009 2:10:34 PM The chances of a rapprochement between the US and Iran are slight so long as the corrupt M.....
» 18/01/2009 3:47:58 PM RobP wrote: "…those who talk the loudest are generally the ones you have to worry ab.....
» 18/01/2009 2:55:48 PM FOXY I know you addressed your last post to Bronwyn but I hope you won’t mind if I reply......
» 18/01/2009 2:40:45 PM PALIMPSEST wrote: "…here in oz stats indicate that obesity is linked with lower soci.....
» 18/01/2009 9:13:09 AM Hi Horus, Food is a greater contributor to global warming than driving. A vegetarian who .....
» 17/01/2009 10:16:03 PM I hate euphemisms like "obese" and "overweight." I had become fat. I t.....
» 13/01/2009 11:51:02 PM From New Scientist 10 January 2009: NUCLEAR MIDDLE EAST Iran isn't the only Middle Easte.....
» 13/01/2009 11:33:11 PM Fellow_Human, I think my original post makes it clear......
» 11/01/2009 10:14:58 PM LOL CJ MORGAN, I never thought I'd write these words but here goes: CJ MORGAN, I endorse.....
» 11/01/2009 9:11:17 AM I wonder what IRFAN YUSUF makes of the attempts of various Muslim countries to impose blas.....
» 7/01/2009 11:36:55 AM mac Most Palestinian "refugees" live in the land in which they, their parents a.....
» 6/01/2009 1:21:51 PM Examinator Critics of Israel generally fall into two groups I'll call them "A" .....
» 6/01/2009 11:59:25 AM Much attention has been focused on Israel's Gaza goal. There is a thread devoted to that t.....
» 6/01/2009 10:59:51 AM Let's be clear on something. Hamas is not concerned with the welfare of Palestinians. Ham.....
» 5/01/2009 7:04:30 AM LOL OUG The bottom line from your last two posts is this: You have no evidence whatsoeve.....
» 4/01/2009 8:42:49 AM LOL OUG You really don't get it do you? I am not here to defend the bible, koran, talmud.....
» 4/01/2009 8:12:57 AM Reduced to its simplest terms, here is the Chinese "business model." Me: I want.....
» 4/01/2009 7:32:47 AM OK OUG, let's cut to the quick. Let us suppose, for the sake of argument, that there exis.....
» 1/01/2009 7:19:23 AM Neve Gordon tries to create a mystery where none exists. Israel's "Gaza goal" .....
» 31/12/2008 12:34:36 PM The Palestinians voted for Hamas in a free and fair democratic election. WE MUST RESPECT.....
» 31/12/2008 12:19:35 PM In fact speciation – the evolution of new species – is being observed right now among cich.....
» 24/12/2008 9:01:07 AM It is the unexpected scientific discoveries that are the most consequential. Obvious when .....
» 23/12/2008 8:59:03 PM Polycarp, I agree that Ake Green should not have been prosecuted. Neither should Scott an.....
» 23/12/2008 6:41:27 AM Belly, Interestingly, despite the Bush administration, the most exciting developments in .....
» 22/12/2008 8:15:57 PM LOL Polycarp I was wondering whether it would be you or OUG first off the mark. For what .....
» 22/12/2008 12:11:43 PM I do not consider religion to be the root of ALL evil. Stalin, Pol Pot, Kim Jong Il, athei.....
» 21/12/2008 9:09:14 AM It is impossible to discuss the Middle-East without discussing oil. Were it not for reven.....
» 17/12/2008 7:13:46 AM It would appear that the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) received a tip off about.....
» 16/12/2008 12:45:59 PM rstuart, I am well aware that Madoff ripped off some of the brightest and best. Some of t.....
» 16/12/2008 7:22:14 AM Rstuart, examinator, belly I believe passionately that the best defence against people li.....
» 14/12/2008 4:53:20 PM Bernard Madoff has set a new record. He has ripped off a gullible public to the tune of .....
» 14/12/2008 7:36:06 AM Belly, Glad you found it useful. Sciencedaily.com is an excellent resource. By searchin.....
» 12/12/2008 12:10:31 PM Foxy, Good luck with your exercise program. daltong2005 You don’t make new years' resol.....
» 11/12/2008 8:41:56 AM It is the time of year when people make new years' resolutions. Many people will resolve t.....
» 6/12/2008 10:41:52 AM More evidence that the reasons for the relative paucity among women in the higher echelons.....
» 3/12/2008 7:05:15 AM This news just in: REPORT: WORLD AT RISK OF BIO, NUKE ATTACK See: http://www.abcnews.go.....
» 27/11/2008 2:33:15 PM Just for the record: Animal experimentation is necessary to advance our understanding of .....
» 26/11/2008 6:28:37 AM Rehctub Perhaps God is utterly indifferent to what happens to humans. We occupy one plan.....
» 25/11/2008 9:57:38 PM Anansi, The "lonely professor" is now President-elect Obama's senior economic a.....
» 25/11/2008 7:27:54 AM This post has degenerated into an argument about whether God exists. In this thread, for .....
» 24/11/2008 6:52:22 AM Belly Your thinking is too constrained by the koran / bible. The "real" God is .....
» 23/11/2008 3:12:54 PM Foxy, I've explained to you why I discount the statements you quote. In the current cli.....
» 23/11/2008 10:20:21 AM I do not know whether there exists an entity that could be described as God, the creator o.....
» 23/11/2008 10:13:18 AM Ludwig, I am not going to respond to OUG any further. There is NO evidence that would con.....
» 23/11/2008 9:42:13 AM I think Shadow Minister, Arjay and Bugsy have most of the answer. However I would like to .....
» 22/11/2008 7:25:44 PM FOXY, I am aware that many female academics CLAIM there is gender discrimination in the s.....
» 22/11/2008 6:59:59 PM OUG if you SERIOUSLY want to understand the science of evolutionary biology – which I doub.....
» 22/11/2008 5:19:59 PM FOXY, You seem to be assuming that women do suffer discrimination in the sciences. I fo.....
» 22/11/2008 2:58:50 PM I forgot to post a link to the Discover Magazine article. Here it is: http://discovermaga.....
» 22/11/2008 1:22:00 PM Ludwig, The evidence for evolution is, as you hint, overwhelming. There are only three re.....
» 22/11/2008 9:07:14 AM Biogenesis is still a mystery. There is much speculation, Hypotheses abound, but the botto.....
» 22/11/2008 8:40:34 AM In January 2005 Larry Summers, then president of Harvard, caused a furore when he said tha.....
» 21/11/2008 8:11:00 AM LOL Col Rouge, For once I have to agree with CJ MORGAN. When it comes to fraud the scient.....
» 18/11/2008 12:42:25 PM A news update. Calorie restriction diets such as the one recommended by the CSIRO are kno.....
» 16/11/2008 7:14:14 PM Agronomist, A search revealed that the CSIRO book received quite a bit of coverage in Nat.....
» 14/11/2008 10:14:35 PM Agronomist, I am inclined to agree with you with one quibble. Meat is more than just prot.....
» 14/11/2008 4:06:48 PM Foxy, The trouble is we have two groups of "experts" with different views. Both.....
» 14/11/2008 12:11:10 PM In 2005 the Australian Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO.....
» 14/11/2008 9:29:14 AM StG You raise an interesting point. What are the risk factors we ought to be worried abou.....
» 13/11/2008 3:47:49 PM The general consensus seems to be that terrorists could not engage in sophisticated bio-en.....
» 11/11/2008 3:08:33 PM In thinking about this don't think in terms of a "doomsday bug" that can wipe ou.....
» 11/11/2008 12:53:19 PM In John Brunner's epic science fiction novel, set in 2010, the science of biological engin.....
» 4/10/2008 9:48:06 AM A reality check. Australia is not going to become "a world leader in clean renewable.....
» 2/10/2008 5:54:05 PM This column in the Guardian – hardly a "Mozzie bashing" rage – sets the situatio.....
» 2/10/2008 2:32:38 PM BUGSY As of today the attempt to enforce censorship through terrorism has had very limite.....
» 2/10/2008 11:03:54 AM I'd like to bring some focus back to this thread. The issue is CENSORSHIP through terrori.....
» 29/09/2008 6:51:40 PM Pericles, I'm not sure I agree with your assessment of the efficacy of terrorism. It seem.....
» 29/09/2008 4:20:44 PM It looks as of the great Wall Street bailout is going ahead. See: http://www.nytimes.com.....
» 29/09/2008 4:03:14 PM Here is a view of Peter Hitchens, the author of the article I linked in my original post. .....
» 29/09/2008 12:16:20 PM I can add nothing to this article. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1063.....
» 29/09/2008 11:59:04 AM Here is some more background from the New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/29/w.....
» 28/09/2008 12:55:47 PM Some time ago I published a thread titled "Censorship comes to America." It desc.....
» 27/09/2008 4:50:19 PM An excellent article by someone who actually researches a topic. What a contrast to the .....
» 27/09/2008 2:17:37 PM I have asked a solicitor friend on the situation in Australia. I am paraphrasing the repli.....
» 26/09/2008 6:15:50 PM Pericles wrote: "I would be amazed if there weren't dozens in operation here in Aust.....
» 26/09/2008 12:20:54 PM GW VERY interesting question. If you will permit I'd like to break the question in two: .....
» 26/09/2008 9:29:42 AM For those who are interested here is a BBC report on the inside of a sharia "court.&q.....
» 26/09/2008 7:50:59 AM One clarification on my previous post. It is not the fact that sharia tribunals are decid.....
» 26/09/2008 12:18:50 AM LOL Pericles, Have you considered a career as a theologian? Theologians are expert at p.....
» 25/09/2008 5:55:31 PM Steel wrote: "I still don't get why stevenimeyer has to mention Islam, Muslim or Sha.....
» 24/09/2008 11:20:31 PM LOL Pericles You are tying yourself into knots. I quoted the following: "Siddiqi s.....
» 24/09/2008 3:00:05 PM LOL, will the real Pericles please stand up: Version A: Where there is a criminal elemen.....
» 24/09/2008 11:31:19 AM Thank you for that Pericles. And now we come to the article linked in my original post: .....
» 24/09/2008 9:09:05 AM Pericles asks "Which issues" For the umpteenth time: Should arbitration be an .....
» 23/09/2008 9:18:26 AM OK Pericles, You're not going to address the issues. I get it......
» 22/09/2008 4:13:47 PM Pericles In response to my question "How can we be sure that the parties to a disput.....
» 22/09/2008 11:26:13 AM Pericles: You have not addressed the issues. How can we be sure that the parties to a di.....
» 20/09/2008 7:05:01 PM WHAT WE NEED IS CAPITAL PUNISHMENT I did not see this thread before I posted one of my ow.....
» 20/09/2008 1:53:25 PM What is a "perverse incentive?" Businesses introduce incentives which they hope.....
» 20/09/2008 1:11:22 PM For the record I have spent most of my working life in banks and other financial instituti.....
» 19/09/2008 8:23:00 AM Celivia asks: "So do I understand correctly that within this Alternative Dispute res.....
» 18/09/2008 11:03:24 AM Mjpb, Calm down. The scope of what may be arbitrated is limited. Arbitrators do not ha.....
» 18/09/2008 10:12:52 AM Pericles, As you may see from my original post, and subsequent ones, this is one of the R.....
» 17/09/2008 12:30:56 PM Hope you're back soon Foxy. I agree with the concerns every one has expressed here. Howev.....
» 16/09/2008 10:53:42 PM Bear in mind Foxy that this only applies if BOTH parties consent. If either party objects .....
» 16/09/2008 3:08:04 PM BAZZ, Australia's geostrategic position is very different to that of Israel. Israel has l.....
» 16/09/2008 9:44:51 AM Sharia courts are operating in Britain. Their decisions will be enforced by British courts.....
» 16/09/2008 8:45:56 AM This is not about the so-called "war on terror." It is, if Rudd is correct, abo.....
» 15/09/2008 8:17:41 PM Rudd has made a surprisingly strong statement about defence spending. Not only has the def.....
» 15/09/2008 8:53:07 AM You're probably right Pericles. As a kid I used to play "cowboys and Indians" b.....
» 15/09/2008 7:17:11 AM CJ MORGAN, I am not a lawyer but I think this one MAY cross the line into incitement to v.....
» 11/09/2008 1:38:20 PM Foxy, Hope your flu gets better soon. We seem to be in complete agreement. Nobody I kno.....
» 11/09/2008 12:28:03 PM Foxy, Samsung My questions were not directed at Polycarp. I hope Foxy and Samsung will t.....
» 11/09/2008 12:18:26 AM Foxy wrote: "…We have to decide what is to be acceptable in our society. And the kin.....
» 9/09/2008 9:54:34 AM Samsung, It is meaningless to label free speech, or anything else, anarchy. I don’t think.....
» 6/09/2008 11:23:06 PM Foxy, A few comments. David Irving aside, so far as I am aware it is not a crime in Aust.....
» 6/09/2008 1:03:09 PM I guess if you lash out at random often enough eventually, by sheer chance, you'll make a .....
» 6/09/2008 9:38:14 AM I am encouraged that most people here do not fall for the "I believe in free speech b.....
» 5/09/2008 6:11:49 PM Steel wrote: "I am offended, therefore, you must..." Exactly! Usually with th.....
» 5/09/2008 4:37:50 PM Examinator & others, Let us assume, for the sake of argument only, that as at December 19.....
» 5/09/2008 3:08:48 PM Well CJ MORGAN it would appear that, in principle, we're on the same side here. Whether He.....
» 5/09/2008 12:01:12 PM LOL CJ MORGAN, You've cost me ten bucks. My wife said you would bring up Henson. We bet o.....
» 5/09/2008 11:32:07 AM Looks like "The Jewel of Medina" is to be published after all. See: http://www.....
» 5/09/2008 9:24:05 AM Paul.L The question is: Should the 4 examples I described in my original post be protect.....
» 4/09/2008 3:52:18 PM There is a genre of punditry that I call "I believe in free speech but…." The bu.....
» 31/08/2008 11:45:10 PM Thank you for that Foxy. I shall buy a copy of the book myself. Perhaps there is some sub.....
» 31/08/2008 5:10:54 PM Let's see CJ Morgan, You accuse me of misrepresentation. I was careful to state that th.....
» 31/08/2008 3:04:57 PM Pericles, I am resigned to the fact that you and those like you will dismiss any warning .....
» 31/08/2008 10:14:21 AM Joschka Fischer, former German foreign minister penned an analysis of Russia for today's G.....
» 25/08/2008 7:25:45 PM Examinator, I have no idea what you mean by "discontinuous thinking" I do not .....
» 25/08/2008 6:02:55 PM Bugsy, Those who want war will prepare for war. Vegetius seems to have been addressing h.....
» 25/08/2008 2:35:20 PM Foxy, I am not advocating war. ON THE CONTRARY. One of the surest paths to conflict is .....
» 25/08/2008 11:32:48 AM WOW examinator, That's quite a story. I do not consider myself to be nursing a grudge. .....
» 24/08/2008 6:11:29 PM Fozz, The Iraq war decision is an interesting one. Let's start by understanding a simple.....
» 24/08/2008 4:52:29 PM Bronwyn, Fractelle Despite the jump in rates, most people who originally obtained sub-pri.....
» 24/08/2008 3:35:15 PM An indication of the way Arab society has neglected the development of its people. The mo.....
» 24/08/2008 1:53:28 PM ASymeonakis and others Do any of you understand what a ridiculous little POPINJAY Rudd lo.....
» 24/08/2008 1:22:28 PM Here is Barack Obama, April 2008, as quoted in the Huffington Post: 'You go into some of .....
» 24/08/2008 11:36:31 AM Interesting family histories Foxy and examinator. The previous five generation of my fami.....
» 24/08/2008 9:01:03 AM Bronwyn, It may well be all of the above. However even if, say, predatory lending practi.....
» 23/08/2008 3:44:12 PM RobP wrote: "People in the financial system who have …done something immoral…will ev.....
» 23/08/2008 2:35:49 PM As an example of what MAY be abuse corporate power consider this case reported in The Guar.....
» 23/08/2008 12:57:58 PM CORPORATION, n. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual res.....
» 22/08/2008 3:56:18 PM Interesting. I had titled this thread: BOTH sides are self-righteous [word that rhymes w.....
» 22/08/2008 2:10:04 PM Guardian columnist Martin Kettle writes: "40 years on, the left is yet to grasp the .....
» 21/08/2008 4:55:30 PM THE JEWS HAVE THEIR OWN CALENDAR. Jews use the ancient BABYLONIAN calendar. Babylonian .....
» 21/08/2008 3:55:58 PM Pericles I am probably older than you. I am even old enough to remember the Mau Mau! You.....
» 20/08/2008 8:32:04 PM CJ Morgan I am not going to debate the literary merits of a novel I've never read. The &.....
» 20/08/2008 8:18:08 PM Pericles, Let's consider the facts. In 1988 Ayatollah Khomeini issued a death sentence o.....
» 19/08/2008 8:58:49 PM One advantage of becoming a republic is that we wouldn't have the appalling Charles as nom.....
» 19/08/2008 6:46:36 PM What's all this about Union Jacks, Southern Cross and whatnot? I thought this was the Aus.....
» 19/08/2008 6:07:33 PM Steel, I watched your second youtube link. I am at a loss to know what point you are tryi.....
» 19/08/2008 4:23:54 PM Steel I am aware that Australia is not a bastion of free speech. Censorship in Australia .....
» 19/08/2008 1:54:10 PM Here is the BBC quoting Random House: 'Random House said it had been advised the book &qu.....
» 19/08/2008 1:10:32 PM We need to stop being such cowards about Islam: So writes Johann Hari in Britain's Indepe.....
» 17/08/2008 11:03:36 AM Examinator I want to thank you for your post of 15 August 2008 at 12:50:57 AM. It caused.....
» 15/08/2008 12:23:30 AM Jewcat, Even I am sometimes astounded by just how Jew obsessed are Muslims. Consider thi.....
» 14/08/2008 5:44:50 PM I think most Australians would agree that the following should be included in any minimal .....
» 13/08/2008 10:36:16 PM Steel I am unapologetically anti-Islam. I find it to be a hateful ideology. The fact that.....
» 13/08/2008 4:33:38 PM Examinator I have presented the facts as they are. Russia especially is facing demographi.....
» 13/08/2008 10:59:57 AM RussianPatriot I suspect you are a patriot of a soon to be extinct people. ASymeonakis .....
» 13/08/2008 10:01:52 AM George, I think der Spiegel is, as usual, right on the money. Going further, though, the.....
» 12/08/2008 6:20:21 PM As long as small nations are threatened by numerically superior neighbours they will want .....
» 12/08/2008 6:04:22 PM ASymeonakis, Russia has sent tanks across an international border in Europe. That is fa.....
» 12/08/2008 2:56:42 PM Apologies TRTL. I should have read your post more carefully. For the rest, posters may .....
» 12/08/2008 2:31:04 PM South Ossetia = Sudetenland Georgia = Czechoslovakia Ukraine = Poland? Meanwhile the us.....
» 10/08/2008 8:19:22 PM Fractelle, Did you actually read my last post? The passage you quoted embodies the type .....
» 10/08/2008 3:58:29 PM Fractelle wrote: "Caring for its citizens helps to maintain Australia's wealth".....
» 10/08/2008 11:20:34 AM The protagonists on this thread seem to be split into two camps. On the one hand we have .....
» 10/08/2008 10:38:21 AM Europe's latest war is in full swing. On the break-up of the Soviet Union South Ossetia wa.....
» 9/08/2008 2:23:05 PM Col Rouge, You wrote: 'But government, in administering medical aid and services ….is fo.....
» 9/08/2008 11:52:57 AM Robert Chapman is the prototypical bleeding heart. Two things characterise bleeding hearts.....
» 9/08/2008 11:13:44 AM I am disappointed with the response to this thread. Foxy, Fractelle, Let me deal with y.....
» 8/08/2008 3:04:28 PM Foxy, That would reduce the cost to Amelia McDonald or her family. But it would transfer.....
» 8/08/2008 11:10:19 AM Amelia McDonald is a grandmother of 63. She is much loved by her two sons, Angus and Marti.....
» 6/08/2008 1:26:17 PM Col Rouge I did not intend to imply that Israel was the ONLY mistake made in the aftermat.....
» 5/08/2008 1:09:27 PM EasyTimes, You wrote: "...What about if I told you a giant snake called the rainbow.....
» 4/08/2008 6:53:46 PM Correction. The last part of the original post should read: MOST IMPORTANT Whatever you.....
» 4/08/2008 3:46:01 PM We may as well tackle the big one. Was Israel a mistake? Richard Cohen, Op Ed columnist .....
» 2/08/2008 12:46:55 AM Foxy, I am not talking about a covert nuclear program in Iran. Iran's OVERT program sho.....
» 1/08/2008 4:44:18 PM Foxy, Here are the facts: --Iran now has the capability to enrich uranium --Iran claims.....
» 1/08/2008 11:16:31 AM Oops CJ Morgan. Apologies ;-) I confess to being Islamophobic in the same sense that I .....
» 1/08/2008 8:52:05 AM CJ Morgan, In case that last rant was directed against me. You may consider me a "s.....
» 31/07/2008 1:01:23 PM Samsung, Unlike Austin Powerless I doubt that Mandela or the rest of the ANC leadership e.....
» 31/07/2008 9:58:59 AM See: http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/07/obama-to-house.html Snippets: Obam.....
» 31/07/2008 9:08:06 AM CJ Morgan, My statement about not being biased was in the context of my hope that the ICC.....
» 31/07/2008 8:38:11 AM Actually Shadow Minister commercial reactors used in electricity production produce no WEA.....
» 30/07/2008 8:05:40 PM JW, So we agree. Austin Powerless (1) It was StG, not me, who made the comment about &q.....
» 30/07/2008 2:10:47 PM Foxy, I agree with you. Courts should issue arrest warrants if evidence of a crime is pre.....
» 30/07/2008 11:33:30 AM Look on the bright side BB. An Israeli nuclear attack on its oil producing neighbours coul.....
» 29/07/2008 10:30:47 PM CJ Morgan, I am always careful in what I wish for. But who is going to arrest North Kore.....
» 29/07/2008 8:36:44 PM Well F_H for once we're in agreement. The ICC should issue an arrest warrant where: --The.....
» 29/07/2008 2:01:04 PM Torture is recognised as a war crime. See http://www.hrweb.org/legal/cat.html Here are so.....
» 3/07/2008 10:42:46 AM Good thinking Steel. On the other hand the mere holding of World Youth Day in Sydney seem.....
» 2/07/2008 8:46:04 PM CARTOON COP Not a cop in a cartoon as in Chief Wiggum of the Simpsons. Rather someone who.....
» 29/06/2008 3:08:46 PM Banjo, You raise an interesting point about wife 1. Or, more accurately, spouse 1 since p.....
» 29/06/2008 11:19:08 AM Banjo You don't need polygyny to cause gender imbalances. In China and, increasingly, in.....
» 28/06/2008 7:35:00 PM You guys really don't get it, do you? Let me give you a few clues. How much power does A.....
» 28/06/2008 11:13:41 AM Interviewer: TONY JONES Interviewees: JULIA & KEVIN. TONY JONES: As prime minister and d.....
» 27/06/2008 1:14:37 PM Here is what another regular poster in the Muslim cause, Irfan Yusuf, has to say on the ma.....
» 22/06/2008 9:24:48 PM The following is the text of an email I sent Camden Town Council. Dear Sir, You should t.....
» 21/06/2008 12:47:59 PM "If it [the school development] does get approved, every ragger that walks up the str.....
» 20/06/2008 5:17:33 PM More proof that women play men for suckers. See this article from Psychology Today: IF Y.....
» 20/06/2008 5:05:25 PM Wow Steel, Chill man. This is only an unimportant debate forum. As I have said repeatedl.....
» 19/06/2008 10:45:51 PM ASymeonakis You are correct. Israel has made a lot of progress in strengthening and deepe.....
» 19/06/2008 7:24:21 PM Csteele, Australians of the "Left persuasion" do tend to convince themselves th.....
» 19/06/2008 6:02:56 PM Foxy, You shall have to decide for yourself whether this is tongue in cheek......
» 19/06/2008 6:01:45 PM STEEL, As I've said repeatedly I am NOT going to enter into a moral debate. I shall confi.....
» 19/06/2008 3:57:57 PM ASymeonakis I want to expand on your comments. The best possible outcome would be a &qu.....
» 19/06/2008 2:47:18 PM Correct CJ MORGAN Feminism is a most effective contraceptive. So, it turns out, is elect.....
» 19/06/2008 2:42:02 PM The cuckoo famously lays its eggs in other birds' nests. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wi.....
» 18/06/2008 7:00:53 PM LOL STEEL, I adhere to no religion. To me they are ALL examples of superstition. I am no.....
» 18/06/2008 5:22:41 PM Maybe the gay bashers here can move to Dubai. The job opportunities are excellent and the.....
» 18/06/2008 3:58:50 PM Foxy, Interesting that you should mention the IRA. We have to be careful when applying .....
» 18/06/2008 2:07:00 PM Csteele, A reality check. The notion that Iran would risk nuclear annihilation in order .....
» 18/06/2008 1:24:17 AM Fellow_Human, Are you saying that were Israel to agree to make Jerusalem an independent c.....
» 17/06/2008 8:16:42 PM Chill out Kasperle, In a few generations, when we have shariah law here, we'll put a stop.....
» 17/06/2008 6:01:01 PM EasyTimes I am not going to debate Israel's legitimacy, or illegitimacy. I am simply o.....
» 17/06/2008 3:50:18 PM StG, I see no point in "discussing" the topic either. BAZZ, I guess we agree .....
» 17/06/2008 12:35:56 PM Bazz, A few points of fact. The Zionist enterprise pre-dates 1946. It is over a century .....
» 16/06/2008 11:52:50 PM EasyTimes As I said above, I am NOT going to get into a discussion about who is to blame......
» 16/06/2008 5:15:48 PM Foxy, I am NOT going to enter into a discussion about the rights and wrongs of Israel vs .....
» 16/06/2008 1:36:04 PM 1. If Iran gets nukes it will use them to attach Israel Would that be the same Iran that .....
» 15/06/2008 9:19:33 AM Haralambos writes: "Sex-selective abortion should be criminalized, whilst still prot.....
» 14/06/2008 12:08:47 PM LOL I seem to recall posting something similar a few months ago. I'm flattered that Yale .....
» 11/06/2008 10:21:06 AM The Rudd Era so far It's been a hoot. Mostly it's been the circus leg of bread and circus.....
» 6/06/2008 5:32:16 PM I think they are about to outdo the Edsel debacle. For those of you too young to remembe.....
» 4/06/2008 2:41:45 PM I tried to put this knowledge to practical use. Before she went shopping I told my wife I .....
» 4/06/2008 9:30:59 AM Bugsy, I am not aware that I've changed my mind on anything. My position on measured aver.....
» 3/06/2008 7:18:21 PM Scientific American Mind for April / May 2008 carries a story titled" The Social Psyc.....
» 1/06/2008 3:34:20 PM A link to statements about homosexuality attributed to a "K. TRAD." http://www......
» 1/06/2008 11:23:13 AM GrahamY, My understanding is that Muslims regard an angel as a messenger from God; not as.....
» 30/05/2008 1:55:08 PM This has been an interesting thread. K.TRAD the "well-mannered Muslim" uses eve.....
» 30/05/2008 10:59:38 AM Note that I am NOT calling for laws that prevent the media from mentioning the ethnicity, .....
» 29/05/2008 6:21:08 PM I had hoped that at least one person would realise that when I submitted this thread I had.....
» 29/05/2008 3:27:08 PM K.TRAD Let's discuss the angel who allegedly transmitted the koran to Muhammad. But fir.....
» 29/05/2008 10:55:19 AM K.TRAD, Keith Moore has published and co-authored a number of papers in his field. These .....
» 28/05/2008 11:20:07 PM GrahamY wrote: "If you're going to subject religions to the Trade Practices Act you .....
» 28/05/2008 6:53:59 PM In the UK the game is up for mediums, psychics, tarot card readers and occultists. They no.....
» 28/05/2008 2:51:01 PM Those who want non-BOAZ non-K.TRAD expositions on the koran may consider two "bloggin.....
» 28/05/2008 12:39:24 AM GZ, Of course there was no angel dictating the koran to Muhammad! Do you really think a.....
» 27/05/2008 9:11:06 AM For once CJ MORGAN we agree. There are signs that what you forecast is already happening:.....
» 26/05/2008 6:11:08 PM It's official. We need to abolish feminism and secularism. Why? Because both are causes .....
» 26/05/2008 1:44:19 PM K.TRAD writes: "Please do not lump the Qur`an, which contains only words from the Cr.....
» 26/05/2008 9:39:26 AM On the whole I agree with Dr. Davies. Like all human institutions the scientific enterpris.....
» 26/05/2008 8:18:25 AM Well K.TRAD, I HAVE TO SIDE WITH BOAZ ON THIS ONE. He at least is prepared to concede th.....
» 25/05/2008 9:46:16 AM BOAZ, K. TRAD and OTHER religios please read carefully. I do not know whether there exist.....
» 20/05/2008 5:34:20 PM It is when I view threads like this that I repeat my little prayer. I say: "Thank yo.....
» 14/05/2008 11:30:09 AM The following is the text of an email I've sent Keysar Trad. I have sent the same email to.....
» 13/05/2008 11:12:06 PM For your amusement http://www.youtube.com/patcondell.....
» 13/05/2008 10:53:31 AM Well put katieO But don't expect a response......
» 13/05/2008 9:29:02 AM This one is so funny on so many levels I don't know where to begin Sahi Bukhari Volume 1,.....
» 12/05/2008 9:46:33 AM Hear, hear CJ MORGAN! Very well put......
» 11/05/2008 7:34:14 PM Trad writes: "A genuine secular democracy should not be so insecure: I should be abl.....
» 11/05/2008 3:43:07 PM After reading the koran I have concluded that GOD EXISTS. (Take note BOAZ and other God bo.....
» 8/05/2008 8:27:10 PM FELLOW_HUMAN, Thank you for not contesting the Jew hatred that pervades the Ummah. I find.....
» 8/05/2008 3:39:12 PM Vanilla, I agree 100% with your post......
» 7/05/2008 11:45:04 PM FELLOW_HUMAN: I am NOT (repeat, NOT) advocating the development of an ethnic bomb. I am p.....
» 6/05/2008 1:02:16 AM BUGSY What I know about genetics I get in the first instance from talking to people who a.....
» 5/05/2008 2:40:53 PM BUGSY, As your post is rational I shall respond. Technically it was "al-Baghdadi&qu.....
» 5/05/2008 1:39:20 PM SENECA writes: "…if a state is secular and the population is predominantly Muslim or.....
» 5/05/2008 11:06:39 AM This thread has taken a rather weird turn and, after this post, I'm going to bow out. I w.....
» 3/05/2008 9:58:14 AM CJ Morgan predicts that a secular form of Islam will arise. In Australia that process may.....
» 2/05/2008 1:42:04 PM I never thought I would find myself in broad agreement with a militant feminist; but in th.....
» 2/05/2008 12:08:06 PM Foxy, Do you doubt that Iranian President Ahmadinejad would hesitate to deploy a "Je.....
» 2/05/2008 12:12:03 AM The 10 June 2007 edition of the Trinity Uniting Church Of Christ's newsletter contains the.....
» 11/04/2008 11:10:53 AM LOL I guess you guys really have no understanding of irony......
» 6/04/2008 4:05:59 PM Hendrik Verwoerd was Prime Minister of South Africa from 1958 till his assassination in 19.....
» 1/04/2008 10:37:39 PM BTW, It is my understanding that the dead parrot sketch was inspired by this one also fea.....
» 1/04/2008 10:28:18 PM LOL I must respectfully differ with you Sir CJ. The more appropriate "Pythonesque&q.....
» 1/04/2008 5:22:50 PM If either of these proposals is adopted immediately we shall be spared "Kevin10".....
» 1/04/2008 4:22:57 PM Philip Adams has been selected to participate in Kevin Rudd's Canberra talk fest. In his l.....
» 30/03/2008 1:12:58 PM Foxy, I urge you to let it go. There is never any point in trying to argue or reason with.....
» 28/03/2008 2:53:27 PM LOL folks, I rest my case. As impervious to reason as a virus. Stalin, for reasons nobod.....
» 28/03/2008 12:55:34 AM Col, As I have made plain many times, Holocaust deniers have every right to say whatever .....
» 27/03/2008 9:20:12 PM Foxy, Danielle, Bugsy, What is the point of trying to debate Holocaust deniers? I mean t.....
» 24/03/2008 11:26:39 PM Just to be clear on something, I do not support censorship. Therefore I cannot support the.....
» 24/03/2008 10:32:53 PM Yuyutsu, Ginx, StG, The point I am trying to make in this thread is that the Palestinian .....
» 24/03/2008 3:41:31 PM The Holocaust is as well documented as it is possible for any historical event to be. Apar.....
» 24/03/2008 11:34:33 AM Danielle, Fascinating posts. I had a similar experience when I wanted to access archival .....
» 23/03/2008 8:25:13 PM If I were dictator of Gaza what would I do? No I haven’t been sniffing glue. I know I sha.....
» 23/03/2008 12:50:12 PM Much as it pains I have to side with "Jack the sad" on one issue. A university .....
» 23/03/2008 11:50:00 AM Foxy, I entirely agree with you. A Nazi or Nazi sympathiser is, rightly, regarded with r.....
» 23/03/2008 11:34:38 AM CJ, Aaah the old virgin question. For a modern translation of what the koran has to say .....
» 22/03/2008 11:38:00 PM Muslims often compare Islamophobia to anti-Semitism. They say both are evils that must be .....
» 22/03/2008 10:54:48 PM Wow, Like topsy this thread just growed. Thank you for your kind words ginx. Foxy, Dan.....
» 20/03/2008 6:02:17 AM As they requested I phoned the Islamic Society of Victoria (03 9470 2424) again yesterday .....
» 19/03/2008 7:11:10 PM CJ If you don’t believe me you don't believe me. There's nothing I can do about it. I ha.....
» 19/03/2008 3:03:43 PM CJ, Regarding the definition of "Islamophobia." I have discussed this with nu.....
» 18/03/2008 10:52:39 PM I have no doubt that Islam is a threat to Singapore. It is a tiny secular state in a Musli.....
» 18/03/2008 2:59:23 PM Learning about the Holocaust is compulsory for schoolchildren in England. Should it be? .....
» 18/03/2008 12:18:36 PM Gz Islam is no threat. The threat emanates from attempts to accommodate or appease Islam.....
» 18/03/2008 10:41:05 AM CJ: "Islamophobia …refers to prejudice or discrimination against Islam or Muslims.&q.....
» 17/03/2008 6:27:33 PM Jack the Lad wrote: "Yet the old sob-story of supposed events over 60 years ago is d.....
» 17/03/2008 6:07:15 PM CJ, Ginx I infer from your writing that you both believe Islamophobia is some great evil,.....
» 16/03/2008 4:00:55 PM CJ wrote "… but that is quite a different thing to "asessing" people on th.....
» 16/03/2008 11:08:45 AM The use of the word prejudice here is interesting. Here are some common definitions of pr.....
» 14/03/2008 10:50:44 PM Here are more links in the mainstream media http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,2198.....
» 14/03/2008 6:16:45 PM There is no question in my mind that some people use attacks on Islam as a cover for their.....
» 14/03/2008 12:05:46 AM LOL Danielle, I have no intention of dignifying the theory that the side that suffers the.....
» 12/03/2008 8:40:55 AM LOL CJ What on Earth did I write that led you to conclude that I "relish" the &.....
» 11/03/2008 10:43:50 PM Danielle, the girls were being examined on The Tempest, not The Merchant of Venice. Thank.....
» 11/03/2008 7:40:18 AM Goodthief, Froggie, You are of course both correct. Most of the violence in Iraq in rece.....
» 11/03/2008 12:46:23 AM Well I guess Muslims are going to feel "alienated" for some time to come. Also A.....
» 11/03/2008 12:14:50 AM I'm still not sure how what was intended as a slightly humorous thread about hysterical sc.....
» 10/03/2008 9:00:44 AM A few reality checks. EasyTimes, The nine would find no refuge from Shakespeare in Israe.....
» 9/03/2008 8:51:30 AM Perhaps not. So put the jackboots away. Nine Jewish schoolgirls from Yesodey Hatorah Se.....
» 7/03/2008 5:32:41 PM David Palmer, Thank you for your kind words. I hope you will not be offended if I ask yo.....
» 7/03/2008 12:43:39 PM The left's embrace of the tawdry little Jihadi Jew hater, Tariq Ramadan, is unspeakable. .....
» 7/03/2008 10:40:13 AM Fellow_Human, Another possibility is that what we're seeing is the secularisation of Musl.....
» 6/03/2008 8:40:47 AM Well StG I've had many non-Christians - especially Muslims - try to tell me what the bible.....
» 5/03/2008 8:02:51 AM Those who are defending Christianity here need a bit of a reality check. Here is what the.....
» 4/03/2008 5:12:47 PM Another straw in the wind? VIOLENCE LEAVES YOUNG IRAQIS DOUBTING CLERICS http://www.nyti.....
» 4/03/2008 3:21:24 PM All the best Foxy......
» 4/03/2008 7:49:44 AM What people forget in these dark days of the Bush Administration is that America is actual.....
» 3/03/2008 5:56:33 PM Pericles, I have to agree with sonofeire. Calling for a ban on proselytising is infantile.....
» 3/03/2008 9:32:28 AM From the perspective of this unbeliever we have a bad news – good news story here. --The .....
» 23/02/2008 8:03:12 AM F_H Sigh You stated: "Muslims also have to believe in all prophets of the Bible a.....
» 22/02/2008 12:26:45 PM LOL F_H Realistically there's nothing I can do to convince you I am being honest. If you .....
» 21/02/2008 9:27:26 PM LOL, I've only just noticed this thread. Nice one :-).....
» 21/02/2008 4:37:05 PM Lose your home in, well, the comfort of your home. While you still have a home anyway. .....
» 21/02/2008 9:53:25 AM F_H you have NOT answered the question. For reasons which I fully understand you're not ab.....
» 20/02/2008 6:02:19 PM Bugsy, A very nice concise explanation of speciation. Remarkably, we can actually see sp.....
» 20/02/2008 4:55:08 PM CJ Morgan, You raise an interesting point. Odd as it seems I'd never given much thought .....
» 20/02/2008 4:41:30 PM F_H wrote: "I believe Prophet Mohammed was inspired through a median." That do.....
» 19/02/2008 3:02:37 PM LOL CJ Morgan, I could equally say your secular credentials would be more credible if you.....
» 19/02/2008 2:25:48 PM The world did not change on 11 September 2001. It changed in 1859 when the first edition o.....
» 19/02/2008 7:09:46 AM Fellow_human wrote: "...Muslims don’t despise each other or even other creatures, an.....
» 18/02/2008 3:00:35 PM Seems that David Burchell shares my misgivings. Maybe he reads Online Opinion ;-) See: F.....
» 18/02/2008 10:39:27 AM BOZO_DAGWOOD wrote: "I wonder what the Old Testament law says about homosexuals. Obv.....
» 18/02/2008 9:32:08 AM Fellow_Human, The only reason I keep quoting from the bible is because we’re arguing abou.....
» 17/02/2008 1:47:53 PM Boaz wrote: "The classic example is the Gay lobby. "Oh..we just want to it decr.....
» 17/02/2008 11:33:55 AM Individual, If you're able to earn a living in a remote area then that's great. Plainly .....
» 17/02/2008 8:08:38 AM Irfan wrote: "Given that our imams cannot even agree on such simple liturgical issue.....
» 17/02/2008 7:58:52 AM I found this backgrounder on Mary Hooker of the "Stolen Generations Alliance." .....
» 16/02/2008 10:33:40 PM Runner, Banjo, Yes I read Lara Wieland's piece in the Australian and I agree. It is an in.....
» 15/02/2008 11:01:54 PM Fellow_Human Oops. I meant in the bible Isaac, not Ishmael, is Abraham's HEIR. In a sens.....
» 15/02/2008 7:18:04 AM Fellow_Human Muslims often run that line about believing in "all prophets of the Bib.....
» 14/02/2008 4:35:35 PM Ginx wrote, "Even sadder SM; that you have such a low opinion of indigenous Australi.....
» 14/02/2008 2:26:40 PM Fellow_Human writes: "…Christian theology at its core sees Islam as an ‘alternative .....
» 14/02/2008 1:20:47 PM Schmalz is a Yiddish word. The literal meaning is "fat." Metaphorically it is un.....
» 12/02/2008 3:46:51 PM LOL CJ Morgan!.....
» 12/02/2008 9:27:48 AM What if women could have children without men? I don't mean parthenogenesis or cloning an.....
» 10/02/2008 11:29:42 AM To all the religios of whatever faith who post here: For the sake of argument ONLY I'll a.....
» 8/02/2008 4:26:05 PM The reality of Shariah law. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/02/.....
» 7/02/2008 3:23:52 PM Great link Foxy, thanks. I've book marked the site. When I first came here 11 years ago .....
» 7/02/2008 1:46:28 PM Fellow_Human, You wrote: "....in the the 9th century most new inventions in the fie.....
» 7/02/2008 10:11:10 AM New Scientist of 2 Feb 2008 has an article titled "Are political leanings all in the .....
» 7/02/2008 10:08:41 AM Danielle, I too would like to thank you for those excellent posts......
» 6/02/2008 7:29:54 PM Foxy wrote: "But what happened to the "Freedom of Speech" theory and sayin.....
» 6/02/2008 3:12:01 PM [9.5] So when the sacred months have passed away, then slay the idolaters wherever you fin.....
» 6/02/2008 12:23:34 PM Bboy, I have to agree with you. What point was the author trying to make? To the best of.....
» 5/02/2008 9:55:16 AM Fellow-Human I have to agree with Danielle here. The point of my post was that the succe.....
» 4/02/2008 10:38:03 PM Danielle You are correct. It is intended that KAUST will focus on applied sciences and wi.....
» 4/02/2008 7:33:42 AM Fellow_Human wrote: "…what contribution can Muslim/ Islamic culture can contribute t.....
» 3/02/2008 9:30:52 AM Irfan writes: "... Burke realises the enormous variety of Islams (as opposed to a si.....
» 20/01/2008 2:44:42 PM [9.5] So when the sacred months have passed away, then slay the idolaters wherever you fin.....
» 12/01/2008 10:02:17 PM Danielle, I certainly don't think you are an incompetent nincompoop. But neither you nor .....
» 11/01/2008 10:29:56 AM The answer is nitrogen fertiliser. The gas is not CO2 but nitrous oxide and other nitrat.....
» 10/01/2008 11:18:53 AM LOL TRTL, Given my age if I'm still around and compos mentis in a few decades I'll happil.....
» 10/01/2008 9:32:26 AM kartiya jim, My guess is it will be an evolving standard. Right now the standard is to a.....
» 10/01/2008 8:30:47 AM Wizofaus wrote: "I doubt Homo Sapiens as we know it today will survive another mille.....
» 9/01/2008 10:47:58 PM I think you are all missing a point. We do not live in isolation. We live in a very compet.....
» 5/01/2008 7:13:05 PM Folks, I don't know why we're making such heavy weather of this. I'm talking pretty well e.....
» 5/01/2008 11:37:17 AM Danielle, I Love watching the crows and magpies in my street. Yes they are very bright. .....
» 3/01/2008 1:13:16 PM OK folks let's get away from the well-worn platitudes. Wizofaus is correct. We do not us.....
» 2/01/2008 10:47:52 PM From the ABC Snip Now when you think about the human condition, the human brain is basic.....
» 2/01/2008 4:31:06 PM Somebody may have killed Bhutto because she had proof the Pakistani government was plannin.....
» 1/01/2008 5:25:34 PM One murder closer to a nuclear nightmare I hope the Americans really do have contingency .....
» 1/01/2008 8:43:32 AM What BBC viewers think The BBC has a "have your say" bulletin board on its webs.....
» 28/12/2007 7:15:39 AM Pericles wrote: "…you and I both know that Philo is simply inventing mozzies-under-t.....
» 25/12/2007 1:07:12 PM Just to drive home the point Pericles: Let us suppose a university professor were to teac.....
» 24/12/2007 4:32:24 PM Pericles, I am if not an actual atheist an extremely sceptical agnostic. I'll believe in .....
» 24/12/2007 6:37:20 AM Philo, Leaving aside Muslim mythology, the provenance of the koran is quite murky. The ea.....
» 22/12/2007 7:34:13 PM Philo wrote: "The current faculty of teachers are mostly Muslim" Well for thei.....
» 21/12/2007 11:38:36 AM To add to Philo's comments: More than a thousand years before the birth of Christ Babylon.....
» 16/12/2007 9:14:24 PM Botheration I think you are rather missing the point of the Times article. Our Y chromoso.....
» 16/12/2007 6:41:27 PM Democritus If the decision to have an abortion remains purely "her choice" how .....
» 15/12/2007 3:45:43 PM This from today's Guardian newspaper. http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2007/dec/15/genet.....
» 12/12/2007 5:46:41 PM Ro wrote, "Personally, I think Indonesia is one of the great unsung success stories .....
» 12/12/2007 8:53:36 AM CJ Morgan, I wonder whether you really do agree with me. Freedom of speech for Samina Ma.....
» 11/12/2007 7:04:03 AM KERI, On the whole I have to agree with you. I do not know what are Malik's intentions. .....
» 10/12/2007 6:54:00 PM Indonesia, like Turkey, MAY turn out to be a Muslim democratic success story. I think, how.....
» 8/12/2007 6:04:21 PM Do neither of you, Foxy & Arjay, see any danger in laws that criminalise thought? Do nei.....
» 8/12/2007 10:53:43 AM Samina Malik worked airside at Heathrow airport. In her spare time she watched videos of M.....
» 5/12/2007 11:17:47 PM For those who are interested here is a different and, dare I say it, more realistic perspe.....
» 4/12/2007 10:41:44 PM Bugsy, Frank, We've all stated our positions. There is no point in rehashing all the grou.....
» 4/12/2007 7:24:22 PM Bugsy, When it comes to comparing intelligence, using current technology, I think inter-c.....
» 4/12/2007 3:25:16 PM Pericles No question that practice improves IQ scores. This is a well known phenomenon. I.....
» 3/12/2007 11:02:24 PM Just to clear something up. My bet on intellectual differences between population groups,.....
» 3/12/2007 10:37:25 PM BUGSY, FRANK, I am NOT certain of this which is why I'd bet $1,000, not everything I own .....
» 3/12/2007 6:33:14 PM YBGIRP I absolutely do NOT want to abolish elections. I agree with Churchill's comment, a.....
» 3/12/2007 8:12:34 AM Pericles asks whether I think the Indian caste system is a "good thing" or a &qu.....
» 2/12/2007 8:52:57 AM I'm sorry to hear about your illness Foxy and I hope you win your bet. Your point 4) – Ag.....
» 1/12/2007 4:47:36 PM LOL Foxy, You've said men and women of conscience will enter Australian politics. You did.....
» 1/12/2007 11:24:57 AM Col Rouge, I'm not sure you're correct. "Not sure" means just that. It means I.....
» 1/12/2007 10:55:45 AM A MATURE adult allows for the fact that he could be wrong about ANYTHING. What does that.....
» 30/11/2007 12:22:07 PM Here is a contrarian question. Is there such a thing as too much diversity? "Bowlin.....
» 25/11/2007 5:05:58 PM Let's see which way it turns out Bugsy There's no point in arguing now.....
» 25/11/2007 3:52:41 PM Bugsy, I have never maintained anything other than that intelligence arises from a comple.....
» 25/11/2007 2:42:36 PM Bugsy, In the end the world is what the world is. It has no reason to conform to our wish.....
» 25/11/2007 11:27:19 AM I have the feeling that when it comes to differences in intelligence between population gr.....
» 24/11/2007 11:03:35 PM KARTIYA JIM, As I think my posts make clear, I am making a FORECAST of the way things wil.....
» 24/11/2007 10:43:46 AM KARTIYA JIM I think your concerns about a small gene pool are misplaced. I am not talkin.....
» 21/11/2007 3:00:01 PM DESIPIS Well put. If Andrew Jakubowicz thinks some people have been left out of some or .....
» 21/11/2007 2:06:46 PM Reginald Is the emergence of China as a great power reshaping Australia? Of course it is.....
» 20/11/2007 10:37:51 PM Michael T, More like nauseating poppycock. It's not even propaganda. It is frightening t.....
» 20/11/2007 6:43:08 AM KARTIYA JIM I am making a forecast. Not advocating a course of action. It seems to me th.....
» 19/11/2007 4:37:21 PM DANIELLE, JAMMO & EFTFNC My guess is that what we'll have initially is an extension of wh.....
» 19/11/2007 7:42:18 AM The famous physicist Wolfgang Pauli once said of a rambling unclear paper that it was &quo.....
» 19/11/2007 6:49:18 AM The future is now: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/17/us/17dna.html?pagewanted=1&ei=5087&e.....
» 18/11/2007 12:57:41 PM Runner thinks the Bible is THE holy book. Muslims claim with equal fervour that the bible.....
» 18/11/2007 8:32:33 AM Wobbles, This thread is not about the origins of the universe. It's about whether the Da.....
» 17/11/2007 1:45:00 PM A few decades ago it was the stuff of science fiction. Now it begins to approach reality. .....
» 17/11/2007 11:18:38 AM BOAZ, I asserted that places like ICR had never produced research worth a damn. In respon.....
» 17/11/2007 12:24:22 AM BOAZ, There was a time many decades ago when I thought it was worthwhile arguing with cre.....
» 16/11/2007 3:55:08 PM In a previous thread I wrote: THE SCIENTIFIC CONSENSUS IS WHAT SCIENTISTS WHO WANT TO KEE.....
» 16/11/2007 2:39:16 PM Botheration wrote: "This research simply seems made for an OLO debate" THERE I.....
» 15/11/2007 8:56:59 AM I feel I must add a rider to my last post. I hope with all my heart that Watson's specula.....
» 15/11/2007 8:29:24 AM CJ MORGAN wrote: "one then wonders what exacty it is that he's [stevenlmeyer's]on ab.....
» 14/11/2007 5:59:00 PM CJ MORGAN wrote: Now where exactly did I say such a thing, [that Summers' and Watson's sp.....
» 14/11/2007 5:56:10 PM BUGSY I am definitely not claiming that the link between genes and intelligence is a simp.....
» 14/11/2007 8:13:45 AM CJ MORGAN I trained as a physicist and worked as one for many years though not in an acad.....
» 14/11/2007 8:11:38 AM FOXY, Thank you for your kind words. Your post was so short I missed it the first time ar.....
» 12/11/2007 11:22:14 PM EasyTimes Let's have a reality check. We are developing the technologies that will enabl.....
» 12/11/2007 4:07:52 PM TRTL, CJ MORGAN, Here's how it works in the world of science. Scientists are required to.....
» 12/11/2007 4:04:49 PM You are correct Foxy. Universities have been a major source of scientific innovation. Th.....
» 12/11/2007 6:37:40 AM Well DEMOS, If you don't recognise irony then you don't. I'm simply pointing out how the.....
» 11/11/2007 5:05:57 PM Has it come to this? THE SCIENTIFIC CONSENSUS IS WHAT SCIENTISTS WHO WANT TO KEEP THEIR J.....
» 8/11/2007 9:04:09 PM One thing I feel more than ever. We need a bill of rights to provide a legal bulwark again.....
» 7/11/2007 4:03:47 PM DNICHOLSON Well put. Democracy is emphatically not merely about the rule of the majority.....
» 6/11/2007 4:06:08 PM CJ Morgan wrote: "You conflate Islamism and fundamentalist versions of Islam with &q.....
» 6/11/2007 2:02:48 PM CJ Morgan wrote: "Nice to see Steven taking a breather from whacking Mozzies." .....
» 6/11/2007 1:11:04 PM For the record, I am totally opposed to the use of tax dollars to fund ANY religious scho.....
» 6/11/2007 12:58:19 PM While we're watching for video clips this one is always good for a laugh http://www.memri.....
» 6/11/2007 10:16:17 AM In case you thought it was only Muslims loonies you had to worry about. See: http://www......
» 5/11/2007 3:05:55 PM If you guys want an example of what REAL God botherers are like download this: http://www.....
» 3/11/2007 11:59:40 PM Sam said wrote "when a whole group is targeted as one, something is very wrong".....
» 2/11/2007 11:07:11 AM China perspective continued Much of China's phenomenal growth has been driven by one simp.....
» 2/11/2007 10:29:18 AM Some perspectives on China How big is China's economy? International comparisons of GDP .....
» 2/11/2007 9:26:10 AM Corri The US is an open society. You read about and see their environmental woes. China .....
» 1/11/2007 8:58:47 PM Q&A Iran is a minor player. I'm sure strategists in India and China have war gamed these.....
» 31/10/2007 7:49:32 PM StG, Which of these two statements seems more credible to you? The United States and the.....
» 31/10/2007 6:25:44 PM Here's Robert Fisk's view. http://news.independent.co.uk/fisk/article3109869.ece An exce.....
» 31/10/2007 6:07:48 PM StG Think outside the box. Are we seeing the opening shots of World War 3 with WEATHER .....
» 31/10/2007 3:31:43 PM Corri, The issue seems to be as follows: Climate change and the consequent regional cata.....
» 31/10/2007 1:15:38 PM No country will escape the effects of climate change. That's a truism. But some region.....
» 31/10/2007 11:22:44 AM LOL I think that CJ Morgan's last outburst about me tells us all we need to know about hi.....
» 31/10/2007 10:07:26 AM BOAZ_David asks, "Yikes.. Stephen... is that me ?" Yep, it's you BOAZY. But, .....
» 31/10/2007 9:42:17 AM Boaz asks: "Yikes.. Stephen... is that me ?" Yep BOAZY, that's you. But take .....
» 30/10/2007 6:13:03 PM Botheration, This is only a guess but the short answer seems to be "yes." Howe.....
» 30/10/2007 12:03:09 PM Garpet I certainly was NOT going to ask this guy to strip so I could see his tattoo! Tho.....
» 29/10/2007 12:08:24 AM A long time ago in Munich I met a former member of the Waffen SS. How do I know he was the.....
» 28/10/2007 9:42:40 AM Liz, I did NOT say that that "...anyone who rejects racism are 'left ... communist' .....
» 26/10/2007 4:52:54 PM An update on the situation http://blogs.thetimes.co.za/hartley/2007/10/23/time-to-investi.....
» 26/10/2007 12:05:08 PM Liz wrote: "...diverting attention away from RACIST attitudes, which is the issue re.....
» 25/10/2007 8:22:12 AM Horus, Philip Tang Thank you for your kind words. The left does seem to have a tendency .....
» 23/10/2007 1:34:29 AM CJ Morgan, I don’t see how it is possible to be a "secular" Muslim anymore than.....
» 22/10/2007 9:03:15 PM There are many rational reasons for being wary of contemporary Islam. Comparisons between .....
» 20/10/2007 9:59:53 AM PALE, Thank you for your kind words and your promise to do what you can to keep the press.....
» 18/10/2007 10:30:34 AM Many years ago in a university far away a group of pseudo-academics in a business faculty .....
» 15/10/2007 9:41:20 PM I notice that Irfan has changed his terminology. He writes about "Muslimophobia".....
» 14/10/2007 9:09:49 PM "I try to imagine how I would feel if this rainstorm of headlines substituted the wor.....
» 14/10/2007 5:16:47 PM I met Mondli Makhanya a number of times while living in South Africa. He is a man of great.....
» 10/10/2007 10:52:02 AM Keith wrote: "If an Iranian nuclear bomb was detonated in the US, Iran would simply .....
» 8/10/2007 11:52:50 PM Keith, So despite the risks Iranian nukes may be a good thing because they will strike fe.....
» 8/10/2007 3:08:32 PM Keith, I notice you do not address the topic at hand. What, if any, are the dangers of I.....
» 7/10/2007 10:16:23 PM Paul, Your Israel obsession seems to be as profound as Keith's. Newsflash. Iran's nukes.....
» 7/10/2007 9:25:51 AM To get back to the topic at hand. I see the following dangers in nuclear armed Iran: --T.....
» 6/10/2007 10:57:32 AM A rider. There have been calls to boycott Shell because of their behaviour in Nigeria. T.....
» 6/10/2007 9:54:27 AM Beyond farce. "Saudi Arabia’s Human Rights Commission (HRC) [now there's an oxymoron.....
» 6/10/2007 9:22:13 AM Forrest Gumpp The High Court was probably correct in striking down the law prohibiting pr.....
» 6/10/2007 8:43:35 AM Danielle, Paul De Pauw wrote about the dangers of Iran getting nukes. His article was onl.....
» 5/10/2007 9:06:33 AM I'm not sure why this thread got sidetracked into discussing Israel. Some people seem to h.....
» 4/10/2007 7:48:54 PM Keith, Shadow Minister, My guess is that if Israel does go down she'll take the whole of .....
» 1/10/2007 8:35:54 PM Belly, I'm well aware the Gillard is part of a team headed by the admirably (small ".....
» 30/09/2007 11:20:43 PM Keith wrote: >>Then remember what was part of the reasoning the coalition invaded I.....
» 30/09/2007 11:05:55 PM Rainier asks Arjay what "social justice" means to him. The issue of social just.....
» 30/09/2007 6:44:41 PM LOL Peppy, Then don't take it seriously. Communicat, I also have strong opinions. Howev.....
» 30/09/2007 2:17:01 PM michael_in_adelaide I doubt that a nuclear armed Iran would embark on a nuclear war. I qu.....
» 30/09/2007 1:48:44 PM LOL StG, I understand there are differences between Gillard and Bin Laden. I do NOT equat.....
» 30/09/2007 9:52:42 AM Let's expand the list. What did or do the following, in alphabetical order of surname, hav.....
» 22/09/2007 2:43:38 PM Danielle, I completely agree with you about creationists. The real story is so much more .....
» 19/09/2007 6:25:36 PM A reality check. NASA's 2008 budget will be of the order of $17 bn. http://www.nasa.gov/.....
» 19/09/2007 4:56:32 PM One of the most delightful essays I ever read is "Silly Novels by Lady Novelists.&quo.....
» 19/09/2007 2:59:02 PM Australia can't lead at all on climate change and the very notion that we could is an exam.....
» 19/09/2007 1:36:28 PM What 20th Century innovations will people still be talking about in AD 2200? It's a fraug.....
» 16/09/2007 6:57:42 PM Perhaps here is an indication of what may be in store for us if Sharia ever becomes the la.....
» 2/09/2007 10:35:26 AM CJ Morgan, You last post is incredibly naïve. There is no statutory definition of contemp.....
» 29/08/2007 8:13:33 AM Forrest Gumpp In answer to your questions: I have no link with any newspaper or any othe.....
» 28/08/2007 12:28:09 AM Ms Fiona Hamilton of the High Court Has written to say that Justice Kirby spoke "off .....
» 27/08/2007 8:33:26 AM I have written to the Justice Kirby at the High Court asking whether I can obtain a transc.....
» 26/08/2007 8:21:35 PM If you don't believe me you don't There's nothing I can do about it......
» 26/08/2007 11:45:33 AM Forrest Gumpp As I freely acknowledged in my original post and later in a reply to CJ Mor.....
» 26/08/2007 9:22:19 AM James Purser wrote: >>The American public for a long time could not process the fac.....
» 26/08/2007 8:35:09 AM CJ Morgan, Unfortunately I do not have a link to the actual text of Kirby's speech. I bas.....
» 25/08/2007 6:30:51 PM Let me make something plain. I don't give a rodent's rectal cavity about Kirby's sexual p.....
» 25/08/2007 5:12:51 PM James Purser, The identity of the OKC bomber may have come as a surprise to many American.....
» 25/08/2007 2:04:02 PM LOL, Rainier, you demonstrate yet again that the last refuge of the cornered Leftie is an .....
» 25/08/2007 1:16:22 PM Speech by John Howard. "The reporter referred to me as Howard. Not the Prime Ministe.....
» 25/08/2007 12:47:17 AM LOL kartiya jim, The problem with that is that after a smart person has done something st.....
» 24/08/2007 6:44:54 PM Kalin1, In fact we do tax people for being smart. Smart people tend to have higher income.....
» 24/08/2007 5:42:49 PM Xoddam, You are trying to define away the problem by denying the existence of some of the.....
» 24/08/2007 1:12:43 PM Xoddam wrote: >I believe there is no *culture* which cannot successfully be integrated.....
» 23/08/2007 11:49:05 AM Xoddam Putnam expresses some pious hopes amounting to "she'll be right" which y.....
» 22/08/2007 12:02:58 PM What we need is not pious hopes and wishes, but solid research on the effects of immigrati.....
» 21/08/2007 9:27:26 AM http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2007/08/19/minority_scores_lag_on_teaching_test/.....
» 21/08/2007 7:39:25 AM Saintfletcher "poll dancing?" A pun or a Freudian slip? ;-) LOL.....
» 21/08/2007 7:34:45 AM Saintfletcher If you want to bet on Howard you can get the coalition at $2.50 on betfair......
» 20/08/2007 4:22:08 PM James, I did not say our biggest threat to the North was Indonesia. I do say we have to p.....
» 20/08/2007 8:29:08 AM Miacat wrote: "His [Rudd's] power is not based on school yard antics, name calling, .....
» 19/08/2007 10:54:36 PM I'm still at a loss to know what are the material differences between the ALP and the coal.....
» 19/08/2007 10:43:18 PM James Purser, With respect, if I were making long term plans for Australia here are SOME.....
» 19/08/2007 3:44:49 PM I wish you luck in your election James. Your post leads to an inevitable question. Given .....
» 19/08/2007 3:33:05 PM I guess I should take this seriously. QANTAS PROBES RACIAL SLURS See: http://www.news......
» 19/08/2007 3:17:39 PM I think you're right communicat. Bit of both......
» 19/08/2007 2:30:49 PM LOL James, Perhaps DEMOS can explain what material differences exist between the ALP the .....
» 18/08/2007 5:00:02 PM I am now living through the fourth election campaign since my arrival in Australia. Once a.....
» 18/08/2007 12:23:24 PM The real break with the past came under Hawke and Keating. It was they who started Austral.....
» 18/08/2007 12:00:02 PM Of course diagnosis will always be a problem as this story shows: http://www.abc.net.au/n.....
» 18/08/2007 11:51:51 AM Spanky, In diagnosing stupidity, distinguishing between a lack of education and inherent .....
» 17/08/2007 10:05:12 AM kartiya jim, Belly, I am not using "stupid" in a critical sense anymore than I .....
» 16/08/2007 7:52:11 AM Yep, that about sums it up......
» 16/08/2007 7:49:57 AM I do not think I am stupid. But I have often acted stupidly. We all do. We need to distin.....
» 15/08/2007 7:46:28 AM Actually Randwick, The biggest conundrum of all is, to paraphrase Stephen Hawking, why t.....
» 14/08/2007 7:30:36 PM "Stupid" has become an epithet. We often call those who disagree with our point .....
» 14/08/2007 6:13:37 PM Randwick, Entropy is a property of a system AS A WHOLE. If you like, the universe appears.....
» 10/08/2007 3:55:17 PM James Purser, I am not "complaining" about spin, merely trying to point out tha.....
» 10/08/2007 3:26:53 PM DEMOS, You are entitled to your opinion on the US military. That, as I explained, is NOT .....
» 9/08/2007 7:00:02 PM See: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6936755.stm The report is titled: US rai.....
» 5/08/2007 1:56:18 AM Aqvarivs wrote: >>The everyday good and faithful Muslim in truth are of no potentia.....
» 4/08/2007 11:15:57 AM >>If you keep smearing a race, nationality or social class the members will come tog.....
» 30/07/2007 6:34:59 PM Pericles, I certainly did not mean to imply 10^10^123 was "precise." It is an &.....
» 30/07/2007 9:09:42 AM Bugsy wrote: >>By discussing something none of us know about of course!>> I .....
» 30/07/2007 8:37:40 AM Danielle, That pretty much coincides with what I observed in what was then called Rhodesi.....
» 29/07/2007 11:48:50 PM Ludwig, Below is the best online link I can provide for an explanation of the increase in.....
» 29/07/2007 6:36:20 PM Has anyone here ever read Evelyn Waugh's wonderful satiric novel, "Black Mischief?&qu.....
» 29/07/2007 10:08:38 AM I'm surprised at the reaction to this thread. LUDWIG, Observation suggests the universe.....
» 28/07/2007 1:14:13 PM LOL Bugsy, You do not need to read a "particular book." There are many links .....
» 28/07/2007 11:15:12 AM Glad you like it Pericles. Perhaps many people who quote Penrose, etc do have an ideologi.....
» 28/07/2007 10:06:49 AM Bugsy, Low compared to a state of complete disorder in our own universe. Suppose you hav.....
» 27/07/2007 4:24:10 PM We live in a low entropy* universe. How probable is it that such state of low entropy aros.....
» 27/07/2007 10:07:04 AM Last night on Lateline Tony Jones interviewed Pakistani Minister for Religious Affairs Muh.....
» 24/07/2007 5:55:54 PM Pericles, In fact the FP article does address the question of INEQUALITY – as opposed to .....
» 24/07/2007 3:22:24 PM Aaah DEMOS, He lives in a world of absolute certainty. He believes he knows the answers .....
» 24/07/2007 1:46:51 PM See: http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?story_id=3879 Some quotes: Crime has in.....
» 24/07/2007 9:53:37 AM For all I know Dr. Haneef could be a criminal mastermind. However, based on the evidence .....
» 24/07/2007 12:56:57 AM achenne1 wrote: >>It is a sad fact that race is a social construct.>> What h.....
» 23/07/2007 4:32:09 PM achenne1 And your point is?.....
» 23/07/2007 7:54:16 AM Let's get something straight here. In 2007 most Muslim children are taught to hate Jews j.....
» 23/07/2007 7:32:00 AM LOL Pale, I think you should have read the posting before concluding from the title that .....
» 22/07/2007 8:24:02 PM LOL Pale What on Earth makes you think I am a Muslim? For the record, I am an atheist......
» 22/07/2007 12:52:57 PM BD, My point in posting this was to establish whether anyone knew what had become of Basm.....
» 22/07/2007 8:18:03 AM I don't give a damn about live animal exports......
» 21/07/2007 4:02:07 PM I keep coming back to Basmallah. I have nightmares about Basmallah. View the clip: http.....
» 17/07/2007 8:09:07 PM Yabby, Who is going to sink those tankers? If it's a country the US would flatten them. .....
» 17/07/2007 8:48:01 AM Yabby, I think that if the Straits of Hormuz were to close tomorrow we could rely on the .....
» 16/07/2007 8:20:21 PM Kyle Aaron, You raise an interesting point. When I first saw Haneef had given his sim ca.....
» 16/07/2007 3:01:14 PM LOL DEMOS, I don't think "peak oil" will bring about economic collapse though i.....
» 16/07/2007 8:55:51 AM DEMOS, Whether Cuba is better off than it would have been had Castro not been successful .....
» 15/07/2007 11:04:04 PM I need to correct something. Some of the mentally-retarded "doctors" who carrie.....
» 15/07/2007 10:58:56 PM BD Nearly every revolutionary becomes a tyrant. Someone like Nelson Mandela stands out be.....
» 15/07/2007 2:29:44 PM An alleged brain surgeon cannot figure out that a Jeep Cherokee won't fit through the pill.....
» 15/07/2007 1:59:53 PM It never seems to occur to posters here that as a small, powerless nation on the margins o.....
» 15/07/2007 11:16:34 AM I don't think most wealthy men are that stupid DEMOS. Whatever you may think of Conrad Bl.....
» 14/07/2007 7:55:19 PM So Conrad Black is going to prison See: http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,251.....
» 12/07/2007 7:30:46 AM VK3AUU wrote: "Once the US withdraws from Iraq, there is a good chance that the Shia.....
» 9/07/2007 10:31:46 AM Just to get something straight, I'm so old I can remember 10 presidents. Of these Bush is .....
» 8/07/2007 4:30:27 PM Now here is a really provocative article. http://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/pto-200.....
» 4/07/2007 11:51:02 AM F_H In both Christendom and Dar-ul-Islam there were times when Jews were allowed to prosp.....
» 4/07/2007 9:43:52 AM This article is a waste of space. Let's all get back to the business at hand. Demonising.....
» 3/07/2007 9:52:45 PM Steel, I do not hate Muslims. I do not have a "blind hate" of Islam. I have a.....
» 3/07/2007 2:52:45 PM Thanks Banjo, For those who are interested here is a link. http://www.theaustralian.news.....
» 3/07/2007 8:39:07 AM Palimpsest The question of Muslim inbreeding MAY not be a furphee. Some zoologists claim .....
» 2/07/2007 6:06:45 PM Steel, Just to be clear let's distinguish between the 7 / 7 bombings in which British bor.....
» 2/07/2007 5:14:48 PM Steel, There is nothing in your various links I have not read or heard before. I infer f.....
» 2/07/2007 1:31:22 PM Interesting set of responses. Let me make my own position clear. In a democracy there ar.....
» 1/07/2007 7:29:04 PM So writes Hassan Butt in this Guardian opinion piece. Quotes: When I was still a member .....
» 1/07/2007 11:18:14 AM LOL DEMOS, How does replacing the brutal Batista regime in Cuba with the even more brutal.....
» 30/06/2007 4:42:17 PM There is of course a precedent for a tawdry thug becoming the focus of adulation. What wa.....
» 30/06/2007 3:31:04 PM Many years ago in South Africa I encountered a group of students protesting the death pena.....
» 30/06/2007 2:59:48 PM sjk, Excellent post. You are quite correct. Bob is misrepresenting Trenberth's position. .....
» 30/06/2007 12:21:00 PM DEMOS wrote: "capitalism forbids population control." What on Earth are you ta.....
» 27/06/2007 8:35:27 PM Much of Asia's water originates on the Tibetan plateau which is controlled by China. See:.....
» 27/06/2007 1:44:34 PM Celivia, What I'd like to know is how far the Episcopalian Church of the USA is prepared .....
» 26/06/2007 11:20:22 AM I have sent the following to the Idris Mosque in Seattle which, I think, is the Mosque Rev.....
» 24/06/2007 11:20:47 PM Palimpsest, I agree with you. But religion generally, and militant Islam specifically, i.....
» 24/06/2007 11:04:38 PM >>One who attempts to follow the teachings of Christ and who believes that Christ is.....
» 24/06/2007 8:35:52 PM What I find intriguing is the response of the Episcopalian Church of the USA (ECUSA). I wo.....
» 24/06/2007 5:55:09 PM This post is not about whether Rushdie deserves his "K." That's a perfectly legi.....
» 24/06/2007 11:22:39 AM Supplementary question: How do I apply for the job of first openly atheist Archbishop of .....
» 24/06/2007 9:45:18 AM It is a question this atheist occasionally asks himself. I thought at a bare minimum a Ch.....
» 21/06/2007 4:01:19 PM A supplemental question is this: REALISTICALLY, what is the probability that the major em.....
» 21/06/2007 2:46:16 PM Is it already too late to save Australia from the effects of global warming? That seems to.....
» 19/06/2007 8:46:43 AM Wobbles, There is evidence that the effects of inbreeding may be more insidious than had .....
» 18/06/2007 1:09:15 PM DEMOS, If you don’t believe Israel has a right to exist then you don't. Perhaps neither d.....
» 18/06/2007 12:34:36 PM Thomas Friedman, the New York Times columnist, put it like this: "Criticizing Israel.....
» 18/06/2007 9:50:55 AM DEMOS, Khan was not the "Muslim side." He was an individual who, faced with par.....
» 17/06/2007 4:41:39 PM Fellow_Human this may interest you. Why there is no Palestine http://www.haaretz.com/has.....
» 17/06/2007 2:26:36 PM Could something as mundane as the desire to avoid an arranged marriage to his cousin reall.....
» 17/06/2007 9:23:45 AM Fellow_Human The Gazans can only dream of the "good old days" when they could w.....
» 15/06/2007 11:14:02 PM Fellow-human, The Palestinians have two blessings and one potential blessing going for th.....
» 15/06/2007 7:09:53 PM I've been watching some video of victorious Hamas screaming "Sieg Heil." Errr, .....
» 15/06/2007 6:02:14 PM Fellow_Human, You won't find me defending the Bush administration. Bush is the worst pres.....
» 15/06/2007 4:26:58 PM Fellow_Human If the US decides it needs to strike Iran I doubt the possible effect on Isr.....
» 15/06/2007 10:28:20 AM Belly, I think in global terms the events on the West Bank and Gaza, tragic as they may b.....
» 14/06/2007 12:15:15 PM As I said DEMOS, So far this looks to me more like smoke and mirrors than reality. At t.....
» 14/06/2007 10:19:33 AM Addendum: Jonathan Freedland is right in pinpointing an Arab-Iranian nuclear arms race as.....
» 13/06/2007 11:18:59 PM I wonder if something is brewing. Jonathan Freedland in the Guardian seems to think it is.....
» 11/06/2007 9:56:29 PM Should judges be given more discretionary power? Are you kidding? Pompous asses accounta.....
» 11/06/2007 4:56:38 PM Pericles, Do you have any reason to believe the youtube clip is not genuine? I don't kno.....
» 10/06/2007 10:01:33 AM Nice one Steph, However you forgot about the part played by Walid Wilbeforce and Ibrahim .....
» 10/06/2007 9:35:37 AM First a declaration of interest. I am an atheist. Have been for over 50 years. I have nev.....
» 9/06/2007 1:10:11 AM Bugsy, I'm reasonably sure the seventh century tribal chieftain existed. He may even have.....
» 8/06/2007 10:38:39 PM As a "universal kafir" I can sit this one out except to say a pox on both your h.....
» 8/06/2007 7:23:15 PM Bazz, It definitely would require apparatus embedded in main roads. I'm not at all sure .....
» 8/06/2007 3:36:25 PM Petroz, Perhaps one day we'll refuel electric cars on the fly like this? http://www.news.....
» 8/06/2007 3:24:13 PM Bazz, Luttwak is not advocating ignoring the Middle-East. His suggestion is that we're gi.....
» 8/06/2007 3:10:42 PM Do good looks, high income and intelligence go together? Do some people really have it al.....
» 7/06/2007 9:22:11 AM Nonetheless DEMOS, despite my mix-up between sulphate particles and SO2 this does have the.....
» 6/06/2007 10:47:35 PM Oops, yep, you're right. Sorry.....
» 6/06/2007 6:43:22 PM abcd wrote: As it happens abcd I have had quite a bit of contact with Muslims both here i.....
» 6/06/2007 4:29:34 PM The bombs are going off in Sudan and people are dying in their tens of thousands. The war.....
» 6/06/2007 4:06:44 PM The concentration would not be noticeable DEMOS. A little SO2 or other cooling gas goes a .....
» 6/06/2007 2:37:49 PM Here is a link to the most sensible analysis of the Middle East I've ever read. http://ww.....
» 6/06/2007 12:35:32 PM Are "solar shields" an answer to global warming? One idea for a solar shield is.....
» 3/06/2007 5:03:19 PM Boaz_David, I've seen Obsession. I think it misses the point. The problem is not Muslim .....
» 3/06/2007 4:27:30 PM Belly You've captured my intent precisely. Muhammed, Jesus and the tooth fairy are as muc.....
» 3/06/2007 3:35:25 PM Irfan, Whatever Mohammed Bouyeri's mental state, van Gogh was not a "victim of free .....
» 2/06/2007 4:44:13 PM More red herrings from Irfan. I'm not "forgiving" Hirsan Ali anything. I don't .....
» 2/06/2007 2:00:57 PM The following is the text of a submission to the ABC's "Science Show." A recent.....
» 2/06/2007 11:02:30 AM Irfan, I don't know what Ayaan Hirsi Ali thinks about Jews. Presumably she has not said a.....
» 2/06/2007 10:11:22 AM abcd and all other interested parties, here is an unambiguous question: Do you think t.....
» 31/05/2007 9:40:02 PM abcd, Muhammed married Aisha when she was 6 and had sex with her at age 9. My understandi.....
» 30/05/2007 7:42:59 PM Thank you for your kind words davsab. There are two positions that drive me equally crazy.....
» 30/05/2007 6:16:16 PM LOL justaguy, If free speech is to be meaningful then even someone you regard as ".......
» 30/05/2007 6:03:42 PM Pericles I'm reasonably certain that Maryland's blasphemy laws would not survive a court .....
» 30/05/2007 5:29:20 PM Sorry, title should be: "Is Muhammad a no-go-zone".....
» 30/05/2007 3:30:22 PM Should we be barring people from speaking at public functions because we don’t like what t.....
» 30/05/2007 3:14:47 PM >>Hirsi Ali's comments on the prophet Mohammed were a "no-go zone". They .....
» 29/05/2007 9:57:27 AM Alanpoi "what if we are wrong" is the right question to ask. Call those of us w.....
» 28/05/2007 5:18:48 PM But Aime shouldn't we rather call this: Stardate -300 . (give or take a few star years) .....
» 28/05/2007 4:09:08 PM Dickie I asked Leigh how he knows which set of scientists to believe. I am now asking yo.....
» 28/05/2007 3:05:39 PM LOL Leigh I've been called many things in my life. Phillip Adams, the quintessential Aus.....
» 28/05/2007 2:23:57 PM Pericles The problem with SMWTGF is that we have to reset the date every time Melbourne w.....
» 28/05/2007 12:17:00 PM This is also the year 43 SMWTGF (Since Melbourne Won The Grand Final).....
» 28/05/2007 12:04:46 PM I received the following response from Andrew Bolt: >>I insure my house against fir.....
» 28/05/2007 10:29:36 AM I received the following from Phillip Adams. >>you silly little s h * t! you know N.....
» 27/05/2007 4:14:39 PM Does Andrew Bolt, the Herald Sun columnist, insure his house against fire? Why should he.....
» 27/05/2007 12:07:17 PM Oops. Heading should be: What defines the current era?.....
» 27/05/2007 10:15:57 AM When I went to school I learned that I was born in 1945 AD. "AD" stood for ".....
» 27/05/2007 12:38:16 AM Arjay I think the more important question is whether Dr. Whisson's Water From Air Harves.....
» 26/05/2007 8:27:35 PM I received the following comment from Max Whisson: Start quote: The Water Windmill is no.....
» 26/05/2007 5:24:20 PM Correction: It's Phillip Adams, not Philip Adams. You can see a fuller version of this p.....
» 26/05/2007 1:06:25 PM This is either the most important story of the year or another Philip Adams fantasy. I don.....
» 21/05/2007 3:08:41 PM I am about as interested in Aboriginal culture and history as I am in tales of Britney Spe.....
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