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» 6/05/2013 10:55:54 PM Oh, the irony, that someone with such a stunted understanding of Utilitarianism should sha.....
» 7/05/2012 3:18:29 PM 'Burning the holy books which are interconnected with the hearts and souls of millions of .....
» 29/03/2012 9:22:22 PM 'because the government is totalitarian?' Well, yes, that's one good reason, at least......
» 28/03/2012 11:59:05 AM I'm surprised hardcore Labor supporters - all dozen or so of them - are even acknowledging.....
» 20/03/2012 3:22:34 PM Well, Pericles, the efficacy of intercessory prayer has been tested, and the most reliable.....
» 20/03/2012 12:01:18 PM If I only had a dollar for every idiotic religious apologist who completely misunderstands.....
» 2/03/2012 2:33:57 PM Just out of curiosity, does anyone here advocate that newborn babies, toddlers or children.....
» 14/02/2012 11:49:17 PM David, you have quite the obsession with bodily apertures. Which I think may be quite sign.....
» 12/02/2012 10:04:01 PM Hm. Posts frequently peppered with pejoratives like 'homo', 'poofter', 'queer', etc. Const.....
» 12/02/2012 8:00:47 PM David, it appears that basic logic just really isn't your strong point. Let's go through .....
» 12/02/2012 7:50:55 PM individual, my old Dad had a saying, 'never assume. It makes an ass out of u and me'. Well.....
» 11/02/2012 8:45:43 AM 'I don't believe marriage is to have children. I believe marriage to be between two people.....
» 10/02/2012 2:28:48 PM Certainly: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16569567 'CONCLUSIONS: Intercessory prayer.....
» 10/02/2012 1:24:39 PM ' No one, at least not nowadays, argues against interracial marriage while observing the o.....
» 10/02/2012 12:28:37 PM So, Houellebec, you're actually endorsing miscegenation now? You must really miss the days.....
» 10/02/2012 11:36:19 AM Hmm, Houellebecq, let's try a counterexample: 'The thing is Black people CAN get married......
» 10/02/2012 8:57:05 AM Unfortunately for the author, research has indeed been conducted on the efficacy of prayer.....
» 9/02/2012 10:36:49 PM Well, individual, it seems you not only cherry pick the Bible, you also cherry pick the di.....
» 9/02/2012 10:27:55 PM What do you call alternative medicine that works? Medicine. Anyone foolish enough to con.....
» 8/02/2012 10:24:46 PM 'Prejudice: 1. an unfavorable opinion or feeling formed beforehand or without knowledge, .....
» 8/02/2012 5:30:47 PM In other words, progressive pat, Jesus never said a word about it, did he? But, nice quot.....
» 8/02/2012 5:25:12 PM Daffy Duck, that is not at all what Bohr said. Stop putting your own tendentious words in .....
» 8/02/2012 2:46:07 PM And here we see why religious or 'spiritual' types just shouldn't try and do science. The.....
» 8/02/2012 2:43:44 PM Trav, 8 year olds are not legally consenting adults. Hence, they cannot be married. Dredgi.....
» 8/02/2012 11:22:47 AM The sort of dualism you're postulating brings up so many problems that it's generally not .....
» 8/02/2012 8:59:19 AM So, the religious lobby is more motivated than the so-called homosexual lobby? If one comp.....
» 8/02/2012 8:41:04 AM I'm not entirely sure what this gibberish is actually getting at, but I am forcibly remind.....
» 7/02/2012 1:03:14 PM I note that 'Tree-hugging environmentalists' conveniently ignore the fact that their belov.....
» 7/02/2012 1:00:43 PM ... into the ground......
» 6/10/2011 10:37:55 PM By the way, Brian, are you based around Launceston, may I ask? I believe I've recognised y.....
» 6/10/2011 11:42:21 AM Whilst I agree with your general argument, Brian, as a dyed-in-the-wool pedant, I must poi.....
» 16/09/2011 5:58:45 PM Oh, Great Cthulhu's tentacles, this has it all: misuse of quantum physics, name-checking q.....
» 29/08/2011 9:29:31 PM After reading yet another 'they're-not-bad-just-misunderstood' load of ivory tower malarke.....
» 4/07/2011 10:33:56 AM Gosh, this has it all: white invasion, 'crypto-fascist', 'holocaust deniers', 'incestuous .....
» 27/06/2011 11:01:55 AM It's not for nothing that Clive Hamilton - would-be Guardian par excellence - described th.....
» 24/06/2011 11:13:05 PM Jay of Melbourne, were you having a go at me? Some of us take a break now and then, you kn.....
» 23/06/2011 11:13:03 PM I'll not be watching any more of the programme in question, because it is an intellectuall.....
» 15/06/2011 10:46:44 AM Like a fundamentalist Christian preacher snorting lines of coke off the chiselled six-pack.....
» 14/06/2011 7:25:43 PM Yabby, how about not cherry-picking? The Philippines' fertility rate is a middle-ranking .....
» 14/06/2011 5:54:15 PM There is one sure method that history has shown to engender population control, indeed red.....
» 14/06/2011 1:58:06 PM Always interesting to watch the neo-Malthusian eugenicists swarm out of the woodwork. Esp.....
» 9/06/2011 10:24:31 PM Phew, I didn't think I was going to get to play my drinking game, with this thread ... unt.....
» 9/06/2011 12:21:45 AM I love it when people think that trotting out the Second Law of Thermodynamics is some kin.....
» 7/06/2011 2:09:43 PM popnperish, I'm sure the empty-headed numpties in Harold Camping's church are quite happy .....
» 7/06/2011 12:53:17 PM So you agree that phosphorus can be recycled. Quite easily. Urine was but one example, and.....
» 7/06/2011 10:00:55 AM Well, stay away from the beansprouts, apparently......
» 6/06/2011 11:24:06 PM For one thing, phosphorus is an element, and can therefore be recycled. Quite easily from .....
» 4/06/2011 12:54:16 AM So, an extremely localised famine somehow proves the Malthusians? I think not. The simple.....
» 3/06/2011 6:33:49 PM Gloom springs eternal for the neo-Malthusians......
» 3/06/2011 3:28:12 PM popnperish, read Dan Gardner's excellent 'Future babble', and realise that you just trotte.....
» 2/06/2011 11:31:37 PM Three words: Paul. Ehrlich. Wrong......
» 30/05/2011 3:53:38 PM You are an odd duck, aren't you? 0_o.....
» 30/05/2011 8:41:03 AM Well, Quantumleap, I'll give you points for tenacity. Digging back three years through com.....
» 29/05/2011 4:01:40 PM Here is one prediction I feel I can safely make: experts will continue to make assured pre.....
» 28/05/2011 7:06:39 PM Any prediction I made would have as much chance of bearing fruit as that of any expert. In.....
» 27/05/2011 10:12:38 PM It's the only way to cope with the horror of these creepy ads......
» 27/05/2011 7:56:44 PM Nah, Malthusians are so much more predictable. On any given OLO post, I'm guaranteed to be.....
» 27/05/2011 8:40:07 AM Godwin's Law is so 2000......
» 26/05/2011 10:25:40 PM Two things: 1) read Dan Gardner's 'Future babble' and rest comfortably in the certainty .....
» 19/05/2011 4:03:27 PM The other thing that occurred to me, reading Jo's article, was Orwell's observation that, .....
» 19/05/2011 3:08:45 PM On a side note - can we do something about those creepy Medibank ads??.....
» 19/05/2011 9:56:06 AM It's an interesting question. I don't know whether a 'combatant' differentiates between a .....
» 18/05/2011 11:03:56 PM In canvassing the opinions of legal experts regarding the death in combat of Osama bin Lad.....
» 10/05/2011 11:44:10 PM The mealy-mouthed, craven bilge spouted by the Left in the wake of Osama bin Laden's entir.....
» 12/04/2011 10:36:12 PM 'What's wrong with being offended? Since when did "sticks and stones may break my bon.....
» 4/04/2011 10:06:11 PM Interesting what one turns up on the internet: 'The parliamentary road to socialism is no.....
» 16/03/2011 7:30:35 PM Ah yes, Friends Of The Earth: those unbiased, caring activists who preferred that Africans.....
» 14/03/2011 11:43:12 PM A whole lot of passion in this article, to be certain, but not much effort made to back up.....
» 10/03/2011 7:56:23 AM I would be curious to see the actual questions asked, as the figures quoted are more than .....
» 9/03/2011 8:32:12 AM So, if your 'environmental warriors' do 'bring the fossil fuel industry to their knees', w.....
» 8/03/2011 12:11:43 PM Garum Masala: 'until you have compensated all those children and their parents and others.....
» 7/03/2011 1:31:52 PM Sounds like a lot of balls to me ;).....
» 7/03/2011 12:37:23 PM The Spectator has a long analysis of the Steig furore here: http://www.spectator.co.uk/ess.....
» 7/03/2011 9:35:41 AM If the author was trained as a philosopher, then he should have recognized that his articl.....
» 6/03/2011 10:06:39 PM Henry Ford didn't sell cars by lobbying the government to tax horse poo. A carbon tax is .....
» 5/03/2011 7:10:57 PM Agnostic, I note you have chosen to studiously ignore my questions......
» 5/03/2011 10:36:46 AM Agnostic: 1) - why? and more to the point, how? 2) - why? and also, how? You have faile.....
» 4/03/2011 9:00:30 PM Like I said, sometimes you wish some people just weren't on your side ........
» 4/03/2011 8:59:14 AM MTR's support for burqas begins to make sense......
» 3/03/2011 6:36:40 PM Sometimes you wish some people weren't on your side......
» 3/03/2011 9:48:47 AM There are any number of troubling aspects to this carbon tax - oops, *price* - but a coupl.....
» 2/03/2011 9:25:03 PM King Hazza, 'a good many elected representatives in both the US and Canada are bloodthirs.....
» 2/03/2011 9:18:59 PM Leaving aside the obvious eugenic angle to your argument, Bazz, you should also be aware t.....
» 2/03/2011 7:42:48 AM Well, we learnt that the U.S. thinks Silvio Berlusconi is an asinine clown, Prince Andrew .....
» 2/03/2011 7:38:59 AM Well, at least the author acknowledges that racism is not merely the 'white man's burden',.....
» 1/03/2011 9:57:54 PM King Hazza*, I don't particularly hate Wikileaks, but I do thoroughly dislike Julian Assan.....
» 28/02/2011 9:06:28 PM keith, are we at the part where you cut off my hand in a lightsaber duel, then tell me tha.....
» 28/02/2011 9:05:05 PM grateful, like this? http://www.matthiaskuentzel.de/contents/islamic-antisemitism-and-its.....
» 28/02/2011 4:57:41 PM stevenlmeyer and others, you might well be interested in watching the documentary 'Underco.....
» 28/02/2011 4:56:05 PM I'll also put my hand up as a formerly rusted-on, fourth-generation Labor supporter, who i.....
» 28/02/2011 3:07:22 PM Indeed, skeptic, the framers of the U.S. constitution were very careful not to vest power .....
» 28/02/2011 9:10:59 AM briar rose, what you say may be true, but it means nothing for James' argument. 'I know yo.....
» 28/02/2011 7:12:04 AM Trav: 'Marriage is a social union or legal contract between people that creates kinship. I.....
» 27/02/2011 8:26:44 PM Well, Trav, your entire argument against gay marriage seems to be predicated on the assump.....
» 27/02/2011 4:05:56 PM One thing that concerns me with the Drum is that it has been running a series of articles .....
» 27/02/2011 10:18:16 AM Trav, how on earth do you move on to incest? Your slippery slope is simply ridiculous. I .....
» 27/02/2011 8:26:59 AM So, vanna, the taxpayer doesn't pay for children of traditional marriages? There is no suc.....
» 26/02/2011 11:18:47 PM KAEP, thanks for the laugh: it's always amusing, if a little bit sad, seeing someone confi.....
» 26/02/2011 11:01:02 PM No, Trav, the argument is that it's none of your damned business; nor mine, nor the Church.....
» 26/02/2011 10:54:49 PM Andrew, once again we see the assumption that 'white people' are a monoculture. What a lo.....
» 26/02/2011 12:20:58 PM To everyone who harrumphed about my quote from 'Ghostbusters': I've long since discovered .....
» 25/02/2011 10:12:35 AM Andrew Bartlett - in what way has Australia ever really been 'monocultural'?.....
» 25/02/2011 8:01:35 AM I see your point, snake, but that is partly what I'm talking about. My heritage is, I'm s.....
» 25/02/2011 7:22:29 AM Whilst I generally agree with your article, I find it curious that you describe your grand.....
» 25/02/2011 7:10:30 AM 'Fire and brimstone coming down from the sky! Rivers and seas boiling! Forty years of dark.....
» 24/02/2011 11:11:58 AM 'We are no more than an accident existing on the 3rd rock from a sun in a solar system som.....
» 24/02/2011 10:08:11 AM Well, Matt, I would counter by asking how a generation who use social networking technolog.....
» 24/02/2011 9:19:57 AM What is it about ageing misery-gutses, that they continually whine about the 'good old day.....
» 24/02/2011 9:08:02 AM The comfortable lefties are really letting their revolutionary fantasies run wild, aren't .....
» 23/02/2011 12:20:58 PM Just a couple of examples of how consistently wrong Lester has been, lest I be accused of .....
» 23/02/2011 11:52:32 AM Good old Lester, he's indefatigable, you've got to hand that to him. A 40-odd year career .....
» 17/02/2011 9:52:06 PM Well, crabsy, this, for one: http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/04/28/1051381900365.html .....
» 17/02/2011 9:47:00 PM Except the Twenty million-dollar duck: http://www.usnews.com/usnews/biztech/articles/97021.....
» 17/02/2011 10:14:33 AM Peter, it appears that you are quite happy to embrace neuropsychiatric explanations for la.....
» 17/02/2011 10:09:27 AM One very good reason, King Hazza: you can get water from the tap pretty much for free; why.....
» 17/02/2011 5:19:45 AM Well, Yuyutsu, that's an interesting new meaning of the word 'qualified' that you've made .....
» 16/02/2011 9:36:42 PM Now, King Hazza, there you go taking all the fun out of it! We're almost in agreement :( .....
» 16/02/2011 9:01:47 AM Oops, slight point of correction to my last sentence. It *should* read: 'You do know that.....
» 16/02/2011 8:59:13 AM Actually, King Hazza, your original claim (which I admit we have somewhat wandered from - .....
» 15/02/2011 12:34:41 PM King Hazza, I'm not sure you even read your link. If you did, you'd notice that it not onl.....
» 15/02/2011 10:48:32 AM King Hazza, I'm not sure how you managed to keep a straight face with your last reply, or .....
» 15/02/2011 3:07:00 AM So many fools, so little space ... Yuyutsu - I'll remove the desk from my forehead briefl.....
» 14/02/2011 1:16:01 PM Pericles, like King Hazza, you just don't get it. Have a look at the link you posted - the.....
» 14/02/2011 11:28:52 AM King Hazza, I'm beginning to suspect that you don't know the first thing about homeopathy......
» 14/02/2011 8:18:57 AM Yuyutsu - I have nothing to say but ... *head-desk* Pelican - I'm not being disingenuous,.....
» 13/02/2011 10:57:21 PM King Hazza, I'm beginning to suspect that you're not actually reading a damn thing anybody.....
» 12/02/2011 4:39:20 PM Bronwyn, it's got nothing to do with opinion, it's simple chemistry, arithmetic and logic......
» 12/02/2011 12:56:18 PM [reposted to avoid offence] weareunique - no, my viewpoints are based on evidence. Acupun.....
» 12/02/2011 11:00:18 AM [Deleted for abuse.].....
» 11/02/2011 2:40:16 PM Pericles, stop telling lies: http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/?p=10170.....
» 11/02/2011 2:37:38 PM 'The practice is, essentially, nothing more than a primitive form of vaccination or drug t.....
» 10/02/2011 5:06:39 AM donkeygod, I think you're attributing too much to Asimov. Asimov's essay probably had even.....
» 8/02/2011 3:51:37 PM 'A friend of mind' told you? A most telling slip, Ho Hum. I hate to think what your lamps.....
» 7/02/2011 4:11:09 PM I'm no great fan of the IPA, but I'm still waiting for a comment that actually addresses t.....
» 1/02/2011 5:37:18 PM While I agree that gratuitous flaming and abuse are unwarranted and tiresome, it should be.....
» 31/01/2011 7:27:43 PM It's the devil's music, I tell ye!.....
» 31/01/2011 1:48:16 PM Jeez, who died and let you lot become Jimmy Swaggart, ranting about 'that dirty, filthy, l.....
» 31/01/2011 12:53:06 PM Philosopher Stephen Law has explored the Evil God hypothesis quite thoroughly, here: http:.....
» 31/01/2011 7:50:08 AM 'Those who invalidate reason ought seriously to consider whether they argue against reason.....
» 31/01/2011 7:47:37 AM The author is notably silent about Gabriella Cilmi's clip for 'Sweet about me'. http://ww.....
» 29/01/2011 9:47:44 PM I would also be curious to know if the author advocates organic production?.....
» 29/01/2011 6:51:44 PM Like many animal activists, this author states a number of things as fact, when they are a.....
» 28/01/2011 7:46:41 PM For runner: http://stephenlaw.blogspot.com/2007/03/whats-wrong-with-gay-sex.html.....
» 28/01/2011 8:26:36 AM runner, if you're going to accuse Brian of some unspecified 'sin', at least have the cojon.....
» 26/01/2011 1:40:48 PM As opposed to you preaching yours, eh runner? ;).....
» 25/01/2011 7:07:11 PM sillyfilly - climate models are unable to retrospectively fit the climate record without a.....
» 25/01/2011 7:04:09 PM I think there should be a type of Godwin's Law for how long it takes someone to shoehorn t.....
» 24/01/2011 9:59:09 PM Well, you can take some solace then, individual, in knowing that the Bible is not correct......
» 24/01/2011 4:51:14 PM Rich2 - your reasoning in favour of climate change (I take it you mean Catastrophic Anthro.....
» 24/01/2011 12:37:20 PM 'The last year has seen drought, fire and flood end lives and cripple communities.' And t.....
» 21/01/2011 5:18:16 PM Ken, if you're such a stickler for 'science-based reality', then you should admit that it .....
» 21/01/2011 1:45:19 PM Thanks, HoHum, I needed a good laugh. Oh ... you take that mystical guru shtick seriously.....
» 20/01/2011 11:52:31 AM While MikeyBear points out that the Gaia hypothesis - in its original form - is simply a s.....
» 8/01/2011 12:32:57 PM Love how the left get to indulge their racism in the name of Gaia......
» 7/01/2011 9:26:10 AM The usual stuff from Brian: long on emotion, short on facts. Africa will pull itself up b.....
» 21/12/2010 4:46:39 PM I'm amused to note that the environmental left are so inured to real reports like this, th.....
» 19/12/2010 8:20:17 PM One only has to read the horror stories from Ireland's Commission of Inquiry into Child Ab.....
» 9/12/2010 9:43:26 PM It's rather ironic to see how many left liberals are suddenly prepared to imply that women.....
» 2/12/2010 7:47:44 PM [Deleted for grossness.].....
» 30/11/2010 11:20:50 PM Obviously Proxy can't handle counter-intuitive facts. Quantum mechanics is counter-intuit.....
» 30/11/2010 8:11:47 AM Come on, Peter: name them. If you've got such precise data - 97% no less - you must be abl.....
» 30/11/2010 12:15:10 AM Actually, Proxy, most abusers of young boys are heterosexual - counter-intuitive as that m.....
» 29/11/2010 6:42:08 PM Perhaps, runner, you might suggest that scientists work on a cure for black skin - I mean,.....
» 29/11/2010 8:04:57 AM Admit it, bonmot, you were caught out, and Fry was a grandstanding bullsh!t-artist......
» 28/11/2010 9:45:40 PM bonmot, I'm afraid Leo Lane has you, there. Leo pointed out that Fry, who tearfully called.....
» 28/11/2010 9:34:03 PM Well, PeterA, off you toddle and do the right thing to make oil last longer ... ohhhhh, I .....
» 28/11/2010 11:14:05 AM 'Homosexuality is not genetically predetermined.' 'Homosexual behaviour is largely shaped.....
» 28/11/2010 4:45:26 AM No takers? X, in this case, was 'interracial'. Y was 'black and white'. 'One of the most.....
» 25/11/2010 2:01:16 PM Some moral algebra: correctly identify X and Y. 'One of the most pressing problems facing.....
» 25/11/2010 1:47:24 PM ALGOREisRICH please provide your evidence that gay marriage is 'immoral, degenerate and so.....
» 25/11/2010 7:43:05 AM It's a good sign of someone who has run out of valid arguments, that they resort to screec.....
» 24/11/2010 9:02:49 AM David seems to be locked into the 'Pleasantville' mindset, when men were men - hard-workin.....
» 20/11/2010 6:25:44 PM In which Ken conveniently avoids giving an actual answer ........
» 20/11/2010 8:55:34 AM So, Ken, let us imagine that Australia somehow magically reduces its emissions to zero, to.....
» 20/11/2010 12:15:25 AM Now let us examine the three inquiries into 'climategate' (ghastly word, but sadly it stuc.....
» 20/11/2010 12:02:13 AM Geoff, let's examine two quotes first: 'If you're doing an experiment, you should report .....
» 19/11/2010 11:11:47 PM As I said, Ozandy, if you want to follow the money trail, you'll find that the amount of m.....
» 19/11/2010 8:19:40 AM Geoff, you're being more than a little disingenuous, here. Firstly, you might acknowledge.....
» 19/11/2010 7:54:23 AM Uh-oh, Ken's been watching 'The day after tomorrow' again. Let's hope he doesn't see '201.....
» 18/11/2010 9:52:10 PM I think keith is on to something: what, indeed, would Adam Smith do? (WWASD? :) ) I very .....
» 18/11/2010 9:43:17 PM Well, Ozandy, it seems as though we're approaching some common ground. I may be over-opti.....
» 18/11/2010 9:43:38 AM You must have an odd dictionary, Ozandy. Mine defines sophistry as 'a subtle, tricky, supe.....
» 18/11/2010 8:06:16 AM Re: 'consensus science': as physicist Lubos Motl has commented, 'how many silly people at .....
» 17/11/2010 7:25:31 AM 'even after the fact we may not know whether we've made the right call' Preparing for the.....
» 15/11/2010 9:50:00 PM We're running out of oil again, huh? Yep, that's been happening pretty regularly for the p.....
» 14/11/2010 5:48:58 PM 'Poststructuralist'? Spare me. Now I *know* you're full of it. Anyone who takes seriously .....
» 13/11/2010 10:09:43 PM Nice try, Squeers, but no cigar. 'I never imagined the Seattle rhetoric was "authent.....
» 13/11/2010 1:31:30 PM Squeers, it seems, is upholding that great tradition of climate alarmists: every time they.....
» 12/11/2010 8:04:23 PM Squeers, I hate to burst your self-righteous little bubble, but Chief Seattle never said a.....
» 12/11/2010 7:24:03 AM Bonmot, every single one of your assertions could bounce right off the mirror and smack yo.....
» 11/11/2010 8:52:54 AM Here, here Riz - someone after my own heart. Too often, I've had people assume I'm some s.....
» 10/11/2010 9:06:58 PM Ho Hum, are you actually citing 'Dr.' Joseph Mercola, the guy with a rap sheet like this? .....
» 3/11/2010 7:47:49 PM Interesting that you should bring up Judith Curry's name, Alice. Dr. Curry was recently t.....
» 3/11/2010 8:08:39 AM Some have argued that AGW alarmists will soon jump ship for the 'biodiversity crisis', but.....
» 24/10/2010 9:46:38 PM Ha ha - that's two science fiction references in the thread so far: Soylent Green and Loga.....
» 23/10/2010 11:22:12 PM Calm down a bit, mikk. Given that this was an article about 'Asylum seekers and the law',.....
» 22/10/2010 10:17:14 PM Well, it looks like we've finally found something that everyone on OLO can agree on! EVERY.....
» 22/10/2010 9:59:28 AM Perkinsy, you're right about GenX volunteerism. I should have mentioned that I have served.....
» 22/10/2010 9:20:29 AM Amicus, if you were in your twenties during the 80s recession, I'd almost suspect you were.....
» 22/10/2010 8:23:04 AM Yet another smug load of Baby Boomer tripe. Where are Generation X? We're too busy workin.....
» 21/10/2010 8:08:23 PM Pedestrian, I think the Greens have put Lee's past into the Memory Hole......
» 21/10/2010 11:22:32 AM What to make of this phrase in Article 31 of the Convention Relating to the Status of Refu.....
» 21/10/2010 11:16:20 AM Paul, you obviously have not met your Dear Leaders, Bob Il-Brown, and Lee-Jong Rihannon......
» 16/10/2010 1:31:59 PM Keep the faith, eh Paul? I remember an old teacher at my high school who used to faithful.....
» 15/10/2010 10:58:33 PM Paul, I hate to disappoint you, but there was a very telling breakdown of the Green vote p.....
» 14/10/2010 7:37:05 PM Paul, I'm not sure where you read all that tosh into my statement. For your info, I mysel.....
» 14/10/2010 7:19:08 AM JonJ, I tend to agree with you. I strongly suspect that 2010 will prove to be the high-wa.....
» 13/10/2010 8:57:16 PM Whether it be water or forests, the stony ideologues in the Greens care nothing for the li.....
» 12/10/2010 9:07:24 AM Ozandy, one could fire the same tu quoque argument back at you: 'The idea of climate chan.....
» 4/10/2010 9:33:38 AM Melinda, I look forward to your next article, in which you fulminate against ads that port.....
» 2/10/2010 9:17:10 AM King Hazza, stop misrepresenting what I say. I never said relatives will actively murder .....
» 2/10/2010 9:12:47 AM grok: right on, brutha! lol Are you still wearing loon pants and kaftans, too?.....
» 1/10/2010 11:23:05 PM DavidG, your strawman is pathetic. Force *everyone* 'to die a terrible death'? Where did .....
» 1/10/2010 8:44:57 AM Both of you, David G in particular, have missed the point of this article, which is that, .....
» 1/10/2010 8:22:02 AM I'm finding the idea of a Marxist chiding anyone for believing that ideal situations can e.....
» 30/09/2010 4:34:11 PM Actually, david f, it was Huxley who really pegged it when he foresaw a future in which we.....
» 30/09/2010 9:04:24 AM Actually, I think Aristotle was probably right when he argued that a happy medium was best.....
» 29/09/2010 10:14:20 PM Keep it up, grok! This is hilarious! It's like being bored to death by some pompous, middl.....
» 28/09/2010 11:37:02 PM Oh, grok, thank you: I needed a good belly laugh. Especially your previous post about how.....
» 27/09/2010 10:05:00 PM I'm sorry, grok, but I'm going to have to take issue here with your fanboyish adulation of.....
» 25/09/2010 12:48:56 PM I'm Tasmanian, and I'm not a fan of Gunns. Nor am I a fan of Wilderness Society ferals. A.....
» 2/09/2010 11:33:30 AM Guys, not sure what the above sniping has to do with the topic at hand?.....
» 26/08/2010 7:52:43 PM I guess that's your way of saying you're not going to offer any evidence, then?.....
» 26/08/2010 12:57:03 PM Er, but it's still *not* the Nobel, is it? No matter what it's nicknamed ('The awards are.....
» 26/08/2010 9:06:20 AM Oh, dotto, you still won't answer, will you? 'read up on single case study research' - th.....
» 25/08/2010 8:25:46 AM Challenges? Well, for a start there was the link to the Skeptic blog, regarding the 'close.....
» 24/08/2010 11:44:27 PM We are unique, you haven't answered a single challenge, or proffered a single proof. All y.....
» 24/08/2010 10:57:31 PM Oh dear, dotto, where do I start ... The peptides claim is peddled by Candace Pert, aptly.....
» 24/08/2010 9:24:10 AM Dotto, I am at a complete loss to understand what your like to the Scientific American art.....
» 24/08/2010 12:34:23 AM I note, we are unique, that you do a nice line in pejoratives: 'insecure thinkers', 'sad y.....
» 23/08/2010 11:00:25 PM Ha ha, how did I know someone was going to play the 'open your mind' card? Unfortunately,.....
» 23/08/2010 10:01:39 PM 'You got to ac-centuate the positive and e-liminate the negative,' Dean Martin once sang, .....
» 20/08/2010 8:49:45 AM 'We are all influenced by a value system that we hold, but in the end, every decision that.....
» 16/08/2010 10:54:00 AM Eclipse Now, I said nothing about nuclear reactors, nor did the ZCA report. What I was re.....
» 16/08/2010 9:19:30 AM Martin, you've missed the entire point: like all good Marxists, what is important for BZE .....
» 13/08/2010 7:49:19 PM Actually, I suspect we'll face things more like this: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/gre.....
» 13/08/2010 7:43:36 PM Kellie, maybe - just maybe - we are actually capable of judging Julia Gillard by something.....
» 12/08/2010 4:16:40 PM 'It doesn't matter what I do You have to say it's alright. And I need you to send somebody.....
» 12/08/2010 4:13:59 PM Your 'link' between Better Place and 'the Israeli army's illegal behaviour in occupied Pal.....
» 11/08/2010 10:19:47 AM Indeed, Severin, there are. Just as there are photos of Julia Gillard *not* looking like .....
» 11/08/2010 9:56:30 AM Manorina, Ludwig and skeptic seem to have missed an important point: if commercial media a.....
» 7/08/2010 8:13:59 AM To paraphrase the late, great Divine, 'I judge people by what's between their ears, not wh.....
» 5/08/2010 11:25:23 PM Anyway, I'll be serious now ... Slightly off-topic, perhaps, but I was interested to hear.....
» 4/08/2010 11:15:27 PM Deleted for abuse? Lol, it was a joke, just riffing on the line about internet debates des.....
» 4/08/2010 6:18:08 PM [Deleted for abuse].....
» 30/07/2010 12:14:46 AM Whenever someone utters the phrase 'the vast majority', you may be certain they are speaki.....
» 10/07/2010 10:33:44 AM Cont. ... Saying airily that 'we can make progress by finding more sustainable ways of ma.....
» 10/07/2010 10:32:50 AM Wow, now I'm confused: is it one overseas holiday you've taken or two? Or twelve, or more?.....
» 9/07/2010 7:48:47 PM Oto, I didn't say you *literally* said those things, I said that that's what it boiled dow.....
» 9/07/2010 3:45:31 PM Well, hugo, I called it 'Forestry', 'cos that's what everyone here calls it. Just like 'th.....
» 9/07/2010 10:31:05 AM To continue, Otokonoko, besides entirely sidestepping my question (how many times have you.....
» 9/07/2010 9:51:09 AM So, Otokonoko, your argument is 'the oldies do it too, so why shouldn't we?' and 'but we r.....
» 9/07/2010 9:39:49 AM That should have been capital-F 'Forestry'; meaning Forestry Tasmania......
» 8/07/2010 9:45:29 PM So tell me, Lucy - how many of your generation - for whom climate change is allegedly a de.....
» 7/07/2010 11:40:30 PM I'm no great fan of forestry, but 'Something in the water' was an absolute disgrace. Given.....
» 5/07/2010 1:54:01 PM Funny how the CSIRO is god-like in its wisdom regarding global warming, but when it deviat.....
» 2/07/2010 6:52:07 PM My son had his Scripture teacher tell him that Christians invented schools and hospitals, .....
» 30/06/2010 10:08:06 AM mikk, I am neither 'right wing', nor 'scared' of Julia Gillard. I simply despise her......
» 30/06/2010 10:06:13 AM Cue the nitpicking apologists resorting to the lawyerly response of 'but it's the Westmins.....
» 29/06/2010 11:33:03 AM colinsett and others: twaddle, yourself ... Yes, *technically*, the people of Australia d.....
» 29/06/2010 10:00:34 AM What can I say? I agree with everything you say. Where are the outraged crowds on the ste.....
» 29/06/2010 9:52:02 AM I see the Labor apologists are up bright and early this morning. Forkes, you know perfect.....
» 26/06/2010 12:55:29 AM I agree that one should vote for a good local representative - all politics is local, afte.....
» 25/06/2010 8:50:06 PM Otokonoko, what you say is technically true, but only a fool would argue that the reality .....
» 23/06/2010 12:21:55 PM Tanveer, I think you're on to a marketing opportunity with Burbans. Might I also suggest M.....
» 23/06/2010 12:20:33 PM You know, I had to move interstate to find work. I was uprooted from my family, friends an.....
» 22/06/2010 2:03:01 PM Protagoras, you do realise that the moving speech you quoted from Chief Seattle was actual.....
» 22/06/2010 12:58:10 AM Still can't admit that it's but one hypothesis of several, can you Protagoras? Still, dou.....
» 21/06/2010 10:03:35 PM Protagoras, Protagoras, like a 5 year old caught with paint all over his hands, you still .....
» 21/06/2010 12:11:21 PM But you see, Protagoras, I *wasn't* hypothesising. All I was doing was pointing out that t.....
» 20/06/2010 12:13:18 PM The National Broadband Network was the one policy that I actually admired the Rudd governm.....
» 20/06/2010 10:19:01 AM Er, Protagoras, warming is but one of several theories to explain the Permo-Triassic extin.....
» 18/06/2010 12:54:02 PM If anyone has undermined science, it is the coterie of 'post-normal' scientists and confli.....
» 15/06/2010 11:05:21 PM If Mann submitted misleading evidence when he was in receipt of public money, how is he di.....
» 15/06/2010 6:07:30 PM Ozideas, that sounds double-plus good......
» 12/06/2010 11:40:33 AM Ah, phosphate, the bete noir du joir of the environmental doom-mongers. What they tend to.....
» 12/06/2010 10:32:54 AM No, pelican, I'm not saying all environmentalists are loonies. What I *am* saying is that.....
» 12/06/2010 12:10:46 AM CJ, don't take my word for it, nor Andrew Bolt's (who I don't read, btw): just take a look.....
» 11/06/2010 5:55:23 PM Oh, right. So the nutty, nature-worshipping Environmentalists are kind of like the 'not-re.....
» 11/06/2010 8:53:24 AM Still, at least it was Rainforest Alliance coffee! Actually, you touch on an interesting .....
» 11/06/2010 8:21:06 AM Proxy, I wouldn't bother: it seems to be a pretty closed shop, for those who know the secr.....
» 10/06/2010 10:41:07 PM Rhian, you are right. Lovelock may not have intended it so, but the Gaia hypothesis has b.....
» 9/06/2010 10:40:41 PM I thought Robin Williams' quote was quite funny; I didn't take offence at all. I also lik.....
» 9/06/2010 4:13:15 PM >>Once again, denialists confuse a falsifiable hypothesis with religious faith Actu.....
» 8/06/2010 11:07:26 AM So, if you 'cause a display' and 'make a scene', it's enough excuse to murder people? The .....
» 7/06/2010 9:56:43 PM Well, CJ, if it walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck ... No, Gaiaism isn't *quite* a.....
» 7/06/2010 6:55:40 PM This whole article was nothing more than a running demonstration of Godwin's Law......
» 6/06/2010 12:16:42 PM Yes, CJ, there is a difference between "those who are legitimately concerned about th.....
» 6/06/2010 10:14:35 AM Oh, CJ, you fail on so many levels. Denialist? No, I absolutely accept the reality of cli.....
» 6/06/2010 9:23:43 AM cont ... The very worldview of Gaiaism mirrors the Christian worldview: that the Earth an.....
» 6/06/2010 9:23:15 AM Of course climate science is not a religion, ipso facto. Neither was Marxism, for instance.....
» 4/06/2010 11:33:47 AM All it takes is belief in a supernatural entity? I can't wait to make my tax-deductible do.....
» 4/06/2010 11:30:48 AM I'll say it again: oh, the irony of Western liberals using the craven language of 'cultura.....
» 1/06/2010 9:37:30 AM "From my point of view, the first serious disappointment was the reaction of the KRud.....
» 31/05/2010 10:28:10 PM My wife called the 'breast is best' fanatics 'the boob nazis'. The simple fact was, for a.....
» 31/05/2010 4:36:44 PM So the bushfire commission isn't jumping on the green hobby horse du jour? Cry me a river......
» 31/05/2010 4:30:33 PM Do as I say, not do as I do. This kind of rampant hypocrisy, so typical of the Green Elit.....
» 30/05/2010 6:39:18 PM Celivia, you have obviously never met an elderly person who is basically pressured to feel.....
» 30/05/2010 1:38:41 PM I think Brian's watched 'Logan's Run' one time too many. This is exactly why, despite agr.....
» 21/05/2010 11:09:38 PM The foolishness of Western liberals using 'tolerance' as an excuse for cowardice in the fa.....
» 15/04/2010 12:55:30 PM I think Kate Ellis' latest stunt has less to do with body image, than the Rudd ALP, like B.....
» 20/12/2009 7:09:40 PM partTimeParent - my wife and I have been married for 20 years. During my boys' early years.....
» 17/12/2009 2:35:07 PM This article and the first few comments are typical of the sanctimonious bullsh!t that ADD.....
» 11/12/2009 8:31:02 AM "Yes, Brian, we're all individuals".....
» 9/12/2009 9:35:36 AM When will women and poor people learn to shut up and do as they are told by their betters?.....
» 4/12/2009 10:05:36 AM "Religion has actually convinced people that there's an invisible man living in the s.....
» 3/12/2009 3:18:38 PM This article in the Wall Street Journal sums up exactly what has made me uneasy about clim.....
» 3/12/2009 1:42:43 PM Are they all flying to Copenhagen? Hypocrites. "The Copenhagen summit next week wil.....
» 3/12/2009 8:37:16 AM As Fred Negro once said, "meat means yum!".....
» 2/12/2009 4:18:08 PM I'm curious as to why Rudd has blinked on this one, and not jumped for a double-dissolutio.....
» 2/12/2009 11:51:18 AM It's not really surprising considering that the only idea of human reproduction the writer.....
» 2/12/2009 9:39:53 AM There's just one problem with the holier-than-thou mantle adopted by vegans particularly -.....
» 30/11/2009 2:12:14 PM Oh, my mistake by the way, I said "mediaeval" when "marxist" would hav.....
» 30/11/2009 1:11:59 PM It seems to me that another unintended consequence of the CPRS that no-one seems to have g.....
» 30/11/2009 12:56:22 PM "They know about the science" Do they really? Certainly they wouldn't just from.....
» 26/11/2009 8:33:28 PM Andy1, before you get your knickers in too much of a knot over the East Antarctic ice shee.....
» 26/11/2009 1:55:52 PM Geoff, you seem to have missed my point: you've repeatedly hosed down skeptics referring t.....
» 25/11/2009 10:47:30 PM Gosh, Geoff, you'd better tell Tim "The Weather Makers" Flannery that he 's wron.....
» 25/11/2009 3:36:53 PM "It is tragically apparent that we can no longer trust the pronouncements of the high.....
» 25/11/2009 1:40:06 PM Given the scandal enveloping Phil Jones & pals, this article now seems hilariously ironic......
» 25/11/2009 11:58:49 AM It seems as if the usual white knight defenders of AGW have gone to ground all of a sudden.....
» 25/11/2009 10:06:33 AM Hm. I see Bangladesh is no longer the poster child of "climate refugee" alarmism.....
» 23/11/2009 2:13:58 PM I thought the article was generally well-written, apart from a few spellos that shouldn't .....
» 23/11/2009 1:41:28 PM Like the abortion debate, the debate over climate change has become totally poisoned, divi.....
» 23/11/2009 11:27:24 AM runner, I believe "flummoxed" is the word I would use for my status update right.....
» 23/11/2009 10:55:16 AM From the comments on this article, if nothing else, it's plain that children are seen as l.....
» 23/11/2009 10:48:45 AM Oh, for God's sake, let the kiddies have fun and make idiots of themselves for once in the.....
» 20/11/2009 10:22:18 PM TYPING IN ALL CAPS SHOWS FLAWLESS LOGIC! ;) Oh, and someone had better tell the Australia.....
» 20/11/2009 2:00:31 PM "It’s not hard to get labelled a climate change “denier”. You don’t even have to deny.....
» 19/11/2009 10:08:29 AM "The science on coal sequestration presents as very impressive from the computer gene.....
» 19/11/2009 8:36:55 AM Greenpeace or FOE are increasingly driven by an anti-capitalist and at times misanthropic .....
» 18/11/2009 12:10:02 PM "We've been running out of oil since I was a boy" - Prof. Frank Notestein. Anot.....
» 18/11/2009 12:05:04 PM Whilst I have strong reservations about forestry, and I'm particularly opposed to Gunn's p.....
» 18/11/2009 11:56:22 AM "The problem of corruption in Australia is recognised internationally" You migh.....
» 17/11/2009 3:46:54 PM Does that include Green-Left NGOs, Geoff?.....
» 17/11/2009 3:45:28 PM I note that alarmists always make a big noise about people dying from heatwaves, but are s.....
» 16/11/2009 2:02:31 PM examinator, arguing that "hey, those guys do it too!" is not a satisfactory resp.....
» 16/11/2009 10:58:01 AM Like it or not, Bruce, the Tamil Tigers are listed as a terrorist organization by 32 count.....
» 13/11/2009 2:29:40 PM A most timely article. I work at a Technical College which, despite its track record of su.....
» 11/11/2009 1:55:52 PM TurnRight TurnLeft, how dare you? Promite is every bit as marvellous as Vegemite! It's o.....
» 10/11/2009 3:17:29 PM Jon J ... checking our history recently, I saw that our 14yo son had been googling "n.....
» 10/11/2009 2:54:10 PM Um, that should have read ... "does NOT guarantee that one actually has anything wor.....
» 10/11/2009 12:57:19 PM Typical right-wing Christian dog-whistling, conflating Nazism, pedophilia, homosexuality, .....
» 10/11/2009 12:48:33 PM I much prefer Michael Leunig's term "screeching ninny". Calling oneself, or bei.....
» 3/11/2009 10:30:36 AM I see my point about the Laws of Thermodynamics stands confirmed......
» 30/10/2009 9:25:40 AM Actually Freeman Dyson has suggested that atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations could .....
» 30/10/2009 9:19:19 AM Whilst I generally disagree with "Big Australia" ideas, the opening sentence los.....
» 22/10/2009 10:32:18 PM "Do you know what the queers are doing to our soil! They're in it with the aliens. Th.....
» 22/10/2009 10:26:35 PM Where I grew up, there were two areas that had lots of "space" names as street n.....
» 22/10/2009 10:19:53 PM As far as I know, professional shooters are generally very accurate (after all, bullets co.....
» 22/10/2009 10:06:43 PM I agree that we should have some real competition in health care in Australia. My first p.....
» 22/10/2009 9:58:47 PM More cheap shucksters lining up to stuff their pockets with the easy money that'll come ro.....
» 22/10/2009 6:56:09 PM Nice attempt at dodging your own words, Squeers, but I never said anything about "the.....
» 21/10/2009 8:42:04 PM "I didn't suggest overturning democracy" No, Squeers, but you did say that demo.....
» 21/10/2009 10:44:56 AM VK3AUU,I can only assume you took issue with Squeer's ranting diatribe against "pigs&.....
» 20/10/2009 5:24:20 PM "rats … have followed men like parasites from the very beginning … They are cunning, .....
» 20/10/2009 9:47:41 AM "We are witnessing the greatest failure of governance ever." I seem to recall s.....
» 19/10/2009 12:39:49 PM I'm guessing Bill McKibben's just cheesed off because, for all his grandstanding, not only.....
» 19/10/2009 8:48:50 AM Boogedy, boogedy, another day, another OLO Jeremiah pointing the finger and screeching at .....
» 16/10/2009 3:40:09 PM Nice try VK3AUU, but you specifically said "reducing to one tenth of the original&quo.....
» 16/10/2009 1:13:49 PM VK3AUU, nothing makes my day more than being told to "go back to the dictionary".....
» 16/10/2009 12:39:03 PM "Why we refuse to embrace renewables" It's not that we refuse to embrace them, .....
» 15/10/2009 3:54:43 PM Well, mikk, you've certainly put the "ass" back into "assume". You as.....
» 15/10/2009 9:47:32 AM cont. ... VK3AUU, as much as it pains me to be pedantic ;), even decimation of the world'.....
» 15/10/2009 9:46:51 AM Yabby: "I am for giving them all (women) that choice". As am I. However the diff.....
» 15/10/2009 8:52:21 AM "never designed to be sent around the world for comment." You've obviously neve.....
» 15/10/2009 8:29:16 AM Sancho, as the High Priest of the Church of Global Warming, Al Gore has a starring role in.....
» 14/10/2009 1:44:40 PM Having taken the author to task for "Gore bashing" sancho then, in a complete no.....
» 13/10/2009 10:58:51 PM "breeding like rabbits" Bullsh!t. As Harvard scholar Nicholas Eberstadt has st.....
» 13/10/2009 3:57:49 PM Who has said anything about a "right to a big family"? All I've asked for is th.....
» 13/10/2009 3:52:22 PM "He is a hypocrite and has worn the "blackface" himself during a film while.....
» 13/10/2009 12:44:22 PM Ah yes, the standard response of bullies and cads through the ages: "it was only a jo.....
» 12/10/2009 9:20:58 PM If it wasn't racist, then on what basis was the jibe at Kamahl included? What other possib.....
» 12/10/2009 6:36:12 PM Ludwig, you mean the Libs should dog-whistle the "f@ck off, we're full" bogan vo.....
» 12/10/2009 11:19:11 AM Try reading some international news: are you really proud that pretty much the rest of the.....
» 12/10/2009 10:22:56 AM Reading many of the comments on this and other forums, attempting in high dudgeon to take .....
» 12/10/2009 8:50:03 AM That's the cool thing about being a dictatorship, reality is whatever you say it is......
» 12/10/2009 8:42:30 AM Karshish, I specifically acknowledged that you did not directy advocate the murder of 80 m.....
» 8/10/2009 8:52:10 PM ericc, I support *some* of the policies of the SPA; I also maintain that enthusiastically .....
» 7/10/2009 10:19:26 PM next, your logic defeats me. I assume therefore that I am personally responsible for the .....
» 7/10/2009 10:05:26 PM I'm just curious as why nearly everyone, Keysar Trad included, seems to think of polygamy .....
» 7/10/2009 3:58:30 PM Ericc, I realise that those proposals are SPA’s platform, so no entrapment for you! I *do*.....
» 7/10/2009 3:55:14 PM pelican, I agree with much of what you say - that humans are adaptable and damned clever a.....
» 7/10/2009 3:07:11 PM How many people did Rachel Carson condemn to death from malaria with "Silent Spring&q.....
» 6/10/2009 3:26:19 PM Crikey! You've got a strange obsession with other peoples' sex lives there, yabby. You and.....
» 6/10/2009 2:02:02 PM As the great anti-fascist Orwell himself noted, rigourously defining fascism is almost imp.....
» 6/10/2009 1:58:37 PM I'm pleased to see that the misanthropic wowsers of the anti-humanists are still entirely .....
» 6/10/2009 9:21:38 AM Thank you for this wonderful tribute to the man Penn Jillette dubbed, with good reason, &q.....
» 5/10/2009 11:31:44 PM You know, I was brought up in a working-class, Labor voting family, too. We also valued ed.....
» 5/10/2009 10:39:10 AM As we used to say in Primary School, "ain't no prizes for second"......
» 5/10/2009 9:54:11 AM If it walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, I'm calling it a duck. I would leave the.....
» 2/10/2009 9:02:55 PM "you must face the alternative ... we must drastically reduce the human population!&q.....
» 1/10/2009 4:44:56 PM Actually, I don't think Borlaug would be in despair so much, as consider it a work in prog.....
» 1/10/2009 2:05:05 PM ... waiting for the usual suspects to: weigh in against those evil women; blame it all on .....
» 29/09/2009 4:07:27 PM Divergence, I do not talk *blithely* of 9 billion, I merely point out that shrieking ".....
» 29/09/2009 11:28:32 AM Wizard!.....
» 29/09/2009 10:54:58 AM Remember KAEP, bears can smell the menstruation, too! You really have a problem with wome.....
» 28/09/2009 12:40:15 PM next, I did not say that population is declining, I said that population *increase* is dec.....
» 28/09/2009 12:31:40 PM In a description of Sydney in the 1880s novel "The Boy Travellers in Australasia".....
» 25/09/2009 11:16:57 AM I think the virulent anti-humanists need to at least do some simple fact checking. Global.....
» 24/09/2009 11:16:57 PM Squeers, I may have been joking, but I'm not really laughing. Despite a lifelong concern .....
» 24/09/2009 4:56:51 PM Christ on a rubber crutch, Squeers, you're serious, aren't you? What other "emergenc.....
» 22/09/2009 11:14:13 PM There is one thing that constantly puzzles me in these arguments about renewables vs. foss.....
» 21/09/2009 1:12:22 PM Whenever One Under God slows, there's always KAEP to cheer me up :).....
» 21/09/2009 10:33:27 AM Yeah, KAEP, and I read somewhere their periods attract bears! Bears can smell the menstrua.....
» 17/09/2009 9:28:04 PM Bourbon shots all round for the first poster to blame it all on "deniers"!.....
» 17/09/2009 4:29:18 PM Ever since reading Julian May's <i>The Many-Coloured Land</i> in the early 198.....
» 16/09/2009 3:03:54 PM Actually, ShazBaz, I think the biggest problem with Plimer's book is that he is probably t.....
» 16/09/2009 1:25:16 PM I was as convinced an AGW'er as anybody, until I began to 1) think about the past a bit mo.....
» 16/09/2009 11:44:30 AM As a former CFA volunteer, I know full well that one of the safest places to be in a fire .....
» 10/09/2009 12:35:34 PM I'm still trying to get the point of this article. The developer's aim to return it to a .....
» 10/09/2009 12:28:30 PM Interesting idea, indeed. I remember reading this sort of stuff in the 70s. Certainly it .....
» 8/09/2009 9:34:45 AM "research has found weakneses in the genome of the negro[specific to blackies]...and .....
» 8/09/2009 9:33:03 AM Yes, Eclipse Now, glaciers are melting. No dispute about that. The question is, is it wort.....
» 7/09/2009 12:07:37 PM Eclipse Now, before run off to your cave with your supply of tinned food and your stuffed .....
» 7/09/2009 10:42:10 AM On the issue of the "cuteness" factor, it's notable that one of the celebrity ac.....
» 6/09/2009 3:28:53 PM If Dawkins comes across as confrontational, it's only because his opponents are either so .....
» 5/09/2009 11:48:18 AM Arjay: "Let me explain to you how this works: you see, the corporations finance Team.....
» 5/09/2009 12:41:00 AM "As a secular humanist I am often disquieted by his unnecessary attack on people's pe.....
» 2/09/2009 2:57:59 PM Oops, I missed that particular piece of withering scorn you poured on the alarmists, there.....
» 2/09/2009 10:08:08 AM I have to say, I'm disappointed, Q&A; even if I disagreed with you, I had regarded you as .....
» 28/08/2009 2:03:56 PM I have to hand it to you, Eclipse Now: I thought there were some elegant rhetorical gymnas.....
» 27/08/2009 1:33:24 PM JBowyer, we were actually being told that it was the late 70s and 80s when we would run ou.....
» 27/08/2009 12:24:05 PM “We're going to be witnessing whole cities being destroyed through the sea level rise. We .....
» 27/08/2009 9:20:41 AM Way back in the early 80s, Arthur C. Clarke wrote that "the world will become one vas.....
» 27/08/2009 12:07:21 AM Eclipse Now, no scientists are fostering alarmism, are they? Not even the ones who go on n.....
» 26/08/2009 11:44:17 AM Eclipse Now, I doubt because juggling data to fit computer models which are rife with assu.....
» 25/08/2009 10:46:54 PM Well said, Pericles. It's depressing to watch this debate become like the abortion debate,.....
» 23/08/2009 9:59:32 PM HoHum, "The pre-contact culture of the aborigines may or may not have been brutal or.....
» 21/08/2009 4:13:22 PM Whoops, Q&A, I misread when I was looking up sea-level rises in the 20th century ("Oh.....
» 21/08/2009 2:12:34 PM pmac, I'm not sure what your definition of "culture" is - you seem to mean ".....
» 21/08/2009 10:57:49 AM Just a couple of observations. "60,000 years of paradise ... then the white fella sh.....
» 20/08/2009 1:52:51 PM Q&A, I acknowledge that you have on occasion criticised the "alarmists" as well .....
» 20/08/2009 11:25:19 AM I thought this article strode a wise middle course between "just say no" prudery.....
» 19/08/2009 10:56:28 PM I should also add that when people such as Freeman Dyson, who I respect immensely as scien.....
» 19/08/2009 10:52:06 PM Matt Andrews, thanks for your links and info. However, I will observe that your blog arti.....
» 19/08/2009 10:28:34 AM Actually, Q&A, odo does have a point. You seem to have no hesitation in tarring even the .....
» 19/08/2009 9:26:36 AM Suze, "women in Australian society are, at best, seen as fodder for Sam Newman’s jok.....
» 18/08/2009 2:57:12 PM Not being much of a sports fan, I haven't followed this very closely, but I will say that .....
» 18/08/2009 11:44:25 AM I notice that Rhett Butler studiously avoids putting any figures to his claims of the whol.....
» 14/08/2009 12:08:03 PM "We ... (produce) more CO2 per capita than any other country". Wrong. Do some .....
» 11/08/2009 10:05:52 PM CJ, pelican, you're right: I don't think it's practical or desirable to start passing laws.....
» 11/08/2009 5:45:29 PM KAEP, it appears that oil and coal companies are the supreme bad guys in your worldview, b.....
» 10/08/2009 11:08:29 PM Q&A, when I read some of the material written on this forum by what I would generalise as .....
» 10/08/2009 3:33:54 PM CJ, pelican, it's not so much the clothes in themselves, as the *intent* behind the clothi.....
» 10/08/2009 9:59:40 AM Perhaps those of you defending the right to wear veils or burqas might care to consult som.....
» 10/08/2009 9:40:32 AM So, Protagoras, you are, in your usual circular and evasive way, acknowledging that I was .....
» 9/08/2009 10:44:22 AM Eclipse Now, your seeming admiration for the Chinese dictatorship's ability to "get t.....
» 6/08/2009 9:40:44 AM You betcha, bushbasher. And Christian politicians refusing to allow gay marriage, I'm out.....
» 6/08/2009 9:15:23 AM Hypocrisy 101: demanding that you not be discriminated against because of your religion, y.....
» 5/08/2009 10:20:57 PM Q&A, Shirley MacLaine and Deepak Chopra want us to do things differently, too; that doesn'.....
» 5/08/2009 11:15:31 AM "Australia has the highest per-capita CO2 emissions in the world" This statemen.....
» 4/08/2009 9:20:32 PM Not that it matters much, but saying that we are all African is not the same as saying tha.....
» 4/08/2009 3:56:32 PM Good Lord, this is what passes for intellectual rigor in the environmental movement these .....
» 3/08/2009 9:34:33 AM Gosh, whose pie-in-the-sky should we choose, the renewable lobby's or the clean coal lobby.....
» 27/07/2009 1:09:09 PM I'm surprised that no-one has so far mentioned the possibilities of thorium reactors. Tho.....
» 27/07/2009 10:49:02 AM My mother, a child of the Depression era, always said that anyone who had lived through a .....
» 24/07/2009 3:26:29 PM The childish, good-guysbad-guys paranoia of the alarmists' worldview is good for a laugh, .....
» 24/07/2009 11:09:48 AM Some suggested reading: http://crabbyoldfart.wordpress.com/2009/06/15/god-damned-young-pe.....
» 21/07/2009 4:37:01 PM Elite "Green" Westerners, who have clamourously opposed many recent developments.....
» 17/07/2009 11:12:28 AM "The scientists and climatologists at IPCC may be competent in the ... modeling of cl.....
» 17/07/2009 11:07:28 AM I agree with this article absolutely. In fact, I'm looking forward to being able to teach.....
» 16/07/2009 9:51:42 AM On the issue of forestry, I guess I sit somewhere between the log-at-all-costs machination.....
» 15/07/2009 3:03:24 PM Hell, yeah, bushbred: right now, I'm rolling naked in the piles of cash Exxon Mobil have b.....
» 15/07/2009 11:07:55 AM "The likes of Al Gore lined up to inspire thousands of young people" Well, when.....
» 14/07/2009 11:34:24 AM Julian Clary was once asked why he made so many jokes about anal sex. His answer was that.....
» 14/07/2009 11:28:33 AM "Twenty years from now, you'll regret the things you didn't do more than the things y.....
» 10/07/2009 12:50:10 PM "I'm sorry, Mr. Churchill, and General Eisenhower, but do you realise the damage that.....
» 6/07/2009 1:04:31 PM "Substance" and "Michael Jackson" - not words I would normally crowbar.....
» 19/06/2009 2:15:10 PM Having an "ethical sensitivity" is all well and good, but when the results of so.....
» 19/06/2009 10:53:53 AM TRTL, would you stand up at your beloved granny's funeral and declare, "oh well, at l.....
» 19/06/2009 10:31:36 AM Why bother coining a clunky phrase like "PoMa", when plain old "w@nker".....
» 12/06/2009 12:35:23 PM Good Lord. I kept waiting for a hint - any at all - that the author of this disgusting pi.....
» 12/06/2009 9:30:34 AM So, Protagoras, the wicked skeptics are fools, because they use just one decade to claim a.....
» 12/06/2009 9:12:47 AM kulu, if you read the actual report referred to in "Freakonomics", you will find.....
» 11/06/2009 11:13:49 PM Greenpeace are liars without shame, who have already demonstrated that they are quite cont.....
» 11/06/2009 12:03:38 PM I have yet to read Plimer's book, so I can't speak specifically on it - although I must sa.....
» 11/06/2009 11:52:05 AM Are the attacks on Indian students racist, or do people walking home alone from railway st.....
» 10/06/2009 4:08:37 PM (contd ... ) Yes, overpopulation is a potential problem, but it's a manageable one, and it.....
» 10/06/2009 12:39:18 PM kulu, you didn't actually read my response at all, did you? Otherwise you'd note that I di.....
» 9/06/2009 3:18:02 PM And your well-funded deceive-n-alarm thinktanks? Are you trying to tell me that green gro.....
» 9/06/2009 11:01:29 AM Oh dear, Lester Brown again. Frankly, if Lester Brown told me it was going to be sunny, I.....
» 9/06/2009 9:58:18 AM What *is* it about these Baby-Boomer Jeremiahs, that they actually seem to get off on tryi.....
» 7/06/2009 2:03:25 PM Interesting how few comments this article has attracted. Personally, I suspect that it spe.....
» 7/06/2009 1:49:11 PM Have you stopped beating your wife yet, kulu? That's pretty much the calibre of rhetorica.....
» 5/06/2009 9:37:25 PM Divergence, any fool can successfully apply for a government grant. The Exclusive Brethre.....
» 5/06/2009 10:35:05 AM Q&A, I'm pleased to find something we can agree on: "AGW is significant enough to jus.....
» 4/06/2009 4:48:19 PM cont'd ... As I’ve said elsewhere, if it seems like I’m overly hard on the “green left”, .....
» 4/06/2009 4:44:08 PM “an unthinking mouthpiece for industry and fundamentalist religion.”Ha, now THAT’S funny! .....
» 3/06/2009 3:08:51 PM "Ad-hominem", along with "Straw-man", the favourite adjectives of prec.....
» 3/06/2009 10:59:41 AM "All groups practiced population control either by infanticide or other means ... Pop.....
» 2/06/2009 2:38:15 PM To quote a great Australian expression, as so eloquently used in "The Castle": &.....
» 2/06/2009 2:34:36 PM I'm still waiting for my flying car and a nutritious snack of Soylent Green. C'mon, the m.....
» 1/06/2009 11:27:28 PM Tsk, tsk, if only all those nasty brown people would stop having so many children, we whit.....
» 1/06/2009 3:09:07 PM Well, Aime, whoever said that greens were a bunch of humourless gits obviously didn't know.....
» 1/06/2009 11:26:57 AM Well, stormbay, why not step up to the plate and top yourself for Mother Gaia? Leadership.....
» 31/05/2009 3:57:40 PM Poor old Protagoras, you really are on the ropes, aren't you? It's easy enough to tell: on.....
» 31/05/2009 10:51:19 AM Dear, dear, Protagoras, at it again with the alarmists' (and Creationists') favourite spor.....
» 29/05/2009 2:13:02 PM Kalin1, I think that to a (greater or lesser) degree, some of the "soft" science.....
» 28/05/2009 12:54:05 PM Just change the name of the place to Gunnsmania and have done with it. Or maybe the Pope .....
» 27/05/2009 1:30:34 PM rpg, while Calley was certainly scapegoated to a large degree, his use of the Nuremburg de.....
» 27/05/2009 9:57:43 AM Protagoras, perhaps if you cared to consult the FAO statistics for global forest cover? I.....
» 27/05/2009 9:22:38 AM Protagoras, how could Ian Plimer be in such dire financial straits - being a paid mouthpie.....
» 25/05/2009 10:11:00 AM So, if you're not a church-going Christian, you're not fully human? What a profoundly arr.....
» 20/05/2009 3:53:18 PM Richard Dawkins says he was radicalised by 9/11. Speaking for myself, when hordes of murd.....
» 20/05/2009 3:45:32 PM This sort of technology seems to be exactly the sort of thing Australia should be investin.....
» 20/05/2009 12:11:12 PM "If environmental threats are all such nonsense" Er, go back and read my earlie.....
» 20/05/2009 9:29:39 AM Yes, indeed, Divergence, Norman Borlaug has warned about unrestrained population growth - .....
» 20/05/2009 9:11:47 AM I suspect that Protagoras may be referring to Plimer's unsuccessful court action, with Dav.....
» 18/05/2009 1:19:42 PM rpg, did you *seriously* call William Calley a "poor bastard"? "Dozens of .....
» 18/05/2009 11:19:08 AM Q&A, you are correct that there are those who rely solely on the "denialosphere".....
» 18/05/2009 10:49:55 AM Um ... I don't recall saying anything about the Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine. .....
» 18/05/2009 9:25:20 AM Poor old Protagoras: Self loathing is a terrible cross to bear. Presumably overburdened b.....
» 18/05/2009 9:06:16 AM Q&A, I wouldn't be basing your opinions on sourcewatch, if I were you. Sourcewatch is so .....
» 15/05/2009 9:52:55 PM Protagoras, did Hugh Morgan or Lang Hancock run over your puppy when you were little? Ther.....
» 15/05/2009 11:04:19 AM Pericles, that's an interesting point. One rarely hears it mentioned that Tim Flannery, Al.....
» 15/05/2009 9:45:42 AM "Gaia said it, I believe it, and that settles it"......
» 14/05/2009 4:19:38 PM When presenting a list of facts and figures to try and bolster you argument, it might be h.....
» 14/05/2009 2:25:19 PM Ha ha, Worldwatch Institute. Continually fudging data to support their determinedly gloomy.....
» 14/05/2009 11:11:37 AM You lost me with the second sentence. "The world is becoming almost irretrievably da.....
» 13/05/2009 1:04:50 AM God damn it all, now they've got me doing it! You're right: The horror of these creeping .....
» 12/05/2009 10:15:47 PM Taking full cognizance of organizational learning parameters and principles, an important .....
» 12/05/2009 10:05:12 AM I work in a secondary institution, and I can only, sadly, agree with this article. Part o.....
» 12/05/2009 8:51:46 AM A good start would be to read the excellent "Panicology" by Simon Briscoe and Hu.....
» 11/05/2009 1:46:12 PM The author makes some good points about the effects of tourism on some regional areas - ha.....
» 7/05/2009 10:24:09 AM Interesting article, and a good point. I might point out, as Dr. Gunn hinted, that there .....
» 4/05/2009 1:38:19 PM Good old Daggett, yet again using data from a highly specific time and place - in this cas.....
» 1/05/2009 11:25:23 AM Lester Brown, whose work has been described as "audacious and seriously misleading&qu.....
» 29/04/2009 10:30:02 PM Lester Brown is a flake who continually fudges data to try and prop up his endless litany .....
» 28/04/2009 11:21:30 PM Divergence, your sense of irony is truly dazzling. You accuse me of "generalising fro.....
» 28/04/2009 4:25:10 PM Even *if* it were proved that carbon dioxide did cause the warming of the late 20th Centur.....
» 28/04/2009 3:53:13 PM colinsett, nice job of cherry-picking quotes and data, and misrepresenting both badly! No.....
» 27/04/2009 2:45:59 PM "We've been running out of oil ever since I was a boy." - Prof. Frank Notestein......
» 27/04/2009 2:28:43 PM "what must necessarily make each one of us, on average, poorer, and which threatens o.....
» 27/04/2009 1:19:21 PM "Well, it's not quite the conflagration I'd been banking on. Never mind, lads, same t.....
» 24/04/2009 3:56:44 PM What I want to know is where the Dirty Sanchez people stand on the Teabagging issue......
» 24/04/2009 10:09:02 AM Watch this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6G3fvNhdoc0&feature=player_embedded This whole.....
» 21/04/2009 11:29:17 AM I'm not trying to be houlier-than-thou at all, rpg; in fact, I personally despise the &quo.....
» 21/04/2009 9:03:49 AM This has been a topic of much discussion amongst Tasmania's walkers and wilderness enthusi.....
» 18/04/2009 10:04:49 AM I take it you're going to keep dodging the issue, then?.....
» 17/04/2009 5:06:51 PM Here we go again, merrily down the garden path of irrelevance with Protagoras ... Um, whe.....
» 17/04/2009 8:51:28 AM Nice try, Protagoras, but you're still dodging the point. Do some people in the climate a.....
» 16/04/2009 9:36:50 AM Protagoras, did you have a great fondness for pantos, as a kid? I ask merely, because you'.....
» 15/04/2009 1:34:43 PM divine_msn, you are quite correct. I should have said *religion's* feverish obsession with.....
» 15/04/2009 9:12:59 AM "Throughout our party’s history successive Labor governments have sought to achieve t.....
» 15/04/2009 9:05:45 AM I notice you completely dodged my point, Protagoras: The poster boys of climate change ala.....
» 15/04/2009 8:59:33 AM Phil, for me, accepting the validity or otherwise of miracles was never a factor in my eve.....
» 14/04/2009 10:40:03 PM Protagoras, if we're going to get into arguments about pecuniary interests, I might point .....
» 10/04/2009 10:05:47 PM Grim, virgin births are a dime a dozen in heroic-mythological circles. In fact, legends o.....
» 10/04/2009 10:22:34 AM Damn, Divergence, I just *knew* I was setting myself up for a fall! I'll pay you full poin.....
» 9/04/2009 2:24:42 PM Divergence, you surely missed your calling; comedy would seem to be your forte. Your enti.....
» 9/04/2009 11:23:24 AM The virtues of Google Earth as a tool of democracy become somewhat "clouded" (yo.....
» 9/04/2009 9:55:42 AM There is not an anti-Christian crusade, it is a movement asking for freedom from religion,.....
» 8/04/2009 12:58:06 PM Try reading my post again, Divergence. I did not say that "denialist" was ".....
» 8/04/2009 12:28:01 PM sarnian, I might well ask if you have stopped beating your wife yet. I'm sorry to disappo.....
» 8/04/2009 11:15:46 AM This reminds me of the research conducted in Britain by the marketing company CACI, which .....
» 7/04/2009 11:03:52 PM Well, I think some of the comments on this article are pretty much a case in point. If so.....
» 7/04/2009 12:00:36 PM Personally, I'm inclined to let the b*stards have their rant: Give 'em enough rope ... Th.....
» 7/04/2009 9:39:38 AM A most revealing post, sarnian. You demonstrate the typical holier-than-thou arrogance of .....
» 6/04/2009 2:42:35 PM stormbay, you make the common mistake of assuming that evolution works by selecting a &quo.....
» 6/04/2009 11:11:18 AM To quote John McEnroe, "you cannot be serious!" To declare that the 2007 Federa.....
» 6/04/2009 10:21:55 AM Actually, I think it does both Darwin and Lincoln a disservice to label them "racist&.....
» 4/04/2009 11:08:56 AM I obviously need to get out more ... this nagged at me, until the answer popped into my fa.....
» 3/04/2009 3:22:20 PM Actually, Darwin acknowledged "Spencer's excellent expression", which Spencer co.....
» 3/04/2009 10:56:16 AM This article perpetuates the common misunderstanding of Darwin's phrase "survival of .....
» 2/04/2009 1:27:26 PM So you're admitting that environmentalism* has become a matter of religious devotion? *I .....
» 2/04/2009 12:20:27 PM "Most participants in Earth Hour worship the earth every day" A most revealing .....
» 1/04/2009 11:35:21 AM 'Voters at the last election voted for “change”' This is a debatable statement. The only.....
» 31/03/2009 10:29:40 AM Seems like even the High Priest of the Global Warming cult didn't really bother with Earth.....
» 27/03/2009 1:28:58 PM I mentioned Godwin's Law, C J Morgan, specifically in relation to the word "Denialist.....
» 26/03/2009 9:38:46 AM Okay, C J Morgan, I'll concede that my wording was flawed - perhaps I should better have p.....
» 25/03/2009 2:11:58 PM I really think that Godwin's Law needs to be rigourously applied to the word "Deniali.....
» 25/03/2009 9:11:53 AM You're lucky they didn't just Twitter their applications......
» 25/03/2009 8:46:01 AM "a giant ecological experiment in which organisms will increasingly interact with oth.....
» 23/03/2009 4:11:15 PM Obviously, runner, you are reading a different Bible to the one I have (the Authorized Ver.....
» 23/03/2009 3:37:41 PM Am I the only one who sees a contradiction - or at least, convenient hypocrisy - in parts .....
» 23/03/2009 3:10:43 PM Pedr Fardd, the only difference betweens "extremists" and "moderates",.....
» 20/03/2009 1:23:00 PM Actually, Andrew Bartlett, I was less having a dig at religion generally, than pointing ou.....
» 20/03/2009 10:28:40 AM Theodore Dalrymple, in "Our culture - what's left of it" notes that, in his expe.....
» 16/03/2009 4:19:06 PM bushbasher asked runner to "please tell me: why is homosexuality immoral?" I wo.....
» 16/03/2009 11:59:51 AM One of the most important tools in the skeptic's toolbox (otherwise known as a "bulls.....
» 4/03/2009 2:27:14 PM I hope you didn't catch a chill in that unseasonable snowstorm while you were protesting g.....
» 20/02/2009 9:12:32 AM KenH, with regard to the bulldozer story, I'd be guessing that it's a total beat-up by the.....
» 17/02/2009 11:00:20 AM Arthur, I agree with everything you say. My point was that many of the, especially populi.....
» 16/02/2009 11:58:28 PM It seems that "fuel reduction burns" are the buzz-word du jour, but as is the ca.....
» 13/02/2009 1:59:19 PM No, Q&A, I am not appealing to authority - I'll leave that to the churches. All I was try.....
» 12/02/2009 10:11:59 AM Actually, Phil, I don't deny Climate Change at all. On the contrary, having been fascinat.....
» 12/02/2009 9:52:33 AM Whatever happened to the good old siren? When I was a CFA volunteer, I recall our brigade.....
» 12/02/2009 9:46:10 AM Like modern-day flagellants, the zealots of the Church of Climate Change are parading them.....
» 21/01/2009 12:51:23 PM "Climate sceptics are often conservatives and fear the prospect of large-scale govern.....
» 20/01/2009 1:03:20 PM As well quote from the Hamas charter, one might offer such quotes as: "One million A.....
» 20/01/2009 12:34:49 PM As much as I respect the Jewish people, it's hard to take Israel's continued protestations.....
» 16/01/2009 9:23:10 AM I think Jack Marx perfectly summed up Rudd's Labor when he wrote: "... despite my na.....
» 3/12/2008 10:17:32 AM The only profession worse than HR is PR. Or perhaps Marketing......
» 2/12/2008 9:11:14 AM I recently observed the same myself, in my private blog: That the people I knew who made t.....
» 7/11/2008 11:47:53 AM Personally, I call myself a climate "cynic", rather than "skeptic". Pu.....
» 7/11/2008 11:31:12 AM "The Reverend Fred Nile, **leader of the Christian Democratic Party**,(CDP) wants to .....
» 4/11/2008 11:16:31 AM "One may pray for rain, but not pray that the car will repair itself." Wanna be.....
» 30/10/2008 8:56:39 AM "Only shallow water has the capacity to give a mirror image of the background." .....
» 24/10/2008 7:34:04 PM "Only shallow water has the capacity to give a mirror image of the background." .....
» 23/10/2008 12:14:59 PM While I am generally sympathetic to Brian's feelings, I also think he is ridiculously over.....
» 22/10/2008 1:24:54 PM This article hits close to home for me: I work for a senior secondary college, managing th.....
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