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» 27/07/2016 9:59:22 PM otb, You really are a piece of work. Did you watch the vision? The child was standing w.....
» 27/07/2016 7:59:59 PM "The 'torture' chair and 'blindfolded' meme? Neither! Misleading and deliberately so......
» 27/07/2016 12:57:10 PM ttbn, "....I am 'nasty' only when goaded by people like you." Oh really! Here.....
» 27/07/2016 10:37:51 AM It's appalling.... http://twitter.com/abcnews/status/757811910049878017.....
» 27/07/2016 10:26:13 AM Well done, Paul, I just saw that quote from Giles from Hansard on twitter - was going to .....
» 27/07/2016 10:10:51 AM Another point, SM, If the ABC had this footage, it could have screened it prior to the fe.....
» 27/07/2016 10:01:05 AM SM, The NT govt was aware of all the material shown of Four Corners. Ellen Fanning asked.....
» 27/07/2016 8:35:26 AM ttbn, Actually, it's not a dummy spit...it's a reaction to the odium on this forum. I hav.....
» 26/07/2016 9:40:50 PM Yes, Suse and paul. I don't know about you but for me it's becoming increasingly difficul.....
» 26/07/2016 5:25:40 PM Says Jayb, Completely going off subject.... BTT boys! (C'mon, Jayb, your line of accusi.....
» 26/07/2016 3:36:44 PM Ignoring ttbn's beyond twisted commentary.... This stuff has been known for quite sometim.....
» 26/07/2016 2:28:03 PM nicknamenick, Oh I see. Yup...I'm very familiar with Yuyutsu's "interesting" .....
» 26/07/2016 2:22:09 PM Banjo, "I post on the matter only to inform others of your dishonesty and lack of de.....
» 26/07/2016 10:03:50 AM "By the time of the election the only thing that remained was the likability factor g.....
» 26/07/2016 8:42:59 AM So tongue in cheek? Well ah'll be! Coming hot on the heels of Yuyutsu's post, I figured .....
» 26/07/2016 8:16:53 AM "Do you have no concern for the horrendous impact on a 5 year old of hundreds of seri.....
» 26/07/2016 8:06:23 AM ybgirp, "I admire your resilience, Poirot, and have often wondered why you continue......
» 26/07/2016 7:53:41 AM "There are supplies of food at various locations along the street and numerous water-.....
» 26/07/2016 7:44:54 AM "Malcolm Turnbull has announced a royal commission into the treatment of children in .....
» 26/07/2016 7:42:05 AM Just noted on twitter by an ABC journo who tweeted - "in the last 10 minutes the PM h.....
» 26/07/2016 7:36:54 AM How encouraging to think that a couple of contributors here think that a five year-old wan.....
» 26/07/2016 7:09:12 AM I don't think it's exaggerating to say that OLO is a fairly right-wing site these days.........
» 26/07/2016 5:40:14 AM Yuyutsu, "Jocelyn just wanted to be free, but she was hunted down, caught and arrest.....
» 25/07/2016 7:44:01 PM Yes, otb ..the story is good enough to stand on its own as a thread starter. There was no.....
» 25/07/2016 7:17:11 PM runner, "...Hatred of what made this nation great and gave you are privileged life h.....
» 25/07/2016 4:17:38 PM Curtis Cheng's son: ""We cannot generalise the actions of extreme individuals t.....
» 25/07/2016 9:48:15 AM "The invasion of Iraq came about because to the shear weight of murders committed aga.....
» 25/07/2016 7:45:49 AM rehctub, "Poirot, it wont bother me if Trump wins, in fact, it may well be time for .....
» 24/07/2016 9:33:19 PM Loudmouth, Notwithstanding that the elephants are integral to the Grand Design....one ima.....
» 24/07/2016 8:33:27 PM Tony Lavis, There are four elephants to be taken into account as well (named Berilia, Tub.....
» 24/07/2016 6:35:34 PM Indeed, Loudmouth. As runner points out: "the something from nothing brigade are ce.....
» 24/07/2016 5:02:04 PM runner, Where did God come from?.....
» 24/07/2016 2:50:59 PM Butcher, "I have no doubt Trump is a nutter! But, people are attracted to him becaus.....
» 24/07/2016 11:41:24 AM Armchair Critic, I'd be more of a Bernie supporter. I think Hillary is somewhat dodgy - .....
» 24/07/2016 10:56:09 AM Armchair Critic, "I'm starting to feel as though the coup may have been engineered o.....
» 24/07/2016 10:43:11 AM SM, Go and educate yourself....anyone with a brain knows that ISIS was empowered by its l.....
» 24/07/2016 10:31:43 AM Yes, I thought Toni's post was a little, shall we say, pedantic. It was obvious to me tha.....
» 24/07/2016 10:19:26 AM Armchair Critic, This was my "first comment": "SM, "Is Sonia Kruger.....
» 24/07/2016 9:42:34 AM Loudmouth, Why did you choose to write your last post in (nearly) all caps? Forum Rule -.....
» 24/07/2016 9:14:59 AM SM, "As for the latest atrocity in Germany, the perpetrator had no direct links to I.....
» 24/07/2016 8:52:07 AM Otb, "A hysterical member of the public, someone very much like yourself maybe, repo.....
» 23/07/2016 11:27:36 PM Looky here, runner. Here's another news agency making stuff up! "Munich (Germany) (.....
» 23/07/2016 11:12:22 PM That report was put up hours before German police had any idea of the gunman's background......
» 23/07/2016 10:54:15 PM Hi Foxy, Hope you're getting better fast : ) "The fact is I am happier now than I h.....
» 23/07/2016 10:48:22 PM runner, "Yep the latest slaughter of kids and adults from a follower of Mohammed fro.....
» 23/07/2016 6:44:48 PM otb, "I take your meaning, those old feminist crones have not undergone any personal.....
» 23/07/2016 4:45:53 PM SM, "As the ISIS thugs are intermixed with civilians, and while the allies are not a.....
» 23/07/2016 1:36:51 PM devid f, "....if someone uses Marxist jargon, I will point it out. You are free to u.....
» 23/07/2016 12:47:29 PM runner, I don't "despise" the culture. I'm against the excesses. And if you w.....
» 23/07/2016 12:15:06 PM devid f, "I have not patronised you. 'Late capitalism' is Marxist jargon, and I call.....
» 23/07/2016 12:02:11 PM o sung wu, No need for you to apologise. It was my decision to get involved and make a co.....
» 23/07/2016 11:01:33 AM "& With good reason. On the 98% blokes, that's not really our fault. If more women co.....
» 23/07/2016 10:31:38 AM "That might not be so evident to leftists in their echo chamber." Lol!...says t.....
» 23/07/2016 10:20:45 AM "Sonia has the right to feel and express fear just as Charlie Hebdo's family has the .....
» 23/07/2016 10:05:41 AM SM, "Is Sonia Kruger allowed to feel threatened by Jihadists?" She's allowed t.....
» 23/07/2016 9:56:53 AM Lol!...Armchair Critic.... Whacko!....I love your rendition of a general rallying his tro.....
» 23/07/2016 8:50:25 AM rehctub, "...I had one a few years back that set the record, 100 plus pages. As I s.....
» 23/07/2016 7:44:02 AM ttbn, "Given satellite cameras and modern technology, not around in Russell's time, .....
» 23/07/2016 7:38:36 AM david f, Scandinavian countries have a large factor of social democracy threaded through .....
» 22/07/2016 8:59:51 PM Jayb, Mr14 (the history buff) was just telling me how the population of Fremantle was fea.....
» 22/07/2016 8:15:18 PM david f, "I agree with the above. However, the state has the power to limit monopoli.....
» 22/07/2016 7:35:38 PM ttbn, "There is no evidence that there is not an afterlife, either. Just because som.....
» 22/07/2016 7:28:59 PM Lol!.."prostrate"... (I had it in mind when I wrote that not to get it wrong........
» 22/07/2016 7:26:19 PM o sung wu, "I fully understand many US police are becoming 'gun shy' - imagining eve.....
» 22/07/2016 6:09:17 PM Loudmouth, "As for the question, should Shari'a Law be ever recognised or allowed in.....
» 22/07/2016 2:25:33 PM "The revolution has begun. Just on the ABC, Trump declares..." ..blah, blah, bla.....
» 22/07/2016 11:56:26 AM o sung wu, "Mr Kinsey on the ground with his arms in the air with the young autistic.....
» 22/07/2016 11:09:27 AM Loudmouth, The diversions are the only sane input on this thread. Now we have Jayb calli.....
» 22/07/2016 11:05:49 AM ttbn, "...And, anyone attempting to excuse it including, including o sung woo, is a .....
» 22/07/2016 10:35:34 AM Jayb, You obviously have a problem with the truth. otb began the issue of ritual slaught.....
» 22/07/2016 9:44:30 AM "But again, poirot, you divert with heightened enthusiasm. Please try & stick to the .....
» 21/07/2016 8:46:02 PM otb, We got around that by live exporting livestock...or haven't you noticed that. So no.....
» 21/07/2016 4:06:00 PM "... Now if you can't, or refuse to answer then one would have to assume that you sid.....
» 21/07/2016 2:23:11 PM Loudmouth, "...and the topic: Should Shari'a or any other alien body of discriminato.....
» 21/07/2016 1:12:57 PM Jayb, "...I didn't mention it because it not on Subject." Lol!...that hasn't s.....
» 21/07/2016 12:01:34 PM Aww...Jayb.... You failed to criticise those wonderful examples of Aussie nationhood thre.....
» 21/07/2016 11:53:21 AM Loudmouth, "But keep fighting yesterday's wars, Poirot, it's such fun, and so safe, .....
» 21/07/2016 11:05:23 AM Loudmouth, "...Although, now in 2016, I'm suspicious that Saddam actually did have S.....
» 21/07/2016 10:27:28 AM Is Mise, "What's your solution for the traffic noise when the kids are going to or c.....
» 21/07/2016 10:14:11 AM "Not if you're autistic, in which case it might well seem like a blessed relief. For .....
» 21/07/2016 9:51:43 AM Josephus, "It in our day it is the anti-Christ,having a form of religion but not dem.....
» 21/07/2016 8:19:12 AM "And white men, you left out white men. LOL Already dealt with. Here again, to make i.....
» 21/07/2016 8:04:10 AM "Teachers at Cheltenham Girls high school in Sydney were never told they should avoid.....
» 20/07/2016 7:51:51 PM "..."The left finds it perfectly OK to criticise other religions, but what we ha.....
» 20/07/2016 2:51:36 PM Jayb, You know what you can do with your questions. .... runner, "...What an atro.....
» 20/07/2016 12:58:31 PM "Answer my questions, sweetie..." Lol!...one OLO fella surmising that the ladie.....
» 20/07/2016 10:57:34 AM "Oh well Susie and Poirot aren't afraid yet." Oh, by that I take it that you'd .....
» 20/07/2016 10:08:03 AM Only mentioned plagiarism as an example of these Einsteins being unable to think and write.....
» 20/07/2016 9:38:50 AM jayb, Plagiarism is the lifting/stealing "word for word" of another's content. .....
» 20/07/2016 8:32:37 AM "Yes, Sonja & Hanson are very right." Both thick as two planks and into self-pr.....
» 20/07/2016 7:40:57 AM rehctub, "Mikk...So how exactly are the police supposed to tell if monis was a terro.....
» 20/07/2016 7:27:45 AM Suse, Here's an entertaining article on Q&A on Monday night from Neil McMahon, who, incid.....
» 19/07/2016 6:40:10 PM Rojama, "...The nations that have the most peace, stability and freedom for its citi.....
» 18/07/2016 7:32:16 PM Yes, I know that, Paul. Was just noting that democratically elected govts sometimes morph.....
» 18/07/2016 11:41:42 AM Loudmouth, I wasn't addressing you. I was responding to runner. Notwithstanding, it give.....
» 18/07/2016 10:57:26 AM runner, "very selective which just confirms my point..." Lol!....it's not as i.....
» 18/07/2016 10:41:40 AM runner, Anything to say about the body parts strewn around Iraq in the wake of the US inv.....
» 18/07/2016 10:09:19 AM "I'd love to reply to you, once your meds have kicked in :)" Lol!...speaking of.....
» 18/07/2016 9:50:43 AM Three more police deaths today... Here's what US reporter Megan Brilley, posted on twitte.....
» 18/07/2016 9:42:13 AM "The President of Turkey has said democracy and freedom have “absolutely no value” in.....
» 18/07/2016 8:41:33 AM Paul, Notwithstanding that a certain fella slid into power democratically in Germany in t.....
» 17/07/2016 9:44:25 PM "Big difference is other religions are not stuck in the stone age, they adapt with th.....
» 17/07/2016 7:43:15 AM SM, There is some conjecture that the coup was staged - or at least a weak attempt was al.....
» 16/07/2016 8:35:15 PM "As I said before Armchair the women you refer to are totally indoctrinated and incap.....
» 16/07/2016 8:24:52 PM Is Mise, "That is where you said that guns are manufactured for the sole purpose of .....
» 16/07/2016 8:12:48 PM Armchair Critic. "I'm a little dumbfounded at the girls honestly. Whilst not saying .....
» 16/07/2016 6:05:51 PM "With Sharia Law in Oz, Suse & Poirot, & their women's lib mates will be back in the .....
» 16/07/2016 5:53:36 PM Loudmouth, "Is Mise is being empirically quite correct when he suggests, quite logic.....
» 16/07/2016 10:52:48 AM Is Mise, "Have you worked out yet that some guns are not designed to kill?" Ha.....
» 16/07/2016 10:36:27 AM Lol!... Fascinating commentary fellas! What have we?... "Their Chritophobic nature.....
» 15/07/2016 9:59:28 PM Is Mise, "The same applies to trucks, but unfortunately for the dead and injured in .....
» 15/07/2016 1:54:28 PM "BTT: what is a 'troll' ? Someone who insults a poster, uses ad hominems, steers the .....
» 15/07/2016 10:01:54 AM "...The outlier is evidently the insane sacred duty to carry guns in US." Yep.......
» 15/07/2016 8:31:06 AM "It is undeniable that police in the US often contend with much more violent situatio.....
» 14/07/2016 2:11:31 PM "I am heartily sick of the leftists - types like the Trotskyist NSW Greens - who are .....
» 14/07/2016 1:37:19 PM Is Mise, "Guns aren't manufactured for the sole purpose of killing; outside of the m.....
» 14/07/2016 11:20:21 AM Loudmouth, You appear to be under the false impression that if you toss out one of your w.....
» 14/07/2016 11:17:48 AM Is Mise, "How is that different to a drive by shooting in Sydney?" Um....well......
» 14/07/2016 10:47:22 AM Is Mise, Re your silly comment about cars (this thread or another)...which aren't manufac.....
» 14/07/2016 10:33:08 AM "I respectfully beg to differ: I think that Islamism, and Shari'a, are far, far to th.....
» 14/07/2016 10:05:35 AM Not to mention that Theresa May has just installed the lying, cheating, tousled-haired din.....
» 13/07/2016 7:24:01 PM Is Mise, "The point being that the Greens would make it a crime to use a gun for sel.....
» 13/07/2016 6:00:27 PM Loudmouth, I'm just about over you and Is Mise justifying a gun-toting society on the gro.....
» 13/07/2016 11:40:11 AM Is Mise, The point we have been making is that if it's legislated to open-carry weapons o.....
» 13/07/2016 11:36:24 AM Is Mise. Well, whatever...his dad shot himself in the thigh......
» 13/07/2016 11:07:25 AM Loudmouth, Just an addendum, The number of people wounded by firearm is three to four ti.....
» 13/07/2016 10:50:15 AM Loudmouth, "I don't know how you can deny Is Mise's hypothetical, it seems perfectly.....
» 13/07/2016 10:34:16 AM Let's not forget the roots of America's malaise: "I became interested in figuring ou.....
» 13/07/2016 9:47:21 AM Is Mise, "He didn't have an automatic weapon, automatic firearms are very strictly r.....
» 13/07/2016 9:39:36 AM Is Mise, "Surely if a person saves their own life or someone else's by using a gun t.....
» 13/07/2016 7:54:59 AM Here's a task for you, Is Mise. Go back to the date of the gay bar massacre, write down h.....
» 13/07/2016 7:45:59 AM Hi, o sung wu, "To a certain extent, I apportion a small part of the blame on the le.....
» 12/07/2016 9:02:27 AM "Eighties fembot clone of Kim Jong-un in khaki bibs'n'braces overalls and Doc Martens.....
» 12/07/2016 8:04:11 AM Peter Hartcher analyses America's predicament: "In the aftermath, with anger and dis.....
» 11/07/2016 10:56:12 PM "You are having the vapors. Take a long glass of cold water and a good rest." L.....
» 11/07/2016 6:54:13 PM "When people post such dishonest garbage, they can't be taken seriously, can they Poi.....
» 11/07/2016 3:49:47 PM otb, "Nothing like the leftists for stirring the proverbial though. Up the revolutio.....
» 11/07/2016 2:05:44 PM Found that quote on twitter regarding the militarisation of police in the US. From Brando.....
» 11/07/2016 1:23:19 PM "...But police serve the community of which they and their loved ones are part.".....
» 11/07/2016 8:47:44 AM rehctub, You get the country wrong... You can't even be bothered checking how to spell t.....
» 10/07/2016 8:12:14 AM rehctub, "Ok Poirot, so what was Hawks excuse to invade Iraq back in the 90's, remem.....
» 9/07/2016 7:52:42 AM rehctub, "I can see why Pauline was tagged as racist 20 years ago, but, this is 20 y.....
» 8/07/2016 10:58:16 PM Mhaze, "...dilute the national culture." What's the national culture of Austra.....
» 6/07/2016 7:47:33 AM And it may not be over yet, folks... "It's the nightmare scenario: both the Coalitio.....
» 6/07/2016 7:20:50 AM Hasbeen, I have to agree with Yabby and Suse here. You say... "No country can surv.....
» 5/07/2016 4:49:23 PM Bazz, "He was spending time with the aboriginals long before he became a cabinet mem.....
» 5/07/2016 4:27:50 PM Yabby, "Ahem, Turnbull gained more votes than anyone else, so clearly is still the m.....
» 5/07/2016 10:33:11 AM Yes, Doog...apparently it's yodelling petite bourgeois butchers who are society's "hi.....
» 5/07/2016 9:23:26 AM rehctub, "You lot had better hope like hell that labour does get in, because if they.....
» 4/07/2016 4:25:59 PM otb, "Poirot deliberately misconstruing a businessman's wry satire." Oh the ol.....
» 4/07/2016 2:37:59 PM "The abc/regressives got their man Turnbull to backstab Abbott. The regressives still.....
» 4/07/2016 9:52:15 AM Of course we're all assuming the Coalition will fall over the line. Interestingly, as it .....
» 4/07/2016 8:57:41 AM Although it has to be said...that "Mediscare' excuse will quickly fade into oblivion .....
» 4/07/2016 8:23:47 AM Here's a good analysis: "Malcolm Turnbull has been leader of the federal Liberal Par.....
» 4/07/2016 8:10:03 AM Oh Shriek!...it's a Medicare Lie! You righties sure have a glass jaw. Remember the the t.....
» 3/07/2016 6:53:24 PM Firstly, let me say Lol!...Snort...and Hohoho! Secondly, how graceless was Mal's petulant.....
» 3/07/2016 10:23:58 AM Hi paul, A couple of moments stood out last night. One was the CH7 panel (where I ended .....
» 3/07/2016 8:34:49 AM "Well we can wrap this post up as the two labor sycophants Tony Whinger and Rob Bulls.....
» 2/07/2016 8:37:22 AM JoM, Like I said to Foxy, on this matter the only reason for a plebiscite is to whip up d.....
» 2/07/2016 7:35:44 AM rehctub, "Aiden, if its about rights and not values, then why cant the gay community.....
» 1/07/2016 12:24:42 PM Foxy, "If John Howard could change the Marriage Act why can't it just be changed bac.....
» 1/07/2016 11:03:56 AM This from the Australian sums it up nicely: "It is difficult to find a government po.....
» 1/07/2016 10:25:53 AM "Trump has more character than Shorten or Turnbull. Trump says what he means and mean.....
» 1/07/2016 9:53:24 AM "....but to simply remove it will hurt those can least afford it, the renters of olde.....
» 30/06/2016 8:07:23 AM Philip S, rehctub, So of I highlight the "fact" that Australia has gone almost .....
» 29/06/2016 9:20:08 PM Hi folks : ) o sung wu, "....mainly because my vocabulary is relatively restricted,.....
» 29/06/2016 9:06:57 PM rehctub, "The way the minimum wage is worked out is just killing us as a nation...&q.....
» 29/06/2016 2:21:30 PM kirby483, " Over 80% are owned by Mums and Dads..." By that you mean the littl.....
» 29/06/2016 1:23:53 PM "Government told months ago negative gearing benefits high-income earners" &quo.....
» 29/06/2016 7:07:55 AM Luciferase, "There is no more intent to lose money in investing for capital growth t.....
» 28/06/2016 4:19:52 PM Just a bit more from the Spectator article in the question of immigration: "In Norwa.....
» 28/06/2016 4:13:50 PM Graham, On the 11% company profit drop: "In the two and a half years since the 2013.....
» 28/06/2016 9:10:56 AM Graham, I like this one... "There has been a decline in business investment, but yo.....
» 28/06/2016 8:58:05 AM rehctub, ".... if you take away incentives to invest, people will stop investing, it.....
» 28/06/2016 8:42:12 AM Oh yes, notwithstanding that the central banks of the major nations are now having prop up.....
» 28/06/2016 8:21:27 AM Graham, Are you seriously trying to defend the "leavers" who mined the fears of.....
» 28/06/2016 7:51:40 AM SteeleRedux, Well said....anyone who lauds the complete dog's breakfast of the Brexit cam.....
» 28/06/2016 7:26:00 AM Yabby, "If Britain triggers Article 50, they would essentially be stuffed...." .....
» 27/06/2016 6:53:55 PM Rehctub, Don't you ever stop whinging?.....
» 27/06/2016 2:00:39 PM Yabby, "Poirot I remind you that the British Govt has not triggered Article 50, simp.....
» 27/06/2016 9:59:01 AM Yabby, "Any plan can be ruined by circumstances beyond our control, so much better t.....
» 27/06/2016 9:02:13 AM Yabby, My main point on this thread has been incredulity that there appears to be no sign.....
» 27/06/2016 8:16:35 AM Well looky here.... "Crime syndicates and people smugglers are involved in widesprea.....
» 27/06/2016 7:55:19 AM Yabby, "I guess the British will sign a free trade agreement with the EU, just like .....
» 26/06/2016 10:09:47 PM Phanto, She's not required to do anything. They are a pack of immature buffoons with a s.....
» 26/06/2016 8:36:43 PM phanto, So your suggestion is that she play kiddie games with the wee man boys? Lol!........
» 26/06/2016 6:46:08 PM Phanto, It's interesting that you advocate the woman journalist to sledge back at the cha.....
» 26/06/2016 10:43:40 AM rehctub, "The fact is working too hard is one of the few areas where you actually ge.....
» 26/06/2016 10:28:59 AM Is Mise, "But why remove references to Islam in his statements ? To me this looks a.....
» 26/06/2016 10:19:23 AM Loudmouth, "Maybe I can't interpret a simple map in a newspaper but it seemed to me .....
» 26/06/2016 9:58:47 AM "Post us a few more links from the ABC, Poirot, show us what you’re made of" Fo.....
» 26/06/2016 8:27:37 AM "The Brexit figureheads had no plan besides exploiting populist fears and dismissing .....
» 26/06/2016 7:23:39 AM SM, ""When the Orlando massacre gunman Omar Mateen was 15 he openly rejoiced as.....
» 25/06/2016 8:47:40 PM JKJ, "The idea that you know how to structure the world economy is just laughable st.....
» 25/06/2016 7:46:48 PM Talking of the "plan" that appears to have been overlooked... Here's one called.....
» 25/06/2016 6:29:55 PM Here's some news... "3 Brexit promises campaigners had wriggled out of before breakf.....
» 25/06/2016 6:06:44 PM "And we have our own Poirot.." Aw....shucks, Graham : ) "....who has neve.....
» 25/06/2016 12:23:01 PM rehctub, Though you're kinda dear to me on this forum - you keep rattling the same line.......
» 25/06/2016 12:18:52 PM runner, "I wonder how many feminazis would like Trump to have a heart attack?" .....
» 25/06/2016 10:01:58 AM Banjo's post ably sums up the disaffection felt by many of those who voted "leave&quo.....
» 25/06/2016 8:30:47 AM It's actually quite fascinating witnessing a profound shift such as we've seen in the UK. .....
» 25/06/2016 7:32:43 AM Here's one take on the seismic shift: "I spent most of Friday walking around in a da.....
» 24/06/2016 9:14:17 PM Otb, Judging by this thread, it's the likes of you who are foaming at the mouth over the .....
» 24/06/2016 7:26:42 PM Considering the European Union seems to have halted the penchant of those countries to per.....
» 24/06/2016 5:31:39 PM David Cameron has just announced he's stepping down in October......
» 24/06/2016 5:19:03 PM Lol!....we can always depend on otb for his usual descriptors... "womyn".... &q.....
» 24/06/2016 4:35:28 PM Graham, "So they've upset the one percent. Is that a bad thing Poirot?" Well. .....
» 24/06/2016 4:09:53 PM Last I heard the Oz market was off $64 billion....should be fun and games on Wall St tonig.....
» 24/06/2016 3:46:52 PM ttbn, I agree that Turnbull has failed as a communicator. Problem is that he has nothing.....
» 24/06/2016 3:40:55 PM SM, "It must be terribly hard to understand that a terrorist might have more than on.....
» 24/06/2016 3:26:50 PM Great start!... "British pound slumps to lowest level since 1985" "Future.....
» 24/06/2016 10:33:33 AM Since the 2013 election... Business profits down by 11%. Private business investment dow.....
» 24/06/2016 9:55:33 AM SM, "Mateen was clearly gay, but tried to be a good muslim by getting married and re.....
» 24/06/2016 8:29:42 AM otb, My "20's weekly" was a mistake..(but I had to wait 13 hours to correct it .....
» 23/06/2016 7:43:49 PM Yes, all very impressive, Is Mise. Is that supposed to prove that the US doesn't have a p.....
» 23/06/2016 7:18:00 PM Otb, What "implied source of illegal guns"? I haven't discussed that on this t.....
» 23/06/2016 6:14:41 PM SM, Now you're tying yoursef in knots. Remember when you posted this: "it might s.....
» 23/06/2016 5:11:08 PM "Victoria Police has warned its officers Eddie McGuire's disparaging comments about j.....
» 23/06/2016 5:05:18 PM otb, You do bang on... "Perhaps that senior sports writer for The Age newspaper mig.....
» 23/06/2016 4:57:46 PM otb, "How could you be naive? Is Mise is a skilled competitor and a professionally t.....
» 23/06/2016 3:08:07 PM ttbn, Tell me why you don't like Turnbull? His govt has exactly the same policies as the.....
» 23/06/2016 3:03:49 PM Is Mise, If semi-automatic weapons were not so readily available in the US - even to thos.....
» 23/06/2016 10:31:16 AM phanto, "He used the airwaves to abuse her. She too is on the airwaves is she not? I.....
» 23/06/2016 10:17:10 AM Govt just borrowed another $900m. Not repaid till April 2026. Net debt $288b - up $113.....
» 23/06/2016 9:55:12 AM Here you go, SM...same story with more detail... "A man claiming to be the Orlando s.....
» 23/06/2016 8:47:50 AM Love your standards, otb... This from sports writer, Erin Riley on twitter this morning: .....
» 23/06/2016 8:24:13 AM Another angle.... "The alleged gay lover of the man responsible for the Pulse gay ni.....
» 23/06/2016 8:08:22 AM Armchair Critic, "And stop whinging about the guns, it's like your all trapped in so.....
» 22/06/2016 6:22:20 PM SM, if a quoted article link is left out of a post, it's invariably deliberately left out.....
» 22/06/2016 1:17:57 PM Thank you, SM It's common courtesy to back up your quotes with a link to the article. I .....
» 22/06/2016 11:51:13 AM SM, Where's the link?.....
» 22/06/2016 8:08:14 AM SM, None of that changes the fact that Mateen was able to slay so many people because he .....
» 21/06/2016 8:55:51 PM "and the excuse for your hatred Rache?" Never mine runner, rache. He always ac.....
» 21/06/2016 7:02:07 PM Otb, Those "shonky" figures are from the FBI. For 2014, the FBI's Figures were.....
» 21/06/2016 5:48:00 PM "Predictably, 'gun control' activists are NOT interested in evidence-based regulation.....
» 21/06/2016 4:46:21 PM rehctub, Good on him...best of luck!.....
» 21/06/2016 3:44:36 PM runner, "...Somehow they think they have a right to spit out venom and scream victim.....
» 21/06/2016 3:41:01 PM Is Mise, I used one person being shot as an example. "As it was a gun free zone the.....
» 21/06/2016 10:28:45 AM Let's face it, SM. If Mateen had entered a gay bar with a revolver and shot one patron, y.....
» 21/06/2016 10:01:30 AM Totally agree, otb. McGuire should be free to demonstrate his puerile antics on the airwav.....
» 21/06/2016 9:53:11 AM Senate rejects four gun-control measures after Orlando shooting http://www.reuters.com/ar.....
» 20/06/2016 4:35:54 PM rehctub, All your silly post does is confirm for me the reason you chose to be a butcher .....
» 20/06/2016 1:15:10 PM SM, Still...rehctub seems to complain when I supply figures straight from Morrison. I on.....
» 20/06/2016 8:30:12 AM rehctub, I doubt if you'll hear from Stephen at the moment - he's one of Australia's top .....
» 19/06/2016 2:39:11 PM david f, The Abbott govt cut the annual quota of 20,000 down to around 12,750. At the sa.....
» 19/06/2016 12:11:12 PM "orb" obviously meant to be "otb" Working on iPad and find those thin.....
» 19/06/2016 12:08:01 PM Orb, Please link to the post where I speculated about the size of a man's penis. .....ex.....
» 19/06/2016 11:05:20 AM Oh here comes "onthebeach" in full odious snarl. In this case, one ad hom deser.....
» 19/06/2016 9:42:52 AM SM, Link us to the site where found the info. I know there is no official US govt site a.....
» 19/06/2016 8:32:20 AM otb, "You would be very foolish indeed to be using her murder to support your unfoun.....
» 18/06/2016 2:21:53 PM phanto, "....seem to enjoy taking advantage of tragedies to further their own agenda.....
» 18/06/2016 2:00:16 PM "There you go again. Reprehensible that you would try to excuse and lessen the respon.....
» 18/06/2016 12:57:54 PM Otb, You know I'm doing nothing of the sort. But don't let that impede your narrative. I.....
» 18/06/2016 12:01:47 PM Lol!...orb, Just dropped by for your daily blurt of ad hom, eh? How about you post some .....
» 18/06/2016 11:10:06 AM Here's yer problem... "US car dealer offers free AR-15 assault rifle with every car&.....
» 18/06/2016 10:49:39 AM SM, There have been 998 mass shootings in the US since Sandy Hook. 3 of them involved Mu.....
» 18/06/2016 9:02:27 AM While we're posting articles on religious outliers, here's a Christian version: "Ton.....
» 18/06/2016 8:21:29 AM Thanks for that, SM. So they're "lining up" are they? The Murdoch stable is ne.....
» 17/06/2016 10:20:41 AM SM, I'm not comparing you to Trump per se. You display far more decorum than he - and do.....
» 17/06/2016 9:02:02 AM rehctub, Foxy, Interesting article... "Medibank customers hope to get their money b.....
» 17/06/2016 8:32:25 AM The murder of the British Labor MP, Jo Cox, throws up some questions about the hard right .....
» 17/06/2016 7:51:53 AM SM, More on the ADF... "Not the ‘Illuminati’: How Fundamentalist Christians Are Inf.....
» 17/06/2016 7:40:06 AM SM, Not content with mimicking Trump on this thread, you're now doing the soft-shoe shuff.....
» 16/06/2016 5:21:26 PM Here you go, butcher, A nice example of the way these vandals who call themselves a govt .....
» 16/06/2016 5:10:27 PM SM, That comparison was disingenuous. Didn't Jones suggest she should be tied up in a cha.....
» 16/06/2016 4:59:21 PM Runner, It's not so much the actual man, Jesus Christ, that people are likely to have a &.....
» 16/06/2016 2:43:29 PM SM, But he's a pal of the Republican's favourite nominee - that doesn't bother you? I re.....
» 16/06/2016 11:38:11 AM butcher, "So David, I respectfully ask you how is your water argument going,...".....
» 16/06/2016 10:41:28 AM Banjo, Pauline Hanson is a bigot who will chop and change her targets for demonisation to.....
» 16/06/2016 10:09:51 AM david f, Perfect..........
» 16/06/2016 10:06:16 AM SM, "That you can find a couple of virulently anti gay pastors (both from minorities.....
» 16/06/2016 8:12:01 AM david f, rehctub posts this: "So David, we currently have around 150,000 homeless i.....
» 16/06/2016 8:05:47 AM "You can't fool me Poirot." Lol!....I wouldn't dare try, rehctub! How could I .....
» 15/06/2016 6:18:45 PM ttbn,' I skimmed half your post. When I referrenced Shadow Minister in regards to ".....
» 15/06/2016 2:43:03 PM Here's a selection of runner's post on this thread, "Oh yeah the gun laws, nothing t.....
» 15/06/2016 2:05:01 PM Phano, re - "migets"...... my reference wasn't to their lack of physical statu.....
» 15/06/2016 11:32:24 AM phanto, I was taking up the argument on masculinity - and the curious incidence of ".....
» 15/06/2016 11:24:21 AM Is Mise, "Just as a point of interest the night club in Orlando where this latest ma.....
» 15/06/2016 10:32:34 AM phanto, "You cannot be bitter about guns only about people. You are bitter because y.....
» 15/06/2016 8:03:52 AM By the way, rehctub, Those "reputable sources" I mentioned... I got those figu.....
» 15/06/2016 7:56:16 AM rehctub, You can dance around all you like. Fact..this govt has added $100 billion to &q.....
» 15/06/2016 7:46:46 AM "Our homes should be plumbed to recycled water and we should either boil that for dri.....
» 14/06/2016 7:12:20 PM Rehctub, Whitlam ran surpluses in 1972-73, 1973-74 and 1974-75....only in 1975-76 was the.....
» 14/06/2016 3:58:45 PM ttbn, "Parrot" Wow! - another poster here who thinks it's great to pull out th.....
» 14/06/2016 11:34:41 AM rehctub, "New research: Abbott and Turnbull the worst economic managers since Menzie.....
» 14/06/2016 11:28:16 AM rectub, Typical.... This mob of wreckers have been in nearly three years, haven't manage.....
» 14/06/2016 11:20:28 AM What Suse said........
» 14/06/2016 10:54:03 AM From all reports, Shorten nailed it...despite Tony Jones standing in for Malcolm as spoile.....
» 14/06/2016 10:31:12 AM otb, "Suseonline and Poirot are struggling. That is obvious." Lol!...as oppose.....
» 14/06/2016 10:27:28 AM Here you go, SM.... I'll be waiting with baited breath for you to connect this guy with I.....
» 14/06/2016 10:11:24 AM It's pretty clear from most balanced world commentary that Donald Trump is regarded as a d.....
» 14/06/2016 8:11:23 AM rehctub, You mean these figures? From the time of the last election: Net debt was: $175.....
» 13/06/2016 5:28:20 PM SM, "When you parrot the labor line without question I call you parrot" Okay.......
» 13/06/2016 5:15:03 PM SM, "A man is responsible for his actions. If the gun laws had been tighter, he woul.....
» 13/06/2016 2:32:25 PM runner, "....Nothing to do with the Koran giving Muslim men that right is it? Oh tha.....
» 13/06/2016 1:37:42 PM Ho hum....poor old Shadow Minister always resorts to "Parrot" when he's down on .....
» 13/06/2016 1:34:54 PM SM, "This was the single worst mass shooting in US history and the biggest mass kill.....
» 13/06/2016 11:51:17 AM Correction: weapon was an AR-15 ....... This from last year.... http://www.pbs.org/news.....
» 13/06/2016 10:16:19 AM otb, "Would you rather he used a bomb..." That's a bit sick. What sort of que.....
» 13/06/2016 10:12:30 AM runner, "Oh yeah the gun laws, nothing to do with Islam. The pigheaded denial and ig.....
» 13/06/2016 10:02:02 AM SM, Ho hum....poor old Shadow Minister always resorts to "Parrot" when he's dow.....
» 13/06/2016 9:37:52 AM SM, Fair enough. It appears, however, to be more of a gay hate crime. No doubt, Trump w.....
» 13/06/2016 9:17:05 AM SM, "Again nothing but innuendo. All you have is that a company that does work for t.....
» 13/06/2016 9:06:36 AM SM, The question you should be asking is how it's possible for any nutter - religious or .....
» 13/06/2016 8:44:19 AM SM, Data mining software? Not necessary when you've got a brain - and a little too much .....
» 13/06/2016 7:34:21 AM Hiya folks, Back at the control panel.... Here's some more shonky activity in the Libera.....
» 12/06/2016 4:28:19 PM Lol!....Bazz, Okay, you got me.... I'm currently sitting in the central command base of .....
» 12/06/2016 4:16:58 PM Rehctub, I see you didn't enjoy your little jaunt to Centrelink to put in a claim with Me.....
» 12/06/2016 2:33:21 PM SM, If Scott Morrison was the Labor Treasurer - and gibbering rubbish at the speed of lig.....
» 12/06/2016 2:25:35 PM SM, "Hockey used a taxi company that was crooked, thus he must be crooked," Bu.....
» 12/06/2016 12:17:16 PM Bazz, No, I don't "rely on twitter" except, in this sense, as a conduit for art.....
» 12/06/2016 11:20:08 AM Bazz, I have a good memory...and twitter provides a constant feed of allegations of dodgy.....
» 12/06/2016 9:54:50 AM SM, Can you let us know when ScoMo let's the cat out of the bag as to how he's going to p.....
» 12/06/2016 8:37:48 AM Foxy, "I am still undecided between the candidates." I'm still kinda puzzled a.....
» 12/06/2016 7:59:54 AM SM, Leaving aside the allegations of money laundering through Parakeelia: "The Libe.....
» 11/06/2016 5:32:39 PM SM, You, being OLO's resident right-wing moral crusader, will like this one: rehctub too.....
» 11/06/2016 3:40:36 PM SM, "Labor economics is best understood with a hefty dose of marijuana." I won.....
» 11/06/2016 2:37:53 PM "Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and Treasurer Scott Morrison quickly and skilfully a.....
» 10/06/2016 6:46:26 PM Yes, Foxy...I think it's not helpful for Labor to be dragged back into the "we're gon.....
» 10/06/2016 3:46:39 PM Oh, right, Foxy - you're referring to the "perception" of Coalition govt's econo.....
» 10/06/2016 12:10:21 PM SM, Talking of the dodgy practices...the Libs are at it again. "The Liberal campaig.....
» 10/06/2016 11:56:16 AM Suse, "All politicians lie before elections. It is almost a prerequisite for the job.....
» 10/06/2016 11:46:00 AM Foxy, "According to the figures in the polls the Coalition appears to continue to en.....
» 10/06/2016 11:03:39 AM rehctub, Lol!... You're a doozy. This govt lurches about, cut's programs by the the hund.....
» 10/06/2016 10:18:53 AM rehctub, "....but it's the tax payer that is loosing out simply because few can see .....
» 10/06/2016 8:09:42 AM rehctub, "As for the 68% who don't work, this is just a hint Poirot, perhaps they ar.....
» 10/06/2016 7:52:04 AM rehctub, Hurling nearly $9 billion at the RBA was one of Hockey's first acts - money they.....
» 9/06/2016 9:55:29 PM rehctub, While we're reminiscing - do you recall Joe Hockey telling us all the Coalition .....
» 9/06/2016 5:03:24 PM Foxy, Yes, I see what you mean. Sales is overly aggressive - and has been noted for it. .....
» 9/06/2016 3:09:13 PM Jayb, "That's what they all do. No Politician ever answers a question directly. They.....
» 9/06/2016 2:40:32 PM otb, "Regarding the Leigh Sales 'interview'(sic) of Malcolm Turnbull, it was more of.....
» 9/06/2016 1:21:09 PM Hi Foxy, Sorry to hear of your situation....best wishes from me. ........ "I watch.....
» 9/06/2016 12:04:29 PM rechtub, "Society has demanded a seven day society, and have to pay for the privileg.....
» 9/06/2016 10:58:10 AM butcher, "I had to laugh at Bill Shortens NON ANSWER on the topic when challenged by.....
» 9/06/2016 10:14:34 AM Just thinking, SM and rehctub, We've lived in our small coastal city for over 30 years. .....
» 9/06/2016 7:45:14 AM ".....as long as big brother keeps sticking his nose in where it doesn't belong.".....
» 8/06/2016 8:43:24 AM rehctub, "You have still not answered my question as to why the business owner shoul.....
» 7/06/2016 7:54:56 PM Yuyutsu, "P.S. seat-belts don't help when being hit from behind." I beg to dif.....
» 7/06/2016 10:24:22 AM otb, "The problem is that Poirot is unaware of her own hypocrisy." Okay...why .....
» 7/06/2016 9:54:23 AM runner, "...It has far less harm than teaching kids to experiment with oral sex, ana.....
» 7/06/2016 9:01:38 AM rehctub, Negative gearing is principally a strategy for reducing taxable income. That is.....
» 7/06/2016 8:33:29 AM runner, Here's agood one. While Paddison's address was in 2008, this was in yesterday's .....
» 7/06/2016 8:11:16 AM runner, "...The people pushing these sick child grooming ideologies need help not gi.....
» 7/06/2016 7:18:36 AM Yuyutsu, I'm curious... Do you per chance look both ways before you cross the road? Giv.....
» 6/06/2016 9:05:23 AM Yabby, I take your point about the increased regulation and our banks being in a better p.....
» 5/06/2016 7:23:39 PM Loudmouth - why don't ya have another drink. You're spitting and gyrating there like like.....
» 5/06/2016 4:47:56 PM Yar...Yabby, Sure about that? "Macquarie boss Nick Moore used both to full effect l.....
» 5/06/2016 4:32:39 PM Hi Foxy, Yup...turns out the whole thing was a pointless exercise. Except perhaps to hig.....
» 5/06/2016 2:36:29 PM Yabby, It's pretty well established now that the Howard/Costello govt was (twice) found t.....
» 5/06/2016 2:26:33 PM Lol!, SM, Her lawyers, no doubt, politely pointed out to La Trobe that their actions were.....
» 5/06/2016 2:00:53 PM rehctub, While you're banging on about asylum seekers - which you incorrectly refer to as.....
» 5/06/2016 1:47:32 PM Just to clarify... http://www.marketeconomics.com.au/2024-labor-or-liberal-government-deb.....
» 5/06/2016 12:53:55 PM Yabby, Oh so it's the Labor govt who forgot the mining boom would end? I thought that wa.....
» 5/06/2016 12:41:29 PM With some due respect, Yabby, that's a load of cobblers. This mob have no idea what they'.....
» 5/06/2016 12:26:49 PM Loudmouth, It is no more than "cheap" sarcasm. I'll tell you what - you get yo.....
» 5/06/2016 8:42:08 AM rehctub, How thick are you? I mean, how many times do you have to be reminded that Austr.....
» 5/06/2016 7:26:49 AM rehctub, "Thirdly, thanks to RUDD/GILLARD we had no money." May I remind you w.....
» 4/06/2016 6:49:27 PM Loudmouth, I'm sure if you really really put your mind to it - one day you'll be able to .....
» 4/06/2016 8:02:00 AM Well looky here... "La Trobe University withdraws allegations against Safe Schools c.....
» 4/06/2016 7:48:12 AM rehctub, Furthermore... Care to explain why private business investment has collapsed un.....
» 4/06/2016 7:22:11 AM rehctub, You do see, don't you? You pull out all the variables to defend this govt's ram.....
» 3/06/2016 7:14:06 PM Loudmouth, Bullies attack anyone they perceive as vulnerable....they always have done. T.....
» 3/06/2016 6:57:13 PM Yuyutsu, If you have a telephone, it's because you wish to have those family members intr.....
» 3/06/2016 4:30:21 PM phanto, That would be all well and good, if bouncing bullies after the act stopped bullyi.....
» 3/06/2016 3:53:04 PM Armchair Critic, "Isn't debt relative to the money the government actually receives......
» 3/06/2016 3:01:12 PM SM, "Roz Ward was sacked, not because of her opinions, but because of the damage she.....
» 3/06/2016 12:57:11 PM phanto, Unfortunately I have to nip off to the local library for a bit, and having debate.....
» 3/06/2016 11:03:46 AM phanto, Your point is? My point is that you can do and think and identify how you want -.....
» 3/06/2016 10:13:28 AM SM, "Everyone has their own gender identity in relation to masculinity and femininit.....
» 3/06/2016 9:56:56 AM No you don't, rehctub, Since when is 10% debt to GDP a "basket case". If that'.....
» 3/06/2016 8:26:15 AM rehctub, But Abbott didn't put the brakes on. He was booted because he was an incompetent.....
» 2/06/2016 10:11:43 PM Josephus, "Is this bullying by a teacher? A friend Gordon of mine said today. ".....
» 2/06/2016 9:02:41 PM SM, You are hilarious! Link me to "the material" under the Safe Schools banner.....
» 2/06/2016 5:06:49 PM Strange how you right-wing, freedom loving, characters are all for sacking someone because.....
» 2/06/2016 4:15:34 PM SM, "I am not in the habit of doing your research." Lol!...just as I thought,......
» 2/06/2016 12:53:43 PM Armchair Critic, " Left wing craziness is our society collapsing under our feet.&quo.....
» 2/06/2016 12:41:38 PM SM, "It's not just one extremist. The issue is with the material, and Roz Ward as he.....
» 2/06/2016 10:48:05 AM Jayb, Oh...so "Mr make-it-up-as-he-goes-along" pops up on the thread. Snort!.......
» 2/06/2016 9:55:18 AM SM, Excuse my snort.... Loads of stuff gets up my nose when I come to OLO......
» 2/06/2016 9:04:59 AM "....over a Facebook post where she labelled the Australian flag “racist” and called.....
» 2/06/2016 8:53:53 AM Hasbeen, I am intrigued.... Why, when Mal has been bending over backwards to ambush heal.....
» 2/06/2016 8:25:38 AM Suse, "Mal needs to come right out and say what he really feels, and bring all the r.....
» 25/05/2016 7:08:50 PM Blow it out yer ear, Loudmouth. I've done my quota of conversing with sad act immature me.....
» 25/05/2016 5:03:32 PM Can I just say that it's always instructive debating the mature men of OLO. No sooner has.....
» 25/05/2016 4:23:15 PM SM, "Firstly, the stats you show are from 2011/2 5 yrs ago and under an incompetent .....
» 25/05/2016 10:20:06 AM "What Poirot and other left whingers suffer group amnesia over is that the vast major.....
» 25/05/2016 8:33:29 AM I wouldn't dream of it, SM... 579 of our "largest" corporations in business and.....
» 24/05/2016 10:27:50 PM SM, 579 of Australia's "largest" corporations - and you're getting all pedantic.....
» 24/05/2016 7:44:41 PM Loudmouth, Yes, you are acting "a bit thick". I'm not referring to "refug.....
» 24/05/2016 5:21:28 PM Loudmouth, "My point was: that if it is okay to come to Australia by leaky boat afte.....
» 24/05/2016 4:33:29 PM Loudmouth, "Then why not let them fly here, it's quicker and less risky ? Why boats .....
» 24/05/2016 4:13:23 PM rehctub, ...and where would you be without the workers?.....
» 24/05/2016 11:23:01 AM Wow!... "honey" now! I think you should continue with this strategy - after al.....
» 24/05/2016 11:15:28 AM Paul, Big Stick manufacturing will also be privatised........
» 24/05/2016 10:29:33 AM Loudmouth, "'Squealing' ? Moi ? I'm a Bankstown boy, we never squeal, we just cop it.....
» 24/05/2016 7:45:45 AM SM, "My god, you regurgitate the right whinge propaganda without even thinking....&q.....
» 23/05/2016 9:31:32 PM Loudmouth, "So if an ad hominem is all you've got, I'd suggest that you've run out o.....
» 23/05/2016 9:22:32 PM Cherful, Here is the opening line to this thread: "The Greens and Labor are screech.....
» 23/05/2016 6:08:15 PM Loudmouth, Anything to say about the 579 mega-corps who paid no tax last financial year? .....
» 23/05/2016 4:54:46 PM Ho hum...Loudmouth, Link to the post where I "passionately" argue that Duncan s.....
» 23/05/2016 3:56:17 PM I love it when 75 percent of wage earners (those earning the median wage of around $60,000.....
» 23/05/2016 3:45:41 PM SM, Dutton says that not only will they languish on the dole - they'll take your jobs as .....
» 23/05/2016 2:07:44 PM Loudmouyh, "Well, yes,: if you can't see the difference between looking after only '.....
» 23/05/2016 12:05:53 PM "In other words, the parable makes the point that strangers can have more compassion .....
» 23/05/2016 10:52:55 AM Loudmouth, Actually, I believe Jesus the Jew was directing other Jews to help their neigh.....
» 23/05/2016 8:51:31 AM "What is not being mentioned is the elephant in the room which was the removal and sa.....
» 22/05/2016 6:22:18 PM Lol!.........
» 22/05/2016 5:37:47 PM Or perhaps "obsession" would be a better word........
» 22/05/2016 3:52:47 PM Good luck with that, rehctub, Maybe you should form your own alliance? "The Big Sti.....
» 22/05/2016 3:48:01 PM Loudmouth, Lol!...you do appear to have quite a fixation on Duncan. Hope you get over i.....
» 22/05/2016 10:19:09 AM Lol!...SM... Even you, the great apologist for anything right-wing, can't deny that you'd.....
» 22/05/2016 3:24:24 AM "They have,lazed around the village minding a few goats,or something, but they think .....
» 21/05/2016 6:49:32 PM "Lynton"...(grrr - typos!).....
» 21/05/2016 5:55:50 PM SM, When all is said and done, what Dutton did last week was "throw a dead cat on th.....
» 21/05/2016 3:38:36 PM ttbn, "What do you mean by calling runner a 'faux Christian'? After rubbishing his C.....
» 21/05/2016 3:28:51 PM Yada, yada, yada, SM. Dutton put his foot in it - that's pretty well established by now. .....
» 21/05/2016 10:56:34 AM runner, I reckon Jesus was a leftie..........
» 21/05/2016 10:46:47 AM SM, "... but just a report from one man working at the ANU who could actually just b.....
» 21/05/2016 10:40:10 AM Mr faux Christian is at it again....Lol! Some of us support a couple of kiddies through &.....
» 21/05/2016 9:00:01 AM "I think the Opportunist Left backed the wrong horse on this one. Perhaps they should.....
» 21/05/2016 8:55:48 AM "So Duncan was right? Australian National University study confirms 2016-17 budget wi.....
» 21/05/2016 8:46:20 AM SM, "Not only is Dutton’s position contradicted by evidence in Australia, it is also.....
» 20/05/2016 6:24:34 PM Luciferase, OMG! - I bow before your superior economic persona. After all, we are discus.....
» 20/05/2016 4:44:08 PM Luciferas, While we're lobbing ad homs - you can have this one right back... "You h.....
» 20/05/2016 9:28:44 AM SM, The point being that the vast majority of negative gearing largesse goes to top incom.....
» 19/05/2016 9:59:33 PM Suse, "He is obviously a left-over stain from the Abbott days, and should have been .....
» 19/05/2016 8:54:42 PM SM, You'll like this one... http://www.theage.com.au/federal-politics/federal-election-2.....
» 19/05/2016 3:38:30 PM I mean it's not as if pollies don't have bad memories. From 20120... "LABOR has que.....
» 19/05/2016 3:27:57 PM "At least now Labor's Negative gearing policy is in tatters." How so? Just bec.....
» 19/05/2016 3:21:22 PM SM, Nice try... "Refugees are not taking Australian jobs, they are creating new one.....
» 19/05/2016 10:11:43 AM Loudmouth, Carry on - I'm sure there's an angle your advanced snark hasn't covered yet. .....
» 19/05/2016 9:07:06 AM Loudmouth, "P.S. Thanks Duncan, for the gift that keeps on giving :)" Well it .....
» 19/05/2016 8:31:11 AM SM, "Middle class does not mean median wages. Middle class generally refers to profe.....
» 19/05/2016 12:54:05 AM Suseonline, No, middle class workers are not top echelon - and nor are they getting Morri.....
» 17/05/2016 8:34:41 PM You've just gotta love this place for demonstrating middle-class viciousness - kicking the.....
» 17/05/2016 5:28:30 PM Loudmouth, Okay I read this one. "The question remains: if one is not paying any ta.....
» 17/05/2016 4:08:34 PM Loudmouth, I should reply to you, but I can rarely be bothered reading your stuff these d.....
» 17/05/2016 4:04:35 PM Suse, "I agree Loudmouth. I just read an ABC news story on Storrer and he apparently.....
» 17/05/2016 10:48:28 AM ttbn, "...If you really think that Turnbull, universally thought of as the most left.....
» 17/05/2016 10:43:23 AM Suse, "....We are a middle income working couple living in the country who have a ne.....
» 17/05/2016 10:05:01 AM Yes, Yabby..."Fair enough Poirot. As long as its on twitter or in a cartoon, you will.....
» 17/05/2016 8:52:33 AM "...I'm disappointed, because I've always felt you were more of an independent thinke.....
» 17/05/2016 8:14:50 AM "Poirot, clearly you don't read the AFR, or you would be better informed...." L.....
» 17/05/2016 7:57:16 AM Suse, Yeah...I s'pose we're getting a bit intense - and you know that occasionally I like.....
» 16/05/2016 9:33:47 PM Yabby, Don't bother trying to spin the "innovation" line with me. There is no .....
» 16/05/2016 9:11:24 PM Suse, "I decided that the National Party was my party of choice about the same time .....
» 16/05/2016 7:37:08 PM Luciferase, Here's the article from The Economist: http://www.economist.com/news/asia/21.....
» 16/05/2016 6:56:45 PM Yabby, That would be true if Malcolm wasn't holding the far-right line - which he is. Apa.....
» 16/05/2016 6:29:21 PM Luciferase, The IPA? You've got to be joking.... I'll find that article in The Economis.....
» 16/05/2016 12:52:51 PM ttbn, It would take a lot more than a rancorous fellow like you insult me..you're reasona.....
» 16/05/2016 11:57:12 AM .ttbn, It's not necessary to alter your moniker - "try to be nasty" fits well e.....
» 16/05/2016 11:00:25 AM "...You are an out of date class warrior, and probably a malcontented bludger yoursel.....
» 16/05/2016 9:07:01 AM Lol!...who needs the Telegraph, etc... All you have to do is drop by OLO and you find the.....
» 9/05/2016 7:19:15 PM Election 2016: Reserve Bank worried about negative gearing, capital gains tax concessions .....
» 3/05/2016 8:50:51 AM Suse, The rate of current warming is so rapid - change like this has happened before but.....
» 2/05/2016 10:21:31 PM I'm not as pessimistic as Nathan...but Suse...."Climate has changed regularly in our .....
» 2/05/2016 10:12:23 AM Luciferase, In that case, don't address me then...it's fairly simple really. ..... http.....
» 2/05/2016 9:19:55 AM SM, "The whole point of negative gearing is that if you can't make a profit on the r.....
» 2/05/2016 8:00:49 AM otb, "Heh, heh, for a boy you are big girls blouse. That distinct pear-shape, the hi.....
» 2/05/2016 7:00:51 AM Luciferase, I will debate how it suits me, thank you very much : ) For someone whose sty.....
» 1/05/2016 9:25:38 PM o sung wu, What an experience that must have been - I imagine many gents would have visit.....
» 1/05/2016 8:18:04 PM rehctub, ".....what incentives are there for the investor to buy the new home?".....
» 1/05/2016 4:01:06 PM SM, "...And with the price of existing housing falling, the incentive to build will .....
» 1/05/2016 1:49:09 PM "Government should be designing public toilets so that entry and exit does not requir.....
» 1/05/2016 11:09:19 AM rehctub, "Gee you will have to do better than that Poirot, that thread was about two.....
» 1/05/2016 10:22:53 AM rehctub, "Why on earth would one do such a stupid thing, unless the rent covers the .....
» 1/05/2016 10:05:17 AM rehctub, "Poirot. I have communicated with Saul via email,however, once I put my cas.....
» 1/05/2016 5:43:06 AM Hasbeen, The reason I always cite "higher authority" like Koukoulas and Eslake .....
» 30/04/2016 9:03:55 PM I do recall the great economist, rehctub, also rejected Saul Eslake's opinion on negative .....
» 30/04/2016 8:58:33 PM Luciferase, I referenced Stephen Koukoulas - who knows a bit more than random characters .....
» 30/04/2016 3:19:08 PM "The modelling and analysis you quote was aimed at figuring how Labor could get its n.....
» 30/04/2016 1:30:39 PM SM, Those figures were in reply to rehctub and his mantra...I explained that when I poste.....
» 30/04/2016 10:18:21 AM rehctub, Do you recall Hockey practically daring the car manufacturers to bugger off? Do.....
» 30/04/2016 10:01:36 AM rehctub, ".....labors [sic] past attempt at running the country was nothing short of.....
» 30/04/2016 9:09:34 AM rehctub, Lol!...yes a few "typos" - I apologise. My point to you was that mine.....
» 30/04/2016 8:27:45 AM "The first problem is why does Labor need a new tax." Lol!...nice try, otb, str.....
» 29/04/2016 6:50:14 PM Thanks Bazz, Not forgetting the nearly 600 mega-companies that pay no tax - we wouldn't w.....
» 29/04/2016 4:15:00 PM Luciferase, "NG is a pathway for the mum's and dads to have a flutter.." ".....
» 29/04/2016 11:34:54 AM "...His effort with Leigh Sales was not his best." That's the understatement of.....
» 29/04/2016 8:12:33 AM Explain this guys... "House prices cannot rise faster than incomes indefinitely, but.....
» 29/04/2016 6:43:48 AM rehctub, "This is why this brain fart policy is flawed. It will back fire and hurt t.....
» 28/04/2016 3:44:25 PM Furthermore... "The report addresses not just negative gearing but also the forgotte.....
» 28/04/2016 3:33:31 PM Luciferase, "If "It does not say house prices would drop", Poirot, what is.....
» 28/04/2016 9:57:37 AM "But independent modelling shows there will be "significant" long-term savi.....
» 28/04/2016 7:26:44 AM Luciferase, Geez - thanks for that, but the overall picture from Daley is that there woul.....
» 27/04/2016 7:04:04 AM rehctub, "We have simply allowed ourselves to become a soft target for public purse .....
» 27/04/2016 6:16:26 AM Kirby483, "Firstly , if you alter the tax advantages of owning a investment property.....
» 25/04/2016 10:00:01 AM Is Mise, And you're not particularly interested in the fact that a river encircled by CSG.....
» 23/04/2016 8:54:31 AM rehctub, "Poirot, the most important point has been made there was the fact that dol.....
» 23/04/2016 3:55:39 AM o sung wu, What a sensitive post - thank you. I'll take your advice on board. Right now .....
» 23/04/2016 3:38:04 AM Hasbeen, "As for spelling, I don't give a damn. I am interested in what is being sai.....
» 22/04/2016 7:56:25 AM Thanks, Hasbeen and Suse, More kindness!....really I am blown away by it. Everywhere I l.....
» 22/04/2016 7:38:33 AM rehctub, Since you are critiquing qualities and appearances in other people, it's relevan.....
» 21/04/2016 2:13:07 PM Thank you all. The thing is that during all this we've experienced so much kindness. It i.....
» 21/04/2016 11:02:50 AM Bit of an update... My mum passed away last Friday. Her funeral is tomorrow. The thing .....
» 21/04/2016 8:50:44 AM rehctub, I probably wouldn't employ someone with rats tails and a bull ring through their.....
» 21/04/2016 7:40:55 AM o sung wu, Suse and otb have given good advice. I would also suggest that daily you give.....
» 20/04/2016 6:17:15 PM Suse, The federal Nats had precisely zilch input in the implementation of Royalties For R.....
» 20/04/2016 5:50:34 AM Suse, "Turnbull and Co will win the election, and the Nationals will ensure we get o.....
» 14/04/2016 6:49:19 AM rehctub, "There is also suggestion that employers should hold a secure bank account .....
» 14/04/2016 6:32:39 AM SM, How about showing a bit of due diligence? As Saul Eslake points out: "If the a.....
» 13/04/2016 6:48:27 PM SM, "Secondly, if banning negative gearing is such a wonderful idea, then why did Ke.....
» 13/04/2016 11:53:34 AM "An independent think tank has described as "manifestly ridiculous" a repor.....
» 9/04/2016 8:36:14 PM sonofgloin, We have a "Net" debt to GDP ratio of around 17% (16.9 last figure I.....
» 9/04/2016 8:13:37 PM Thanks, folks...much appreciated. SM, Yes, I know that parental concern well. Instinctiv.....
» 9/04/2016 10:14:39 AM SM, Foxy, Yep...I purposely didn't pursue the detail of the story - thanks SM for summari.....
» 9/04/2016 10:02:44 AM Good one, Bugsy : ) On the strength of that, my teenager has bookmarked the survey to do .....
» 8/04/2016 9:24:44 PM Hi mkarsikko, What he means is that you are unlikely to find gamers on this site. Most p.....
» 8/04/2016 3:40:52 PM otb, "However the Greens don't think there is anything wrong where one of their own .....
» 7/04/2016 1:47:16 PM I'll just add, Yabby, that I'm always entertained by your little pre-emptive starters - th.....
» 7/04/2016 1:42:39 PM Yabby, ".... The bit of cable up your road can be done later, there is no rush...&qu.....
» 7/04/2016 10:21:16 AM Yabby, "Haha Poirot, you are clearly unable to differentiate your deep hatred of MT,.....
» 7/04/2016 9:04:45 AM "... or someone who has achieved something outside of politics as the figurehead for .....
» 5/04/2016 8:39:13 PM The great thing about twitter is you can block people who you find repugnant - so you don'.....
» 5/04/2016 5:01:51 PM Yabby, We have differing opinions on Turnbull....I've heard exactly the things you are sa.....
» 5/04/2016 3:07:34 PM Yabby, "He is Prime Minister of Australia. Not bad for somebody whom you claim to be.....
» 5/04/2016 12:58:32 PM Yabby, Turnbull didn't suggest a proposal to honour the IPA's wishlist because he had a g.....
» 5/04/2016 12:49:42 PM Seems runner is happy to see little kids behind barbed wire - with the notion that we have.....
» 5/04/2016 10:48:52 AM Can I also add, Yabby... That Turnbull's states tax was not "thinking outside the bo.....
» 5/04/2016 10:13:33 AM Paul, "...Who is Malcolm's political adviser? Lucy." That's not far from the t.....
» 5/04/2016 10:02:47 AM Yabby, "You might well think that, but I would note that you are unlikely to be a hu.....
» 5/04/2016 8:47:58 AM "Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has ceded the Coalition's lead in an opinion poll fo.....
» 5/04/2016 8:28:57 AM Paul, Yes, I agree that Turnbull doesn't command enough power to stamp his authority. Ya.....
» 5/04/2016 7:52:09 AM Suse, You are right - that is the title of the thread. And you've been saying all along t.....
» 4/04/2016 10:26:11 PM Newspoll: Malcolm Turnbull, Coalition lose lead to Labor "The Coalition has surrende.....
» 4/04/2016 10:24:05 PM And apparently I'm not the only one who thinks so.... "The Coalition has surrendered.....
» 4/04/2016 10:11:48 PM Yabby, Nitpicking, eh.... This "entrepreneur" waves around a new idea every se.....
» 4/04/2016 5:26:13 PM Link to the above. http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-04-04/about-90-children-to-be-returned.....
» 4/04/2016 5:23:40 PM This will thrill you even more, Hasbeen, "About 90 asylum seeker children in Austral.....
» 4/04/2016 4:57:07 PM Hasbeen, "Did you actually read rehctub's post Poirot? He is saying that all this w.....
» 4/04/2016 4:44:56 PM Settle down, Hasbeen.... You can rest assured that Dastardly Dutton has merely pulled a s.....
» 4/04/2016 1:19:45 PM SM, Labor's negative gearing policy is an actual policy...backed by independent modelling.....
» 4/04/2016 10:48:04 AM Can I just add, rehctub...that Turnbull's "cunning" idea didn't even make it to .....
» 4/04/2016 10:26:22 AM rehctub, "...(very cunningly I might add)...." Oh yes.....about as cunning as .....
» 4/04/2016 10:13:33 AM Paul, Mal better get on with it....the trajectory of his popularity is still heading sout.....
» 4/04/2016 5:21:37 AM "Well Poirot, I remain secure in the knowledge that my apparent 'love' for Turnbull w.....
» 3/04/2016 8:43:00 PM SM, "Look at this interview with MT. He accepts that the States tax is dead...".....
» 3/04/2016 5:12:33 PM What a surreal thread! I've got Foxy telling me that Mal needs to be given more time to s.....
» 3/04/2016 1:48:02 PM Suse, They all thought the same thing? By "all", I presume you're referring to.....
» 3/04/2016 1:01:47 PM Foxy, Suse, Just point out that Turnbull's latest folly is not "reform". Far f.....
» 3/04/2016 12:56:01 PM SM, "Are left whingers so seriously naive as to think that MT on becoming PM was goi.....
» 3/04/2016 12:29:41 PM Yes, Suse....as a matter of fact, I do think Mal suggested these tax reforms with no thoug.....
» 3/04/2016 8:57:21 AM SM, "Are left whingers so seriously naive as to think that MT on becoming PM was goi.....
» 2/04/2016 9:36:45 PM Dennis Shanahan in the Australian tearing strips off Turnbull over the tax shambles - whil.....
» 2/04/2016 8:07:30 PM Yes, Paul - one assumes Abbott is trotting about as default PM because he thinks he's goin.....
» 2/04/2016 5:04:23 PM Thanks, Foxy...will look at it soon. I don't believe anyone could blame me for being flab.....
» 2/04/2016 10:03:00 AM If we get to the nitty gritty of my disagreement with Foxy and Suse on Malcolm's performan.....
» 2/04/2016 8:37:43 AM rehctub, "Mr waffle needs some spelling lessons, he needs to understand his spelling.....
» 1/04/2016 11:14:55 PM Here's the irrepressible Turnbull calling a "media event" to have cameras film h.....
» 1/04/2016 10:06:18 PM Hasbeen, "God how we need Trump, Abbott, [with a bit of steel grafted into his backb.....
» 1/04/2016 4:08:40 PM Foxy, Donging knights and dames on the head is a minor act by Turnbull. It was so ridicul.....
» 1/04/2016 11:27:37 AM Suse, "Poirot, there is nothing 'wafty' about what Foxy or myself have said, it is j.....
» 1/04/2016 10:24:26 AM I'll just add that Turnbull the "consultative" PM doesn't even appear to "c.....
» 1/04/2016 10:20:26 AM Foxy, I wasn't so much offended as bemused. "As for Malcolm Turnbull - he also sho.....
» 1/04/2016 9:06:19 AM Suse, "So, what does that say about Willie Shorten and his crowd then? Not much..&q.....
» 31/03/2016 7:33:11 PM Foxy, You posted a few posts about the govt's optimistic take on its slogan du jour - and.....
» 31/03/2016 4:38:09 PM Foxy, I remarked that I had already seen it - and that I wasn't prepared to read it again.....
» 31/03/2016 9:57:44 AM Foxy, That's a puerile attitude. This is a discussion forum. You put up various pieces .....
» 31/03/2016 9:04:16 AM Here's a good one... "Malcolm Turnbull's education revolution: end federal support f.....
» 30/03/2016 9:16:07 PM Come on, Foxy. Why aren't you out here commenting on the Turnbull govt's latest brain exp.....
» 30/03/2016 8:44:19 PM SM, I do think Sanders is a hard sell for middle America - being that the US has always b.....
» 30/03/2016 4:45:41 PM Innovation! "Experts stunned by Turnbull's 'retrograde' tax plan" "Tax ex.....
» 30/03/2016 4:35:36 PM Thanks, Foxy...I have seen it before, and I'm not about to re-read the govt's vacuous waff.....
» 30/03/2016 11:30:27 AM Foxy, I've got to rush...however... The "innovation" ..."#ideasboom".....
» 30/03/2016 8:47:16 AM Foxy, "With this in mind Hillary included in her book voices that we don't hear ofte.....
» 30/03/2016 8:28:17 AM Here's an interesting article, pointing out that the rise of a man like Trump partially ri.....
» 30/03/2016 7:45:21 AM Indeed, Paul, I believe the alternative title to Wyatt Roy's role is: "Assistant M.....
» 29/03/2016 6:54:29 PM "It was an interesting discussion, particularly the moments dealing with innovation. .....
» 29/03/2016 3:39:40 PM SM, yada, yada, yada... Another day, another dodgy revelation.... "A second Turnbu.....
» 29/03/2016 11:15:11 AM Hillary is pretty much a generic product of party politics in the US. Backed by banking d.....
» 29/03/2016 10:52:37 AM SM, "You are even pathetic as a troll. With 100 future Labor MPs facing criminal cha.....
» 29/03/2016 10:13:23 AM Lol!...there's so much corruption being exposed in the Liberal Party that Shadow Minister .....
» 29/03/2016 8:08:15 AM But I have to say, Tony Abbott is proving almost as entertaining as a "backbencher&qu.....
» 29/03/2016 8:00:11 AM otb, Lol!....who's calling his fellow posters "automatons" This is the poster .....
» 29/03/2016 7:49:13 AM Right on, JF Aus, Hasbeen says: "I gather you think the world would be a better pla.....
» 28/03/2016 10:32:17 PM Hasbeen, "JF Aus, everyone actually believed the weapons were there...." Which.....
» 28/03/2016 6:07:59 PM otb, The dept of Finance is responsible for office fit outs for federal parliamentarians......
» 28/03/2016 1:53:42 AM SM, "I had never realised that boat people and jay walkers were corrupt. With your n.....
» 27/03/2016 2:58:54 PM Paul, Listen up!... SM is schooling you on the difference between "corruption".....
» 27/03/2016 10:27:12 AM Oh, and... Trump's line: "....Trump even suggested that he would not rule out going .....
» 27/03/2016 10:08:36 AM SM, Here's another great angle on the brilliant out-manoeuvring Trump... Trump refuses t.....
» 27/03/2016 8:18:24 AM Fair enough, SM....you admire his out manoevering capabilities. To me, Trump is a bit lik.....
» 27/03/2016 7:40:11 AM SM, As one of our very own radical right-wingers, it's unsurprising that you would suppor.....
» 26/03/2016 4:58:43 PM Mr Opinion, "....So in this context the idea of Trump constructing a Fortress Americ.....
» 26/03/2016 11:00:00 AM otb, "You are right that Trump would be infinitely better than Hillary Clinton, who .....
» 26/03/2016 10:49:21 AM "I think Americans will select Trump as president because they believe he will be the.....
» 26/03/2016 10:38:52 AM "Trump is the only person to put America back on track after the wrecking of the trul.....
» 26/03/2016 10:20:56 AM Having said, Trump is only one of the two radical right-wing lunatics still in the running.....
» 26/03/2016 10:08:31 AM I'm not a particular fan of Hillary Clinton, but SM is correct that the centre wins the el.....
» 26/03/2016 9:56:19 AM SM, "Even ICAC has recognised that circumventing donation laws while illegal is not .....
» 26/03/2016 9:15:33 AM Hey, Foxy, Bit of a hurry at the moment...but saw this piece on Conservatism and it freak.....
» 25/03/2016 5:46:09 PM Update: My new favourite line: "All I can say to you is: if you need to post how ha.....
» 25/03/2016 2:31:27 PM Hi Kiddies...great thread! This is my favourite line so far: "....Foxy was using it.....
» 23/03/2016 9:22:43 PM Lol!...talking of corruption. "The NSW Liberal party has been slammed by election fu.....
» 20/03/2016 12:52:42 PM Suse, Yes....you'd think so. However, if we're upholding the integrity of our system of .....
» 20/03/2016 8:10:50 AM Suse, "I think this Bill will help weed out most of those mad little political parti.....
» 16/03/2016 7:10:43 PM rehctub, Gawd! - you're a whinger. You lucked out and got born in a first world country......
» 16/03/2016 6:29:39 PM Suse, Indeed.... : ).....
» 16/03/2016 2:44:31 PM "More BS forum bait from the game playing Poirot. -Who would have already checked and.....
» 16/03/2016 12:05:27 PM Lol!... All the ingredients of week-old otb stew. fembots useful idiots womyn Emily's.....
» 16/03/2016 10:12:49 AM runner, You certainly chose your handle well on this forum : ).....
» 16/03/2016 10:09:36 AM Saltpetre, "....for the election of such as the Motoring Enthusiast representative, .....
» 16/03/2016 8:21:43 AM rehctub, "As for the mining boom starting in 2005,as you have stated, it ended in 20.....
» 15/03/2016 8:43:00 PM otb, "It is telling that along with Suseonline you would be defending and promoting .....
» 15/03/2016 8:13:07 PM rehctub, Until you can give mea dollar figure for the Abbott/Turnbull regimes floating an.....
» 15/03/2016 8:03:53 PM Hasbeen, ".... but lock in spending on ridiculous "causes', while undoing many .....
» 15/03/2016 8:21:04 AM It's interesting how, in discussing feminism, which really is about women being accommodat.....
» 15/03/2016 8:04:54 AM rehctub, "As for middle class welfare, what, do you expect these people to work hard.....
» 14/03/2016 11:17:42 PM You know what, runner? I'm always mightily entertained by fundamentalist religious clowns.....
» 14/03/2016 9:53:23 AM SM, Au contraire...I didn't give that blather of yours on the Gillard govt more than a mo.....
» 14/03/2016 8:53:13 AM rehctub, "Poirot, the basket case I was referring to was the wonderful economy the l.....
» 13/03/2016 9:46:07 PM SM, "So how did Juliar's policies of "No carbon tax under a government I lead&q.....
» 13/03/2016 8:36:36 PM Lol! - Armchair makes otb's rants look like a class act. What a smutty little mind he dem.....
» 13/03/2016 8:29:43 PM Aidan, I'm contemptuous because that's a reasonable stand when dealing with Conservative .....
» 13/03/2016 8:06:42 PM rehctub, "Poirot, imagine where we might be had the billions in stimulus been spent .....
» 13/03/2016 2:00:06 PM SM, "Any policies on the way? - Senate reform and ABCC" Lol! I meant somethin.....
» 13/03/2016 1:52:24 PM SM, It must be so galling to you to watch the fed LNP undergoing precisely the same inter.....
» 13/03/2016 8:08:39 AM rehctub, "I have stated many times over that the idea of the stimulus was not a prob.....
» 12/03/2016 5:26:54 PM SM, "Let's try and forget your amnesia over the Rudd/Juliar/Rudd Labor/greens govern.....
» 12/03/2016 10:16:17 AM Applause, otb, One was surmising that you managed to restrain yourself quite fulsomely as.....
» 12/03/2016 8:31:19 AM ...and further, rehctub, I do love the way you conservative commentators conveniently ign.....
» 12/03/2016 8:25:30 AM rehctub, "These incompetent fools were hopelessly floundering from one stuff up to t.....
» 12/03/2016 8:12:00 AM "Both the electorates of Lynne and New England are conservative with combined totals .....
» 11/03/2016 6:06:34 PM Lol!....hold onto yer hats, folks! It's all a Marxist plot.....with "code"! ot.....
» 11/03/2016 1:31:55 PM rehctub, "As long as the threat of a return to a union puppet party like labour exis.....
» 11/03/2016 10:46:42 AM Hi Suse, Albeit, Turnbull's rhetoric is easier on the ear than Abbott's was. But Turnbul.....
» 11/03/2016 10:41:05 AM ttbn, However Barnaby's support of the shambolic Abbott and the vacuous Turnbull are...? .....
» 11/03/2016 8:39:43 AM Hi Suse, I think you and I can discuss Turnbull without too much rancour. Can you tell m.....
» 10/03/2016 5:59:17 PM "Listening to Malcolm Turnbull banging on about his plan for us to be innovators, say.....
» 10/03/2016 2:46:14 PM runner, Windsor sold it because the miners were going to mine his land regardless. Land o.....
» 10/03/2016 2:29:12 PM SM, You also conveniently overlook Greg Hunt's decision to allow Shenhua to build its dir.....
» 10/03/2016 1:58:12 PM SM, "Where Barnaby got 54% of the vote in his own right with Labor getting 11.9% and.....
» 10/03/2016 10:27:28 AM Pauline is back? Where? Last time she received any significant air time was to encourage.....
» 10/03/2016 9:55:59 AM Lol! Good old otb. He's regaled us for many years with the most ferocious criticisms of f.....
» 10/03/2016 9:07:12 AM SM, You appear to be equating the 1980s with the zeitgeist earlier in the century. The 1.....
» 9/03/2016 3:18:26 PM SM, Pell, during his recent testimony, told of a student that reported abuse to "him.....
» 9/03/2016 10:56:48 AM phanto, The "pontifical secret" is designed to guarantee that the tip of the ic.....
» 9/03/2016 10:09:52 AM ttbn, May I remind you that you informed me that "ttbn" was an acronym for &quo.....
» 9/03/2016 10:02:36 AM ttbn, When is something considered..."systemic"? When there is an ongoing and .....
» 8/03/2016 2:08:03 PM And here's more... "How in the world a Marxist-inspired experiment in social reengin.....
» 8/03/2016 1:47:22 PM "The obvious deficiency of this thread is that it is aimed at and has largely been re.....
» 8/03/2016 9:55:47 AM phanto, "If you have a problem with his moral behaviour then you should take it up w.....
» 7/03/2016 10:41:44 PM phanto, "What an ignorant comment! What has celibacy got to do with pedophelia?".....
» 7/03/2016 8:47:40 PM One assumes that Pell was acting in accordance with canon law when he turned a blind eye t.....
» 7/03/2016 6:53:32 PM phanto, Your musings are becoming weirder and weirder. What do we make of statements lik.....
» 7/03/2016 12:18:56 PM runner, George "It's a sad story and it wasn't of much interest to me" Pell sli.....
» 7/03/2016 11:48:02 AM Foxy, I think Pell is a gutless, lying enabler...however, we need to take into account th.....
» 6/03/2016 12:33:18 AM Excellent, phanto! You've surpassed my wildest expectations with your latest garbled exce.....
» 5/03/2016 10:46:20 PM phanto, "If you say I was only motivated by homophobia then why would I be intereste.....
» 5/03/2016 9:15:24 PM Come on, phanto.... I'll rephrase the question, shall I? Are you intending to demonise t.....
» 5/03/2016 8:01:29 PM phanto, ".... In the other thread I was talking about the manipulation of the kid wh.....
» 5/03/2016 8:56:31 AM ".....Society might have come a long way in protecting the rights of homosexual peopl.....
» 4/03/2016 9:46:12 PM phanto, "It was a simple question really – why do you feel the need to hurt people o.....
» 4/03/2016 6:10:25 PM Yeah, thanks, Loudy.... You're such a clever vegemite, I can hardly stand it. You'll hav.....
» 4/03/2016 5:08:40 PM phanto, That's quite an impressive post. That post is akin to the actions of the swagger.....
» 4/03/2016 11:37:58 AM runner, Take my advice and get your head out of the sewer. There's so much more to the w.....
» 4/03/2016 10:01:33 AM Josephus, More weirdness... "...Boys do not have periods and girls seek privacy dur.....
» 3/03/2016 11:57:00 PM "not when regressives want to groom and pervert young kids" Keep it up, runner......
» 3/03/2016 11:30:03 PM "Why do we need to know that this kid is homosexual? "What difference does it ma.....
» 3/03/2016 11:18:08 PM "Yeah Poirot does not think teaching 11 year old girls about anal sex is not creepy a.....
» 3/03/2016 10:22:07 PM How many hours later? And Josephus is still banging on and indulging his fixation on gend.....
» 3/03/2016 4:48:51 PM OTB, "You must be directing that comment at Roz Ward, the manager and co-founder of .....
» 3/03/2016 10:04:48 AM Joe, "So the question remains: once the institutions of capitalism have been torn do.....
» 3/03/2016 8:22:44 AM Lol!...otb trundling along on the Marxist bandwagon. "So "Safe areas" is a.....
» 2/03/2016 7:58:38 PM phanto, ".... Being discriminated against by favouring special groups should be outl.....
» 2/03/2016 6:24:45 PM phanto, "Yes there is a wider program, a generic program if you like but it seems th.....
» 2/03/2016 4:59:11 PM phanto, "Foxy: So you have been sick but you have been well enough to post quite a .....
» 2/03/2016 4:49:00 PM phanto, Make up your mind... "It is obvious by the fact that they have created a sp.....
» 2/03/2016 4:13:40 PM Jayb, "Poirot: while allowing the regressives free reign to sprout their bigotry was.....
» 2/03/2016 4:07:00 PM Safe Schools was launched "by the Abbott administration" in 2014. Here's what Sc.....
» 2/03/2016 9:59:25 AM Joe, "You suggest that ".... Employing that logic, one assumes Armchair thinks .....
» 2/03/2016 9:13:03 AM Lol!...nothing changes around here! There's Armchair whatever telling us: "Why shou.....
» 1/03/2016 8:04:37 PM Au contraire, runner, "Ms Saint Poirot who loves to dishes it out and spits the dumm.....
» 1/03/2016 6:56:19 PM runner, What are my "perverted views"? You are typical of your fundie ilk. You.....
» 1/03/2016 5:22:55 PM runner, "....The constant interuptions to Mr Shelton while allowing the regressives .....
» 1/03/2016 4:54:08 PM phanto, You have a right to go off on a tangent on this subject - and I have a right to p.....
» 1/03/2016 4:41:57 PM phanto, What is wrong with any of this? It is called argument...." It's not called .....
» 29/02/2016 11:26:25 PM phanto, The young person was bullied - he obviously has some psychological trauma to deal.....
» 29/02/2016 8:14:01 PM o sung wu, My reply was only made the other day, quite sometime after you posted on the t.....
» 29/02/2016 12:19:17 PM Hi o sung wu, I eventually caught up with your earlier post concerning me on another thre.....
» 29/02/2016 12:15:51 PM Foxy, Good post. "....And why didn't the mother take her son out of that school? Bu.....
» 29/02/2016 10:30:34 AM phanto, ".... If we care about bullying of kids in schools then we should care about.....
» 29/02/2016 10:09:57 AM What a charming thread.... ttbn, "...Most of us are neither bullies or victims, and.....
» 26/02/2016 3:09:05 PM Oops....Brough's just walked the plank. ...and Turnbull's assured us that he has complete.....
» 23/02/2016 8:33:16 PM o sung wu, Howdy... I appear to have turned up again over on another thread - gung-ho, a.....
» 23/02/2016 7:17:13 PM It is interesting that Hasbeen and I criticise Turnbull. Hasbeen is a Abbott man and woul.....
» 23/02/2016 5:08:37 PM Foxy, I'm not the only one to find Turnbull wanting...it's becoming increasingly obvious .....
» 21/02/2016 6:00:30 PM Yo Foxy, I don't wish to argue with you either...you're one of most genuine and charming .....
» 21/02/2016 1:48:10 PM Yeah...scintillating stuff, "otb" Now I wonder why you're ducking for cover aga.....
» 21/02/2016 1:28:29 PM "onthebeach" "So you blame Abbott for the dozens of your posts lauding Mal.....
» 21/02/2016 12:56:36 PM Oh hello onthebeach, I see you haven't bothered answering my earlier enquiry as to why yo.....
» 21/02/2016 12:42:38 PM Foxy, "Dear Poirot, Not sure about the "fairy stories." However, Joe Hoc.....
» 21/02/2016 11:36:50 AM Foxy, This: "There are quite a few people who are happy to support the Liberal camp.....
» 21/02/2016 10:06:57 AM "Historically social governments spend and conservative governments save. The savings.....
» 20/02/2016 9:44:19 PM rehtub, Lol!...yeah, I'm working up to it. But let's cut to the chase. You want some fi.....
» 20/02/2016 5:49:54 PM Foxy, I too live in a safe Liberal seat - we have good amenities too, Just on Suse's poi.....
» 20/02/2016 12:02:38 PM otb, Jeepers! - that sounds very formal! You are a doozy. As you well know, my brief fo.....
» 20/02/2016 11:15:40 AM otb, "....They are all very, very average Mums&Dads aspirational investors who live .....
» 20/02/2016 10:17:37 AM Hi Foxy, Yes we have...and I think you can understand why I'm gobsmacked at Suse's appare.....
» 19/02/2016 6:00:36 PM Yes, Hi Juca - hope you enjoy posting here. Actually this is quite a coincidence. You're .....
» 19/02/2016 1:38:37 PM Foxy, Fair enough, we'll see. Suse, "I can't believe that Poirot is not more pleas.....
» 19/02/2016 1:02:36 PM otb, Oh excellent! I love this: "You are shamelessly one-eyed and unreasonable in .....
» 19/02/2016 12:05:12 PM I'll just add, Suse, that I recall you telling us before the last election that you though.....
» 19/02/2016 11:55:26 AM So be it, Suse... I tended to figure that a commentator like youself would look beyond th.....
» 19/02/2016 10:52:36 AM otb, "First, your attempts at blokey language (what for?) always fail..." Lol!.....
» 19/02/2016 10:11:52 AM Hi Foxy, You do see my puzzlement, I'm sure. Turnbull does not have a big moderate power.....
» 19/02/2016 6:59:02 AM Suse, I know I've come on strong on this, but you have to understand that I found it star.....
» 18/02/2016 6:27:50 PM George, "Let me finish with the story I already told you about my physics teacher (w.....
» 18/02/2016 4:09:44 PM Foxy, Yes, I understand why you believe Malcolm is a "success". You believe he.....
» 18/02/2016 11:12:46 AM Suse, "I think Barnaby Joyce may just make the difference in this alliance and hopef.....
» 18/02/2016 8:53:35 AM Hi Suse, You'll have to excuse my rant, but really I can't leave you and Foxy alone for a.....
» 17/02/2016 11:29:49 PM Isn't if fascinating that I pop off for a while, Mr Suave takes govt - and Foxy's coming o.....
» 17/02/2016 9:28:22 PM Gawd..I just read yours and Suse's comments lauding Turnbull. While I respect your opinio.....
» 17/02/2016 9:19:23 PM Foxy, Turnbull is a waffling puff of hot air. Can you name me anything he has uttered tha.....
» 2/02/2016 10:32:40 AM Paul, I suspect the memory bank may be full regarding otb's penchant to outrage a thread .....
» 1/02/2016 10:28:58 PM Lol! "$100m buying the materialistic, self-serving, educated middle class leftist el.....
» 25/12/2015 2:08:42 AM Hi Foxy, Sorry to hear you've been through such trauma - but good to know you're making p.....
» 1/12/2015 10:27:23 AM Houellie, While I take your point on definitions...the bit you couldn't connect earlier w.....
» 30/11/2015 5:49:14 PM ttbn, "Are you incapable of reading anything? The ALA will appeal to a wide range of.....
» 29/11/2015 9:19:53 PM sonofgloin, "Dear Poirot, what debate? I gave you four scenarios and asked if they w.....
» 29/11/2015 6:34:00 PM Banjo, Yes, I surmise that both majors were a little shell-shocked at Hanson's meteoric p.....
» 29/11/2015 5:25:27 PM sonofgloin, "If Sharia comes in you will end up dressed in a sack..............lolol.....
» 29/11/2015 4:50:56 PM sonofgloin, "Ignorance and bigotry evident on forums such as this Poirot?" Yup.....
» 29/11/2015 2:04:31 PM 579, "The ALA will appeal to the far right extremists in society. This has come abou.....
» 28/11/2015 8:28:17 AM Cont'd "What’s more surprising is how many of these deaths occur in the home, at the.....
» 28/11/2015 8:19:30 AM Is Mise, There's no accounting for societal stupidity - as I write this, some loon is bus.....
» 27/11/2015 2:25:40 PM Hi Houellie, "'.but we can't lose sight of the fact that for more than half of the c.....
» 27/11/2015 1:45:33 PM otb, "Because in this thread alone there have been 'false' Poirots and 'false' Suseo.....
» 27/11/2015 12:46:48 PM otb, "The NSW Assistant Police Commissioner said that any victim of crime deserves a.....
» 27/11/2015 8:34:35 AM Spot on, Suse. otb, Nice try, but Jennifer's article merely reported verbatim Q&A's disc.....
» 26/11/2015 6:13:09 PM otb, Notwithstanding Arndt's fevered attempt to defend her hobby horse and spray around h.....
» 26/11/2015 2:55:45 PM Here's some actual coroner's statistics from NSW - or will you and Bettina think they're d.....
» 26/11/2015 2:38:57 PM Otb, "The slanted, sometimes outright fraudulent research and advice being proffered.....
» 26/11/2015 10:51:15 AM Cont'd... http://www.dailylife.com.au/news-and-views/dl-opinion/the-one-in-three-claim-ab.....
» 26/11/2015 10:44:47 AM Can we have some details concerning Arndt's: "....Over 1700 articles in peer-reviewed.....
» 26/11/2015 8:44:23 AM otb, "You are up to your same shabby tricks again. You are perfectly aware that quot.....
» 26/11/2015 12:33:31 AM otb, "No-one has made a case for discrimination against male victims. Although there.....
» 25/11/2015 9:10:18 PM otb, "Bettina November 21, 2015 at 3:19 pm # "You are deliberately misunderstan.....
» 25/11/2015 2:45:57 PM ROFL!...can't go past otb's hysterical outburst at Suse. "It is a judgement of you a.....
» 25/11/2015 2:35:12 PM otb, "You are aware the quote was not mine. It was from Bettina Arndt's article. Fal.....
» 25/11/2015 1:32:16 PM Suse, otb says: "Most children growing up in violent homes are cowering not just fro.....
» 8/11/2015 9:06:30 AM Lol!...david f. Well, that explains it...you are a respectful poster. Sorry for calling .....
» 8/11/2015 8:31:43 AM David f, Shadow Minister said: "....A civil discussion must be conducted with respe.....
» 7/11/2015 11:15:09 AM "Having a degree in economics confers neither wisdom nor knowledge nor insight nor co.....
» 6/11/2015 4:29:47 PM phanto, I was willing to give your stuff a bit of credence...yet...you've now gone right .....
» 6/11/2015 10:47:02 AM Yuyutsu, So what you mean is that people (if they are so inclined) seek a path to the &qu.....
» 6/11/2015 10:04:30 AM "I cannot enlighten you, how less so against your own inclinations: if you want to be.....
» 6/11/2015 8:36:24 AM Yuyutsu wrote: "....Whichever religion you choose, the path to God starts with restr.....
» 5/11/2015 10:52:46 PM phanto, "....Why do they enter relationships in the first place when it is so danger.....
» 5/11/2015 10:10:23 PM phanto, "There is something seriously wrong with these women that no amount of re-en.....
» 5/11/2015 1:56:39 PM Roscop, "...If Rosie Batty is not talking about the restrictions placed on Greg Ande.....
» 4/11/2015 9:35:29 PM RObert, We all know that you were attempting to agree with Roscop in a sweeping fashion o.....
» 4/11/2015 5:12:11 PM SM, I kind of look forward to righties whipping out the excuses as to why the deficit wen.....
» 4/11/2015 11:07:30 AM rehctub, "Your choice I said but don't put the fox with the hens then cry wolf. It's.....
» 4/11/2015 10:14:57 AM Talking of "tactics", RObert... Your own tactics are a case in point. Of all th.....
» 4/11/2015 9:13:51 AM SM, "The RBA has just acknowledged that the economy is starting to recover. It takes.....
» 4/11/2015 8:46:42 AM RObert, "The tactics used by Poirot do get tiring. Pointing out to Roscop my concern.....
» 3/11/2015 10:10:11 PM Just to add that, yes, RObert, I understand that yo will protest that you were being ".....
» 3/11/2015 10:01:17 PM RObert,(and Roscop) "Roscop, while I agree with what I think the broader point you a.....
» 3/11/2015 9:37:10 PM Roscop, "Are you saying the restrictions and long period of no contact with his son .....
» 3/11/2015 7:50:33 PM Roscop, "I would say more material to Luke Batty's death is the fact that Rosie Batt.....
» 3/11/2015 5:56:17 PM "Whoops Poirot, everything from; -> In my posts I detail how forced hu <- to th.....
» 3/11/2015 4:37:59 PM SM, "You forget that the conveyor of lies that carried Abbott into office were those.....
» 3/11/2015 1:40:08 PM Bazz, ".... In my posts I detail how forced hurrying tactics; narrow minded, irrelev.....
» 3/11/2015 10:59:48 AM "SM, don't worry you have to get privileged access to reprogram a computer. Poirot wi.....
» 3/11/2015 10:12:27 AM Robert LePage, Smile : ).....
» 3/11/2015 8:44:15 AM SM, "I can sense the spittle on your monitor. I am afraid that you are so rabidly le.....
» 2/11/2015 4:43:02 PM SM, "I will also briefly entertain your attempt to divert the thread..." I was.....
» 2/11/2015 7:09:13 AM "The British FPTP voting system, combined with voluntary voting, means that candidate.....
» 31/10/2015 7:37:53 PM I can't say I disagree with anything in your last post, Emperor Julian. Australians have .....
» 31/10/2015 5:50:02 PM rehctub, "Ar Poirot, good old Saul. For an economist, assumably a clever man, to su.....
» 31/10/2015 3:10:05 PM "To make room for them, gaols are emptied of all people imprisoned for non-violent in.....
» 31/10/2015 8:19:50 AM Emperor Julian, "The basher lobby, abetted by gender-obsessed femmos with whom they .....
» 30/10/2015 12:31:54 PM Aidan, "Bazz, if Joe Hockey couldn't afford to pay his mortgage, I'm sure Labor woul.....
» 30/10/2015 11:45:20 AM Bazz, (Genuine question) What's your opinion of the stories circulating that Saudi Arabia.....
» 30/10/2015 11:27:08 AM David f, May happy returns for the big day from me too : ) Have to admire your insightfu.....
» 30/10/2015 10:56:14 AM Josephus, "In my world view you post a lot of nonsense...." Lol!....says the g.....
» 30/10/2015 10:14:02 AM rehctub, "Like it or not history shows that both the Rudd and Gillard governments re.....
» 30/10/2015 8:59:52 AM Just as a matter of interest, I want to back up this statement by Saul: "Rents did r.....
» 30/10/2015 8:46:40 AM rehctub, Nice to see you're back to your old self and castigating the lower orders - (of .....
» 30/10/2015 8:21:22 AM rehctub, "We will go into recession, but it will now be huge. Houses that were a few.....
» 29/10/2015 11:00:57 PM rehctub, "... Nor do I care for those who scam the system by needing a full time cat.....
» 29/10/2015 9:58:23 AM Aidan, "If we try to implement austerity then we may join other countries in the zer.....
» 29/10/2015 8:15:38 AM Josephus, "What do you mean by "establishing the absolute neutrality of the Sta.....
» 28/10/2015 11:33:43 PM rehctub, "You're wrong Poirot, I do give a toss. I give a toss about our kids leavi.....
» 28/10/2015 1:11:49 AM Roscop, Lol!...Miranda Devine - the well known Murdoch hack and hysterical right-wing zea.....
» 27/10/2015 10:03:02 PM Roscop, "Give us a break Jules. Huge sums of taxpayer dollars have been spent by fem.....
» 27/10/2015 7:04:38 PM Fascinating that I'm seeing an add on this thread with a woman half bent over a car in a p.....
» 27/10/2015 5:09:03 PM rehctub "Two words Poirot, Rudds mess, our present government is trying to deal with.....
» 27/10/2015 10:38:23 AM Roscop, "I'm baffled as to whether you've applied poor logic or female logic?" .....
» 27/10/2015 10:25:57 AM rehctub, What's your opinion of the govt dolling out $1.4 million "a day" to ab.....
» 27/10/2015 9:59:35 AM Joe and RObert, "[fourth post]" "Post limit is still going, I'm surprised.....
» 26/10/2015 5:55:29 PM "Suseonline and Poirot have consistently over a period of years worked to derail any .....
» 26/10/2015 4:46:23 PM Roscop, "...." Would have there been any medical evidence of these beatings or .....
» 26/10/2015 1:15:15 PM Roscop, "No surprise that. If you do more of the same why should you expect a differ.....
» 26/10/2015 10:51:44 AM Just saw this tweet...by a legal person on twitter. "Kon Karapanagiotidis @Kon__K .....
» 26/10/2015 10:12:42 AM Yes, JF Aus.... From the three fathers I know whose marriages broke down and who initiall.....
» 26/10/2015 8:52:23 AM LEGO, This thread is not about "multiculturalism". We, as an independent self-.....
» 26/10/2015 8:23:22 AM Roscop, "Actually the quote "If civilization had been left in female hands, we .....
» 25/10/2015 10:34:29 PM Thanks, Joe ".....You may find it hard to believe but we're not all like that.".....
» 25/10/2015 9:56:10 PM "Yeah, just like women nag more often. "If civilization had been left in female.....
» 25/10/2015 6:22:07 PM Correction: Should be: "How many Australians continue to classify their national id.....
» 25/10/2015 6:16:35 PM LEGO, "If you are claiming that the removal of the Queen, our historical head of sta.....
» 25/10/2015 9:06:37 AM Banjo Paterson, "I have no idea what prompted your scathing remarks and can only ima.....
» 24/10/2015 7:49:15 PM Back to topic, otb......
» 24/10/2015 7:35:10 PM otb, "-Especially doesn't require fixing by the chattering fools of the Twitterati.&.....
» 24/10/2015 7:08:23 PM otb, What an odd character you are...Lol! You're obviously more interested in trumpeting.....
» 24/10/2015 5:36:01 PM otb, So? What a weird reaction from you. I post an article written by the president on .....
» 24/10/2015 5:03:01 PM otb, "Poirot, So you were just educating your 'Suse' who may not have known?" .....
» 24/10/2015 3:03:46 PM otb, "It is mendacious, idiotic, to imply that child neglect and abuse, might be neg.....
» 24/10/2015 12:33:10 PM Suse, This.... http://amansw.com.au/news/articles/domestic-violence-too-many-kids-dying-.....
» 24/10/2015 12:08:39 PM otb, "There is nothing to be gained from playing the gender war...." ROFL! I .....
» 24/10/2015 8:29:18 AM Wow, LEGO, - that's quite a rant! Considering....the minimalist model proposed by Fitzy i.....
» 23/10/2015 2:51:24 PM "Poirot, 'It's Abbott, Abbott, Abbott'. Where is the patient Shadow Minister to play.....
» 23/10/2015 1:52:09 PM otb, Here's another saving now that Abbott has relocated to the backbench and world speak.....
» 23/10/2015 1:38:32 PM otb, who often pretends to be one who respects others on this forum and elsewhere, showing.....
» 23/10/2015 10:03:33 AM Suse...yup! I think I'll sit back here a while and see the reaction to Joe's last post. .....
» 23/10/2015 8:56:55 AM Hi Banjo - nice to catch up with you...as usual you're posting such reasonable measured di.....
» 23/10/2015 8:04:36 AM Having participated in a recent thread on this subject, I thought perhaps I'd give this on.....
» 21/10/2015 8:27:58 PM I'll also remind you, ttbn, that if anyone (including moi) gets too "nasty pasty".....
» 21/10/2015 8:23:00 PM ttbn, I usually respond in kind. It's been obvious from the moment you landed here that .....
» 21/10/2015 5:44:23 PM ttbn, "I don't think we are going to get what we want. The last time I asked for goo.....
» 21/10/2015 5:32:38 PM SM, "Parrot, I also saw your hero Kathy Jackson, (or is it Craig Thomson or Obeid?).....
» 20/10/2015 9:54:56 PM otb, "....you should be aware that any new commitments have to be made possible by c.....
» 20/10/2015 10:20:13 AM ttbn, Firstly, thanks for the apology. ".... However, you still haven't come up wit.....
» 20/10/2015 8:43:21 AM Hi SM, I'm a bit pressed for time this morning, but I just had to enquire as to whether y.....
» 20/10/2015 8:33:28 AM "....Go "back up the coast" and do what ever bogan things you do up there.&.....
» 19/10/2015 10:05:51 AM JF Aus, "What would it cost in dollars to cut the last apron string? Lol!...probabl.....
» 19/10/2015 8:59:24 AM ttbn, "Poirot, Unable to come up with a logical reason for Australia becoming a rep.....
» 18/10/2015 11:42:18 AM Yeah...Loudmouth, "Maybe I'm slow this morning, but how is the requirement to act in.....
» 18/10/2015 10:56:13 AM "<<Frankly, that's a bit silly.>> (that a republic would increase nationa.....
» 18/10/2015 10:13:19 AM JF Aus, "Poirot, that question is typically about nonsense. Like the idea of a repub.....
» 18/10/2015 8:58:23 AM JF Aus, "From a business and employment and prosperity point of view it was the Brit.....
» 18/10/2015 7:52:35 AM Yuyutsu, "Certainly not, Nathan! A republic would heighten the prevalence of nation.....
» 17/10/2015 10:40:53 PM ttbn, "... The Queen is a mere figure head who costs us nothing: the poms do the pay.....
» 17/10/2015 7:38:34 PM Wm Trevor, "I chose to blame anyone who is so hypocritical that the god they claim i.....
» 17/10/2015 6:53:25 PM I'll just leave this here.... "Christian evangelists are teaching students they shou.....
» 17/10/2015 6:38:01 PM Yes...the Republic issue is always termed a distraction whenever it arises. I think this .....
» 17/10/2015 6:16:36 PM Is Mise, "It is quite possible to believe in virgin birth in humans and for the beli.....
» 17/10/2015 8:58:49 AM runner, Yes, even a non-Biblical scholar like myself picked up the C.S. Lewis reference. .....
» 16/10/2015 9:35:08 PM runner, "' runner and other believers fill the void of knowledge with their faith........
» 16/10/2015 2:21:39 PM Loudmouth, My point being is that we don't know. And how we on this little blue dot we c.....
» 16/10/2015 1:25:11 PM runner, "They criticise the ressurection and then have the audacity to say the order.....
» 16/10/2015 8:52:17 AM Josephus, "We have to enter their mind's view and develop strategies that convert th.....
» 15/10/2015 5:29:03 PM "Melbourne's medicos remind us that the utilitarian politics behind our brutal asylum.....
» 15/10/2015 11:09:55 AM Jayb, I read the bottom of your post..."Deflection" Which, of course, is BS........
» 15/10/2015 8:56:46 AM That should be "horde"... (Grrrr - typos...).....
» 15/10/2015 8:52:35 AM Josephus, "... Wilberforce a devout Christian understood the scripture taught, ".....
» 14/10/2015 6:44:49 PM Lol!...I'll just add this - presuming Jayb will attempt to daub his usual rubbish in refer.....
» 14/10/2015 6:24:52 PM rehctub, "During my 20 plus years in business I have provided support to the tune of.....
» 14/10/2015 9:11:52 AM otb, "The Left fear Tony Abbott, because he is one of the few leaders in the West wh.....
» 13/10/2015 6:27:04 PM Lol!...Jayb...(what am I doing back here when I've got friends arriving for dinner in half.....
» 13/10/2015 5:08:59 PM "Answer them, if not for me for everyone else on OLO or the Forum. I'm sure they woul.....
» 13/10/2015 4:31:39 PM "Any time you want to answer my questions, poirot, I'm ready. Would you like for me t.....
» 13/10/2015 10:05:47 AM Bazz, "Oh Dear, the labour party computer is back ! Her decoding of messages is wors.....
» 13/10/2015 9:12:01 AM Tony Lavis, "Okay... can any of our resident tories explain why keeping children in .....
» 12/10/2015 8:03:40 PM Roscop, "Good on the conservatives for stopping the boats." Which, of course, .....
» 11/10/2015 11:05:08 PM butcher, "So Ms Hansen Young has jumped on the band wagon saying all children are su.....
» 11/10/2015 8:45:36 PM Nice little game of semantics, Josephus. Let's just settle for "bigots"....and .....
» 11/10/2015 12:24:04 AM Cherful, "By employing their own companies at least they can recoup some of the mone.....
» 11/10/2015 12:10:10 AM Cherful, You are so right. They paid out public money to knock Iraq down...and they paid.....
» 9/10/2015 10:23:13 PM Cherful, "I disagree with your suggestion that America is profiting By waging war. I.....
» 9/10/2015 6:17:19 PM Roscop, "Poirot is that because you don't want to be quoted in future and you want t.....
» 9/10/2015 11:59:44 AM Roscop, Here's a smattering.... "The legal process for obtaining an AVO is so caref.....
» 9/10/2015 10:24:46 AM otb, '... Or whether you would flex your rule depending on who is in the dock and who is .....
» 9/10/2015 7:58:04 AM Yes, Roscop, We were discussing Anderson's savagery. I can't put it any better than Sus.....
» 8/10/2015 9:41:54 PM RObert, Suse and I had just finished discussing Anderson and criticising Roscop for attem.....
» 8/10/2015 8:51:14 PM RObert, "I do though think a lot of the debate seems to assume that if someone is ho.....
» 8/10/2015 8:10:05 PM RObert, "I hope the point that Roscop is trying to make though is that hounding some.....
» 8/10/2015 6:40:18 PM Roscop, "BTW the Rosie Batty man blaming road show continues:...." Not on this.....
» 6/10/2015 7:08:45 PM otb, "You have offered no rebuttal at all. Nor could the feminists who attacked her .....
» 5/10/2015 7:41:30 PM Well there we have it, RObert, Mr Reasonable says: "I think it's been pretty well d.....
» 5/10/2015 7:32:42 PM Roscop, "Poirot, so "slurs" have become the red herrings in the discussion.....
» 5/10/2015 6:12:12 PM otb, Sorry, mate I don't comment on silly journalists with a line to push who employ term.....
» 5/10/2015 5:07:15 PM otb, "Feminists are so predictable: a woman columnist who disagrees with them is gui.....
» 5/10/2015 8:35:45 AM SM, "The reason that many liberal supporters are unhappy with the change in leadersh.....
» 5/10/2015 8:05:11 AM otb, "To break the intergenerational cycle of violence, I wrote that we need to “end.....
» 4/10/2015 11:00:47 AM Roscop, "...I'm interested in learning what makes her a "domestic violence expe.....
» 4/10/2015 8:58:22 AM "No your insecurities pertain to your aggression. Forthrightness is not aggression – .....
» 3/10/2015 10:40:19 PM phanto, "But yet here you are ‘up for it‘ yet again - aren’t you the brave one?".....
» 3/10/2015 10:10:20 PM otb, "Don't YOU have a son? If a mother cannot love her son enough to protect him fr.....
» 3/10/2015 9:55:42 PM phanto, "It has nothing to do with morals and everything to do with maintaining the .....
» 2/10/2015 4:21:07 PM Phanto, "None of those quotes you listed contain any hint of aggression..." I .....
» 1/10/2015 8:21:52 PM Tony Lavis, "So we're victim blaming now? Really?" I was responding to these k.....
» 1/10/2015 3:14:27 PM RObert, "Personally I think the focus on that part of my comments is yet more attemp.....
» 1/10/2015 1:36:25 PM phanto, We could be here all day playing with semantics, but I'm up for it if you are. I.....
» 1/10/2015 11:25:36 AM phanto, "I didn’t start a thread responding to Turnbull’s announcement but to the em.....
» 1/10/2015 1:33:29 AM Fair enough, gentlemen. It's pretty clear that there's a domestic violence problem. The .....
» 30/09/2015 9:33:49 PM RObert, "Looks like self serving humour and quotes." That First Dog strip will.....
» 30/09/2015 9:07:23 PM RObert, "Now it must be just about time for someone to point out that there are so f.....
» 30/09/2015 6:45:32 PM otb, "It is about greed. Feminist academics especially have a vested interest in co.....
» 29/09/2015 4:47:19 PM RObert, "Actually Poirot the original starting of the thread was not a demand that w.....
» 29/09/2015 8:35:43 AM RObert, Okay here is another parallel, using your black US demographic. If you recall re.....
» 28/09/2015 3:08:52 PM RObert, If you surmised I had missed your earlier link, then why didn't you direct me to .....
» 28/09/2015 12:37:22 PM RObert, "Have I missed the post(s) where you asked what the repeated mention of hist.....
» 28/09/2015 10:35:34 AM "Poirot, figures and references covering past years over a sustained period have been.....
» 28/09/2015 10:11:48 AM Tony Lavis, "Because based on some extrapolation from the most recent statistics I c.....
» 28/09/2015 8:54:49 AM Tony Lavis and RObert, I would like to see the figures - as I doubt that "20" w.....
» 27/09/2015 11:22:16 PM "fact that 66 women have "been" killed this year".....
» 27/09/2015 11:16:45 PM "So I guess we should just ignore all those female suicides, right Poirot?..." .....
» 27/09/2015 9:07:16 PM Yeah..since the thread began, the number of women killed in "domestic violence" .....
» 27/09/2015 12:52:04 PM "That is also where I depart company with some of the posters here, who believe that .....
» 27/09/2015 8:59:42 AM Here's an interesting take. The demise of Abbott has led to a bit a civil war at the Murd.....
» 27/09/2015 8:52:35 AM Armchair Critic, "So the governments going to throw 100 million at the problem?".....
» 26/09/2015 8:00:45 PM rehctub asks: "So what's all the fuss about with the libs changing leaders"? No.....
» 26/09/2015 8:15:01 AM otb, "Now feel free to bounce back with your usual fembot ad hominems." It's a.....
» 25/09/2015 3:03:35 PM "Science debunks the "women are the gentler sex" myth, finding they are mor.....
» 25/09/2015 1:10:10 AM ttbn, "...A good summary of Abbott. Two things in his favour, though: you knew what .....
» 24/09/2015 8:13:07 PM runner, "....Like Rudd he appears to need some ' moral ' issue to cover his treacher.....
» 22/09/2015 8:31:31 AM SteeleRedux, Well explained - thanks for that. I didn't catch Shorten last night but cau.....
» 21/09/2015 10:22:28 PM SM, "CK is right of center, but has the journalistic ability and in depth knowledge .....
» 21/09/2015 6:24:39 PM Sorry, SM...but poor old Chris is so partisan and rabidly right wing that....well...he's j.....
» 21/09/2015 5:33:53 PM Hasbeen, "OK, so Tony is not the true hard man he would like to be..." What's .....
» 21/09/2015 1:59:08 PM o sung wu, Yes, according to Morrison, Abbott - who is often praised for his loyalty - de.....
» 21/09/2015 1:47:37 PM runner, You can wail all you like, but Abbott was a disaster - his party recognises that......
» 21/09/2015 12:47:42 PM "That goes deeply to the character of this man. No grace, no dignity.' You have no id.....
» 21/09/2015 8:05:25 AM SM, Anyone who refers to Chris Kenny - and yes, I presumed it was probably he - as ".....
» 20/09/2015 6:16:20 PM SM, Do us the honour of naming your source....what sort of immature poster are you? Who .....
» 20/09/2015 5:48:13 PM "I see that you too are now quoting these one dimensional blogs written "badly&q.....
» 20/09/2015 10:49:03 AM rehctub and SteeleRedux, While I glean your points, in that it's really "ho-hum".....
» 19/09/2015 5:27:54 PM otb, Yeah...it's one big Lol!, eh... Noting all the Abbott fans around here are unusuall.....
» 19/09/2015 3:30:34 PM rehctub, "... Bronwyn Bishop, as a deputy should, advised Mr Abbott that his time ha.....
» 19/09/2015 3:16:56 PM rehctub, I also note that Mr "not spiteful" Abbott decided, once the chips were.....
» 19/09/2015 3:03:13 PM rehctub, "... this was done above board and without the spitefulness and lies that c.....
» 19/09/2015 1:38:27 PM Waffle on, SM....no matter how you spin it, Abbott was a dismal failure in almost every as.....
» 18/09/2015 2:30:20 PM Yup...sure he does, SM. Seems his office was a class act as well... "One of the fir.....
» 18/09/2015 7:57:01 AM SM, “I suppose it is the knifing season. First Milne got the boot, then Abbott. It is a p.....
» 17/09/2015 11:16:49 PM Obviously my typo above reading "20,00" on the third line was meant to read 20,0.....
» 17/09/2015 11:13:02 PM Hold on, rehctub, Lets just clarify a few things first. Prior to the Abbott govt's adven.....
» 15/09/2015 7:15:22 PM Here you go, runner. " Replacing a man of character with a man of spin delights the .....
» 15/09/2015 4:59:35 PM I have no idea why all the righties around here are yodelling in pain because Turnbull dec.....
» 15/09/2015 10:04:21 AM Graham, "Turnbull is a centrist and pragmatist, which means he will struggle to carr.....
» 15/09/2015 9:02:50 AM It had to happen...unless the Coalition wanted to go down like a screaming wreck at the ne.....
» 5/09/2015 8:29:05 AM Thanks, Paul, although the body of that post was an article quote - with which I'm in full.....
» 4/09/2015 6:06:16 PM SM, "At last you admit that you are far worse than Abbott. In the last few months yo.....
» 3/09/2015 2:02:05 PM otb, "Dumbed-down twitterarty sucked in by tabloid reporting." Lol!....journal.....
» 3/09/2015 11:29:43 AM Foxy, To surmise that Heydon wasn't aware the the Barwick address was a Liberal Party &qu.....
» 3/09/2015 10:42:51 AM SM, "Even when you cut and paste a comment from the description of what the ABF will.....
» 3/09/2015 10:02:24 AM Yeah, Loudmouth, Fancy if we had a PM who day after day, week after week,, positioned him.....
» 3/09/2015 8:25:30 AM SM, "At no point in the communique was it mentioned that people would be asked for t.....
» 2/09/2015 10:28:25 AM Here's one for rehctub and Bazz and anyone else who thinks the Abbott govt has the best in.....
» 2/09/2015 10:14:17 AM SM, ""Metro Trains, Yarra Trams, the Sheriff’s Office, Taxi Services Commission.....
» 2/09/2015 9:07:10 AM otb, "I said first up that it would be a waste of time asking the Greens (Protest) P.....
» 2/09/2015 9:00:14 AM otb, "....what strategies would you recommend?" Well Id recommend any strategy.....
» 2/09/2015 12:53:46 AM otb, "You would think that these whining, serial-protestor leftists would realise th.....
» 1/09/2015 11:38:38 PM ttbn, ".....by asking would they really do such a thing and advertise it beforehand?.....
» 1/09/2015 10:52:16 PM I'll also add that Bill Shorten's response, while the debacle was still unfolding, was spe.....
» 1/09/2015 9:32:23 PM ttbn, "....Even after you have heard (assuming you actually listen to anyone else) t.....
» 1/09/2015 8:21:42 PM "If Police State means deporting potential terrorist then let it be a Police State. T.....
» 31/08/2015 12:28:40 PM otb, "Nothing like the organised left for staging a public demo though. There are so.....
» 31/08/2015 10:50:04 AM Loudmouth, "But it struck me after a while that, with the increased immigration from.....
» 31/08/2015 7:58:52 AM Here we go - the Einsteins of economic management - the architects of the faux Budget Emer.....
» 30/08/2015 6:59:25 PM rehctub, ".... considering this site is full of deniers who think our problems are a.....
» 28/08/2015 11:59:41 AM doog, Not to mention the trifling matter of Border Force now patrolling the Melbourne CBD.....
» 28/08/2015 9:02:22 AM Paul, Interestingly, the Murdoch press has been doing it's thing quite well lately. If o.....
» 28/08/2015 8:29:00 AM doog, "Right from the start this has been an Abbott set up. Why can’t he do things a.....
» 27/08/2015 11:33:02 PM One more thing, Nathan. While I'm sympathetic to you for coping with multiple medical con.....
» 27/08/2015 8:52:14 PM nathan, I was referring to this point that you raised: "So instead of just taking d.....
» 27/08/2015 5:43:04 PM Yep...I reckon hot tar and burning torches, Nathan. But when you can scrape a posse toget.....
» 27/08/2015 5:09:07 PM ttbn, "...Oh, and you also called him a warmonger, even though he has mongered no wa.....
» 26/08/2015 12:40:16 PM JF Aus, "Do you think it at all possible that SteelRedux could actually be on a keyb.....
» 26/08/2015 11:39:23 AM Okay JF Aus...the subject came up - and was related to Abbott's leadership, seeing that Ha.....
» 26/08/2015 8:57:20 AM JF Aus, "Poirot, I have not quoted you directly. Stand back and look at the discussi.....
» 25/08/2015 9:07:38 PM JF Aus, "LOL, one minute Poirot and SteeleRedux have got Captain Hastie directly abo.....
» 25/08/2015 5:39:40 PM Lol!...Hasbeen. We certainly are controlled by ratbags at the moment. I can see you're h.....
» 25/08/2015 4:59:39 PM Nah, Foxy...I didn't see it. But this govt can't put a foot right. Every time they're pri.....
» 25/08/2015 10:13:08 AM Yup, it's fascinating.... Watching Abbott deploy a Royal Commission to beat the unions ar.....
» 25/08/2015 9:04:33 AM JF Aus, "You do not need to lower yourself with ad hom when you are unable to provid.....
» 25/08/2015 8:28:49 AM rehctub, "Poirot, why is it that most racism is caused by the self proclaimed victim.....
» 24/08/2015 9:11:17 PM JF Aus, It's apparently quite difficult to take prints from a deceased person - and the c.....
» 24/08/2015 4:22:37 PM Heydon has reserved his decision on an application by unions to disqualify himself from th.....
» 24/08/2015 3:57:39 PM Just when you think the subjects run out of puff... "AFP to be investigated over its.....
» 24/08/2015 1:50:39 PM JF Aus, "If the taliban had uniforms and dog tag identification under rules of war t.....
» 24/08/2015 9:54:30 AM JF Aus, "I think it extraordinary a decent individual and lady like Bronwyn Bishop c.....
» 23/08/2015 7:45:53 PM rehctub, "While I accept OTB may be a bit off topic..." Oh, I see...anything g.....
» 23/08/2015 1:27:38 PM otb, "Forum Rules (1) Keep responses on topic.".....
» 23/08/2015 8:51:56 AM Is Mise, Nice to note that you're impressed by otb's latest rants. I merely note the hea.....
» 22/08/2015 7:38:22 PM Jeepers, Foxy...but aren't you riveted to otb's commentary on Queensland "bikie laws&.....
» 22/08/2015 2:14:26 PM Bazz, "....if we have a LNP inclined Royal Commissioner it might be a good thing. Or.....
» 22/08/2015 2:07:21 PM SM, "I see that your grasp on logic and causality is somewhat flimsy. The very subs.....
» 22/08/2015 12:02:52 PM SM, Remember how this little debate between you and I began? I took you to task for this.....
» 22/08/2015 10:14:59 AM Had a brief convo the other night when the Kathy Jackson story broke with the two journali.....
» 22/08/2015 9:57:55 AM SM, "So here's a question, If Lawler was appointed to the FWA via transitional provi.....
» 22/08/2015 9:03:07 AM SM, Lol! You said: "...Lawler was re appointed by Juliar, even though she had no o.....
» 21/08/2015 6:39:32 PM Foxy, "I dare say that the Justice will resign. He's an intelligent man and he must .....
» 21/08/2015 3:15:48 PM o sung wu, "...On a personal note, I (personally) don't believe the Royal Commission.....
» 21/08/2015 2:35:31 PM SM, Excellent response! You post: "For example the FWA is not a rebadged AIRC. Jul.....
» 21/08/2015 2:17:15 PM Blow it out yer ear, Bazz. That post was almost wholly a copy and paste...took two minute.....
» 21/08/2015 1:38:47 PM Here's a good one... "The royal commission into trade union corruption has been accu.....
» 21/08/2015 12:58:37 PM SM, "As investigative journalist Pamela Williams has tenaciously reported in The Aus.....
» 21/08/2015 12:46:44 PM SM, I've had a bit of a delve on your contention that it was Gillard who re-appointed Law.....
» 21/08/2015 12:11:59 PM SM, "Why you keep posting links from that journalistic excrement called IA I don't k.....
» 21/08/2015 7:20:02 AM Gawd, SM...you actually called me "Poirot"! But.... "Finally Lawler was a.....
» 21/08/2015 7:03:18 AM runner, "Oh is Abbott still PM. The mouth frothers had me believe he was gone last N.....
» 20/08/2015 9:14:46 PM o sung wu, I think TURC, whether or not it sticks with Heydon, has been pretty much compr.....
» 20/08/2015 5:07:58 PM SteeleRedux, It's called "the wheels falling off" syndrome. No wonder Abbott i.....
» 20/08/2015 4:39:09 PM SM, "Kathy Jackson is a union crook However, while she did the country a favour by e.....
» 20/08/2015 10:24:19 AM Sorry...left one of the links out above. http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political.....
» 20/08/2015 10:21:21 AM Now why would the govt wish to change leaders? Er....? Oh yes..... "Inside the Pri.....
» 19/08/2015 1:55:00 PM Poor old Kathy Jackson (Abbott's hero) has been ordered to payback over $1.3 million bucke.....
» 18/08/2015 8:05:25 PM runner, Don't try and weasel out of it. Where are the posts where I defend "the sis.....
» 18/08/2015 6:34:06 PM "Yeah we know Poirot you often support the sisterhood who hold the filthy creeds of t.....
» 18/08/2015 4:43:50 PM rehctub, "I ask again, seeing as you are an obvious supporter of queers rights, wher.....
» 18/08/2015 10:27:39 AM Yuytsu, "The majority of those who want the state to bless same-sex relationships, d.....
» 18/08/2015 10:03:48 AM Paul, http://www.theshovel.com.au/2015/08/17/dyson-heydon-wears-liberal-party-cap-to-roya.....
» 18/08/2015 8:55:01 AM rehctub, "I'm sorry but I've had enough if this garbage taking up so much of our tim.....
» 16/08/2015 10:27:25 AM http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/aug/07/coal-is-not-the-answer-to-indias-ener.....
» 15/08/2015 8:09:06 PM SM, Furthermore on Julian Burnside regarding Heydon: "The man Prime Minister Tony A.....
» 15/08/2015 6:43:09 PM Gawd!...you'd think otb was paid a dollar every time he posts the term "Cultural Marx.....
» 15/08/2015 6:10:21 PM SM, "....Are all the others who gave talks at this annual function such as chief jus.....
» 15/08/2015 6:02:33 PM SM, "You know that when Julian Burnside comes out to defend Heydon, you know it is a.....
» 15/08/2015 9:05:26 AM Yes, Paul...Heydon may have been formally appointed through the Governor General, but he w.....
» 14/08/2015 4:29:11 PM Der, SM...it's a Royal Commission - the commissioner is appointed by Letters Patent throug.....
» 14/08/2015 2:58:37 PM For the further benefit of Shadow Minister, here are some sage words from Dyson Heydon: &.....
» 14/08/2015 2:36:19 PM Paul, It's hardly the worth talking to SM these days..he's all a dither because his wonde.....
» 14/08/2015 11:28:30 AM (Of course, when I say "It doesn't" - I mean "it didn't" prior to the .....
» 14/08/2015 11:21:29 AM otb, "Cultural Marxists do bend words to suit their own purposes, that has been said.....
» 14/08/2015 10:28:07 AM otb, "However as usual you do not have the common decency to admit that you and Fox .....
» 14/08/2015 10:18:22 AM otb, We did not raise "interpretations" by judges of the High Court. We merely.....
» 14/08/2015 8:04:49 AM otb, It's a shame you weren't on hand to advise Howard when he decided to go to the bothe.....
» 13/08/2015 9:39:48 PM otb, It's obvious that Howard had the definition of "between man and woman" ins.....
» 13/08/2015 7:59:05 PM SM, "I agree the stench of Labor / union corruption is overwhelming Canberra. The Un.....
» 13/08/2015 4:41:43 PM No wonder Brandis attempted to make out the event which involved Heydon wasn't a "fun.....
» 13/08/2015 2:49:54 PM SM, You are truly pathetic these days. "... I went to a liberal organised function .....
» 13/08/2015 12:01:47 PM Been a few days since we've had a Lib fundraiser debacle. This one stinks to high heaven......
» 12/08/2015 11:09:02 PM rechtub, You may be interested to know that the Howard govt came up with the definition o.....
» 12/08/2015 5:05:09 PM Blah, blah, blah, otb. Step it up.....posting and reposting exactly the same tripe with n.....
» 12/08/2015 10:12:17 AM Here you go, Hasbeen. Since Abbott's election win and his announcement that Australia is .....
» 12/08/2015 9:58:04 AM Here we go, Paul, "It's not quite The Beast, the legendary armoured limousine that p.....
» 12/08/2015 9:02:53 AM Hasbeen, Just noted your delightful post. "I do find your method of lying by twisti.....
» 12/08/2015 8:16:42 AM Well I suppose if it's all right for otb to blame Larissa Waters for the Finance depts fit.....
» 11/08/2015 6:20:04 PM Yeah, but...otb... http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-06-30/department-of-finance-spends-mil.....
» 11/08/2015 4:18:39 PM Thanks for the run-by, runner. Lo1! - he compares Australia's debt issues to Greece. Loo.....
» 11/08/2015 3:59:50 PM butcher, "What you fail to acknowledge is that while Rudd inherited a wonderful set .....
» 11/08/2015 10:00:47 AM rehctub, "As for Tony Abbott, the only thing saving him right now is Bill Shorten an.....
» 11/08/2015 9:17:15 AM Here you go, SM. Not only did the AFP toss Bronnie's case back to Finance - now headed by.....
» 11/08/2015 8:56:05 AM This one's hard to beat... "SOUTH Australian frontbencher Jamie Briggs paid $25,000 .....
» 11/08/2015 8:34:10 AM The Coalition in action... "Christopher Pyne’s family enjoyed a second summer holida.....
» 10/08/2015 9:15:28 PM SM, Notwithstanding that you're pretty much lightweight, here are the guidleines: ".....
» 10/08/2015 1:32:31 PM SM, " The dept of finance might yet come back with a positive ruling for BB...".....
» 10/08/2015 12:13:23 PM Lol!, otb. What you fail to take into account is that if you keep on posting the same old.....
» 10/08/2015 11:56:17 AM otb, In accordance with your assertion that it's Labor and Greens who are responsible for.....
» 10/08/2015 11:05:12 AM otb, "It is also a fact that only Tony Abbott has taken the initiative to do anythin.....
» 10/08/2015 10:58:04 AM otb, The puzzling thing - since you espouse that "it's all Labor and Green's fault&q.....
» 10/08/2015 8:37:01 AM SM, Before you go mouthing off anymore about Tony Burke, you might like to read this apol.....
» 10/08/2015 12:26:49 AM Here you go, SM....since you insist on regaling me with posts on how successful is the Abb.....
» 9/08/2015 11:59:21 PM "It seems that only PM Abbott has come forward as the champion of improved accountabi.....
» 9/08/2015 2:12:35 PM SM, "I see you are unable to give a single example of any achievement under the prev.....
» 9/08/2015 11:13:44 AM Good try, otb: "Again, here is the evidence that Labor and their treacherous sidekic.....
» 9/08/2015 10:28:25 AM "Paul, such lack of wit, your repartee is truly dull..." Sorry, I missed this. .....
» 9/08/2015 10:03:32 AM SM, Thanks for the Lols....this govt has been in for nearly two years, has run up the cou.....
» 8/08/2015 10:06:39 PM warmair, Regarding Shadow Minister's most recent link - the Institute for Energy Research.....
» 8/08/2015 7:14:41 PM Emperor Julian, "Does someone have the actual evidence that the public (not merely A.....
» 8/08/2015 6:22:20 PM SM, ".....Signed 3 FTAs and reduced government spending." Well for one, this g.....
» 8/08/2015 5:55:52 PM Entitlements certainly need tightening...with the likes of Pyne, Dutton, Burke and Abbott .....
» 8/08/2015 11:56:33 AM But of course we shouldn't overlook Abbott's monumental achievement of shifting QandA betw.....
» 8/08/2015 11:36:36 AM SM, "How you so easily forget the complete stuff up in every area that was the Labor.....
» 8/08/2015 8:38:33 AM Yes, Paul.... But I'll leave it to Peter Hartcher to expand on my last post: "In th.....
» 8/08/2015 7:39:16 AM SM, You appear to be a tad confused. It's Abbott and his merry cohorts who are laughing .....
» 8/08/2015 1:03:44 AM "There is already a gathering number of the public and the politicians who represent .....
» 5/08/2015 7:39:46 PM Anyone seen this week's Newspoll? It has mysteriously failed to appear. I wonder why?........
» 4/08/2015 10:43:32 PM Luciferase, "I am left with the uncomfortable feeling that Abbott would have the ser.....
» 4/08/2015 9:03:40 AM Cartoonist Dave Pope sums up perfectly the anomaly between the treatment of Slipper and Bi.....
» 4/08/2015 8:22:07 AM otb, "Yet you are aware that the AFP and the administering Department have not level.....
» 3/08/2015 2:20:12 PM otb, Do you think it's right to treat these two cases differently? http://www.theage.com.....
» 3/08/2015 1:57:11 PM otb, Bishop has admitted to hiring a chopper to take her to a Lib fundraising event. She .....
» 3/08/2015 12:00:06 PM Paul, Yes...anything more disingenuous? "I have not taken this decision lightly, ho.....
» 3/08/2015 11:50:56 AM Give it up, otb. Nice try...but what's a class act like Gillian Triggs got to do with an .....
» 3/08/2015 10:22:52 AM Shocky, Grow up.........
» 3/08/2015 9:58:45 AM I can't put it any better than Laura Tingle. "It wasn't Bronny. It was the system. S.....
» 3/08/2015 9:05:04 AM Here's the kind of faith Coalition MPs have in the judgement of their leader. http://www......
» 3/08/2015 8:45:38 AM What a joke, otb. "You are attacking the messenger....." Which is exactly what.....
» 2/08/2015 11:35:54 PM "Bronwyn Bishop has made the honorable choice..." That's a laugh. She was drag.....
» 1/08/2015 11:57:33 PM At the risk of overkill... (they just keep on coming) Murdoch certainly has taken the glo.....
» 1/08/2015 10:00:18 AM As I mentioned, the reason this issue hasn't evaporated is that MSM has decided it's a goe.....
» 1/08/2015 7:57:36 AM JF Aus, "If the job entails working into nights and day after day, surely the employ.....
» 31/07/2015 5:55:54 PM JF Aus, "And oh yes the weddings, were they absolutely private weddings or were they.....
» 31/07/2015 2:38:20 PM JF Aus, "In contrast, fundraising is a key component of getting into office and rema.....
» 29/07/2015 4:10:05 PM "The ABC has spoken to senior members of the Government and there is little support f.....
» 29/07/2015 2:12:52 PM otb, "Again, is anyone suggesting that Bronwyn Bishop did anything illegal?...".....
» 29/07/2015 11:36:01 AM Paul, Poll in the Sydney Morning Herald: "Poll: Do you accept Bronwyn Bishop's expl.....
» 29/07/2015 11:22:34 AM Paul, yes...here's a good tag line: "The dog ate Bronwyn Bishop's travel expenses h.....
» 29/07/2015 8:24:39 AM Here we go... "Julie Bishop says Bronwyn Bishop is considering her position amid spe.....
» 29/07/2015 8:13:04 AM Oh dear...another wedding....another claim for travel expenses "written off as “commi.....
» 29/07/2015 7:56:35 AM JF Aus, "A majority of sensible people including most scientists worldwide do not ag.....
» 28/07/2015 7:49:14 PM Paul, I have to defend Bronnie here - it's clear she was on top secret rorting business o.....
» 27/07/2015 11:32:39 AM Foxy, Don't you know it's always the conservative types who bang on abut the deviance of .....
» 26/07/2015 8:51:04 PM SM, Lol!...we know you're struggling when you resort to your special armoury of kiddie na.....
» 26/07/2015 4:57:07 PM Let me help you there, SM... The "extraordinary" difference can be attributed t.....
» 26/07/2015 3:54:47 PM SM, "There has never been an impartial or unbiased speaker from Labor either. Even H.....
» 26/07/2015 8:51:11 AM More... http://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/opinion/topic/2015/07/25/abbotts-military-pret.....
» 26/07/2015 7:53:08 AM Lol! - Paul But wait - here's a lengthy article and comprehensive run-down of Bronnie's m.....
» 26/07/2015 7:09:50 AM Emperor Julian, As we know, one of the complaints against the Speaker is that "relev.....
» 25/07/2015 3:50:14 PM SM, "Labor's Speaker got off on a technicality. The finding that he submitted forged.....
» 25/07/2015 2:43:02 PM Last word - Lol! By all means, otb, you go for it....seems like you're enjoying this bit .....
» 25/07/2015 2:37:12 PM runner, "hilarous to hear of many scientist wetting their pants about the likelyhood.....
» 25/07/2015 2:14:40 PM otb, "LOL, nice try but no bikkie for trying to put it back on me. It was you who sp.....
» 25/07/2015 12:15:00 PM otb, "Poirot, You intemperate reply does you no credit at all and serves to prove t.....
» 25/07/2015 12:00:52 PM Ch, I don't know why you're so cross about it. Human beings are like that - they like to.....
» 25/07/2015 11:50:33 AM otb, "Labor believes the case hinges on whether Mrs Bishop signed a Presiding Office.....
» 25/07/2015 11:15:21 AM "Shame, Poirot! Elitist Poirot is highly judgemental and censorious where ordinary c.....
» 25/07/2015 10:53:33 AM Foxy, JF Aus thinks govt members sit quietly on their side, filling in their lunch forms .....
» 25/07/2015 9:58:24 AM JoM, "I was part of an interesting exchange at the Reclaim rally on Saturday. A midd.....
» 24/07/2015 11:01:23 PM ConservativeHippie, "Poirot would make a great defence attorney as he/she has absolu.....
» 24/07/2015 3:25:50 PM C'mon, SM, You burst into the convo with: "I see you are suffering from selective a.....
» 24/07/2015 2:50:43 PM SM, Submitting forged documents would mean submitting forged documents - in that the docu.....
» 24/07/2015 2:31:11 PM SM, Really? First: "Chief Magistrate Lorraine Walker, found Mr Slipper had intenti.....
» 24/07/2015 1:41:47 PM "when they themselves refused to amend the 'rules' that advantaged them as well and e.....
» 24/07/2015 12:44:19 PM Thanks, Foxy. JF Aus, "Better to give BB a helicopter to help the nation make billi.....
» 24/07/2015 10:24:14 AM BTT - otb, What would you like to discuss....? Bronwyn Bishop's taxpayer-funded chopper .....
» 24/07/2015 8:42:58 AM Lol!, Otb gets called out - and surprise, surprise he immediately yodels: "BTT".....
» 23/07/2015 10:28:34 PM Ho hum...otb is trolling Foxy - again.........
» 22/07/2015 9:26:11 PM Shocky, "After pissing off their most avid fans, they won't be getting too many more.....
» 22/07/2015 8:38:29 PM More problems for the Reclaim playlist... "John Farnham and his manager Glenn Wheatl.....
» 22/07/2015 2:57:48 PM Our Bronnie's a doozy! They just keep coming.... "Under-fire Speaker Bronwyn Bishop.....
» 22/07/2015 2:46:48 PM Awww...I quite like "tot-for-tat". And although I know you've all soared to the.....
» 22/07/2015 11:50:06 AM Foxy, "...Mrs Bishop's flagrant tribalism is particularly shocking to political obse.....
» 22/07/2015 11:38:22 AM otb, "The OLO site allows for free speech with few rules. The mere fact that you are.....
» 22/07/2015 10:55:51 AM Fascinating reports from a rally... "“Stand With Muslims Against Racism” reads one o.....
» 22/07/2015 10:04:44 AM It's always a bummer when you choose songs from an Aussie icon to foment a little national.....
» 22/07/2015 9:00:21 AM It's always entertaining watching otb, OLO's faux defender of all things feminine, attempt.....
» 21/07/2015 5:03:54 PM Here's a good one...from 2014 http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/tony-.....
» 21/07/2015 4:36:25 PM Oh golly gosh, Emperor Julian... I now see why you thought I endorsed it - I said "Co.....
» 21/07/2015 4:31:26 PM Emperor Julian, "JF Aus writes, and Poirot endorses, the folloing astounding comment.....
» 21/07/2015 10:35:25 AM Bazz, Why don't you grow up and ditch the hysterics? So we're in danger of a Sharia Law .....
» 21/07/2015 10:04:24 AM doog, "100 billion $ is not an amount to be proud of especially when we are in a cat.....
» 21/07/2015 9:54:45 AM Yuyutsu, "We cannot refuse to pay taxes, but we CAN refuse to receive any of this st.....
» 21/07/2015 9:04:58 AM JF Aus, "Besides, BB did not use travel allowance for a taxi to go drink wine at a v.....
» 20/07/2015 7:47:27 PM Yar, Shadow.... I think I've just about had a stomach full of this forum...full to the br.....
» 20/07/2015 7:01:43 PM Gawd Foxy - that's rather forward of you! Lol!...I like this bit: "....I am proud o.....
» 20/07/2015 6:17:04 PM Pretty hard-hitting stuff, otb : ).....
» 20/07/2015 5:33:07 PM Thanks ttbn, ... Paul (and anyone who's interested) Here's First Dog on the Moon with a.....
» 20/07/2015 5:07:15 PM CH, "Poirot, everyone in the country new Craig Thompson was a crook and guilty of th.....
» 20/07/2015 4:48:42 PM "Poirot is a man who seems rude to everybody all the time and I ask why is he like th.....
» 20/07/2015 4:32:51 PM What a load of old cobblers, SM. We all know this govt's agenda - and so far it hasn't mi.....
» 20/07/2015 4:28:08 PM Yar, thanks, runner. Isn't it great to live in a country where the serving govt acts as a.....
» 20/07/2015 4:14:40 PM Hi CH, "Poirot, I don't understand why you used this quote as though it proves ones .....
» 20/07/2015 12:50:38 PM Indeed, paul.... ttbn's getting all pedantic and lecturing us the technicalities of what'.....
» 20/07/2015 11:26:23 AM Yes, Paul...Christensen is someone the young kiddies of Australia can truly look up to. D.....
» 20/07/2015 10:56:13 AM Hmmm...there appears to be no level to which Abbott won't sink in his attempts to hang ont.....
» 19/07/2015 11:06:40 PM SM, You'll enjoy this... http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/07/18/1058035200830.html &.....
» 19/07/2015 10:53:00 PM SM,, We have to look no further than Abbott and his cronies tooting the "terror hyst.....
» 19/07/2015 9:06:38 PM SM, "....The article to which you referred was TA flying to Melbourne on business wh.....
» 19/07/2015 3:24:51 PM The Libs deleted Abbott's doorstop from the their site on the 15th....but ohno's! it's sti.....
» 19/07/2015 2:26:32 PM i stand corrected, SM....I totally missed the fluffy bunny nature of the majority of those.....
» 19/07/2015 1:51:54 PM SM, It's useless to get involved in a slanging match about pollies expenses if you're set.....
» 19/07/2015 1:25:13 PM Certainly, SM...those radical right-wing "nationalist" anti-Islam peeps will no .....
» 19/07/2015 10:46:45 AM otb, Because I call out BS when I see it. We all know what this rally is about - it's st.....
» 19/07/2015 10:16:10 AM Wingnut Christensen says too right he's going to the anti-Islam rally. But if anyone show.....
» 19/07/2015 8:58:34 AM Go for it, otb - I think you'll be battling to scratch around for someone to top Bronnie's.....
» 19/07/2015 8:46:46 AM "... a lib boycott of a current affairs program for letting a terrorist air his views.....
» 19/07/2015 12:50:13 AM She is going to go...it's just a matter of when. She managed to dig herself deeper into t.....
» 18/07/2015 10:28:53 PM Excellent, SM. First he says: "Firstly the ban on Q&A is for cabinet members, not b.....
» 18/07/2015 8:56:44 PM SM, ".... The problem is that every single speaker in the past has done pretty much .....
» 18/07/2015 6:12:01 PM Bronnie just told us she came all the way from Queensland to Melbourne to take her helicop.....
» 18/07/2015 10:11:32 AM SM, Still no comment on George Christensen being given the green light to address a racis.....
» 17/07/2015 2:33:40 PM Good to see you're resisting "tit-for-tat", otb.... (Btw, Bronnie's been referr.....
» 17/07/2015 12:50:46 PM Good question, otb. "Now what about addressing the nub of the problem, which extends.....
» 17/07/2015 11:27:29 AM otb, "Interesting how the political partisanship that is forever demanding absolute .....
» 17/07/2015 11:00:16 AM Thanks, runner....can't talk now - just nipping out to clean my front step......
» 17/07/2015 10:39:36 AM "as sad as it is the Greens/Labour have no moral fabric in order to prosecute.Hanson .....
» 17/07/2015 10:16:34 AM I see SM is at his scintillating best today. His main thrust of argument (as usual) is th.....
» 17/07/2015 10:11:38 AM CH, "In all honesty I don't know what you are hanging onto other than the belief Aus.....
» 17/07/2015 8:31:58 AM Oh, and.... "Speaker Bronwyn Bishop procured a luxury helicopter for a jaunt between.....
» 17/07/2015 8:09:39 AM Paul, Just on the subject of odd-bods and loons in the Coalition...did you see this? htt.....
» 17/07/2015 1:13:41 AM Lol!...Hasbeen...you're really reduced to a ranting character these days aren't you. No r.....
» 17/07/2015 12:03:37 AM 'Your next trick, is the old "baffle them with bullshiit" ploy. You submit many .....
» 16/07/2015 10:50:55 PM I haven't noted Abbott taking any kind of stand on George Christensen vowing to attend a R.....
» 16/07/2015 9:24:18 PM Paul, This is actually gaining momentum. Together with her huge taxpayer-funded expenses.....
» 16/07/2015 8:31:02 PM Ah...rehctub, Nice to hear you spitting chips in Abbott's direction...was only a matter .....
» 16/07/2015 5:27:56 PM Don't you just love the sound of good old Hasbeen and JoM, salt-of-the-earth Aussies...lam.....
» 15/07/2015 10:35:04 PM "Paul, Could you be more pathetic. Considering that in 1938 Germany's economy had co.....
» 15/07/2015 6:42:12 PM Yes, SM, I'm sure he was as meek and mild as the day he was born. Bless his cotton socks......
» 15/07/2015 6:18:59 PM SM, You are so right! All those people in that article were obviously deluded. A bloke .....
» 15/07/2015 5:42:23 PM Foxy, Don't mind runner's run-by....he just dropped in to say that Marr has "hatred&.....
» 15/07/2015 3:58:17 PM Foxy, I think it's pretty clear what went on on that occasion. What is clear is that Abb.....
» 15/07/2015 11:30:28 AM Lol!...I'm sure we were arguing this thread around 5 years ago...nothing changes around he.....
» 15/07/2015 10:45:45 AM Here we go...ho hum... Another runner two-line run-by ad hominem. Suse's dogmas are &quo.....
» 14/07/2015 11:29:11 AM Au contraire, SM... http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-10-14/journalists-face-jail-for-expos.....
» 14/07/2015 10:13:55 AM " Oops, looky there, Poirot just misspelled Bolt. (Or will she claim that was intenti.....
» 14/07/2015 10:04:05 AM Of course, Abbott's interference with the independence of the ABC has nothing whatsoever t.....
» 13/07/2015 6:44:43 PM SM, For someone who sashays around here as if he knows a thing or two - it's always rewar.....
» 13/07/2015 1:04:27 PM SM, "Your throw away line was BS and I called you out. Grow a pair, admit the mistak.....
» 12/07/2015 6:12:12 PM SM, I was prompted to make my comment because again I saw you using the 90% argument - on.....
» 12/07/2015 3:13:40 PM CH, "So Poirot is saying there is not one credible scientist with an alternative per.....
» 12/07/2015 1:10:20 PM CH, I'm not in the business of responding to every incendiary comment SM makes. Perhaps .....
» 12/07/2015 8:53:25 AM SM, In response to your: "From your view point 90% of people are far right wing.&qu.....
» 11/07/2015 7:47:37 PM SM, Here's what you complained about: "You're the fellow who keeps on telling me th.....
» 11/07/2015 5:46:40 PM SM, "Not a chance. The first two examples were from the same thread, saying exactly .....
» 11/07/2015 11:58:02 AM SM, You took issue with me because I wrote this type of thing: "You're the fellow w.....
» 11/07/2015 11:21:40 AM SM, Thanks for the invitation...my references were to your recent postings. Just a quick.....
» 11/07/2015 8:49:54 AM SM, "Poirot, We are all entitled to our opinions and interpretations of the facts. .....
» 10/07/2015 9:11:09 PM Tch, tch, Shadow Minister, You're not allowed to call people "liars" on this fo.....
» 10/07/2015 6:26:36 PM CH, "Let me put it to you this way... have you ever seen a documentary on the ABC, o.....
» 10/07/2015 5:13:49 PM Lol! "Taxpayers expect quality programs throughout the ABC. It is NOT acceptable to .....
» 10/07/2015 4:38:05 PM Get a load of Commandant in Chief's latest cunning plan... http://www.smh.com.au/federal-.....
» 10/07/2015 4:21:35 PM "It is alright for political partisans such as yourself, Fox..." Excuse me!...b.....
» 10/07/2015 2:38:47 PM Loudmouth, ".... YOU have to pay it all back somehow, sooner or later." Ahem.......
» 10/07/2015 10:47:55 AM "Bill Shorten showing contempt for Royal Commission is amazing. Imagine a Catholic Pr.....
» 10/07/2015 10:08:12 AM Paul, We shouldn't be too hard on Barnaby...after all, he is the minister in charge of sh.....
» 10/07/2015 8:54:35 AM Why, yes indeedy, Paul....never a truer word was spoken. Poor old Barnaby who is both inc.....
» 9/07/2015 10:54:00 PM Step it up, SM. According to you "90%" of Australians support anything you happ.....
» 9/07/2015 8:54:17 PM Considering that only the far right whingers think that the ABC is biased, I think that pr.....
» 9/07/2015 1:56:48 PM "It is the smug, educated middle class 'Progressive', 'we-always-know-what-is best-fo.....
» 9/07/2015 12:02:00 PM The reality is that this affair has less to do with Q and A and more to do with Joyce bein.....
» 9/07/2015 9:53:13 AM Paul, Lol! - we all know Shadow "PedoGreens" Minister has run out of argument w.....
» 9/07/2015 1:19:14 AM otb, Just thought I'd preempt your usual response to such things. You should be flattere.....
» 9/07/2015 12:47:08 AM "What is significant is that Kevin Rudd, the PM responsible for trashing the successf.....
» 8/07/2015 4:52:00 PM Au contraire, runner - it's Abbott who is "upset"...the rest of us are shaking o.....
» 8/07/2015 2:33:50 PM So that's 49 women murdered in domestic violence so far this year in Australia....how many.....
» 8/07/2015 2:03:08 PM otb, Let's cut to the chase. The ABC review is politically motivated. Abbott's politica.....
» 8/07/2015 12:49:02 PM Apologies, otb...should have directed that to Bazz : ).....
» 8/07/2015 12:47:05 PM otb, "Poirot, needs to take a Bex and have a nice lie down. I could say, if I was g.....
» 8/07/2015 10:49:09 AM Foxy, Just to demonstrate the hypocrisy of Abbott's "boycott" - here's what he .....
» 8/07/2015 10:09:53 AM "I think those of us who feel the ABC is biased should follow suit and boycott this t.....
» 7/07/2015 4:45:12 PM SM, "..... Secondly, about 60% of those coming by air were rapidly deported...".....
» 7/07/2015 11:41:35 AM SM, "I posted those numbers from 2011-12 to counter your proposition that: b) The n.....
» 6/07/2015 7:29:55 PM SM, Did you miss my figures for 2011-12? Applications for asylum - Over 7,000 by air.........
» 6/07/2015 11:47:15 AM Loudmouth, "Economic migrants ? They should take their chances as economic migrants,.....
» 6/07/2015 10:07:23 AM It's interesting that some here rant and rave about the folk on fishing boats who claim as.....
» 6/07/2015 12:33:39 AM I rest my case..........
» 5/07/2015 6:22:19 PM Yeah, whatever.... "For you, apparently not!" My message to you, SM, is that i.....
» 5/07/2015 4:49:11 PM SM, Satire targeting "any" party is funny - if it's done well. Say what you li.....
» 5/07/2015 1:35:11 PM Thanks, SM. Although I do believe the Border Force Act is merely a fancy way of saying &q.....
» 5/07/2015 11:59:33 AM Loudmouth, I don't think you can accuse me of not posting on topic for the vast majority .....
» 5/07/2015 10:29:08 AM "Hi Paul, Thanks for getting back to topic." Lol!....you can always guaratee t.....
» 5/07/2015 8:01:35 AM SM, You're an interesting poster. Off you go making your case which is always succinct a.....
» 5/07/2015 7:45:57 AM Here we go... "Just leave the stick-up-Abbott's-@rse opportunist politics to those l.....
» 4/07/2015 6:11:40 PM otb, "Fox, "wall of secrecy" Bollocks!...." Of course it's a wall o.....
» 4/07/2015 12:16:36 PM CH, "Poirot, I'm not aware that Australia has legislated to jail professionals who e.....
» 4/07/2015 10:58:21 AM Nice try, Joe. My quote: "Who legislates to jail professionals who expose child abu.....
» 4/07/2015 10:31:38 AM CH, Who legislates to jail professionals who expose child abuse? (Yes, I know Labor supp.....
» 3/07/2015 9:03:53 PM Joe, I don't know what it means either...but it's probably something along the lines of: .....
» 3/07/2015 8:59:10 PM I've posted this before, but it's pertinent to this thread. The following are from the op.....
» 3/07/2015 6:37:10 PM Will the human species become extinct? Yes......
» 3/07/2015 6:34:21 PM Foxy, SM would have you believe Australia is lauded world-wide for its cruelties. But wh.....
» 2/07/2015 7:56:54 PM SM, I wasn't referring to "kids being handcuffed". I was referring to adults be.....
» 2/07/2015 5:04:19 PM But then again... What do you reckon about this baby? She "was" in Australia - .....
» 2/07/2015 4:29:03 PM SM, "You clearly didn't see where the reference to MN came for before you stabbed Po.....
» 1/07/2015 9:32:01 PM SM, The children who are presently still in detention are being held three times longer t.....
» 1/07/2015 7:12:34 PM Cont'd... Dr Amanda Trenaman, MBBS, FRANZCP, former IHMS psychiatrist Prof Robert Adler,.....
» 1/07/2015 7:07:29 PM SM, Save it...the kind of laws you're defending are despicable. http://www.theguardian.c.....
» 1/07/2015 11:22:25 AM otb, Foxy, Thanks guys : ) (There's a lot to said for youngsters having the freedom and .....
» 30/06/2015 9:30:15 PM otb, "Of course the black armband Leftists would not want to commemorate the courage.....
» 30/06/2015 5:08:03 PM CH, "We've got accusations of cruelties in the camps..." It doesn't take an Ei.....
» 30/06/2015 8:55:50 AM It's one thing for the likes of SM and company to bang their drums triumphantly on a forum.....
» 28/06/2015 8:00:39 AM SM, "I am looking for a response above year 3 level." Coming from you, that's .....
» 27/06/2015 8:23:07 PM "....In the last 18 months less than 20 boats have been turned around." SM thin.....
» 27/06/2015 10:15:22 AM SM, All it displays on this issue is that Labor reckon the govt is on to a great vote pul.....
» 26/06/2015 7:59:48 PM SM, Lol! - "opinion columnist", Chris Kenny - now there's a right-wing yabberer.....
» 26/06/2015 7:54:06 AM SM, Do the right thing and give us a link to the person you're quoting. I'm not disputin.....
» 26/06/2015 12:16:41 AM SM, Hanson Young was replying to a question as to whether she took responsibility for the.....
» 25/06/2015 8:52:57 PM That's a bit lightweight, SM. Why only a few posts ago you were complaining to Paul about.....
» 25/06/2015 5:40:33 PM Just noting that the altruistic LNP and Labor are currently voting against mandatory repor.....
» 25/06/2015 4:58:07 PM Josephus, You keep harping on "physical reality"... Can you explain to me the .....
» 25/06/2015 8:00:20 AM SM, "So having slaughtered 1000s of asylum seekers due to ideological rigidity and c.....
» 24/06/2015 6:03:47 PM As if the Oz govt is doing what it's doing because of concern for the welfare of asylum se.....
» 24/06/2015 2:37:04 PM SM, "Secondly, Paying people smugglers is odious, but far less odious than fishing d.....
» 24/06/2015 10:12:54 AM SM, We can all cherry-pick. Here's some more of what he said (source: Sky News): ".....
» 23/06/2015 10:29:32 AM runner, "Again misrepresent me as usual Poirot. I called her views 'perverted'and yo.....
» 23/06/2015 10:15:48 AM runner, "Susie as usual only interested in her dogma (very perverted). No doubt unli.....
» 23/06/2015 8:21:11 AM JoM, "The "children" on Nauru are almost all young men in their late teens.....
» 22/06/2015 11:12:09 AM otb, "....George Megalogenis countered such likely ad hominen attacks by stating cle.....
» 22/06/2015 10:35:43 AM otb, "ad hominem"? I merely pointed out that the relationship was close - cons.....
» 22/06/2015 9:56:31 AM CH, "And your point is..?" Just putting it out there. Ahem....Chris Pyne is a.....
» 22/06/2015 7:47:16 AM otb, Yep, Sheridan and Abbott are pretty chummy. http://www.theguardian.com/australia-ne.....
» 21/06/2015 3:22:55 PM Thanks, Foxy, Sounds interesting. Obviously Abbott is reasonably intelligent. Marr's des.....
» 21/06/2015 3:13:19 PM ttbn, ".....I'm giving Abbott the flick because his is a wild man. We never know wha.....
» 21/06/2015 3:01:06 PM otb, "...It costs a small fortune for the naval vessel to escort even for a short di.....
» 21/06/2015 2:27:52 PM SM, I note you've done a huge whizzy and your proposition that: "... it had left fro.....
» 21/06/2015 10:55:47 AM ttbn, "As someone who has voted Liberal for years, it's bye bye from me, Tony. I am .....
» 21/06/2015 10:13:22 AM SM, "So certainly condition 3 applied, and considering that the boat Looked in troub.....
» 20/06/2015 5:46:52 PM CH, "...Can you name the specific law Abbott supposed broke that would constitute an.....
» 20/06/2015 5:23:39 PM CH, "Foxy takes no umbrage with Poirot's false accusation that people have died at s.....
» 20/06/2015 5:10:14 PM Nice to read your views, o sung wu. CH, Of course, Mr Walker should have taken into acco.....
» 20/06/2015 12:04:14 PM Hi Foxy, "The reason lovable Tones is not being forthcoming is because he doesn't ha.....
» 20/06/2015 11:55:12 AM SM, But they didn't give them "ample fuel". They put them in one of Australia'.....
» 20/06/2015 11:16:49 AM CH, "ZERO! until to you prove otherwise with absolute certainty." Precisely! .....
» 20/06/2015 11:06:17 AM "Keep frothing at the mouth Poirot. Your Abbottphobia certainly could not be doing yo.....
» 20/06/2015 10:28:06 AM CH, We are supposed to be dealing here with people in the top echelon of jurisprudence. I.....
» 20/06/2015 10:03:31 AM Foxy, SM reckons - "This is yet another successful boat turn around..." End of.....
» 20/06/2015 8:55:56 AM Lol! - otb, "So, was Mr Walker's recommendation lacking, imprecise?" Only for .....
» 20/06/2015 7:52:58 AM CH, "....Tony Abbott was simply biting is tongue when repeatedly confronted with a r.....
» 17/06/2015 8:27:37 PM Yup, some people say that Abbott is a bumbling, deceptive, lying fool...but he's actually .....
» 17/06/2015 6:53:58 PM SM, "You are the one trying to claim that the payment to smugglers is illegal, but c.....
» 17/06/2015 5:27:55 PM SM, Here's what I said: "What do you want me to say, SM? That it's better to pay f.....
» 17/06/2015 3:41:58 PM SM, "At least now we have established that you are in favour of paying people smuggl.....
» 17/06/2015 11:27:12 AM What do you want me to say, SM? That it's better to pay for intelligence and stop the bo.....
» 17/06/2015 9:03:04 AM Shadow Minister, "Secondly I never claimed that the drivers of the boat weren't peop.....
» 17/06/2015 1:20:23 AM o sung wu, "Your venom for those of the LNP and their followers, is really chilling,.....
» 16/06/2015 5:35:04 PM o sung wu, "Personally POIROT, I couldn't bear to exist in such a volatile state of .....
» 16/06/2015 11:24:46 AM Lol!... "Bribery is defined by Black's Law Dictionary as the offering, giving, recei.....
» 16/06/2015 10:35:32 AM "If payments were made as claimed, they were not to people traffickers, just to drive.....
» 16/06/2015 9:56:06 AM Philip S, I'm not required to check if another person's post is "correct" when .....
» 16/06/2015 1:27:46 AM Philip s, "Poirot - Here is what you posted. "the navy should just fire a shot.....
» 15/06/2015 10:36:30 PM "Poirot - You also are now guilty of selective quoting. Try quoting the whole senten.....
» 15/06/2015 9:11:38 PM Paul, "So much for the humanitarian concerns of some of the forums 'Usual Suspects',.....
» 15/06/2015 7:57:48 PM Sterling stuff - and I can't say I'm surprised at some of the comments on this thread. Ma.....
» 15/06/2015 5:15:27 PM It was indeed a thoroughly shambolic performance in QT today from those ministers responsi.....
» 14/06/2015 1:05:00 PM Lol! "As usual, I will let others be the judge. I usually choose not to reply to the.....
» 14/06/2015 12:49:45 PM And this one is not merely a localised outrage - the world press is all over it. BBC http.....
» 14/06/2015 12:36:07 PM Hasbeen, "Of course we must not train people smugglers to see this as a new business.....
» 11/06/2015 10:09:29 AM ttbn, "Nevertheless, I will repeat my feeling that Hockey is an insensitive rich man.....
» 11/06/2015 8:58:33 AM Of course we shouldn't be surprised at such a comment from this L-plate treasurer. He's t.....
» 7/06/2015 8:54:35 AM Thanks LEGO, Now who should I give more credence - you or the Downing Street "memo, .....
» 6/06/2015 8:39:22 AM LEGO, "Errr, no. I knew that Saddam Hussein said he was building a nuclear weapon be.....
» 5/06/2015 8:33:09 AM LGO, "....Saddam Hussein did everything he could to convince the world that he was b.....
» 4/06/2015 8:40:55 PM LEGO, "....But the USA is sick and tired of being the world's policeman and getting .....
» 3/06/2015 8:50:15 PM ConservativeHippie, ISIS appears to be able to march on with seeming impunity. Notwithst.....
» 3/06/2015 8:22:17 PM Constance, Are there any conspiracies that you "don't" believe in? Anything v.....
» 3/06/2015 7:36:35 PM Thank you, Loudmouth, Strange, though, you continuously wax lyrical on this forum at how .....
» 3/06/2015 6:35:45 PM Sweet Loudy, Here's a pic - I s'pose these fellas were glad of the "rations" an.....
» 3/06/2015 6:18:09 PM "I'm surprised Poirot, I didn't think you were that paranoid..." Lol! - Nice tr.....
» 3/06/2015 8:46:53 AM ConservativeHippie, "If you are more afraid of Tony Abbott than you are of ISIS you .....
» 2/06/2015 8:56:54 AM Is Mise, "Remember when Margaret Thatcher became the British PM? She got there on 46.....
» 1/06/2015 8:35:47 PM ConservativeHippie, "There you go Poirot and Suseonline - you have a new friend and .....
» 1/06/2015 11:37:47 AM By the look of this pic from Andrew Meares, as Shorten intros the Bill - the govt is nowhe.....
» 1/06/2015 9:59:45 AM In the case of anyone accused - and particularly the case of a sole Australian citizen - a.....
» 31/05/2015 2:29:31 PM jodelie, Firstly, let me say that I believe ISIS is as depraved as it appears to get when.....
» 29/05/2015 10:38:53 PM "I'm puzzled why pseudo-leftists feel the need to defend the most vile reactionaries......
» 29/05/2015 9:14:03 PM Notably those two nongs - The inimitable Abbott and his side-kick Dutton were rolled by th.....
» 28/05/2015 10:21:59 AM Josephus, "What right or purpose has the State got to register social unions that tw.....
» 27/05/2015 8:35:50 AM George, "....in addition to bad publicity)." Which, of course, is the crux of .....
» 26/05/2015 11:59:21 AM ".....There, now I have upset the whining leftists." Lol! - far from it. Your .....
» 26/05/2015 10:22:51 AM Here's a supplementary fact for those who are trying divert this discussion to pedophilia .....
» 21/05/2015 6:36:08 PM o sung wu, "What confounds me completely, instead of dissecting the opposition's pro.....
» 21/05/2015 2:52:02 PM o sung wu, You read it wrong... I wasn't attempting to mock your "vocabulary" .....
» 20/05/2015 7:52:54 PM JoM, "....Poirot I know bitter, hate fueled middle class women like you are happy to.....
» 20/05/2015 6:22:05 PM spindoc, Just noticed you composed a lengthy post to moi. I haven't bothered to read it .....
» 20/05/2015 6:12:17 PM SteeleRedux, Right you are. "South-East Asian migrant crisis: Malaysia, Indonesia t.....
» 20/05/2015 5:54:25 PM o sung wu, "I couldn't imagine anybody reading this, while 'seething' away to such a.....
» 19/05/2015 11:13:42 PM I thought I'd give this thread a wide berth - realising it would be swimming in odium. Ce.....
» 16/05/2015 9:27:58 PM "We all know you misrepresent quotes to reinforce a weak argument..." Says the .....
» 16/05/2015 5:30:25 PM spindoc says of Foxy: "You are rapidly degenerating into a vexatious poster with dec.....
» 16/05/2015 1:19:41 AM SM, I'd be surprised if anything came of the "meetings" and requests - as Europ.....
» 13/05/2015 9:05:01 PM "They obviously want to be re-elected, & equally obviously, with the reaction to last.....
» 12/05/2015 10:55:38 AM Foxy, "I'll make a note of your comments and I'll sincerely try to do better next ti.....
» 11/05/2015 10:57:49 PM Here's an interesting aside, SM. http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-05-09/students-praise-uw.....
» 11/05/2015 10:45:54 PM spindoc, "You have degenerated into an utter joke, thrashing for relevance, conflict.....
» 11/05/2015 6:48:25 PM spindoc, I'm not exactly sure what the point of all that was...but when all is said and d.....
» 11/05/2015 3:13:04 PM SM, "Secondly in this instance, as BL has been operating outside the purely academic.....
» 11/05/2015 10:02:19 AM SM, "Its peer reviewed reports are some of the most heavily cited in the world and a.....
» 11/05/2015 8:29:31 AM SM, "Personally I had never even heard of BL prior to the screeching in the media ab.....
» 10/05/2015 7:34:31 PM spindoc, Considering you swagger around here as if you actually possess some nous, it's s.....
» 10/05/2015 7:17:43 PM SM, ".... For you to then state that The Economist is going to risk its reputation o.....
» 10/05/2015 6:52:44 PM spindoc, "Then we have "The statistical significance of warming from 1994-2009 .....
» 10/05/2015 12:52:57 PM Nice one, spindoc. You didn't "get" warmair's reference to statistical signific.....
» 10/05/2015 11:42:51 AM spindoc, "You "translated" this as, "The IPCC says the rate of warmin.....
» 10/05/2015 10:19:12 AM SM, "As quoted in the Economist: "Dr Lomborg's critics protest too much. They a.....
» 10/05/2015 10:08:48 AM SM, The only reason the denier industry denies is because its main aim is to preserve the.....
» 9/05/2015 11:26:43 PM SM, "Your comment on Bjřrn Lomborg is rank hypocrisy. BL is a professor at a prestig.....
» 9/05/2015 8:07:25 PM spindoc, "“Rabbit's clever," said Pooh thoughtfully. "Yes," said Pigl.....
» 9/05/2015 5:50:48 PM "Well to be quite frank warmair, it makes you look like right old tosser." Talk.....
» 9/05/2015 2:57:49 PM SM, "...The Coalition has achieved more in their 18 months than those idiots did in .....
» 9/05/2015 11:06:47 AM Thanks, runner...for providing a classic example of one of your run-by specials. Exhibit .....
» 9/05/2015 10:19:17 AM spindoc, You're almost not worth bothering with...and boy-oh-boy you appear to think I've.....
» 9/05/2015 9:01:48 AM SM, "I wonder which part of the brain that makes people conservative also makes them.....
» 9/05/2015 8:39:04 AM spindoc, ". The $550 million in fossil fuel subsidies are NOT subsidies to the produ.....
» 8/05/2015 10:21:21 AM "Fossil fuels work" I'd like to see see how well they "work" without .....
» 8/05/2015 9:01:37 AM "When such technologies can stand on their own they will be market ready and an effec.....
» 7/05/2015 9:45:40 PM "World headed for an El Nino and it could be a big one...." http://www.smh.com......
» 7/05/2015 1:43:30 PM Yes, SM...as scintillating as " Dinner Tally" was (ho hum) - I think this is a t.....
» 6/05/2015 11:52:44 PM SteeleRedux, "Top shelf tosser and a generally nasty piece of work." Couldn't .....
» 6/05/2015 10:33:28 AM "Why do we insist on bitting the hand that feeds us"? More likely, the hand whi.....
» 4/05/2015 10:01:28 AM Bazz, "Enough commers there Poirot ?" That's "commas". You're welco.....
» 3/05/2015 3:32:28 PM "its called commonsense Poirot something that the regressives no little of." Le.....
» 3/05/2015 12:13:13 AM Hasbeen: "Just confirm for me, it was the warmist that said new dams would never fill.....
» 2/05/2015 7:08:15 PM Hasbeen, It certainly does boggle. After all there's still "snow"....and we al.....
» 2/05/2015 6:37:22 PM So Hasbeen thinks that climate scientists reckon it's not going to rain if the planet warm.....
» 2/05/2015 1:53:26 PM jayb, "& poirot, my terrorist loving friend. Ditto x 2..." Lol! "...My .....
» 2/05/2015 1:02:47 PM Foxy, I wouldn't bother.. He of base intellect has deposited a few words on the page - (.....
» 1/05/2015 10:20:08 PM Congrats, otb : ) Hasbeen, "Poirot, I challenge you to write a post where you actua.....
» 1/05/2015 4:14:09 PM o sung wu, I suppose ultimately it depends on whether one believes in atonement - and tra.....
» 1/05/2015 2:54:32 PM ConservativeHippie, The butterfly life cycle depiction was a metaphor. The fundamental m.....
» 1/05/2015 12:04:08 PM Another otb special! Love his balanced rhetoric. Mentions: Feminists - 4 Progressives .....
» 30/04/2015 10:27:38 AM Denny, "... Certainly we heard from the Prime Minister, who is genuinely opposed to .....
» 29/04/2015 5:01:16 PM Mark Knight sums it up well in this poignant cartoon today... http://twitter.com/Knightca.....
» 28/04/2015 11:55:58 PM You're a joke, Leo. It's always fascinating that those who squeal so loud about "ad .....
» 28/04/2015 7:06:31 PM Lol! - otb, "(and the frivolous sequinned, pear-shaped Abbottophobic one would be am.....
» 28/04/2015 3:49:38 PM I think it should be a conscience vote. ...... Aside from that, who couldn't be entertai.....
» 28/04/2015 10:19:54 AM "The decline of the lucky country" Maybe not so much - as Donald Horne pointed .....
» 26/04/2015 10:33:16 AM Max, "Last, you STILL haven’t dealt with the EVIDENCE!" With all due respect, .....
» 26/04/2015 8:00:59 AM Max, Poor old Leo who only speaks denier is at it again. Ho hum... "In 2010, Phil .....
» 25/04/2015 10:20:20 PM ConservativeHippie, I was merely referring to your hackneyed rhetoric. I mean how many t.....
» 25/04/2015 9:02:54 AM Lol! And this, folks..... "...Reduction of carbon emissions is dangerous nonsense. .....
» 24/04/2015 8:34:33 PM "Don't be suckers, climate change (global warming) is the biggest con since Y2K.".....
» 24/04/2015 4:41:51 PM Nathan, "You can also state: "I am happy to discuss human’s responsibility to c.....
» 23/04/2015 7:47:25 PM Cobber the hound, "This article is not a serious attempt to engage with science.&quo.....
» 23/04/2015 4:40:18 PM Nathan, "We do need solutions to problems facing the planet, as humans live on the p.....
» 23/04/2015 4:31:52 PM Bazz, "Piorot, are you a candidate for this years Turing prize ?" That one is .....
» 23/04/2015 12:39:12 PM SM, It's probably also worth noting that they live and derive their affluence in a first .....
» 23/04/2015 10:08:18 AM Leo's modis operandi is always to invite posters to present "the science" - and .....
» 23/04/2015 9:04:12 AM Loudmouth, How about you consider toddling off and growing up. Cheers.....
» 23/04/2015 8:57:49 AM Paul, Here's the transcript where Kerry O'Brien exposes Abbott's involvement in bringing .....
» 23/04/2015 8:46:16 AM rehctub, "The whole system is ars about." At present, yes. http://www.busines.....
» 22/04/2015 9:02:53 PM Sarah Russell, I seem to have come to your article rather late in the piece, and it's an .....
» 22/04/2015 7:18:32 PM Bugsy, "I think this right up there with such conservative satire as "Julia Gil.....
» 22/04/2015 2:30:41 PM Lol!...butcher, my heart bleeds for you. Fancy someone putting a stop to Costello's nifty.....
» 22/04/2015 12:50:23 PM "Either way it's very hard to tie weather events to ACC unless significant rises are .....
» 22/04/2015 10:42:50 AM Thought I'd drop in for a bit.... So...let's see? SM: "Lets recall the idiots of t.....
» 17/04/2015 9:53:29 AM Loudmouth, Well you may titter : ) Imagine the surge in vitality of the threads around h.....
» 17/04/2015 8:48:06 AM Hasbeen, I have no idea as to why Foxy is not around - either a health issue or she's fin.....
» 16/04/2015 11:03:20 PM "Ask the real experts about ocean acidification, not climate science deniers" h.....
» 12/04/2015 2:43:47 PM otb, Excuse me while I briefly interrupt your Labour bashing. But I noticed this line.......
» 11/04/2015 6:35:52 PM Emperor Julian, No problem....I put up those old posts of Jayb's to moi as an example of .....
» 11/04/2015 11:14:08 AM "Hmmm.... so what you are saying poirot is, you never give your own opinion on anythi.....
» 10/04/2015 7:01:57 PM Emperor Julian, "Have I read this convoluted exchange correctly? Is there really som.....
» 10/04/2015 3:27:19 PM "Yep, that's right. Your support for people like Monis. A proven refugee fleeing terr.....
» 10/04/2015 1:29:04 PM Jayb, The reason I've chosen not to engage you "on subject" is because of my pr.....
» 10/04/2015 10:23:28 AM Who could be bothered debating that kind of dishonesty.........
» 10/04/2015 10:21:40 AM Paul, Indeed.... He says: ".... I only ask questions to find out how you really fe.....
» 9/04/2015 8:42:46 PM Jayb, "Excuse me poirot but it was you who said, "There are no Islamic courts, .....
» 9/04/2015 5:48:27 PM Jayb, There are people on this forum who are worth engaging in a meaningful way - and the.....
» 9/04/2015 5:12:23 PM Raycom, "runner has the same right to exercise his freedom of speech as you do.".....
» 9/04/2015 3:06:27 PM Raycom, "Former Minister for Education, Michael Gove told the Daily Telegraph this w.....
» 8/04/2015 10:18:20 AM Lol!.....
» 8/04/2015 10:06:19 AM "yeah Poirot, just able to see how putried[sic]your dogmas are despite being dressed .....
» 8/04/2015 9:06:07 AM Paul, Yep....Nalliah is a doozy. http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2013/02/13/who-danny.....
» 7/04/2015 3:34:39 PM Nathan, "... I don't know how to address the issues facing people from the left wing.....
» 7/04/2015 1:29:46 PM Gawd, (she says, deciding to waste a post replying to runner's trusty "slaughtering u.....
» 7/04/2015 12:50:25 PM runner, Save your faux claims of concern for drowning asylum seekers for someone not so f.....
» 7/04/2015 10:28:39 AM JoM, I take the point that some "progressives" turned up to challenge the recla.....
» 7/04/2015 10:05:31 AM runner, "Socialist[s] hate free speach because it shows up the hopeless failure of t.....
» 7/04/2015 1:51:48 AM Paul, "These people are all micro groups of fermented fruit cakes." Yes, it wa.....
» 4/04/2015 11:22:18 PM otb, "Rhrosty, You discredit yourself with that sort of post." Lol!...I suppo.....
» 4/04/2015 12:07:33 PM "it's".....
» 4/04/2015 12:06:37 PM "Q: How do you tell a Green is lying? A: The lips are moving." Aww...come on, o.....
» 4/04/2015 10:05:22 AM rehctub, http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/energy-companys-11-billion.....
» 3/04/2015 5:42:51 PM Hasbeen, "If those 3 talents were to start a production company, they would make a f.....
» 3/04/2015 5:34:04 PM Reprising the article Foxy's article: http://theconversation.com/crime-stats-provide-real.....
» 3/04/2015 8:52:32 AM otb, "At no stage did I say as you claim, that the Greens are "are associated w.....
» 2/04/2015 7:57:39 PM Paul, Foxy, "I have to be careful with this particular poster as he lives a charmed .....
» 2/04/2015 8:28:36 AM Paul, http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/big-business-took-25-billion-.....
» 31/03/2015 5:29:22 AM Fascinating...Foxy starts a thread on this subject - and "onthebeach" (as is his.....
» 30/03/2015 10:56:20 AM runner, "come on Hasbeen Tony punched the air 40 years ago and that got far more cov.....
» 27/03/2015 7:39:44 AM Then again Foxy you may prefer not to use tinyurl as it's clearer which site your link is .....
» 26/03/2015 6:02:58 PM Foxy, "Thank You for your advice. As you can see I'm not very computer literate.&quo.....
» 25/03/2015 6:02:19 PM "Comprehension" ...with an "S" (Sheesh!).....
» 23/03/2015 12:07:31 PM "Labor and the Greens cynical, cringe-worthy adulation and hero-worship of Fraser aft.....
» 23/03/2015 9:04:05 AM JF Aus, "I think Malcolm Fraser did his best. His name deserves respect." I ag.....
» 23/03/2015 1:13:14 AM "Still, the cupboard is bare where heroes of socialism are concerned, with the last t.....
» 21/03/2015 12:33:19 PM Yes, Craig...it's interesting to hear of the musings of the likes of Chaney's - from someo.....
» 21/03/2015 11:51:28 AM Just mention that Malcolm Fraser was very much still part of the wider political commentar.....
» 21/03/2015 11:47:04 AM "Big Mal changed and so did my opinion of him." Malcolm Fraser didn't change - .....
» 19/03/2015 5:37:34 PM I see Constance has gone off the deep end again... "These people are frightening. Th.....
» 17/03/2015 12:00:59 AM Suse, Constance seems a tad confused...in so much that she can't seem to decide which gro.....
» 10/03/2015 9:05:31 AM SM, Here's a pic of Israel's ceaseless expansion since the UN partition of 1947. http://.....
» 9/03/2015 3:53:34 PM runner, Any commentary of the fact that Palestinians have been squeezed into a ghetto - a.....
» 9/03/2015 3:33:12 PM runner, Explain to me....in UN-designated safe compounds, the people in charge texting co.....
» 9/03/2015 3:01:58 PM otb, "Now back to the Q&A producers' cynical use and abuse of Mangolyes' celebrity.......
» 9/03/2015 12:13:52 PM Bazz, "....except even in those places many mothers are reluctant to let the kids go.....
» 9/03/2015 10:54:58 AM Try again, SM... We don't honour the memory of those Jews and their Holocaust experiences.....
» 9/03/2015 10:03:18 AM I feel a bit sorry for JoM - because the Australia he apparently sees around him bares no .....
» 8/03/2015 6:20:30 PM So sorry, otb....have I interrupted your latest tilt at hysterically critiquing your chose.....
» 8/03/2015 4:48:34 PM "No, the producers of Q&A were the ones who quite deliberately and coldly typecast he.....
» 7/03/2015 6:11:57 PM "....I call a spade a spade." No you don't...what you do is reach into your eas.....
» 6/03/2015 6:05:35 PM "(A selfish, untrustworthy, deeply obnoxious or evil person of diminutive size, whose.....
» 6/03/2015 5:50:50 PM Au contraire, SM....I couldn't begin to approach your OLO mantle as King of the Kiddie Nam.....
» 6/03/2015 4:29:18 PM otb, You tritely typecast Margolyes - as would be expected from OLO's leading faux defend.....
» 6/03/2015 2:40:16 PM SM, "If you don't like poison dwarf, how about Toxic Gnome, pestilent pixie or best .....
» 6/03/2015 10:47:05 AM Lol!...another typo....perhaps I should go back to bed and get up again : ) ".... th.....
» 6/03/2015 10:44:09 AM Persona "non" grata....(sheesh!).....
» 6/03/2015 10:42:01 AM Fascinating how the right-wingers here constantly bleat the accusation that anyone who cri.....
» 5/03/2015 3:03:22 PM SM, Fascinating the way you always attempt to present yourself as a mature poster...when .....
» 5/03/2015 6:24:23 AM I'm always intrigued how RWNJ's present themselves as somehow a cut above the rest. Here'.....
» 3/03/2015 6:52:23 PM CH, Does it ever occur to you that the reason Lefties stand out on Q&A (or any show) is t.....
» 3/03/2015 5:28:49 PM "Much of the program seemed to be a platform for Andrew Leigh, Labor's lowly Shadow A.....
» 3/03/2015 5:07:48 PM Lol!... "Let's face it, Q & A is always stacked with Labor/Green supporters. The pan.....
» 2/03/2015 9:21:32 PM Thanks Foxy, I used to enjoy a bit of good honest debate around here, but I draw the line.....
» 2/03/2015 7:51:06 PM platypus, My, my...aren't you the gutter trawler! We've have some rather loathsome chara.....
» 2/03/2015 7:10:06 PM Foxy, Take note of runner's diatribe....it was pretty good by his standards - in that he .....
» 1/03/2015 3:09:38 PM Yeah, CH...it's dreadful isn't it - although I've managed to clean the house, take Mr13 to.....
» 1/03/2015 2:52:54 PM ".... THE NATION voted LNP into power, lead by Tony Abbott try to respect the wishes.....
» 1/03/2015 2:21:28 PM Sorry, to disappoint you, platypus...but I'm not "60" for a fair while yet : ) .....
» 1/03/2015 10:55:27 AM platypus1900, Lol! I couldn't give a stuff if you luxuriate in the poor presentation of .....
» 1/03/2015 10:33:36 AM "we DO NOT want another Julia&Kevin circus" And "that" is the sole re.....
» 1/03/2015 10:29:46 AM "@poirot you are really good at missing the forest for the tree" And you are r.....
» 1/03/2015 10:06:32 AM "So Poitor, your happy to see the libs self district, just so labor can get back in. .....
» 1/03/2015 9:10:01 AM "The country didn't vote for Malcom or Julie to be our PM" As you've conceded, .....
» 28/02/2015 8:11:46 PM o sung wu, "...he's no less than the Devil incarnate ?..." No he's not... He'.....
» 28/02/2015 6:56:13 PM Jeepers...we're all treated to another cyclonic runner run-by post! runner, who, by the w.....
» 28/02/2015 5:28:00 PM o sung wu, "I dunno mate, in my living memory I've never known a single individual i.....
» 28/02/2015 12:17:55 PM "Like no one in the Labor Party ever lied and the media isn't now biased against Abbo.....
» 28/02/2015 11:43:14 AM o sung wu, "Can I take it, you don't like him ?" Amazing that many here ask th.....
» 28/02/2015 11:20:29 AM o sung wu, "One thing with Tony ABBOTT, what you see is what you get !..." Is .....
» 28/02/2015 12:30:59 AM Never mind, Hasbeen....we all tend to get a bit snarky on here. If this wasn't inclined t.....
» 27/02/2015 3:24:54 PM "Personally I think Turnbull should be replacing Bill Shorten, then your mob might ac.....
» 27/02/2015 12:11:20 PM Hasbeen, "Let me say, one should never trust a member of the English gentry. They ar.....
» 27/02/2015 11:26:21 AM runner, "spare us your croc tears Poirot. Thre progressives have shown like Trigg th.....
» 27/02/2015 10:49:38 AM SteeleRedux, We shouldn't be surprised that some here look beyond the Abbott govt's exqui.....
» 26/02/2015 5:10:01 PM runner, "they should of just sacked her.." If you're going to comment, how abo.....
» 26/02/2015 4:28:46 PM Since you're all continuing to play partisan politics with the related issue, I'll just dr.....
» 26/02/2015 9:09:41 AM Lol! Here we go - echoes of Abbott and his govt's style when dealing with women of the op.....
» 26/02/2015 8:23:01 AM Cont'd "The government says it has lost confidence in Professor Triggs. It claims sh.....
» 26/02/2015 8:20:46 AM Since we seem to be having a copy and paste jamboree, I'll see otb's article from SMH and .....
» 25/02/2015 2:39:54 PM Foxy, Never mind otb...he apparently doesn't give a hoot regarding the independence of st.....
» 25/02/2015 1:43:14 PM Lol!...the govt and Foreign Minister now denying in question time that an alterantive job .....
» 25/02/2015 10:48:15 AM otb, That comment is about as pathetic as they come regarding alleged attempted interfere.....
» 25/02/2015 10:23:40 AM Hasbeen, Any comment on the alleged attempt of inducement to a public official? http://w.....
» 25/02/2015 10:10:24 AM Thanks for that, otb. So you can't find it within yourself to crank up your moral outrage.....
» 25/02/2015 8:45:29 AM Well goodness me! I see CH, otb and the glorious platypus (who appears oddly to be missin.....
» 25/02/2015 12:41:15 AM yeah, platypus... The difference being that you're talking out of the top of your hat...l.....
» 24/02/2015 11:25:41 PM The entire matter "is" very disturbing, Foxy. Anyone who witnessed Abbott's hys.....
» 23/02/2015 3:06:03 PM otb, "You and your parlour games of 'tit for tat' where your offered exchange is no .....
» 23/02/2015 9:39:25 AM Bazz, What's so funny? It's well accepted that deniers regularly wheel out a handful of .....
» 23/02/2015 9:00:26 AM Yeah, otb....your narrative is quite intriguing..now the rule of law threatens to decimate.....
» 23/02/2015 8:28:23 AM Bazz, "To use that as a proof has become b^)*(y pathetic." Come now, we all kn.....
» 23/02/2015 8:21:46 AM otb, ".... However the highly dependent, frightened public, made so by the incessant.....
» 23/02/2015 8:14:08 AM platypus1900 "we can discuss howard and others in another post keep this to the idio.....
» 23/02/2015 8:00:52 AM Loudmouth, "As for such crimes as Hicks committed not being - technically - crimes a.....
» 22/02/2015 11:43:40 PM Loudmouth, "....No, he did not commit any crimes in Australian or American law since.....
» 22/02/2015 11:35:53 PM Hasbeen, Well, little man, I merely reacted to your latest attempt to paint climate scien.....
» 22/02/2015 8:58:22 PM Hasbeen, "I can only assume they want to add to the bulldust that cyclones are getti.....
» 22/02/2015 8:18:05 PM Loudmouth, "I don't give a toss about whether or not such terrorist acts were crimes.....
» 22/02/2015 7:08:58 PM "My dear Poirot, How does this make you feel ?" It makes me feel like I'm bein.....
» 22/02/2015 5:57:04 PM Foxy, May I congratulate you on your strong stomach! Not many women would abide being pa.....
» 20/02/2015 11:57:17 PM Hope you don't mind if I insert this one here...talking of what our taxes should and shoul.....
» 20/02/2015 11:45:20 PM rehctub, "I seriously can not believe the do-gooders position here as this guy joine.....
» 19/02/2015 6:35:51 PM It's revealing how many on this forum don't give a fig for the rule of law - and due proce.....
» 19/02/2015 3:46:27 PM "L'il Willie Shorten and the Greens are highly sympathetic to Hicks. Maybe they would.....
» 18/02/2015 4:29:20 PM CH, "The big difference between us is I'm not obsessed. It appears you however canno.....
» 18/02/2015 11:18:25 AM Craig Minns, "I don't feel strongly enough to take action against Constance or Singe.....
» 18/02/2015 10:32:06 AM Craig Minns, "I rarely report others' comments. On the other hand, GY has applied so.....
» 18/02/2015 9:41:33 AM ConservativeHippie, Wow!...you're a clever chappie! It would seem, however, that moi is .....
» 18/02/2015 8:46:22 AM Craig Minns, "I'm at a bit of a loss as to why GY doesn't take some form of action t.....
» 17/02/2015 12:19:02 PM ConservativeHippie, "Get the message Poirot." Twinkle Toes Tones of the well-k.....
» 17/02/2015 11:33:27 AM More... http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/feb/12/justice-fairness-who-needs-t.....
» 17/02/2015 11:11:45 AM otb, "Poirot, Your Abbotophobia is leading you to believe that Omar Al-Kutobi and .....
» 16/02/2015 5:58:25 PM Yes, otb, but that could be summed up far more succinctly by noting that every time Abbott.....
» 15/02/2015 10:22:48 AM "david f, You are a fundamentalist, absolutist and extreme in your thoughts. You hav.....
» 14/02/2015 8:24:24 PM rehctub, "While I accept we have many great Muslims, it's their religion, THAT THEY .....
» 14/02/2015 11:46:24 AM Foxy, Here's a puff piece in today's Tele (in the "News" section) on Tony and M.....
» 13/02/2015 7:26:00 PM And I might add, ConservativeHippie, that judging by your ".... the two (Muslim) men .....
» 13/02/2015 7:20:37 PM ConservativeHippie, I'm referencing the inane antics of our seemingly "off the rails.....
» 13/02/2015 5:46:05 PM Meanwhile, in the continuing saga of Abbott dingbattery...he's just 'sacked" Ruddock .....
» 13/02/2015 2:40:45 PM Two hours ago, his tweet by Stephen Koukoulas... "Gross government debt just hit $35.....
» 13/02/2015 10:16:50 AM Regarding my comment above on the "alleged terrorist plot". It appears that Abb.....
» 13/02/2015 9:57:40 AM otb, "Sorry, but it must be your acute Abbottophobia that overlooks a terrorist plot.....
» 12/02/2015 11:32:37 PM Getting back to Go Tony go.... Today brought us further embarrassing gaffes from an incre.....
» 12/02/2015 9:03:23 AM otb, I have to say that I think Tony Abbott is way more intelligent than Georgie Dubya - .....
» 12/02/2015 1:21:53 AM AJPhilips, "To me, Abbott’s long list of credentials are more indicative of a life o.....
» 11/02/2015 9:31:51 PM " Bachelor of Economics and a Bachelor of Law from the University of Sydney. - Queen.....
» 11/02/2015 8:22:14 AM Houellie, That is a goodie...saw it on twitter but didn't get round to reading it. Otb, .....
» 11/02/2015 8:08:07 AM That's quite hilarious, Hasbeen, Your hero is still on borrowed time..."everyone&quo.....
» 10/02/2015 11:40:50 PM I'm often criticised for relentlessly panning Abbott on this forum. runner calls it Abbott.....
» 10/02/2015 2:05:44 PM Never mind everyone, 521 days into the Abbott Govt - it's about become "Good Governm.....
» 9/02/2015 7:08:10 PM Bazz, "More meaningless waffle." Funny you should mention that...have you been.....
» 9/02/2015 3:03:42 PM Bazz, Hasbeen, Abbott's goose is well and truly cooked. He survived today...but ultimate.....
» 8/02/2015 6:35:07 PM Foxy, "As for Joe? Perhaps that's simply his style of posting...." What it is.....
» 8/02/2015 1:01:29 PM Foxy, Correct me if I'm wrong, but I seem to recall Constance citing St Francis of Assisi.....
» 7/02/2015 11:56:51 AM Zombie government? No thanks, we've already got one......
» 7/02/2015 11:16:29 AM Squeers, "Unlike you I’m not here just for fun, for stirring the possum and venting .....
» 7/02/2015 9:57:09 AM Erk... Via Constance, "THIS IS A WARNING TO ALL INFIDELS (NON BELIEVERS) ISSUED BY .....
» 7/02/2015 8:52:51 AM 579, Yes, good old Tones makes a point that Julie Bishop is standing beside him on the sp.....
» 6/02/2015 12:36:22 PM Luke Simpkins has formally launched a spill motion......
» 5/02/2015 5:14:02 PM runner, "'BTW, Niki Savva has dumped major league on Abbott in today's Australian.' .....
» 5/02/2015 5:03:22 PM Houellie, "It would be a very hard gig trying to keep that guy's foot away from his .....
» 5/02/2015 3:55:04 PM Yeah, Houellie, I have to partially disagree with you there. Leftie women are notorious f.....
» 4/02/2015 5:06:47 PM Constance, "Can you admit you know NADA (and never wish to know) about Islam? How a.....
» 4/02/2015 10:06:10 AM "...It really is a case of remove Abbott or get removed as a government...." Ca.....
» 3/02/2015 8:03:13 PM Constance, "Then why do you persistently defend something you are not enamoured with.....
» 3/02/2015 7:09:05 PM Suse, There's "no way" Abbott is going to take the Libs to the election. In fa.....
» 3/02/2015 2:34:40 PM Graham, ".... But they wouldn't even lift a finger nail to help a sister on the othe.....
» 3/02/2015 10:48:06 AM 579, "Whatever the outcome we will be assured it will not include Abbott, or his adv.....
» 3/02/2015 10:34:01 AM Hasbeen, It is interesting what filters through on MSM. My 13 year-old (who's reasonably.....
» 3/02/2015 9:53:27 AM Foxy, "Now what are your predictions for 2016 federally?" Lol!...shall we say .....
» 3/02/2015 8:35:24 AM Squeers, Graham, I have to admit that I don't know too much about Queensland state politi.....
» 2/02/2015 10:25:22 PM ""Manage your debt or your debt manages you !" "Manage your GFC or yo.....
» 2/02/2015 9:13:06 PM Lol!...Freudian Slip... "troll" should be "trawl"......
» 2/02/2015 9:11:08 PM Loudmouth, "And yes, Abbott will be gone by the end of the week. Who are you going t.....
» 2/02/2015 8:18:13 PM And Lol!, Joe....you waffled on about the nasty debt Labor left - didn't mention the GFC -.....
» 2/02/2015 8:09:22 PM I say Paul, Loudy, Did yer catch Abbott's crappy speech to the NPC? Drrrripping with slo.....
» 2/02/2015 5:47:15 PM Oh and can you explain to this simpleton why Hockey has added $80 billion to the deficit i.....
» 2/02/2015 5:11:18 PM Loudmouth, Lol!...."It's not too late to enrol in Economics 1, at a university near .....
» 2/02/2015 12:59:59 PM Loudmouth, "Gross debt was $50 billion when Howard lost, was $273 billion when Rudd .....
» 2/02/2015 8:07:11 AM Abbott, in turning over a new leaf and being all consultative, is going to publicly lay ou.....
» 1/02/2015 11:58:58 PM Constance, "You must be enamoured with Islam. Tell me what you like about it?" .....
» 1/02/2015 11:12:20 PM Really? Did you call it like turned out, Graham? Pretty amazing if you did!.....
» 1/02/2015 8:02:59 PM Loudmouth, "So what was our deficit in 2007 ? In 2013 ? Now ? Are you suggesting we .....
» 1/02/2015 6:29:56 PM yada, yada...Loudmouth. You know there was no "emergency" - and that Australia .....
» 1/02/2015 5:40:24 PM "The Libs inherited a hell of a financial mess from Labor, and the economics of our c.....
» 1/02/2015 12:10:05 PM Foxy, Judging by his presser this morning, his gall is fully intact - as are his slogans......
» 31/01/2015 10:02:20 PM Nice one, Queensland. No-one's talking about Prince Philip anymore..........
» 31/01/2015 10:13:55 AM otb, "Parliament is a sea of bobble-heads. -So much for paying the PM more than the .....
» 31/01/2015 8:46:47 AM Nice to acknowledge that Professor David Flint and otb are in favour of the PM dolling out.....
» 30/01/2015 10:21:50 PM "Leftists have considerable form for stirring and not taking responsibility. As for .....
» 30/01/2015 3:19:48 PM runner, I'm not obsessed with it - I'm amused by it....it's "funny". His fello.....
» 30/01/2015 2:43:12 PM "those who have wet their pants with excitment are now only left with the smell. Feve.....
» 30/01/2015 10:50:56 AM "Gawd, What a storm in a teacup ! Have you ever heard such a rumpus about a not very.....
» 29/01/2015 11:11:43 PM "Tony Abbott, 'white' men, honours, UK, Royalty, 'MSM', etc., pressed so many of your.....
» 29/01/2015 7:55:18 PM Steelredux, "Thank you for reposting your deleted post. There didn't seem to be anyt.....
» 29/01/2015 3:55:31 PM Keep your tiara on runner, The point being that the PMO has delivered nothing but debacle.....
» 29/01/2015 2:11:40 PM otb, "Of course you and others are shocked and outraged that an Australian award is .....
» 29/01/2015 10:45:58 AM No "possibly" about it, IMO. If they turf Credlin - and wobble on with Tones at.....
» 28/01/2015 3:04:16 PM "?? Was Murdoch sponsoring Abbott and Credlin - why is he pulling strings ??" L.....
» 28/01/2015 2:19:10 PM Latest is Murdoch is calling for Credlin's head - in an effort to preserve Abbott's. I th.....
» 28/01/2015 12:43:30 PM Banjo, "Aidan, Poirot is wrong, I think the catastrophe Hasbeen refers to is the eno.....
» 28/01/2015 10:28:15 AM Suse, Not so sure...she popped in for a chat with Rupie on the way to Afghanistan apparen.....
» 28/01/2015 10:08:07 AM Aidan, The catastrophe?...that would be the AAA rating from three agencies and one of the.....
» 28/01/2015 9:59:29 AM Foxy, "It will be interesting to see what happens next." Here's what Peter van.....
» 28/01/2015 8:46:05 AM Keep spinning spindoc, First of all Goosey Abbott introduces his Bunyip line of honours.......
» 27/01/2015 4:13:47 PM Seems I mistook SPQR for Jayb "Joe and his family joined a scattering of other famil.....
» 27/01/2015 3:29:11 PM Further to that, Constance, is the fact that inserting someone's seemingly intelligent quo.....
» 27/01/2015 2:47:02 PM Well there you go, Constance...being surprised that you actually managed to post a (half)c.....
» 27/01/2015 2:38:45 PM Agronomist, Yes, but under the present circs and with the Rudd/Gillard/Rudd merry-go-roun.....
» 27/01/2015 2:24:08 PM Jayb, While we were packing up to come home we were treated to the spectacle of ute drivi.....
» 27/01/2015 2:15:06 PM Conservativehippie, "The Labor Opposition is calling for Abbott's head...." No.....
» 27/01/2015 2:04:55 PM Thanks for that, Constance. "Blaise Pascal said that the beginning of morality was t.....
» 27/01/2015 1:54:03 PM Hasbeen, Exhibit 1 (of many): http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/tony-abbott-blind-to-.....
» 27/01/2015 11:58:28 AM Hasbeen, "Whee listen to the lefties rant." Lol!....I spent much of yesterday .....
» 27/01/2015 10:49:21 AM Paul, Apparently Abbott as a "young-un" had already bestowed Tom Uren an offeri.....
» 27/01/2015 10:25:40 AM You know, yesterday we went to the beach. It was a beautiful day here in the West, an eas.....
» 27/01/2015 10:18:14 AM rehctub, "As for Abbott, I say replace him with Scott Morrison now because we need p.....
» 27/01/2015 10:00:03 AM ConservativeHippie, "Baring in mind, a staffer's comments may not be that trustworth.....
» 27/01/2015 8:55:42 AM Pericles, "It is quite puzzling to me that nobody felt it appropriate to take the la.....
» 26/01/2015 11:59:20 PM Lol!..Foxy, Suse, One expects after this latest debacle that Abbott is in danger of recei.....
» 26/01/2015 11:46:54 PM Aidan, "....Tony Abbott awarded the knighthood to Prince Philip because he wanted to.....
» 26/01/2015 8:48:20 PM Suse, "Has the PM lost the plot?" Indeed, he has - and that came across loud a.....
» 26/01/2015 12:39:00 PM Constance, The Pope (whom I admire) is totally out of step with capitalism. All the world.....
» 26/01/2015 9:57:41 AM And now for a superior dollop of PMO dingbattery - we now have Prince Philip named as a kn.....
» 26/01/2015 1:15:13 AM Absolutely, Killarney. "No, JKJ's comment was neither excellent nor even worth takin.....
» 25/01/2015 10:31:56 PM "What about this fellow, is he a 'smartarse' too?" Yes.........
» 25/01/2015 10:00:32 PM Lol!...Constance is at it again. I've never seen quite so much belligerent prose sprayed .....
» 25/01/2015 6:55:50 PM Hasbeen, "Poirot, much as I don't want them here, there is not a Muslim on earth I a.....
» 25/01/2015 11:45:21 AM Yes, Hasbeen...for example it, must warm the cockles of a Syrian asylum seeker's heart to .....
» 25/01/2015 5:21:46 AM SM, "I always wonder at the mind of the far left whinger, and its capacity to comple.....
» 24/01/2015 11:07:03 PM Yes, Banjo...it would appear that they are taking advantage of their freedom of expression.....
» 24/01/2015 2:53:26 PM Give us a twirl, runner? (it's not as if you're here on your ability to make cogent argum.....
» 24/01/2015 12:17:24 PM Who knows, Hasbeen : ) I have to tell you that I used to surf...and among the females at .....
» 24/01/2015 11:43:40 AM Constance, Which begs the question - why are the Saudis the bestest friends of the West? .....
» 24/01/2015 10:54:37 AM Mildly amusing. So many men on this thread opining their expertise on all things boobies......
» 24/01/2015 10:26:27 AM Foxy, http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/australia-day-poses-curious-questions-just-what.....
» 24/01/2015 9:52:09 AM Killarney, I feel it's only fair to inform you that if you're going to engage with Jayb, .....
» 23/01/2015 11:55:22 PM Jayb, "...an extremely large chasm." That would be the difference between cand.....
» 23/01/2015 8:55:43 PM o sung wu, We were discussing David Suchet being typecast as Hercule Poirot. I recall him.....
» 23/01/2015 4:06:15 PM Constance, "Why should I take any notice of a Leftist deviant like yourself who want.....
» 22/01/2015 11:24:55 PM Constance, Nothing to say in response to SteeleRedux's comprehensive dismantling of your .....
» 22/01/2015 8:13:05 PM AJPhilips, When your credibility has been comprehensively hit for six, you've got two cho.....
» 22/01/2015 7:11:14 PM "I was only going on the amount of shoplifting by women in Burka's that I witnessed.&.....
» 22/01/2015 2:11:28 PM "Going by the amount of flack I'm getting from Poirot & Pericles, I must be getting c.....
» 22/01/2015 1:50:41 PM o sung wu, "Surely the best way of preventing people from 'inventing stuff' is to ne.....
» 22/01/2015 10:46:09 AM I wouldn't bother reacting to her provocation, Foxy. These are the last three comments to.....
» 22/01/2015 10:34:41 AM AJPhilips, "’ll await your clever punchline but I don’t expect it to be any more wit.....
» 22/01/2015 9:12:23 AM ...and if you don't take Jayb's narrative on board, he'll call you an Arab - and then rega.....
» 22/01/2015 8:52:32 AM Whereas SPQR learned everything he knows from the right-wing remedial class on OLO : ).....
» 21/01/2015 8:31:50 PM Foxy, "Dear Constance, You were the one who made the comment to me about liking fai.....
» 21/01/2015 5:39:15 PM Lol!...SteeleRedux...for that I give you a five minute standing ovation......
» 21/01/2015 5:18:39 PM o sung wu, Indeed David Suchet is typecast as Poirot, but it's not something he regrets. .....
» 21/01/2015 4:57:18 PM "....Their husbands were waiting for them outside in the Rolls & Mercedes, etc.".....
» 21/01/2015 3:48:25 PM o sung wu, Not my previous nickname - but my present one...as in "Poirot". You.....
» 21/01/2015 3:31:17 PM spindoc, "A fine point indeed. All you have to do now is show the difference in scal.....
» 21/01/2015 2:33:00 PM o sung wu, Sorry mate, I was just exercising a little license and playing on my OLO nickn.....
» 21/01/2015 2:13:41 PM Isn't it fascinating that some people accuse anyone who defends the general Muslim populat.....
» 21/01/2015 1:28:11 PM rehctub, I can just see it now, How to instil manners 101. Give 'em a damn good thrashi.....
» 21/01/2015 12:16:11 AM A thread entitled "It's time to decide, do we become 'pro active' or remain" see.....
» 20/01/2015 10:48:39 PM SPQR, "<<[Abbott] can't bat, he can't bowl, he cant field...but he's a damn go.....
» 20/01/2015 3:28:50 PM Hi Steven, Thanks for that. Remember this? http://www.skytopia.com/project/fractal/mand.....
» 20/01/2015 12:30:21 PM Foxy, I'm sure I'm not a favourite : ) However, I appreciate your other points......
» 20/01/2015 12:04:45 PM jayb, You're such a disingenuous little flower aren't ypu : ) "So are you countenan.....
» 20/01/2015 11:57:37 AM Might have helped in the Abbott govt's case if they hadn't fundamentally misrepresented th.....
» 20/01/2015 11:48:03 AM Oi, you two! Does that mean I'm not yer favourite anymore, Loudmouth? I don't know how I.....
» 20/01/2015 11:41:29 AM runner, Of course, when you've got a drum to bang, you'd never countenance that most of t.....
» 20/01/2015 10:58:23 AM Bazz, There appears to a tide of Muslim migration (for various reasons) out of their his.....
» 20/01/2015 10:07:48 AM Pericles, "I personally refuse to accept this petty, mozzie-bashing fear-mongering a.....
» 20/01/2015 9:37:18 AM Josephus, I wonder how that would go down with the West's bestest buddies and head lopper.....
» 20/01/2015 8:23:41 AM SPQR, "....and now us and France are paying a high price for our nativity." Th.....
» 20/01/2015 8:01:02 AM Pericles, Interesting observations. rehctub, "They didn't gain their hate from the.....
» 20/01/2015 1:18:23 AM Yep - agree with Hasbeen and Suse. I would have been out of there quicker than you could .....
» 19/01/2015 5:05:56 PM Loudmouth, "My recollection is that George brought up his mother, and I was simply d.....
» 19/01/2015 1:51:43 PM Constance, Sorry, 'bout that. Strange isn't it that you of all posters accuses others of.....
» 19/01/2015 12:21:31 PM Jayb, Certainly not threatening anything. But I'm wondering how many men in a real life .....
» 19/01/2015 11:41:29 AM Jayb, It's not George's post. It's Loudmouth's. Of course, he wouldn't have the intesti.....
» 19/01/2015 10:16:06 AM Bazz, "Note the tactic by the excusers, "What do you mean by this ?" ".....
» 19/01/2015 8:52:42 AM "I think you might have to check a few things in your post. The quote “War on Islam” .....
» 18/01/2015 9:39:17 PM Foxy, "With parents and children busier today than ever before the teaching of good .....
» 18/01/2015 5:02:36 PM Jayb, Like I said, if there are so many, it shouldn't be hard to produce some. You shoul.....
» 18/01/2015 4:44:42 PM Yuyutsu, You first state... "Why for example shouldn't an adult be able to prescrib.....
» 18/01/2015 3:00:35 PM Run away and play with your blocks, Jayb. You're the guy who spouts whatever you wish to .....
» 18/01/2015 2:40:38 PM Nice try, Loudmouth. "What has been your actual contribution to this topic ? Do you .....
» 18/01/2015 2:00:32 PM Thanks Constance, Attacking slaughtered cartoonists just so you can have a lefty rant is .....
» 18/01/2015 1:39:01 PM "... They were not innocent. And all it seems that they were about was radical Leftis.....
» 18/01/2015 12:01:44 PM I don't post things on OLO which people send me out of the blue. In fact, my email is fre.....
» 18/01/2015 11:35:26 AM "I didn’t create these stats – it was sent to me out of the blue. How can you deny th.....
» 18/01/2015 11:00:13 AM hasbeen, I don't think teaching manners should be specifically "taught" as a di.....
» 18/01/2015 6:14:05 AM One more example of the PMO (Credlin and Abbott) totally out of control and incompetent. .....
» 17/01/2015 9:33:49 PM Constance, "I still can't believe the spineless worms who live among us. Their ignor.....
» 17/01/2015 8:10:07 PM Of course good manners should be promoted and upheld in the school situation - as they sho.....
» 17/01/2015 7:46:39 PM rehctub, Just what do you mean by "proactive"? Details please?.....
» 17/01/2015 7:15:10 PM Loudmouth, "If a bigot is someone who has an opinion which can't be shaken, no matte.....
» 17/01/2015 5:07:03 PM Govt leadership under Abbott and Credlin (see PMO) is a joke - and now we're hearing a few.....
» 17/01/2015 11:52:47 AM Yeah, thanks, SPQROLFMAO, You're not quite as offensive as you'd like to be - a tad light.....
» 17/01/2015 11:31:41 AM Yeah, lovely, Loudmouth, What would inspire you to end your post to George In such a mann.....
» 17/01/2015 11:11:28 AM Foxy, I don't think I've bought one since it was a "weekly"......
» 17/01/2015 10:34:06 AM Hi Foxy, I'm a tad confused... One of the gentleman here reckons I'm too girlie- while t.....
» 17/01/2015 10:21:45 AM Loudmouth, "Surely you should have the right, when attempting to express yourself, t.....
» 16/01/2015 4:23:56 PM That's Latika "Bourke".....
» 16/01/2015 4:22:23 PM I'll just drop this here... Journalist, Latika Burke just tweeted this: "Had numero.....
» 16/01/2015 4:13:16 PM "As usual, Poirot has zoomed in on the critically important: a 'girl' Poirot is defin.....
» 16/01/2015 3:51:09 PM Spindoc, You'll have to excuse me for not concentrating to my fullest girlie extent, but .....
» 16/01/2015 3:45:16 PM Ya gotta laugh...another cunning plan from the PM's Office bites the dust. How many back .....
» 16/01/2015 3:15:19 PM Gee thanks, Spindoc.....so, the wash up is that we girls act far too much like..er...girls.....
» 16/01/2015 12:58:31 PM Spindoc, "Mmmm? So those who disagree with you are negative, inferior, beyond help a.....
» 16/01/2015 11:43:09 AM SPQR, "...just take a time-out from your busy ranting-schedule..." Certainly.......
» 16/01/2015 10:47:23 AM Interesting question, Foxy...I have no idea. Regarding the national anthem...that "b.....
» 16/01/2015 9:12:26 AM Ah...humans are full of hypocisy - coud be humanity's defining trait. Get a load of this .....
» 15/01/2015 6:28:08 PM Hasbeen, "Yes some vote on what is best for the country. However when I suggested I .....
» 15/01/2015 11:42:21 AM JKJ, "You can believe there's no connection between what people believe, and what th.....
» 15/01/2015 10:09:23 AM Threats to book stores in Belgium. http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-01-15/bookstores-sellin.....
» 15/01/2015 7:47:21 AM That's almost poetic, Killarney......
» 15/01/2015 1:20:59 AM Luciferase, "I am an atheist, honest. Should it disqualify me from religious discour.....
» 14/01/2015 3:16:55 PM SPQR, "PS just in case you are wondering..." Nup - can't say I was......
» 14/01/2015 3:13:43 PM Strangely enough, Rhian, when Johns' "great idea" first did the rounds on OLO, I.....
» 14/01/2015 2:32:43 PM LOl!...SPQR, I have to admit it's so much more "profound" watching you guys che.....
» 14/01/2015 2:03:27 PM Luciferase, For someone who claims to be an atheist, you seem to get all hot and bothered.....
» 14/01/2015 10:02:29 AM Yuyutsu, McCackie, I take your point that in the theatre of organised military manoeuvres.....
» 14/01/2015 9:11:05 AM Yuyutsu, Which human ever fought out of indifference? Emotive reaction is triggered ten-.....
» 14/01/2015 8:36:29 AM Graham, ".....However I do have a problem with taxing the poor and the needy to subs.....
» 13/01/2015 8:32:04 PM Yuyutsu, What is sin?.....
» 13/01/2015 7:01:42 PM Yuyutsu, I was merely pointing out since so many are citing "provocation" as th.....
» 13/01/2015 6:41:19 PM Yes, Philip..I've seen the reality on twitter. They did manage to pull off the illusion t.....
» 13/01/2015 5:41:21 PM Yuyutsu, I'm sure you're equally sad for the policewoman and the people doing their shopp.....
» 13/01/2015 5:35:57 PM ..and, of course, we should remember that the confederates of the Charlie Hebdo attackers .....
» 13/01/2015 4:56:43 PM Crowie, France, in particular, has a long tradition of strident free speech, much of it s.....
» 13/01/2015 11:48:06 AM SPQR, That was an extremely poor analogy. I'm merely surmising why someone who constantl.....
» 13/01/2015 10:15:18 AM runner, Just "once" I would love to see you displaying the kind of sentiments e.....
» 13/01/2015 10:04:23 AM Paul, I'm getting some mixed messages from various commentators. "The Liberal Parti.....
» 13/01/2015 9:07:32 AM David f, That is particularly weird - for last evening I noticed a moth sitting beside my.....
» 12/01/2015 6:06:08 PM Luciferase, "Where, in the New Testament, are Christians exhorted to kill on behalf .....
» 12/01/2015 5:50:49 PM Loudmouth, I've been advised by someone whom I respect not to bite back and to ignore pos.....
» 12/01/2015 5:25:25 PM JoM, Just as an aside, I noted a tweet yesterday which went like this: "In the 3 da.....
» 12/01/2015 5:21:16 PM Yes, SM, if I apply the same criteria, it's clear that 18c curtails free speech. I believ.....
» 12/01/2015 3:16:01 PM Foxy, David f, "I also agree with David F., - you are a generous, decent, and though.....
» 12/01/2015 1:25:21 PM Thanks, SPQR....I'll just file your blathering under the same heading as I do Jayb's. Jay.....
» 12/01/2015 11:57:04 AM Yes, George, I do take your points. And yes, a sizable proportion of Europe is Muslim - a.....
» 12/01/2015 11:39:46 AM Jayb, "Too many to mention. So much to say, every time there has been any discussion.....
» 12/01/2015 11:21:13 AM Jayb, Here we go again... "My God poirot, of all the discussions we have had on the.....
» 12/01/2015 10:53:21 AM Apology accepted, SM...I think we're on the same page with this one : ) _______ Jayb, &.....
» 12/01/2015 10:48:34 AM Roses 1, This may interest you. http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/state-p.....
» 12/01/2015 10:29:19 AM Loudmouth, "Killarney, as I understand her, would have sucked up to Saddam (and Gadd.....
» 12/01/2015 10:18:15 AM George, It's difficult to be absolute with human human ethics and qualities - one often f.....
» 12/01/2015 10:00:00 AM SM, "...This also applies to Poirot's ludicrous suggestion that this murder was some.....
» 12/01/2015 8:41:52 AM Yuyutsu, "So in your view, free speech is not a natural freedom but a right bestowed.....
» 12/01/2015 12:58:04 AM Yes, Killarney...that probably was a bit bellow the belt from me - I was trying a bit too .....
» 11/01/2015 11:13:18 PM runner, We're saying that murdering people for exercising their right to free speech - in.....
» 11/01/2015 5:02:42 PM Foxy, I posted this on an articles thread on the same subject. http://www.newstatesman.c.....
» 11/01/2015 1:36:02 PM I have to admit that being in WA I hadn't taken much notice of Queensland"s Oppositio.....
» 11/01/2015 12:27:13 PM Thanks for the links, WmTrevor and SteeleRedux...looks to me that the Charlie Hebdo event .....
» 11/01/2015 10:21:39 AM Killarney, Would you put Salman Rushdie in the category of unnecessarily provocative - an.....
» 11/01/2015 8:17:22 AM 579, "Will Abbott's leadership survive 2015.?" Not by my reckoning if he and C.....
» 10/01/2015 7:16:27 PM Here's a relevant point regarding a cartoon published in the SMH at the height of the rece.....
» 10/01/2015 3:19:11 PM runner, "I must say I find Charlie Hebdo work disgusting, ugly and unhelpful. In say.....
» 10/01/2015 12:07:43 PM Now it's quite interesting that just having given Constance a serve for her invective towa.....
» 10/01/2015 10:32:44 AM Quite poignant, David. "Sometimes there is a fear of other people dying." Yes,.....
» 10/01/2015 10:05:44 AM Constance, To David f: "..... How come leftists are so thick and pathetically self r.....
» 9/01/2015 5:42:39 PM Cossomby, I'm not particularly interested in "religion" or a "God" in.....
» 9/01/2015 12:07:50 PM Houellie, I've missed your irreverent contributions. There's something about the way you .....
» 9/01/2015 11:48:43 AM Houellie, I recall one particular instance in my twenties where I really thought I was go.....
» 9/01/2015 11:39:01 AM Houellie, "Did it make you happier or calmer Poirot?" It must have had some ki.....
» 9/01/2015 10:50:43 AM Houellie, "Who did you pray to?" I prayed to an entity that is completely beyo.....
» 9/01/2015 10:23:43 AM Houellie, Hello! (...not to mention you still have to write that book that I was nagging.....
» 9/01/2015 8:45:01 AM JE SUIS CHARLIE + 2 http://twitter.com/LucilleClerc/status/552961721959473152.....
» 6/01/2015 6:48:07 PM Spot on, Yabby. "What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not k.....
» 2/01/2015 11:21:04 AM Big nana, Thanks for the anthropological history lesson. However, these people are produ.....
» 2/01/2015 8:25:25 AM spindoc, Why are you so outraged we took you up on your dare? Referring to a fellow post.....
» 1/01/2015 9:29:05 PM "My basic question was: "If Islamic State [i.e. whose flag Monis forced random h.....
» 1/01/2015 9:13:04 PM Never mind, spindoc...Suse won't nominate your abusive post for deletion. But I have.........
» 1/01/2015 5:50:07 PM Big Nana, "Poirot, whilst practising Catholics are forbidden to use contraception, t.....
» 1/01/2015 12:34:38 PM "What we need is simple good managers, who get the hell out of peoples lives, & simpl.....
» 1/01/2015 11:20:28 AM Paul, Oh, that's where he's gone...I noticed the lack of weight attached to my hem. It ge.....
» 1/01/2015 11:00:06 AM Hasbeen, Why stop there...why don't you call for Oz to wrap itself up in warm fuzzy blank.....
» 1/01/2015 10:51:39 AM halduell, There are myriad ethical questions involved in this proposal. For instance, wh.....
» 1/01/2015 8:02:00 AM o sung wu, Thanks for explaining about the capitals. That's totally understandable - and .....
» 31/12/2014 8:58:25 PM o sung wu, Are you attempting to upbraid me because I introduced Swift's satire (and I ha.....
» 31/12/2014 4:44:22 PM You'll have to excuse me, but this topic is just begging for this... http://en.wikipedia......
» 31/12/2014 2:32:41 PM Absolutely, Foxy! Dahling, I'm just dead-heading me dahlias....another nasty lefty habit......
» 31/12/2014 1:44:33 PM Gawd!...been out food shopping and come back to this whacky pair of hysterics banging on i.....
» 31/12/2014 10:30:36 AM Hmmmm....it sure is an interesting socio-political climate these days. My question would .....
» 31/12/2014 9:59:02 AM Constance, On the transience of things... Ozymandias I met a traveller from an antique .....
» 31/12/2014 7:00:01 AM "Chairman Suse Mao, Really good to see you're controlling the in depth discussion on.....
» 30/12/2014 11:50:48 PM Banjo, Yes, we all miss Belly - goes without saying.... I had always gotten on reasonabl.....
» 30/12/2014 4:16:00 PM Hiya Anti, Lovely to have you drop by. Sounds like things are coming together for you an.....
» 30/12/2014 4:03:39 PM o Sung wu, "ONTHEBEACH, I'll need to retire immediately in order to take a bucket lo.....
» 30/12/2014 3:03:04 PM David f, "Some of those posters who have disappeared have been removed by Graham You.....
» 30/12/2014 11:50:47 AM Absolutely love it, otb! "Freedom is about letting others lead their lives and being.....
» 30/12/2014 10:28:30 AM Foxy, Ludwig I think is not coming back in a hurry - he was incensed that he got pinged l.....
» 30/12/2014 10:09:11 AM Foxy, Sorry but I've never bothered with New Year's resolutions...although I like your in.....
» 30/12/2014 8:51:02 AM Suse, Just saw your post... "Poirot, it doesn't do to give people like OTB too muc.....
» 30/12/2014 5:05:39 AM "I do not see homeschooling as anything to encourage and history shows there have bee.....
» 29/12/2014 6:36:28 PM runner, It's interesting that your wife was given such a hard time by the authorities fo.....
» 29/12/2014 6:15:02 PM otb, You sure are desperate to get a reaction, aren't you. What a strange way to go abou.....
» 29/12/2014 2:34:57 PM Go take a running jump, otb. We are registered and moderated - he's excelling in some are.....
» 29/12/2014 2:28:53 PM Here's a turn up.... Broadcaster Alan Jones ordered to pay $10,000 for racial vilificatio.....
» 29/12/2014 11:20:59 AM otb, "To do you justice I must draw your attention to the likelihood that your child.....
» 29/12/2014 10:36:44 AM otb, "As far as the proclaimed 'rise in secularism' is concerned, it is (as per usua.....
» 28/12/2014 11:11:03 PM Yes, Nathan...but never fear..the good old US always comes up with a solution to protect t.....
» 28/12/2014 5:57:47 PM "Now I'm really confused. Who is lopping heads off in the Middle East? or is that onl.....
» 28/12/2014 4:58:45 PM Constance, I know you can read - in fact you are probably the most articulate aggressor o.....
» 28/12/2014 11:16:57 AM "Constance has annoyed Poirot on another thread..." Pray tell, otb...which &quo.....
» 28/12/2014 10:31:36 AM Lol!...and what thread would be complete without the faux defender of feminine honour step.....
» 28/12/2014 9:50:58 AM SPQR.... And ya know what's even funnier.....more Lol-ful? Not one of us is going to bot.....
» 27/12/2014 5:47:16 PM Suse, yes, I came upon that story on twitter. Reminds of a quote I once read...something .....
» 27/12/2014 1:14:30 PM Fantastic quote, George. "True, human beings may abound Who growl at things beyond t.....
» 27/12/2014 10:12:27 AM Constance, I couldn't give a "you-know-what" about your posting history...I've .....
» 27/12/2014 7:56:18 AM As always, George's sentiments are like balm : ) My church-going elderly Catholic friends.....
» 26/12/2014 10:13:44 PM On second thoughts, Constance, I shouldn't invite you to be more belligerent than you alre.....
» 26/12/2014 9:24:44 PM Hiya Constance, Continuing your petulant and nasty vendetta against Foxy, I see. At leas.....
» 26/12/2014 8:30:14 PM JKJ, "All you have done is bring back up your bitter gall at my having repeatedly pr.....
» 26/12/2014 7:00:17 PM If JKJ stays true to form - he'll very shortly declare himself the "winner"!.....
» 26/12/2014 9:57:09 AM Loudmouth, "And then you go on to abuse Jardine fulsomely...." My heart bleed.....
» 26/12/2014 8:31:13 AM Loudmouth, "A bit selective there: Jardine asked, as an 'if-then'-type question: &q.....
» 24/12/2014 1:08:09 AM (A copy and paste of an earlier post from me, but it seems to fit here well enough) Here'.....
» 20/12/2014 9:03:54 PM "....Poirot is being abusive and calling runner "ignorant." Hmmm....how do.....
» 20/12/2014 6:48:02 PM ConservativeHippie, "Going back a few days ago Poirot in defence of Monis the victim.....
» 20/12/2014 3:03:31 PM "Susie, SteeleRedux and Ojnab and other 'regressives'have shown time and time again t.....
» 19/12/2014 3:54:43 PM Bazz, "Poirot, What is the connection you are trying to make or are you just trying .....
» 19/12/2014 1:04:51 PM "We will only know we have it right, when Muslims are deserting Australia, & seeking .....
» 19/12/2014 9:03:56 AM Yes...you can tell there's a simmering underground Islamic extremist sentiment in Australi.....
» 18/12/2014 10:28:55 PM Luciferase, "ISIS is not The Mickey Mouse Club where you send in your form signed by.....
» 18/12/2014 4:01:43 PM Luciferase, "Still denying we have been jihaded, Susie..." Yeah, from an unsta.....
» 17/12/2014 9:15:32 PM Luciferase, "....Why psychoanalyze the truth out of the way? A spade is a spade.&quo.....
» 17/12/2014 5:16:55 PM runner, "yep the killing of the 132 kids in Pakistan overnight was the work of a few.....
» 17/12/2014 2:52:28 PM otb, "... Except that it is a jolly good idea to cast him as a bumbling mental case .....
» 17/12/2014 2:06:07 PM otb, "I wonder too if he really operated alone. Maybe he was one of a unit that was .....
» 9/12/2014 3:36:26 PM Except that their dumping of the $7 co-payment was promptly replaced by a $5 discretionary.....
» 9/12/2014 2:31:20 PM otb, What I meant was "who cares" about your desperate diversion. I think it's.....
» 9/12/2014 1:09:13 PM Excuse me if I just tack this up on the notice board..yet more chicanery from the govt. &.....
» 9/12/2014 12:20:54 PM otb, yada, yada, yada....like the Abbott govt, it's all you've got. All you've got is to.....
» 9/12/2014 11:10:02 AM Otb, Lol!...I couldn't give a toss whatever you're blathering about the CFMEU. I haven't b.....
» 9/12/2014 10:45:32 AM Nice try, otb....but it's going to take more than that to relieve the political landscape .....
» 8/12/2014 7:47:15 AM SteeleRedux, I have to admit that it was refreshing to hear Lambie apologise for initiall.....
» 7/12/2014 11:42:53 AM Suse, Funnily enough, it's Hockey who's likely to get the chop. No sympathy from me, he'.....
» 7/12/2014 10:30:12 AM Whadayareckon, SM? This is about the 10th article from The Australian undermining the Cre.....
» 7/12/2014 8:14:53 AM It's apparent,SM, that you've got nothing if that's the best you can come up with. That's.....
» 7/12/2014 7:48:40 AM mikk, "Look at them. Hokey is a cruel fat overlord who expects the serfs to know the.....
» 6/12/2014 6:37:15 PM In my opinion the head honchos are going to to have to get rid of Credlin and her marionet.....
» 6/12/2014 8:55:23 AM SM, "1 Gillard and Labor broke every promise, not just one, 2 Labor has presently br.....
» 5/12/2014 2:05:23 PM SM, "I can always count on your complete lack of impartiality. If you paid attention.....
» 5/12/2014 8:45:04 AM Good question, Graham, My initial response to the advent of Lambie as a Senator was that .....
» 5/12/2014 8:05:32 AM SM, "....I care not that the far left whingers living in a fantasy world that they s.....
» 4/12/2014 8:43:51 AM Foxy, Paul, I'm always interested in the machinations emanating from the PM's Office and .....
» 2/12/2014 11:04:41 PM Paul & Foxy, Yes, the Credlin/Abbott/PMO style of running govt has got a lot of right-win.....
» 2/12/2014 6:29:38 PM Lol!... That's as good as it gets from Shadow Minister these days, folks. Sad really.........
» 2/12/2014 5:12:59 PM And the beat goes on...the Senate has just voted down Pyne's Higher Education Reform Bill .....
» 2/12/2014 4:54:36 PM Paul, "...The Daily Telecrap' launched a front page attack on the party today ...&qu.....
» 1/12/2014 8:36:13 PM Lol!, Paul, you'll like this... Interviewed on 7:30, Daniel Andrews mentioned: "I h.....
» 1/12/2014 8:10:53 AM Paul, Just saw a tweet where and link to ABC AM where apparently O'Sullivan blamed Barnab.....
» 30/11/2014 8:21:11 PM Paul, This too... http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/nationals-could-lose-party-status-af.....
» 30/11/2014 6:13:40 PM Yer a hoot Leo! In a post devoid of any "valid comment on the science" - he say.....
» 29/11/2014 8:21:12 PM Constance, This article is a pile of garbage. ".... Moore works for the Nuclear Ene.....
» 29/11/2014 9:58:34 AM Whadaya reckon, Banjo...about this? http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-09-10/credlin-avoids-.....
» 28/11/2014 8:54:13 PM Wolly B, "What would happen if a christian disobeyed and showed disrespect to their .....
» 28/11/2014 5:27:06 PM runner, We all demonstrate so well how we justify our prejudices. Don't worry, runner, y.....
» 28/11/2014 10:15:57 AM runner, "Obviously it would be much better if he told the truth however we are left .....
» 27/11/2014 9:08:36 PM Let's just move along a bit from the "all pollies tell lies" theme. How about w.....
» 27/11/2014 6:39:16 PM Runner, "anyone with quarter of a brain would of realised that Abbott was lying when.....
» 27/11/2014 2:33:56 PM Will just indulge myself here with Bronnie's latest tally... Boot-outs during Question Ti.....
» 27/11/2014 12:47:03 PM "...Yep Abbott lied...." Thanks runner!.....
» 26/11/2014 11:18:29 PM SteeleRedux, Here's a more comprehensive bio of Patrick Moore... http://www.sourcewatch......
» 26/11/2014 10:04:40 AM Constance, ".....My life is balanced enough that I can handle reality. You obviously.....
» 25/11/2014 5:10:17 PM Nathan, My question again....why only bemoan all this in the case of Christmas when it's .....
» 25/11/2014 12:39:05 PM ybgirp, I think you and I are on the same page concerning most things surrounding the sta.....
» 25/11/2014 11:59:47 AM ybgirp, "Poirot, suggesting a direction for the proposed documentary is not side-tra.....
» 25/11/2014 10:33:26 AM Constance, Regarding your post this morning containing links to misery. Here's some advi.....
» 25/11/2014 10:02:41 AM Nathan, "Christmas has very much become far too commercial...." Western life i.....
» 25/11/2014 8:50:49 AM Loudy, I'm addressing Constance's pearler of an ad hominem - if yer don't mind. I do apo.....
» 25/11/2014 7:59:40 AM Constance, "Poirot, you have nothing to say - only personal attacks. Juvenile tactic.....
» 25/11/2014 7:26:24 AM ybgirp, "This thread has been sidetracked, Jogoma wants to make a documentary about .....
» 25/11/2014 6:47:17 AM Thanks Cossomby, I was going to quote Arjay's "Time to awaken since the extremely ri.....
» 25/11/2014 12:40:21 AM Leo Lane, Getting funnier, Wow! Murdodch's WSJ carries a piece by right wing Oz journo G.....
» 24/11/2014 6:13:52 PM Constance, "I have previously named some certain females on this forum, Stepford sis.....
» 24/11/2014 6:09:06 PM Gee, Constance for a good Christian you're sure adept at spitting venom in all directions......
» 24/11/2014 5:08:57 PM Leo lane, "Carter is paid for time-consuming professional work as co-editor of a Hea.....
» 23/11/2014 11:28:44 AM George, Perfect! Pascal says something about true wisdom being reached when one embraces.....
» 23/11/2014 11:18:49 AM Constance, "Yep, Post Christian world we are living in. Only Soulless Secularism.........
» 23/11/2014 10:27:14 AM I don't know how useful it is to get too cerebral about these things...every time I attemp.....
» 22/11/2014 5:13:10 PM Joe, "....the transient beauty of a flower, the joy of life in a sparrow or peewee, .....
» 22/11/2014 12:34:28 PM Here you go, SM The Australian Editorial re the Abbott govt. http://www.theaustralian.co.....
» 22/11/2014 10:24:37 AM The Abbott govt is spending $325 million a year in interest on the $8.8 billion it gave to.....
» 21/11/2014 9:01:50 PM Josephus, "....Crocodiles will never change their behaviour. Why? They do not posse.....
» 21/11/2014 3:01:14 PM James O'Neill, "..... I don't believe for a nanosecond that he has truly had a conve.....
» 21/11/2014 10:24:36 AM Yes, SM...and all of that is represented by the fact that the LNP consistently trails 10% .....
» 21/11/2014 8:06:16 AM Here's another bunch of whackos who can't see Abbott's a genius. "UK Tories slam Ton.....
» 21/11/2014 6:53:26 AM So, Leo lane (and others), Can you explain to me when Abbott comes out with things like t.....
» 20/11/2014 8:30:41 PM Josephus, "Humans do have a higher intelligence, a higher responsibility and a highe.....
» 20/11/2014 5:50:43 PM Paul, You might like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7TdO-Rtxos Steamboat Tony (.....
» 20/11/2014 10:11:05 AM Leo Lane, "Poirot has shown that she is not only dishonest...." LOl!...no clim.....
» 20/11/2014 12:37:03 AM Hasbeen, "A number received half a billion in taxpayer funds..." Really...in t.....
» 19/11/2014 11:49:10 PM Unfortunately, runner...you display the full spectrum of your ignorance on this subject by.....
» 19/11/2014 11:33:52 PM Quite an hilarious thread. Abbott is outflanked, outclassed and humiliated by his own cra.....
» 19/11/2014 11:20:28 PM Pesky Boy, "....one of the main problems with people who have religious belief, and .....
» 19/11/2014 8:53:32 PM Yeah runner,..I've always wondered how you would explain the constant mutations of somethi.....
» 19/11/2014 10:10:55 AM Jonathon was untangling the double-speak con-artistry of Brandis. End.....
» 19/11/2014 9:04:49 AM o sung wu, Quite a profound question - and I'll give some thought to a more fulsome respo.....
» 19/11/2014 8:55:51 AM But then again, Lambie is set to put the odd spoke in the govt's wheels... http://www.afr.....
» 19/11/2014 8:42:27 AM Paul, I should have checked the headlines first. http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-11-19/p.....
» 19/11/2014 8:37:46 AM Paul, "Just on the topic is Wacky Jacqui about to do the bolt and leave PUP and set .....
» 19/11/2014 8:30:23 AM otb, "Senator Brandis also went into freedom of speech in detail and achieved broad .....
» 18/11/2014 6:09:40 PM otb, "Poirot inviting Foxy to play their usual game. Easy to tell when either is on.....
» 18/11/2014 5:59:52 PM Yes, Paul....how many times did Malcolm utter the words "In defence of Tony Abbott&qu.....
» 18/11/2014 5:08:35 PM Oh Gawd...somebody save us from otb and his melodramatic faux outrage. He loves to shriek.....
» 18/11/2014 12:34:56 PM Thanks SM, What explains Hockey bequeathing the RBA nearly $9 billion which it didn't nee.....
» 18/11/2014 11:30:14 AM SM, Can you explain to us then why this: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-10-28/koukoulas.....
» 18/11/2014 1:23:16 AM otb, You do "shrill" very well : ) "Fact is, you would dump on your own c.....
» 18/11/2014 12:36:18 AM otb, "Once again, it beggars belief that you would wish Australia and the G20 ill an.....
» 17/11/2014 9:56:40 PM Au contraire, oh gallant defender of all things feminine. Brisbane ran an extremely well-.....
» 17/11/2014 6:17:08 PM o sung wu, Congrats on your in-depth analysis. But I was just pointing out a spot of hyp.....
» 17/11/2014 4:16:53 PM Thanks, otb, A thread wouldn't be a thread without the obligatory sexist rant from OLO's .....
» 17/11/2014 3:37:38 PM Constance, "Dear Foxy, And why do you only consider your own personal experience wi.....
» 17/11/2014 10:13:10 AM Geez boys..I suppose I should be moseying along then, packin' me bags and booking me floig.....
» 17/11/2014 8:55:45 AM Yeah, runner...of course it's mortally wounding to be the recipient of criticism from one .....
» 17/11/2014 8:31:58 AM runner, "We know Susie you, Poirot and the abc are competing as to who has the most .....
» 17/11/2014 7:57:24 AM otb, "Obama has good speech writers and he can project his voice..." Are you s.....
» 16/11/2014 9:26:02 PM runner, Here's a good one from the LA Times.....an American perspective of our Prime Mini.....
» 16/11/2014 6:28:17 PM Ooh ooh, ConservativeHippie, Obama's speech was one thing, but the real star of the show w.....
» 16/11/2014 12:34:07 PM "Stop worrying folks. Aidan is going to sprinkle some pixie dust around the place, &.....
» 15/11/2014 2:04:10 PM Paul, I have to say I just enjoyed Obama slapping Abbott's agenda around. Lol!...talk ab.....
» 15/11/2014 1:53:39 PM Paul, Apparently I was remiss in citing Stiglitz. It's obvious that his credentials pale.....
» 15/11/2014 7:06:45 AM Lol!, Mr "I have a degree in economics"... This is what Stiglitz says: "Y.....
» 14/11/2014 4:39:07 PM rehctub, "....apart from the GFC, which by the way has been suggested to have had mi.....
» 14/11/2014 4:33:36 PM Hasbeen, You're the one who told Yuyutsu you couldn't take seriously his idea that poore.....
» 14/11/2014 12:13:51 PM Hasbeen, "This is one claim I just can't take seriously Yuyutsu. In my experience i.....
» 13/11/2014 11:27:33 AM Congratulations, Foxy! I don't think I'm going to be a granny anytime soon - although dau.....
» 13/11/2014 10:01:44 AM Foxy, My original description of the account being "reinstated" was not a good .....
» 13/11/2014 9:51:12 AM Foxy, The account "is" wiped. Each account is a new account - not an old one r.....
» 13/11/2014 9:11:12 AM Foxy, And even when each new account is wiped, it's reinstated - easy to check though whi.....
» 13/11/2014 9:09:08 AM Foxy, It's not a hack - it's a separate account...which is why it's so easy to find out w.....
» 13/11/2014 8:24:39 AM And this... http://theconversation.com/us-china-climate-deal-at-last-a-real-game-changer-.....
» 13/11/2014 8:10:28 AM byork, "....I don't like the use of the term 'denial' in the climate context.... It .....
» 12/11/2014 9:07:53 PM spindoc, "If the alarmism and 98% agreement were valid, this would be reflected in p.....
» 11/11/2014 4:27:33 PM SM, I think you know that Campbelli "was" given the flick. He's come back - as.....
» 11/11/2014 2:47:27 PM Foxy, That's not Shadow Minister either (check poster's history before replying).....
» 11/11/2014 12:15:40 PM Yuyutsu, What's "weak" about a farmer being able to save and share his seeds, c.....
» 11/11/2014 9:50:13 AM Didn't think it would be long before Loudmouth stated playing games in lieu of substance. .....
» 11/11/2014 9:12:49 AM Foxy, It's not SM - or SM's account (Check out the newest user).....
» 11/11/2014 8:49:55 AM Yuyutsu, "So if the farmer is not allowed to keep the seeds from the previous year, .....
» 10/11/2014 8:16:34 PM Suse & Paul, The Shadow Minister you are addressing is not "Shadow Minister"......
» 10/11/2014 8:10:52 PM Foxy, That's "not" Shadow Minister.........
» 10/11/2014 6:54:16 PM Yar, apologies to you, SM (My little grey cells inform me that we have an SM impersonato.....
» 10/11/2014 6:38:27 PM Jeepers, Foxy, You must be winning the debate. Poor old SM's been reduced to pulling out.....
» 10/11/2014 11:03:52 AM "After we get our guns back, yes." Lol!.....
» 10/11/2014 8:25:28 AM JoM, But why are you surprised and/or irritated? Women have adapted to the new paradigm......
» 10/11/2014 7:31:21 AM I don't know what you guys are complaining about. It's a masculine system and it's trundl.....
» 10/11/2014 7:21:02 AM byork, Just to clarify...I'm not suggesting that you are backed by fossil fuel interests .....
» 10/11/2014 6:54:45 AM byork, It's not just about what a human being can stand in an isolated scenario - it's ab.....
» 9/11/2014 5:52:23 PM Tally, I think you may be trying to reason with the wrong person there. runner thinks ev.....
» 9/11/2014 4:14:38 PM JoM, "Poirot, And who says capitalists don't value female achievement?" Not me.....
» 9/11/2014 1:49:56 PM "After proving herself as a strong presence on the world stage following the MH17 tra.....
» 9/11/2014 11:01:00 AM byork, "...The Occupational Safety and Health Admin in the US, and the American Conf.....
» 9/11/2014 10:57:20 AM Squeers, "According to Maslow there is a fundamental form of self-esteem which merel.....
» 9/11/2014 10:37:18 AM spindoc, Bacon's on...got time for a quick post (it's only 8:05 here in the West) ".....
» 9/11/2014 9:13:25 AM spindoc, Why would you even imagine that I would bother to reply in detail to a post that.....
» 9/11/2014 7:47:53 AM Spindoc, You'll get a rebuttal from me when you post something worth rebutting. As far a.....
» 9/11/2014 7:21:02 AM SM, "Life on earth is adaptable and has existed Even with CO2 levels as high as 2000.....
» 8/11/2014 8:08:57 PM mornin' spindoc, I say, you and otb are orffly good at calling people namies...is that th.....
» 8/11/2014 5:20:11 PM "Half of the Northern Territory is now under Aboriginal control, and 84 % of its coas.....
» 8/11/2014 2:07:50 PM ", Foxy and her ginger group gathered around the cauldron hoping to stir up strife wi.....
» 8/11/2014 2:00:04 PM "Now the spiteful interrogations, accusations and nasty labelling by the feminists ar.....
» 8/11/2014 10:40:33 AM Foxy, Take one part fear, one part bigotry, one part ignorance...mix well with a little g.....
» 8/11/2014 10:11:48 AM DavidK, Fancy running into you on another "skeptic" article thread written by a.....
» 8/11/2014 8:34:29 AM JoM, Er...capitalism more likely acted as an enabling auxiliary for the worst strands of .....
» 7/11/2014 12:57:26 PM Hasbeen, Yep, I've noticed that you tend to employ the term to Foxy more as a paternalist.....
» 7/11/2014 10:36:50 AM Foxy, I kind of admire your trusting and genuine attitude...you usually attempt to find c.....
» 7/11/2014 10:17:23 AM spindoc, Yeah, thanks for that : ) So, to sum up...here's a selection of your cogent arg.....
» 7/11/2014 8:53:21 AM SM, ".... "Dissatisfaction" is no excuse for vile behaviour at a funeral, .....
» 6/11/2014 10:59:25 PM spindoc, "Your words, such as feminism, are reserved as "special" for wome.....
» 6/11/2014 5:33:20 PM "Yikes, I misspelled 'Feminist' as 'Feminsys' and feminists are not known for their t.....
» 6/11/2014 11:12:39 AM In order to replace Abbott, the LNP would have to replace Credlin...who appears to have be.....
» 6/11/2014 10:22:04 AM SM, My reference to the LNP and boganism was their whizz-bang agenda to tap into the surf.....
» 6/11/2014 9:12:13 AM Foxy, I have nothing against the word "sweetie" when it's used genuinely. Often.....
» 6/11/2014 9:01:43 AM SM, "....From the coalition side, you can only find a few over the years, but bogans.....
» 6/11/2014 1:25:27 AM lillian, "....Is it a fact? Why do you seem to expect all women to be perfect?..&quo.....
» 5/11/2014 11:19:53 PM Foxy, Actually men around here usually only deploy "sweetie" as a patronising t.....
» 5/11/2014 8:59:48 PM Foxy, Take note of spindoc's spiel... "All of them sweetie , all of them!" &q.....
» 5/11/2014 1:31:56 PM SM, "..... but booing someone at a funeral simply because they are of a different po.....
» 5/11/2014 11:41:39 AM I see you're as adept as Chris Pyne at selectively displaying faux outrage. Sometime lead.....
» 5/11/2014 11:06:02 AM Hasbeen, SM, "....Cheer the 2 most useless D heads ever to hold the post, & boo the .....
» 5/11/2014 10:57:33 AM lillian, "The removal of empathy towards certain groups is also manipulated for soci.....
» 5/11/2014 10:02:03 AM Lol!...watching Gough's memorial service. Howard booed. Abbott booed even more fulsomely.....
» 4/11/2014 5:07:07 PM http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/ebola-australian-government-relents-.....
» 4/11/2014 3:22:20 PM sonofgloin, "Not I Poirot..........these few post came from my darling daughter.&quo.....
» 4/11/2014 11:05:28 AM Pericles, "The question still remains, though, as to why it is necessary for the tax.....
» 4/11/2014 9:53:14 AM sonogloin, "Okay Wolly B, whatever. u have obviously had some extremists (not femini.....
» 4/11/2014 8:54:16 AM Nathan, "The problem however is socially, men are seen as unsuitable to look after a.....
» 4/11/2014 8:41:53 AM Wolly B, I can just hear the crescendo from the "many of the feminists on this site&.....
» 3/11/2014 6:43:52 PM otb, "I find the negative stereotyping of me implied in your current post quite ridi.....
» 3/11/2014 5:35:35 PM sonofgloin, The two key words in my sentence that you quoted were "wisdom" and .....
» 3/11/2014 4:04:11 PM "Wisdom like Pol Pot dear Poirot?....." What a stupid response...dear sonofgloi.....
» 3/11/2014 3:23:49 PM David f., "Our species is not unique in producing the extinction of other species. H.....
» 3/11/2014 10:58:47 AM Suse, "Agreed, however one wonders how they can infiltrate a masculine system if all.....
» 3/11/2014 10:40:03 AM Is Mise, Well it's a perfectly good analogy for the majority of humans who get on a horse.....
» 3/11/2014 10:32:53 AM david. f, "Innate savagery? Most contacts of humans with other humans are peaceful.......
» 3/11/2014 10:21:03 AM lillian, Empathy is innate in the human species. Without it a human would be unable to in.....
» 3/11/2014 9:11:29 AM David. f, I think you underestimate the innate savagery of Homo Sapiens - especially its .....
» 3/11/2014 8:48:06 AM Hi Killarney, "Often you do have to work within the system to change the system. The.....
» 3/11/2014 8:27:01 AM I'll just add that when I write "...as long as she's towing the line and doing a good.....
» 3/11/2014 7:46:27 AM Suse, "Julie Bishop has to tow the party line of a very conservative, very Catholic .....
» 1/11/2014 9:11:15 AM Killarney, "I don't mean to be argumentative with your views. I'm just putting forwa.....
» 31/10/2014 5:56:59 PM lillian, Good point...no my mum was trapped in the 60's and she eventually walked out in .....
» 31/10/2014 3:19:47 PM Sorry, otb....I'm gonna have to report you to runner for plagiarising his !whizz-bang! ter.....
» 31/10/2014 1:59:17 PM Love your style, otb, You yodel from the rooftops when a loudmouthed teen female gets pin.....
» 31/10/2014 12:24:59 PM Agronomist, Yeah, I should read the detail before commenting : ) If she's tested negativ.....
» 31/10/2014 11:44:11 AM Hasbeen, I believe a period of quarantine is absolutely warranted in the case of health w.....
» 31/10/2014 2:10:06 AM Killarney, I don't underestimate "true ‘capitalist’ reasons"....I'm fully aware.....
» 30/10/2014 2:03:18 PM Lol!...Pericles, he's all yours. He can't elucidate his core meaning and so answer my que.....
» 30/10/2014 1:55:35 PM lillian, "Maintaining everything really is about the consumer is daft...." Tel.....
» 30/10/2014 10:52:06 AM lillian, I think we're on the same general wavelength, however, I disagree with your take.....
» 30/10/2014 8:46:18 AM Pericles, Quite... Yuyutsu, "I have not claimed that you are either separate or an.....
» 30/10/2014 7:22:18 AM Yuyutsu, "I cannot define you, nor would I ever dare to try. What makes you say that.....
» 29/10/2014 11:46:31 PM Leo Lane, Thanks for providing all the whizz-bang titles for Bob carter....all of which a.....
» 29/10/2014 9:25:17 PM lillian, "Status quo currently means eternal war and the destruction of planetary sy.....
» 29/10/2014 11:25:31 AM Yuyutsu, If I'm "YOU" (ME) - then you can obviously define me as something that.....
» 29/10/2014 10:42:25 AM lillian, "They claim problems are caused by women and nothing that men do (patriarch.....
» 29/10/2014 10:26:46 AM Aidan, Referring to JKJ's: "So you have just *admitted* that you *support* the use .....
» 29/10/2014 9:12:20 AM Pericles, Lol! For those who don't get it and are thinking Pericles has finally lost the.....
» 29/10/2014 9:01:47 AM Yuyutsu, So "I'M God"...and yet I don't exist? (and I'm not talking about my m.....
» 29/10/2014 8:52:30 AM I believe most people raised in a homogenised Western environment have lost touch with the.....
» 29/10/2014 8:16:53 AM otb, The Govt is already making cuts to the ABC...something the "oh-so-honest".....
» 29/10/2014 12:35:17 AM Sorry, omitted the link to that summary. http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Bob_C.....
» 29/10/2014 12:33:15 AM Leo Lane, You don't post "the science". You post cherry-picked blurbs from your.....
» 29/10/2014 12:07:35 AM Yuyutsu, "....In other words, that YOU are God." Who, according to you, doesn'.....
» 28/10/2014 9:32:39 PM Jayb, "As I said before Australia is better at doing something Australia is good at,.....
» 28/10/2014 9:14:43 PM otb, Here's an example of a nation "stepping up". http://www.regjeringen.no/en.....
» 28/10/2014 8:48:26 PM Leo Lane, "That’s the way, Poirot. You have no science to support your position and .....
» 28/10/2014 5:41:44 PM Leo, Your lot bounds in chappies who call themselves meteorologists or are merely weather.....
» 28/10/2014 5:24:48 PM Jayb, "Why does Australia have to be involved on the ground? We can do much better i.....
» 28/10/2014 3:00:49 PM otb, You are the master of misrepresentation and generalisation. "Your political pa.....
» 28/10/2014 12:45:47 PM Foxy, Yes, indeedy...I retweeted that! (one of my followers).....
» 28/10/2014 12:32:55 PM Foxy, My daughter and son-in-law have a much loved rabbit. He's an inside bunny except fo.....
» 28/10/2014 10:33:13 AM Foxy, The best part was when Right-wing Rowan from the Spectator was telling the audience.....
» 28/10/2014 9:45:12 AM JoM, Who said anything about "ordering" people to Those countries? We have peo.....
» 28/10/2014 9:01:11 AM Lol!, Foxy. History has just released its first draft, which reads... "#%$@*#$#%&qu.....
» 28/10/2014 8:46:34 AM JoM, "Suse, because war isn't a suicide mission, even really devastating conflicts s.....
» 28/10/2014 8:13:50 AM "Slipper's emails were part of his sexual harrassment of an employee and were reveale.....
» 28/10/2014 12:24:09 AM SM, We all know Pyne and Abbott are shifty dodgy operators...why don't you tell all the s.....
» 28/10/2014 12:18:34 AM Lovely, Leo... "“John Coleman, meteorologist and co-founder of the Weather Channel, .....
» 27/10/2014 11:55:49 PM otb...and you started off so well... "Why haven't you volunteered? Those Greens who.....
» 27/10/2014 6:45:44 PM otb, Good points. Recall my point about those villagers having to wait for days on end f.....
» 27/10/2014 5:53:48 PM JoM, "The best idea would be to bring the graduates here on a five year work visa so.....
» 27/10/2014 10:31:32 AM Agronomist, Also the number of health care workers who have contracted the disease while .....
» 27/10/2014 9:12:37 AM Regarding the 10,000 by Christmas. I caught part of a report showing the removal of an Eb.....
» 27/10/2014 8:59:17 AM Graham, "....but I do have a problem with it being all over the news. The media of c.....
» 26/10/2014 11:07:15 AM Yada...yada...yada - Leo Lane, Liar...liar...ad hominem....fraud....scam...dishonest....b.....
» 26/10/2014 10:26:19 AM Hasbeen, "Any who do go should not be allowed to return until the thing has totally .....
» 26/10/2014 7:38:37 AM SM, Lol!....of course one has to keep count of the backflips by the ever agile Chrissy Py.....
» 26/10/2014 7:02:09 AM Foxy, Indeed.....and note he loses points also in his latest offering for dragging out th.....
» 25/10/2014 9:28:23 PM SM, "Actually Abbott has not made any cuts to the education or health budget. All he.....
» 25/10/2014 6:05:26 PM Leo Lane, "Poirot, you must have noticed that, before he was elected, Abbot stated v.....
» 25/10/2014 5:29:30 PM I'll just add for otb's benefit... Remember the journalist Peter Greste - locked up in an.....
» 25/10/2014 5:11:54 PM JoM, "There's no scientific data to back the theory that family violence is a gender.....
» 25/10/2014 5:04:33 PM otb, "You and some others here do not accept the democratic decision of the people. .....
» 25/10/2014 12:14:21 PM "Come off it Poirot, if all it takes to win your long lasting admiration is a bit of .....
» 25/10/2014 7:44:08 AM One becomes weary of otb's particular brand of midgetry...like some whining sneering great.....
» 24/10/2014 7:46:33 AM Lol!, SM, What won TA the election was a wholesale duping of the electorate resting on th.....
» 23/10/2014 8:31:02 AM SM, ".... I remember quite a few left whingers using similar words to claim that the.....
» 22/10/2014 8:52:58 PM Yes, otb....your commentary is a great example of the midgetry I referred to earlier. No .....
» 22/10/2014 7:40:46 AM OTB, "As might be expected, there was a very long Conga line of suck-holes thrusting.....
» 21/10/2014 6:51:40 PM Hasbeen, "Poirot we have had free hospital treatment here in Qld since before Whitla.....
» 21/10/2014 5:38:55 PM Hasbeen, "Poirot, I pay my own way with health." Not what you claim here... h.....
» 21/10/2014 2:38:01 PM Will also add for Hasbeen...I bet you admire Whitlam for providing you with good/free heal.....
» 21/10/2014 2:24:48 PM One thing's for sure - this legacy of a man of the stature of Gough Whitlam surely highlig.....
» 21/10/2014 1:49:17 PM SM, "..."The science is settled" could only come from idiots with no knowl.....
» 21/10/2014 11:54:48 AM Hasbeen, "I'm surprised at you Paul, I thought you would know that modern kids are a.....
» 21/10/2014 10:15:51 AM Vale Gough Whitlam. Malcolm Fraser tweeted this article this morning: ("Malcolm Fra.....
» 21/10/2014 9:57:01 AM Barry York, "....I do not have the necessary expertise to reach a conclusion on the .....
» 21/10/2014 8:45:37 AM Loudy Goose, "When challenged, he couldn't name a single child taken in the ways you.....
» 21/10/2014 8:00:28 AM Lol!...Paul, One wonders if a chook nugget can be "al dente"?.....
» 21/10/2014 7:16:42 AM Loudy Goose, "But what isn't there, so far, is any evidence or rationale for either .....
» 21/10/2014 6:54:32 AM Loudmouth, So there we have some history written from a certain slant, using archived inf.....
» 21/10/2014 6:41:19 AM Loudmouth, http://press.anu.edu.au/apps/bookworm/view/Aboriginal+History+Volume+34,+2010/.....
» 20/10/2014 3:12:37 PM Lol!, otb.... Don't hold yer breath. We ladies prefer to think of a thread like this as .....
» 20/10/2014 1:59:41 PM Lol!...Hasbeen, Don't stress man : ) If we cook those things - say pies and chips, I jus.....
» 20/10/2014 10:24:01 AM George, "It was clear from the beginning that the shooting down was not “murder”, i......
» 20/10/2014 7:17:55 AM Okeydokey...here's the latest. "Germany's intelligence service believes Malaysia Air.....
» 19/10/2014 10:23:39 PM o sung wu, Enjoy your holidays!.....
» 19/10/2014 3:42:00 PM o sung wu, Yup...this is the type of person we've got for a PM - and now we're discussing.....
» 18/10/2014 9:06:54 PM Joe, You regale me of all your experiences...good experiences...useful experiences....pro.....
» 18/10/2014 7:31:28 PM I'm not after "cachet", Joe...I was merely relating an experience after you so k.....
» 18/10/2014 1:14:06 PM Absolutely, Hasbeen! Considering snow in Spring "proves" global warming is a sc.....
» 18/10/2014 9:54:18 AM Loudmouth, Oh, so sorry to step on your learned bunions....at least my experience was &qu.....
» 18/10/2014 9:02:14 AM spindoc, http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jul/18/owen-paterson-lecture-nigel-l.....
» 18/10/2014 7:53:21 AM "certainly fits your world view Cossomby. Just don't insult anyone's intelligence by .....
» 17/10/2014 4:58:07 PM Joe, "Reality is more fascinating and unexpected than fantasy, Poirot." Yeah, .....
» 17/10/2014 8:04:58 AM "The ration system saved Aboriginal culture." You appear to be saying that Abor.....
» 16/10/2014 7:31:46 PM JoM, Empathy is a whole of species trait. "Empathy is the capacity to share or reco.....
» 16/10/2014 4:13:16 PM JoM, Empathy is a human trait. End.....
» 16/10/2014 10:36:54 AM rehctub, We live in a consumer society....every facet of it from the cradle to the grave .....
» 16/10/2014 9:36:04 AM Yes, Hasbeen....and fancy all those climate scientists feeding us a crock that global warm.....
» 16/10/2014 8:36:41 AM Of course, Tony's big match with Putin was only pasted on the billboards with the assumpti.....
» 15/10/2014 11:24:57 PM Leo Lane, "Tony Abbot works best on strategy, and organisation..." Not accordi.....
» 15/10/2014 8:41:47 PM Ho Hum...Leo's at it again.... How to Prove Climate Change is a Fraud 101 Simply accuse .....
» 15/10/2014 8:36:49 PM JKJ, "The problem is, that ALL warmist argument takes the same form: entering the di.....
» 15/10/2014 4:29:22 PM Lol!...would love to be a fly on the wall, "if" Tones gets the opportunity to gi.....
» 15/10/2014 4:20:37 PM Lol!, runner...that's telling me! As far as I can see, so far your crowning contribution .....
» 15/10/2014 1:27:33 PM Yo - Foxy...we all get like that sometimes...I usually "take a break" after gett.....
» 15/10/2014 1:17:01 PM May May, "....The post written by Graham Y concerns me, as it shows a propensity for.....
» 15/10/2014 12:16:34 PM Loudmouth, You are the most disingenuous of inquirers. You're not interested at all in t.....
» 15/10/2014 11:42:26 AM Luciferase, I think the Russians are having a jolly good belly laugh at his inane braggad.....
» 15/10/2014 11:17:57 AM runner, "I would say Phanto that very woman who needs to dress immodestly in order t.....
» 15/10/2014 10:46:23 AM Loudmouth, "As usual, Poirot, your post is totally without content...." Here's.....
» 15/10/2014 10:27:07 AM Suse, "Abbott and his mouth are an embarrassment to this nation. Saying he wants to .....
» 15/10/2014 9:52:04 AM Loudy Goose, If your last post was designed to display your ignorance on this issue - I c.....
» 15/10/2014 9:06:24 AM "Written English is a code. Once children learn the code, they can read almost any wo.....
» 15/10/2014 8:38:36 AM Thanks Pericles, The "Brown Windsor incident" to which I refer was my own littl.....
» 15/10/2014 8:15:49 AM otb, "This thread reminded me to dig through my gloves. Not much call for them last .....
» 14/10/2014 6:48:51 PM Our prime Minister would be well served to stop acting like a tried hard schoolboy and sta.....
» 14/10/2014 9:55:54 AM runner, "And the idiotic belief in evolution reduces us to behaving like animals...&.....
» 14/10/2014 8:20:32 AM Is Mise, That's you on the right with the stunning grey beard and flowing locks? I think.....
» 13/10/2014 11:13:01 PM Sorry about that rushed post, JKJ. Obviously if you don't have the knowledge or expertise.....
» 13/10/2014 10:40:48 PM JKJ, When you've got the generic spiel and don't have the knowledge or expertise, you thr.....
» 13/10/2014 7:04:23 PM Agronomist, "It would not really be possible to weaponise Ebola as it won't survive .....
» 13/10/2014 6:22:56 PM JBowyer, I believe the problem intensified once the virus hit the cities. Obviously, onc.....
» 13/10/2014 3:46:46 PM Yabby, That "is" admitting defeat! We know how easy it appears for this virus .....
» 13/10/2014 1:02:03 PM Monsieur otb, "To Suseonline who had 'never worn high heels' and spends her days sla.....
» 13/10/2014 8:16:16 AM "I cannot say I represent sartorial elegance by any means, but (for example) I do own.....
» 12/10/2014 8:49:50 PM "You must be one of the MuuMuu set for formal, with trackies and slip-ons for casual .....
» 12/10/2014 6:07:47 PM "I knew it, you are large aren't you? The cruel world of being confined to slip-ons......
» 12/10/2014 12:36:12 PM May may, You're probably right re "...as an anti female rant..." However, I fa.....
» 12/10/2014 11:49:25 AM Is Mise, "Do women wear high heels to attract men or because other women wear them o.....
» 12/10/2014 8:13:09 AM JKJ, ".....that still leaves you having proved nothing relevant about CAGW." C.....
» 11/10/2014 12:26:02 PM Loudy Goose, Israel deliberately targeted schools, hospitals and designated UN compounds.....
» 11/10/2014 10:52:47 AM Loudy Goose, "How many kids have the Israelis beheaded lately ?.." That is a v.....
» 11/10/2014 10:31:43 AM Yar, Leo...you're not much better than JKJ. We can always depend of your "argument&q.....
» 11/10/2014 10:16:31 AM "...That is why they justify Islam and continue to be Christophobic to the maz.".....
» 11/10/2014 8:28:05 AM Killarney, "JKJ No, I don't 'remember'. What on earth are you talking about?" .....
» 11/10/2014 7:14:22 AM Arjay, http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/national/2014/10/04/how-ebola-sped-out-of-control.....
» 11/10/2014 6:41:41 AM JKJ - aka Peter Hume, etc, "....BWAHAHAHAHAHAH...." Yeah, it's pretty hard to .....
» 10/10/2014 6:17:32 PM Loudy Goose, "So what's your point ? Where is the US singling out and beheading chil.....
» 10/10/2014 5:56:57 PM What's your point, Loudy? You are a particularly puerile debater. No-one is denying the .....
» 10/10/2014 5:47:58 PM Loud Goose, "My faulty memory of the incident was that the chairs of the two houses .....
» 10/10/2014 5:36:24 PM Yuyutsu, ".....worship brings humility. Humility helps to break the bonds of the ego.....
» 10/10/2014 3:17:30 PM otb, "Someone mentioned a grandstanding politician who took a dummy pipe bomb into t.....
» 10/10/2014 11:56:21 AM Yuyutsu, "something"....okay if you're going to be pedantic. It appears you ca.....
» 10/10/2014 10:15:58 AM Yuyutsu, So you appear to be saying that our minds employ the concept of God to assist us.....
» 10/10/2014 9:10:50 AM Jayb, If someone who routinely tells us he doesn't believe something exists, finds a mean.....
» 10/10/2014 9:02:58 AM Paul, Yes, indeedy...but Heffernan did that because the govt had cut security at Parliame.....
» 10/10/2014 8:55:27 AM Loud Goose, No...(unless you count slaughtering innocents by drone) But they do provide .....
» 10/10/2014 8:31:08 AM Yeah, Yuyutsu...you and I had discussions on your idea of God many moons ago. For someone.....
» 10/10/2014 7:43:24 AM Sorry to hear that, Foxy...but there was no reason under those circumstances that the secu.....
» 9/10/2014 11:13:21 PM Leo, ".....The current increase in CO2 has not resulted in any warming..." Ala.....
» 9/10/2014 10:54:31 PM Yes, Squeers.... Good old, Hasbeen, he's a vaudeville hack from way back. Here's a pearl.....
» 9/10/2014 6:16:14 PM Here ya go, folks...in the name of security... http://www.news.com.au/national/victoria/c.....
» 9/10/2014 2:17:53 PM Onjab, Ebola is a virus. http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/national/2014/10/04/how-ebola-.....
» 8/10/2014 7:14:11 PM Saw this a while back on Foreign Correspondent. http://www.abc.net.au/foreign/content/201.....
» 8/10/2014 5:44:10 PM Yes, spindoc...most entertaining... But you still haven't explained why you think the ver.....
» 8/10/2014 12:30:12 PM Bazz, "2. Decide to finally annihilate all Moslems. Nuke Mecca & Medina." Bonk.....
» 8/10/2014 12:26:24 PM So sorry, spindoc, But from here it looks like you judge the veracity of climate "sc.....
» 8/10/2014 11:40:27 AM spindoc, Maybe you should equate the inaction by govts and world bodies in the same way a.....
» 8/10/2014 10:09:39 AM Jayb, "poirot: BS, actually. How do they say, "You don't know that." Yes.....
» 8/10/2014 9:54:37 AM Loud Goose, ".... But it explores some of the social and political complexities invo.....
» 8/10/2014 8:28:59 AM Jayb, "No I gather they were going to let the children sit in the regular Gallery. T.....
» 8/10/2014 7:29:12 AM Paul, As far as I can make out, in Australia the article is formally referred to as..... .....
» 7/10/2014 4:21:36 PM rehctub, "Besides, I would think it would be hard to conceal a large sword, unless o.....
» 7/10/2014 2:14:40 PM Lol!...spindoc...read rehctub's post...that's funny. Straight from the Abbott govt ACME H.....
» 7/10/2014 12:26:40 PM Loud Goose, "....the burka - I think he means the nikab..." Great stuff....rec.....
» 7/10/2014 10:27:07 AM Josephus, "So you call me a liar." Let' just say, that you appear to be embell.....
» 7/10/2014 9:01:56 AM Josephus, What a load of tosh....(you obviously think we're all idiots here:) "...I.....
» 7/10/2014 8:37:15 AM "....has a brilliant article about the 'burka' - I think he means the nikab ...".....
» 7/10/2014 8:02:20 AM Okay, Arjay...before we become enmeshed in conspiracy theories, I've collected a couple of.....
» 6/10/2014 1:57:34 PM o sung wu, And remember when Sally Field soared through the skies - as was her habit...ae.....
» 6/10/2014 11:52:52 AM Jayb, What "problems"? (Aside from the conflated domestic threat constantly to.....
» 6/10/2014 9:55:16 AM Yeah, Loud Goose (otherwise known as the fella who posts off topic whenever it suits him -.....
» 6/10/2014 8:06:05 AM Jayb, "Yes you are right Mise. I do like to play with people's minds." In that.....
» 6/10/2014 7:36:44 AM Loud Goose, "My point was that you might be hard put to find two OLO contributors wh.....
» 5/10/2014 10:19:08 AM Loud Goose, "Still, it's a deviation from the topic, which is, I thought, about the .....
» 5/10/2014 9:10:24 AM Loudmouth, You could attempt to make yourself cognizant of all the machinations Israel ha.....
» 5/10/2014 8:31:03 AM Loudmouth, Yes, I appreciate that you were picking up on Jayb's comment...still doesn't e.....
» 5/10/2014 4:29:04 AM Lol!..May May has their measure! Loudmouth, "The conundrum seems to be: how on Eart.....
» 4/10/2014 6:59:07 PM May May, "ConservativeHippie, if your figure of 28 million Muslim terrorists worldwi.....
» 4/10/2014 5:34:38 PM Regarding the "stunt" pulled by this govt re burqas/niqabs: http://www.afr.com/.....
» 4/10/2014 1:30:03 PM Jayb, "...Would we be having all this trouble in Australia now if there were no mosl.....
» 4/10/2014 11:06:14 AM Joe, (Slightly off topic, but we're allowed to do that if you say so...:) "Slightly.....
» 4/10/2014 9:07:32 AM LOl!...here's the type of dingbat the likes of Abbott and his cohorts appeal to... ".....
» 4/10/2014 8:06:25 AM Yes, paul... The "terror hysteria" juggernaut appeared to be rolling along acco.....
» 4/10/2014 7:00:56 AM otb, "Even if you believe that the apparel wearers you support are beyond suspicion,.....
» 3/10/2014 10:04:48 PM o sung wu, "Reading your last thread got me thinking somewhat ? You lament the waste.....
» 3/10/2014 6:51:18 PM Foxy, "...There are for example certain professions that require the face to be show.....
» 3/10/2014 4:50:30 PM Foxy, "However I still stand by my personal objection to the burqa. In our society t.....
» 3/10/2014 11:33:46 AM Rhosty, You're correct...they are a "...legitimate, democratically elected Governmen.....
» 2/10/2014 8:29:29 PM Whoa! http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/tony-abbott-kills-off-parliam.....
» 2/10/2014 8:23:53 PM Foxy, "The PM is not banning the wearing of burqas as such - only that for security .....
» 2/10/2014 6:01:43 PM Jayb, If it wasn't against the rules...I'd call you an idiot. It's illegal to walk aroun.....
» 2/10/2014 5:51:12 PM Loverly weasel words, Joe, "So Muslim women would still be allowed to wear a nikab i.....
» 2/10/2014 5:33:16 PM Great stuff, runner. I guarantee you'd know I was a "lady". "I know Tally.....
» 2/10/2014 5:03:09 PM Hey, runner...I wear jeans/slacks and jackets more than anything else in the cold months.......
» 2/10/2014 4:50:36 PM Loudmouth, Dumb question... "....To Muslim women in Western dress ? Or just to Musl.....
» 2/10/2014 3:24:23 PM Actually it's quite interesting - with the new rules in Parliament. That even though a Mu.....
» 2/10/2014 10:21:48 AM Killarney, Never mind Loudmouth's deprecating style...he finds it impossible to debate wi.....
» 2/10/2014 9:01:38 AM "Well Killarny, you still have not explained how we defend ourselves from the Islamis.....
» 2/10/2014 6:06:42 AM Yuyutsu, "No wonder that the coalition could not stop it - only God can - otherwise .....
» 2/10/2014 5:55:05 AM "Women have to play a minimum of 3 sets, men have to play a minimum of 5 sets, two mo.....
» 1/10/2014 8:56:58 PM "And now this lot who went into the election to dismantle 18C of the discrimination a.....
» 1/10/2014 5:20:39 PM Tch, Tch...runner....further spewing the hatred is not becoming for one such as yourself w.....
» 1/10/2014 5:12:24 PM Gawd....spare me from typos! "....since the man is so imperfect...' Should read: &.....
» 1/10/2014 5:08:50 PM o sung wu, nah...just a dose of reality. You can lay into fellow posters with the best o.....
» 1/10/2014 2:03:18 PM JKJ, "....You would be fine with invading Iraq if your beloved Labor party were doin.....
» 1/10/2014 11:02:11 AM JKJ, "Yes it really is nauseating to hear Tony Abbott talk about 'Team Australia' fi.....
» 1/10/2014 10:16:01 AM Joe, "So insouciance is now hysteria ? That post pretty much sums it up. Tones com.....
» 1/10/2014 9:03:38 AM Joe, "So who is getting hysterical ? I'm confident that the government has pretty mu.....
» 1/10/2014 8:49:13 AM Joe, "And where is Abbott "denouncing the pacifists for lack of patriotism".....
» 1/10/2014 5:39:00 AM o sung wu, You had me fooled mate. I had assumed you were one of the few around here who.....
» 1/10/2014 5:10:11 AM Wow!...it's amazing. Th right-wingers around here are apparently pre-primed to echo the .....
» 30/09/2014 5:40:56 PM Joe, "Don't worry too much about it, when people get paranoid, this is how their min.....
» 30/09/2014 3:37:35 PM o sung wu, "But what are we to do ? There's no doubt whatsoever, there's a real thre.....
» 30/09/2014 1:54:28 PM rehctub, "If you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear." Oh yes....tho.....
» 30/09/2014 7:30:51 AM o sung wu, "Unfortunately, in a society such as ours, you'll always get some stupid .....
» 29/09/2014 8:18:40 PM Here ya go folks.... This is precisely the kind of event that the Abbott govt has engende.....
» 29/09/2014 6:12:33 PM Joe, "So the Yanks should have been aware that any road to democracy was going to be.....
» 29/09/2014 5:06:08 PM "...We are in a war and survival is more important than being politically correct in .....
» 29/09/2014 11:21:13 AM Hasbeen, "Don't worry Binoy, the general public will know pretty soon, when ASIO com.....
» 29/09/2014 9:10:03 AM Absolutely, Bren... Why would the toppling of the Sunnis in Iraq and their subsequent and.....
» 29/09/2014 8:47:03 AM "National security gags on media force us to trust state will do no wrong" http.....
» 29/09/2014 8:26:33 AM " Perhaps the censorship is to help the security forces do their job without the medi.....
» 29/09/2014 8:20:23 AM ".... women are slower, weaker and less intelligent than men on average, why should t.....
» 28/09/2014 10:57:57 PM JKJ, "Look at Tony, David and Poirot, all desperately trying to pretend as if their .....
» 28/09/2014 6:58:56 PM Come now, boys....take a breather from walking in lock-step with govt's nasty Islam agenda.....
» 28/09/2014 4:49:47 PM otb, "I am satisfied that the only real protection and the sole robust control we ca.....
» 28/09/2014 12:14:59 PM "Any chance of somehow drifting back to topic ?" ....says Joe. As he submits a.....
» 28/09/2014 8:32:40 AM JKJ, Yup.....it stands to reason that because trilobites flourished all those millions of.....
» 28/09/2014 7:57:51 AM runner, "Yvonne you are intelligent enough to know this doctor was acting contrary t.....
» 28/09/2014 7:48:35 AM o sung wu, "As most of you know, I have very little 'particular' knowledge of the in.....
» 27/09/2014 6:40:57 PM ConservativeHippie, "SIS evolved over the past few years and we would be in the same.....
» 27/09/2014 4:36:21 PM o sung wu, My gift to you this fine afternoon... http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archive.....
» 27/09/2014 12:34:09 PM "..... And if so, why did they pull out of Iraq, particularly because of their secret.....
» 27/09/2014 12:21:08 PM Here's a little of what Tones has whipped up... http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-09-26/pol.....
» 27/09/2014 6:47:40 AM "The comparison between ISIS and Nazi Germany is so clear ...." Lol! "........
» 27/09/2014 1:54:16 AM Joe, "..... And all you can bitch about is the bloody oil. As if the Yanks can't jus.....
» 26/09/2014 6:47:54 PM Au contraire, individual, Most of the "decent folk on OLO" make allowances for .....
» 26/09/2014 11:02:57 AM Yes, Suse...are you aware that the Abbott govt completely cut off Iraqi aid in the budget......
» 26/09/2014 10:24:56 AM Joe, "Currently, however, the issue concerns ISIS and its drive for a world-wide cal.....
» 26/09/2014 7:41:51 AM Loudmouth, Humans can be extremely savage (as you are aware)....and they can be just as s.....
» 25/09/2014 1:16:25 PM Jayb, "It hasn't happened yet, but it will happen. Got anything planned for the week.....
» 25/09/2014 10:10:43 AM Loudmouth, "Poirot, I'll risk my integrity by supporting Abbott on this one, the ot.....
» 25/09/2014 7:35:31 AM There was no "mess". "Joe Hockey has told New Zealand that there is no cri.....
» 25/09/2014 1:04:56 AM Okay, Luddy, I think I've had enough of your..er...strange....posts. Something appears a.....
» 24/09/2014 8:58:55 PM Not to mention, that Ludwig sounded a bit over-the-top excited that someone was addressing.....
» 24/09/2014 8:56:41 PM Lol!....after post upon post of berating Poirot for posting off topic...what does Ludwig d.....
» 24/09/2014 12:23:34 PM "You are beyond contempt Poirot for your antiquated concept of rape and for such friv.....
» 24/09/2014 11:20:28 AM "Anything to divert attention away from your reactionary and callous insistence that .....
» 24/09/2014 10:17:39 AM "Any chance of sticking to the topic, Poirot, instead of these silly nyah-nyah remark.....
» 24/09/2014 9:12:24 AM "I'll probably never vote liberal. But on this issue, which I believe is very, very r.....
» 24/09/2014 8:43:01 AM Loudmouth, Are you telling me that Oz can't assist without slathering on the domestic &qu.....
» 24/09/2014 8:17:10 AM So yers really can't see what Abbott has fashioned for himself politically out of the diab.....
» 24/09/2014 7:43:40 AM "Feminist Suseonline and 'I-never-called-myself-a-feminist' Poirot have set the clock.....
» 23/09/2014 10:49:27 AM We should read "The Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy" There's a chap.....
» 23/09/2014 9:08:48 AM DavidK, "I doubt Blair has your online opinion on his radar screen, Jennifer." .....
» 23/09/2014 8:05:52 AM LOL!... Never fear, you guys. When Abbott finally hangs up his cape, his spandex budgies.....
» 23/09/2014 12:20:31 AM otb, I see you've slipped into puppy-on-trouser-hem mode - and we all know how irritating.....
» 22/09/2014 3:48:00 PM runner, "Yea Poirot first to admit I do it poorly at times. I do find it strange how.....
» 22/09/2014 3:03:53 PM otb, "For someone who regularly claims to be a woman (always too much information) a.....
» 22/09/2014 1:39:56 PM otb, "Poirot, "It's impossible to rape someone without resorting to violence&qu.....
» 22/09/2014 8:42:33 AM I'll also add, for otb's benefit. In that he appears to think that rape is only a sexual .....
» 22/09/2014 8:08:16 AM Is Mise, Yes, no doubt there are aberrations. But on this thread, Bruce was waxing lyric.....
» 22/09/2014 7:34:34 AM "Now the Shiites have got a problem. They refused to listen to American advice and in.....
» 21/09/2014 11:01:05 PM "gait" (Grrrr....).....
» 21/09/2014 10:59:14 PM otb, "It is closet reactionaries like you who would roll back the clock a hundred ye.....
» 21/09/2014 10:46:06 PM runner, Thank you for your answer....."I refer to God as He because Jesus taught us .....
» 21/09/2014 10:35:53 PM otb, "Nonsense. Are you for real? Rape can involve duress outside of violence...&quo.....
» 21/09/2014 10:51:05 AM "....And now I've even been accredited with someone I have neither read nor used in t.....
» 21/09/2014 10:17:13 AM otb, Rape is certainly a violent act - and a sexual act. It's both. Why are you going t.....
» 21/09/2014 10:11:24 AM Bazz, Perhaps you have an explanation for Joe telling New Zealanders one thing - and Aust.....
» 21/09/2014 9:06:20 AM rechtub, You're such a sucker for media spin. You'll lap up anything this shambles of a .....
» 21/09/2014 8:55:42 AM David G, "We in Australia, are going the same way as the imperial U.S. which is tryi.....
» 21/09/2014 7:17:38 AM runner, Why do refer to God as "He"? Why do you refer to God as having a gende.....
» 21/09/2014 6:20:04 AM rechtub, "....The latest foiled terror attacks are living proof that as long as so c.....
» 20/09/2014 10:26:48 AM "Do you think we humans should always be little more than greedy, brutish beasts?&quo.....
» 20/09/2014 1:13:07 AM Joe, "AS WELL AS to advise us all to stay alert, not alarmed (Abbott, today);" .....
» 19/09/2014 9:04:24 PM "So, it begs the question then; why did you put up so many posts that were not contri.....
» 19/09/2014 3:33:13 PM Foxy, "I wonder if a well-dressed man stepping from an expensive limo would ever be .....
» 19/09/2014 2:28:25 PM "Sorry P, but the fact is that if an assailant commits GBH upon an innocent and unsus.....
» 19/09/2014 10:18:16 AM Bruce, Okay...semantics, if you wish. I was talking subjectively - as in the sort of per.....
» 19/09/2014 9:59:51 AM Dr Bill, "....It’s shameful that you and your ilk have to hide behind pseudonyms, fr.....
» 19/09/2014 8:49:07 AM ".....but this is NOT an ideal world, far from it indeed, and any person who behaves .....
» 19/09/2014 8:26:04 AM http://www.abc.net.au/lateline/content/2014/s4014341.htm "BARBRA MILLER, EUROPE CORR.....
» 18/09/2014 10:45:34 PM "I think he had no choice but to strongly defend himself. All those against him conde.....
» 18/09/2014 7:17:12 PM Hasbeen, "Wow Graham, I did not realise you were suicidal. To post this article here.....
» 17/09/2014 10:23:19 PM JKJ gets bonus points for using the term "logical fallacy" twice in succession. .....
» 17/09/2014 7:04:44 AM "....which is why the US is pursuing political reform in Iraq to be more inclusive of.....
» 16/09/2014 9:01:53 PM Thank you, runner. Every time you post your derision, it merely serves to demonstrate the.....
» 16/09/2014 9:17:01 AM Loudmouth, Oh, golly gee, you'll have to excuse my shutting down JKJ's generic twaddle - .....
» 16/09/2014 8:55:43 AM JKJ, LOL! Still at it? (Change the record...we're all getting drowsy).....
» 16/09/2014 8:23:08 AM JKJ, "Tony153 and Poirot are fresh from having done just that here....running away a.....
» 16/09/2014 8:09:32 AM Babette, I don't believe you've quite got the hang of Christian inclusiveness...breaking .....
» 16/09/2014 7:20:11 AM Graham Readfearn deconstructs this whole affair... "The Australian Newspaper’s War O.....
» 16/09/2014 6:34:58 AM SM, "3 Creating an Iraqi government that is inclusive of Sunnis as a political alter.....
» 15/09/2014 7:16:02 AM Here's an article worth reading for us to glean a little understanding of the tangled web .....
» 14/09/2014 8:49:54 PM Tony Abbott has been casting about with apparent haste for something - anything - to prove.....
» 14/09/2014 4:43:14 PM Foxy, ".... we didn't get rid of al-qaeda - ...." I do believe al-qaeda wasn't.....
» 14/09/2014 6:25:29 AM JKJ, "Wrong. I never initiate personal argument, only ever respond to it..." Y.....
» 14/09/2014 6:09:13 AM JKJ, You are deliberately attempting to "skew" the topic of this thread which i.....
» 14/09/2014 5:50:49 AM "How about telling us (me and all the hundreds of enthralled readers who are followin.....
» 13/09/2014 7:02:11 PM JKJ, Your raising of other issues in my direction = attempting to post off topic......
» 13/09/2014 5:55:44 PM JKJ, No - there is not a budget emergency. If you had interpreted that cartoon correctly.....
» 13/09/2014 5:39:44 PM SM, I was on this thread before, and dropped back to see how it was toodling. And I coul.....
» 13/09/2014 1:27:05 PM "In short: Me: very morally sound. You Pericles; rather dodgily moral at best.".....
» 13/09/2014 12:17:37 PM G'dayBruce, Right you are. This cartoon by Broelman sums it up perfectly. http://broelm.....
» 13/09/2014 12:10:59 PM SM, "I always am amused by the waffle that the left whingers think passes at wit, re.....
» 13/09/2014 10:50:46 AM This debate is "bonkers" - and it's already been done to death many times over. .....
» 13/09/2014 10:01:34 AM http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/opinion/opinion-fail-for-tony-abbott-as-expm-julia-gill.....
» 13/09/2014 8:13:46 AM No problem, Grim...I realised to which you were alluding......
» 12/09/2014 1:15:01 PM JKJ, "Oh, so at last you recognise that name-calling is not legitimate argument. Sin.....
» 12/09/2014 10:22:48 AM "In the face of domestic difficulties centred on a failed budget, a foreign policy pe.....
» 12/09/2014 8:37:38 AM JKJ, "And stop pretending your concern is intellectual integrity: you wouldn't recog.....
» 12/09/2014 1:04:31 AM "Oddly enough, Saddam’s only effective strategy to prevent war at this point might ha.....
» 12/09/2014 1:04:05 AM http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2005/jun/09/the-secret-way-to-war/?page=2 ".....
» 12/09/2014 1:02:56 AM LEGO, ".....I myself saw Saddam Hussein on TV holding up a triggering device for a n.....
» 11/09/2014 6:56:49 PM "....In recent years however, the productivity allowed by Borlaug's developments have.....
» 11/09/2014 3:47:23 PM "Ok, bring on the total condemnation without addressing the debate, Poirot and Pericl.....
» 11/09/2014 7:41:30 AM LEGO, "..... But I know that one reason why the USA invaded Iraq as because the US f.....
» 10/09/2014 8:33:20 PM otb, "What you haven't refuted is that you do cherry-pick your quotes. You are a par.....
» 10/09/2014 3:47:25 PM o sung wu, "....so I should desist from entering into anything to do with politics a.....
» 10/09/2014 11:47:32 AM Lol!...Pericles, I here some hootin' and a hollering' amidst the swagger in the backgroun.....
» 10/09/2014 11:33:42 AM LEGO, "I said that the USA decided to invade Iraq because it wanted it's army to go .....
» 10/09/2014 10:24:41 AM Pericles, "So you can stop trying to change history, yet again, and reflect on the c.....
» 10/09/2014 8:37:41 AM LEGO, I don't condemn the US in every instance...I am condemning them in the instance of .....
» 10/09/2014 1:13:25 AM o sung wu, "...Further, his political strategy must be pretty good, considering the .....
» 9/09/2014 8:41:32 PM LEGO, "I am not sure why you submitted that the Iraq/Afghanistan war cost the USA 1......
» 9/09/2014 5:39:26 PM o sung wu, "Many claim he's just straight out dumb ? How can that be, he's a Rhodes .....
» 9/09/2014 10:42:03 AM "Oh someone else must have been posting using your name for the last 5 years Poirot.&.....
» 9/09/2014 10:35:16 AM runner, "as someone who always defended Gillard and claimed Abbott was unelectable I.....
» 9/09/2014 9:00:46 AM SM, "I look forward to Julie Bishop as Australia's first competent female prime mini.....
» 9/09/2014 8:33:28 AM LEGO, "We in the west no longer think that this is still valid and that is why we wi.....
» 8/09/2014 8:37:11 PM LEGO, "..... The British Empire was the greatest civilising force that the world had.....
» 8/09/2014 6:22:52 PM "Well, on the other hand it could be quite conceivable there may be no bias at all wi.....
» 8/09/2014 4:08:11 PM o sung wu, "....and she's an absolutely stunning human being, ingrained with class, .....
» 8/09/2014 10:43:20 AM Erk!..... http://www.theage.com.au/nsw/icac-lifts-suppression-order-on-peta-credlin-and-p.....
» 8/09/2014 9:18:18 AM Bazz, "Haven't you detected that he has a speech impediment ?" I've listened t.....
» 8/09/2014 8:08:53 AM And we've got this sordid episode being resuscitated... http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-0.....
» 8/09/2014 7:49:22 AM Sorry about that, SM, But all I want is you to inject some wit. I'm up for some entertai.....
» 8/09/2014 7:40:45 AM LEGO, "....however much we would like to save the world from itself, some nations ar.....
» 7/09/2014 2:55:25 PM SteeleRedux, "Perhaps you would like to present to us what you consider to be an exa.....
» 7/09/2014 1:43:30 PM Suse, "Poirot, I must admit to favouring Julie Bishop mainly because she is the only.....
» 7/09/2014 12:45:20 PM LEGO, "....Trying to understand their Byzantine tribal politics and stop them fighti.....
» 7/09/2014 11:48:48 AM SM, I reckon you should give those tots at your local pre-school a break. I'm sure they'.....
» 7/09/2014 10:56:28 AM LEGO, Stephen Koukoulas just tweeted: "MYEFO will likely confirm budget deficits wi.....
» 7/09/2014 10:23:24 AM G'dayBruce, Don't expect the right-wing OLOers to let you get away with linking to an art.....
» 7/09/2014 10:18:38 AM Suse, "She speaks well, dresses well and is a credit to the country when she is over.....
» 6/09/2014 10:58:45 AM SteeleRedux, http://www.smh.com.au/comment/tony-abbotts-is-intervention-bluster-muffles-c.....
» 6/09/2014 10:20:39 AM Lol!, spindoc...have you misplaced the remote again? Perhaps find a new hobby?.....
» 6/09/2014 9:02:46 AM LEGO, Instead of raining Thatcher platitudes upon me, perhaps you'd care to inform yourse.....
» 5/09/2014 9:00:24 PM LEGO, The US backed Saddam until they didn't back him. Full stop. http://www2.gwu.edu/~.....
» 5/09/2014 7:57:42 PM Problem being, Paul, that Graham told us not to post anything explicit......
» 5/09/2014 5:45:44 PM rehctub, "Can't help but wonder if this outbreak in PNG has come from the illegals g.....
» 5/09/2014 10:21:38 AM SteeleRedux, SM posts: "I have a reasonably thick hide, and your childish taunts ar.....
» 5/09/2014 8:15:37 AM Come on, SM, It's hardly worth clicking on this thread anymore. Is that really the exten.....
» 5/09/2014 8:02:39 AM LEGO, Thanks for the script. I suppose you reckon Oz would have been better to introduce.....
» 4/09/2014 5:05:05 PM JKJ, "You ran away from answering how you disagree with shooting people to enforce t.....
» 4/09/2014 4:57:52 PM "take a bex Poirot." Take a funny run - runner. : ).....
» 4/09/2014 3:49:18 PM Leo, Well, it's either "in crisis" or not "in crisis". Hockey repeat.....
» 4/09/2014 1:16:25 PM But...but...Leo, According to Joe, there is "no crisis". "Joe Hockey has .....
» 4/09/2014 12:47:09 PM Yeah, SM, Tones is a first class statesman and diplomat. (If one holds grandstanding, che.....
» 4/09/2014 10:39:50 AM Is Mise, "some computers don't work well in deep holes." Lol!.....
» 4/09/2014 10:26:01 AM Paul, ".....The primeministership has gone to his head. He is now thinking he is an .....
» 4/09/2014 10:10:59 AM Is Mise, Apart from that one "Ludwig" post....all the other Ludwig posts are Lu.....
» 4/09/2014 9:15:50 AM Is Mise, "If one is being attacked by a force that intends murder and rapine on one'.....
» 4/09/2014 8:57:26 AM Ludwig, "Presumably that post will soon be deleted by the moderator." "So.....
» 4/09/2014 6:05:48 AM "Gee, that's funny, Poirot. I am one of the electorate, and even though I don't like .....
» 3/09/2014 5:24:06 PM runner, Nice to see you approve of these sorts of conditions, you compassionate little th.....
» 3/09/2014 5:06:27 PM SM, I write: "So you appear to be saying that even though Tones envisaged his troop.....
» 3/09/2014 3:23:18 PM Big Nana, ".... As for Gillian Triggs, she has already been caught out lying at the .....
» 3/09/2014 2:36:13 PM Here you go, Big Nana, More luxury? http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2014/09/03/asylum.....
» 3/09/2014 1:34:22 PM Big Nana, "...if I found myself and my children on Xmas Island I would go down on my.....
» 3/09/2014 10:27:46 AM Always a hoot when we try and pin this and that onto one or the other gender. The reality.....
» 3/09/2014 8:59:05 AM SM, "Considering the urgency of the situation, a large number of trained people able.....
» 3/09/2014 8:38:26 AM And LEGO, interesting that you've got a snout on Tony because he established the fund to b.....
» 3/09/2014 8:10:33 AM LEGO, "......But for you to claim that Tony Abbot's reference to "Team Australi.....
» 2/09/2014 11:47:19 PM SM, "Thanks for conceding that your pretext for this thread was bollocks. Wanting to.....
» 2/09/2014 8:47:36 PM (oh Gawd - forgive us o sung wu for talking coffee...just one more comment from me:) Foxy.....
» 2/09/2014 6:24:49 PM Leo lane, "...We should treat his senseless approach with the contempt it deserves, .....
» 2/09/2014 6:14:05 PM Otb, Whadaya mean those days have gone?...I'm sipping on a percolated coffee right now. .....
» 2/09/2014 4:19:05 PM SM, "....Happily as I haven't suffered from head trauma and am older than 10 I have .....
» 2/09/2014 10:27:58 AM Hang in there, Squeers.... indi hasn't labelled you a "moron" yet......
» 2/09/2014 10:18:53 AM As general Haig said to Blackadder in series 4: On the "Big Push" and the posit.....
» 2/09/2014 7:54:09 AM Excellent, individual...we can always depend on you to fill at least one sophisticated pos.....
» 1/09/2014 3:40:01 PM Have no idea why Palestinians feel disenfranchised... http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/01/w.....
» 1/09/2014 10:49:25 AM SM, "Parrot" Lol!....that's about as good as it gets from you, ain't it.... S.....
» 1/09/2014 10:46:15 AM SM, We all know that Abbott if champing at the bit to involve Australia in international .....
» 1/09/2014 8:40:41 AM It's "so" obvious what the Abbott govt is attempting with this. Anyone who has .....
» 31/08/2014 7:48:04 PM So disappointing, SM... Why are right-wingers devoid of wit?.....
» 31/08/2014 9:00:56 AM Excellent, SM... "If your only recollection of liberals was a meeting 40 years ago, .....
» 31/08/2014 8:45:25 AM Yes, runner, I realise you have deputised yourself as the official Abbott protector on OLO.....
» 30/08/2014 10:30:08 PM Oh, excellent...runner gives yet another example of not being able to post on topic withou.....
» 30/08/2014 9:47:37 PM runner, "Yea Poirot the mass slaughter of Syrians and Iraq's to the cheers of the lo.....
» 30/08/2014 7:53:02 PM Paul, I do find it funny...sounds like a set piece in a movie. A slice of bygone middle-.....
» 30/08/2014 6:22:20 PM Foxy, "..... So worrying about Mr Abbott getting us involved in another war may be m.....
» 30/08/2014 10:25:39 AM Ludwig, You clearly refuse to digest the point I was attempting to make in my recent seri.....
» 30/08/2014 8:46:09 AM Yup - SPQR...more scintillating rebuttal from you........
» 30/08/2014 8:33:22 AM Yeah, SM, SPQR,...scintillating stuff! For 5 year-olds.........
» 30/08/2014 8:20:42 AM My 12 year-old son is quite an historian and has done considerable research on family memb.....
» 29/08/2014 9:05:10 AM (After Ludwig's continuing rant regarding Poirot, he suggests we resume cordial arrangemen.....
» 29/08/2014 8:44:16 AM Cont'd... "....and the little band of nasty intolerants on this thread, are TOTALLY .....
» 29/08/2014 8:29:33 AM Cont'd... ""I’m sure that at least R0bert and Paul can see this perfectly clear.....
» 29/08/2014 8:15:00 AM "Those who do anything other than debate the points that I have tried to get debated .....
» 29/08/2014 7:19:03 AM SteeleRedux, In times of bad polls and desperation, shonky govts always reach for the &qu.....
» 28/08/2014 12:46:47 AM G'dayBruce, "This thread, as in all attempts at discussing feminism, has been full o.....
» 27/08/2014 2:48:28 PM Thanks Foxy....I'd forgotten about that. I wonder what G'dayBruce makes of one of us star.....
» 27/08/2014 12:38:54 PM G'dayBruce, If you're ignorant of the outreach by Oz feminists to people like Vandana Shi.....
» 27/08/2014 11:31:34 AM And there you see it, clear and obvious to all, the G'dayBruce style of "discussion&q.....
» 27/08/2014 8:19:38 AM Paul, What do you reckon about this one? http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/politica.....
» 27/08/2014 8:04:15 AM Go away, Ludwig, As far as Poirot is concerned, you've morphed into a boring puerile trol.....
» 26/08/2014 10:53:34 PM G'dayBruce, "Oh, and Poirot? Are you suggesting I should take a more gentlemanly ton.....
» 26/08/2014 8:34:47 PM G'dayBruce, "Foxy STILL hasn't responded to my questions and assertions, one can't h.....
» 26/08/2014 2:02:57 PM Ludwig, "Erm… no. That was not on-topic." It was as much on topic as some othe.....
» 26/08/2014 10:19:30 AM Hasbeen, "....When I point out that the ladies in my tribe have only once made a fun.....
» 26/08/2014 8:44:23 AM Ludwig, I addressed Hasbeen in that post - on topic - concerning his penchant for patroni.....
» 26/08/2014 12:35:53 AM JKJ, "In other words, there is no such thing as rational argumentation: there is onl.....
» 25/08/2014 11:34:47 PM Gee, Hasbeen, I'm heartbroken. Imagine the thrill of being referred to repeatedly as &qu.....
» 25/08/2014 8:36:39 PM "That’s a great quote by Schumacher. It resonates enormously with the Rolf Harris thr.....
» 25/08/2014 7:52:11 PM JKJ, "....Just explain how you took into account the ecological differences of the w.....
» 25/08/2014 6:29:40 PM JKJ, "Notice how Tony153 has posted nothing but fallacies in this whole thread?".....
» 25/08/2014 4:00:17 PM otb, Precisely! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucky_Country "The Lucky Country".....
» 25/08/2014 2:34:47 PM Foxy, You're so polite! That patronising clown with whom you're interacting doesn't dese.....
» 25/08/2014 2:13:44 PM Hasbeen, Which, of course, gives the perfect opportunity to quote Donald Horne's sentimen.....
» 25/08/2014 2:07:32 PM runner, haha!...Morrison was splitting hairs over whether a detention centre is a prison......
» 25/08/2014 12:34:40 PM Ludwig, "It depends how you define ‘growth’. If we keep striving for endless rapid g.....
» 25/08/2014 10:51:19 AM Scintillating stuff, SM, See Nipp run... See Fluff chasing her tail.... See Shadow Mini.....
» 25/08/2014 10:17:56 AM Ludwig, "I’m all for the basic principles of feminism. But just as with anything, it.....
» 25/08/2014 8:07:51 AM ....says SPQR...as he stirs the pot. Don't know if you've noticed, but I'm not the type t.....
» 25/08/2014 7:18:02 AM Yes....one imagines that any cool-headed serious discussion on this issue is automatically.....
» 24/08/2014 10:32:48 PM Nice bit of interaction taking place here... Well said, otb......
» 24/08/2014 5:35:18 PM Quite so, yvonne...and keeping in mind that just under half of the debt bequeathed to the .....
» 24/08/2014 5:30:11 PM haha!...individual, "I was told long ago to never argue with a mug,..." Upon .....
» 24/08/2014 2:35:42 PM indi, "handed an Australian economy that was the envy of the OECD.. Furphy !" .....
» 24/08/2014 1:13:23 PM Foxy-Gran : ), It's got a lot to do with being part of a fortunate society. Parents are .....
» 24/08/2014 12:41:52 PM Nathan, I was using it as a "comparison". I would suggest "visiting a Lib.....
» 24/08/2014 10:36:22 AM ".... they can not escape the fact that the blame does indeed lie with Labor. The lib.....
» 24/08/2014 9:13:53 AM SM, "In all the years I have yet to see you criticize one person from the left...&qu.....
» 24/08/2014 8:33:48 AM "....Had Labor not been so abysmally incompetent we would not have this under perform.....
» 24/08/2014 8:16:08 AM Lol!, SM, "You have Back handed Brandt, Rip off Rhiannon, Mendacious Milne, Shifty S.....
» 24/08/2014 12:46:09 AM yes, otb...I saw that earlier on the ABC site. I think, however, that rehctub is not so c.....
» 23/08/2014 11:13:04 PM Nathan, "No it does not. If we take that line no one will change their life in this .....
» 23/08/2014 11:25:21 AM Yes, Nathan, "After seeing a commercial (for A Current Affair), it covered a woman w.....
» 23/08/2014 8:59:13 AM G'dayBruce, Gee, you come over as a bright articulate person. So let's call a spade a sp.....
» 23/08/2014 8:13:03 AM rehctub, "Nathan, you asked for solutions. I am not complaining other than to sugges.....
» 23/08/2014 1:16:27 AM "I denigrated her for being exactly what she is, a highly successful part of a decaye.....
» 23/08/2014 1:04:26 AM Ludwig, Yes,it's obvious that I have way to much time on my hands - or why else would I c.....
» 22/08/2014 9:05:30 PM Ludwig - (you were right, I'm back) Misdemeanors... From the the sentencing remarks: &q.....
» 22/08/2014 6:06:31 PM Come on, Paul.. Apparently one is only expected to censure Palmer if one is sitting on th.....
» 22/08/2014 5:50:56 PM Hasbeen, "Anyone who can make that statement is not keeping up with the research, & .....
» 22/08/2014 11:34:15 AM Good question...SPQR...I noted that too. Albeit, I expect the production team was primed .....
» 22/08/2014 10:19:42 AM Might I also inquire - since runner, ob and others are choosing this issue to sledge Penny.....
» 22/08/2014 8:03:45 AM otb, We've already established that Palmer was directing his vehemence at the Chinese Gov.....
» 21/08/2014 7:02:01 PM "It wouldn't be terrible if it were true but that triple A rating is nothing but a La.....
» 21/08/2014 3:08:04 PM rehctub, "History can be a bitch." Lol!..yes it can. Shame this mob of half-b.....
» 21/08/2014 3:02:35 PM Ludwig, You are a disingenuous little chappie these days, aren't you..... "Well don.....
» 21/08/2014 11:41:09 AM Ludwig, "Most of these people will admit (many only under duress) that Harris’ misde.....
» 21/08/2014 10:28:19 AM Gawd, paul, Don't you know that someone can't be construed as "corrupt" unless .....
» 21/08/2014 10:16:17 AM rehctub, There's always an argument for structural reform. However, hacking the gizzards.....
» 21/08/2014 8:58:37 AM I'll just add, Ludwig, that there's a reason why groping young girls' buttocks attracts a .....
» 21/08/2014 8:41:29 AM Oh, and rehctub, "BUT!, almost as if providing a get out of jail free card to the li.....
» 21/08/2014 8:33:53 AM butcher, ".....and only a DD election can get rid of them. So, for the betterment o.....
» 21/08/2014 8:21:30 AM Ludwig, Judge's sentencing remarks http://www.smh.com.au/world/the-full-statement-from-t.....
» 20/08/2014 9:10:05 PM SM, "Please name whichs liberals an ICAC Judge has declared corrupt. I assume that y.....
» 20/08/2014 4:46:18 PM otb, Australia has always been of strategic importance...even as far back as our first da.....
» 20/08/2014 4:32:13 PM runner, "You can't be serious Poirot. Your Abbottphobia (conservative male)is withou.....
» 20/08/2014 2:57:47 PM Now you're being silly, runner. As if Truzzzzz would say that kind of thing. Even foot-i.....
» 20/08/2014 12:53:01 PM Lol!...Banjo, Palmer said: "On Monday night's Q&A program, Mr Palmer called the Chi.....
» 20/08/2014 12:37:00 PM rehctub, "Abbott must call for a DD election and get rid of this arrangement....&quo.....
» 20/08/2014 11:55:06 AM Ludwig, I've made my point perfectly clearly regarding what "you" term as a &qu.....
» 20/08/2014 11:39:11 AM Is Mise, "Possibly/probably, depends on the trade advantages and US public opinion.&.....
» 20/08/2014 10:19:08 AM Is Mise, Lol!..."If China wanted to invade Australia then she has enough people to d.....
» 20/08/2014 8:55:01 AM ConsevativeHippie, "I'm very surprised to see he suckered Poirot into accepting his .....
» 20/08/2014 8:15:09 AM From Graham's comments" "....However, there are endless programs on the events .....
» 20/08/2014 7:32:24 AM Pericles, You ask: "So which is it? Does Clive Palmer represent mainstream thinking.....
» 20/08/2014 7:19:30 AM Lol! Palmer goes off on a racist rant...but...but...runner starts a thread on Penny Wong .....
» 19/08/2014 8:47:44 PM David Singer, "If you want to put anything to me - support it with evidence." .....
» 19/08/2014 5:29:22 PM SPQR, http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/18/opinion/gaza-and-israel-the-road-to-war-paved-by-.....
» 19/08/2014 4:15:42 PM May I commend to you folk of OLO this highly giggleful clip of teen-speak-when-the-teen-do.....
» 19/08/2014 2:51:29 PM imajulianutter, "So anyone who challenges your propaganda view of the Israelis behav.....
» 19/08/2014 2:32:24 PM Sonofgloin, SPQR..."Are you joking SOG ? Foxy is Lexi!" She is indeed! Howev.....
» 19/08/2014 12:17:38 PM You're a laugh a minute, runner... "the only ones I would be protecting individual i.....
» 19/08/2014 10:40:40 AM SM, "New Matilda is not known for being factually reliable..." Well,Lol!...com.....
» 19/08/2014 10:33:02 AM Lol!...rehctub... "Foxy, why do you think Howard sold off assets, to pay down what w.....
» 19/08/2014 10:20:33 AM Ludwig, "Ahh Poirot, it seems like you might be calming down a bit at last, and perh.....
» 18/08/2014 9:16:05 PM Ludwig, "Poirot needs to consider how much of her stance is emotive and based on int.....
» 18/08/2014 6:34:18 PM David Singer, "What you see is not always the truth: "Over the past week the h.....
» 18/08/2014 6:13:03 PM o sung wu, Too right!...I concur wholeheartedly. My 87 year-old mum had a simple fall th.....
» 18/08/2014 6:02:16 PM SM, "As for FA, the Whitehouse institute is relatively small and while offering many.....
» 18/08/2014 4:17:52 PM otb, "You are safe, educated, well-to-do and have travelled extensively. You should .....
» 18/08/2014 2:15:11 PM David Singer, No "manipulation" needed... We saw what Israel was doing to the .....
» 18/08/2014 2:08:23 PM rehctub, "The age of entitlement is coming to an end." Only for the chosen... .....
» 18/08/2014 12:58:00 PM rehctub, "today's migrants on the other hand, especially those who have extremist wi.....
» 18/08/2014 12:16:38 PM Paul, "Poirot <<I'm not blaming Frances for this at all.>> I am, old eno.....
» 18/08/2014 9:05:25 AM rehctub, You do realise that "none" of the $7 co-payment is actually going to M.....
» 18/08/2014 8:53:38 AM SM, You'd have more credibility if you ceased banging the Slipper drum for his $900 offen.....
» 18/08/2014 8:21:22 AM Nathan J, You are like a breath of fresh air on this forum....and it's interesting that y.....
» 17/08/2014 5:17:07 PM otb, You sure do get snippy when someone puts a spoke in yer wheels....just when you were.....
» 17/08/2014 3:10:48 PM Lol!, otb... "Damn, it is as though Joseph Granville had never invented 'Granville's.....
» 17/08/2014 1:13:30 PM Sm, ".... scurrilous accusations against Abbott and his daughter ..." "Sc.....
» 17/08/2014 8:54:25 AM I'm not sledging the daughter at all. I'm sledging the sort of "entitlement" th.....
» 17/08/2014 8:42:29 AM otb, If you would be so kind to check back on this thread, you'll note that I "was a.....
» 17/08/2014 6:23:41 AM SM, The truth is I couldn't really give a toss....if it looks like a duck and walks like .....
» 17/08/2014 6:13:18 AM "Given that context it is unreasonable for you to be continually whining about your d.....
» 16/08/2014 8:38:24 PM ".....Where on earth is there a requirement for anyone to declare the interests of th.....
» 16/08/2014 6:59:14 PM "My son got an academic scholarship to a top GPS school worth about $180 000. Was tha.....
» 16/08/2014 5:48:24 PM "She did Aus a favour by outing even bigger crooks in Williamson and Thomson." .....
» 16/08/2014 5:32:50 PM "Dang and dagnabbit!"...Lol! Them tha're varmints 'r after destruct'n it, Pardn.....
» 16/08/2014 3:14:26 PM SM...you must be spitting chips that your longed-for LNP rise has turned into such a debac.....
» 16/08/2014 3:05:01 PM Nathan, I appreciate that. We are so "lucky" to find ourselves in a first worl.....
» 16/08/2014 1:59:49 PM "Too many people complain in Australia - like the $7.00? GP payment. Why? Look at Pal.....
» 15/08/2014 10:37:25 AM Bazz, "That is easy Piorot, when the moslems stop firing rockets into Israel and bui.....
» 15/08/2014 10:16:10 AM "Yes. But some sides (Hamas or ISIS)deliberately seek to produce atrocities Or, seek.....
» 15/08/2014 8:58:22 AM Not at all, SPQROFLMAO. I'm sure those pics are grotesque as are the despicable humans wh.....
» 15/08/2014 8:52:45 AM Paul, You might enjoy this...titled "No more Mr Nice Joe" http://www.abc.net.a.....
» 15/08/2014 6:32:17 AM Pericles, Bizarre is right! Ludwig claims: "Never have I given any indication anyw.....
» 14/08/2014 6:26:32 PM RObert, Please don't apologise...there was no problem at all. In fact, I appreciated you.....
» 14/08/2014 6:00:10 PM SPQR, Yes..I imagine many more were injured and many more again traumatised. Psychologic.....
» 14/08/2014 5:47:21 PM rehctub, "Poirot, I'm not identifying people by their religion, I'm identifying that.....
» 14/08/2014 10:11:23 AM "....More than 5,000 [rockets] were fired between 2005 and January 2009, when the nav.....
» 14/08/2014 8:31:51 AM Cossomby, "I regret that the recent angry exchanges about who said what have oversha.....
» 14/08/2014 7:10:52 AM Thank you, dane, "The Germans had well and truly lost the war by February 1945. Most.....
» 13/08/2014 9:31:21 PM Loudmouth, "If Hamas keeps firing rockets into Israel, then it is quite legal - and .....
» 13/08/2014 3:25:06 PM sonofgloin, "P, a few contributors have pointed out the duplicity in the "natur.....
» 13/08/2014 1:43:21 PM rehctub, "Well, no. Christanity ( modern day) does not condone beheading or the beli.....
» 13/08/2014 1:32:33 PM Lol!...SM, But isn't it "amazing" that your preferred brand turns out to be jus.....
» 13/08/2014 11:38:27 AM Yes, RObert, That was my point. Identify and singling out people by their religion - and.....
» 13/08/2014 10:29:51 AM SM, "You will note that when bad eggs are found in the liberal party, they are immed.....
» 13/08/2014 10:25:46 AM Golly-gee, you guys are a hoot. runner, How would you like it if I said: "Christ.....
» 13/08/2014 9:12:24 AM SPQR, "rehctub "Muslims are not the problem, it's the religion they follow that.....
» 13/08/2014 8:57:16 AM "You didn't put in any link to papers that strongly support the view that warming mus.....
» 13/08/2014 8:47:35 AM "Muslims are not the problem, it's the religion they follow that's the problem....&qu.....
» 12/08/2014 10:56:41 PM Ludwig, "It was DIRECTLY my views that you got so worked up and led you to become re.....
» 12/08/2014 7:17:34 PM Yes, Ludwig. Can I say that in the space of one thread you have "completely" lo.....
» 12/08/2014 5:39:15 PM Yes, runner, it seems we can. : ).....
» 12/08/2014 5:19:33 PM Absolutely correct, SPQR that I'm not going to watch your link. I rarely traipse around fo.....
» 12/08/2014 4:56:06 PM runner says in agreement with Banjo - (regarding o sung wu) "I agree with Banjos ass.....
» 12/08/2014 4:43:12 PM Hasbeen, Only Muslims? Why just last week we witnessed terrified, unarmed and defenceles.....
» 12/08/2014 2:47:49 PM Bazz, "Poirot, you are the most outspoken in defending the invaders, would you be ha.....
» 12/08/2014 10:43:06 AM runner, "MIght I suggest Poirot you wave your Hamas flag somewhere else. Your blindn.....
» 12/08/2014 10:16:06 AM SPQR, "Surely you are not maintaining that because the much deconstructed & criticiz.....
» 12/08/2014 8:41:42 AM SPQR, Lol!.. In the one breath, he says... "As one guy he was pleasant company . B.....
» 12/08/2014 1:15:48 AM runner, Oh yes...how "competent" they look. Poor old Hockey is still trying to.....
» 12/08/2014 12:49:42 AM SteeleRedux, "Ultimately the equation seems to be give zealots of any of the three A.....
» 11/08/2014 10:53:02 PM o sung wu, And in case you think I'm an incurable leftie who wouldn't vote Liberal if my .....
» 11/08/2014 10:46:48 PM o sung wu, That is a good question. But, really, I'm surprised that you feel the need to.....
» 11/08/2014 10:29:09 PM Ludwig, "So, Jay is no longer with us. Poirot must be saddened at the loss of her ne.....
» 11/08/2014 5:13:00 PM o sung wu, "The reason the current government took the austere economic measures the.....
» 11/08/2014 12:20:56 PM Divergence, ".... It ought to be possible to charge politicians with false and misle.....
» 11/08/2014 10:45:19 AM Ludwig, ".... and an intense blast of internet bullying from three respondents who h.....
» 11/08/2014 8:13:18 AM o sung wu, "Often when a Minister DOES take a tough realistic stand on some politica.....
» 11/08/2014 7:44:03 AM Don't know whether I should chuck this into the fray or not...but since this thread is tak.....
» 10/08/2014 7:45:26 PM Don, "Yes, green house gases have been increasing while temperatures have not...&quo.....
» 10/08/2014 11:25:47 AM Jayb, "How come you aren't into that other Forum I mentioned. Or are you, under anot.....
» 10/08/2014 10:51:58 AM Noting the title of this thread...I thought it might be useful to post this article clearl.....
» 10/08/2014 10:34:59 AM Truly amazing how intelligent people can be suckered into a "boat people" hyster.....
» 10/08/2014 10:21:02 AM But..B...B...B...Bazz, "This all about a a fictional boat that does not exist.".....
» 10/08/2014 8:57:43 AM The only record, Ludwig, is in the degree of hypocrisy and childish foot stamping and name.....
» 9/08/2014 2:58:50 PM Banjo, "There is no reason not to believe what the Minister says about the boats bei.....
» 9/08/2014 1:09:48 PM Leo Lane, "Poirot never takes any notice of science. On another thread she showed th.....
» 9/08/2014 11:44:52 AM voxUnius, "Nope - not a scientist at all. And neither were any of the other 8 MPs wh.....
» 9/08/2014 11:02:30 AM Suse, "individual, you are not understanding me. Where, exactly, would rental homes .....
» 9/08/2014 10:19:19 AM Jet, "... You sound like ignorant children." Well, der.... That was precisely.....
» 9/08/2014 10:16:23 AM Don, "... I am not sitting as a judge, but I think you may be." Er.... ".....
» 9/08/2014 10:06:35 AM Yada, yada, yada, runner. You're the guy who thinks Evolution is crock. Next.........
» 9/08/2014 9:09:34 AM "....But I don't respond to people who simply dismiss what I say because I am not a n.....
» 9/08/2014 8:35:46 AM "When you get through scratching each others backs, boys, just remember that SPQR, Sh.....
» 8/08/2014 11:20:23 PM Banjo, "Morrison is doing a terrific job and none have drowned thus far." How .....
» 8/08/2014 7:07:18 PM Yvonne, "From my recollection it was the Labor Party who started the dog whistle abo.....
» 8/08/2014 3:58:40 PM Jayb, "You are missing out an a great Forum, "Cutting the grass in the Theatre .....
» 8/08/2014 3:50:45 PM Saul, I hope you'll excuse our childish banter here. SPQR and Poirot are old sparring pa.....
» 8/08/2014 1:42:37 PM Interestingly, many claims for asylum are by those already studying here who originally ca.....
» 8/08/2014 1:35:10 PM True, Saul. I was house hunting for a rental in Perth in early 1986, and it was woeful. .....
» 8/08/2014 11:07:48 AM SPQR, Saul and Graham have an association I think. Saul, Excellent response. ...Suse, .....
» 8/08/2014 8:54:41 AM This image indicative of Israel's usurping of Palestinian land since 1948. http://www.vet.....
» 8/08/2014 8:41:53 AM Don Aitkin, "The historian in me points out that more than 11,000 rockets have been .....
» 7/08/2014 12:50:08 PM SM and Paul, It looks like the worm has turned. "Free Market think tank the Institu.....
» 7/08/2014 10:26:36 AM Ludwig, "... I consider people like this, who are simply incapable of entertaining a.....
» 7/08/2014 9:13:05 AM Ludwig, "....and the little band of nasty intolerants on this thread, are TOTALLY WR.....
» 7/08/2014 7:16:56 AM SM, Sorry to rub it in, but these ideological goofballs continue to serve it up a daily b.....
» 6/08/2014 8:51:48 PM Of course, you are right, SM. But (snigger)...I can't wait to see where it leads. Have y.....
» 6/08/2014 8:41:57 PM That is a good post, Pericles...beautifully articulated. This thread has become not so mu.....
» 6/08/2014 4:00:07 PM SM, Yoohoo I thought perhaps since you are so against dodgy practices that you like to i.....
» 6/08/2014 1:54:02 PM Yeah, rehctub, we're all familiar with your Ebenezer Scrooge routine. Nothing new there! .....
» 6/08/2014 10:27:36 AM Ludwig, Carry on...I believe you're nearly through to China. "Thanks again Poirot f.....
» 6/08/2014 8:47:33 AM Ludwig, "Kiddie-fiddlers, even at the very light end of the spectrum as with Harris......
» 5/08/2014 3:42:37 PM rehctub, "...it's about the usual lack of respect shown by the poor, for the efforts.....
» 5/08/2014 3:35:30 PM "....people are supposed to debate things in a non personal and non derogatory manner.....
» 5/08/2014 9:04:43 AM Don and others, An article by a Jewish Rabbi: "Israel has broken my heart: I’m a ra.....
» 4/08/2014 11:28:31 PM "What would you do, wearing your military cap, if you were in the Israeli situation?&.....
» 4/08/2014 10:34:33 PM I's a dud... Which is why Eleventy Joe is still trying to sell his Budget in August.....w.....
» 4/08/2014 2:33:47 PM Ludwig, "Poirot, the judge makes reference to others being present while he was doin.....
» 3/08/2014 11:41:24 AM O'Farrell resigned because he was caught out misleading ICAC. And he compounded it by fur.....
» 3/08/2014 10:31:55 AM Ludwig, "Six months in prison for that offence is just simply amazing. If it had hap.....
» 2/08/2014 11:09:56 PM "Honestly, what has happened to our sense of morality?" Pop over to twitter guy.....
» 2/08/2014 7:34:36 PM otb, If a Liberal Member has been ejected 45 times - then he/she must be a disruptive pra.....
» 2/08/2014 6:10:27 PM otb, "Does the Opposition even have 99 MPs?" What sort of stupid question is t.....
» 2/08/2014 2:36:36 PM Ludwig, "Yes…. But….. He did it very openly, gained a reputation for it….. and was a.....
» 1/08/2014 2:37:52 PM SM, Lol!...Would you believe that I never imagined an LNP Speaker would be completely unb.....
» 1/08/2014 8:56:20 AM Okay, SM, So by my calculations, Bronnie should have turfed around 14 or 15 govt members .....
» 1/08/2014 12:05:20 AM All right Ludwig, WHAT I MEANT was that you appear to think it's all right that Rolf Harr.....
» 31/07/2014 10:32:16 PM Ludwig, We are discussing the trial and conviction of Harris. I'm not required to be blo.....
» 31/07/2014 6:13:50 PM Paul, Lol!...and who could forget Barnaby's excitement when he was asked his "first&.....
» 31/07/2014 2:34:47 PM That's right, Foxy, SM is jettisoning his credibility here by supporting the right-wing n.....
» 31/07/2014 8:08:02 AM Paul, It was a National Party Member who began yelling from his back bench...and decided .....
» 30/07/2014 10:07:27 PM DavidK, "Bronwyn Bishop vs Peter Slipper? Political bias versus a cab-charge bill -.....
» 30/07/2014 5:11:20 PM And talking about "dishonesty", SM... Here's your "heroine" Kathy Jac.....
» 30/07/2014 3:35:15 PM SM, A b...b...b...b..."budget emergency"! (Not that you're into stupid slogans.....
» 30/07/2014 10:27:12 AM SM, ".... Labor has a shocking financial, moral and competence record." Why, i.....
» 30/07/2014 8:58:32 AM Ludwig, "And again I say that I fear that many people thinking in a similar fashion .....
» 30/07/2014 8:41:22 AM SM, Come now....this Coalition govt is chocka with rorters who have paid back under the M.....
» 29/07/2014 7:36:28 PM ConservativeHippie, "You both seem to be intelligent people" Yes...and we're s.....
» 29/07/2014 4:34:35 PM Foxy, Yes, it's sad really. Shadow Minister must have had such high hopes. Look what we .....
» 29/07/2014 4:15:38 PM Here we go... "Taxpayers have forked out close to $330,000, including $800 for a doo.....
» 29/07/2014 2:51:30 PM Ludwig, "Gawd what, Poirot?" That was in reply particularly to this portion of.....
» 29/07/2014 2:36:56 PM Lol! - SM, "Pot, Kettle. At least the coalition has achieved more in 10 months than .....
» 29/07/2014 11:29:01 AM Ludwig, Regarding "C"...Harris did much much more "than opportunistically .....
» 29/07/2014 11:23:49 AM Ludwig's latest defence of a man who was found guilty of indecently assaulting underage fe.....
» 29/07/2014 10:47:46 AM Please don't stop, SM Your denunciations of Labor - while defending this bumbling cabal o.....
» 29/07/2014 10:17:42 AM Foxy, Lol! Slipper was charged because "apparently" someone from "outside.....
» 28/07/2014 11:01:03 PM Well, well...I haven't been to OLO to comment for a couple of days... Ludwig, "Well.....
» 26/07/2014 10:50:43 PM Ludwig, "...and that Harris’ contact with ‘C’ was of a mutual understanding." .....
» 25/07/2014 10:55:22 AM Ludwig, "[And again for the likes of Poirot, I say I am just pointing to how things .....
» 25/07/2014 9:10:32 AM Ludwig, "Oh well done there Poirot. You tell me what I really think. You tell me tha.....
» 24/07/2014 10:22:31 PM Ludwig, "....Surely if you had any open-mindedness at all, you would say something l.....
» 24/07/2014 3:06:06 PM Ludwig, "...Don’t consider any of the points I have raised..." I have consider.....
» 24/07/2014 12:45:44 PM Ludwig, "I take it from this that you do understand what I have said about the judge.....
» 21/07/2014 12:36:11 AM Otb, If it was "mild satire" I'd laugh...the trouble is that it's base, crass, .....
» 20/07/2014 8:43:33 AM SM, "I always wonder what cosseted little lives these puritans must have, they must .....
» 19/07/2014 1:16:34 PM Jayb, "Sounds like a good reason to me. It's probably why I don't trust women.".....
» 19/07/2014 12:05:09 PM otb, "The Wicked satire may be 'low brow' and vulgar, but so what? I would see it as.....
» 18/07/2014 5:24:42 PM Yes...one has to take into account that it's like addressing a sniggering group of schoolb.....
» 18/07/2014 9:35:55 AM I don't know how you boys can wound moi so unfeelingly...(sniff) After all, I gravitate t.....
» 18/07/2014 9:10:10 AM Yeah, Jayb... But we'd expect it from you. But for society opting for standards that rep.....
» 18/07/2014 9:05:07 AM Ludwig, knew I shouldn't have come back to this thread..but... I think I'm right in assu.....
» 18/07/2014 12:24:03 AM Clive baby is there to provide a bit of vaudeville...and then to assist the govt to pass c.....
» 17/07/2014 10:47:42 PM Ludwig, "Surely this means that there aren’t too many people who are really concerne.....
» 17/07/2014 8:23:31 PM otb....what a class act your are! Just the sort of thing we want our children to have tru.....
» 17/07/2014 7:44:29 PM otb, "The politically correct ban this, ban that over-reaction makes Australia a lau.....
» 17/07/2014 5:40:29 PM Yeah, sorry about that Foxy and OUG...but I did encase the passage in quotation marks afte.....
» 17/07/2014 5:12:35 PM Foxy, It wasn't me...but the author of the article I posted who was the target of that si.....
» 17/07/2014 3:44:43 PM Ludwig, "Or are they? Maybe they are just part of the everyday Australian vernacular.....
» 16/07/2014 6:12:45 PM On this subject, I trust most of you have heard of the "Wicked Campers" uproar.......
» 15/07/2014 5:33:38 PM SteeleRedux, I hit the red X whenever I feel a post has gone too far. Not so much for tro.....
» 15/07/2014 2:16:47 PM Lester1, There is no denoted "Deletion" of a post of yours on page 34 because i.....
» 15/07/2014 1:23:01 PM Lester1, I note that your own contribution that "was" on page 34 of this thread.....
» 15/07/2014 9:00:19 AM Ludwig, "I’m not going to continue with a circular discussion. I am having to repeat.....
» 15/07/2014 8:34:53 AM SteeleRedux, I've posted this on the forum before , but it's always a fascinating read. D.....
» 14/07/2014 12:43:58 PM Banjo, It is not a it is not a criminal offence under the Act to arrive in Australia with.....
» 14/07/2014 10:49:09 AM Lol!, RObert...you're one of OLO's most level-headed posters. It seems, resting on that, .....
» 14/07/2014 10:29:34 AM SM, Typos in the above: "Yes, referring to those who come by boat as Non Illegal Ma.....
» 14/07/2014 10:24:35 AM SM, From my previous post: "Mr Morrison correctly states that Article 31 includes t.....
» 14/07/2014 9:15:00 AM SM, On that Immigration Dept document I posted it states: "Non Irregular Maritime A.....
» 14/07/2014 12:38:17 AM Jay, The interesting thing is what exactly is driving the machinations in Ludwig's head o.....
» 13/07/2014 11:21:41 PM Yeah, Jay...I think this is the point where I should pack up my kit bag on this one. I st.....
» 13/07/2014 10:52:59 PM Ludwig, "We must absolutely NOT condemn and destroy someone who has done things at t.....
» 13/07/2014 6:29:42 PM Graham, I don't think you erred in letting the thread through. I might say that a few of.....
» 13/07/2014 4:54:47 PM SM, The official lexicon for "boat people" before Tin Pot Morrison came to powe.....
» 13/07/2014 1:12:31 PM Banjo, "Anyway, I think it is nearly 'game over' for the illegals and the bull the a.....
» 13/07/2014 10:24:54 AM Ludwig, "When you look at the total spectrum of pedophilia / child-molestation / chi.....
» 13/07/2014 9:03:22 AM Don't be so puerile, OUG. Cleaning up babies after "pooping" isn't particularly .....
» 12/07/2014 10:05:33 PM Let's get this straight, Ludwig. Regarding Harris's repeated indecent assaults of "C&.....
» 12/07/2014 9:38:26 PM Cherful, "Of course the Muslims and other ethnic groups here are in favour of bringi.....
» 12/07/2014 7:35:54 PM Here's Doktor Strange-Scotty in Columbo the other day.. http://www.smh.com.au/federal-pol.....
» 12/07/2014 6:06:43 PM Banjo, "As well, you might like to consider on what basis do our immigration officia.....
» 12/07/2014 2:18:26 PM Ludwig, "<< If it was anyone else, I believe you wouldn't give two hoots. >.....
» 12/07/2014 2:02:48 PM Notwithstanding, SM, that it is merely a descriptor, for... "Irrespective of these s.....
» 12/07/2014 11:07:27 AM Ludwig, Earlier in this thread you attempted to mitigate the gravity of Harris's action b.....
» 12/07/2014 10:46:19 AM spindoc, "You are part of the socialized cancer that inflicts our nation, lacking an.....
» 12/07/2014 9:09:37 AM SPQR, "Niiiiiiice! coming from someone who regularly berates others for ad hominem a.....
» 12/07/2014 9:00:31 AM Ludwig, "This is exactly why I have taken the approach that I have – because I perce.....
» 12/07/2014 8:13:16 AM SM, "Coming into the country without a valid visa by boat violates Australian immigr.....
» 11/07/2014 2:23:02 PM Jay, We've been communicating with Ludwig for years...none of us think he's a pedophile. .....
» 11/07/2014 2:12:50 PM Ludwig, I appreciate that you, like all of us, experience instances of unfairness...and t.....
» 11/07/2014 10:42:35 AM rehctub, "As we speak the unions are at it again with false and miss leading ads abo.....
» 11/07/2014 10:37:53 AM rehctub, Don't try and shift the blame for this reprehensible mendacious con job of a gov.....
» 11/07/2014 9:01:46 AM Ludwig, Regarding "C" - and your attempts to shift partial responsibility onto .....
» 11/07/2014 12:25:03 AM Ludwig, next.. "Regarding Count 1: ‘A’ in 1969: < …you twice put your hand up h.....
» 10/07/2014 11:50:50 PM Luwig, Regarding your opening post on page 28. You say... "I find myself vacillati.....
» 10/07/2014 9:47:21 PM Wow!...I failed to notice Ludwig's very long and detailed defence of Rolf's crimes on page.....
» 10/07/2014 5:08:23 PM Bec, If you had read the entirety of this thread, you would realise that "some".....
» 10/07/2014 4:04:54 PM SM, Yar...and isn't it warming to see Morrison sitting amongst his chums in Sri Lanka. (.....
» 10/07/2014 2:47:33 PM Come to think of it, Ludwig, I'm "astounded" that after reading the judge's rema.....
» 10/07/2014 12:55:54 PM Ludwig, "....those who don’t really care and don’t have any feeling for the detail o.....
» 10/07/2014 10:29:03 AM laz91, The problem with a guy who diagnoses himself "touch feely" is that, in R.....
» 10/07/2014 8:54:48 AM SPQR, Well I expect my mind will be boggling even more for some time to come. Watching o.....
» 10/07/2014 8:43:19 AM RObert and Paul, I think we can dismiss Right is Right's boneheaded comments with the con.....
» 9/07/2014 8:27:42 PM runner, You can take your fake compassion and dangle it in front of someone else. You co.....
» 9/07/2014 7:14:38 PM SPQROFLMAO!, Are you suggesting that a rogue govt such as our charming representatives ca.....
» 9/07/2014 10:31:45 AM Hasbeen, So thrilled to hear you're softening as the years go by. Your suggestion is so .....
» 8/07/2014 6:13:43 PM Wow...all you fellas are sounding a little rabid. Whatcha reckon Scotty's gonna do with t.....
» 8/07/2014 2:17:50 PM Egad!...should I be mortally wounded because OLO's intellectual giant, Bazz, has just call.....
» 8/07/2014 10:49:04 AM individual, I see you've transferred your grubby tactics over to this thread. I did rela.....
» 8/07/2014 10:11:53 AM SM, "...I guess we will find out this afternoon." I guess we will......
» 8/07/2014 9:09:09 AM Of course, one expects nothing less than manic barking by the usual suspects around here o.....
» 8/07/2014 8:44:36 AM Here you go, SM... http://www.smh.com.au/comment/australia-tears-up-un-treaty-with-treatm.....
» 8/07/2014 8:23:05 AM Yes,Paul, I have no idea why we bother to cite 53 international law scholars from 17 unive.....
» 8/07/2014 12:40:27 AM SteeleRedux, Indeed. And refoulement is exactly what we've achieved if this report from .....
» 7/07/2014 8:21:28 PM High Court injunction blocks handover of 153 asylum seekers to Sri Lanka http://www.abc.n.....
» 7/07/2014 5:53:16 PM Jay, Yes.... http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/53-australian-lawyers.....
» 7/07/2014 5:48:05 PM RObert, I do take your point...and yes the discussion has become bogged down regarding in.....
» 7/07/2014 5:08:59 PM Pericles is so right! "This is fascinating. A classic example of trolling. After a.....
» 7/07/2014 3:37:50 PM Yup,...certainly a little weird stuff going on here with individual. Here's individual........
» 7/07/2014 10:35:49 AM Yes, OUG, Your last post on this thread was amongst the most unintelligible you have ever.....
» 7/07/2014 8:16:41 AM Well, Good morning... I did think perhaps I might be finished here, having spent way long.....
» 6/07/2014 7:03:31 PM individual, Okay mate....gloves off. I have possibly been mistaken that you have been de.....
» 6/07/2014 5:34:18 PM Individual, It's possibly not really worth my time and trouble at this stage of the proce.....
» 6/07/2014 3:26:50 PM Leo Lane, "Poirot has not answered the question as to her basis for fraud backing, b.....
» 6/07/2014 1:19:28 AM individual, "Out of that ganging up lot you definitely get the crown...." I'm .....
» 6/07/2014 12:45:25 AM Lol! "....It is Apollo astronaut Walter Cunningham talking about AGW:" "A.....
» 5/07/2014 7:38:24 PM individual, ".... If you choose to read things out of context well, sorry, can't hel.....
» 5/07/2014 5:57:48 PM individual, you are quite something. Not content with posting this bilge early in the th.....
» 5/07/2014 3:21:58 PM individual, You are so full of it..... What do we make of this? "[Poirot] Btw, did.....
» 5/07/2014 11:31:15 AM Is Mise, "Whether children report sexual assault or not seems to depend a lot on the.....
» 5/07/2014 10:45:30 AM Yeah, Banjo...I dunno. The girl who was Bindy's friend who endured years of abuse followe.....
» 5/07/2014 9:10:49 AM RObert, I wasn't aware of any particular predilection regarding Harris and porn until I r.....
» 4/07/2014 11:31:06 PM Anyone still of the notion that all Rolf was up to was a little harmless groping might lik.....
» 4/07/2014 10:27:53 PM Rolf Harris has been sentenced to five years nine months. More information has been relea.....
» 4/07/2014 6:57:34 PM Just to reiterate the difference between a high profile celebrity targeting "young gi.....
» 4/07/2014 10:33:23 AM OUG, "i cant hug kids without hearing the caution/adults touching kids is sick".....
» 4/07/2014 10:18:25 AM SPQR, The "hiatus" is in "surface air temperature"...not in ocean war.....
» 4/07/2014 9:15:17 AM Ludwig, Yes, it's startling. But of course, you and I are judging Harris from his public.....
» 4/07/2014 8:18:28 AM Actually it's quite interesting that I find myself arguing fairly hard against the actions.....
» 3/07/2014 9:58:32 PM Ludwig, "Yes Poirot, right at the lowest end of molestation, if at all. I would say .....
» 3/07/2014 5:12:31 PM Thanks to RObert, Paul and Foxy (and others) for making reasonable unemotional sense in th.....
» 3/07/2014 3:43:27 PM I think the issue worth noting here, is that Harris "targeted" young girls for h.....
» 3/07/2014 1:50:59 PM individual, "Oh come on Poirot, You're only getting dirty because old Rolf wasn't on.....
» 3/07/2014 10:48:25 AM individual, I actually "revolted" by your comments....blaming the girls. I'm s.....
» 3/07/2014 10:18:13 AM individual, ".... if a strange woman started to pat me up & down within moments of m.....
» 3/07/2014 8:58:02 AM individual, "....The girls just led him on until they realised money could be made b.....
» 2/07/2014 2:36:19 PM ".... but it is not global warming, because that stopped 17 years ago." What yo.....
» 1/07/2014 5:31:14 PM A new era in the Senate.... Ahem.....this should clarify everything. http://www.theguard.....
» 1/07/2014 10:31:38 AM OUG, "SORRY MATE/I MISSED..THAT/WHERE DID..HE SAY/THAT?" How about here... &q.....
» 1/07/2014 9:06:23 AM "In my term in Parliament, I want to convince Australians to reconsider whether handi.....
» 30/06/2014 7:48:49 PM SPQR, I was going to but in earlier after SteeleRedux exposed your folly...but I kinda fe.....
» 29/06/2014 12:50:36 AM Thanks for that, SteeleRedux, I don't think we need to bother too much about the likes of.....
» 28/06/2014 2:05:15 PM SteeleRedux, Have you listened to or watched Question Time lately? Speaker Bishop spends.....
» 28/06/2014 9:02:22 AM "....The rabble require a firm, no-nonsense approach to their disgraceful conduct, an.....
» 27/06/2014 5:21:46 PM SPQROLFMAO, I wondered who'd pick that up. "So you and your confederates have could.....
» 27/06/2014 7:37:47 AM Lol!...individual, You're not allowed to call people liars on this forum. I think you sh.....
» 26/06/2014 5:46:00 PM On the contrary, Leo Lane and individual. The reason for my bowing out of this conversatio.....
» 26/06/2014 11:48:32 AM Jay, Hasbeen and OUG, Thanks for that. There's definitely something about birds that mak.....
» 26/06/2014 10:21:48 AM individual, Go and talk to someone else who can put up with your puerile darts of poison......
» 25/06/2014 10:20:33 PM Oh, individual, go and talk to someone else. I'm up to here with your vapid comments......
» 25/06/2014 9:04:42 PM Leo Lane, That's interesting. I found Larvatus Prodeo trying to get to the bottom of it......
» 25/06/2014 4:51:26 PM Leo Lane, Since you're being pedantic, Leo, I said "one of the lowest" not &quo.....
» 25/06/2014 1:56:41 PM Here's a gift for you, OUG (and Foxy) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alCM3tS3QFI Mornin.....
» 25/06/2014 12:53:29 PM "Here's hoping that he and his mates have need to make many passages across your wash.....
» 25/06/2014 12:26:08 PM Yep...I love the birds who visit our garden. We also have some wattle birds who conduct t.....
» 25/06/2014 12:07:39 PM But then again...what makes me happy? There's a colourful parrot perched on our bird feed.....
» 25/06/2014 11:35:19 AM Philip, SPQR et al, Do you have an annual price tag per person for installing asylum seek.....
» 25/06/2014 10:36:18 AM Good point, Foxy. Question time is a rabble - and as you point out has been further dragg.....
» 25/06/2014 10:18:37 AM Lol!...as if anything Morrison spouts could be taken as "absolute proof". This .....
» 25/06/2014 9:00:09 AM We're referencing one of the lowest comments ever made by a public figure in this country .....
» 25/06/2014 12:36:38 AM runner, "Most of them know how idiotic evolution is" Do they indeed? But for .....
» 24/06/2014 11:40:30 PM "Ho hum, more endless assuming what they haven't proved, appeal to absent authority, .....
» 24/06/2014 9:03:07 PM How about a little cross-pollination. I was just on twitter and noticed this, titled &quo.....
» 24/06/2014 8:36:35 PM Hasbeen, "....but it is the science that proves it's a scam." Lol! - tell us m.....
» 24/06/2014 5:21:40 PM Some considerable organisation goes into challenging the scientific consensus on AGW....us.....
» 24/06/2014 4:59:11 PM Yes, thank you, ROFLMAO or SPQR or whatever you call yourself (you appear to use both of t.....
» 24/06/2014 12:16:49 PM Er...you guys forget that our cosy consumer paradigm is predicated on consuming. As I've s.....
» 24/06/2014 10:43:10 AM imacentristmoderate, "GrahamY, every non communist hears where you are coming from,.....
» 24/06/2014 12:59:58 AM Graham, ".... I hoped OLO might bring people closer together, but you all come here .....
» 23/06/2014 6:15:02 PM SM, It's actually quite complex when you look into it...and may require some rumination. .....
» 23/06/2014 5:15:09 PM SM, It appears you are right: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renewable_energy_in_Germany .....
» 23/06/2014 3:23:03 PM Leo lane, Steele was "obviously" referring to Abbott employing the term "d.....
» 23/06/2014 2:02:38 PM individual, "Change the record , go digital. What a tiring, baseless waffle. Things .....
» 23/06/2014 1:08:39 PM SM, Sorry for deviating - but there's so much scope. I can't find anything to laud about.....
» 23/06/2014 10:18:31 AM individual, "It's all about you whereas Abbott is about the Nation but that is somet.....
» 23/06/2014 9:11:22 AM SM comes back and says "I come back, and the left whinge is all about slagging Abbot.....
» 23/06/2014 12:34:18 AM One more thing....and it's a good example of twitter displaying a more accurate portrayal .....
» 22/06/2014 10:19:11 AM SPQR, I'm getting mightily sick of people mendaciously uttering untruths during debate on.....
» 22/06/2014 9:15:31 AM ant, "SPQR, in March there were 120,000 people who demonstrated around Australia, th.....
» 22/06/2014 8:51:38 AM SPQR, I read heaps of leftie tweeters criticising Palmer's comments re Credlin. There wer.....
» 21/06/2014 4:01:34 PM Lester1, Yes, Tony and his Cheapskate Circus are positively scintillating, aren't they........
» 21/06/2014 10:22:54 AM SPQR, I won't address the body of your last post as, for the most part, it appears to be .....
» 21/06/2014 10:13:33 AM Jayb, "All your previous posts concerning atrocities committed in the defence of Isl.....
» 21/06/2014 9:10:08 AM Lester1, You're a clever little vegemite...yes, I meant to write "Cabinet" - no.....
» 21/06/2014 8:54:39 AM Jayb, "It's strange, but poirot usually defends these practices by her Islamic frien.....
» 20/06/2014 10:53:01 AM "Just look at the calm rational way that Kelly O'Dwyer or Julie Bishop behave and com.....
» 20/06/2014 10:15:15 AM Loudmouth, "...She could teach some of our own Soy-Latte set a thing or two about co.....
» 20/06/2014 8:56:27 AM SPQR, Lol!... "Hmmmm it's a pretty asccurate description of some OLO posters --I wo.....
» 19/06/2014 9:58:47 PM Never mind, SM. Your hypocrisy is showing. I'm sure if a "leftie" came out and.....
» 19/06/2014 8:49:35 PM Gawd,, SM...love yer new fan, Lester1! Lester1, "Good point Shadow Minister about i.....
» 19/06/2014 8:34:31 PM SM and Loudmouth, Just as I thought...neither of you are interested in defending the inte.....
» 19/06/2014 10:35:42 AM And Abbott's school chaplaincy program has just got the big flick from the High Court. ht.....
» 19/06/2014 9:54:13 AM Hasbeen, "As I mentioned somewhere else, the tidal currant runs parallel to the coas.....
» 19/06/2014 9:07:54 AM SM and Loudmouth, While you're touting the moral integrity of the Murdoch press on matter.....
» 19/06/2014 8:39:25 AM SM, "...That the area chosen for dumping of the dredgings contains no actual reef fo.....
» 18/06/2014 11:22:40 PM Blow it out yer ear, Lester1. Shadow Minister is the biggest rightie blowhard and propaga.....
» 17/06/2014 8:16:47 AM SM, I'll just add for your edification that you'll be thrilled to know that the LNP have .....
» 17/06/2014 7:59:22 AM SM, "For a few days I was naive enough to take you seriously. I take time to put dow.....
» 16/06/2014 8:20:56 AM individual, Your commentary on this forum is a joke. Your only recourse is to call peopl.....
» 16/06/2014 7:40:24 AM Shadow Minister says: "I don't really care, but if its sole reason is to wind up Le.....
» 15/06/2014 8:33:42 PM Woo hoo!...I've been waiting patiently for individual to come up with his fave "moron.....
» 15/06/2014 8:14:21 AM SM, "Are you seriously proposing that every single policy nuance that Abbott introdu.....
» 14/06/2014 12:25:05 PM sonofgloin, "The GFC did not impact on us, our GDP grew...but we got into a debt tha.....
» 14/06/2014 10:13:18 AM sonofgloin, I couldn't agree more (sarc)...fancy the ALP leaving us with a AAA credit rat.....
» 14/06/2014 8:59:32 AM SM, I'll just add that it's curious that you go to such lengths to defend this dreadful g.....
» 14/06/2014 8:53:03 AM SM, "The fuel levy has been in place in various forms for decades. The increased cos.....
» 14/06/2014 7:46:15 AM SM, "Abbott did not call the fuel tax a carbon tax, Labor did." Here's what Ab.....
» 13/06/2014 3:02:18 PM 579, "Prime Minister Tony Abbott has described himself as a ''conservationist'' who .....
» 13/06/2014 1:21:36 PM SM, "Finally, while many people immediately criticised Palmer, from the left whinger.....
» 13/06/2014 10:15:50 AM Lol!..." Abbott's diplomatic triumphs." A bit like that book produced, titled &.....
» 13/06/2014 1:14:24 AM individual & runner, "Those of us who know better say that Brendan Nelson's reply to.....
» 12/06/2014 11:54:35 PM Jayb, I don't believe Palmer did know of Peta's particular problems...I think he just aim.....
» 12/06/2014 5:12:42 PM SM, "Do you have a problem with the English language? What I said does not mean that.....
» 12/06/2014 10:29:43 AM SM, Where did I say that Credlin "deserves" abuse? Palmer (an ex-Lib) made a c.....
» 12/06/2014 8:45:46 AM Hasbeen, "I am always amused when someone refers to walking around nude, throwing ro.....
» 12/06/2014 8:24:36 AM SM, Just on the other topic you raised. I watched most of Kernohan's testimony yesterday.....
» 12/06/2014 7:42:21 AM SM, No...my logic was to question your assertion of "... her deeply personal struggl.....
» 11/06/2014 9:26:26 PM SM, "...Perhaps you also believe that as a woman on the right of politics she deserv.....
» 11/06/2014 5:26:09 PM SM, As usual, you miss the point. I was highlighting your defence of Credlin resting on .....
» 11/06/2014 1:55:59 PM Jayb, I'm inclined to surmise that Credlin's outing of her fertility issues was less of a.....
» 11/06/2014 12:24:55 PM Loudmouth, ".... But we should be silent when a woman is put under the microscope fo.....
» 11/06/2014 9:11:31 AM SM, Don't pull a Pyne and attempt to foist your faux sensibilities on me...not after the .....
» 11/06/2014 7:22:17 AM There's something quite hilarious about SM calling "someone else" a troll and ex.....
» 10/06/2014 6:52:42 PM Loudmouth, First two lines of opening post: "If a high-powered woman is described .....
» 10/06/2014 5:46:58 PM Jayb, " Your past posts on other any Subject relating to Muslims & Islam you have al.....
» 10/06/2014 4:01:56 PM SM, Such contortions! When it's clear the majority of Australians have already concluded.....
» 10/06/2014 1:52:47 PM Jayb, I was quoting Loudmouth. He was highlighting the deplorable treatment of that Suda.....
» 10/06/2014 12:43:23 PM Loudmouth, "Your epithets - Tony Baloney, Mad Monk, {sooner or later] Abbott the Rab.....
» 10/06/2014 10:59:28 AM And further more... http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-06-10/chapman-big-tobaccos-claims-go-.....
» 10/06/2014 8:31:43 AM Unfortunately it's now well established and widely accepted that anything that emanates fr.....
» 10/06/2014 7:50:50 AM individual, Amongst other things: "...Some of the policies need changing & again th.....
» 9/06/2014 6:48:57 PM Loudmouth, "...[Well, depends on the size of the plum, I suppose]..." Lol! He.....
» 9/06/2014 4:10:25 PM And keeping in kind this was Gllard's full sentence on the carbon tax... “There will be n.....
» 9/06/2014 12:12:46 PM individual, ".... The ALP Govt was the devious uncle handing out the sweets & the Co.....
» 9/06/2014 10:15:39 AM Jayb, "Yep. ALP, LNP, somewhere along their tenure." Haha.....very funny! I'm.....
» 9/06/2014 8:45:37 AM Saltpetre, Lol!...I read somewhere (don't know if it's accurate) that in Greek democracy,.....
» 9/06/2014 8:39:10 AM Hiya Jayb, Can you name me a govt who has begun its tenure by back-flipping on around 95%.....
» 9/06/2014 8:28:56 AM individual, I don't have a major problem with infrastructure like solar panels or wind tu.....
» 9/06/2014 8:07:04 AM SM, "If you had bothered to read any of the articles with respect to the co payment,.....
» 9/06/2014 7:52:51 AM Lol!...Paul, I was sitting at a bus stop last week. Two cars went past spewing out grey .....
» 8/06/2014 7:41:26 PM Jayb, "poirot: What I don't do on this forum, runner, is to consistently paste fello.....
» 8/06/2014 6:48:30 PM SM, You're as slippery as this govt. On the one hand, Hockey tells us it's a mere bagate.....
» 8/06/2014 5:12:50 PM Oh no you don't, SM. Naughty, naughty, putting words into people's mouths. My point was .....
» 8/06/2014 2:37:54 PM Hasbeen, Sounds like your daughter has worked out a great compromise for a parent in 21st.....
» 8/06/2014 12:22:31 PM worldwatcher, "It blows my mind that women have children and immediately when they a.....
» 8/06/2014 12:11:10 PM SM, "Just remember that it was the Labor party that first identified that Medicare w.....
» 8/06/2014 10:10:54 AM SM, "Yup and Labor are far left and are rabid and moronic communists." Lol!.....
» 8/06/2014 8:56:36 AM Left and right still do it for me. Ergo...this govt is "far" right... And empl.....
» 8/06/2014 7:21:51 AM Saltpetre, "The West has evolved a more open and competitive system, called democrac.....
» 7/06/2014 7:24:17 PM Going back to rehctub's initial post: "Now these genuine unemployed, many battlers, .....
» 7/06/2014 7:09:31 PM Good to hear, nhoj. I admit I'm prone to explode periodically to runner's gross insinuati.....
» 7/06/2014 5:42:13 PM Keeping in mind that Tony Abbott is always blathering on about Australia being open for bu.....
» 7/06/2014 5:05:47 PM Paul, The co-paynment issue is radical in the sense that it was instituted at the behest .....
» 7/06/2014 12:18:03 PM Loudmouth, After regaling us with a longish narrative on what he thinks about Islamists, .....
» 7/06/2014 10:08:09 AM Loudmouth, What Paul1405 said....." it's all about support for humanity, not religio.....
» 7/06/2014 9:02:39 AM SM, First up, I do have to apologise for singling you out. I didn't note nhoj's previous .....
» 7/06/2014 8:30:22 AM SPQR, There is a difference between ranting about pollies and their policies and randomly.....
» 7/06/2014 7:31:00 AM Worldwatcher, "Hasbeen is an obvious example of someone who has had his fair share o.....
» 7/06/2014 7:04:39 AM Shadow Minister, "In spite of what many on the left would try and imply, while the A.....
» 6/06/2014 9:40:56 PM SPQR, What a load of waffle. You appear to be equating the debate on various issues and .....
» 6/06/2014 6:15:13 PM SteeleRedux, Hello!....so long since I talked to you : ) Yar, you're right. There seems .....
» 6/06/2014 6:05:08 PM "really saint Poirot? Your abbottphobia has bordered on hysteria." I reserve th.....
» 6/06/2014 4:39:49 PM runner, "....but I will defend truth something you use extremely loosely.' There yo.....
» 6/06/2014 4:14:14 PM Agronomist, "So perhaps we can all agree that this was a tobacco industry beat up us.....
» 6/06/2014 3:17:58 PM runner, Show me evidence where I have defended the following: "Runner is a typical .....
» 6/06/2014 2:43:22 PM More:... http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-06-06/anti-smoking-advocate-rejects-cigarette-sa.....
» 6/06/2014 11:51:07 AM SM, I didn't "run" to a left wing blog. I saw the link on twitter and had a re.....
» 6/06/2014 10:46:25 AM Shadow Minister, I take it you've since noted my specific address to the topic. And the .....
» 6/06/2014 10:25:25 AM Here you go, SM. http://thekouk.com/blog/the-australian-s-claim-on-tobacco-go-up-in-smoke.....
» 6/06/2014 10:11:28 AM Loudmouth, "BTT" Like this you mean? "However, and slightly off-topic, I.....
» 6/06/2014 9:17:30 AM runner, "yea I would expect you Paul to encourage Poirot and Nho to keep up their li.....
» 6/06/2014 8:52:15 AM Haha!.... Good try, SM. And I suppose you're going to next highlight what an absolute su.....
» 5/06/2014 11:38:37 PM runner, "you Nhoj and Poirot show how bereft and deceitful atheism is." Lol!.....
» 5/06/2014 10:22:40 PM Runner, "...Then again life is cheap among lefties who condone baby murder. The 1000.....
» 5/06/2014 3:41:28 PM Shadow Miniter, "...However, it is difficult to show restrain when individuals are o.....
» 5/06/2014 10:47:08 AM SM, Oh really...I reckon the cartoons would be 10 to 1 in favour of this govt's debacle. .....
» 5/06/2014 10:25:58 AM runner, Can you explain the far "rightie" extremist Abbott Govt pulling those m.....
» 5/06/2014 9:09:22 AM Jayb, That was Loudmouth's quote...I put it in my post because I was pointing out that Cr.....
» 5/06/2014 12:54:55 AM Loudmouth, "But we should be silent when a woman is put under the microscope for her.....
» 4/06/2014 10:36:24 PM Loudmouth, "So while we bicker over comparative trivia, real people, women, face imm.....
» 4/06/2014 9:21:16 PM Shadow Monster, "This is a great gotcha moment." Really?...I must have missed .....
» 4/06/2014 5:00:35 PM nhoj, "...The Shadow Minister misogynist doesn't give a damn in hell about Peta Cred.....
» 4/06/2014 3:37:37 PM Yuyutsu, "But of course - every government does, it's always been so, it's their nat.....
» 4/06/2014 3:32:40 PM rubbish, SM.. On twitter there are plenty of lefties condenming Palmer's words re Credlin.....
» 3/06/2014 11:40:33 PM Yvonne, "I personally enjoyed the protest on Q&A. It was good to see Jones at a loss.....
» 1/06/2014 12:32:07 PM runner, "..."I am not sure what basis you have to believe a lie is a lie but ag.....
» 1/06/2014 12:50:51 AM runner, I'll try to love Tones. It's a bit of tough call, but I'll try to love an inveter.....
» 31/05/2014 10:26:06 PM Tens of thousands of people have been protesting against this govt, since it became clear .....
» 29/05/2014 8:51:39 AM Lol!..SM and indy, The poor old LNP will have to reinvent itself after the debacle of the.....
» 28/05/2014 1:14:26 AM Graham, It's not just the old notion of the lying pollie. It's that the electorate was d.....
» 27/05/2014 8:55:06 PM sbr108, "Perhaps the Australian translation is correct. With humble pie smeared all .....
» 27/05/2014 6:23:39 PM Don Aitkin, "Alas, the envy still shows through." Pray tell? How so?.........
» 27/05/2014 6:18:04 PM rehctub, "As with any negotiation, the one holding the cards (Abbott) has to start a.....
» 25/05/2014 4:41:47 PM Here's a great little animated short narrated by Ed Asner - It deals with the US, but is p.....
» 25/05/2014 4:25:15 PM individual, "579, you're a liar & an idiot if you can't see that there is presently .....
» 25/05/2014 8:34:06 AM individual, "....It's the hypochondriacs & those too lazy to live a healthier lifest.....
» 24/05/2014 6:49:44 PM imajulianutter, "You'd support the socialist Hitlers concentration camps and Stalins.....
» 24/05/2014 6:45:57 PM individual, "... whilst riding on the back of the working class ?" Why don't y.....
» 24/05/2014 3:21:16 PM "I gather you mean lowering my standard & lessen my integrity..." Yes, individu.....
» 24/05/2014 1:15:22 PM And step up a bit, individual. Your habit of continually referring to fellow posters as &.....
» 24/05/2014 1:10:00 PM individual, " It IS all due to the previous ALP government that we now have to cop t.....
» 24/05/2014 11:34:41 AM trapdiocan, "I think what is written above says it all ! No empathy or compassion fo.....
» 24/05/2014 8:32:00 AM Bazz, "Listen all you Lib/Coalition bashers; It doesn't really matter whether you bel.....
» 24/05/2014 7:00:59 AM imajulianutter, "You spend the last 4 years saying Abbott was unelectable. Now you a.....
» 23/05/2014 6:07:20 PM imajulianutter, "...Are you going to continue the borrowing?..." The Abbott Go.....
» 23/05/2014 12:38:24 AM rehctub, "He said he would stop the boats, and he did. He also said he woukd drop t.....
» 22/05/2014 8:40:08 AM Not only is the budget diabolical, but the Abbott govt has snookered itself. Good article.....
» 21/05/2014 11:49:59 PM Will just add that I'm somewhat gobsmacked at the ability of this mob to lie in your face .....
» 21/05/2014 11:36:09 PM spindoc, "If Abbott accepts he cannot be popular he won’t care because he has a diff.....
» 21/05/2014 1:49:40 AM The Coalition govt practiced "wholesale" deception upon the Australian electorat.....
» 21/05/2014 1:23:18 AM rehctub, "There was always going to be a time whereby even the risk takers couldn't .....
» 19/05/2014 11:43:52 PM rehctub, ".... then how have they lied?" They've done nothing BUT lie. And th.....
» 19/05/2014 8:43:34 PM It is necessary that govts address the changing needs of society - and internal reform is .....
» 19/05/2014 10:17:47 AM Hasbeen, "Actually o sung wu I think bulk billing for most people is a ridiculous ex.....
» 19/05/2014 9:09:30 AM Jayb, "OK, so the Polls are out & the two Party preferred is LNP 44%, ALP 56%. Howev.....
» 19/05/2014 9:00:16 AM Hi everyone...my third time on OLO since the budget. Thing I note is that even the rightie.....
» 17/05/2014 11:26:16 PM Okay false alarm...(don't ya hate it when you fail to confirm:) Galaxy says L/NP 47 - ALP.....
» 17/05/2014 11:10:48 PM You can kiss goodbye to any possibility that Abbott will call a Double Dissolution. Lates.....
» 17/05/2014 10:38:25 PM Lol! Killarney, "Yes, mate ... because every country in the developed world lost mo.....
» 13/05/2014 4:28:15 PM individual, "THe uselss ALP government didn't get us through the GFC, the money in t.....
» 13/05/2014 9:03:31 AM "...The point I'm constantly making is a point that you et al constantly miss is the .....
» 13/05/2014 12:54:35 AM "Watching Q&A right now I simply cannot believe the bias & idiocy displayed by this m.....
» 12/05/2014 10:19:09 PM individual, The only pertinent point is that if the Abbott govt had taken its present pol.....
» 12/05/2014 9:23:18 PM individual, "Get it into you, there are no cuts..." Lol!...waste no time, mate.....
» 12/05/2014 8:32:06 PM indiviual, If someone repeatedly states categorically before the election that there will.....
» 12/05/2014 6:31:04 PM Lol!...Yes, Saltpetre, I almost included Sheehan's paragraph in my spiel (except I was ove.....
» 12/05/2014 2:56:15 PM Here's a little something by a welded on LNP supporter - Paul Sheehan. Lovingly titled &q.....
» 12/05/2014 2:39:21 PM Salpetre, I've been up in the big smoke for Mother's day..but just noticed your spray ear.....
» 12/05/2014 7:32:37 AM Saltpetre You may be happy with a govt that universally misrepresented its intentions pri.....
» 11/05/2014 1:03:25 AM Saltpetre, "I guess there's no hope for some of the welded-on socialist fraternity, .....
» 8/05/2014 1:46:12 PM butcher, "Poirot, treasury providing accurate info, now there's a laugh!" Ther.....
» 8/05/2014 10:18:45 AM rehctub, "Are you also aware that labors last forecast has been proven to be way und.....
» 8/05/2014 7:17:17 AM Bazz, "As soon as I saw the $8 billion to the RBA was included I knew it was an ABC .....
» 6/05/2014 9:56:05 AM Paul, I hope you don't mind if I put this here as well...seeing as it concerns the big fa.....
» 6/05/2014 12:38:53 AM Hmmmm.... http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/missing-liberal-donations.....
» 5/05/2014 7:33:18 PM Shadow Monster, Your point? I said earlier.... "I don't care who's doing it - it s.....
» 5/05/2014 3:00:55 PM Shadow Monster, Well, LOL! to the max. You are a doozy, aren't you? Have you ever delve.....
» 5/05/2014 10:18:32 AM SM, I don't care who's doing it - it should be exposed and halted. (you're calling us hy.....
» 5/05/2014 9:17:58 AM Paul, Here we go. http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/state-politics/give-t.....
» 5/05/2014 7:22:30 AM Here's a nifty headline: "Treasurer for sale: Joe Hockey offers privileged access&qu.....
» 4/05/2014 11:35:12 PM SM, ".....You and your ilk consider it sinful that we earn more than you..." W.....
» 4/05/2014 7:43:59 AM Lol!, SM, Sorry to pop your bubble, but I don't envy people like yourself or butcher. Why.....
» 3/05/2014 9:53:35 PM Nhoj, rehctub's attitude sums up the Conservative ethos perfectly. Self-obsession and gr.....
» 2/05/2014 5:24:55 PM individual, When you've done with talking gobbledygook let me know. : ).....
» 2/05/2014 4:07:35 PM Nhoj, Quite so. Bazz, "Poirot's rhetoric is amazing." Why, thank you!.....
» 2/05/2014 3:35:00 PM I like this one. "Australia Considers Cuts to Rein in Second-Smallest Debt" ht.....
» 2/05/2014 3:20:45 PM individual, "That automatically puts australian debt as the highest also. Great figu.....
» 2/05/2014 1:23:02 PM "New South Wales Police Minister Mike Gallacher will step aside from his position aft.....
» 2/05/2014 10:14:26 AM Shadow Minister, The stimulus got us here: http://www.abc.net.au/news/linkableblob/37276.....
» 2/05/2014 8:52:17 AM individual, "..... you don't seem to understand why all this is happening in the fir.....
» 1/05/2014 5:43:52 PM Bazz, "Poirot, has lost the plot since Labour lost the election. She said; It would .....
» 1/05/2014 10:51:45 AM It just keeps coming. http://www.smh.com.au/comment/smh-editorial/tony-abbotts-deficit-le.....
» 1/05/2014 10:17:56 AM Banjo, "For the 6 years of wild Labor spending you were told it had to be paid for. .....
» 1/05/2014 9:18:09 AM As much as I'm not supporter of the Abbott govt PPL, here's Jacqui Lambie at her most biza.....
» 1/05/2014 8:51:04 AM rehctub, Since when do respected OLOer's refer to fellow posters as "that other inse.....
» 1/05/2014 8:08:19 AM People here who are lamenting "the state of the books" should keep in mind the t.....
» 30/04/2014 4:54:38 PM rehctub, "As for taxing the rich, for all those tall poppies out there, the next tim.....
» 30/04/2014 4:32:56 PM Bazz, Paying for fuel, electricity and water don't engender economic "growth" -.....
» 30/04/2014 1:47:14 PM Bec, Tony's grab line is a false analogy. This article pertains to the US, but explains .....
» 30/04/2014 10:37:51 AM Here's another cheer squad for the LNP http://m.theaustralian.com.au/opinion/editorials/t.....
» 30/04/2014 1:30:37 AM Well I have to say it's starting to get amusing now. What do you reckon number 1 LNP chee.....
» 30/04/2014 1:12:33 AM Suse, I'm not surprised at all at Abbott's deceit. It's exactly as I expected, although m.....
» 30/04/2014 12:45:47 AM Well looky here... "Under-pressure Tony Abbott drops parental leave cut-off to $100,.....
» 30/04/2014 12:25:47 AM I'm sure Mr Abbott will gets loads of support around here from the usual suspects. They t.....
» 29/04/2014 8:29:56 PM otb, This is an opinion forum.....not a star chamber for you to interrogate fellow poster.....
» 29/04/2014 1:40:30 PM Yeah settle down, beachy. You don't have to reference Foxy and her occupation in order to.....
» 29/04/2014 12:57:48 PM More whoppers from Mr Shonk. "Last week the government decided to buy 58 F-35 fighte.....
» 29/04/2014 12:39:48 PM Foxy Notice how Turnbull was insulated from any questions on the NBN. And notice also ho.....
» 29/04/2014 9:16:41 AM SteeleRedux, Regarding Jackie Lambie, who appealed to me as decidedly vacuous on the subj.....
» 28/04/2014 6:13:52 PM Philip S, Here's the video & transcript of the Four Corners program last year which exami.....
» 28/04/2014 5:39:53 PM rehctub, "Sure smells of money, doesn't it!" Well, hahahaha! "If this is.....
» 28/04/2014 2:55:04 PM ...scraaatch, clunk..........
» 28/04/2014 10:43:06 AM Yes, Foxy...that just occurred to me which is why I dropped back. How shall we sum them u.....
» 28/04/2014 10:24:14 AM Lol!...beachy and SPQR. As I've mentioned before Our Glorious Leader provides so much mat.....
» 28/04/2014 6:17:30 AM Hmmmm.... I wonder if Larissa Waters also bills the tax payer for office stationary? Of c.....
» 25/04/2014 6:06:32 PM Foxy, They've all got crushes on us. Quite endearing when you think about it......
» 25/04/2014 5:11:27 PM otb, Lol!....are you still banging on.........
» 23/04/2014 4:59:11 PM Leo Lane, "You do have a tendency to misinform, Mike, even in small matters like Abb.....
» 23/04/2014 4:31:58 PM individual, "I think I'll buy a lottery ticket now, for once I agree with you..".....
» 23/04/2014 4:06:14 PM Lol! yerself, otb. This thread is about pollies and their office refits - or is it the ca.....
» 23/04/2014 3:25:33 PM otb, "To get some perspective into this, local builders can construct a quality four.....
» 23/04/2014 2:59:51 PM Here's last years' Four Corners video and transcript of the examination of the F-35 fighte.....
» 23/04/2014 12:02:51 PM SPQR, "And Poirot has NOT written a single thing since the last election which is no.....
» 23/04/2014 10:25:56 AM otb, Er...lets concentrate on the really big bickies ..like Tones spending up a storm on .....
» 23/04/2014 8:32:37 AM Wow!...the books are in such bad shape that the govt is being forced tho white-ant medicar.....
» 23/04/2014 7:47:35 AM individual, Hi there! I see you've dragged out your trump line - again. The diabolicall.....
» 23/04/2014 12:40:51 AM Excellent post up there, OUG Wit like that so rare on a thread like this......
» 22/04/2014 8:10:42 PM individual It's not that "don't like your remarks" - it's that they're usually .....
» 22/04/2014 10:23:31 AM Here you go... Remember the $6.00 co-payment that was bandied around -then promptly and c.....
» 22/04/2014 9:04:31 AM SPQR, "<<judgement>> implies a weighing up of evidence...." Yes, i.....
» 21/04/2014 11:47:16 PM o sung wu, My apologies. As you are no doubt aware, I usually give as good as get around.....
» 21/04/2014 7:15:11 PM o sung wu, "The lady to whom you refer, Peta CREDLIN, I gather she's on the PM's sta.....
» 21/04/2014 4:55:14 PM o sung wu, "So in my humble view, far from convincing me of the dreadful deeds of Ab.....
» 21/04/2014 4:40:28 PM individual, "Foxy, nicely attempted diversion, just doesn't work on me." (Psst.....
» 21/04/2014 1:22:18 PM otb, Here's a bit more on pollies expenses. http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/south-aus.....
» 21/04/2014 12:53:07 PM Well looky here: http://www.smh.com.au/comment/icac-under-threat-of-being-silenced-201404.....
» 21/04/2014 12:35:31 PM Hasbeen, "You posted the bit of slime Poirot, so that must be the garbage you read.&.....
» 21/04/2014 12:30:21 PM Gawd...you guys are cutting edge! SPQR; "The OnTheBeach esposé..." Yep, Water.....
» 21/04/2014 10:53:47 AM Update, individual now how another descriptor for people with whom he disagrees. So now .....
» 21/04/2014 10:37:03 AM Tut, tut, Foxy...they've found an instance where someone from the other side has refitted .....
» 21/04/2014 10:12:05 AM You guys are a hoot! Why don't you peruse this "long long list" of rorting gems.....
» 21/04/2014 9:08:14 AM For my money, the oh so delicate young lady, Ms Credlin, is the most dangerous thing in po.....
» 20/04/2014 11:58:14 PM "What a nasty bit of garbage wrote it. I can see where you get it now." Yes, Ha.....
» 20/04/2014 10:21:47 PM o sung wu, "...Well, I suppose he and Joe Hockey had to 'wing it' a bit during the c.....
» 20/04/2014 6:57:13 PM o sung wu, "Still, Labour has incurred so much debt over the ensuring six years, (wh.....
» 20/04/2014 12:59:56 PM Nasty old overpaid librarians. There should be a law against it! : ).....
» 20/04/2014 12:24:41 PM otb, Give it up, mate. I know it's irresistible - and that you think you've hit on a nov.....
» 19/04/2014 6:18:57 PM individual, "I attended several Tafe courses over the years & going by how hey opera.....
» 19/04/2014 9:06:58 AM Good point, Dame Foxy. individual, Care to enlighten me why Liberal state govts have dec.....
» 18/04/2014 9:02:54 PM individual, That's more like it! Now instead of wasting your time detailing our faults, .....
» 18/04/2014 1:45:55 PM Hasbeen, Er...he resigned because he told whoppers to ICAC - most vehemently told whopper.....
» 18/04/2014 10:17:24 AM Luciferase, Watching 7:30 last night and an interview with Mike Baird, who appointed Di G.....
» 18/04/2014 9:09:20 AM Paul, Yes...it's fascinating that now the Libs have seemingly been caught in their own sn.....
» 18/04/2014 8:40:37 AM Here's Kate McClymont explaining exactly how it unfolded. http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/icac-.....
» 18/04/2014 8:24:33 AM OUG, "yet it was the last siTTING DAY ITS CASE CLOSED...[UNLESS?]" From my und.....
» 17/04/2014 11:45:50 PM otb, Love your commentary... NSW Labor - and now NSW Liberals embroiled And you reckon .....
» 17/04/2014 9:31:06 PM o sung wu, O'Farrell resigned ostensibly because it became obvious by the proof of the th.....
» 17/04/2014 8:48:50 PM Paul, Thanks for that...very clearly elucidated......
» 17/04/2014 10:18:18 AM otb, "I can't see how a Royal Commission could ever be an outrage." Nice try, .....
» 16/04/2014 7:39:37 PM Lol!, Foxy....yes it would probably surprise a few here to know that I have voted for my s.....
» 16/04/2014 6:15:42 PM o sung wu, Surely it's a matter of degree...that this govt began unravelling their pledge.....
» 16/04/2014 5:06:27 PM otb, "You have done well to get me to again break my own rule of not responding to p.....
» 16/04/2014 10:26:53 AM Barry O'Farrell is resigning - talking of leaders on the nose........
» 16/04/2014 9:51:02 AM SPQR, Yes, indeed... I was in favour of the justice system.....which appears to have wor.....
» 16/04/2014 12:04:00 AM I'm always phobic about deceptive pollies who can't speak without mouthing slogans, who ar.....
» 15/04/2014 10:47:41 PM o sung wu, If there appeared to be a skerrick of integrity in this govt, I'd hold fire........
» 15/04/2014 10:21:08 PM Pericles, "In my view, the PPL proposals that Mr Abbott carelessly put his name to w.....
» 15/04/2014 9:31:23 PM otb, "Got to protect that victimhood, eh Foxy? Your 'mum' can wait. Meanwhile just w.....
» 15/04/2014 10:38:20 AM Lol!...spindoc, In the end it doesn't really matter because Eleventy Joe is going to do h.....
» 15/04/2014 10:01:56 AM Foxy, I came away with a completely different impression of Jackie Lambie. She was in to.....
» 15/04/2014 12:57:30 AM Foxy, Because it's finally dawning on many of those who voted for his shonky govt that it.....
» 12/04/2014 10:43:34 PM SteeleRedux, Arctic sea ice volume :- http://haveland.com/share/arctic-death-spiral.png.....
» 12/04/2014 5:30:51 PM spindoc, "Try again Poirot." Okey-dokey...how's this... Pascoe - "It's g.....
» 12/04/2014 10:37:32 AM spindoc, Pull the other one, the IMF were looking at what's happened in the last six mont.....
» 12/04/2014 9:14:28 AM spindoc, "You forgot to mention that this IMF assessment is based on Wayne Swans las.....
» 11/04/2014 10:34:48 PM Just a final word tonight, worldwatcher, Your comment - "......how the heck did you.....
» 11/04/2014 8:58:07 PM My deeeeeear worldwatcher, ".....this could be construed as just a virulent characte.....
» 11/04/2014 6:17:03 PM Lol!, worldwatcher...people like you fall for Hockey's spiel hook, line and sinker. I bet.....
» 11/04/2014 5:06:27 PM Oh and Hasbeen... Grow up yourself, mate. : ).....
» 11/04/2014 5:05:01 PM Hasbeen, Here's our mealy mouthed deceptive marionette of a Prime Minister before the ele.....
» 11/04/2014 2:12:24 PM Empoeror Julian, Aside from attempting to axe carbon pricing and Hockey's pantomime on Au.....
» 10/04/2014 9:57:46 PM Hasbeen, Hohoho...your mob doesn't even wait till they've left the job. Remember the LNP.....
» 9/04/2014 9:09:33 PM Yeah, otb...save it on the subject of Ms Credlin. I'm sure she went to school and worked .....
» 9/04/2014 5:11:21 PM o sung wu, Forgive me if I disagree. Tony Abbott is followed about incessantly by his pu.....
» 9/04/2014 4:13:06 PM Yes, butcher one imagines that you'd be impressed by the Abbott govt's skill in stuffing p.....
» 9/04/2014 9:53:06 AM Robert LePage, "BTT" means "Back to Topic" otb employs it whenever h.....
» 9/04/2014 8:52:48 AM Foxy, "... booklets of "Motherhood Statements" don't count." Bummer .....
» 9/04/2014 8:08:35 AM otb, Lol!..."Arthur who?" Well I wonder who from the govt benches named Arthur.....
» 7/04/2014 4:55:33 PM rehctub, It's just as well that you aren't employed by a govt dept...otherwise your ".....
» 7/04/2014 1:24:21 PM otb, "The Greens cannot lie straight in bed..." Lol!...it's a wonder that Tone.....
» 7/04/2014 7:28:54 AM rehctub, What's with low voter turn out line? This Senate re-run is just as "compul.....
» 5/04/2014 12:53:29 PM Here you go, SM...some more "humanitarian" LNP supporters displaying the sort of.....
» 5/04/2014 1:39:09 AM Yes, I must say that it's fascinating watching the machinations as Morrison, Bishop and Ab.....
» 3/04/2014 4:11:48 PM Hasbeen You are a hoot! "...I would expect the PNG government to say, see you in th.....
» 3/04/2014 12:11:10 PM High Court agrees to hear challenge to processing asylum seekers on Manus Island. http://.....
» 3/04/2014 8:47:33 AM WA votes again....Why thank you, Paul, don't mind if I do. It's not often one has the cha.....
» 2/04/2014 4:51:24 PM rehctub, "So, if that is the case, why then did labor leave the likes of the NDIS an.....
» 2/04/2014 8:57:46 AM rehctub, Here's a little more on Hockey's fake "budget emergency": http://www......
» 2/04/2014 8:42:45 AM rehctub, "...it is very obvious there is no money left thanks to the six years of wa.....
» 1/04/2014 12:14:33 PM SM, Round we go...what have knights and dames got to do with 21st century Australia? Esp.....
» 1/04/2014 10:52:17 AM SM, You appear to miss the point in ""Companion to the order of Australia".....
» 1/04/2014 10:15:56 AM Here's an interesting commentary: http://www.theage.com.au/comment/knights-and-dames-are-.....
» 1/04/2014 8:39:05 AM SM, France's tradition goes right back in unbroken tradition...erm...they actually had kn.....
» 31/03/2014 5:19:35 PM SM, "...The COOA is completely unknown outside of Australia...." The same goes.....
» 31/03/2014 10:23:11 AM SM, What have Knights and Dames got to do with 21st century Australia? This was an auton.....
» 31/03/2014 12:49:12 AM Paul, Note Abbott's other faux pas when referring to "Lady Lynne"...of course t.....
» 30/03/2014 2:32:09 PM I was going to comment...but this cartoon best sums up yours and the govt's faux compassio.....
» 30/03/2014 2:09:05 PM Very interesting...but hypocrisy, well... Actually, regarding cartoonists, You might be i.....
» 30/03/2014 11:50:53 AM Paul, Foxy, Here's the irrepressible Cathy Wilcox getting it right on Tone's Knights and .....
» 30/03/2014 11:36:52 AM Yeah, sure, SM Considering Burke "had his speech written months ago" why did it.....
» 30/03/2014 11:10:23 AM Here you go, folks. The latest from our magnificent PM on the duties of GG. "As Sir.....
» 30/03/2014 8:58:19 AM SM, "Labor's misogynistic attack on Bishop...." Lol!...is that really all you'.....
» 28/03/2014 8:42:22 PM Foxy & o sung wu. Good stuff! I particularly like "My Lady Viscountess 'Poirot', 'E.....
» 28/03/2014 5:14:23 PM Foxy, Yes, it's fascinating, isn't it. One wonders why he felt he should be so autocrati.....
» 28/03/2014 2:48:53 PM Otb, "Spiteful..." Have you actually watched the Speaker (and I use the term l.....
» 28/03/2014 10:22:24 AM OUG, It's true, she is on a ton...I predict she'll get her century on the next sitting da.....
» 28/03/2014 8:50:20 AM Just on the subject of Dame Bronnie of Bias, here's an article by Peter van Onselen (who w.....
» 28/03/2014 8:34:56 AM Well, I haven't had such a good laugh in a long time. Bring it on, Tones. What's yer ne.....
» 22/03/2014 11:07:54 PM Lol!...imajulianutter, This thread is ankle deep. What was that you said about turning o.....
» 21/03/2014 8:32:35 AM Foxy, Regarding Question Time not being much different. There is one singular difference.....
» 18/03/2014 9:04:45 PM Yeah, runner...Jesus would cheer them on as they stuffed 'em into the orange pods (not) T.....
» 18/03/2014 9:02:35 PM Yes, Hasbeen, I don't recall you fainting in hysterics when Tones, Sophie and Bronnie and.....
» 18/03/2014 4:50:38 PM Foxy, (Hi there:) "Dear Hassie, Real people - tens of thousands of them took part i.....
» 17/03/2014 11:06:21 PM Yes, runner....one imagines Christ would be supporting those school kids standing up for t.....
» 17/03/2014 10:37:27 AM I'd also like to add for those who think the students' behaviour was rude. You might like.....
» 17/03/2014 10:23:42 AM Yes, it was interesting seeing Abbott start out in patronising mode, only to be confronted.....
» 16/03/2014 12:36:30 PM rechtub, "Now as for the lowed debt ratio, where do you think we would be now had we.....
» 16/03/2014 10:15:36 AM rechtub, "I do recall he putting a few billion into banks of some kind." You m.....
» 16/03/2014 9:13:51 AM Not only that, RObert, but the Abbott govt has outstripped Labor govt's average borrowing .....
» 16/03/2014 8:51:43 AM rechtub, "Furthermore, if Abbotts PPS scheem was the primary reason for voting libs,.....
» 16/03/2014 8:37:21 AM Banjo Paterson, "Having solved the god conundrum has in no way diminished my sense o.....
» 15/03/2014 1:17:41 AM Squeers, "...we're just compost..." Such a bare reality won't cut it for most .....
» 14/03/2014 8:52:05 PM "....Must the entitlements of these women be cut back by you to that of the middle ma.....
» 14/03/2014 7:09:37 PM otb, Sorry, your high-and-haughtiness...by senior electrician I meant that he was in a po.....
» 14/03/2014 4:20:26 PM rehctub, "... we will most likely be fending off challenges and dodging bullets from.....
» 14/03/2014 4:15:24 PM rehctub, "Poirot, with all due respect, you are now trying to redirect the thread.&q.....
» 14/03/2014 1:59:03 PM rehctub, Yes, I do "get it". "As for your tall poppy statement, spare a t.....
» 14/03/2014 1:13:03 PM rechtub, What a great idea...you do know the reasoning behind "welfare" don't y.....
» 14/03/2014 10:32:54 AM It's pretty much a huge indictment on our social democracy that a con-artist supposedly &q.....
» 14/03/2014 10:17:20 AM rechtub, "The reason it would be sad is because he would have lowered himself to Gil.....
» 14/03/2014 8:58:50 AM rechtub, "...but it woud be a sad act if it turns out to be an election hoax...".....
» 13/03/2014 7:13:27 PM spindoc, They made way for the incredible Credlin/IPA show... The star of the act being .....
» 13/03/2014 6:25:56 PM Hasbeen, No I wouldn't say he was a "great orator"...it's more what he said tha.....
» 13/03/2014 4:30:44 PM Lol!, SM, It must get right up your nose that a (to quote your eminent Right-Wingness) &q.....
» 13/03/2014 10:27:32 AM Paul, Did you see Scott Ludlum's welcome to WA speech to Tony Abbott. It's an absolute c.....
» 13/03/2014 10:20:06 AM OUG, "my lord hasbeen..HOW TYPICAL/THE MANY RESPONSES YOU PRESENT INFO..but the info.....
» 13/03/2014 1:04:44 AM Hasbeen, You can't have it both ways. On the one hand you say: "...of course the.....
» 12/03/2014 8:38:15 PM otb, Here's the faux outrage - again. "Your allegation that Australia runs 'concent.....
» 12/03/2014 4:52:23 PM SM, I know how much you must have missed my updates...but here's one from Stephen Koukoul.....
» 12/03/2014 10:19:50 AM Jayb, "Poirot, it's good to see you son is self-educating. I guess he realizes that .....
» 12/03/2014 9:23:55 AM Chris, "Like I said previously, exposure to theory should be in humanities, but only.....
» 12/03/2014 8:50:19 AM Okay, Shocka...internment camp...whatever. And I'm sure you're 100% correct in your theor.....
» 12/03/2014 1:28:37 AM Chris, Finally got round to reading your article, as have been entertained by YEBIGA and .....
» 11/03/2014 5:24:56 PM Jayb, "The thing about being a Chook (Signaller), if you've spent some time in Trans.....
» 11/03/2014 2:24:27 PM Shocka, I haven't mentioned NAZIs. I called them concentration camps because they meet .....
» 11/03/2014 2:14:54 PM Thanks, Bugsy. I was wondering where Hasbeen came up with that stuff. "The recently.....
» 11/03/2014 2:08:33 PM OUG, "im not yelling/in the old days you would have known this" Which is why I.....
» 11/03/2014 1:38:45 PM OUG, Pray tell....why do you spend half your posts shouting these days? http://forum.onl.....
» 11/03/2014 10:36:56 AM Graham, This is an extremely simplistic article. I believe I could have written somethin.....
» 11/03/2014 10:19:13 AM Pericles, "We are simply witnessing another round of the Murdoch bid to close down t.....
» 11/03/2014 1:09:39 AM otb, They meet the definition of confining and persecuting minorities or aliens, because .....
» 10/03/2014 6:21:37 PM I hope this conversation doesn't stop here. OLO's not known these days for insightful conv.....
» 10/03/2014 1:53:06 PM Hasbeen, Yes, I see your point. Reminds me of the WA Liberal govt at the very start of t.....
» 10/03/2014 1:02:59 PM I don't suppose any of you would be interested in an article on the subject by someone who.....
» 10/03/2014 12:49:32 PM Yup...that's it folks. The latest "scientific refutation" from "skeptics&q.....
» 10/03/2014 12:24:45 PM SM, "Your complete lack of compassion for the nearly 2000 people that died from Labo.....
» 10/03/2014 10:11:25 AM spindoc, What a laugh! By the time this lot get through with pilfering the pockets and r.....
» 10/03/2014 9:18:56 AM SM, Brilliant! So we imprison people in brutal ill-equipped concentration camps, fail to.....
» 10/03/2014 9:08:02 AM Yuyutsu, Yes. However, I hardly think a representative of a country that presides over t.....
» 10/03/2014 8:48:34 AM spindoc, "Get with the legislative program the electors voted for" You mean (a.....
» 10/03/2014 8:29:51 AM SM, Yes, Julie is an absolute blossom on the road to diplomacy, ain't she... http://www......
» 10/03/2014 7:35:58 AM Hasbeen, Yes, sorry, I did misunderstand, although not intentionally. I'm not wholly up .....
» 9/03/2014 7:45:44 PM Lol!...Pete's back to his hackneyed style. How many religious references has he slopped o.....
» 9/03/2014 4:16:24 PM Shockadelic, I love the way you congratulate us on our social evolution. "... when .....
» 9/03/2014 3:56:56 PM Of course, the biggest joke being that the Abbott govt is supposedly going to plant lots o.....
» 9/03/2014 1:55:29 PM Suse, "I am sure all parties could find at least a half a parties worth of suitable .....
» 9/03/2014 1:46:57 PM Hasbeen, "If they had looked at the history of industry in the UK they could have ea.....
» 9/03/2014 11:46:18 AM ...and cohenite is an expert on anti-scientific nonsense.... (Waves to cohers:).....
» 9/03/2014 11:40:19 AM Leo Lane, "Poirot’s position is clarified. She is neither dumb nor ignorant, she is .....
» 8/03/2014 10:58:35 PM JKJ, Talking of dumb.... Let's take a peek at some of your mutterings and see how they r.....
» 8/03/2014 8:36:55 PM o sung wu, "But why?" Two words which speak volumes. Here's something Ivan Il.....
» 8/03/2014 11:31:36 AM JKJ, "If you can't see that appealing to authority, is appealing to authority, then .....
» 8/03/2014 11:14:29 AM Furthermore... JKJ, Your rhetoric on this forum pertaining to any and every subject cons.....
» 8/03/2014 10:58:11 AM JKJ, "... You can't just assume you're right in the first place, and expect everyone.....
» 8/03/2014 9:07:20 AM Since I've stuffed up that quote by Thoreau, I'll correct it a little more fulsomely: “Th.....
» 8/03/2014 8:51:47 AM Hi RObert, I'm one of those who criticises otb's technigue of deciding on a female target.....
» 7/03/2014 10:01:11 AM I haven't had a peek here for a couple of weeks, but noted this thread. This isn't about .....
» 17/02/2014 9:06:34 AM cohenite, ".... after all both bonmot and Q&A made their claims about their scientif.....
» 17/02/2014 12:31:47 AM cohenite, I'm presuming ozdoc is trained in one or several disciplines related to climate.....
» 15/02/2014 12:04:26 PM cohenite: "Personally I'm glad I upset and offend you people..." There you hav.....
» 14/02/2014 8:38:52 PM I see the standard hasn't improved around here. Shame. (Couldn't agree more, Ozdoc).....
» 12/02/2014 1:20:59 AM I drop by to have a peek at "one" thread on OLO - and note that I'm now supposed.....
» 3/12/2013 12:28:49 AM Reckon you're onto something, runner? Sorry to disappoint you, but I've been suspended un.....
» 25/11/2013 8:49:01 PM Thank ya, Foxy. Have you ever thought of going on Twitter? I spend more time there than .....
» 25/11/2013 4:35:24 PM [Deleted. And she will be getting the suspension she explicitly asked for in the comment.].....
» 25/11/2013 2:23:26 PM spindoc, My link covered current actions to being undertaken in China. On topic. (Just .....
» 25/11/2013 11:16:15 AM Hasbeen, I don't know about you, but I haven't noticed Quentin Bryce poncing around race .....
» 25/11/2013 11:06:23 AM Yar, spindoc... Perhaps someone should tell China that carbon pricing is on the way out. .....
» 25/11/2013 9:52:27 AM How respectful of you, runner, to the Governor General of Australia. But judging from the.....
» 25/11/2013 8:57:42 AM Here we go, Belly. This is how this extremist govt is now handling things in its gulags. .....
» 25/11/2013 1:04:06 AM Early days...but all set for One Term Tones http://m.smh.com.au/national/voter-mood-turns.....
» 24/11/2013 10:39:12 PM [Deleted, offensive language.].....
» 24/11/2013 7:35:31 PM Foxy, I'd say it will almost mandatory to make Johnnie Howard next GG. Considering the b.....
» 24/11/2013 7:09:38 PM RM, Yar, I reckon that tipsy sot who presided over the Whitlam dismissal is the sort of c.....
» 24/11/2013 6:26:34 PM SM, "Abbott is acting as an adult by not reacting in a knee jerk fashion...." .....
» 24/11/2013 6:17:36 PM otb, Never mind about the issue and its connection with the PM I'm sure he's got far mor.....
» 24/11/2013 2:27:29 PM JKJ, " So that means she and Labor and the Greens support polygamous marriage, right.....
» 24/11/2013 12:49:43 PM Highly amusing... Loudmouth overlooks the fact that China supplies the West with cheap go.....
» 24/11/2013 11:12:08 AM individual, Well I don't want to give you a big head and reward you for writing the word .....
» 24/11/2013 10:39:11 AM I love the way Libs prance around as if they're holier than thou and born to rule, etc. W.....
» 24/11/2013 10:19:24 AM "Poirot, You have been on this site for years and obviously have refined your seagul.....
» 24/11/2013 9:28:12 AM otb, It's always relevant to stand up to posters who twist meaning and misrepresent the v.....
» 24/11/2013 8:59:02 AM Aha! - BTT - the cry of the poster who has been called out for displaying "interestin.....
» 24/11/2013 1:47:47 AM otb, I see you're at it again. Gotcha little focus on one of the ladies here -and having.....
» 23/11/2013 12:47:01 PM ...says, Hasbeen, the atmospheric physicist (not) He can't imagine why those who are qual.....
» 23/11/2013 11:25:16 AM cohenite, "....the IAC was being polite......" That's always your fallback lin.....
» 23/11/2013 11:18:52 AM cohenite, My pixies are telling me that you continually get blown out of the water by peo.....
» 23/11/2013 8:39:56 AM Still flattered, boys. SPQR, ".....Poirot, sees it all as a huge capitalist plot to.....
» 23/11/2013 7:58:40 AM SPQR, "Everyone still gets weekly accounts of what happened" Hey, hey....that'.....
» 23/11/2013 1:04:42 AM For anyone who's interested, here's an enlightening article by Michael Mann on Richard Mul.....
» 23/11/2013 12:15:59 AM individual, "I fail to see why Abbott should have to apologise after taking over a b.....
» 22/11/2013 8:24:45 PM rehctub, Or we could just indulge in Petite bourgeoisie hysteria? Gawd!.....
» 22/11/2013 7:02:55 PM Foxy, Here's Clarke and Dawe on the present state of things in OZ. http://www.abc.net.au.....
» 22/11/2013 6:38:01 PM "The premise you Poirot clones keep peddling is...." Aw, shucks, LEGO - I'm f.....
» 22/11/2013 6:10:59 PM JBowyer, "Poirot Your belief that TA would talk like that shows your hatred and noth.....
» 22/11/2013 4:39:59 PM Get a load of Tones waxing lyrical on our relationship with Indonesia - before the electio.....
» 22/11/2013 4:19:02 PM Foxy, I remember when Mike Carlton first wrote that article. It was "obviously".....
» 22/11/2013 2:39:23 PM "....No one could critise anything he has said about Indonesia as PM. His words have .....
» 22/11/2013 1:59:27 PM Belly, Foxy, It does make one wonder....how anybody could seriously defend this govt - re.....
» 22/11/2013 1:12:19 PM Well said, Foxy. "Goodness me - take a look at Question Time. The new Speaker doesn'.....
» 22/11/2013 12:02:05 PM SPQR, "If you post on OLO you are fair game -there is no protective zone around you!.....
» 22/11/2013 11:49:55 AM SPQR, "You postings are getting more and more hysterical" I see you continue t.....
» 22/11/2013 10:57:26 AM LEGO, "Gee, that's funny Poirot. If the sun has little bearing on the Earth's temper.....
» 22/11/2013 10:42:35 AM Here you go, SM. Here's a collection of quotes by Tony Abbott arguing against increasing .....
» 22/11/2013 10:24:59 AM When was Bill Shorten declared Australia's leader? Bottom line, individual, is that when .....
» 22/11/2013 10:00:38 AM Hahahaha...SM, Is that really the best you can come up with? You forgot to mention Abbot.....
» 22/11/2013 9:06:07 AM individual, Your last post is hilarious. Where were you during the last election when th.....
» 22/11/2013 8:50:11 AM Yes, SM.... You must be glowing with pride at the handy work from our new PM. After all,.....
» 22/11/2013 12:41:45 AM Otokonoko, I do realise that you're not stupid. Yet you deliberately cited the "carb.....
» 21/11/2013 11:07:00 PM Otokonoko, "The Carbon Tax is one example. My most recent gas and electricity bills .....
» 21/11/2013 8:20:18 PM cohenite, "I wish you guys would address the issues; Stockwell has written a paper d.....
» 21/11/2013 12:28:39 PM SPQR, Do I serially jump on to threads to personally critique your style? You do that to.....
» 21/11/2013 11:26:57 AM SPQR, Your "petty" links are in a league of their own. My links usually pertai.....
» 21/11/2013 10:49:27 AM SPQR, You're not labouring under the misapprehension that I could actually be bothered to.....
» 21/11/2013 9:25:56 AM SPQR, Give Poirot some credit for at least being a teensy bit canny. The LNP in govt for.....
» 21/11/2013 9:16:16 AM SM, "Given Labor's complete financial incompetence..." Oh that - the one which.....
» 21/11/2013 9:03:24 AM Individual, "......Also digging up such inflammatory articles is not in the interest.....
» 20/11/2013 9:06:55 PM Here's' an example of more inflammatory behaviour from LNP connections. http://www.smh.co.....
» 20/11/2013 8:55:57 PM Hasbeen, It wasn't about Tones being a wimp. Well it was in a way...but it was more abou.....
» 20/11/2013 3:59:54 PM Chris Bowen says that the Opposition is prepared to immediately support raising of the deb.....
» 20/11/2013 10:34:05 AM otb, On the contrary, Here's something from Murdoch's news.com http://www.news.com.au/o.....
» 20/11/2013 10:15:50 AM Paul, "... peeing through windows..." There was obviously a typo in his top-se.....
» 20/11/2013 9:17:54 AM Foxy, "Anyway, I'll go and sit in the naughty corner now and keep my mouth shut and .....
» 20/11/2013 8:51:48 AM SPQR, Nice to see you maintaining your standards... "ROFL" is about as deep as.....
» 20/11/2013 8:08:33 AM SPQR, It's no use getting into a slanging match about who did what in times gone by. The.....
» 20/11/2013 12:47:48 AM Nothing changes.... runner is here calling people with whom he disagrees "haters&quo.....
» 19/11/2013 9:29:06 PM Foxy; "Let our Prime Minister use diplomatic means to appease the Indonesians but I .....
» 19/11/2013 2:37:23 PM SM, Quoting GY: ""Part of the secret of Tony Abbott’s success is that Labor an.....
» 19/11/2013 12:01:25 PM Thanks, SPQR, on behalf of fellow OLOer's for your daily critique of Poirot's style and co.....
» 19/11/2013 10:15:24 AM Pull the other one, SM. Australia has a dud PM who needs to look up the words "diplo.....
» 19/11/2013 9:50:39 AM Quite so, 579. Mr Abbott is about as diplomatic as a banana. He is our leader - although.....
» 19/11/2013 7:40:25 AM Here we go. http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-11-18/hetherington-the-coalitions-big-lie/509.....
» 18/11/2013 10:39:04 PM Oh well, Bazz, you win some you loose some. The Abbott govt has been keen to take credit .....
» 18/11/2013 4:44:48 PM Foxy, http://www.independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/how-to-trash-australi.....
» 18/11/2013 4:19:59 PM Foxy, People like SM would support their favoured dimwits no matter how low they sunk. H.....
» 18/11/2013 12:58:37 PM Thanks, Foxy. "There are clear similarities between the stealthy and the so-called '.....
» 18/11/2013 11:52:42 AM SM, You're an apologist for the Abbott govt. Abbott is an apologist for Rajapaksa's regi.....
» 18/11/2013 9:07:35 AM Paul, You might be interested in this: http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/nov.....
» 18/11/2013 9:01:10 AM "And we ignore our feelings at our ethical peril. Science is now backing up what we'v.....
» 18/11/2013 8:01:10 AM SM, Just a reminder of Tea Party qualities: ""It was mainly about bashing homo.....
» 17/11/2013 5:44:52 PM Hasbeen, Nice dreaming. Cameron will be out on his pink ear thanks to Labour next electi.....
» 17/11/2013 5:38:29 PM Let's face it guys... Tony Abbott is in no position to criticise Sri lanka for its human .....
» 17/11/2013 3:32:31 PM Never mind, Foxy. otb has just inserted his "faux outrage" chip. Now he can ob.....
» 17/11/2013 12:00:54 PM Suse, Our very good friends are Catholic, life long Liberal supporters who voted for and.....
» 17/11/2013 10:17:05 AM Haha...threads going well so far, you reckon, SM?.....
» 17/11/2013 9:49:01 AM Paul, Belly and Suse, Here's a story of some putrid LNP machinations. http://m.smh.com.a.....
» 17/11/2013 8:35:49 AM Yar, hasbeen, I have to agree with Paul. Tony Abbott and his regime can only ever be a s.....
» 17/11/2013 12:47:42 AM What a load of poppycock from Eleventy Joe and Dodgy Tones. First Hockey acknowledges tha.....
» 16/11/2013 9:02:46 PM Here you go, butcher. Since you're so fond of luxuriating in others' despair and misery.......
» 16/11/2013 8:52:21 PM Yeah, rechy, If you and SM are examples of wise counsel and measured principle in contemp.....
» 15/11/2013 10:32:55 PM cohenite, Sorry I can't match your impressive array of links : ) Here's something to che.....
» 15/11/2013 5:57:20 PM "The point about this Poirot is that by beginning in 1979, the year of the highest se.....
» 15/11/2013 1:31:35 PM cohenite, "Now both ice area and extent are both up so don't quibble about "mas.....
» 15/11/2013 12:53:07 PM SM, "More phoney histrionics?" You're a doozy, aren't you, mate. You'd defend.....
» 15/11/2013 9:59:43 AM "The illegal's child is in high care...." Thanks, SM, that's about as grotesque.....
» 15/11/2013 8:58:15 AM SM, Yes, some of us have been there with a newborn who needed extra care. My little fell.....
» 15/11/2013 8:35:55 AM The first thing to note is that SPQR doesn't come on climate threads to discuss questions .....
» 15/11/2013 1:04:19 AM SM, "The story of an illegal immigrant that has been given free medical treatment fo.....
» 14/11/2013 8:02:12 PM What a load of rubbish, SPQR. You "skeptics" sure can spin it. Here's an artic.....
» 14/11/2013 4:15:50 PM Here's something.... http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2013/11/global-warming.....
» 14/11/2013 12:45:46 PM Here you go, SM This is the type of thing this dreadful outfit (otherwise known as the Ab.....
» 14/11/2013 9:56:43 AM Gawd!..........
» 14/11/2013 8:46:30 AM It seems deniers want to tread carefully when attempting to push their case in places of o.....
» 13/11/2013 5:14:31 PM Imperial, "He says he has studied extensively; obviously that extensive study was of.....
» 13/11/2013 3:30:04 PM LOl!... Er, puhlease.....that's the pot calling the kettle "Tea Party" (Actual.....
» 13/11/2013 12:29:15 PM SM, So sorry for mistakenly attributing the "Electicity Bill" tauntto Mr Abbott.....
» 13/11/2013 9:06:37 AM SM, You can go on with your creative coommentary till the coes come home. Since Morrison.....
» 13/11/2013 8:20:06 AM KarlX, You appear to be trolling Tony Lavis. You turned up on the forum to have a go at .....
» 13/11/2013 1:32:23 AM "They hate the fact that only one boat in 3 weeks. What a breath of fresh air since t.....
» 12/11/2013 9:20:49 PM OUG, "In a new and smaller report issued today,..four of the lead authors of the NIP.....
» 12/11/2013 7:07:10 PM spindoc, You're the one pigeonholing my "thousands of scientists" statement as .....
» 12/11/2013 5:09:44 PM spindoc, I'll state again, the NIPCC is a sham. http://mediamatters.org/blog/2013/09/18/.....
» 12/11/2013 3:39:57 PM spindoc, Those names represent substance. If you wish to investigate further, I suggest .....
» 12/11/2013 3:16:40 PM Yes, Steven, you have a point. Nevertheless, Tea-Partyesque political fervour played a bi.....
» 12/11/2013 1:47:01 PM spindoc, Please don't insult my intelligence with this bleat: : ".... expert reviewe.....
» 12/11/2013 11:28:47 AM "I have to disagree; Tony Abbott & Co are closer to the American Tea Party Republican.....
» 12/11/2013 10:04:52 AM ozdoc, Yes.... Here's a post from Greg Laden on November 9 says it better than I could: .....
» 12/11/2013 9:07:05 AM http://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/haiyan-northwestern-pacific-ocean/ "Super-typhoo.....
» 12/11/2013 8:37:46 AM OUG, Well, it appears that that was a pointless exercise. Whodathunk you were so easily .....
» 11/11/2013 8:32:51 PM spindoc, "Isn’t that precisely the issue? So what better way to test it." Oh, .....
» 11/11/2013 4:02:28 PM SM, I'm truly amused by your spin...(the weird thing is that I once thought you possessed.....
» 11/11/2013 12:26:45 PM spindoc, We don't "need" to do it...unless one is assuming at the outset that t.....
» 11/11/2013 12:21:04 PM Cossomby, Skepticism aside, poor old Heartland miscalculated terribly with that one....a .....
» 11/11/2013 11:42:59 AM spindoc, I'm having trouble with your "experts from both sides" equation. We k.....
» 11/11/2013 10:30:27 AM JKJ, "So people should be shot for not agreeing to fund the warmists? Because that's.....
» 11/11/2013 10:25:46 AM JKJ, "Real scientists don't answer a challenge to their data or algorithms by hiding.....
» 11/11/2013 9:16:02 AM JKJ, Your entire post consists of a little city of strawmen. Can't you debate without ma.....
» 11/11/2013 8:37:05 AM spindoc, Yes, I appreciate the reason behind you starting this thread. You wished to beg.....
» 11/11/2013 8:09:04 AM SPQR, "@Outed non-scientist Poirot," Most amusing. Everybody knows that Poiro.....
» 10/11/2013 7:33:41 PM "The propensity of the Internet to become an uncontrolled vehicle for racial inciteme.....
» 10/11/2013 7:22:16 PM "If you ever cared to check you would find that Alan Jones and Andrew Bolt do general.....
» 10/11/2013 6:33:32 PM LEGO,, You're a veritable climate myth compendium. Something like this one from Skeptica.....
» 10/11/2013 10:25:16 AM Foxy, Never mind SPQR's superficial commentary. It appears his greatest contributions to.....
» 10/11/2013 10:10:26 AM Hasbeen, I'm not particularly concerned whether ignore me or engage me.....please yoursel.....
» 10/11/2013 8:38:35 AM LRGO, With all due respect, this statement is trite. "What we have have a dispute b.....
» 9/11/2013 9:10:12 PM LEGO, "Dear Poirot. Oh, I get it, you are a scientist so you can comment on man made.....
» 9/11/2013 7:39:11 PM Here you go,SM, Shall we rely on the Jakarta Post once more - because our govt prefers to.....
» 9/11/2013 6:39:28 PM Well, SM, it would be a jolly good thing if the govt would be up front with Australians in.....
» 9/11/2013 3:15:43 PM SM, "...and there was certainly a tacit understanding on which the Indonesians have .....
» 9/11/2013 11:45:43 AM spindoc, "If you won’t enter the debate as an adult, why try to kill off the thread .....
» 9/11/2013 9:40:07 AM spindoc, "The scientists at NIPCC and the IPCC have now drawn opposing conclusions f.....
» 9/11/2013 8:25:56 AM SM, It seems we were misled by the LNP that had a deal with the Indonesians to take back .....
» 9/11/2013 8:02:55 AM LEGO, Yeah thanks for that. So your research nous and scientific qualifications, experti.....
» 8/11/2013 10:13:18 PM runner, Far be it for me to question the vast wisdom of little runner who darts about the.....
» 8/11/2013 9:18:46 PM Sorry to hear the Abbott govt has seen fit to axe the Advisory panel of Positive Aging, Ev.....
» 8/11/2013 7:07:15 PM Just thought I'd post this for the benefit of anybody who wishes to know what is happening.....
» 8/11/2013 4:33:14 PM Being in WA, I'm fascinated by the by the prospect of being able to vote in the Federal el.....
» 8/11/2013 4:22:09 PM Antony Green's latest of the WA Senate count. http://blogs.abc.net.au/antonygreen/2013/11.....
» 8/11/2013 4:10:54 PM SM, We've lost count of the number of rorts attributed to members of the LNP. And mousy .....
» 8/11/2013 1:07:33 PM Thanks, rehctub. Here's an update for you. The govt has just borrowed a further $1.0 bil.....
» 7/11/2013 10:28:25 PM Here's an insightful commentary on the first fifty days - from the media's point of view.......
» 7/11/2013 8:48:26 PM JKJ, You're the one denigrating "lefties" and lauding "righties". Yo.....
» 7/11/2013 8:23:20 PM Jeez, LEGO. You've posed some real clinchers there. "The ABC shop is still selling .....
» 7/11/2013 7:02:44 PM Aww shucks, cohenite, sorry to link to a site that relies on empirical data from trained s.....
» 7/11/2013 5:56:16 PM rehctub, You've been rather quiet lately. Did you catch Mr Hockey saying this: ".......
» 7/11/2013 2:59:15 PM "As for the borrowing, every day new information turns up of Labor's hidden debt.&quo.....
» 7/11/2013 1:50:01 PM SM, Gross borrowings of $21.9 billion since 9 September, 2013. Hockey says: "The cr.....
» 7/11/2013 1:37:12 PM You can keep on waffling your no substance variety of "skepticism", Hasbeen. Th.....
» 7/11/2013 10:37:34 AM JKJ, "The sheer unabashed irrationality and hypocrisy of the left wing really is the.....
» 7/11/2013 8:52:43 AM LEGO, Lots of points. Regarding glacial retreat: http://www.skepticalscience.com/himala.....
» 6/11/2013 3:56:42 PM SM, Little did we know what we'd unleash with this govt. Seen nothing like it before in .....
» 6/11/2013 3:52:37 PM "You are right Robert LePage, OLO is not the place for people like you, Poirot, & gra.....
» 6/11/2013 2:36:38 PM Here you go, SM, Didn't take the fabulous Abbott govt long to piss off senior journalists.....
» 6/11/2013 1:53:18 PM SM, One can't deny the brilliance of the LNP's years of campaigning...especially if one i.....
» 6/11/2013 1:17:34 PM SPQR, "....They have a darker political agenda, checkout some of their posting histo.....
» 6/11/2013 11:58:18 AM Chris, "I think Howard and Abbott are on right track. They are democratic politicia.....
» 6/11/2013 9:13:47 AM Yeah, thanks for that, runner. You being a such a font of reason...Lol! The bottom line .....
» 6/11/2013 7:56:49 AM No LEGO, The simple truth is that OLO is place for "amateur" discussion on clim.....
» 5/11/2013 8:33:26 PM Ludwig, "However, when it comes to police behaving badly, the recent fining of thous.....
» 5/11/2013 7:40:24 PM runner, "just keep her away from the children." I'm surmising that you'd also .....
» 5/11/2013 2:25:41 PM Shadow Minister, "How quickly you forget that in 2007/8 the Murdoch papers openly su.....
» 5/11/2013 1:07:58 PM Shadow Minister, I'd be thrilled if I ever detected the type of intellect one would expec.....
» 5/11/2013 8:39:27 AM Jon J, I think you'll find that your post is covered by point 25. - "Spread various .....
» 5/11/2013 8:00:36 AM rehctub, "So, if our violators were to all of a sudden turn a new leaf and stop brea.....
» 5/11/2013 1:30:16 AM http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-11-04/joe-hockey-australia-us-debt-ceiling-comparison/5050.....
» 4/11/2013 8:16:10 AM Individual, "....Qld will once again become a state in which Police deal with those .....
» 4/11/2013 8:09:11 AM Belly, Here's a fairly comprehensive assessment of the possibilities from Antony Green. .....
» 3/11/2013 9:07:14 PM Suse, "I think they need MORE powers to step on criminals even harder..." Yeah.....
» 3/11/2013 1:34:56 PM Come off it, Suse, ""Pennisi said outside court he had not even realised a tiss.....
» 3/11/2013 1:14:31 PM Chris, It's interesting that you obviously expect the Coalition to do the right thing by .....
» 3/11/2013 12:54:21 PM Like I said, Ludwig, I wouldn't encourage them. It appears that already Queensland is mor.....
» 3/11/2013 12:52:12 PM Sorry, wrong thread......
» 3/11/2013 12:51:17 PM Like I said, Ludwig, I wouldn't encourage them. It appears that already Queensland is mor.....
» 3/11/2013 7:56:02 AM Hi Shadow Minister, Just wanted to mention that I have it on very good authority (ie, Gra.....
» 2/11/2013 11:12:13 PM Ludwig, ".....and an overall recovery of the rule of law!" I'd be more worried.....
» 2/11/2013 10:32:13 PM Graham, "It's not really interesting Poirot, it's trite." Curious anomalies do.....
» 2/11/2013 6:00:32 PM Thanks, Chris. "I am not really interested in football commentary; I will leave it t.....
» 2/11/2013 2:29:24 PM Hasbeen Like this you mean? http://www.ipcc.ch/news_and_events/docs/ar5/ar5_wg1_headline.....
» 2/11/2013 10:38:31 AM Graham, I've posted this a number of times on the forum, but it's relevant here: http://.....
» 2/11/2013 10:18:58 AM Chris, "poirot, politics is politics." I recall that you were quite strident i.....
» 2/11/2013 9:49:52 AM << Luddy old mate, in your quest for your "sustainability" you are loosing.....
» 2/11/2013 8:26:32 AM Chris, "Really, where is your proof this is the case." AS I mentioned above, M.....
» 1/11/2013 7:02:31 PM Another $800 million borrowed today: tenure 8 years, yield 3.80% Total gross borrowing si.....
» 31/10/2013 11:55:05 PM Oh, I don't know, Raycom. It recently gave Environment Minister, Greg Hunt, plenty of air.....
» 31/10/2013 1:34:33 PM Raycom, Catch up will you. The BBC regularly gives oxygen to "skeptic" views -.....
» 31/10/2013 10:18:31 AM "Are you Adam Bandt?" Adam gets around a bit...it seems? http://forum.onlineop.....
» 31/10/2013 8:55:08 AM Banjo writes:, "Well I consider the illegals shonks and con artists who take advanta.....
» 31/10/2013 8:10:52 AM Banjo, "I agree with you that Aus should withdraw from the convention....." Ju.....
» 30/10/2013 11:23:15 PM Haven't given an update for a while..... According to Stephen Koukoulas, the govt has jus.....
» 30/10/2013 9:05:28 PM Banjo, I hope you're not inferring that any slowing of the boats is due to any actions pe.....
» 30/10/2013 8:54:41 PM Yo, Dream on...thanks for your input. I detest NAPLAN which is mainly a tool for pitting .....
» 30/10/2013 5:25:37 PM Never mind, Banjo. This government if doing what it can to ease your fevered brow. They'.....
» 30/10/2013 2:42:08 PM Raredog, "Furthermore, as there is talk behind the scenes about a royal commission i.....
» 30/10/2013 12:53:55 PM spindoc, I believe the term I used was "tickle up". I see a little bit of humo.....
» 30/10/2013 11:40:00 AM Yar, well...it was good Christian ethics when I was born to obliterate any identity pertai.....
» 30/10/2013 11:11:33 AM Raredog, "....yet you spin, spin, spin. In other words Poirot [Deleted - see previou.....
» 30/10/2013 10:09:51 AM Jennifer, "In December 2012 the UK Met Office admitted there had been no global warm.....
» 29/10/2013 5:15:14 PM "I'll play nice if you do." Me too.... .......... Is Mise, In that case, I'v.....
» 29/10/2013 11:53:47 AM Chris, Keeping in mind that we shouldn't persist in derailing this thread. Last word. I.....
» 29/10/2013 10:33:21 AM Yes, dear SM, ...but only when I have to respond to you. (although you gain a few browni.....
» 29/10/2013 10:14:17 AM Paul, "Now you say: "As for my comment on the action taken on the broken bough,.....
» 29/10/2013 9:46:45 AM SM, ".....a modicum of intellectual rigour." Like this, you mean? "Parro.....
» 29/10/2013 8:36:36 AM Belly, Over here in SW WA we have had a a lot of steady rain. It rained solidly all the .....
» 29/10/2013 8:25:29 AM JBowyer, The reason that 2000 came and went without major problems concerning Y2K was tha.....
» 29/10/2013 1:45:29 AM Chris, I'll make one more comment off topic for the sake of explaining why I constantly d.....
» 28/10/2013 7:08:40 PM Chris, Will also add that when you say: "Giving taxpayers cash away for the sake of.....
» 28/10/2013 6:51:10 PM Chris, You write: "Under the previous rules (previous government that is). Obviousl.....
» 28/10/2013 6:30:42 PM SM, I used to think, when I first came here, that you demonstrated a little mature intell.....
» 28/10/2013 3:56:09 PM Belly, Yes, I reckon once in about every three or four posts he accuses his opponent of l.....
» 28/10/2013 10:19:43 AM Paul, "SM evidence please." Well, you're wasting your time with that request. .....
» 28/10/2013 9:12:07 AM John McRobert, Following on in the same vein of obvious expertise, we shouldn't leave out.....
» 28/10/2013 8:46:32 AM SM, "These fires have been matched in the past by huge fires. The main ingredients a.....
» 28/10/2013 12:43:58 AM Chris, From the article: "The day after bushfires tore through the area, the federa.....
» 27/10/2013 1:17:09 PM Oz breaks the record for warmest 12-month period - again. Second consecutive month. http.....
» 27/10/2013 10:45:42 AM Chris, Before you go and paint Tones as such a jolly good fellow....you might like to kee.....
» 27/10/2013 10:26:54 AM More time on my hands than I thought. This is fascinating. More..... "Refuses a si.....
» 27/10/2013 10:14:11 AM WmTrvor, Bit strapped for time this morning...but can't go past hilarity when I see it. .....
» 27/10/2013 8:44:41 AM Oi, otb, Got another trouser hem, have you...which just by chance belongs to a woman on t.....
» 27/10/2013 12:52:17 AM Hey-de-ho, Suse, Thought I'd drop in for a bit, and what do I find?...but a pack of faux .....
» 26/10/2013 11:26:26 AM "I know you love twisting peoples posts around for your own twisted purposes, but rea.....
» 26/10/2013 10:04:03 AM "Hi Is Mise, In the Book of Cyril, chapter seventeen verse elevnteen it clearly state.....
» 26/10/2013 9:44:17 AM http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-10-26/nswfire-warnings-disaster-relief-winmalee-meeting-bu.....
» 25/10/2013 1:00:22 PM Curmudgeon, What's happened? Significant rainfall, followed by warm dry weather, low soi.....
» 25/10/2013 12:11:02 PM Curmudgeon. "For bushfires you need both rain (so bush will grow) and dry spells.........
» 25/10/2013 10:32:43 AM Here's a little piece on Australia's "Environment Minister" using Wikipedia to s.....
» 25/10/2013 10:17:41 AM runner, Hee, hee....."....They prefer sleazy deals, lies and broken promises and the.....
» 25/10/2013 10:12:48 AM cohenite....the lawyer (ie, not a climate scientist) Here's some more..... http://www.cl.....
» 25/10/2013 9:04:30 AM http://theconversation.com/what-firefighters-say-about-climate-change-19381 "One of .....
» 25/10/2013 9:00:00 AM Bazz, I have in the past criticised Gillard. Why, just this morning I had a poke at Sho.....
» 25/10/2013 8:37:40 AM Belly, "But our true fire danger period has not yet arrived." Precisely. The .....
» 25/10/2013 8:16:27 AM Fair enough, Bazz. But why blame me when I get a little over-excited when the "savio.....
» 25/10/2013 7:56:09 AM Excellent, WmTrevor... Belly, Can you tell me why the fabulous Bill Shorten is nowhere t.....
» 24/10/2013 11:55:28 PM Killarney, "However, I like my 'faux-exhausted, charcoal-faced and heroic' PR versio.....
» 24/10/2013 11:51:58 PM Is Mise, "Good post, Poirot, Sarah Palin and our Suseonline seem to have much in com.....
» 24/10/2013 10:25:17 PM Killarney, "I haven't seen the Abbott photo-op, but I'm sure he looks as suitably fa.....
» 24/10/2013 10:15:15 PM Why thank you, Bazz. Foxy is a most courteous poster. Poirot, on the other hand, is more.....
» 24/10/2013 10:06:46 PM Suse, You might like this. Talking about Bible stories an such like. Resident Tea party.....
» 24/10/2013 8:16:42 PM ".....There are much more important matters that are begging for attention." Yo.....
» 24/10/2013 5:28:28 PM Yes, well, Pericles. It was a smart-arsed add on in brackets at the bottom of my post. J.....
» 24/10/2013 5:04:39 PM ".... Sadly, the true heroes, the women and men on the frontline risking their lives .....
» 24/10/2013 3:23:03 PM Josephus, (We've been through all this before when you were Philo) Marriage is not a bio.....
» 24/10/2013 2:53:30 PM Go and tell someone who cares Spinner Minister (I can see the attraction in making up nami.....
» 24/10/2013 2:19:54 PM Here it is, folks. Straight from the horse's mouth.... http://jbh.ministers.treasury.gov.....
» 24/10/2013 9:49:18 AM How about... Adam Bandt is the speck of gold amidst the river of sludge that defines post.....
» 24/10/2013 9:09:06 AM This metamorphosis screams for a thread of its own. I probably can't put it any better th.....
» 24/10/2013 8:52:34 AM Well, here's a turn up for the books. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/24/nsw-bu.....
» 24/10/2013 8:17:48 AM Eleventy Joe "now" says "The credit rating is what matters". Which is.....
» 24/10/2013 7:45:44 AM individual, I recall there existed a certain German regime during the 1930/40's who had a.....
» 23/10/2013 11:49:35 PM "Those who are against people being allowed to defend themselves should consider not .....
» 23/10/2013 4:26:38 PM Did you hear the words coming out of Hockey's mouth at yesterday's presser? "The cre.....
» 23/10/2013 12:45:02 AM otb, ""It remains difficult for some to come to terms with the results of the e.....
» 22/10/2013 9:40:27 PM SM, CT has not admitted to all the evidence. You are buying the garbage put out by MSM r.....
» 22/10/2013 8:07:59 PM Here you go, folks... http://www.crikey.com.au/2013/10/22/how-dare-you-try-to-politicise-.....
» 22/10/2013 7:08:20 PM SM, "....Thomson has in his criminal case is not contesting any of the evidence pres.....
» 22/10/2013 3:38:32 PM More evidence of the deceitful duds all the righties here were expecting to "tackle t.....
» 22/10/2013 2:58:36 PM Hey, hey... Hockey's lifting the debt limit to $500 billion. It is currently $300 billio.....
» 22/10/2013 1:36:11 PM Yes, SM...I regretted inserting the word "charges"...I knew you'd pick up on it .....
» 22/10/2013 10:10:52 AM Grrrrr.... "fined".....
» 22/10/2013 9:18:48 AM SM, " At the time of the last fires in Victoria, a man was fined $100 000 for cleari.....
» 22/10/2013 8:22:57 AM SM, That' Study period" was one day long. Can you direct me to literature that defi.....
» 21/10/2013 6:42:51 PM Not that it matters but "Sunday" should have read "Saturday"......
» 21/10/2013 6:41:39 PM Thank you, Hasbeen, I'm still interested in whether bushfires of this nature have been re.....
» 21/10/2013 6:35:05 PM Jon J, "Every bushfire that does damage is 'unprecedented'; if it was precedented th.....
» 21/10/2013 4:25:26 PM individual, ".....after all many of you tolerate stupidity...." Yes,.....we do.....
» 21/10/2013 4:15:29 PM SM, Just noticed your last paragraph. "Considering that YOU personally claimed that.....
» 21/10/2013 3:55:29 PM SM, Explain Don Randall's largesse to himself?.....
» 21/10/2013 3:48:56 PM I asked this in another thread. Does anyone have any information of serious bushfires of .....
» 21/10/2013 3:36:29 PM A is A, This also comes from the Rural Fire Service, "The Rural Fire Service has ca.....
» 21/10/2013 1:10:17 PM Graham, You replied to me in the same vein once when I complained about a term being ban.....
» 21/10/2013 11:53:15 AM A is A, Have you any figures from past years where massive firestorms have erupted in Oct.....
» 21/10/2013 10:17:51 AM SM, A one day "study period" which just happens to coincide with Joyce's return.....
» 21/10/2013 9:17:31 AM Chris, "Didn't you read this bit? A spokeswoman for Mr Keenan said the government ha.....
» 21/10/2013 8:59:41 AM otb, Lol... Bye.....
» 21/10/2013 1:27:13 AM otb, Well, ho, ho, ho.... Now that I've called you out once again - you say: "The .....
» 21/10/2013 1:09:55 AM Chris, "Belly, This is the stuff of leadership. Read it and understand that he reall.....
» 21/10/2013 12:38:41 AM otb, "LOL. Gently chaffing the menagerie of passive-aggressives, obsessive compulsiv.....
» 20/10/2013 9:40:32 AM KarlX, Have you any commentary regarding the degree of boredom engendered on OLO? Or are.....
» 20/10/2013 9:00:53 AM Okay - " a award" Grrrrrr We do need some sort of time limited correction devi.....
» 20/10/2013 8:57:11 AM In addition to SPQR's suggestion, how about we have a award for those who think there're a.....
» 20/10/2013 8:41:21 AM SM, Your comments get more amusing as you go along. Joyce is flown to a wedding in India.....
» 19/10/2013 6:44:53 PM SM, And I note that you don't see any hypocrisy in Slipper being up on charges, while ma.....
» 19/10/2013 7:11:27 AM Chris, That's not an Abbott. This is an Abbott. http://www.theage.com.au/federal-politi.....
» 19/10/2013 7:01:31 AM KarlX, I wouldn't get too hot under the collar about that. Houellie's probably having a .....
» 19/10/2013 6:52:47 AM "The Greens are still trying to screw some political mileage out of the tragedy of co.....
» 18/10/2013 5:42:20 PM otb, "You might like employers to develop a bit of mongrel and dock employees' pay f.....
» 18/10/2013 4:38:56 PM otb, Yes, but Graham has no intention of following us around cleaning up after us and sma.....
» 18/10/2013 3:44:12 PM otb, "So, what do you say then? What proof are you seeking from your trusted source,.....
» 18/10/2013 2:40:17 PM "Just a small suggestion on housekeeping, while the forum rules work well, many forum.....
» 18/10/2013 2:29:25 PM SM, http://m.canberratimes.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/pm-wont-act-on-doubtful.....
» 18/10/2013 1:50:42 PM otb, Why is it political opportunism for Bandt to bring up devastating firestorms in mid .....
» 18/10/2013 11:38:35 AM Thank you Lexi : ) ........ Regarding this thread. When all is said and done, some stay.....
» 18/10/2013 11:33:21 AM Hasbeen, "....In 2023, with a full 10 years successful prime ministership behind him.....
» 18/10/2013 1:45:31 AM otb, What a humourless, tedious drone you are. Here's one for you. http://www.youtube.c.....
» 18/10/2013 1:21:09 AM Peter Lang, "(e.g. by 2050 they will have technologies that address the issues of CO.....
» 18/10/2013 12:53:46 AM Just an aside... http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-10-17/koukoulas-budget-emergency-fiction.....
» 17/10/2013 10:45:46 PM "These are the facts that dispel your slandering of the thousands of law-abiding fire.....
» 17/10/2013 10:42:43 PM OMG onthebeach embraces hysteria!.....
» 17/10/2013 10:36:48 PM Peter Lang, Humans and, particularly, human "civilisation" have thrived in a pa.....
» 17/10/2013 10:15:31 PM Oh well - if Ray Stevens singing Gitarzan can't bring Houellie back then I give up. Jane .....
» 17/10/2013 8:44:12 PM Yeah, it's a great strategy for keeping your party in Opposition......
» 17/10/2013 6:01:35 PM cohenite, "Anyway this paper says it better than me about the failure of AGW 'foreca.....
» 17/10/2013 2:31:35 PM And furthermore.... http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-10-17/call-for-randall-to-resign/5029.....
» 17/10/2013 1:53:37 PM Belly, http://www.theage.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/labor-mp-rob-mitchell-ask.....
» 17/10/2013 1:45:19 PM It seems to me that "elderly ladies" have always relied on their immediate commu.....
» 17/10/2013 12:25:46 PM I have to say that I find it laughable that these Labor members thought it a great idea &q.....
» 17/10/2013 12:08:18 PM "UOG, that's the kind of blathering that could be eliminated...." Yo - individu.....
» 17/10/2013 10:16:42 AM It's a shame OLO isn't more like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=293Irm-vxtE Ray St.....
» 17/10/2013 8:45:11 AM cohenite, It's very simple. People like you who have little scientific expertise actuall.....
» 17/10/2013 8:31:08 AM Thanks individual, But you do see, don't you, that we're merely living up to Houellie's e.....
» 17/10/2013 1:28:01 AM otb, "..."Look at me"." God, you're so unoriginal. Not content with .....
» 17/10/2013 12:58:21 AM ".....Nice try here with your, "<Poirot, "Erk!...unless his name is Rup.....
» 17/10/2013 12:43:54 AM Graham, If you can't work out when you're engaging a real scientist...well...what can I s.....
» 17/10/2013 12:22:23 AM Blow it out yer ear, otb. It's odious cretins like you who drive me to take my bows......
» 16/10/2013 9:10:53 PM Suse, Re: Loudmouth. He's always given Poirot some "special" treatment. Eg........
» 16/10/2013 4:22:02 PM SM, ".....That the one or two weeks a year is not necessarily in one continuous stre.....
» 16/10/2013 1:35:03 PM Graham, "...Your comments about conservative governments allegedly closing down scie.....
» 16/10/2013 1:24:29 PM Yeah, Foxy...we move on. : ) ......... otb, "It isn't always about you, Poirot. .....
» 16/10/2013 12:07:45 PM WOW!..ozdoc - says it all - parfaitement! ......... Couple with Tony Lavis's excellent o.....
» 16/10/2013 11:39:49 AM But, otb,...don't you like it when your tactics are called out. I'm a little fascinated b.....
» 16/10/2013 11:24:49 AM Paul, That's an impressive list. Shall we add these to it? http://www.carersnt.asn.au/a.....
» 16/10/2013 10:33:17 AM Foxy, otb is an expert at inventing other people's thoughts, fictionalising their actions.....
» 16/10/2013 9:12:10 AM runner, But the carbon tax isn't "going". That's why Abbot and Co are bluster.....
» 16/10/2013 9:03:31 AM Looks like Houellie's buggered off. Strange isn't it, how we feel the need to sign off by.....
» 16/10/2013 8:51:15 AM Belly, I'm inclined to think that it's nothing more than bravado and blather. Although I.....
» 16/10/2013 1:09:23 AM Shocka, "A few years back, it was the exact opposite. All the articles were left-bia.....
» 16/10/2013 12:31:13 AM otb, What a load of baloney. Abbott's volunteering efforts appear to be facilitated by t.....
» 15/10/2013 6:39:13 PM SM, "If you read the article, Pynne did not suggest that the trip to Cape York was 2.....
» 15/10/2013 5:34:47 PM Yeah, Luddy. ".....I can’t quite believe that you poo poo it so much. I can sort of.....
» 15/10/2013 5:10:08 PM SM, How boring... Every time someone counters your partisan penchant for canonising memb.....
» 15/10/2013 2:13:11 PM Here's another one, SM: http://www.independentaustralia.net/2013/politics/tony-abbotts-co.....
» 15/10/2013 11:44:10 AM cohenite, ""Only one scientifically robust alternative explanation to AGW is re.....
» 15/10/2013 11:39:23 AM "when it comes to beginnings evolutionist make it up. They dishonestly call it scienc.....
» 15/10/2013 10:45:35 AM Thanks, individual, As far as the subject of AGW is concerned, your post ably demonstrate.....
» 15/10/2013 10:26:17 AM "For those who say "peer review" in a learned journal is all that is requir.....
» 15/10/2013 10:04:54 AM Houellie..... Or to put it another way - where the bloody hell have you been? Where are .....
» 15/10/2013 9:53:14 AM Hee, hee....most entertaining! Things are looking up around here. : ).....
» 15/10/2013 9:07:15 AM Ludwig, It is interesting, isn't it. I do post prolifically, even now when I'm not hover.....
» 15/10/2013 8:42:17 AM Houellie, No defensive reaction...you are absolutely right. There is no quality here tha.....
» 14/10/2013 9:28:22 PM individual, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_financial_crisis_in_September_2008 http:.....
» 14/10/2013 8:25:59 PM Yes, individual....perhaps you'd be so kind as to remind us how many billions of dollars o.....
» 14/10/2013 3:40:22 PM Some rorts are more impressive than others...I have to agree with Don there. Here's the s.....
» 14/10/2013 12:22:57 PM Shadow Minister, I'm having trouble justifying my effort to debate someone who spends his.....
» 14/10/2013 9:37:43 AM SM,(Minister for roolly clever namies) "The single greatest weakness in Parrot's &qu.....
» 14/10/2013 9:17:01 AM Not to mention that it gave the supremely immature, Shadow Minister an opportunity to make.....
» 13/10/2013 8:54:22 PM SM, "Remember, meeting with constituents, is considered official business for opposi.....
» 13/10/2013 6:31:59 PM So much for Abbott being the charity guy... No photo ops in marginal seats - no charity......
» 13/10/2013 6:27:22 PM Hi Paul, Not foreign aid related, but here's a further example if the LNP's miserable par.....
» 13/10/2013 4:58:52 PM Here you go - a brilliant animated short, narrated by Ed Asner. Wanna know what went wron.....
» 13/10/2013 12:22:10 PM Sorry, SM? "Once again you are being disingenuous, you exclude Juliar's "offici.....
» 13/10/2013 10:46:25 AM Fair enough, individual. Here's Abbott's for that period: http://www.finance.gov.au/publ.....
» 12/10/2013 9:57:08 PM individual, $12.1 billion in borrowings since 9 September. A further 2.6 billion slated .....
» 12/10/2013 9:25:12 PM "Just to add and to underline the point, Australians do not appreciate foreign intere.....
» 12/10/2013 7:54:33 PM Thank you, mikk. For getting back to individual's taunt. "How about trying to prove.....
» 12/10/2013 6:22:40 PM ".....Can you please ask the do-gooders to stop insulting those of us who know ?...&q.....
» 12/10/2013 12:09:39 PM runner, "shows what a great job Abbott is doing when this is all the abc/fairfax and.....
» 12/10/2013 10:28:56 AM Hi Foxy and Belly, Belly...I know you've struggled with written language (and done exceed.....
» 11/10/2013 9:35:50 PM Paul, ".....They were at the wedding of WA Liberal MP Steve Irons at taxpayers expen.....
» 11/10/2013 6:53:34 PM Gawd...here's another one. http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/-/breaking/19291888/wa-libe.....
» 11/10/2013 6:45:14 PM mikk, "..... I understand mistakes happen but once is an accident what is it up to n.....
» 11/10/2013 2:10:52 PM Yes, Hasbeen, Tell us how many trillions the Republican initiated wars in the middle-east.....
» 11/10/2013 1:59:29 PM Don't stop there, SM. If you keep going I'm sure you'll adopt a contradictory stance like.....
» 11/10/2013 12:49:48 PM SM,(Minister for roolly clever namies) What sort of ding-battery am I arguing with? You .....
» 11/10/2013 11:27:07 AM Indeed, Paul. And they will be borrowing a further $2.6 billion next week. http://www.ao.....
» 11/10/2013 10:34:59 AM Update, According to Stephen Koukoulas. The govt borrowed another $800 million, 3 years,.....
» 11/10/2013 9:03:30 AM I think you'd be battling to find a better example of a questionable expenses claim than t.....
» 11/10/2013 8:47:16 AM "Mr Abbott has paid back items from the past, and admitted his error...." Excep.....
» 11/10/2013 8:30:39 AM SM, (Minister for roolly clever namies) "One of the coalition's policies on illegal .....
» 11/10/2013 7:23:31 AM Time for Republicans/Tea party to stop playing brinkmanship. (Did I hear right that their.....
» 11/10/2013 7:01:39 AM rehctub, ".....when our people are suffering, charity starts at home. For too long .....
» 11/10/2013 6:55:12 AM Thanks, Belly. : ).....
» 10/10/2013 5:58:51 PM otb, Yes, it's dreadful isn't it... Just think, all that money could be going to Tone's .....
» 10/10/2013 5:27:21 PM SM, "....Towing is a last resort." "and finally towing the boats back whe.....
» 10/10/2013 12:20:17 PM runner, ".....Thankfully we now have adults running the show." Guffaw! (Go Al.....
» 10/10/2013 11:52:49 AM Nothing moves us away from hierarchies. Everything is encompassed in an hierarchical mode.....
» 10/10/2013 10:04:56 AM SM (Minister for roolly clever namies), Okay. : ).....
» 10/10/2013 8:39:34 AM SM, Here the point is made that Abbott and Co are splitting hairs on the semantics of &qu.....
» 10/10/2013 8:10:56 AM SM, "The policy of turning back the boats includes tow backs, but not consist solely.....
» 10/10/2013 12:24:01 AM Hasbeen, Now I would take you seriously... If you weren't the single biggest spouter of .....
» 9/10/2013 9:24:03 PM SM, "Australia has the full right to interdict and turn around boats in the contiguo.....
» 9/10/2013 8:31:22 PM Here's one for all the whingers. If this doesn't make some introspective of their and the.....
» 9/10/2013 8:20:04 PM SM, The govt did borrow $800 million today. Paul, Contrast Tony Abbott's words at his c.....
» 9/10/2013 6:33:01 PM SM, (Minister for roolly clever namies) I think when I've got a moment or two I'll have a.....
» 9/10/2013 6:19:39 PM SM, Okay, semantics it is. Let's get this straight so I can enhance your intellectual re.....
» 9/10/2013 5:17:47 PM But, runner. Tony provides so much material. Here's a list of his top 25 dodgy claims: .....
» 9/10/2013 5:08:48 PM SM, "....I am claiming that many "asylum seekers are dishonest rat bags, not th.....
» 9/10/2013 11:17:03 AM Chris, In your list of things "not" to give them you left out "compassion&.....
» 9/10/2013 10:24:18 AM Chris, The reason people are so interested in the Coalition's rorts is because of the ran.....
» 9/10/2013 9:21:39 AM SM, ""The doctor in question is not involved in assessing asylum claims, nor sh.....
» 9/10/2013 9:01:33 AM "Mark Dreyfus (the shadow AG) has just blown labor's case right out of the water.&quo.....
» 9/10/2013 8:46:23 AM Thanks, SM, Well...I think you should write to the government pronto to inform them that .....
» 9/10/2013 8:42:06 AM SPQR, If I wasn't so polite, I'd call you a prat : ) That is the director's opinion. Th.....
» 8/10/2013 10:11:31 PM Foxy, Suse, Pericles, WmTrevor, You might be interested in this article: http://www.theg.....
» 8/10/2013 9:58:35 PM I'll repeat that it's odd that the subject of expense rorts has now been taken up by MSM. .....
» 8/10/2013 7:45:37 PM ooh er, runner, He's not only made BBC headlines: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-24.....
» 8/10/2013 7:29:51 PM SM, I wasn't asking for formal qualifications (as you, no doubt, are well aware) I was en.....
» 8/10/2013 3:15:56 PM Foxy, Belly, Yes, he's rather fond of "toning down" the rhetoric when he's put .....
» 8/10/2013 3:09:58 PM SM, ".....The doctor in question is not involved in assessing asylum claims, nor sho.....
» 8/10/2013 2:03:24 PM SM (Minister for roolly clever namies) ".....Labor is trying to manufacture a scanda.....
» 8/10/2013 1:40:59 PM SM, I don't believe this story is a fake. Nor do I believe that this doctor's experience.....
» 8/10/2013 1:28:05 PM SM, "Given that the dirt file division of Labor has probably spent weeks trawling th.....
» 8/10/2013 12:40:41 PM SM,(minister for roolly clever namies) You're getting weirder. Tony Abbott waxes enthusi.....
» 8/10/2013 10:47:17 AM SM, "The "Pollie pedal" in Brisbane firstly is old news, and was a charity.....
» 8/10/2013 10:40:39 AM Paul, This is how Tony defends his expense claim for his "charity" ride in Port.....
» 8/10/2013 10:03:10 AM Paul, Good wrap-up of Coalition rorting. http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/opinion/opin.....
» 8/10/2013 9:45:19 AM "That's probably a bit of overreach, Joe... "Whatever, the doctor seemed to ass.....
» 8/10/2013 8:44:48 AM Here's your daily update : ) http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/tony-abbott.....
» 7/10/2013 10:22:19 PM Duncan Graham, ".... and that includes recognising that Australians speak directly.&.....
» 7/10/2013 9:29:02 PM Loudmouth, I asked if this medical professional had any qualifications or expertise to as.....
» 7/10/2013 7:22:50 PM Paul, Here's Tone doing his usual um...ahh...um...ahh...explanation of his "inadvert.....
» 7/10/2013 7:14:33 PM SPQR, "@Poirot, The doctor is a lot better positioned to make an assessment than you.....
» 7/10/2013 6:51:34 PM runner, I'd love to stop blaming Abbott...but he keeps running up bills to the taxpayer f.....
» 7/10/2013 5:51:21 PM Philip S, I quoted correctly. Anyone could tell from the fact that I posted "These .....
» 7/10/2013 5:30:24 PM Here you go peoples: This is Tony Abbott "not" saying the word "tow" .....
» 7/10/2013 5:14:38 PM Philip S, "You pasted from 2 different quotes implying it was from 1, this suited yo.....
» 7/10/2013 12:09:16 PM SM, Here's Tony discussing "towing" back the boats with Steve Price. http://ww.....
» 7/10/2013 11:59:26 AM WmTrevor, Thanks you for pointing that out. ........... SPQR, SM, runner (what's a Labo.....
» 7/10/2013 10:58:44 AM Thank you, Loudmouth...I stand corrected. Of course, I was referring to this from Morriso.....
» 7/10/2013 10:34:49 AM "Europe is running away from subsidized alternate energy just as quickly as they can,.....
» 7/10/2013 10:22:21 AM Thanks, SM, Of course you wouldn't be in the business on OLO of highlight some extreme ex.....
» 7/10/2013 9:11:03 AM Quite so, Paul. Here's a wrap up of the latest Coalition snouts in trough situation. htt.....
» 7/10/2013 9:03:56 AM Paul, Just another example of this govt's putrid lack of humanity when dealing with anyon.....
» 7/10/2013 8:47:13 AM SM, ""Asylum seekers at off-shore detention centres asked doctors for breast en.....
» 6/10/2013 1:35:09 PM SM, "Don't Minchin the Rorts" (Lol!).....
» 6/10/2013 12:17:15 PM Here's Barnaby's statement submitted after his Wedding/study trip. http://images.smh.com......
» 6/10/2013 11:58:56 AM Foxy, Excellent!.....
» 6/10/2013 10:26:28 AM SM, "As for the policy of turning back the boats, the coalition has always used the .....
» 6/10/2013 8:56:48 AM SM, "As for the policy of turning back the boats, the coalition has always used the .....
» 6/10/2013 1:08:25 AM Yeah, runner, they are wonderful people with the good of the country at heart. Just one t.....
» 5/10/2013 7:05:43 PM SM, "The coalition are still planning to use boat tow backs if necessary...." .....
» 5/10/2013 6:41:29 PM Hasbeen, "Foxy my sweet, what do you think Obama has been doing handing out billions.....
» 5/10/2013 12:01:50 PM Funny how Lib apologist, Andrew Bolt, claims that the Libs never had a tow back policy. h.....
» 5/10/2013 10:36:23 AM Foxy, GOP voted against gun control...and against Obamacare. Right-wing nutters, actuall.....
» 5/10/2013 10:30:23 AM SPQR, Grasping at straws. You know full well that I was referring to this: http://en.wik.....
» 5/10/2013 9:31:04 AM But, individual, Abbott only put on his wimpy act for the benefit of the Indonesians (who .....
» 5/10/2013 12:19:04 AM Foxy, Belly, A more succinct article this time - but right on target. "The Shutdown.....
» 4/10/2013 11:48:29 PM SPQR, Just to clarify your recent blather. You appear to be the one posting links to &qu.....
» 4/10/2013 11:18:36 PM SPQR, I think that's utter bulls..t. You are a piece of work. Mate..........
» 4/10/2013 6:48:54 PM Foxy, A lengthy article from The Economist. http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/215872.....
» 4/10/2013 6:31:22 PM SPQR, I never watch your youtube links. (Just sayin'...).....
» 4/10/2013 4:37:16 PM SM,, I note Abbott and Morrison have reattached their gonads now that Mr Abbott has slime.....
» 4/10/2013 11:39:39 AM otb, Re censorship...sorry just stopped laughing at your post...keeping in mind that Morr.....
» 4/10/2013 8:59:48 AM SPQR, Your only have to look at this piece of huffing and puffing in Murdoch's propaganda.....
» 3/10/2013 11:01:07 PM Here's timely article. "Abbott defuses diplomatic tensions of his own making." .....
» 3/10/2013 5:20:29 PM Loudmouth, "Do you have anything to add, Poirot ? Of course, even blow-flies have th.....
» 3/10/2013 3:39:07 PM Foxy, Get a load of this bollocks from Abbott and Morrison in March... http://www.theaus.....
» 3/10/2013 3:27:44 PM otb, " OLO is indeed graced, honoured, to have your towering intellect available...&.....
» 3/10/2013 2:14:57 PM Excellent point, Foxy. It appears Abbott, Hockey, Bishop et al. spent the entire election.....
» 3/10/2013 2:07:37 PM Putting it another way... http://www.theage.com.au/business/comment-and-analysis/20th-cen.....
» 3/10/2013 12:22:40 PM SM, At the risk of keeping you barking. I repeat..... "Treasurer Joe Hockey is con.....
» 3/10/2013 10:50:42 AM Here you go, SM. http://www.afr.com/p/australia2-0/hockey_mulls_separate_debt_for_infrast.....
» 3/10/2013 10:30:55 AM "The government is going to borrow another $500 million today " is a lie." .....
» 3/10/2013 10:09:22 AM Joe, I'm "not" pretending that their construction is emissions free. Did I sta.....
» 3/10/2013 8:53:01 AM The government is going to borrow another $500 million today - three months Treasury notes.....
» 3/10/2013 8:45:19 AM Loudmouth, "As for Poirot's half-witted praise of wind-farms, sure let's have wind-f.....
» 2/10/2013 10:48:25 PM "The key graph is the CO2/temp one from 1998..." The "denial" is sett.....
» 2/10/2013 9:36:36 PM Luciferase, I watched a program on Sunday on this - the London Array offshore wind farm. .....
» 2/10/2013 1:55:40 PM Philip S., Where's the budget emergency? Here's some more nutty conservatives dragging t.....
» 2/10/2013 1:19:02 PM "....Rather, he projected strength and purpose in Australia's interests, and respect .....
» 2/10/2013 1:07:54 PM Just to keep you up to date. The government borrowed a further $800 million today: Tenure.....
» 2/10/2013 11:39:41 AM "Abbott's statesmanship" A candidate for today's best oxymoron. You've really .....
» 2/10/2013 10:34:50 AM otb, Nice to see "Mr I'll Defend Women's Honour" refers repeatedly to Julia Gil.....
» 2/10/2013 10:26:16 AM Luciferase, "I do hope you are more intelligent than your self-effacement suggests.......
» 2/10/2013 9:22:10 AM SM, "It looks as though the coalition has re affirmed its credentials as far more co.....
» 2/10/2013 9:14:44 AM "Seriously, I don't pretend to be anything other than a 'village idiot' in these matt.....
» 1/10/2013 11:14:38 PM JKJ, "Wow. More ad hom and equivocation. How very persuasive." You're rather a.....
» 1/10/2013 9:21:44 PM JKJ, "Notice how he doesn't admit he can't answer them?" (I'm surmising that h.....
» 1/10/2013 2:53:52 PM otb, SM, You're both full of it. "Abbott has promised to respect the sovereignty of.....
» 1/10/2013 1:36:49 PM Gawd, SM, You really are some spectacular spin machine. ".....No wonder left whinge.....
» 1/10/2013 12:34:34 PM SM, "This is most probably because turning back the boats has nothing to do with Ind.....
» 1/10/2013 10:52:43 AM http://apps.seattletimes.com/reports/sea-change/2013/sep/11/pacific-ocean-perilous-turn-ov.....
» 1/10/2013 10:31:32 AM Blow it out yer ear, runner. (talking of pointless contributions to threads - and one who.....
» 1/10/2013 10:28:47 AM http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/attorneygeneral-george-brandis-defen.....
» 1/10/2013 10:15:36 AM They're a bunch of hypocrites. End of story......
» 1/10/2013 9:29:39 AM Yeah, SM, It depends on which paper you read...as to how the message is couched. From Jak.....
» 1/10/2013 8:56:11 AM Here's a couple for you, SM http://m.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-opinion/george.....
» 30/09/2013 11:48:42 PM Luciferase, You might like this comprehensive article from The Seattle Times on ocean aci.....
» 30/09/2013 2:05:47 PM SM, "....One does not need a daily ministerial briefing to realize that an illegal b.....
» 29/09/2013 8:42:38 PM Foxy and Suse, I'm hearing on twitter that he's hired his own television crew or some suc.....
» 29/09/2013 7:40:46 PM individual, "In Australia, the Muslim community will grow from about 399,000 to 714,.....
» 29/09/2013 5:33:18 PM Philip S, "To have to resort to profanity implies you have no real counter argument .....
» 29/09/2013 4:59:45 PM "So ladies, now & until Abbotts new policies are digested & understood by boat people.....
» 29/09/2013 3:06:42 PM Loudmouth, What a silly little boy you are for an old guy. Why in the world do you bothe.....
» 29/09/2013 2:59:47 PM Yes, Pelican, the Minchin protocol is only offered if the problem is detected internally b.....
» 29/09/2013 2:40:40 PM Hi Pelly, Talking of transparency. There's a little too much for George Brandis at the m.....
» 29/09/2013 1:52:21 PM What is it with the childish antics by some around here who haven't got the maturity to ad.....
» 29/09/2013 12:10:12 PM Foxy, Brilliant Broelman cartoon..."The Cheshire Prime Minister" https://twitt.....
» 29/09/2013 11:59:45 AM So my point is, when SM casually says: "It was pointed out to me that about 500m yea.....
» 29/09/2013 10:46:52 AM Suse, "I think it's time I leave this thread because I only have swear words availab.....
» 29/09/2013 10:27:24 AM Luciferase, That's the point I was making to SM about his theory that 500 million years a.....
» 29/09/2013 10:14:44 AM Suse, Do yer reckon these mealy-mouthed fearful men and their hysterical theories represe.....
» 29/09/2013 9:59:21 AM individual, That's about as warped as it comes. See if you can plumb the depths a little.....
» 29/09/2013 8:45:01 AM Fair enough, boys. Like ozdoc noted, it's pointless trying to promote the overwhelming sc.....
» 29/09/2013 8:05:29 AM Fear not! There are plenty of heterosexual weddings taking place. Here's one which excit.....
» 29/09/2013 12:27:08 AM Philip S, " One who has not yet been given all the facts so as to make an informed c.....
» 28/09/2013 11:16:27 PM Abbott can take or not take responsibility as he pleases. My point is that even if he doe.....
» 28/09/2013 10:50:12 PM Suse, "And Abbott was a disgrace today to not even comment on the tragedy. He did th.....
» 28/09/2013 10:41:18 PM One thing's for sure... Tony's inane and trite pre-election slogan of "We'll stop th.....
» 28/09/2013 9:41:10 PM Thanks Don, My wish here was not to impugn you. You're entitled to your opinion as much .....
» 28/09/2013 7:07:38 PM Foxy, I've mentioned before an acquaintance I was once in touch with who led the Greens n.....
» 28/09/2013 6:35:59 PM Foxy, "He's obviously run out of slogans and scripts and now doesn't know what to do.....
» 28/09/2013 6:18:28 PM Susie and Foxy, http://www.news.com.au/national-news/abbott-flees-reporters-after-asylum-.....
» 28/09/2013 2:13:20 PM "Why doesn't it pull the pin on the convention and bare itself to all istead of playi.....
» 28/09/2013 11:13:49 AM individual, I have no idea what the solution is. Displacement of humanity is part of the.....
» 28/09/2013 11:02:10 AM spindoc, "The answer is because Don offered three reasoned and considered articles b.....
» 28/09/2013 9:31:10 AM individual, "Poirot is staring to sound like it is a member of the illegal invasion .....
» 28/09/2013 9:23:55 AM Loudmouth, Deforestation accounts for approximately 10 -15% of global carbon emissions. .....
» 28/09/2013 2:14:40 AM Real Climate - The new IPCC climate report. http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives.....
» 28/09/2013 1:59:18 AM Philip S, There's always been a mode of secrecy and spin concerning refugees, their arriv.....
» 28/09/2013 1:43:47 AM SM, "It was pointed out to me that about 500m years ago CO2 levels were about 2000pp.....
» 28/09/2013 12:13:28 AM Thanks, Hasbeen, This place gets more and more bonkers on this subject as the days go by......
» 27/09/2013 7:12:32 PM SPQR, You forgot - he then referred to unnamed poster as "sweetie"(as is his wo.....
» 27/09/2013 6:21:08 PM spindoc, Link wars? "I offer no apology for others but for me, I am sorry that your.....
» 27/09/2013 5:53:59 PM "Hi Poirot, sweetie," That kind of sums you up, doesn't it Loudmouth. Simplist.....
» 27/09/2013 5:48:56 PM Since 9 September, the government has borrowed $7.1 billion......
» 27/09/2013 4:25:00 PM Loudmouth, "I respectfully suggest you find the courage somewhere to answer these qu.....
» 27/09/2013 12:30:01 PM According to Stephen Koukoulas... The govt will borrow a further $2.3 billion next week......
» 27/09/2013 12:27:25 PM Climate Council. Crowd funding $800,000 in three days......
» 27/09/2013 12:24:43 PM Foxy, "....here we have an entire thread based on that information." Welcome t.....
» 27/09/2013 11:13:14 AM Loudmouth, "Issues, Poirot - otherwise just stay in the sand-pit with the other kidd.....
» 27/09/2013 10:31:55 AM Talkin of airy tales... Here's Mr Hockey on the "surplus": "We will achie.....
» 27/09/2013 10:15:56 AM Don Aitkin, It's not about "belief" (as you, no doubt, are well aware) It's abo.....
» 27/09/2013 10:04:43 AM A little more on the pre-IPCC AR5 release blitz: http://www.skepticalscience.com/misinfor.....
» 27/09/2013 9:06:35 AM Here you go, Suse. http://myblairmore.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/16-yosemite-sam-mustach.....
» 27/09/2013 9:01:06 AM "Salvo three...." Resting on what....? Not much..... http://m.livescience.com.....
» 27/09/2013 12:06:57 AM Michael Mann puts it most eloquently: http://m.livescience.com/39957-climate-change-denie.....
» 26/09/2013 10:26:31 PM Thanks, OUG, I needed a top-up of bunkum tonight. You provided it. (One can always rely.....
» 26/09/2013 8:09:34 PM Oh yes, runner. It's so grown up, the Prime Minister (That is the "Prime Minister&qu.....
» 26/09/2013 6:24:06 PM Excuse me if I ignore your obvious ignorance, runner....your vacuous comments are not wort.....
» 26/09/2013 5:36:43 PM Foxy, No need to worry. With a government as ideologically motivated as this one, which .....
» 26/09/2013 5:32:23 PM imajuia nutter, Yep...and ciggies are safe to smoke as well......
» 26/09/2013 5:22:55 PM Meanwhile, back at the ranch...the token "woman" is making a hash of all things .....
» 26/09/2013 5:10:52 PM Foxy, You may be interested in this article. http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/20.....
» 26/09/2013 3:33:23 PM Correction: I said earlier that the Climate Council raised $400,000 in two days. Apparen.....
» 26/09/2013 3:13:30 PM I'm looking forward to the third salvo in the IPCC countdown. I wonder, will it be that w.....
» 26/09/2013 2:58:27 PM "I have the science background to differentiate between research and propaganda which.....
» 26/09/2013 10:32:32 AM "I just hope that our federal government monitors sites such as this one AND see what.....
» 26/09/2013 10:23:00 AM Where's Tony?.....
» 26/09/2013 10:14:30 AM SPQR, "....When are you going o stand-up and DEMAND Tim Flannery tell us all who is .....
» 26/09/2013 1:12:49 AM "So while I clearly understand the link between emissions and climate change, I have .....
» 26/09/2013 12:35:42 AM http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2013/09/what-ocean-heating-reveals-about-glo.....
» 25/09/2013 10:35:02 PM Chris, Forgive me if I've got the wrong end of the sick. But you say: "I reme4mber.....
» 25/09/2013 9:33:14 PM ozdoc, Good advice. : ).....
» 25/09/2013 3:07:32 PM SM, ".... by your childish response." My childish response? ROFL!.....
» 25/09/2013 2:33:11 PM Just an update. According to Stephen Koukoulas: The government borrowed another $800 mil.....
» 25/09/2013 1:52:02 PM individual, ".....I merely retorted with exposing your hypocrisy which constantly ev.....
» 25/09/2013 9:01:02 AM individual, "Poirot, Wouldn't it be great if the cartoonist were right & the boats w.....
» 25/09/2013 7:42:24 AM A brief history of Scott Morrison. http://www.eurekastreet.com.au/article.aspx?aeid=38232.....
» 24/09/2013 10:50:00 PM Don't bother, Suse. individual and his cronies aren't interested in examining why people .....
» 24/09/2013 10:44:24 PM "Professor Tim is but another exposed fraud feasting on the public purse." What.....
» 24/09/2013 8:13:06 PM ozdoc, Thanks for your post. Unfortunately there's not much here except abuse and bigote.....
» 24/09/2013 4:09:14 PM SPQR, Not annoyed....absolutely intrigued that you and your cohort here defend Morrison's.....
» 24/09/2013 2:02:22 PM SM, "With several boats arriving a day, there is no way that Scott Morrison had a ne.....
» 24/09/2013 1:26:52 PM Lol! This cartoon: https://twitter.com/Jackasouras/status/382341025596833793/photo/1 Mo.....
» 24/09/2013 1:15:26 PM SM, What a larf! Didn't see you criticising Morrison for his regular and loud megaphone .....
» 24/09/2013 9:14:36 AM Well, Ludwig, the two are joined at the hip. You don't often hear the words "climate.....
» 24/09/2013 8:51:30 AM Bazz, I asked you: "Care to explain why Morrison yodelled long and loud from the ro.....
» 24/09/2013 8:30:28 AM While I've given up arguing with ignorant junk-science purveying deniers like Hasbeen, tho.....
» 23/09/2013 7:43:32 PM Bazz, "Poirot, you are pathetic ! Seems there it not a tactical brain amongst the l.....
» 23/09/2013 2:26:33 PM SPQR, Fair enough,...although he did say ""We'll make a difference from day one.....
» 23/09/2013 1:45:06 PM Oh, looky here... More censorship looming: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-09-23/moves-t.....
» 23/09/2013 1:36:29 PM Hasbeen, Yes dear...I realise that. But considering one (of the many) three-word slogans.....
» 23/09/2013 1:31:11 PM Note to Hasbeen. "Lefties" make up around 10 percent of OLO's contributors. Mo.....
» 23/09/2013 11:58:22 AM Just an update: In addition to the $2 billion dollars which has already been borrowed sin.....
» 23/09/2013 10:32:38 AM Bazz, "Talk about opportunists, jumping at anything to attack." You may think .....
» 23/09/2013 10:21:03 AM SPQR, You are so full of it. No cherry pick...I usually check ABC news online in ze morn.....
» 23/09/2013 9:02:30 AM http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-09-23/detention-asylum-seekers-border-control-sovereign/49.....
» 23/09/2013 8:46:08 AM ".....I am sure that if you really want to know how many boats arrive and when all yo.....
» 23/09/2013 8:37:41 AM Suse, "If the media rave on about asylum seeker boats arriving on our shores and we .....
» 21/09/2013 3:10:49 PM You can't trust Tony Abbott on anything. ("Stop the Boats", for instance - has .....
» 20/09/2013 11:55:47 AM Foxy, Thanks...although it's becoming increasingly difficult to stomach the atmosphere ar.....
» 20/09/2013 10:13:46 AM Never mind.... Here's some good news. http://www.smh.com.au/photogallery/federal-politic.....
» 20/09/2013 9:25:43 AM otb, Well I have to say that if I ever do manage to drag myself away from OLO permanently.....
» 20/09/2013 8:41:49 AM individual, "I sort of expected the morons to stay in their holes for a while but th.....
» 19/09/2013 8:14:45 PM Superbly put, 2cents..although you're battling uphill with this lot : ) Just thought I'd .....
» 19/09/2013 5:22:47 PM "Furthermore, given Tony Abbotts pre election promises, he, and his party will have e.....
» 19/09/2013 11:54:44 AM Mr Abbott should be shamed of himself for lots of things. Foxy, You may be interested in.....
» 18/09/2013 9:53:02 PM "WA lost it's AAA credit rating today, for the first time in 22 years, and the Libera.....
» 18/09/2013 4:20:49 PM Putting it politely... : ).....
» 18/09/2013 1:03:19 PM Foxy, Don't you know that CO2 is and invisible gas - therefore global warming isn't an is.....
» 18/09/2013 8:36:54 AM Saltpetre, Tony gets away with his charity/volunteer/surf events because he manages to s.....
» 17/09/2013 7:04:04 PM otb, "Heh, heh, if you are big like Andrea was and maybe you are, the overalls are a.....
» 17/09/2013 5:57:56 PM Foxy, mikk, Thought you might like to peruse this article on the subject of Tony -"V.....
» 17/09/2013 10:46:51 AM ".... A cabinet selected on ability, not affirmative action...." Which sounds r.....
» 17/09/2013 9:21:59 AM Gender equality at any cost.... Oh yeah, rehctub. Here's a peek at Abbott's "team&q.....
» 16/09/2013 3:05:20 PM david f., "Why did you bring in extraneous matter which had nothing to do with the q.....
» 16/09/2013 1:21:59 PM otb, "Others do not pose as a women representing women's views like you, dear Old Ti.....
» 16/09/2013 12:45:55 PM otb, "Meanwhile old pear-shape, ex-PM Julia Whatshername..." What happened to .....
» 16/09/2013 11:35:29 AM Lostinspace, Dno't bethor cmoing heer to letcrue peeps on isatloted spilleng and grmmaar .....
» 16/09/2013 10:25:17 AM david f, "Now I have some hope that Abbott will be different in other ways from past.....
» 16/09/2013 9:10:03 AM runner, "....thankfully now adults are running the show." Well hadehaha! One .....
» 16/09/2013 9:06:20 AM But, ah, runner...you're insinuating that Abbott has a personality.........
» 16/09/2013 8:58:09 AM SM, Well yers better whip Tony out of his post-election straight jacket and put him to th.....
» 16/09/2013 8:31:04 AM rehctub, According to Stephen Koukoulas, who on the 10th September tweeted this: ".....
» 16/09/2013 12:11:58 AM Saltpetre (me old salt:) "Dear Poirot, I don't get what's going on; the nature of y.....
» 15/09/2013 10:32:49 PM runner, Considering he's been ensconced in a closet since the election - anything is poss.....
» 15/09/2013 8:53:09 PM "Roach, Actually, maths is not your strong point..." And common decency when a.....
» 15/09/2013 8:44:23 PM RObert, "I hope this is the start of a trend in the way Abbott intends to lead.".....
» 14/09/2013 9:38:39 PM "aye but he's also put more money into the till than any of his successors...." .....
» 14/09/2013 7:47:05 PM Banjo, ".....We now have hope that some adults with responsibility will be in charge.....
» 14/09/2013 7:14:28 PM runner, ".....but two men elected in conservative seats decided to put self interest.....
» 14/09/2013 12:12:55 PM Hi Peter, I posed a question to you on the first page - and one of my own drawings. Any .....
» 14/09/2013 10:36:05 AM Just thought I'd pop this in: The govt this week borrowed $800 million... http://www.bus.....
» 13/09/2013 11:00:12 PM Not so hard to believe. The AEC found 1,000 "missing votes" in Indi which were .....
» 13/09/2013 9:13:45 PM runner, Just on that point.... Labor gained its lowest primary vote for a century this e.....
» 13/09/2013 5:00:22 PM runner, That because the Liberal Party gained "less than" 34% of the vote......
» 13/09/2013 2:28:41 PM "People who give too much credence to the printed word are inclined to produce rubbis.....
» 13/09/2013 2:20:34 PM That would be "Can give..." (obviously, Poirot does not have the knack:).....
» 13/09/2013 2:18:50 PM "Tony Lavis you forgot to mention rapier wit..." Well I kinda like "old so.....
» 13/09/2013 2:05:53 PM otb, "Foxy, You may not realise how your words reflect unfairly and wrongly on vote.....
» 13/09/2013 1:57:50 PM Luciferase, I think that deserves a reprise....since it was one of Tony's A1 botch-ups: .....
» 13/09/2013 10:05:20 AM SM, "TA has a clear mandate to remove the carbon tax....." Here's what Tony sa.....
» 12/09/2013 3:22:57 PM Daffy Duck has a point about geometry and its subliminal ingestion. Islamic art celebrate.....
» 12/09/2013 10:38:28 AM Banjo, "I cannot think of any one scheme or program that could be labelled successfu.....
» 12/09/2013 9:19:13 AM Belly, "We the majority want with our every breath the end of greens representation .....
» 12/09/2013 8:11:59 AM Peter, "It is now a long time since artists proclaimed that their work was "To .....
» 11/09/2013 10:13:23 PM "What's wrong with the Senate's electoral system and how to fix it": - Antony Gr.....
» 11/09/2013 11:22:45 AM Graham, I'm not an economist, so I'm trying to understand. How much furniture (governmen.....
» 11/09/2013 10:39:22 AM Yes, and we all know how "integrity" is such a big factor in federal politics (n.....
» 11/09/2013 12:27:05 AM JKJ, "Go spew your ignorant hatred somewhere else ..." Why don't you take your.....
» 10/09/2013 1:52:42 PM runner, You're excused...I wouldn't expect you to recognise "petty and vindictive&qu.....
» 10/09/2013 10:26:06 AM Here's a go... First sign of the petty and vindictive ideology we can expect from the new.....
» 9/09/2013 5:02:19 PM ".....It has irreparably damaged his once close relationship with the Christian const.....
» 9/09/2013 4:53:46 PM I rest my case.... (Lol).....
» 9/09/2013 4:44:04 PM otb, "How nice that this thread will benefit from the presence of a self-proclaimed .....
» 9/09/2013 4:27:47 PM Belly, otb says "....Labor needs some of the mature Labor people who have achieved i.....
» 9/09/2013 4:20:09 PM "..... a litany of broken promises and backflips." The Coalition didn't even wa.....
» 9/09/2013 4:15:56 PM How nice for you, Shadow Minister. While you have your feet up enjoying One Term Tony's t.....
» 9/09/2013 4:00:56 PM Carry on, otb... The hem of my trousers is getting a little frayed, and saturated with sa.....
» 9/09/2013 3:11:07 PM otb, No slip at all, "old fruit". But since you bring up psychiatrists - I won.....
» 9/09/2013 12:09:09 PM Yabby, "Gawd Poirot, its trivia. It does not matter! " Precisely...I was emplo.....
» 9/09/2013 10:48:55 AM pepper, ".... most of them have trouble putting 2 words together." Some more t.....
» 9/09/2013 10:18:11 AM SPQR, "Now, all we need is Poriot to poke her head through the door and give us some.....
» 9/09/2013 9:07:10 AM SM, Can't put it better than Gittins. "But surely the most disillusioning thing for.....
» 8/09/2013 11:19:55 PM david f., You may be right. Whatever... (I'm going back to twitter now).....
» 8/09/2013 11:04:42 PM Chris, "....Worst PM in my lifetime." You ain't seen nothing yet! (A cardboar.....
» 8/09/2013 10:59:42 PM " I wont be reading it as have better things to do with my time...." Parting gi.....
» 8/09/2013 7:44:15 PM "Your suggesions on these matters would be greatly appreciated." I suggest that.....
» 8/09/2013 3:03:33 PM onthebeach, Stop frothing with excitement at cornering another woman on OLO. My comment......
» 8/09/2013 2:15:14 PM Yabby, " so they actually listen to farmers when it comes to agricultural policy.........
» 8/09/2013 1:57:23 PM otb, "It is very revealing and sad that you make such spiteful, disgusting remarks a.....
» 8/09/2013 1:28:58 PM " We need thinking politicians," Gawd....you do realise that the LNP doesn't &q.....
» 8/09/2013 1:07:16 PM Yabby, "Oops Poirot, the libs won and not the greens :)" Yup..... get a load o.....
» 8/09/2013 12:48:57 PM Yabs, Re: your Minister of Agriculture...lets hope it's not the "sex appeal" la.....
» 8/09/2013 11:40:56 AM SM, Ho,ho,ho... The entertainment awaits us. (and by that, I'm not referring to your cr.....
» 8/09/2013 8:51:47 AM SM, "Pjerk" It's just occurred to me that you really do represent the epitome .....
» 7/09/2013 12:56:53 PM "They, just like switched on Ozzies,.." LMAO! Mr Murdoch has his finger on the.....
» 7/09/2013 12:22:38 PM Hasbeen, "Rather than "Does Rudd think people are stupid", it should have .....
» 7/09/2013 11:38:14 AM worldwatcher, "Like all other countries, we have a certain way of life that we expec.....
» 7/09/2013 11:35:42 AM But not as interesting (or colourful) as the analysis you're likely to hear in front of my.....
» 7/09/2013 10:42:49 AM Quite so, Luciferase. rehctub spouting 70% electricity increase - as if it's connected wi.....
» 7/09/2013 9:20:25 AM Yes, rehctub, Foxy used to be Lexi, who used to be Foxy - and now she's Foxy again. Have.....
» 7/09/2013 1:07:12 AM Saltpetre, "Too little too late; crocodile tears." Are you holding up Abbott's.....
» 6/09/2013 10:27:33 PM Foxy, This sums it up well for me. http://www.brw.com.au/p/leadership/tony_abbott_wins_f.....
» 6/09/2013 7:46:35 PM Thanks Yabby, I take it that's why we're in a deep recession (not) Perhaps that's someth.....
» 6/09/2013 12:51:36 PM Foxy, Excellent! The Coalition are going gung-ho to impress the peasants. It's working .....
» 6/09/2013 12:30:48 AM “There is no instance of a large economy getting to growth through austerity," ".....
» 5/09/2013 8:56:11 PM But then again, Malcolm Turnbull says there's no backflip on internet filtering policy doc.....
» 5/09/2013 7:56:52 PM Foxy, (Sorry, so used to Lexi:) ...... rehctub, Joe Hockey and his coterie of clowns o.....
» 5/09/2013 6:43:27 PM Lexi, "We need to ask, why haven't they costed their NBN, their "stop the boats.....
» 5/09/2013 3:35:45 PM Well, that was a joke.... Hockey announces costings....no detail...8 pages of what? Thes.....
» 5/09/2013 2:14:10 PM WmTrevor, "Would that be WG Grace?" Very good : ) (But my favourite will alwa.....
» 5/09/2013 1:58:37 PM Yabby, Awww, c'mon.... Yes Rupert makes money, but he was giving it his best shot to get.....
» 5/09/2013 1:35:35 PM Chris, I wonder why Uncle Rupert has gone to all the trouble of daubing his front pages w.....
» 5/09/2013 11:55:59 AM SM, Do you reckon that if Abbott's daughters resembled gorgons, that he'd be exploiting t.....
» 5/09/2013 10:46:18 AM SM, David G, Looks like the balloon has gone up between Murdoch and Palmer.... http://m......
» 5/09/2013 10:34:52 AM Key Coalition policies "not" submitted for costing. "But missing from the .....
» 5/09/2013 10:13:53 AM SM, No hissy fit. "...... Abbott has raised 3 well balanced successful daughters wh.....
» 5/09/2013 9:00:37 AM rechtub, "Now as for unemployment, sure, we have very low unemployment, if you suppo.....
» 5/09/2013 12:32:28 AM Here you go, folks. http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/sep/04/tony-abbott-daug.....
» 4/09/2013 9:24:30 PM rehctub, "Sure, there was the GFC, but seriously, I am sick and tired of Kevins mob .....
» 4/09/2013 4:28:20 PM "If you want to know who to vote for, I'm the guy with the not bad looking daughters......
» 4/09/2013 2:13:06 PM Civil wars have always been diabolical affairs - see American Civil War. Internal wars a.....
» 4/09/2013 12:56:25 PM Well, it's a blast from the past to see Foxy's moniker up here again. Jolly good show! :.....
» 4/09/2013 9:00:50 AM Thank you OUG and Saltpetre : ) But....I went off on a tangent. Perhaps a little more wis.....
» 3/09/2013 8:39:21 PM So this is probably unfolding as Graham suspected it would. OUG is probably reaping the s.....
» 3/09/2013 7:01:33 PM individual, Hey, hey...I stand corrected. It's a well established fact that Lib supporte.....
» 3/09/2013 6:06:29 PM People are stupid. Next question...........
» 3/09/2013 4:33:01 PM Yes, one would have to ask how anybody, for whatever reason, could resist having the logo .....
» 3/09/2013 4:23:19 PM Thank you, SM, "By submitting 104 policies with three working days or less to the el.....
» 3/09/2013 2:53:41 PM OUG, What a trooper you are! Anyhooo...just taken receipt of a Folio edition of Blaise P.....
» 3/09/2013 12:53:04 PM I attempted to start another thread on the issue of targeting individual posters for ".....
» 3/09/2013 9:12:30 AM I've just pressed the red cross and had a word with Graham. As I said, I'm surmising this.....
» 3/09/2013 8:42:29 AM Well, it's absolutely gobsmacking that we have a thread to veto a long-standing member of .....
» 2/09/2013 9:16:15 PM The New York Times - "News Corp.'s Tight Grip on Australia's Papers Shapes Its politi.....
» 2/09/2013 9:11:27 PM "Was it equally as naughty for Labour when in opposition to release its details at 5p.....
» 2/09/2013 8:20:17 PM Bazz, Evidence please. Article? Anything?.....
» 2/09/2013 5:24:23 PM Did they really? Well that's just as naughty..... I take it that you can provide some su.....
» 2/09/2013 5:06:21 PM runner, Link please to where, few months ago, I was "convinced that Turnbull would l.....
» 2/09/2013 1:50:44 PM Shadow minister, TA has very little substance - the same as Georgie Bush had very little .....
» 2/09/2013 10:08:02 AM Precisely, Philip S. Abbott is so "upfront". he's going to release his costings.....
» 2/09/2013 8:57:18 AM rehctub, "Now as for this word Poorly, from my previous post, all I can say is so mu.....
» 2/09/2013 12:38:57 AM rehctub, You should stop parroting rubbish and read something that might educate you. He.....
» 1/09/2013 9:00:56 PM Excuse Shadow Minister and his "Lucyface". He seems to think he's roolly clever.....
» 1/09/2013 8:33:59 PM Abbott is the "last minute costing-kid"... (don't know if that would rate him a.....
» 1/09/2013 7:45:17 PM Just to keep us all up to date with Saviour Abbott's latest round of kiddie-talk. Global .....
» 1/09/2013 6:47:27 PM individual, The IMF is representative of Western corporate interests. It's main claim to.....
» 1/09/2013 4:53:12 PM individual, The IMF carried out the study, not Alberici. Mr Howard sold all those asset.....
» 1/09/2013 12:45:52 PM individual, "Anyway, how would you, as a staunch Labor supporter know what the Coali.....
» 31/08/2013 11:56:42 PM Arjay, "The nonsense espoused by the likes of LEGO and Loudmouth brings shame on our.....
» 31/08/2013 8:07:24 PM Well, rehctub, it's seems an awful lot of people are saying that Labor have done a good jo.....
» 31/08/2013 5:13:22 PM runner, You can't blame me for highlighting economists who doubt Abbott's numbers (what w.....
» 31/08/2013 1:23:30 PM Don't get yer heckles up with me, runner. I'm just reporting the opinion of the respected.....
» 31/08/2013 12:16:59 PM runner, You suspect wrong. This from The Economist: "Of the country’s two main pa.....
» 31/08/2013 10:52:58 AM That' a silly statement, rehctub. Everyone should question the Opposition's figures. The.....
» 31/08/2013 10:35:12 AM Luciferase, "The Parliamentary Budget Office said it was inappropriate to imply that.....
» 31/08/2013 9:35:19 AM Interestingly, during the Iraq/Iran conflict when they were allied with Saddam, they turne.....
» 31/08/2013 8:51:56 AM SM, "The Economist" says: Mr Abbott = defective manifesto. "The choice b.....
» 30/08/2013 11:47:20 AM The Economist: http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21584343-kevin-rudd-just-about-deser.....
» 30/08/2013 11:36:57 AM Would be helpful to get some actual costings from the Coalition. But aside from that.... .....
» 29/08/2013 4:04:03 PM M, I don't recall Murdoch indulging himself in 2007 anywhere near the likes of what he's .....
» 29/08/2013 3:57:14 PM individual, You well know that I'm not a fan of Western rabid consumerism...nevertheless,.....
» 29/08/2013 2:04:20 PM Yes, individual, it's truly dreadful that Australia's economic performance is currently ra.....
» 29/08/2013 1:18:57 PM Sorry, SM, the ABC has been flogging Abbott and the Libs with a wet lettuce leaf - if anyt.....
» 29/08/2013 10:14:07 AM Yes, SM, nothing like an avalanche of party political propaganda to help along the "o.....
» 29/08/2013 9:09:11 AM Chris, OUG has been here for yonks. He posts a little more originally that most of us ar.....
» 29/08/2013 9:05:06 AM rehctub, You must know that to "relieve" the boredom around here, sometimes we .....
» 28/08/2013 4:28:23 PM Copy and paste this this and see the illuminating selection of front pages from Murdoch's .....
» 28/08/2013 4:03:03 PM Chris, "pelican, I think the semantics of unemployment are for another place." .....
» 28/08/2013 10:33:36 AM Yes, david f., I noticed that too. Reminded me of runner and his wedding "vowels&quo.....
» 28/08/2013 10:20:32 AM SM, Hasbeen, Murdoch is spitting on democracy. So much for "ethics". I see he.....
» 27/08/2013 5:55:13 PM Hasbeen, "Now all we have to do is instill a little verbal dexterity into Tony Abbot.....
» 27/08/2013 5:43:41 PM platypus, "you do not take another life on your own it is handed down by the courts .....
» 27/08/2013 2:49:53 PM Hasbeen, "Privatised". Oh goody....just imagine it being filled to brim with s.....
» 27/08/2013 2:43:12 PM platypus, You held up the notion of "the sanctity of human life". You represen.....
» 27/08/2013 2:26:48 PM runner, Actually the ABC has gone fairly soft on Abbott in recent times. No pursuance of.....
» 27/08/2013 1:42:00 PM Hasbeen, "........ calling it leave is just another name, when it is welfare, & noth.....
» 27/08/2013 12:08:22 PM Actually, it's interesting, Hasbeen. While I still maintain that the PC and the smart pho.....
» 27/08/2013 9:13:25 AM Of course, the funny thing is that in order to contribute to this thread, we are all indul.....
» 27/08/2013 9:10:46 AM Sorry folks - wrong thread......
» 27/08/2013 9:06:47 AM Of course, the funny thing is that in order to contribute to this thread, we are all indul.....
» 26/08/2013 11:29:03 PM Pelican, In any society where consuming is the name of the game, anything that impedes th.....
» 26/08/2013 10:45:46 PM Hasbeen, Sorry to disappoint you, but I don't watch soaps. Have a simple mobile, not a t.....
» 26/08/2013 10:24:29 PM otb, I'm not in favour of padding the wallets of the already wealthy because they decide .....
» 26/08/2013 8:49:30 PM otb, "So yes, you do come across as narky and jealous of successful women who earn t.....
» 26/08/2013 4:26:02 PM "...electrical engineer" -- "predictable scrutineer", whatever.... An.....
» 26/08/2013 11:44:46 AM Lexi, Laura Tingle saying the same thing: http://www.afr.com/p/national/politics/abbott_.....
» 26/08/2013 11:39:07 AM otb, Always entertained by your inability to debate without insulting your opponent. So .....
» 26/08/2013 10:19:57 AM Laura Tingle, http://www.afr.com/p/national/politics/abbott_promises_trust_and_little_w1Q.....
» 26/08/2013 10:01:37 AM otb, "It is astounding how sexist you are while always pretending to be the opposite.....
» 26/08/2013 9:23:44 AM Correction - should be "up to $150.00 a fortnight"......
» 26/08/2013 9:22:10 AM "Hopefully the women of Australia won’t forget how much these men despise, deride and.....
» 26/08/2013 8:36:36 AM Paul, Maybe the government could use the money it's going to "gift to rich mothers&q.....
» 25/08/2013 2:52:27 PM Robert Le Page, Yup...the stupidest Coalition policy in the history of stupid Coalition p.....
» 25/08/2013 2:49:52 PM "These ladies are horrified, & hate to admit, even to themselves, that they find him .....
» 25/08/2013 2:25:10 PM onthebeach.... Enjoys having a pick. However, he doesn't like it when his target refuses.....
» 25/08/2013 12:15:30 PM "You don't want a discussion. What you want is someone to insult and give you a platf.....
» 25/08/2013 10:39:50 AM OUG, "what would jesus do?" Well, according to our two "so-called" C.....
» 25/08/2013 9:00:42 AM Thanks, SM. Your opinion pertains to this story. http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/.....
» 25/08/2013 12:16:50 AM Ludwig, "I wonder how the Coalition would compare." Oh, they'd just sell off g.....
» 24/08/2013 7:12:24 PM I believe the Thatcher era spawned some of the best satire in decades. He's already start.....
» 24/08/2013 7:04:11 PM Yes, Suse, I'm looking forward to having a bit of a dill for PM. The boat buy-back should.....
» 24/08/2013 6:01:21 PM Sue, If the Coalition don't gain complete control of the Senate, they'll have buckley's o.....
» 24/08/2013 12:12:35 PM Well, there you go, Suse... "Thus, because I have a daughter who may soon think abou.....
» 24/08/2013 9:15:27 AM Chris, ".... Aust leading the world on stats was never going to cut it....." S.....
» 24/08/2013 8:56:13 AM Chris, Do I recall you representing yourself as not being politically partisan? Because,.....
» 24/08/2013 8:40:40 AM Chris, "do I need to say more." Wotcha got to say about funding the lifestyles.....
» 24/08/2013 8:30:12 AM Paul, Hey, hey a boat buy back..... Here's a blast from the past - http://www.aysii.com/.....
» 24/08/2013 1:15:35 AM Yeah, Steven and divine_msn. Talking about the cost. Imagine if the people on the boats .....
» 23/08/2013 7:54:24 PM Gawd, you blokes are boring..........
» 23/08/2013 7:38:02 PM Bazz, "Oh I see the handbag hit squad is out in force." Really...is that the b.....
» 23/08/2013 6:37:48 PM sonofgloin, "My flippant comment to Suse regarding Wong’s hair etc was an obvious la.....
» 23/08/2013 2:43:23 PM otb, Don't blame Tony's loony idea of providing upper-class mums with welfare on Julia. .....
» 23/08/2013 2:41:05 PM sonofgloin, "I like her eyes Suse, do you like her eyes? I like the way she dresses,.....
» 23/08/2013 11:48:16 AM Lexi, We should examine modern consumer culture and institutionalised life. This article.....
» 23/08/2013 8:58:09 AM Quite amusing, don't you reckon? Good old Aussie politics. I have to say that you know y.....
» 23/08/2013 12:15:07 AM Lexi, "The acts were comitted by three black American teenagers - and according to F.....
» 22/08/2013 4:01:49 PM Settle down, SM...you're grasping at straws. http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/polit.....
» 22/08/2013 1:17:32 PM SM, One would imagine that Tony had already been faked tanned to the nines (tandoori oran.....
» 22/08/2013 12:28:35 PM Wow!.....
» 22/08/2013 11:48:23 AM playtpus, If you can show me "evidence" that entire universe isn't contained in.....
» 22/08/2013 11:30:15 AM platypus, "no no...we must not even say horrendous things like 'these murderers shou.....
» 22/08/2013 10:08:45 AM WmTrevor, "There does seem to be a disconnect for some as to the distinction between.....
» 22/08/2013 9:19:17 AM individual, That's quite amusing, considering Australia these days appears to run it's el.....
» 22/08/2013 8:43:33 AM Thanks Bec and Loudmouth, However, if some of us wish to discuss the principles behind pl.....
» 21/08/2013 9:14:28 PM Then again, the tie can be seen as more than a cultural ornament. What I meant was that i.....
» 21/08/2013 8:03:21 PM My point, cohenite, was that you were trumpeting that "there's no reason for women to.....
» 21/08/2013 7:49:14 PM cohenite, "I had a yarn with a woman today who noted the only possible reason for we.....
» 21/08/2013 2:10:38 PM platypus, "you fought tooth and nail for the preservation of the life of a convicted.....
» 21/08/2013 2:05:05 PM platypus, "when a life is taken in cold murder, the murderer deserves to die isnt th.....
» 21/08/2013 10:03:13 AM Josephus, Sign of a beaten debater when he posts his own warped opinion as substance. Li.....
» 21/08/2013 9:30:17 AM Time for a little light entertainment. This election has been full on snarky, etc....but .....
» 21/08/2013 9:11:41 AM WmTrevor, Platypus was fairly upfront with what he considered a caning offence in his 2 -.....
» 21/08/2013 8:28:08 AM platypus, Regarding your comment: "What I am saying is from a humanistic point of v.....
» 20/08/2013 10:50:45 PM Fair enough (no other choice really was there) No great loss for the Libs - very safe Lab.....
» 20/08/2013 10:03:51 PM runner, ".....Your endorsement of killing the unborn is abhorrent along with others......
» 20/08/2013 4:00:37 PM Platypus, "which one should poirot report you to the authority for?" Who said .....
» 20/08/2013 2:04:01 PM platypus, "no...i do not boast of the caning" You don't? "I have 3 grown.....
» 20/08/2013 1:47:59 PM runner, You should stop parading around here as if you're a personal spokesman for ".....
» 20/08/2013 11:54:30 AM Houellie, "The easiest way to control kids I reckon is sleep, good food, routine, co.....
» 20/08/2013 11:46:24 AM platypus, That's a bit convenient isn't it? Either human life is sanctified, or it isn't.....
» 20/08/2013 11:14:43 AM runner, Don't be so unassuming. No-one does "hatred" better on OLO than you........
» 20/08/2013 11:12:05 AM runner, On the contrary - the criticism is directed at how people discipline their childr.....
» 20/08/2013 10:44:12 AM platypus, "we are talking about life sanctity of life" You neglected to reply .....
» 20/08/2013 10:35:53 AM Josephus, "Antiseptic, So obviously you treat those in the West that object to an Is.....
» 20/08/2013 10:19:24 AM Chrisgaff, "Do you honestly think the people of Australia really want another three .....
» 20/08/2013 9:59:16 AM Houellie, "They Libs simply will not be able to afford it. It will be the first thin.....
» 20/08/2013 8:53:45 AM Chrisgaff, "Who the hell do you think pays your wages or your social security? The s.....
» 19/08/2013 11:19:23 PM Toddle off and educate yourself - there's a good pepper. http://www.percapita.org.au/01_c.....
» 19/08/2013 11:10:41 PM Yes, platypus, "Do we believe in the sanctity of human life?" In light of your.....
» 19/08/2013 4:50:42 PM Hiya Yabs :).....
» 19/08/2013 4:44:31 PM " Let them rot in their own bigoted racial ingratitude." Got that - Mr Superior.....
» 19/08/2013 4:32:52 PM "It only been in the blink of an eye, history-wise, that Westerners have covered up.&.....
» 19/08/2013 4:30:23 PM Jayb, It only been in the blink of an eye, history-wise, that Westerners have covered up......
» 19/08/2013 2:27:44 PM spindoc, "I guess two degree’s; a Masters and Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University pr.....
» 19/08/2013 2:14:26 PM Yeah, Bazz - it makes you wonder. Take a hot summer's day at the beach, blokes strutting .....
» 19/08/2013 12:57:34 PM "Retirees will pay for the Paid Parental Leave Scheme"? http://www.businessspec.....
» 19/08/2013 12:51:40 PM spindoc, "The shear volume of twittertariat comment that is relayed in our media is .....
» 19/08/2013 11:44:44 AM "Mostly false...." http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/federal-election-2013.....
» 19/08/2013 11:40:18 AM "We can not afford to have dumb, or untrustworthy people in any senior position...&qu.....
» 19/08/2013 11:30:08 AM david f., Interesting case in point. On twitter these things are not glossed over. They .....
» 19/08/2013 10:25:13 AM "There you have it :-)" Yep, individual's latest suppository of wisdom : ).....
» 19/08/2013 10:18:59 AM spindoc, Why are you so against twitter conversation? It does give an opportunity for &q.....
» 19/08/2013 10:08:20 AM Paul, I believe what good old platypus wants is "Blessed segregation"...for tho.....
» 19/08/2013 9:56:27 AM Interesting that there appears to be considerable opposition to Tony's PPL around here whe.....
» 19/08/2013 12:11:23 AM A stupid policy. Austerity for everyone (ho, ho) The "budget emergency" calls .....
» 18/08/2013 1:45:02 PM Is there such a thing as a "Blessed caning"?.....
» 18/08/2013 1:44:14 PM Here we go again, is right..... "The eldest said she will resort to caning if the ch.....
» 18/08/2013 8:20:50 AM individual, And if you're using yourself as some sort of example of wise counsel on this .....
» 17/08/2013 11:56:21 PM Ya know what? I think this cruddy little mean-spirited thread just about takes the cake. .....
» 17/08/2013 3:39:23 PM You can always rely on Jayb to inject a modicum of hysteria into the thread............
» 17/08/2013 11:53:18 AM So Mubarak and his corrupt government and his corrupt cronies were the steadying force? T.....
» 17/08/2013 11:40:44 AM cohenite, Well, it's all about "power" and power vacuums. What started all thi.....
» 17/08/2013 11:13:47 AM Hi platypus, I wish you a good weekend too. I'm curious about your penchant to note the .....
» 17/08/2013 10:17:16 AM cohenite, While I'm not enamoured of fundamentalist anything, can you enlighten me as to .....
» 17/08/2013 10:12:56 AM individual, I have as much proof for my statement as you have for yours. Our kids aren't.....
» 17/08/2013 9:26:03 AM individual, "...... a caning has never proven to be anything but character building......
» 16/08/2013 9:16:25 PM individual, Platypus didn't employ the word hitting or slapping in regard to his two year.....
» 16/08/2013 8:37:13 PM Sometimes I wonder why I continue to inhabit this forum.....it's people like Lexi and cste.....
» 16/08/2013 11:30:49 AM Platypus, I agree that providing stable boundaries is the best way to instill discipline......
» 16/08/2013 10:36:38 AM Platypus 1900, I wonder how many PhD holders et al weren't whopped with a cane when they .....
» 15/08/2013 2:24:36 PM Platypus 1900, About the poking in of noses - you are the one who came here trumpeting th.....
» 15/08/2013 11:27:45 AM RObert, "I would prefer to see a far greater passion from some for discussion of con.....
» 15/08/2013 11:14:08 AM Last post here for today. (Yes, SM, I suppose you'll say that the Nationals aren't techni.....
» 15/08/2013 11:12:01 AM SM, "Abbott can't be that bad, his party is united and consistent...." Well - .....
» 15/08/2013 10:28:40 AM Chris, You're another one who seems to think that "someday soon" Abbott will fi.....
» 15/08/2013 10:10:21 AM platypus, "and there are just that few categories that will call for the cane a. te.....
» 15/08/2013 9:54:30 AM Not costed, and even when they're dangled as a vote winner, they're found wanting. http:/.....
» 15/08/2013 9:07:47 AM cohenite, Strange how the guy who's running up and down threads warning us a about Muslim.....
» 14/08/2013 4:31:11 PM "and we have the likes of some members here wondering why make a mountain out of an a.....
» 14/08/2013 4:21:38 PM "And obviously, it didn't do me any harm :)" Cough! That may explain your sadi.....
» 14/08/2013 12:32:28 PM platypus 1900, I never hit my father. "2. repeated caning? no...only when required .....
» 14/08/2013 11:56:18 AM Anti, "You lot are such scared little children. Your head must be a terrible place t.....
» 14/08/2013 10:21:34 AM SM, George W. Bush had a degree from Yale and an MBA from Harvard. He was still as dumb .....
» 14/08/2013 8:28:40 AM platypus 1900, "you did that to your father? and you are so proud of the fact?".....
» 13/08/2013 5:28:41 PM You guys amaze me. Tony Abbott is presenting a gaffe each day. He's a bit of a dill. The .....
» 13/08/2013 3:32:41 PM platypus 1900, It's interesting that you should critique prayer and halal preferences. A.....
» 13/08/2013 10:48:03 AM Hiya Anti, It' difficult to talk with people, isn't it...... "But however many word.....
» 13/08/2013 9:58:13 AM Yeah, Chris, It's hard to beat this lot. https://twitter.com/Lone_Deranger_/status/36684.....
» 12/08/2013 11:26:04 AM Hi George, Actually I just grabbed the closest book to hand - a modern take of which I'm .....
» 12/08/2013 9:32:35 AM George, I agree that the Tao has the element of mysticism, employing the natural world ar.....
» 11/08/2013 10:52:38 PM Not really grinding to a halt yet, Hasbeen. Among our many friends who are working up nor.....
» 11/08/2013 7:33:21 PM Having said that, you'd be battling to find a more vacuous less, inspiring Prime Ministeri.....
» 11/08/2013 4:45:38 PM Yeah, Anti, you're right. I'm boggled on this one. Rudd has turned himself inside out and.....
» 11/08/2013 2:34:19 PM Anti, Do you really think it's something he now knows as wrong? I formed the impression .....
» 10/08/2013 9:28:57 AM Tut,tut, SM..... I think I'll just put my feet up and check out this thread for a while.......
» 9/08/2013 8:24:50 PM Joe, Apparently going "off topic" is just fine with you - as long as it's on Th.....
» 9/08/2013 7:21:06 PM Loudmouth, Paul started this thread about Obeid and MacDonald. Shadow Minister introduce.....
» 9/08/2013 6:17:10 PM No you don't Joey. I'm choosy about who and what I take on "in the ring". What.....
» 9/08/2013 5:59:12 PM otb, Here's the crux of what Pelican said: "While I have no sympathy for Slipper th.....
» 9/08/2013 4:31:22 PM Pelican, Don't worry yourself too much...you, as usual, are a most reasonable poster. ot.....
» 9/08/2013 2:45:02 PM Oh Bravo!, SPQR, for your brave attempt to somehow connect Joe's lapse with the topic at h.....
» 9/08/2013 12:45:23 PM Actually, otb, I must apologise for the 2002 article (I didn't check the date) Far from t.....
» 9/08/2013 10:20:53 AM Here's an interesting and related story. A Swiss town sought to implement apartheid-like .....
» 9/08/2013 9:05:17 AM Pelican, Agree with your comment above. ................ Loudmouth, your last post here.....
» 8/08/2013 2:14:51 PM Lexi, I'm sure onthebeach "meant" to include Shadow Minister in his BTT call. .....
» 8/08/2013 11:15:44 AM Now, now, Lexi...... One must question Murdoch's little stable of bipartisan media outlet.....
» 8/08/2013 10:32:45 AM Loudmouth, I will continue to post where and whenever I please. I'll not be responding t.....
» 8/08/2013 9:24:47 AM Loudmouth, I don't intend to respond to you as rule in future on this forum - and up unti.....
» 8/08/2013 8:33:03 AM "The Egyptian and Middle East Adventure Holiday" I believe that was known under.....
» 8/08/2013 12:09:36 AM Watch out. Shadow Minister, you'll get ticked off for referring to people other than ".....
» 7/08/2013 4:49:42 PM Okay, SM, We've probably gone as far as we can in this round. I suppose Brough was ".....
» 7/08/2013 2:09:04 PM SM, The 2011-12 cabchrge allegations were investigated by the AFP and found to be baseles.....
» 7/08/2013 11:26:28 AM Yes, SM, we're well versed in your habit of finding "crooks and perverts" every .....
» 7/08/2013 10:03:47 AM SM, They are not the same charges. The original cabcharge investigation was over inciden.....
» 7/08/2013 9:07:58 AM Pelly, Although Ashby dropped the cabcharge aspect before the case was assessed, the AFP .....
» 7/08/2013 8:39:56 AM Shadow Minister, How uplifting to see that you admire the conspiratorial actions of these.....
» 6/08/2013 10:56:33 PM Cherful, So is it a choice between a hippie lifestyle at one end of the spectrum, and hou.....
» 6/08/2013 10:42:49 PM Deleted. Refers to previously deleted comment......
» 6/08/2013 5:10:43 PM No huffing and puffing at all, SM. It's all here in black and white...a fascinating read .....
» 6/08/2013 3:40:31 PM Where and when did I say that I concurred that all people who smack their children are abu.....
» 6/08/2013 3:36:28 PM SM, Nor does it give credence to categorising all teachers or all priests as abusers. Wh.....
» 6/08/2013 3:19:32 PM runner, Please post link to where I agreed with the author that Bec is a child abuser. (.....
» 6/08/2013 2:56:37 PM runner, ".....We ignore Stalin and Mao who murder the masses in the name of no god.&.....
» 6/08/2013 2:08:37 PM "Important notice to those who prefer vacuous emotive rhetoric." Philip S. has .....
» 6/08/2013 1:56:06 PM ferrisb, " I’m a bit surprised (maybe I shouldn’t be) by the anti-immigration, anti-.....
» 6/08/2013 1:07:31 PM SM, "....Secondly, even if he was, the misconduct (i.e. the theft of information) wa.....
» 6/08/2013 12:25:45 PM So sorry, mac, if I've introduced a little psychological symmetry into the subject. I can.....
» 6/08/2013 11:28:08 AM Yada, yada, yada, Jayb. You guys can't suck me in with your fascinating cherry-picks so y.....
» 6/08/2013 11:17:54 AM It's difficult not to smile as one set of humans seeks to demonise another. Homo Sapiens .....
» 6/08/2013 10:09:22 AM Jayb, I was actually quite impressed that you did seek out the truth of the Mt Warren sto.....
» 6/08/2013 9:30:26 AM Jayb, You don't feed me true facts. For the most part you feed me opinion with a few &qu.....
» 6/08/2013 9:04:10 AM SM, Actuuuuaallly.....Justice Rares "found" that Ashby was passing information .....
» 6/08/2013 12:24:41 AM Philip S, The most amazing thing is that people of European heritage are physically and p.....
» 5/08/2013 8:45:08 PM Cherful, You are right to an extent....however, cutting down Brazilian forests for grazin.....
» 5/08/2013 6:44:01 PM Well, Belly....I'm not going to judge spindoc too harshly, having been known to have the o.....
» 5/08/2013 2:54:10 PM Oh yeah, Jayb, you're always making statements and then having to backtrack. Happens quit.....
» 5/08/2013 2:26:40 PM Bec, I get your point about very young children and tantrums...although I've yet to see a.....
» 5/08/2013 12:15:23 PM runner, There are myriad reasons for the decline of standards in our society. People not.....
» 5/08/2013 12:09:58 PM Bec, I expect you'll find as your children grow older and are more inclined to accept ins.....
» 5/08/2013 11:54:52 AM runner, We mustn't accuse people of having a "corrupt nature" just because we d.....
» 5/08/2013 10:34:52 AM Jayb, Often your so-called "facts" turn out to be anything but. Mustn't forget.....
» 5/08/2013 9:59:21 AM Houellie, Sorry to put a spanner in the works of your theory...but I'm not depressed. : ).....
» 5/08/2013 9:11:32 AM SM, Ahem... Brough was found to have colluded with his mate Ashby for political advantage.....
» 5/08/2013 8:47:54 AM Belly, "How much is nursing smokers costing us." Here's an interesting article.....
» 4/08/2013 11:31:34 PM AJ Philips, Your tone throughout this thread (and an earlier one concerning George) has b.....
» 4/08/2013 6:34:16 PM Here's a bit more to add to the Singleton detention camp story. http://www.abc.net.au/new.....
» 4/08/2013 2:23:17 PM Yuyutsu, Whatever "god" is or isn't - if such an entity is more than an adjunct.....
» 4/08/2013 10:24:21 AM Anti, You may be right, and I'm merely concentrating on the shallowness of it all. It di.....
» 4/08/2013 8:55:38 AM Bazz, spindoc, Her's an article which examines the economic impact of the idea of "p.....
» 4/08/2013 8:37:22 AM Anti, Yes, I suppose one could look at it like that - except the bipartisanship isn't bei.....
» 3/08/2013 5:46:48 PM ANTI, Things are fine here : ) Just having a bit of trouble processing the recent politi.....
» 3/08/2013 5:41:07 PM Now Rudd's got in on Abbott's Nauru solution. http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-08-03/rudd-.....
» 3/08/2013 1:24:20 PM David G., "This thread, along with all religion, should be banned." Perhaps ba.....
» 3/08/2013 1:04:54 PM Um...let me see....? Why is the government earmarking funding for more mainland detention.....
» 3/08/2013 12:19:00 PM Luciferase, "Boats will stop because settlement in PNG will cause a fear of not gain.....
» 3/08/2013 12:02:07 PM Jayb, Please post a link to where I explicitly "called" you a "simple-mind.....
» 3/08/2013 10:58:23 AM Here's an interesting bit of news - which points to a belief that the PNG solution isn't a.....
» 3/08/2013 10:51:53 AM Jayb likes to refer to himself as a "simple-minded bigot (who am I to argue:) Far fr.....
» 3/08/2013 10:46:27 AM My problem is that this is not being done "to help PNG". It's been done to appe.....
» 3/08/2013 10:23:23 AM jcro, Well said. (I'm sorry to say that if you wish to experience a goodly dose of consi.....
» 3/08/2013 10:10:34 AM ozzie, "You try to deny facts....." Where did I deny facts? I asked for defin.....
» 3/08/2013 8:41:09 AM Craig, Yes, I understood what you were saying. "....I was trying to make the point .....
» 2/08/2013 8:04:59 PM It does make one wonder how anyone can make a case for the dumping of refugees on a countr.....
» 2/08/2013 7:48:18 PM Philip, I wasn't questioning the veracity of his figures. I was asking whether Australia.....
» 2/08/2013 6:54:31 PM otb, ".....You yourself would oppose the gathering of the data that could prove your.....
» 2/08/2013 5:18:05 PM Gawd you guys are hilarious, This thread gets the cherry-pick of the year award (Bravo!) .....
» 2/08/2013 5:11:23 PM SPQR, What it comes down to is a definition of the term "checked properly". Yo.....
» 2/08/2013 2:07:11 PM SPQR, So it appears that you are saying that unless ASIO processes "every" asyl.....
» 2/08/2013 12:09:23 PM Coalition says it will honour Gonski for the next four years. http://www.abc.net.au/news/.....
» 2/08/2013 9:56:28 AM Cherful, I take your "bring in the women" solution is tongue in cheek....ha, ha.....
» 2/08/2013 8:37:45 AM SPQR, Nice try.... I'm referring to official policy, procedure and protocols "withi.....
» 1/08/2013 6:13:28 PM Philip S, Easy. The weapons inspectors were actually inspecting Iraq for WMDs. They conc.....
» 1/08/2013 6:07:24 PM SPQR, What's your point? That pollies contort the truth to suit their agenda. Really........
» 1/08/2013 6:02:05 PM Philip S, The "official statement" by the UN weapon's inspectors was that there.....
» 1/08/2013 4:19:43 PM Yabber on as much as you like, SM Thomson has admitted to nothing. Despite and overly ke.....
» 1/08/2013 4:01:14 PM SPQR, I take official statements on process as evidence. You are disputing official stat.....
» 1/08/2013 3:57:44 PM SM, As I understand it, his lawyer said "...there is little dispute over most of the.....
» 1/08/2013 2:07:56 PM Philip S, Who says only 10 to 15 per cent are checked properly...and what do you mean by .....
» 1/08/2013 1:38:42 PM Shadow Minister, Wrong! If you're insinuating that Thomson is admitting to the accusatio.....
» 1/08/2013 1:19:12 PM SPQR, What have you debunked about this information from 2011-2012? "Covering the y.....
» 1/08/2013 1:09:40 PM Au contraire, SPQR, "What evidence have you got that << nearly all these peopl.....
» 1/08/2013 10:09:45 AM "...Australia remains the envy of the advanced economic world..." http://www.th.....
» 1/08/2013 8:12:02 AM doog, "The trickle was always going to change as world conditions changed..." .....
» 1/08/2013 7:48:43 AM Here's the source document for the figures in my last post: http://www.immi.gov.au/media/.....
» 1/08/2013 7:47:33 AM Here's a question for you, rehctub. Covering the years 2011-2012, 7036 applications were .....
» 1/08/2013 7:33:29 AM rehctub, I note you're always trying to present yourself here as an example of a fine ups.....
» 1/08/2013 12:42:00 AM SPQR, Philip S, Banjo, Why don't you puerile men stop luxuriating in your ignorance and p.....
» 31/07/2013 8:06:39 PM Java is not a port - it's an island......
» 31/07/2013 3:56:35 PM Article on Serco and its contracts with the government,...costs, profit, etc. http://m.sm.....
» 31/07/2013 2:07:47 PM Bec, There's a bit of difference between someone ticking your child off - and someone phy.....
» 31/07/2013 1:38:49 PM divine_msn, I realise smacking is corporal punishment (well der). My main point was that.....
» 31/07/2013 1:27:53 PM SM, I have no simple solution to the refugee crisis. I do, however, know when I see two .....
» 31/07/2013 1:06:21 PM SPQR, I was arguing in favour of "science-based" evidence (usually represented .....
» 31/07/2013 11:43:47 AM Banjo, You say... "There is a very good reason Aussies have little acceptance of th.....
» 31/07/2013 11:23:00 AM SPQR's idea of a "great forum" is one where all posters think along the same lin.....
» 31/07/2013 10:40:02 AM spindoc, You are right. Some of us have given up trying to tie the current debate to any.....
» 31/07/2013 10:32:25 AM Yes, I'm not convinced that giving a child a "belting" has any long term benefit.....
» 31/07/2013 10:12:24 AM Bruce Haigh, "We are a nation of volunteers; we give help where help is needed. We g.....
» 31/07/2013 9:57:31 AM Luciferase, "..... it's like chasing Poirot through a warren, ducking, diving, burro.....
» 31/07/2013 9:17:49 AM SPQR, I think you're working from an old script regarding the ABC. Abbott, for instance .....
» 31/07/2013 12:26:04 AM The LNP is merely trying to match Labor's "Check". This latest offshore free-fo.....
» 30/07/2013 5:02:51 PM Here's an interesting article. http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/federal-election-20.....
» 30/07/2013 12:55:01 PM Aw, jeepers, Joe. I'm really sad that my "opinion" that "both parties' sol.....
» 30/07/2013 9:12:13 AM I agree, rehctub. Doog, "Lets not forget there is no running water there, Au is bui.....
» 29/07/2013 8:45:12 PM Luciferase, ".while the present numbers of refugees continues, Australia will be bat.....
» 29/07/2013 7:43:50 PM Joe, I see that you think your own blather is of major moment. A fair amount of your com.....
» 29/07/2013 5:36:44 PM Loudmouth, "Do you have one at all, Poirot ? Any principles at all ? Or do just like.....
» 29/07/2013 2:45:57 PM rehctub, Fair crack of the whip. Who is "Albert"? You start a post by getting.....
» 29/07/2013 1:48:06 PM Chris, I think under international law, you can only interfere with a vessel (outside of .....
» 29/07/2013 1:14:51 PM SPQR, Yada, yada, yada. They're not genuine. They're on welfare for life. Talk about &.....
» 29/07/2013 12:49:46 PM Loudmouth, "Why do you bother?" I don't come onto this forum to answer every q.....
» 29/07/2013 10:37:48 AM TPV's? I always thought that stood for "Tony's Policy Vacuum". (Don't mention .....
» 29/07/2013 10:01:17 AM Yes, Paul, As the well-mannered, Shadow Minister has so carefully pointed out in his temp.....
» 29/07/2013 9:02:14 AM George, I'm not so sure there won't be a moment of "simplicity" when everything.....
» 28/07/2013 7:19:13 PM SPQR, If the numbers of displaced persons remain the same, I doubt if there's anything Au.....
» 28/07/2013 4:50:56 PM Loudmouth, Humans migrate. There are may displaced at the moment. If Australia thinks i.....
» 28/07/2013 1:51:08 PM Did you know that Charles Darwin's grandfather, Erasmus Darwin, had theories on evolution?.....
» 28/07/2013 1:46:32 PM Not so much that, Anti, I think you've got an excellent mind. (As opposed to mine which .....
» 28/07/2013 12:26:27 PM Yes, Lexi, Whatever opinion one has on asylum seekers....there can be no doubt that both .....
» 28/07/2013 12:16:13 PM Luciferase, "The difference between now and the 70's is the growth of irregular mari.....
» 28/07/2013 11:13:16 AM Anti, George, OUG, It's great to ponder this stuff. But it's easy to to tie ourselves up.....
» 28/07/2013 9:27:28 AM Point taken, SM...regarding prior post. I'll just add that contributors up and down this .....
» 28/07/2013 9:07:07 AM rehctub, Why would you say "my beloved Rudd"? I've been just as robust in crit.....
» 27/07/2013 11:11:35 PM individual, Well I did enjoy the Australian Defence Association "tearing" into .....
» 27/07/2013 11:04:03 PM Thank you, Saltpetre. But I'm unimpressed with Tony Abbott. I think he's mediocre. I thin.....
» 27/07/2013 8:47:46 PM Thank you, George. will look at your links. I found this on Penrose's theory. http://ww.....
» 27/07/2013 7:11:26 PM SPQR, Yeah, we're pretty hard done by. Do you want to know what a real refugee problem l.....
» 27/07/2013 6:54:54 PM individual, "..... Hopefully Abbott's team has one to announce before the election.......
» 27/07/2013 6:49:45 PM On topic: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-07-26/koukoulas-our-wealth-has-only-grown-since.....
» 27/07/2013 5:26:44 PM Shadow Minister, "There is no excuse for your childish and unfounded insults. You ha.....
» 27/07/2013 3:01:53 PM It hasn't pushed my debate to the right. But yes, Labor has lurched far right to join the.....
» 27/07/2013 2:19:54 PM rehctub, Why are the boats still coming when these people are now aware they will be sent.....
» 27/07/2013 2:18:25 PM Lots! Why would stopping foreign aid stop the boats? The threat of being sent to camps a.....
» 27/07/2013 1:11:51 PM worldwatcher, Rudd just promised me something I didn't want to hear.... Can you supply m.....
» 27/07/2013 11:02:42 AM I was watching a science show the other day, about some research facility in Canada....ful.....
» 27/07/2013 10:34:54 AM SPQR, I completely understand where you are coming from. Those Papua New Guineans enjoy .....
» 27/07/2013 9:09:05 AM Geoff, Yes, it's rather ironic isn't: "Unfortunately people fail to realise that 1 .....
» 27/07/2013 8:47:56 AM Shadow Minister, So are you saying that the Coalition had the bottom of the barrel all to.....
» 27/07/2013 12:19:38 AM Saltpetre, I reckon if you and your party are roolly roolly popular, you're allowed the l.....
» 26/07/2013 11:12:33 PM Emperor Julian, I'd call myself a lefty. What do you reckon about 24 carat hypocrisy? H.....
» 26/07/2013 10:15:36 PM Luciferase, Did you read this buy Labor immigration minister circa 2008? http://www.mini.....
» 26/07/2013 6:16:20 PM Just remembered this article I read a while back: http://www.australiancatholics.com.au/c.....
» 26/07/2013 2:38:10 PM Who needs recreational drugs - when you can play war games in the bath! http://www.canber.....
» 26/07/2013 1:50:44 PM First Dog on the Moon cartoon: http://www.crikey.com.au/2013/07/26/its-a-bastardathon-who.....
» 26/07/2013 11:50:13 AM "Guns and politics don't mix..." Who needs the Westminster System convention, a.....
» 26/07/2013 11:46:41 AM I quite like "schlemiel"......
» 26/07/2013 11:45:02 AM Watch it, Paul...SPQR will accuse you of cherry-picking. : ).....
» 26/07/2013 11:29:45 AM Hasbeen, As far as your "boy's own" get-the-officers-out-of-the-way-so-the-juni.....
» 26/07/2013 11:24:25 AM Yes, SPQR, I'm so one-eyed that I've been giving Rudd equal criticism. (Dreadful) Of cou.....
» 26/07/2013 10:46:17 AM SPQR, Well, ho ho ho.... If you're going to wave the "cherry-pick" banner *(yo.....
» 26/07/2013 9:11:29 AM Saltpetre, The Australian Defence Association appears to have some problems with the &quo.....
» 25/07/2013 8:44:48 PM The ADA has problems with the Coalition's latest brilliant idea for repelling refugees. h.....
» 25/07/2013 8:40:52 PM The ADA has problems with the Coalitions latest brilliant idea for repelling refugees. ht.....
» 25/07/2013 6:06:43 PM Why thank you, Lexi - and allow me to return the compliment. Enjoy your break : ).....
» 25/07/2013 5:55:42 PM You betcha!.....
» 25/07/2013 5:39:12 PM Probably not. But then, Abbott is a dingbat as well. What hope have we got?.....
» 25/07/2013 5:12:59 PM Never mind, Joe, it's not all bad. I just had a vision of Loudmouth jumping to and fro on.....
» 25/07/2013 4:32:53 PM So sorry, SM. A thousand pardons (and all that) Whodathunk the Arctic melting had anythi.....
» 25/07/2013 2:09:56 PM Lexi, Here's the press release on Hurley from Defence. http://news.defence.gov.au/2013/0.....
» 25/07/2013 2:07:16 PM "A senior military officer with powers to bypass normal Defence Force command structu.....
» 25/07/2013 2:00:27 PM SM, rehctub, So neither of you have a problem with Admiral Abbott attempting to trample t.....
» 25/07/2013 1:57:12 PM SM, I jut read a tweet which sums it up beautifully, re the Opposition playing catch-up t.....
» 25/07/2013 1:16:18 PM SPQR, I think the object there is to sweep the whole damn lot under the carpet - both the.....
» 25/07/2013 1:05:02 PM SPQR, You might be interested in Abbott's campaign poster earmarked for the final week o.....
» 25/07/2013 11:59:00 AM Philip S, I don't need to provide a counter argument. The facts speak for themselves. W.....
» 25/07/2013 10:33:01 AM Sorry - forgot the all important link to Tony's latest: http://www.tonyabbott.com.au/Late.....
» 25/07/2013 10:31:54 AM Hasbeen, "Perhaps this nerds would be better off sticking to something they knows so.....
» 25/07/2013 9:22:10 AM Hope you don't mind if I post this link here - as the subject matter is on "climate&q.....
» 25/07/2013 12:18:23 AM otb, "Why just men?" Because I was discussing the "men" imprisoned i.....
» 24/07/2013 10:07:07 PM Belly, Thanks for that. However, rest assured that the opinion is mutual. Hasbeen doesn.....
» 24/07/2013 9:55:08 PM Lexi, Don't know if you've read this article....probably, but I'll post it anyway : ) ht.....
» 24/07/2013 9:51:19 PM Thanks for the link, Lexi. onthebeach, There's plenty to praise about Australia. Unfort.....
» 24/07/2013 8:15:24 PM Luciferase, "Your hyperbole over PNG is growing shrill, but that's not making your p.....
» 24/07/2013 3:16:43 PM Luciferase, I've already stated that I believe Australia should up its intake from Malays.....
» 24/07/2013 2:06:41 PM onthebeach, No doubt they could be fashioned with adequate insulation to serve the purpos.....
» 24/07/2013 1:16:56 PM individual, Australians are not running from war or political or religious persecution. .....
» 24/07/2013 1:05:46 PM SPQR, That's a laugh coming from Mr Cherry-picker extraordinaire : ) It was SBS, not Lat.....
» 24/07/2013 12:51:25 PM doog, What an impressive person you are! Gosh, aren't we glad you've chosen OLO to unloa.....
» 24/07/2013 12:38:41 PM Shameful that you fellas apparently posses so little humanity. (let me get this straight .....
» 24/07/2013 12:18:41 PM Anti, More food for thought: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-07-24/harris-rimmer-the-top.....
» 24/07/2013 10:26:12 AM Loudmouth, No one is saying that this is not a huge challenge. There is a refugee crisis.....
» 24/07/2013 10:02:49 AM doog, The Indonesians didn't set up a prison camp, under-resourced, understaffed, rife wi.....
» 24/07/2013 9:39:12 AM On the contrary, Suse. Australia isolates it's prisoner asylum seekers from Papua New Gui.....
» 24/07/2013 9:31:31 AM Luciferase, If you trust your government to get it right in PNG, then I think your trust .....
» 24/07/2013 12:34:57 AM No one is demonising PNG. PNG is not the villain here. PNG is the exploited party. Manu.....
» 23/07/2013 11:18:46 PM Anti, A little info here. http://theconversation.com/rudds-png-plan-unlikely-to-comply-w.....
» 23/07/2013 11:15:40 PM Luciferase, No matter how you spin it: "This reminds us that the number of refugees.....
» 23/07/2013 10:30:44 PM Luciferase, Marilyn's "incessant bleating" (as you term it) is a very small voi.....
» 23/07/2013 10:21:41 PM Jay, Perhaps we should be helping Papua New Guineans - instead of dumping our obligations.....
» 23/07/2013 10:03:55 PM Luciferase, You know, I think I react more to Australia's insularity. There's something t.....
» 23/07/2013 6:22:44 PM Jayb, The truth is that I can't be bothered with it. I know people like that exist. I kno.....
» 23/07/2013 5:54:51 PM Jayb, What makes you think I could be bothered listening to your carefully selected whate.....
» 23/07/2013 3:08:09 PM Hasbeen, "Poirot must be one of those green harpies from the south. No one else cou.....
» 23/07/2013 2:54:01 PM SPQR, The ABC is pretty selective these days on what it does and does not report. For in.....
» 23/07/2013 10:55:47 AM So if you land somewhere and request asylum, how do you do that without crossing borders w.....
» 23/07/2013 10:37:03 AM Spqr, It's not illegal to seek asylum. Full Stop......
» 23/07/2013 10:26:46 AM SPQR, I feel I owe you an apology - for offending your cringing insular sensibilities. S.....
» 23/07/2013 9:57:04 AM SPQR, Boat arrivals, asylum seekers - grey area legally. http://www.politifact.com.au/tr.....
» 23/07/2013 9:54:55 AM Josephus, You're another one who professes Christian principles, but who doesn't radiate .....
» 23/07/2013 9:21:17 AM doog, I believe you're right that Rudd has effectively shut down Abbott and his slogans. .....
» 23/07/2013 9:01:02 AM True believers? "Nothing left to believe in." http://thehoopla.com.au/left-tru.....
» 23/07/2013 8:58:02 AM SPQR, Not so much.... I'm more interested in highlighting Labor's hypocrisy. Read it he.....
» 22/07/2013 10:31:43 PM Suse, Yeah I wonder who's the best pollie. The one who strikes a deal to toss compassion.....
» 22/07/2013 9:56:32 PM Luciferase, Carr and Rudd got in on the "economic migrant" mantra to soften the.....
» 22/07/2013 7:11:20 PM Luciferase, The bottom line is that this decision was taken for purely political ends. C.....
» 22/07/2013 2:59:08 PM Labor going all out to win the election. Here's their latest contribution on the Immigrat.....
» 22/07/2013 2:33:23 PM Vulture capitalism. http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jul/22/vulture-capitalis.....
» 22/07/2013 2:30:20 PM otb, What happened to BTT? ............. Tony Burke just said that "everybody".....
» 22/07/2013 1:53:10 PM "That it's brilliant politics is a mark of how debased the politics of the boats has .....
» 22/07/2013 1:39:37 PM Sorry about the "ancient" (2011) link.... I'm sure there are no (real) "il.....
» 22/07/2013 9:07:05 AM Jayb, So you are fine with illegal residents, as long as they don't come on a boat or cla.....
» 22/07/2013 8:46:15 AM SM, Yes, "implementation" is the key word here. I expect this will turn into a.....
» 22/07/2013 12:19:59 AM Oh, really....? http://www.news.com.au/national-news/taxpayers-wear-burden-of-60000-illeg.....
» 21/07/2013 11:38:54 PM Manus Island? Yeah, we wouldn't want to send the more vulnerable refugees until we had &q.....
» 21/07/2013 11:29:28 AM SPQR, It was Rudd's hypocrisy that I was alluding to. Quite stunning I thought. And all.....
» 21/07/2013 11:02:13 AM "Another great challenge of our age is asylum seekers. The biblical injunction to car.....
» 20/07/2013 7:28:38 PM That link to Cameron's National service scheme is from 2010' prior to the election in Brit.....
» 20/07/2013 10:40:38 AM I reckon this forum has just about achieved peak toxicity. Just like the political landsc.....
» 20/07/2013 1:13:04 AM Well that was short lived. A few weeks of political shenanigans. And here am I again wit.....
» 19/07/2013 10:25:41 PM individual's idea of "smart" is anyone who agrees with him......
» 19/07/2013 9:43:36 PM Yes, individual, he's a big fat hypocrite. Get a load of this from his then Immigration M.....
» 19/07/2013 9:40:17 PM Cue, "Xenophobia, the Musical"......
» 19/07/2013 7:40:09 PM Rudd's toxic new policy has just slam-dunked Abbott's best slogan. So now we're sub-contr.....
» 19/07/2013 5:57:22 PM Jayb, I was merely holding up two ends of the political refugee spectrum - Labor style. .....
» 19/07/2013 5:32:11 PM Get a load of Labor's hypocrisy. http://www.minister.immi.gov.au/media/speeches/2008/ce08.....
» 19/07/2013 3:30:28 PM Philip S, Oh really, I've seen it quoted that it's going to cost $1.35 billion per year .....
» 19/07/2013 2:31:24 PM Jayb, They are getting their children out of harm's way. Would you leave your children i.....
» 19/07/2013 1:05:01 PM Hasbeen, "..... Much better a few bodies now...." So diplomacy for you is just.....
» 19/07/2013 12:52:31 PM Hasbeen, "That is when we will have to start sinking by gunfire, any boat that doesn.....
» 19/07/2013 12:00:36 PM divine_msn, Is that $1,378 million (over three years) correct or a typo? If it's correct.....
» 19/07/2013 11:52:02 AM spindoc, Oh sorry, Greg Hunt is not representing Tony...eh? Well I kinda thought he was,.....
» 19/07/2013 11:10:31 AM Jayb, Mind yer own beeswax. I was addressing Shadow Minister. : ).....
» 19/07/2013 11:07:35 AM turtletimtam, Emissions have dropped since the introduction of the carbon tax. http://ww.....
» 19/07/2013 11:01:13 AM "Kredit Rudd" Shadow, Minister - I'm really disappointed that with your towerin.....
» 19/07/2013 10:44:13 AM spindoc, The Reps won't pass it because they're head-stuck-in-the-sand climate deniers wh.....
» 19/07/2013 9:32:38 AM rehctub, I'm mildly amused that you imagine that all of sudden Mr Abbott is going to be a.....
» 19/07/2013 9:15:12 AM SPQR, "He's rather like a dry storm, lots of rumble and flashing but at the end of t.....
» 19/07/2013 8:32:52 AM Rudd will probably make an announcement on PNG (processing) today..........
» 19/07/2013 8:15:43 AM Well whodathunk diplomacy could trump chest-beating? http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-07-1.....
» 18/07/2013 9:56:13 PM Suse "I never said I didn't believe in locking up criminals forever, just that I didn.....
» 18/07/2013 8:33:40 PM Good on you, Lexi, and your family for forging their life in a new country. Yes, post-war.....
» 18/07/2013 7:42:40 PM I'm not cheering Rudd for dog-whistling the electorate. I am, however, interested in watc.....
» 18/07/2013 11:26:17 AM Josephus, Of course, it would never occur to you that the difference in attitude is that .....
» 18/07/2013 11:11:25 AM Right you are, Josephus Still, you haven't explained how you're going to get those captai.....
» 18/07/2013 10:37:27 AM Josephus, Excuse me - is that figure 6 trillion? (These threads just get more hilarious).....
» 18/07/2013 10:14:07 AM Yes, Suse. Chris appears to be fan of totalitarian society. As opposed to egalitarian......
» 18/07/2013 9:34:56 AM WmTrevor, I agree : ).....
» 18/07/2013 9:23:27 AM "This is 2013 not 1807..." So tell us the difference, Jayb, as far as simple-mi.....
» 18/07/2013 9:01:32 AM On the subject of Mr Abbott's "non-delivery of an invisible substance to no-one".....
» 18/07/2013 12:36:46 AM Not likely, Hasbeen...unassisted passage. He was manager of one of Sydney's premier Brickw.....
» 17/07/2013 8:57:25 PM Lexi, You're right. The LNP losing this coming election was almost unthinkable a short t.....
» 17/07/2013 8:33:43 PM otb, "Where did you come from....?" Mind yer own beeswax - suffice to say that.....
» 17/07/2013 7:43:15 PM otb, "...Australia welcomed thousands of refugees and displaced people from war-torn.....
» 17/07/2013 5:57:46 PM Lexi, I posted this earlier... Here's how Abbott became the leader of the party. http:/.....
» 17/07/2013 5:39:15 PM Good one, Josephus. Refugees are now criminals who are threatening suicide (according to .....
» 17/07/2013 2:44:15 PM Here's the link to Peta Credlin's letter. http://nofibs.com.au/2013/07/06/exclusive-abbot.....
» 17/07/2013 2:42:02 PM SM, Slipper was being investigated in response to Ashby's claim in the Federal court. Ash.....
» 17/07/2013 1:59:21 PM otb, I wasn't questioning or insulting Christian charity. (My best friends are Christian .....
» 17/07/2013 11:59:40 AM Josephus, Did you say you were a Christian? It's strange how those who identify as Chris.....
» 17/07/2013 11:26:27 AM otb, This thread is titled "What Does Mr Abbott Stand For?" So far, none of yo.....
» 17/07/2013 10:13:42 AM individual, The problem being that in modern times, children are brought up in a very com.....
» 17/07/2013 9:22:50 AM Belly, Here's an interesting article from 2009, written in the wake of Abbott becoming Op.....
» 17/07/2013 9:12:05 AM individual, He still accesses the news via the computer, but the good thing about that is.....
» 17/07/2013 12:50:20 AM One does wonder why in such a fortunate country, the rate of assault appears to be rising......
» 16/07/2013 8:59:46 PM otb, How about you put up some reasons why Slipper should be investigated and not Abbott......
» 16/07/2013 6:52:39 PM otb, Disingenuous... Where have I argued for Slipper to be let off? What do you mean by.....
» 16/07/2013 4:57:13 PM Thank you, Luciferase - precisely! otb, SM and I are debating an issue related to the d.....
» 16/07/2013 2:47:53 PM SM, Nice two-step, but you're a hopeless dancer. It did not originate at Finance, Finan.....
» 16/07/2013 12:18:49 PM runner, Tch, tch...here you go again accusing people of hatred because they hold an opini.....
» 16/07/2013 11:35:07 AM SM, As I understand it, interferring with a boat registered to a foreign country in inter.....
» 16/07/2013 11:25:09 AM Oh, looky...it seems that Mr Abbott's "invisible substance to no one" was lifted.....
» 16/07/2013 11:14:22 AM Paul, I reckon the wind has always been unfairly blamed for wreaking havoc when it blows .....
» 16/07/2013 10:29:22 AM It appears, that while Indonesia is willing to listen to policy initiatives on this issue,.....
» 16/07/2013 10:19:52 AM Belly, "csteele holds extremist views..." That's a fairly grotty comment. So .....
» 16/07/2013 9:37:32 AM SM, If Margo and I are "trying to drum up a third party", then you'd better inc.....
» 15/07/2013 7:31:41 PM Taking about "dissolved". Tony's cred isn't doing so well at the moment. He's .....
» 15/07/2013 4:35:12 PM "A whole new level of stupid." http://m.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/15/abbott.....
» 15/07/2013 4:30:02 PM Wow, otb! Am I allowed to put up a link to the ABC? (wouldn't want to insult your sensibi.....
» 15/07/2013 2:26:22 PM Here you go, Hasbeen, http://www.businessspectator.com.au/article/2013/7/15/politics/now-.....
» 15/07/2013 1:47:28 PM More porkies - or ineptitude - from the Coalition. http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics.....
» 15/07/2013 12:36:08 PM otb, "What's with the "you're controlling" crap directed at Lexi? This is.....
» 15/07/2013 12:26:28 PM You're still making me laugh, otb. So a site is a "shabby partisan site" if it .....
» 15/07/2013 11:56:23 AM SM, What don't you understand about Finance having "no problems" with Slipper's.....
» 15/07/2013 9:38:55 AM Here's a reality bite into how Mr Abbott is going to "tow back the boats." http.....
» 15/07/2013 9:27:10 AM Jayb, Fair enough, I accept that you referring to Australia - retract my earlier post......
» 15/07/2013 9:18:50 AM Ludwig, Reality on the "tow back" issue, http://www.theage.com.au/federal-poli.....
» 15/07/2013 9:13:11 AM Here's a reality bite into the argument of how Mr Abbott is going to "tow back the bo.....
» 15/07/2013 8:52:18 AM A little more info on floating the carbon price one year early: http://www.guardian.co.uk.....
» 15/07/2013 8:46:00 AM Poor old Abbott has just been the recipient of a hefty left hook. http://watchingthedenie.....
» 15/07/2013 8:15:54 AM I'll just add, that recently I watched Abbott spruiking that not only was he going to remo.....
» 15/07/2013 1:30:26 AM rehctub, Don't know where you got your 0.7% from. Labor projected a 10% rise in the cost.....
» 15/07/2013 12:52:56 AM Yo, Loudmouth, Strangely enough, the term "back then" pertains to "time&qu.....
» 14/07/2013 6:29:43 PM Jayb, "Back then it was considered normal." Back then, lot's of things were co.....
» 14/07/2013 4:15:41 PM OTB, I'm not "worried" by Tony Abbott. I'm entertained by the present machinat.....
» 14/07/2013 2:57:08 PM otb, What a hoot! "Politicians and other leaders should claim expenses for their ch.....
» 14/07/2013 12:52:55 PM Thanks, Lexi, Here's the original source. http://www.phonytonyabbott.com/blog/how-the-ta.....
» 14/07/2013 10:39:59 AM SM, (From post on other thread) Btw, I have to wait a couple of hours to post this in th.....
» 14/07/2013 10:06:44 AM SM, (From post on other thread) Btw, I have to wait a couple of hours to post this in th.....
» 14/07/2013 9:07:51 AM SM, "Parrot, Yes indeed, when confronted with trolls whose sole purpose is to make .....
» 14/07/2013 12:36:04 AM And you, Geoffrey Kelley, are a sneering bore, capable of little more than partisan derisi.....
» 13/07/2013 8:51:57 PM Geoffrey, So it's a wish, a prayer, a pamphlet - and mighty "heave-ho-Howard-did-it!.....
» 13/07/2013 7:56:47 PM Hiya, Geoffrey, Abbott hasn't so much a policy as a slogan. He hasn't told us how he pla.....
» 13/07/2013 7:38:50 PM Hey, Joe. Yeah it was only the other week that I predicted Rudd would be back - and you t.....
» 13/07/2013 7:31:54 PM Interesting, Shadow Minister, for all your oh-so-sensible diatribe, your holier than thou .....
» 13/07/2013 7:17:58 PM So, yeah, I'm happy to call Pyne a liar......
» 13/07/2013 6:23:22 PM SM, Even more clarification here: http://www.twitlonger.com/show/n_1rlb0ql Finance, in .....
» 13/07/2013 6:07:54 PM I wasn't calling you a liar, SM. That's your particular avenue of delight on this forum. .....
» 13/07/2013 1:41:57 PM SM, I would assume that if Labor have passed legislation, that it is part of their policy.....
» 13/07/2013 1:37:09 PM SPQR, (Firstly, I think you should cut out the red cordial:) Are you saying that in the .....
» 13/07/2013 1:31:46 PM Wonderful Malala...much respect for her. Not much respect for you, Joe. What have her pl.....
» 13/07/2013 11:49:21 AM Of course, that should be "Mandurah" This line has included sinking the rail li.....
» 13/07/2013 11:45:16 AM Lexi, These sort of discussions always take me back to the late seventies in WA when the .....
» 13/07/2013 10:45:49 AM SPQR, Of course, your dismissal of my claim that I don't hold the West responsible for ev.....
» 13/07/2013 10:32:13 AM SM, Now, now....we mustn't accuse people of lying. Otherwise some might ask Mr Abbott ho.....
» 12/07/2013 6:53:44 PM What was that about the first sign of madness? (This post is directed at both of you - th.....
» 12/07/2013 6:38:15 PM onthebeach, And it's obviously escaped your attention that for the purposes of OLO, this .....
» 12/07/2013 6:27:32 PM SPQR, Colonialism by any other name is imperialism - aka - superpower stomping into Iraq .....
» 12/07/2013 4:01:07 PM onthebeach, You should be so lucky as to have the conversation of two reasonable and inte.....
» 12/07/2013 3:55:57 PM Hasbeen, You have my sympathy. The changing fortunes in Aus politics recently must be ge.....
» 12/07/2013 3:48:01 PM Further to my comment above... http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-07-12/government-to-cover-.....
» 12/07/2013 3:36:07 PM Yes, Belly...it's all very complicated. I might point out that you fellas arc up when thi.....
» 12/07/2013 3:03:50 PM I believe it's about to be revealed that the Commonwealth "will" cover Slipper's.....
» 12/07/2013 11:04:06 AM Don't be puerile, SPQR, We're discussing the post-invasion instance regarding Iraq. That.....
» 12/07/2013 11:01:31 AM Darn it, Jayb..... You woke 'em up!.....
» 12/07/2013 10:41:48 AM Yes, I noted that.... (double LOL:).....
» 12/07/2013 10:38:55 AM SPQR, While Saddam was doing all sorts of things, The US was doing business with him. Ru.....
» 12/07/2013 10:30:40 AM Jayb, I understand that in your eyes it's entirely remiss of me not get down in the muck .....
» 12/07/2013 10:25:52 AM SPQR, Excellent.....deny the fats and call it bullsh!t - if they don't happen to agree wi.....
» 12/07/2013 10:16:04 AM Pssst, Jayb... Keep your voice down. We don't want to wake the other rambunctious kiddie.....
» 12/07/2013 10:11:57 AM SPQR, This latest round of Sunni vs Shiite violence in Iraq is directly attributable to t.....
» 12/07/2013 9:26:09 AM SPQR, Because I look at problems over there - and choose "not" to ignore the We.....
» 12/07/2013 9:21:06 AM Excellent Loudmouthy-type response (Lol) Just arguing against double standards, not to me.....
» 12/07/2013 8:46:27 AM Belly, PJack, Good article, examining Abbott's policy direction. http://www.abc.net.au/u.....
» 12/07/2013 8:44:37 AM The weird thing is that those who criticse lack of regulation, are the same people support.....
» 11/07/2013 8:53:45 PM sonofgoin, re: your last post. The point I made in this earlier post was that MP's and S.....
» 11/07/2013 8:50:37 PM Loudmouth, I find it highly amusing that you, as a self-proclaimed champion of feminine h.....
» 11/07/2013 4:31:42 PM Ludwig, Rhosty "Facts" Not Pollie-speak http://www.factsfightback.org.au/are-.....
» 11/07/2013 4:24:48 PM Belly. Divergence, Who'd a thought it was all so simple? The US and its allies (us inclu.....
» 11/07/2013 1:03:37 PM Divergence, How dare they react the chaos and the widespread devastation of their basic a.....
» 11/07/2013 12:33:08 PM Yes, csteele, The interesting aspect is the battle to drag MSM kicking and screaming into.....
» 11/07/2013 10:32:23 AM Chris, "He may be mediocre, most of us are, are we not?....." Most of us aren.....
» 11/07/2013 9:12:48 AM Chris, I suppose I can't blame you or assuming that Mr Abbott has some sort of strategy.......
» 10/07/2013 4:15:17 PM "Why Abbott is scared to debate the economy." http://www.abc.net.au/unleashed/4.....
» 10/07/2013 2:43:52 PM Yes, Belly. Chris Lewis, Check out this article - says it all. http://www.theage.com.au.....
» 10/07/2013 2:22:39 PM Yes, Lexi. Which is why, when a deviation is made, as is the case with the anomalous trea.....
» 10/07/2013 2:13:45 PM OUG, Interesting.... http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn23832-lake-vostok-may-boast-a.....
» 10/07/2013 1:57:10 PM Some "facts"...... (I know most of you here are allergic to them, but have a re.....
» 10/07/2013 11:41:27 AM Thanks, Lexi, I does make one wonder how, if you're travelling to a book-signing in a Com.....
» 10/07/2013 10:34:28 AM sonofgloin, onthebeach, "...Abbott's claims were accepted by the responsible Labor M.....
» 9/07/2013 11:02:17 PM Here's a good commentary on the present political dynamics: http://www.theage.com.au/fede.....
» 9/07/2013 6:57:20 PM Yes, onthebeach. No probs at all. Slipper is reported to the AFP and pursued through the.....
» 9/07/2013 4:56:28 PM Just have to mention that Mr Abbott is now claiming his "expense folly" is Labor.....
» 9/07/2013 4:45:53 PM Belly, The sad thing is - that it would make little difference whether or not Mr Abbott i.....
» 9/07/2013 12:47:00 PM Will wonders never cease? ABC now covering story...albeit from Abbott's angle. http://ww.....
» 9/07/2013 11:33:51 AM Chris, It doesn't need to be a dirty campaign. You're right that it is too early to tel.....
» 9/07/2013 11:09:04 AM Chris, I'm waiting for Abbott to say something of substance. You know, the opposite of s.....
» 9/07/2013 11:03:53 AM Not to mention Howard's taxpayer funded jet shuttle taxi service.... http://www.heraldsun.....
» 9/07/2013 11:00:18 AM onthebeach, That's coincidental. Talking of travel expenses......? http://nofibs.com.au.....
» 9/07/2013 10:40:12 AM rehctub, "As for Tony Abbott debating Rudd, be fair now, he did say he would, but on.....
» 9/07/2013 10:00:52 AM rehctub, Even Newspoll says it's 50/50. Polls taken (exclusively) at uni campuses............
» 9/07/2013 9:13:46 AM Here's what Malcolm Turnbull seems to think will do the trick to get the Libs message out .....
» 9/07/2013 12:35:11 AM Hey there, OUG, Good to see you back. Will have a think about your topic. Cheers : ).....
» 9/07/2013 12:20:51 AM worldwatcher, Whereabouts in Perth? That's a pretty broad statement to say women can't s.....
» 8/07/2013 11:27:18 PM Sorry, guys. Watched Mr Abbott on 7:30 tonight - and it was the same old vacuous performa.....
» 8/07/2013 7:00:05 PM Here is the latest Morgan Poll. http://www.roymorgan.com/findings/morgan-poll-july-8-2013.....
» 8/07/2013 6:56:08 PM The latest Morgan Poll. http://www.roymorgan.com/findings/morgan-poll-july-8-2013-2013070.....
» 8/07/2013 3:56:15 PM Yeah, well, Lexi. He's still denying he wrongly claimed travel expenses. "No, I did.....
» 8/07/2013 1:35:52 PM Lexi, Belly, "If Slipper is guilty, what about Abbott?" http://www.independent.....
» 8/07/2013 1:27:35 PM Belly, In no way do I put the "entire" blame on the West. I do, however, ackno.....
» 8/07/2013 11:56:51 AM spindoc, Yes, it's difficult some to imagine that the nutrients left after the annual flo.....
» 8/07/2013 11:28:26 AM This survey of leading Australian economists suggests big ticks for Labor's response to th.....
» 8/07/2013 11:05:16 AM spindoc, Good points. The annual flooding has been integral to Egypt's existence since t.....
» 8/07/2013 10:50:57 AM Mainly big ticks for Labor's handling of the GFC in this survey of leading Australian econ.....
» 8/07/2013 10:01:47 AM Story picked up by MSM.... http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/abbott-f.....
» 8/07/2013 9:50:54 AM Belly, "...every day acts from ordinary people..." What makes you say that the.....
» 8/07/2013 9:37:20 AM onthebeach, I wasn't referring to individual service, or servicemen and women. I was ref.....
» 7/07/2013 8:17:10 PM individual, As far as refugees coming on Indonesian boats is concerned, it's a regional i.....
» 7/07/2013 6:57:07 PM worldwatcher, ".....since when have Aussies ever bowed down to another nation in fea.....
» 7/07/2013 6:39:05 PM Yes, SM, If you're going to criticise Gillard, that's okay. It's interesting to see how .....
» 7/07/2013 5:50:31 PM SM, Here's the story of Prime Minister John Howard and his commutes between work and &quo.....
» 7/07/2013 5:19:30 PM Thaks for that, Shadow Minister, Here's more detail on Glenn Milne's investigation. http.....
» 7/07/2013 3:46:33 PM Lexi, Belly, Did you know that Mr Abbott "was forced to repay taxpayers nearly $9,40.....
» 7/07/2013 3:32:03 PM That should be "without" the cooperation of the Indonesians. I'll add that &quo.....
» 7/07/2013 3:24:50 PM onthebeach, Any policy detail on Tony's "turn the boats around"? Surely, for y.....
» 7/07/2013 2:28:52 PM Spqr, Yes a diabolically gruesome story of the action of "extremists". We shou.....
» 7/07/2013 1:48:03 PM spindoc, We've already discussed chemical weapons...and the fact that the US knew Iraq wa.....
» 7/07/2013 1:01:31 PM SPQR, The "m" was me hitting the "m" instead of the "," Wh.....
» 7/07/2013 12:19:55 PM Got that, Joe.... BTT is reserved for people with whom you argue against. Carry on, boys.....
» 7/07/2013 11:09:44 AM onthebeach, How long has Kevin Rudd been back at the helm? Oh, would that be a week and .....
» 7/07/2013 11:05:42 AM Loudmouth, "All good fun girls, but BTT." Ahem, Joe,....whadaya mean "gir.....
» 7/07/2013 10:54:44 AM SPQRm "...but we didn't know that at the time..." Well, yes we did. That's wh.....
» 7/07/2013 10:21:28 AM otb, "It'll e a cold day in hell before Lexi ever admits anything positive about Aus.....
» 7/07/2013 10:11:27 AM SPQR, Got that - so Iraq was invaded in 2003 because it invaded Kuwait in 1991. What's y.....
» 7/07/2013 9:37:27 AM Belly, Saudi Arabia is stable....(so are the Gulf States) It's a "friend" of t.....
» 7/07/2013 8:56:05 AM SPQR, More likely the "anti-Lexi" forces comprise all the rejects from the bar .....
» 7/07/2013 8:25:16 AM SM, Explain to us how this "turning back to boats" is actually going to be impl.....
» 6/07/2013 1:22:36 PM SPQR, Well that's a bit more than Abbott managed to do when he had the opportunity. &quo.....
» 6/07/2013 11:06:23 AM I'm always fascinated when "skeptics" trot out the old "IPCC expert reviewe.....
» 6/07/2013 10:55:10 AM KarlX, Why ignore? I was referring to the Coalition's big ticket item of "turning b.....
» 6/07/2013 10:02:05 AM SPQR, How else is Australia going to deliver boats back into Indonesian territory "w.....
» 6/07/2013 9:51:43 AM SPQR, Most humorous - not that you're intransigent, ideologically blinkered - or locked i.....
» 6/07/2013 9:30:40 AM Belly, SPQR, It doesn't really matter which way we argue this. On both sides there will b.....
» 5/07/2013 9:54:20 PM Fancy President Yudhoyono suggesting that it's necessary to have concrete cooperation on t.....
» 5/07/2013 9:21:58 PM Yada, yada, yada, Loudmouth, Great to see you coming out in defence of those who pull the.....
» 5/07/2013 6:52:18 PM onthebeach, "...an outrageous and quite foul accusation...." Oh come now, notw.....
» 5/07/2013 4:22:10 PM Congratulations, Jayb, That's three consecutive posts without labelling someone a "P.....
» 5/07/2013 2:58:00 PM Here's what happens when countries are destabilised by external forces. http://www.abc.ne.....
» 5/07/2013 2:45:50 PM otb, Lex, I'm not overly impressed with the bipartisan dog-whistling on refugees either. .....
» 5/07/2013 2:41:24 PM Jayb, You have to be joking. The reason I rarely engage you in any seriousness is becaus.....
» 5/07/2013 2:32:35 PM Belly, Are you intimating that Iraq is better off now? Having had it's infrastructure bl.....
» 5/07/2013 11:58:58 AM Jayb, I knew it was a general call (and not directed specifically at me). That makes abs.....
» 5/07/2013 11:36:42 AM Josephus, Your version of the Judeo-Christian view seems to have failed this guy. http:/.....
» 5/07/2013 11:18:51 AM Jayb, You are truly laughable. Where did you learn to debate? Calling people namsies is.....
» 5/07/2013 10:05:48 AM Someone attend to Jayb, please. He's still in the playpen playing with his "Potentia.....
» 5/07/2013 8:48:58 AM We do have to acknowledge our responsibiity. I mentioned pressure from such organisations.....
» 5/07/2013 8:31:09 AM individual, It seems to me that the intelligence of a poster can be assumed to be in inve.....
» 4/07/2013 8:55:41 PM Rhian, Of course, you are right. India's government decreed such things. I believe they .....
» 4/07/2013 8:00:24 PM sonofgloin, Perhaps "peripheral commitments" are in the same category as ".....
» 4/07/2013 7:50:21 PM Rhian, Re: your comment "That's not a meaningful comparison." My link was in r.....
» 4/07/2013 6:13:32 PM Rhian, What happens when this happens? http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/india_w.....
» 4/07/2013 3:03:06 PM Cossomby, You're a class act. It's rather refreshing on a thread like this. : ).....
» 4/07/2013 2:32:17 PM The revolution in Egypt was brought about by years of "reform" wherein the World.....
» 4/07/2013 2:15:29 PM Lexi, Interesting article on the Coalition's "phantom policy" to turn back the .....
» 4/07/2013 2:04:17 PM Just caught up with Malcolm Turnbull and Annabel Crabb on Kitchen Cabinet on iview at a fr.....
» 4/07/2013 11:17:00 AM Jayb, "Are you a Terrorist or Eventual Terrorist in Australia too?" What a sil.....
» 4/07/2013 10:33:13 AM Jayb, "....The likes of the Potential Terrorists..." You're a no-talent debate.....
» 4/07/2013 10:27:10 AM otb, "A drover's dog could have managed the economy." Yes....and the GFC never.....
» 4/07/2013 9:58:27 AM Yes, SM, I'm inclined to agree with you. I've noted the ramping up of the "economic.....
» 4/07/2013 9:22:00 AM Excuse us, RObert, You seem to think it's unreasonable that we're asking for a "more.....
» 4/07/2013 9:06:30 AM I second WmTrevor's motion. : ).....
» 4/07/2013 9:02:02 AM On the other hand, one could describe us as mostly taking the "Hastings" default.....
» 4/07/2013 8:19:51 AM individual, "The word moron crops up at every thought." Now why doesn't that s.....
» 4/07/2013 12:23:47 AM Hasbeen, "....she believes climate change is controlled by CO2......No one with half.....
» 3/07/2013 9:30:39 PM Don't mind Constance, Folks...it's obviously time for her latest "Lexi bash". I.....
» 3/07/2013 9:25:45 PM sonofglon, The problem is that they don't "answer all questions" with anything......
» 3/07/2013 8:13:09 PM sonofgloin, I believe all the pamphlet makers are fully booked up until the election maki.....
» 3/07/2013 8:04:04 PM Hasbeen - Chris Gaff, The mind truly boggles. Astounding ignorance and bigotry respectiv.....
» 3/07/2013 4:09:46 PM Who needs policies when you've got pamphlets. Just ask the Coalition..........
» 3/07/2013 3:48:08 PM I'm a bit put out. I was going to post an article from the SMH by Turnbull, circa 2009, c.....
» 3/07/2013 12:46:47 PM Don't bother to debate, Jayb, Lexi and Paul. Anyone whose only argument is to label his o.....
» 3/07/2013 12:18:41 PM onthebeach, Yep...it's a "good thing" Penny doesn't have the same substance as .....
» 3/07/2013 10:30:29 AM Yep, OLO's the place to come for comprehensive, riveting and insightful political commenta.....
» 2/07/2013 10:02:06 PM A sterling post, Killarney!.....
» 2/07/2013 8:57:13 PM US-style electioneering.... You didn't happen to catch Abbot's try-hard US-style campaign.....
» 2/07/2013 6:22:53 PM I had no intention for voting for a government under Gillard. Yet....Tony and his support.....
» 2/07/2013 3:31:00 PM Same old, same old, onthebeach. I'm sure your heart bleeds for the "real refugees&qu.....
» 2/07/2013 12:49:02 PM Not to mention their little dance with Hewson - followed by the debacle of Downer. The we.....
» 2/07/2013 10:18:11 AM Pelly, Very good point (It is so refreshing to have you posting here regularly again...al.....
» 2/07/2013 9:21:29 AM Loudmouth, Sorry to pop you bubble (and yes, I realise you'll put it down to the "bo.....
» 2/07/2013 9:15:29 AM Josephus, Well judging from the electorate's perception of those previously in cabinet, t.....
» 2/07/2013 9:08:05 AM rehctub, It's an indictment on both parties that they are running with the "economic.....
» 2/07/2013 8:47:51 AM Belly, I note Peter van Onselen, who is a contributing editor at Sky News and the Austral.....
» 2/07/2013 8:36:32 AM Belly, My main observation is that now Gillard is no longer the big fat target, the Oppos.....
» 2/07/2013 12:41:37 AM sonofgloin, What this poll reflects, now that that their whipping girl has been removed, .....
» 1/07/2013 11:10:52 PM To be fair, Anti. I also depend on men to keep me safe in this world......
» 1/07/2013 9:52:53 PM sonofgloin, "...Rudd won't win this year..." It's pretty hard to get your head.....
» 1/07/2013 9:46:26 PM Anti, If I was to walk down a darkened laneway - and I was attacked.....what are the odds.....
» 1/07/2013 9:37:34 PM sonofgloin, The key word in Global Financial Crisis, I suggest, would be "Global&quo.....
» 1/07/2013 9:03:33 PM Anti, If I disdain to walk down darkened streets by myself or resort to locking windows a.....
» 1/07/2013 6:51:11 PM Loudmouth, I believe that was Antony Green's rendering of the results of the latest Morga.....
» 1/07/2013 5:55:17 PM Chris Lewis, "I am betting on Abbott ripping Rudd to shreds..." Not judging by.....
» 1/07/2013 5:41:53 PM onthebeach, "Labor will be trashed...." Don't count your chickens...... http:.....
» 1/07/2013 5:23:16 PM Josephus, You are kidding, aren't you. Rudd was roundly criticised for his autocratic st.....
» 1/07/2013 1:00:32 PM Grim, So you don't think it was in the best interests of Labor's re-election chances to a.....
» 1/07/2013 12:45:07 PM ybgirp, It felt right so I wrote it. (Btw, "pedantic" is an adjective:) http:.....
» 1/07/2013 11:01:23 AM Anti, The portfolios of for homelessness and the status of women increasing have a pertin.....
» 1/07/2013 10:53:41 AM Of course, that should be "free rein", (We don't want them to get above themsel.....
» 1/07/2013 10:46:33 AM Cossomby, We have to think of the OLO's electricity bill. If we allow the usual suspects.....
» 1/07/2013 9:03:33 AM rehctub, As a comparison - the US has a gross debt to GDP ratio of around 107 percent. B.....
» 1/07/2013 8:53:16 AM Excellent point, Belly. How many times does it have to be explained to Americans, for ins.....
» 30/06/2013 8:44:07 PM Loudmouth, "*slightly irritated Indonesia" I think you'll find that the main p.....
» 30/06/2013 7:50:50 PM I'm not pushing for Turnbull at this stage of the game, individual. As it stands , Abbott.....
» 30/06/2013 6:15:37 PM Chris Lewis, I suppose if Rudd has sufficient wisdom, then he will have learned from his .....
» 30/06/2013 6:06:43 PM RObert, No, same impression as you. Nothing "alarming" at all. In fact, he com.....
» 30/06/2013 5:58:51 PM Pelly and Suse, I kinda have the feeling that we're now able to move forward. I have no i.....
» 30/06/2013 5:48:51 PM Can't take the credit for that, sonofgloin. I believe it was onthebeach......
» 30/06/2013 3:56:36 PM Chris Lewis, Can I take it that you don't consider Australian politics to be richer now t.....
» 30/06/2013 3:53:35 PM onthebeach, I posted an interview with Tony Abbott. I was interested to read what he had.....
» 30/06/2013 2:04:06 PM Here's a Sunday Profile interview with Mr Abbott from 2005. I found it reasonably enlight.....
» 30/06/2013 1:46:49 PM Careful, Hasbeen, You might give the impression that there's disunity within the Liberal .....
» 30/06/2013 1:10:38 PM Here's Mr Abbott waxing lyrical. I'll have to add that I'm none the wiser as to his and h.....
» 30/06/2013 12:42:21 PM Yes, Pelican, Talking of infrastructure. Australia is only second to South Korea amongst .....
» 30/06/2013 11:07:47 AM mac, It would seem so..... http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-06-30/galaxy-poll-results-sho.....
» 30/06/2013 9:25:11 AM My point being, SPQR, that refugees/migrants from the Middle-East and North Africa are in .....
» 30/06/2013 9:00:29 AM Merely an observation, onthebeach. I'm quite happy to admit that I know little of the mac.....
» 30/06/2013 7:46:12 AM individual, I wait patiently for the day when you're able to actually mount an argument w.....
» 30/06/2013 7:36:23 AM SM, Yes I realised that....'twas only a joke (would've done the same myself:) I note a c.....
» 29/06/2013 11:53:09 PM Oh dear...... http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/kevin-rudd-overtakes-tony-abbott-as-voters.....
» 29/06/2013 6:36:19 PM Hey-de-ho, Loudmouth, My son and I were doing a little study on early WA history this wee.....
» 29/06/2013 6:22:29 PM I reckon I'd have a good case for plagiarism here. (I know you guys don't necessarily hav.....
» 29/06/2013 6:17:50 PM I dunno about that, PJack. In, what is perhaps the forerunner to some juicy pre-election .....
» 29/06/2013 5:58:42 PM onthebeach, Notwithstanding you're prone to exaggeration. To describe Rudd's comments as.....
» 29/06/2013 5:42:16 PM Why thank you, cohenite. However, it would be remiss of me not to acknowledge your part i.....
» 29/06/2013 3:02:35 PM onthebeach, The "elephant in the room" is that Mr Abbott and his team have enjo.....
» 29/06/2013 12:58:47 PM Don't knock the Duck! (I reckon I'm still in front on points in this thread:).....
» 29/06/2013 12:54:57 PM rehctub, http://australianpolitics.com/2012/12/14/oecd-australia-a-standout-economy.html .....
» 29/06/2013 12:03:34 PM onthebeach, Same story, nothing's changed. Regardless on Ms Bishop's version of "con.....
» 29/06/2013 10:54:30 AM runner, Explain to me the exact process by which the Coalition will be able to "turn.....
» 29/06/2013 10:30:28 AM onthebeach, The uplifting thing is that at least Indonesia appears to be displaying matur.....
» 29/06/2013 9:32:37 AM onthebeach, He had to rush to the phone did he? It was Julie Bishop who rushed out with .....
» 29/06/2013 8:41:24 AM individual, Cheer up. http://australianpolitics.com/2012/12/14/oecd-australia-a-standout.....
» 29/06/2013 8:05:45 AM SM, "He should apologise to Indonesia." But, SM, Indonesia doesn't have to res.....
» 29/06/2013 7:40:44 AM Tony Lavis, You've spent quite a bit of time above shrugging your shoulders at the proble.....
» 29/06/2013 7:14:31 AM Killarney, Spot on with your analysis of Thatcher......
» 28/06/2013 9:44:40 PM Fascinating to watch a panicked Opposition comprehensively misrepresenting Kevin Rudd's co.....
» 28/06/2013 5:49:20 PM No thread on the independents would be complete without revisiting Windsor's take on Mr Ab.....
» 28/06/2013 5:35:53 PM onthebeach, Cheap trick by Bishop......hysterics to the rescue (she wishes) Sit down wit.....
» 28/06/2013 5:28:42 PM Houellie, Yeah - it's probably hormonal : ) ....... SM, "...hard questions.....&q.....
» 28/06/2013 2:30:52 PM Belly, It's quite entertaining that Libs apologists are pissed off that Labor refused to .....
» 28/06/2013 2:26:11 PM Houellie, I have never watched an episode of The West Wing. I know you like to take the .....
» 28/06/2013 1:33:10 PM SM, Are you suggesting that fawning sycophantic questions during question time by the gov.....
» 28/06/2013 1:19:31 PM Why is that, Houellie? Have the Opposition released their first policy?.....
» 28/06/2013 12:00:36 PM I did mention the term "constructive" dialogue. I think there's probably a TAFE.....
» 28/06/2013 11:55:45 AM Chris Lewis, It's interesting that those "competent" ministers were heading a g.....
» 28/06/2013 11:25:46 AM Oh yes, SM, it was simply stunning that not one of the "questions" pertained to .....
» 28/06/2013 11:15:07 AM Houellie, Why don't you start a thread titled "What Does Mr Rudd Stand For?" I.....
» 28/06/2013 10:37:44 AM Houellie, Rudd said he didn't wish to stand by and see Abbott win by "default' Fran.....
» 28/06/2013 10:17:48 AM Forgive me, cohenite, but I can't resist... I think I've finally found the connection bet.....
» 28/06/2013 9:23:18 AM Houellie and RObert, I asked that question because I genuiniely do not have a handle on w.....
» 28/06/2013 1:26:59 AM Oi, cohenite, I was having mild snoop in the direction of von Storch - and I came upon th.....
» 27/06/2013 5:38:51 PM rehctub, Tone down the hysterics (although I realise that up till now it's been the Coali.....
» 27/06/2013 4:33:54 PM SM, "Anyone with an IQ greater than a squirrel knows clearly what Abbott stands for......
» 27/06/2013 2:46:18 PM It's interesting, runner, how asking for further detail regarding Mr Abbott's vision for A.....
» 27/06/2013 11:48:08 AM cohenite, Yes, it's extremely remiss of Lewandowsky to be guided by actual scientists on .....
» 27/06/2013 11:42:32 AM SM, When did Abbott beat Rudd? You're surmising that Abbott would have beaten Rudd in th.....
» 27/06/2013 11:36:48 AM Otokonoko, Apologies, my most reasonable friend. (One gets a little used to serving it up.....
» 27/06/2013 11:09:36 AM "....Abbott hasn't fibbed, yet." Au contraire. http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/cont.....
» 27/06/2013 10:59:08 AM I'm thinking that what he stands for might be an indication on what he will endeavour to d.....
» 27/06/2013 10:54:19 AM Sorry, Otokonoko, I suppose it's a bit rude to demand that an alternative leader shows so.....
» 27/06/2013 10:48:50 AM SM, What happened was that Gillard and Co shafted Rudd in a panic because (surprise, surp.....
» 27/06/2013 10:41:32 AM You "suspect". It would be nice if Mr Abbott clarified those points, instead of.....
» 27/06/2013 9:51:21 AM Yada, yada, yada, SM Perhaps now Mr Abbott will find the impetus to actually say somethin.....
» 27/06/2013 9:46:58 AM onthebeach, You presume too much. I've voted for my local state Liberal representative i.....
» 27/06/2013 9:44:41 AM cohenite, That's a bit cheesy. You know all too well that "climate science" en.....
» 27/06/2013 8:57:34 AM Chris, Quite funny, really. On the one hand, we've got a man strong on rhetoric (what el.....
» 27/06/2013 8:46:47 AM I mean that genuinely. What does this man stand for? If we subtract the sound bites and .....
» 27/06/2013 8:24:40 AM Belly, I suppose, in the final analysis, if sticking to a rigid factional decision sees y.....
» 27/06/2013 8:08:53 AM Yes, Belly, it's interesting. I'm one of those 18 % who vowed not to vote Labor under Gill.....
» 27/06/2013 12:26:32 AM Just a little food for thought.... Reading a tweet by Mike Carlton, which says...."I.....
» 26/06/2013 8:50:50 PM Perhaps August 24th......
» 26/06/2013 8:21:07 PM Yippee!!.....
» 26/06/2013 4:22:53 PM Ballot at 7pm tonight...... Interesting the Rudd camp have been taking their time with th.....
» 26/06/2013 4:19:15 PM SPQR and imajulianuer, Melodrama "and" Cheese! (Yum!).....
» 26/06/2013 4:16:23 PM Abbott and Pyne have already started on Rudd (as they assume he'll be back as PM by tomorr.....
» 26/06/2013 4:11:04 PM What's the bet that Rudd is back in the top job by tomorrow night? (Feels different this .....
» 26/06/2013 2:50:46 PM Talking of things made of cheese.....Great article, cohenite!.....
» 26/06/2013 1:50:43 PM Lexi, The "Green Revolution" is not sustainable. Tell me what happens when the.....
» 26/06/2013 10:57:24 AM Well, yes, Lexi. I realise that the system is so entrenched that it's usually not possibl.....
» 26/06/2013 10:33:35 AM That's fairly low, SPQR. Ahem, I have no need to plagiarize, dearie.....or do ya tink I'm.....
» 26/06/2013 9:31:35 AM SPQR, "We just can't win!" No, the problem is that you just can't reason. The.....
» 25/06/2013 9:38:24 PM Thanks, Hasbeen. I always find it useful to be given rancorous criticism by the more odio.....
» 25/06/2013 9:04:05 PM Dane, I note that John Howard didn't behave honourably when it was obvious he'd run his r.....
» 25/06/2013 8:28:51 PM Thanks RObert. Pericles, The resources of how many Earths would be required for the enti.....
» 25/06/2013 4:34:55 PM I have no intention of voting for Labor in the upcoming election. However, I'll be puttin.....
» 25/06/2013 2:48:48 PM Well, well, Josephus...that's about as simplistic as they come. Here's an example of peop.....
» 25/06/2013 2:19:08 PM WmTrevor, Yep, one would think that the shanty towns and favelas are filled with people w.....
» 25/06/2013 11:24:23 AM WmTrevor, Obviously it's overwhelmingly a human issue. But, as I've mentioned, how can f.....
» 25/06/2013 10:19:55 AM Houellie, Totally with you, particularly in reference to your last two paragraphs. I'm n.....
» 25/06/2013 9:18:06 AM Pericles, I get that you're saying that it's all a "process". First we get the.....
» 25/06/2013 9:03:44 AM SPQR, I don't have a solution. My main point was to examine the hypocrisy of first world.....
» 25/06/2013 12:13:01 AM I feel kinda funny around here, Suse, in that I seem to be only one who doesn't think that.....
» 24/06/2013 7:46:28 PM Lexi, I'll just add that it's a "first world perspective" that delivers them in.....
» 24/06/2013 7:05:48 PM Yo, Lexi, I'm trying to understand how it is that we can source our goods from companies .....
» 24/06/2013 1:03:44 PM Well, you're right, Houellie...I realise I seem to be laying laying the entire responsibil.....
» 24/06/2013 12:13:53 PM Hasbeen, It also occurs to me that if a standarised test is being employed to "judge.....
» 24/06/2013 12:02:24 PM Hasbeen, You'll have to try harder to convince me that teachers aren't already aware of w.....
» 24/06/2013 10:20:40 AM Thanks, Tom. It surely does seem to be the way with modern "education". The id.....
» 24/06/2013 10:07:49 AM Suze, I'm not only targeting feminism....yet our societal structure now dictates that wom.....
» 24/06/2013 9:07:34 AM http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-06-24/australian-retailers-linked-to-sweatshop-abuse/47737.....
» 24/06/2013 8:04:29 AM We have constructed a system tied to corporate and government exigencies, where if someone.....
» 23/06/2013 1:27:18 PM Mind yer own beeswax, Hasbeen. You would of course be favoured by some on OLO who espouse.....
» 23/06/2013 1:08:52 PM Joe, Well yes it is "all about me" finally realising what a pointless exercise .....
» 23/06/2013 12:47:13 PM I mentioned in a recent post to you, Joe, that I think it's pointless to engage you in any.....
» 23/06/2013 12:40:41 PM Anti, Have you a link or evidence for the "detectives breathing down her neck"?.....
» 23/06/2013 12:31:16 PM "Grenada"? Yup, that was pretty well up the US's alley. Defenseless and supreme.....
» 23/06/2013 12:10:57 PM "Thanks for those kicks up the @rse, Poirot." My pleasure, Joe. ........... (.....
» 23/06/2013 10:53:14 AM Of course, much of the human behaviour we are assigning to the past, is still alive in com.....
» 23/06/2013 10:20:00 AM Anti, Regarding your comments on the US, I thought I'd have a peek at the latest figures .....
» 23/06/2013 9:56:37 AM individual, It makes me wonder why the people who criticise academic institutions and pra.....
» 23/06/2013 9:04:09 AM individual, This doesn't pertain to you personally, but have you noticed, and it's someth.....
» 23/06/2013 8:24:49 AM Killarney, Did I read you right that you're saying the more advanced an complex a society.....
» 22/06/2013 1:06:03 PM "...but if it walks like a duck and squawks like a duck......" Disingenuous pra.....
» 22/06/2013 12:22:54 PM "that should be "throw-away". Yes, I believe I've called you a "prat&.....
» 22/06/2013 12:08:20 PM I'll just add, Joe, that I've come to the conclusion that it's pretty well pointless to tr.....
» 22/06/2013 11:45:35 AM Navdanya's mission....pertinent to women in traditional societies the world over. http://.....
» 22/06/2013 11:32:42 AM For anyone who's interested. http://www.abc.net.au/unleashed/4771966.html Also, you may .....
» 22/06/2013 10:37:15 AM Philip S I think you'll find that refugee migrants tend to be happy to have a roof over t.....
» 22/06/2013 9:50:20 AM On the matter of brutishness.....I'm saying that humans are capable of conceiving order in.....
» 22/06/2013 12:10:10 AM Please yourself, Killarney. If you want to believe that women in pre-civilisation tucked .....
» 21/06/2013 6:14:26 PM Shockadelic, Here's a pic of that tiny little island, Antarctica: http://en.wikipedia.or.....
» 21/06/2013 5:59:11 PM "..well, until your friends, the Taliban, took over..." Disingenuous prat. (An.....
» 21/06/2013 4:42:21 PM Joe, You automatically assume that people who work in fields, or who live close to the la.....
» 21/06/2013 4:32:20 PM Another disingenuous question from Loudmouth - Ho hum..... The point which both Anti and .....
» 21/06/2013 4:04:45 PM individual, Don' be so coy. Tell us more of the bloke who favoured pacifying drugs and g.....
» 21/06/2013 12:21:30 PM individual, Which bloke was that?.....
» 21/06/2013 10:19:29 AM Killarney, My reference to "brutish" is really only applicable when "socie.....
» 21/06/2013 8:42:36 AM Aw, don't stop there, Shocka. Tell us more about the "tiny little island known as An.....
» 20/06/2013 6:30:34 PM You are disingenuous at times, Joe. Particularly if someone hits the target with a pertin.....
» 20/06/2013 5:07:29 PM I'll just add, Joe, that I'm surmising that those displaced peasants to whom Arundhati Roy.....
» 20/06/2013 4:48:41 PM "The problem is that progress has to be well-defined and the ramifications understood.....
» 20/06/2013 3:02:32 PM Grow up, runner, I'm not saying that every story that emerges is true. What I'm saying a.....
» 20/06/2013 2:54:14 PM Hasbeen, I agree...we live a sanitised life in the West, for the most part, the gore of l.....
» 20/06/2013 11:30:10 AM Joe, I get where you're coming from. That Aboriginals in the early days of settlement co.....
» 20/06/2013 10:29:52 AM Joe, I have no idea what it means. I was merely giving you alittle first-hand evidence t.....
» 20/06/2013 10:20:06 AM That should be subsistence "farming"......
» 20/06/2013 10:18:54 AM Joe, Why do you think that changing from a rural life to an urban life has positive conse.....
» 20/06/2013 9:02:00 AM Killarney, "The only way to stop war rape is for women to have to same access to wea.....
» 20/06/2013 8:16:19 AM SM, I think you'll find that weighty series of tests, most of significant duration, are f.....
» 19/06/2013 10:32:36 PM SM, I've read about and heard of children being uncommonly stressed because of NAPLAN tes.....
» 19/06/2013 8:19:43 PM Joe, You said...."but the genuine evidence is thin". All I'm saying is that i.....
» 19/06/2013 4:33:37 PM Loudmouth, You really do display an immature sarcasm. "...but the genuine evidence .....
» 19/06/2013 2:46:39 PM cohenite, I was addressing Chris Lewis, whose main preoccupation concerning Alan's articl.....
» 19/06/2013 2:13:53 PM In the case of Wilson v. Terry - N.S.W. Supreme Court - 1896: "The circumstance of n.....
» 19/06/2013 2:05:30 PM Loudmouth, I think its helpful on the issue of Aboriginals and their historic treatment t.....
» 19/06/2013 1:37:37 PM Wow, SM - things must have changed so much. We used to have weekly tests on all the thin.....
» 19/06/2013 12:50:01 PM Hasbeen, Tell me how spending millions upon millions to tell teachers something they alre.....
» 19/06/2013 11:32:37 AM SILLER, You might like to peruse the third point on this list. http://forum.onlineopinio.....
» 19/06/2013 11:19:00 AM Chris Lewis, It might be more helpful, instead devoting your time criticising Alan, that .....
» 19/06/2013 10:35:36 AM Now I seem to recall that I've got a bunch of literature of myth verses fact in Australian.....
» 19/06/2013 10:17:54 AM SM, You have got to be joking...they "do" "prep" students for NAPLAN .....
» 19/06/2013 8:41:44 AM I'm not quite sure why some women here regard Gillard as a champion of women's rights. He.....
» 18/06/2013 10:32:27 PM Just goes to show that you can't study Classical history while rehearsing the Can-Can scen.....
» 18/06/2013 5:39:16 PM Maybe he would have been Greek.... If he hadn't actually been Roman......
» 18/06/2013 5:30:50 PM Don't be so puerile, cohenite. What's wrong with looking after the planet we evolved on? .....
» 18/06/2013 1:34:19 PM runner, I haven't got much time for Gillard, as it happens. Neither have I much time for.....
» 18/06/2013 11:30:40 AM Actually, Lexi....I just found another link to SPQR and the Can-Can. Some while ago, he a.....
» 18/06/2013 11:25:33 AM cohenite, I forgot you're an enthusiast for the proposition that humans should leave the .....
» 18/06/2013 11:21:17 AM runner, I'm referring to "any" issue of substance. Can't wait for Tony to wax .....
» 18/06/2013 10:28:00 AM Rest assured, Hasbeen that NAPLAN provides heaps of stress for students, starting at grade.....
» 18/06/2013 10:16:32 AM I wonder what will happen when Abbott is let out of the wardrobe and allowed once again to.....
» 18/06/2013 9:18:26 AM Don't pay any mind to SPQR folks - he's got a bit of thing about Poirot, and turns up out .....
» 17/06/2013 9:59:33 PM LEGO and Constance.... Now that's a match made in....... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=.....
» 17/06/2013 8:49:06 PM cohenite, "I despise the term actually..." Well aaccttuuaallly....that's the p.....
» 17/06/2013 4:51:23 PM o sung wu, I don't necessarily blame them for finding an outlet to reassert their machism.....
» 17/06/2013 2:54:33 PM o sung wu, Perhaps "Androgynization" would be a better word. The problem is th.....
» 17/06/2013 12:38:34 PM Hasbeen, I agree with you. ....that's why I stated "....almost unheard of..."......
» 17/06/2013 10:50:58 AM We shoud be mindful that our modern way of life encourages us to "specialise" - .....
» 17/06/2013 10:24:53 AM Nothing wrong at all with that, Houellie. I mentioned that about half of our son's LEGO w.....
» 17/06/2013 8:13:04 AM LEGO, I already knew "you" were racist. By all means go right ahead. Constance.....
» 17/06/2013 12:11:17 AM No need to do that, cohenite. It's much simpler to just avoid the "oi, oi, oi" .....
» 16/06/2013 10:50:07 PM LEGO, While you're giving out free psychological advice, you might like to pop Constance .....
» 16/06/2013 8:34:57 PM Time for a snipe again is it? The employment of the word "gallimaufry" around h.....
» 16/06/2013 4:26:59 PM Bazz, I'm curious regarding your idea to have volunteer civilian crews "turning the .....
» 16/06/2013 8:10:52 AM Hasbeen, Oh now I can see why you and I are running at cross purposes here. Here I am as.....
» 15/06/2013 11:20:30 PM onthebeach, We are discussing here the posting online of explicit sexual videos and email.....
» 15/06/2013 10:03:58 PM Bugsy, How dare you come here and point out the minor detail that Malaysia isn't an Aus a.....
» 15/06/2013 8:54:53 PM Hasbeen, Yes, yes, yes....it's well established that women like sex too. Can you explain.....
» 15/06/2013 7:27:11 PM Sorry, Anti, but I just watched the interview - and what I saw was a puerile, boyish-sound.....
» 15/06/2013 2:51:17 PM Fair enough, SM. I was merely making the point that "hater" is one of runner's .....
» 15/06/2013 2:44:03 PM Yes, runner, It does seem the lid has been prized off, now that religion takes a back sea.....
» 15/06/2013 2:32:59 PM "Why not display your objects to your mates." Hmmm...... I think it's more &quo.....
» 15/06/2013 2:10:10 PM runner, How does "women behaving exactly like men" contribute to men posting t.....
» 15/06/2013 1:27:22 PM Yes, the rise in life expectancy is interesting at the time. I'm wondering how they talli.....
» 15/06/2013 12:33:15 PM Hey, hey, Hasbeen Yup...we should have seen it coming. When horny blokes are confronted .....
» 15/06/2013 12:19:56 PM Loudmouth, Er...it was the Enlightenment that heralded the new industrial age. It took q.....
» 15/06/2013 11:36:02 AM The problem is that it's very "easy to accuse someone of "hatred" because t.....
» 15/06/2013 11:22:46 AM "...dreaming up characters to hate." Right on cue, runner. (You never disappoi.....
» 15/06/2013 11:05:25 AM The title of this thread has been niggling me - reminding me of something that I couldn't .....
» 15/06/2013 11:00:11 AM Au contraire, runner. If you didn't exist on this forum - we'd have to invent you......
» 15/06/2013 10:51:57 AM SM, "...the left wing haters..." Ho, ho, ho....taking your direction from runn.....
» 15/06/2013 10:46:30 AM Loudmouth, I take your point about the slaves. Yet, I'm reminded of a piece by William C.....
» 15/06/2013 10:23:28 AM Anti, "...merely an interest in the PM's faux offence...." How many Prime Mini.....
» 15/06/2013 9:36:26 AM Anti, I think the point that Paul was making to individual was that if you're going to as.....
» 15/06/2013 9:26:16 AM Jay, Yes, I think it does scratch the same itch psychologically. It's very popular. My s.....
» 14/06/2013 12:35:29 PM onthebeach, You're a hoot. You habitually go out of your way, hiking miles to twist any .....
» 14/06/2013 12:08:08 PM I should amend the term "bad guys" to "bad faces". Some of them do hav.....
» 14/06/2013 11:25:52 AM Aww...Jayb....just because I'm not a fan of base sexual innuendo on its own and not surrou.....
» 14/06/2013 10:44:54 AM Jayb, We laughed? (You see, the baser the humour, the more it relies on malice. The furt.....
» 14/06/2013 10:33:42 AM LEGO is actually a fantastic toy. It's the only thing made of plastic that has any value (.....
» 14/06/2013 10:20:58 AM Hasbeen, "...nasty, hate-filled....." Have you ever re-read some of the vitrio.....
» 14/06/2013 10:04:35 AM Yes, RObert, I can imagine Howard Sattler or Bolt asking Howard "in a serious interv.....
» 14/06/2013 10:00:24 AM Oh, puhlease, SPQR... Anyone familiar with politics knows that backstabbing the current l.....
» 14/06/2013 8:54:15 AM Yes, well, runner...are you suggesting that Howard's decision regarding the Tampa should h.....
» 14/06/2013 8:37:20 AM Yes, Luciferase, Apparently if you're a women, all kinds of sniggering school boy tactics.....
» 14/06/2013 8:20:27 AM Prax, Don't worry too much. Yes the faces have been gaining more expression over the year.....
» 13/06/2013 11:54:55 PM Wind 'em up and they'll go for hours. http://pinterest.com/pin/540713498981708776/ : ).....
» 13/06/2013 11:35:09 PM runner, (I'm intrigued by your use of Letters like "u" and "r" to com.....
» 13/06/2013 6:06:24 PM Well, Houellie, I was being sarcastic when I said medication is the answer. Medication i.....
» 13/06/2013 3:37:42 PM Belly, It's all very well to say no-one forces grog down their throats. But do you deny .....
» 13/06/2013 11:23:16 AM Yeah, Houellie, But I think reactive depression can be cause by societal pressures. Give.....
» 13/06/2013 10:42:31 AM I think it's what you get when you are straddling two cultures, and yet not buying into ei.....
» 13/06/2013 8:24:53 AM You might also like to keep in mind that two thirds of the world's people who live in less.....
» 13/06/2013 12:27:34 AM Yeah, runner, Mal's a top bloke. Just look what Rares J says about him here: http://www.....
» 12/06/2013 8:29:05 PM Pelican, Thanks for that - as you know, the older I've become, the more I've tended to tr.....
» 12/06/2013 8:09:47 PM onthebeach, Please produce the post where I stated that depression could be cured by goin.....
» 12/06/2013 4:11:28 PM onthebeach, One would have to grant that you're a master at "attempting" to ske.....
» 12/06/2013 3:31:49 PM SM, Hawke's womanising wasn't displayed on a menu for future reference. The Libs are pre.....
» 12/06/2013 3:22:29 PM That's an odd example to use, Joe. Those African slaves were in America because "civ.....
» 12/06/2013 1:12:27 PM Although....having just seen this little gem courtesy of a Liberal Party fundraiser - perh.....
» 12/06/2013 12:54:53 PM I have to say that it does indeed look like a typical act of desperation to reprise the mi.....
» 12/06/2013 12:40:42 PM Are you claiming that Mann "wasn't" exonerated? Or that subsequent research pap.....
» 12/06/2013 12:32:49 PM Houellie, "....Sophistry on the other hand...." Your point being....?.....
» 12/06/2013 11:50:20 AM Atman, 1. Scientific agreement is excluded from "skeptic" argument. 2. Who has.....
» 12/06/2013 11:34:46 AM Jay, It's not a matter of "repairing the past". It's about continuing to do th.....
» 12/06/2013 11:19:21 AM Oh yes, Jay...not to mention "Westerners" like to stomp around the globe disrupt.....
» 12/06/2013 10:45:33 AM spindoc, If you don't wish to "turn your mind" to this thread, why did you both.....
» 12/06/2013 10:38:46 AM spindoc suggests that Poirot is presenting as empty-headed and bitchy because she challeng.....
» 12/06/2013 10:29:22 AM Just remembered an instance, while we're talking about Western intervention in "under.....
» 12/06/2013 10:10:17 AM We should all keep in mind that runner thinks that Charles Darwin was "wrong" to.....
» 12/06/2013 10:01:05 AM runner, I realise that you have difficulty coming up with your own outrages. So mouthing.....
» 12/06/2013 9:32:31 AM Why thank you, runner. Are you intimating that more women in those roles equates to ".....
» 12/06/2013 9:13:09 AM Yes, Joe, I'm a little confused too. You say that you agree with me on what the West has.....
» 12/06/2013 8:34:20 AM Okay, SPQR, You get an extra five points for using the the term "lefties....but I'm .....
» 11/06/2013 11:57:48 PM "....they are a "symptom" that is likely to kill or injure you & your desce.....
» 11/06/2013 6:55:08 PM Anti, I see you've noted Joe's penchant for sarcasm. I used to wonder if he was capable .....
» 11/06/2013 6:48:21 PM Sorry about the comment above - wrong thread. Good onya, Marilyn - although you're battli.....
» 11/06/2013 6:19:58 PM Joe, Why does grog consume their culture so? That's the problem isn't it. Their communi.....
» 11/06/2013 5:10:29 PM "Do Gooder, Politically Correct White femi-Nazi sicko..." And Jayb wins today's.....
» 11/06/2013 3:51:08 PM runner, You keep calling me a feminist...I'm supposing it's because you're incapable of s.....
» 11/06/2013 2:59:47 PM Prax, It's interesting that you put in a lot of time and energy around here criticising t.....
» 11/06/2013 2:52:24 PM Houellie, Those charming rhymes were composed by Europeans and English people who viewed .....
» 11/06/2013 1:27:56 PM So observes our not-so-moderate fundamentalist Christian. Bit of a hoot, that one, runner.....
» 11/06/2013 11:54:46 AM Thanks Houellie and Pelly, By "meaning" - I'm not trying to plumb sophisticated.....
» 11/06/2013 11:11:29 AM Here's something Ivan Illich wrote on traditional society. I'm not suggesting that we sho.....
» 11/06/2013 10:26:07 AM I can't help but come to the conclusion that we as a society are doomed to forever chase o.....
» 11/06/2013 9:21:00 AM ontheeach, If that was directed at moi, I wasn't meaning to be frivolous about depression.....
» 11/06/2013 8:54:19 AM Belly, I think I can be of assistance here: The reason the usual suspects call people &q.....
» 10/06/2013 9:43:04 PM Anti, I hope you can get a hold of it. I came upon mine years ago second-hand. It covers .....
» 10/06/2013 9:04:51 PM Depression - or melancholy - has been with us for a long time. I surmise that our present .....
» 10/06/2013 7:09:12 PM Antiseptic, Not necessarily on your subject, but you might like to try and hunt down Arth.....
» 10/06/2013 3:11:07 PM Loudmouth, If they'd been in a similar miserable state all those years before "we&qu.....
» 10/06/2013 3:55:41 AM Perhaps you shouldn't be quite so precious, Joe, there's more than one way to look at thin.....
» 9/06/2013 6:01:11 PM Loudmouth, It's interesting to look at the situation involving Afghanistan and the expans.....
» 9/06/2013 3:23:14 PM individual, Sorry if I was a bit hard on you in my earlier post. But.... You say that y.....
» 9/06/2013 2:50:16 PM Nice try, divine_msn. However, I'm not obliged to "answer" every question or pr.....
» 9/06/2013 1:20:35 PM "Poirot - have you ever ANSWERED A QUESTION put to you seeking to challenge or valida.....
» 9/06/2013 12:02:09 PM Everyone with whom individual disagrees, (especially if they represent "authority&quo.....
» 8/06/2013 9:44:38 PM No chance of me taking anything you'd prescribe, divine_msn... I told you once before tha.....
» 8/06/2013 5:43:44 PM Antiseptic, So Goodes has enough intestinal fortitude to stand up to ingrained and habitu.....
» 8/06/2013 2:12:32 PM Hiya Anti, Goodes pointed to a person who was abusing him. Protocol at the ground result.....
» 8/06/2013 1:54:40 PM Why stop there, SPQR? Take Iraq, for instance. We damn well gave 'em our help whether the.....
» 8/06/2013 1:14:07 PM SPQR, I suppose it all depends on how far back we go. Like to 1953, when the CIA overthr.....
» 8/06/2013 1:06:52 PM divine_msn, Clearly this was not a clear-cut incident. What has amazed me is the number .....
» 8/06/2013 12:54:00 PM rehctub, Are you claiming that cyclists don't pay taxes towards the construction and main.....
» 8/06/2013 12:44:06 PM All right, SPQR...I may have overstated the direct linkage. Here's an article (yes I know.....
» 8/06/2013 11:29:34 AM Arf, arf, arf,....Hasbeen. You might like to reflect on the fact that the Taliban was the.....
» 8/06/2013 11:10:24 AM I'll just add, SPQR, that one of the meanings of the verb form of "abuse" is to .....
» 8/06/2013 10:44:46 AM Yes, Anti....and, strangely enough, Afghanistan is a place that one would be well advised .....
» 8/06/2013 10:26:56 AM Excellent, Anti - that you are doing something to further your understanding of subjects t.....
» 8/06/2013 9:29:03 AM Excellent SPQR-style blather. So it's a "jihad" (pathetic and desperate descrip.....
» 8/06/2013 9:02:50 AM prax, "...infiltration of feminazis & educated idiot do-gooders appears to have been.....
» 8/06/2013 8:41:31 AM individual, "(no pun intended)" What you should have said is: "(no sense.....
» 7/06/2013 5:54:27 PM onthebeach, Okay, time to cough up. Produce the posts that sought to "defend" .....
» 7/06/2013 5:43:19 PM The pity is that once upon a time, support would have been forthcoming simply from the con.....
» 7/06/2013 2:27:10 PM Ahoy there, Belly... Here was I thinking this thread was reasonably balanced, with some c.....
» 7/06/2013 12:13:23 PM Taking of men's role in society. I've mentioned this before, but I once watched a program.....
» 7/06/2013 11:55:27 AM Anti, I have to agree with your posts. It seems Beyond Blue is attempting to find a way .....
» 7/06/2013 10:46:06 AM onthebeach, I have to give you kudos for your skill in using lots of words to deny the ob.....
» 7/06/2013 9:14:09 AM onthebeach, Perhaps one day you'll "stop" ascribing opinions to people based on.....
» 7/06/2013 1:25:31 AM "....You now these are the targets of my criticism not Adam Goodes..." Well, on.....
» 6/06/2013 9:50:00 PM onthebeach, "It is accepted and expected that you would want to attack me for defend.....
» 6/06/2013 7:41:02 PM Danielle, "Unlike Goodes, who appears to have been the only fair-minded and rational.....
» 6/06/2013 2:21:24 PM Interesting...now LEGO is using the analogy of puppy dogs to make his point? Seeing as mo.....
» 6/06/2013 10:59:25 AM Well said, Pelican. Precisely! The one thing I've noticed regarding this issue over a co.....
» 6/06/2013 9:38:50 AM Shocka, Just one more thing on evolution. If you're trying to make out some of us are mo.....
» 6/06/2013 9:24:33 AM Shocka, Correct me if I'm wrong, but I didn't comment on evolution until responding to ru.....
» 6/06/2013 12:17:01 AM runner, I know you believe we were all plopped onto the earth, Mr Bean style, as we are a.....
» 5/06/2013 8:06:45 AM Okay, folks, hands up - I'm beat. runner's, on the job, ably assisted by LEGO and his sch.....
» 5/06/2013 1:32:35 AM Banjo, Why did you quote "high schools" and then go on to calculate your appare.....
» 4/06/2013 11:52:02 PM Good idea, Raycom. In the past 6,000 years, has anybody seen this in the Peruvian Andes? .....
» 4/06/2013 11:35:23 PM "...which sad to say, is continuing." Not least on this thread with you attempt.....
» 4/06/2013 9:32:31 PM Oh, no your don't, onthebeach. The only person who is blustering and bullying on this iss.....
» 4/06/2013 8:54:36 PM Who and some "others would accord more rights to a common criminal than they would a .....
» 4/06/2013 6:02:00 PM Feeling like having a little pick, are we, onthebeach. Just gotta get that fix, don't you.....
» 4/06/2013 2:02:23 PM Still they keep coming.....Jo Nova and Andrew Bolt. Re: Mr Nice Guy Watts - "...he w.....
» 4/06/2013 12:15:41 PM Good point, prax. From my vantage point, it's got less to do with Abbott's so-called cred.....
» 4/06/2013 12:06:35 PM Oh dear, runner, So it's the old "hatred is blinding you" routine. Can't you c.....
» 4/06/2013 10:50:06 AM cohenite, This is for your own good. What'swiththewattsupwiththatlinks? It's a veritabl.....
» 4/06/2013 10:44:16 AM "Perverse discrimination" fits the bill, WmTrevor. Here's a case of perverse ur.....
» 4/06/2013 9:58:49 AM suze, I'm not a Christian, but I'm interested in why people believe - what is it that con.....
» 4/06/2013 9:48:17 AM Josephus, It's hard to disagree with that sentiment - especially since Syria and Afghanis.....
» 4/06/2013 9:35:33 AM Oh Wow, cohenite! (She says as she snow ploughs her way through the plethora of links for.....
» 4/06/2013 1:33:26 AM Cherful, Thanks for the English lesson. Could you enlighten me as to the English colloqu.....
» 3/06/2013 11:58:07 PM divine_msn "...big hairy faced hypersensitive sportsman..." No wonder the youn.....
» 3/06/2013 9:37:51 PM I suppose when you've always identified with the bullying and aggressive majority, it's a .....
» 3/06/2013 5:14:33 PM JHG, I think the procedure here is for you to give Graham Young permission to pass your c.....
» 3/06/2013 3:47:59 PM You mean like this, Lexi? http://www.smh.com.au/national/read-my-lying-lips-abbott-admits.....
» 3/06/2013 3:19:46 PM SPQR, I woould''t dreamt of pickking youu up on thhat _ somme of my best stufff is peppr.....
» 3/06/2013 3:10:02 PM Belly, It's "not" that I only see "bad" in the West - far from it. W.....
» 3/06/2013 1:32:01 PM Sophie Love, I'm fascinated at your advocating "....firmer vaccination protocols for.....
» 3/06/2013 12:21:17 PM Hasbeen, It keeps happening...now I'm agreeing with you (gives me chills:) You hit the n.....
» 3/06/2013 11:25:36 AM rational-debate, I don't suppose you'd like to share your strong and rational basis for y.....
» 3/06/2013 11:00:55 AM Banjo and Prax, http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2013/04/01/infographic-t.....
» 3/06/2013 10:26:35 AM Hey, hey, Tony Lavis : ) Prax, Well, yes, I'm dissatisfied with the two majors...in fact.....
» 3/06/2013 9:22:08 AM Prax, I haven't really been following the "Big Clive" circus.... But cough! sp.....
» 3/06/2013 8:41:21 AM Belly, Your Reuters article won't load on my PC at the moment, so I can't read it...but i.....
» 3/06/2013 12:15:44 AM Most amusing. "..you are a Politically Correct, do-gooder, Muslim Terrorist loving, .....
» 2/06/2013 10:13:44 PM individual and Jayb, Just so you know. I tend to switch off the minute someone uses the t.....
» 2/06/2013 8:33:57 PM So sorry...Cherrul. Who am I to question indigenous players being targeted with demeaning.....
» 2/06/2013 8:09:43 PM individual, Are you saying that because you hear some indigenous people being abusive tha.....
» 2/06/2013 8:05:22 PM Wow...onthebeach, that is indeed startling news. Thanks for that info......
» 2/06/2013 7:54:39 PM onthebeach, If the MCG and the AFL neglect to implement proper protocol regarding minors,.....
» 2/06/2013 4:31:18 PM Belly, "...1,000 DEAD! in a month.." As bad as that is, it's nothing compared .....
» 2/06/2013 3:37:28 PM SPQR, And a Rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrraspberry to you. One gets bored of reading.....
» 2/06/2013 10:24:14 AM cohenite, "....in fact they work so well that they enable any ratbag to get behind a.....
» 2/06/2013 9:38:53 AM Oh yeah, Belly. Have you anything to say about Americans murdering Americans - why death .....
» 2/06/2013 9:24:04 AM Saltpetre, Yes, well I hope they never turn your post into a bronzed plaque and pace it b.....
» 2/06/2013 1:06:33 AM Can't your read, Hasbeen? Did the article I posted have the header "New Matilda".....
» 1/06/2013 11:50:54 PM Pelican, Sorry I missed your earlier post to me (amidst the blizzard on offer from our fr.....
» 1/06/2013 9:48:35 PM Okay, onthebeach, Let's exercise cool headedness. Let's go even a step further, rewind t.....
» 1/06/2013 8:10:32 PM Constance, Thanks for the impressive self-assessment. You seem to think you're pretty ho.....
» 1/06/2013 7:17:38 PM Howdy, Constance, Do you not consider it a tad "extreme" to refer to ordinary o.....
» 1/06/2013 6:25:02 PM The particularly sad thing about your attitude, onthebeach, is that your effort to invalid.....
» 1/06/2013 5:57:24 PM Pelican, .....hence your inability to work out individual's "do-gooder" gobbled.....
» 1/06/2013 5:29:59 PM onthebeach, What a load of bunkum. If she'd been yelling the same abuse at a school spor.....
» 1/06/2013 3:24:29 PM Don Aitkin, "Consensus" on this issue pertains to the fact that peer-reviewed l.....
» 1/06/2013 3:14:42 PM onthebeach, I put it to you that you couldn't give a toss about the "poor girl".....
» 1/06/2013 2:15:35 PM Ahh, yes, the right to offend. Lots of "rights" available to us. Like the righ.....
» 1/06/2013 12:02:22 PM Au contraire, Hasbeen. Nice try - excellent spin and all that - but... Perhaps you'd lik.....
» 1/06/2013 11:10:20 AM Oh yeah, individual. If I had the time this morning (which I don't) it would be fascinati.....
» 1/06/2013 10:45:55 AM Philip S, I'll have to congratulate you on your whopping nit-pick, re: "are now".....
» 1/06/2013 12:41:18 AM Philip S, I wouldn't dream of interrupting your flow. After all, you were bleating sever.....
» 31/05/2013 5:54:37 PM Hope you don't mind if I pull up a chair, grab a cuppa and check out this thread for awhil.....
» 31/05/2013 5:40:17 PM spindoc, I made no reference at all to Alan Jones. Having said that, shock jocks do thei.....
» 31/05/2013 3:21:12 PM Houellie, "...she may have been attempting to defend him as an oafish man." Ye.....
» 31/05/2013 2:37:19 PM Houellie, Oh you're so right. Goodes is the only player with a beard - and hair...and al.....
» 31/05/2013 2:23:16 PM Houellie, "...I don't believe he has rights to assign motive like that." What .....
» 31/05/2013 1:35:54 PM Saltpetre, Yes, it's a complicated issue being human. Especially when you're technologic.....
» 31/05/2013 1:24:51 PM spindoc, "I suggested that the science is no longer strong enough...." It's go.....
» 31/05/2013 12:42:15 PM ontheeach, What a load of absolute codswallop! If the girl was targeted, it's the fault .....
» 31/05/2013 12:27:22 PM spindoc, You keep saying that somehow the science has been negated because nations decide.....
» 31/05/2013 11:53:20 AM onthebeach, You still don't get it, do you The "monster" isn't the child. It'.....
» 31/05/2013 11:29:25 AM Another thing, Banjo. Read Goodes' words here..... http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-05-25.....
» 31/05/2013 11:17:29 AM Goodes didn't "overreact" to anthing. It was "not" a "mildly&quo.....
» 31/05/2013 10:38:41 AM praxidice, Of course, the West has been turning the other cheek forever (sarc)...or not, .....
» 31/05/2013 9:19:07 AM csteee. Thanks for your posts. One thing for sure, is that your recollections of sitting.....
» 30/05/2013 6:43:23 PM Arjay, "...What is causing it?..." I think you'll find that there has been a v.....
» 30/05/2013 4:47:02 PM praxidice, Belly was late learning to read - and has mostly educated himself in that rega.....
» 30/05/2013 12:04:40 PM Thanks, Senior Victorian, You've managed to include almost the entire compendium of denie.....
» 30/05/2013 11:08:37 AM Ah well, Anti....sorry to be the one to tell you. But you won't find any scientists aroun.....
» 30/05/2013 11:01:20 AM Oh sorry for that ...Houellie. Amazingly, I've just seen the error of my ways. Of course.....
» 30/05/2013 10:14:24 AM o sung wu, Nothing sinister. It's all very simple. This is the 21 st century. We have i.....
» 30/05/2013 9:16:36 AM Constance, Ah....South Park Conservative. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Park_Conser.....
» 30/05/2013 12:06:58 AM Fair enough, Anti....you were directing your theological reference in the main to pollies .....
» 29/05/2013 10:19:25 PM Antiseptic, ....Because of that, much of what is written is more akin to theology than sc.....
» 29/05/2013 7:51:16 PM Arjay, "....why have the courts on many occasions awarded victims of Autism compensa.....
» 29/05/2013 4:19:46 PM Bazz, Don't forget Keystone..... They're burning less oil - buying smaller cars? Good!.....
» 29/05/2013 2:13:07 PM Jayb, If I'm "soooo easy" - why are you the one who's reduced to pulling out th.....
» 29/05/2013 1:39:14 PM praxidice, SO who appointed you the arbiter of what's worth talking about? Frankly, your.....
» 29/05/2013 1:35:13 PM Ha!...Jayb, I totally expected that. The white man contorting his argument by excusing be.....
» 29/05/2013 12:20:49 PM "...biggest feral of them all - US!" Oh yeah! Sorry this is not Australian, bu.....
» 29/05/2013 11:50:05 AM And another thing. If any of those arguing in defence of racially targeted abuse as just .....
» 29/05/2013 10:56:17 AM "It has now been shown that the entire stadium was screaming Politically incorrect ta.....
» 29/05/2013 10:43:57 AM So, Bazz, are you saying that knucklehead humans are likely to experience "collapse&q.....
» 29/05/2013 10:08:17 AM runner, Are you saying that a crowd of people shouting "ape" to a footballer go.....
» 29/05/2013 9:30:43 AM Great, Jayb.....people here are criticising Goode for bringing insulting racist jibes to t.....
» 29/05/2013 9:22:06 AM Oooops...that should have been "impervious". Freudian Slip, methinks : ).....
» 29/05/2013 9:14:37 AM "...neo-liberals" eh? I'm pretty sure one couldn't categorize Lexi as a propone.....
» 29/05/2013 8:47:28 AM Yo, guys.... I'm sure all of the people here labelling Goode a cry-baby would enjoy going.....
» 29/05/2013 8:36:16 AM Here's a little info on your Dr Andrew Wakefield and his discredited study. http://scienc.....
» 28/05/2013 9:36:04 AM Thank you, qanda. Adieu : ).....
» 27/05/2013 7:41:22 PM Say what you like, imajuianutter. I mean it - go ahead. Somehow I can't see Jesus chucki.....
» 27/05/2013 6:49:45 PM Antiseptic, You may also be interested in this, which relies on empirical real world data.....
» 27/05/2013 3:04:41 PM Okay, imajulianutter... a liberal democracy with social conscience. But I'm inclined no l.....
» 27/05/2013 2:11:02 PM Jayb, Explain "....potential terrorists on here...."? If you're saying what I .....
» 27/05/2013 1:30:52 PM Josephus, Here's a recent one which got next to no press - for whatever reason. http://w.....
» 27/05/2013 11:54:17 AM Just a typo correction. That should have been - "....or were you out there bellyac.....
» 27/05/2013 10:54:04 AM imajulianutter, Regarding your question.... Answer = Because we are a social democracy. .....
» 27/05/2013 10:32:00 AM Antiseptic, On the "range of uncertainties": http://theconversation.com/uncert.....
» 27/05/2013 12:44:01 AM Arctic Amplification. http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=81214&src.....
» 26/05/2013 6:45:48 PM imajulianutter, You know, I feel a little bemused by your attitude. Having heard the bat.....
» 26/05/2013 1:10:06 PM imajulianutter, "If you are serious why don't you argue my point instead of arrogant.....
» 26/05/2013 10:58:01 AM antiseptic, ".....or in some cases that the system can oscillate within the range th.....
» 26/05/2013 1:04:01 AM csteele, I think I understand a little better what you were getting at earlier. Are you .....
» 25/05/2013 10:16:36 PM Au contraire, spindoc. Your "thinkers" are merely protecting the status quo. H.....
» 25/05/2013 9:59:02 PM David f., There are plenty of textbooks available written to conform to the Australian cu.....
» 25/05/2013 7:47:20 PM Thank you, runner......
» 25/05/2013 5:44:00 PM Loudmouth, Yes, the events in London this week were sickening in the extreme. This event.....
» 25/05/2013 11:21:40 AM csteele, I don't know that we should tag someone as a hero who sees fit to walk into an a.....
» 25/05/2013 11:05:12 AM David f, There wasn't just one reason for our deciding to homeschool, but a few. Firstly.....
» 25/05/2013 10:14:00 AM renysol, Regarding your studious reading of an article in Spiegel. Here's an article tha.....
» 25/05/2013 9:14:06 AM spindoc, "You may be right but I'm not a climate scientist so I can' help you. I can.....
» 24/05/2013 9:49:54 PM "I'll sail past and give you a wave." You do just that, imajulianutter. Don't .....
» 24/05/2013 8:59:09 PM imajulianutter, Did your children attend school? Because if they did, their places were .....
» 24/05/2013 6:13:28 PM spindoc, "....European union consumers have subsidized renewable energy investors by.....
» 24/05/2013 2:51:38 PM Yuyuttsu, I suppose it's for exactly the same reason as that enjoyed by heterosexual coup.....
» 24/05/2013 12:30:32 PM Were there any climate scientists who categorically stated that the Oklahoma tornado was c.....
» 23/05/2013 3:43:31 PM runner, Your OLO catalogue consists almost entirely of judgements you've passed on your f.....
» 23/05/2013 10:51:48 AM Very clever, cohenite. (You're promoted to grade 6).....
» 23/05/2013 10:27:00 AM WmTrevor, Are you saying there's something wrong with recycled dinosaur urine? (Filed un.....
» 23/05/2013 9:49:58 AM No matter how many years pass, SM, I'm always fascinated by your ability to dilute the for.....
» 23/05/2013 9:30:36 AM Thanks AJ...regarding dosage and poison. Meant to mention that in my post......
» 23/05/2013 8:58:21 AM To be fair, Belly, I don't believe tired was questioning our rights to an opposing view. .....
» 22/05/2013 6:09:35 PM Tired, No one is saying you're not intelligent. What we're saying is that widespread vac.....
» 22/05/2013 4:56:44 PM tired, It's not really a question of the efficacy of the vaccination.....can you give ano.....
» 22/05/2013 4:08:09 PM tired, While obviously you're entitled to make your own decisions, the vaccination progra.....
» 22/05/2013 11:54:24 AM tired, Oh well...there you go! It makes one wonder why we bother vaccinating at all(sarc.....
» 22/05/2013 10:54:31 AM That's all very well, tired....however, most people who reject vaccinations are nicely coc.....
» 22/05/2013 9:14:27 AM Yes, RM, You might like to spout your twaddle to the parents of new-born babies who contr.....
» 21/05/2013 10:22:49 AM Good question, Bruce Haigh......
» 21/05/2013 12:03:32 AM "Moody's says longer period of deficits only marginally affects Australia's creditwor.....
» 20/05/2013 7:32:53 PM Lexi and Belly, http://www.abc.net.au/unleashed/4700796.html ...from a former media advi.....
» 20/05/2013 2:41:20 PM (by "entry" I was referring to the door labelled cogent argument to counter scie.....
» 20/05/2013 1:21:12 PM Not embarrassing at all, spindoc. Just reality. The deniers on this forum are not scient.....
» 20/05/2013 10:36:30 AM Another link for you, Lexi, "Abbott focuses on profit, not people"....gaps in l.....
» 20/05/2013 10:22:44 AM spindoc, You appear to be labouring under the misapprehension that the purposeful dissemi.....
» 20/05/2013 9:49:39 AM Lexi, Perhaps we shouldn't be too hard on Hockey. He was probably still recovering from .....
» 20/05/2013 8:53:24 AM spindoc, "Do they realise they need to put their case to those who have abandoned th.....
» 19/05/2013 2:19:07 PM Dunno, cohenite, Why don't you ask Lord Monckton? He's full of it on this otherwise info.....
» 19/05/2013 9:47:37 AM Chris Lewis, The key word you used was "evidence". There "isn't" a &.....
» 18/05/2013 9:56:47 PM It's probably on indictment on something (?) that some people take it for granted that pre.....
» 18/05/2013 7:16:36 PM Hey de ho, Philip S, Regarding the "excessive" use of capitals..... One of the.....
» 18/05/2013 6:26:05 PM cohenite, When you say his articles are snide and condescending.....are you intimating th.....
» 18/05/2013 2:20:39 PM cohenite, "Readfearn is a petty little weasel." Is he? It's pretty difficult .....
» 18/05/2013 10:08:12 AM spindoc and Chris Lewis, You both appear to be overlooking Mr Abbott's plans to ramp up a.....
» 18/05/2013 9:29:33 AM JKJ - aka PeterBWAHAHHAHA, I'm afraid your last post was wall-to-wall hysterical bunkum. .....
» 18/05/2013 8:55:53 AM That's a really good post, Chris. I'm sure the "middle way" is the only path to.....
» 17/05/2013 8:16:57 PM Chris, But the name of the game "is" consumption. The whole edifice is designe.....
» 17/05/2013 7:52:41 PM Oh yeah, Lexi! Don't you know that individual has a copious and ever-expanding repertoire.....
» 17/05/2013 7:46:00 PM Chris, I'm not that knowledgeable on economics. My take is probably simplistic in that a.....
» 17/05/2013 7:05:55 PM Chris Lewis, An brief article and a graph from The Economist......seems to be backing Ala.....
» 17/05/2013 6:58:42 PM Here's a brief article and graph from The Economist.....seemingly telling us the opposite .....
» 17/05/2013 4:46:00 PM Well, ho, ho, ho, Hasbeen...the guy with the "math" reckons more C02 in the atmo.....
» 17/05/2013 3:08:46 PM Or this... http://www.china.org.cn/china/2013-04/07/content_28468610.htm http://www.rfa......
» 17/05/2013 3:05:54 PM JKJ, You seem to be referring to "sustainability" in the realms of services or .....
» 17/05/2013 1:55:11 PM spindoc, I'm sure you'll be pleased to see this (pass it on to cohenite): http://www.smh.....
» 17/05/2013 1:47:47 PM Well said, Divergence. Of course, spindoc doesn't give near enough credit to all the play.....
» 17/05/2013 12:52:24 PM David f., "....However, human activity turned much of the land into desert..." .....
» 17/05/2013 12:29:44 PM Well, David, I think it depends on one's point of view. I'm supposing Mr Rudd considers i.....
» 17/05/2013 11:07:33 AM David f., I think you're being a little pedantic and hard on Belly there. http://diction.....
» 17/05/2013 10:26:17 AM cohenite, "Did what?" Stopped Hanson and One Nation. Abbott: "If you go .....
» 17/05/2013 9:47:23 AM "Wisdom doesn't get a look in." Thanks for proving my point, runner : ).....
» 17/05/2013 9:33:02 AM cohenite, You better trot off and tell Tony. He thinks he was the one who did it. ".....
» 17/05/2013 9:08:38 AM My dearest spindoc, Humans are intelligent, adaptive, ingenious, prone to greed, myopia a.....
» 16/05/2013 8:37:02 PM onthebeach, I'll leave you to luxuriate in your ongoing gender conspiracy. Have fun!.....
» 16/05/2013 5:25:03 PM spindoc, What gives you the right to dictate whether or not someone on this forum comment.....
» 16/05/2013 5:03:47 PM onthebeach, Yes, I realise Costello was egging us on to reproduce. "Women" is .....
» 16/05/2013 3:28:46 PM What's the big deal with a little tot learning to read? There are heaps of things to lear.....
» 16/05/2013 2:59:47 PM Come now, onthebeach. The Howard government introduced the $5,000 baby bonus as an additi.....
» 16/05/2013 1:03:15 PM Yes, Foyle, It's extraordinary that very young children learn from pottering around and a.....
» 16/05/2013 12:27:49 PM cohenite, Regarding "grow-back". http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/science/indi.....
» 16/05/2013 11:31:55 AM Got that, runner. Infant suffering flu and severe fever. That's flu and severe fever...i.....
» 16/05/2013 10:58:28 AM WmTevor, "The providers of quality preschool age childcare should be their parents a.....
» 16/05/2013 10:39:52 AM Thanks for that, Tony Lavis. runner, what do you mean by "no matter how inaccurate&q.....
» 16/05/2013 9:58:32 AM An update - apparently she has now been granted a pair. http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-0.....
» 16/05/2013 9:45:50 AM Au contraire, runner. I would love an opportunity to laud Mr Abbott and his cronies. Bur.....
» 16/05/2013 9:35:27 AM Here you go, runner. Not particularly connected to the abortion debate per se. However, h.....
» 16/05/2013 9:25:11 AM cohenite, "So Abbott was the initiator. Correct?" "No...." Perhaps .....
» 16/05/2013 12:28:26 AM cohenite, Regarding Arctic sea ice in the thirties: http://climatecrocks.com/2013/04/11/.....
» 15/05/2013 11:52:33 PM Funnily enough, I'd never heard of Emily's List until I joined OLO. I think I'm wtih Suse.....
» 15/05/2013 8:58:42 PM runner, I believe I was erred slightly when I said that Mr Abbott had apologised for non-.....
» 15/05/2013 7:56:14 PM Oh pish and tish, cohenite, Let Andy "show" you what's happening with Arctic ic.....
» 15/05/2013 10:07:03 AM Why thank you, runner. Australians for Honest Politics...... Abbott: - "I had promi.....
» 14/05/2013 11:13:02 PM runner, He apologised for non-disclosure, not for setting it up. "But last night's .....
» 14/05/2013 9:55:28 PM Nice one, Mr Abbott, http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/08/26/1061663794315.html.....
» 14/05/2013 6:51:52 PM "The perils of Pauline: her breach of 'club' rules was technical rather than deceit.&.....
» 14/05/2013 4:24:13 PM Nah....wouldn't be worth the bother. Tony would just start up a slush fund to get rid of .....
» 14/05/2013 4:21:05 PM Drifting to the right?.......well, apparently the pole position is drifting to the east. .....
» 14/05/2013 12:11:35 PM Chris, Well you don't come across most times on OLO as crude. You usually come across as.....
» 14/05/2013 11:07:03 AM Chris Lewis, ".....yet AA just rips any alternative point to pieces." That's t.....
» 14/05/2013 10:40:05 AM Okay...here's a yappity, yakkity female anchor waxing lyrical right over the top of an abs.....
» 14/05/2013 9:37:13 AM Just have to add this... We have an elderly acquaintance whose father died in 2001 at 106.....
» 14/05/2013 9:24:54 AM "heh, Austin,...." "Come on, Austin..." hmmmm.....one would imagine .....
» 14/05/2013 7:59:35 AM rehctub, The origin of the phrase, "The Lucky Country"...taken from the title o.....
» 13/05/2013 11:44:45 PM cohenite, Of course you're right, I'm sure Mr Abbott's prime consideration was protecting.....
» 13/05/2013 8:04:51 PM cohenite, "Abbott had a genuine repulsion to that view and he is pilloried for it.&q.....
» 13/05/2013 5:44:06 PM Oh I don't know, imajuianutter, It's in the nature of man to imitate and copy the physica.....
» 13/05/2013 5:32:15 PM Not employed in the British health system either......
» 13/05/2013 5:06:33 PM That's not the point, runner. I was merely noting that you tend to excuse the fabulous To.....
» 13/05/2013 3:16:02 PM It's rather pointless to hold Abbott up as someone beyond reproach - although runner appea.....
» 11/05/2013 11:32:03 PM "Really it's like talking to nasty little 10 year old children." That's given m.....
» 11/05/2013 8:18:44 PM Yes, spindoc and runner, I must say that it's overwhelming to come up against such toweri.....
» 11/05/2013 3:30:04 PM JKJ, You're such a card. I s'pose this doesn't pass for science either: http://researc.....
» 11/05/2013 1:08:56 PM Not only that, rehctub, but it's irrelevant as well...... ...as is your bowl of soup obse.....
» 11/05/2013 12:44:04 PM coheite, If Lexi's Tinkerbell. Then you must be.......http://www.rohpress.com/images/hoo.....
» 11/05/2013 12:33:52 PM JKJ, For the last 800,000 years, your "harmless odorless element" appears to ha.....
» 11/05/2013 9:26:54 AM That's odd, runner. You seem to spend an inordinate amount of time on this forum urging p.....
» 10/05/2013 10:59:04 PM Er Cherful, according to this article, Indonesia received $491 "million" in fore.....
» 10/05/2013 9:47:33 PM rehctub, Australia spends around 35 cents in every $100 on foreign aid. 0.35 percent of .....
» 10/05/2013 5:14:30 PM That 's fine with me, runner. If you're telling me the "principled" Opposition .....
» 10/05/2013 1:21:58 PM Lol, yerself, imajulainutter, It wasn't I who made that statement. It was the Opposition'.....
» 10/05/2013 10:15:59 AM Loudmouth, Of course I've contemplated hypotheticals. For instance, recently I've ponder.....
» 10/05/2013 9:42:15 AM Oh dear, runner, Haven't you heard that Mr Abbott has come over to the dark side. http:/.....
» 10/05/2013 9:05:29 AM It seems the author missed this: http://watchingthedeniers.wordpress.com/2013/04/25/how-t.....
» 10/05/2013 12:50:07 AM Just what I expected from a bloke spruiking from atop a cereal box. Exhibit 1 - "........
» 10/05/2013 12:11:34 AM Give up, Joe. Your soapbox is made of cardboard......
» 9/05/2013 11:40:44 PM Philip S, It look me all of 30 seconds to get each link. I hate to disappoint you, but I.....
» 9/05/2013 9:41:06 PM Philip S, I requested you stop shouting after this: http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/th.....
» 9/05/2013 8:50:25 PM Philip S, http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/rules.asp.....
» 9/05/2013 7:57:30 PM Just have to say... Loudmouth puts up a baseless hypothesis. and when Lexi points out th.....
» 9/05/2013 7:06:50 PM Nothing like that ever would come up....Loudmouth. Are you suggesting that people ".....
» 9/05/2013 6:17:06 PM imajulianutter, Well it just caught my eye..... It's hilarious, but not to my taste at a.....
» 9/05/2013 6:09:01 PM What a silly man you're turning out to be, Loudmouth." "....if the story were t.....
» 9/05/2013 4:41:00 PM and still he continues. The so-called story that started this thread has been completely .....
» 9/05/2013 4:23:28 PM "Easier to flap around and divert." Yep, like this http://forum.onlineopinion.c.....
» 9/05/2013 3:45:09 PM Well yer can't beat this.... http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-05-09/is-it-a-bird-is-it-a-p.....
» 9/05/2013 2:16:16 PM I don't think most criminals give a hoot about cameras. Let's face it, most of us don't .....
» 9/05/2013 10:18:31 AM Yar, cohenite, I'll have to acquiesce on this one. You'd have to go a long way to find a .....
» 8/05/2013 7:57:23 PM Philip S, http://www.networketiquette.net/core_rules_do_not_use_all_caps.html I'm sure y.....
» 8/05/2013 4:00:08 PM Lexi, Joe should know.....he's a veritable whiz at strawman construction. : ).....
» 8/05/2013 3:18:05 PM Belly, I take your point....that a filmed society apparently hurts nobody... Could it be.....
» 8/05/2013 3:02:37 PM Philip S, Don't take me for a dill. Capitals employed for the odd word here and there ar.....
» 8/05/2013 11:50:35 AM Belly, "....the world is a better place for the use of cameras." Are you sensi.....
» 8/05/2013 12:27:41 AM individual, Regarding Agatha Christie, I suspect you're right to the extent that there ex.....
» 7/05/2013 8:19:53 PM Stop shouting, Philip S. Cohenite, "...this loathing of Australia..." The onl.....
» 7/05/2013 1:53:02 PM Yo, Hasbeen. I understand. It's only Western men who devote their lives to their kids an.....
» 7/05/2013 1:30:14 PM Why thank you, runner......
» 7/05/2013 1:18:11 PM Thanks for all the shouting, Philip S... The one thing stands out in all this is the surf.....
» 7/05/2013 1:04:51 PM I don't have a problem with Jesus at all, runner. I do have a problem with people who emp.....
» 7/05/2013 12:39:03 PM runner, Haw, haw, haw... There's something singularly fascinating about you accusing ano.....
» 6/05/2013 11:59:04 PM individual, "Years ago they used guns to invade other countries, nowadays it's done .....
» 6/05/2013 7:55:12 PM You got off lightly, Lexi. When I venture onto threads like this, the esteemed cohenite f.....
» 6/05/2013 6:52:53 PM Following on... Beyond Blue is launching a campaign to tackle anxiety. http://www.abc.ne.....
» 6/05/2013 5:17:30 PM Lexi, Don't waste your breath on runner. I'm still waiting for him to demonstrate a sker.....
» 6/05/2013 4:56:33 PM Just thought I'd include an excerpt from Tom Hodgkinson's "How To Be Free". &qu.....
» 6/05/2013 2:41:16 PM runner, "Are you" referring to "allegations" involving Mr Thomson. N.....
» 6/05/2013 12:37:23 PM Not really saying anything, Loudmouth. Merely relaying an experience from one women who at.....
» 6/05/2013 10:52:17 AM Hee hee, WmTrevor, Modern technology does deliver some beauties. When my son-in-law was .....
» 6/05/2013 10:13:45 AM Here's a bloke who provided aid for thousands of people in peril. He provided false ident.....
» 6/05/2013 9:57:23 AM Actually, Loudmouth, I used to know a woman who led the Greens federally in Canada. I sti.....
» 6/05/2013 9:27:33 AM Ha ha, Ludwig...I know just what you mean. I'm an expert at letting bloomers slip through.....
» 6/05/2013 8:55:58 AM Actually, Belly, the cameras were only one piece of the jigsaw that went towards stopping .....
» 5/05/2013 9:11:36 PM You've got a hide, Joe. You're the one who posted that bilge for no reason other than to .....
» 5/05/2013 7:34:08 PM It seems Loudmouth is right, Lexi. http://www.npr.org/2012/01/19/145468365/in-egypts-new-.....
» 5/05/2013 7:20:11 PM JKJ, Firstly, thanks for your positive engagement. I haven't got time right now, but wil.....
» 5/05/2013 3:35:57 PM onthebeach, "I have become more concerned about the loss of trust and good vibes in .....
» 5/05/2013 3:13:19 PM "So, Poirot, behead me" Oh, Wow, Loudmouth - You've been waffling away here a.....
» 5/05/2013 12:13:29 PM Tinned soup and sangers? British cuisine at its best!.....
» 5/05/2013 11:18:49 AM How about spin doctors and CCTV technicians for a start?.....
» 5/05/2013 11:11:03 AM Not to mention the warm fuzzy feeling they'd derive from reading comments in places like O.....
» 5/05/2013 10:07:41 AM Morning cohenite, I'll see your Goofy cartoon, and raise you this. http://wattsupwiththa.....
» 5/05/2013 9:19:52 AM Pericles and JKJ, I'm willing to read your information, and I won't pretend that I'm part.....
» 5/05/2013 7:57:39 AM sonofgloin, Re my "sheeshes"....it's not so much frustration, as incredulity. .....
» 4/05/2013 8:33:52 PM JKJ, "Poirot There's no point in discussing it if you can't understand that logical .....
» 4/05/2013 7:44:46 PM That was me, sonofgloin, Yes, I realise that WmTrevor has already pointed out your folly......
» 4/05/2013 6:28:48 PM sonofgloin, That's quite amazing. You say "....I gave you a link to the Australian.....
» 4/05/2013 6:10:01 PM Well that's interesting, Lexi. Particularly the part that states: "The UNHCR emphas.....
» 4/05/2013 5:51:20 PM misanthrope, While I never voted for a government under Howard, I fail to see how Ms Gill.....
» 4/05/2013 3:20:40 PM Just wanted to add, regarding your focus on Lebanese incarcerations, sonofgloin, that you .....
» 4/05/2013 1:46:17 PM Yup, Banjo... It seems we penalise some more than others. If you arrive by plane and ove.....
» 4/05/2013 12:04:16 PM sonofgloin, And your posts have an over-representation of assumption and statement withou.....
» 4/05/2013 10:35:00 AM And believe me, Belly...if there's a question as to whether someone displays intelligence .....
» 4/05/2013 9:44:56 AM Bazz, I was merely asking sonofgloin to back up his assertion that 20% of prison internee.....
» 4/05/2013 9:12:44 AM individual, Yes, dear, we know.....yada, yada, yada....everyone who can string a few word.....
» 4/05/2013 12:01:38 AM JKJ, You said to Ludwig on the subject of sustainability, "....I'll show why I thin.....
» 3/05/2013 9:02:38 PM But Josephus, The amount of alcohol taken home 'isn't' limited. Pubs and venues that se.....
» 3/05/2013 8:54:30 PM sonofgloin,, You wrote that: "Middle Easterners are just above 2% of the population.....
» 3/05/2013 6:44:25 PM You're hardly worth the trouble, Loudmouth. We are discussing those nurses of Muslim fait.....
» 3/05/2013 6:18:39 PM Loudmouth, That would be the most pathetic a post you've ever put up. Waffling on about .....
» 3/05/2013 6:01:34 PM sonofgloin, Do you have a "credible" source for your 20 percent? Just asking?.....
» 3/05/2013 3:35:30 PM misanthrope, As I read it, nursing staff have been required to have bare arms from the el.....
» 3/05/2013 3:12:25 PM sonofgloin, The thing that puzzles me is "why" would you think that British ho.....
» 3/05/2013 10:55:15 AM But, cohenite, there isn't a "watching throng". There are just a few of us stan.....
» 3/05/2013 8:38:52 AM Excellent, Tony Lavis. That's exactly the impression I received from the Daily Mail artic.....
» 3/05/2013 8:13:37 AM Yes, Belly, your last line says it well enough. The esteemed Mr individual rarely elucida.....
» 3/05/2013 12:32:12 AM sonofgloin, Care to provide this same story from a credible news source...because I've lo.....
» 2/05/2013 11:25:29 PM Sorry about that, cohenite. I don't know what came over me. Don't be too disappointed wi.....
» 2/05/2013 8:32:57 PM "Pffft" Well yes, qanda...it gets like that sometimes : ) cohenite, Graham Re.....
» 2/05/2013 6:32:01 PM Settle down, Stephan. And don't put words in my mouth. Nowhere did I attempt to justify .....
» 2/05/2013 4:51:35 PM The problem is, Rhys, that we appear to moving in a retrograde direction. More women and .....
» 2/05/2013 4:25:16 PM Just to clarify my point above. It's all very well to say how far we've come and how we s.....
» 2/05/2013 3:35:17 PM ".....It's all about society's attitude to it's most vulnerable members....." Y.....
» 2/05/2013 3:24:47 PM misanthrope, Perhaps "Labor" ain't what they used to be. Perhaps some people h.....
» 2/05/2013 3:06:14 PM Here's an interesting comparison. Canada's population has just passed the 35 million mark.....
» 2/05/2013 2:56:34 PM Don't try and pull that one, JKJ. "....I'll show why I think government can't achiev.....
» 2/05/2013 1:59:36 PM Yuyutsu, It's all about consumption, don't you know : ) Take this natty observation from.....
» 2/05/2013 11:44:27 AM Not at all, WmTrevor. I'm sure if I was more like Cora, I'd be much nicer and more refine.....
» 2/05/2013 11:21:23 AM Lexi, "...but under the circumstances it's reasonable to make an exception." E.....
» 2/05/2013 10:56:47 AM JOM, That probably applies to all of us.........
» 2/05/2013 10:53:07 AM JKJ, Why don't you show it then? I don't know that I'm on the side of unlimited arbitrar.....
» 2/05/2013 10:35:19 AM Here you go, rehctub, More evidence that good "old Australia" is still alive an.....
» 2/05/2013 9:21:55 AM JKJ, "But the discussion will be pointless if you are not interested in learning how.....
» 1/05/2013 5:32:06 PM Yes, WmTrevor - thin edge of the wedge, indeed. Just a little more on the LEGO products. .....
» 1/05/2013 2:14:08 PM onthebeach, I didn't come onto this thread to answer your questions. I came onto this th.....
» 1/05/2013 1:03:31 PM But, onthebeach, you've already been my mouthpiece - apparently. Here's what you attribut.....
» 1/05/2013 12:18:14 PM But you didn't ask me a simple question, onthebeach. You imputed and attributed all kinds.....
» 1/05/2013 12:06:59 PM cohenite, "Transparency is the key to science and most things". Agree. What t.....
» 1/05/2013 11:14:50 AM Thank you, Lexi. Of course, I'm not averse to a little heated debate. Usually, however, .....
» 1/05/2013 10:27:43 AM Oh, I don't know, Anti. The boys can do anything meme is still running fairly strong in m.....
» 1/05/2013 9:38:42 AM Oh, I don't know, cohenite, he did refer to your abundance of "links" from the p.....
» 30/04/2013 11:02:48 PM Josephus, I hope you're not referring to onthebeach's inquiry of the meaning of marriage .....
» 30/04/2013 7:53:03 PM o sung wu, Just wanted to let you know that there were heaps of children and young people.....
» 30/04/2013 6:36:48 PM JBowyer....er, cohenite's on your side.... Regarding Tony and his ability to "cut cl.....
» 30/04/2013 1:27:50 PM Yeah, I'm wondering about violence in our so-called civilised society in general. I had t.....
» 30/04/2013 12:46:44 PM onthebeach, http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?discussion=5746&page=0#160986 I.....
» 30/04/2013 10:48:16 AM qanda, I'm sure you'll be interested in this: http://oncirculation.com/2013/04/30/6510/ .....
» 30/04/2013 10:36:08 AM onthebeach, My initial "deposit, as you so graciously put it, was directed at Joseph.....
» 29/04/2013 9:02:34 PM onthebeach, I recall you've pulled this stunt on me before...before ducking out squeaking.....
» 29/04/2013 8:11:25 PM What a strange little adversarial person you are, onthebeach...with a particular liking to.....
» 29/04/2013 6:58:29 PM cohenite, It's becoming increasingly difficult to track the "skeptical" argumen.....
» 29/04/2013 6:16:45 PM Anti, It's not surprising that homeschooling is rare in that country with a far superior .....
» 29/04/2013 4:26:23 PM cohenite, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_law.....
» 29/04/2013 2:57:46 PM Rhosty, Regarding your suggestion of compulsory pre-school (which, btw, is in place now i.....
» 29/04/2013 2:32:13 PM "Urgent and Grave" http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-04-29/gillard-flags-spending.....
» 29/04/2013 2:02:07 PM onthebeach, You're not "entitled" to a response simply because you ask a questi.....
» 29/04/2013 12:55:00 PM onthebeach, Who said I scorned marriage? I merely pointed out to Josephus that the act o.....
» 29/04/2013 11:38:40 AM cohenite, The denier message just gets more garbled by the moment. Anthony Watts must sit.....
» 29/04/2013 10:52:01 AM Josephus, We've been through this before (when you used to be Philo) The biological unio.....
» 29/04/2013 9:10:09 AM Yeah, Lexi....I had a quick peruse of your last link, and it summed up the feeling I get a.....
» 28/04/2013 1:12:56 PM The Clive Palmer thing seems to have a bit of the Donald Trumps about it. What happened w.....
» 28/04/2013 1:02:26 PM Thank you, spindoc, But, pray tell, what do you think of Abbott's plans, considering you'.....
» 28/04/2013 12:39:17 PM Hasbeen, You left out climategate 3. Are you intimating by omission that it was a bit o.....
» 28/04/2013 10:38:45 AM sonofgloin, Wasn't it around the same time that we ramped up activity in the North West, .....
» 28/04/2013 10:27:52 AM spindoc, "Wouldn't it be nice to have the current generation suffer the austerity co.....
» 27/04/2013 11:13:25 PM Lexi, Thanks for an entertaining thread. I see you are following the wise words of His H.....
» 27/04/2013 11:12:01 AM Blow it out yer ear, Hasbeen. I was responding to a link provided by the esteemed cohenit.....
» 27/04/2013 10:59:49 AM Arjay, You've failed to address the fact that your opening premise of a link between the .....
» 27/04/2013 10:36:57 AM cohenite, Considering I'm not a scientist (that makes two of us:), I seem to have a knack.....
» 27/04/2013 12:14:59 AM cohenite, What do you reckon about this? http://watchingthedeniers.wordpress.com/2013/04.....
» 26/04/2013 10:19:08 AM cohenite, My personal opinion is that the use of the noose was over the top - something a.....
» 25/04/2013 11:23:21 PM "AGW scientists are not honest because AGW science is flawed and wrong; only deniers,.....
» 25/04/2013 3:23:56 PM individual, "Can you provide some figures?" No, but I can supply some common s.....
» 25/04/2013 10:12:17 AM When a country's education model is flawed, randomly raining technology down upon it merel.....
» 25/04/2013 9:12:08 AM That's quite amusing, individual. Pray tell, when should a scientist consider themselves .....
» 24/04/2013 3:44:45 PM I dunno, rehctub - it seems that old Australia is still very much alive and well...... ht.....
» 24/04/2013 1:41:32 PM Nothing like a little cutting edge technology to fight the forces of evil... http://www.g.....
» 24/04/2013 1:37:19 PM Here's the premium guide to Boston Marathon conspiracies. http://www.wired.com/dangerroom.....
» 24/04/2013 11:02:54 AM cohenite, "I saw some establishment shots of scientists being just ordinary good fol.....
» 23/04/2013 9:11:10 PM This would be an abstract of the "paper". http://www.nature.com/ngeo/journal/va.....
» 23/04/2013 7:21:44 PM The university is looking forward to hosting the Tibetan spiritual leader - in June. http.....
» 23/04/2013 11:35:19 AM So sorry, Hasbeen...I have to keep reminding myself how gullible I am. Btw, talking of ho.....
» 23/04/2013 10:55:32 AM Curmudgeon, Care to explain all the other "pauses" during the late twentieth ce.....
» 23/04/2013 10:43:39 AM Hasbeen, Just musing.... Are you saying that everyone just sat on their rumps and did no.....
» 22/04/2013 8:28:08 PM Wow, Peter's on form tonight... Two "fallacies" An "absent authority".....
» 22/04/2013 8:06:07 PM Then again, Arjay...we're dealing with a doctored clip. http://news.ninemsn.com.au/entert.....
» 22/04/2013 7:55:52 PM "Not that I think Glenn Beck is credible mind you...." I wonder why, in that ca.....
» 22/04/2013 12:37:15 PM "..You pair have convinced me. I will get that tyre valve removal tool, next time I'm.....
» 22/04/2013 11:37:33 AM Anti, Do you reckon that the course of action that you took is likely to bring this guy's.....
» 22/04/2013 10:46:35 AM david f, Here's an excellent article from a lecture by Tony Judt on social democracy..........
» 22/04/2013 10:38:02 AM Anti, So you are saying that if you had instead taken the guy's number and reported the $.....
» 22/04/2013 9:38:42 AM Just wondering, Anti, if your dangerous projectile, the "can of beans" had sever.....
» 22/04/2013 9:19:11 AM Anti, I realise the sand castle scenario isn't pertinent to a car park, yet it is pertine.....
» 22/04/2013 8:40:42 AM And the other thing that puzzles me is that most here are fairly keen to damage the offend.....
» 22/04/2013 7:55:17 AM I suppose the main question in my mind is, if the person who damaged Hasbeen's car was awa.....
» 21/04/2013 7:10:24 PM Not quite sure what you're getting at, Loudmouth. (In case it's a dig at my homeschooling.....
» 21/04/2013 5:14:31 PM David f., "....Children are entitled to a good education whether or not their parent.....
» 20/04/2013 9:28:04 AM "I don't reckon that's much of an example." Why am I not surprised....(even if .....
» 20/04/2013 9:06:12 AM That's a bit odd, Lexi. Judging by your recent eulogizing of the late Margaret Thatcher a.....
» 19/04/2013 8:22:05 PM Is it really too hard to aspire to the Finnish model? http://www.weareteachers.com/hot-to.....
» 19/04/2013 9:00:41 AM It's been quite interesting following the information on this thread. I had no idea where .....
» 17/04/2013 8:32:44 PM Might be of interest: http://www.abc.net.au/religion/articles/2013/04/16/3738495.htm.....
» 16/04/2013 5:07:09 PM Jon J, Some additional info on the acceleration of the summer melt in Antarctica. http:/.....
» 16/04/2013 4:55:57 PM Graeme, I agree that chucking money at education is not a panacea, and never has been. I.....
» 16/04/2013 11:16:47 AM Well, yeah, guys...silly me....I can now see the merits in rehctub's idea of "segrega.....
» 16/04/2013 8:17:56 AM Gosh, rehctub, your middle-class puritanism knows no bounds. What a great idea! It'll be.....
» 14/04/2013 5:44:43 PM mhaze, Killarney, Here's a collection of data sets giving a good idea of comparative fort.....
» 14/04/2013 10:37:21 AM Well, Hasbeen, I have to agree with you on this one. When young people are given the oppo.....
» 13/04/2013 7:07:02 PM RObert, "....two to three high school age students die by suicide every week...".....
» 13/04/2013 6:51:24 PM An insightful commentary on Thatcher's legacy from Killarney in the Article's section: ht.....
» 13/04/2013 6:43:56 PM Spot on, Killarney!!.....
» 13/04/2013 1:27:38 PM Notwithstanding the pic at the top of the article - (which I don't necessarily support) - .....
» 13/04/2013 12:13:12 PM mhaze, No-one is claiming that the parlous state of Britain's economy didn't need address.....
» 13/04/2013 11:13:30 AM Just a brief addendum to Thatcher's "miracle" transformation of Britain. As we .....
» 13/04/2013 10:25:36 AM constance, I do understand what Belly is saying. He's inferring that if one "protes.....
» 13/04/2013 9:09:36 AM rehctub, "The whole trouble with politics is that is that everyone gets a say in who.....
» 13/04/2013 8:46:44 AM Belly, Am I right in supposing that you believe that anyone who criticizes the extreme ri.....
» 12/04/2013 11:26:01 PM I'll also point out, SM, that children with developmental delays and similar challenges ar.....
» 11/04/2013 5:54:34 PM Grow up, onthebeach. Thatcher's legacy is being discussed up and down the internet, the a.....
» 11/04/2013 4:02:58 PM You can guarantee that all those feminist caves would be replete with the very latest in s.....
» 11/04/2013 3:54:08 PM spindoc, "...gutless cretins..." Well, deary me! What happened to this sentime.....
» 11/04/2013 2:37:55 PM I know just what you mean, Hasbeen....bloody women Take this, for instance: http://www.a.....
» 11/04/2013 2:25:31 PM Yes, Lexi, it's interesting. But aside from the plaudits for "longest serving this&q.....
» 11/04/2013 10:44:23 AM Houellie, I did get your point. (Those women were in their 30's/40's btw from my friend'.....
» 11/04/2013 10:22:13 AM Houellie, I imagine that women committing vicious attacks would be in the minority compar.....
» 10/04/2013 11:03:08 PM Yes, Constance - it seems we can.........
» 10/04/2013 8:45:34 PM spindoc, If you are curious as to my aversion to Thatcher's policies and her legacy - the.....
» 10/04/2013 8:10:13 PM spindoc, What is your problem? You're the one having a hissy fit and throwing personal i.....
» 10/04/2013 4:16:48 PM Of course, that should be "public"......
» 10/04/2013 3:53:43 PM spindoc, I don't really care. I didn't like Thatcher's style and I've said so. So what?.....
» 10/04/2013 3:44:34 PM Anti, Just quickly. You are right. The Vice Admiral I referred to earlier married the da.....
» 10/04/2013 2:02:39 PM Yada, yada, yada, spindoc..... So was Morrissey the only person to ever raise anti-Thatch.....
» 10/04/2013 1:40:18 PM A compelling article on the Thatcher era by Russell Brand: http://m.guardian.co.uk/politi.....
» 10/04/2013 12:44:31 PM You pay nothing, and you pretty much end up with something akin to the quality of Hasbeen'.....
» 10/04/2013 12:40:51 PM Here's a point of view. http://www.alternet.org/world/singer-morrisseys-scathing-letter-p.....
» 10/04/2013 10:49:51 AM Antiseptic, Just briefly, because it's off the main track. Just wanted to say that the a.....
» 10/04/2013 9:38:52 AM csteele, That's interesting... On the other hand, another province, Alberta, hosts the s.....
» 9/04/2013 3:26:59 PM Onzebeach, Would you say that British women escaped their "civic responsibilities&qu.....
» 9/04/2013 1:34:58 PM cohenite, To tell you the truth, I'm a bit boggled about the whole thing - and sick of sl.....
» 9/04/2013 1:19:09 PM Yes, Danielle, I realise that. My point being that with the influence of the aristocratic.....
» 9/04/2013 12:51:23 PM Too true, Anti, you haven't run...but pray tell, what is "constructive" about a .....
» 9/04/2013 12:36:57 PM onthebeach, There you go again - surmising things of which you have no idea. My "pe.....
» 9/04/2013 10:19:26 AM Hi Anti...nice to see you contributing again. One thing though, why are you critiquing Su.....
» 9/04/2013 10:10:03 AM Lexi, US gross debt to GDP ratio is actually 107 percent. http://www.usdebtclock.org/ B.....
» 9/04/2013 8:58:46 AM Here's an epoch more similar to our own. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pliocene_climate h.....
» 8/04/2013 8:58:42 PM cohenite, Care to start a thread on hot autumns? Rather warm in the West lately.... htt.....
» 8/04/2013 2:12:15 PM mhaze, "...Wouldn't those cloud do the same job as the sea ice in reflecting the sun.....
» 8/04/2013 12:40:56 PM Graeme M, "...whether that matters depends on the extent to which CO2 has any effect.....
» 8/04/2013 9:45:47 AM Just wanted to add that to my way of thinking, the human induced release of CO2 could be c.....
» 8/04/2013 9:17:57 AM mhaze, Hope you don't mind if I put this here. I was doing some reading, mainly interest.....
» 7/04/2013 4:25:36 PM Banjo, Perhaps it's difficult for you to imagine that the activities of a certain organis.....
» 7/04/2013 2:08:56 PM More on the Northern Hemisphere chill and the negative phase of Arctic oscillation. Delic.....
» 7/04/2013 1:51:07 PM Banjo, The climate system is complicated, and as one book I read recently suggests, plane.....
» 7/04/2013 11:06:55 AM Just out of interest, here's some info on the Arctic Oscillation and the recent chill in t.....
» 6/04/2013 10:22:03 PM Yo, Joe, Be interesting to see what happens if we can nudge it up to 2 or 3 (or more) deg.....
» 6/04/2013 9:41:47 PM Sorry belly for going off on a tangent. For what it's worth I think the average Joe in th.....
» 6/04/2013 6:25:54 PM Graeme M, "....In terms of the energy budget, there is no more or less energy....&qu.....
» 6/04/2013 3:23:42 PM Bazz, qanda has already answered you question in reply to Graeme M...but here you go any.....
» 6/04/2013 2:07:12 PM Graeme, I understand that you have an opinion and that you are skeptical. The fact that .....
» 6/04/2013 12:44:51 PM Yes, Hasbeen.....those con men are still at it. (Apparently all those tens of thousands o.....
» 6/04/2013 12:35:02 PM Graeme, If the planet is currently building up heat - that amounts to adding energy to ou.....
» 6/04/2013 9:26:39 AM Graeme M, Further reading: http://www.skepticalscience.com/Second-law-of-thermodynamics-.....
» 6/04/2013 9:23:49 AM SPQR, I wasn't trying to prove anything specifically. It was the fact that the article w.....
» 6/04/2013 12:27:47 AM Wow yerself, Loudy. I was reading this evening from a book titled "The Goldilocks Pl.....
» 5/04/2013 7:46:40 PM Loudmouth, Yes, it's clear that you like to imagine that you "think for yourself&quo.....
» 5/04/2013 5:26:33 PM mhaze, Bazz, Interesting article....the implications of ice melt. http://science.nasa.go.....
» 5/04/2013 1:49:45 PM cohenite, Here's something else from NASA. It's from 2004, but pertinent to this subject......
» 5/04/2013 1:14:53 PM Not so fast, mhaze... Have you any information on sea levels during similar warm periods .....
» 5/04/2013 9:57:39 AM And then there's this: http://hot-topic.co.nz/monckton-in-nz-tells-lies-on-radio-threaten.....
» 5/04/2013 9:44:36 AM Thanks qanda, Graeme, A couple of points: On the subject of "belief", this ar.....
» 5/04/2013 8:45:29 AM Loudmouth, "Ultimately, we have to do our own thinking, based on the best informatio.....
» 4/04/2013 11:51:30 PM Complex systems, Loudmouth. http://rabett.blogspot.com.au/2013/03/melting-ice-and-cold-we.....
» 4/04/2013 9:01:39 PM Hey guys, Nice to know there's another "skeptic" here to swell the ranks, who a.....
» 4/04/2013 7:40:13 PM Graeme M, Very well, I don't expect you to believe "IN" the theory of evolution.....
» 4/04/2013 6:47:43 PM Hasbeen, "Did you notice that that lot had their paper chucked out..." What do.....
» 4/04/2013 6:30:25 PM Ahem, cohenite.... http://theclimatescepticsparty.blogspot.com.au/2013/04/mini-ice-age-ha.....
» 4/04/2013 5:43:17 PM Okay boys, obviously the game's up.... Apparently, according to the "NO CARBON TAX C.....
» 4/04/2013 5:22:23 PM mhaze, Ho hum..... http://tamino.wordpress.com/2013/03/22/the-tick/ http://tamino.wordp.....
» 4/04/2013 4:12:48 PM Graeme M, Just to bring you up to speed... runner doesn't believe in the Theory of Evolu.....
» 4/04/2013 1:01:58 PM Graeme, Just quickly, as I'm on my way out.... "skeptics" (in inverted comment.....
» 4/04/2013 11:59:58 AM Ho, Ho Ho...Hasbeen. Gawd! - he's onto me....(egad!) Just for the record - no I'm not th.....
» 4/04/2013 10:35:38 AM Wow, Graeme M...here was I thinking that we had ourselves a new skeptic who was at least c.....
» 4/04/2013 9:25:30 AM cohenite, "...Marcott simply smoothed away all the nasty warm periods in the past........
» 4/04/2013 9:14:00 AM Yes, yes, yes, Bazz...yada, yada, yada Graham Lloyd didn't actually quote Pachauri in tha.....
» 4/04/2013 8:53:55 AM Graeme M, Yes, it's interesting that the "skeptic" sites have taken up that Mar.....
» 3/04/2013 8:00:33 PM Well to be honest with you, Loudmouth, it seems I was being a tad naive and pedantic nitpi.....
» 3/04/2013 4:09:17 PM Come off it, Hasbeen, You, who frequents all the denier sites, wouldn't know a peer-revie.....
» 3/04/2013 3:48:47 PM Graeme M, "So I'm afraid I will have to take your science with a grain of salt.".....
» 3/04/2013 11:14:13 AM Have to agree with everything Lexi said.....
» 3/04/2013 11:05:41 AM Geoffrey, Further reading: http://www.skepticalscience.com/anthrocarbon-brief.html Spec.....
» 3/04/2013 10:19:12 AM You are absolutely correct, Jayb, that I've only addressed Iftikhar's opening post. ..........
» 3/04/2013 9:09:17 AM Peter, So you're exiting, having produced exactly nil scientific exposition on your asser.....
» 3/04/2013 1:27:35 AM spindoc, I've really been at a loss for words this evening. It's so rare on forums for us.....
» 2/04/2013 10:16:15 PM Loudmouth, "...mis-stating what people mean..." (Pot-Kettle:) Listen up, mate.....
» 2/04/2013 8:14:42 PM Jayb, I've already told you that I have no Muslim affiliation. My reaction is to hysteri.....
» 2/04/2013 6:34:44 PM "Divert that, Poirot". There you go, rambling on, espousing your views - ostens.....
» 2/04/2013 3:44:28 PM spindoc, It's a shame you feel that you are exposing yourself to ridicule and accusations.....
» 2/04/2013 3:19:45 PM My point, Tony Lavis, has always been that on these threads "bigoted, intolerant or a.....
» 2/04/2013 11:05:53 AM cohenite, Really?...I'm an activist? You know what the score is in reality. Climate sci.....
» 2/04/2013 10:15:46 AM Tony Lavis, Arabic is a language, not an attitude. You had better take it up with the cur.....
» 2/04/2013 9:28:59 AM Hi qanda - yes, the opportunity is always there to ask questions. We're indebted to scient.....
» 2/04/2013 1:40:03 AM Loudmouth, "But whether any language should be taught using state funding, in school.....
» 1/04/2013 7:11:25 PM Yes, well cohenite, I don't pretend I have the expertise of a climate scientist (like you .....
» 1/04/2013 3:31:42 PM Constance, Puerile response. Any sponsorship not only aids an individual, it also assist.....
» 1/04/2013 2:22:08 PM Jayb, "...He said he wanted the quran taught to Australian children in Australian sc.....
» 1/04/2013 12:58:06 PM Lexi, Constance's calling card is to dollop out abuse...and it appears she's got a pencha.....
» 1/04/2013 11:08:37 AM Constance, You are notable for your series of star performances whereby you jump onto a t.....
» 1/04/2013 10:23:20 AM Nice try, Loudmouth.... You employ "sweetie" and "Love" as a tactic w.....
» 1/04/2013 10:06:05 AM Lexi, Jayb finds it difficult to debate these issues unless he can construct a strawman. .....
» 1/04/2013 9:23:02 AM Excellent, Loudmouth. I see you've retrieved it from where you left it....which just happ.....
» 1/04/2013 12:28:16 AM Here you go, JKJ. When you're finished with your present exercise in whatever it is you're.....
» 1/04/2013 12:15:24 AM Loudmouth, "Divert ! At all costs, divert !" Did you loose your way around OLO.....
» 31/03/2013 10:24:36 PM JKJ, You are most fulsomely entertaining : ) There you are issuing "fails" and.....
» 31/03/2013 8:06:21 PM Fair enough, Geoffrey - we had a nice gathering here too : ).....
» 31/03/2013 7:14:20 PM Geoffrey, Sorry about that. It was just that you seemed uncommonly fussy about sources, s.....
» 31/03/2013 6:05:21 PM csteele, It's all about JKJ "winning", don't you see. His favourite drum to be.....
» 31/03/2013 5:22:54 PM Geoffrey, Being that you are a dentist and that you aren't a climate scientist explains y.....
» 31/03/2013 1:13:27 PM Geoffrey, I noticed that from "one" individual on the AGW side, because the pas.....
» 31/03/2013 1:05:26 PM spindork, "You parrot back that this is not so..." No I didn't. "...filt.....
» 31/03/2013 11:17:32 AM GK, You appear to be inordinately fond of "politicising" the climate debate. Yo.....
» 31/03/2013 11:02:48 AM GK, "...they only quote, or read articles or papers that are from one side of the Cl.....
» 31/03/2013 9:13:47 AM SM, You trot out an article quoting a spokesman for the Global Warming Policy Foundation......
» 30/03/2013 11:29:31 PM Yeah, Lexi.....apparently we misread the intentions of Loudmouth et al in these threads. .....
» 30/03/2013 10:46:49 AM "Back to the issues, Poirot." Yup..... http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/threa.....
» 30/03/2013 10:09:11 AM Forgive me, Jayb...I was under the impression this type of thread was merely an opportunit.....
» 29/03/2013 10:52:55 PM "...divert that..." Sorry boys for interrupting your reverie. I know how import.....
» 29/03/2013 8:49:34 PM Silly me...I was bored so decided to peruse the last three pages....what a grotty little t.....
» 29/03/2013 1:20:10 PM mhaze, "...craving for power...just power for its own sake." Seems to be a bit.....
» 29/03/2013 11:26:45 AM rehctub, If anything, it's probably got more to do with the quality of debate around here.....
» 29/03/2013 11:20:26 AM Hasbeen If you're trying to blame your electricity charge increase on the carbon tax, Ton.....
» 27/03/2013 1:40:12 PM Hi csteele - you're keen! : ) I just thought I'd toss this into the ring...John Abraham d.....
» 27/03/2013 10:25:39 AM Bazz, Regarding Graham Lloyd's quoting of Pachauri: http://skepticalscience.com/australi.....
» 27/03/2013 8:51:26 AM Here you go boys... I'll post this here so you can tell me we can't possibly be warming i.....
» 27/03/2013 8:34:28 AM Wow, SPQR, I see you're presenting your investigative cherry-pick as some kind of game-ch.....
» 27/03/2013 8:20:49 AM Au contraire, Hasbeen, Mrs B is probably working at a daycare centre wiping Mrs A's child.....
» 26/03/2013 11:38:38 PM JKJ, Sorry to interrupt your self-congratulatory reverie (You seem inordinately fond of t.....
» 26/03/2013 5:58:50 PM I'd like to see how capitalism could do without so-called service industries, Hasbeen. We.....
» 26/03/2013 4:45:11 PM Lexi, You know that feeling you get when you know the PM is going to get turfed at the ne.....
» 26/03/2013 4:31:18 PM RM, It does make one wonder why a human would resist the "system". After all, .....
» 26/03/2013 10:57:51 AM Hasbeen, I was merely pointing out that domestic "work" has always been underva.....
» 26/03/2013 10:50:09 AM Also wanted to add that this was a very "middle-class" family. My mother's fathe.....
» 26/03/2013 10:27:36 AM mhaze has a point. Most families confronted by this dilemma were likely to have made there.....
» 26/03/2013 9:40:15 AM The thing I find fascinating is that "work", apparently, continues to be categor.....
» 26/03/2013 9:31:42 AM Ho, ho, ho... Apparently anyone who holds a view opposing cohenite's is a "troll&quo.....
» 25/03/2013 9:03:41 AM SPQR, "You are fast becoming my favourite poster." Your head is easily turned......
» 24/03/2013 2:01:54 PM Luciferase, "....I don't get the basis for the offense taken." No, I don't exp.....
» 24/03/2013 10:47:19 AM Yar...Luciferase. I was a product of that thar "irresponsible breeding". My bio.....
» 22/03/2013 10:30:58 AM BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH! Gawd, Peter Hume, you're so transparent. Do you really think I'm goi.....
» 22/03/2013 10:00:52 AM JKJ, On the contrary.... I'm not intending to frequent this forum very often in the futu.....
» 15/03/2013 11:21:38 PM Just one final post. I always fooled myself that OLO had a few degrees more veracity than.....
» 15/03/2013 8:48:27 PM Jolly good show, Sou....."You can get back to your crazy conspiracies now." Ain.....
» 15/03/2013 2:39:02 PM Graham, I posted this with links a while back on another thread. http://forum.onlineopi.....
» 15/03/2013 11:10:58 AM Hasbeen, Or he could be an actual scientist! Which would explain why he can understand s.....
» 15/03/2013 8:33:46 AM "Skeptics" are all over the place depending which "strategies" they ar.....
» 14/03/2013 11:49:38 PM Janama, You might like to begin the count to 31 consecutive days for Birdsville by starti.....
» 14/03/2013 7:05:11 PM runner, "Sorry Mary this has always been a leftist tactic. Just read the above posts.....
» 14/03/2013 2:10:49 PM Lol, JKJ...someone pulls the string in his back and off he goes for yonks (must be just ab.....
» 14/03/2013 8:55:08 AM JKJ, You call that an argument? You roll out the same rhetoric for every subject. I expe.....
» 13/03/2013 11:32:12 PM Talking of "skeptics" having fun with producing graphs. Here's an interesting c.....
» 13/03/2013 8:52:33 PM http://tamino.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/ohc1.jpg There's the data. Oh look...and there.....
» 13/03/2013 4:26:00 PM Here you go, rehctub, A glossary of "workhouses" you might like to peruse. Perh.....
» 13/03/2013 12:55:29 PM cohenite, You're right, of course. The "skeptic" sites are "debunking&quo.....
» 13/03/2013 9:52:31 AM All power to you too, Lexi....Get well soon : ) Jay - Ouch! - hope it heals quickly......
» 13/03/2013 9:49:55 AM I know just what you mean, rehctub, Surely anyone on the dole should be cosy in the gutte.....
» 13/03/2013 12:34:37 AM Saltpetre, You might be interested in this article by Clive Hamilton. http://theconversa.....
» 13/03/2013 12:24:45 AM And as we move along from Hasbeen's hollow cliches we might like to read something with a .....
» 12/03/2013 5:54:44 PM Janama, You know what I'm saying...that the people who run the blogs to which I link have.....
» 12/03/2013 4:55:15 PM Janama, Blogs ain't blogs when it comes to popular analysis of papers and their data. So.....
» 12/03/2013 2:49:22 PM cohenite, Here's another analysis of your Watts' graph. http://www.skepticalscience.com.....
» 11/03/2013 5:54:41 PM Thanks to everyone who's contributed. But as Bugsy notes, we probably can't go very far in.....
» 11/03/2013 1:25:47 PM AP, Here you go....yada, yada yada. Mr Luntz (of the George W. Bush administration) I be.....
» 11/03/2013 12:32:22 PM Jayb, Further reading: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man.....
» 11/03/2013 11:12:20 AM Excellent, Jayb, You construct many strawmen questions...and then (!) you answer them you.....
» 11/03/2013 11:04:29 AM Jardine K. Jardine, (who sounds incredibly like Peter Hume:) Telling people to "shut.....
» 11/03/2013 10:16:54 AM cohenite, I'll take your two climatescepticsparty and one wattsupwiththat links and raise.....
» 11/03/2013 10:07:06 AM And the beat goes on... http://www.desmogblog.com/2013/03/10/climate-denial-industry-hits.....
» 11/03/2013 9:58:43 AM Thanks Bugsy, I take your point on unintended errors. When this paper broke, several medi.....
» 11/03/2013 12:35:22 AM Graham, I'm not intending to get right into this with you. Calling people fraudsters on.....
» 10/03/2013 11:05:24 PM "That's a bit naughty Poirot...." Er um....it's been all over the net for the l.....
» 10/03/2013 9:38:25 PM Here's an interesting take from the man who symbolised the toppling of Saddam's statue. h.....
» 10/03/2013 8:59:51 PM Not left-handed. : ).....
» 10/03/2013 6:35:05 PM "...well it serves them right, doesn't it Poirot..." You are a puerile and prov.....
» 10/03/2013 4:51:15 PM David f, You get eight posts a day per thread in the general section. : ).....
» 10/03/2013 12:23:42 PM Lexi, How dare you interrupt the momentum with a reasonable and well-balanced post. Now,.....
» 10/03/2013 10:34:11 AM With the publication of a new paper reconstructing the earth's temperature over the last 1.....
» 9/03/2013 11:14:36 PM Sorry, cohenite, but I've seen you taken apart enough times by "real" scientists.....
» 9/03/2013 6:12:20 PM Saltpetre, An analysis of Tony Abbott's Direct Action plan: http://theconversation.edu.a.....
» 9/03/2013 5:30:39 PM Loudmouth, Right you are. : ).....
» 9/03/2013 3:21:22 PM cohenite, "Poirot, in your own words tell us what Tamino said." And if I don't.....
» 9/03/2013 3:15:18 PM Katieo8, While I think we're both on the same wavelength politically, calling people moro.....
» 9/03/2013 2:15:33 PM Saltpetre, "....million of years of fossil fuel generation has been "burned&quo.....
» 9/03/2013 2:07:04 PM Hi boys, Here's what's wrong with the denial-o-sphere: http://tamino.wordpress.com/2013/.....
» 9/03/2013 1:17:30 PM Bazz, Sorry if this is a tad pedantic...(slow Saturday:) The Labor Party in Australia is.....
» 9/03/2013 9:59:05 AM Here's a great exposition on "climate debate" in the online arena. mhaze - pert.....
» 8/03/2013 12:47:12 PM mhaze, Actually I did get the point that you were making. It's just that your example of .....
» 8/03/2013 9:54:36 AM mhaze lurches from raising the spectre of the unabomber to posting a link from somewhere t.....
» 8/03/2013 9:03:21 AM "The true face of climate's hockey stick graph revealed." http://www.newscienti.....
» 8/03/2013 8:38:01 AM Saltpetre, ".....such a poor choice of candidates...on BOTH sides..." That abo.....
» 7/03/2013 8:33:02 PM qanda, yeah, I don't really know what good it does...and I think that because you're a li.....
» 7/03/2013 6:49:58 PM Tamino has a party with Watts' Ocean Heat Content graph: http://tamino.wordpress.com/2013.....
» 7/03/2013 4:45:01 PM warmair, Superb : ).....
» 7/03/2013 2:02:48 PM yeah, qanda....I often ask myself the same thing. Being that it's all so perfectly pointl.....
» 7/03/2013 12:06:32 PM mhaze Just clarifying that in quoting part of your point "...based on your associati.....
» 7/03/2013 12:03:20 PM mhaze, You go on as if your opinions are above all the peripheral denialist guff... And .....
» 6/03/2013 4:34:43 PM o sung wu, Just read the end of your post (didn't get that far first time around) Advice.....
» 6/03/2013 2:50:33 PM o sung wu, "...bitterness...toxic....poison...." Ho hum. I have a bit of a sa.....
» 6/03/2013 1:47:36 PM "...excuses for these hate-mongers..." That's a laugh! AP, did you read your p.....
» 6/03/2013 1:16:32 PM Interesting that Hasbeen should refer to Katie as "Katie kid". Nice try at age .....
» 6/03/2013 1:10:41 PM On the subject of "skeptics" and conspiracy theory - this cartoon sums up the &q.....
» 6/03/2013 10:51:02 AM SPQR, The hilarity is that you guys on this thread are demonstrating EXACTLY the behaviou.....
» 6/03/2013 10:45:08 AM "...is like linking to the Bible to prove God but let's let that pass." Let's n.....
» 6/03/2013 10:39:06 AM mhaze, Er hem....temperatures have been "playing" very "nice" indeed,.....
» 6/03/2013 9:49:52 AM If you want to see "rabid", Hasbeen....just check out the majority of posts on t.....
» 6/03/2013 9:39:01 AM Yes, George,...thanks for that. Right you are. I remember you and I swapped that quote by.....
» 6/03/2013 8:50:47 AM Big jump in CO2 last year. http://bigstory.ap.org/article/us-scientists-report-big-jump-h.....
» 5/03/2013 8:52:24 PM Hasbeen, "Bluster is the surest sign of defeat...." Well you should know - you.....
» 5/03/2013 7:59:57 PM Hasbeen, I find the sentiments expressed in your posts regularly irksome and often grotes.....
» 5/03/2013 6:27:51 PM runner, "...good old morals..." Haven't seen much sign of "good old moral.....
» 5/03/2013 6:05:43 PM An interesting article on "spinning" black holes. http://theconversation.edu.au.....
» 5/03/2013 1:44:56 PM mhaze, On the contrary, the greatest moral, economic and social challenge of our time - g.....
» 5/03/2013 1:21:35 PM individual, I was criticising your habit of labelling your opponents as uneducated or mor.....
» 5/03/2013 10:22:27 AM Thanks, George - I will check it out : ) csteele, "I suppose that for a layman like.....
» 5/03/2013 9:51:27 AM individual, It takes a special kind of arrogance to insinuate - as you do - every second .....
» 5/03/2013 9:18:14 AM Talking (as you were) about Cherry-Picking. Here's a "championship cherry". ht.....
» 4/03/2013 7:20:39 PM Yeah, Mr Opinion, The earth is entering another glacial period. http://www1.ncdc.noaa.go.....
» 4/03/2013 6:12:20 PM spindoc, Hey, hey, Boo Boo (As Yogi would say:)..here's a "skeptical" fella who.....
» 4/03/2013 3:29:09 PM csteele, I'm getting a "skeptic" twitch from that site : ) This is the guy tha.....
» 4/03/2013 12:08:37 PM THANK YOU, Bugsy : ).....
» 4/03/2013 10:21:02 AM Arctic sea ice volume 1979-2012. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GetB-xs9D_A Three dimens.....
» 4/03/2013 9:41:43 AM Yeah, JOM, I know just what you mean : ) Nice little job opportunity going here - activis.....
» 3/03/2013 1:22:49 PM What are "technogies"? That should have been "technologies". Arrrrgh.....
» 3/03/2013 12:01:46 PM A comprehensive run down of Lord Monckton's strategies to "lock up the climate scient.....
» 3/03/2013 11:48:30 AM Ludwig, You're the one who asked "what's the point of it". (I think the point .....
» 3/03/2013 9:16:05 AM Wow! So you're disputing that the speed of light is a constant? Double Wow! http://www......
» 3/03/2013 12:04:05 AM Ludwig, Hope you don't mind if I quote a little more from Brian Greene's "The Fabric.....
» 2/03/2013 7:23:30 PM "Einstein's Time" Based on "Einstein's Clocks, Poincare's Maps" http.....
» 2/03/2013 11:32:22 AM Oi, sonofgloin, John O'Sullivan appears to be somewhat on the dodgy side. http://www.des.....
» 2/03/2013 10:25:11 AM Okay... Arjay wins the "Religious Jargon" award for this section of thread. Ke.....
» 2/03/2013 10:10:28 AM George, I realise that complicated theories are simplified to popular jargon for non-spec.....
» 1/03/2013 10:01:52 PM qanda, Lord Monckton of Brenchley narrates the latest installment of his daring exploits .....
» 1/03/2013 8:26:22 PM csteele, I've been reading some stuff on black holes, so my mind is basically comprehensi.....
» 1/03/2013 5:32:06 PM Nice try, SPQR, Here's the run down - holds up well I think. http://skepticalscience.com.....
» 1/03/2013 5:13:16 PM qanda, How about this for starters?: http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?articl.....
» 1/03/2013 5:01:02 PM warmair, I think it's helpful to understand that the "skeptics", all warm and f.....
» 1/03/2013 4:38:21 PM Sorry, spindoc, Your infantile questions and huffing and puffing mean nothing...nothing a.....
» 1/03/2013 2:17:05 PM Weird stuff..... http://watchingthedeniers.wordpress.com/2013/03/01/toxic-legacies-malcol.....
» 1/03/2013 1:13:50 PM Yes, sorry about the "Arctic" reference, qanda and mhaze...(that's what happens .....
» 1/03/2013 12:56:33 PM csteele, Regardless of terminology, the warp would dissipate at the speed of light - not .....
» 1/03/2013 10:38:21 AM For all the "skeptics" - a comprehensive (yet easily digestible) run down of the.....
» 1/03/2013 10:15:55 AM mhaze, You're rather fond of casting aspersions on poster's intellectual and/or linguisti.....
» 1/03/2013 9:37:45 AM George, Good point - yet it's this sort of imaginative hypothetical thinking that allowed.....
» 28/02/2013 11:56:56 PM sonofgloin, Could please provide a link to where Michael Mann has "admitted that he .....
» 28/02/2013 11:36:34 PM csteele, With respect to - "....If the Sun instantly disappears then it is difficult.....
» 28/02/2013 4:40:39 PM The Australian published a rare "correction" to a Graham Lloyd story recently on.....
» 28/02/2013 4:26:19 PM mhaze, Check out the animated graph here for a demonstration of filtering the signal from.....
» 28/02/2013 4:13:49 PM A closer look at The Australian's report: http://skepticalscience.com/australian-pachauri.....
» 28/02/2013 2:16:43 PM SPQR, "Monckton is one of many voices - some more informed than others- saying ".....
» 28/02/2013 11:00:01 AM "...thus keeping the temps in the liveable span as has happened in the last several m.....
» 28/02/2013 10:35:52 AM Er...sorry, SPQR, but Monckton leads the charge for you lot. He's extolled up and down th.....
» 28/02/2013 10:09:33 AM SPQR, Come off it, mate.... "Skeptics" don't have scientific veracity on their.....
» 28/02/2013 9:45:16 AM I seem to have given you too much "change" in my last post. Never mind, you can.....
» 28/02/2013 9:37:53 AM JBowyer, I'll just knock that little furphy on the head - if you don't mind. It was yer .....
» 28/02/2013 9:29:06 AM Hasbeen, I believe a certain Mao Zedong had the same idea. Why am I not surprised that y.....
» 27/02/2013 4:11:30 PM Just came across this spiral graph on Arctic ice loss. http://haveland.com/share/arctic-d.....
» 27/02/2013 3:54:50 PM csteele, Just a little more on the subject.... From "The Fabric of the Cosmos".....
» 27/02/2013 3:19:20 PM csteele, Yep it's fairly boggling for us lay people : ) But the Earth is responding to t.....
» 27/02/2013 12:10:10 PM csteele, I was replying to your proposition that "...If the sun were to suddenly dis.....
» 27/02/2013 10:19:20 AM On the subject of Einstein and imagination, I think George and I have discussed before (he.....
» 27/02/2013 9:47:12 AM csteele, On the subject of sudden displacement. From "The Fabric of the Cosmos".....
» 26/02/2013 11:07:25 PM csteele, "Would the effect be felt instantaneously? Or does the fact that nothing ca.....
» 26/02/2013 9:37:35 PM Bugsy, How about "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"? Lord Monckton's gone off a.....
» 26/02/2013 7:54:33 PM http://www.skepticalscience.com/Phil-Jones-says-no-global-warming-since-1995.htm Spin it .....
» 26/02/2013 6:15:00 PM o sung wu, Here is a pie chart: http://www.desmogblog.com/2012/11/15/why-climate-deniers.....
» 26/02/2013 5:15:31 PM Yeah, I know what you mean, o sung wu. There are quite a few posters around here who dism.....
» 26/02/2013 2:32:25 PM mhaze, Nothing has changed...you guys persist in your short-term cherry-pick as is your w.....
» 26/02/2013 2:22:05 PM spindoc, In keeping with your title, never allow the facts to get in the way of a good de.....
» 26/02/2013 9:30:07 AM spindoc, I'll leave you to waffle away to yourself on the semantics....(we've been throug.....
» 26/02/2013 8:19:10 AM mhaze, Just spotted this in my travels.... This "Nobel Laureate" thing seems t.....
» 25/02/2013 5:36:42 PM mhaze, Looking at the complaint wherein Mann is represented: http://legaltimes.typepad.c.....
» 25/02/2013 2:01:59 PM sonofgloin, You titled this thread "When will the mania stop?" Reading your fi.....
» 25/02/2013 1:41:39 PM mhaze, More on the issue, http://www.ipcc.ch/pdf/nobel/Nobel_statement_final.pdf http:/.....
» 25/02/2013 1:01:43 PM mhaze, Show me evidence of the three occasions where Mann "claimed to be the "w.....
» 25/02/2013 11:29:35 AM mhaze, So Mann was saying this: http://climatedepot.com/a/18179/Update-Climate-Depot-cor.....
» 25/02/2013 10:36:55 AM When will the mania stop? Not anytime soon, judging from the majority of comments on this.....
» 25/02/2013 9:38:25 AM SPQR, Well thanks for the guff from Randy Mann and Cliff Harris - you're determined to sc.....
» 25/02/2013 8:40:55 AM SPQR, "...up till that time they based their case heavily on year to year increase i.....
» 24/02/2013 11:42:27 PM On the subject of the being stationary (or not): Here's some thought-provoking stuff from.....
» 24/02/2013 9:53:46 PM Ludwig, It's an "image". It's a "picture". Frankly it's just semant.....
» 24/02/2013 8:07:52 PM Save your patronising blather, spindoc. I don't come here to prove anything to deniers. I.....
» 24/02/2013 6:42:29 PM mhaze, Where did I agree - link please? More of the same...."skeptics" just sa.....
» 24/02/2013 4:44:58 PM Ha, ha, SPQR...this IS fun! Since I've been removed from the courtroom - but have fortuit.....
» 24/02/2013 12:50:29 PM Delving a little further into Lord Monckton's claim to veracity on the issue of climate - .....
» 24/02/2013 10:46:42 AM Just thought I'd add - as an addendum to the coat of arms thingy above Lord Monckton's let.....
» 24/02/2013 10:13:20 AM Just as an aside, and addressing the "skeptics here referring to Pachauri as merely a.....
» 23/02/2013 11:05:36 PM Ludwig, There's no contradiction. Picture or image, whichever way it's generated, is wha.....
» 23/02/2013 5:17:40 PM Ludwig, 3 out of 4 ain't bad. ...it's not a pipe......
» 23/02/2013 1:54:26 PM sonofgloin, Do you consider that the science is settled...because scientists do not. They.....
» 23/02/2013 12:55:16 PM Here's a scientist talking about global warming in relation to Lloyd's report. http://the.....
» 23/02/2013 10:50:31 AM sonofgloin, http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-12-24/antarctic-ice-sheet-warming-faster-than.....
» 23/02/2013 10:32:17 AM sonofgloin, On Arctic ice loss: http://tamino.wordpress.com/2013/02/20/cryosat-2-confirm.....
» 23/02/2013 10:26:53 AM Ludwig, Gawd your image of the pipe must have special qualities. What did it feel like. W.....
» 23/02/2013 10:19:42 AM spindoc, Global average temperatures have plateaued at "record" levels." .....
» 22/02/2013 7:46:57 PM This is not Magritte. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Wolleh_magritte.jpg (but it is a.....
» 22/02/2013 6:03:49 PM Great, spindoc....it only took six posts on this thread for the religious jargon to appear.....
» 22/02/2013 4:41:32 PM Here's the article: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/nothing-off-limits-in-climate-de.....
» 22/02/2013 4:06:00 PM That's a laugh! In "The Australian" you say....how terrifically unusual and unb.....
» 22/02/2013 3:45:52 PM Jardine K. Hume, Whatever you say : ).....
» 22/02/2013 2:48:01 PM Yuyutsu, Shame is right - regarding Hasbeen's recent sentiment. However, it's keeping in.....
» 22/02/2013 2:34:52 PM OTB, ".....it takes a certain amount of inanity (dumbness) to employ the controversi.....
» 22/02/2013 1:04:21 PM mhaze, You have to admit that it takes a certain amount of inanity (dumbness) to employ t.....
» 22/02/2013 10:47:43 AM csteele, "Very few people would have the temerity or pathological blind partisanship.....
» 22/02/2013 9:29:25 AM Yep, Ludwig, I agree - it does contain information......
» 22/02/2013 9:22:49 AM Lexi, The other thing is that you have yet to attain SM's heights in employing terms like.....
» 22/02/2013 9:14:37 AM As far as I can make out, it was "already" a requirement that single parents sou.....
» 21/02/2013 12:39:16 PM Harking back to warmair's opening post: http://theconversation.edu.au/orwellian-climate-d.....
» 21/02/2013 10:13:22 AM Ludwig, I'm also thinking that if you asked me to give you a pipe....and I handed you a p.....
» 21/02/2013 9:03:20 AM Oi, Ludwig, "His painting IS of a pipe." Yup. But his painting isn't a pipe -.....
» 21/02/2013 6:41:34 AM Jardine K. Jardine, On the contrary, I cite links that at least have scientific veracity......
» 20/02/2013 3:09:22 PM csteele, Strangely enough, I was just about to say: "The famous link. How people re.....
» 20/02/2013 1:38:33 PM Thanks, mhaze, Religious reference right on time (ding!).....
» 20/02/2013 10:45:12 AM Banjo Paterson. "But, is that not capitalism?" One would hope that one's level.....
» 20/02/2013 9:14:56 AM SPQR, Well whoopy doo! Exactly what have we derived from your song and dance? As I said.....
» 20/02/2013 8:37:54 AM It is certainly a pictorial representation of a pipe, Ludwig. But it's not "a pipe&q.....
» 20/02/2013 12:09:00 AM Saltpetre, Fancy you not being aware of the General section - (often the discussion there.....
» 19/02/2013 10:32:12 PM Ludwig, This is not a pipe. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:MagrittePipe.jpg.....
» 19/02/2013 2:28:10 PM Aw, qanda, don't go just yet... You should stick around to take Monte's amazing "Glo.....
» 19/02/2013 1:05:43 PM csteele, If a picture of a pipe is a pictorial representation of a pipe - then is not a l.....
» 19/02/2013 12:59:36 PM mhaze, It wouldn't matter so much if the "skeptics" in the pay of big business .....
» 19/02/2013 11:41:46 AM This is not a pipe. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:MagrittePipe.jpg.....
» 19/02/2013 10:44:22 AM SPQR, You're not going to suck me into playing little games. We know that the amount of .....
» 19/02/2013 9:03:12 AM Banjo Paterson, I agree with you about Warhol - I'm not a fan of modern art either. Alth.....
» 19/02/2013 8:26:07 AM SPQR, Just how "simple" do you wish to make climate out to be? Absorption rate.....
» 19/02/2013 7:50:34 AM SPQR, Further reading - http://www.skepticalscience.com/human-co2-smaller-than-natural-em.....
» 18/02/2013 8:42:04 PM Gosh, I know, qanda....the problem is that I just can't help myself. Strange as it may se.....
» 18/02/2013 4:21:27 PM csteele, It's unceasingly fascinating that runner attributes "hatred" to anyone.....
» 18/02/2013 4:05:42 PM Ludwig, "....It equals four sixandahalf inches!" Or it could equal 208 skahood.....
» 18/02/2013 3:20:57 PM mhaze, Further reading - http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2007/06/a-saturat.....
» 18/02/2013 2:42:37 PM mhaze, Further reading - http://www.skepticalscience.com/print.php?r=347 .......... CAG.....
» 18/02/2013 1:16:55 PM Of course "skeptics" abound with strategies which they roll out contingent on th.....
» 18/02/2013 11:47:04 AM mhaze, I'm sure qanda is just about to reply to your bunkum. I'm not going to bother to .....
» 18/02/2013 10:33:08 AM I knew I'd come across this before. So I googled the two sites where I may have come acro.....
» 18/02/2013 9:12:27 AM Banjo Paterson, It's interesting that you mention your reproduction of "Open Window&.....
» 17/02/2013 6:27:29 PM spindoc, "Your last response was quite frankly awful.....vicious, vindictive, person.....
» 17/02/2013 4:01:41 PM Constance, Suze...You for one, are very agro..." That, would have to be a crowning .....
» 17/02/2013 1:29:58 PM SPQR, Nice try, yerself and spindoc... Keep asking the same disingenuous questions ad na.....
» 17/02/2013 12:40:26 PM We will have to adapt eventually... http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/opinion/global-warmin.....
» 17/02/2013 11:11:12 AM Banjo Paterson, When I first came upon the Impressionists, I was amazed and enchanted. I .....
» 17/02/2013 10:56:34 AM spindoc, You're the guy who titles yourself "spin" doc. And that is such an ap.....
» 17/02/2013 10:33:00 AM warmair, On your point: "The process that skeptics use is to concentrate on the are.....
» 17/02/2013 9:34:09 AM Here's an institute with long ties to tobacco disinformation. The Competitive Enterprise .....
» 16/02/2013 10:03:04 PM Yo, onthebeach, Is your last post supposed to be an example of mature, inclusive, reflect.....
» 16/02/2013 6:32:55 PM I have to say how fascinating it is to watch denialists in action.... "No warming fo.....
» 16/02/2013 11:21:33 AM Banjo Paterson, I'm not as self-sufficient as I seem. However, the things that I grow do .....
» 16/02/2013 10:47:06 AM sonogloin, Like I said, "we are the polluters". Look around your house and try.....
» 16/02/2013 10:05:36 AM sonofgloin, You've managed to get the "global warming/climate change" aspect co.....
» 16/02/2013 8:53:59 AM spindoc, Regarding denialists abusing FOI and instituting litigation, two words sum it &q.....
» 16/02/2013 8:26:08 AM Don Aitkin, "...(not that there has been much for the last 16 years)..." That .....
» 16/02/2013 8:10:08 AM I remember in the seventies (when I was a teenager) that I used to sometimes see English s.....
» 15/02/2013 11:50:21 PM qanda, Thanks for the link....too true! But, hey - Wacky Lord Monckton adds so much farc.....
» 15/02/2013 8:21:15 PM On the contrary, Constance, I read what Pope Benedict had to say on the subject - and I ag.....
» 15/02/2013 8:14:01 PM sonofgloin, "You have not got a clue my dear." Let's take a look at the 5 perc.....
» 15/02/2013 5:21:02 PM Interesting story...I thought the keys had to be in the ignition. That "particular&q.....
» 15/02/2013 4:40:23 PM sonofgloin, "You keep listening to the "scientists" qanda...." Well .....
» 15/02/2013 4:21:20 PM individual, If a police officer books a drunk driver who has seen fit to get behind the w.....
» 15/02/2013 4:16:41 PM I'd just like to add the "WMD's in Iraq" line was merely the convenient spiel ad.....
» 15/02/2013 4:05:31 PM Bazz, Coles and Woolworths dominate the food retail market in Australia - that's near eno.....
» 15/02/2013 3:11:54 PM spindoc, I see you are impatient for me to reply to you...(I do have a life outside of po.....
» 15/02/2013 10:42:00 AM ybgirp, I think it was a fairly brief period in the 60's/70's where men donned Speedos fo.....
» 15/02/2013 10:18:33 AM As has been pointed out, Ratzinger is a scholar. As a "believer", he probably co.....
» 15/02/2013 9:58:01 AM Constance, I reckon Jesus was a leftie....he was certainly a radical!.....
» 15/02/2013 8:46:33 AM And the beat goes on: http://desmog.ca/2013/02/14/us-scientist-caught-canadian-muzzle?utm.....
» 15/02/2013 8:26:58 AM Allowing ourselves to get into the position of basically having a duopoly controlling our .....
» 15/02/2013 8:17:09 AM Meant to say that mum's place is like a little village where they all have their own units.....
» 15/02/2013 8:08:11 AM Banjo Paterson, It doesn't take too much to be generous no matter where you are positione.....
» 15/02/2013 7:10:00 AM Never mind, runner, You can be assured that conservative/libertarian entities have the si.....
» 15/02/2013 12:10:37 AM Au contraire, runnaire..... http://climatesight.org/2010/11/17/the-real-story-of-climateg.....
» 14/02/2013 8:28:19 PM Jay, You guys are most entertaining...really....it's gymnastics beyond the call of denial.....
» 14/02/2013 6:51:34 PM runner, "No one said it was." And in the very next breath - that's exactly wha.....
» 14/02/2013 4:13:47 PM runner, What are you babbling about? What is the "sisterhood"? And where have.....
» 14/02/2013 2:26:44 PM Here's a further critique of the guy who's the flag-bearer for denialists - and his connec.....
» 14/02/2013 2:06:50 PM mhaze, SPQR, Here's a little help: http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/tran.....
» 14/02/2013 10:57:24 AM I wonder.....remember when Costello was left standing after Howard was unceremoniously boo.....
» 14/02/2013 10:34:54 AM Lexi, If your grandson takes after his grandmother - then I'm sure the applications embed.....
» 13/02/2013 11:43:02 PM Yup, mhaze - this article on the World Bank's report on biofuels and the food crisis, back.....
» 13/02/2013 8:00:45 PM mhaze, "...Now he asserts that big business is behind the skeptics. Has he got any e.....
» 13/02/2013 4:20:34 PM Research grants are "granted" for research.... If you search for peer-reviewed .....
» 13/02/2013 3:45:19 PM Phlip S, I note that none of your points (that see you in favour of disbelief/ conspiracy.....
» 13/02/2013 3:34:45 PM Yes, you can take it from runner, that Tony - global warming is "absolute crap" .....
» 13/02/2013 3:00:01 PM Well, well, Bazz...since you're so keen to "cherry-pick" that comment and apply .....
» 13/02/2013 2:56:13 PM mhaze, Come on now. We all know that peer-reviewed papers by "skeptics' published in.....
» 13/02/2013 2:32:30 PM Bazz, "I know it might be difficult for you to back down..." No backing down i.....
» 13/02/2013 1:37:03 PM Philip S, "For every scientist that says that says Global Warming happening you can .....
» 13/02/2013 10:52:53 AM warmair, Unfortunately the "...various groups pushing vast amounts of misinformation.....
» 13/02/2013 9:25:24 AM individual, We have a lot of laws - one of them is to desist from driving a car if you th.....
» 13/02/2013 9:10:37 AM Bazz, Your daughter-in-law sounds like a savvy lady. Perhaps she changed subject because.....
» 12/02/2013 9:25:23 AM individual, Of course I got the gist of your initial point. But tell me the percentage o.....
» 11/02/2013 7:18:35 PM Jay, Perhaps those who inquire as to why your mum's friend is in their house, and who don.....
» 11/02/2013 6:38:48 PM individual, Do you suggest we station a copper behind every car in the pub car park - jus.....
» 11/02/2013 4:20:47 PM runner, You raised a scenario whereby you blamed the "current handbag brigade" .....
» 11/02/2013 10:53:08 AM Loudmouth, I didn't suggest that Maggie had anything to do with the advent of the war, ju.....
» 11/02/2013 9:57:59 AM runner, "....the current handbag brigade see far more deaths through useless border .....
» 10/02/2013 5:04:39 PM Yes, individual - really - is that the absolutely "bestest", "mostest".....
» 10/02/2013 11:09:38 AM Before WmTrevor intervenes - yes that should be "toeing the line". (I actually .....
» 10/02/2013 11:06:08 AM Banjo Paterson, "The gradual evolution pf the individual human being towards greater.....
» 10/02/2013 9:13:26 AM I wonder if this is a sign of more to come. In a region just recovering from Sandy, they'r.....
» 10/02/2013 12:05:44 AM Banjo Paterson, I've posted this link many times before, but I have found no other which .....
» 9/02/2013 11:33:44 PM Lexi, I presume that Loudmouth isn't necessarily out to provoke "you". Althoug.....
» 9/02/2013 7:22:46 PM "Ad hominen, Poirot - can we get back to the issues ?" Oh come now, Loudmouth. .....
» 9/02/2013 5:56:21 PM Hey Lexi, I don't know about you, but when Loudmouth dons his smarmy sarcastic Lothario p.....
» 9/02/2013 5:39:55 PM Loud Mouth, http://www.judgments.fedcourt.gov.au/judgments/Judgments/fca/single/2012/2012.....
» 9/02/2013 10:57:03 AM er...runner.... That was Tony Abbott talking about preserving the ownership of his arse -.....
» 9/02/2013 10:25:24 AM Yada, yada,yada, Bazz. If the Labor "lost" then so did the Coalition. Here's t.....
» 9/02/2013 10:18:48 AM Yo, WmTrevor, Right you are : ) Industrialism + Capitalism IS the perfect storm......
» 9/02/2013 9:36:37 AM Banjo Paterson, I think it's a matter of degree. Yes, of course the intelligence to sto.....
» 8/02/2013 5:37:26 PM An updated look at Canadian tar sands and the Keystone XL pipeline and predicted effect on.....
» 8/02/2013 12:53:47 PM Cherful, The fact that car ownership is on the rise in places like China is seen as one s.....
» 8/02/2013 10:33:11 AM Turnbull lost by "one" vote. Hardly a landslide - or a comprehensive rejection......
» 8/02/2013 9:29:38 AM Geoffry, Your argument appears to be based solely on political/economic implications and .....
» 8/02/2013 8:39:14 AM SPQR, You're a naughty boy for constructing your strawmen so blatantly. I am not accusin.....
» 7/02/2013 11:11:20 PM Arjay, "...yet developing countries can please themselves." If India is an exa.....
» 7/02/2013 8:12:45 PM Geoffrey, You said: "I have copped a fair amount of flack from you two and some quit.....
» 7/02/2013 6:44:07 PM And so does Tony.... Cough, cough!..........
» 7/02/2013 6:42:43 PM He appears to be proud of it! Cough!.... http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-02-07/brough-sp.....
» 7/02/2013 3:21:29 PM Yes, runner, Brilliant!! I see that you're a supporter of the "presumption of inno.....
» 7/02/2013 11:52:37 AM Yeah, DG, it makes so much sense to me to learn in a way that where continuity is foremost.....
» 7/02/2013 11:02:14 AM DG, I would have thought that you would examine the propensity for Western society to inf.....
» 7/02/2013 10:11:35 AM SPQR, I see you are well-versed in denialism's foremost tenet...."cherry-picking&quo.....
» 7/02/2013 9:12:04 AM Geoffrey asks: "...in the end what can we do to reverse the AGW component?" No.....
» 7/02/2013 9:06:25 AM Never mind, SPQR, Contrary to your notion of a big fat socialist plot, the real "plo.....
» 7/02/2013 7:58:28 AM The latest from Peter Wicks: http://wixxyleaks.com/2013/02/06/here-we-go-again/ ".......
» 7/02/2013 12:01:34 AM Sorry, Arjay...but Rahm Emmanuel pinched that line from Milton Friedman - the daddy of neo.....
» 6/02/2013 10:58:17 PM qanda, Looks like our "Arjay" is at it again.... http://forum.onlineopinion.co.....
» 6/02/2013 4:14:43 PM qanda, Yes...it's telling that a few posts back that you went to considerable trouble to .....
» 6/02/2013 11:03:28 AM Here's a good case in point - on cognitive dissonance: http://www.desmogblog.com/george-w.....
» 6/02/2013 10:33:56 AM Spot on, Bugsy, ON the road to policy formulation, there is a huge hump in the shape of &.....
» 6/02/2013 12:04:58 AM Well ,bugger, that should be "they don't 'hide' behind a pseudonym". I say, qan.....
» 5/02/2013 11:53:46 PM Geoffrey, I'm sure you can find enough references in this skeptical science piece to purs.....
» 5/02/2013 8:02:21 PM Geoffrey, Am I right in presuming - since you are happy to use your name and location wh.....
» 5/02/2013 7:29:02 PM qanda, Confirmation I'm afraid: http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?article=143.....
» 5/02/2013 6:12:44 PM qanda, Actuuuaalllly...I think the "Ross" in question is our very own "Arj.....
» 5/02/2013 3:54:30 PM spindoc, Yes we all know that you thought of it first - and that SM simply picked it up a.....
» 5/02/2013 1:52:28 PM Scientists playing "whack-a-mole" with the "no warming for 15 years" m.....
» 4/02/2013 3:40:51 PM Yes, yes, runner, We know you think you're being "vewy vewy" clever by employin.....
» 4/02/2013 3:33:09 PM SM, I was prepared to start calling you Shallow Minister (that fits the bill too :)...ex.....
» 4/02/2013 11:18:47 AM "Nice try Parrot" Parrot...? Again I ask - when you turn ten, can we all come .....
» 3/02/2013 9:58:27 PM individual, What don't you understand from my comment about the "increased frequency.....
» 3/02/2013 8:17:40 PM runner, Don't you think it's about time you stopped parading your ignorance? You obvious.....
» 3/02/2013 6:06:22 PM Geoffrey, Here you are attempting to argue the science with two scientists....and you hol.....
» 3/02/2013 2:42:35 PM Here's a bit more "integrity". http://www.judgments.fedcourt.gov.au/judgments/J.....
» 3/02/2013 10:56:35 AM David. G, Perhaps you'd like to get a hold of this book by Lewis Hyde - I'm sure you'd fi.....
» 3/02/2013 10:49:26 AM Lexi, Regarding SM's response to you on "the presumption of innocence": What d.....
» 3/02/2013 10:26:03 AM Ho, Ho...individual... It really takes some contortion for your to blame academia (your f.....
» 3/02/2013 9:37:47 AM Constance, "I'm not reading any shite from the Queen Cretin of the Lefties..." .....
» 2/02/2013 6:12:49 PM Yeah...Shallow Minister..... We've got all this to look forward to: http://www.tumblr.co.....
» 2/02/2013 2:36:26 PM Problem is, David G...that the French peasants were living in hovels and eating dung for b.....
» 2/02/2013 2:32:24 PM No probs, RObert. I'm sure if you're ever accused of something, you'll have no need for t.....
» 2/02/2013 1:44:36 PM Geoffrey, Apologies for going in a bit gung-ho with the Monckton thing, but really if you.....
» 2/02/2013 11:29:31 AM Geoffrey, Was your mention of "Lord" Monckton supposed to be a game changer/ sh.....
» 2/02/2013 10:19:46 AM Can't wait to see Tony strutting his stuff on the world's stage... (Will he employ an aid.....
» 2/02/2013 9:58:44 AM Geoffrey, In Cook's article, take note of the bit about the construction of strawmen. Ne.....
» 2/02/2013 9:47:19 AM Geoffrey, You present as the quintessential denier. Your recent points: * They don't. H.....
» 1/02/2013 6:19:54 PM Sorry, Dell, but judging from your opening post I assumed you'd started this thread with s.....
» 1/02/2013 5:01:17 PM Good old OLO.....always throws up a deep and meaningful subject for people to discuss. Ta.....
» 1/02/2013 4:27:40 PM "I'm feeling somewhat neglected..." Good!.....
» 1/02/2013 2:12:12 PM Since I've run out of posts on SM's thread - and Thomson's case "is" political. .....
» 1/02/2013 1:45:12 PM SM(irky) I know your penchant to think you're oh-so-witty by employing the term, "Ju.....
» 1/02/2013 12:17:55 PM spindoc, If the Victorian DPP signed off on an arrest warrant in December - and the Vic p.....
» 1/02/2013 10:48:27 AM Shame on who, spindoc? Craig Thomson hasn't "jerked" anybody around. If they h.....
» 1/02/2013 10:42:15 AM SM, I know you'll enjoy this (it will give you the opportunity to point out how uneducate.....
» 1/02/2013 10:11:12 AM Madcow Sinister, Do you think its right that we should play with each others' monikers? .....
» 1/02/2013 9:50:26 AM SM, Actually I think you're probably right about the election call and its connection to .....
» 1/02/2013 8:36:41 AM Actually your post gave me a laugh (and made my moustaches dishevelled!) Still it's comin.....
» 1/02/2013 8:30:28 AM qanda, I'm inclined to agree with your colleague that it is a dumbing down - or at least .....
» 1/02/2013 8:08:05 AM Well here we go, SM...I wonder if all this is going to stick to your script? That's an aw.....
» 31/01/2013 8:58:43 PM Just like to point out that I'm about as unimpressed with Gillard as it's possible for a l.....
» 31/01/2013 7:32:41 PM Dell, I suppose you'd offer up yourself as an example of a "Good Australian". .....
» 31/01/2013 6:45:09 PM runner, I see you've found a kindred spirit (Hoorah!) What a joy it is to see our brethr.....
» 31/01/2013 4:07:11 PM qanda, (Double LOL:) Yeah, I dunno what the answer is. Arguing on blogs, I suppose, is .....
» 31/01/2013 2:18:54 PM Thanks for that, SM : ) Btw...your latest elucidation on the merits of your fellow poster.....
» 31/01/2013 11:16:55 AM Bazz, "...or improve the standard for those billions that are not as well off as us .....
» 31/01/2013 9:04:07 AM David G, I suppose it all stems from the fact that homo sapiens, for all his intellectual.....
» 31/01/2013 8:50:23 AM But Geoffrey, you have done nothing but concentrate on the political aspect of climate deb.....
» 30/01/2013 11:18:50 PM Yeah, Geoffrey - who cooked up your graph - reference please. Strangely enough, this &quo.....
» 30/01/2013 8:54:59 PM It seems to me that as time has gone on, the two majors have morphed into a similar entity.....
» 30/01/2013 8:22:39 PM What kind of system sanctions this? http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/goldm.....
» 30/01/2013 6:45:01 PM Bugsy, I'm not sure Geoffrey is capable of answering your inquiry. Check out the "C.....
» 30/01/2013 4:58:22 PM Wow, Geoffrey.....linking to a denialist site is cutting edge stuff. Where did you learn .....
» 30/01/2013 2:30:15 PM SM, Obviously the supposed "wisdom", to which you were endeavouring to lead Squ.....
» 30/01/2013 2:19:53 PM Climate scientists Erring on the Side of Least Drama: http://skepticalscience.com/climate.....
» 30/01/2013 1:35:05 PM Prompete, "Good article. We always have a choice as to how we feel/ react/respond to.....
» 30/01/2013 12:22:58 PM Thanks csteele : ) While not wishing to be "alarmist", I can't resist this meme.....
» 30/01/2013 10:35:37 AM Here's another interesting paper - on the the crises of democratic capitalism: http://new.....
» 30/01/2013 9:29:28 AM onthebeach I did "not" misquote. I abridged my quote to highlight the gist of .....
» 29/01/2013 6:43:04 PM onthebeach, Okay, Mr-I-want-to-pick-an-argument-for-no-particular-reason. My quote: &qu.....
» 29/01/2013 5:27:50 PM onthebeach, Oh good...that's straightened out...you were addressing Poirot. Let's have a.....
» 29/01/2013 4:28:31 PM qanda, Thought provoking article on blogging, commenting and moderation: http://blogs.sc.....
» 29/01/2013 4:11:45 PM onthebeach, Whom are you addressing with your last post?.....
» 29/01/2013 3:55:04 PM onthebeach, The point is that you're being a pedantic "..." who's trying to pic.....
» 29/01/2013 3:47:21 PM SM, "I can only lead you to wisdom, I cannot make you think." (Superbly arroga.....
» 29/01/2013 2:49:48 PM Houellie, "But breastfeeding is not some irreplaceable mystical activity unless you .....
» 29/01/2013 11:19:45 AM Houellie, you know I luv ya...but don't pull the "earth-mother-NAZI" one on me. .....
» 29/01/2013 9:49:09 AM Well actually I do know why breastfeeding is singled out - and why it is compared to acts .....
» 29/01/2013 9:31:53 AM I'd also like to make the point that it's actually quite difficult to see more than 30 per.....
» 29/01/2013 9:10:02 AM Hasbeen, I just love it when certain of the blokes around here are determined to "h.....
» 29/01/2013 8:50:06 AM Hoellie, Yes well, the term "for the consideration and comfort of others" shoul.....
» 29/01/2013 1:02:44 AM Geoffrey, Of course debating anything concerning climate is useless if someone is so cert.....
» 29/01/2013 12:28:17 AM onthebeach, Please link to any occasion where I have "laughed" at Julia's ".....
» 28/01/2013 9:34:58 PM onthebeach, Gawd!.....it was me having a little fun with SPQR's penchant for Ita's lisp. .....
» 28/01/2013 3:37:48 PM I'm a goddeth too, ETHPQR : ).....
» 28/01/2013 12:23:15 PM How wealthy industrialist deniers funnel their money to right-wing think tanks. http://ww.....
» 28/01/2013 11:52:48 AM Get a load of this: http://joannenova.com.au/2013/01/monckton-returns-to-australia-book-n.....
» 27/01/2013 11:58:28 AM Geoffrey, Here you go.....scroll down for the list of scientific references used in just .....
» 27/01/2013 10:31:43 AM Pelly, I wouldn't take too much notice of the response you've received from onthebeach. M.....
» 27/01/2013 9:51:58 AM Pelly, Actually on thebeach reminds me a tad of "antiseptic" (remember anti? - .....
» 27/01/2013 9:35:53 AM individual, Whadaya mean that you can't see me not voting Labor? I mean I'm happy to own.....
» 27/01/2013 8:56:43 AM Here's an interesting comparison of the number of men to women in the Australia Day Honour.....
» 27/01/2013 8:36:44 AM The seas are rising, the earth is flat - and you can earn a quick and easy 20 bucks from p.....
» 27/01/2013 7:51:22 AM Squeers, Here's an insightful round-up examining "Uncle Miltie's" blueprint for.....
» 26/01/2013 5:57:19 PM Belly, I agree with most of your post - but what's it got to do with nourishing a baby? .....
» 26/01/2013 12:15:01 PM Okay, Philip S, I suppose most of those males won't have kids that will increasingly ident.....
» 26/01/2013 11:36:38 AM Philip S...well whatever the motivation for Akram Azimi's recognition, he's a good bloke w.....
» 26/01/2013 11:04:38 AM I'm usually fairly cynical about "who's the best awards", however, this morning .....
» 26/01/2013 10:55:09 AM Good point, WmTrevor, What does an act like such as "picking one's nose" - or -.....
» 26/01/2013 9:24:51 AM Yes, well, Belly....as far as I can see it's all a pretty tangled web we've devised for ou.....
» 26/01/2013 9:03:50 AM Aww...indy.....no wonder you're always feeling hard done by - those prices you quoted are .....
» 25/01/2013 11:57:28 PM Yes, qanda,..."fighting fire with fire" was perhaps the wrong term. What I mean.....
» 25/01/2013 8:00:38 PM Here you go people.... Our Young Australian of the Year - and not just a token gesture. .....
» 25/01/2013 4:48:33 PM Maybe you're right, Houellie..."...while most of the time the infant spoils the mood......
» 25/01/2013 2:48:11 PM onthebeach, I found breastfeeding far more convenient myself than messing around with bot.....
» 25/01/2013 2:14:30 PM Yes, RObert, I see what you're getting at. Who knows?. It seems to me that in places lik.....
» 25/01/2013 1:21:11 PM Thanks for the link, qanda. I really believe that the denialist movement "isn't".....
» 25/01/2013 12:59:55 PM RObert, "If two drunk people choose to have sex and one regrets it later is that rap.....
» 25/01/2013 8:17:58 AM To paraphrase Crocodile Dundee: That's not a debt clock. This is a debt clock: http://w.....
» 25/01/2013 7:30:49 AM Onthebeach, You won't get any argument from me about the rise of formulas feeding in mode.....
» 25/01/2013 6:55:18 AM Banjo Paterson, Why would you think I/we were referring to you as an example of a "p.....
» 24/01/2013 9:43:38 PM onthebeach, My reference to it taking years of Puritan indoctrination was meant to convey.....
» 24/01/2013 8:39:46 PM Regarding Clive Hamilton's describing "skeptic" sites as a "stew of paranoi.....
» 24/01/2013 6:23:28 PM Belly, "Just maybe, the pool people had concerns about young kids looking on." .....
» 24/01/2013 4:21:47 PM Never mind, cohenite, "It's just a flesh wound!" I wonder if this would be any .....
» 24/01/2013 4:15:26 PM Fair enough, SM, but if you wish to berate someone for their behaviour and style, it's bes.....
» 24/01/2013 11:08:38 AM Yes, Geoffrey - how remiss of me to link to a piece by John Cook. His blog on the "a.....
» 24/01/2013 10:29:15 AM Well yes, runner, As has been pointed out many times in this thread that unwise behaviour.....
» 24/01/2013 9:26:19 AM On yer, Pelly - well said. Belly, It's not about hating Kochie....as far as I can see th.....
» 24/01/2013 9:11:38 AM Geoffrey, There's little "evidence" in the denialist argument that has much to .....
» 24/01/2013 8:49:36 AM SM, It's always fascinating witness hypocrisy in action...as in: "....your propensi.....
» 23/01/2013 2:48:27 PM SM, So sorry to impugn your honour, however, that's the impression you give. Squeers, &.....
» 23/01/2013 2:15:19 PM Yes, sorry about that o sung wu. I responded to a comment which included an allusion the .....
» 23/01/2013 1:15:52 PM "We have to be little cautious with poirot...." You're darn tootin' you do : ) .....
» 23/01/2013 11:59:43 AM Geoffrey, Might I suggest that your bellicose attitude on this thread and your superlativ.....
» 23/01/2013 11:18:10 AM Belly, Your last sentence is accurate...mums are already discreet... So why reiterate it.....
» 23/01/2013 11:10:02 AM SM, It's either "full throttle capitalism" or "misguided notions of nirvan.....
» 23/01/2013 10:42:25 AM Wow, Geoffrey, You should be congratulated if you've come across denialist scientists who.....
» 23/01/2013 8:36:49 AM Here you go Geoffrey... Warmings take around 5,000 years and the lag is only 800 years........
» 23/01/2013 8:16:38 AM Strangely, this reminds me of a cocky and arrogant Alan Carpenter when he booted out a dis.....
» 23/01/2013 7:24:46 AM Belly and RObert, Just want to make the point that all of us are inhabiting a society in .....
» 22/01/2013 6:45:46 PM "Anyway, that's beside the point; there has been no warming for 16 years and the warm.....
» 22/01/2013 5:02:27 PM Belly, It depends what you mean by "took care". I don't see that breastfeeding.....
» 22/01/2013 2:10:07 PM You can keep your wig on, runner. Where are the breastfeeding women who aren't discreet? .....
» 22/01/2013 10:53:38 AM Howdy, runner. You appear to be equating the action of relieving yourself of waste produc.....
» 22/01/2013 10:19:18 AM Thanks Banjo, Yes, I do fume when the Puritan influence raises its pontificating head whe.....
» 22/01/2013 8:59:04 AM Silly me. I was intending to have a break from this forum, but decided to have a peek with.....
» 20/01/2013 2:18:51 PM Well looky there....a "skeptic" piece in the Murdoch Press - how unusual : ) I'.....
» 20/01/2013 10:50:20 AM Hasbeen, Not folding tent and sneaking off into night...just have better things to do tha.....
» 20/01/2013 10:02:09 AM sonofgloin, If empirical evidence is the fabric enfolding the global warming debate - the.....
» 20/01/2013 8:12:10 AM individual, That's the funniest thing I've read on the subject of sea level rise : ) Nex.....
» 19/01/2013 8:50:03 PM sonofgloin, "...The only pattern I can see is "erratic"..." Um...tha.....
» 19/01/2013 6:24:14 PM individual, Perhaps it's a bit of both. http://www.ouramazingplanet.com/3747-east-coast-.....
» 19/01/2013 4:07:29 PM Arjay, Re: the science "not" being settled....(we know:) Re: your denialist bl.....
» 19/01/2013 12:53:07 PM Arjay, "The Green movement originated out to the latte sipping socialists who want t.....
» 19/01/2013 10:18:44 AM Actually, individual, it's interesting. California has a GDP of 2 trillion (one of the big.....
» 19/01/2013 9:55:13 AM individual, http://www.sfgate.com/science/article/Global-sea-level-rise-could-hit-Califor.....
» 19/01/2013 9:00:19 AM individual, Why am I not surprised by your last comment? The last time I looked, Califor.....
» 18/01/2013 6:41:33 PM er..Prompete...the World Bank don't pretend to do the science. They take advice from clima.....
» 18/01/2013 3:25:19 PM Belly, "I want to ignore you, can you do that for me?" Absolutely!!.....
» 18/01/2013 3:18:04 PM cohenite, Yes, yes, very impressive...little pockmarks of "temperatures" scatt.....
» 18/01/2013 2:31:26 PM Here's John Armstrong on "Barbarism". "The word 'barbarism' has an unpromi.....
» 18/01/2013 1:41:36 PM Rape, like any demonstration of violence, is a brutish, uncivilised and unsocialised actio.....
» 18/01/2013 12:47:13 PM Belly, I think it's time you got over your notion that if someone rebuts your opinion, th.....
» 18/01/2013 12:23:14 PM Brilliant, Hasbeen! I love Mr Trumpet's habit of denigrating women.... "I notice sh.....
» 18/01/2013 10:58:31 AM cohenite, I thought you regarded Hansen as a "loon". Doing a bit of cherry-pic.....
» 18/01/2013 9:47:24 AM Here's a realistic assessment of what the Met office's recent paper was saying: http://ww.....
» 18/01/2013 9:03:05 AM sonoggloin, Here's an easy to digest and reasonably clear and concise round up of Austral.....
» 18/01/2013 8:52:37 AM Pericles, Better to faint with awe than to choke on smog, what say you? http://www.care2.....
» 17/01/2013 10:00:55 PM Are you right there, Squeers? It occurred to me that you were familiar with Zizek, and co.....
» 17/01/2013 7:58:44 PM Here's a timely article by Zizek on the limits of democracy - against the backdrop of the .....
» 17/01/2013 5:23:41 PM Just want to add for SPQR's benefit that the term "thick mush" was probably over.....
» 17/01/2013 5:09:48 PM SPQR, Here's yer link. http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/greenland-melt.html Yo.....
» 17/01/2013 3:49:58 PM On the Murdoch press "misinterpretation" on sea-level rise: http://www.readfear.....
» 17/01/2013 2:48:04 PM On the subject of coal consumption, we can't go past Beijing's experience this week. http.....
» 17/01/2013 2:24:40 PM Slightly off topic, but in keeping with the satellite pic I posted on Beijing's smog - get.....
» 17/01/2013 2:16:56 PM sonogloin, I believe the alteration from "global warming' to 'climate change' was mo.....
» 17/01/2013 1:39:31 PM Actually Houellie, I think the third one describes my style best. I was quite handy outsid.....
» 17/01/2013 9:49:31 AM Pericles, On the subject of 'us' and 'them': http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/201.....
» 17/01/2013 9:35:41 AM On 'belief' and 'denial'. http://www.kudelka.com.au/2013/01/no-cause-for-alarm/.....
» 16/01/2013 11:15:03 PM rehctub, Believe it or not, I understand why you think it's unfair. My question to you i.....
» 16/01/2013 11:04:47 PM csteele, "..What will be our 'photograph from space' moment..." Hows this for .....
» 16/01/2013 8:13:47 PM Bugsy, Was just about to point that out. cohenite, "Bob's a real climate scientist.....
» 16/01/2013 6:41:32 PM Tee hee...cohenite. You seem dumbfounded that the "real" scientists won't engag.....
» 16/01/2013 5:20:05 PM cohenite, I don't think you get it. qanda is obviously a scientist - and scientists have.....
» 16/01/2013 12:51:10 PM Houellie, Regarding Warnie being the greatest leg-spinner of all time. You obviously did.....
» 16/01/2013 11:30:49 AM TPP, Wow! "....rat tails are apart of this little Australian's cultural identity........
» 16/01/2013 9:47:25 AM Pericles, You (and Clem) are right of course. Our "culture" is missing some fa.....
» 16/01/2013 8:58:20 AM I agree with Belly. After all it's really just an extension of bread and circuses. We at.....
» 15/01/2013 8:38:24 PM rehctub, Your "rooms to rent" idea is straight out of the annals of the dawn of.....
» 15/01/2013 8:08:45 PM cohenite, Yep - cue device of "elitism" [again]. Refer to first post on this th.....
» 15/01/2013 6:32:07 PM mhaze, Actually your rants are an excellent example of the sort of rhetoric that is tosse.....
» 15/01/2013 2:45:33 PM cohenite, You're the one who appears to be bouncing around on a pogo stick...but it's usu.....
» 15/01/2013 10:50:27 AM Thoreau - Civil Disobedience. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Disobedience_%28Thoreau%.....
» 15/01/2013 9:41:09 AM mhaze, Talking of "hockey sticks".... http://www.gocomics.com/nonsequitur/2013.....
» 15/01/2013 9:09:34 AM minotaur, "We show how the probability of unusually warm seasons is changing, emphas.....
» 15/01/2013 8:23:30 AM Article by George Monbiot on neo-liberalism. http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013.....
» 15/01/2013 8:02:44 AM cohenite, Here's a pertinent article - all about "adjustments" and how "co.....
» 15/01/2013 7:46:29 AM SM, "Just as the term "middle class welfare" is not actually welfare...&qu.....
» 14/01/2013 11:16:45 PM Just on the subject of debt - there was a big hullabaloo at the end of 2011 when US public.....
» 14/01/2013 6:38:21 PM "You're such a phony qanda; linking to Trewin's technical manual as if you know what .....
» 14/01/2013 3:41:17 PM Do what "job", sung wu? The US and the West in general are merely looking out f.....
» 14/01/2013 3:27:10 PM Here's an interesting analysis: http://castancentre.com/2013/01/14/the-whitehaven-hoax-ra.....
» 14/01/2013 3:24:29 PM Reminds me, Pericles, that the bus fleet where I live was (and perhaps still is) pretty mu.....
» 14/01/2013 2:19:05 PM Wow, sonofgloin...congrats - "Amazingly it has been a decade since the lies of the .....
» 14/01/2013 10:36:20 AM Lexi, You'll turn Hasbeen's head if you keep that up: ) Just remembered something about .....
» 14/01/2013 10:17:28 AM spindoc, No, it's the science that "you" and your merry bunch of "skeptics.....
» 14/01/2013 10:00:32 AM Atman, This is much more interesting: http://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/mailings/2012/201208.....
» 14/01/2013 9:01:27 AM And this: http://www.amazon.com/gp/cdp/member-reviews/A3TS8TZ8UMBB04/ref=cm_pdp_rev_all?i.....
» 14/01/2013 8:53:07 AM Then again, mhaze, it looks like you're in the minority - could be an uphill battle.... h.....
» 14/01/2013 8:45:22 AM mhaze, Why should I "analyse" your most recent posts? I read them and they are .....
» 14/01/2013 8:26:15 AM "It should be no more controversial and emotive than criticism of say.....the catholi.....
» 14/01/2013 12:12:10 AM I've never lived in public housing, however, I believe in any robust social democracy publ.....
» 13/01/2013 10:28:13 PM You're absolutely right, mhaze. You should ignore all the climate scientists. It's much m.....
» 13/01/2013 7:35:01 PM That should be "My brother and "his" wife..." (I haven't got a wife :.....
» 13/01/2013 7:33:55 PM What a strange question. My brother and wife got themselves a rather natty and not too ex.....
» 13/01/2013 7:23:20 PM sonofgloin, "...It also distributes wealth from the first world to the second and th.....
» 13/01/2013 5:31:28 PM "Besides, as I recall that thread wasn't about whackamossie - but rather, wack-an-ozz.....
» 13/01/2013 2:59:28 PM http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-01-13/beijing-pollution-hits-haardous-levels/4462786 A bi.....
» 13/01/2013 12:09:00 PM spindoc, I agree that it's entertainment value that draws me here. You might note that i.....
» 13/01/2013 11:10:15 AM cohenite, I'm sure all the "skeptics" you trot out are lovely guys - that's bes.....
» 13/01/2013 9:03:13 AM cohenite, "An analysis of the BOM claim is here:" An analysis? Here's the abo.....
» 12/01/2013 12:50:52 PM Pericles, "...the likelihood of Islamic rule of countries like our own is about the .....
» 12/01/2013 10:57:10 AM Prompete, You're right - how could you be anything but disaffected by the IPCC? Why in t.....
» 12/01/2013 9:05:45 AM Prompete, "...And Ms Laframboise is just just the tiny tip of an ever increasing ice.....
» 11/01/2013 7:51:33 PM Banjo, Ooops, the climate seems to be acting up...or do ya think the increased frequency .....
» 11/01/2013 7:02:05 PM I like this cartoon. http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/society-and-culture/the-hoax-we-had.....
» 11/01/2013 6:26:53 PM Not wishing to be "alarmist" - but I can't resist this cartoon. http://www.thea.....
» 11/01/2013 6:12:49 PM Atman, "The community is now smarter and better informed..." Or you could say .....
» 11/01/2013 6:07:00 PM qanda, "The debate (at least in the pubic domain) is not about the science - it's ab.....
» 11/01/2013 4:54:04 PM "...Superficially anti-capitalism and anti-American when at home." Pull the oth.....
» 11/01/2013 4:35:55 PM Hasbeen, Now, now, you naughty boy, let's let the readers read what really happened...tch.....
» 11/01/2013 2:27:54 PM Sorry worldwatcher, but I have to pull you up on this one. As for JG fawning over Obama -.....
» 11/01/2013 1:29:40 PM SPQR, Good question..........
» 11/01/2013 12:23:56 PM Au contraire, Hasbeen, If you really want to see posters behaving like chooks with their .....
» 11/01/2013 12:17:55 PM Oi...here's a good one... http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-01-11/imf-labels-howard-most-pr.....
» 11/01/2013 11:38:23 AM SPQR, According to wiki, one of those guys in the Eagle link started out working "va.....
» 11/01/2013 10:05:18 AM "For some strange reason I always associate you with Malware.." That's funny SP.....
» 11/01/2013 8:37:00 AM SPQR, "Likewise if someone on the left reads something-provided it appears to suppor.....
» 11/01/2013 8:03:21 AM I should amend that to Christian "evangelical" religion... the Vatican's Pontifi.....
» 11/01/2013 7:32:21 AM On the subject of "belief" and "denial": Seems to be an disturbing co.....
» 11/01/2013 6:58:10 AM Belly, "You found my third post, links to the beheading of a servant, offensive but .....
» 10/01/2013 6:45:51 PM POIROT, no need exists for you to read my comments..." Oh but Belly, I'm receiving a.....
» 10/01/2013 1:32:38 PM There you have it, folks... Raycom is provided with references to that which he seeks - a.....
» 10/01/2013 10:38:07 AM Shockadelic, Give me a break...obviously I gleaned enough of your comments to construe th.....
» 10/01/2013 8:31:49 AM cohenite, Raycom, prompete et al, Never mind about the Hobbit. I recommend the following .....
» 10/01/2013 8:07:37 AM Thank you, Wmtrevor, that's a relief - saves us all from panicking. Yes, Belly, Interest.....
» 9/01/2013 9:47:33 PM Yes,...well, Shockadelic, I'm pleased to say that, save for a measliest portions, I've had.....
» 9/01/2013 8:26:05 PM Constance, "You don't seem to understand subtlety. Are you not a deep thinker?...&qu.....
» 9/01/2013 4:26:16 PM cohenite, Sorry, mate, I think you've forgotten that although you can ply your ignorance .....
» 9/01/2013 1:52:10 PM Here comes Lord Monckton. http://climatecrocks.com/2013/01/09/lord-monckton-heads-down-un.....
» 9/01/2013 9:21:32 AM Hi Paul, Loved your last post, Green Pixie : ) Belly, Okay, would you believe my last p.....
» 8/01/2013 11:38:42 PM cohenite, Well that was pretty wet. WUWT is wall to wall with non-peer reviewed "st.....
» 8/01/2013 7:49:21 PM Belly, Just so you know why I've reacted as I have. Contrary to what you probably think,.....
» 8/01/2013 6:33:29 PM cohenite, Perhaps I am thick...but Jim Goodridge wrote: "Taking the sunspot numbers.....
» 8/01/2013 5:40:31 PM SPQR, Yes, regarding the "I'm presuming you are an adult" line - apologies for .....
» 8/01/2013 1:55:25 PM SPQR, I'm presuming you are an adult...? Of course, I'm not blaming OLO comments per se .....
» 8/01/2013 11:25:18 AM That's funny, SPQR,...it seems to me that society has got better at exposing domestic viol.....
» 8/01/2013 10:34:28 AM I think you fail to note, Belly, that "social democracy" has been of absolute as.....
» 8/01/2013 8:38:54 AM cohenite, Here's a good example of the "expertise" that emanates from places li.....
» 8/01/2013 7:47:03 AM cohenite, I have to admit that the difference between you and I is that I don't pretend t.....
» 8/01/2013 7:34:33 AM Belly, I think I'm beginning to understand now. I had a peek at the lead page of SMH and .....
» 7/01/2013 10:32:26 PM There's really no "debate" concerning the science, cohenite. There are climate s.....
» 7/01/2013 8:27:20 PM If atheism is a worldwide phenomena on the rise - I wonder why it's so necessary to jump o.....
» 7/01/2013 5:50:09 PM Just for you, mhaze, http://planet3.org/2013/01/06/the-2012-golden-horseshoe-award-david-.....
» 7/01/2013 4:38:30 PM SPQR, No doubt you're onto something : ) Deliberately stirring up antipathy with provoca.....
» 7/01/2013 1:03:11 PM SPQR, Yes, I'm sure anyone standing on a soapbox in the middle of Martin Place spruiking .....
» 7/01/2013 10:44:00 AM Belly, "csteele took to me as an unknown poster, I responded with my name he/she did.....
» 7/01/2013 7:40:56 AM Hi Lexi, Yes I agree! worldwatcher, Your Devon experience sounds wonderful. I think you.....
» 6/01/2013 7:59:13 PM runner, Will this suffice? Straight from Georgie Bush's mouth - "God told me to...(.....
» 6/01/2013 7:22:57 PM Dearest Constance, Just read a post of yours that I missed. "Tom chose the hippy ha.....
» 6/01/2013 7:06:36 PM Constance, "Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity." I can go along with tha.....
» 6/01/2013 4:23:19 PM Constance, Funnily enough, Tom Hodgkinson's book is a favourite of mine. I discovered it .....
» 6/01/2013 2:27:24 PM Belly, Time to quit with the "you're trying to drive me away line" it's past it.....
» 6/01/2013 1:35:34 PM Lexi, On that point, this is a great article on social democracy (from a lecture) by Tony.....
» 6/01/2013 11:57:36 AM Here's a lengthy article on the seeming incompatibility between capitalism and democracy b.....
» 6/01/2013 10:33:47 AM Just thought of something, Belly. Perhaps next time, in order to shape the sort of ".....
» 6/01/2013 9:27:16 AM But, Belly, "open debate" is what we've been having on this thread. So what do .....
» 6/01/2013 12:09:39 AM Freudian Slip?.....
» 5/01/2013 11:59:01 PM runner, "You can't seem to get that Islam isn't a race..." Well yes I do. &q.....
» 5/01/2013 7:22:12 PM A "..principled stand...". That's hilarious. Do you actually know what the wor.....
» 5/01/2013 6:10:24 PM Denier Predictions vs IPCC Projections http://skepticalscience.com/graphics.php?g=72.....
» 5/01/2013 5:59:36 PM Yes, runner...I wonder why immigrants congregate in ghettos and such like. Perhaps it's g.....
» 5/01/2013 5:19:05 PM runner, "yep demonise those who disagree.." That would have to be the most hyp.....
» 5/01/2013 3:36:40 PM "CERN's latest papers will be in AR5 but have not been leaked yet..." Gawd! - y.....
» 5/01/2013 3:25:41 PM SPQR, I'll direct you to WMTrevor's comment earlier - regarding bagging the collective fo.....
» 5/01/2013 12:04:40 PM sonofgloin, You say, ask Williamson...don't forget to ask Kathy Jackson n'all......
» 5/01/2013 12:01:49 PM 579, I'm sure Julia has quite good nous for politics...for me though I think that is the .....
» 5/01/2013 11:15:13 AM Come on, Bazz...according to Thomson's detractors, it's all blindingly obvious. I mean t.....
» 5/01/2013 10:56:28 AM Mornin' Lexi, It seems the likes of you and I have been diagnosed as having "closed .....
» 5/01/2013 10:39:12 AM sonofglon, Sterling job mate....nothing like repeating Slipper's comments to grab a littl.....
» 4/01/2013 6:21:35 PM Belly, What Lexi said......
» 4/01/2013 9:15:57 AM Belly, "Good by to poirot, valuing truth it is not possible to ignore attempts to si.....
» 4/01/2013 1:09:14 AM Suse, Whatever the government legislates for will only ever be a band aid. There is some.....
» 4/01/2013 12:57:18 AM Raycom, "The leaker...explained why he leaked." (Doesn't sound particularly di.....
» 3/01/2013 8:56:34 PM I might add that my reference to the "old days" was meant to refer to about a de.....
» 3/01/2013 8:48:58 PM What you're saying, Hasbeen, is that people in the locality had something to do with each .....
» 3/01/2013 6:11:09 PM cohenite, "AGW is an elitist ideology, a plaything of the chattering classes and oth.....
» 3/01/2013 1:28:51 PM Don Aitkin, I appreciate that you maintain that you are not personally crying "scam&.....
» 3/01/2013 9:41:25 AM I don't know what you're all on about... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_veIGGP1Uh4 : ).....
» 2/01/2013 10:47:20 PM spindoc, "The science you offer is that which the IPCC used in their reports up to a.....
» 2/01/2013 7:04:22 PM worldwatcher, Yes, apologies for taking it personally - thanks for explaining. It's been.....
» 2/01/2013 6:52:28 PM cohenite, "Most meteorologists share Watt's opinion about AGW:" Well I found t.....
» 2/01/2013 5:31:37 PM Thanks guys (although have had busy day and only glossed over your replies, but will read .....
» 2/01/2013 11:07:35 AM Don Aitkin, Regarding "evidence"... My question to you and others is, when you.....
» 2/01/2013 9:29:15 AM worldwatcher, I am "not" tarring the "whole" American nation with bei.....
» 2/01/2013 9:07:11 AM Banjo, You might recall that in the early fifties, Iran had a democratically elected gove.....
» 2/01/2013 8:11:43 AM Okay - too hard to keep away with comments like Banjo's. Are you saying, Banjo, that once.....
» 1/01/2013 8:36:16 PM It seems spindoc has succumbed to the late stages of Black CohenKnight Syndrome. Symptoms .....
» 1/01/2013 3:57:54 PM Just dropping back onto this thread for a moment: Belly, Might I point out that you have.....
» 1/01/2013 12:18:46 PM Sorry spindoc, Not only did you get your pop culture wrong, you also attributed it exactl.....
» 1/01/2013 9:45:17 AM "The Consensus Myth: 97% of Nothing" by Anthony Cox ....brought to you by the N.....
» 1/01/2013 8:11:42 AM 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 .....
» 1/01/2013 1:10:44 AM Belly, Looking back through your many posts on this thread (seems to be around 30 odd), I.....
» 31/12/2012 8:10:21 PM Amazing, mhaze! You seem to regard the fact that no-one has replied as some sort of trump.....
» 31/12/2012 5:53:55 PM Just wanted to add that the reason I didn't "deny it" was because it was so obvi.....
» 31/12/2012 5:48:27 PM Actually, Belly, having a couple of hours up my sleeve this avo, I had a bit of a trawl th.....
» 31/12/2012 11:42:25 AM worldwatcher, Don't be so quick to dismiss the possibility that aliens might possess spac.....
» 31/12/2012 11:00:48 AM Belly, I do not shout. i have never insisted you shut up. Apparently if someone argues i.....
» 31/12/2012 10:48:02 AM cohenite, "Ah, I'm being stalked by, I suppose, another snout on the public purse........
» 31/12/2012 9:04:50 AM Belly, Have now had cup of tea - and reread your post. Show me the post to which you ref.....
» 31/12/2012 8:38:46 AM Yes, Belly? I'm brave enough (would appreciate it if you'd stop shouting) Constance was .....
» 30/12/2012 11:55:53 PM Quite finished are we Constance? It's not often we see someone post wall-to-wall abuse wh.....
» 30/12/2012 8:08:46 PM constance, A most impressive array of insults! Let's see what you've provided for us? C.....
» 30/12/2012 6:37:45 PM spindoc, The point is, Mr Analogy, that you got it wrong. It wasn't Blackadder - it was .....
» 30/12/2012 4:01:18 PM Belly, "Poirot some one said, is from a radical group I have seen no evidence of tha.....
» 30/12/2012 1:39:41 PM Hasbeen, "Harmony" was perhaps the wrong choice of description. What I meant w.....
» 30/12/2012 1:34:31 PM spindoc, Talking of Blackadder (as opposed to Monty Python's overconfident Black Knight) .....
» 30/12/2012 12:06:46 PM Belly, I just reread your post. I see a case of you being able to dish it out, but not t.....
» 30/12/2012 11:48:55 AM Belly, "...RAPE IN INDIA..." You are shouting RAPE IN INDIA...Why are you shou.....
» 30/12/2012 10:31:55 AM Hasbeen, And then there's the bacteria, billions of whom live on you and in you....absorb.....
» 30/12/2012 9:42:46 AM cohenite, Let's hear from Agronomist how you got it wrong: http://forum.onlineopinion.co.....
» 30/12/2012 9:02:12 AM Belly, "...do we now defend RAPES in INDIA as a cultural thing!" What!? If ra.....
» 29/12/2012 8:18:26 PM mhaze, I supposed that mhaze was your name...it's just that it so happens that it's appro.....
» 29/12/2012 7:13:27 PM Where's Houellebecq when you need him?.....
» 29/12/2012 5:25:08 PM mhaze, (appropriate moniker:) It doesn't matter which short-term trend you cherry pick. I.....
» 29/12/2012 11:27:56 AM The problem is, cohenite, that you're all technique and no substance. As I recall, Agrono.....
» 29/12/2012 11:00:41 AM Belly, "..then you deserve to be left ranting to yourself." Have fun!.....
» 29/12/2012 8:34:55 AM Wuz just joshin', Constance. You know, sometimes I like a little joust. Anyhooo...wasn't.....
» 28/12/2012 11:25:12 PM Constance, "...aren't you too old to be playing detective?..." Hmmm....no...I .....
» 28/12/2012 10:12:23 PM My Dear Constance, I'm sure if you peruse your local white pages you'll find one......
» 28/12/2012 9:56:28 PM Constance, Do you have a telephone number for those who are merely insular and paranoid?.....
» 28/12/2012 8:58:32 PM Belly, About you being "entertained" by seeing your opponents trying to justify.....
» 28/12/2012 4:50:09 PM Emperor Julian, http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/2011-temps.html "...the f.....
» 28/12/2012 4:00:08 PM mhaze, "...our starting point is 1997 not 1998..." Well, that makes all the di.....
» 28/12/2012 1:44:09 PM mhaze, Cherry-picking short-term trends while ignoring the long-term trend is standard &.....
» 28/12/2012 11:04:57 AM It's interesting that those who resent being called denialists are comfortable with callin.....
» 28/12/2012 10:53:00 AM washed, "My question is, what is your moral standard which informs you that torturin.....
» 28/12/2012 10:42:58 AM Hasbeen, People with means have always been able to afford better healthcare. Elderly peo.....
» 28/12/2012 10:32:03 AM On the contrary, csteele. Your responses are more robust, and your argument is well-defin.....
» 28/12/2012 9:27:33 AM There are so many quotes which I find inspiring - so I'm sure I'll add a few here in time......
» 28/12/2012 9:06:14 AM "I see a warrior for Muslims, in his thread history..." What you see, Belly, is.....
» 27/12/2012 11:28:14 PM "For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a .....
» 27/12/2012 8:09:29 PM Belly, Just wanted to add to Paul's points... I just watched the local news with my son......
» 27/12/2012 6:57:10 PM Come now, SM...if Howard mentioned "non-core" promises, what he meant was is: &q.....
» 27/12/2012 6:16:18 PM runner, "We do need more education for Islamic apologist..." It appears that y.....
» 27/12/2012 2:39:28 PM SM, Obviously "core" and "non-core" has been common parlance.....but .....
» 27/12/2012 12:43:01 PM Thanks for reminding me SM...the Coalition "invented" the terms "core".....
» 27/12/2012 11:14:00 AM cohenite, Regarding the employment of ad homs: I seemed to recall one climate scientist w.....
» 27/12/2012 10:48:58 AM Quite so, worldwatcher...except that teachers are trained to present the facts that childr.....
» 27/12/2012 9:51:54 AM Hey, hey, cohenite, you were right about the link! Re: your comment..."...and all th.....
» 27/12/2012 9:43:42 AM EQ, I wasn't attempting to "prove a point" by listing extreme weather events pe.....
» 27/12/2012 9:01:00 AM Don, With all due respect, the "religious" - "believers" canard is bec.....
» 27/12/2012 8:21:43 AM Belly, I do believe somewhere in the annals of OLO are my words "FGM is barbaric&quo.....
» 27/12/2012 12:13:56 AM ....and then there's the US system. Ours might not be perfect, but compared to the debacl.....
» 26/12/2012 10:15:35 PM csteele, It's amazing how many threads on OLO can accommodate this garbage...they're wall.....
» 26/12/2012 2:42:55 PM Go for it, Jayb. There's nothing like a Boxing Day dose of scintillating mediocrity to wa.....
» 26/12/2012 1:25:35 PM 579, Gak!....thread after thread on this forum, nothing but the same insularity and lack .....
» 26/12/2012 9:39:34 AM Although to be "fair and balanced", I should hand the soapbox over to Lord Monck.....
» 26/12/2012 8:53:20 AM Here's a few late arrivals for Christmas... http://www.skepticalscience.com/Powerpoint-fr.....
» 25/12/2012 9:51:45 AM Belly, I don't believe any email was sent....and if it had, it would have been from OLO -.....
» 24/12/2012 8:53:24 PM If OLO had had anything to do with it, it would have been a request from David to forward .....
» 24/12/2012 8:07:19 PM qanda, You've made my day :) Send my best wishes to bm (miss him around here)....and hav.....
» 24/12/2012 12:14:45 PM SPQR, Not "wound up"...just setting a misrepresentation straight. So.....seas.....
» 24/12/2012 10:08:55 AM spqr, This is what you posted: http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?article=1434.....
» 24/12/2012 9:20:30 AM Thanks for that, Jay. The human condition is such that it's never happier than when bicke.....
» 24/12/2012 8:25:39 AM Yeah, Bugsy! Those "skeptics" are busy delving into cutting-edge stuff while yo.....
» 24/12/2012 8:15:05 AM SPQR, How right you are. I can see from the brilliance of your deconstruction that there'.....
» 23/12/2012 2:07:06 PM Belly, http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-12-23/muslims-write-merry-christmas-in-sky-above-m.....
» 23/12/2012 9:17:43 AM cohenite, http://skepticalscience.com/global-cooling-january-2007-to-january-2008.htm &q.....
» 23/12/2012 8:47:11 AM cohenite, After 1998, can you tell me what were the next nine warmest years on record? .....
» 22/12/2012 9:46:26 PM "Long term trend" http://climate.nasa.gov/key_indicators.....
» 22/12/2012 7:05:28 PM cohenite, You're another one who doesn't understand the term "long-term trend"......
» 22/12/2012 6:53:41 PM Hasbeen, I'm not silly enough to suggest that the industrial paradigm can do away with sc.....
» 22/12/2012 2:19:48 PM Hasbeen, "...& never learnt to spell another word." Oh come now, if children a.....
» 21/12/2012 6:34:58 PM cohenite, After 1998, Jan 2000 to Dec 2009 was the warmest decade on record. The "l.....
» 21/12/2012 12:16:47 PM yep.... Okay, David, I give up. I tend to veer away from discussion with personalities p.....
» 21/12/2012 11:24:05 AM Ashby is taking his case to FWA. http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-12-21/ashby-to-take-case.....
» 21/12/2012 11:01:49 AM Have to agree with you there, SM...I mean that "potential future" MP is a ".....
» 21/12/2012 10:50:29 AM David, You seem to be overly sensitive. I employed the word "congregation" as .....
» 21/12/2012 10:40:20 AM worldwatcher, Here's an article by Joe Bageant on the American condition, where he muses .....
» 21/12/2012 9:25:15 AM No I decided not to stay away.....it occurred to me that although you initiated this threa.....
» 21/12/2012 8:48:12 AM onthebeach, Whatever sociopathic psychological debacle unfolded in that young man's mind,.....
» 21/12/2012 8:33:28 AM sonogloin, "...You are a carbon copy of the religious zealots that you degrade...&qu.....
» 20/12/2012 3:10:55 PM I now get the reworked report. Make up your mind. If FWA was stacked in favour of protect.....
» 20/12/2012 2:34:41 PM What does a "reworked" FWA report consist of? And those "civil charges&quo.....
» 20/12/2012 2:12:08 PM SM, If the "evidence" against Thomson is so obvious and overwhelming - why hasn.....
» 20/12/2012 8:21:44 AM SM You mean like the "hard evidence" of Thomson's brothel escapades...which for.....
» 19/12/2012 10:51:59 PM David, It wasn't my intention to upset you quite to the extent as you appear to be. You.....
» 19/12/2012 10:30:15 PM http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-12-19/thomson-lawyer-claims-vindication-after-subpoenas-re.....
» 19/12/2012 10:10:29 PM Fair enough, Shadow Minister - thanks for that. I'll add though that if KPMG's scope didn.....
» 19/12/2012 8:25:56 PM David, I posted two comments on this thread before you labelled me a "stalker"......
» 19/12/2012 12:36:42 PM David, I don't appreciate being accused of stalking - because you don't care for my earli.....
» 19/12/2012 11:56:05 AM David, If I was going to stalk someone, it wouldn't be you. I take it your "stop st.....
» 19/12/2012 11:46:03 AM Yeah, too right...poor people should be charged a premium for access to water (just ask th.....
» 19/12/2012 11:26:26 AM Lexi, John Taylor-Gatto who was an awarded schoolteacher, wrote "Dumbing us Down&quo.....
» 19/12/2012 10:47:44 AM Au contraire, David, I'm an atheist/agnostic-whatever, myself. It's just that I noted yo.....
» 19/12/2012 9:16:10 AM Good one, Belly. Here we go again. Mr Abbott doesn't read the judgment, yet makes a comme.....
» 19/12/2012 9:00:09 AM David, If I may just interrupt your swagger for a moment....sit down and have a cuppa. I.....
» 18/12/2012 5:09:13 PM SM said: "...KPMG determined there was sufficient evidence to substantially support .....
» 18/12/2012 2:15:58 PM Who assumes Shadow Minister is Julie Bishop?...not me......
» 18/12/2012 2:06:39 PM Rhosty, The only use for guns is to kill and maim...that is their sole purpose. To creat.....
» 18/12/2012 11:55:46 AM (Sarcmark).....
» 18/12/2012 11:54:43 AM SM, Here's a run down of your "...judicially headed, independent body....". ht.....
» 18/12/2012 11:30:53 AM Around 8-9 Americans under 19 die from firearms "every day" in the US...that's a.....
» 18/12/2012 10:13:02 AM David, That's rather a provocative lisp you've developed........
» 18/12/2012 10:07:16 AM SM, Excuse me for imagining that courts are our "decision makers" - they are th.....
» 18/12/2012 9:55:41 AM Lexi, Wow...you're about to have the opportunity to revisit all of those magical places. .....
» 18/12/2012 9:14:11 AM We've already started with the great battery juggle....due to son suddenly getting the urg.....
» 17/12/2012 8:58:40 PM ...and I certainly wouldn't have joined in with smutty and abusive dialogue with Mr Slippe.....
» 17/12/2012 8:39:41 PM cohenite, I wouldn't have volunteered my services if I'd had a problem with Slipper's con.....
» 17/12/2012 7:56:57 PM Belly, You might be interested in this tale of a bad loser. http://www.thepunch.com.au/a.....
» 17/12/2012 5:36:46 PM "Note SM,INSULTS YOU..." Water off a duck's back, Belly (Quack!).....
» 17/12/2012 2:31:37 PM mac, Although you only get four comments in 24 hours in the articles' section, you get ei.....
» 17/12/2012 2:04:54 PM SPQR, (I think it's worth a grammatical faux pas for the following) Reading your prose j.....
» 17/12/2012 1:56:40 PM "...while not 100% complete leaves no room for doubt." It leaves every room for.....
» 17/12/2012 10:33:23 AM Hasbeen has received his review of the leaked draft IPCC report straight from the cherry-p.....
» 17/12/2012 10:19:07 AM I'm not taking the piss out of your spelling - you spelled "boarder" correctly.......
» 17/12/2012 9:45:30 AM SPQR, In that case, perhaps we should institute a broader boarder border?.....
» 17/12/2012 9:08:46 AM SE, It's a quaint habit I picked up...you know the one about people having their day in c.....
» 17/12/2012 7:37:20 AM SM, "The only person that I have declared guilty of crime is Craig Thomson..." .....
» 17/12/2012 12:28:58 AM I'm a good one for typos - make 'em all the time. I'm fairly good at spelling though - and.....
» 17/12/2012 12:23:07 AM Suze, My elderly mum is coming to us for Christmas as well, as she does every year. I'm .....
» 16/12/2012 11:51:42 PM Sorry, Phil - couldn't resist (I've bitched here before about the headers for this section.....
» 16/12/2012 9:39:27 PM It's not easy being green :(.....
» 16/12/2012 9:08:33 PM Thank you, Lexi.....(it's great to have your good self back here regularly once more:) Yo.....
» 16/12/2012 8:15:14 PM Gawd! If you want to protect your boarders, then make sure your house has good security, .....
» 16/12/2012 6:07:28 PM Yuyutsu, What the children are being taught are the foundations of good (and useful) soci.....
» 16/12/2012 6:00:42 PM What the bloody hell is a "hoplophobe"? (only joking - I don't really want to k.....
» 16/12/2012 4:27:07 PM Aspergers and high-fuctioning autism aren't necessarily "mental disorders"....th.....
» 16/12/2012 3:04:56 PM Re: simpler times...well you can't blame the Labor Party for that - globalisation, the fre.....
» 16/12/2012 2:35:12 PM Do you mean this "Lucky Country?" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucky_Country &.....
» 16/12/2012 2:11:29 PM worldwatcher, Are you suggesting that the behaviour of the opposition in pursuing "g.....
» 16/12/2012 1:56:33 PM Sorry, Suze - the above post was to you......
» 16/12/2012 1:55:23 PM Yes, Jay, I'm not suggesting that children with Aspergers are medicated as a matter of cou.....
» 16/12/2012 12:51:08 PM Firstly, I find this story extremely hard to deal with. I saw the first reports early yest.....
» 16/12/2012 10:58:58 AM cohenite, That's interesting what you say...(being as you're a lawyer and I'm not) It do.....
» 16/12/2012 9:34:05 AM SM, It must get fair up your nose, that in light of all the people you've found guilty wh.....
» 16/12/2012 9:08:03 AM Loudmouth, Have world temperatures risen over the past decade or not ?" Risen in co.....
» 15/12/2012 11:24:10 PM Loudmouth, Since you're an enthusiastic proponent of the "earth hasn't warmed for 15.....
» 15/12/2012 9:03:30 PM "Surely you're not suggesting that anything fraudulent should be covered up?" W.....
» 15/12/2012 7:32:58 PM Go for it, Loudmouth....you'll be in cherry-picking good company. "The IPCC consider.....
» 15/12/2012 7:02:39 PM SM, Are you suggesting that the sham constructed by Ashby, Doane, Brough and others is in.....
» 15/12/2012 6:46:18 PM Okay Loudmouth...(happily I won't ever fall for your smarm again :) Fancy linking to WUWT.....
» 15/12/2012 12:22:56 PM David, I was referring to language and it's evolution amidst new technologies and ways of.....
» 15/12/2012 11:52:30 AM Candide, Yep, I get what you're saying. It's a strange world of rapidly changing technol.....
» 15/12/2012 11:41:50 AM WmTrevor, Pardon?.....
» 15/12/2012 11:16:18 AM SM, You keep harping on about a lack of illegality. There was nothing illegal about Gill.....
» 15/12/2012 11:06:39 AM To be honest, I'm of the opinion that we should be mindful of the evolution of language. .....
» 15/12/2012 10:40:12 AM Following on the same train of thought as to "..Why are these nongs backing Brough?&q.....
» 15/12/2012 10:20:02 AM Just gotta ask - why are these nongs backing Brough?! I mean with such a damning finding,.....
» 15/12/2012 9:04:27 AM Actually there's an interesting bit in the judgment about a series of text messages betwee.....
» 15/12/2012 12:21:39 AM cohenite, I don't think it's possible to read it both ways. The political context of the .....
» 14/12/2012 7:53:40 PM Came upon this article on the complexities of plant biology and future adaptation to a wor.....
» 14/12/2012 6:01:22 PM runner, Ms Doane is a female - she gets a guernsey in the judgment. (From the judgment:).....
» 14/12/2012 2:08:40 PM You're a hoot, SM. You spend a great deal of time on this forum in near hysterics over &q.....
» 14/12/2012 1:54:01 PM http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-12-14/abbott-denies-slipper-conspiracy/4427424 "...M.....
» 14/12/2012 11:31:38 AM An excellent summary by Richard Ackland: http://www.nationaltimes.com.au/opinion/ashby-ca.....
» 14/12/2012 8:40:38 AM SM, You really are something else : ) You're the reason the word "partisan" wa.....
» 13/12/2012 4:33:13 PM "Slipper just got what he deserved." http://www.judgments.fedcourt.gov.au/judgm.....
» 13/12/2012 3:17:25 PM "Talula Does The Hula From Hawaii" Why that's as bad as Zappa's kids, "Moo.....
» 13/12/2012 2:48:08 PM Tony Lavis, I didn't say it did weaken his argument. (I reject your assertion that I att.....
» 13/12/2012 2:35:49 PM runner, Instead of calling me names, why don't you read the judgment? I know you're gett.....
» 13/12/2012 2:12:12 PM Hi pelican, Yes, it's so hard not to be cynical. I have no doubt that the next federal e.....
» 13/12/2012 1:55:19 PM runner, I can assure you that if you take the time to read the judgment, you will find th.....
» 13/12/2012 12:13:21 PM cohenite, If I link to the affiliations of those who reject AGW, what's the problem? Poi.....
» 13/12/2012 11:49:09 AM http://www.judgments.fedcourt.gov.au/judgments/Judgments/fca/single/2012/2012fca1411 The .....
» 13/12/2012 10:59:43 AM Grahma, No doubt, you'll tell me off for this as well. Nevertheless, there's obviously a .....
» 13/12/2012 10:16:25 AM Houellie, Your suggested questions warmed the cockles of my heart : ) Must be something .....
» 13/12/2012 9:52:02 AM I'm still encouraging others to read the judgment. SM, You are such a spin merchant. Tha.....
» 13/12/2012 9:43:01 AM Apparently this is the future for oil extraction: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Featur.....
» 13/12/2012 8:44:02 AM Au contraire, Shadow Minister, http://www.judgments.fedcourt.gov.au/judgments/Judgments/f.....
» 12/12/2012 7:59:05 PM Just wanted to mention the weird weather in the South West this year. In June we experien.....
» 12/12/2012 4:58:36 PM imajulianutter, A little more on the issue of the lag: http://www.realclimate.org/index......
» 12/12/2012 4:39:17 PM Here's a brief summary of the issue, Lexi - from 2003 by Margo Kingston. http://www.smh.c.....
» 12/12/2012 2:53:23 PM Just thought I'd run this by you, SM, http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-12-12/slipper-sexua.....
» 12/12/2012 12:22:32 PM Let's not get too precious, Graham. All seems to be fair in love and war in this debate. .....
» 12/12/2012 11:38:13 AM Here's a little more information on Craig Idso. Http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?titl.....
» 12/12/2012 11:22:35 AM Otokonoko, I appreciate your point of view. However, it seems to me that a abroad and un.....
» 12/12/2012 10:27:39 AM Curmudgeon, The only inroads achieved have been in the area of affecting public perceptio.....
» 12/12/2012 10:05:46 AM runner, Do ya think violence and "that sort of thing" might be connected to soc.....
» 12/12/2012 9:14:24 AM I note the "It's not bad" myth is number three on the Skeptical Science top ten......
» 11/12/2012 8:51:46 PM I'm needing a bucket listening to people hanging out for their daily dose of disaster, blo.....
» 11/12/2012 7:48:57 PM Loudmouth, Your questions often seem to have a sarcastic undertone - as do your replies......
» 11/12/2012 2:34:50 PM SPQR, I've just been out to pick up my new reading glasses...and for good measure I clean.....
» 11/12/2012 11:12:55 AM spindoc, "Scientific forecasts, good. Forecasts by scientists, Mayan." What a .....
» 11/12/2012 10:22:45 AM Children don't have to be taught "how to learn". They do it as a matter of cour.....
» 11/12/2012 9:30:28 AM SPQR, Nice of you to drop in again - (it must be getting crowded in the change rooms) I'.....
» 11/12/2012 8:36:27 AM Tony Lavis, (It's great that Loudmouth has a helper) Loudmouth doesn't wish to understan.....
» 10/12/2012 11:53:36 PM "I keep asking dumb questions..." Well you keep asking the same questions....an.....
» 10/12/2012 6:30:54 PM Yeah, SPQR... I'm quaking in my boots at Loudmouth's grasp of climate science. (I might .....
» 10/12/2012 4:49:39 PM I'll make you a deal, Loudmouth. You book yourself into Cherry Pickers Anonymous - and I'.....
» 10/12/2012 3:43:17 PM "Find a new hobby Rhosty." Take it from cohenite - he's a lawyer (ie, not a cli.....
» 10/12/2012 3:35:30 PM I believe this was the story: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-12-10/climate-change-confor.....
» 10/12/2012 3:30:13 PM Yeah, Lexi.....don't you know that people with dark skin are much "badder" than .....
» 10/12/2012 10:29:39 AM As one poster pointed out recently, we "surmise" that it was suicide. On that w.....
» 10/12/2012 10:19:55 AM Pericles, I think you know that it's a man who commits socially unacceptable acts. That h.....
» 10/12/2012 10:03:29 AM It's fascinating watching you guys debate Yuyutsu. You take him on as if he's a typical r.....
» 9/12/2012 1:49:37 PM Philip S, I'm wondering what the term "African appearance" would denote? Would.....
» 9/12/2012 10:45:11 AM Excellent comment, scribbler. Perhaps you should keep snapping the broom - that way, the .....
» 9/12/2012 10:21:46 AM Forrest, Thanks for that. You're right that the lady's death has been termed "unexpl.....
» 8/12/2012 9:57:04 PM Yes, csteele, that was my intended meaning....that one would imagine there were other unde.....
» 8/12/2012 7:53:47 PM I'm inclined to agree with Jay on this one. My first thought was that this incident had ti.....
» 8/12/2012 2:20:31 PM Correction: Infant mortality for Gaza is 20.2/1000.....
» 8/12/2012 1:32:04 PM Gaza: - Infant mortality - 19.5/1000 Life expectancy - 73.4 Israel: - Infant mortalit.....
» 8/12/2012 9:21:29 AM Alan, Something must have rubbed off from your time with the Jiminy Crickets...your perfo.....
» 8/12/2012 1:17:30 AM Loudmouth, So even though 1998 was the warmest year of the series, and the next nine warm.....
» 7/12/2012 11:39:37 PM Now for something a little different.... Lord Monckton is providing the light entertainme.....
» 7/12/2012 7:01:18 PM No If you're standing on the escalator, you don't feel like you're walking up an incline .....
» 7/12/2012 3:10:39 PM Tony Lavis, I'm sure you feel triumphant whenever you helicopter into threads to unload y.....
» 7/12/2012 10:32:51 AM Okay - just as an aside... I'm thinking of the flat I shared with my brother in 1977 - in.....
» 7/12/2012 10:10:18 AM Hi Paul. Thanks for that. According to Loudmouth, it's all very simple and not at all co.....
» 7/12/2012 9:55:08 AM Hey Joe, I once had a record get stuck on the words "round and round" - (true s.....
» 7/12/2012 9:07:52 AM Loudmouth, "So.....you are suggesting that it is true that there hasn't been any sig.....
» 7/12/2012 12:42:52 AM Actually it is a "rebuttal" : ) Here you go, Loudmouth. I revisited John Cook'.....
» 6/12/2012 6:16:39 PM I'm pleased to have you back too...lately it seemed that all my favourite posters were fal.....
» 6/12/2012 5:57:39 PM Lexi!! Where have you been?.....
» 6/12/2012 5:51:25 PM Loudmouth, "But please, no more snide rebuttals." I think you can drop the del.....
» 6/12/2012 4:44:03 PM Ah, but, Joe, the point is that you are not an idiot...an idiot who bothered to inhabit a .....
» 6/12/2012 8:58:14 AM Loudmouth, "An idiot can ask question that geniuses can easily answer..." Ther.....
» 5/12/2012 8:21:10 PM "Neo-liberals such as yourself...." Oooh, I see Loudmouth has hit upon a brilli.....
» 5/12/2012 4:37:10 PM I always said we needed a "paranoia" category on OLO, along with the "News .....
» 5/12/2012 10:04:24 AM Curmudgeon, It's not about "believing" - "...it's a matter of empirical ev.....
» 5/12/2012 8:50:36 AM Hasbeen, "It must be tough, being laughed at by the public..." Not at all, if .....
» 5/12/2012 7:56:13 AM Cheryl, ...make that 16.3 trillion in debt. http://usdebtclock.org.....
» 4/12/2012 7:05:15 PM DDT ban myth bingo. http://scienceblogs.com/deltoid/2005/12/21/ddt-ban-myth-bingo/.....
» 4/12/2012 5:44:24 PM What a strange post : ) Hint: follow the red line under "How Realists View Global Wa.....
» 4/12/2012 5:01:54 PM "*average world temperature has not risen in the last fifteen years. Have I got that .....
» 4/12/2012 4:46:04 PM Hasbeen, I take it this is the 7.30 Report piece to which you refer? http://www.abc.net......
» 4/12/2012 2:15:09 PM Yuyutsu, To the extent that you believe that man (and everything) is God - and that we ar.....
» 4/12/2012 1:22:07 PM Au contraire, Leo Lane, I was quoting the header from your link, which stated "125 pl.....
» 4/12/2012 10:31:35 AM On Rachel Carson and Silent Spring: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/23/magazine/how-silent.....
» 4/12/2012 8:59:37 AM Here's Shadow Minister's pin-up boy and his adventures in Slush Fun[d]land. http://www.sm.....
» 4/12/2012 8:26:09 AM Avw, I was being sarcastic (we do need a sarcasm punctuation mark:) http://www.telegraph......
» 3/12/2012 6:08:23 PM Steven, Thanks for putting up that skeptical science "skeptics vs realists" lin.....
» 3/12/2012 11:33:07 AM 125-plus scientists. Chortle...........
» 3/12/2012 11:13:20 AM Wonderful, voxUnius, Let's all celebrate ignorance and its perpetuation! That the deniai.....
» 3/12/2012 10:39:11 AM I'm still waiting for something of substance to be delivered from the opposition. Why is .....
» 3/12/2012 9:50:33 AM The question more aptly is "How to save us from the climate-change deniers." ht.....
» 3/12/2012 9:17:00 AM Jay, I'm surmising that you have an alternative theory as to the one that posits that we .....
» 3/12/2012 8:59:45 AM Take it from cohenite, that his link to "analysis" from his favourite weatherman.....
» 2/12/2012 11:04:55 PM Hi fightingmum - welcome to the forum. It seems the Queensland government is doing the ex.....
» 2/12/2012 10:51:22 PM Tony Lavis, You're splitting hairs. I was referring to Yuyutsu's intimation that not all .....
» 2/12/2012 2:18:55 PM Yes, Philip S, I understand all that. I've read stuff like that before - as lnog as the fr.....
» 2/12/2012 12:21:23 PM All of which probably goes some way to explain why I'm one of the few regular female contr.....
» 2/12/2012 12:16:23 PM We need an inquiry as to why Graham doesn't edit general section articles for typos. This .....
» 2/12/2012 10:54:04 AM Hasbeen, Well, I think you're right.....I don't understand men. Apparently I never have a.....
» 2/12/2012 10:23:18 AM Bazz, "....hmmmm" Then there's this: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-09-23/ab.....
» 2/12/2012 12:36:40 AM Tony Lavis, If you trot up to a Catholic school with your little angel in tow. they will .....
» 2/12/2012 12:01:24 AM Don't be ridiculous, Hasbeen. It makes practical sense for a fortunate country like Austr.....
» 1/12/2012 11:22:41 PM "Just a little reality check :-)" I detect a watering grin there, Steven. Noth.....
» 1/12/2012 6:18:06 PM ybgirp, Of course women have always been consumers...but as a society we've ramped up the.....
» 1/12/2012 1:11:02 PM mac, Yes, I wonder. Here's a link put forward by WmTrevor in another thread - very usefu.....
» 1/12/2012 1:04:21 PM Jay, But it's "The Real Men of the West" who constructed said consumer/industri.....
» 1/12/2012 11:13:51 AM A Walkley Award...for exposing Tony Abbott's "vast vault of mediocrity" (thanks .....
» 1/12/2012 11:00:52 AM Jonathan J. Ariel, It's sickening to witness a powerful entity mercilessly mashing a less.....
» 1/12/2012 10:08:32 AM Avw, Since Gaza is as free as a bird, how does one gain entry into this zone? http://wi.....
» 1/12/2012 9:34:30 AM mac, Hear, hear. "You seem to be ignoring the history of the Zionist movement and i.....
» 1/12/2012 9:02:22 AM Tony Lavis, Re: Yuyutsu's comment "What I said is that Catholicism is a mixed bag. S.....
» 30/11/2012 4:25:01 PM Ooooh, that sounds just dandy, SF. Can't wait to book a trip - how about you? http://wik.....
» 30/11/2012 4:04:59 PM Hiya rache, Indeed! I take it you're referring to this Tony Abbott escapade: http://www.....
» 30/11/2012 3:56:47 PM ybgirp, Do you really think I'm suggesting "...men have become more or less useless .....
» 30/11/2012 1:34:54 PM Barrie Cassidy on similarities to the Clinton Whitewater case: http://www.abc.net.au/news.....
» 30/11/2012 8:37:01 AM ybgirp, I disagree that women aren't concerned about men. However, I think the mode of d.....
» 30/11/2012 8:21:08 AM WmTrevor, Brilliant! It looks like a lot of "stealing" has taken place over th.....
» 30/11/2012 6:49:56 AM Jayb, So that makes it fine for them to be plopped back into that territory by the powers.....
» 29/11/2012 8:34:22 PM Jayb, I think you'd be inclined to give more than a kick in the shins if someone took ove.....
» 29/11/2012 8:04:26 PM individual, I didn't write anything about you being Jay's "mouth peace". (Btw,.....
» 29/11/2012 4:14:22 PM Banjo, Are you referring to Palestinian recognition as a member state by UNESCO?.....
» 29/11/2012 4:06:53 PM Hasbeen, "...shut them down for six months, then reopen, with a new workforce...&quo.....
» 29/11/2012 4:01:06 PM Belly. I do declare...I believe OUG is chanelling SM. (Had to happen one day:).....
» 29/11/2012 2:05:29 PM Interesting video - "What Colour is a Glacier?" Complexities. Scientists. Que.....
» 29/11/2012 12:53:33 PM Bugsy and Curmudgeon, Regarding methane emission fluxes in the Arctic: http://www.realcl.....
» 29/11/2012 11:25:58 AM individual, You should bring yourself up to speed on Jay's rhetoric - that is exactly the.....
» 29/11/2012 11:20:41 AM Cheryl, Your post is "alarmist" - not mine. In fact, your post is almost solid.....
» 29/11/2012 10:20:53 AM Atman, Bee colony decimation - it's complicated. http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2.....
» 29/11/2012 7:11:39 AM Belly, These are "religious" institutions. It's the "institution" par.....
» 29/11/2012 6:35:41 AM Your proposal is that the switch happens in a flash. This is not a realistic scenario. T.....
» 29/11/2012 5:27:17 AM Shocka, Calling people idiots shows a certain frustration and lack of argument....take a .....
» 29/11/2012 5:21:54 AM Shocka, I came upon this post by AJ Philips over in the articles section - as in the case.....
» 28/11/2012 10:08:17 PM Oh I don't know, Diamond Pete. I'm surmising that somewhere buried deep in your repertoir.....
» 28/11/2012 10:25:58 AM Of course, Atman, the Mayans are renowned for their scientific prowess (their jet propulsi.....
» 28/11/2012 9:12:47 AM Wow, a Tony Abbott-shaped Magic Tree..... Well for one thing, it would have about the sam.....
» 28/11/2012 12:04:03 AM Well perhaps I've been a bit hard on you, Hasbeen. This is a singular way of communicating.....
» 27/11/2012 11:36:37 PM cohenite et al, http://theconversation.edu.au/straw-man-science-keeping-climate-simple-10.....
» 27/11/2012 8:50:13 PM Jay, I really don't have a problem with men doing their own thing, as in cooking a barbec.....
» 27/11/2012 5:26:10 PM It appears the opposition is doing its best to come up with something that will deliver th.....
» 27/11/2012 4:27:15 PM cohenite, ...but you keep linking to your blog. Here's a good demonstration on what happ.....
» 27/11/2012 3:46:16 PM Hasbeen and Jay, You both seem to have a problem with your persona. My point being that a.....
» 27/11/2012 10:47:20 AM Jay, Might I suggest that a "real man" wouldn't bang on ad infinitum about his .....
» 26/11/2012 8:07:53 PM Hi Suze, I wuz going to say that Jay's advice to Shockadelic that he should: "...now.....
» 26/11/2012 2:15:57 PM "Spoken like a true Man Of The West." Lol!! In fact...double Lol!.....
» 26/11/2012 11:11:23 AM Shockadelic, You forgot these....white men also excelled at colonising, exploiting, ensla.....
» 26/11/2012 10:37:59 AM Rhosty, Just as an aside to your first point. The Great War was also seen as an opportun.....
» 26/11/2012 10:24:28 AM All these changes must have passed me by. We still do all the things and seem to experien.....
» 25/11/2012 6:53:58 PM Listen up to SPQR, folks, This is the guy who delights in reconstructing and contorting o.....
» 25/11/2012 2:33:51 PM Let me say first that the idea of driving a crane leaves me cold....but perhaps this woman.....
» 25/11/2012 11:13:17 AM Diamond Pete, The standard sure is getting scratchy around here. I was just looking bac.....
» 25/11/2012 10:44:42 AM Actually, 579, SM and his ilk, if they formed government, could potentially save Aus a lot.....
» 24/11/2012 12:23:32 PM JOM, Apologies for smirking....especially after your "superior" white-inspired .....
» 24/11/2012 11:01:04 AM cohenite, "...sit in a puddle and chant to nature." You can if you want. All I.....
» 24/11/2012 9:46:28 AM Ho,ho,ho, Jay of Melbourne, If your DNA was genetically tested, you'd probably be surpris.....
» 24/11/2012 9:36:55 AM Go on, Jay, it's fascinating. "...only when we men of the West are willing to stand .....
» 24/11/2012 7:52:36 AM SPQR, Well thanks for confirming my opinion of your style. Whichever way you look at it,.....
» 24/11/2012 12:07:02 AM Somehow I don't think my day would be complete if I neglected this link: http://www.skept.....
» 23/11/2012 11:24:46 PM qanda, Thanks again. I just wanted to add that people like me who are scientifically non.....
» 23/11/2012 7:59:47 PM SPQR, Oh there you are.....still attempting to be oh-so-clever. You know, after your aby.....
» 23/11/2012 7:16:10 PM cohenite, Regarding colonising other planets. You appear to overlook the fact that we evo.....
» 23/11/2012 6:35:50 PM Fair enough, Pericles, As I mentioned, I have had occasion to debate Yuyutsu on the subje.....
» 23/11/2012 4:19:18 PM Scenario 4 - nobody does anything and we all go to hell in a handbasket. Good-o.....
» 23/11/2012 3:37:11 PM Belly, Re: - "the questions asked": Surely the question as to whether or not w.....
» 23/11/2012 1:44:16 PM Atman, If humans are not independent of the natural world, then they are not "above&.....
» 23/11/2012 11:13:53 AM Hey qanda - thanks for that. (...glad you're still around : ).....
» 23/11/2012 11:03:29 AM Atman, "The world population could fit into an even smaller area if we built high ri.....
» 23/11/2012 10:14:55 AM Atman, Re: point 4.....just because you can stuff a certain amount of humanity into a giv.....
» 23/11/2012 10:08:16 AM Hi Belly, You may also be interested in one of the links mentioned at the end of your las.....
» 23/11/2012 8:26:15 AM Pericles, I just noted your sentence "A condescension born of the most complete form.....
» 23/11/2012 8:03:21 AM Pericles, I've had many a debate with Yuyutsu attempting to punch holes in his approach -.....
» 22/11/2012 10:57:19 PM Yes, Suze, it occurs to me that most of the fear would be "before the deathbed"......
» 22/11/2012 7:25:48 PM Belly, There's no need to be so sensitive. Obviously most of us operate from an egoistic .....
» 22/11/2012 5:33:11 PM Just an observation: Most of us debating on OLO do so from the vantage point of our egos......
» 22/11/2012 5:04:17 PM cohenite, Before your write people off as dopes and weirdos, perhaps you should assess yo.....
» 22/11/2012 11:28:19 AM cohenite, You're always accusing me of wanting to live a misguided "natural" ex.....
» 22/11/2012 9:52:41 AM Pericles, Perhaps what Yuyutsu is intimating is that "everything" (material) th.....
» 21/11/2012 4:11:10 PM cohenite, For someone who consistently extols the virtues of modern industrial society y.....
» 21/11/2012 12:36:27 PM Thanks for that, Belly. I wonder how loud the planet will "squeal" before we be.....
» 21/11/2012 12:21:15 PM What a myopic view you have of "society", cohenite....what you really mean is &q.....
» 21/11/2012 11:29:12 AM Belly, I suspect Yuyutsu would say that the destruction taking place in Gaza has nothing .....
» 21/11/2012 10:34:05 AM Ludwig, Many of India's farmers are again resuming more earth-friendly methods of farming.....
» 21/11/2012 9:54:17 AM Yuyutsu, If I was you, I'd avoid gender references altogether. "It" can also re.....
» 21/11/2012 9:08:04 AM Well done, Sophie (and Geoff). It seems the likes of cohenite and Atman feel that it's de.....
» 21/11/2012 8:47:11 AM Hi Yuyutsu, Regarding "confusion"....your own words are a little that way also......
» 20/11/2012 11:58:48 AM SM, You may be interested in the following brief overview: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolu.....
» 20/11/2012 9:57:17 AM Jock, Go industrialisation - like the clappers, if you will : ) Of course, "moderat.....
» 19/11/2012 8:40:29 PM Daffy Duck, DEN71, An excellent lecture adaptation by Tony Judt on social democracy. htt.....
» 19/11/2012 6:03:34 PM SM, Even the World Bank is sitting up and taking notice...I believe the IMF was also talk.....
» 19/11/2012 10:32:32 AM SM, Of course the earth will continue to team with "life" as long as it can be .....
» 19/11/2012 10:22:30 AM David, You posed the question: "1/ Is the 30 billion dollars of annual tax exemptio.....
» 18/11/2012 6:49:20 PM Mind your own business, cohenite. I was responding to SPQR's erroneous assumptions concer.....
» 18/11/2012 12:19:08 PM SPQR, Just for your information, here's Jayb's comment about the Mt Warren Shopping Centr.....
» 18/11/2012 9:55:38 AM Wow, SPQR....you've certainly plumbed the depths with that one. How did it go? "Aft.....
» 18/11/2012 9:31:18 AM SM, Interestingly, something termed the Carboniferous Rainforest Collapse occurred late i.....
» 18/11/2012 9:05:52 AM "Was life extinguished?" Obviously "life" wasn't extinguished, but co.....
» 18/11/2012 12:19:10 AM "So Poirot, ordered your burqa yet?" No actually....I've had word that there's .....
» 17/11/2012 11:51:42 AM Bazz, since you linked to the "skeptics" fav blog, here's an example of my earl.....
» 17/11/2012 11:12:22 AM Bazz, "That is the most cowardly argument yet." Okay, so Exxon doesn't fund mu.....
» 17/11/2012 10:42:14 AM SPQR, cohenite is as partisan as the rest of us on this forum. He's particularly dismiss.....
» 17/11/2012 9:36:39 AM Hasbeen, It seems that in arguing against a consensus, you are citing here your own ".....
» 17/11/2012 9:15:09 AM What an odd state of affairs for a fortunate society. Fancy all those young people or thos.....
» 16/11/2012 6:16:41 PM Cooked indeed! I believe it was the Howard government which came up with that particularl.....
» 16/11/2012 11:27:08 AM Jonathan, I wonder how Obama's objectives would have fared if he hadn't been constrained .....
» 16/11/2012 10:38:30 AM "...Anything you say is meaningless." While I admire your arrogant assumption t.....
» 16/11/2012 8:59:08 AM "...an inability to think before acting." It's probably more likely to be a cas.....
» 15/11/2012 10:05:00 PM Soul food?.....
» 15/11/2012 11:02:56 AM Frankly, man is rather a self-defeating entity in some ways. He is capable of great intell.....
» 15/11/2012 9:56:56 AM Claiming a disproportionate concentration on the Catholic Church should in no way detract .....
» 15/11/2012 9:48:32 AM All of which leads us back to situations such as this, which is why the RC has been set up.....
» 14/11/2012 11:19:22 PM Yeah, whatever you say... The more I think about it, the more I'm coming to the conclusio.....
» 14/11/2012 4:33:57 PM "Seems more like a witch hunt to me, one to discredit anyone associated with Catholic.....
» 14/11/2012 11:57:08 AM As opposed to the former Republican administration which presided over the machinations wh.....
» 14/11/2012 8:48:54 AM On the contrary, Hasbeen, isn't it amazing that a leader finally emerges who has the guts .....
» 12/11/2012 5:31:23 PM A royal commission it is..... http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-11-12/abbott-backs-call-for.....
» 11/11/2012 9:38:58 PM Hi Belly, Don't know how to go about that re Lexi, although would be glad to try to ascer.....
» 11/11/2012 10:11:45 AM "Mes amis" - Quite so... Actually, it was a clever ruse to flush out the underc.....
» 11/11/2012 8:45:47 AM Loudmouth, "...the AGW scam..." Ho, ho - if you're a true skeptic (as opposed .....
» 10/11/2012 9:22:16 PM Tut, tut, mon amis...Poirot could grow such moustaches that he would not need the services.....
» 10/11/2012 7:12:16 PM Deary me, runner, so much for fundamental ethics, eh. "...so why shouldn't others?&q.....
» 10/11/2012 3:33:27 PM Loudmouth, Your dinky little sentences presuppose that climate scientists somehow neglect.....
» 10/11/2012 3:16:15 PM Not a crime, Atman...instead an enormous stitch up of a man who tried to ameliorate the si.....
» 10/11/2012 11:03:34 AM cohenite, That's a paranoid response if I ever read one. So are you implying that if we .....
» 10/11/2012 10:55:27 AM Leo Lane, I found this article on Vahrenholt's claims: http://ourchangingclimate.wordpre.....
» 10/11/2012 9:53:42 AM You just popped again, Bazz (better see a quack about that : ) The thing that fascinates .....
» 10/11/2012 9:48:05 AM Yes, the pattern is clear. The US was actively involved in overthrowing Iran's democrati.....
» 10/11/2012 9:29:29 AM Sorry, SPQR? At least those arguing on the side of moderation have broad scientific agree.....
» 10/11/2012 9:23:55 AM "Real Men Unite!" Well, ha,ha,ha, ha,....just when I think there's no comedy on.....
» 10/11/2012 8:30:53 AM "Slimy, self-righteous, loathsome, nitwit, idiot and blowflies" are just some of.....
» 9/11/2012 2:38:38 PM Steven, Yes, good post. I take your point on"In-your-face" AGW supporters like.....
» 9/11/2012 1:18:14 PM Come to think of it, SM, your threads are likely to engender a rapid response in the clean.....
» 9/11/2012 10:05:24 AM Loudmouth, 90 percent of your post is strawman (as usual). If you insist on employing th.....
» 9/11/2012 12:58:58 AM Loud mouth, "...sometimes it's impossible to tell the difference between a nitwit an.....
» 8/11/2012 8:02:08 PM Loudmouth says - "Please try - if you feel inclined - to confront those issues, witho.....
» 8/11/2012 5:13:20 PM "Both you and poirot are typical little guttersnipes." Does this mean our Valen.....
» 8/11/2012 4:06:26 PM Nice little kookaburra story, Hasbeen....hope he does okay : ).....
» 8/11/2012 3:51:32 PM "The weasel pops up again...." That's funny, because when I saw this thread tho.....
» 8/11/2012 2:26:35 PM I love Jacarandas, and there are plenty where I live - and Bougainvilleas. Every now and t.....
» 8/11/2012 10:40:20 AM Nice link, cohenite...in that the climateskepticsparty = Anthony Cox = cohenite. A wise s.....
» 8/11/2012 7:44:26 AM Yabby, "Nope, my thoughts are that we used to supply the market,when we were exporti.....
» 8/11/2012 12:01:35 AM Valentine's Day? You old romantic you........ : ).....
» 7/11/2012 9:51:03 PM Here's little more, cohenite. http://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/mailings/2012/20120803_DicePo.....
» 7/11/2012 8:39:29 PM Loudmouth, Regarding extreme events; http://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/mailings/2012/2012080.....
» 7/11/2012 11:16:09 AM You know where to find the substance, Hasbeen...but according to you, the people who are q.....
» 6/11/2012 11:29:39 PM WmTrevor, Yeah, both my kids were slow to master the sleeping through thing, although onc.....
» 6/11/2012 11:21:48 PM Kudos for the swagger, boys, Shame about the lack of scientific substance. Oh well...........
» 6/11/2012 9:09:34 PM TPP, Well it is a dwindling population of women posters around here in comparison to when.....
» 6/11/2012 7:15:31 PM Ha, ha..."sleeping through the night". It's a well known fact that if you're a .....
» 6/11/2012 6:08:43 PM individual, That's an impressive piece of rationalisation. And what's this?...."In .....
» 6/11/2012 5:24:58 PM Just think of all those poor mums having to bung the tots in daycare so they can go out an.....
» 6/11/2012 2:50:58 PM Why does slowing down growth have to amount to the Black Death or living in caves? What's.....
» 6/11/2012 1:31:22 PM TPP - Yippee!...we need you around here : ) WmTrevor - I agree with The Pied Piper. I re.....
» 6/11/2012 1:12:47 PM I can't argue with you on this point, runner. "Such language" is your specialty.....
» 6/11/2012 11:54:29 AM runner, Describing someone's style of speech as vile is not the same as pasting their fun.....
» 6/11/2012 11:33:22 AM Houellie, Actually I meant to include runner's post in my lament. Besides....I find your.....
» 6/11/2012 11:18:20 AM Shouldn't that be "The race that 'slops' a nation"?.....
» 6/11/2012 10:31:24 AM Steven, "...damage mitigation measures..." Like this, for instance. http://ed.....
» 6/11/2012 10:19:06 AM WmTrevor, Yes! Of course, our society is encouraged to look at parenthood in that manner.....
» 6/11/2012 9:53:09 AM runner, You're at it again... B - is for Bigotry H - is for Hatred (runner's Book of V.....
» 6/11/2012 9:00:39 AM "...If you don't know what sense & dignity means you can look it up just about anywhe.....
» 6/11/2012 8:16:09 AM I've seldom watched such vile sentiments as those that Ann Coulter regularly trotted out o.....
» 6/11/2012 8:02:03 AM Unfortunately, admin, there aren't that many women inhabiting this forum, and almost none .....
» 5/11/2012 8:55:45 PM Got to admire your swagger, cohenite. I've yet to hear of a climate scientist who claimed.....
» 5/11/2012 3:01:48 PM Yuyutsu, "....nor would a neanderthal." I beg to differ, in that a neanderthal.....
» 5/11/2012 1:33:20 PM WmTrevor, Perhaps we could do a Latin-American rewrite as well, wherein the native avian .....
» 5/11/2012 11:05:53 AM Here's a Romney supporter (Brig, Gen - served in Iraq) criticising the Republican nominee'.....
» 5/11/2012 10:40:20 AM Grrrr...and double grrrrr - that should be "flamingoes"......
» 5/11/2012 10:37:15 AM WmTrevor, Surely that should be "Fried Green Famingoes", (or "pink" w.....
» 5/11/2012 10:05:25 AM Yabby, ".....he probably wanted you to stand at the pissoir and beat him at a peeing.....
» 5/11/2012 9:55:37 AM I believe that " half a dozen such droppings of large heavy green mangoes" was D.....
» 5/11/2012 9:29:10 AM Never mind, Yabby. imajulianutter tends to bellow "man up" to anyone with whom .....
» 5/11/2012 8:39:40 AM Don Aitkin, We may be looking at the increased frequency of storms such as this - http:/.....
» 5/11/2012 8:21:10 AM Last night I dreamt I went to Craggy Island again....(feckin' bords...) http://www.youtub.....
» 5/11/2012 7:38:18 AM Excellent, Ludwig, ....but I reckon Daphne Du Maurier beat you to it. http://www.enotes......
» 4/11/2012 10:34:50 AM Bazz, Absolument!...that goes without saying : ).....
» 4/11/2012 9:21:32 AM WmTrevor, "....what will we do if there's no sanity clause?" Well seeing as yo.....
» 2/11/2012 7:02:53 PM GAWD! ...but thanks, Arjay. I've been seriously contemplating an extended holiday from OL.....
» 2/11/2012 9:46:53 AM Well said, scribbler. Added to the points you have already raised is the memory in the mi.....
» 1/11/2012 8:12:21 AM Thank you, Steven, A couple of brief articles that may be of interest: http://climate.na.....
» 31/10/2012 10:22:01 PM SPQR, When all is said and done, the best you can offer up is a link to WUWT. (I didn't .....
» 31/10/2012 5:25:16 PM Hasbeen, I doubt this link will answer your fundamental question, however, it's related t.....
» 31/10/2012 5:12:20 PM cohenite, A paper published in Nature in February this year examined storm surges using N.....
» 31/10/2012 10:52:06 AM Found this on surges by NOAA http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/surge/.....
» 31/10/2012 10:19:23 AM cohenite, Actually, the "perfect storm" which sank the Andrea Gail is interesti.....
» 31/10/2012 9:50:56 AM Excellent summary, scribbler. Thanks for clarifying a few points in such a succinct mann.....
» 31/10/2012 4:19:18 AM Hasbeen, I was referring to a merging of systems once the cyclone was over land. Or do yo.....
» 30/10/2012 11:36:01 PM Good topic, Hasbeen. Here's a little something to chew on: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.....
» 30/10/2012 10:01:14 PM cohenite, ".....Cyclone Sandy was downgraded sometime ago; it is nothing out of the .....
» 30/10/2012 2:41:50 PM Here you go, cohenite: http://hurricanesandyspeaks.com/2012/10/29/message-from-hurricane-.....
» 30/10/2012 2:07:33 PM mac, "There's definitely a gene that compels people to satirise pompous smart-arses......
» 30/10/2012 11:13:34 AM Deary me, SM, that comment I posted (from you) wasn't meant to be an example of an "o.....
» 29/10/2012 3:51:12 PM Houellie, I'm not offended!....I'm interested in this form of interaction where most of u.....
» 29/10/2012 3:15:20 PM runner, Perhaps you can explain to us the "proper science" that relegates the t.....
» 29/10/2012 2:52:54 PM Houellie, It's interesting the mental pics we construct of fellow posters - I'm confident.....
» 29/10/2012 8:28:24 AM Belly, Yes I'll probably stay. There's little point in lamenting the dwindling number of .....
» 28/10/2012 11:38:51 PM Ludwig, To be honest, I have no idea. The last time she was absent for any length of tim.....
» 28/10/2012 11:15:46 AM Belly, Just further to my previous point. I have in the past visited sites of a more left.....
» 28/10/2012 9:04:19 AM Belly, I wouldn't decry you for your opinions. It's the style and vehemence in which opin.....
» 26/10/2012 11:46:14 PM SM, "No loss. Go stamp your tiny feet elsewhere. Not surprised you were suspended........
» 26/10/2012 10:46:08 PM Thanks, Ming - wish you well in the future. Valley Guy, Hard to disagree with your asses.....
» 26/10/2012 8:41:20 PM bonmot, C'est triste a vous perdre, mais je comprends. (Hope my wobbly French is intelli.....
» 26/10/2012 6:01:00 PM Arjay, "...abject poverty...." - haw, haw : ) You sound like Tony Abbott let l.....
» 26/10/2012 5:12:58 PM bonmot, Mon ami, s'il vous plait rester. .................. SM, Your bravado, hollow s.....
» 26/10/2012 10:49:45 AM Bruce, A well elucidated article on the vacuous button-pushing style of Mr Abbott. runne.....
» 25/10/2012 2:32:32 PM I'm not so sure that the climate forecasters have "got it wrong." The article s.....
» 25/10/2012 2:07:59 PM Graham, The site seems fine now. I wasn't able to access OLO for several hours this morn.....
» 25/10/2012 11:10:23 AM Here's a more in-depth analysis of the issue from the Skeptic Lawyer blog: http://skepticl.....
» 25/10/2012 10:44:02 AM Sarah Wise writes: "In times of rapid globalisation we need to help children find a.....
» 24/10/2012 8:13:29 PM Yes, Graham, it seems much better...although when I first came back on, nearly every page .....
» 24/10/2012 3:09:47 PM Excuse my morbid fascination, but I just read my last post here - and then I came back and.....
» 24/10/2012 2:44:25 PM Very interesting... While the easystart ad is on a page, the last/latest post is not visi.....
» 24/10/2012 1:02:02 PM I've let Graham know - seems to be connected to the Easystart add. I was able to read scri.....
» 24/10/2012 9:42:43 AM Mollydukes, You - you put it very well. Isn't it fascinating that SPQR had difficulties .....
» 24/10/2012 9:19:56 AM Feel free to suspect anything you want, SM. I wasn't criticisng the meaning. I was having.....
» 24/10/2012 9:15:12 AM Funny you should say that Bazz. Only this year NZ meteorologists have been subject to leg.....
» 24/10/2012 8:53:51 AM Pericles, Modern "food technology" doesn't promote biodiversity. It promotes mo.....
» 24/10/2012 8:07:12 AM I've experienced this on a few odd occasions. I use Firefox. It seems to last half a day o.....
» 24/10/2012 7:50:29 AM Then again, SM, perhaps we should both stop flapping around on this thread trying to prove.....
» 24/10/2012 7:41:15 AM Squarwk! SM's run out of seed again. You prize definition was contorted and opaque. I un.....
» 23/10/2012 11:53:07 PM Just a quick correction, in that the men convicted are free until they have exhausted aven.....
» 23/10/2012 7:19:07 PM Mollydukes, "If I was a conspiracy theorist I'd think "the right" are deli.....
» 23/10/2012 6:29:08 PM SPQR, "....So if anyone thinks only men are capable or deserving of being politician.....
» 23/10/2012 6:08:49 PM SM, "There was no legal jargon in what I've posted..." I didn't say you posted.....
» 23/10/2012 3:55:56 PM I can see your point, Houellie. It does seem SM has attracted some increased opposition. .....
» 23/10/2012 3:07:00 PM That's where you're wrong, Houellie. Why today I've planted tomatoes, made gingerbread, h.....
» 23/10/2012 1:42:04 PM SM, Yes, yes, we all know how clear and penetrable is legal jargon (ho, ho) "...a v.....
» 23/10/2012 11:43:26 AM Mollydukes, Nice to see you back here - and kudos for your insightful posts. Perhaps SPQ.....
» 23/10/2012 11:10:08 AM Why thank you, SM. (Just quietly - do you really think I'm an idiot?) Anyhooo...my point.....
» 23/10/2012 10:42:38 AM Just wondering what OLOer's think about Italy jailing scientists for failing to provide an.....
» 23/10/2012 10:05:03 AM SPQR, "You watch, any moment now Poirot is going to buy into this on your side...&qu.....
» 23/10/2012 12:21:49 AM "God what a bunch..." This from the bloke who judges a politician's integrity b.....
» 22/10/2012 6:39:38 PM You know, RObert. I have a sneaking suspicion that you are correct : ) Reading SM's majes.....
» 22/10/2012 1:10:46 PM "...real references..." (Ho, Ho, Ho) Linking to blogs by non-climate scientist.....
» 22/10/2012 8:33:10 AM SM, "Howard in saying "never, ever"......meant that one would be technical.....
» 21/10/2012 6:28:09 PM "...Rush me to the burns unit..." Never mind, Mr Opinion - I'm sure they're onl.....
» 21/10/2012 6:06:40 PM Drat! To clarify: That should be "...and I can see no appreciable difference betwee.....
» 21/10/2012 5:58:08 PM RObert, Yes, I appreciate that aspect. But SM is going to the purity of statement - and .....
» 21/10/2012 12:45:56 PM Pericles, Re: your point on society contriving to avoid describing wartime deaths as murd.....
» 21/10/2012 11:24:17 AM "Robert, alarmist that he is, should do some research; AGW has been disproved:" .....
» 21/10/2012 11:10:41 AM Not to worry, Pelly. I've sent them to their room. They've been pulling the girls pigtail.....
» 21/10/2012 9:39:17 AM Forgot to add link. http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-06-10/wild-winds-lash-wa/4062970.....
» 21/10/2012 9:36:58 AM Disregarding (for the moment) the connection (or not) between AGW and extreme events, Mr A.....
» 21/10/2012 8:18:07 AM YEBIGA, You might be interested in this extract from Seumas Milne's new book "The Re.....
» 20/10/2012 11:31:58 AM SM, "Condition 3, ie, that the statement was false is self evident." "The.....
» 20/10/2012 10:50:01 AM Autism is a spectrum disorder. That means that diagnosis can be made and then categorised .....
» 20/10/2012 9:25:24 AM SM, I recall you and I having a discussion on this issue way back when - and you mitigate.....
» 19/10/2012 11:52:16 PM Pericles, As you note, it's difficult for us fortunate Westerners to deny an aspiration t.....
» 19/10/2012 2:32:29 PM Yabby, I was actually supporting your stance. Do you think it's wise to kill the micro-o.....
» 19/10/2012 2:17:38 PM SM, What you actually wrote was: "I have many times in previous "thread" .....
» 19/10/2012 10:58:57 AM SM, With all due respect, I can't find any intimation contained in your previous posts on.....
» 19/10/2012 9:23:53 AM Yabby, Re: your comment on clapped out soils. There have been, and continue to be, enorm.....
» 18/10/2012 5:43:42 PM Sm, The KPMG investigation wasn't set up to probe the conclusions. It was set up to probe.....
» 18/10/2012 3:21:22 PM Hey, Belly, Mr Jones goes back to school. http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-10-18/alan-jon.....
» 18/10/2012 1:02:59 PM Here you go, SM. Looks like there'll be more lessons than just those from history. http:.....
» 18/10/2012 9:29:36 AM cohenite, "Just like Thompson (sic) denies his charges." I believe the "c.....
» 18/10/2012 9:14:24 AM Belly, The US certainly pulled its punches with Saddam when he was merrily gassing the Ir.....
» 18/10/2012 8:59:13 AM Well noted, SPQR : ) Certainly some superior imagery there. WmTrevor, I wonder, my chil.....
» 18/10/2012 8:23:02 AM SM, You're the one who's swaggering about on this thread telling us how diabolically clev.....
» 18/10/2012 12:12:19 AM Any of you mascunazis got a link to charges preferred against Mr "Thomson" or a .....
» 17/10/2012 8:08:20 PM That's "..finding my "dad" lying sound asleep....." (I was a better w.....
» 17/10/2012 8:04:33 PM Thanks guys. WmTrevor, Yes, I didn't have a paper round but I did get a job after school.....
» 17/10/2012 4:10:06 PM I agree, Houellie. I'm prone. as you may have noted, to over analyse. But I'm not particu.....
» 17/10/2012 3:17:43 PM Yes, cohenite, Crisis? What crisis?.....
» 17/10/2012 3:11:29 PM I'm supposing that Graham didn't receive any requests for your comment to be deleted - doe.....
» 17/10/2012 11:43:28 AM SM, Perhaps you should cut the holier-than-thou, conservatively couched "....my opin.....
» 17/10/2012 10:28:29 AM SM, If it's all so cut and dried, why hasn't Thomson been charged with...something...anyt.....
» 17/10/2012 12:40:38 AM Well I don't think my perspective tonight is going to do it for you either, thinker 2. I .....
» 16/10/2012 11:50:17 PM Loudmouth, "...don't just slag.." Coming from the master strawman constructor .....
» 16/10/2012 6:13:42 PM Charmed I'm sure, Loudmouth. I agree with bonmot - at least he had the sense not to get s.....
» 16/10/2012 6:09:30 PM SM, Link please to "charges" preferred against Craig Thomson or court proceedin.....
» 16/10/2012 12:32:57 PM Jayb, I haven't bothered reading the rest of your post/s. Just wanted to say, despite y.....
» 16/10/2012 11:31:25 AM So, SM, what you're saying is that Mr Thomson is free to sue you for defamation...blah, bl.....
» 16/10/2012 11:22:53 AM Might also help if we stop splattering their countries with bombs to get at their resource.....
» 16/10/2012 10:56:16 AM Don't pull that one ,Belly. You know me well enough to realise that my concerns regarding.....
» 16/10/2012 10:48:51 AM Wow - SM, I hope you're not disseminating a view on the due process of law in an enlighte.....
» 16/10/2012 10:07:21 AM Never mind, SPQR, YEBIGA, he's the president of the George W. Bush fan club (Australian ch.....
» 16/10/2012 9:31:04 AM and, SPQR, it's difficult not to concentrate on the fact that this rather vacant individua.....
» 16/10/2012 8:41:25 AM SPQR, (can't resist) Your hero, George W. Bush, dolt that he was, happened to find himsel.....
» 16/10/2012 8:17:10 AM Belly, I'm proud. in that case, to support YEBIGA. Are you telling me that the principle.....
» 15/10/2012 7:22:28 PM YEBIGA, Well said on this thread. It's a slippery slope when we begin to jettison civili.....
» 15/10/2012 6:16:39 PM "Poirot & other apologists..." Jayb - have you got a split personality? I mean.....
» 15/10/2012 4:00:51 PM You're the one with the selective memory, SM. From the ABC news report: "The report.....
» 15/10/2012 2:50:47 PM But wait....breaking news! http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-10-15/fair-work-begins-federal.....
» 15/10/2012 2:21:53 PM SM, ...that's finding of guilt in a "court of law" - not a statutory body, that.....
» 15/10/2012 2:10:51 PM SM, The FWA investigation was found to be flawed - remember? Link please to any charges .....
» 15/10/2012 1:25:41 PM SM, Link please to Thomson being charged - and/or found guilty of "vile" acts.......
» 15/10/2012 12:34:55 PM Loudmouth, Thank you for your more measured tone : ) I think your points have merit and .....
» 15/10/2012 10:41:43 AM Yes, it seems the righties can make us laugh, but certainly not in the same measure as lef.....
» 15/10/2012 9:51:35 AM Sorry to disappoint you, SPQR, but Monsieur Poirot was not lost for words. He was unavoida.....
» 15/10/2012 8:45:58 AM Houellie, It's all part of the circus of democracy. It's a well known fact that lefties .....
» 15/10/2012 8:36:08 AM cohentite, "...with immense respect to the mother who came across as being rather ta.....
» 14/10/2012 6:30:11 PM You do talk some rubbish at times, Loudmouth. But the main reason I'm posting is to take .....
» 14/10/2012 6:24:42 PM Hee, hee, Loudmouth, Does one have to appear in court to be declared a misogynist? No........
» 14/10/2012 5:45:29 PM Loudmouth, "...the votes of a pervert and a thief..." I must have missed the c.....
» 14/10/2012 2:57:30 PM We've been over that, Jayb. I've already stated that I don't support fundamentalist relig.....
» 14/10/2012 2:10:15 PM Jayb, "Dissenters? Dissenters? Up until now, those who didn't support this vile reli.....
» 14/10/2012 11:43:01 AM Banjo, "....no infrastructure or anything to show for the huge spending." You'.....
» 14/10/2012 11:06:18 AM Jayb, Sometimes you sound quite reasonable - and sometimes, as in the post above, you com.....
» 14/10/2012 10:48:51 AM Will also add that my eleven year-old son was watching this story on the news just now (I .....
» 14/10/2012 10:24:56 AM Loudmouth, May I refer you to the first paragraph of Yabby's post above yours - I agree w.....
» 14/10/2012 10:14:07 AM Pelican, You have hit the nail on the head. What a great (and ultimately simple) analysi.....
» 14/10/2012 9:50:00 AM Loudmouth, I assumed it "went without saying" (ie, was tacitly understood) that.....
» 14/10/2012 9:18:40 AM Just want to register my revulsion at the actions of the Taliban - in general - and partic.....
» 13/10/2012 9:48:09 PM csteele, Thank you for your earlier sentiments : ).....
» 13/10/2012 5:01:58 PM "So go to it fellows, you can refer to Julia as that woman to your hearts content.&qu.....
» 13/10/2012 9:32:54 AM runner, Sorry to disappoint you, but some of us don't operated on a system that catalogue.....
» 13/10/2012 9:27:28 AM sonofgloin, The drop in percentage of those who believed fossil fuel burning was having a.....
» 13/10/2012 8:47:47 AM runner, Your rantings concerning "decent women" verses "anyone-who-fails-t.....
» 12/10/2012 10:04:55 PM "...add Turnbull in there, & there is just no place lower to go...." I'm fascin.....
» 12/10/2012 8:36:25 PM Sorry, link doesn't work...try this. http://www.thenation.com/article/164497/capitalism-v.....
» 12/10/2012 8:33:23 PM Er, sonofgloin, how do you come to that conclusion? There's an entire "skeptic".....
» 12/10/2012 8:00:41 PM runner, I didn't sign up to anything for anything. We've been through this many times be.....
» 12/10/2012 6:23:07 PM Now, runner, we can't let you get away with that, can we...? What makes you think you can.....
» 12/10/2012 10:30:11 AM Well, yes, Houellie, I have to agree that it was great theatre, and it resonates with a p.....
» 12/10/2012 7:29:19 AM sonofgloin, If Tony's escapade with Hetty Verolme's electricity bill recently is an examp.....
» 12/10/2012 12:24:12 AM That's where you're wrong, Hasbeen. I think we can agree that you would refer to me as a .....
» 11/10/2012 12:21:37 PM Fair enough for your point of view, Rhian...after all, ideologues come in all shapes and s.....
» 11/10/2012 10:49:56 AM I quite like Houellie's analysis. I don't think Abbott is necessarily a misogynist. I thi.....
» 11/10/2012 1:00:00 AM Houellie, Actually, I think you're right - it just bounced out of his mouth (shortly befo.....
» 11/10/2012 12:19:12 AM Curmudgeon, I disagree. The bottom line here is sustainability. In the case of India, th.....
» 10/10/2012 6:16:31 PM bonmot, I sent Blair a congrats for his report - haven't heard back though. (I'm sure he'.....
» 10/10/2012 6:00:05 PM SM, It seems Abbott visits his "wit" door regularly then : ) You now what I'm .....
» 10/10/2012 5:25:49 PM Blow it out yer ear, Loudmouth. It's shame you need to use Poirot as a prop to get your m.....
» 10/10/2012 2:43:09 PM Well there's hardly any girls here now - Danielle - me. Suse pops in occasionally, as does.....
» 10/10/2012 1:54:00 PM Yabby, That's not fair : ) I think you and I are pretty even in the last word stakes. I.....
» 10/10/2012 1:38:55 PM Curmudgeon, "...but doesn't seem to have anything to do with international corporati.....
» 10/10/2012 1:13:09 PM Houellie, I agree with you to an extent. (your quote came from the article, not from me d.....
» 10/10/2012 12:54:28 PM SM, Forgive me... How remiss of me to connect this weeks biggest story (which just happe.....
» 10/10/2012 11:25:51 AM Thanks for that, Jayb. I was inclined to conclude right from the moment I saw it that it .....
» 10/10/2012 10:53:28 AM Oh excellent, Jayb... So the case of disrespectful and socially deviant children is not a.....
» 10/10/2012 10:43:42 AM SM, Reaallly!.....are you honestly trying to tell me that in the "very recent wake&q.....
» 10/10/2012 9:37:19 AM pipi, Abbott is second-rate pollie - shame n'all that, but there you go. http://www.thep.....
» 10/10/2012 9:24:12 AM SM, Here's an article on yesterday's political stoush...and your hero, Mr Abbotts, inane,.....
» 10/10/2012 9:09:43 AM Just imagine if Abbott ever becomes PM. One could spend hours ruminating on the varieties.....
» 10/10/2012 9:00:31 AM SM. In answer to your broader argument on Jones, I couldn't do any better than Alan Austi.....
» 10/10/2012 8:21:32 AM SM, The thing I find interesting is that Jones' comments drew such a broad and visceral p.....
» 9/10/2012 8:07:06 PM Jayb, I've just googled the appropriate words and noticed that all the pages listed came .....
» 9/10/2012 7:22:37 PM Well, yes, RObert...but I'm wondering how 'private' one anticipates things will be if one .....
» 9/10/2012 6:56:55 PM Just reading Peter van Onselen on twitter, who wrote: "I actually missed this, but T.....
» 9/10/2012 6:34:36 PM Here's an article on the mechanisms at play in the furore over Jones' comments. http://ww.....
» 9/10/2012 6:22:13 PM But, SM, the title of this thread is "Alan Jones comment". It's not "Alan .....
» 9/10/2012 6:18:05 PM Joe, Where have I rubbished the Enlightenment? I merely pointed out that just because a .....
» 9/10/2012 3:52:04 PM Hi Forrest, I'm not all that savvy on settings, etc...but I just had a go with "Poir.....
» 9/10/2012 3:31:33 PM Curmudgeon, It about the most sustainable way to grow food, especially in the third world.....
» 9/10/2012 12:24:40 PM Well, in that case, I retract my last post. : ).....
» 9/10/2012 11:42:31 AM "Poi rot" Yes, yes, Jayb, very mature...keeping in line with your theory regard.....
» 9/10/2012 10:42:18 AM Brian, What a moving and wise article. It's clear that you have derived extra meaning in .....
» 9/10/2012 9:59:33 AM DavidL, It's all very well to espouse the validity of increased yields riding on the back.....
» 9/10/2012 9:47:13 AM Well done, Jayb, for proving my point that this thread was designed as nothing more than a.....
» 9/10/2012 8:59:56 AM Excellent point, Houellie. I can't help but luxuriate in the sheer poetic justice of Jone.....
» 8/10/2012 7:57:01 PM cohenite, "...McIntyre is a self-effacing guy who does not want to take credit...&qu.....
» 8/10/2012 4:18:45 PM My pleasure, Squeers. Houellie, "...yearning is more fun..." I think yearning.....
» 8/10/2012 3:38:15 PM mik, "Cause and effect".....
» 8/10/2012 3:30:03 PM mik, You can't separate the comments from the reaction to them. Notwithstanding that the .....
» 8/10/2012 3:11:42 PM mik, Sorry to burst the bubble, but Mr oh-too-sure-of-himself Jones just overstepped the .....
» 8/10/2012 1:38:30 PM Houellie, I tend not to think in the prescribed fashion....and nor do you : ) I think yo.....
» 8/10/2012 1:09:09 PM Jayb, "Some people wear a sign over their heads that flashes, "Bait me"........
» 8/10/2012 11:01:28 AM Houellie, Einstein said something to the effect that the only thing that got in the way o.....
» 8/10/2012 10:53:04 AM Jayb, "csteel & poirot, just because someone disagrees with your ideology does not .....
» 8/10/2012 10:27:49 AM SM, Fascinating! : ) One side has the "Rockson Handbag Hit Squad" - ..and the.....
» 8/10/2012 10:15:43 AM Yvonne, You posed the question as to why private schools enjoyed better outcomes than pub.....
» 8/10/2012 10:03:53 AM cohenite, Steve McIntyre was named as a co-author of the Watts et al paper. He acknowledg.....
» 7/10/2012 10:27:28 PM "Watts trusted Muller and got snowed by a master self-promoter..." Au contraire.....
» 7/10/2012 9:08:30 PM Condone what? I haven't stated anything about condoning anything. I've made a few observ.....
» 7/10/2012 7:17:03 PM But SPQR, that's not the impression one gets when reading skeptic pin-up boy, Anthony Watt.....
» 7/10/2012 5:28:03 PM "My use of the phrase was test." Well of course it was, SM. Actually I was jus.....
» 7/10/2012 12:40:19 PM Yvonne, The difference probably emanates from attitudes within the child's home. Educatio.....
» 7/10/2012 12:14:01 PM Belly, I agree (old mate : )...there are some lines you don't cross, and AJ, I'm afraid, .....
» 7/10/2012 11:39:14 AM Wow! - nice to see the "flushable excrement" metaphor is valued by both left and.....
» 7/10/2012 11:08:55 AM Ortega's thoughts on "intellectualism". "This doctrine has been given the .....
» 7/10/2012 10:30:30 AM "..stop putting your oar in. Remain an observer..." So Loudmouth is the arbiter.....
» 7/10/2012 9:16:41 AM Loudmouth, Where did I state that "...it's all much the same one side or the other.......
» 7/10/2012 1:54:14 AM Bamjo, I've been having a peek at Ortega Y Gasset, who in comparing the life of animals w.....
» 7/10/2012 12:23:39 AM First of all, my premise on this thread was not to take sides. It was always that humans a.....
» 6/10/2012 6:21:38 PM Peter Lang, "Second, the politics. It's not a secret that academia, particularly the.....
» 6/10/2012 2:00:46 PM Jayb, You're as puerile as Loudmouth. "Are you a Muslim?" No, I'm not an anyt.....
» 6/10/2012 12:10:48 PM "Nothing" has been solved on this thread. It's merely been a vehicle for people.....
» 6/10/2012 11:38:25 AM Ahem, Robert LePage, I agree, fancy someone taking on a (false) gender non de plume and ex.....
» 6/10/2012 10:28:19 AM Listen up, folks! I have new theory that skeptics have in mind a plot to corner the taxid.....
» 6/10/2012 9:29:14 AM bonmot, I well remember that episode....Loudmouth had spent considerable time asking ques.....
» 6/10/2012 7:55:52 AM Banjo, I believe that we exist behaviourally somewhere between a balance of integrative a.....
» 5/10/2012 6:40:48 PM Yes, Loudmouth, it occurred to me that your mutterings weren't worth the vexation : ) And.....
» 5/10/2012 9:45:30 AM "How so? Please explain." "So csteel, you are a Muslim. See that wasn't ha.....
» 5/10/2012 8:38:00 AM Wow!....this thread is going on for five hundred posts, and for the most part has been one.....
» 5/10/2012 12:23:03 AM Squeers, I've always thought that the idea of "individuality" in the modern sen.....
» 4/10/2012 8:52:18 PM Talking of original thought, I'm thinking that even if ideas and advancement of knowledge .....
» 4/10/2012 1:51:25 PM Catmack, I think it's natural (in the evolutionary sense) that humans evolved to be plain.....
» 4/10/2012 11:37:31 AM Houellie, "...(I reckon Bunnings could sponsor that)..." Or perhaps a weekend .....
» 4/10/2012 11:09:05 AM Curmudgeon, "...small piece of Canadian wasteland..." Wow - what a premise to .....
» 4/10/2012 9:47:31 AM Bazz, "Waffle" being the operative word for all in sundry in the tabloid world......
» 4/10/2012 9:31:27 AM Just maybe the new IOS6 Apple Maps is a spooky visual preview to post-fracking topography......
» 3/10/2012 6:55:48 PM Houellie, You win the award for the "Best Thread Title Ever" on OLO. (Congratu.....
» 3/10/2012 11:46:07 AM Jayb, It serves no purpose to over-dramatise the situation. Generalisations aren't helpf.....
» 3/10/2012 10:09:22 AM Banjo Paterson, I used the word "respite" earlier, and I think that's what you .....
» 3/10/2012 9:14:18 AM Here's a handy comparison of arctic sea ice: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2102-09-27/arctic.....
» 3/10/2012 8:30:10 AM Squeers, I'm with you on the nebulous concept of feeling that we "know". I thin.....
» 3/10/2012 12:08:23 AM Squeers, Banjo Paterson, WmTrevor, On the subject of rationality, a little more from Koes.....
» 2/10/2012 6:46:17 AM It's funny you should say that, Belly...seems this thread is full of people "farming .....
» 1/10/2012 9:13:00 PM This is Garstang's Diagram: http://analytikainc.com/blog/2011/04/07/garstangs-theory/ wh.....
» 1/10/2012 7:12:05 PM Now this is getting interesting. I've just looked up some stuff in Koestler's "The G.....
» 1/10/2012 5:35:39 PM There is a difference between mere personal opinion and failing to check the veracity of i.....
» 1/10/2012 5:03:13 PM "I don't really know how true the following is..." But you decided to post it a.....
» 1/10/2012 4:57:33 PM I agree, Squeers. It's a good example of thought building on thought - evolving..........
» 1/10/2012 2:58:04 PM Further analysis: http://www.abc.net.au/unleashed/4288824.html.....
» 1/10/2012 9:50:41 AM Thank you for the poem, Banjo. Charles Darwin's other grandfather was Josiah Wedgwood. So.....
» 30/09/2012 10:11:45 AM OUG, Just a note: - Neanderthals weren't our "ancestors" - they were our ".....
» 30/09/2012 8:51:04 AM Some of your best work, OUG : ).....
» 30/09/2012 8:30:56 AM Talking about the comfort, reassurance and protection we crave, it's probably true that we.....
» 29/09/2012 9:29:11 AM csteele, Danielle, Many thanks for your civil and informative comments. Although they app.....
» 28/09/2012 9:34:10 PM rehctub, "...THE LUCKY COUNTRY" You mean this Lucky Country? http://en.wikipe.....
» 28/09/2012 7:00:35 PM Yabby, Sorry for leading you astray into taking about non-core stuff. Apparently when I b.....
» 28/09/2012 6:01:39 PM Yes, Belly, very droll. Apparently one isn't allowed to divert to related topics at all o.....
» 28/09/2012 2:37:27 PM Yabby, Revisiting the D'Arcy deal which you appear to be alluding to in your last past - .....
» 27/09/2012 11:57:57 AM Kipp, What's your position on Weetbix? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanitarium_Health_an.....
» 27/09/2012 11:36:06 AM runner, "God is certainly capable of defending Himself." I hope the court proc.....
» 27/09/2012 12:34:03 AM Belly, Yabs Thanks for the support, blokes. I can take abuse, Belly. I can take disagree.....
» 26/09/2012 3:50:21 PM On second thoughts, Belly, don't bother. I think I've now definitely had a belly-full of .....
» 26/09/2012 3:43:27 PM Yabby, "Three bits of tin and some cardboard..." I really don't know why I bot.....
» 26/09/2012 2:38:35 PM Yabby, Note that the Brits were "investing in capital" only as far as their own.....
» 26/09/2012 1:53:44 PM Well, of course, Yabby, yours are the ethics of imperialism : ) Note that the workers liv.....
» 26/09/2012 9:00:45 AM David f., Banjo Paterson, Thought you might like this article (which I've posted on OLO p.....
» 25/09/2012 11:53:26 PM Yabby, "...you mean the Govt which had nationalised the oil industry in Iran, after .....
» 25/09/2012 8:12:41 PM Yabby, All is flawed it seems. The US didn't seem too perturbed with the knowledge that .....
» 25/09/2012 3:20:06 PM Yabby, Even if we ignore the relatively recent history of Western forays into the middle-.....
» 25/09/2012 2:07:56 PM Yabby, "All very sweet and impresses the girls..." My admiration of csteele em.....
» 25/09/2012 1:35:09 PM Squeers, You may be right that our hubris is self-designated. However, our concepts are d.....
» 25/09/2012 1:26:38 AM Squeers, "It's vanity to suppose we are logical or rational (or that these exist in .....
» 25/09/2012 12:50:33 AM Jayb, You got caught in the crossfire. Just to explain: I'm generally not thin-skinned.....
» 24/09/2012 7:59:57 AM "& look at who by. Unemployable Greenie ratbags & Uni students that are told that the.....
» 23/09/2012 4:53:37 PM Jayb, I'm fairly sure it's been established that the motor home-on-cruise-control tale is.....
» 23/09/2012 1:56:38 PM Yep, individual, you're a real treat. Just imagine if civilised culture rested on the bas.....
» 23/09/2012 12:27:54 PM Candide, "Water" I agree. There's more about water, and it's relevance to all .....
» 23/09/2012 8:29:29 AM individual, You got the "simple" part right......
» 22/09/2012 7:14:35 PM Jayb, When have I been belligerent to you? I called one of your responses "pathetic.....
» 22/09/2012 11:06:44 AM Loudmouth, I'm not averse to discussing the subject of any thread. (my initial contributi.....
» 22/09/2012 8:44:37 AM Belly, You're the one who first decided to split this discussion down gender lines. Do I.....
» 21/09/2012 11:40:20 PM Loudmouth (of strawman fame : ) Yes, I agree you have a warped something-or-other....acct.....
» 21/09/2012 6:09:46 PM Hiya, Yabby, Yes, I do see your point. For instance,I sometimes marvel at runner's rock-.....
» 21/09/2012 5:52:34 PM individual, "...you lot aren't normal..." Lol! Gee, Suse, don't you reckon th.....
» 21/09/2012 5:01:09 PM You're probably right, Belly. We are a complementary species after all...and us women fol.....
» 21/09/2012 4:36:49 PM Jayb, "...I simply don't see the link in asking the Question..." Why did he as.....
» 21/09/2012 10:11:54 AM Banjo, Don't stop there.... What about people from countries who invade other countries .....
» 20/09/2012 6:34:32 PM What a strange psychological world we inhabit, where people like individual things things .....
» 20/09/2012 6:23:07 PM And you're sounding exactly like individual. Another dazzling example of profound analysi.....
» 20/09/2012 5:02:36 PM Belly, By all means, think as you want to - no-one is stopping you. "...feminine de.....
» 20/09/2012 3:38:31 PM Yabby, "Csteele meanwhile believes in his Kumbaya culture, thinking that reason will.....
» 20/09/2012 1:52:18 PM Belly, "And inferring we mear males are dead heads." No-one is attempting to s.....
» 20/09/2012 10:50:51 AM SPQR, Things are looking up. Albert Einstein was a true humanitarian, a humble and very.....
» 20/09/2012 10:07:16 AM SPQR, I don't recall a link to a "blow-up doll" of George W....? However, you .....
» 20/09/2012 9:29:19 AM "Most therapy is based on talking and openly emoting..." Actually that is inter.....
» 20/09/2012 9:19:10 AM "....Ali bin csteel..." (Jayb, no doubt, considers that a spectacular trump lin.....
» 20/09/2012 8:29:54 AM "Those you have allied yourself with..." Nice (shallow) one, SPQR...shades of G.....
» 19/09/2012 2:34:59 PM Suck it up, Yabby : ) You think scribbler and I are teenage groupies? (How about if I ad.....
» 19/09/2012 1:58:16 PM scribbler, "csteele, Honest to God, you are my hero!" Yep. You'd be battling.....
» 19/09/2012 1:23:38 AM "We certainly do not know the mechanism for human consciousness or that of other crea.....
» 18/09/2012 5:57:02 PM runner, Christ set a pretty good example in his interactions with his fellow man. Surely.....
» 18/09/2012 5:12:52 PM "Do you lie awake wondering how you can display you Christophobic nature?" runn.....
» 18/09/2012 4:57:26 PM There you go again, runner - "Hatred lead many...." blah. blah, blah.... How so.....
» 18/09/2012 4:39:59 PM runner, ...been noting all day you trotting about OLO accusing fellow posters of "Ch.....
» 18/09/2012 9:01:49 AM "hysteria"...to a lesser extent on this thread......
» 18/09/2012 12:07:21 AM I noticed this story recently - a ban on pre-primary and kindergarten children playing on .....
» 17/09/2012 3:09:10 PM Why thank you, runner. It's all so much clearer now! (fancy bonmot going to all that tro.....
» 17/09/2012 2:34:07 PM Banjo, My point being that it's humans who have a steak of insanity running through them......
» 17/09/2012 2:19:33 PM Houellie, I have to tell you this one. Last week at the pool my son had done his laps and.....
» 17/09/2012 12:47:31 PM Right on cue, Jayb : ) This should have been called "The No More Muslims" threa.....
» 17/09/2012 9:58:44 AM Hey, Houellie, As you know, we homeschool, and we go to the "aquatic centre" on.....
» 17/09/2012 9:05:28 AM I agree, Squeers. I liked this bit: "A better analogy is with a factory....." .....
» 17/09/2012 8:09:05 AM Well said, Roses1, My sentiments precisely!.....
» 16/09/2012 6:33:33 PM Lexi, I think I was born in the wrong era too. I have quite a penchant for the early to .....
» 16/09/2012 5:41:25 PM Ha, ha, bloody ha!, Yabs... That's the best story I've heard all day....very Fawlty Tower.....
» 16/09/2012 5:16:12 PM Ah, Life....it's really just one long drawn out opportunity for a whinge - or so it seems .....
» 16/09/2012 1:10:44 PM Lexi, Loudmouth appears to be banging on about the US in relation to this topic and this .....
» 16/09/2012 12:04:19 PM You're absolutely right, Belly, that anyone can say what they like (including Lexi). Howe.....
» 16/09/2012 11:47:14 AM Thanks for the advice, SPQR. I was referring to Hermann Hesse's Siddhartha...all he neede.....
» 16/09/2012 9:52:14 AM It's "mankind" who has the "behavioural problem". I'm going to sit ne.....
» 15/09/2012 7:42:47 PM Frankly, Joe, replying to your antagonistic dribble ain't worth the effort. You delight i.....
» 15/09/2012 6:29:07 PM Up you pop, Loudmouth, displaying your odious and derailing commentaries on the meaning in.....
» 15/09/2012 2:29:09 PM Glen C, This is about a conferred legitimacy upon a (social) state of union between conse.....
» 15/09/2012 11:42:54 AM individual, Words are not entities that can be "hijacked"...they are subject to.....
» 15/09/2012 10:14:08 AM individual, "...that's our word..." Sorry, mate, words are not entities that c.....
» 14/09/2012 11:56:50 AM Interesting question, Banjo, re "...flesh removed..." FGM is barbaric, yet it's.....
» 14/09/2012 10:39:00 AM "...you must have misread Stockwell and Cox..." This is getting weirder by the .....
» 14/09/2012 10:02:10 AM "..not the near total effing meltdown of the global financial system..." Precis.....
» 14/09/2012 8:50:27 AM sonofgloin, What's "factual" in regard to your mention of Craig Thomson? Can y.....
» 13/09/2012 8:17:15 PM Listen up, folks...runner the climate scientist offers his wisdom - again......
» 12/09/2012 11:33:20 PM individual, Can you outline the major environmental damage caused by pre-invasion Aborigi.....
» 11/09/2012 7:30:33 PM Agronomist, Just to let you know - cohenite is Anthony Cox......
» 11/09/2012 1:40:25 PM Thanks Leo, But if you need a few more pointers on how you can more comprehensively rejec.....
» 10/09/2012 2:42:17 PM Hi bonmot, It's getting hot in here (must be the volcanic "skepticism")...think.....
» 9/09/2012 11:46:57 PM I dunno, Loudmouth. You just accused me of slagging you because I call you out on your irr.....
» 9/09/2012 10:49:20 AM StG, You're right that these things are closely linked by subject. there's a lot of diff.....
» 9/09/2012 9:01:38 AM StG, The topic of this thread is about guns in "our present society"....A total.....
» 9/09/2012 8:36:56 AM Stg, Anthony, Actually it's an interesting subject. While we operate within the bounds o.....
» 9/09/2012 6:59:34 AM Tony Lavis, I'm aware of all that. Loudmouth has a tactic of indulging in sarcastic self.....
» 8/09/2012 10:45:12 PM Yes, you can look at things from both angles during that kind of event. I noticed plenty o.....
» 8/09/2012 8:20:03 PM Loudmouth, "....Please try to respond , if you intend to, with some civility: please.....
» 8/09/2012 7:08:34 PM Loudmouth, "...it probably shows clearly what a dill I am." I know you meant t.....
» 8/09/2012 9:08:48 AM Loudmouth, "I am honestly trying to tease out issues and possible defects in the arg.....
» 7/09/2012 10:55:58 PM Is the Liberal Party thinking of a name change? "The Conservative Village Idiots&quo.....
» 7/09/2012 6:18:14 PM Loudmouth, What part of the term "increased frequency" don't you understand? h.....
» 7/09/2012 4:11:39 PM Any progress on that link to the voodoo doll, SPQR?.....
» 7/09/2012 3:46:17 PM Loudmouth, "...something like 73% of all Australians believed in a god of some sort......
» 7/09/2012 10:22:14 AM "...friendly fire wounds...." What an absolute load of b...locks. Around 31,000.....
» 7/09/2012 8:11:28 AM Yabby, You won't get any argument from me on man's capacity for greed. I might point out .....
» 7/09/2012 7:23:02 AM "What do you reckon....?" I reckon she's Welsh......
» 6/09/2012 11:13:20 PM I agree with you, Yabby. Globalisation does, however, enable that greed to be enlivened a.....
» 6/09/2012 6:17:51 PM That should be "Got 'em all here". (And we have them in spades) Just noted Jon .....
» 6/09/2012 6:03:52 PM Here's a link I'm sure you'll all enjoy. "How do people reject climate science?".....
» 6/09/2012 3:09:30 PM Don Aitkin, The agreement or so-called consensus happens to be among people trained in th.....
» 6/09/2012 2:25:21 PM "I am convinced one has to have a unique sensibility set to be an AGW believer.".....
» 6/09/2012 11:47:20 AM rehctub, Globalisation does just that. It gobbles up for the sake of gobbling up. We all.....
» 6/09/2012 11:05:04 AM Here you go, Ludwig. This'll warm the cockles of your heart. http://www.abc.net.au/news/2.....
» 6/09/2012 10:49:02 AM Globalisation and capitalism is what's going on......
» 6/09/2012 10:07:28 AM cohenite (my sweet), I think that is an excellent title. (It's time for the penguin on t.....
» 5/09/2012 11:29:57 PM I have no idea, cohenite. And clicking on a link titled "zombietime" is not in.....
» 5/09/2012 8:46:17 PM Hasbeen, I believe you have every right to use the public system. I was merely pointing .....
» 5/09/2012 3:35:10 PM But, Hasbeen, even "righties" are happy for their medical bills to be paid for b.....
» 5/09/2012 2:34:46 PM SPQR, Have you a link to an SPQR voodoo kit?.....
» 5/09/2012 2:29:00 PM I take your point, Banjo. But it does demonstrate that human migration and close interacti.....
» 5/09/2012 1:07:14 PM The hilarious thing is, if the DNA of most of the posters here was analysed, it would reve.....
» 5/09/2012 10:42:09 AM SPQR, I much prefer this song from the era. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Ki_osW5RsA .....
» 5/09/2012 12:19:47 AM Paul Walter, Capitalism's only goal is growth and profit. The only "effects of adver.....
» 4/09/2012 10:14:41 PM Ebony, I repeat: - Who goes shopping to buy the sexuaised clothing for young girls? It's.....
» 4/09/2012 2:24:14 PM I think we've been here before on the issue of Westernised girls clothing, accessories and.....
» 4/09/2012 12:31:51 PM I love a happy ending : ).....
» 4/09/2012 8:30:22 AM Good question, Bugsy. I suppose most of us come on here to give our egos a bit of a buff .....
» 4/09/2012 7:30:07 AM Says SPQR, as he critiques from the sidelines......
» 3/09/2012 11:53:25 PM individual, Where do think all the Iraqi refugees fled when Georgie Dubya unleashed his s.....
» 3/09/2012 11:49:04 PM Bugsy, Psycho-analysing anonymous posters on this forum is half the fun. : ).....
» 3/09/2012 8:54:40 PM I can't argue with that, sonofgloin. Civilisation is more than cities and technology - it.....
» 3/09/2012 8:29:59 PM Thinker 2, Muller was a genuine "skeptic" - and what did the other skeptics (de.....
» 3/09/2012 8:07:23 PM Pelican, The capitalist West has also had a hand in usurping the contribution and autonom.....
» 3/09/2012 5:33:45 PM Just thinking, sonofgloin, that I'd like to compare the statistics now and then for ".....
» 3/09/2012 5:12:27 PM sononfgloin, "Guns are fine, people are dangerous." Well that comment always a.....
» 3/09/2012 2:43:16 PM SM, Of course you haven't mentioned the fact that we've been playing catch-up ever since .....
» 3/09/2012 2:17:25 PM runner, One day you might desist from the habit of ascribing "hatred" to those .....
» 3/09/2012 10:25:04 AM rehctub, You're kidding. The principal reason that so much gun trauma occurs in a countr.....
» 3/09/2012 9:28:37 AM cohenite, I'm not defending bonmot - he doesn't need it. I'm here to expose your baloney.....
» 3/09/2012 8:42:32 AM Yes, cohenite, Excellent stuff... a fine commentary from the self-styled spokesman for &q.....
» 3/09/2012 8:36:30 AM rehctub, We are discussing here American gun culture. You do realise that American hospi.....
» 2/09/2012 7:42:17 PM individual, There are over 314 million Americans, and our "figures" would only .....
» 2/09/2012 6:50:36 PM How many mass shootings have we had of innocent bystanders in Australia lately, Arjay? Re.....
» 2/09/2012 6:18:26 PM Over 30,000 gun deaths a year (not to mention the many thousands more who are merely wound.....
» 2/09/2012 1:27:12 PM rehctub, Regarding shootings in Australia. Most incidents these days appear to take place.....
» 1/09/2012 5:13:44 PM Thank you, SPQR. But I'm in an exceedingly generous mood this afternoon - so cheers to yo.....
» 1/09/2012 4:33:36 PM SM, Gotta laugh - we all get rather puerile at times..... Cheers.....
» 1/09/2012 2:52:29 PM Correction, SM. No-one could be more one-eyed than you....(try as we might : ).....
» 1/09/2012 12:05:06 PM SM, "...especially as they probably pinched the photo from somewhere else..." .....
» 1/09/2012 10:47:02 AM The question of circumcision was something way out on the periphery of my life until I had.....
» 31/08/2012 4:45:07 PM SM, "If you want to push any agenda you can find some nut job blogger pushing your b.....
» 31/08/2012 10:33:59 AM Well yes, cohenite, It's not as if the US is a warmonger or anything......
» 31/08/2012 10:29:08 AM Surprise, surprise!.....
» 31/08/2012 8:42:38 AM Fair enough, SM : ) "...no new information..." "...commentary with ".....
» 31/08/2012 12:51:56 AM We've missed your level-headed analysis, Pelly....good to see you back : ).....
» 30/08/2012 6:05:45 PM What Killarney said......
» 30/08/2012 2:30:49 PM Right you are SM. I wondered if I'd got it right, but was just on my way out the door - to.....
» 30/08/2012 11:06:20 AM SM, That would be the driver's license spelled "Thompson"?.....
» 30/08/2012 9:39:55 AM Noelreg, Language is not a static entity. It's constantly evolving......
» 30/08/2012 9:04:55 AM SM, As I recall, your main complaint against the FWA was that it took too long to reach t.....
» 30/08/2012 12:17:54 AM Danielle, Actually I'm a bit of a lazy artist....more of a good draughtswoman than anythi.....
» 29/08/2012 9:57:37 PM Hi Danielle, I don't necessarily think it's how she saw him. I think she had a picture in.....
» 29/08/2012 12:32:31 PM Hi Lexi, I think we may find that Mr Abbott's vacuous performance on the 7:30 Report mark.....
» 29/08/2012 11:08:25 AM rehctub, Bugsy is spot on. What exactly do you think will happen if society tosses these.....
» 29/08/2012 7:40:40 AM rehctub, Yes, you're right, I did understand what you were saying. Homeschooling is goin.....
» 29/08/2012 7:30:41 AM SM, I do find that more than slightly amusing. Not only is Thomson's accuser Lawler's pa.....
» 28/08/2012 10:47:15 PM Atman, "...untrained people with fertile imaginations...." Not the only thing .....
» 28/08/2012 6:17:40 PM SM, "No wonder the FWA investigation was such a stuff up." Changed your tune. .....
» 28/08/2012 2:27:13 PM cohenite, I wuz only asking. It not his status so much, as his expertise that is the que.....
» 28/08/2012 1:41:06 PM Who is Ferd Berple? Is he a peer reviewed statistician? I googled and mostly came up wi.....
» 28/08/2012 1:34:12 PM YEBIGA, Excellent, succinct post - spot on!.....
» 28/08/2012 1:14:36 PM Hi rehctub, I usually run on a policy of not being too picky about spelling, etc on the f.....
» 28/08/2012 8:41:13 AM What a strange post, rehctub. Blame it on google....", indeed. What you fail to und.....
» 27/08/2012 8:30:43 PM No, I'll leave you to your reasoning that "allegation" means "culpability&.....
» 27/08/2012 3:02:12 PM Your narrative paints the two ladies as if they are as pure as the driven snow. "........
» 27/08/2012 2:10:22 PM Gawd...I've got Ludwig's editing bug : ) Should read - "...It, therefore, stands to .....
» 27/08/2012 2:07:44 PM Houellie, I agree with you. But we do live in a rather skewed paradigm in the West. We're.....
» 27/08/2012 12:57:27 PM Belly, Sorry mate, I've offended you. But you agreed with JoM - and his stance is that w.....
» 27/08/2012 12:01:21 PM You label a poster a "troll" if they disagree with your take on the marvelous To.....
» 27/08/2012 10:33:39 AM Loudmouth, Let's deconstruct Britain's threat to remove embassy status to get a man ".....
» 27/08/2012 9:24:27 AM Howdy, cohenite, That's not very nice. Me thinks you're right off beam on this one - and.....
» 27/08/2012 9:12:55 AM And another thing. Western feminism has merely fallen into line with the male-orientated .....
» 27/08/2012 8:59:05 AM individual, Who do you think stands behind all the wonderful men who trot about nation bu.....
» 27/08/2012 8:40:43 AM SM, That's one of your best posts....but then I think I've read something similar somewhe.....
» 27/08/2012 8:28:39 AM JoM, Belly, I wonder if either of you gentlemen consider it appropriate, or that I am qua.....
» 26/08/2012 6:29:33 PM WmTrevor, Apparently the fresco was still in reasonably good condition two years ago - as.....
» 26/08/2012 3:41:15 PM I guess there's only one place on this forum for this story, so I'll just parachute it in .....
» 26/08/2012 11:07:33 AM Loudmouth, Yep, mate, done and dusted....you're legend in your own mind. (even if you per.....
» 26/08/2012 10:27:30 AM Atman, How can dead soil - devoid of microbes - "recover" when man persists in .....
» 26/08/2012 9:06:59 AM SM, http://justice4Assange.com/US-Extradition.html#WUKJA Points relevant to UK-US extrad.....
» 26/08/2012 8:47:42 AM Ludwig, Yes, I agree that a "totally" free enterprise market with no government.....
» 26/08/2012 8:26:48 AM SM, Just popping Julia out of the picture for a moment - are you honestly saying that thi.....
» 25/08/2012 10:51:09 PM Ludwig, I was watching a documentary recently and was taken aback by the control corporat.....
» 25/08/2012 10:23:24 PM "To get back to principles..." We've already examined the basis for your splend.....
» 25/08/2012 7:30:58 PM SM, You are joshing, right? Tony leaves Julia in the shade....(chortle, cough!) I've se.....
» 25/08/2012 10:25:21 AM "..what principle is involved in this case?...." Principles? Now let's see? H.....
» 25/08/2012 9:20:10 AM "They do not realise their commentary is helping Abbott." Judging by his perfor.....
» 25/08/2012 12:10:30 AM Danielle, There is an extremely thin line that separates civilised behaviour and barbarit.....
» 24/08/2012 11:40:23 PM Loudmouth, "I guess it's not easy being a show-pony..." Therein lies the crux .....
» 24/08/2012 8:53:23 PM Is the vacuous Tony capable of having an initiative?.....
» 24/08/2012 8:22:09 PM loudmouth, If the British and Swedish authorities really wanted to get to the bottom of t.....
» 24/08/2012 10:57:53 AM "..that high level of self esteem of yours..." Pot - kettle - black!.....
» 24/08/2012 9:54:01 AM On the contrary, runner - strange, don't you think, how Thomson hasn't been charged, let a.....
» 24/08/2012 9:46:28 AM It's all tied in, of course. Big oil and industry produce the fertilizers and pesticides .....
» 24/08/2012 8:55:59 AM Notwithstanding that it's difficult for some people not to blithely fall into line with pr.....
» 23/08/2012 10:59:36 PM Bit of a larf :) http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/08/23/did-i-mention-juliar-has-been-bullyi.....
» 23/08/2012 9:03:38 PM Concerning the spectacular mediocrity of the alternative leader of the nation, it was diff.....
» 23/08/2012 5:40:59 PM "...maybe that's how our Julian saw his heroic r00ting of a couple of puppet Sweden's.....
» 23/08/2012 3:38:50 PM Oh, there you are, loud mouth...I hadn't realised you were still indulging your penchant f.....
» 23/08/2012 2:47:44 PM http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/apology-to-the-prime-minister/story-e6frg6n6-12264564.....
» 23/08/2012 9:19:40 AM Ludwig, You do realise you shouting in the desert here, don't you. I was going to jump a.....
» 23/08/2012 9:12:47 AM Hasbeen, It's notable that you spend an inordinate amount of time blowing your own trumpe.....
» 22/08/2012 2:15:39 PM You're right, Yabby, that its complicated. But those people on the Mekong didn't actually.....
» 22/08/2012 11:21:26 AM Yabby, You oversimplify, as usual. It's the sheer scale of damming in the developing worl.....
» 22/08/2012 9:28:36 AM Yabby, You're the type of intelligent bloke with a good knowledge of biology and biodiver.....
» 22/08/2012 8:08:43 AM SM. This is why I posted the link. http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-08-21/fair-work-hsu-i.....
» 21/08/2012 10:08:08 PM Regarding Thomson and the FWA HSU investigation: http://www.scribd.com/doc/103433724/KPMG.....
» 21/08/2012 5:34:32 PM Banjo, http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/08/22/1061529330032.html.....
» 21/08/2012 11:31:18 AM Yabby, I agree. But let's look at the situation in India. Indian peasant farmers have b.....
» 21/08/2012 11:08:23 AM Yabby, I'm sure that's true in some instances. But it doesn't rebut the assertion that t.....
» 21/08/2012 10:42:41 AM "...self delusion is always the most convincing lie." Well you should know. I .....
» 21/08/2012 9:55:43 AM Killarney, One wonders what will happen to Africa if a "Green Revolution" compa.....
» 21/08/2012 9:13:06 AM Thank you, ybirp...it has a certain ring to it. Here's a heart-warming tale of Sweden's p.....
» 21/08/2012 8:46:20 AM Pathetic. Why haven't the Swedish authorities taken up the invitation to travel to the UK.....
» 20/08/2012 11:59:09 PM Rhosty, "Not the actions of a truly innocent man; or, even something that resembles .....
» 20/08/2012 2:49:57 PM Graham, To be fair, it's not so much an imputation of overtly "encouraging" pae.....
» 20/08/2012 11:17:13 AM http://justice4assange.com/Declaration-of-Abandonment.html.....
» 19/08/2012 11:22:54 PM Declaration of Abandonment http://justice4assange.com/Declaration-of-Abandonment.html.....
» 19/08/2012 8:39:18 AM wobbles, "...stripping their countries of their natural resources..." I can't .....
» 18/08/2012 7:41:13 PM Agronomist, While I agree that much conjecture abounds, it really does stretch the bounds.....
» 18/08/2012 5:47:41 PM http://www.theage.com.au/national/us-in-pursuit-of-assange-cables-reveal-20120817-24e8u.ht.....
» 18/08/2012 2:27:11 PM rehctub, You can stop the crocodile tears..."care for our own"....you're the on.....
» 18/08/2012 2:06:02 PM Lexi, Of course he feels that Australia should tear up any agreements it's signed. That w.....
» 18/08/2012 1:55:10 PM Well, yes, Yabby....most people don't do anything about anything - and if someone like Ass.....
» 18/08/2012 1:10:29 PM Yabby, I'm interested in the Swedish allegations being a stitch. Most posters commenting .....
» 17/08/2012 4:04:43 PM Which, of course, should read Sven-"Erik" Alhem. (strange how the link still wo.....
» 17/08/2012 3:54:04 PM Expert statement by Sven Eric Alhem on the suspect conduct of Sweden's Assange "inves.....
» 17/08/2012 3:36:28 PM Agronomist, From the Guardian article: "Is their anyone in their right mind who bel.....
» 17/08/2012 2:21:32 PM Agronomist, ..."The accusations are for criminal, not political, activity." To.....
» 17/08/2012 9:20:03 AM sonofgloin, David f. to my knowledge is in his late eighties...but I'm sure he'll elabora.....
» 17/08/2012 9:08:17 AM What is everyone's take on the plight of Julian Assange? Now that he has been granted asy.....
» 16/08/2012 6:45:54 PM "who cares if it's a crime or not..." Surely if something is "illegal".....
» 16/08/2012 6:36:28 PM I happened across another article by Geraldine Doogue from 2010 on the subject of institut.....
» 16/08/2012 5:35:02 PM Surely it must be un-Australian to bandy about the term "un-Australian"....for s.....
» 16/08/2012 8:45:31 AM rehctub, Regarding seniors and the pension.....what a great idea! Imagine the two tiers .....
» 16/08/2012 8:33:40 AM Squeers, Fair enough. You were fairly robust in your critique, and I argued an opposing v.....
» 15/08/2012 11:54:25 PM "Thank you, Poirot, for raising the art of hurling ad hominems to a more genteel leve.....
» 15/08/2012 3:43:49 PM Squeers, Okay, you believe that the history of the institutional church can be summed up .....
» 15/08/2012 9:49:50 AM Chek, I suspect most of the rancour directed at Geraldine Doogue is attendant more upon t.....
» 15/08/2012 9:16:19 AM Squeers, I'm not defending the Catholic church. I'm aware of Catholic and Protestant hist.....
» 15/08/2012 12:07:38 AM Chek, "For one who has such a well-nourished position she seems to be saying it's to.....
» 14/08/2012 8:05:35 PM Killarney, Right you are. I still find it telling that the US team chose to strut their .....
» 14/08/2012 7:05:49 PM Loudmouth, "He/she who resorts to ad hominems has given up his/her argument." .....
» 14/08/2012 10:40:04 AM Killarney, That's hilarious.....wow they covered up their upper body! .....but their low.....
» 13/08/2012 11:35:34 PM "Climate science and policy: the tension between argument and debate." http://t.....
» 13/08/2012 8:08:08 PM Loudmouth, I was just having a look back at a post of yours in which you stated" &q.....
» 13/08/2012 6:58:08 PM Goodness me, loud mouth, you really are as arrogant as you appear. "..Witness my res.....
» 13/08/2012 4:53:35 PM Here you go, cohenite, http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2011/07/is-sea-level.....
» 13/08/2012 12:14:22 PM Killarney, I'll have to own up to being rather ignorant of the various sporting dress-cod.....
» 12/08/2012 10:03:02 PM cohenite, There's no doubt about your confidence in opposition to scientific agreement on.....
» 12/08/2012 6:32:30 PM Well, der, Tony Lavis... My question: - " Are women compelled to wear that gear - or.....
» 12/08/2012 2:05:53 PM Saltpetre. Ah come on. Jesus was the ultimate subversive. The problem as I see it is t.....
» 11/08/2012 8:19:44 PM Squeers, "...pre-masticated, institutional thinking..." Well, yes, indeed. Sin.....
» 11/08/2012 7:13:15 PM Loudmouth, What is it with your disingenuous insistence that you are being insulted. You .....
» 11/08/2012 6:34:13 PM I dunno, Killarney. Are women compelled to wear that gear - or are they free to cover up .....
» 11/08/2012 6:31:23 PM Mr Tiddler, Let's wait for bonmot to answer Loudmouth's questions - he's a scientist : ) .....
» 11/08/2012 3:24:48 PM Loudmouth, You find some of my comments offensive and irrelevant. You tell me to ".....
» 11/08/2012 11:05:30 AM sonofgloin, The truth remains that we all aspire to the self-assured nonchalance of Bugs .....
» 11/08/2012 7:27:37 AM That's interesting, Squeers. I don't see a person such as Geraldine Doogue as some raw, c.....
» 11/08/2012 7:08:39 AM I have to admit that that I've long admired Geraldine Doogue's demeanour and her approach .....
» 10/08/2012 6:35:06 PM Or perhaps we could label your AGW theory as "Munchausen Syndrome by Coxy" You.....
» 10/08/2012 5:17:17 PM WmTrevor, Here's pic I drew for a friend - nudey man and all! But, of course, it's the .....
» 10/08/2012 3:41:03 PM runner, What must we make of these masterpieces? http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paint.....
» 10/08/2012 3:09:55 PM cohenite, That all sounds rather silly. Does not "life" depend on the earth and.....
» 9/08/2012 11:03:37 PM cohenite, You applied the "If a bunch of doctors..." parallel. I went with it. .....
» 9/08/2012 9:32:31 PM Arjay, Regarding this nemesis. Can you tell us what form it will take? As far as I can .....
» 9/08/2012 9:06:56 PM cohenite, Your accusation that climate scientists predict "the end of the world".....
» 9/08/2012 6:53:47 PM I think cultural and ethnic identity are very real and probably the reason why there could.....
» 9/08/2012 5:59:09 PM I think wily Winston was correct on both counts. You're the one making distinctions and c.....
» 9/08/2012 4:12:41 PM sonofgloin, Yes, I'm very aware of Monsanto's sterile seed profit making - they've had a .....
» 9/08/2012 3:06:43 PM Here's Michelangelo's "Dying Slave"....the same concentration on the muscular fo.....
» 9/08/2012 2:15:04 PM "I would suggest that the use of the term "ordinary people" by the author w.....
» 9/08/2012 10:31:11 AM Well put, Pericles. If 'they' succeeded with a 90percent cull, we'd all be back to subsis.....
» 8/08/2012 9:37:31 PM cohenite, My reference to 'ordinary people', 'proles', 'yobs', etc. was in response to Lo.....
» 8/08/2012 8:16:09 PM Loudmouth, "...Shove your elitism." Nicely constructed narrative you and cohen.....
» 8/08/2012 7:36:44 PM Ludwig, Your guess is as good as mine - perhaps Michelangelo ran out of marble? : ).....
» 8/08/2012 4:00:53 PM I believe Belize has a women's canoeing team. Being a tad short of the necessaries to sp.....
» 8/08/2012 2:59:32 PM I think Bazz was referring to my link on David, Lexi. Anyhooo....I didn't read the articl.....
» 8/08/2012 2:05:26 PM cohenite, "For me the emails were a game changer..." You mean the cherry-picki.....
» 8/08/2012 1:11:42 PM Atman, "....a professor of climatology..."? How about "Professor of Geogr.....
» 8/08/2012 10:26:10 AM http://www.econ.ohio-state.edu/jhm/arch/david/David.htm What's not to like?.....
» 8/08/2012 9:38:37 AM Good to know, WmTrevor : ).....
» 8/08/2012 9:32:11 AM cohenite et al, I queried what was the difference between 'climate science' and 'medical .....
» 7/08/2012 11:40:39 PM I excuse you, runner......
» 7/08/2012 9:03:43 PM RawMustard, "Liberals believe Europeans are more enlightened than Americans." .....
» 7/08/2012 8:06:01 PM Here you go, runner... http://www.abcgallery.com/M/michelangelo/michelangelo33.html http.....
» 7/08/2012 4:12:25 PM Re: my last post... Should read - "...laboratory based medical knowledge that was 'u.....
» 7/08/2012 3:24:28 PM cohenite, Just on the other aspect of your article - in that ordinary people "....ca.....
» 7/08/2012 11:06:44 AM cohenite, This is Victor Venema's initial critique of the Watts et al paper: http://varia.....
» 7/08/2012 9:17:19 AM Here's a critique of the Watts et al paper: http://skepticalscience.com/watts_new_paper_c.....
» 6/08/2012 10:15:32 PM Yuyutsu, "For me, progress occurs when the factory owner changes their heart of ston.....
» 6/08/2012 2:53:05 PM Here you go, progressive pat. I see you have a problem with social democracy. http://www......
» 6/08/2012 10:46:22 AM SM, Yes, one wonders why a mining magnate like Gina Rinehart would wish to buy shares and.....
» 6/08/2012 9:51:31 AM Loudmouth, "It's fascinating how you play poker." That's rich coming from you......
» 5/08/2012 11:56:29 PM Yuyutsu, Peter is not "patient". Peter likes to carefully set out his argument.....
» 5/08/2012 11:43:49 PM Joe, ".....I have the greatest respect for science." "So which particular.....
» 5/08/2012 9:56:54 PM Matt L, Emerging industrial societies draw people from the countryside where they would h.....
» 5/08/2012 9:12:26 PM Wow, Peter! I see you've lost none of your charm. (Talk about "serious intractable .....
» 5/08/2012 8:58:49 PM Matt L, I believe they did the same thing in Britain at the dawn of the Industrial Revolu.....
» 5/08/2012 8:23:45 PM Joe, "You don't think that's going overboard a little." That about sums up the.....
» 5/08/2012 5:42:52 PM Joe, Imagine if vaccination and public health suffered the same fate as climate science. .....
» 5/08/2012 3:30:07 PM Here's an article pertinent to this thread. http://theconversation.edu.au/democracy-is-fa.....
» 5/08/2012 12:57:43 PM bonmot, Strangely enough, I came across this by James Hansen yesterday. http://www.washi.....
» 5/08/2012 11:53:49 AM Curmudgeon, If you are blind to the limits of growth in situations like this: http://news.....
» 4/08/2012 8:24:18 PM Mark, My initial points were on sustainability and moderation. Do you honestly believe t.....
» 4/08/2012 7:58:05 PM Tom Keen, Listen to Arjay - he's an expert. http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp.....
» 4/08/2012 11:22:14 AM djl. In modern times, the "monarchy" does provide a money-spinner for the Brits.....
» 4/08/2012 9:47:31 AM Jon J, The minute people in third world countries begin to make their way up from grindin.....
» 4/08/2012 8:22:58 AM My son turns eleven this year, so this is the first Olympics that he's really taken note o.....
» 4/08/2012 12:27:28 AM Banjo, "....I think your quote is all bulldust." Sounds a bit vacuous to me........
» 3/08/2012 10:33:43 PM Never mind, Hasbeen. I hear they're going to be holding an Olympics for Philistines - I ta.....
» 3/08/2012 9:48:59 PM bonmot, I don't know whether you've read this paper by Clive Hamilton. I've posted it bef.....
» 3/08/2012 4:52:50 PM What's that? "...A changing climate leads to changes in the frequency, intensity, sp.....
» 3/08/2012 3:29:26 PM Jon J, ""Driving for growth" has produced the happiest, healthiest,wealthi.....
» 3/08/2012 3:02:29 PM Here you go, OUG, http://skepticalscience.com/best-results-consistent-with-human-caused-g.....
» 3/08/2012 11:54:06 AM My pleasure, bonmot : ).....
» 2/08/2012 10:11:23 PM Graham Readfearn - on "Victory of the Denialists". http://www.abc.net.au/unleas.....
» 2/08/2012 7:47:50 PM Kenny, Cheryl's a bloke.........
» 2/08/2012 7:40:57 PM bonmot, OMG! is right. I think the dust is settling in the wake of Gina's foray into Fai.....
» 2/08/2012 6:02:47 PM On the subject of "silencing dissent", it seems Joanne Nova is celebrating artic.....
» 2/08/2012 3:59:10 PM Yep, I agree with RObert as well......
» 2/08/2012 3:49:54 PM Re: the Watts paper....It seems "co-author" Steve McIntyre is attempting to dist.....
» 1/08/2012 9:23:47 PM Just noting that Anthony Watts gave the BEST project a positive critique in March 2011. &.....
» 1/08/2012 7:45:25 PM Arjay, "We are experiencing in Sydney the coldest winter in 40 yrs. The proof of the.....
» 1/08/2012 8:38:45 AM csteele, Just as an aside to the main argument here, any "dramatic jump in wealth&qu.....
» 31/07/2012 11:23:47 PM Hasbeen. ...Muller rushing into the public arena, with a paper that has not been peer rev.....
» 31/07/2012 10:33:19 PM "Conspiracy theories are the exhaust fumes of democracy." (Christopher Hitchen.....
» 31/07/2012 3:32:07 PM Bazz, Where's it going for peer review? At the moment it's a draft pre-print and is under.....
» 31/07/2012 11:09:01 AM Bonjour, mon ami, Yes, I've learned a lot about the "skeptic" movement in the l.....
» 31/07/2012 8:58:11 AM Killarney, Spot on!.....
» 31/07/2012 8:52:10 AM cohenite, "Watts is a true scientist..." : ) It seems Watts' paper is more no.....
» 30/07/2012 11:47:22 PM Watt, Watt. Watt? Goodness me, Anthony Watts "suspended" his blog for the ".....
» 30/07/2012 8:12:56 PM Well it's nice to see someone asking a question on climate in good faith, and receiving an.....
» 30/07/2012 10:13:47 AM Why do you think that continually patronsing and sniggering at your opponents with smiley .....
» 30/07/2012 9:41:13 AM SM, "...and Crooks like Thomson and Williamson being shielded for years whilst they .....
» 30/07/2012 12:06:35 AM Joe, So it seems that freedom of expression is a nebulous and subjective entity. It is.....
» 29/07/2012 8:32:35 PM What's precious, Joe? You seem to have taken on the role here as a self-appointed spokesm.....
» 29/07/2012 7:07:52 PM I'm not saying that's how it should be. I'm saying that's how it's always been. You tell .....
» 29/07/2012 6:58:57 PM cohenite, I understand it better than you buddy. You've put up your best. I've looked at .....
» 29/07/2012 6:42:11 PM Let's get real. Joe. Yobbos aren't usually into writing social commentary. For some reaso.....
» 29/07/2012 2:10:58 PM I agree, Yabby. I was merely offering an amateur commentary on the status quo. I don't ex.....
» 29/07/2012 9:49:02 AM Interestingly enough, individual, China is going through the same industrial pollution as .....
» 28/07/2012 11:35:43 PM Gawd.... Just reread and should have put all of Voltaire's rhetorical ideas in quotation .....
» 28/07/2012 11:28:55 PM Joe, "Just don't think of 'other people' as some sort of puppets, inferior people, p.....
» 28/07/2012 10:45:01 PM Voltaire also said: "Prejudices are what fools use for reason.".....
» 28/07/2012 9:00:10 PM SM, That's just silly. Lexi posts many times referencing from sources that support her s.....
» 28/07/2012 7:16:16 PM "...with most professions...you need qualifications to be considered to have expertis.....
» 28/07/2012 11:05:15 AM Yes, SM, you continue to spruik as if you're some paragon of fair and balanced commentary......
» 27/07/2012 11:59:46 PM "Why don't you 2 get a room" I hope you're not referring to moi? Loudmouth lik.....
» 27/07/2012 11:28:18 PM Me too!.....
» 27/07/2012 6:30:57 PM RObert, You are the most reasonable of male contributors to this forum. Your reason, tole.....
» 27/07/2012 6:11:00 PM Where do you draw the line, Joe? If the Murdoch press can behave like cowboys in Britain,.....
» 27/07/2012 5:34:58 PM runner, It appears you started this thread under the guise of recognising the bravery of .....
» 27/07/2012 11:34:06 AM SM, "Seeds of doubt" is the term of reference here. Of course, publishing agree.....
» 27/07/2012 10:33:28 AM Freedom of speech has always been highly valued, and so it should be. I'm wondering what .....
» 27/07/2012 8:25:50 AM rehctub, I happen to agree with you on this one. I support small business, and Australi.....
» 26/07/2012 10:00:26 PM rehctub, One gets weary of your whinging and moaning. Don't you ever tire of the mantle o.....
» 26/07/2012 8:14:43 PM runner, "one minute its obesity and the next its overpopulation..." Sometimes .....
» 26/07/2012 7:10:22 PM Very well, runner. I'll be happy to read of your positive opinion concerning the brave yo.....
» 26/07/2012 6:55:19 PM What is it with you, runner? Why would you use this tragedy to disparage anyone? Yes th.....
» 26/07/2012 4:26:46 PM Sorry, Joe, I note your first paragraph is wall-to-wall sarcasm - which by now is very tir.....
» 26/07/2012 4:16:43 PM runner, The majority of Australians are insular and xenophobic - and Mr Abbott knows that.....
» 26/07/2012 1:35:17 PM Bazz, The "climategate" emails (or portions thereof) were selectively chosen an.....
» 26/07/2012 10:25:50 AM Oh, ho, ho, ho....excellent point, bonmot. What have you got to say about that, SM?.....
» 25/07/2012 8:50:03 PM Joe, Sarcastic as ever. Good old "democracy" and "freedom of speech".....
» 25/07/2012 9:07:19 AM Squeers, "....poor helpless things...." You do realise that all Western childr.....
» 25/07/2012 8:42:34 AM Squeers, I see I didn't misconstrue your point. "....I'd have thought we've grown .....
» 25/07/2012 7:46:43 AM rehctub, Actually I'm beginning to warm to your offended sensibilities. It must be trying.....
» 25/07/2012 7:26:47 AM But then again, Squeers, I think I may have misconstrued the point in your last - no need .....
» 24/07/2012 11:35:45 PM Sorry, my last post should have been directed to mac. YEBIGA, Your last paragraph puts i.....
» 24/07/2012 11:13:25 PM Correction - should be 464 people shot......
» 24/07/2012 11:11:36 PM Arjay, "....If the citizens were armed like the USA, then these atrocities would not.....
» 24/07/2012 8:34:06 PM Steven, Bageant's article is a superb social analysis because it cuts through the bullsh!.....
» 24/07/2012 7:36:00 PM Steven and mac, Here's an excellent commentary on the state on the U.S.'s social machinat.....
» 24/07/2012 7:12:33 PM YEBIGA, Thank you for your enlightened posts....I'll be interested to read Steven's respo.....
» 24/07/2012 5:59:25 PM Squeers, "...Better still, women should abandon the institution altogether and stand.....
» 24/07/2012 10:28:55 AM cohenite, Can't you do better than "What's Up Doc"? - isn't that the guy who's .....
» 24/07/2012 10:04:58 AM Well said, Roses1, Here's a timely article on the subject: http://www.abc.net.au/news/20.....
» 23/07/2012 10:45:31 PM "Under Christianity a scientific culture could and did arise." Yeah, Steven.........
» 23/07/2012 12:53:50 PM But, Anthony, I'd only go to live in Scotland if I knew Houellie and WmTrevor were safely .....
» 23/07/2012 11:33:53 AM pepper, "...Belly, you haven't got a clue, have you..." Perhaps if the IMF and.....
» 23/07/2012 10:51:44 AM Banjo, I'm not inferring anything of the sort. I'm pointing out that America and its alli.....
» 23/07/2012 10:19:55 AM Bazz, What about the extreme Western behaviour of dropping bombs on innocent men, women a.....
» 23/07/2012 9:32:15 AM "Earth's orbit" should read "Earth's atmosphere". (grrr).....
» 23/07/2012 9:19:56 AM Houellie, What is it about scatter cushions....they're everywhere? I even gave way myself.....
» 23/07/2012 9:06:25 AM Parallel Universes, We can't even make our car industry viable in this country. Do you ha.....
» 23/07/2012 7:52:43 AM Okay, rehctub, as you say it's probably time to pull back a bit. Can't you see what you'r.....
» 23/07/2012 7:28:24 AM rehctub, A person doesn't have to be a single mother, or be the mother of one (my daughte.....
» 22/07/2012 11:32:49 PM WmTrevor, I knew there was a reason I liked you. I'm a part-time misanthropist myself. Pe.....
» 22/07/2012 10:16:28 PM Hasbeen, Just noted your post..."Typical lefty, wanting the public to pay their way......
» 22/07/2012 9:36:27 PM Actuuallly, Squeers, I'm thinking that men are often cajoled by their women to "atten.....
» 22/07/2012 9:12:31 PM (Pssst, Lexi - don't encourage him : ).....
» 22/07/2012 7:42:53 PM butcher, Your "concern" is reminiscent of the middle-class entrepreneurs who be.....
» 22/07/2012 1:17:21 PM I've never lived in public housing, but I think if we expect to live in a reasonably balan.....
» 22/07/2012 11:10:56 AM Squeers, Just on your pertinent point about "window dressing". Perhaps the whol.....
» 22/07/2012 10:36:16 AM Yeah, I suppose it is....although being ruled by an American puppet for all those years wo.....
» 22/07/2012 9:08:32 AM SM, Yes, I take your point - although the Islamic uprising I believe was attributable to .....
» 22/07/2012 8:35:15 AM rechtub, What a strange suggestion, in that you seem to think a "single parent".....
» 22/07/2012 8:06:39 AM Belly, It's more anti anybody who invades a country under the guise of altruism, who dest.....
» 21/07/2012 11:14:53 PM Banjo, I note the yanks weren't trying very hard to stop Saddam's gas attacks on Iranian .....
» 21/07/2012 8:26:51 PM Banjo, And some people are too stupid to be Presidents, Vice Presidents and Defense Secre.....
» 21/07/2012 7:22:40 PM And, Lexi, let's not forget that the Shah was installed at the behest of the U.S. after it.....
» 21/07/2012 11:12:46 AM Technical progress is one thing, and yes human ingenuity is never at a standstill. Yet it .....
» 21/07/2012 9:17:56 AM This thread is spawning some interesting comments. Good one, Squeers. Vacuousness in eith.....
» 21/07/2012 1:46:53 AM Great post, Otokonoko, I don't find it an attractive word at all - and maybe it's the ass.....
» 20/07/2012 11:39:57 PM Just on csteele's point about Muslim Spain: During the Dark Ages in Europe, Cordoba in Sp.....
» 20/07/2012 5:14:26 PM I have to admit that it's not a word I use...but I believe I was somewhat traumatised when.....
» 19/07/2012 4:48:24 PM Hee, hee, Hasbeen, that's a laugh. You run a pretty good line in "rampant hate".....
» 18/07/2012 10:17:10 PM Yeah, well divine_msn....it's a strange old world in a social democracy and people like th.....
» 18/07/2012 10:05:08 PM david f., I don't call it socialism either. I call it social democracy...but Americans ap.....
» 18/07/2012 8:53:29 PM David f., Here's a great article by Tony Judt on social democracy. http://www.nybooks.co.....
» 18/07/2012 3:35:50 PM Houellie, "...Appealing to the martyr in women....." Excuse me, kind sir, but .....
» 18/07/2012 11:17:30 AM Here's a brief but pertinent article: http://thepunch.com.au/articles/middle-class-welfar.....
» 17/07/2012 11:01:00 PM Arjay, "My Detractors Are Morons" A great title for a book. Why don't you wr.....
» 17/07/2012 10:32:18 PM Hasbeen, You're right of course, human ingenuity always has a downside for wildlife....bu.....
» 17/07/2012 8:54:59 PM Yes, I know I've overdone this link, but the subject keeps coming up. This is Canada's ef.....
» 17/07/2012 7:08:52 PM runner, There's nothing to say that this behaviour will continue indefinitely - that shar.....
» 17/07/2012 2:36:33 PM You are right there, runner. For some reason it seems sharks are coming closer to shore re.....
» 17/07/2012 2:03:43 PM Since when has the word "NO" represented an ideological canon? "Mentally g.....
» 17/07/2012 1:12:05 PM Well, there you go....it's obvious that all that welfare funnelled to single parents could.....
» 17/07/2012 12:05:33 PM Interesting question, Banjo....yes, all of the above. And it speaks of a certain lackadais.....
» 17/07/2012 11:15:48 AM Tony Lavis, "I think it's a dodgy theory...." Any scientific basis for you thi.....
» 17/07/2012 11:02:41 AM Hi guys, Personally, I can't stand the word "sheila"......
» 17/07/2012 10:27:48 AM Yes, Lexi, if one attempts to conjure some idea of an ideological base defining a future A.....
» 16/07/2012 9:21:05 PM Here's an article exploring possible explanations for increased shark sightings and attack.....
» 16/07/2012 5:24:36 PM What a sublime writer is Ian McEwan. "...We tumbled out of our respective days, like.....
» 16/07/2012 1:52:51 PM Raycom, "...the IPCC fan club includes many supposedly "highly trained and educ.....
» 16/07/2012 12:22:26 AM A fatuous and inflammatory comment, whistler......
» 15/07/2012 1:55:27 PM cohenite, So you do think I'm a man - "very much in touch with his feminine side&quo.....
» 15/07/2012 11:23:06 AM Hasbeen, I've "never" listened to Bolt...do yer reckon that's where I'm going w.....
» 15/07/2012 11:14:43 AM WmTrevor, I wish I could join you in discussion about sci-fi, but I never got into it. M.....
» 15/07/2012 10:38:27 AM Arjay, "...Mitt Romney....has been sighted by 4 people at the recent Bilderberg meet.....
» 15/07/2012 7:43:20 AM Squeers, Yes, I got the impression straight away that what the title suggested wasn't nec.....
» 14/07/2012 10:20:05 PM mac, Thanks for that. It's always been one of the books I meant to check out. Will catch .....
» 14/07/2012 10:02:47 PM cohenite, What a silly comment. Of course I can see the good side of humanity. You put it.....
» 14/07/2012 8:03:00 PM Just revisiting the comments and noticed Squeers mentioned "Atonement" by Ian Mc.....
» 14/07/2012 7:43:49 PM Thanks, Lexi, There's nothing like a well written biography. Went driving a little way d.....
» 14/07/2012 7:14:20 PM cohenite, I have to agree that "pompous oaf" doesn't even scrape the surface........
» 14/07/2012 4:28:49 PM cohenite, I "know" nature is cruel in its indifference....but human's are ".....
» 14/07/2012 12:47:14 PM oug, "but now it's cooling we need more co2 not less" "Long term trend&qu.....
» 14/07/2012 12:14:18 PM What an odd species we are. Our intelligence is in almost perfect proportion to our pench.....
» 14/07/2012 11:03:17 AM indiviual, "Let the planet run itself for a while and you'll see." This is wha.....
» 14/07/2012 10:31:52 AM OUG, The science is the science. What governing bodies choose to do in response to findi.....
» 13/07/2012 10:49:29 PM Steven, Maybe a little wishful thinking on your behalf regarding the U.S. (all good thing.....
» 13/07/2012 2:35:04 PM Bazz, I don't quite get the parallel you are drawing. There was a concerted effort by ve.....
» 13/07/2012 11:45:46 AM SPQR, When man takes a science-based initiative and runs with it underlining profit as hi.....
» 13/07/2012 11:24:15 AM SPQR, "However all the us's on this side of the house question & weigh everything at.....
» 13/07/2012 10:45:15 AM Bazz, Of course questioning science is acceptable - it's the only way we progress....but......
» 13/07/2012 10:17:12 AM "...gw fails miserably on all three..." What a load of bilge...this coming from.....
» 13/07/2012 9:24:31 AM Belly, "Few of us find reason to question science on other issues." What a per.....
» 12/07/2012 10:17:29 PM I'm interested in all sorts of human paradigms, runner. I once drew a portrait of John Pau.....
» 12/07/2012 2:57:55 PM Hasbeen, Email - schmeemail....http://climatesight.org/2010/11/17/the-real-story-of-clima.....
» 12/07/2012 10:55:18 AM runner, I think the fact that Mr Abbott believes it's crap (whenever the wind blows that .....
» 12/07/2012 10:13:47 AM Jon J, Your linked site draws its references from "Popular Technology Forum"........
» 12/07/2012 9:35:25 AM As for a "massively challenging environment" - the U.S. economy appears to be ca.....
» 12/07/2012 12:27:15 AM But Arjay, Any attack that necessitated the "evacuation of London" would have t.....
» 12/07/2012 12:12:04 AM Raycom, It's endlessly fascinating day after day listening to the rants of "non-scie.....
» 11/07/2012 11:41:18 PM cohenite, To be fair, here is the article to which Windschuttle was replying: Http://www.....
» 11/07/2012 8:24:52 PM How would you "evacuate London"?....I'm a tad hesitant to ask "why" yo.....
» 11/07/2012 6:01:14 PM Houellie, Who? Sorry, you must live in a particularly lukewarmly comfortable part of the.....
» 11/07/2012 4:24:16 PM "...They get to work faster..." I dare say they probably do. I don't really gi.....
» 11/07/2012 2:12:55 PM Interestingly, Lexi, as we know, some people have "leadership" written all over .....
» 11/07/2012 2:00:20 PM Herbert Stencil, "...rather than accept the arguments from authority of the IPCC, CS.....
» 11/07/2012 11:30:12 AM runner, Turnbull is eminently electable.... But since Abbott has garnered a modicum of s.....
» 11/07/2012 10:39:29 AM progressive pat, There's not too much "modesty" abounding these days in the pro.....
» 11/07/2012 9:04:56 AM "....yet Australians are overwhelmingly unhappy with their lot." Freud, in &quo.....
» 10/07/2012 2:33:33 PM And then there's this later in your thread: http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?.....
» 10/07/2012 2:12:29 PM spindoc, Whaaat? Forgive if I've overlooked some sort of satire in your post to Steven, .....
» 10/07/2012 11:13:53 AM Deary me, runner, You've pulled out the book again. F - is for "fools". G - i.....
» 10/07/2012 11:02:57 AM AdamB, OUG does have an unusual style....many posters have given him the same advice in t.....
» 10/07/2012 10:17:06 AM Just thought I'd mention where I first struck the word "gallimaufry". On page 3.....
» 9/07/2012 7:53:24 PM cohenite, I came across this conversation (in the comments section) on emissivity when lo.....
» 9/07/2012 6:47:36 PM AdamB, Perhaps you should spend a bit more time on OLO before you start declaring who is .....
» 9/07/2012 4:06:47 PM Actually, SPQR, I really am Poirot. Of course I could have chosen from a gallimaufry of p.....
» 9/07/2012 11:21:35 AM "...It is immaterial which system of cultivation is better...." It might be imm.....
» 9/07/2012 9:37:14 AM WmTrevor, Eh?....dalma?....you're right! Well in that case, I'll have to concede....alth.....
» 9/07/2012 8:38:18 AM Firstly, I'd just like to stake a claim for being the first person to use the word "g.....
» 8/07/2012 6:49:02 PM I'm donating mine to the local Catholic priest - to help him with mass......
» 8/07/2012 5:45:37 PM cohenite, "...Flaubert was both repulsed and fascinated by the bourgeois...." .....
» 8/07/2012 12:51:35 PM bonmot, "Amie de mon coeur"...as Flaubert often expressed to George Sand during.....
» 8/07/2012 11:18:50 AM Squeers, I appreciate that it's the enveloping system that needs reform. But how can we e.....
» 8/07/2012 10:31:13 AM "Stuff themselves into oblivion"....how apt....how human! It's no use discussin.....
» 8/07/2012 9:35:51 AM Geoff, It's inspiring to hear of someone having a go. I'm all for the simplicity amidst .....
» 8/07/2012 9:09:55 AM individual, What has "who's given most" got to do with overweight sedentary Wes.....
» 8/07/2012 8:18:42 AM cohenite, I read your blog. "....How can a strategy to put an enemy like the Nazi's.....
» 7/07/2012 10:00:48 PM Geoff of Perth, Hat's off to you....and the best of luck with your smallholding : ).....
» 7/07/2012 8:30:36 PM Phooey to that, individual. Singling out rich Easterners is a silly argument. We in the W.....
» 7/07/2012 7:22:18 PM Hasbeen, Jerome K. Jerome's "Three Men in a Boat" is a great humorous read, and.....
» 7/07/2012 7:08:23 PM Squeers, You're right that the planet hosts too many people, and mostly we're reliant of .....
» 7/07/2012 12:51:42 PM Too many people for sure - and such a savage spieces. I don't know what the answer is. I.....
» 7/07/2012 12:07:03 PM cohenite, You never ignore me - (fair enough, coz I am a tad irresistible - and we only g.....
» 7/07/2012 10:30:52 AM Luciferase, Talking of the inability to lie straight in bed...Hello?....politics is not a.....
» 7/07/2012 9:56:52 AM Well said, Squeers, But Mr cohenite and co are under the impression that "they".....
» 7/07/2012 9:38:01 AM We live a decadent, sedentary lifestyle in the West. More often than not (because we are, .....
» 6/07/2012 7:43:16 PM Thank you, Lexi. I shall note them down. Another book that looks like a great read is &qu.....
» 6/07/2012 4:59:32 PM Chemical-based agriculture has had a significant impact on countries like India. The Green.....
» 6/07/2012 3:55:05 PM Otokonoko, How strange that you should mention "Foucaoult's Pendulum". I have a.....
» 6/07/2012 8:50:02 AM Paul, "...The girl Guides have gone commie and ditched God and the Queen..." W.....
» 6/07/2012 8:10:47 AM What's that sinister snickering in the background? Up off the floor, SPQR! You're easily.....
» 6/07/2012 7:19:44 AM Belly, I have to agree with Paul in that Labor has morphed into something I never conside.....
» 5/07/2012 11:28:44 PM individual, My point being that organisations like the IMF and the World Bank are more th.....
» 5/07/2012 9:37:54 PM individual, The West has been stomping around the globe for yonks intimidating and subdui.....
» 5/07/2012 9:15:14 PM Otokonoko, I am going to read "The Little Prince" as I have it here somewhere -.....
» 5/07/2012 8:59:44 PM individual, "I have run out of political parties to support." Hey, hey....then.....
» 5/07/2012 4:38:04 PM Jayb, I'm sure I've got them around here somewhere, although I haven't read them for year.....
» 5/07/2012 1:27:31 PM Lexi, No I haven't read anything by Martin Boyd, but will note his name for future refere.....
» 5/07/2012 10:46:28 AM David, No need to seek out sites. Your articles are enough to make me stand back and sha.....
» 5/07/2012 10:00:28 AM cohenite, "Very good, Julie; the terrorists are diversifying and spreading too...&qu.....
» 5/07/2012 8:21:21 AM individual, "....it now is demand and take. It's not visiting and learning then taki.....
» 4/07/2012 9:05:17 PM Okay, here are some books I have enjoyed over the years. I really enjoyed Jane Eyre in my.....
» 4/07/2012 8:06:39 PM AdamB, Just to save you the trouble of finding out for yourself, runner does assert such .....
» 4/07/2012 8:02:54 PM individual, I think that's a sad attitude. Surely sharing and learning and trading has be.....
» 4/07/2012 3:43:06 PM Glad everyone is enjoying the topic. One of the things I like about OLO's literature threa.....
» 4/07/2012 10:56:26 AM WmTrevor, I agree that the question is too hard. However, it seemed like an attention-gra.....
» 4/07/2012 10:41:40 AM Yes, I'd agree that learning a foreign language is an aid to understanding the grammar of .....
» 4/07/2012 7:53:33 AM Belly, Just a thought... Remember when the Howard government gained control of the Senate.....
» 3/07/2012 10:03:39 PM Jayb, I agree that we should get back to the subject, although when discussing the Middle.....
» 3/07/2012 4:48:37 PM Jayb, Terrorism? You should brush up on a little history yourself - starting with this: .....
» 3/07/2012 4:38:09 PM Atman, A link fromm a "weather presenter's blog hardly constitutes anything.... Her.....
» 3/07/2012 3:06:04 PM Well, sonofgloin, it's really all about balance - and tipping points......
» 3/07/2012 2:19:21 PM "...The above quote demonstrates ignorance and blind faith...." On the contrary.....
» 3/07/2012 1:51:44 PM Jayb, Don't patronise moi, dear....the refugee crisis emanating from Iraq was and is dire.....
» 3/07/2012 10:54:33 AM In desperation, Poirot fumbles about for a topic that excludes 1) the Carbon Tax and 2) Au.....
» 3/07/2012 8:09:36 AM SPQR, In the case of Iraq.....the U.S. and it's allies did "cause" the refugee .....
» 3/07/2012 7:53:58 AM Belly, You are right that we have a preferential system, but that does keep us in the thr.....
» 2/07/2012 10:10:40 PM Yuyutsu, I think that's very well put. Well done!.....
» 1/07/2012 5:28:39 PM I have to say that the indigenous population certainly do need access to the existing medi.....
» 1/07/2012 10:45:55 AM Grim, You're right about that difference being the biggest stumbling block. Non-indigenou.....
» 1/07/2012 9:13:09 AM OUG, "....from the prophets proffit.. Whose wholy holy texts are for sale ..in the l.....
» 1/07/2012 8:23:08 AM JoM, "...if there's one identifiable trait of the White Australian it'd be that he's.....
» 1/07/2012 1:04:31 AM Squeers, "...Australian identity is founded in ideology, which doesn't stand up to s.....
» 30/06/2012 8:15:48 PM Ludwig, A Penthouse magazine? - in the infirmary? - under Matron's auspices? What about .....
» 30/06/2012 7:11:55 PM Yuyutsu, "The government is taking our money without our consent - what do you call .....
» 30/06/2012 2:51:45 PM Lexi, I'd love to see your painting. In keeping with the woodland motif, how about this .....
» 30/06/2012 1:40:14 PM Hasbeen, What a beautiful oil is Chloe. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_and_Jackson_Ho.....
» 30/06/2012 1:24:11 PM No apology needed, sonofgloin - for thinking I was a bloke. What could I expect when calli.....
» 30/06/2012 11:04:46 AM YEBIGA, You may be right. I do think it's instinctual behaviour in man upon meeting someo.....
» 30/06/2012 9:39:21 AM Squeers, I think most of us posting here would have to walk a mile in an Aboriginal's ski.....
» 30/06/2012 8:48:38 AM Ludwig, There's obviously nothing more for it than to send you to matron with a note. She.....
» 29/06/2012 10:22:15 PM Okay, Ludwig....remember what happened last time you got frisky? Lexi and I got frisky rig.....
» 29/06/2012 9:14:45 PM Ludwig, lexi, It's a curious thing that when you're drawing a nude you're only concentrat.....
» 29/06/2012 8:46:36 PM Hey, hey, Lexi, "au naturale" - that takes me back to uni when we had to sketch.....
» 29/06/2012 8:36:35 PM Yuyutsu, Do you use the road network? Do you use a tap with clean running water? Did you .....
» 29/06/2012 8:24:26 PM Cheer up folks! http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-06-29/un-declares-world-happiness-day/409.....
» 29/06/2012 6:23:35 PM Oh really, Killarney, "Actually YOU'RE the one I much prefer to be aggressive and be.....
» 29/06/2012 5:25:26 PM Interestingly, Squeers, I was awoken at 2am about three weeks back by a knock on the door......
» 29/06/2012 2:26:49 PM Mon ami, Nice to see you drop by. ...although as you can see, there's not much to chew o.....
» 29/06/2012 2:06:49 PM I have to say that I do often ask people where they've come from, not to put them down, bu.....
» 29/06/2012 11:24:33 AM SPQR, That's the nicest thing you've ever said to me. Cheers yourself : ).....
» 29/06/2012 11:11:42 AM spindoc, Small is Beautiful. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_is_Beautiful.....
» 29/06/2012 11:01:15 AM Whatever you say, SPQR. Frankly I can't be bothered arguing pedantic points this morning......
» 29/06/2012 9:09:29 AM I don't think so, individual. http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-09-23/aboriginal-dna-dates-.....
» 29/06/2012 1:31:51 AM Ilsa Evans, You would be mistaken to assume that Killarney's style on here is as pure as .....
» 28/06/2012 8:57:33 PM Lexi, Lady Mary you are then. Nice to have you on board. "Killer cheek bones, mane o.....
» 28/06/2012 4:41:20 PM WmTrevor, (Just quickly as I'm nipping over the visit the Dowager) "...just another.....
» 28/06/2012 3:20:19 PM Belly, I don't think man will live in caves wrapped in animal skins in the future. Howeve.....
» 28/06/2012 3:10:20 PM WmTrevor, This is proving a most delightful diverson..... "...I can imagine you wan.....
» 28/06/2012 2:28:45 PM Bugsy, "This thread is amusing. bizarre and pointless all in one lovely package. Jus.....
» 28/06/2012 2:17:34 PM Killarney, Same old same old, with her "I'm just gonna drop by here to let you know .....
» 28/06/2012 1:33:12 PM WmTrevor, Thomas is rather villainously attractive in a way and sees himself as the ".....
» 28/06/2012 12:04:17 PM cohenite, I'm sure bonmot has better things to do. SPQR, "Poirot 15 .SPQR 40 ".....
» 28/06/2012 10:54:18 AM SPQR, "...of the other posters on this threat..." By and away the best Freudian.....
» 28/06/2012 10:14:51 AM Hey, hey....while we're on the subject of entertainment narrative. It seems that Anthony i.....
» 28/06/2012 9:51:12 AM My previous post spoke of an "unrelenting" push for progress. That's the key wor.....
» 28/06/2012 8:20:36 AM Okay, now I'll have to get my maid to fetch the smelling salts...a mild swoon coming upon .....
» 28/06/2012 7:29:48 AM Belly, We may develop some nifty alternative fuels. But there's a rule in nature that dic.....
» 27/06/2012 11:41:34 PM Globalisation was always going to be a flash in the pan. Sounds like things will edge into.....
» 27/06/2012 11:10:28 PM WmTrevor, Nice postcard - I wondered where Houellie had got to. Just as an aside (since .....
» 27/06/2012 4:06:19 PM Anthony, I'm enjoying this little flight of fancy - in fact I feel a sock puppet coming o.....
» 27/06/2012 3:22:58 PM WmTrevor, Ha, ha, ha...although you're denting my newly fashioned persona here. I quite f.....
» 27/06/2012 2:35:54 PM Squeers, Of course the moustache goes without saying. : ).....
» 27/06/2012 2:06:32 PM .....but you'll have to take my word for that......
» 27/06/2012 1:47:57 PM Very spooky, WmTrevor, http://downtonabbey.wikia.com/wiki/Cora That's exactly what I loo.....
» 27/06/2012 12:07:31 PM WmTrevor, "..or should I say Countess Grantham?...." "I just knew it was .....
» 27/06/2012 11:53:39 AM G R, Unfortunately humans don't do "fundamental human rights of a global basis".....
» 27/06/2012 11:16:08 AM "Which is a quick recipe for converting Sydney into a poorer version of Calcutta.&quo.....
» 27/06/2012 9:42:19 AM I wonder how the SPQR's of this world would react if a boatload of white bowler-hatted mid.....
» 26/06/2012 5:00:02 PM Yuyutsu, I take your points. But your could say the same for everything we take for gran.....
» 26/06/2012 2:13:10 PM Yuyutsu, "It's only THE WAY you receive those which is not nice." Actually I t.....
» 26/06/2012 11:23:35 AM Lexi, It's a perfect match then! I wish I had Houellie's lack of arrogance...he plays w.....
» 26/06/2012 9:58:01 AM Houellie, "But I know yooouse love me anyway." Well yes we do : ) I'm always .....
» 26/06/2012 8:26:54 AM Depending on what condition you have, medications are incredibly expensive - and without t.....
» 24/06/2012 11:50:07 PM Quite so, Saltpetre. A most belligerent post by the exalted convener of GAC. Lighthearted .....
» 24/06/2012 7:14:47 PM Ludwig, I've had to stop myself twice from posting that chocolate cake recipe on this thr.....
» 24/06/2012 6:47:57 PM David, I think this could be my limit for a while too. Just wanted to say that I think .....
» 24/06/2012 6:19:56 PM David, There you go again - "crucify"! (got a bit of thing for exclamation mark.....
» 24/06/2012 2:44:24 PM StG, What a poignant story....but you have each other and you have love and you're ".....
» 24/06/2012 2:38:08 PM Hey, Lexi, I noticed Pelican's visits were becoming more intermittent, and now she doesn'.....
» 24/06/2012 10:57:22 AM Dearest David, While we're analysing tactics, I see you've pulled out your secret weapon......
» 23/06/2012 11:28:04 PM David, Gossip is one thing, but to rub your hands with glee in the knowledge that you &qu.....
» 23/06/2012 9:59:01 PM Cherful, I think you're being a tad disingenuous. The Jews were given a homeland. They we.....
» 23/06/2012 12:43:54 PM Belly, I don't think there's any prod at you in this thread. More likely it's in response.....
» 23/06/2012 11:45:24 AM I think anonymity does allow us a kind of freedom, especially at the outset. However, as S.....
» 23/06/2012 11:16:27 AM I think it also depends on the violence of the swerve away from the topic at hand. If we'r.....
» 23/06/2012 10:19:36 AM Squeers, "...and having opinions gives substance to the sense of self. Why else do w.....
» 23/06/2012 9:31:30 AM David, "...I don't need omniscience, gossiping is a favourite pastime. I know lots o.....
» 23/06/2012 9:02:19 AM Ludwig, I think the key word here is "discretion". Sometimes, especially in t.....
» 23/06/2012 8:46:54 AM Squeers, I think also that by choosing anonymity we're protecting our physical selves bec.....
» 22/06/2012 9:36:49 PM I much prefer a pseudonym when commenting here. Mainly because the threads I'm commenting .....
» 22/06/2012 6:32:39 PM Joe, "...maybe even from Ecuador, than from Sweden..." Well hee, hee, hee...I .....
» 22/06/2012 2:49:39 PM David, "What may surprise some of the folk on this forum is that I do know the real .....
» 22/06/2012 2:36:21 PM Saltpetre, Well, yes in extreme circumstances, however, these medications are used relati.....
» 22/06/2012 11:15:31 AM SPQR, I was so underwhelmed by Pell. In fact, I had fervently hoped he would impress me -.....
» 22/06/2012 11:07:31 AM scribbler, Of course, that's not to say that there isn't plenty of "spirit" aro.....
» 22/06/2012 10:21:42 AM scribbler, "....I would rather we actually came up with some NEW ideas, rather than .....
» 21/06/2012 11:28:37 PM David, Is that "confirmation".....I...I'm....I'm somewhat overwhelmed to be ack.....
» 21/06/2012 6:45:53 PM scribbler, "And if we weren't such a nation of spiteful 'what's in it for me?' xenop.....
» 21/06/2012 5:10:24 PM Just wanted to add that by the term "extra assistance", I'm not referring to med.....
» 21/06/2012 4:58:39 PM Anthony Dillon, On the contrary - why don't you do some research. You might like to begin.....
» 21/06/2012 2:59:31 PM David, "...If one of you fine gentlemen would like to give examples of that scorn, I.....
» 21/06/2012 10:32:04 AM But Lexi, if you deny SM his schoolboy fun then he'll cease to derive his meaning in life......
» 21/06/2012 8:38:18 AM rehtub, The great E.F. Schumacher once wrote in "Small is Beautiful" on the rol.....
» 17/06/2012 1:11:32 PM Killarney, I'm having trouble grasping your point. On the one hand your extol the new fre.....
» 17/06/2012 10:01:08 AM You can't separate the sexual mores of women in the modern West from the economic and soci.....
» 16/06/2012 10:19:11 AM rechtub, Yes, the towns that host mining do have a problem with rents and businesses tryi.....
» 15/06/2012 11:57:19 PM "Promote innovations in biological sciences, food technologies and natural resource u.....
» 15/06/2012 11:15:48 PM Apologies for that - Lugwig should of course be "Ludwig". (noticed it just as I .....
» 15/06/2012 11:13:26 PM Lugwig, "Why is this thread under Technical Support and not General Discussion??&quo.....
» 15/06/2012 6:33:01 PM sonogloin, Whadayareckon they might be spraying then? And whadayareckon they might be ab.....
» 15/06/2012 6:25:52 PM I'm certainly not in favour of medicating en masse, and it does appear to be growing pheno.....
» 15/06/2012 7:27:11 AM "...the Arjay-Poirot world conspiracy theory..." Correction - it's the Arjay wo.....
» 14/06/2012 11:16:37 AM Au contraire, Lorikeet.....thank you for proving our point!.....
» 14/06/2012 10:50:12 AM Paul, Just wanted to add that Einstein was the most humble genius. Not only in theoretica.....
» 14/06/2012 10:15:00 AM Lorikeet. I have often had to tell people on blogs (especially Greens) that I have a high.....
» 13/06/2012 11:24:18 PM Lorikeet, "I think some people are very rude and make disgusting comments which have.....
» 13/06/2012 9:26:27 PM Lorikeet, When a party is not in power, it quite often speaks out about issues and oppose.....
» 13/06/2012 8:25:48 PM scribbler, Perhaps the Democratic Labor Party is named so in the manner of the [former] G.....
» 13/06/2012 4:26:15 PM Outclassed by whom?.....
» 13/06/2012 8:45:07 AM individual, I'm quite a resilient and capable person, but in that situation I really don'.....
» 13/06/2012 8:12:04 AM WmTrevor, "...'divine wind' - something beautiful, ethereal, enormous...." Aren.....
» 12/06/2012 3:33:56 PM Houellie, If that's oppression, then please oppress me : ) The exact moment my daughter .....
» 12/06/2012 3:23:35 PM My hero is Shadow Minister for managing to maintain the puerile epithet "Juliar".....
» 12/06/2012 11:25:48 AM Lorikeet, I've been trained to detect general bollocks on OLO (some it my own :). In fac.....
» 12/06/2012 10:01:23 AM Lorikeet, Gosh we're lucky to have one so wise and balanced to tell us how it really is. .....
» 12/06/2012 9:07:06 AM Davis G, Humans "are" intelligent - the shame of it is that very few are also &.....
» 11/06/2012 9:31:47 PM Heroism may be a definitive act as a will to meaning and self-transcendence. Viktor E. Fr.....
» 11/06/2012 12:21:25 PM Squeers, "....s/he's an idealist and a dissenter." Agree.... We've had a very.....
» 10/06/2012 5:25:44 PM Well just quickly in the middle of a raging storm in south-west WA. Up at my daughters whe.....
» 10/06/2012 10:27:28 AM Hiya David, 3 signed and auctioned posters represent an important part of atheist history.....
» 10/06/2012 9:41:05 AM Just wondering which moral attributes people use to define heroism. This rather lengthy .....
» 9/06/2012 6:00:32 PM Paul 1405, I believe Belly may have meant that in his view the fact that the U.S. system .....
» 9/06/2012 10:15:37 AM mikk, I think things will have to get dire before that happens...perhaps somewhere down t.....
» 9/06/2012 12:09:49 AM Lexi and Poirot on a thread together is a joy to behold, all that feminine wisdom with a h.....
» 8/06/2012 9:05:46 PM Lorikeet, The general public is mostly apathetic concerning the bigger picture, consumed .....
» 8/06/2012 8:18:12 PM "Very few are aware of the undemocratic processes being inflicted on our nation, but .....
» 8/06/2012 1:59:05 PM Fair enough, Lexi. It's nice to see you feel passionate about it : ) (As you know, I'm a .....
» 8/06/2012 11:35:30 AM Lexi, Name me a country that doesn't ally itself with others? Standing on our own?...wh.....
» 8/06/2012 11:22:19 AM Keeping in mind the billions of years of Earth's changing formation, one shouldn't be surp.....
» 8/06/2012 9:32:59 AM Belly, I tend not to really care whether we remain as we are or become a republic, althou.....
» 7/06/2012 11:34:22 PM Obviously "moral turpitude" should read "moral rectitude" Grrrrr..........
» 7/06/2012 11:28:54 PM runner, These lions of early industrial industry in Britain weren't some itinerant bunch .....
» 7/06/2012 11:04:52 PM Yuyutsu, How about, for the sake of the vaccination question, we define society as a grou.....
» 7/06/2012 8:47:08 PM runner, "...at least they had a chance to live unlike tens of thousands in the womb .....
» 7/06/2012 8:12:21 PM Yuyutsu, "Actual living people" - "sentient beings" - comprise societ.....
» 7/06/2012 6:56:21 PM Good point, Jon J, ...or set to 14 hour working days in stifling hot factories - locked i.....
» 7/06/2012 5:25:16 PM How right you are, runner...it's not as if the Libs under Howard sycophantic toadies of th.....
» 7/06/2012 3:03:42 PM WmTrevor, "...for the life of me, I couldn't work out whether it was meant as a comp.....
» 7/06/2012 2:58:37 PM Lexi, "Nurturing ties?...." I'm not defending it or criticising it - only poin.....
» 7/06/2012 11:51:07 AM Lexi, It's called "nurturing ties", and it is standard diplomatic behaviour bet.....
» 7/06/2012 11:38:23 AM WmTrevor, Just posing a question on a thread about "oppression" - seemed to tie.....
» 7/06/2012 11:06:44 AM WmTrevor, Are you free?.....
» 7/06/2012 10:11:45 AM Yes, it's pretty well been HARD power all the way. The U.S. has done wonders for "Am.....
» 6/06/2012 9:01:23 PM Agronomist, "...she has never had to want for anything, has lived her whole life in .....
» 6/06/2012 4:31:03 PM Just for you, Belly. "I did but see her passing by and yet I love her till I die.&qu.....
» 6/06/2012 9:03:47 AM Never mind, Pericles. I'm sure there was a typo in the thread's title. It should read: U.....
» 6/06/2012 12:02:35 AM Yuyutsu, "...I strongly recommend thinking before making a choice, but that's not a .....
» 5/06/2012 11:47:59 PM Squeers, I'm intrigued at your doctor's advice that your MASSIVE operation was too ".....
» 5/06/2012 9:23:23 PM JR49, "...The banana says everyone needs to treat me as if i'm an apple...." T.....
» 5/06/2012 4:20:37 PM Squeers, Thanks for the Python clip : ) You know, I think it's perfectly reasonable for.....
» 5/06/2012 3:03:51 PM Yuyutsu, You say: "Isn't it obvious that in order to remember things one needs a br.....
» 5/06/2012 11:16:09 AM There you go, Killarney - Houellebecq's last post is reasonable and thoughtful. It's ".....
» 4/06/2012 11:41:14 PM Killarney, "I don't think you'd know a misogynist if one fell on you." Hey, he.....
» 4/06/2012 9:16:07 PM Nice one, Killarney, All the men on this thread have been thoughtful and reasonable in th.....
» 4/06/2012 8:23:51 PM Yabby, "...I see that people usually put self interest ahead of the communal good.&q.....
» 4/06/2012 1:13:41 PM Yuyutsu, How can we become closer to God if we are God? If we are God, then we are as cl.....
» 4/06/2012 11:11:25 AM Houellie, "This patriarchal dominance is a furphy..." Yes! If I stop and thi.....
» 4/06/2012 9:01:48 AM Of course, we're all talking here from the perspective of the modern developed world where.....
» 4/06/2012 8:27:14 AM Rehctub, Yes, if your workers can up and leave, I suppose that does get on your nerves. .....
» 3/06/2012 9:54:46 PM Truly my heart goes out to you, rehctub. You were born in the wrong century and you took u.....
» 3/06/2012 8:19:24 PM Yuyutsu, In the past you have stated that "we" (as in humanity and everything) .....
» 3/06/2012 10:42:03 AM "....considering the majority moslikely domt even speak fluent English..." Heh,.....
» 2/06/2012 11:04:46 PM Don't worry, Paul, If all of Australia's welfare recipients were egotistical clapped-out .....
» 2/06/2012 11:16:21 AM Hasbeen, Just when I think it's impossible for you to come over more odious than in the p.....
» 2/06/2012 9:35:25 AM cohenite, "...which is now a refuted idea." I think what you actually mean is:.....
» 2/06/2012 9:24:16 AM You gotta laugh..... It's fascinating reading the offended sensibilities of heterosexual .....
» 1/06/2012 5:15:10 PM cohenite, Your "comparison" is sophistry. Science delivers us immunisation, ju.....
» 1/06/2012 11:20:06 AM rechtub, In an earlier thread, you mentioned a colleague whose employees had been with hi.....
» 1/06/2012 9:37:59 AM Habeen, Just wanted to add, as I alluded to, that because "the car" has become .....
» 1/06/2012 9:16:28 AM Hasbeen, I appreciate your situation...and I can also appreciate your love of your cars. .....
» 1/06/2012 9:05:29 AM David f, Well actually it's a curious thing.....that as the years passed by that I became.....
» 31/05/2012 11:32:48 PM Ludwig, It's kinda hard to explain....but the guy just oozes sex appeal - the way he move.....
» 31/05/2012 8:04:24 PM Mon ami, "...let's all meet up at the local..." Wouldn't that be a hoot! I wo.....
» 31/05/2012 6:50:53 PM Hasbeen, "The most sensible move for road safety would be to ban the things, from al.....
» 31/05/2012 5:57:52 PM Houellie, Shenanigans are the name of the game in parliamentary behaviour. Rarely, howeve.....
» 31/05/2012 1:32:04 PM bonmot, I well remember when the Howard government first introduced the "new" d.....
» 30/05/2012 4:32:27 PM spindoc, "...if not, rack off." Who empowered you as arbiter of what is or isn.....
» 29/05/2012 2:35:24 PM Ludwig, Fair enough - You sound like a man who is happy with life! Lexi, Just for you :.....
» 29/05/2012 12:12:08 PM While we're on the subject of pure magnetism and sexuality.... Rather out of character, I.....
» 29/05/2012 11:38:49 AM Human nature represented by Ludwig's reaction (even though our banter was all playfully to.....
» 29/05/2012 8:18:01 AM Never mind, Ludwig. There's a lesson in all this. And that is: that passionate intelligent.....
» 28/05/2012 8:55:27 AM spindoc, I thought I'd sit this one out since I've had a busy weekend. but.... ".......
» 27/05/2012 11:13:19 PM "You would call yourself a skeptic. But you're, not. You're a denialist! Yes?" .....
» 27/05/2012 10:55:17 PM Thanks for the congrats, Lexi - it was a good day. Ludwig, "Gee thanks Lexi.............
» 27/05/2012 12:07:54 AM I'm expecting runner to arrive at any moment with a bucket of water : ).....
» 26/05/2012 11:44:04 PM Ludwig, Thanks for your kind wishes. It was a wonderful occasion - just a smallish gather.....
» 26/05/2012 10:10:37 PM Ludwig, Except that passionate intelligent women wouldn't play football while wearing li.....
» 26/05/2012 7:28:57 PM Why thank you, Lexi : ) On this point, I think the satisfaction men derive from viewing s.....
» 26/05/2012 10:10:23 AM (even if we can't spell "wear" :).....
» 26/05/2012 9:29:52 AM Ludwig, I think Lexi was alluding to the fact that a passionate woman could where a hessi.....
» 25/05/2012 10:45:46 AM "...totally bereft of morals..." Let it be know that runner's latest stock-in-t.....
» 25/05/2012 9:44:45 AM runner, I'd never heard of this until your link. It seems just another step along the ro.....
» 24/05/2012 9:24:32 PM runner, Lexi isn't trying to impose anything on you. She, like me , is obviously puzzled.....
» 24/05/2012 10:50:02 AM Chris, The U.S. at present is overly reliant on cheap imports from China - they are prop.....
» 24/05/2012 9:55:34 AM SPQR, "I do however have a huge chuckle every-time I picture you with a little Poiro.....
» 24/05/2012 9:16:53 AM Yes, Ludwig. Watching the opposition for any sign of direction or policy initiative is li.....
» 24/05/2012 8:31:39 AM SPQR, I'm sure csteele gets a giggle from the fact that you think he's a "her" .....
» 23/05/2012 10:31:27 PM TBC, Yeah, I'm sort of hoping this kid might meet someone in her travels that may have so.....
» 23/05/2012 9:22:45 PM I wouldn't say I was a supporter of boot camps. But it got me thinking about acquaintance.....
» 23/05/2012 8:11:03 PM runner, "In actual fact kindness and loves include discipline and respect of authori.....
» 23/05/2012 9:54:05 AM Belly, "Strike me Lucky! Poirot is a Greens supporter bloke." Well yes and no,.....
» 23/05/2012 9:30:34 AM SM, Are you offering to sell me a bridge? I think that says more about you than it does .....
» 23/05/2012 8:52:41 AM What's the difference between "Thompson" and "Thomson"? http://www.in.....
» 22/05/2012 11:03:02 PM Goodness me, Lexi, I think we were both wrong. He's sort of a tetchy lil' tike ain't he. .....
» 22/05/2012 10:24:45 PM Lexi, I was actually more interested in the metaphor than the character, but you have a m.....
» 22/05/2012 9:27:11 PM Lexi, Don't be too hard on the ubiquitous Shadow Minister. He's had a very trying day. .....
» 22/05/2012 8:55:14 PM runner, Being interested in the views attributed to Jesus doesn't necessitate my believin.....
» 22/05/2012 3:21:52 PM Oh goody, I have some posts left on this thread (as I have to wait five hours on the other.....
» 22/05/2012 2:40:43 PM runner, No, but then I don't believe that people rise from the dead. Nevertheless, I'm r.....
» 22/05/2012 2:24:06 PM Senior Victorian, Don't you know that "to buy on the 'never never' is the cornerston.....
» 22/05/2012 2:06:26 PM SM, On the contrary, I have an open and questioning mind on this issue. It would appear,.....
» 22/05/2012 1:21:16 PM I put these links up on SM's thread, but they are probably more appropriate here. http://.....
» 22/05/2012 12:59:36 PM http://www.independentaustralia.net/2012/politics/the-jackson-and-lawler-hsu-tangle-part-t.....
» 22/05/2012 12:45:00 PM http://www.independentaustralia.net/2012/politics/how-the-hsu-tangled-jackson-lawler-and-t.....
» 22/05/2012 12:23:41 PM runner, "...sickening in their deceit..." Which "deceit" is that, ru.....
» 22/05/2012 10:46:29 AM SM, Are you saying that this is how we should conduct the affairs of parliament? That fro.....
» 22/05/2012 10:27:52 AM It's interesting that "sin"(according to some Catholic literature I have) comes .....
» 22/05/2012 9:01:32 AM What Thomson has against him hasn't been tested in a court of law. He may be guilty or he.....
» 22/05/2012 1:05:56 AM SM, Interesting that you conclude that the presumption of innocence isn't a right to be b.....
» 21/05/2012 8:14:37 PM SM, Did you happen to catch Thomson's speech today? Any comments?.....
» 21/05/2012 11:35:49 AM Joe, "...or we can get jobs in academia and sit back and bitch about the evils of th.....
» 21/05/2012 10:50:03 AM Oh NannaK, Actually I had planned to give you a welcome, but unfortunately got carried aw.....
» 21/05/2012 10:11:16 AM WmTrevor, "...But I'm conscious that 'some of my best friends' are quietly Christian.....
» 20/05/2012 11:56:11 PM "Pericles, Good news, you hit the list." Would that be an "athelist".....
» 20/05/2012 5:25:54 PM Hi csteele, I've thought long and hard about this - and I'd have to say, poignant as it w.....
» 20/05/2012 1:50:46 PM Thank you, Pericles - great post. "Self-congratulatheism" seems to fit nicely a.....
» 20/05/2012 9:45:15 AM WmTrevor, I think Henry was wrongly cast... in my experience it's usually the heterosexua.....
» 20/05/2012 8:41:13 AM Okay, we finally have a Wiggles thread...(about bloody time:) My son is now ten, so he's .....
» 20/05/2012 8:25:36 AM David, "...What we need to learn is that apathy towards religious intolerance in soc.....
» 19/05/2012 7:11:34 PM Grim, Perhaps we shouldn't be so hard on David - constructing a bandwagon is not as easy .....
» 19/05/2012 3:38:00 PM I was sort of hoping for something more in the Impressionist line - a little more Pissarro.....
» 19/05/2012 1:19:02 PM David G, I'm an atheist who doesn't feel the need to seek artificially constructed ".....
» 19/05/2012 12:34:40 PM David, It was fascinating to read your latest article offering. You couldn't have come a.....
» 19/05/2012 10:04:20 AM runner, "you certainly aint slow beinging Jesus into this arguement..." Well t.....
» 18/05/2012 8:24:34 PM runner, I believe Jesus would be repulsed by intolerant and judgmental windbags vaunting .....
» 18/05/2012 4:16:42 PM What you need to ask yourself, runner, is whether Jesus would vote to reopen Nauru?.....
» 18/05/2012 4:11:52 PM Yuyutsu, I didn't state that God came from anywhere. I asked runner where did he think Go.....
» 18/05/2012 10:43:17 AM runner, Where did God come from?.....
» 18/05/2012 9:29:14 AM Houellie, Those men were some of the best friends I've ever known. They were gorgeous in .....
» 18/05/2012 9:03:03 AM Hope you don't mind if I deviate for a moment, but WmTrevor brought back an intoxicating m.....
» 18/05/2012 8:29:52 AM "Most attendees came away from the three days and three nights...with feelings varyin.....
» 17/05/2012 12:18:23 PM Oh well, all good things must come to an end. Although I'm a bit disappointed that the pi.....
» 17/05/2012 10:40:28 AM Double dang! That fella in front put his hat back on again - and now I can't tell which on.....
» 16/05/2012 11:18:16 AM csteele, Please leave the lights dimmed for a little longer. I've just bought another bu.....
» 14/05/2012 9:16:49 PM Some background on the doctors: http://thatsmyphilosophy.wordpress.com/2012/05/13/doctors.....
» 13/05/2012 11:26:05 PM csteele, Here's a rollicking good article by Naomi Klein on Heartlanders and denialism. I.....
» 13/05/2012 6:01:25 PM Gawd! - the denialists have brought out their big gun in runner. Okay guys, we know when .....
» 13/05/2012 5:39:23 PM Lexi, You should never feel ashamed, you gave it a go. I'm trying to imagine having sore .....
» 13/05/2012 4:23:26 PM Killarney, I agree with your views to a certain extent. The likes of Gillard and Thatcher.....
» 13/05/2012 12:29:51 PM WmTrevor, Yes, I did get the point to which you were alluding - just thought I'd mention .....
» 13/05/2012 11:30:51 AM Hasbeen, For once we agree! (will wonders never cease?) The one thing that struck me whe.....
» 13/05/2012 10:35:36 AM Plant, I think you're way off beam thinking that women just want to look youthful. Any wo.....
» 12/05/2012 7:10:24 PM Ah, whistler - sometimes one comes upon a post that is a cut above the rest. Your last was.....
» 12/05/2012 11:49:34 AM Excuse me Mr Non-scientist (aka Hasbeen), "...after being given some of the facts........
» 12/05/2012 9:33:21 AM phooey, I appreciate your point. I was just making a further point. Often it's the same .....
» 12/05/2012 9:07:19 AM phooey, Some wars are started unnecessarily (Iraq) You might like to do a little researc.....
» 12/05/2012 8:46:56 AM SPQR, Finance isn't "true science". It is predicated on human whim. Climate sc.....
» 11/05/2012 8:14:37 PM "oooh! Poor boys and girls defending their uptight positions..." Athene, you ap.....
» 10/05/2012 11:18:10 PM 42 is an excellent alternative to Yuyutsu......
» 10/05/2012 10:45:33 PM Yuyutsu, It makes no difference what grounds people reject immunisation - the outcome is .....
» 10/05/2012 8:09:00 PM But they don't learn. .... at least they've never learned to subdue their savagery towar.....
» 10/05/2012 6:59:57 PM Yuyutsu, "...put bullets straight through our heads!" Pathetic argument and pu.....
» 10/05/2012 3:44:22 PM Chris C, So it's really all about pedantics it seems. Anyhooo...it seems Obama calls it .....
» 10/05/2012 3:19:49 PM Mind you, csteele, you'd be battling to become more highly opinionated than the magnificen.....
» 9/05/2012 11:22:22 PM Yuyutsu, "...different people have other priorities for which they are even willing .....
» 9/05/2012 10:53:14 PM Most enlightened and noble, Saltpetre, It's probably a fruitless task to fathom the myria.....
» 9/05/2012 10:04:59 PM Yuyutsu, Those who choose not to have their children vaccinated are still the beneficiari.....
» 9/05/2012 8:13:42 PM The compliance extends to being in full cahoots with the celebration of phenomena like &qu.....
» 9/05/2012 11:23:18 AM David f, Beautiful verse. You're a lucky guy......
» 9/05/2012 12:31:57 AM runner, "...low and smearing...desperate....deceit..." You really are a wonder.....
» 9/05/2012 12:07:34 AM "...I should have anticipated postings inclusive of the predictably unhelpful views o.....
» 8/05/2012 10:37:39 PM The pleasure is all mine, csteele......
» 8/05/2012 9:12:35 PM Killarney, In my relatively short time on the internet, it's come to my attention that th.....
» 8/05/2012 7:57:39 PM Killarney, If you want to comment on the article in a supportive way - then just do it. .....
» 8/05/2012 7:49:03 PM Killarney, "Yet the commentary section - made up of all the usual, almost exclusivel.....
» 8/05/2012 6:55:09 PM Jayb, Regarding wattsupwiththat: http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Anthony_Watt.....
» 6/05/2012 11:06:44 PM And, believe me, wobbles - runner is an expert on opening his trap and making accusations......
» 6/05/2012 8:14:50 PM Hasbeen, Are you familiar with the phrase "long term trend"? http://www.skepti.....
» 6/05/2012 11:01:41 AM s'okay, Lexi...I do get carried away sometimes : ).....
» 6/05/2012 10:24:34 AM SPQR, You're on to something with your comment that the Heartland Institute is a little &.....
» 6/05/2012 10:17:05 AM SPQR, It's difficult to deny that a promotion such as this is incredibly damaging to Hear.....
» 6/05/2012 10:03:35 AM SPQR, No doubt you'll enjoy this article. I've just posted it on another thread, but it s.....
» 6/05/2012 9:44:23 AM cohenite, What do reckon about the latest media campaign from the Heartland Institute. Ab.....
» 6/05/2012 7:30:37 AM Well, having revisited my enthusiasm and, as Lexi and Pelly feel that Houellie is merely i.....
» 5/05/2012 12:54:50 PM pelican, That goes without saying. But he has made an art of throwing a spanner in the w.....
» 5/05/2012 12:06:32 PM Wm Trevor, I don't expect for a moment that Houellie will "take this lying down".....
» 5/05/2012 11:32:52 AM Ooh goody, it seems we've got ourselves a Houellie fan club. (I'm president, so it's my gr.....
» 5/05/2012 10:54:31 AM Thank you, runner, for your splendid example of the pot calling the kettle a bigot. Those.....
» 5/05/2012 10:30:05 AM Bazz, You're on the right track. The one thing that is always guaranteed is "change&.....
» 5/05/2012 10:18:05 AM Judging by individual's comments, "normal" is code for belligerence, intolerance.....
» 5/05/2012 9:36:26 AM Squeers, "My concern is that gays are getting more conservative, if they're talking .....
» 4/05/2012 10:22:06 PM Scatology, eh - now there's a theme I've neglected to ponder...although I once wrote an ex.....
» 4/05/2012 5:02:58 PM runner, Poirot doesn't stoop to demonise (That is your department - remember?)....she sto.....
» 4/05/2012 2:51:24 PM cohenite, Do you ever stop to think that Dawkins accepts the concept of AGW because it's .....
» 4/05/2012 11:08:54 AM Athene, That's interesting - I don't recall either of my birthing experiences being ".....
» 4/05/2012 10:02:49 AM RObert and Houellie, You know, I have much respect for you guys, and that goes for ".....
» 4/05/2012 9:15:32 AM cohenite, Your slip is showing. On the one hand you cite Dawkins to buttress your argume.....
» 4/05/2012 9:05:36 AM See above for hysterical overreaction......
» 3/05/2012 8:58:21 PM cohenite, bonmot is the one who is knowledgeable about climate science, and he has presen.....
» 3/05/2012 8:28:15 PM cohenite, "...this means that the increase in CO2 has had NO temperature effect sinc.....
» 3/05/2012 11:11:27 AM Houellie, Just in response to your last post to me (and my last word on the subject.) Yo.....
» 3/05/2012 9:32:17 AM dane, My initial criticism wasn't aimed at your gender. It was in response to your post. .....
» 2/05/2012 1:28:48 PM Come now, Houellie, Note the word "potential"...not "certainty" or in.....
» 2/05/2012 12:30:42 PM cohenite, I believe that the "neutrinos can move faster than light" excitement .....
» 2/05/2012 10:35:38 AM RObert, From a female perspective, I find it perplexing (though enlightening) to read the.....
» 2/05/2012 9:48:47 AM Actually, it's interesting to see a few "blokes" here rounding on Squeers becaus.....
» 2/05/2012 9:40:52 AM Yo, cohenite, Strangely enough, your "absolute conviction" that AGW is a failed.....
» 2/05/2012 9:14:54 AM dane, Regarding your odious excuse for a post above: from where I'm standing, your brand .....
» 2/05/2012 8:55:33 AM Just highlighting an article embedded in the last one. Vicky Pope - senior scientist at t.....
» 2/05/2012 8:21:02 AM bonmot, "Anthony, today the synonym for religious zealot and political ideologue are.....
» 1/05/2012 10:19:46 AM George, Coincidently, I was reading a biography of Einstein when this thread began. Eins.....
» 30/04/2012 10:56:30 AM Grim, I agree that Einstein's humility shines through. To me, it is probably the greatest.....
» 29/04/2012 11:01:06 PM Rusty, There is in man a persistent psychological recourse to mysticism and metaphysical .....
» 29/04/2012 9:49:20 PM Grim, "...the church of Dawkins' universe is a drab, boxlike affair, with perfectly .....
» 29/04/2012 5:47:26 PM AJ Philips, "...And I strongly believe that, had Einstein lived in our times, he wou.....
» 29/04/2012 12:43:47 PM SM, "Your post is laughable...." How's this for an explanation of wireless com.....
» 29/04/2012 10:29:09 AM Grim's post sums up Einstein's viewpoint beautifully. I'm a fan of Einstein because he se.....
» 29/04/2012 9:04:43 AM SM, "The real Abbott will only appear once he assumes the mantle of PM, and once aga.....
» 28/04/2012 7:50:03 PM This article is like a breath of fresh air. Wouldn't it be great to think that government.....
» 26/04/2012 6:45:41 PM Boylesy, Not that gender should make any difference, but... http://forum.onlineopinion.c.....
» 25/04/2012 6:48:21 PM David f, Your daughter sounds as if she has her head in the right place. The trouble wit.....
» 25/04/2012 5:10:05 PM Chris, I've posted this article before - not sure if you've seen it...but it's an interes.....
» 25/04/2012 11:27:30 AM Graham, You're right about the faux austerity in the U.S. I put this link up recently, bu.....
» 25/04/2012 11:14:29 AM Well, Chris, if we are to judge the health of a society by how much profit is to be extrac.....
» 25/04/2012 10:18:33 AM Chris Lewis "...booming house prices..." - Why is that a good thing? Yup, it ta.....
» 24/04/2012 3:20:10 PM Just out of interest, the U.S. fiscal situation doesn't seem to be making any headway out .....
» 24/04/2012 3:07:26 PM Chris Lewis, "....unilateral action in Iraq without a UN mandate was one of the wors.....
» 24/04/2012 2:36:10 PM Funnily enough, a mere monetary union was never going to suffice in uniting member countri.....
» 24/04/2012 2:12:48 PM Joe, "Because it does not provide a safe haven to forces which have attacked the U.S.....
» 24/04/2012 12:10:08 PM Aristicrat, You're particularly vocal on the supposed altruistic motivation for the invas.....
» 23/04/2012 4:42:40 PM Well there are two lessons from history - one is "don't invade Russia in the winter&q.....
» 23/04/2012 2:14:27 PM Ah!...the familiar thud of runner hurling needless abuse. Fascinating really, an embarras.....
» 22/04/2012 11:19:28 PM OUG, "but the moon can't sim ply disappear" Well, der.... Greene used the exa.....
» 22/04/2012 11:20:30 AM OUG, Obviously by "impact" I meant the effect or experience of force upon one's.....
» 22/04/2012 9:17:20 AM OUG, I'm not a scientist, which is why I was quoting Brian Greene from his book "The.....
» 21/04/2012 11:18:20 PM Hey, hey, Ludwig, Well, magnificent moustaches run in my family (down the maternal line),.....
» 21/04/2012 7:56:36 PM Saltpetre, On the subject of motion through time and space - from Greene: "Special .....
» 21/04/2012 7:34:14 PM Saltpetre, More from Brian Greene (The Fabric of the Cosmos) "Einstein realised tha.....
» 21/04/2012 8:57:32 AM Ludwig, Your preferred The Munsters over The Adams Family - me too! I have to say also .....
» 21/04/2012 8:20:35 AM Yabby, As I'm not up with the pros and cons of Pixie Dust, I googled, and came up with th.....
» 20/04/2012 10:28:26 PM Yo, Lexi, - I'm with you. If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it's proba..........
» 20/04/2012 10:24:16 PM And further more, the first thing that lured me to Foxtel (apart from the news) was the th.....
» 20/04/2012 10:17:55 PM Pelican, I'm a huge fan of Carry On movies - I'm not sure why, but I realised how much I .....
» 20/04/2012 8:23:45 PM Yabby, Here you go again, presuming to know "what floats my boat". I used the t.....
» 20/04/2012 4:15:30 PM "People piss on as if there is something magical about being human." Good then,.....
» 20/04/2012 12:00:00 PM Houellie, Surely your bladder must be empty by now......
» 20/04/2012 7:29:47 AM Bugsy, I actually think you are right that science can give rise to wonder and, therefore.....
» 19/04/2012 6:02:02 PM I forgot to add that I like to read as well - I mean read a "book" that contains.....
» 19/04/2012 3:09:18 PM Yabby, There's no doubt about it, there is no excuse for not being well-informed these da.....
» 19/04/2012 1:55:07 PM Watching telly is all well and good - marvellous technology and all that, and nobody is mo.....
» 19/04/2012 11:27:14 AM Yabby, Loren Eiseley was one of the most distinguished American science writers. In ".....
» 19/04/2012 9:59:42 AM Yabby, Science is the "poetry" of a world devoid of emotional landscape. http:.....
» 19/04/2012 8:58:04 AM Yabby, From Charles Darwin's autobiography: "Up to the age of thirty, or beyond it,.....
» 19/04/2012 12:45:07 AM Yabby, Yes it is all about symbols. How else to transmit message and meaning? And you can.....
» 18/04/2012 9:03:28 PM I've been reading up a bit n this stuff lately - and fascinating it is too. This is how B.....
» 18/04/2012 12:37:36 PM Here you go, Fester, http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-04-18/radioactive-discovery-halts-pa.....
» 18/04/2012 10:59:22 AM Yabby, "They have little to do with Jesus or Mohammed, both who led relatively simpl.....
» 18/04/2012 10:15:13 AM Ludwig, The strangest thing happened to me around the time of the 2010 election - I lost .....
» 18/04/2012 9:46:36 AM Yabby, Of course buildings are erected for all sorts of reasons. Their styles change with.....
» 18/04/2012 8:10:12 AM ybgirp, Hear, hear!.....
» 17/04/2012 11:53:41 PM Yabby, So, in your estimation, purpose, meaning and inspiration have little to do with re.....
» 17/04/2012 8:33:27 PM Yabby, I'm wondering if we'd never experienced the idea of "the spiritual", if .....
» 17/04/2012 5:43:16 PM Answer: - Albert Einstein.....
» 17/04/2012 5:42:02 PM And notice how he puts it so much better than runner......
» 17/04/2012 5:39:56 PM Yo, Saltpetre!, "The intuitive mind is a sacred gift, and the rational mind is a fai.....
» 17/04/2012 10:36:22 AM runner, "....their idea of a humanitarian approach." You mean it's a bit like .....
» 17/04/2012 10:18:22 AM runner, You're at it again. Try and maintain some Christian humility and decency - and.....
» 17/04/2012 8:55:09 AM While I'm loathe to get in the way of this fascinating debate between Luciferase, George a.....
» 16/04/2012 10:07:12 AM "...could we please have a moratorium for a week or two, of of fools talking too much.....
» 16/04/2012 9:58:33 AM Goodness me, I seem to have included a typo in my final sentence. I know SM's penchant fo.....
» 16/04/2012 9:35:41 AM SM, "...it is clearly far lower on her list of priorities than her relationship with.....
» 15/04/2012 11:33:56 PM Cherful, Bob Brown is a Communist dressed up as a Green, blah, blah, blah.... Your rant .....
» 14/04/2012 7:13:59 PM "....Similarly, postmodernism has administered the kybosh to philosophy! Do you reall.....
» 14/04/2012 12:23:10 PM Belly, It's understandable that you would find yourself aligned with Hasbeen and spindoc .....
» 14/04/2012 11:09:28 AM Dan, "...Noah got into the boat before it started raining, not after." Well th.....
» 13/04/2012 11:51:50 PM Arjay, Are you saying he's a mixture of Green "and Red"? Surely not, for that.....
» 13/04/2012 10:31:47 PM Being considered a "ratbag" by Hasbeen and his ilk is a true indication of a per.....
» 13/04/2012 8:30:38 PM Bob Brown is a leader of rare integrity. We will be poorer for his exit from political lif.....
» 13/04/2012 10:09:20 AM Dan, Your take of challenging rational thought regarding evolutionary theory by employing.....
» 13/04/2012 9:43:52 AM "Will I see evidence during the Convention of social concern finding practical outcom.....
» 12/04/2012 7:47:04 PM Hasbeen Successive Indian governments are obligated to observe agreements with the WTO, t.....
» 12/04/2012 6:58:37 PM Arjay, Just a case in point regarding India. In a bid to encourage large scale crop grow.....
» 12/04/2012 3:53:40 PM imajulianutter, "....particularly Pell's intellectual display....." I presume .....
» 12/04/2012 12:02:21 PM runner, I believe Oliver Cromwell was rather taken with "conscience free slaughter&q.....
» 11/04/2012 9:46:07 AM GlenC, Good question. It seems that our evolved human minds struggle with the propositio.....
» 11/04/2012 8:24:01 AM WmTrevor, Thank you for the passage from William James. I've always meant to read more of.....
» 10/04/2012 8:15:23 PM Squeers, I liked your bit on the "...great thinkers and mystics...whose learning you.....
» 10/04/2012 3:57:50 PM WmTrevor, "In continents..." Ha! : ).....
» 10/04/2012 2:15:51 PM Heavens to Murgatroyd!...Snagglepuss is right put out. (That dratted Pink Panther always g.....
» 10/04/2012 2:11:03 PM Hee hee....fancy this terrible state of affairs existing - and me not being aware of it. .....
» 10/04/2012 11:40:08 AM Yabby, I think you're right that Pell gave us the dumbed-down version. Luciferase, It s.....
» 10/04/2012 9:09:48 AM When all is said and done, it's "humans" who are responsible for war and death, .....
» 10/04/2012 8:23:50 AM Squeers, "I never expected anything more from Pell. He's about the worst spokesperso.....
» 10/04/2012 1:11:00 AM Tonight I watched the debate between Richard Dawkins and Cardinal Pell. Interestingly, I w.....
» 9/04/2012 10:41:15 AM Joe, The question is what should we deem "unknowable". Many revelations and exp.....
» 9/04/2012 9:20:52 AM Here's a brief insight into the thinking of two Catholic astronomers working at the Vatica.....
» 8/04/2012 11:10:35 PM Dan. You mean a brief Time article isn't the final word?...well fancy that! Anyway, here.....
» 8/04/2012 8:18:46 PM Dan and Yabby, Here's a short article on the intersection of faith and science - from 200.....
» 7/04/2012 10:12:45 AM runner, It's from your myopic perspective that you judge the planets ability to withstand.....
» 6/04/2012 4:17:33 PM JP, You don't seem to grasp that humans are social beings who congregate in communities. .....
» 6/04/2012 10:33:48 AM David, Hang on... Here one minute and gone the next. Holy hole in a doughnut - what hap.....
» 6/04/2012 9:33:54 AM I should apologise, woot. I seem to have confused my super heroes. If David is Atheist Man.....
» 6/04/2012 1:04:21 AM David, "Only the poster(s) who is/are guilty of supercilious twaddle will respond to.....
» 5/04/2012 12:03:19 PM Rhian, All the things you mentioned are a boon for the fortunate West. the flip side, how.....
» 5/04/2012 10:52:02 AM Luciferase, More to the point is that an "atheist convention" is organising its.....
» 5/04/2012 10:11:21 AM Ozandy, It seems that the point that Julie and the Libs are making is that WTO rules and .....
» 5/04/2012 9:11:27 AM Bugs is dear to my heart. When I was a small child, he was my favourite character. I supp.....
» 5/04/2012 8:58:52 AM This article seems to be asserting that sitting on our hands is the way to go. Here's mo.....
» 5/04/2012 7:51:22 AM Easter Bunny? bonmot, if you are privy to any info linking the Easter Bunny to conspiracy.....
» 4/04/2012 11:18:51 PM Rhian, Your point about our exalted state of being as "....the most fortunate cultur.....
» 4/04/2012 9:34:22 PM Houellie, I'm a little disappointed to learn that you don't exist....but nothing is what .....
» 4/04/2012 9:12:54 PM Jay, You are grasping at straws equating something called a Predator "drone" to.....
» 4/04/2012 4:35:31 PM JP, Who or what told human society how to behave before God revealed himself - or do you .....
» 4/04/2012 3:49:45 PM runner, A veritable gallimaufry of vices in your post - intolerance, denial, hatred, mock.....
» 4/04/2012 2:41:18 PM wobbles, Unless that gathering had a problem with people who do collect stamps, and organ.....
» 4/04/2012 11:14:33 AM Jon J, Perhaps the idea of gods/God 'is' necessary. Humans have a singular brain - a to.....
» 4/04/2012 11:02:55 AM JP, "In an atheistic universe there is no morality, just the preference of individua.....
» 4/04/2012 10:00:28 AM Jay, If you're saying that the likes of Napoleon and Hitler possessed an ability to infec.....
» 3/04/2012 11:32:34 PM Lexi, Talking of the aptitude of despots et al: -Francis Bacon put it most succinctly whe.....
» 3/04/2012 9:25:29 PM Jay, If Napoleon and Hitler were so clever, how come they both contrived to have their in.....
» 3/04/2012 8:47:54 PM imajulianutter, That was a great post. I wish you well......
» 3/04/2012 6:37:01 PM Seems like it's anything goes on this thread at the moment...so I thought Id fill you in o.....
» 3/04/2012 2:33:00 PM JP, Every society evolves criteria for acceptable behaviour, morals and ethics, etc. We a.....
» 3/04/2012 1:41:24 PM cohenite, While they're at it, they might also like to study the U.S.'s role in the overt.....
» 3/04/2012 1:32:15 PM I say, runner...are you suggesting that God has favourites? Does he cast his benevolence o.....
» 2/04/2012 10:52:48 AM Taking up WmTevor's reference, it does appear as if "Arjay's threads" bear a str.....
» 1/04/2012 10:18:30 PM bonmot, Good call. The thread degenerates into a farcical dialogue about 'bumming' and y.....
» 1/04/2012 7:12:22 PM Arjay, I wasn't under the impression that credibility, intellect or integrity was an inte.....
» 1/04/2012 6:21:25 PM Arjay, It's up to you to convince us - not abuse us. "...liars and agents of decept.....
» 1/04/2012 9:22:06 AM Interesting article, George. Here's another along the same lines that might be of interes.....
» 1/04/2012 9:05:37 AM Arjay, You can't expect to start threads like your usual fare and not to be robustly chal.....
» 31/03/2012 10:36:28 PM Arjay, You lose even more credibility when you refer to people like Pericles and Wm Trevo.....
» 31/03/2012 12:15:14 PM SPQR, Do yer reckon?....drat it!.....
» 31/03/2012 11:46:09 AM SPQR, Regarding your last link...is that meteorologist really named 'Randy Mann"? :.....
» 30/03/2012 12:13:32 PM What are your qualifications in one (or more) of the areas of climate science, Hasbeen?.....
» 30/03/2012 11:25:41 AM Hasbeen, "It is definitely in those who do not have a clue, but continue to pontific.....
» 30/03/2012 10:09:15 AM Lexi, I feel pain when I read of this young man's death. Neither of my children are parti.....
» 29/03/2012 9:50:01 AM Graham, It seems to be part and parcel of modern society - especially where children are .....
» 28/03/2012 8:47:22 PM Tony Lavis, I just reread your posts.....I'm pretty well over smart-ar$ed sarcasm on this.....
» 28/03/2012 8:22:13 PM Tony Lavis, He wasn't an 'idiot paediatrician'. He was a competent paediatrician who fail.....
» 28/03/2012 11:09:21 AM Lexi, You have a good heart - don't ever change : ).....
» 27/03/2012 2:10:18 PM Excellent post, Rattie (Maria)...my sentiments precisely!.....
» 27/03/2012 10:55:42 AM Chris, The whole reason for Crown's existence "is" for the sake of profit and m.....
» 27/03/2012 12:04:00 AM tony, I apologise for that, but it was impossible for me not to run with your demeaning T.....
» 26/03/2012 10:34:51 PM Tony, Your post was too long - didn't read...see ya!.....
» 26/03/2012 6:38:56 PM Hasbeen, I really have no desire to argue further with anyone about this issue. I've neve.....
» 26/03/2012 8:54:16 AM diver dan, Aspergers/high-functioning autism are referred to as behavioural/sensory condi.....
» 25/03/2012 7:35:26 PM individual, That's rather a grotesque little commentary coming from the likes of someone .....
» 25/03/2012 12:28:33 PM individual, What is your point? "What does he do? What is his goal?" He's ten.....
» 25/03/2012 10:57:01 AM diver dan, Children attend school for the majority of their "productive" day fo.....
» 25/03/2012 8:23:19 AM Well there you go, individual. Let's solve the problem of institutionalised society by cre.....
» 24/03/2012 6:40:19 PM Squeers, Our system of mass education is integral to mass consumerism. Ivan Illich's boo.....
» 24/03/2012 11:18:15 AM Squeers, spindoc, That's the thing - "slight behavioural issues" tend to morph .....
» 24/03/2012 9:48:38 AM I am a "sheilah" : ) Can't a sheilah refer to a bloke as "mate"? In .....
» 24/03/2012 9:26:32 AM Spindoc, There are any number of societal issues affecting very small children and there .....
» 23/03/2012 11:12:26 PM Curmudgeon, "...someone has managed to find a pretext for declaring oil sands enviro.....
» 23/03/2012 10:35:57 PM Mate, there's some posters who it soon becomes apparent aren't even worth picking up a sho.....
» 23/03/2012 8:18:54 PM diver dan, What negative social rigors? My boy just learns and lives devoid of the cover.....
» 23/03/2012 8:01:12 PM individual, It's quite entertaining reading your "assumptions". You're a judgme.....
» 23/03/2012 7:52:18 PM Squeers, I think Tea Party members are concerned about moral issues such as abortion. I a.....
» 23/03/2012 1:10:17 PM diver dan, On the contrary, what's elitist about allowing my son the opportunity for an e.....
» 23/03/2012 11:31:25 AM Squeers, I'm inclined to believe that fanatical libertarianism is chiefly economic in min.....
» 23/03/2012 10:28:05 AM Squeers, you put it so well - ditto Daffy. Speaking as a parent who has chosen not to sen.....
» 23/03/2012 8:58:23 AM Squeers, Your link is somewhat disturbing. It seems that the religious right in the U.S. .....
» 23/03/2012 8:27:40 AM individual, I see you're at your most charming again. I imagine they're all flocking her.....
» 22/03/2012 8:47:06 PM individual, Your example is an indictment of the triumph of "individualism" in .....
» 22/03/2012 2:31:12 PM Belly, I didn't make myself very clear. I happen to agree that it's innate in man's triba.....
» 22/03/2012 12:07:07 PM Belly, It's sometimes necessary for our intelligent species to occasionally ponder its hi.....
» 22/03/2012 10:53:52 AM progressive pat, "The white House have now proposes (sic) a compromise that will all.....
» 22/03/2012 9:40:23 AM "...a couple of billion who would have been at risk two or three decades ago can now .....
» 20/03/2012 7:28:43 AM rehctub, Nonsense! - Britain accommodated many refugees (as did other countries) during t.....
» 19/03/2012 5:50:36 PM Killarney, Spot on! It's chilling in the extreme to realise that children (being the raw.....
» 17/03/2012 10:23:32 PM individual, "If you weren't in a privileged situation you wouldn't state comments li.....
» 17/03/2012 8:39:03 AM Steven, Therein lies the human dilemma. It's not enough to be smart/clever/ ingenious if .....
» 17/03/2012 8:13:01 AM Pericles, Are you really under the impression that it's possible "to bring these peo.....
» 16/03/2012 10:59:07 PM Squeers, I think too that the very wealthy should lead the way - but they won't of course.....
» 16/03/2012 9:21:43 PM Yo, Squeers - I get where you're coming from. No doubt, we'll all go over the cliff toget.....
» 16/03/2012 9:13:46 PM individual, You're the one who could do with a dose of "reality". To be underp.....
» 16/03/2012 8:37:09 PM But, Squeers - we in the West "are" the rich people......
» 16/03/2012 10:31:17 AM Pericles, Spot on! Music goes straight to a subliminal depth inside us that recognises t.....
» 16/03/2012 9:59:19 AM Wm Trevor, Your measured and sensible candour is like a breath of fresh air on this threa.....
» 14/03/2012 9:10:16 PM Joe, I'm wondering if you would read this article by Wolfgang Streeck titled "The Cr.....
» 13/03/2012 9:05:17 PM Anthony writes: "Further to the view promoted by some activists that people who iden.....
» 13/03/2012 6:32:58 PM Joe, "As the electorate becomes more educated, and more able to follow events overse.....
» 13/03/2012 10:28:11 AM Namaste, "Because they are connotations and can only have 'existence' in human minds.....
» 12/03/2012 2:57:17 PM individual, Sorry if I assumed you were having a go. Btw - you're not backwards in comin.....
» 12/03/2012 1:52:48 PM Belly and bonmot, More and "better" education doesn't necessarily guarantee inc.....
» 12/03/2012 11:27:22 AM Ha ha! - good one, Lexi. I have good friends who are church-attending Catholics - they'll.....
» 12/03/2012 9:47:27 AM bonmot and ybgirp. It's always an interesting question. I don't know that nature is ".....
» 11/03/2012 6:27:39 PM Suseonline, Yes, all of that is true...but in our contemporary world if you meet someone .....
» 11/03/2012 3:51:21 PM ybgirp, I think Grenouille was mindful of his otherness. On his way to his ultimate conco.....
» 11/03/2012 3:21:28 PM Any society that compartmentalises 'education" into something that 'only' takes place.....
» 11/03/2012 3:13:35 PM individual, From the Merriam Webster: 'egoic (adjective): - of or relating to a sense of.....
» 11/03/2012 2:06:49 PM "Perhaps then, smell is in the nose of the beholder." I say, bonmot, you're rat.....
» 11/03/2012 1:48:57 PM Namaste, I hope you stick around on this forum. I appreciate the clarity of your expressi.....
» 11/03/2012 12:37:03 PM Killarney, Good to see you've returned. Don't underestimate the power of your own comment.....
» 11/03/2012 11:30:21 AM Namaste, Thank you for that - something to ponder. "'The attribution of deliberate.....
» 11/03/2012 9:50:13 AM "Better things befall us when people start thinking." Which is true as far as h.....
» 11/03/2012 9:09:53 AM ybgirp and csteele, On the contrary, I'm still here - have been following your conversati.....
» 10/03/2012 8:18:34 PM runner, I've never heard a scientist say "the science is settled". I have, howe.....
» 10/03/2012 7:27:44 PM runner, Why do you say that evolutionists "lie"? Why do you attribute the vice.....
» 10/03/2012 12:05:31 PM cohenite, You obviously have a problem with scientific consensus. I'm a little busy toda.....
» 10/03/2012 11:25:04 AM Arjay, That "one group" happens to consist of climate scientists. Would you con.....
» 10/03/2012 10:18:09 AM runner, "..they fail to be honest." ? You can't help yourself, can you. (shak.....
» 10/03/2012 10:10:40 AM Returning to the premise of this article, Petra states at one point: "In previous era.....
» 9/03/2012 9:47:19 PM Killarney, "I'll get out of your way and leave your pathetic closed minds to remain .....
» 9/03/2012 7:27:39 PM Jon.J, Tell us how all that "cash" is going to make them "enlightened".....
» 9/03/2012 7:20:26 PM runner, My "moral basis" lies in the question of whether you consider it ethica.....
» 9/03/2012 5:42:36 PM runner, "If you can't see that biology points to design you are either blind or dece.....
» 9/03/2012 11:00:20 AM Senior Victorian, What have "...the basics of teaching and classroom management".....
» 9/03/2012 9:57:59 AM Houellie, You're a good example of an above average intelligence. Your particular way of .....
» 9/03/2012 9:28:45 AM Senior Victorian, This sort of "holistic nonsense", as you call it, has been ar.....
» 9/03/2012 8:31:44 AM Paul 1405. Didn't they all star in that wonderful Broadway musical, "The Importance .....
» 8/03/2012 11:30:04 PM Killarney, I'm not sure what your point is - it seems a particular psychological perspect.....
» 8/03/2012 8:30:50 PM ah ha! Houellie and Robert, You two need to read the first chapter of Camille Paglia's &q.....
» 8/03/2012 6:38:08 PM Killarney, On the contrary, there is every physical and evolutionary reason reason to con.....
» 8/03/2012 5:11:38 PM Killarney, "...patriarchal programming." I note that that in order to come to .....
» 8/03/2012 7:34:27 AM Which of course should be "dander" (coz my gander won't get up for anything : ).....
» 8/03/2012 7:31:43 AM Yo, Belly.....my target is purely at Paul 1405's particularly sanctimonious attitude (as i.....
» 7/03/2012 9:35:49 PM Tony Lavis, You have to admit that men, the great architects and builders, the engineers .....
» 7/03/2012 4:07:59 PM Excellent point, briar rose. Homo sapiens is such a complicated species with our huge neo.....
» 7/03/2012 12:02:30 PM Killarney, "Patriarchal cultures condition both men and women to believe that men ar.....
» 7/03/2012 10:45:04 AM ybgirp, It's often the case that sci-fi foretells the future with uncanny accuracy. cste.....
» 7/03/2012 9:19:37 AM The good ol' World Bank regularly trumpeted its protege, Egypt, as one of its "top re.....
» 7/03/2012 7:53:16 AM Paul 1405, You're being far too soft on these societal menaces. Nope, I suggest you rally.....
» 6/03/2012 7:35:25 PM Suse, Is that an example of your understanding bedside manner? What is it with emancipat.....
» 6/03/2012 6:48:10 PM I started to sponsor a child through World Vision eight years ago, and since then I've als.....
» 6/03/2012 3:15:46 PM Aw...now I'm feeling a little left out. The only behaviour that affected me in my last pre.....
» 6/03/2012 1:29:47 PM Hasbeen, I think monogamy does suit women. In most non-consumer societies it is imperativ.....
» 6/03/2012 1:08:15 PM csteele, I'm not of the opinion that online communication is wholly negative. Like I said.....
» 6/03/2012 11:28:59 AM Well said, Squeers...I was just about to post this when I read yours, so I'll post it anyw.....
» 6/03/2012 10:47:36 AM Just wanted to add that I agree with ybgirp that this is the way civilisation is going - a.....
» 6/03/2012 10:37:25 AM csteele, I'm sure that Illich's concentric circles existed - and still exist in tradition.....
» 6/03/2012 8:54:53 AM Here's a nice story - leaving out the middle-man. http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-03-06/m.....
» 6/03/2012 8:30:56 AM Paul, Did you ever stop to think that these people resort to lighting up as a psychologic.....
» 5/03/2012 8:59:01 PM csteele, Very good point! Yes, I did seem dismissive, but you're right that Facebook pro.....
» 5/03/2012 6:00:34 PM Houellie, Correct. He was a good friend of mine : ).....
» 5/03/2012 1:30:24 PM ybgirp, I don't suggest that your position is illogical and untenable. If you're looking .....
» 5/03/2012 11:12:45 AM Geez, haygirl, don't you feel some sort of flattery that amongst all the poisons freely pr.....
» 5/03/2012 10:17:56 AM TBC, Good post...but there's no reason why a child who isn't "schooled" should .....
» 5/03/2012 9:47:56 AM Squeers, RObert and Houellie, - excellent responses. Petra, I am constantly amazed how t.....
» 4/03/2012 11:45:48 PM Arjay, This is what sustained growth of 9-12% looks like in a system like China's. http:.....
» 4/03/2012 10:03:29 PM csteele. I think the key element particular to industrial society is its insistence on is.....
» 4/03/2012 10:38:03 AM ybgirp, I don't find much to disagree with on your take of modern insulated society. And .....
» 4/03/2012 8:05:05 AM SPQR, Contrary to popular notions around here, I'm not against civilisation. Nor am I aga.....
» 3/03/2012 11:40:46 PM Good question, Ludwig. Stephen Smith seemed quite comfortable and adept in the role of Fo.....
» 3/03/2012 11:29:48 PM csteele and ybgirp, I think csteele makes a valid point, for mankind has always been trib.....
» 3/03/2012 10:42:35 PM Well yeah, Yabby, you can buy top quality and you can buy stuff online but, judging, from .....
» 3/03/2012 10:05:02 AM Hasbeen I have to say that I agree with you here. It beggars belief that Labor had such a.....
» 3/03/2012 9:49:03 AM Yabby, Americans have downsized somewhat from the glory days of the decades following the.....
» 3/03/2012 8:29:51 AM Thank you, Squeers, You put it so well, there's nothing I can add......
» 2/03/2012 7:46:57 PM Paul, While I do take your point, you happened to mention the bus-stop, the street crossi.....
» 2/03/2012 11:13:39 AM Paul, while you're standing at the bus-stop, walking across the street crossing or sitting.....
» 2/03/2012 11:07:22 AM Pelican, All governments are afraid of the polls. The ALP are just as ignorant of their p.....
» 2/03/2012 9:49:53 AM It's interesting that it was the UN through it's inspectors that acted as an impediment to.....
» 2/03/2012 9:21:22 AM Yes, Hasbeen, there are lots of self-satisfied "bright sparks" gracing the stage.....
» 1/03/2012 8:27:54 PM StG, Are you familiar with Houellebecq's style? I think you'll find he was being satirica.....
» 1/03/2012 6:48:33 PM Lexi, I do enjoy a well written and humourous autobiography. The Moon's A Balloon was incr.....
» 1/03/2012 5:15:49 PM Divergence, I've noted that people who direct blame away from high levels of development,.....
» 1/03/2012 10:43:30 AM csteele, That's a great article by Hitchens. Will have a more in-depth read of it later. .....
» 1/03/2012 8:33:51 AM csteele, According to Arthur Koestler, all humour is malicious : ) Houellie is an exotic.....
» 29/02/2012 11:13:49 PM Yes, well I suppose it's fitting that a thread so crudely titled "Smells" should.....
» 29/02/2012 11:03:01 PM Lexi, The problem with my theory on Turnbull's ascension is that right now Julia and her .....
» 29/02/2012 3:45:31 PM Why am I reminded of Prince George and Baldrick slapping each other on the back in honour .....
» 29/02/2012 3:33:56 PM Houellie, I would have been disappointed if you hadn't appeared in your usual regalia. On.....
» 29/02/2012 3:13:26 PM Goodness me, Joe. I was talking to a friend this morning about the Labor leadership debac.....
» 29/02/2012 2:51:46 PM Thank you Houellie and Yabby...for providing the half-time entertainment. (I'm visualising.....
» 29/02/2012 10:20:43 AM "...we are still 18 months out." I wonder when (not "if") Malcolm is .....
» 28/02/2012 8:15:05 PM Well that's a bit of a disappointment csteele...your take on the story helped me to dig a .....
» 28/02/2012 8:06:32 PM dane, Maybe you're the ones who should respond to the article in a more thoughtful manner.....
» 28/02/2012 6:49:46 PM Au contraire, dane.....RObert would be regarded as a "man" who realises that goo.....
» 28/02/2012 3:55:34 PM "true believers" being code for scientists. "...who don't have enough scie.....
» 28/02/2012 3:43:13 PM Lexi, Smell is important to taste. A few years ago I developed some sort of diabolical al.....
» 28/02/2012 3:11:47 PM bonmot, Pepe le Pew is a favourite of mine. (btw, in light of your first sentence http:/.....
» 28/02/2012 2:21:29 PM Lexi, Our sense of smell is a major subliminal factor in our every day existence. I think.....
» 28/02/2012 1:55:47 PM Apologies, rational-debate, I'm usually rattled when a teaching professional pushes the l.....
» 28/02/2012 9:18:05 AM csteele, Yes I did glean the Christ motif - more so since reading your posts. When Greno.....
» 28/02/2012 8:37:58 AM rational-debate, While I think most teachers are dedicated to their calling, I'm in favou.....
» 28/02/2012 8:20:32 AM Wow boys! I had no idea you were such an impressive lot. Fancy achieving all that with no .....
» 28/02/2012 1:46:21 AM csteele, Well, yes! I came upon this book last week on a "swap stand" at the lo.....
» 27/02/2012 3:31:33 PM Lexi, Yes, Suskind's character, Grenouille, was disturbing. However, the whole backdrop.....
» 26/02/2012 7:54:08 PM individual, There was a big fat conservative/neoliberal government in power in the U.S. i.....
» 26/02/2012 2:07:32 PM Yabby, Obviously by the eve of the 2007 election it was way too late to change leaders. H.....
» 26/02/2012 12:22:15 PM Yabby, I agree that Costello decided he had other options...eventually. My take on it is.....
» 26/02/2012 10:34:36 AM yabby, I agree that Costello was incensed that his party didn't elbow Howard out of the t.....
» 26/02/2012 10:12:23 AM You know, cohenite...I'm staring to think you might be on to something. Anyone who uses th.....
» 26/02/2012 9:51:57 AM Yabby, It was Keating that put in place the reforms that Costello in turn managed. Was Co.....
» 25/02/2012 1:06:57 PM Speaking of political cartoons - we in the west have Dean Alston whose cartoons are highly.....
» 25/02/2012 10:32:16 AM No,it's not another thread devoted to political dysfunction : ) I'm presently reading a n.....
» 25/02/2012 9:38:48 AM On 24th February, 2012 at 2:13.18 pm, the resident population of Australia was projected a.....
» 24/02/2012 10:10:48 AM Saltpetre, You say these things are "surely a family and societal problem". I .....
» 24/02/2012 8:56:11 AM Pericles, This one's especially for you. Alain de Botton's "insatiable but ever fra.....
» 23/02/2012 9:37:58 PM It could indeed, TBC.....
» 23/02/2012 8:32:52 PM TBC, Yep, I think a pretty accurate gauge of Abbott's leadership qualities is the fact ev.....
» 23/02/2012 7:20:28 PM Wobbles, Yes, initially I think his decision to return was spurred by Rudd's decision in .....
» 23/02/2012 6:58:11 PM Hasbeen, Turnbull lost by one vote as I recall - not exactly a resounding rejection by t.....
» 23/02/2012 6:07:09 PM Squeers, Well, yes indeedy...does anybody think Turnbull reversed his decision to leave p.....
» 23/02/2012 5:56:21 PM Rhian, It's not different at all in principle. The things you mentioned are just further .....
» 23/02/2012 3:05:54 PM Saltpetre, I'm "not" blaming our youth. The inverse of Gatto's "lessons&q.....
» 23/02/2012 11:47:07 AM Yabby, I agree with you. Bur it's the powers that be - the reigning system that encourag.....
» 23/02/2012 11:13:13 AM individual, Did you read Gatto's points above? The object of the system is to create aut.....
» 23/02/2012 9:30:22 AM "...because you parents have brought up a heap of brats..." It's interesting th.....
» 22/02/2012 11:37:44 AM Mishka Gora, If it's your expectation that everyone should agree with you, it would proba.....
» 21/02/2012 9:34:23 PM Mishka Gora, Perhaps instead of a gnashing of teeth and a wringing of hands, Catholics in.....
» 21/02/2012 2:46:38 PM sophiathinktank, de Botton is asking us in the secular word to analyse the "high poi.....
» 21/02/2012 9:53:52 AM Anthony, "Exactly what has Labor wrecked, (excluding itself)?" That's funny : .....
» 21/02/2012 9:07:42 AM Never mind, Pelican, I instinctively started a frivolous line because I know that both gen.....
» 21/02/2012 8:55:59 AM Pericles, While I take your point that de Botton is a "popular philosopher" - a.....
» 21/02/2012 7:42:53 AM An explanation from de Botton : http://richardwiseman.wordpress.com/2012/01/31/blog-speci.....
» 20/02/2012 8:49:08 PM So that's where you were this afternoon, Belly - and chatting up matronly ladies to boot! .....
» 20/02/2012 7:43:07 PM hadassah89, runner, This is even more nicely put: http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thre.....
» 20/02/2012 4:35:51 PM OZSHRINK, Don't forget about Georgie Bush and Donald Rumsfeld. Oh look, here's a photo o.....
» 20/02/2012 4:09:45 PM Thanks for that, Mishka. I don't really know that my point was much more than an observat.....
» 20/02/2012 9:58:09 AM Mishka Gora, Two of my very good friends are church attending Catholics - an older couple.....
» 20/02/2012 9:32:20 AM Strangely enough, this "political junkie" developed an aversion to Australian po.....
» 20/02/2012 9:11:19 AM Forrest Gumpp, Here's a biographical article on Women's Forum Australia. Melinda Tankard .....
» 19/02/2012 2:53:51 PM But SM, Apparently her particular "brand" of Christianity IS the issue as far a.....
» 18/02/2012 5:10:04 PM Squeers, You got that comment in the right (the other) thread I see. (It's a bit confusi.....
» 18/02/2012 5:02:28 PM Belly, I disagree. Australia is a social democracy. Sometimes to a more and sometimes to .....
» 18/02/2012 4:57:07 PM Squeers, To digress a little further upon your digression. According to Desmond Morris, h.....
» 18/02/2012 4:29:10 PM Here you go Squeers. It's interesting that you should raise the issue of Human Rights. It.....
» 18/02/2012 2:52:37 PM Saltpetre, On the subject of "where does mankind go from here?". The planet ear.....
» 18/02/2012 1:57:57 PM runner, ha! - that's the pot calling the kettle predictable......
» 18/02/2012 1:53:42 PM Mishka Gora, I'm a little confused. You say above that "...The validity of an argume.....
» 18/02/2012 12:09:22 PM Thank you Joe. I vote that we continue this thread indefinitely...it's rather good for my.....
» 18/02/2012 12:00:22 PM Belly, "We are not socialists." But we do inhabit a social democracy - one whe.....
» 18/02/2012 11:40:53 AM Sorry, Hasbeen, can't help but be amused at the thought of you turning up to the annual 20.....
» 18/02/2012 11:34:16 AM runner, You never fail to entertain me : ) How very (un)Christian of you to put the boot.....
» 18/02/2012 10:33:06 AM vanna, "It is an interesting cat fight now between feminists." Which tells us .....
» 18/02/2012 10:09:13 AM Talking of America's dysfunctional health care system: http://www.businessweek.com/bwdail.....
» 18/02/2012 9:22:22 AM Mishka Gora, What's this?...."...a compromise that will allow religious organisation.....
» 18/02/2012 7:58:07 AM Why thank you, Yabby - that will go into my top five for "Best Compliments I Have Rec.....
» 17/02/2012 7:04:21 PM OUG, I did call my spade "a spade"...although I neglected to mention that the r.....
» 17/02/2012 1:57:03 PM Dan, Actually in MTR's case it's morphed into the Streisand effect. http://en.wikipedia......
» 17/02/2012 1:39:18 PM Did anybody here happen to catch the BBC series "Outnumbered" on the ABC. It was.....
» 17/02/2012 1:26:00 PM Minimus, MTR's legal representatives sent letters threatening defamation action. "......
» 17/02/2012 10:27:48 AM For my mind, there is a critical intersection that is reached once a private individual se.....
» 17/02/2012 9:14:45 AM Belly (my sweet)...I suspect there may be a dead mouse in the back of the washing machine......
» 17/02/2012 8:58:40 AM Yabby, I expect you'll make note of the fact I gave a description of the decor of my spa.....
» 17/02/2012 8:53:05 AM rehctub, Can you define "...a society where men are men..." I don't necessari.....
» 16/02/2012 5:06:12 PM Chris, "Popular" is what Obama represented before he was elected - read "i.....
» 16/02/2012 4:12:01 PM Aw shucks, Yabs - now you think I'm a controlling woman.... (those gutters and downpipes .....
» 16/02/2012 12:18:44 PM Belly, It's come to my attention that you appear to be wasting time posting on OLO. Have.....
» 16/02/2012 12:08:15 PM Hasbeen, "....picturesque belongs in pictures on the top of biscuit tins..." S.....
» 16/02/2012 8:44:19 AM Petra, "...there is often an uncritical assumption that all conservatism, and all re.....
» 15/02/2012 2:07:14 PM You know it just occurred to me how much I like this forum. I asked recently where are all.....
» 15/02/2012 1:49:57 PM Pericles, (smile).....
» 15/02/2012 1:06:49 PM Hi again Belly, In all seriousness I have to say that it does seem from my experience tha.....
» 15/02/2012 11:57:11 AM Whadaya mean, controlling women? Go straight to your room, Belly...and when you come out .....
» 15/02/2012 8:42:19 AM Here's a lengthy article by Jennifer on this issue. http://www.abc.net.au/religion/articl.....
» 14/02/2012 11:11:38 PM Excellent post, Pericles. The disheartening thing is that those eastern states clubs have.....
» 14/02/2012 4:10:49 PM Thanks for the links, Mollydukes. I've briefly perused the first and will give them both a.....
» 14/02/2012 3:51:31 PM Commonly known as "runnerism", a particularly dour branch of Christianity. Wher.....
» 14/02/2012 11:44:03 AM Thank you, Forrest, for the detailed account of all this. As you know, I followed this co.....
» 14/02/2012 10:51:44 AM Mollydukes, I do enjoy your insights...however, I think you underestimate Houellebecq's i.....
» 14/02/2012 9:35:54 AM Just a little more on the subject of the sophistication of all linguistic form. Here's ano.....
» 13/02/2012 11:56:29 PM veritas, "the comments to date" are a recognition of the consummate arrogance c.....
» 13/02/2012 9:51:29 PM Babette, It seems that you see little value emanating from indigenous culture when it com.....
» 13/02/2012 1:21:21 PM Houellie, You know I've always enjoyed your "mocktualisation"...still waiting f.....
» 13/02/2012 10:50:02 AM Curmudgeon, Here's a vast reserve of unconventional oil. http://ngm.nationalgeographic.c.....
» 13/02/2012 10:18:18 AM Houellie, My point was in reference to that particular section of the U.S. populace known.....
» 13/02/2012 9:38:10 AM Arjay, I do recall one memorable segment that I happened to catch - before Fox News jetti.....
» 13/02/2012 9:16:47 AM On the subject of "bogan mentality" - what ever exactly that is, here's an artic.....
» 13/02/2012 8:07:07 AM That should obviously be "keep up". (Gawd! - some typos are more ridiculous tha.....
» 13/02/2012 8:05:18 AM Arjay, Sometimes it's difficult to jeep up with you. About these people that would like .....
» 12/02/2012 9:45:53 PM Oh the humanity, individual... "You're making a public accusation of me being a bigo.....
» 11/02/2012 9:27:01 PM SPQR, Well, you may be right - there's so few posters around here with whom I find agreem.....
» 11/02/2012 7:48:21 PM SPQR, (Who the hell is Abigail Williams?...she says to herself) ...Oh! that Abigail Will.....
» 11/02/2012 7:32:51 PM bonmot, Agree! I said this before on another thread, but I'll say it again....Fox News i.....
» 11/02/2012 10:53:36 AM 579, "Iran does need regime change. To be ruled by someone that takes their instruct.....
» 11/02/2012 10:26:30 AM Here you go, SPQR. Mollydukes is on the ball : ) http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/threa.....
» 10/02/2012 10:42:20 PM I take your point, Joe....but let me make one point. You usually try and offer solutions,.....
» 10/02/2012 8:37:30 PM runner, It was your pronouncement that the Muslim Brotherhood will be running the show - .....
» 10/02/2012 7:29:48 PM runner, "Almost always that person gives up on the idea of doing things the white (o.....
» 10/02/2012 3:14:52 PM Houellie, I think it stems from the formative years. We're encouraged to operate within s.....
» 10/02/2012 12:07:23 PM It's interesting that NAPLAN is based on the American model of standardised tesing. The No.....
» 10/02/2012 10:40:50 AM Squeers, "Learning should be supported and not unduly directed." That's an int.....
» 10/02/2012 9:53:12 AM The world in which Dickens inhabited did present him with an abundance of material. It's .....
» 9/02/2012 2:13:25 PM Hasbeen, My brother was also in school cadets. When he was eighteen he told me he wanted.....
» 9/02/2012 11:52:51 AM Sorry, Arjay. ....but I seem to be having a morning like this: http://thedoghousediaries.....
» 8/02/2012 11:09:51 AM prialprang, It would seem that you have faith that humans - (Australian or otherwise) - c.....
» 8/02/2012 9:24:17 AM Yes, Squeers...caricature. You're most certainly correct - the equivalent effect as we ex.....
» 8/02/2012 7:49:52 AM I agree with Squeers and Pericles that Dicken's mastery was in his use of language and his.....
» 7/02/2012 10:51:51 AM Great thread, Graham....(I'm sure Squeers will be along any moment :) I'll have a ponder .....
» 7/02/2012 10:38:35 AM Hasbeen, It much less expensive and more insightful to glean an "ideological educati.....
» 7/02/2012 7:55:15 AM SPQR, ".....and in space you cannot hear Poirot whine!" Don't be too sure of t.....
» 7/02/2012 12:53:35 AM runner, There are also plenty of young and not so young "white" people who act .....
» 6/02/2012 10:44:18 PM Banjo, "The population was joyous."...."but the idiots, the Sunnis and the.....
» 6/02/2012 10:15:59 PM runner, So the "white" response to unrest and animosity is "unfortunate&qu.....
» 6/02/2012 8:49:29 PM Arjay, Talking to yourself is the first sign of..... (Sorry, mate, couldn't resist. It i.....
» 6/02/2012 8:12:51 PM Banjo, So you recall the war in Iraq being over in a short time... I presume the "w.....
» 6/02/2012 11:11:49 AM RObert, Topic - smopic...I like it when we go meandering....after all, everything is conn.....
» 6/02/2012 11:00:17 AM "Fox News Makes You Stupid" Now that does have a certain ring to it : ) I don'.....
» 6/02/2012 10:41:51 AM RObert, That Taoist doctrine suggests that it is not "withdrawal" from progress.....
» 6/02/2012 10:09:55 AM RObert, Here's an excerpt from the "Abundance" book you mentioned: http://www.f.....
» 6/02/2012 8:49:43 AM imajulianutter, "The Murdoch Press in Australia is pretty well balanced. Like Fox........
» 5/02/2012 8:09:48 PM Yabby, Actually your post raising the issue of third world contraception and family plann.....
» 5/02/2012 7:19:55 PM Otokonoko, You are far from shallow, my friend. Human behaviour is so contrary that it's.....
» 5/02/2012 4:14:24 PM Otokonoko, Sadly, instability does follow popular uprising. Mostly people behave like s.....
» 5/02/2012 12:30:53 PM Lexi, csteele is probably offering advice closer to your problem...nevertheless if you ha.....
» 5/02/2012 12:25:10 PM So (as this thread appears to be winding down) it seems that most of the women who contrib.....
» 5/02/2012 12:07:07 PM individual, It seems I was a little hard on the last of your posts to which i replied.........
» 5/02/2012 11:25:56 AM individual, Love your mindset....regarding the building industry crying out for work...ma.....
» 5/02/2012 11:05:28 AM SPQR, "endemic corruption..and privatisation....marginalising enormous segments of t.....
» 5/02/2012 10:46:19 AM Doctors, like everyone else, come in all shapes and degrees of competence. My daughter, (.....
» 5/02/2012 10:23:47 AM runner, The delivery of "democracy" to Iraq by the U.S. and its merry band of a.....
» 5/02/2012 9:24:41 AM individual, Humans are humans are humans. Yes, I realise that we cossetted flowers in the.....
» 5/02/2012 1:05:22 AM Otokonoko, "Sometimes, runner, your posts take my breath away." Yup...it's ext.....
» 4/02/2012 7:45:42 PM Squeers, I think what Yabby really means is that we're free to be seduced by marketing an.....
» 4/02/2012 6:40:58 PM RObert, There's no doubt that our lives have become more convenient and comfortable in a .....
» 4/02/2012 3:18:35 PM Yabby, You're the one who on this occasion is calling capitalism "evil". I me.....
» 4/02/2012 12:19:41 PM Lexi, Never mind about drifting off course. All subjects connect to other aspects and I t.....
» 4/02/2012 11:15:41 AM bonmot, As I mentioned, the "working poor" have long been a feature of American.....
» 4/02/2012 10:44:07 AM Lexi, Anti (and Squeers) makes a pertinent point. The core investment for most men in the.....
» 3/02/2012 4:31:07 PM Thanks for that, Yabby I don't think I represent the typical Ms Aussie either. I'm actual.....
» 3/02/2012 12:44:48 PM "...teaching a select groups of kids." My brother, a science teacher, was under.....
» 3/02/2012 9:32:19 AM Squeers, Yes, I took Wilson's side in he debate also. And while I agree with you as to MT.....
» 3/02/2012 1:55:24 AM Squeers, Your earlier comment on OLO being "too dry" for the ladies got me thin.....
» 2/02/2012 2:35:15 PM rehctub, Perhaps you should look to the American system for a guide. The U.S. has almost .....
» 2/02/2012 1:59:27 PM "Leisure" as we think of it these days, is more like an invented state that we a.....
» 2/02/2012 1:42:58 PM imajulianutter, Choosing between the two major political parties in Australia at present .....
» 2/02/2012 1:22:49 PM Houellie and Grim, You won't find any argument from me on the fact that aspiration is cat.....
» 2/02/2012 9:27:14 AM Squeers and Cossomby, Firstly, let me say that it's nice to see a discussion concerning f.....
» 1/02/2012 9:42:47 PM Cherful, Well I don't mind standing beside Anti and RObert and congratulating you on your.....
» 1/02/2012 2:22:16 PM Thank you, Anti. I don't suppose you could tell me where or post a link, could you...and .....
» 1/02/2012 1:59:56 PM bonmot, Thanks for that : ) I managed to work out most of it, but your translation makes.....
» 1/02/2012 1:06:18 PM Cossomby, I hear you - and I agree that often threads are boring, predictable and repetit.....
» 1/02/2012 9:50:00 AM Squeers, Yes I like Paglia too but, as you say, she is verbose. Okay....articulate women.....
» 31/01/2012 11:03:17 PM Yabby suggested that many females are happily engaged on facebook. I think he's right. But.....
» 31/01/2012 7:06:32 PM RObert, You are right. As I mentioned in OUG's thread, I'd been following a stoush about .....
» 31/01/2012 1:57:58 PM Thank you, Hasbeen. You are such a charmer. Now why would women avoid OLO when there are.....
» 31/01/2012 1:28:46 PM Joe, "..our task is to interpret the world, not to change it..." You can't hel.....
» 31/01/2012 1:23:05 PM Hiya Houellie, Yep, I noticed that you've not been posting as much recently. So now I'm .....
» 31/01/2012 12:46:20 PM Joe, As endearing as your sarcastic rejoinders often are, I'm not requesting that we &quo.....
» 31/01/2012 11:29:16 AM Antiseptic, My point was about the dearth of women posting consistently and regularly in .....
» 31/01/2012 10:24:16 AM Thank you, Lexi. Happy New Year to you too : ) runner, The PM's not on OLO....but I not.....
» 31/01/2012 9:38:19 AM Saltpetre, Wow - I hadn't realised it was all so simple...I mean from an anthropological.....
» 31/01/2012 8:49:36 AM During my little holiday from OLO, I availed myself of the opportunity to peruse other Aus.....
» 30/01/2012 11:33:32 PM OUG, Well I am usually here...except lately, as I've been on an extended hiatus of sorts......
» 30/01/2012 3:50:38 PM Merci beaucoup, mon ami, Ah yes, the media..... As the intrepid pack of pollies and mind.....
» 30/01/2012 3:39:27 PM Saltpetre, Diane Ravitch was the U.S. Assistant Secretary of Education during the Bush ye.....
» 30/01/2012 2:49:57 PM "Major stuff-ups all round." You're so right, bonmot.....the whole unfolding sc.....
» 30/12/2011 10:29:33 AM Where is Belly?.....
» 30/12/2011 10:17:11 AM spindoc, More to the point, it's the "politicisation" of science that has spawn.....
» 30/12/2011 9:55:30 AM "OUG Why not try "Bust" magazine." vanna, Why not try Dickens or Hug.....
» 30/12/2011 9:17:06 AM Peter Hume, Nice to note that you're adhering to your usual line that anyone you engage i.....
» 30/12/2011 1:21:58 AM [Deleted for arguing about moderation decisions.].....
» 29/12/2011 8:51:02 PM slippery slope, vanna...slippery slope. (give 'em up now, mate, while you still have the .....
» 29/12/2011 6:48:16 PM stevenlmeyer, ".....Canada's Athabasca Oil Sands is economically viable"...but .....
» 29/12/2011 6:21:16 PM runner, Spoken like a person who hasn't seen, experienced or bothered to learn about the.....
» 29/12/2011 2:25:45 PM I'd have to agree, Lexi. vanna's attitude to women's magazines is reminiscent of the prie.....
» 29/12/2011 12:13:34 PM Peter Hume, You're being a tad hypocritical... almost everything you stated in your last .....
» 29/12/2011 9:35:33 AM Peter Hume, The science apparently is never settled, although an overwhelming majority of.....
» 28/12/2011 8:52:02 PM Here's a lengthy paper by Clive Hamilton delivered to a conference in Brussels in 2010, ti.....
» 28/12/2011 6:07:16 PM Hiya bonmot, Great clip. eyejaw, I myself don't tune to radio Pyongyang, but I'll take .....
» 28/12/2011 12:32:53 PM Danielle, "Christianity" is wielded by many to serve whatever purpose. There ar.....
» 28/12/2011 10:59:26 AM vanna, Since when does modern life encourage critical thought? The whole system is set u.....
» 28/12/2011 10:34:07 AM Atman, You will find that the "dictators" are usually operating in partnership .....
» 28/12/2011 10:05:22 AM vanna, When the situation is analysed" it's apparent that the human penchant for gos.....
» 28/12/2011 9:06:07 AM OUG, "im fine with the mess-age vanna but we should put them words all over the medi.....
» 27/12/2011 10:41:54 AM individual, Tell us more?....who's "deliberately producing" the refugees? Why,.....
» 27/12/2011 10:30:34 AM LEGO, "...and survives entirely upon the industry of their own intelligent and hardw.....
» 27/12/2011 9:32:03 AM John Passant linked to David Pope's cartoon on his blog. http://www.canberratimes.com.au/.....
» 27/12/2011 9:06:35 AM Hark, Squeers - a lone voice in the OLO wilderness : ) On the subject of freedom in the m.....
» 22/12/2011 8:01:32 PM cohenite, Generally on this forum it is frowned upon to refer to fellow contributors as i.....
» 22/12/2011 6:07:18 PM runner, "The evolution religion uses the same reasoning and tactics as the warmist.&.....
» 22/12/2011 2:19:01 PM Looking at this from an historical angle - a view from above - it seems the West is lookin.....
» 22/12/2011 1:38:47 PM veritas, "The greatest enthusiasm is Australian culture is reserved for football an .....
» 22/12/2011 10:38:46 AM veritas, NAPLAN SCHMAPLAN....this American-inspired style of testing is a blight on ".....
» 22/12/2011 5:48:42 AM You're not the dude who wrote the script to Batman, are you Arjay? (BANG!) (CRASH!) (KAPO.....
» 21/12/2011 6:53:26 PM cohenite, It's interesting that you label people who reference NASA sites as "idiots.....
» 21/12/2011 5:26:06 PM cohenite, Your links seem to lead back to the Heartland Institute...ho hum... http://hea.....
» 21/12/2011 11:27:01 AM cohenite, "Sea levels are actually falling...." Is that so? Perhaps you might.....
» 21/12/2011 10:40:18 AM spindoc, "...you do seem to be well out of your depth on this forum..." What d.....
» 20/12/2011 4:33:42 PM bonmot, Have to agree with you there : ).....
» 20/12/2011 4:27:09 PM Hasbeen The thing that intrigues me is your idea that "all those scientists" ar.....
» 20/12/2011 11:17:48 AM Leo lane, "The Arctic ice goes away every summer.....and comes back every winter.&qu.....
» 20/12/2011 10:06:33 AM OUG, Ya know I love ya too : ) Hope your Christmas is bright......
» 20/12/2011 9:38:53 AM Hasbeen ...or perhaps your entrenched and often-voiced attitude proves the article's poin.....
» 20/12/2011 9:31:52 AM Lexi, "Change is thy other name".... We have a beautiful tree at the rear of o.....
» 20/12/2011 8:56:26 AM cohenite, My science qualifications are inadequate - although the same can't be said for .....
» 19/12/2011 11:45:48 PM cohenite, "I've been verballed; everytime I call somebody and idiot I give salient, .....
» 18/12/2011 11:45:42 PM Hi Graham, Yep...been trying to discuss the issues. cohenite seems to regard every link I.....
» 18/12/2011 8:36:33 PM cohenite, I give up - I'm no match for your dastardly and incisive wit...too profound for.....
» 18/12/2011 7:01:32 PM cohenite, I note you have rather a limited repertoire...to be expected perhaps......
» 18/12/2011 8:56:38 AM Let's welcome warming?....arctic sea ice declines to second lowest level. http://www.clim.....
» 17/12/2011 7:22:08 AM SPQR, On the contrary, I read RObert's contribution with interest. One couldn't help but .....
» 16/12/2011 9:08:09 PM "....we the capitalist liberal democrats know we get to chose our own destinies and t.....
» 16/12/2011 12:05:52 PM http://climate.nasa.gov/keyIndicators/ Interesting to see that carbon dioxide concentrati.....
» 15/12/2011 9:58:08 PM A commentary on the rise of special interests funded "think tanks" by Clive Hami.....
» 15/12/2011 8:46:31 PM Pericles2, You mean this Garth Paltridge? http://skepticalscience.com/peerreviewedskepti.....
» 15/12/2011 8:22:33 PM Squeers, I agree that it's unlikely that mankind will heed the warnings. It's ironic tha.....
» 15/12/2011 7:43:03 PM Yabby, Talking if excommunication... This papal bull was issued by Pope Innocent VIII in.....
» 15/12/2011 6:34:08 PM imajulianutter (Esq), I don't resile from my conclusion that if you choose a ridiculous u.....
» 15/12/2011 1:10:33 PM imajulianutter, "...big fake froggy denier." Here's a link especially for you......
» 15/12/2011 12:10:27 PM I'm not sure, bonmot...it's got lots of big words in it : ) But why don't we give it a tr.....
» 15/12/2011 10:36:18 AM A little more on Matt Ridley's science. http://skepticalscience.com/Ridleyriddle2.html A.....
» 15/12/2011 8:47:07 AM bonmot, Taking up the thread as to why there's been a shift in the public's view of clima.....
» 15/12/2011 6:57:45 AM It seems to me that humans subliminally understand the "mathematical" patterning.....
» 14/12/2011 2:39:28 PM Why thank you for the compliment (I think?), Graham....but I always figured you were much .....
» 14/12/2011 1:17:27 PM Jon J, http://www.skepticalscience.com/arctic-antarctic-sea-ice.htm "Arctic sea ice.....
» 14/12/2011 10:55:27 AM imajulianutter, I'm sure you're charming when you're not spitting venom or adopting a pos.....
» 14/12/2011 9:05:07 AM Islam incorporates "sacred geometry" into its concepts and art forms as a repres.....
» 13/12/2011 11:35:38 PM imajulianutter, Go take a bex - you're always swooning about and feigning outrage over so.....
» 13/12/2011 3:23:48 PM Don't be too optimistic, Lexi. Canada has just announced it's pulling out of the Kyoto Pr.....
» 13/12/2011 9:58:15 AM imajulianutter, When all is said and done, we all choose our pseudonyms - and you appear .....
» 13/12/2011 8:01:41 AM imajuliannutter, That was in response to you informing article author, Jayden Holmes to &.....
» 13/12/2011 1:05:12 AM runner, Wrap your grey matter around this. http://www.aip.org/history/climate/cycles.htm.....
» 12/12/2011 11:04:21 PM Graham, We're all attracted to blogs that confirm our prejudice....and that includes skep.....
» 11/12/2011 2:56:44 PM Excellent, Pericles.....I like a man with a healthy sense of his own self-righteousness. .....
» 11/12/2011 10:57:41 AM Graham, Just a few points. I concede that Christopher Monckton, as a viscount, is entitl.....
» 10/12/2011 11:12:53 AM I'm suitably chastised, Graham. However, I also believe that an author's reputation and .....
» 10/12/2011 9:41:51 AM Hope you'll excuse me for "playing the man" in this instance, but I was curious .....
» 9/12/2011 8:03:41 PM Jayden, You can tell who are the grown-ups on this forum by the pseudonyms they use.........
» 9/12/2011 3:30:03 PM (Apologies in advance for the verse - letters from Santa have that effect on me) "Tw.....
» 9/12/2011 9:46:16 AM diver dan, What an extraordinary statement...that this child has apparently "...come.....
» 9/12/2011 9:06:21 AM Yeah, David...strange about that.... Onya, Santa, Nice to see your keeping up the argume.....
» 9/12/2011 7:21:24 AM Oh yeah, 579, I have it on good authority that it's really six sling-shots and a rolling p.....
» 8/12/2011 5:44:12 PM We've been here before, Yuyutsu. "My brain does not conceive anything..." Your.....
» 8/12/2011 5:28:06 PM skeptic - there's a certain profundity in your rhetoric. Nice to read. I read Deschooling.....
» 8/12/2011 11:27:37 AM Yabby, Who's plundering the oceans? It wouldn't be highly industrialised countries would .....
» 8/12/2011 10:10:27 AM One wonders how it is that such a piddling surplus means anything at all, except perhaps a.....
» 8/12/2011 9:12:14 AM RE - Marrying porcupines...don't knock it till you've tried it : ) (Although I've heard t.....
» 8/12/2011 7:18:49 AM According to Arthur Keostler in "The Act of Creation" all humour is malicious - .....
» 7/12/2011 8:11:01 PM Curmudgeon, Fair enough...I thought you were making light of the scenario, but apparently.....
» 7/12/2011 7:05:19 PM Well said, Squeers. individual, National Service - what? The nature of modern society is.....
» 7/12/2011 11:17:56 AM Curmudgeon, The governor of the Bank of England appears to hold a different view. He desc.....
» 7/12/2011 9:37:26 AM Atman, "....the US Govt tried to make homes more affordable for the poor..." I.....
» 7/12/2011 8:48:52 AM "Through the seemingly innocuous process of loaning money into existence, we have cre.....
» 6/12/2011 11:30:41 AM Thanks Joe. I've since discovered that apparently my biological heritage is mainly a mixt.....
» 6/12/2011 10:43:54 AM Cactus, Congrats on the attitude. On the contrary, it's the advancement of human technol.....
» 6/12/2011 8:26:33 AM Yes, the invasion of Iraq was notable for the profits being made in each stage of its exec.....
» 6/12/2011 12:54:21 AM Interestingly, Joe, it seems that your parting sentence has left me feeling a tad irked. .....
» 5/12/2011 11:04:53 PM Dear Joe, You presume to know me because of the way I present while posting. You presume .....
» 5/12/2011 10:17:22 PM Saltpetre, Well said! The tar sands abomination in Alberta accurately sums up just how d.....
» 5/12/2011 3:33:15 PM Loudmouth, I wasn't necessarily referring to "unskilled" work. I was making the.....
» 5/12/2011 2:48:44 PM http://www.usdebtclock.org/world-debt-clock.html Note; Australia's "public" deb.....
» 5/12/2011 1:21:11 PM Loudmouth, It seems that you are deliberately misconstruing pelly's last point - one o.....
» 5/12/2011 1:07:53 PM 579, Which "in-built economy" is that? The one with the denuded manufacturing b.....
» 5/12/2011 9:57:44 AM Arjay, Frankly, this stuff has been going on for a while. Preemptive - preventative, you .....
» 5/12/2011 9:36:45 AM Belly, I think you realise I was a making a point to 579 regarding his concerns about wha.....
» 5/12/2011 8:51:24 AM "....except perhaps greenhouse gases. But they are most assuredly not pollutants and .....
» 5/12/2011 4:32:50 AM SPQR, Debunked, eh..... 579, Just to reassure you regarding "...what they are doin.....
» 4/12/2011 3:41:08 PM "...These boaters should be exterminated for what they are doing to this country.&quo.....
» 4/12/2011 3:33:18 PM Hi guys...found this doc on the subject. http://www.aph.gov.au/library/pubs/bn/sp/AsylumF.....
» 2/12/2011 11:42:24 AM Yabby, It's not only about size, it's also about brain development. Neoteny - the retain.....
» 2/12/2011 10:34:22 AM Yabby, According to Desmond, Morris, at birth the human brain is only 23 percent of its f.....
» 2/12/2011 10:01:49 AM Mishka Gora, Since we're talking ethics.... Our "charity base" really serves a.....
» 1/12/2011 9:55:40 PM pepper, U.S. public debt is over 15 trillion which is 100 percent of annual GDP. U.S. pub.....
» 1/12/2011 12:59:30 PM Well, yes, lexi...but do you suppose the Australian economy can remain immune to the fallo.....
» 1/12/2011 8:54:30 AM michael_in_adelaide, The second round of the GFC is right on cue....exactly the same scen.....
» 30/11/2011 12:40:33 PM Bazz, "Why can't they fix their own problems?"....very funny of course if you'r.....
» 30/11/2011 12:07:23 PM csteele. You make a good point that article authors are identifiable - and often those of.....
» 30/11/2011 11:32:28 AM Note: U.S. debt to GDP ration has again attained over 100 percent - at over 15 trillion. C.....
» 30/11/2011 10:18:14 AM Tom Hodgkinson had a jolly good rant about facebook in 2008....food for thought. http://w.....
» 30/11/2011 8:17:18 AM Forrest Gumpp, "To deny availability of pseudonymity to posters would be, in my opin.....
» 27/11/2011 9:21:29 AM I'm inclined to agree with Anti and RObert. It's plain to see that most people contributin.....
» 26/11/2011 9:52:16 PM Dipping into an article thread, I happened to note that the subject of anonymity had arise.....
» 26/11/2011 8:17:21 AM I've never listened to this guy or his ilk, and it seems that a whole raft of companies ha.....
» 26/11/2011 8:04:48 AM One of the best quotes I've read recently was in an article on OLO where the author surmis.....
» 25/11/2011 7:59:00 PM Which case is that, runner? The one that urges you to regularly and freely spit venom at .....
» 25/11/2011 6:23:20 PM runner, Don't run your "hatred" line on me. What a load of bilge you often prea.....
» 25/11/2011 5:11:51 PM runner, "You just like seeing how low someone will go to cling to power." No .....
» 25/11/2011 4:58:56 PM individual, I think you realise that I was critiquing your description of our current eco.....
» 25/11/2011 10:30:20 AM TBC, Did you mention the word "scruples" in connection with politicians? I wou.....
» 25/11/2011 8:25:14 AM individual, Perhaps it's a case of your descriptive powers being a little over the top. .....
» 24/11/2011 8:59:23 PM Yuyutsu, "...but their leaders don't care because they believe their Mahadi will com.....
» 24/11/2011 5:26:00 PM individual, What incomprehensible misery?.....where is the incomprehensible misery.....? .....
» 24/11/2011 9:52:00 AM Yuyutsu, Here's a recent example of how "America does not care about Israel." .....
» 24/11/2011 9:35:09 AM Yuyutsu, "America does not care about Israel..." Pull the other one, it's got .....
» 24/11/2011 8:02:50 AM Jon. J, "....dangers of environmental scams - like the ones that have helped bring E.....
» 24/11/2011 7:05:28 AM Nice sentiments Lexi and Belly. Pelican, Houellie will "right browned off" to k.....
» 23/11/2011 8:09:42 PM Thanks for your posts, Grim - a breath of fresh air.........
» 23/11/2011 7:21:46 PM Yuyutsu, "I don't know or care about the Americans...." "Israel is the la.....
» 23/11/2011 6:44:29 PM Yuyutsu, The Shah was installed by the U.S. after the CIA colluded to overthrow the democ.....
» 22/11/2011 3:55:29 PM Houellie, You know something?...I get tired of me banging on about institutions too (even.....
» 22/11/2011 12:53:23 PM Problems in developing countries regarding overpopulation and food scarcity are often exac.....
» 22/11/2011 11:58:22 AM Forrest Gumpp, I believe skeptic may have been referring to this: http://forum.onlineopi.....
» 22/11/2011 10:08:59 AM It's fascinating how Western culture seems to devalue older members of the community. Like.....
» 22/11/2011 9:10:03 AM Yep!.....
» 22/11/2011 9:05:50 AM michael_in_adelaide, No doubt, population has an effect in countries such as Egypt. Howev.....
» 22/11/2011 8:05:31 AM Cheryl, Strangely enough, "bombing them back into the stone age" was the Bush a.....
» 21/11/2011 8:23:40 PM Yabby, You're right, of course, that if you wish to buck the surrounding cultural trend i.....
» 21/11/2011 9:36:34 AM Yabby, The reasons for rampant consumerism are complex in our society. It takes resolve a.....
» 20/11/2011 7:23:09 PM Actually, Suse, I don't personally know any "bad" juveniles either. My comments.....
» 20/11/2011 6:14:38 PM Formersnag, It's mentalities like yours, I'm sure, that prompted Mahatma Gandhi to commen.....
» 20/11/2011 8:55:24 AM Hee, hee, pericles...I was waiting for your reply to Arjay's question. It is interesting .....
» 20/11/2011 8:35:12 AM Saltpetre, Primates in general are forest dwelling fruit pickers who eat where they harve.....
» 19/11/2011 12:18:12 PM individual, You really don't get it, do you. My point is that we as a society are so bus.....
» 19/11/2011 11:43:46 AM individual, All the "proof" in the world is not going to change the fact that i.....
» 19/11/2011 11:02:38 AM individual, As a society it would be more productive to examine why so many of our young .....
» 17/11/2011 9:36:54 AM Suse, Governments throwing money at something has never worked - especially when it's a p.....
» 17/11/2011 9:31:29 AM individual, Perhaps you should start by examining the sort of society we have constructed.....
» 16/11/2011 8:39:19 PM imajulianutter, What's the cause of U.S. debt then...apart from its stupidly excessive fo.....
» 16/11/2011 1:33:28 PM David Jennings - I concur. Saltpetre, Please ignore my last post. Rather hypocritical of.....
» 16/11/2011 6:54:44 AM Dr. Albert Wallace, "Our society is getting more and more selfish and incidentally u.....
» 15/11/2011 11:14:21 PM Saltpetre, I'm fast coming to the conclusion that my former assumptions concerning your g.....
» 15/11/2011 7:52:19 PM I was thinking the same thing, Graham. I couldn't find it either....perhaps the beginnings.....
» 15/11/2011 4:45:18 PM Saltpetre, Wow!...with all those things you mentioned it makes you wonder why we appear s.....
» 15/11/2011 2:15:00 PM imajulianuttter, You mean would I include Western European countries under the heading &q.....
» 15/11/2011 9:17:58 AM Yuyutsu, Now you're being silly..."Western" is the generic term for modern hege.....
» 15/11/2011 9:10:59 AM Strange?...you learn something new everyday. I was never under the impression that ".....
» 14/11/2011 8:55:30 PM Yabby, What about the Alberta Tar Sands and the proposed Keystone pipeline to take the oi.....
» 14/11/2011 10:40:06 AM The Acolyte Rizla, I take your point. You're right that OUG's denigration of you is not a.....
» 14/11/2011 9:27:20 AM Yabby, That is so weird...I was reading "The Naked Ape" yesterday and wrote dow.....
» 12/11/2011 7:02:49 PM Graham, Congrats from me too. OLO is a singular site. Thanks for giving us the opportunit.....
» 12/11/2011 2:10:36 PM Well, there you go, Squeers. Acolyte's "exacting style" accommodates recourse t.....
» 12/11/2011 10:29:21 AM The Acolyte Rizla, "...the last refuge of the idiot." hmmm....if that's an exa.....
» 11/11/2011 8:17:59 PM "...I am on good terms with more than one freestyle poet - and they're all highly lit.....
» 11/11/2011 2:33:40 PM Yuyutsu, I was interested in your comment regarding Bishop Berkeley when you said "W.....
» 11/11/2011 2:21:18 PM Here's some confirmation bias a la Matt Ridley... Quote of the Week, no less! http://www......
» 11/11/2011 11:39:10 AM The Acolyte Rizla, It's endlessly fascinating how people get their jollies from deriding.....
» 8/11/2011 2:57:02 PM Crabsy, Perception can precede conceptualisation...interesting. I suppose it can, yet in .....
» 8/11/2011 2:42:08 PM Okay, Hasbeen, let's talk about what government's do. Here's a link to what the Reagan ad.....
» 8/11/2011 1:35:03 PM Yuyutsu, Your love and devotion is toward "your concept" of God. If you didn't.....
» 8/11/2011 12:04:49 PM Sam Jandwich, Thanks for that....most uplifting : ).....
» 8/11/2011 11:59:24 AM The possible presence of WMD's in Iraq, promoted by the U.S. was the ultimate vehicle as a.....
» 8/11/2011 11:09:40 AM Pelly, You're probably right regarding Georgie, who appeared as not much more more than a.....
» 8/11/2011 10:40:51 AM Thanks guys...it does seem that scientific investigation does have its checks and balances.....
» 8/11/2011 10:22:41 AM Let's not mix up Yuyutsu with the illusion of reasoned argument : ) If God is outside &qu.....
» 7/11/2011 9:45:39 AM Matt Ridley, in his "Scientific Heresy" article, postulated that people have a t.....
» 7/11/2011 8:58:28 AM OUG, And then there's this to offer balance to your quote: http://www.skepticalscience.co.....
» 7/11/2011 8:46:41 AM Ha!...Lexi, thanks for that - it's the best Freudian Slip I've seen all morning : ).....
» 6/11/2011 3:10:07 PM Just looking through Clive Hamilton's "The Freedom Paradox". In it he talks of f.....
» 6/11/2011 2:21:59 PM individual, If Turnbull had been opposition leader at the last election the Libs would ha.....
» 6/11/2011 2:05:00 PM Here's a three-part study of Ridley's contributions. I'm sure you'll all deny your confirm.....
» 6/11/2011 10:52:28 AM SPQR, The point I was making to was that Monbiot's article alluded to the very "conf.....
» 6/11/2011 10:04:14 AM TAR, Ridley's "sound arguments", as Squeers asserts, are coloured by his neolib.....
» 6/11/2011 8:56:06 AM Well there you go, individual. It seems that some people are impressed by a little conjur.....
» 6/11/2011 8:13:21 AM Talking of confirmation bias....George Monbiot asserts that Ridley's book "The Ration.....
» 6/11/2011 7:42:01 AM individual, "Qantas is not like the Labor Govt or the Unions which can afford to blo.....
» 5/11/2011 9:58:19 AM David f., Psychologically speaking, I think tribalism precludes recourse to the idea that.....
» 5/11/2011 9:14:06 AM Ulis, Is it equally illogical to think that God came into existence without stimulus? Wh.....
» 5/11/2011 8:58:34 AM David f., Can we transcend tribalism? It seems to be intrinsically built into out psyche......
» 5/11/2011 8:16:26 AM runner, "Lying to the electorate on the eve of an election makes the democratic proc.....
» 5/11/2011 7:54:04 AM runner, "Fossils are certainly real but they certainly make a mockery of the evoluti.....
» 4/11/2011 5:04:43 PM King Hazza, Perhaps some people don't experience the world and its phenomena in the ".....
» 3/11/2011 6:44:04 PM Gosh, Lexi....they are good! I was tossing up which one I liked best...and I think I'll h.....
» 3/11/2011 5:45:29 PM runner, Much of what made Western nations "great" was achieved riding on the ba.....
» 3/11/2011 7:27:06 AM Saltpetre, What hope have we got for universal human rights when hegemony and self-intere.....
» 2/11/2011 3:11:37 PM I don't like our chances of transcending tribalism. Here's Arthur Koestler on the subject.....
» 2/11/2011 12:05:48 PM Formersnag, Regarding "capitalism with a heart". Tom Hodgkinson wrote on the I.....
» 2/11/2011 9:29:37 AM Yabby, One has to ask the question as to why Qantas has for so long been unable to harmon.....
» 1/11/2011 5:35:17 PM Jay, You're right, I should gave tagged those organisations "Western" instead o.....
» 1/11/2011 10:46:14 AM Yep, rechtub,...I reckon Qantas should employ you....and they could replace the kanga on t.....
» 1/11/2011 9:06:47 AM Most enjoyable. "Western governments...have been brilliant at privatising profits an.....
» 1/11/2011 7:30:40 AM Jay, White people partnering Third World governments is already widespread. It usually ta.....
» 31/10/2011 11:25:36 PM Maybe the ABC signal is purposely making a detour around your house, Hasbeen. : ) I live .....
» 30/10/2011 6:24:11 PM rechtub and yabby, Of course there's always two sides to every dispute. That said, the ef.....
» 30/10/2011 3:05:48 PM Yabby, "Good on him for showing guts and intellect." Seems pretty loony to me......
» 27/10/2011 3:27:59 PM Aristocrat, "Consciousness is merely a manifestation of unconscious mental/physical .....
» 27/10/2011 8:49:48 AM Squeers, "...consciousness maintains a quasi-objective or critical distance from--as.....
» 26/10/2011 10:38:51 PM Yabby, I think the relevant word in your reply was "tribes". The qualities you .....
» 26/10/2011 7:58:26 PM When all is said and done, it seems that man "senses" something greater than his.....
» 26/10/2011 3:04:44 PM Oh that's all right then. Philo's benchmark of actually being married as a prerequisite fo.....
» 25/10/2011 3:29:35 PM Philo. Once that [social] union had taken place they were husband and wife...it's not &qu.....
» 25/10/2011 11:35:51 AM Formersnag, "Thou Shalt Not Kill" may be seen as some sort of theoretical absol.....
» 25/10/2011 10:14:30 AM Philo, Marriage (between two people) is a sociological term......
» 24/10/2011 10:24:50 PM runner, "Again I say unto you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a n.....
» 24/10/2011 12:33:10 PM Formersnag, A while ago I informed my then nine year-old that the tooth fairy wasn't real.....
» 24/10/2011 9:58:31 AM Yes, Peter, here you go again criticising on the grounds of personal insult - followed up .....
» 22/10/2011 12:52:49 PM If you say so, Formersnag......
» 22/10/2011 7:26:29 AM Squeers, I don't believe the feelings to which you referred are merely culturally constru.....
» 21/10/2011 5:33:18 PM ...or they could just be postulating that it's not necessary to believe in a supernatural .....
» 21/10/2011 5:15:05 PM I don't suppose there can be too much news for a species as curious as ours is. We're all .....
» 21/10/2011 5:02:11 PM Lexi, That's nothing....I've got a soft spot for Prince Charles. Have you read his book.....
» 21/10/2011 3:04:21 PM I say, old chaps, the antipodean media take this sort of thing rather seriously, don't you.....
» 21/10/2011 11:37:56 AM Belly, It's more about protocol than anything...all a big ritual (which humans seem to en.....
» 21/10/2011 10:40:48 AM Trav, It's more likely that Dawkins is reluctant to provide Craig with an ounce of credib.....
» 21/10/2011 9:37:34 AM Thanks for that McReal, I'd never heard of William Lane Craig until this article....and j.....
» 21/10/2011 8:53:26 AM King Hazza, Yup.....take the position of fleeing Iraqis, for example. You'd think that mo.....
» 21/10/2011 7:58:36 AM imajulianutter, It might be helpful, if you intend to use david f's quote, to deliver it .....
» 20/10/2011 11:36:06 AM OUG and Belly, We live in an age of rapid transmission of information. One of the most si.....
» 20/10/2011 8:37:14 AM During the past eighteen months I've ceased watching or listening news as a matter of cour.....
» 19/10/2011 9:52:59 AM Lexi, It's an interesting conundrum. From my point of view, I fell pregnant at 41 (as I m.....
» 19/10/2011 7:22:33 AM Wonder what the difference is between "Suseonline" and "suzeonline"?.....
» 18/10/2011 5:30:05 PM Here you go, runner, http://www.creativespirits.info/aboriginalculture/health/aboriginal-.....
» 18/10/2011 5:00:04 PM Hey, hey, Philo, Marriage is a mechanism for the legitimisation or formalisation of a &qu.....
» 18/10/2011 2:42:07 PM sonofgloin, Absolutely..... there's a rumour going round to that effect. All the women .....
» 18/10/2011 12:30:42 PM Formersnag, "...filthy, stinking, super rich, international banksters/socialists.&qu.....
» 18/10/2011 12:25:43 PM Neither : ).....
» 18/10/2011 11:48:38 AM Yabby, There's no denying that the Euro zone has a significant debt crisis. However, acc.....
» 18/10/2011 8:27:03 AM Peter, I've written before that a community of humans could be viewed as a living organis.....
» 17/10/2011 11:03:45 PM Yabby, You seem to think economic woes are all down to the Euro zone. The U.S. have worse.....
» 17/10/2011 7:46:22 PM Arjay, "...just value judgments based on optical and sensual imputs." Like not.....
» 17/10/2011 5:31:45 PM Yabby, Perhaps you'd be so kind as to explain to us just what political choices Americans.....
» 17/10/2011 4:16:43 PM Pelican, "loony right" - LOL C'mon, Yabby, you're a critic of the likes of Bus.....
» 17/10/2011 2:46:58 PM Hee, Hee!, runner! Are you inferring that the Conservative side of politics is beyond bei.....
» 17/10/2011 2:39:59 PM It's interesting how you two gravitate toward each other. Delumptious tension..... : ).....
» 17/10/2011 12:40:36 PM Saltpetre, It's the tear-aways and those willing to look outside the box that have enable.....
» 17/10/2011 11:39:30 AM Belly, I think we sometimes invest humanity with more smarts than is regularly demonstrat.....
» 17/10/2011 10:34:58 AM Ozideas, Agreed - I prefer talk programs too. Often, I would do the gardening while liste.....
» 17/10/2011 9:13:59 AM Just musing on Squeers' thoughts about the epithet "fascist" as meaning virtuall.....
» 17/10/2011 8:30:13 AM Anti, Very good point (and your word "lichenesque" is superb!) Civilisation (a.....
» 17/10/2011 8:04:47 AM Belly, Humans are tribal....and not only do they instinctively form cliques, they also fo.....
» 16/10/2011 1:48:44 PM Yabby, You'll get no argument from me about the importance of language in man's advanceme.....
» 16/10/2011 12:45:20 PM Thank you, Ammonite : ) (must admit, I do like the word "tosspot"!) Yabby, Tha.....
» 16/10/2011 9:15:37 AM Anti, Dogs are clever, often surprisingly so. Other species often surprise us with their .....
» 16/10/2011 7:30:08 AM Anti, I agree with you and Yabby that the study of primates is useful in understanding th.....
» 16/10/2011 6:50:24 AM Anti, I'm talking here about the "grandeur" of culture - art, religion, science.....
» 15/10/2011 10:35:40 PM Peter, What I meant was that women mirror more closely the mystery and Dionysian nature .....
» 15/10/2011 9:24:01 PM Yabby, You unwittingly prove Ortega's point. He writes: "If we are able to remain .....
» 15/10/2011 7:47:47 PM Squeers, Your point about us "investing" meaning into our life as a self-affirm.....
» 15/10/2011 12:49:55 PM sonofgloin, Yes, the consciousness...I've heard human's described as the universe being c.....
» 15/10/2011 11:21:35 AM Interesting posts so far. According to John Armstrong in his book "Love, Life, Goeth.....
» 15/10/2011 10:18:34 AM Peter, I think you're right that Christianity did succeed in suppressing such expressions.....
» 15/10/2011 6:53:32 AM Peter, "In theory it did. It never id in practice-..." I did say we were psych.....
» 14/10/2011 11:09:05 PM Thanks for the link, Yabby. Funnily enough, I recalled that amongst my eclectic topsy-tur.....
» 14/10/2011 9:50:13 PM Hey Pelly, Here's an appropriate tune for our political times..... : ) http://www.televi.....
» 14/10/2011 7:50:33 PM I think it's a fair assessment that America is in the first stages of decline. Western heg.....
» 14/10/2011 6:53:19 PM WmTrevor, I like that : ).....
» 14/10/2011 3:44:04 PM It seems fairly obvious that Labor is going to attempt to wield this defeat as a weapon wi.....
» 14/10/2011 3:27:04 PM It's okay folks - I'm not depressed : ) However, on one thread I recently made a comment .....
» 14/10/2011 2:46:37 PM Oi reckon there's buckley's chance of a one world government....just watch the break-up an.....
» 14/10/2011 10:25:40 AM rexw, I think you might have gotten out of the wrong side of the bed this morning : ) (B.....
» 14/10/2011 9:41:33 AM Peter, Which is what Paglia was positing - that Christianity sublimated human sexuality a.....
» 14/10/2011 8:49:57 AM Aime, Go for it - have a bit of confidence in yourself to discover the information you ne.....
» 14/10/2011 8:42:27 AM Ammonite, Houellie's gonna write a book - he's the new Bhagwan! : ) Can't wait!.....
» 14/10/2011 7:46:31 AM Houellie, (ha, ha!) It's a tad overcast here at the moment, but the wind has dropped : ).....
» 13/10/2011 7:02:12 PM Thank you, Lexi. I'll just add that second-time round I'm little more relaxed and comfort.....
» 13/10/2011 6:42:41 PM Peter, If you get the chance and you're interested in Paglia's theory, the first chapter .....
» 13/10/2011 1:45:59 PM Lexi, I see you're not a great fan of children getting the gist of independent and self-d.....
» 13/10/2011 10:44:46 AM Houellie, When is your book on life coming out? (Honestly, if your wrote one, I'd buy it).....
» 13/10/2011 10:14:23 AM King Hazza, The medical establishment is speaking here from the perspective of a woman's .....
» 13/10/2011 9:53:22 AM Hi Lexi, Yes, but you see, your thought is constructed to fit a certain paradigm. Would i.....
» 13/10/2011 9:37:42 AM Given that Western civilisation and religion serve as a defence against nature in all its .....
» 12/10/2011 6:12:17 PM Actually Anti, it's an interesting question. The subject of education in the industrial w.....
» 12/10/2011 3:19:12 PM Actually, it's interesting in that "marriage" is a social legitimisation of a re.....
» 12/10/2011 3:08:18 PM Diver Dan, Arthur Koestler posited that the relationship in man between the instinct and .....
» 12/10/2011 7:54:59 AM Peter, Regarding your last sentence on a 50 pound per day wage in 1842 - what was that yo.....
» 11/10/2011 9:42:32 PM Peter, In a libertarian utopia, who polices the "general ban on aggression and fraud.....
» 11/10/2011 12:15:53 PM Peter, You seem to have used an awful lot of words to say that you have one rule for your.....
» 11/10/2011 11:20:23 AM Formersnag, Absolutely!...we're so lucky on OLO to have such a wise commentator as yourse.....
» 11/10/2011 9:55:56 AM Anti, Your first post made some sense to me....."It's the contrast between the conce.....
» 11/10/2011 9:17:58 AM And then they could do some annnnnalysis as to why the great majority of homosexuals emana.....
» 11/10/2011 8:36:55 AM The cheek of those homosexuals wanting to utilise heterosexual words to describe their uni.....
» 10/10/2011 10:40:00 PM Vanna, That's rich coming from someone who rarely posts a sentence on this forum without .....
» 10/10/2011 9:34:31 PM Vanna, I am not making that up. I usually made the coffee, but it was no big deal - and i.....
» 10/10/2011 8:21:09 PM Vanna, During my teens, I worked at a car-wash attached to a service station.The walls ha.....
» 10/10/2011 6:19:20 PM Squeers, Men probably feel that same sort of power and dominance in ordinary sex (?) - or.....
» 9/10/2011 10:19:27 AM Peter Hume, "As we libertarians say, "It's not left verses right. It's the stat.....
» 8/10/2011 7:08:26 AM Squeers, "....as if the human senses, rationalised by the acculturated human mind, c.....
» 7/10/2011 5:26:06 PM Rhian, " -it entailed strenuous, boring and repetitive work dawn to dusk, and dreadf.....
» 7/10/2011 10:26:09 AM I take it, Lexi, that you believe the West's current paradigm is part of an ongoing trajec.....
» 7/10/2011 9:46:34 AM We shouldn't overlook the trifling fact that the Islamic world acted as custodians for muc.....
» 7/10/2011 9:21:59 AM I'm forever indebted to you, Houellie : ).....
» 7/10/2011 9:20:06 AM 579, China's productivity is only half the rate of the U.S.? Methinks you ought to go a.....
» 7/10/2011 9:13:48 AM Houellie, "How productive IS raising children? I wonder how they calculate that.&quo.....
» 7/10/2011 8:02:47 AM All of which leads us to the curious penchant for the female praying mantis to cannibalise.....
» 6/10/2011 9:58:18 PM Rhian, You got something against feudalism? "...the bourgeoisie "rescued a con.....
» 6/10/2011 8:51:05 PM Of course, Peter, the big fly in ointment as far as "ownership" is concerned was.....
» 6/10/2011 8:02:55 PM David f,. I have already given my explanation for the corpses - Man's nature. Was their .....
» 6/10/2011 4:55:11 PM Killarney, Don't you know that the reigning hegemony always absolves itself from the huma.....
» 5/10/2011 9:20:01 AM Ammonite, Oui, je defends le principe..mais...je n'aime pas l'hypocrisie......
» 5/10/2011 8:54:57 AM Ammonite, Rushing to the defence of fellow posters is one of your specialties (I recall s.....
» 4/10/2011 10:57:37 PM What has been omitted from the article is the actuality that it is "mankind" col.....
» 4/10/2011 1:22:12 PM Ammonite, "...I guess I have a more optimistic view of humans than you." Excel.....
» 4/10/2011 10:54:20 AM Anti, In my opinion, the modern Western construction of gender assignment is a response t.....
» 4/10/2011 8:28:03 AM Anti, I'm with sonogloin in that I believe there are good evolutionary and social reasons.....
» 3/10/2011 7:06:49 PM Philo, Is a "legitimate" person biologically different to an "illegitimate.....
» 3/10/2011 4:17:56 PM runner, "...with almost nothing but a few deaths to show for it." Well, that's.....
» 3/10/2011 3:01:13 PM Ammonite, I beg to differ about huge class distinctions not being as pertinent as they on.....
» 3/10/2011 1:05:51 PM Ammonite, What is your particular beef? I'm not trying to construct antipathy between th.....
» 3/10/2011 12:24:51 PM Ammonite, You're being a tad disingenuous (as is your want). My comment was directed at .....
» 3/10/2011 11:30:44 AM I suppose it could depend how your situation is. If a couple has children, then it would b.....
» 3/10/2011 10:29:38 AM Just musing on the type of social conditioning that was obviously a factor in the behaviou.....
» 3/10/2011 9:33:16 AM Well, I suppose if we're looking at things from a purely modern angle, then yes, those thi.....
» 3/10/2011 8:43:04 AM Anti, Just given it a little more thought - and the survival probabilities for women did .....
» 3/10/2011 7:55:37 AM Brilliant thread, Anti. Although it's quite early in the West - and not all of my brain ce.....
» 2/10/2011 2:29:40 PM Yes..........
» 2/10/2011 12:47:53 PM In light of KAEP's input..."Welsh, chinese, lesbian,and southern-Euro trash" etc.....
» 2/10/2011 12:32:20 PM Yabby, I understand the point your are making about population. But you seem to ignore t.....
» 2/10/2011 10:19:46 AM individual, Spin it how you like...your "fight fire with fire" metaphor amounts.....
» 2/10/2011 10:02:46 AM Hasbeen, Well, yes,,,the Catholics have always embraced life with "esprit". One.....
» 2/10/2011 8:55:04 AM Lexi, It just occurred to me that you I think have mentioned in the past that you identif.....
» 2/10/2011 8:11:02 AM individual, Regarding the "ridicule" that you protesteth against so vehemently .....
» 2/10/2011 7:59:51 AM Yabby, Are you positing that people who have yet to exist possess a footprint? I don't ag.....
» 2/10/2011 7:36:25 AM Once again, Pelican speaks with balance and reason. Tony Abbott does appear reactionary a.....
» 1/10/2011 9:48:23 AM Philo, "We live in a society where conscience does not mean a thing. In a society wh.....
» 30/09/2011 9:15:41 PM Yabby, With all due respect, that is one of your more vacuous statements. Are you saying.....
» 30/09/2011 8:49:28 PM Steven, Yes it is a free trade issue - particularly in places like Africa. First we shou.....
» 30/09/2011 8:24:08 PM Yabby, Well, it's true that 300 million Americans consume the equivalent resources to 2.....
» 30/09/2011 7:44:28 PM Yabby, "...up to the individual to decide..." Yeah, sure : ) That's why the a.....
» 30/09/2011 8:42:49 AM Bazz. They arrived here between 50-75,000 years ago - a longer continuing association wit.....
» 30/09/2011 7:19:42 AM Time and time again it's the same old story. The IMF intervenes and introduces structural .....
» 29/09/2011 9:51:27 PM Yabby, It's not so much that the herd objects - it's whether an individual can justify to.....
» 29/09/2011 8:01:00 PM Just thought I'd toss this into the mix. Poverty and income in America - circa 2011: htt.....
» 29/09/2011 4:15:44 PM Joe, I think "culture" and individuality and collectivity are wide-ranging in s.....
» 29/09/2011 3:23:50 PM Yabby, I know you think you know "my type", but none of the people in my ".....
» 29/09/2011 12:08:37 PM Nice try, Joe, "They have individual attitudes and feelings, just like you." T.....
» 29/09/2011 11:21:15 AM Just making the point that OLO does promote free speech in an openly broadcast way, in the.....
» 29/09/2011 10:38:41 AM SM, It's interesting from my point of view, in that my state doesn't allow revenue to be .....
» 29/09/2011 10:31:30 AM Joe and Graham, An interesting question on OLO's responsibilities. Are newspapers liable .....
» 29/09/2011 10:19:25 AM Joe, As I said to a friend of mine recently, my thoughts are that Aboriginal people in ma.....
» 29/09/2011 9:49:45 AM SM, I wonder what the figure of 2.3 percent translates into when whole families are affect.....
» 29/09/2011 7:47:01 AM Joe, I'm curious as to why you think Western society is so accepting of individuality? It.....
» 29/09/2011 7:09:58 AM Peter Hume, Thanks for that..."starvation" not being an emotive word. And yes, .....
» 28/09/2011 6:52:17 PM On this subject, I noticed this article recently. Apparently Aboriginal Australians have .....
» 28/09/2011 4:25:44 PM Jolly good show, Pericles...and we get lots of cheap stuff too ! "eutrophication&quo.....
» 28/09/2011 2:30:30 PM Nice to know you think you're so wise and all-knowing, Yabby. "...so I know all abou.....
» 28/09/2011 10:54:07 AM Yabby, "It's a bit like pets really. Don' have them if you can't look after them.&qu.....
» 28/09/2011 10:20:51 AM Well, there you go, Yabby. All those disreputable third-world parents are just sadistic b.....
» 28/09/2011 9:10:44 AM Pericles, Here's a go...India has just redrawn (manipulated) its "poverty line".....
» 28/09/2011 8:43:20 AM runner, The term "lifted out of poverty" is a tad nebulous when comparing the c.....
» 28/09/2011 7:43:03 AM Belly, OUG does his thing with words He's actually very creative and likes to play with .....
» 27/09/2011 12:16:58 PM Good on you, Hasbeen, for not going hungry when your dad gambled. We went hungry, sat in .....
» 27/09/2011 10:51:40 AM Yabby, You're a great one for trumpeting the theories of others (or their debunking)...do.....
» 27/09/2011 10:06:40 AM NSB, You make a good point about abundant opportunities to gamble in our society. However.....
» 27/09/2011 9:31:23 AM Hee, hee, Houellie, I love your logic.... My pappy managed to keep us fairly poor by an a.....
» 27/09/2011 9:24:07 AM Hi Lexi, It seems to me that anything that remotely resembles a regard for fair-dealing b.....
» 27/09/2011 9:01:22 AM And another thing.... What you fail to take into account is that in traditional societies.....
» 27/09/2011 8:43:56 AM Yabby, You are a Westerner living in an affluent country with a decidedly "I'm all r.....
» 27/09/2011 8:31:53 AM Oh yesssss,Yabby, how perceptive of you. It couldn't possibly be the system, could it :) .....
» 27/09/2011 8:15:33 AM Here in WA, pokies are banned (except for Burswood Casino) they always have been....so it'.....
» 27/09/2011 7:51:44 AM Here you go, runner. This is a pertinent example of what vanna is expressing. People in .....
» 26/09/2011 12:04:43 PM Yabby, My point about the peasant owning the spinning wheel was that he owned the means f.....
» 26/09/2011 9:11:43 AM Antiseptic, Thanks for joining the fray. I suppose my interest is more of a social-anthr.....
» 26/09/2011 12:58:40 AM "desperado...ignoramus...pathetic" Peter, you old charmer. It's no use you swee.....
» 25/09/2011 12:01:38 PM Peter Hume, I realise that it's the "systemic" organisation of human society wh.....
» 25/09/2011 10:16:23 AM OUG summed up pretty well the "blood and tears" spilled in the wake of capitalis.....
» 24/09/2011 6:30:30 PM David f,. Correction - I wasn't castigating you for calling Marx a hate-filled bigot. I c.....
» 24/09/2011 9:36:02 AM Steven, Yes, well the greasy palms of corrupt African regimes are usually shaking hands w.....
» 24/09/2011 9:02:12 AM Steven, Yes, The World Bank as an agent of globalisation and Western corporate interests .....
» 23/09/2011 4:09:56 PM David f., How can you utter: "It's fair to disagree with ideas...It's not fair to as.....
» 23/09/2011 2:32:53 PM David f., "Let's curb the rhetoric..." Well, there you go....calling people lo.....
» 23/09/2011 1:26:26 PM David f., "I do not ridicule Christianity or other religions..." "runner,.....
» 23/09/2011 11:54:59 AM David f, Thanks for itemising the recommendations in the Communist Manifesto.....but wher.....
» 23/09/2011 10:25:55 AM JOM, As Squeers has pointed out, Marx was not a "Marxist"......
» 23/09/2011 9:55:16 AM Peter, So your excuse for the fundamental instability, recurrent crises and social chaos .....
» 22/09/2011 7:07:54 PM Loudmouth, Re: China's poverty line: http://www.chinese-embassy.org.za/eng/zgxw/t511211.h.....
» 22/09/2011 5:25:47 PM Lexi, Good points about China. Hasbeen, Notwithstanding that many Chinese people are no.....
» 22/09/2011 2:39:18 PM Mollydukes, I have a book titled "The Gift" by Lewis Hyde. In it he tells of th.....
» 22/09/2011 10:17:52 AM David f., "...By that definition of capitalism socialism is merely a subset of capit.....
» 22/09/2011 9:42:27 AM Lexi, Squeers and Mollydukes, Here's a link to an article by John Gray (I've just realise.....
» 22/09/2011 9:29:39 AM imajulianutter, If you've educated yourself through reading and practical application - w.....
» 22/09/2011 7:21:36 AM You'll all have to excuse the fact that I'm not an economics expert and mostly I'm just tr.....
» 21/09/2011 7:03:29 PM John Passant has blogged in some depth on the present state of capitalism at this stage of.....
» 21/09/2011 3:23:52 PM Hasbeen, Notwithstanding that Julia's your newest pin-up pollie - and no doubt the whole .....
» 21/09/2011 10:42:47 AM Perish the thought, landrights4all. Tony's altruism is coming from exactly the same plac.....
» 21/09/2011 8:54:59 AM Economist, Nouriel Roubini, who accurately predicted the 2008 GFC and subsequently became .....
» 21/09/2011 7:30:33 AM individual, Restraint and responsibility should be organic and emanate from the family ou.....
» 20/09/2011 10:22:28 PM individual, I see what you mean.... It's certainly a headache for Westerners to to pay f.....
» 20/09/2011 7:46:14 PM Regarding the "moral" stance of Julia Gillard on the question of sending asylum .....
» 20/09/2011 6:52:21 PM individual, "Brink of Anarchy",eh....(with a capital "A" as well) .......
» 20/09/2011 4:29:15 PM SM, I'm suggesting that some men and women put political expediency before ethical consid.....
» 20/09/2011 3:39:45 PM SM, "Are you being sexist and suggesting woman are soft and should be guided by thei.....
» 20/09/2011 1:51:32 PM SM and individual, Have either of you any more deep and meaningful reflections to impart?.....
» 20/09/2011 12:20:18 PM NSB, On the subject of feeding the world, there are many challenges, not least the indust.....
» 19/09/2011 10:33:58 PM Hasbeen, You've got a funny idea of what it takes to looks like a statesman......
» 19/09/2011 9:02:14 PM Well, here is the latest....the Coalition has rejected the PM's revised amendments. http:/.....
» 19/09/2011 5:36:41 PM Belly - excellent! We did "fractions" today by cutting up potatoes. Then my son.....
» 19/09/2011 3:25:27 PM Apparently Gillard presented Abbott with a revised draft of the amendment this morning in .....
» 19/09/2011 11:30:28 AM Pelican's point about the modern obsession with economic growth is pertinent....runner, th.....
» 19/09/2011 9:12:18 AM Ditto, Squeers.... I'd got the impression that he'd been having some health issues from c.....
» 18/09/2011 9:25:36 PM Here you go, rehctub, this should soothe your fevered brow: http://www.abc.net.au/news/20.....
» 18/09/2011 5:53:06 PM BAYGON, That's interesting because I posted a link from CNN showing European debt at a gl.....
» 18/09/2011 1:07:02 PM Belly, Judging by this latest brainwave, they deserve three terms in opposition. (with ce.....
» 18/09/2011 12:15:01 PM Ammonite, "...lowest common denominator..." - precisely! Your example of the H.....
» 18/09/2011 11:41:06 AM Ammonite, The reality is that both parties are merely reflecting their situation in being.....
» 18/09/2011 9:42:07 AM Lexi, No, I haven't read Tanner's book....but then I'm not over-indulging in politics the.....
» 18/09/2011 8:51:32 AM SM, "...a bill too far..." I agree. This sort of proposal is dangerous. Power .....
» 18/09/2011 7:19:43 AM Pelican, "...wouldn't it be great to combine the two?" That is the most sensib.....
» 17/09/2011 9:20:53 PM Yo, Lexi - I presumed you were only relaying what you'd heard. Isn't it shameful that pol.....
» 17/09/2011 7:41:12 PM Lexi, Just read your line: "A program is in place to restore Labor values and attrac.....
» 17/09/2011 6:31:39 PM It seems more than simply attempting to appear "tough". Labor, appears to be go.....
» 17/09/2011 1:11:39 PM Chris, But the West is authoritarian in a global sense - or do believe that the IMF and W.....
» 17/09/2011 11:14:06 AM Philo, If marriage was a biological imperative for sexual union and procreation, then it .....
» 17/09/2011 10:48:19 AM runner, Surely your religious beliefs instruct man in the wisdom of "moderation".....
» 17/09/2011 9:56:43 AM OUG, Whether it's down to God or whatever, humans are inquiring beings. We strive to unde.....
» 17/09/2011 9:19:03 AM Lexi, This is the link: (thought it was worth re-posting) http://www.skytopia.com/project.....
» 17/09/2011 8:20:17 AM Philo. Marriage between humans is a "social" act and institution. Sex is a bio.....
» 17/09/2011 7:56:05 AM It seems that Labor is determined to jettison its responsibility to asylum seekers in no u.....
» 16/09/2011 2:26:00 PM Well, there you go - Jon J has summed up Western mentality in one post!....and we think of.....
» 16/09/2011 9:31:39 AM As far as enlightenment from "books" is concerned, I reckon you're better off to.....
» 15/09/2011 2:48:48 PM Houelie, I'm glad you don't picture "me" as Mungo Maccallum : ) Who's Jessica .....
» 15/09/2011 10:06:29 AM Ammonite, I appreciate your latest response. However, I'm a tad puzzled by your take on.....
» 15/09/2011 9:19:13 AM Here's an overview of European debt at a glance: http://edition.cnn.com/2011/BUSINESS/06/.....
» 15/09/2011 7:39:06 AM I agree with Atman - and any raising of consciousness is a reaction to the stress of indus.....
» 14/09/2011 10:13:12 AM Ammonite, I think I'm done with this delightful experience. There appears to be nothing h.....
» 14/09/2011 10:02:06 AM David, If you consider my rhetoric is a misrepresentation of your aims, I apologise. My .....
» 14/09/2011 9:34:53 AM Ammonite, "Squeers and Poirot see atheism as some type of insidious ideology with &q.....
» 13/09/2011 6:03:23 PM Ammonite, Neoliberalism : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoliberalism Neoconservatism: .....
» 13/09/2011 5:44:17 PM Graham, I thought Tim came across as a bit sad and lost - his character evoked pathos. Ob.....
» 13/09/2011 5:21:04 PM Ammonite, Every time it's pointed our that liberal rationalism has prevailed and that the.....
» 13/09/2011 12:36:35 PM David, The Arab nations that have recently agitated for a better deal are revolting again.....
» 13/09/2011 11:21:45 AM Paul 1405, Squeers is right...how many atheists are truly free thinkers? "Liberal R.....
» 13/09/2011 9:39:21 AM Paul 1405, The temple of Big Mac is already well established. The golden arches soar maje.....
» 12/09/2011 11:05:35 AM BAYGON, I agree about stamps and stickers. i don't even know where our stickers are at pr.....
» 12/09/2011 7:33:13 AM BAYGON, NAPLAN is a good case in point - it's modelled on the now discredited American id.....
» 12/09/2011 7:03:20 AM BAYGON and Antiseptic, I checked out Waldorf/Steiner education when I first began to inv.....
» 11/09/2011 6:43:46 PM individual, "Education" translates into another nicely oiled cog in the consump.....
» 11/09/2011 4:08:00 PM Antiseptic, We do some formal work using books, but I really think he gets the most insig.....
» 11/09/2011 1:31:54 PM Ammonite, Regarding your spirituality, it seems you have a similar outlook to my own. Als.....
» 11/09/2011 10:45:37 AM BAYGON, It's a stunning indictment of the system that your colleagues judged that your ne.....
» 11/09/2011 10:21:45 AM vanna and Antiseptic, (vanna first) It can't be helped if mother's and their children ha.....
» 11/09/2011 6:00:08 AM vanna, I know you think you understand how it is when a woman has a baby - but you don't......
» 11/09/2011 5:38:07 AM Yabby. Your comment about the U.S. moving into places like Iraq and Afghanistan and spend.....
» 11/09/2011 5:16:41 AM Pelly, Good thread topic. Status has many guises, and it does seem to pervade our lives .....
» 10/09/2011 9:48:57 PM Antiseptic, I get where you're coming from. All of a sudden the pieces are beginning to f.....
» 10/09/2011 8:00:37 PM Peter Hume, You make a good point - and I'm sure I come over in this instance as spectacu.....
» 10/09/2011 9:51:30 AM BAYGON, Very interesting....and a brilliant way to approach learning, especially for stud.....
» 10/09/2011 8:54:12 AM Antiseptic, It is a fascinating topic. Just to clarify that an Aspergers diagnosis is gi.....
» 9/09/2011 11:00:16 AM Don't you think it's fascinating that many of the Muslim asylum seekers emanate from count.....
» 9/09/2011 10:37:41 AM David, I detect a whiff of patronisation in your demeanour. I'm wondering what those sle.....
» 9/09/2011 10:03:47 AM Well it depends on which way you look at it. It was a lack of regulation in the financial .....
» 9/09/2011 8:11:51 AM Peter Hume, "No, you only advocate that they be bashed into submission to make them .....
» 8/09/2011 9:01:20 PM Hey, Peter...regarding "personal insults". I've never referred to anyone on this.....
» 8/09/2011 8:28:43 PM Ammonite & David, "Atheism has no ideology to control anything." In its essen.....
» 8/09/2011 5:55:30 PM AJPhilips, Of course, we can "imagine" an alternative to mass education (indoct.....
» 8/09/2011 4:36:37 PM Indoctrination comes in myriad forms. Children are indoctrinated most days of the year int.....
» 8/09/2011 2:25:25 PM "But then most australian men handle a baby in the same style as they do a football.&.....
» 8/09/2011 12:00:55 PM Ammonite, I'm an atheist. I don't believe that it's a negative world view, and I agree th.....
» 8/09/2011 10:24:08 AM Ammonite, "Squeers your posts have reached a crescendo of hysteria. You are intellig.....
» 8/09/2011 8:15:29 AM How about we change Australia's name to...."Charitybeginsathome" (That's sure t.....
» 7/09/2011 11:27:08 PM I was wondering what the world would be like if suddenly everyone stopped believing in God.....
» 7/09/2011 5:00:44 PM Here ya go, rehctub, Seems we're not going down to gurgler quite as fast as you anticipat.....
» 7/09/2011 11:57:28 AM Houellie, I'm with you, in that I don't believe the majority of women are rabid feminists.....
» 7/09/2011 10:38:41 AM Pericles, I think you hit the nail on the head when you wrote: "...we'd really like .....
» 7/09/2011 8:48:58 AM ChazP, I'm sorry to pop your bubble, but it "is" our economic paradigm that has.....
» 7/09/2011 8:03:24 AM Val Kyrie, Well you display an equivalent level of "dumbness" to all the parano.....
» 6/09/2011 10:02:11 PM Really, vanna,you don't say..... how profoundly absorbing for you......
» 6/09/2011 8:34:51 PM vanna, Are you planning on growing up and getting a life anytime soon? What sort of a &q.....
» 6/09/2011 10:46:54 AM Antiseptic, No doubt you're correct, but don't underestimate the power and inventiveness .....
» 6/09/2011 9:33:26 AM My main complaint is that Labor's performance has been so diabolical as to allow the possi.....
» 6/09/2011 9:14:53 AM Yes, Mollydukes, your straightforward style is refreshing. It's interesting that Peter ca.....
» 6/09/2011 8:12:12 AM Antiseptic, It's obvious that there is a significant discrepancy in the ratio of male and.....
» 6/09/2011 7:48:16 AM Okay folks - Standby..........
» 6/09/2011 7:43:43 AM Peter Hume, mmmm....Ad hominem Hare Krishna references : ) I specifically highlighted th.....
» 5/09/2011 9:05:55 PM Just found these figures for 2009. Male births were 119.45 for every 100 female births - .....
» 5/09/2011 9:00:51 PM Sorry, folks - wrong thread......
» 5/09/2011 8:59:41 PM Just found this from 2010 for the preceding year. Male to female birth ratio in China was.....
» 5/09/2011 8:33:29 PM Anti, I wuz just quoting statistics m'dear...not jumping to conclusions......
» 5/09/2011 8:01:19 PM RObert, I looked that up a while back for another thread....seems that there are around 1.....
» 5/09/2011 1:40:29 PM Peter Hume, Your triumphal attitude to debate is rather amusing - seems that you're mainl.....
» 4/09/2011 3:23:58 PM Mollydukes, An appropriate question, indeed....and it wasn't only the conditions in the w.....
» 4/09/2011 12:47:41 PM Lexi, I absolutely agree that it is a parent's responsibility to provide information abou.....
» 4/09/2011 2:06:18 AM Peter Hume, Speaking of state intervention and the education system. I happen to agree wi.....
» 4/09/2011 1:22:02 AM Peter Hume, State intervention didn't cause greater hardship, poverty or death - interven.....
» 3/09/2011 8:01:17 PM Lexi, ....except if the world comes floating up to Christmas Island in flimsy fishing boa.....
» 3/09/2011 7:36:53 PM Saltpetre, "We try and help "liberate" Iraq.....and what do we get? Asylum.....
» 3/09/2011 10:10:21 AM Peter Hume, Mollydukes makes a good point. In your rush to defend industrial libertariani.....
» 2/09/2011 10:25:09 PM Peter Hume, The reason I continually cite employment conditions during the Industrial Rev.....
» 2/09/2011 8:03:55 PM Don't worry, Belly, I knew you were just tossing the term "out there", and you d.....
» 2/09/2011 7:09:14 PM Lexi, I'm not listening to what the media is saying about Labor. I'm merely looking on an.....
» 2/09/2011 3:27:25 PM Bazz, "We should impose a blockade on the Indonesian coast and turn back the boats. .....
» 2/09/2011 3:13:39 PM So true, Squeers. Greed, self-interest, self-enrichment and self-aggrandisement are the na.....
» 2/09/2011 2:42:09 PM Belly, How about pitching your "CONTEMPT" in the direction of the ALP - not at .....
» 2/09/2011 2:27:07 PM Lexi, I take your point - the prospect of an Abbott led government makes me twitch as wel.....
» 2/09/2011 11:55:55 AM We are seeing the results of a duopoly between the big grocery purveyors undercutting smal.....
» 2/09/2011 9:28:45 AM SM, Whichever way you try to spin it the UNHCR has obviously taken the time to release a .....
» 2/09/2011 9:18:33 AM Mollydukes, Bingo!....you've hit the nail on the head. For it is the human ability to emp.....
» 2/09/2011 8:59:34 AM Hells bells, Belly - now you're dumping on the mums. Here's a tip - I spent a most enjoya.....
» 2/09/2011 7:46:52 AM Having given it the benefit of my critical appraisal, I've come to the conclusion that the.....
» 1/09/2011 11:03:08 PM Things should get interesting now as the U.N. has declined to become involved in setting u.....
» 1/09/2011 10:04:41 PM Peter Hume, Did conditions improve in the mills, factories and mines without state interv.....
» 1/09/2011 10:18:10 AM I'm struck by the the metaphor here.... it matches perfectly the treatment inflicted by th.....
» 1/09/2011 9:23:56 AM SM, The court ruled on its interpretation of law as it stands...yep, agreed. It does see.....
» 1/09/2011 9:12:38 AM Peter Hume, It's known as social democracy, and it maintains the plebs in a buoyant enoug.....
» 1/09/2011 8:43:13 AM Belly, Believe it or not, I don't judge someone's character on their political affiliatio.....
» 1/09/2011 7:13:32 AM Belly, I like your term "court proof".....this pesky rule of law 'nall that : ).....
» 31/08/2011 11:02:00 PM Houellie, I'm sorry if I implied that you were warping your daughters.....wasn't my inten.....
» 31/08/2011 4:48:20 PM Yeah, Yabby...we get it : ) Divergence, The 7 to 1 ratio means that the American footpri.....
» 31/08/2011 10:03:11 AM Houellie, LOL...."...an orgy of competitive vanities" - love the term, which su.....
» 31/08/2011 7:46:06 AM Yabby, "The problem will always be numbers, not if you lived it up a little or not.&.....
» 30/08/2011 1:41:02 PM Just to clarify my term " your sexist theories" - what I meant was your "th.....
» 30/08/2011 1:09:52 PM Houellie, Your point about your daughter just wanting to be like mummy is pertinent. she .....
» 30/08/2011 11:45:43 AM Why are the tots tarted up like showgirls? If you fellas are so keen on the notion that b.....
» 30/08/2011 10:16:30 AM Yabby, That's all very well, but what about the American who has a modest family of two o.....
» 30/08/2011 10:02:21 AM TBC, Yes, I'm curious how Philo rationalises that marriage is not the only state where se.....
» 30/08/2011 9:08:12 AM Philo, Marriage is a state where, biologically speaking, sexual union takes place. If you.....
» 30/08/2011 8:38:28 AM Phil0, I think I see where you're becoming confused. You seem to believe that marriage is.....
» 30/08/2011 12:55:52 AM Yabby, If I had six children in India, the lot of us collectively would still have a smal.....
» 29/08/2011 9:41:13 PM Divergence, Fred Pearce, in this Yale article, begs to differ: http://e360.yale.edu/feat.....
» 29/08/2011 2:23:51 PM Philo, Marriage is not a sexual act. Nor is it any kind of biological act. It is not a &q.....
» 28/08/2011 6:54:43 PM SPQR, Destroying the productive capacity of the environment is not the way to any sort of.....
» 28/08/2011 10:30:11 AM Squeers, Well put - and reasonably argued. I couldn't have put it better. Pericles, &qu.....
» 27/08/2011 8:41:40 PM Pericles, Given the straightforward alternatives of a) seriously addressing the ramificat.....
» 27/08/2011 7:54:28 PM Philo, So you're saying that the social institution of marriage is not validated until th.....
» 27/08/2011 7:02:19 PM Divergence, Yes, we have a population problem, but it's all too easy for rich Western cou.....
» 27/08/2011 6:30:45 PM SPQR, The plight of many Indian peasants "is" in direct relation to the activit.....
» 27/08/2011 10:52:49 AM Or should I say, sex is a biological imperative for the reproduction of the species.....ma.....
» 27/08/2011 10:43:35 AM Philo, Sorry to pop your bubble, but sex is not the same as marriage. Marriage is a socia.....
» 27/08/2011 9:32:28 AM SPQR, No one is denying the population problem - but that doesn't excuse the more affluen.....
» 26/08/2011 7:04:00 PM Pericles, ""toffs", as you call them....." Really, mate, I find your.....
» 26/08/2011 6:06:46 PM Maybe Philo is a robot...and his program seems to have provided him with the erroneous inf.....
» 26/08/2011 10:31:07 AM Pericles, "Because it's a remarkably similar choice to that made by the folk who lea.....
» 26/08/2011 9:29:53 AM There's your solution, rehctub. Attach some bells to the end of your sweeper's broom and .....
» 25/08/2011 7:57:23 PM Philo, Marriage isn't a biological act - it's a social act......
» 25/08/2011 5:16:53 PM Pericles, I did apologise for the 500 million figure (wish I hadn't bothered). As for th.....
» 25/08/2011 4:09:34 PM Good points, Catherine. My youngster took part in a concert recently. His troupe did so w.....
» 25/08/2011 3:53:23 PM Pericles, http://www.oxfam.org.hk/en/one_541.aspx Of course, it's not only the social qu.....
» 25/08/2011 11:48:58 AM Yeah, TBC...thoroughly entertaining post. I had a good laugh, but I'm with Hasbeen (for on.....
» 25/08/2011 10:27:44 AM Pericles, Apologies. I quoted the wrong figure for parentless children in villages - esti.....
» 25/08/2011 10:09:14 AM Pericles, I hope you include in your rationale of Chinese progress the 500 million childr.....
» 24/08/2011 4:00:06 PM Yabby, You're quick to dismiss groundwater depletion in the NASA piece because it is happ.....
» 24/08/2011 3:33:32 PM Yabby, What's smartarsed about telling something like it is? Here it is again: "A .....
» 24/08/2011 9:44:33 AM Here's a recent article. The stockpiling of grain in India has often been controversial. W.....
» 23/08/2011 10:25:43 PM OUG, What you describe is a migraine - exactly like the ones I have had in the past. I do.....
» 23/08/2011 6:49:23 PM Houellie, You're just jealous because your head doesn't play a bright light show for free.....
» 23/08/2011 6:31:12 PM Pericles, What about those who willfully ignore the ramifications of their pro-progress s.....
» 23/08/2011 2:50:10 PM Graham, This article from 2009 is a little more recent from NASA (was published in Nature.....
» 23/08/2011 11:56:48 AM Ammonite, I don't get massive headaches after a visual disturbance - although I used to g.....
» 23/08/2011 11:36:08 AM Well described, Ammonite. Yes a feeling of tiredness or maybe better described as being a.....
» 23/08/2011 10:34:12 AM While it may be prudent to have a medical check-up - just in case something has triggered .....
» 23/08/2011 9:45:15 AM rehctub, I get where you're coming from. The hide of all those plebian cleaners demanding.....
» 22/08/2011 10:17:56 PM Antiseptic. Yep....I get them very seldom these days, however, I used to suffer them more.....
» 22/08/2011 6:16:20 PM Pericles, Did you read the article on the Punjab? If you did, you'll get the point I was .....
» 22/08/2011 4:53:38 PM Pericles, "Do yourself a favour, and bring yourself up-to-date." Perhaps you'd.....
» 22/08/2011 12:40:01 PM Hark!....do we hear the bleat of homo stupendus ignoramus withering in the frigid recesses.....
» 22/08/2011 12:00:16 PM Pericles, Why is it that it's always a choice between 'dying' and GM crops, pesticides, d.....
» 22/08/2011 8:37:58 AM The recording of history is all about interpretation which, in turn, is influenced by pers.....
» 21/08/2011 2:18:26 PM Yuyutsu, That's where you and I differ. I don't believe our spiritual dimension is someth.....
» 21/08/2011 9:07:14 AM Yes, Yuyutsu, it's rather fascinating....perhaps you'd care to enlighten me further on wha.....
» 19/08/2011 7:30:51 PM Regarding GDP, GNP, etc - I thought this little snippet from Alvin Toffler's "The Thi.....
» 19/08/2011 1:45:31 AM Yuyutsu, "Correction" you were emotionally uplifted..." You are an arroga.....
» 19/08/2011 12:22:28 AM Yuyutsu, I take it you've never found yourself staring down the barrel in a situation wh.....
» 16/08/2011 9:53:56 AM Wow, Paw! I take it you're presenting your post as a good example of Judeo/Christian mora.....
» 16/08/2011 8:13:03 AM Belly, I think this problem goes deeper than mere "spending" which so far hasn'.....
» 16/08/2011 7:09:51 AM Belly, Have a gander at this. http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-08-15/shocking-conditions.....
» 15/08/2011 1:22:22 PM Philo, "...I never called non-Christians communists." Squeers and McReal both .....
» 15/08/2011 8:58:01 AM Philo, What sort of a nebulous statement is that? It's a common tactic for people with h.....
» 15/08/2011 6:58:24 AM While we're on the subject, I always had my doubts about Bill and Ben - I mean they were &.....
» 14/08/2011 10:19:25 AM I gravitated to RN after listening to state capital ABC radio and then News Radio. Admitte.....
» 13/08/2011 9:00:02 PM Rot indeed, yerself, Formersnag, If you're under the impression that all those mill and f.....
» 13/08/2011 7:46:53 PM "Some people are completely blind to their own idiocies." ....like going by the.....
» 13/08/2011 12:51:44 PM Formersnag, Protestant Christianity was also the staff leaned upon by the manufacturers a.....
» 13/08/2011 11:15:08 AM Well, Formersnag, that was a balanced post : ) Is it any wonder the covert injection of C.....
» 13/08/2011 9:05:02 AM Charming, spindoc...."dysfunctional, ideological, festering, sleazebags' club". .....
» 12/08/2011 10:26:56 PM OUG, I noted this afternoon that various countries were reinstating short selling bans on.....
» 12/08/2011 5:39:48 PM Interestingly, the markets have truly got the wobbles again. As I said in an earlier post,.....
» 12/08/2011 3:48:21 PM Just perused an article on the riots by Mary Ridell of the London Telegraph Group. Here's .....
» 12/08/2011 11:33:15 AM No thread about chaplaincy would be complete without reference to ACCESS head, Evonne Padd.....
» 11/08/2011 1:35:04 PM Belly, Don't pay any attention to the odium emanating from one commentator - some of us r.....
» 11/08/2011 12:57:08 PM Houellie, I agree with your latest - tower-block council estates were an exceedingly bad .....
» 10/08/2011 1:17:17 PM Loudmouth, I get where you're coming from. Whenever you and Pericles chime forth, it's er.....
» 10/08/2011 10:17:31 AM Antiseptic, It seems to me after reading of past skirmishes in OLO vaults that "one&.....
» 10/08/2011 3:29:45 AM Bazz, I think you'll find that the unrest in Egypt was fueled by decades of IMF and World.....
» 6/08/2011 6:35:00 PM "...Poirot's attempts to intimidate you". If calling Kerryanne out on her self-.....
» 6/08/2011 1:12:24 PM Kerryanne, Show me where I instructed you what you may or not raise? Talking of "bu.....
» 6/08/2011 11:17:31 AM Belly, I don't think you're a bully either. I have no doubt that you are correct in your.....
» 6/08/2011 9:36:24 AM Yuyutsu, Whatever God is, don't you think that we're provided with the ability to explore.....
» 6/08/2011 9:11:46 AM Keep your eyes on the markets... Volatility is the key word here. Preceding the 2008 GFC t.....
» 6/08/2011 8:23:42 AM Ammonite, No problem, I understood the point you were making. Like you say, it's all con.....
» 6/08/2011 7:54:59 AM Who's using me Belly? Kerryanne, Why am I not surprised that you've gravitated to the od.....
» 5/08/2011 9:26:44 PM Lexi, Well it's all very well to criticise the parents of these children, yet any governm.....
» 5/08/2011 6:37:07 PM Ammonite, I wasn't defending Nauru....as you point out, political ball games such as this.....
» 5/08/2011 6:05:16 PM SM, I'm with you on this one. All the hand-wringing and platitudes demonstrated by Labor .....
» 5/08/2011 5:38:16 PM May I just register my absolute disgust in the Gillard government for their reprehensible .....
» 4/08/2011 3:50:33 PM My daughter (who is now 29) also maintain through her late teens into her early twenties t.....
» 4/08/2011 9:36:31 AM Yuyutsu, "....and yet it is possible to experience him directly." I suppose th.....
» 3/08/2011 11:10:54 AM Kerryanne, As you've probably read on the other thread, I apologised - and that simply re.....
» 3/08/2011 10:27:32 AM Kerryanne, If you deny that you have two tags, then I will apologise, although this Under.....
» 3/08/2011 9:51:52 AM Underbelly (wink-wink), Not much happening on the threads this morning so I thought I wou.....
» 2/08/2011 5:10:28 PM Yuyutsu, You refer to God as an entity - that is you assign ownership of will to God as i.....
» 2/08/2011 10:35:53 AM Okay, Yuyutsu, i can't resist. You have a penchant for reasoning (although at the same tim.....
» 2/08/2011 9:36:54 AM Houellie, On the contrary, you come here to impress everyone. You can't see how cliched .....
» 1/08/2011 9:48:52 PM Houellie, Of course, the object of your articulate buffoonery is, no doubt, to rile us, h.....
» 1/08/2011 7:58:02 PM SM, "Breathtaking hypocrisy" for sure..... http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-08-.....
» 1/08/2011 7:43:39 PM Lexi, Houellebecq who? : ).....
» 1/08/2011 4:30:26 PM Hey Belly, Regarding your suspicions of a certain poster posting under an alias to defend.....
» 1/08/2011 3:30:08 PM Everything is chatter and noise to Houellie, except his own chatter and noise..... He turn.....
» 1/08/2011 10:37:37 AM underbelly, It's endlessly fascinating that when someone points out the West's impact on .....
» 1/08/2011 8:49:32 AM Yabby, I agree with your last paragraph particularly and, yes, I think the Green Revoluti.....
» 31/07/2011 9:27:39 PM individual, Western man is very clever. He took his technology to India to help them grow.....
» 31/07/2011 6:22:32 PM Hi Lexi, I've posted this link a few times previously here and there on the forum. It's f.....
» 31/07/2011 2:22:22 PM Belly, You do have a gift for overstatement at times. In no way do I think you're a blind.....
» 31/07/2011 1:12:15 PM Good summation, Squeers. In our globalised world it is all connected. We're all aboard th.....
» 31/07/2011 11:51:31 AM Yabby, I have read why these institutions were set up in the first place. I've also read .....
» 31/07/2011 11:12:49 AM Yabby, Well that's where you're wrong, Yabby. Altruism isn't part of the paradigm. The IM.....
» 31/07/2011 9:38:14 AM Kerryanne, Squeers said they were part of the "system", not our society. Ergo t.....
» 31/07/2011 9:07:25 AM Belly, Regarding your idea to shorten election terms. Federally, Australia already has a .....
» 31/07/2011 8:11:40 AM Kerryanne and individual, Would neither of you two intelligent fair-minded Aussies consid.....
» 31/07/2011 1:23:19 AM Kerryanne, No one is attempting to "take" anything away from you. You come acro.....
» 30/07/2011 7:03:46 PM Suze, The last time we (U.S.) "went to war" with Somalia, the press got there be.....
» 30/07/2011 12:49:02 PM individual, I'm very pleased that you are an "advanced" learner. Your point wa.....
» 30/07/2011 12:25:43 PM The south-west corner of WA, where most of the population reside, is hardly any different .....
» 30/07/2011 10:20:57 AM Kerryanne, You're idea of "not interfering with nature" is remarkable in its de.....
» 30/07/2011 9:30:34 AM individual, You are comparing two radically different situations. Are you comparing inf.....
» 30/07/2011 8:22:02 AM individual, You talk from ignorance. Of course, technical aid is given to communities fro.....
» 30/07/2011 7:16:00 AM Philo, "Humans resemble the divine for principle and order rather than the lower ani.....
» 27/07/2011 6:15:08 PM Here's proof that Julia really is sweet. http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-07-27/sculions-c.....
» 27/07/2011 11:10:31 AM The leading question is, of course, were his actions derived from "self-transcending&.....
» 26/07/2011 10:48:33 PM [Deleted for abuse.].....
» 26/07/2011 5:20:27 PM He attempted to Borodin a few coins from a fellow passenger, but was told to Rachmaninoff .....
» 26/07/2011 11:19:51 AM indiviual, Fair enough. We all get involved in a little smart-arsed tit-for-tat occasiona.....
» 26/07/2011 10:36:16 AM Well, yeah, Yabby, BP changed its logo to one resembling a flower....what more evidence do.....
» 26/07/2011 8:27:27 AM Arjay, I once watched a segment of Glenn Beck's show where Andrew Napolitano totally demo.....
» 26/07/2011 8:08:41 AM individual, You seem to be quite vocal in your criticism of posters who resort to ridicul.....
» 25/07/2011 6:31:52 PM Steven, Humour is an excellent medium through which to transmit a deeper message, John Mo.....
» 25/07/2011 7:17:30 AM The current U.S. debt ceiling crisis has the capacity to destabilise markets. August 2 is .....
» 24/07/2011 5:49:32 PM Steven, Just thinking of Wodehouse again and his mastery of the mirth-inducing metaphor a.....
» 24/07/2011 5:04:18 PM Steven, Regarding Wodehouse - I like just about everything that I've ever read by him. I .....
» 24/07/2011 1:07:35 PM Pericles, True...and I've been quite vocal on the forum on that subject. Our political sy.....
» 24/07/2011 12:12:25 PM It's interesting that you should disdain to read such an article (although not surprising).....
» 24/07/2011 12:00:49 PM Steven, Just have to say that P. G. Wodehouse is a favourite of mine....very funny....Wha.....
» 24/07/2011 11:51:57 AM Yes, bonmot, entertaining article - Annabel sums it up well. Not only is Tony a longtime .....
» 24/07/2011 10:55:32 AM Who is "big business" and where is their announcement? Where are the bread line.....
» 23/07/2011 3:42:35 PM I wonder how long Thatcher would have reigned if not for the Falklands War....nothing like.....
» 21/07/2011 10:29:04 AM SPQR, "...over the comparatively short 100-200 years span since industrialisation........
» 21/07/2011 8:31:29 AM individual, The key word here is "integrity" - and it seems that most of the po.....
» 20/07/2011 2:19:13 PM Lexi, Regarding "broken promises", we should be mindful that it was the Howard .....
» 20/07/2011 5:11:00 AM Well actually, Antiseptic, you have no right to make so much sense so early in the morning.....
» 20/07/2011 1:02:20 AM Two policy u-turns in twenty-four hours - good one Tony! http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-.....
» 19/07/2011 2:02:11 PM Former News of the World employee and whistle blower in the hacking scandal has been found.....
» 19/07/2011 7:27:51 AM ChazP, Regarding "abusiveness". I'm wondering if your "P" stands for .....
» 18/07/2011 10:19:39 PM individual, Like morganzola and Lexi, I'm a little surprised to find that you're the auth.....
» 17/07/2011 2:21:07 PM Yuyutsu, I appreciate your sincere replies. If you believe that it is possible for you .....
» 17/07/2011 12:53:42 PM Yuyutsu, "Duty and care" can only be conceived by using your mind. You have &qu.....
» 17/07/2011 10:39:32 AM Yuyutsu, Why would you bother to type out the words if you were not intent on passing on .....
» 17/07/2011 2:48:34 AM ....and another thing, Yuyutsu, "Similarly, a concept of God...is a concept." .....
» 17/07/2011 2:04:27 AM Yuyutsu, If you were unable to represent your thoughts to yourself as mental images, migh.....
» 16/07/2011 10:45:03 PM Lexi and Squeers, Regarding the "stimulus" - the philosopher, William James spo.....
» 16/07/2011 10:55:02 AM Squeers, Thank you for your exposition. You have a knack for clarifying points that are h.....
» 15/07/2011 10:29:22 PM OUG and Yuyutsu, Perhaps we should replace the word "symbol" with "sign&qu.....
» 15/07/2011 4:04:09 PM OUG, Sorry to split (c)hairs, but the mental picture of a chair in your mind is not in fa.....
» 15/07/2011 3:50:05 PM ChazP, "Nice try, PooRot..." The only thing I misconstrued here is your is you.....
» 15/07/2011 1:22:53 PM Yuyutsu, Yes, I'm familiar with the Tao. ...and the Tao takes its wisdom from the machin.....
» 15/07/2011 10:32:52 AM Thanks OUG, "[I'm using words, chosen from my mind by imagry..in-spi-spired from out.....
» 15/07/2011 9:06:32 AM ChazP, Strange post to follow on from your previous "apology". You criticise &.....
» 15/07/2011 7:54:19 AM Okay a few more thoughts... Crabsy, It seems to me that the ego is utilised to assist th.....
» 14/07/2011 8:45:09 PM Hello Yabby, I haven't actually viewed your scintillating clip before posting this. I see.....
» 14/07/2011 4:48:27 PM Thanks Crabsy, - will get back to you later. Ammonite, You make a perceptive point in tha.....
» 14/07/2011 3:57:01 PM SM, It seems you're advocating "tactics" over "substance". If Mr Abbo.....
» 14/07/2011 2:37:48 PM Yuyutsu, As Squeers so eloquently pointed out above, the concept, the recipe and its inge.....
» 14/07/2011 1:33:13 PM Yuyutsu, "I am not after idea(s) ABOUT God, I am after union WITH God." ...but.....
» 14/07/2011 11:58:58 AM OUG, "If" one is here as a human being, then one is indoctrinated into the symb.....
» 14/07/2011 10:35:14 AM Yuyutsu, You state that you employ logic and experience as well as scripture reading to h.....
» 14/07/2011 9:57:22 AM Well it's clear that Tony Abbott is the soul of consistency : ) Just ask Malcolm Turnbull.....
» 13/07/2011 10:26:09 PM Surely that would require a modicum of wise counsel or even statesmanship, rstuart - and i.....
» 12/07/2011 9:02:17 PM Thanks csteele and Lexi, Perhaps I should try and take more of an interest - I used to be.....
» 12/07/2011 7:24:48 PM I don't know how you all do it. I haven't watched either of our two scintillating leaders .....
» 12/07/2011 2:39:03 PM Yuyutsu, If we "are" God, why do we have to work as individuals on our spiritua.....
» 12/07/2011 10:32:53 AM OUG, "clearly you are not a group to wit you ARE an individual" The "indi.....
» 12/07/2011 9:15:59 AM Yuyutsu, Squeers has a point. For what are we without our immersion in the symbolic order.....
» 12/07/2011 1:56:15 AM Yuyutsu, I'm open to all sorts of notions about our situation here in earthly materiality.....
» 11/07/2011 8:12:39 PM On the subject of unity between the spiritual and the material realms, this passage by Pri.....
» 11/07/2011 3:00:56 PM Lexi, "Their mess" is our mess. Their pollution production emanates from our st.....
» 11/07/2011 12:33:29 PM Lexi, Where is the "major change?" Our towns and cities are now designed to ce.....
» 11/07/2011 10:27:19 AM Shadow Minister, I agree.....
» 11/07/2011 6:23:26 AM Ludwig, "I don't think Howard did it for election reasons at all. He did it for prin.....
» 10/07/2011 8:53:38 AM Belly, What Ammonite said......
» 9/07/2011 9:16:17 PM What is it with this country in relatively recent history where we hold up conniving and a.....
» 9/07/2011 8:04:21 PM Thanks for the thread, Lexi. I think it's interesting to contemplate the varying degrees .....
» 9/07/2011 10:24:52 AM Hey, hey, bonmot - good one! Trickle-down neo-conservatism, no less......
» 8/07/2011 6:01:03 PM No, Rupert is not indecisive - and insiders consider that the closure of News of the World.....
» 8/07/2011 10:39:09 AM Great topic, Ammonite. Haven't time for a lengthy contribution at present. Suffice to say.....
» 8/07/2011 9:12:40 AM vanna, I'm always amazed at the way you seek to polarise this debate - and I wonder at yo.....
» 8/07/2011 7:22:13 AM Last edition of News of the World this Sunday. http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2011/07.....
» 7/07/2011 4:56:30 PM Me too!.....
» 7/07/2011 8:42:57 AM Shadow Minister, I'm intrigued by your reference to when Fukushima is "back under co.....
» 7/07/2011 5:33:30 AM Well said, Pelican. Middle-class welfare came into into it's own under the Howard governm.....
» 6/07/2011 9:50:52 AM vanna, "Repeating the mantra over and over is classic mind washing propaganda...&quo.....
» 5/07/2011 9:54:21 AM vanna, dane, JamesH, rstuart, RObert makes a good point about feminist expression. My p.....
» 5/07/2011 5:32:50 AM csteele, Thank you for adding some more thoughts to the idea of gift giving. Your comment.....
» 4/07/2011 5:01:43 PM No takers? Why am I not surprised..........
» 4/07/2011 1:58:47 PM I note that this thread has lately been colonised by the "Whinging, Whining, Moaning .....
» 3/07/2011 2:41:20 PM vanna, "If she was not whinging about something, she was moaning about something, an.....
» 3/07/2011 9:48:42 AM James H, No matter how "advanced" the human species considers itself, it is sti.....
» 2/07/2011 11:04:12 PM Daer Lexi, It's itnsetrenig taht ploepe can siltl magane to raed wdros eevn wehn tehy are.....
» 2/07/2011 8:47:13 PM RObert, Yep, Yep, Yep! I began to get these sort of calls about a year ago. Same spiel s.....
» 2/07/2011 8:29:40 PM RObert, Yes, well, "male-driven construct" wasn't perhaps the best choice of wo.....
» 2/07/2011 6:18:43 PM Dane and Yabby, You both choose to misconstrue my point. I'm not denying that women are g.....
» 2/07/2011 10:10:23 AM James H. In a "liberated" society, instincts are constantly challenged. Women a.....
» 2/07/2011 8:52:04 AM Morganzola, My daughter had the same opinion of Paglia's writing style - she made a point.....
» 1/07/2011 7:43:20 PM Talking about what men have created and why they created it, and sexual power and its daun.....
» 1/07/2011 4:40:58 PM Ian, Haven't time to post a longer comment at the moment, but just wanted to say that you.....
» 30/06/2011 9:19:26 PM Squeers, Yes, it is blindingly obvious....everything you said. I thought I was missing so.....
» 30/06/2011 2:44:20 PM imajulianutter, Global warming gives rise to volatile and unusual weather events - not to.....
» 30/06/2011 1:34:01 PM "Unhampered by Judeo Christian ethics...." What a hoot! LEGO......
» 30/06/2011 9:47:48 AM Ammonite, Yes, everything you listed is an aid to comfort...but don't you think somewhere.....
» 30/06/2011 9:06:07 AM Squeers, What shape do you think a Dionysian influence would take that could tame Apollo?.....
» 29/06/2011 6:21:01 PM JoM, I believe it was Neanderthals who were snuggly settled on the European continent pri.....
» 29/06/2011 5:58:27 PM Hells bells, Belly, What have you got against dear old WA...it's a great place to live. P.....
» 29/06/2011 10:30:07 AM Spindoc, If you're looking for "business as usual" you could do no better than .....
» 29/06/2011 8:43:45 AM Taking up Squeers's point, it seems that the "liberation" of women only really t.....
» 29/06/2011 12:30:08 AM Just remembered that one of my all time favourite films is a French documentary titled &qu.....
» 28/06/2011 2:43:23 PM Spindoc, Western corporate opportunists - or dictator opportunists - now let's see...go t.....
» 28/06/2011 11:03:22 AM Spindoc, "...the fact that it is despotic dictatorships that are actually responsibl.....
» 28/06/2011 10:11:13 AM Ammonite, Good point - seems the money was spent merely to prop up the system. Nor shoul.....
» 28/06/2011 9:51:31 AM Spindoc. The despotic dictatorships are aided and abetted wherever possible by the ".....
» 27/06/2011 4:09:57 PM I just dug out a small verse that speaks of the constant renewal involved in the act of gi.....
» 27/06/2011 10:12:55 AM Squeers, I concur. Regarding your preference for books. It's well known amongst my famil.....
» 26/06/2011 9:07:42 PM Women in modern consumer society use the same value system as men. That means that everyth.....
» 26/06/2011 6:16:53 PM Thanks Pelican, well said. It's interesting to compare different instances of gift giving.....
» 26/06/2011 12:08:57 PM Morganzola, Thank you for that - I would love to read the essay by Mauss. Lewis Hyde cit.....
» 26/06/2011 11:45:40 AM Jennifer, Could it be that our society is now too complex? All these "problems".....
» 25/06/2011 9:12:39 PM Bit of a change of pace for this thread. I was recently reading a book by Lewis Hyde title.....
» 25/06/2011 11:28:01 AM Lexi & Peter Hume, I caught only the last three episodes of Human Planet. I watched it wi.....
» 25/06/2011 10:24:30 AM Hasbeen, .....however, your parting comment is the most ridiculous "logic" I've.....
» 25/06/2011 10:12:13 AM Hasbeen. Interestingly, I get your point. When i was twelve, i climbed almost to the top.....
» 25/06/2011 10:04:22 AM Around sixty percent of Israel's exports are from high-tech industry, and much of this com.....
» 24/06/2011 6:02:25 PM Yes, GregaryB - how do you propose that your wonder virus would be disseminated? By that I.....
» 24/06/2011 9:21:31 AM A great documentary recently screened on the ABC was "The Human Planet"...it lef.....
» 24/06/2011 9:12:30 AM It would be a revealing scenario if Australia was ever subject to imperialistic invasion -.....
» 21/06/2011 9:09:35 AM Yabby, I'd give you a little more kudos for engaging others in a "balanced" man.....
» 21/06/2011 7:40:33 AM OUG, Thanks for that. So you're saying that knowing is different from believing - and th.....
» 20/06/2011 5:19:00 PM OUG, Just wondering what your "proof" is for the existence of God...and assume .....
» 20/06/2011 11:39:17 AM Pericles, You are right, of course. ...and I did attempt a few pages ago to lighten my v.....
» 20/06/2011 9:16:43 AM Houellie, Let's call a spade a spade, shall we. Your mate has amply indulged himself in .....
» 20/06/2011 8:19:14 AM Ammonite, Don't mind Yabby, he's just having a go....besides, my appeal(s) are doing just.....
» 19/06/2011 3:10:47 PM Yabby, It's not a blame game...just because humans have a penchant for burning libraries/.....
» 19/06/2011 2:50:22 PM Yabby, Sorry, you fail today's history test. http://www.suite101.com/content/book-review.....
» 19/06/2011 12:07:26 PM Lexi and Ammonite, There appears to be a clear distinction between a person who indulges .....
» 19/06/2011 7:56:36 AM Saltpetre, Your point regarding the probable reduced status of the West in world affairs .....
» 19/06/2011 12:46:58 AM Your poem is woven from similar threads, Saltpetre. Flaubert thought that an artist had t.....
» 18/06/2011 10:53:45 PM Col, Good for your show pony. Personally I couldn't think of anything less exotic than po.....
» 18/06/2011 8:54:54 PM Greg, "We are currently the custodians of....human rights and justice." ".....
» 18/06/2011 6:23:39 PM Col, Don't assume anything about me,(coz you'll probably be wrong) except perhaps that I'.....
» 18/06/2011 12:01:46 PM Col, I stopped referring to you on page 7.... While being momentarily dazzled by your &q.....
» 18/06/2011 10:48:20 AM Mr WindyBoyle, Sock-puppets are generally frowned upon on OLO. Saltpetre, You are one o.....
» 18/06/2011 9:57:16 AM Ammonite, Yes, a person with from NPD would not be fun to be around in any capacity. Stra.....
» 18/06/2011 9:46:47 AM Wm Trevor, Thank you for your entertaining summation. This thread is probably nearing its.....
» 18/06/2011 9:15:37 AM Ammonite, Just a point regarding Bill Gates. I believe it's been said that he probably ha.....
» 18/06/2011 8:56:04 AM Is Mise, Are you suggesting that we should become accustomed to people walking around bra.....
» 18/06/2011 1:53:59 AM Peter Hume, "...but what bragging is there on OLO" You may have missed the dra.....
» 17/06/2011 8:56:04 PM Thanks for that, Gents. ...wish I had the clarity of expression and literary presence on .....
» 17/06/2011 6:22:20 PM Col, You are (surprisingly) perceptive. I'll try and contain my ardour : ).....
» 17/06/2011 11:03:11 AM Hasbeen, More "wisdom"? Wasn't it you who suggested in another thread that we .....
» 17/06/2011 9:24:04 AM A certain amount of narcissism is seen as healthy for the individual and is part of our so.....
» 17/06/2011 8:34:04 AM Thomas Mann wrote this piece on the unity of the organic and the inorganic - I thought it .....
» 16/06/2011 3:30:47 PM Okay, Col, I've come to the conclusion that your posts entertain me more than they irritat.....
» 16/06/2011 2:53:04 PM Wm Treveor, The shape you are describing is called the "vesica" or "Mandor.....
» 16/06/2011 11:47:12 AM GregaryB, "How can you seriously believe that all 8 billion humans can be raised to .....
» 16/06/2011 11:02:55 AM GregaryB, A virus is almost impossible to contain, especially in this day and age with th.....
» 16/06/2011 10:41:10 AM Houellie, Actually, I think you might be right on that point. Must say I've been a littl.....
» 16/06/2011 10:31:01 AM OUG, Would it surprise you to know that I agree with you as to the meaning of Brother Guy.....
» 16/06/2011 9:33:53 AM Houellie, While I often appreciate your own valiant attempts at perverse humour, I'm perp.....
» 16/06/2011 7:45:15 AM This is a very interesting subject, and boasting is something we all do on the odd occasio.....
» 15/06/2011 6:56:20 PM Dear Col, Well, all is not lost if you spend all your riches....your children and grandch.....
» 15/06/2011 11:06:05 AM Houellie, "Charles Manson was quite eccentric." We usually reserved the term &.....
» 15/06/2011 10:24:38 AM OUG, Re: "clever editing": This is the full quote of that part: " Accordi.....
» 15/06/2011 10:09:16 AM Here you go, Col - educated yourself : ) http://www.wrm.org.uy/bulletin/165/Cameroon.html.....
» 15/06/2011 10:05:00 AM Col, Nice bit of spin. Talking about defacto re-colonisation....that is exactly what is .....
» 15/06/2011 9:25:31 AM OUG, Regarding what I said earlier about there being value in the "not knowing".....
» 15/06/2011 8:29:31 AM Hi Brooke, I found your story compelling. It highlights the complexity of a condition suc.....
» 15/06/2011 7:53:12 AM Of course, some eccentrics prefer to post their musings without undertaking a quick editin.....
» 15/06/2011 7:47:05 AM Pelican, Have to agree regarding eccentrics and people who generally stand apart from the.....
» 14/06/2011 12:56:53 PM This thread is turning out to be a good laugh. Have to admit that Col's braggadocio conce.....
» 14/06/2011 10:34:18 AM Col Rouge, A Modest Proposal, indeed - re: your parting comments. "Leave it to a pl.....
» 14/06/2011 9:02:09 AM Jayb, Perhaps some people "are" better than the common swill : ).....
» 13/06/2011 3:03:29 PM Yabby, You win today's award for the most patronising post..... Guess what?....today I'v.....
» 13/06/2011 11:06:16 AM Squeers, Just quickly - your point on the distinction between " anticipating nature .....
» 13/06/2011 4:49:00 AM Bamjo P., I've used this piece before by Noam Chomsky quoting biologist Ernst Mayr refl.....
» 12/06/2011 7:11:05 PM Squeers, It seems that for one to develop or celebrate his individuality, it is necessary.....
» 12/06/2011 12:14:33 PM Banjo P. I know what you mean by struggling to take everything in - although it's fun try.....
» 12/06/2011 1:57:09 AM Banjo P., Interesting..... Koestler coined the term "holon" in the book I ment.....
» 11/06/2011 9:41:03 PM Excuse me, Belly - but did you say that John Howard was a statesman? Not in my book, mate.....
» 11/06/2011 11:06:42 AM Hasbeen, Plumbing the depths this morning..... A particularly gross comment on your beha.....
» 11/06/2011 10:45:36 AM individual, Guns are a "minor issue" because at present we have relatively effe.....
» 11/06/2011 10:10:46 AM OUG, Is there anything inherently wrong with embracing humility in this matter? Is there .....
» 11/06/2011 8:45:17 AM A thousand pardons - SPQR, I couldn't resist. Now I have to wipe the evidence of your &qu.....
» 11/06/2011 8:23:21 AM Banjo P. and Squeers, Thank you for your thoughts. Banjo - same goes for me, as I always.....
» 10/06/2011 2:14:13 PM Curmudgeon, I'd offer the Indian experience as a pertinent example of the limits of unsus.....
» 10/06/2011 10:53:07 AM While questioning the morality of parents sending unaccompanied children to seek asylum in.....
» 10/06/2011 10:33:56 AM Banjo P., Perhaps societal paradigms, like all closed systems, are vulnerable to entropy .....
» 10/06/2011 9:53:22 AM Agree, Ammonite. Just because we've set up a system that relies on live exports, doesn't .....
» 10/06/2011 8:41:22 AM SPQR, There's nothing worse than cigarette smuggling refugees, I'm sure you'll agree. Le.....
» 10/06/2011 7:24:16 AM Jewely, "What bloody performance?" Good question - which I suppose is answere.....
» 9/06/2011 6:11:00 PM Saltpetre, The transcendence in joining as a social holon or becoming a follower of relig.....
» 9/06/2011 11:20:25 AM Col, You've mentioned your "show pony" wife before - usually to enhance yourse.....
» 9/06/2011 7:59:21 AM Wow, Squeers, What a revealing article!....and what a diabolical system it exposes. It is.....
» 9/06/2011 7:32:08 AM Yuyutsu, When I speak of transcendence, I'm referring to the psychological act of transce.....
» 9/06/2011 3:28:04 AM Saltpetre and Yuyutsu, Most of man's inhumanity to man is in response to his self-transce.....
» 8/06/2011 7:22:47 PM Saltpetre, Don't you think there's a significant paradox in the nature of the "extra.....
» 8/06/2011 9:45:32 AM Mr Singer, The commenters on this thread "got" the gist of your message loud an.....
» 8/06/2011 6:29:17 AM Belly, It is interesting that you put up a thread recently decrying the treatment of girl.....
» 7/06/2011 10:05:52 AM Au contraire, Philo..... The moral is that if you wield immense power in your own realm, .....
» 6/06/2011 3:31:47 PM Saltpetre, Yep, truth is a hard one to pin down, don't you think? As Squeers said, we a.....
» 6/06/2011 1:13:14 PM Aw, shucks, Belly, we've got a soft spot for you too : ) Capitalism tends to be more into.....
» 6/06/2011 9:41:23 AM This is what happens when you give someone a thesaurus for Christmas..........
» 6/06/2011 8:08:05 AM Belly, "It is why we live in Citys, not caves." I'm constantly fascinated that.....
» 5/06/2011 9:48:11 AM Interesting logic, Bazz. For a start, seeking asylum is not "illegal" - and if .....
» 5/06/2011 9:22:24 AM Suze, I don't believe this discussion is about demonising parents - it's lamenting the wa.....
» 5/06/2011 8:54:01 AM Belly, Labor's refugee deal is a pig's breakfast. Bowen is now trying to justify if by s.....
» 5/06/2011 8:23:21 AM SPQR, He'd have to go an awful long way to achieve the scale of death and destruction wro.....
» 4/06/2011 10:24:24 AM SPQR, It's frightening, isn't it, the number of people who are driven to commit or instig.....
» 4/06/2011 9:18:57 AM Belly, " the UNHCR says is okay"..... STOP PRESS.....apparently the UNHCR is o.....
» 4/06/2011 8:49:09 AM Belly, Some of us (naively, perhaps) expect a political party to have the "courage o.....
» 4/06/2011 7:18:20 AM Just have to comment further on the plan to send unaccompanied children to Malaysia, and u.....
» 4/06/2011 12:44:33 AM Lexi, The world abounds with "decent" people, although sadly they don't appear .....
» 3/06/2011 8:00:06 PM SPQR, My point being that Europeans considered their conquests to be a civilising influen.....
» 3/06/2011 7:47:25 PM Hi Lexi, You used the "structural adjustments", which tends to bring a person l.....
» 3/06/2011 1:33:58 PM I'm inclined (for once) to agree with SM on the fact that Julia and Labor have almost no c.....
» 3/06/2011 11:01:58 AM Yes, but Houellie, you're one of those rare souls who doesn't wish to be homogenized. Most.....
» 3/06/2011 10:09:25 AM Ammonite was correct in saying that Hicks was a Howard government scapegoat....and it was .....
» 2/06/2011 10:11:06 PM LEGO, .....charmer that you are...I thought I'd add a thought or two to the mix. Don't y.....
» 2/06/2011 2:08:39 PM Philo, That may be the role of chaplains as set out in official guidelines, However, read.....
» 2/06/2011 10:36:13 AM Is Mise, You have just confirmed my suspicions that modern industrial society comprehensi.....
» 2/06/2011 10:18:28 AM "These are professional early childhood people who know how to use play time to educa.....
» 2/06/2011 8:04:05 AM Let's face it - The European invasion of any landmass for the purposes of colonisation was.....
» 1/06/2011 7:59:19 PM Belly, You're right - I can long remember question time being a free-for-all. Politicians.....
» 1/06/2011 5:03:19 PM divine_msn, I was merely noting that the cultural dress code for Western women has altere.....
» 1/06/2011 4:26:46 PM Belly, I used to watch question time or listen to it on ABC News Radio....I was truly a .....
» 1/06/2011 2:58:53 PM It's interesting that I do have a problem with interacting in person with another human be.....
» 1/06/2011 10:02:57 AM Hey, SM - they're all "liars" it seems....Labor are indeed a monumental disappoi.....
» 1/06/2011 1:28:01 AM Lance, Here's a transcript of Evonne Paddison's speech - which does appear to cover the d.....
» 31/05/2011 10:38:28 PM Saltpetre, It's a shame we don't have more educators that hold to Squeers' philosophy. P.....
» 31/05/2011 1:51:51 PM Houellie, From where I'm sitting, poopsicle sounds a tad Beelzebubblish - don't you think.....
» 31/05/2011 10:42:17 AM Hi Lexi, I believe Obama was symbolic to many people of a change of guard in American pol.....
» 31/05/2011 10:16:30 AM Saltpetre, "Theorising purely for the sake of it" is often the catalyst for the.....
» 30/05/2011 7:29:16 PM Loudmouth, The Arab countries are embarking on revolutionary action in part as a response.....
» 30/05/2011 4:07:32 PM Houellie, The point is that government guidelines preclude chaplains from trying to conve.....
» 30/05/2011 10:02:54 AM Ho Hum, I suspect Pilger was referring to the " insufferable" nature of America.....
» 29/05/2011 9:22:34 AM Of course, "humility" is a key word here. And I suppose it's more difficult for .....
» 28/05/2011 12:30:57 PM Belly, I haven't got time today to get into a slanging match on this. Yes, China has ta.....
» 28/05/2011 11:27:37 AM Ammonite and csteele, I take your point...and I think my age is showing....coz I just rem.....
» 28/05/2011 11:17:45 AM Men and women evolved as complementary to each other..we each have attributes that complem.....
» 28/05/2011 9:28:57 AM What's interesting is that because these days I'm not watching the news and haven't clicke.....
» 28/05/2011 8:53:28 AM Saltpetre, Is it not obvious to you that we in the West hold hegemonic sway in the curren.....
» 28/05/2011 7:33:27 AM Belly, I'm not sure that I'm impressed with your style of debate, which is to seize the m.....
» 27/05/2011 9:54:27 PM Belly, I've just noticed your self-righteous little rant in my direction. I was merely i.....
» 27/05/2011 9:59:59 AM There is a simplicity in the tenets attributed to Jesus. Every now and then a man is bor.....
» 27/05/2011 8:10:11 AM Hi Belly, Interesting thread. I've had major computer malfunctions so was incommunicado f.....
» 24/05/2011 10:38:45 AM David, I can't help but respond in kind to such a positive post. Things look pretty good o.....
» 23/05/2011 7:42:19 PM Saltpetre, But God told Georgie to invade Iraq - don't you know. http://www.guardian.co......
» 23/05/2011 6:54:05 PM Hello gents, I personally think "new world order" is a touch passe these days -.....
» 23/05/2011 6:41:09 PM Squeers, How right you are! How did it get past Salty that you and I are OLO's most noto.....
» 23/05/2011 3:11:08 PM Gawd, Saltpetre, you've excelled yourself with that one. "....transparently camourfla.....
» 23/05/2011 10:06:53 AM It's interesting that humans tread a line between their self-assertive tendencies and thei.....
» 22/05/2011 10:41:52 PM Strange...that link seems to have gone somewhere a little off the beaten track - perhaps t.....
» 22/05/2011 10:33:44 PM "Excuse my cheek, but your thinking on concessions to immigrants strikes me as point-.....
» 22/05/2011 11:51:35 AM I don't for a moment believe that DSK was "set-up"- but, by the same token, I do.....
» 22/05/2011 10:55:12 AM David f., Of course, there is every reason to doubt that the Scandinavian standard of liv.....
» 22/05/2011 7:31:51 AM David f., Of course the U.S. offers many values to the world, but the fact remains that i.....
» 21/05/2011 9:25:30 PM Saltpetre, You mentioned that you were thought that God would be not amused at the antics.....
» 21/05/2011 11:01:50 AM Loudmouth, You are not only loud, but you run a particularly snide line of reply which di.....
» 20/05/2011 9:17:09 PM David f., I don't believe that western culture is the "only" cause of modern co.....
» 20/05/2011 7:46:05 PM David f., Wars may have been fought between humans for millenia, but surely that is no re.....
» 20/05/2011 3:32:21 PM Loudmouth, They are already corrupted by Western crap food, alcohol, etc. It seems your .....
» 20/05/2011 10:06:01 AM It's difficult to correlate the competing strands within the current set-up to the guideli.....
» 20/05/2011 9:36:32 AM Chris Lewis, You may not have noticed it, but it was pretty evident to me that the Howard.....
» 20/05/2011 9:24:43 AM Loudmouth, "South Africa has a nominally democratic government now, Squeers, wind yo.....
» 20/05/2011 8:52:18 AM Hey, Jewely - your cheeriness is due to feeling of "empowerment". You got to m.....
» 20/05/2011 7:40:23 AM Gawd, Belly...what is it with this forum? We have the fundie Christians accusing unbelieve.....
» 19/05/2011 3:50:55 PM BPT, I couldn't give a toss what you've got time for. A "humanitarian atheist".....
» 19/05/2011 3:33:16 PM Belly, Pakistan is supposedly an ally of the U.S. - although it's always been a farcical .....
» 19/05/2011 2:30:55 PM Rupert Murdoch was a player during something known as the Warburton Range controversy in 1.....
» 19/05/2011 11:01:20 AM What Ammonite said : ).....
» 19/05/2011 10:30:31 AM Ammonite, Yes, I agree that it's interesting to read the "whole" speech - not j.....
» 19/05/2011 9:23:55 AM BPT, I'm fascinated at how often the word "militant" is bandied about by Christ.....
» 18/05/2011 8:39:15 PM SPQR, Yes, it's an interesting turn of events, happening in the middle of my musings conc.....
» 18/05/2011 9:26:02 AM Sandpiper, "...when it had actually never rained on planet earth until the flood.&qu.....
» 17/05/2011 7:50:20 PM SPQR, You're right - ROFL, indeed. It did occur to me that it was a Freudian Slip, consi.....
» 16/05/2011 10:58:30 AM Dan, "Maybe ther're happy sitting back watching atheists discuss a "fable".....
» 16/05/2011 9:39:55 AM That should, of course, be "big-shot"......
» 16/05/2011 9:37:14 AM Absolutely Ammonite! Sorry Squeers, but you know I'm a notorious indigenous "leftie&.....
» 16/05/2011 8:54:00 AM It seems that the IMF and the World Bank have been weaving their "magic" in Egyp.....
» 15/05/2011 7:55:52 AM Well, of course, SPQR, you have a point - but I'm sure you get my drift. It's intriguing .....
» 14/05/2011 6:58:29 PM Steven, "You too easily buy into the stereotype of poor ignorant Blacks being cheate.....
» 14/05/2011 1:03:04 PM Saltpetre, "Our media, whilst imperfect "outs" the villains, and offers ho.....
» 14/05/2011 11:32:27 AM Steven, I agree that Mugabe is a bad man and a bad leader and, no doubt, in South Africs'.....
» 14/05/2011 9:36:17 AM Dan, Apparently scientists have successfully named and classified over 1.5 million specie.....
» 14/05/2011 9:13:30 AM SPQR, It's simply an antidote to the usual fare of spin and bullsh!t.... and of which you.....
» 14/05/2011 7:15:10 AM Belly, Contrary to your opinion, I don't believe that America is the repository of all ev.....
» 13/05/2011 10:35:54 PM Steven, If you're interested in some of the contributing factors in the ANC's failure to .....
» 13/05/2011 6:37:18 PM Steve, I'm no expert on South African politics, but When I read Naomi Klein's analysis of.....
» 13/05/2011 5:51:44 PM Gawd!..... Okay, Loudmouth....have you got your interpreter and ear trumpet at the ready?.....
» 13/05/2011 4:49:37 PM A link to Access Ministry's Head, Evonne Paddison's, speech about discipleship. http://ww.....
» 13/05/2011 4:15:37 PM Loudmouth, If something happens, and I draw a conclusion form the event - then it simply .....
» 13/05/2011 2:30:27 PM Loudmouth, Any one of those scenarios could have taken place - except that they didn't. .....
» 13/05/2011 11:02:06 AM Gosh, Loudmouth, you run a nice line in twisty-turny logic. Are you denying that The Sh.....
» 13/05/2011 9:49:48 AM Here's an interesting story related to proselytizing in Victorian schools... "The re.....
» 13/05/2011 8:34:11 AM Belly, Yes, you are right that the middle-east has experienced many upheavals throughout .....
» 13/05/2011 7:58:34 AM Yuyutsu, You have me also a little intrigued..... If you hold up God and consciousness a.....
» 12/05/2011 11:54:38 PM Loudmouth, I wasn't insinuating that the U.S. overthrew the Shah...how stupid would that.....
» 12/05/2011 11:35:39 PM Great post, Otokonoko. Here's a guy who liked things just the way they were. Check out th.....
» 12/05/2011 9:18:42 PM Belly, The acrimony and sabre-rattling that regularly passes between Iran and the West is.....
» 12/05/2011 4:21:20 PM Loudmouth, Talking of bullsh!t.... Remember Bush once said that the hardest part of his j.....
» 12/05/2011 11:16:08 AM I second that, Absolutely right, Ludwig. The social implications resulting from China's i.....
» 12/05/2011 10:38:49 AM Yuyutsu, Just imagine for a moment that a human child appears out of the blue. He is kept.....
» 12/05/2011 9:36:56 AM The Moors in Spain had a crucial influence on the preservation of ancient knowledge - and .....
» 12/05/2011 8:31:16 AM David f., Too true. Another interesting subject is Islamic guardianship and preservation.....
» 12/05/2011 8:03:18 AM Jewely, "The want babies at the age of one year old shoved into daycare with strange.....
» 12/05/2011 7:35:03 AM Lexi and OUG, Your discussion made me wonder when it was first postulated that the earth .....
» 12/05/2011 7:02:44 AM Belly, "If America pulled the strings, was the puppet master claimed here, an Islami.....
» 11/05/2011 4:44:56 PM Lexi, "History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon......
» 11/05/2011 4:30:11 PM Leo, Leo, Leo, So, in your opinion, anyone who perceived Georgie to be a tad dimmer they .....
» 11/05/2011 3:29:03 PM Yuyutsu, When I say "sky"- God, I'm using the sky as a symbol - meaning an enti.....
» 11/05/2011 11:24:13 AM Yuyutsu, It all depends on one's belief or point of view. You are guided everyday (as is.....
» 11/05/2011 9:35:55 AM Yuyutsu, I'm inclined to agree that the U.N. is exploiting the idea of mother earth as a .....
» 11/05/2011 6:50:59 AM St Augustine thought that the idea of the "Great Mother" was "the" mos.....
» 10/05/2011 7:24:22 PM Leo Lane, Yep - "misunderestimated" is a classic. But, pray tell - are you tel.....
» 10/05/2011 3:59:46 PM Obviously, I meant to state that it "wasn't" a smart-arsed question. I am very s.....
» 10/05/2011 3:57:42 PM You'll have to forgive me - I purposely haven't watched all this drama over bin Laden. Ca.....
» 10/05/2011 1:54:17 PM Leo Lane, Someone of Bush's calibre, eh...pretty hard act to follow. I've often thought .....
» 10/05/2011 8:44:02 AM OUG, I don't think Cannadine was trying to make the toffs look "good". He was o.....
» 10/05/2011 3:25:36 AM David f., Regarding the Great War, I have a book titled "The Decline and Fall of the.....
» 9/05/2011 10:29:52 PM Suze, "The world and its environment doesn't seem in great shape since the male God .....
» 9/05/2011 10:17:30 PM I don't see what the big deal is in equating the earth with "mother The earth nouris.....
» 9/05/2011 9:33:37 PM John Fielden was a factory owner and the M.P. for Oldham in Lancashire. He was a leading a.....
» 9/05/2011 3:18:25 PM Peter, Hume, I haven't "assumed" anything - it's you who assumes without studyi.....
» 9/05/2011 2:18:18 PM csteele, "I am one who believes the vast majority of humans are deeply empathetic an.....
» 9/05/2011 11:12:46 AM Peter Hume, The reason things improved regarding the health of the population was a direc.....
» 9/05/2011 10:33:24 AM Loudmouth, You're so right! ...And the reason America is such a conspicuous presence in .....
» 9/05/2011 7:09:35 AM Csteele, John Stewart is more than a comedian - he's a particularly savvy social and poli.....
» 8/05/2011 10:50:14 PM Peter Hume, "Spare me the emotive diatribe." You're not a character from Dicke.....
» 8/05/2011 8:47:07 PM Peter Hume, We have been here before - but just for old time's sake, could you tell me wh.....
» 8/05/2011 3:04:04 PM Yup, there's not much you can do when you post with a typo on OLO....we've all been there......
» 8/05/2011 10:01:07 AM Well, thank you very much, Yabby. - I shall have a look at that......
» 8/05/2011 9:54:38 AM Rebecca6, If one believes that God is the "creator"- then it is reasonable to a.....
» 8/05/2011 9:19:32 AM PaulL, I'll have to give you kudos for your response to OUG...very entertaining! You're .....
» 8/05/2011 8:54:48 AM Hiya Lexi - good to see you back. David f., I referred earlier to China's artificial soc.....
» 8/05/2011 7:57:17 AM Shadow Minister, You took the trouble to point out that Malaysia is not a signatory to th.....
» 7/05/2011 12:41:32 PM Peter Hume, So are you saying that people can't communicate opinions concerning the bette.....
» 7/05/2011 12:06:12 PM Actually, I just remembered something. As a child, I once had occasion to be installed in.....
» 7/05/2011 11:53:24 AM David f., I'd look forward to any article you'd care to write on the subject of China's p.....
» 7/05/2011 9:26:31 AM Squeers, Ď think it's more about heroism and patriotism as sacred cows for the unthinking.....
» 7/05/2011 8:17:05 AM Belly, Let's get a few things straight. People who question the American government's pen.....
» 6/05/2011 5:45:51 PM Houellie, "It's only from the position of vast personal wealth that grand gestures o.....
» 6/05/2011 4:59:04 PM Beezlebubba, Sorry about that. I should have realised how transparent were our antics. Ho.....
» 6/05/2011 2:22:09 PM Beelzebubba, Houellie is perhaps the most hilariously perceptive of the articulate poster.....
» 6/05/2011 1:25:39 PM Flo, I was a Labor supporter - Labor was full of criticism the whole set-up involving N.....
» 6/05/2011 12:48:04 PM Hey, Franc - I can't think of anyone on this forum less likely to be a card-carrying ACL m.....
» 6/05/2011 9:47:01 AM David f,. Well, all things come to pass - empires, like foaming waves, rise and fall....a.....
» 6/05/2011 7:24:58 AM Yabby, As you can imagine, I wasn't pro Bush's Administration either. I celebrated back .....
» 5/05/2011 10:30:24 PM Since this thread is about the reasons for war, and whether man has the capability of over.....
» 5/05/2011 7:55:36 PM Shockadelic, "Do you want a generation of passive clones that just do what everyone .....
» 5/05/2011 7:40:02 PM In Hegemony or Survival, Noam Chomsky wrote: "Those who want to face their responsib.....
» 5/05/2011 6:00:37 PM David f., I suppose I was on your case, but really just to highlight that fact that we ar.....
» 5/05/2011 2:37:47 PM Jewely, "I have a pet rat." ...surely you mean a filigree Siberian hamster.........
» 5/05/2011 2:14:42 PM Talking about those who are easily duped.... Who knows what all this hoopla is about, but.....
» 5/05/2011 1:57:50 PM Hi again Squeers, The above is in reply to your last post addressing me......
» 5/05/2011 1:55:19 PM Squeers, Very good point. Humans, being intelligent, are masters at deception and misrep.....
» 5/05/2011 10:18:01 AM Davidf., By "overcoming the situation" I mean the human leaning or condition th.....
» 5/05/2011 9:26:21 AM David f., For this whole thread I've been mindful of the human predisposition to belliger.....
» 4/05/2011 11:18:58 PM Oh, good one, Yabby.... Nice to know I'm keeping you intrigued. Actually, I've deliberate.....
» 4/05/2011 10:11:58 PM David f, My idea of provocation is someone deliberately rattling someone else's cage to i.....
» 4/05/2011 8:35:21 PM David f., Excuse me if I'm somewhat bemused by your logic on the subject of personal crit.....
» 4/05/2011 7:19:16 PM Yabby, I was a bit a news hound - and I like the Lifestyle Channel (I'm only human, after.....
» 4/05/2011 5:34:04 PM Well, there ya go, yaself, Yabby. What makes you think your judgment is so crash hot? (t.....
» 4/05/2011 4:20:59 PM Just a further rumination... My overall feeling here is that all this "release of det.....
» 4/05/2011 3:14:09 PM Houellie, May I congratulate you on a most excellent and perceptive post (IMHO) : ).....
» 4/05/2011 3:10:04 PM "...oil being the prime objective of US invasions.... Well, der..........
» 4/05/2011 2:14:07 PM David f., I accept that you do not relish being characterised other than you see yourself.....
» 4/05/2011 10:14:18 AM "Opting out" is central to the successful implementation of SRI in schools. Sch.....
» 4/05/2011 9:46:07 AM I haven't been watching the news (as I don't watch much telly these days) - although I usu.....
» 4/05/2011 9:09:23 AM Houellie, "Zeitgeist" would have to be one of my all time favourite words - and.....
» 4/05/2011 8:20:10 AM Rob, Christianity (as opposed the Christ's own example) has, and continues, to walk hand .....
» 3/05/2011 8:57:12 PM David f., I wonder if, even with the differences expressed by Squeers and yourself (and m.....
» 3/05/2011 2:49:04 PM Jewely, I wasn't so much scared as totally bemused - I had been lifted from one environm.....
» 3/05/2011 2:23:20 PM I think we have here a fairly good example of symbolism giving rise to an ideological &quo.....
» 3/05/2011 10:21:41 AM My problem is that the "manufacture" of an evil entity is crucial to U.S. suppor.....
» 3/05/2011 10:01:36 AM Actually, Yabby, your words to weareunique - "what you do as grandma does not." .....
» 3/05/2011 8:10:09 AM David f., Keynes also had other things to say while speculating on the chances of capital.....
» 2/05/2011 8:46:59 PM Jewely, No, it wasn't like boarding school. It was arranged as a settlement of houses. On.....
» 2/05/2011 8:06:54 PM Thinker 2, The fact is that we don't know - and we will probably never know. Anytime this.....
» 2/05/2011 6:56:53 PM Jewely, "What on earth were you doing there?" Well, that is a very good questi.....
» 2/05/2011 5:15:47 PM I agree with pelican that the impact of bin Laden's death will be largely symbolic - as he.....
» 2/05/2011 2:39:42 PM Funnily enough, even though I'm not Aboriginal, I spent some months at a mission. (cos my .....
» 2/05/2011 10:29:28 AM David f., That is fascinating. I often think that if I'd had the chance to do it over aga.....
» 2/05/2011 9:51:41 AM OUG, Tribalism is very much part of the human paradigm. There is no relevant symbolic di.....
» 2/05/2011 9:22:36 AM OUG, What do you mean, "if we're returning back to tribalism"? - we never left .....
» 2/05/2011 7:47:03 AM This is a fascinating subject, because it goes to the very heart of symbolic identificatio.....
» 1/05/2011 12:05:38 PM Squeers, You are right that much of our idea of sporting competition has been usurped and.....
» 1/05/2011 10:35:15 AM David f., I think our "herd instinct" is perhaps the biggest hurdle for man to .....
» 1/05/2011 9:29:53 AM Candide, "Perhaps Professor Rowe could write an article about the way milliners can .....
» 1/05/2011 8:42:13 AM Thanks David and morganzola for those heartwarming examples - although they are both unusu.....
» 30/04/2011 12:38:57 PM Indeed, that may be so, David. From a personal perspective, I find it difficult to imagine.....
» 30/04/2011 9:49:46 AM Would that be along the same lines as Princess Michael of Kent?....she's been around for y.....
» 30/04/2011 9:00:05 AM I believe the only way you can get near a pokie in WA is to visit the casino in Perth....s.....
» 30/04/2011 8:27:34 AM OUG, All cultures use pomp and celebration for the same reasons. It's a pulling together .....
» 30/04/2011 8:04:12 AM vanna, I actually did quite well at science in high-school, despite a procession of tedio.....
» 29/04/2011 9:58:22 PM Hi Yabby, Your just the bloke I wanted to talk to - How about those hats on all the women.....
» 29/04/2011 6:35:36 PM Whadaya mean, Prince Charles is a nutter? He happens to possess an intricate knowledge of .....
» 29/04/2011 10:29:58 AM JamesH, Perhaps you could take note of the response of female posters to Saltpetre's comm.....
» 29/04/2011 9:36:17 AM lego, What sad little rants trickle off your fingertips. ....although they're a telling .....
» 29/04/2011 9:13:48 AM Saltpetre, "...all this fraying of cultural cohesion...." Yes, it's a good way.....
» 29/04/2011 8:35:05 AM Funnily enough, even though I'm not watching much telly at the moment, I will be having a .....
» 28/04/2011 9:21:15 PM JamesH, vanna has rarely (if ever) uttered a positive word about women - although he usua.....
» 28/04/2011 7:00:29 PM David f., Your initial question was - "Can we act rationally to attack the causes of.....
» 28/04/2011 9:43:52 AM Pericles, Interesting point about the limits of the human imagination. I have a picture .....
» 28/04/2011 9:16:22 AM Sounds like SM is chanelling good old Protestant upper middle-class morality to me. Fanc.....
» 28/04/2011 8:44:22 AM Philo, "God does not create wars"- precisely! Man creates, spiritually and mat.....
» 27/04/2011 9:52:53 PM vanna, It's not incumbent upon me to answer your questions - and I know your penchant for.....
» 27/04/2011 8:18:59 PM vanna, I'm beginning to suspect that your conduct is really a masochistic ploy to have yo.....
» 27/04/2011 5:25:38 PM vanna, How about "how to dissect a misogynist".... (Of course, taking "di.....
» 27/04/2011 9:20:18 AM lego, Voltaire wrote: "Prejudices are what fools use for reason.".....
» 26/04/2011 7:35:23 PM Makes you wonder why a "loving God" would design an "intelligent" spec.....
» 26/04/2011 7:02:39 PM Divergence, Yes, I've just been looking up the 86 percent figure - and it seems the infor.....
» 26/04/2011 5:59:27 PM Individual, We in the West started both "their" wars.... Read Blade's post - y.....
» 26/04/2011 1:39:11 PM Jewely, It's obvious that the term "normal Australian citizens" encompasses an.....
» 26/04/2011 12:44:27 PM vanna, "Find one instance where I have said something negative about women." .....
» 26/04/2011 9:26:11 AM Philo, I doubt that Squeers could be construed as being a "shallow thinker" - b.....
» 26/04/2011 8:25:10 AM vanna, You surely are a precious flower. Your comment is overwhelmingly an instance of t.....
» 26/04/2011 8:09:58 AM LEGO, Gawd...can't wait for your book. I'd love to read how the British went round sprink.....
» 25/04/2011 3:20:17 PM Westerners currently utilise around 86 percent of the world's resources. That's about 1 bi.....
» 25/04/2011 8:10:09 AM Jim Wallace, You hold up capitalism as if it's not some avaricious, insatiable and unsust.....
» 25/04/2011 7:21:11 AM Belly, Never feel as if you have to excuse your level of education. Your spirit and your .....
» 24/04/2011 1:10:22 PM Pelican, Good comment. Belly, This sort of blather is really not worth getting stirred .....
» 23/04/2011 9:57:02 PM Shadow Minister, Got yerself a little fixation here, it seems. - whatever floats your b.....
» 23/04/2011 1:32:17 PM csteele, Howard's abiding talent as Prime Minister was bound up in his cunning. His abili.....
» 23/04/2011 10:18:35 AM sarnian, It seems that mankind has always found it difficult to accommodate his amazing i.....
» 22/04/2011 10:01:03 PM runner, "....new age stinking thinking."...I kinda like that one. And I'm alway.....
» 22/04/2011 12:19:41 PM LEGO, White Western people "are" warmongers who run around stealing other peopl.....
» 22/04/2011 8:26:49 AM I like the way LEGO refers to ethnic or indigenous societies as "barbaric"- as i.....
» 21/04/2011 2:27:08 PM Yabby, The last thing I'd want is for you to take me seriously. : ) So you're saying tha.....
» 21/04/2011 10:55:16 AM kaep, You are obviously vanna's conjoined twin - except you're the shouty half. What a l.....
» 21/04/2011 8:44:47 AM Hasbeen, "...they fail to thrive once they get out into the big nasty world." .....
» 21/04/2011 7:47:36 AM KAEP, What a strange post. According to Camille Paglia, if things had been left up to wo.....
» 21/04/2011 6:57:54 AM popnperish, GDP is the measure of economic "well-being". It is a quantitative m.....
» 20/04/2011 8:20:20 AM Cheryl, Are you saying that the world "isn't" a closed system?.....
» 19/04/2011 1:34:51 PM vanna, The whole paradigm of Western society is based around consumerism - and daycare ce.....
» 19/04/2011 11:10:26 AM TBC, "Chaplins".... - conjures up some comical visions of school "counsel.....
» 19/04/2011 10:20:37 AM Houellie, Ewe are probably rite. I take myself a little two seriously sometimes. Perhaps .....
» 19/04/2011 8:50:25 AM Suze, I think technology does contribute greatly to obesity, Mostly these days we sit - e.....
» 19/04/2011 8:37:18 AM Well said, Squeers. I read a long article by Joe Bageant and was impressed. Some see thin.....
» 19/04/2011 8:08:15 AM vanna, I'm probably one of the more dubious about feminism among the women of OLO - and i.....
» 19/04/2011 7:49:29 AM Peter Hume, "we are capable of valid logical conclusions therefrom" George Ber.....
» 18/04/2011 7:39:30 PM vanna, You really are a most delightful fellow, aren't you - I'll be sad when you return .....
» 18/04/2011 6:18:00 PM vanna, "Poirit You are extremely abusive, and I can fully understand why you are att.....
» 18/04/2011 2:06:48 PM Belly, I agree with TBC. You said, "Join the Liberals or my mob...." What do.....
» 18/04/2011 12:16:35 PM Belly, Tell me what Labor stands for these days?.....
» 18/04/2011 7:29:04 AM Wow, Cherful....go to the top of the class for the most simplistic analysis of history eve.....
» 17/04/2011 8:46:01 PM vanna, Of course, you're right...woman couldn't give a toss about their offspring - apart.....
» 17/04/2011 7:56:05 PM Pericles, Excuse me, but you're disenchanting me somewhat here. I'm fast coming to the co.....
» 17/04/2011 5:32:37 PM Hahahahahaaaa!.... That's very good, Jewely......
» 17/04/2011 5:12:44 PM Belly, A big Sunday avo hug your way! Sorry to hear you've been under the weather. Hop.....
» 17/04/2011 1:10:59 PM Sorry, Belly, this long-time Labor voter thinks that Gillard and her government are appall.....
» 17/04/2011 12:24:40 PM Suze, Yes, the women had to step up during both major wars - and they acquitted themselve.....
» 17/04/2011 8:56:48 AM Ooh, ooh, Jewely - that is interesting that you are puzzled by the same phenomenon - women.....
» 17/04/2011 8:42:11 AM donkeygod, The "Green Revolution" in India is only now being fully played out. .....
» 17/04/2011 8:12:59 AM vanna, Suffice to say, that I think your idea of a course of child-raising is a load of b.....
» 17/04/2011 7:53:31 AM rehctub, I understand where you're coming from. I ask for male assistance with jobs like.....
» 17/04/2011 7:17:21 AM vanna, Government funding of childcare is provided as an incentive to encourage women int.....
» 16/04/2011 8:04:15 PM Wm Trevor, Why choose 1850? How about we go back to 1750, before the the advent of the In.....
» 16/04/2011 12:50:44 PM Jewely and Ammonite, Obviously women have participated in a warrior capacity throughout t.....
» 16/04/2011 11:50:51 AM It's interesting that we seem to be swapping gender roles to prove something. Anthropolog.....
» 16/04/2011 11:34:09 AM It's an interesting question. The application of economics to the fluid world of human end.....
» 16/04/2011 8:45:51 AM Philo, Over-consumption, greed, waste, disconnection from and destruction of habitats are.....
» 15/04/2011 9:47:42 PM rehctub and TBC, I knew if we waited long enough we'd finally get down to the nitty gritt.....
» 15/04/2011 9:26:40 PM weareunique, Thanks for the useful tips....it all sounds like oodles of fun :).....
» 15/04/2011 4:04:51 PM Yabby, Why do you assume that it was a universal requirement that pre-industrial or indig.....
» 15/04/2011 9:15:02 AM The only way that rampant over-consumption could be cut is for the masses to voluntarily w.....
» 15/04/2011 8:43:26 AM Squeers, It is the "passivity" of consumption that defines our apparent inabili.....
» 15/04/2011 12:56:39 AM Squeers, "....they want to cut emissions "via" consumption. How does that .....
» 14/04/2011 10:39:29 AM Pericles, You're darn right, I would : ).....
» 13/04/2011 3:19:29 PM Rehctub refers to women in traditionally male roles as a lowing of standards. - I don't a.....
» 13/04/2011 11:03:56 AM TBC, You're right - it's those from the lowest socio-economic strata who take it on - men.....
» 13/04/2011 9:30:23 AM I couldn't think of anything worse than joining the army and going into battle. I'd be qui.....
» 13/04/2011 8:41:22 AM individual, "Men want women." - yep, get that. "Left wing males want othe.....
» 12/04/2011 4:44:04 PM Houellie, Good question. I suppose an intuitive sense of reassurance and continuity of ci.....
» 12/04/2011 2:15:58 PM Houellie, You seem to be saying that in order for a relationship to remain vital and to f.....
» 12/04/2011 10:33:23 AM Houellie, If you wrote a book dispensing your singular wisdom - I'd buy it. As for women.....
» 12/04/2011 4:45:21 AM Tristan, Here is a link to a transcript of British historian, Tony Judt's landmark lectur.....
» 12/04/2011 3:59:38 AM The link to Houellie's comment - this time in linkable form: http://forum.onlineopinion.c.....
» 11/04/2011 9:13:24 PM NQD, This is slightly off the current line of discussion, but I'm fascinated with your (n.....
» 11/04/2011 8:12:54 PM This subject came up in a thread over in the articles section, so I thought it might attra.....
» 11/04/2011 3:06:39 PM Hey Pelly, "Trouble is most women don't know what men want..." Sounds like a g.....
» 11/04/2011 10:59:27 AM How often do I lament my lack of editing skills? - very often : ) That last sentence shou.....
» 11/04/2011 10:49:04 AM Just thinking again that this assumption of a super-organism, connected and in harmony wit.....
» 10/04/2011 9:25:15 PM I've got to say that it does sound a tad fanciful for Flannery to assume mankind is approa.....
» 10/04/2011 2:40:35 PM popnperish, It's interesting that the acceptability of my question with you rests on the .....
» 10/04/2011 2:17:12 PM Bravo! LEAP.... I may not agree with your ideas, but at least you put them forward. (I t.....
» 10/04/2011 1:28:46 PM popnperish, What you believe is right is not an absolute. It's your idea - strongly influ.....
» 10/04/2011 10:35:36 AM eyejaw, continuing on.... It's almost impossible to isolate cultural gender values from .....
» 10/04/2011 9:10:43 AM eyejaw, I agree that "show and tell" and one-up-manship is a waste of time - ho.....
» 10/04/2011 8:30:24 AM SPQR, "A large part of humanity is behaving like bacteria: eat, defecate, and quickl.....
» 10/04/2011 7:20:07 AM Belly, I think LEAP is concerned about sustainability....trouble is that he is more conce.....
» 10/04/2011 5:57:46 AM Talking of Labor's jettisoning its past and "looking to the future" - here is a .....
» 9/04/2011 12:49:42 PM I expect planet earth will institute some sort of population "correction" someti.....
» 9/04/2011 9:56:48 AM runner, I believe if you examined each and every epoch of history, you would find the sam.....
» 9/04/2011 8:34:33 AM runner, No doubt you are frustrated that humans behave...well, like humans. Sorry to info.....
» 9/04/2011 7:52:07 AM vanna, You can't generalise where these things are concerned. A good friend of ours is a.....
» 8/04/2011 5:28:30 PM Lexi, These two parties seem to represent varying degrees of the same thing. What do yo.....
» 8/04/2011 8:02:00 AM Reason is a hard taskmaster. I think that in modern man, ideas of reality are probably far.....
» 7/04/2011 8:03:22 PM eyejaw, You make a lot of assumptions....are you doing anything to aid education in third.....
» 7/04/2011 10:30:05 AM Pelican, I'd whisper if I was you...we don't want Julia to hear of such wanton slacking :.....
» 7/04/2011 8:16:19 AM rpg, You should have included a little more information to your quote from Barry Brook's .....
» 7/04/2011 7:26:12 AM Interesting statement, rpg...perhaps these reactors produce mayonnaise ....in any case, t.....
» 6/04/2011 11:06:00 PM Peter, This is all rather fascinating. I looked up objectivity and one definition was &q.....
» 6/04/2011 11:44:11 AM runner, We all know that no "smirkers" party would be complete without Peter Co.....
» 5/04/2011 6:45:09 PM Oh, wow, sonofgloin...thou woundest me with the truth! You are right, of course. I was me.....
» 5/04/2011 5:47:50 PM eyejaw, Did I say that I considered having 6 out of 10 people under 30 years-old was a go.....
» 5/04/2011 4:29:11 PM I didn't see Rudd last night, but I'm assuming that he was back to his old relaxed self th.....
» 5/04/2011 4:15:51 PM Amicus, I'd love to continue our little tit-for tat- discussion here, however, I think it.....
» 5/04/2011 3:48:09 PM "....only 33.3% of Arab women 15 years and older work, compared to the global average.....
» 5/04/2011 2:43:31 PM Amicus, Sorry about that - I hadn't realised that it was your call to inform the rest of .....
» 5/04/2011 11:03:56 AM Amicus, Well yes, you're entitled to rejoice in your good fortune....yet, if that excess .....
» 5/04/2011 9:48:01 AM It seems we may be headed for a reversal of fortune and practice. As Cameron wrote, it wa.....
» 4/04/2011 4:53:03 PM Houellie, Did you ever look up that book I once recommended to you titled "How To Be.....
» 4/04/2011 1:34:17 PM Hi bonmot, There is no alternative to the West lessening its dependence on manufactured e.....
» 4/04/2011 11:49:02 AM bonmot, "...yes, there are fools here..." I take it you don't suffer them glad.....
» 3/04/2011 5:01:59 PM vanna, I suggest we discover ways to wind back our reliance on petrol/diesel driven trans.....
» 3/04/2011 2:34:01 PM rpg, It's a shame that no-one's come up with a way to fuel the world on short-sighted arr.....
» 3/04/2011 11:05:54 AM Yeah, rpg...."so what".... There are plenty of sites discussing the implication.....
» 3/04/2011 6:40:59 AM "technically recoverable oil" What an endearing term. Here's a link to Canada'.....
» 1/04/2011 11:41:01 AM runner, What evidence?.....
» 1/04/2011 11:19:19 AM Yabby, I suppose that is the crux of Western development and advancement - the urbanizati.....
» 1/04/2011 11:05:03 AM thinker 2, There is a pervasive disconnection in the minds of Western man between the ori.....
» 31/03/2011 9:36:49 PM Grim, Less time and less inclination.... I include the following just to give an idea of.....
» 31/03/2011 5:37:40 PM Well....having analysed all of your responses, I've come to the conclusion that I'm inclin.....
» 31/03/2011 4:52:51 PM Great article - and a pertinent example of the throw-away mentality pervading all corners .....
» 31/03/2011 4:41:38 PM individual, "....the result is rather more wisdom than can be claimed by fence sitti.....
» 31/03/2011 10:38:55 AM Hello LEAP (BLU?), Well, yes, humans have a penchant for covering the earth with concrete.....
» 31/03/2011 8:29:40 AM thinker 2, Innovation is the process by which man seeks to advantage himself by improving.....
» 30/03/2011 7:22:33 PM Ha ha! (You've been peeping over my fence).....
» 30/03/2011 5:59:15 PM OUG, I "don't" think that everything that eventuates pertaining to the human co.....
» 30/03/2011 3:09:21 PM OUG, "anyhow your defending the yabby that's so nice" hmmm....so I'm not allow.....
» 30/03/2011 10:35:28 AM Yabby, My televisual therapy is coming along nicely - I watched two programs last night :.....
» 29/03/2011 8:10:16 PM It's a shame I haven't got the editing instinct : ) The second last paragraph should read.....
» 29/03/2011 7:52:53 PM Lexi, I have to disagree with you on that one. Man, I believe, relies to a great extent o.....
» 29/03/2011 6:34:40 PM Yabby, It was fairly plain in meaning that what Ortega was alluding to is that man's abil.....
» 29/03/2011 5:16:40 PM Yabby, It's useful to ponder the differences and similarities between humans and other ap.....
» 29/03/2011 10:42:49 AM Lexi, Thanks for your input on this thread - I seem to have become a little sidetracked e.....
» 29/03/2011 8:07:33 AM Houellie, "...and Charlie and Lola (Which I secretly LOVE)". Maybe there is ho.....
» 29/03/2011 1:33:28 AM If you don't mind me saying so, Yabby, I agree with your prognosis. Now back to Fukushima.....
» 28/03/2011 9:44:45 PM Yabby, Well it was a joke : ) I wouldn't really expect a couple of young whippersnappers.....
» 28/03/2011 6:40:21 PM Arjay, My take on it is that they purposely released the 10 Million figure....it makes th.....
» 28/03/2011 2:42:51 PM Okey Houellie and Yabby, The game is obviously up... You two come across as a pair of sm.....
» 28/03/2011 11:29:37 AM Houellie, You're the one that keeps trying to label me as someone who thinks they are a c.....
» 28/03/2011 9:04:15 AM Houellie, The "prescribed course" is the one that is most accessible in any soc.....
» 28/03/2011 8:36:05 AM vanna, "...people who have not the slightest positive opinion of boys or men". .....
» 28/03/2011 6:50:29 AM Apparently that alarming report was inaccurate. Tokyo Electric now says that the spike is.....
» 28/03/2011 6:19:21 AM OUG, Chopra says that everything is energy and information at quantum mechanical levels -.....
» 27/03/2011 10:15:34 PM Yabby, Considering you're so "well-read", you seem to possess a particularly na.....
» 27/03/2011 4:35:57 PM Radiation level in water at reactor 2 tested 10 million times above normal today. http://.....
» 27/03/2011 1:48:23 PM Yabby, I always appreciate your input (and Houellie's too) - after all, I'm here to try a.....
» 27/03/2011 8:14:16 AM Houellie, Notwithstanding your penchant for relieving yourself upon the well-laid tables .....
» 26/03/2011 7:57:42 PM Well it doesn't matter then - your anticipations are no concern of mine......
» 26/03/2011 7:47:19 PM Hee, hee, Houellie - you think you can read me - but you can't. Because I lament bogan se.....
» 26/03/2011 6:59:10 PM Thinker 2 and David f, If it's a matter of following the herd - that's what people do. It.....
» 26/03/2011 11:40:24 AM Yabby, If you ever took the time to look beneath the surface, you'd realise that human ex.....
» 25/03/2011 5:55:28 PM Houellie, Just read your post about voyeurism - and I agree. We are voyeurs. We watch th.....
» 25/03/2011 4:57:33 PM "...It's simply that nerds or the lame "artists" are so tiresome.....".....
» 25/03/2011 3:52:39 PM Dear David.f, You're right that we tend to think of creativity as a lonely act. But when.....
» 25/03/2011 9:28:30 AM Yes vanna, your consistent attacks on teachers are ludicrous. I'm a homeschooler, but I d.....
» 25/03/2011 9:15:25 AM Dear David f, I could be more creative - I tend to spend a little too much time thinking......
» 25/03/2011 8:17:10 AM Pelican, Your place sounds resonant with opportunities to create. A vegetable garden is n.....
» 25/03/2011 7:56:33 AM David f, The women on the General Electric production line probably weren't getting much .....
» 24/03/2011 10:53:40 PM I hope you are right, Yabby. - although judging by the plethora of fast-food outlets and t.....
» 24/03/2011 9:58:37 PM Yabby, You are right, of course, that creativity is still with us in varying degrees - ho.....
» 24/03/2011 11:01:01 AM What happens to the human psyche when a society dispenses with the need for people to crea.....
» 24/03/2011 8:04:22 AM rechtub, "We need a system like America. Wait staff there either become very good at.....
» 23/03/2011 8:22:45 PM Aime, What do you call a person who can't recognise a typo when they see one? (hint: the.....
» 21/03/2011 10:18:12 AM Houellie, I can see that you realised quite young exactly what schooling is about - not j.....
» 21/03/2011 9:54:44 AM Houellie, We are home a lot of the time, however, it's more about being able to go out in.....
» 21/03/2011 8:35:33 AM Houellie, Rendering yourself inconspicuous to the bullying fraternity is sometimes beyond.....
» 20/03/2011 7:09:18 PM Very true, Pelican, The Miss Marple and Poirot novels written by Agatha Christie are form.....
» 20/03/2011 6:08:25 PM Hastings has asked me to inform you that he has no wish to work with "Hollywood types.....
» 19/03/2011 7:57:35 PM Why is everyone of the opinion that "institutionalisation" - in school or elsewh.....
» 17/03/2011 4:13:15 AM "This whole episode has been fascinating for the role played by so-called "exper.....
» 16/03/2011 1:59:06 AM Hey vanna, When you've got a spare minute you might like to pop over to the Australian pa.....
» 15/03/2011 10:41:01 PM Au contraire, yerself, Houellie, Tell me again about the superior level at which the aver.....
» 15/03/2011 2:26:48 PM bonmot, Apologies for the poor choice of words - there was an explosion at the site of th.....
» 15/03/2011 11:59:40 AM Houellie, I could have bet a million bucks you'd begin your reply laughing - (honestly - .....
» 15/03/2011 10:41:52 AM bonmot, Reactor No 2 at Fukushima has just exploded - this after the fuel rods were twice.....
» 15/03/2011 10:29:46 AM Houellie, Perhaps there is more behind your own analytical and rancorous attack on a &quo.....
» 15/03/2011 9:46:34 AM vanna, It seems that your opinion of motherhood in this country has obviously been skewed.....
» 14/03/2011 2:43:55 PM Oops! - there goes the outer shell of reactor No 3... http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/.....
» 14/03/2011 2:04:52 PM Houellie, I think you're arguing with the wrong person here. You see, I don't consider wo.....
» 14/03/2011 11:43:01 AM Houellie, I agree that men always valued "women's work"- and, yes, it is femini.....
» 14/03/2011 11:28:46 AM Houellie, You read that wrong - I'm not sensitive on this subject or upset. Humans adapt.....
» 14/03/2011 10:07:51 AM Houellie, I see you're still going. Our consumer paradise has served to warp our traditi.....
» 14/03/2011 9:37:11 AM Houellie (my sweet) - you twist my words. Where did I say that women being tethered to th.....
» 14/03/2011 9:12:12 AM rehctub, Ahh....you're noticing that there are some utilities that should remain part of .....
» 14/03/2011 8:45:06 AM Yes,bonmot - very interesting. It seems to be saying that as long as the core is cooled a.....
» 14/03/2011 8:31:03 AM Notwithstanding that women in third world countries face challenges that most Western wome.....
» 13/03/2011 6:50:59 PM Hiya Belly, I have to agree with you that Gillard's lot is only there because Abbott is s.....
» 13/03/2011 1:09:39 PM On the subject of human evolution and development - Alvin Toffler offers an helpful perspe.....
» 13/03/2011 10:34:48 AM vanna, You wrote: (in your efforts to blame it all on the mummys) "with obesity the.....
» 13/03/2011 7:36:30 AM vanna, For the hundredth time - Western women are tethered to the system. What part of th.....
» 13/03/2011 4:30:16 AM Squeers, The changes and advances in Western lifestyle have been so dizzyingly rapid in t.....
» 12/03/2011 8:20:21 PM There has been an explosion at Fukushima No 1 nuclear power plant. There are reports that .....
» 12/03/2011 8:40:15 AM vanna, You seem surprised that it is women who do most of the "shopping".(inter.....
» 12/03/2011 8:22:47 AM Belly, I've just noticed you've picked up stumps. Sorry, can't allow that. Whadaya mean .....
» 11/03/2011 10:07:27 PM vanna, It's interesting that you think I'm being mean and nasty to you. I hold no animosi.....
» 11/03/2011 7:40:49 PM Squeers, On toilet seats - I think you have a valid argument regarding why the onus is on.....
» 11/03/2011 2:19:05 PM We will have to give up our addiction to consumerism in order to change things. The whole .....
» 11/03/2011 7:38:40 AM Houellie, Obviously everything that takes place at a societal level is the responsibility.....
» 10/03/2011 9:09:33 PM vanna, I thought I was just about done with this thread..... But seeing as you appear to .....
» 10/03/2011 8:29:20 AM Well, at least we agree on something, vanna - because I'd take a detour to avoid a drunken.....
» 9/03/2011 8:28:23 PM vanna, You are a hoot! I would suggest that a little drinky is good for the soul. Good c.....
» 9/03/2011 7:22:34 PM vanna, What's with the fixation on finding women a drink? Read the first chapter of Cami.....
» 9/03/2011 1:08:13 PM briar rose, Class does play a role in determining such things. The class that writes the.....
» 8/03/2011 3:08:04 PM vanna, I'm not being mean and nasty. I'm simply puzzled by your attitude, and your partic.....
» 8/03/2011 12:39:28 PM Loudmouth, "Happy International Women's Day, everybody..." Can't wait to hear .....
» 8/03/2011 12:07:56 PM Houellie, You're just so radical, aren't you. I was referring to the practice of discou.....
» 8/03/2011 11:04:36 AM Suze, You are stridently opinionated - as are we all. It is what makes OLO so entertainin.....
» 8/03/2011 10:51:05 AM vanna, "Science leads to industry, which eventually leads to wealth, and eventually .....
» 7/03/2011 9:02:44 AM Houellie, "...I know many a man who sees the enjoyment of cricket by a woman as comp.....
» 7/03/2011 7:27:19 AM vanna, What a strange little world it is that you inhabit. One full of vile crones who ha.....
» 7/03/2011 7:03:30 AM Yes, it does seem that the meaning and purpose of Jennifer's article has been willfully sk.....
» 6/03/2011 10:02:25 AM vanna, It is no concern of mine whether you believe it or not - in the '70's, during my p.....
» 6/03/2011 8:38:54 AM vanna, Squeers made a point earlier that he'd made the distinction that feminism had fash.....
» 5/03/2011 2:42:33 AM Squeers, Why do believe that it is any more likely that women would have the foresight or.....
» 4/03/2011 7:43:58 PM Houllie, The "increased risk" I was referring to really pertains to a situation.....
» 4/03/2011 2:34:43 PM It's interesting that modern Western society has warped the human experience to such an ex.....
» 4/03/2011 12:33:06 PM rehctub, "...society did this by wanting what they couldn't afford...." Well, .....
» 3/03/2011 10:54:57 AM The grand strategies implemented under the Bush Administration resulted in a serious overr.....
» 2/03/2011 9:49:16 PM Shadow Minister, Must say that it's highly entertaining watching you and rehctub going th.....
» 1/03/2011 6:38:50 PM Oh, golly gosh, rehctub - you're so right! "Never, ever" actually means "I.....
» 1/03/2011 1:25:34 PM Joanme, Good points - "All political parties lie and backflip." Mr Howard even.....
» 28/02/2011 9:01:29 AM Pelican, The bottom line is that there is no difference between Julia's change of heart a.....
» 26/02/2011 12:07:06 AM Nice to see ANZ advertisements have returned......
» 23/02/2011 10:06:40 AM Michael, You appear to be selective in your calls for transparency, judging by your comme.....
» 17/02/2011 4:37:34 PM runner, Unfortunately the word "fundamentalist" has taken on derogatory implica.....
» 17/02/2011 4:20:18 PM Michael, You are representing Gregory as a man of principle. The point is that Gregory i.....
» 17/02/2011 3:16:01 PM It seems that Gregory's preference for censorship is selective. In this blog with the titl.....
» 16/02/2011 8:48:24 PM JuliaGillardHasFailed, I told you you'd become addled with all this darting between threa.....
» 16/02/2011 4:36:29 PM Correction, The quote from MikeyBear is: " If the moderator had removed them via hi.....
» 16/02/2011 4:25:01 PM Michael, In your reply to briar rose some pages back, regarding the comments, you said: &.....
» 16/02/2011 4:01:34 PM JuliaGillardHasFailed, You must be totally out of breath....dashing about so fast between.....
» 16/02/2011 3:30:38 PM Greg, It does seem a little strange that you even bothered to contact Graham about the co.....
» 15/02/2011 8:28:50 PM Populations shift. Human migration is the one constant in the history of the species. Why .....
» 15/02/2011 1:53:21 PM Mikey Bear, I could claim "offence" by your your statement to me insinuating th.....
» 15/02/2011 11:55:17 AM MikeyBear, "This site seems to be the best place to have the discussion" It se.....
» 13/02/2011 8:36:53 PM It's been a slow Sunday afternoon with nothing to do but swap jibes with Shadow Minister.......
» 13/02/2011 6:13:33 PM If you say so, Shadow Minister, Talking about honesty and truth..... http://www.smh.com.a.....
» 13/02/2011 4:33:53 PM Shadow Minister, Of course, I expected you to come back with that...and 'tis true that Ho.....
» 13/02/2011 3:15:48 PM Shadow Minister, Isn't politics fun! BTW, I was under the impression that implementing a.....
» 13/02/2011 2:38:06 PM Oh, I don't know, a597 - it seems the opposition pride themselves on their "gutsy&quo.....
» 13/02/2011 1:07:06 PM Flo, Fair enough :).....
» 13/02/2011 9:51:50 AM Cornflower, I was referring to this "issue". You are no doubt aware that this i.....
» 13/02/2011 8:39:41 AM Flo, I personally don't know that much about Bill Shorten. But I would just like to bring.....
» 13/02/2011 8:13:30 AM Just want to make the point regarding moderation of OLO, that it seems that complainants o.....
» 13/02/2011 7:40:39 AM Forrest Gumpp, Well explained. It does seem that this issue has now jumped the divide an.....
» 12/02/2011 2:48:06 PM Graham, I was just as interested in the comments that followed Kim's piece - especially i.....
» 12/02/2011 11:59:33 AM Just thought I'd post this Feb 7th link to Larvatus Prodeo and their discussion of the con.....
» 10/02/2011 10:44:53 PM SPQR, Thanks for that - it's actually quite an interesting phenomenon......
» 10/02/2011 6:05:23 PM Lodge formal complaint Or make some telephone calls Which is vindictive?.....
» 10/02/2011 5:58:30 PM Hi Belly, I'm convinced there is no alternative to Malcolm Turnbull for the Liberal leade.....
» 10/02/2011 5:33:52 PM Kipp, Jennifer appears not to have been passing judgment on the degree of offence taken, .....
» 10/02/2011 5:23:19 PM I've read that description in quite a few commentaries - that it appeared Mr Abbott was si.....
» 10/02/2011 10:25:38 AM rpg, Oil, in its "natural" state, is enclosed within the earth's crust - not fl.....
» 9/02/2011 8:02:14 PM individual, I'm spellbound by your repartee. Why ask others to enlighten us when it's ob.....
» 9/02/2011 6:34:32 PM Absolutely, Squeers. Graham - the hallmark of "survivors" is that they have the.....
» 9/02/2011 1:09:20 PM "This has become a thriving hub of rat-bag activity." Really?....pray, don't ho.....
» 8/02/2011 2:39:55 PM It's enlightening to ponder and compare the difference between the freedom of expression a.....
» 8/02/2011 8:24:56 AM Vanna, I agree with about the bullying of high-functioning autistic children, both from t.....
» 7/02/2011 10:34:43 PM Vanna, One shouldn't write off high-functioning autism as if it's hardly a challenge at a.....
» 7/02/2011 7:51:51 PM I vote we all take up Absinthe drinking. We could have L'Heure Verte on OLO every evening......
» 7/02/2011 4:24:23 PM sonofgloin, It's not a debate about homosexuality - it's a debate about freedom of speech.....
» 7/02/2011 4:16:31 PM Dear Al, I was adopted, so only found out through the years of my biological heritage - s.....
» 7/02/2011 1:48:27 PM Flo, Of course the education system takes control of children. They are barely out of na.....
» 7/02/2011 9:30:06 AM Good one, Pericles, It's not uncommon for Dear Al to mention his Scottish forebears. I ha.....
» 7/02/2011 9:18:15 AM Suzeonline, If a subject is represented by both "pro" and "anti" arti.....
» 6/02/2011 7:54:32 PM Dear Al, You're a bit of a worry. "The French are finally deporting Roma" mm.....
» 6/02/2011 6:35:21 PM Yes, Squeers - it's strange, isn't it how our society wrings its hands over the tribulatio.....
» 6/02/2011 10:29:36 AM Dear Al, You hold up British Prime Minister, David Cameron as if he is the ultimate arbit.....
» 6/02/2011 10:14:52 AM Jewely, Have to agree with you about being dubious of the herd mentality - especially as .....
» 6/02/2011 9:06:46 AM Shadow Minister, Yes, I believe it was seen by certain echelons within the establishment .....
» 5/02/2011 7:37:46 PM Forrest Gumpp put this link up on another thread. http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/op.....
» 4/02/2011 4:42:20 PM But it's an artificially contrived community. It's first purpose is to serve consumer soci.....
» 4/02/2011 1:45:42 PM Dear David f,. My daughter (who turns 29 this year) seemed to pass through her school yea.....
» 4/02/2011 1:28:44 PM I say, this thread has taken a flirtatious turn - can I join in? Have you really got a fu.....
» 4/02/2011 2:50:49 AM Squeers, Thanks for the Emerson link - I read it with pleasure. When I was first summoni.....
» 4/02/2011 12:16:59 AM As a Belgian refugee with impeccable taste and magnificent moustaches, I often ask myself .....
» 3/02/2011 7:24:05 PM Dear David f., There were various reasons for choosing home education. I have an adult da.....
» 3/02/2011 8:56:28 AM Peter, Just briefly - What purpose and motivation can an individual have outside of a hum.....
» 3/02/2011 6:44:58 AM I feel the same repugnance for the politics of both sides...seems it's just a dud time for.....
» 2/02/2011 3:36:56 PM David f., Sorry was a while getting back - first day of homeschooling for the year, and w.....
» 2/02/2011 11:21:48 AM david f., You wrote in your introductory post to this thread: "Can we recognise the .....
» 1/02/2011 11:49:44 PM David f., It seems to me that an elitist stance automatically invokes a we/they dynamic. .....
» 31/01/2011 6:06:28 PM Dear Al, I agree with Pericles - and I'm amazed that you find Glenn Beck so credible. I .....
» 31/01/2011 2:07:49 PM Dear Al, The ideals attributed to Christ are not necessarily those practiced by his adher.....
» 31/01/2011 11:31:15 AM Yes, it's obvious that the Enlightenment has permeated the sensibilities of the heirs of m.....
» 30/01/2011 9:18:21 PM Shintaro, "There's two kinds of folk Those who think there's two kinds of Folk and .....
» 30/01/2011 3:29:22 PM Oh dear, David F., You appear to have draped the stage with your usual props. Found this .....
» 30/01/2011 2:08:54 AM You know, I've been sitting here late at night trying to imagine all the people of the wor.....
» 30/01/2011 1:11:15 AM Stezza, "If so please note the following." ....please also note that the Reagan.....
» 29/01/2011 11:42:02 AM Dear Al, Sorry to inform you, but the masses are easily led. They are docile and gullible.....
» 29/01/2011 11:01:03 AM Atheism: - from the Greek atheos, without God. (a~not + theos~God) Without a belief in t.....
» 29/01/2011 9:13:13 AM Out of the mouths of babes... Last night my nine year-old son asked me why the chimpanzee.....
» 29/01/2011 8:45:57 AM Philo, Well, there you go - that is a very un-Christian and insular sentiment that you ju.....
» 28/01/2011 9:00:19 PM Absolument! Shintaro. From January's Time Magazine, here are some up to date stats on gun.....
» 28/01/2011 12:41:50 PM Iraq is the epitome of "war for profit". The Bush Administration championed the .....
» 28/01/2011 9:50:32 AM Dear Al, You're a bit of a technique man yourself.....and your hero, Beck, is a maestro o.....
» 28/01/2011 8:54:27 AM Here's an article itemising all the cuts to planned projects. http://www.abc.net.au/news/.....
» 27/01/2011 12:25:44 PM ....as opposed to the "all-knowing" self-righteousness regularly articulated by .....
» 27/01/2011 10:28:41 AM Philo, Many of the squires that propped their over sized backsides on the church pews eac.....
» 26/01/2011 11:01:29 AM Squeers, Here's something William Cobbett observed in 1824 after a tour of the mills and .....
» 26/01/2011 9:31:30 AM Chris, Your example of the practices of Foxconn did bring to mind many instances I have re.....
» 24/01/2011 12:04:29 PM Dear Al, "Humanity left to itself will go anywhere...." Well, yes. These ".....
» 24/01/2011 8:40:36 AM Well said, Squeers - I like your term "creative destruction". SPQR - the ".....
» 22/01/2011 11:35:58 AM Here is an extensive list which displays Beck's manipulative style. His prognostications o.....
» 22/01/2011 10:37:04 AM Dear Al, You seem to be giving credence to the notion of armed insurrection - which is th.....
» 21/01/2011 7:52:12 AM Jennifer, We'd be sorry to lose you....one thing you should know about Yabby is that he's.....
» 20/01/2011 11:03:46 AM Dear Al, No doubt there are dubious references to violence in the politics of left and ri.....
» 20/01/2011 10:02:16 AM Chris, Peter and Squeers, I came across this article (adapted from a lecture) by Tony Jud.....
» 19/01/2011 5:43:00 PM Leo Lane, Where is the misinformation in this article? Why is it a disgraceful to expose.....
» 19/01/2011 1:51:24 AM Austin Powerless, You said (amongst your catalogue of "pleasantries"): "Ca.....
» 14/01/2011 4:35:01 PM Belly, My point was that perhaps if the Americans (and British) had not trampled Iran's .....
» 14/01/2011 1:57:46 PM 579, We are indebted to you for another scintillating commentary on the morality at play .....
» 14/01/2011 1:25:32 PM If it's a matter of "the truth verses the American government" - then that doesn.....
» 14/01/2011 9:41:13 AM Cornflower, Mexico's high rate of gun trauma is not linked to domestic gun ownership - whi.....
» 14/01/2011 8:34:22 AM Thanks for that, Yabby. It does make a difference when you get the whole story....I think .....
» 14/01/2011 8:06:23 AM Belly, Would you deny that those events are not still pertinent to the the West's relatio.....
» 14/01/2011 1:12:40 AM It's all very well to spruik about the desire to bring democracy and freedom to the ".....
» 13/01/2011 12:16:27 PM It seems that Sarah Palin has adopted the of new tag line of "Blood Libel" as a .....
» 12/01/2011 7:26:15 PM RawMustard, Why then do they send soldiers to war with guns....could it be that they are .....
» 12/01/2011 7:12:25 PM Exactly, Lexi. These massacres take place with morbid regularity in the U.S. It's overwhe.....
» 12/01/2011 4:41:27 PM Glenn Beck's letter to the American people, politicians and media: http://www.glennbeck.c.....
» 12/01/2011 10:28:14 AM Individual, I had no idea that things were so simple. Fancy there being "good" .....
» 11/01/2011 8:20:22 AM Very good point, TBC. Of course, that article was from the Australian. I often wonder how.....
» 11/01/2011 7:39:43 AM Here's a fairly good summary on the current debate in the U.S. on the language of violence.....
» 10/01/2011 11:02:13 PM Cornflower, It's interesting that you find my comments provocative and incendiary. On ton.....
» 10/01/2011 2:17:48 PM Cornflower, I'm not implying that Sarah Palin was responsible for this tragedy. I am, ho.....
» 10/01/2011 1:10:51 PM Interestingly, Sarah Palin and the Tea Party movement have been receiving some peripheral .....
» 10/01/2011 2:22:44 AM And now for something completely different...here are a couple of articles on Finland's ed.....
» 9/01/2011 8:44:15 AM It's fascinating, runner, the way your particular brand of religious zeal negates the abso.....
» 7/01/2011 10:43:33 PM It is interesting watching the direction in which Australian education is going. It seems .....
» 7/01/2011 8:10:45 PM All- I wouldn't call myself an atheist - merely someone who, like many others is looking .....
» 7/01/2011 6:13:13 PM runner, Strangely enough, I was reading something this afternoon that links with your post.....
» 7/01/2011 5:36:33 PM I'm sure many Muslims would be able to tick off instances of Western brutality one by one .....
» 7/01/2011 11:59:17 AM Filip, Thanks for the Mencken quote. On the subject of production line education with the.....
» 6/01/2011 8:23:30 PM Belly, It seems that the Americans "humanized" Saddam when it suited them despi.....
» 6/01/2011 8:22:42 AM Diane Ravitch is a former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Education and also a former advocate.....
» 5/01/2011 9:23:47 PM Hi Squeers, You know, I have at least four novels by Jane Austen on my bookshelves and a .....
» 5/01/2011 8:09:55 PM TBC, "Collins sounds far too clever to be bothering about the Vatican at all". .....
» 5/01/2011 6:04:05 PM SPQR, Referring to Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, my query to Yabby was more in the line of, .....
» 5/01/2011 5:36:50 PM Paul Collins is quite an engrossing commentator on matters of Catholicism in the contempor.....
» 4/01/2011 9:09:53 PM Hi Yabby So would I be right in surmising that the pro-American Sauds give money to the .....
» 4/01/2011 8:41:18 PM SPQR, Belly knows we're not trying "to get to him". He's the first to admit tha.....
» 4/01/2011 7:55:46 PM Hi Jon J. Well, there ya go...that's why I'm drawn to his ideas on art...I'm in favour of.....
» 4/01/2011 4:13:56 PM Perhaps 579 and DIS should get in touch with the Australian Federal Police and ask them wh.....
» 4/01/2011 3:44:58 PM Jon J. Despite your less than flattering labelling of Prince Charles, you might be intere.....
» 4/01/2011 3:13:52 PM In his book "Harmony", Prince Charles writes that for art to "resonate".....
» 4/01/2011 12:50:27 PM Cornflower, There is a difference between the strategies employed in a major conflict lik.....
» 31/12/2010 3:02:53 PM Right back at ya, sonofgloin, - hope it's a good one......
» 31/12/2010 2:50:22 PM sonofgloin, Nice try at dismissal...but I'm still here. I'm not an eco-warrior - just a .....
» 31/12/2010 11:30:24 AM This could be a first - but I agree with Yabby's comment about people desiring everything .....
» 31/12/2010 11:08:04 AM I have two friends whose husbands are both around fifty - one just over, one just under. A.....
» 31/12/2010 9:08:20 AM Thanks for the article, Rose. Pelican, Definitely Yabby for Mr April. I think you're ont.....
» 28/12/2010 11:32:50 AM Belly, I agree that it's pretty scary for men. The whole of civilised culture is a flight.....
» 26/12/2010 10:04:32 PM "Security guards" - "effective comments databases" - "automatical.....
» 22/12/2010 11:11:19 AM TBC, As you point out, Julia was following standard operating procedure, knowing that if .....
» 22/12/2010 9:45:18 AM Forrest, It does seem that there is a blueprint in Australian political machinations that.....
» 21/12/2010 10:19:49 AM It's always fascinating to witness Australian leaders putting our best foot forward on the.....
» 19/12/2010 10:55:18 AM PaulL Assange maintains that transparency encourages untruthful, deceptive and conspirato.....
» 18/12/2010 1:14:52 PM Well said, Squeers. Just noticed a brief statement on a sidebar on the ABC News Online Si.....
» 18/12/2010 8:48:15 AM Thanks for that, Forrest, You're right that I thought I would wing it that Keir Starmer w.....
» 18/12/2010 7:36:53 AM Forrest and Jewely, This article appears related to the cable discussed earlier..from a S.....
» 17/12/2010 10:10:22 PM Forrest, This is a link to a Swedish site concerning the CPS's role in challenging bail. .....
» 17/12/2010 2:12:32 PM The AFP has not found any breaches of Australian law by Wikileaks. Also, "Defence Mi.....
» 17/12/2010 10:07:17 AM Correction - "moralising" should read "memorialising"......
» 17/12/2010 9:54:31 AM Jewely, A relatively quick perusal of the cable indicated to me that it seemed to be prim.....
» 16/12/2010 11:40:51 PM He got bail. http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/dec/16/julian-assange-wikileaks.....
» 16/12/2010 5:38:47 PM Loudmouth, Yes, indeed - but it does beg the question as to why certain echelons of the U.....
» 16/12/2010 4:17:53 PM Loudmouth, Whatever a government represents, it's basic logic that if you want to protect.....
» 16/12/2010 4:09:06 PM Jewely, I came upon the Guardian's report also - then noticed you'd already posted it. Th.....
» 16/12/2010 12:16:45 PM Dear Al, Re: Truth being the first casualty of war. I read this line somewhere recently in.....
» 16/12/2010 9:58:02 AM Fareed Zakaria, writing in the latest edition of Time Magazine, criticised the "new&q.....
» 15/12/2010 10:07:32 PM PaulL, One quote (Assange - Time Magazine): "....Since 2006 we have been working al.....
» 15/12/2010 8:38:52 PM Danielle, You said, "Surely people are not going to sacrifice their power to exercis.....
» 15/12/2010 8:15:04 PM Jewely - in answer to your last question....only if it's politically expedient to do so......
» 15/12/2010 8:08:00 PM Geoffrey Robertson described the allegations as "flimsy". I agree, that if it w.....
» 15/12/2010 6:01:01 PM Your last question was a good one, Jewely. Danielle, There are inherent risks involved i.....
» 15/12/2010 5:05:14 PM Danielle, Wikileaks did not reveal its source in Manning's case - Wikileaks takes great p.....
» 15/12/2010 4:15:29 PM Dear Al, Did you happen to catch Judge Andrew Napolitano on Glenn Beck's show recently. M.....
» 15/12/2010 3:04:10 PM Is something rotten in the state of Sweden? The legal manoeuvring surrounding the detentio.....
» 15/12/2010 9:58:34 AM Apparently it's highly unusual to appeal the decision in a case like this. Assange's lawye.....
» 14/12/2010 11:40:20 PM Sorry to interrupt, boys, but I just wanted to mention something I noticed this afternoon .....
» 14/12/2010 6:20:31 PM TBC, No doubt about it - they all waited to see which way the pendulum swung and if the g.....
» 14/12/2010 5:08:29 PM TBC, Still, the tide in political and media support of Assange and Wikileaks appears to b.....
» 14/12/2010 4:40:52 PM Lexi, Thank you for those links...another good read. Just learned that Australia's main .....
» 14/12/2010 4:32:32 PM Never fear, Belly,- it seems that Julian Assange and Wikileaks has today attracted solid s.....
» 14/12/2010 3:34:10 PM The following is a link to the timeline of Julian Assange's visit to Sweden and the events.....
» 14/12/2010 9:56:42 AM Jennifer, Thanks for the article. I'm also interested in the kind of rhetoric employed by.....
» 14/12/2010 9:36:51 AM Mitchell, I like your term "facilitator of dissent". Assange has referred to h.....
» 14/12/2010 8:09:10 AM Below is a link setting out the timeline for Assange's visit to Sweden and the events that.....
» 13/12/2010 7:44:08 PM Squeers and Lexi, Looking at it from a certain point of view, Julian Assange is symbolic .....
» 13/12/2010 2:04:09 PM On the subject of whether the dealings of other countries will be aired by Wikileaks, Assa.....
» 13/12/2010 9:59:11 AM Good points, Forrest, Messing with the public's perception is an art. The Wikileaks pheno.....
» 13/12/2010 9:27:14 AM If the basis for these nebulous Swedish allegations weren't constructed so loosely of fair.....
» 13/12/2010 8:21:27 AM Kevin Rudd has mounted a strong defence of Julian Assange's legal rights and is prepared t.....
» 12/12/2010 11:47:36 AM Lexi, From the same interview in Time Magazine, Assange was asked if there were any circu.....
» 12/12/2010 10:33:30 AM It's interesting that Julian Assange was not formally "schooled" to a great exte.....
» 11/12/2010 9:48:47 AM It's easy to be fascinated when people like Assange seem to appear out of nowhere. they se.....
» 11/12/2010 3:31:13 AM It seems that MP's from the left-wing of Gillard's parliamentary faction are revolting.........
» 11/12/2010 3:06:34 AM Jewely, Thanks for the link. Mr McClelland seems to be adept at repeatedly stating a conc.....
» 11/12/2010 2:09:41 AM The following is a link that explains just how dependent a phenomenon like Wikileaks is on.....
» 10/12/2010 11:23:32 AM Jewely, It's refreshing to see the pollies on the back foot and scrambling to validate th.....
» 10/12/2010 10:19:28 AM Yes, Jewely I read that too - that one of the women was no longer cooperating...the plot t.....
» 10/12/2010 9:55:31 AM Jewely, I saw some media coverage where it was pointed out that the hackers are not shutt.....
» 10/12/2010 7:01:54 AM Squeers, I saw Al's comment as well - couldn't have put it more succinctly myself. The pr.....
» 10/12/2010 6:48:37 AM Is there a statute that proscribes the publication of diplomatic cables, either here or in.....
» 10/12/2010 6:22:21 AM It appears that the Gillard Government is sticking to its guns on this one: http://www.th.....
» 9/12/2010 10:11:23 PM According to the Australian, Independent MP Andrew Wilkie has accused Julia Gillard of tra.....
» 9/12/2010 8:08:31 PM Dear Squeers, I have no doubt that it will be co-opted to a greater or lesser extent. but.....
» 9/12/2010 4:32:19 PM Belly, "...on what charges, for what crime". I believe some American lawmakers.....
» 9/12/2010 1:44:25 PM Peter Hume, Once again, I agree with you! 579, Dear, oh dear....more nebulous qualifier.....
» 9/12/2010 10:42:17 AM Raycom, Assange did not steal the documents......
» 9/12/2010 9:54:12 AM Raycom, Can you enlighten us as to which law Assange has broken in regard to Wikileaks?.....
» 9/12/2010 9:08:02 AM Well, most of the commenters here seem to hold my own sorry view as to the expectation of .....
» 9/12/2010 4:57:33 AM It looks like the tide has well and truly turned for Ms Gillard in the wake of her hasty c.....
» 8/12/2010 9:31:56 PM Assange wrote this editorial for the Australian hours before his arrest. http://www.theau.....
» 8/12/2010 7:28:44 PM Dear Lexi - thanks for the link. Dear Squeers, I suppose it all comes down to proof. As .....
» 8/12/2010 2:50:54 PM A little background to the Swedish allegations. http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/dec/.....
» 8/12/2010 10:23:41 AM What would have happened if the Australian Government had offered Julian Assange sanctuary.....
» 8/12/2010 8:33:58 AM "In Assange's case the circumstances surrounding the allegations of rape were initial.....
» 7/12/2010 11:12:49 PM diver dan, I don't have the freedom to set up a site to facilitate the exposure of leaked.....
» 7/12/2010 10:12:20 PM It's fascinating to witness the oh so obvious stitching-up of Assange. The rhetoric employ.....
» 7/12/2010 9:56:58 PM Pelican, Welcome to the Clayton's version (The free society you have when you don't have .....
» 7/12/2010 8:26:33 PM Just heard some breaking news on BBC that Assange has been arrested by British police......
» 7/12/2010 6:16:23 PM An open letter has been sent to Julia Gillard which has almost 200 prominent names attache.....
» 7/12/2010 5:52:29 PM Yabby, When you say, "My integrity is important to me." in the context of this .....
» 7/12/2010 2:06:09 PM runner, Assange is not seen as an authority figure. He is regarded as someone who had eno.....
» 7/12/2010 11:03:17 AM runner, I'm merely comparing a shift in dynamics and a similar response from "author.....
» 7/12/2010 9:49:28 AM Excellent article, Brian. Your point that Assange, "is merely the embodiment of a fu.....
» 7/12/2010 9:30:00 AM rpg, You said: "...but, just saying someone is evil, doesn't make them so". Pre.....
» 6/12/2010 11:29:23 PM Dear Al, You seem to missing the obvious...we are under every obligation to protect those.....
» 6/12/2010 10:14:44 PM runner, Although you seem at pains to have us all believe that you're an authority on wha.....
» 6/12/2010 7:48:38 PM runner, Julian Assange wrote: "The whole universe or the structure that perceives it.....
» 6/12/2010 6:05:53 PM It's revealing that when we stumble upon a person of the calibre of Julian Assange - which.....
» 6/12/2010 5:52:50 PM 579, The freedom for governments to indulge in covert actions, suppression and hidden age.....
» 6/12/2010 11:40:03 AM Vanna, Most people are like sheep... Whether it's "feminist law" or "Cath.....
» 6/12/2010 10:07:49 AM It's not really surprising that Paypal would have had pressure exerted upon it to stop acc.....
» 6/12/2010 9:24:43 AM Jewely, I've been fascinated lately by the puzzlement shown in how the forum works. I'm s.....
» 5/12/2010 2:06:28 PM Correction - in the Robert McClelland quote above, the word "charges" should hav.....
» 5/12/2010 12:17:47 PM SIG, This "clown" has lifted a veil exposing the reality that governs western h.....
» 5/12/2010 10:27:18 AM Julian Assange is a revolutionary in the best tradition of revolutionaries. Referring to .....
» 5/12/2010 8:22:40 AM Yes, jinny, it is interesting that , despite your penchant for coming on this forum with t.....
» 4/12/2010 12:20:16 PM Jinny, You appear to have just indulged in your own "grumble". If you wish to .....
» 4/12/2010 7:57:25 AM Dear Al, What is considered "normal" is dependent on the society of the day. It.....
» 3/12/2010 11:11:17 PM Ludwig laments sanctimonious (fools?), Bemoaning the fates, he takes aim at the rules. Re.....
» 2/12/2010 11:33:40 AM Got to say, Ludwig, that here in south-west WA it was the strangest winter I've ever exper.....
» 2/12/2010 11:24:03 AM Ahoy there, Lexi - glad you liked my little tribute to Houellie (who should be back any mi.....
» 2/12/2010 8:20:23 AM It's quite interesting that our system of democracy and the need for a mandate actually wo.....
» 1/12/2010 9:07:59 AM What a Houell doth savour, Is to grant us his favour, To douse all pretension, Is his only.....
» 1/12/2010 8:41:24 AM sonofgloin, Your highlighting of of evidence of extreme "winter" does not negat.....
» 1/12/2010 7:27:23 AM Dear Al, What if the little country down in South America (or Africa or Asia or Anywhere).....
» 30/11/2010 11:01:58 PM Interesting comments, Yabby, from one who reclines ever so ungraciously in the arms of of .....
» 30/11/2010 3:27:11 PM Dear Al, I'm intrigued by your apparent fixation and fear of a plot to redistribute wealt.....
» 28/11/2010 9:45:26 PM Dear Squeers, Thanks for that? I had no idea that Graham was employing metaphor police a.....
» 25/11/2010 5:00:14 PM dane, If you wish simplistically (and laughably) to imagine that most women sit around in.....
» 25/11/2010 9:43:37 AM Dear Al, "Something wonderful is happening in the USA...something most people won't .....
» 24/11/2010 9:55:11 PM TPP, Up until relatively recently - probably a couple of months ago - most of those who b.....
» 24/11/2010 9:32:25 PM Ludwig, Some of us are very interested. Some of us who sponsor children overseas are mind.....
» 24/11/2010 7:59:20 PM dane, On the contrary - it was you who sought to utilise this tragedy as a drum to beat o.....
» 23/11/2010 10:54:58 PM Suze, Foxy's here...just has another name and posting layout.(Guess who?) Just have to a.....
» 23/11/2010 9:14:28 PM Excellent work, RObert...sounds like great advice to me......
» 23/11/2010 8:52:40 PM TPP "Who does that?" "North Korea?" Not tonight, anyway....North an.....
» 23/11/2010 11:44:45 AM Houellie, "Like Bratz (which I call Slutz) dolls? Yeah, exactly like that. (I call .....
» 23/11/2010 9:42:45 AM TPP, "And little boys love playing with toy kitchens and dolls the same as girls.&qu.....
» 23/11/2010 8:45:19 AM RObert, Yes, I'd agree. I'm not as skilled in those areas as I'd like to be either. I th.....
» 23/11/2010 8:34:52 AM TPP, I wasn't just a name - there was a whole lot of stuff attached to it...and it didn't.....
» 23/11/2010 7:30:01 AM The Blue post was glaringly defamatory - there's no was way that it could have stayed up.......
» 22/11/2010 7:20:04 PM Just beat me to it, Squeers, Wherever humans gather to discuss their opinions there will .....
» 21/11/2010 2:16:20 PM jinny, You seem to spend one half your time on OLO being judgmental and the other half cr.....
» 21/11/2010 11:15:40 AM This is Vandana Shiva's Reith 2000 lecture: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/event.....
» 20/11/2010 1:17:45 PM Regarding BLU's earlier post - it's fitting that on the "moderation thread" we a.....
» 20/11/2010 10:02:44 AM I don't expect Leo Lane will bother to read the link I provided, so just wanted to add tha.....
» 20/11/2010 8:47:32 AM Leo Lane, You wrote: "And humanity in the past forty years has adapted - learning to.....
» 20/11/2010 8:37:02 AM searching, "AT what point in time do we say ök, that's enough, no more?" At th.....
» 18/11/2010 8:37:12 PM Maybe the idea of segregating healthy young human beings inside buildings for thirty-odd h.....
» 18/11/2010 9:28:51 AM Nice story, Houellie...some people take a little longer to work out than others - you're o.....
» 17/11/2010 8:35:55 PM Jinny, It seems to me that Graham owned responsibility for allowing your personal thread .....
» 17/11/2010 7:08:40 PM Jinny, You might recall that during one highly emotional post you delivered a mini tirade.....
» 16/11/2010 10:19:02 AM Yabby, My point is that the peasants would be wise to retain their knowledge of the diver.....
» 16/11/2010 9:02:58 AM Yabby, This report is just out, although it's based on data from 2007. It seems China's e.....
» 16/11/2010 8:35:39 AM Johnny Rotten, I was looking at things from Houellie's perspective, knowing how much he e.....
» 16/11/2010 7:58:20 AM Houellie, This should lift your spirits no end. Only yesterday you appeared a trifle wan .....
» 16/11/2010 7:51:41 AM Dear Al, Dare I ask what form this restoration of "Honour" has taken? I'm inter.....
» 15/11/2010 7:53:46 PM Yabby, China has been growing steadily at a consistent pace of around ten percent annuall.....
» 15/11/2010 6:01:35 PM Dear Al, It begs the question - that if conclusive evidence of Soros' megalomaniacal plan.....
» 15/11/2010 5:28:01 PM Cornflower, One should be mindful that our esteemed moderator gave the okay for this thre.....
» 15/11/2010 11:33:13 AM Hi ya, Severin - nice to hear from you. One of my comments was deleted not long after I j.....
» 14/11/2010 9:01:02 PM Hi Belly, The above comments were being posted here around the same time as Graham was re.....
» 14/11/2010 2:32:50 PM Jinny, We appear to be thread jumping here, however, I'll reply to your last post. In pa.....
» 14/11/2010 1:31:37 PM Jinny, In case you haven't noticed, although all of us bring our personal experiences and.....
» 14/11/2010 12:50:20 PM Dear Al, The technique of inserting random sound and video bites to back up an assertion .....
» 13/11/2010 12:52:37 PM Dear Al, I did watch more of Beck when he first arrived on the scene, so I have seen a fa.....
» 13/11/2010 9:38:24 AM Searching, "...giving parents (of any income level) a chance to stay at home and bon.....
» 13/11/2010 9:16:16 AM Dear Jinny, You are right that things can become personal - although, if things get out o.....
» 13/11/2010 8:50:35 AM Jinny, I'm a bit puzzled by your attitude to OLO. Why in the world would you frequent a .....
» 13/11/2010 6:47:38 AM Dear Al, Fox News only came up with their creeping communism scenario after Bush lost pow.....
» 12/11/2010 8:38:26 PM Searching, Government pork barrelling in the form of middle-class welfare is more than ju.....
» 12/11/2010 10:08:15 AM Gawd, Pelican....don't you realise that if Beck says it is so...then it must be so......
» 12/11/2010 9:53:20 AM Absolutely agree, Pelican, This subject could probably do with a thread of its own. In 20.....
» 12/11/2010 8:41:33 AM Antiseptic, Your description of your Nan and her attitude is eerily similar to the one my.....
» 11/11/2010 8:23:09 AM Cherful, Whether one agrees with it or not, men and women tend to get together so that th.....
» 10/11/2010 4:57:12 PM So, Al are ya gonna tell us who it is....Soros, Peter Costello....Bertie Wooster, perhaps?.....
» 10/11/2010 8:44:39 AM Hiya C.J., Nice to see you back (in a sense)...I actually spotted you before I saw Forres.....
» 10/11/2010 7:43:16 AM Cherful, No wonder men like Antiseptic end up despairing of "feminists" if that.....
» 9/11/2010 5:20:01 PM Amicus...you're even more entertaining than rpg. I agree that we'll have a laugh if Sarah.....
» 9/11/2010 2:27:29 PM rpg - feel free to transmit from your fairyland...You are most entertaining! The reality .....
» 9/11/2010 12:12:09 PM The U.S. is having to reexamine its priorities in the wake of the Bush Administrations gro.....
» 9/11/2010 10:10:23 AM partTimeParent, I disagree that intelligence is correlated by income....only that "p.....
» 8/11/2010 3:49:52 PM Jefferson, In some countries like Indonesia, in a village (or even a close-knit urban nei.....
» 8/11/2010 3:14:16 PM We exist in a "disconnected" society - a society where all facets are compartmen.....
» 8/11/2010 5:56:34 AM I've got to say that I find OLO irresistible simply because it is an arena for some reason.....
» 7/11/2010 11:31:55 AM Antiseptic, I believe you're being a tad sensitive here. My point - mainly to Jefferson -.....
» 7/11/2010 10:25:09 AM Dear Pelican, I watched an interesting program recently on the ABC. Kevin McCloud (Grand .....
» 7/11/2010 9:45:55 AM Jefferson, The absolute fly in the ointment here is that, being human, a man is provided .....
» 7/11/2010 9:00:42 AM I feel quite strongly about this, and it is why I home educate my son. Although he is mild.....
» 6/11/2010 2:37:39 PM Those cities of the early 1900s grew in response to industrialisation - prior to that most.....
» 6/11/2010 12:24:17 PM Mickey K, I think any "good intentions" by successive Australian governments ha.....
» 6/11/2010 12:00:13 PM Vanna said, "I would think teachers would have to attend life skill classes and under.....
» 5/11/2010 10:56:54 AM Dear Pericles, Your topic confirms my decision prior to the last campaign, for the most p.....
» 5/11/2010 10:23:44 AM Judging by the history of the past two hundred years - trying to subdue Afghanistan as a f.....
» 5/11/2010 9:11:28 AM The following are from the opening lines of Noam Chomsky's "Hegemony or Survival".....
» 4/11/2010 8:31:35 AM AJFA, We all know what the shoe throwing symbolised - disgust and contempt at Howard's ro.....
» 4/11/2010 7:55:27 AM It is difficult to see beyond humanity's self-serving attitude towards the planet that sus.....
» 3/11/2010 1:20:28 PM Dear Mirko, I have an interesting old British book in which you might be interested. It is.....
» 3/11/2010 10:34:56 AM I think what Mirko is saying is that it is far ruder to throw missiles at politicians out .....
» 3/11/2010 9:28:30 AM Dear Al. I'll get back to you a bit later when I have more time on the U.S.'s challenges......
» 3/11/2010 8:57:26 AM Dear Al, It was about gratuitous violence in my view. Young men collectively gathering i.....
» 3/11/2010 8:03:14 AM Dear Al, I finally got round to viewing the video - and I have to agree with Pericles' o.....
» 2/11/2010 7:43:14 PM Hasbeen, Too many cars - there are better ways to conserve fuel while transporting people.....
» 2/11/2010 12:38:57 PM Poor old OUG lives in a world inhabited by people who can't think outside the box. This is.....
» 2/11/2010 11:06:55 AM Hasbeeen, You seem to be a go-getter in your support of high-polluting industries. You w.....
» 2/11/2010 9:00:56 AM It's interesting that "shelter" in the form of a house - and the need to pay so .....
» 31/10/2010 2:10:22 PM partTimeParent, I saw a documentary some years ago about some women in an African village.....
» 30/10/2010 8:36:40 AM Au contraire, Hasbeen, I'm surprised you don't recall the revolving door charades of Howa.....
» 30/10/2010 8:21:49 AM Dear Al, You are a veritable fountain of information...in the genes, eh. Fancy there bein.....
» 30/10/2010 6:38:00 AM JamesH, I was going to comment here - but I've just changed my mind, Lol......
» 30/10/2010 6:09:42 AM Hi Pelly, It does seem apparent that the personal dynamics between Howard, Costello and t.....
» 29/10/2010 7:38:44 PM Hi Al, Thanks for the invite- sounds like a great film festival. - just sorry I don't hav.....
» 29/10/2010 5:07:32 PM Habeen, Perhaps it's not a matter of Mr Howard being "too" cunning - perhaps he.....
» 29/10/2010 12:48:16 PM It is also interesting to note that there was a goodly dose of irony in the fact that Pete.....
» 29/10/2010 11:16:12 AM Hasbeen, Are you seriously suggesting that John Howard consistently displayed good judgme.....
» 29/10/2010 9:53:05 AM Pericles, I agree, well said. TBC, I agree with your assessment. Interestingly, althoug.....
» 28/10/2010 9:12:15 AM Even though this subject has, in John Howard"s view, been "done to death", .....
» 27/10/2010 7:25:45 AM David f. I must admit that it is difficult to argue with someone who's made an erroneous .....
» 26/10/2010 6:54:51 AM David f, You said, "Morris was a Marxist before Lenin and the other criminals took o.....
» 24/10/2010 8:38:16 AM Dear Al, Perhaps it's just levelling the playing field - I mean Rupert Murdoch is not exa.....
» 21/10/2010 1:20:48 PM Gilbert, You have an enquiring mind, which is already "impressive". I suppose .....
» 21/10/2010 9:16:25 AM Gilbert Holmes, You said, "Bugsy, you're so quick to criticize! Metaphysics is total.....
» 20/10/2010 1:12:02 PM Peter, I can see you believe that without the machinations of government and its accompan.....
» 20/10/2010 10:02:20 AM I know how Bugsy feels. I've had a couple of experiences lately where Peter and I have agr.....
» 19/10/2010 11:40:14 PM According to most financial commentators, the Australian Dollar is massively overvalued at.....
» 19/10/2010 5:55:42 PM Hello Peter, I'm not defending State morality...really, I'm not....In fact, I'm inclined .....
» 19/10/2010 5:15:36 PM Gilbert Holmes, I don't have a problem with Koestler's ideas either. Why do you see my po.....
» 19/10/2010 3:05:07 PM Gilbert Holmes, If you want to investigate the concept of holons, you should probably go .....
» 19/10/2010 12:17:46 PM Peter, Some people might not define the State as violating everyone's liberty - they migh.....
» 19/10/2010 11:15:24 AM Gilbert Holmes, You have delivered us a veritable gallimaufry (always wanted to use that .....
» 18/10/2010 8:36:08 PM Gilbert Holmes, If we use the example of the Industrial Revolution in Britain, are you sa.....
» 18/10/2010 3:04:47 PM David f. You employ an interesting debating technique at times. The minute anyone endeav.....
» 18/10/2010 10:51:26 AM Things seem to be hotting up here...sorry to interrupt....but I just want to reply to Yabb.....
» 17/10/2010 5:58:12 PM Peter, I am opposed to "our conscience" acting in such a manner. My opinion, fo.....
» 17/10/2010 5:29:47 PM Gilbert Holmes, (To clarify)...Marx wrote in 1859: "It is not the consciousness of m.....
» 17/10/2010 12:32:56 PM Otokonoko, It has always seemed to me that our education system is based on a competitive.....
» 17/10/2010 11:59:28 AM "Not so Poirot, If you still believe in the old tabula raza theory, then you are way .....
» 17/10/2010 3:59:56 AM Peter, My opinion is that the State and capitalism in modern Western society go together .....
» 17/10/2010 3:10:32 AM Yabby, you said - "I'll stick to a free market system where people make up their own .....
» 16/10/2010 1:09:45 PM Dear Vanna, Interesting article - I'm a bit of a technological dinosaur (although I'm imp.....
» 16/10/2010 9:07:34 AM Dear Vanna, I'm a student of the world - and I found this film inspiring in its simplicit.....
» 16/10/2010 7:41:55 AM Filip, Talking of schools being many many shapes - did you ever see a film titled "T.....
» 15/10/2010 5:51:40 PM Peter - you said...""That's because you're not counting being alive as better of.....
» 15/10/2010 10:26:44 AM Peter Hume, It seems that here we come to the crux of your argument - in desiring to dism.....
» 15/10/2010 7:26:38 AM Peter Hume, I read most of your article - and I acknowledge that the whole question of go.....
» 14/10/2010 4:27:38 PM Peter Hume, Took a while to get back - I'm not used to us agreeing (to a point) and was m.....
» 14/10/2010 11:22:24 AM The main object of institutionalised schooling is standardisation. It's a factory and it i.....
» 14/10/2010 9:10:44 AM 579, Yes, you have us all intrigued - are you serious? If you are, you're doing your mal.....
» 14/10/2010 8:06:54 AM Here's an interesting article on the currency manipulations and the U.S. trade deficit wit.....
» 14/10/2010 7:25:46 AM The other fascinating irony, of course, is that many of the "cheap" goods import.....
» 14/10/2010 12:40:22 AM Peter Hume, The issue with the neocons in the situation preceding the push into Iraq was .....
» 13/10/2010 9:55:46 PM I've posted on the forum recently about the currency skirmish taking place between the U.S.....
» 12/10/2010 9:16:04 PM How can you separate the actions of the American government and it's close association wit.....
» 12/10/2010 5:49:01 PM Yabby said: "Their first mistake is that they really don't know much about basic hum.....
» 12/10/2010 12:00:53 PM It's revealing that Yabby and Antiseptic appear to have targeted my gender as an explanati.....
» 11/10/2010 10:42:16 AM Dear Antiseptic, Seems that you are giving yourself a huge pat on the back for having rel.....
» 10/10/2010 7:05:34 PM Yes Rainier, Do tell.... I myself am a retired Belgian detective (with a cultured mousta.....
» 10/10/2010 1:24:56 PM Interestingly, it seems that things are hotting up between the U.S. and China. The U.S. ma.....
» 10/10/2010 9:02:12 AM As Pelican points out, culture, we assume, provides a sense of connection and identity. As.....
» 9/10/2010 10:34:59 AM Dear Yabby, Notwithstanding your superior "wisdom" and my "bias"- the.....
» 8/10/2010 2:11:13 PM Dear Yabby, This is perhaps my last post here as we seem to be going around in circles. R.....
» 8/10/2010 11:59:37 AM Correction: that should be 3,300 big dams built in India in the last fifty years.....
» 8/10/2010 11:25:25 AM Dear Yabby, Grok makes good points about "democracy". Government intervention a.....
» 8/10/2010 8:35:16 AM Dear Yabby, Are you suggesting that Chinese large-scale industry does not turn a profit? .....
» 8/10/2010 8:17:03 AM stevenlmeyer, That's interesting about Petr Horava"s theory - I don't understand muc.....
» 7/10/2010 1:00:23 PM Dear Houellie, I obviously wouldn't fit very well into a Mekong setting. My point was tha.....
» 7/10/2010 10:38:44 AM That's what we call "wage slavery", Houellie. The man who once lived on the Mek.....
» 7/10/2010 8:30:26 AM Dear Houellie, Interesting that you should mention the Chinese and their inability to buy.....
» 6/10/2010 11:40:31 PM I'm interested in the effects that large scale industry for profit has on indigenous popul.....
» 6/10/2010 3:32:50 PM What I find amusing is that the nasty old communist country, China, is at present assistin.....
» 6/10/2010 7:35:31 AM Dear Gilbert Holmes, Have you read E.F. Schumarcher's classic "Small is "Beauti.....
» 5/10/2010 11:45:16 PM Dear Constance, The only time I've drawn nudes was in art class. Yes, I like to draw cath.....
» 5/10/2010 9:11:53 AM Dear Yabby, On the subject of feeding India's huge population. Can you explain your argum.....
» 4/10/2010 9:00:10 PM What I'm saying...Sienna, is that people like you always excuse western exploitation on th.....
» 4/10/2010 3:18:44 PM Seems that the U.S. believes that China is gaining an unfair advantage by keeping their cu.....
» 3/10/2010 2:07:17 AM Sienna, It's not about a "wage" - it's about a workplace abomination and capita.....
» 2/10/2010 9:36:00 PM Peter Hume, Is it really so very amusing to you? Your attitude is a "prime" ex.....
» 1/10/2010 6:07:23 PM Peter Hume, You'll never persuade me that the form of work in my example of child exploi.....
» 1/10/2010 12:14:18 PM Peter Hume, Whether or not one sees exploitation in the globalised free market often depe.....
» 1/10/2010 9:57:51 AM Dear Constance, Despite our penchant for the "mock joust". I am warming to you......
» 30/09/2010 11:31:18 PM Dear Constance, I fear you are slipping back into old habits. You spent all that time exp.....
» 30/09/2010 11:13:56 PM Bonjour Constance, You have caught out Poirot aligning himself with a fellow poster (ah, .....
» 30/09/2010 8:45:11 PM think than move, I presume Jinny posted here because she wanted some feedback. I heard en.....
» 30/09/2010 2:24:45 PM Dear Grok, Peter Hume has a history on this forum of labelling people "idiots" .....
» 30/09/2010 5:39:23 AM Dear Jinny, I'm trying to get my head around your attitude. When my son was five years-ol.....
» 29/09/2010 7:06:53 PM I'm with Foxy here. Quite frankly, I'm amazed that you believe it's acceptable to leave s.....
» 29/09/2010 9:34:30 AM duncan mills, Gilbert Holmes said, "Marx and friends essentially told us that the wa.....
» 28/09/2010 8:27:44 PM Dear Gilbert Holmes, Marx, from what I've read, turned Hegel's dialectical theory the oth.....
» 28/09/2010 1:42:32 PM Dear Houellie, Suze obviously chose the schooling situation that she judged was best for .....
» 28/09/2010 12:53:37 AM WOW - Constance! To think I once accused you of having no substance - well, now I know yo.....
» 26/09/2010 1:52:53 PM Dear Constance, I read the article. I didn't vote Labor in the lower (or upper) house la.....
» 26/09/2010 11:16:06 AM Dear Pelican, Seems that Constance is constantly on her guard lest she is accosted by a s.....
» 26/09/2010 12:11:20 AM Dear Banjo, I think you are right. I am not "religious", yet am moved by beauti.....
» 22/09/2010 12:01:17 AM Come, come, George, Surely you're not suggesting that such reasonable souls as Pelican an.....
» 21/09/2010 9:51:10 PM Dear George, "Thanks for the quote confirming that the Pope related Nazism (not to a.....
» 21/09/2010 10:37:08 AM Dear Philo, Ah, I see what you are getting at - perhaps I should rephrase that..."It.....
» 20/09/2010 9:30:20 PM Dear George, Pope Benedict did use different language to mine. Here's what he said: &quo.....
» 20/09/2010 6:23:16 PM Philo, Atheism is the disbelief in the existence of God. (atheos - without God.....a-not+.....
» 20/09/2010 10:28:57 AM 579, First, let me say, I am not religious. However, I don't believe that the absence of .....
» 20/09/2010 9:53:00 AM Dear George, It would appear that Pope Benedict is now adopting the dubious tactic of twi.....
» 19/09/2010 8:40:22 PM Dear Constance, How remiss of me not to acknowledge your extremely creative epithet in th.....
» 19/09/2010 6:47:06 PM dear rpg, I usually try and avoid slanging matches on OLO - and, as much as I'm beginning.....
» 19/09/2010 5:26:57 PM rpg, Dismissing the region as "primitive" shows a shallowness of perception on.....
» 19/09/2010 3:08:24 PM rpg, I seem to have the ability to get under your skin - "you see what you are, a su.....
» 18/09/2010 9:23:58 AM Dear Constance, Just noticed your insightful contribution to the discussion at hand. Than.....
» 17/09/2010 5:23:57 PM Dear rpg, You do bang on about "hate'. Labelling myself as hateful and vengeful simp.....
» 17/09/2010 9:41:06 AM rpg, I'm sure that if someone turned up on your doorstep and informed you that on account.....
» 17/09/2010 7:55:01 AM Dear Squeers, I've found an article that examines the opinion of one of George W. Bush's .....
» 16/09/2010 11:28:08 PM Dear Banjo, I think you're right that there must have been some sort of "genius".....
» 16/09/2010 5:26:40 PM Dear King Hazza, France is quite happy to receive the economic benefits of being a member.....
» 16/09/2010 11:14:04 AM Dear King Hazza, The point is that they do have every right to be there. The European Un.....
» 16/09/2010 8:05:57 AM Dear Banjo, My problem with your last example is that George W. Bush was an ignorant, uni.....
» 15/09/2010 10:40:53 AM Dear Foxy, If you're looking for a pertinent example of the damage multi-nationals can do.....
» 15/09/2010 10:12:51 AM Dear King Hazza, Absolument! - your solution is representative of the Bourgeois way. Thos.....
» 15/09/2010 9:13:21 AM The French writer, Gustave Flaubert, once came upon an encampment of gypsies. He wrote of .....
» 15/09/2010 8:33:06 AM Dear jorge, Thank you for the link regarding the Basmati rice patents. I think the problem.....
» 14/09/2010 11:47:11 PM Why, hello, individual, It's been here a tad longer than that...indeed it was developed h.....
» 14/09/2010 2:36:50 PM One can only lament the coming of conveyor belt factory style education. Alvin Toffler in .....
» 14/09/2010 8:47:02 AM Yes, it appears that the U.S. and the corporations it represents are serving their own own.....
» 13/09/2010 8:49:49 PM I seem to recall that those bombings in Africa in the nineties coincided exactly with a pa.....
» 13/09/2010 8:19:01 AM Dear nairbe, "Surely you see that by the use of robotics and computerisation into th.....
» 12/09/2010 10:16:37 PM Dear David f., Nice thought...alas, I'm on the other side of the continent. Hope you have.....
» 12/09/2010 3:22:24 PM Dear Foxy, Just reading the words, "robots caring for the elderly in Japan" sen.....
» 12/09/2010 8:50:12 AM Dear David f., Koestler talks of hierarchy as not so much linear, but more like an invert.....
» 11/09/2010 10:05:33 PM I just gotta say that I much prefer being fifty to twenty-five. I like my attitude much mo.....
» 11/09/2010 11:25:45 AM Dear David f. "Animals recognise those animals with more power or status". It.....
» 10/09/2010 9:35:48 AM Dear Houellebecq, Speaking as a mother, those comments ring true to me also - but these a.....
» 10/09/2010 7:22:40 AM Dear Antiseptic, Interesting point...once we leave subsistence and traditional society be.....
» 10/09/2010 6:55:07 AM Fascinating subject. Quoting a little more from Koestler: "If we look at any form o.....
» 9/09/2010 9:43:17 AM Ozandy My sentiments exactly. The entire Iraqi debacle, starting from the aftermath of t.....
» 9/09/2010 7:35:21 AM Sorry Banjo - didn't read that properly that you were addressing David f....will be intere.....
» 9/09/2010 7:33:14 AM Dear Banjo, Actually, I was really answering David's post before mine in agreeing that hu.....
» 9/09/2010 6:41:58 AM Dear rehctub, I see now that you are stating specifically that you have gleaned your info.....
» 8/09/2010 9:40:20 PM Okay, Foxy - I believe we mentioned this book on another thread - I had forgotten just how.....
» 8/09/2010 9:17:32 PM rehctub, You did use this instance for your example. If, however, this person had committ.....
» 8/09/2010 8:41:07 PM Dear Squeers, I'm probably coming in a bit late on the thread with this, but I found a pa.....
» 8/09/2010 2:14:07 PM Dear David f. Hierarchical order may be a human idea, however, I think it contains some m.....
» 8/09/2010 1:09:57 PM Dear David f., I don't believe that Koestler in "The Ghost in the Machine" was .....
» 7/09/2010 10:52:39 PM Dear Yabby, Just picked up on your comment about the drought in W.A. I'm in W.A. also, an.....
» 7/09/2010 6:32:56 AM Dear David f. Have you read Arthur Koestler"s "The Ghost in the Machine"? .....
» 7/09/2010 6:18:15 AM If Malcolm Turnbull is ever going to make it to the top job, one would assume that he woul.....
» 6/09/2010 3:47:53 PM Yeah, Johnny - have to admit that the OzCar affair was a particularly entertaining debacle.....
» 6/09/2010 10:47:44 AM Amicus, We could go on debate endlessly about "conviction" and "team play&.....
» 6/09/2010 8:25:58 AM One would expect Mr Turnbull to take over the reins of Liberal leadership at some point. M.....
» 5/09/2010 2:12:19 PM rehctub, Obviously, from the information you put up in your last post - (80% of prisoners.....
» 5/09/2010 11:52:27 AM Welcome back Severin, - funny you should agree with Johnny (you're very alike I noticed).....
» 5/09/2010 11:10:52 AM individual, I am not a mental health expert, however, I have a reasonable knowledge of be.....
» 5/09/2010 9:04:39 AM individual, It seems to me that this person's Aspergers disorder was possibly the main co.....
» 5/09/2010 6:06:00 AM Dear rpg, Just noticed your imaginative narrative lauding John Howard as being a man of c.....
» 4/09/2010 7:37:09 PM Dear briar rose, I was going to mention Zimbabwe myself - and if you refer back to an ear.....
» 4/09/2010 9:00:25 AM 579, There is, in my opinion, much difference between a legitemate threat and an invasion.....
» 3/09/2010 9:17:03 PM rpg, I was, in fact, referring to the Iraq war. Are you seriously telling me that the Ame.....
» 3/09/2010 5:27:53 PM rehctub, This tragedy resulted from an act of stupidity - there was no criminal intent. W.....
» 3/09/2010 4:17:17 PM 579, Well, I'll say it - this is America's war, in as much as it represents globalised ec.....
» 3/09/2010 3:09:25 PM The issue here is that this woman was trying to fulfill her expected duty and hold down a .....
» 3/09/2010 2:50:14 PM David f. I agree that the level of connivance by the Bush Administration in contriving a .....
» 3/09/2010 10:39:13 AM I'm afraid our friend rechtub has a fairly black and white view of the world. In this par.....
» 3/09/2010 10:23:44 AM Interesting case. I have similar parenting ideas to dotto and consider myself to be somewh.....
» 1/09/2010 9:05:48 PM Dear Squeers, Thank you for the links. Just wanted to pick up on your point that: "A.....
» 1/09/2010 5:23:01 PM Dear David F. I think "nation states" are something that derive instinctively f.....
» 1/09/2010 3:26:21 PM Dear David F. Just read your last post - I'm a bit confused as to why you believe Marx (o.....
» 1/09/2010 3:20:10 PM Dear David F. I don't believe there is likely to be a potent enough mechanism in any inde.....
» 1/09/2010 12:00:37 PM Dear David F., I've been thumbing through one of my books by Noam Chomsky titled "Heg.....
» 31/08/2010 5:23:18 PM Dear Squeers, Thanks for that. Just honing in on your points about the privatisation of f.....
» 31/08/2010 11:37:11 AM TBC Interesting scenario you paint with John Howard as Governor General...do ya think he'.....
» 31/08/2010 9:30:38 AM Dear Foxy, I think we under- estimate just how mind-bogglingly intricate are the workings.....
» 30/08/2010 7:52:57 PM Dear Belly, I disagree that those of us who may have voted Labor, and who transferred out.....
» 30/08/2010 6:54:11 AM C.J Have to agree,....reminds me of the Fox News spiel - "Fair and Balanced"........
» 29/08/2010 2:16:56 PM C.J. Very true about the Murdoch stable. Bonjour M. keith, Is it really so difficult to.....
» 29/08/2010 11:23:56 AM Yeah, Cornflower - I second that Lol C.J. Our Catholic friend often refers to his pencha.....
» 29/08/2010 7:45:19 AM Dear Belly, You are a loyal soul to the Labor Party. I think during this election in par.....
» 26/08/2010 12:40:00 PM Peter Hume, Keynesian theory on the connection between disasterous ruin and the profit an.....
» 26/08/2010 11:43:40 AM keith, It's always enlightening to glean views from beyond our borders as to the politica.....
» 26/08/2010 10:23:50 AM I made a few notes to respond, however, Donkey has put it so well that I find it unnecessa.....
» 25/08/2010 8:06:24 AM rehctub, It seems to me that the "people" simply didn't want either of 'em. We.....
» 24/08/2010 9:51:34 AM C.J. You've hit the nail on the head. Labor's lurch so far to the right turned me off - t.....
» 24/08/2010 8:01:44 AM I don't believe the Liberal Party has distinguished itself in any profound sense in this e.....
» 22/08/2010 11:04:49 AM Seems to me that on the whole the electors in this country react more like panicky passeng.....
» 21/08/2010 11:40:44 AM Dear Eclipse Now, I don't have a cause - I merely enjoy a dabble in philosophy As for &qu.....
» 21/08/2010 11:08:19 AM Eclipse Now, Fancy referring to Squeers as a "carping old commie" and "an .....
» 20/08/2010 3:42:40 PM Eclipse Now, Perhaps I should have said that suburbia "has" been an integral co.....
» 20/08/2010 3:46:18 AM Eclipse Now, You say you like the modern world but don't like its shape. The modern world.....
» 20/08/2010 2:43:00 AM Eclipse Now, You say you like the modern world, but you don't like its shape. The modern .....
» 19/08/2010 3:33:36 PM Dear Foxy, I'm in a safe Liberal seat also. the Liberal candidate has deluged our mailbox.....
» 19/08/2010 2:50:25 PM Although I'm no fan of Mr Abbott, I have to agree that comparing him to Sarah Palin is lud.....
» 19/08/2010 2:30:57 PM Dear TBC, It's funny that you should mention these things about Gillard. I got exactly th.....
» 19/08/2010 10:54:37 AM Examinator, Al knows all about the Tea Party - you'll start him off about the glorious ad.....
» 18/08/2010 9:11:22 PM My Catholic friend informed me that there was shiny lift-out in the latest "Catholic .....
» 18/08/2010 8:02:45 AM Dear Belly, There seems to be an overwhelming public cynicism pervading this election cam.....
» 17/08/2010 8:06:35 PM Dear Al, I think it's more a case of believing some of the things she reads are the ".....
» 17/08/2010 6:49:44 PM Dear Al, Just picking up on Glenn Beck again. I had a bit of a squizz at his show last w.....
» 17/08/2010 6:31:15 PM An elderly regular church-going Catholic friend of ours all of a sudden has become striden.....
» 16/08/2010 8:14:19 PM Dear Foxy, Thanks for that - sounds interesting......
» 16/08/2010 10:03:52 AM Dear Squeers, I have a few Henry James novels but I haven't got around to reading them (y.....
» 15/08/2010 7:43:38 PM Dear Foxy and Squeers, Just remembered a couple of humorous novels from the late nineteen.....
» 15/08/2010 8:32:50 AM rehctub, I see that you are including both major parties in your criticism, however, it w.....
» 15/08/2010 8:10:14 AM Dear Squeers, I thoroughly enjoyed reading the few chapters that you provided. Your usual.....
» 14/08/2010 6:58:23 PM Dear Squeers, I wouldn't bolt.The truth is that when the link didn't appear like it usual.....
» 13/08/2010 9:46:07 PM Dear Foxy, Thanks for the ideas. Alzheimers is a very emotive subject. Did you ever see .....
» 13/08/2010 9:39:04 PM Dear Squeers, The link doesn't work - can you re-do it, please. Thought of some other gr.....
» 13/08/2010 7:44:56 PM Squeers, The term you used in your post of "organised irrationality" is the bes.....
» 13/08/2010 7:33:50 PM Dear Squeers, "I dunno, maybe Foxy or one of the other OLO savants knows how we can d.....
» 13/08/2010 3:18:11 PM Dear Foxy, Thanks for the links - excellent! Dear Squeers, My cleric is a bit of a rot.....
» 13/08/2010 10:47:10 AM Dear Squeers, What a delicious scandal - a bishop, no less! I hope you get round to rewo.....
» 13/08/2010 10:06:41 AM Hi Squeers, In that case, we might just as well carry on with this thread...it's really q.....
» 12/08/2010 11:26:57 PM msjane, Sorry - a little tardy in getting back to you as I missed your reply. Yes, I agre.....
» 12/08/2010 11:21:44 PM runner, You seem to mention the word "righteous" often...but I'm a bit confused.....
» 12/08/2010 9:06:56 PM Dear foxy, Somerset Maugham is an old favourite of mine. I have a couple of volumes of hi.....
» 12/08/2010 2:15:38 PM runner, (I repeat) Belief in evolution is "not" an act of faith - it is an act .....
» 12/08/2010 11:39:45 AM Agree - Pynchme and Squeers. Come back C.J......
» 12/08/2010 8:51:50 AM runner, The non-religious don't have "faith" - they don't need it. They judge u.....
» 11/08/2010 11:10:56 PM Dear Foxy, Speaking of architecture - have you heard of John Ruskin's "The Seven Lam.....
» 11/08/2010 9:40:25 PM Dear Foxy, Buildings are fascinating - I came across an old French cookbook with exquisit.....
» 11/08/2010 2:15:16 PM Thanks for the link, Squeers - a treasure trove. Lucky you, getting to ramble around the .....
» 11/08/2010 10:20:53 AM Thank goodness for the ABC. Can you imagine the Australian media landscape without it ? .....
» 10/08/2010 11:01:46 PM Dear Foxy, I'm the laziest writer in the history of writers. Most of my stuff dissolves i.....
» 10/08/2010 9:56:52 PM Dear Foxy, Thanks so much for the link - I read "The Death of the Moth", and ha.....
» 10/08/2010 9:19:50 PM I think you might find that these scientists were trying to protect their funding. Richar.....
» 10/08/2010 2:33:35 PM Dear Al, You pointed out that Glenn Beck's themes go along the lines..."Charity whic.....
» 10/08/2010 1:35:49 PM Dear Foxy, I'm a fan of Noam Chomsky too. Also Arandhati Roy, E.F Schumacher and Ivan Ill.....
» 9/08/2010 9:44:02 PM Dear Al, I believe it was only last year that I watched Beck. He had pictures of Chairman.....
» 9/08/2010 6:56:36 PM Hey Squeers, I felt like Houellebecq caught us smoking behind the school shed... I vote .....
» 9/08/2010 1:44:15 PM I must say you're in fine form today, Houllie. ...and in the interests of keeping the thr.....
» 9/08/2010 9:19:43 AM Absolutely right, Houellie. (What was I thinking?) Point your offended sensibilities in th.....
» 9/08/2010 8:38:07 AM Dear Al, I understand that SOWF may be the beneficiary of Beck's event. My problem is Bec.....
» 9/08/2010 8:19:37 AM Dear Al, I have watched Glenn Beck - I caught him during his " The Obama Government .....
» 8/08/2010 7:22:36 PM It's interesting that someone like Glenn Beck would see no effrontery in using the anniver.....
» 8/08/2010 3:20:09 PM Dear Al, Talking of Jefferson, I found this piece of advice written by him to his nephew,.....
» 8/08/2010 1:41:38 PM Good thread, Squeers, I'm not as well read as I would like to be, coming from a distinctl.....
» 8/08/2010 11:15:42 AM Thorstein Veblen posits that the first notion of ownership was in the form of females as b.....
» 8/08/2010 11:02:06 AM DEar Al, I think that it's highly unlikely that any nation would regain its "greatne.....
» 8/08/2010 6:28:17 AM Opposition leader, Tony Abbott, was overheard suggesting that we could use a more "gu.....
» 8/08/2010 6:00:28 AM runner, Inventions are a product of adaptation - the evolution in human thought and pract.....
» 7/08/2010 10:15:20 PM Dear Squeers, I found "A Clergyman" - quite a poignant read. It captures the aw.....
» 7/08/2010 6:53:22 PM Feminism, Shmeminism.... Can't resist this quote from novelist, Rebecca West: "Peo.....
» 7/08/2010 6:34:03 PM Dear Squeers, I'll definitely look for Beerbohm's "A Clergyman". I've got Boswe.....
» 7/08/2010 1:11:27 PM Thanks Graham, I've always liked the idea of people meeting to discuss the ways of the wo.....
» 6/08/2010 9:51:56 AM vanna, Some of us women don't give a toss about the politics of male verses female - we j.....
» 5/08/2010 3:09:55 PM I'm happy with the way things are. This forum seems to organize itself for the most part a.....
» 4/08/2010 2:31:53 PM Hey Stern, An ancestor of mine was the principal physician of St Helena during Napoleon's.....
» 4/08/2010 9:28:02 AM Severin, >>Col Stern is now warning of "reds in the bed"<< ...with.....
» 4/08/2010 8:08:46 AM Stern, ...sweetheart...but lets not get carried away. I might point out that men like Da.....
» 4/08/2010 7:48:24 AM rehctub, I suppose you'd be thrilled if one of your employees spent time promoting their .....
» 3/08/2010 7:58:42 PM Stern, May I congratulate you on your last excellent rambling post. For some reason, it .....
» 3/08/2010 7:27:44 PM rehctub, Yes, you are scintillating. Could it be , however, that everyone thought your p.....
» 3/08/2010 2:49:07 PM Houellebecq, (I can now spell your name accurately without referring to notes - who's idea.....
» 3/08/2010 2:09:44 PM Houellebecq, I like the way you separate yourself from the milieu - "you chattering .....
» 3/08/2010 8:20:41 AM I'm afraid the Labor spin department thought it was necessary to give Julia the "elec.....
» 2/08/2010 11:06:38 PM Foxy and Suze, Got to say that I think I've regained a goodly portion of my political int.....
» 2/08/2010 1:53:32 PM Godo, "the emphasis will be on the disjointed, abstract, decontextualised, trivial, .....
» 2/08/2010 1:15:21 PM Graham, I would not expect you to tamper with anyone's headlines, however, I presumed tha.....
» 2/08/2010 11:10:53 AM RObert, "the popular media is where most of the election is played out." So tr.....
» 2/08/2010 10:32:33 AM Graham, The problem isn't necessarily the thread - it's the title and a sentence in runne.....
» 2/08/2010 9:28:53 AM RObert I understand what it is that you are trying to say - now, for your therapy.... Rep.....
» 2/08/2010 8:01:55 AM I've been trying to limit my exposure to most of the campaign, however, I've watched a sma.....
» 1/08/2010 8:03:18 PM Stern, "So if a few folk end-up broke and homeless, let's just say it is par for the .....
» 1/08/2010 5:50:54 PM Shadow Minister, Whether Abbott's book was written on the subject of politics, cooking or.....
» 1/08/2010 5:09:12 PM Severin and Squeers, Thanks so much for that entertaining exchange (If our pollies had yo.....
» 1/08/2010 3:50:43 PM Dear Foxy, This has been my problem during this campaign - the campaign blather and the p.....
» 1/08/2010 12:35:01 PM Graham brought up the ethical questions regarding Mr Howard's reasons for committing our t.....
» 1/08/2010 11:12:48 AM Dear Foxy, What can we do? This article was brought to my notice by an acquaintance of m.....
» 1/08/2010 10:39:45 AM Dear Foxy, I posted this link on another thread - it's about the Canadian tar sands indus.....
» 1/08/2010 10:28:30 AM Gotta agree with you, Severin. I have to admit that I did not see the election of an Abbo.....
» 31/07/2010 12:41:37 PM Just posting some links...it seems that Canada has gone right off the environmental rails......
» 31/07/2010 9:50:29 AM Severin, Absolument! If my seat was marginal, I would definitely have a different outloo.....
» 31/07/2010 9:27:09 AM Examinator, Do give me some credit for deciding that my vote(in the lower house) will not.....
» 30/07/2010 8:22:22 PM If you want some info about the Canadian tar sands industry in Alberta - just google it. G.....
» 30/07/2010 11:40:14 AM Pelican, Thank you. runner, Please take special note of pelican's post. Talking of &quo.....
» 29/07/2010 10:57:08 AM Ludwig, I understand your position and agree to a certain extent. I believe that Australi.....
» 29/07/2010 9:07:33 AM Examinator, I have voted in every election since I became eligible to vote. Nevertheless.....
» 29/07/2010 1:36:06 AM Pelican, I've heard its quite prevalent in some parts of Africa as well - probably happen.....
» 29/07/2010 12:02:43 AM I've been reading a little of historian Hugh Trevor- Roper's ideas on the witch hunts, and.....
» 28/07/2010 3:19:53 PM mjpb, I'm going to have a rummage through my old texts (if I can locate the ones I'm afte.....
» 28/07/2010 3:07:35 PM Dear Squeers, Feel free to light a few spot fires - I know you're busy but I'm devising a.....
» 27/07/2010 7:49:49 PM runner, "With a belief like that it is no wonder you are so nasty." The majori.....
» 27/07/2010 6:49:07 PM My eight year-old son was looking through a book this morning when he exclaimed to me, &qu.....
» 27/07/2010 5:01:46 PM Quite a nasty article. BTW, I'm not a catholic or a christian. It's interesting that som.....
» 27/07/2010 4:36:36 PM I remember my first essay at uni was on the witch craze in Europe, studying the way histor.....
» 27/07/2010 4:23:04 PM Hi TBC, This is really my own interpretation of the way it was for Mother Teresa. I'm alw.....
» 27/07/2010 3:19:08 PM Philo, Mother Teresa is an interesting case in point. While she worked within the framewo.....
» 27/07/2010 2:28:09 PM I am at the stage where I've just stopped listening...of course, the odd spouting gets thr.....
» 26/07/2010 7:51:35 PM thinker 2 I agree wholeheartedly - I used to be a bit of a political junkie myself, in th.....
» 25/07/2010 2:29:17 PM Putting it simply, we in the West plunder so called "underdeveloped countries". .....
» 25/07/2010 8:35:59 AM individual, I appreciate your point. I believe that the more bureaucratized or institutio.....
» 25/07/2010 7:27:24 AM No worries, Sonofgloin - it's a complex issue (arouses passions) Cherful, I don't believ.....
» 24/07/2010 10:27:33 PM Sonofgloin, My post was meant to be taken as it was written. I do not recall referring to.....
» 24/07/2010 7:24:59 PM I intended to reply to CHERFUL'S post, but now that I'm here I find I really can't be both.....
» 24/07/2010 6:50:07 PM pelican, On the contrary, rehctub sees himself as a member of the squirarchy (new money) .....
» 24/07/2010 10:25:38 AM Funnily enough I have managed to avoid all nearly all news coverage of the election campai.....
» 24/07/2010 8:46:57 AM mikk, Wise words. It's the age-old conundrum experienced by homo sapiens sapiens...the b.....
» 23/07/2010 5:56:22 PM Squeers, I'm already impressed......
» 23/07/2010 11:04:06 AM Dear Oliver, "Human Docs" is a particularly informative read. I have Robert Ow.....
» 23/07/2010 9:19:54 AM Oliver, "Have you ever read Dickens." Yes, Stern - I've also got a rather joll.....
» 23/07/2010 8:57:21 AM Dear Al, It's not as deep as it sounds. I'm being androgynous now (If you don't already k.....
» 22/07/2010 9:00:43 PM It's okay, Ludwig...I've always been a bit puzzled as to why there is no editing mechanism.....
» 22/07/2010 8:05:10 PM It's interesting that you find that you like me, Houellebecq. I, more often than not, find.....
» 22/07/2010 6:05:41 PM Perhaps, in order to achieve their freedom, women may have to adopt an androgynous idea of.....
» 22/07/2010 10:59:31 AM Very good, Houellebecq. Just think, if you were a little cleverer you could use wit to do.....
» 22/07/2010 8:24:12 AM Stern, The GFC occurred because stockbrokers and bankers found a new way to make lots of .....
» 21/07/2010 8:34:40 AM rehctub, I know where you're coming from. I mean, peasants these days don't know what tou.....
» 20/07/2010 9:40:00 AM Houelly, I think your attitude is all a cover - I'll bet you're really a seventy year-ol.....
» 19/07/2010 8:57:56 PM But you have to admit, Cornflower, that the Old Embittered Geezers Party does have a ring .....
» 19/07/2010 7:50:58 PM Having voted with our feet out the school door - I'm also planning to vote informal in thi.....
» 19/07/2010 6:38:25 PM We orchestrated our own revolution and decided to homeschool. It gave me the greatest of p.....
» 19/07/2010 3:06:07 PM Houellebecq, I thought you'd turned over a new leaf for a minute there...then I realised .....
» 19/07/2010 2:40:01 PM Shadow Minister, I take your point, and I have sympathy for those enterprises that were l.....
» 19/07/2010 2:05:30 PM Oliver, "We surely see change...We also experience the forward progression of time.&.....
» 19/07/2010 11:26:55 AM Oliver, I was definitely referring to our "macro-sizing" of the world around us.....
» 19/07/2010 9:52:58 AM Stern, I have to say I agree with you in the repudiation of state sanctioned murder......
» 19/07/2010 8:05:19 AM Stern, I'm sure Christopher Pyne will be gratified to know that his colleagues will suppo.....
» 19/07/2010 7:44:34 AM Shadow Minister, Fair enough...I agree that the government had a responsibility to set mo.....
» 18/07/2010 6:22:16 PM one under god, Thanks for your input to this thread...I read your posts and find they hav.....
» 18/07/2010 3:48:32 PM Pynchme and floatinglili, I agree. My son is homeschooled and , therefore, his learning .....
» 18/07/2010 3:09:25 PM Severin, When I was a child, one of the most interesting mysteries of the mind for me was.....
» 18/07/2010 10:39:17 AM "the scheme encouraged poorly trained youngsters to do work for which they were mostl.....
» 18/07/2010 10:11:01 AM Severin, No doubt, I received the same formal notification as everyone else - it was the .....
» 18/07/2010 9:56:38 AM I had a post deleted on the Lord Monckton thread as well. But being a "newie" to.....
» 17/07/2010 11:31:59 PM Peter Hume, Did I just hear the word "challenge"? - closely followed by "l.....
» 17/07/2010 6:57:41 PM Severin, I was about to post something about my own serial dreams. I tend, for the most p.....
» 17/07/2010 12:05:04 PM All these reveries about condensed milk reminded me that my mother resorted to feeding it .....
» 17/07/2010 9:33:26 AM Good point, Severin. I'm also interested in our experience of time when we are sleeping -.....
» 16/07/2010 8:29:36 AM Dear Foxy, I think the biggest threat to a "real" feeling of identity to any co.....
» 15/07/2010 11:41:46 PM Hi Suze, It's very frustrating when you can't find the information that you're after, and.....
» 15/07/2010 11:24:38 PM There are so many threads when you start searching. I've been searching through the line f.....
» 15/07/2010 3:46:27 PM Peter Hume, I bow to your superior ego (knees bending). Nice little mirage in your mind, .....
» 15/07/2010 1:00:22 PM Dear Hasbeen, That is a good aunt story...very funny. Many people actually hope to find a.....
» 14/07/2010 9:27:37 PM My great great grandfather, that is. Until eight years ago, I didn't know the name of my f.....
» 14/07/2010 8:14:23 PM This is ripping fun, Peter Hume, Capitalism is the anomaly - it is not the normal state o.....
» 14/07/2010 4:42:22 PM Stern, Being labelled "wrong" by your one-dimensional self is something I shall.....
» 14/07/2010 2:37:08 PM Foxy, I agree. I must say...I have heard many times refugees being referred to as ".....
» 14/07/2010 1:51:44 PM Hasbeen, I like the idea of living on a boat... maybe a converted barge on the further re.....
» 14/07/2010 11:15:04 AM Mitchell/Squeers, Thank you for posting that passage by Tim Jackson - imagine.... Stern,.....
» 14/07/2010 10:19:15 AM Peter Hume, RE: Derivatives - "No amount of regulating it will fix the problem, whic.....
» 14/07/2010 9:18:50 AM Stern, You said - "I gave him a list of the results of "Marxist" philosoph.....
» 14/07/2010 8:52:01 AM Hello CJ, Yep - here's one. When I noted Julia swing into line with Howard/Abbott govern.....
» 13/07/2010 9:07:46 PM Right ho - in for a penny, in for a pound... Yabby - interesting sleight of hand. Perhap.....
» 13/07/2010 3:08:20 PM Stern - How about this line of reasoning... Those at the apex of libertarian capitalism w.....
» 12/07/2010 10:16:28 PM Not only are the Chinese lifted out of poverty, many are lifted completely away from their.....
» 12/07/2010 4:09:09 PM It seems to me that the refugee issue is whipped up by the media (for its own ends) and ta.....
» 12/07/2010 3:47:49 PM snake, My father used to say the same thing - he loved the big bands. I don't mind a bit .....
» 12/07/2010 2:44:03 PM Severin, It's interesting that you raised Yabby's reference to cave-men. Thorstein Veblen.....
» 12/07/2010 11:07:19 AM Yabby, "Those who flaunt it commonly do so with borrowed money, low self esteem or o.....
» 12/07/2010 10:57:08 AM I was only thinking of this issue recently...how quickly time goes....I was twenty when Jo.....
» 12/07/2010 10:08:17 AM Funnily enough, my eight year-old son (who has a bit of interest in the Beatles) already i.....
» 11/07/2010 9:22:05 PM Peter Hume, It would be nice to think that humans could be capable of existing quite happ.....
» 11/07/2010 8:27:31 PM I say we should surreptitiously include it in a new range of sausages (no-one knows what g.....
» 11/07/2010 8:13:42 PM Peter Hume, (Sorry, I'm not Squeers - he displays splendid eloquence , don't you agree.) .....
» 11/07/2010 2:59:15 PM Dear Belly, You seem to have a very complicated relationship with Julia. You respect and .....
» 10/07/2010 12:20:22 PM Stern - you'll like this because apparently it makes me a failure. (Egad!) I don't own or .....
» 10/07/2010 10:34:52 AM Ludwig, Of course the general public aren't agitating for an increase for an increase in .....
» 9/07/2010 8:25:29 PM There once was a polly called Tony Whose torso was hairy and bony His rival, Queen Red Roa.....
» 9/07/2010 5:04:16 PM Yabby, Capitalism is predicated on the basis of human nature - the system is set up to ta.....
» 9/07/2010 10:53:47 AM Ludwig, It would be nice to think that Gillard could be a good Prime Minister - but, let'.....
» 8/07/2010 8:42:43 PM Peter Hume, You ask - "If we were to produce the same amount of food, clothing, hous.....
» 8/07/2010 5:49:53 PM "Bringing down Rudd was much easier than walking in his shoes." Superbly put, S.....
» 8/07/2010 2:28:35 PM It's a bit like buying a new car - the minute you drive it out of the showroom it automati.....
» 7/07/2010 11:07:53 PM PatTheBogan, I certainly do not put "all" the blame on Australia for Nauru's pli.....
» 7/07/2010 8:33:43 PM I'm with you, CJ....and it appears that Bertrand Russell pondered the issue also. In ".....
» 7/07/2010 5:22:13 PM Dear Foxy, You seem as if you are a fair and reasonable person - always ready to give som.....
» 7/07/2010 12:11:58 PM Very good, Squeers - I liked that. This is somewhat like watching ye olde tennis tourname.....
» 7/07/2010 11:41:00 AM I always thought that the term "Pacific solution" had extremely ominous overtone.....
» 7/07/2010 10:19:57 AM Ludwig - "Any resemblance to Howard's policy is just incidental." Don't think s.....
» 6/07/2010 8:53:06 PM According to Professor G. William Domhoff of the University of California, the wealth dist.....
» 6/07/2010 4:06:17 PM runner, That's all right, then...if you think that cold sunny days and frigid nights with.....
» 6/07/2010 11:16:34 AM Runner, It is indeed very cold in Western Australia at the moment and has been now for we.....
» 5/07/2010 9:27:51 PM Reminds me of a send-up a certain magazine on The Simpsons once called, "Better Homes.....
» 5/07/2010 8:59:18 PM Hello Al, What does the Bible say about time? There is that one that starts, "Every.....
» 5/07/2010 8:49:30 PM Dear Foxy and Squeers, Names are probably a very good place to start if we are looking at.....
» 5/07/2010 8:16:15 PM Dear Foxy, Many years before I had my son, I came across a name that I really liked. It w.....
» 5/07/2010 7:55:59 PM Dear Cossomby, It is very difficult not to be drawn into some kind of conformity - as you .....
» 5/07/2010 11:26:27 AM Houellebecq, I watched Donnie Darko with my daughter some years ago - will have to catch .....
» 5/07/2010 9:00:35 AM Dear Squeers, The U.K. swap sounds like a great opportunity. Dear Foxy and Pynchme, Thank.....
» 5/07/2010 8:53:37 AM Dear Ludwig, You'll have to forgive me here as I have no science background - just doing .....
» 5/07/2010 1:15:03 AM Einstein said: "People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction bet.....
» 4/07/2010 8:36:27 PM Dear Foxy, Interestingly, I came across that book by Tor Hundloe - and when I googled his.....
» 4/07/2010 7:31:09 PM Deaqr Squeers, I was hoping you would join us on this thread. I also would love to discus.....
» 4/07/2010 1:19:07 PM Shadow Minister, There has been nothing particularly dynamic about Abbott's stint as oppo.....
» 4/07/2010 1:15:52 AM Dear Benq, Each subset is a holon. That is - your Christian movement and Al's Christian m.....
» 4/07/2010 12:56:13 AM It is difficult for me to see that anyone could persuade Mr Hockey to take on the leadersh.....
» 3/07/2010 7:17:16 PM Dear Foxy, My reference to eccentrics was really only one example of people who choose no.....
» 3/07/2010 11:34:37 AM Dear Al, As you know, I did read the link you prescribed for me. And, yes, I understood w.....
» 2/07/2010 4:32:09 PM Dear Severin, It is interesting how the need for absolute conformity kicks in big time du.....
» 2/07/2010 3:09:59 PM Dear Al, I've probably made my opening post more complicated than it needed to be (a fai.....
» 2/07/2010 10:27:08 AM Squeers mentioned on another thread that the hardest thing to do was to think outside of c.....
» 2/07/2010 8:20:59 AM Yabby, I'm actually quite impressed that you accept that Keating/Hawke were responsible .....
» 1/07/2010 11:06:24 AM Belly, I agree that it may be tempting to jettison Abbott before the election, However, I.....
» 30/06/2010 8:20:35 PM Dear Al, It's interesting how two people can come away with such different impressions. I.....
» 30/06/2010 6:48:37 PM Belly, I doubt whether anyone is likely to put up their hand to overthrow Abbott before th.....
» 28/06/2010 2:14:27 PM billythekid, It is true that most of us tend to see things through the lens of things we .....
» 28/06/2010 11:19:52 AM billythekid, My mistake - I thought you meant 42% of "failed" marriages. Never.....
» 28/06/2010 10:27:42 AM billythekid, Could you enlighten us on who is terminating the other 58% of marriages?.....
» 27/06/2010 6:45:05 PM Dear Stern, You may have a point - I'll bet those cyanobacteria were a collectivist mob. .....
» 27/06/2010 11:46:31 AM Dear david f. Thank you for that information - most interesting. It seems that our behavio.....
» 24/06/2010 8:51:41 AM Dear Pynchme, You're right that nature is brutal and that species have always become exti.....
» 23/06/2010 11:38:18 AM Pericles, "The truly wise man will know what is right, do what is good, and therefor.....
» 23/06/2010 9:33:42 AM Hey, hey, CJ...that's very funny - I agree......
» 23/06/2010 8:59:01 AM Dear Al, Ah, yes, Glenn Beck - I watched him once - highly entertaining, in the fictional.....
» 22/06/2010 9:01:15 PM dane, I don't see this as a men verses women conundrum - I see it as an imperative dictate.....
» 22/06/2010 5:08:07 PM dane, Oh, I see - you are referring to work that is conducted outside the family home for.....
» 21/06/2010 6:22:44 PM dane, What exactly do you mean when you say that women "work less than men"?.....
» 21/06/2010 2:36:17 PM We are unique and Severin, Good to know that we have some budding writers among us - have .....
» 19/06/2010 6:56:36 PM Dear Bazz, Just have to comment on Morse. Colin Dexter has created in him a character tha.....
» 19/06/2010 12:32:22 PM Dear Severin, Yes, I remember enjoying Callan too. Inspector Rex is most enjoyable. Love.....
» 19/06/2010 11:28:48 AM dane, It's interesting that we are looking at the men verses women question through the ve.....
» 18/06/2010 10:17:34 PM Dear Foxy, Your contribution could only enhance a thread. "The Name of the Rose&quo.....
» 18/06/2010 9:44:32 PM Just remembered Jonathan Creek starring Alan Davies and Caroline Quentin - always highly e.....
» 18/06/2010 8:45:46 PM Dear Foxy, I was a big fan of Bergerac - used to sit up late once a week just to watch it.....
» 18/06/2010 7:54:07 PM Dear Sung Wu, You have mentioned the atmosphere which is so important - especially in the .....
» 18/06/2010 5:19:39 PM Dear dane, Can you explain to me what was so hot about putting men on the moon - exceptin.....
» 18/06/2010 3:25:18 PM I think this is "Karma" coming to get BP after they changed their logo to look l.....
» 18/06/2010 2:23:33 PM Dear Pelican, I get what you mean about dipping occasionally into Agatha's books - they ar.....
» 18/06/2010 1:20:43 PM Dear Pynchme, How fascinating about Margaret Rutherford. I love to read of interesting liv.....
» 18/06/2010 11:53:40 AM Dear Foxy, I have to agree with you there. Deliciously eccentric, many layered...one sort.....
» 18/06/2010 11:27:57 AM It's interesting that we all have different perceptions when it comes the the rendering of.....
» 17/06/2010 2:34:35 PM Dear Al, You flatter me. I can understand that you are bewildered because you cannot fatho.....
» 17/06/2010 1:53:02 PM I thought I'd introduce a light note among the threads. The subject of fictitious detectiv.....
» 16/06/2010 5:49:37 PM Dear Al, Thank you for the compliment (I believe I am astounding). I read your link becau.....
» 16/06/2010 3:23:55 PM Sorry Al - I find it difficult to join you in debate (although I did take the time to read.....
» 16/06/2010 2:07:57 PM Did someone mention my name? Just a little observation - I find that the sentiments usuall.....
» 15/06/2010 4:57:01 PM I agree that morals and ethics are a community issue. Parents these days, in a way, are co.....
» 15/06/2010 3:27:24 PM It seems to me that this sort of conundrum was always going to happen as society moved awa.....
» 13/06/2010 12:54:36 PM Tut, Tut, Arjay....You are silly, aren't you. These good people are merely pointing out ho.....
» 30/05/2010 11:53:17 AM spindoc, Social engineering and indoctrination have been agents in the service of consume.....
» 29/05/2010 11:18:41 AM spindoc, You write that social commentators have no right to suggest a role that places t.....
» 27/05/2010 11:18:34 PM I get it now , odo. You are saying that what I wrote didn't make sense to you. What I was .....
» 27/05/2010 10:32:00 PM No, odo,(sigh) I didn't read it before I posted - I am capable of composing my own sentenc.....
» 27/05/2010 4:52:21 PM Dear Cheryl, Children are not as discriminating as you think. You simplify the western mal.....
» 27/05/2010 3:46:54 PM The whole of western society is geared toward consumption as an end in itself. As Houelleb.....
» 20/05/2010 11:40:10 AM Dear Foxy, I'm sick of all the politics as well. I used to have have quite an interest in.....
» 19/05/2010 11:06:19 PM Dear Foxy, I'd like to see a return to smaller communities - country and city. I'd like t.....
» 18/05/2010 12:54:06 PM The Garden of Love - William Blake I went to the Garden of Love, And saw what I never had.....
» 16/05/2010 3:57:23 AM Dear Pynchme, Great clip. Once I discovered the Dumfries connection with Burns, I became.....
» 14/05/2010 9:31:26 PM I was interested in Squeers' point about the middle-classes claiming the poetry - and it r.....
» 14/05/2010 2:52:50 PM This is a passage from Charles Darwin's autobiography. "Up to the age of thirty, or .....
» 13/05/2010 2:54:42 PM I like to draw as well as write. sometimes one happens to make exactly the right stroke in.....
» 12/05/2010 3:51:36 PM Dear foxy, I know what you mean by assembling a library at home. I have done my best over.....
» 12/05/2010 3:33:11 PM I'd like this thread to go on for a while - feels good......
» 11/05/2010 8:45:05 PM Dear Foxy, My son was a big fan of Lynley Dodd's rhyming books - Hairy Maclary and Slinky.....
» 11/05/2010 8:09:47 PM Foxy, When Jack produced one lousy bean, His startled mother, turning green, Leaped high .....
» 11/05/2010 5:42:57 PM david f. I like that very much. Reading your wife's verses, which are very clever, remind.....
» 10/05/2010 8:17:12 PM Thank you all for your kind words about my poem. I'll let you in on something, though. I n.....
» 9/05/2010 4:56:01 PM Foxy, Sorry you're having such a lousy Mother's Day. Roll on Tuesday......
» 9/05/2010 4:48:38 PM I wrote this poem years ago for a writer friend of mine in Ireland. She was successful and.....
» 9/05/2010 1:21:49 PM Severin, I agree - great thread, Foxy. William Blake is a favourite poet of mine. Here a.....
» 8/05/2010 9:15:49 PM Özymandias" by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1817) I met a traveller from an antique land Wh.....
» 8/05/2010 8:51:17 PM I can't think of a more dreary and drudge-filled world than one populated solely by employ.....
» 6/05/2010 2:59:21 PM Hi Rosie, You could try the Raising Children Network. It's Australian website and has a gr.....
» 2/05/2010 3:39:10 PM Dear pax, Good post. plantagenet - what abuse?.....
» 1/05/2010 12:06:08 PM Yes, mikk, I do feel manipulated. Your key word was 'wasteful'. Good old western consumer .....
» 28/04/2010 9:58:19 AM individual, "Everyone's so busy now that they have to pay other peoples' children to .....
» 27/04/2010 10:18:07 PM Sounds like you've had a good life, Yabby......
» 26/04/2010 1:59:11 PM Glen, It seems to me that your major beef is with your family and the fact that they were .....
» 25/04/2010 3:42:05 AM Good one, Pynchme, Reminds me of that 70's song, 'Shame and Scandal in the Family'....and .....
» 24/04/2010 12:59:23 AM I know quite a few people working in the north of Western Australia - but none of them liv.....
» 31/03/2010 3:23:19 PM Although, Foxy, in the case of the Iraq War, the general consensus (especially in Britain .....
» 30/03/2010 1:55:11 PM I agree with Pericles - crisis!, what crisis? This is a western thing. Most women in the w.....
» 29/03/2010 1:50:12 PM Houellebecq, Have you read anything by Tom Hodgkinson? I think you might enjoy his books .....
» 27/03/2010 9:41:25 PM Dear Foxy, Sorry to hear that you have been unwell. Experiences like yours often lead to a.....
» 16/03/2010 12:50:26 AM Hasbeen, I believe that particular line became the title for his follow-up book of memoirs.....
» 15/03/2010 9:41:59 PM According to Albert Einstein, time doesn't exist at all - he said, "People like us, w.....
» 10/03/2010 2:13:58 AM I find it amazing that Tony Abbott failed to discuss this new policy initiative with the p.....
» 6/03/2010 3:07:15 AM Graham, While agreeing that the traditional style of teaching is more likely to produce be.....
» 5/03/2010 12:51:44 PM I think that "bio-psycho-environmental reasons" is the best term I've heard all .....
» 5/03/2010 9:42:17 AM My first visit to a thread on OLO was butting in on a "discussion" between Houel.....
» 5/03/2010 9:20:01 AM Graham Y, You are so right about where is the spare time coming from. However, the school .....
» 3/03/2010 10:39:31 PM I was also a little puzzled at the conclusions you drew from C.J's post, Cornflower. I hav.....
» 2/03/2010 1:40:38 PM Yes, Pelican, it is most difficult if we confine ourselves to actors and musicians. But ev.....
» 1/03/2010 7:10:10 PM It's interesting how someone like Peter Garrett, who commanded quite a bit of credibility .....
» 1/03/2010 10:12:54 AM RobP, What a delicious scenario....Should that be "enter stage left"...or ".....
» 28/02/2010 2:38:25 PM I'm having a little difficulty with politics in Australia at the moment. I'm finding mysel.....
» 28/02/2010 12:35:59 PM I get it, Hasbeen - you're saying that it was a similar scenario to when the American serv.....
» 27/02/2010 10:28:18 AM Thanks for the enlightenment, Horus. The shell necklaces and bone flutes and evidence of e.....
» 27/02/2010 10:11:57 AM Severin makes a good point that Neanderthal man was not necessarily less intelligent than .....
» 26/02/2010 3:20:28 PM I watched a program last night on the ABC about Neanderthals. I've read a few books on the.....
» 26/02/2010 2:55:40 PM Frank Zappa named his children Moon Unit and Dweezil - I'm pretty sure they kept their nam.....
» 26/02/2010 2:51:59 PM I was dithering around recently researching some family connections. While I was trawling .....
» 25/02/2010 2:43:39 AM Very interesting question about the store one puts in a surname. I mentioned some time ago.....
» 8/02/2010 6:59:56 AM Ludwig, My sentiments, exactly!.....
» 27/01/2010 4:43:43 PM Pelican, I can see what David f was getting at. There is a reason why people seem less lik.....
» 27/01/2010 3:29:28 PM Modern consumer society is not really interested in humankind maintaining close-knit commu.....
» 22/01/2010 12:25:23 PM Roger Noriega has provided a very one-sided commentary of the causes of Haiti's troubles. .....
» 18/01/2010 8:27:16 AM Dear Foxy, Thank you for summing up so eloquently. As always, you manage to inject a litt.....
» 18/01/2010 8:18:01 AM Desmond, I've always thought it a huge anomaly that modern consumer society seeks to conf.....
» 17/01/2010 9:25:57 PM Examinator, Interesting topic, and one with which I can identify. I found out I was adopt.....
» 17/01/2010 4:57:35 PM Yabby, The following link (my last on this subject, I promise) may provide further insigh.....
» 17/01/2010 10:28:25 AM Banjo, Here is a link to guardian.co.uk where you will find a list of donor countries. Th.....
» 17/01/2010 2:41:46 AM Apologies - here is the first link above again. http://www.cepr.net/documents/publication.....
» 17/01/2010 2:29:58 AM Yabby, You are correct that the IMF and the World Bank cancelled some of Haiti's debt las.....
» 16/01/2010 11:56:02 AM examinator, Do you have any information on this woman's sexual partners. who (one presume.....
» 16/01/2010 11:32:16 AM Protagoras, Thank you for the clear and concise post above - much appreciated......
» 16/01/2010 11:10:35 AM In the wake of the Haitian earthquake, the world is mobilizing to supply aid to this, the .....
» 15/01/2010 12:17:56 PM Bronwyn, Pynchme, Houellebecq, I agree with your sentiments about localized production an.....
» 13/01/2010 4:17:42 PM It's interesting to ponder the reasons that Israel has chosen to isolate Gaza to the exten.....
» 13/01/2010 1:07:22 PM I've been pondering the gender dynamics on OLO, and this has led to a few questions. What .....
» 12/01/2010 10:18:37 PM Am re-posting this link as it is pertinent to the post above by Protagoras - especially si.....
» 11/01/2010 5:29:57 PM Yabby, I'm afraid we're going to have to agree to disagree on the agenda of the World Ban.....
» 11/01/2010 4:21:56 PM Gee, Squeers, if you're looking for that kind of feminine activist within Australia at the.....
» 11/01/2010 3:47:42 PM Mawsouth, The depression prevention program targeted at children from the ages of one to .....
» 11/01/2010 12:01:05 PM Pelican, Interesting post. I do homeschool my child, so am obviously biased toward this wa.....
» 10/01/2010 8:17:11 PM Yabby, I appreciate your views and you make some valid points. My main problem with the m.....
» 10/01/2010 9:57:13 AM Shadow Minister, Are you suggesting that the social interaction provided by being schoole.....
» 10/01/2010 2:15:21 AM Well. yes. Yabby, I would agree with you that peasant farmers need water for their crops -.....
» 9/01/2010 6:32:02 PM Yabby, Many of India's troubles do indeed stem from massive overpopulation and, therefore.....
» 9/01/2010 4:02:41 AM Many people seem to adhere to the western delusion of judging a person's quality of life p.....
» 8/01/2010 3:18:12 PM Peter referenced the ongoing lack of availability of basic food and water supplies, and in.....
» 7/01/2010 6:57:39 PM Wybong, I could not agree more with your sentiments about the African cattle herder. His .....
» 7/01/2010 1:56:36 AM Wybong. Again you give us a gift. Thank you for taking the time to reach out to this you.....
» 7/01/2010 1:46:14 AM Wybong, Though you are a scientist - you have also the heart and soul of a poet. Thank y.....
» 3/01/2010 11:38:07 PM Foxy, In one of your earlier posts on this issue, you surmised the reason for the targetin.....
» 3/01/2010 3:31:28 PM Perhaps present-day Muslim cultures do not wish to be modernized, or perhaps they resent h.....
» 1/01/2010 8:38:43 PM History often takes many twists and turns, and this applies to the Muslim world as well. M.....
» 1/01/2010 5:34:22 PM The west has had an agenda in the Middle-East for a very long time. France, Britain and I.....
» 1/01/2010 12:13:43 PM I believe Blake was referring particularly to the effects on the masses of the Industrial .....
» 23/12/2009 4:57:54 PM Thanks spindoc, Wishing everyone a happy and peaceful Christmas. Joyeux Noél.....
» 22/12/2009 7:19:58 PM Pelican, "There would still be value in the environment if there were no humans".....
» 20/12/2009 1:47:40 PM Clarification: That should have read, The Iraq war was responsible for 141 million metric.....
» 20/12/2009 1:42:04 PM Fighting wars is expensive. Putting aside the bank bailouts, according to anti-globalizat.....
» 18/12/2009 11:39:14 PM It's interesting that the polar regions seem to be diminishing at an alarming rate...surel.....
» 18/12/2009 9:48:32 PM Quite extraordinary - I knew nothing about this either, not being a maths buff. However, I.....
» 17/12/2009 8:16:06 PM Dear Belly As you might know, I'm a new kid on the block at OLO. I've found it a particul.....
» 17/12/2009 7:25:57 PM individual, I used the term advanced to mean modern industrially developed nations. Howe.....
» 17/12/2009 5:33:28 PM Street, The Pilgers of this world are the ones who see through the camouflage draped so s.....
» 17/12/2009 3:23:15 PM Our son has been dignosed with High-functioning autism and ADHD. He is not taking any medi.....
» 17/12/2009 9:13:45 AM On the subject of personal egos. A "vain ego"appears to be a prerequisite for an.....
» 15/12/2009 3:14:59 PM We refer to members of parliament as "Honourable"....which I presume was borrowe.....
» 15/12/2009 9:30:00 AM Dear Ludwig, Thank you for the Aunty Jack Song link. I have just extended my eight year-o.....
» 14/12/2009 11:30:53 PM Dear Foxy, Thank you for the information. Even though one realizes that these ex-polies .....
» 14/12/2009 10:23:06 PM Dear Ludwig, You made some very good points - I agree. May I direct you to the works of .....
» 13/12/2009 1:28:45 PM Dear Ludwig, Thank you for your interest. It is merely a turn of phrase. Dear Mama only .....
» 13/12/2009 11:31:00 AM Individual, I couldn't agree more. I have often pointed this out in conversations with oth.....
» 13/12/2009 9:52:30 AM Dear Ludwig, Absolument! My mother possessed moustaches even more luxuriant than my own -.....
» 13/12/2009 9:28:03 AM I agree that one country's culture doesn't make it better or worse than another's. But it .....
» 12/12/2009 2:25:17 PM We in Australia are a fortunate bunch. We enjoy a high standard of living and all the rela.....
» 12/12/2009 8:24:41 AM I had a singular experience in my fourteenth year. My father, who was a bit of a gad-about.....
» 10/12/2009 8:34:34 PM CJ Morgan - your observation that the global economy must slow down is sound. Western econ.....
» 8/12/2009 1:39:50 PM I think western man has a tendency to only value that which he pays for. Therefore, is he.....
» 8/12/2009 11:57:11 AM individual, I think it was a very pertinent post. Transporting ourselves in sealed capsu.....
» 8/12/2009 7:50:36 AM Saudi Arabia, eh...phew...for a while there I thought all this might have been orchestrate.....
» 7/12/2009 1:20:05 PM Here is a passage written by Carl Sagan, astronomer and author. He seems to be looking at .....
» 7/12/2009 1:24:34 AM CJ Morgan, I think you have a point - there is something very whiffy about this one. The .....
» 6/12/2009 3:11:04 PM Atheistno1, You said that an idea is a thought based on facts. Einstein had this to say .....
» 6/12/2009 12:23:21 PM Two men of my acquaintance have been victims of women who decided that they wanted out. T.....
» 6/12/2009 11:17:54 AM The media doesn't appear to be wondering about the identity of the East Anglia hackers. D.....
» 6/12/2009 8:52:00 AM Good morning, thomasfromtacoma, I see you are at your scintillating best again today. Af.....
» 4/12/2009 3:05:32 PM thomasfromtacoma, Why is it that you choose to call people names? Thinker 2 and the other.....
» 4/12/2009 11:57:55 AM Thank you for the link rstuart. Apologies for the incomplete address......
» 4/12/2009 11:03:46 AM Thank you, Pericles. I'm learning as I go along. Thank you also for providing the link......
» 4/12/2009 10:07:14 AM Having just experienced our own political ructions over the climate change issue, I though.....
» 3/12/2009 1:56:58 PM Pericles Absolument! You took the words right out of my mouth......
» 3/12/2009 10:21:11 AM I have an average suburban block (a little room for my marrows) and a few chickens. I was.....
» 3/12/2009 9:54:46 AM Why wouldn't many in the Middle East consider American conduct in the in region to be a bi.....
» 2/12/2009 3:12:59 PM Tony Abbott recognised and supported the Rudd Government's mandate to introduce an ETS as .....
» 2/12/2009 1:48:38 PM Tony Abbott's rhetoric on climate change policy appears to be a bit garbled at the moment......
» 2/12/2009 7:46:17 AM CJ Morgan, That does sound rather a delicious scenario. Imagine, after all the grandstand.....
» 2/12/2009 12:09:54 AM Pelican, Sounds like we're coming from the same place. I usually vote on a Labor/Green tic.....
» 1/12/2009 3:04:17 PM I thought of the Abbott and Bishop thing too. Perhaps its our consolation prize for not g.....
» 1/12/2009 2:22:20 PM This is not a decisive victory for Abbott. If Turnbull had scraped in by the same margin t.....
» 30/11/2009 4:17:18 PM Examinator, I agree that whoever takes on the leadership now would not be expected to be t.....
» 30/11/2009 12:46:20 PM Thank you for the link, Examinator. I haven't had a laugh like that in a long time. Stran.....
» 28/11/2009 12:23:32 PM RE: Above. Obviously Hinda should be Hindu. (very slack self-editing).....
» 28/11/2009 12:18:37 PM A very timely subject. A mass ritual slaughter of over 300,000 animals is scheduled to beg.....
» 28/11/2009 2:17:19 AM After the initial thrill of John Howard's spectacular political demise, I thought it would.....
» 26/11/2009 5:18:53 PM The egos, they clash, yes? Yet opinions abound and observation of life pours forth. It is .....
» 25/11/2009 4:47:29 PM Pericles, You put it so well and I get your point. Certainly it is a more swaddled life fo.....
» 25/11/2009 9:04:40 AM You give a very good example of hands off parenting in citing the ruling class. They also .....
» 24/11/2009 11:32:53 PM Examinator Parents are encouraged to be hands-off these days. Parenting does not seem to b.....
» 24/11/2009 10:06:48 PM Malcolm got his way - squeaked in by 1 vote. That means half his party room doesn't suppo.....
» 24/11/2009 8:58:07 PM Interesting post about the lack of autonomy in ordinary life. It begins early in "sch.....
» 23/11/2009 12:08:05 PM It has been pointed out that we should be mindful of the desire of peasants to a "bet.....
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