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» 18/12/2010 6:33:06 PM @ Cornflower, perhaps if you didn't write in riddles I'd have more chance in getting what .....
» 18/12/2010 3:34:54 PM @ Jay of Melbourne, at least my comment addressed the content and argument of the article......
» 18/12/2010 1:32:05 PM According to Philo's logic, Christians should celebrate the removal of SRE from schools, .....
» 18/12/2010 1:00:52 PM @ Cornflower, I have no reason to think that the author invented the "Seaview Commun.....
» 18/12/2010 10:30:35 AM That was quite a funny joke about the engineer dog, Austin Powerless. No humour in your r.....
» 18/12/2010 8:35:47 AM In my community one of the local churches is organising the annual 'Carols by Candlelight'.....
» 18/12/2010 8:14:30 AM This is a very good article that addresses an aspect of the gay marriage debate that I don.....
» 17/12/2010 3:10:02 PM STOP PRESS! Ambitious politician plots ALP leadership takeover before the event. Post-tak.....
» 17/12/2010 2:19:59 PM individual, if Hasbeen's point was "an incompetent employee not reading the meter & .....
» 17/12/2010 11:38:12 AM I can understand why someone might start a discussion about inflated electricity bills. As.....
» 17/12/2010 8:43:34 AM On further reading, it's quite apparent that the Westboro Baptist Church isn't your typica.....
» 17/12/2010 8:24:49 AM Ah, the Baptists. Plenty of "demons" there, I reckon. Check out the exemplary ac.....
» 17/12/2010 7:16:34 AM Are we to infer from Hasbeen's rant (and ALGORE's puerile barracking) that he attributes t.....
» 16/12/2010 5:33:06 AM I bet you didn't learn that in SRE classes, McReal......
» 15/12/2010 9:44:10 PM Am I the only one here who finds this obsession with some kind of persistent Fabian social.....
» 15/12/2010 9:09:36 PM This is quite fascinating stuff, isn't it? I once lived in a place where the local people.....
» 15/12/2010 8:54:08 PM I agree with pelican that this is not a case of 'whistleblowing'. Rather, it's a very sad.....
» 15/12/2010 8:21:24 PM Like I've said before, I can't wait for the movie......
» 15/12/2010 8:19:43 PM I'll just add my hurrah for this excellent article. Nothing much more needs to be said he.....
» 15/12/2010 7:22:34 AM "well from now on we don't care about those kids as long as the school doesn't care a.....
» 14/12/2010 7:12:24 PM And yet another potentially useful discussion about Australia's population sinks into the .....
» 14/12/2010 4:43:00 PM When are the AGW deniers going to realise that their increasingly shrill protestations ha.....
» 14/12/2010 3:15:38 PM Yet another reason why I no longer buy the Oz, after having been in the practice of doing .....
» 14/12/2010 10:11:30 AM spindoc, there's a difference between whistleblowers and conspiracy theorists. Admittedly,.....
» 14/12/2010 10:05:54 AM "How do you suggest a heart becomes pure without Christ?" And there in a nutshe.....
» 14/12/2010 8:42:27 AM I, for one, am glad that we're having this discussion online in Australia, rather than in .....
» 14/12/2010 8:10:10 AM I agree with briar rose. While I've personally never been in anything like the situation .....
» 14/12/2010 7:38:38 AM "Really, this country needs an informed debate on carrying capacity and a survey of w.....
» 13/12/2010 12:21:13 PM "Population debates always devolve into an argument over race (and now pseudo race, M.....
» 13/12/2010 9:16:31 AM JamesH, I've read the article to which you kindly linked, but I see no reference at all to.....
» 13/12/2010 7:00:23 AM Notwithstanding the apologetics from ALGORE and runner, it seems that Epsilon's experience.....
» 12/12/2010 7:37:09 PM So you don't have anything to say about population policy, Proxy, other than to rant on ab.....
» 12/12/2010 4:51:08 PM "bigotry (plural bigotries) intolerance or prejudice, especially religious or racial.....
» 12/12/2010 3:44:12 PM PaulL, in 1975 there were about 48 million people living in Vietnam, now the population is.....
» 12/12/2010 1:27:06 PM It's good to see that you get the message about bigotry, Proxy. However, it doesn't seem t.....
» 12/12/2010 12:43:09 PM ALGORE, I've already said that I'm not going to play your conspiracy theory game with you......
» 12/12/2010 10:47:05 AM While I'm sympathetic to calls to restrict immigration on ecological grounds, like most ar.....
» 12/12/2010 7:38:50 AM That's quite fascinating Arjay, but what on earth does it have to do with Vietnam? With r.....
» 11/12/2010 3:15:16 PM I'm not into Christmas and I'm not a Christian, but you don't have to be to appreciate thi.....
» 11/12/2010 12:40:51 PM We don't do Christmas at Chez Talisman, but we do an indulgent Saturnalia. Unless the gran.....
» 11/12/2010 9:14:53 AM "Agree ?" No. Have a nice day......
» 11/12/2010 9:11:01 AM I think that it's worthwhile revisiting the stupid Vietnam War in the context of Australia.....
» 11/12/2010 8:31:38 AM [CONT] While I felt like washing my hands after visiting some of these deranged websites.....
» 11/12/2010 8:28:04 AM In retrospect, I can see where this nonsense about "White genocide" might be app.....
» 10/12/2010 9:40:26 PM Hmmm. A discussion about Reconciliation and the pros and cons of recognising Indigenous pe.....
» 10/12/2010 5:04:51 PM ALGORE, at the risk of pointing out the obvious, Julia Gillard may have been a Fabian soci.....
» 10/12/2010 3:26:34 PM Yes, older people often become intolerant of young people, but it's nothing new: "Th.....
» 10/12/2010 9:26:51 AM ALGORE, I think you've misconstrued Pericles' point completely. You are suggesting that st.....
» 10/12/2010 9:19:41 AM I think that some people here are confused between genocide and what used to be called, qu.....
» 10/12/2010 8:20:15 AM Very well said, pelican. I don't think that I could have responded to rpg's facile compari.....
» 10/12/2010 8:13:25 AM Hilarious. Surely somebody in Pentecostal US TV-land has dubbed him the Antichrist by now?.....
» 9/12/2010 9:45:59 PM Leave it alone, Proxy. In the name of Cheeses......
» 9/12/2010 9:37:40 PM "what on earth is he doing sleeping with people he works with, and publishing stuff h.....
» 9/12/2010 10:15:57 AM I see what you mean, Blue Cross. Mind you, I have to thank ALGORE for linking to that gre.....
» 9/12/2010 9:25:35 AM While it's probably good to read a contrarian opinion about Assange's arrest, surely Ms D.....
» 9/12/2010 8:06:19 AM Hello ALGORE. As I said, I'm not going to play. But I will point out that nobody takes so.....
» 9/12/2010 7:56:26 AM Highly entertaining article and comments. Sounds like it was a great meeting. Surely runn.....
» 9/12/2010 7:47:09 AM I'm thinking about what a wonderful job the "Christian" grandmother did in raisi.....
» 9/12/2010 7:43:29 AM I think M. Poirot is mistaking Australia for an independent nation that is proud to exhibi.....
» 9/12/2010 7:40:02 AM Thanks for the heads-up, Poirot. It's good to hear it from the horse's mouth, so to speak.....
» 8/12/2010 10:27:59 AM ALGORE, I just read this description from another discussion that you started: "The .....
» 7/12/2010 4:06:26 PM Yes ALGORE, Western society has changed since the 1950s. No longer is sex a taboo subject .....
» 7/12/2010 12:27:42 PM In any case, if Man created God, which is a far more rationally defensible position than t.....
» 7/12/2010 11:30:25 AM Interesting thoughts, JanF. From memory, there's actually quite an extensive theoretical .....
» 7/12/2010 8:44:50 AM If Mr Ariel is surprised to be agreeing with Noam Chomsky about Wikileaks, then I'm gobsm.....
» 7/12/2010 8:15:52 AM Very good points, Cornflower. I'm appalled at the Australian Government's obsequious toad.....
» 7/12/2010 8:07:55 AM What a great article! Brian McNair's succinctly expressed opinion and analysis state eloq.....
» 6/12/2010 7:41:28 PM I probably wouldn't go so far as to call Julian Assange a "true Aussie hero" jus.....
» 6/12/2010 2:47:17 PM For those who still insist on repeating the ill-informed and erroneous scuttlebutt about &.....
» 6/12/2010 10:01:16 AM A great article, but unfortunately it will be wasted on that minority of fundamentally big.....
» 6/12/2010 7:52:16 AM "then it's war" If it is a "war", then clearly it's people like ALGOR.....
» 5/12/2010 5:23:31 PM No, Proxy. I'm talking about heterosexual marriage. In my experience sex was more frequent.....
» 5/12/2010 4:44:10 PM One thing I find interesting about the more prolific homophobic comments in this discussio.....
» 5/12/2010 3:57:20 PM Leo Lane is partly correct. 2010 looks like the third hottest year on record, not the hot.....
» 5/12/2010 10:20:20 AM "We all know there is another agenda at work here, don't we? We're just too polite t.....
» 5/12/2010 8:57:50 AM "don't try to derail the discussion by emotive anecdotes." That's a bit of a jo.....
» 4/12/2010 7:21:19 AM Obviously, for Liz45 it would "have been easier just to have his still hot dinner on.....
» 2/12/2010 10:39:55 PM That is truly cringeworthy. The animated roo looks like Scooby Doo. As for the rest... t.....
» 2/12/2010 4:08:51 PM What is it about the anti-gay marriage crew and their fixation on anal intercourse? More .....
» 2/12/2010 1:46:11 PM Yes, there is a potential problem for children who are brought up in fundamentalist religi.....
» 2/12/2010 11:07:05 AM A lovely piece of classic Christian sophistry brought to us from one of the leading lights.....
» 2/12/2010 10:18:40 AM This is an interesting case, but it's incorrect to characterise it as being about "A.....
» 2/12/2010 8:40:11 AM Greg Barns has a good take on this issue at the ABC Drum Unleashed website: http://www.abc.....
» 1/12/2010 8:11:45 PM Interesting. I've never thought of myself as a feminist, but didn't anybody else find Rosc.....
» 1/12/2010 4:33:46 PM A couple of days ago I thought that this discussion had become quite silly. Now it's becom.....
» 1/12/2010 1:57:13 PM " Wouldn’t it have been easier just to have his still hot dinner on the table when h.....
» 1/12/2010 11:39:32 AM I think that the Victorian election result exemplifies what is wrong with a "winner t.....
» 30/11/2010 4:28:03 PM It is a fascinating story. I imagine that Mr Assange would find it difficult to take out a.....
» 30/11/2010 4:19:25 PM I think that Chris Lewis is right that the Greens will likely be around for some time, and.....
» 30/11/2010 1:43:31 PM I think that this article is a calm breath of fresh air in the mostly hysterical debate ar.....
» 29/11/2010 9:07:17 PM This discussion's obviously gone a bit silly, but I do like that 'No Burka' vid. You rock,.....
» 29/11/2010 2:43:35 PM I loathe the burqa and all that it stands for, but like Shadow Minister I'm ambivalent as.....
» 29/11/2010 12:41:54 PM Thanks Houellebecq, You raise a very good example. I don't go to nightclubs, but the pote.....
» 29/11/2010 10:37:15 AM Thanks for the clarification, Cornflower. You're undoubtedly correct, but I think there's .....
» 29/11/2010 10:22:40 AM Thanks Squeers. I was actually thinking of Wallerstein when I made my last post. Capitali.....
» 29/11/2010 7:38:36 AM What is written in the Bible and how it is interpreted is absolutely irrelevant unless you.....
» 28/11/2010 1:28:54 PM Thanks Belly, From memory a driver's licence is worth 40 points, as are a Passport or an .....
» 28/11/2010 12:10:24 PM Hi Belly, This comes up in my line of work all the time, and Lexi's comment is on the mar.....
» 28/11/2010 11:44:56 AM TrashcanMan has it about right. I haven't seen an argument here against gay marriage that .....
» 27/11/2010 8:50:43 PM "THose of us who argue here are not about telling the homosexual community what they .....
» 27/11/2010 2:02:15 PM I'm wondering if there's ever been an example of a capitalist economy that hasn't been pre.....
» 27/11/2010 1:27:56 PM Why do Christians think they have the right to impose their religious beliefs on everybod.....
» 27/11/2010 11:46:56 AM Isn't there a lot of nonsense being bandied about re the issue of gay marriage? Some peopl.....

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