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» 3/03/2013 7:18:07 PM Rechtub, I'll give you this, at least you're consistant. Unfortunately consistantly wrong......
» 3/03/2013 7:10:41 PM Indi, let me say again, for the third time, you are presenting your opinion based on zero .....
» 3/03/2013 5:39:36 PM Indi, Here's a perfect example of what I mean when I say that you and rechtub confuse opi.....
» 3/03/2013 12:12:16 PM Oh dear, Indi, I'll try to talk slow and use little words for you. First, the question y.....
» 3/03/2013 9:11:28 AM Rechtub, I was laughing my head off at the new depths of silliness you managed to plumb i.....
» 1/03/2013 5:25:04 PM Oh, I've got plenty of time Indi, but not to waste on stupid questions. Anthony Http://www.....
» 26/02/2013 7:10:13 AM Hi Belly, A good point. But neither Indi nor rechtub are the type to let facts spoil a goo.....
» 25/02/2013 4:14:11 PM Hi Belly, I lmow what you mean. Rechtub seems to think he's some kind of hero for doing n.....
» 25/02/2013 6:47:50 AM Poor old rechtub, Such inaccuracies are hardly worth responding to. But this I will say,.....
» 24/02/2013 9:26:07 PM Paul 1405, When interacting with individual you have to keep in mind that you are not dea.....
» 24/02/2013 9:21:02 PM rechtub, Your wild generalizations remove any last vestige of credibility you might have .....
» 24/02/2013 9:09:14 PM Individual, All that's left to say is to point out the old adage, "Change is life and.....
» 24/02/2013 3:47:51 PM Individual, I get the feeling you've never actually been to another country, let alone got.....
» 23/02/2013 5:12:33 PM Hi o sung wu, I haven't read either of those books, but they're now on my reading list. .....
» 23/02/2013 3:31:07 PM Individual, Re your ealier post. But I did exactly that. I listed out what rechtub might.....
» 23/02/2013 3:22:49 PM Individual, Yeah, the national service idea has popped up from time to time. The problem.....
» 23/02/2013 3:16:47 PM Hi Belly, I didn't know you were under the weather. Best wishes for speedy get well. Re.....
» 23/02/2013 3:10:49 PM Individual, You make a very good point. But here's a counter argument: government legis.....
» 23/02/2013 2:56:56 PM Rechtub, See, right there, that's your problem. You either don't absorb what you're read.....
» 23/02/2013 9:21:21 AM Individual, in the US the minimum wage is just under $8/hour. Obama's suggestion that it g.....
» 23/02/2013 9:10:28 AM Rechtub, The key part of your response is, 'how I see it'. My position is that you are se.....
» 21/02/2013 8:30:37 PM rechtub, yes, I do believe that we would be in the same position as we are now if the Coal.....
» 21/02/2013 2:49:24 PM Hi Mr Opinion, Ouch! Now you've really got me worried. Anthony.....
» 21/02/2013 1:56:01 PM Rechtub, Do you seriously believe that Abbott's government will be an improvement? Well,.....
» 18/01/2013 7:20:28 AM Arjay, Given that so far not a single one of the disasters you're regularly predicting has.....
» 17/01/2013 11:41:31 AM Well, here's my point, Arjay, you've been forecasting disaster for ages, but things just k.....
» 16/01/2013 8:39:41 PM Arjay, I'm a little surprised to hear you describe yourself as a realist. A realist is a .....
» 16/01/2013 11:00:33 AM Hi Belly, Quite the contrary. You don't insult people who hold a different opinion to you.....
» 15/01/2013 7:34:08 PM Ahh, caught in the act. I confess all and plead guilty to a momentary abheration. Although.....
» 15/01/2013 6:59:02 PM On reflection, perhaps I ought to apologise. Yes, I was being just the tiniest bit mischi.....
» 15/01/2013 6:57:01 PM You make a good point, sonofgloin. It wasn't my intention to bag those not doing as well .....
» 15/01/2013 2:08:02 PM I no longer follow the Forum much as I got tired of the endless, carping negativity. Now a.....
» 14/01/2013 7:15:22 PM Mr Opinion, First, what do you mean by ordinary people? Do you mean - not rich? Middle Cla.....
» 8/12/2012 4:45:04 PM Cohenite, in this case, I was referring specifically to the Torah. However, I would apply .....
» 8/12/2012 3:49:36 PM Cohenite, You accuse me of having a lazy mind. Why am I not surprised by such arrogance? A.....
» 8/12/2012 12:28:53 PM cohenite, I just do not accept that logic. Positioning Israel as a proxy for the west is .....
» 8/12/2012 10:11:03 AM David likes to constantly remind us of the historical facts. And he is perfectly justified.....
» 8/12/2012 10:02:17 AM Interesting that the Israel/Palestinian debate has evolved to a discussion of DNA and anci.....
» 3/12/2012 1:56:59 PM Hi sonofgloin, I see the problem. I know the difference between a million and a billion bu.....
» 3/12/2012 10:27:24 AM Hi ManOfTheLan, I do agree that funding social programs via debt is usually a bad mistake......
» 3/12/2012 7:01:27 AM 579 has it exactly right. The size of debt on it's own is irrelevant. It's how wisely the .....
» 3/12/2012 6:59:36 AM Son of gloin, Your response is why I don't participate in these columns much any more. You.....
» 2/12/2012 9:58:01 PM Paying a million dollars a month as a number tells us practically nothing. To know whether.....
» 2/12/2012 7:14:21 PM Nwesflash, a Goliath is already using it. A least, compared to the Palestinians Israel is .....
» 1/11/2012 4:17:22 PM 579 raises an excellent point. In fact, Tanya Plibesek spoke about this at length during Q.....
» 1/11/2012 7:21:53 AM 579 is absolutely correct. Today's Age is reporting falls in the costs of many houshold co.....
» 31/10/2012 10:02:47 AM I'm with 579. The prospect of Abbott as PM is an invite to disaster. And what's worse is t.....
» 30/10/2012 10:42:26 PM True, interest rates are falling. Another clearly measurable sign that this Labor Governme.....
» 30/10/2012 5:06:20 PM I must say, I like Herbert's idea of just presenting graphs. Let's look at them one by one.....
» 30/10/2012 4:07:19 PM Of course Abbott is a liability to the Conservative Party. But a bigger liability is the c.....
» 14/09/2012 7:08:02 AM Yabby, For once you're partly right, in Australia it was Costello who withstood pressure t.....
» 13/09/2012 9:14:31 PM Yabby, BAAAP No cigar. Sorry, mate you're wrong again. The dismantling of the financial c.....
» 13/09/2012 8:54:03 PM Yabby, I'm going to take a punt that you have about the world's shortest memory. Wall st r.....
» 13/09/2012 6:04:26 PM Good point about the Greeks, Bazz. A work associate of mine a few years ago was running a .....
» 13/09/2012 2:52:12 PM The thing I find annoying is that any time an economy is in trouble, be it Greece, Spain,,.....
» 13/09/2012 7:25:55 AM <<Just history repeating itself I am afraid. We just keep goimg from money in the b.....
» 11/09/2012 4:45:13 PM Phillip, In other words, you have no answer to the same question. Pot? Kettle? Black? Has.....
» 11/09/2012 3:38:04 PM Phillip S, I have already said, in an earlier post that you evidentally didn't read proper.....
» 11/09/2012 11:58:02 AM Shadow, Two points: First, in the course of becoming financially independent, I had a few .....
» 11/09/2012 11:46:06 AM Banjo, Isn't this an issue of justice and what kind of society we want? And so, isn't &quo.....
» 11/09/2012 6:59:48 AM Indidual, I add my voice in support of Belly's. Police make no laws, they uphold those our.....
» 11/09/2012 6:46:27 AM Phillip and Shadow Minister,, Below is a copy/paste of a reply I posted yesterday at -as y.....
» 10/09/2012 10:19:06 PM Rechtub, Two points: First, at no time have I disrespected your opinion, I merely disagree.....
» 10/09/2012 10:01:58 PM Phillip S, Yet again, you accuse me of not answering your - oh so important - question. Ye.....
» 10/09/2012 2:08:52 PM Hi Belly, An interesting point you make, about cost influencing sentencing. Some years ago.....
» 10/09/2012 11:57:27 AM Individual, Sighh... this is getting boring. Look, I don't have to describe him. We have a.....
» 10/09/2012 11:54:22 AM Phillip, Setting aside for the moment that this is a stupid question as it has no relevanc.....
» 10/09/2012 11:25:04 AM http://www2.law.columbia.edu/instructionalservices/liebman/liebman/Liebman%20Study/!index......
» 10/09/2012 11:17:40 AM Banjo, Now, here's an irony. Your post is a perfect example of why we need to take care wi.....
» 10/09/2012 11:13:20 AM Okay, thank you all. Now, I've got it... I think. My point is that the language is rather .....
» 10/09/2012 10:11:53 AM Phillip S, Read the post again. He said, 'commission'. And I still don't know what he's tr.....
» 10/09/2012 10:00:08 AM Belly raises a very interesting question; the more so because there's no clear right or wr.....
» 10/09/2012 9:06:25 AM To quote the 19th C French novelist and thinker, Emile Zola, " We teach that killing .....
» 10/09/2012 6:42:13 AM Individual, Commission? what on earth are you banging on about? Anyway, to put your mind .....
» 9/09/2012 10:03:02 PM In a couple of sentences rechtub you've led to the "illegals" consuming the enti.....
» 9/09/2012 12:26:11 PM Phillip S, As a non secuitur, your post works admirably well. Meaning, I don't understand .....
» 9/09/2012 10:55:21 AM << By the way, the news has examples of human nature every hour. Maybe take some not.....
» 9/09/2012 9:45:27 AM Rechtub, your post is difficult to interpret, but anyway... I didn't suggest all Australia.....
» 9/09/2012 8:56:10 AM Maybe you're right StG, But here's the thing. You sound like you're scared. Me? I prefer t.....
» 9/09/2012 8:27:41 AM StG, You remind me of the famous science fiction writer, Robert Heinlein, who said, ".....
» 9/09/2012 8:23:39 AM <<After all, is looking after ones own FIRST too much to ask for?>> It could .....
» 8/09/2012 10:27:06 PM Not disagreeing with you, StG, but how come we didn't hear about awful things happening to.....
» 8/09/2012 7:46:46 PM Hi Lexi, I love it. I read it at a good time. I'd beenreading about Paul Ryan's budget pro.....
» 8/09/2012 5:32:48 PM And something I meant to add, rechtub, <<supporting every swinging dick in the worl.....
» 8/09/2012 5:30:44 PM rechtub, I understand your concern, but aren't your confusing waste with prioritizing? Of.....
» 8/09/2012 5:24:01 PM The original post linking - perhaps - guns and sexual dysfunction highlights and old, but .....
» 7/09/2012 7:03:15 AM Hi Belly, Great post. I agree, the article is highly relevant. We've got our fair share of.....
» 6/09/2012 11:43:57 AM David, You are correct to point out that only the Greens' position is consistent with our .....
» 6/09/2012 9:57:23 AM I just read Turnbull's speech last night, and I totally agree with 579's comment. What Mal.....
» 6/09/2012 9:53:41 AM I rather think that the fall in Greens' support is a reflection of their extreme position .....
» 6/09/2012 9:31:46 AM Bazz, What utter nonsense.. At NO point have I required a conclusion to agree with mine. R.....
» 5/09/2012 7:29:25 PM Actually, Bazz, it doesn't make me happy. I was trying to be... Laid back in my comment, b.....
» 5/09/2012 6:14:55 PM Bazz, I suspect that, unintentionally, you've put your finger on the real problem. You, in.....
» 4/09/2012 2:30:31 PM rechtub raises an interesting question, what can be done. I would answer: become involved .....
» 2/09/2012 6:30:16 PM Individual, You've asked the most important and the most worthwhile question in this whole.....
» 31/08/2012 7:02:00 PM Hi Belly, You're right. Sometimes I think we'll just have to change minds and hearts one p.....
» 31/08/2012 3:48:24 PM It is important, as are many other factors. But, and this is accepted in all areas of scie.....
» 31/08/2012 3:03:52 PM Bazz, let me give you an example, as I think the problem is you're being too reductionist .....
» 31/08/2012 11:13:05 AM Bazz, You're trying a Reductio ad Absurdum argument. No, I didn't say it didn't matter. I .....
» 31/08/2012 10:19:28 AM I'm right with you on ths one, rechtub. Whether we stay until 2014, 2054 or 2104, at the e.....
» 30/08/2012 7:43:35 PM Bazz, You keep trotting out that nonsensical line. You would only have a point if there wa.....
» 30/08/2012 3:51:08 PM Jay, Garbage! Racism isn't code for anything. It simply means discriminating on the basis .....
» 30/08/2012 12:09:51 PM Ah, SPQR, Your endless irrelevencies merely confirm that you're becoming increasingly desp.....
» 30/08/2012 9:43:58 AM Redundant, Bazz? Oh really? What, there's nobody else in the world entitled or capable of .....
» 30/08/2012 9:27:53 AM David, I respectfully suggest that engaging with Jay is a waste of time. He's a self ackno.....
» 30/08/2012 9:25:32 AM SPQR in his usual shrill way, i.e. the voice of increasing desperation, splits hairs. My p.....
» 29/08/2012 9:32:40 PM Look, sonofgloin, You are flat out wrong when you say that the data was manufactured. That.....
» 29/08/2012 8:07:23 PM Well, Jay, I wouldn't use any of the terms you use to describe yourself, although I would.....
» 29/08/2012 7:21:32 PM Sonofgloin, You ask "who is to say..." Well the first answer I'll give you is Oc.....
» 29/08/2012 4:15:51 PM SPQR, Dang, so you come from one of those families too. Sonofgloin, A fair question, re t.....
» 29/08/2012 2:43:05 PM <<a majority Third World Nation with an Anglo Saxon governing elite, historically th.....
» 29/08/2012 10:31:05 AM I must thank certain OLOers for helping me to be at ease. Last night on the news and agai.....
» 29/08/2012 10:06:28 AM Jay, Thanks for the invite to debate, and, contrary to your assumption, (making factless a.....
» 29/08/2012 6:12:12 AM Jay, A fairly comprehensive rant. Is there anybody you don't hate? Anthony Http://www.obse.....
» 27/08/2012 11:26:29 AM I support gay marriage for this reason. Two gay friends of one of my sons, who met in univ.....
» 25/08/2012 2:47:20 PM Rechtub, Look, If what you are saying, i.e.that the only way to tax consumers is to tax co.....
» 24/08/2012 10:33:03 PM In the case of economists, Individual, I agree wholheartedly. They've caused incredible ha.....
» 24/08/2012 9:53:09 PM Arjay, I have this bridge you might be interested in buying... It's big and curvy and conn.....
» 24/08/2012 5:44:43 PM Well, Arjay, Did you listen to the governor of the Reserve Bank this morning? Probably not.....
» 24/08/2012 11:24:36 AM Hasbeen, Let me explain. It's not a faith in the Left. After all, when it's all boiled dow.....
» 24/08/2012 10:19:52 AM Ahh SPQR, I play my small part, as do most people who have brain and use it. Accordingly, .....
» 24/08/2012 7:53:31 AM Well, you proved one thing, Arjay. You proved that there are at least 900 people in Austra.....
» 13/08/2012 7:00:59 PM Belly, --- Have any political party ever said one thing while thinking the opposite for it.....
» 13/08/2012 4:30:41 PM David, Yesterday I would have agreed with you, and today I still cannot disagree with you......
» 13/08/2012 3:56:45 PM Yes, David, you're quite right, the article doesn't prove - or even suggest, really - a co.....
» 13/08/2012 3:03:59 PM I will start out by saying that throughout this thread I've been rather dismissive of the .....
» 11/08/2012 8:45:21 PM Oh, sonofgloin, the ignominy of it! Anybody but Kamahl. Actually, you may have a point. Th.....
» 11/08/2012 12:39:43 PM Ah, sonofgloin, how unkind... In my defense, let me ask, have ever heard of satire? It has.....
» 10/08/2012 10:00:34 PM One thing you might like to consider, Arjay, is that if a new world order came into being,.....
» 10/08/2012 9:55:34 PM David, Observation Point is my work. I try to use humour and satire to - more or less - ge.....
» 10/08/2012 10:11:11 AM Very true, David. It also relieves its subjects from accepting responsibility for their ow.....
» 10/08/2012 7:46:24 AM Arjay, Of course I've heard of "The New World Order". It's a crazy myth made up.....
» 9/08/2012 9:59:37 PM Arjay, look, I'll talk slow and use little words. You assert that in 1913 the US federal .....
» 9/08/2012 8:19:49 PM Exactly, Poirot, that's why I emphasized that I was talking about the EU and not the Euroz.....
» 9/08/2012 6:40:20 PM The splitting apart that we're seeing is in most cases to do with national identity exclus.....
» 9/08/2012 10:54:21 AM The thing is, there has always been a 1% with us. Throughout history we've called them, th.....
» 8/08/2012 8:55:23 PM David, Fair enough. And I have to agree with your last point. To quote I've no idea who, &.....
» 8/08/2012 7:07:39 PM David, I'm going to jump in here. One need not interact with the elites in order to evalua.....
» 8/08/2012 5:17:26 PM Sonofgloin, That's true. I see a real problem in the unwillingness of successive governmen.....
» 8/08/2012 5:12:36 PM Hasbeen, Not sure it's really true that the Greens have in mind for Australia to become li.....
» 8/08/2012 9:46:47 AM Sonofgloin raises a significant issue. Of course, humans mostly behave in the same way giv.....
» 7/08/2012 10:15:59 PM I'm sorry, RawMustard but your lack of logic betrays you. Because conservatives start wars.....
» 7/08/2012 8:40:14 PM I had a good laugh at RawMustard's nonsensical 'world history' and thought to leave it at .....
» 6/08/2012 10:00:39 AM Three points, Clem, First, people are the best source of energy, you say. What? I should g.....
» 5/08/2012 10:41:21 AM Banjo, I would take you back to the use of CFCs. Back in the 80s, a substantial hole in th.....
» 4/08/2012 9:28:00 PM Indi, I cheerfully cede the field to you. No way to trump that. Point, set and match to yo.....
» 4/08/2012 5:28:51 PM I'm sorry, Indi, I've read your latest post several times, and I simply can't make sense o.....
» 4/08/2012 9:33:27 AM Indi, Nice try, but you would need to give me an example of when I have asserted a belief .....
» 3/08/2012 10:05:24 PM What a lovely quote, Poirot. perfectly describes what we're seeing unfolding. Thanks for t.....
» 3/08/2012 8:34:55 PM Yuyutsu, I'm intrigued by your position. You assert as fact that which you believe, but fo.....
» 3/08/2012 8:28:27 PM Arjay, Calling a group of well intentioned people, a whore is what i was referring to. Ant.....
» 3/08/2012 7:00:59 PM Yes, arjay, it was graphic. And offensive and idiotic. Anthony http://www.observationpoint.....
» 3/08/2012 12:42:26 PM Yuyutsu, You seem to be asserting that a belief in God predates the social evolution of so.....
» 3/08/2012 12:02:14 PM Ha, csteele, you have fairly caught some of us on our own petards. I'll be the first to ad.....
» 3/08/2012 11:19:15 AM Well put, Steven, I read an interesting study years ago - can't remember where unfortunate.....
» 3/08/2012 10:48:10 AM I firmly believe that anonymity encourages abuse of a kind that few people would indulge i.....
» 3/08/2012 10:39:18 AM I agree with R0bert, rechtub and others. The right answer lies in the middle. I would go f.....
» 1/08/2012 9:05:32 PM Pepper, if you'd bothered to look at the graphs you would have seen thatgoing back that fa.....
» 1/08/2012 7:48:42 PM Well, we had OUG, then runner, so i guess it was but a matter of time before Arjay poked h.....
» 1/08/2012 4:37:06 PM I'm with you Thinker 2 and Rache, Abbott and Hockey, the Road Runner and Shrek of Australi.....
» 1/08/2012 3:55:09 PM Which warmist said no snow in the UK, runner? Reference, please. Or is this just another b.....
» 1/08/2012 10:44:45 AM UOG, I'll try to explain. Will the Carbon Tax directly fix global warming? Of course not!.....
» 1/08/2012 8:01:49 AM The Hasbeens and the Runners of the world I can forgive because their nonsensical, ill inf.....
» 31/07/2012 4:45:31 PM Another problem is that many decisions that greatly effect our economy are made in boardro.....
» 30/07/2012 10:33:21 AM PS Two more points. 1. I'd happily sign a petition. And I would love to see Getup take thi.....
» 30/07/2012 10:30:19 AM rechtub, I'm completely with you on this one. In the UK there was a parliamentary inquiry.....
» 24/07/2012 10:26:07 PM Arjay, In order to be irrelevant, it's not necessary to be absurd. Not one of the governme.....
» 24/07/2012 9:41:59 PM DEN71, You raise perfectly valid points. I left the military and became a manufacturing ex.....
» 24/07/2012 4:41:59 PM How right you are, Wobbles. And I would add, that people with guns can kill LOTS of people.....
» 24/07/2012 11:33:34 AM Individual, I'ven noticed before that when you are caught out on the facts or in exaggera.....
» 24/07/2012 8:24:26 AM I totally agree with Ludwig. I believe the two best things about the Howard era were the g.....
» 23/07/2012 6:21:21 PM Indi, You need to think a leeeetle bit more. How many Aussie tourists were taking package.....
» 23/07/2012 2:27:48 PM Bazz, You must be pretty desperate if you're going to label an entire culture because of a.....
» 23/07/2012 10:00:45 AM Individual, If what you say is true, then how do you explain the thousands of Vietnamese b.....
» 18/07/2012 10:22:43 PM csteele, You make a good point. But, here's a thing. Each time I meet someone who claims t.....
» 18/07/2012 3:54:52 PM Hasbeen, Two popints. First of all you said, 'hamonogised'? I don't even know what that me.....
» 18/07/2012 12:36:21 PM Faith has nothing whatever to do with it. 10 of the last 11 years have globally been the h.....
» 16/07/2012 1:49:05 PM Your last point is well made, Wobbles. The reason AGW is no longer on the front page so mu.....
» 16/07/2012 1:11:22 PM Runner, Several points: 1. There is no such thing as a 'healthy' fear in God; 2. If you be.....
» 16/07/2012 12:23:17 PM Runner, Andrew Bolt is on the record as saying that he took his contrarian position at the.....
» 16/07/2012 10:05:22 AM Here we are, Groundhog Day all over again, with Hasbeen and his Gallileo wannabe mates cli.....
» 15/07/2012 10:28:58 AM Yeah, it sure is. I'm interested that you mention about the efficient use of off peak for .....
» 15/07/2012 9:18:53 AM Bazz, I don't pretend to know or understand the data as well as you, but doesn't your argu.....
» 14/07/2012 4:11:50 PM Fair enough, Individual. I'm probably not a million miles from your position, but there ar.....
» 14/07/2012 3:03:32 PM Culling humans Individual? And do you see yourself as a culler or a cullee? The former, I .....
» 13/07/2012 6:26:41 PM Bazz, You're laboring endlessly on about a peripheral issue. It's tantamount to saying yo.....
» 13/07/2012 11:27:43 AM It's okay, Poirot, I think Hasbeen got your comment confused with my reminiscence re aircr.....
» 13/07/2012 11:15:25 AM Let me put a little global perspective around this supposedly highly intellectual challeng.....
» 13/07/2012 9:49:30 AM I once sat next to an acquaintance on a flight from Sydney to Brisbane, during which he la.....
» 12/07/2012 9:31:12 PM DEN71, I have doubts about tariffs. If we apply tariffs to our imports won't our trading p.....
» 12/07/2012 2:58:05 PM In other words, Hasbeen, you made up the bit about peer revued articles. Anything else you.....
» 12/07/2012 2:35:16 PM Er, Hasbeen, would you care to cite some of these peer revued publications to which you re.....
» 11/07/2012 10:45:11 PM Well said, wobbles. Anthony Http://www.observationpoint.com.au.....
» 11/07/2012 10:42:39 PM Ludwig, I agree completely with your views re the myth of eternal growth. Problem is, I do.....
» 11/07/2012 2:19:52 PM The thing that really astonishes me is that, if the polls are right, then it seems that 60.....
» 11/07/2012 12:15:05 PM I share many of your concerns, sonofgloin. But I do think that Malcolm Turnbull has potent.....
» 10/07/2012 4:52:37 PM I know we've been around this mulberry bush about a zillion times but, being a glutton for.....
» 9/07/2012 10:06:46 AM I'm going to sell mine and use the money to pressure the WWF to put the Higgs Boson on the.....
» 6/07/2012 7:01:16 AM You're right, Belly, and while I try to point out to the has beens of this world, the erro.....
» 5/07/2012 7:34:46 PM Hasbeen, I'm always fascinated how people who disagree with you are 'foolish', or 'speak r.....
» 5/07/2012 6:44:10 PM Look, the Labor Party will always do well because what choice does a person with compassio.....
» 5/07/2012 11:14:55 AM Jayb, What an interesting story - about the Japanese marines landing. I'd certainly never .....
» 5/07/2012 10:40:03 AM Both Belly's and Hasbeen's points are very well made. There's no doubt that the Coalition .....
» 4/07/2012 8:59:06 PM Big tick for The Kite Runner, Lexi. What a fantabulous book. Anthony http://www.observatio.....
» 4/07/2012 3:27:18 PM Reading R0bert's comment really brought back memories. I remember reading Stranger in a St.....
» 4/07/2012 12:43:33 PM This thread was a good idea, Poirot; it's only been up a few hours and already my reading .....
» 4/07/2012 9:36:16 AM What a good idea, Poirot; to talk about something else for a bit. My favourite book is 'Me.....
» 3/07/2012 10:35:24 PM Yabby, When you say, "you" when you refer to Australia in the collective sense,.....
» 2/07/2012 6:41:05 PM Glad you enjoyed it. I'm going to take a guess and say we're both Tolkien fans too? Anthon.....
» 2/07/2012 5:31:17 PM You're right sonofgloin, that was unfair of me. And we have, I suspect, more in common tha.....
» 2/07/2012 4:32:54 PM Bazz, Have you looked at a company called A Better Place. They're starting with a trial di.....
» 2/07/2012 4:24:43 PM Oh, Shad, I see you've really excelled yourself and learned how to call two politicians si.....
» 2/07/2012 3:47:46 PM Shad, except that 300 major businesses came out in support of the carbon tax today. I supp.....
» 2/07/2012 1:33:00 PM I agree Bazz, Peak Oil has been and gone, I think. I mentioned somewhere else on OLO recen.....
» 2/07/2012 12:55:25 PM Sorry Shad, That dog just won't hunt. Abbott doesn't just "gloss over". He flat .....
» 2/07/2012 12:24:44 PM You're right, Bazz,I do accept that's part of it. I doubt if there's anything our politici.....
» 2/07/2012 11:53:37 AM Runner, that's absolute crap and you know it. The additional support for pensioners is act.....
» 2/07/2012 10:39:30 AM Interesting and reasonable question, Bazz. There are two answers. First, it is becoming in.....
» 2/07/2012 9:47:29 AM Oops! Better make that Phrase for the day. Anthony Http://www.observationpoint.com.au.....
» 2/07/2012 9:35:46 AM SPQR et al, The word for the day is 'middle ground'. Can we all say 'middle ground', boys .....
» 2/07/2012 9:33:06 AM I find it fascinating when folk like sonofgloin unrelentingly remind us of Gillard's so ca.....
» 1/07/2012 5:41:12 PM Do I detect evidence of a humour bypass among one or two respondents? Of course its stupid.....
» 1/07/2012 2:56:51 PM Oh, no, anything but lentils. Won't I at least be able to have a Macas? Anthony Http//:www.....
» 1/07/2012 12:19:23 PM This morning I crawled out of bed, shaking with terror. This was the day we've been warne.....
» 30/06/2012 5:15:55 PM That would be the John Howard who lied about children overboard, lied about the intel and .....
» 30/06/2012 12:58:30 PM Good try, Shad, but no cigar. Anthony Http://www.observationpoint.com.au.....
» 29/06/2012 8:00:17 PM I think the point is that Labor at least does have serious alternatives. So, let's look at.....
» 28/06/2012 10:43:53 AM You know they'll be beaten? I lived in Malaysia for four and a half years, and I don't &qu.....
» 28/06/2012 10:41:24 AM Permanently remove one of the inputs. Damn, that sounds drastic. Seems like we're in for a.....
» 28/06/2012 9:42:14 AM Shadow Minister, I can do no better than to support 579's assertion. He describes the situ.....
» 28/06/2012 9:38:16 AM Bazz, Now that's a really interesting idea that I hadn't thought through before; the notio.....
» 28/06/2012 7:08:34 AM Rechtub, Two points you make are problematic. First, the Coalition had a plan re the boats.....
» 28/06/2012 6:56:06 AM I imagine there are more than a few Labor bbenchers staring at the ceiling and having thou.....
» 28/06/2012 6:52:21 AM I've heard this theory, and I certainly respect Rubin, but oil prices are now down around .....
» 27/06/2012 9:35:36 PM Look rechtub, I kmow you viscerally hate Labor, but it's rarely prudent to let one's hatre.....
» 27/06/2012 3:50:15 PM I must say, Poirot, I can understand your wish. After all, the Countess does have some of .....
» 27/06/2012 1:32:03 PM Bazz, is it possible, just barely possible, that you're overegging this custard - just a l.....
» 27/06/2012 8:52:15 AM Remember that Gina owns only 19% of Fairfax. The shares did not rise when she bought, so h.....
» 26/06/2012 11:54:07 AM "Squeers' imagining (or was it fantasising?) of 'OLO's version of a dominatrix' didn'.....
» 26/06/2012 9:34:04 AM I am fully resigned to an Abbott government after the next election. However, one of the f.....
» 25/06/2012 4:49:47 PM You make a powerful point, Sqeers. On reflection, maybe my willingness to be identified wi.....
» 25/06/2012 10:09:36 AM I think it's entirely a matter of personal choice. When I comment on line I always have a .....
» 21/06/2012 9:45:35 AM Rechtub, You posed questions to Belly, did he think that the current levels of safety trai.....
» 20/06/2012 5:58:58 PM Speaking of Bullsh!t.... Anthony Http://www.observationpoint.com.au.....
» 20/06/2012 9:36:11 AM Oh and another point rechtub, Will you volunteer to go knock on someone's door and say, &q.....
» 20/06/2012 9:22:45 AM Oh well, I'm sure a few more workplace accidents will definitely lift productivity - Not! .....
» 19/06/2012 11:54:25 AM Ahh, Hasbeen, you protestations are belied by your past posts. Perhaps you should change y.....
» 19/06/2012 10:13:52 AM Fortunately, Hasbeen, Europe's leaders are not suffering from your hatred of Gillard, (and.....
» 15/06/2012 10:08:25 AM Bazz, I'm sorry mate but you are plain misinformed. Australia's Public Debt as a percentag.....
» 14/06/2012 10:04:50 PM Shadow Minister, Sadly, you're a dot short of a connection. The goal isn't to reduce elect.....
» 13/06/2012 4:35:34 PM I would add, in answer to Bazz's replay of Bolt's silly question about the effect on the w.....
» 13/06/2012 4:16:11 PM Great post, Scribbler; makes sense. I began this thread not with a defense of the carbon t.....
» 13/06/2012 9:51:15 AM It seems to me that simply adapting to AGW is an easy option for a Swede. Sweden is highly.....
» 13/06/2012 9:05:11 AM Hi Individual, Dramatic, structural change is always painful and always difficult. Mostly .....
» 12/06/2012 8:25:51 PM Shad, The facts of the reality of AGW seem to be, well if not a secret, at least a complet.....
» 12/06/2012 7:32:41 PM Hi Lexi, You're right; and the quote is really apropo. I guess, I'm impatient to see these.....
» 12/06/2012 5:35:16 PM Hi Hasbeen, Please see my earlier response to UOG. Ditto. Anthony http://www.observationpo.....
» 12/06/2012 2:14:02 PM Hi Lexi, I'm sure you're right. And I suspect that at least one thing Yabby is compensatin.....
» 12/06/2012 12:25:49 PM I'm curious, Yabby. How did you construe Lexi's age from her posts? Or was it just a wild .....
» 12/06/2012 10:12:54 AM UOG, Your response is always the same. Here is a paper, the result of high quality researc.....
» 12/06/2012 8:27:26 AM A new study reported here: https://www.llnl.gov/news/newsreleases/2012/Jun/NR-12-06-04.ht.....
» 11/06/2012 7:01:40 PM And guess where he can sit and study them. Anthony Http://www.observationpoint.com.au.....
» 11/06/2012 1:13:28 PM What hypocricy. But I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for an apology. Anthony Http://www.o.....
» 11/06/2012 11:47:31 AM Great points, Lorikeet, I enjoyed reading of your real life experiences. I agree with your.....
» 11/06/2012 10:08:36 AM Just yesterday I blogged about this subject at http://www.observationpoint.com.au/?p=706 .....
» 11/06/2012 9:50:05 AM Ii'm oppsed to elected judges. In the US , this processs, has given rise to judges, strugg.....
» 11/06/2012 9:39:00 AM I agree with much of rechtub's comments on this issue. And I definitely hold malls to be p.....
» 9/06/2012 4:08:19 PM Yabby, Slow down, take a deep breath and read my example fully. I repeat, unless you know .....
» 9/06/2012 3:24:17 PM In what way is current account as a percentage of gdp meaningful? Australia could be minus.....
» 9/06/2012 12:36:04 PM 'new leaders this year' One lives in hope, Belly, one lives in hope. Anthony, Http://www.o.....
» 9/06/2012 8:50:50 AM I never expected that there actually would be any retractions, so I'm not disappointed. I .....
» 8/06/2012 5:43:24 PM Oh Shad, Surely it's time for you to have a bex and a good lie down. Do try not to be such.....
» 8/06/2012 5:04:33 PM Amen. Anthony Http://www.observationpoint.com.au.....
» 8/06/2012 3:49:04 PM Hi Peter, Your questions are perfectly valid, and I confess that I do not know the answers.....
» 8/06/2012 12:36:34 PM Shadow Minister, I think Lexi and 579 have answered your - well, I hesitate to call them p.....
» 8/06/2012 10:13:15 AM As usual Shadow Minister needs to be reminded of that annoying little thing... What is it,.....
» 8/06/2012 7:25:59 AM How true, Belly. But it seems that Yabby, Peter, et al, aren't the type who let facts spoi.....
» 7/06/2012 9:48:49 PM See Yabby, here's where you get yourself into bother. You equate Marius Kloppers' comments.....
» 7/06/2012 6:08:47 PM It's a mystery, Belly, no doubt of that. If one calmly counts up this government's success.....
» 7/06/2012 7:11:32 AM Astonishing! An unexpected 4.5% surge in the Australian economy, and, as all today's paper.....
» 7/06/2012 6:50:55 AM Hi Peter, To clear up one point, I 'm not angry at rinehart and palmer because they're ric.....
» 6/06/2012 12:35:12 PM I have this vision of Hasbeen - one last, lonely soul, standing alone, shouting at a green.....
» 6/06/2012 10:17:31 AM Here's another reason why we should pursue a low carbon future and why creating an environ.....
» 5/06/2012 6:37:26 PM I would add another point to Ludwig's well argued case. We need to cut our dependence on o.....
» 5/06/2012 4:21:47 PM Peter, First of all, minerals in the ground have value, just as money in a safe has value......
» 5/06/2012 2:39:33 PM Rechtub, Here's where your analogy breaks down. If you bought land, you would own the gra.....
» 5/06/2012 1:03:58 PM Hi 579, Yeah, the roots are a concern. Also getting out of the controlled area. The plan i.....
» 5/06/2012 11:14:14 AM Ludwig - I fully agree. Loudmouth. If a company reduces its carbon footprint, it pays les.....
» 5/06/2012 7:39:39 AM What's happening to shares has nothing whatever to do with these taxes and everything to d.....
» 30/05/2012 9:48:36 PM I've just been reading these posts and having a chuckle. If one were to take all the peopl.....
» 29/05/2012 11:38:42 AM In my view, people who are studying in ways that will increase their employability and the.....
» 29/05/2012 9:05:02 AM I throw my lot in with Belly and Lexi on this one. About once a fortnight I get one of tho.....
» 28/05/2012 10:09:17 AM Josephus, I - and many other thinking people - are telling all levels of government pretty.....
» 27/05/2012 5:07:18 PM Josephus, I will add a little more in reply to your last post as an example of what we dis.....
» 27/05/2012 4:55:31 PM Josephus, No No I have absolutely no problem with people using mind altering drugs if they.....
» 27/05/2012 1:30:24 PM Josephus, Once again, you have a little rant. But where's your data? Also, you are confusi.....
» 25/05/2012 4:49:40 PM Well Josephus, If it's a lie as you assert, then please provide some data to support your .....
» 25/05/2012 11:18:25 AM It seems to me that much of the argument in this thread is driven by values and belief sys.....
» 23/05/2012 8:24:42 PM Actually, Runner, that is not correct. Rape where the perpetrator is under the influence o.....
» 23/05/2012 5:37:59 PM Runner, You can't see the difference between smoking a joint and raping or murdering someo.....
» 23/05/2012 2:21:41 PM It's a large step from where we are now to legalizing drugs. The first step to a solution .....
» 23/05/2012 9:49:15 AM I wholheartedly support Wilkie's efforts to restrict pokie usage with all its associated s.....
» 23/05/2012 9:42:34 AM Back in the 30s, the Americans tried prohibition of alcohol. What they got was the Mafia, .....
» 18/05/2012 4:46:38 PM Interesting discussion - can one love such a thing as a political party? I don't think I c.....
» 17/05/2012 5:18:01 PM Okay, taking your points, Bazz, one at a time. Solar - you're right, the NaCl concept isn.....
» 17/05/2012 4:46:10 PM Oh, and by the way, Hasbeen, the wave power project was in Portugal, not Spain. Newsflash .....
» 17/05/2012 4:43:42 PM Hasbeen, You would have to be completely ignorant of the Spanish economy to draw a line be.....
» 17/05/2012 2:14:04 PM Bazz raises a good point. One proven solution is to do as the Saniards have done and use a.....
» 17/05/2012 8:15:51 AM Great discussion in this thread. Rechtub makes a good point about the structure of our gov.....
» 16/05/2012 1:16:19 PM Hi Hasbeen, You're not one to let the facts get in the way of a good theory, are you. Firs.....
» 16/05/2012 10:46:08 AM Further to the comment I just posted, I think this is also part of the answer to the quest.....
» 16/05/2012 10:38:25 AM I would like to turn the original question around with a hypotheticial, but not a terribly.....
» 14/05/2012 11:39:29 AM Yeah, Paul, I think you're spot on there. The Right have this weird notion of putting the .....
» 14/05/2012 10:08:26 AM Rechtub is half right - we did have a buffer when Labor came to power. And then, if memor.....
» 14/05/2012 7:41:04 AM How dare this woman... An interesting beginning to your rant. Dare I suggest a wee dash of.....
» 2/04/2012 1:51:36 PM Cossomby, Yes, you're right but that law did not flow from the US to Australia. It became .....
» 2/04/2012 12:17:19 PM UOG, Time for a reality fix. Please name me one law that has come into being in Australia,.....
» 2/04/2012 10:11:55 AM Hi Haygirl, I pretty much agree, but it's the endless repetition of TV ads featuring idiot.....
» 30/03/2012 8:37:11 AM Risk is to life as salt is to food, a relief to its blandness. Anthony Http://www.observat.....
» 29/03/2012 8:01:27 PM Individual, i don't mean to be difficult, but ALP stands for Australian Labor Party. You s.....
» 29/03/2012 9:12:44 AM Individual, There is a real problem in your assertion. You say, "Labor, or rather AL.....
» 27/03/2012 5:17:42 PM Interesting analysis, Spindoc. You're probably right on all counts. Actually, there are a .....
» 27/03/2012 1:47:42 PM Oh, I get it, AP. I just happen to think that the use of personal epithets is neither an e.....
» 27/03/2012 12:14:11 PM I would take you a bit more seriously, SadowMinister, if your emotions and personal feelin.....
» 27/03/2012 11:14:23 AM I think there's a problem with the basis for the initial set of questions. I don't think v.....
» 24/03/2012 5:13:31 PM I think it's the Swiss who do the cuckoo clock thing. Anthony Http://www.observationpoint......
» 24/03/2012 4:38:41 PM Arjay, thanks for the offer, but I think I'll pass. In my twenty years in the military, I .....
» 24/03/2012 8:32:54 AM Shafow Minister, It may be "in anyone's book", but it is not an act of war to la.....
» 24/03/2012 6:41:23 AM Shadow minister, You've got it half right. Mining the straits does not, under internationa.....
» 23/03/2012 10:01:23 PM For once, Arjay makes a valid point. If any country, be it the US, or Israel, or anybody e.....
» 22/03/2012 7:08:32 PM Shadow minister, You're not thinking it all the way through. Precisely what would the US d.....
» 22/03/2012 12:25:47 PM The generally accepted reality is that Iran does not yet have a nuclear weapon capability,.....
» 21/03/2012 3:15:28 PM I fear your confidence may be misplaced, Belly, as it is a difficult one. I'l probably cho.....
» 21/03/2012 9:53:01 AM Arjay, when it comes to crazy conspiracy theories, I can't decide who to give my vote to, .....
» 17/03/2012 8:25:59 AM I do get your point, Shadowminister, it's valid and well made. I'm delighted to see the ri.....
» 16/03/2012 11:59:50 PM Hi Lexi, I wholeheartedly agree. Too many self satisfied rich are simply winners of a luck.....
» 16/03/2012 6:45:53 PM I think Shadow Minsiter makes the most powerful argument yet. But I wonder if it isn't a c.....
» 15/03/2012 10:25:14 AM Hasbeen, Please stop. It hurts to laugh so hard. Who would have thought that a dinosaur co.....
» 15/03/2012 7:19:22 AM Hi Hasbeen, Thanks, I love to start the day with a good laugh. Cheers, Anthony http://www......
» 14/03/2012 6:17:59 PM Yabby, In case you are still confused, please follow this link and you will find the ".....
» 14/03/2012 6:12:24 PM Yabby, Interesting how, when you are confronted with the illogicality of you're own positi.....
» 14/03/2012 5:23:50 PM It's worth pointing out, mainly for Yabbie's benefit, that the correct name for our nation.....
» 14/03/2012 4:11:45 PM All very well, Yabby, but you still haven't confirmed that you consider the majority of Au.....
» 14/03/2012 2:54:45 PM Yabby, by "leeches" i assume you mean the majority of Australians who do not liv.....
» 14/03/2012 12:49:23 PM I agree with 579's summation and would add that this nation has one set of mineral resourc.....
» 14/03/2012 10:20:36 AM My view is that the mining tax will have absolutely no effect on mining investment whatsoe.....
» 13/03/2012 10:35:22 AM Hi UOG, Well that pretty much covers all the bases. Anthony http://www.observationpoint.co.....
» 13/03/2012 7:42:04 AM How very interesting. On the one hand we have rechtub saying that one of the reasons we ha.....
» 12/03/2012 10:31:24 PM Hi Individual, I'm not so sure that they are outnumbered by the not-so-good. I guess I don.....
» 12/03/2012 9:09:30 PM It's not just retail. Our entire society is undergoing a change at least as profound as th.....
» 12/03/2012 4:27:13 PM Of course, you're right, Pericles, there is a degree of contradiction between my basic que.....
» 12/03/2012 1:48:14 PM Great to hear, DreamOn, and all power to your better half. It's that kind of entrepreurshi.....
» 12/03/2012 12:36:07 PM As I enjoy the stimulation, (intellectual, I hasten to add), education and the entertainme.....
» 11/03/2012 6:19:01 PM I've run transformer manufacturing and electric motor manufacturing companies in Australia.....
» 11/03/2012 10:44:34 AM Hi Individual, First I said, "might" which therefore makes it impossible to be a.....
» 11/03/2012 10:35:51 AM Hi Hasbeen, First, I didn't say the ABC was a more credible site, although I think it is. .....
» 11/03/2012 8:48:57 AM See, here'ds the thing about the internet. The first link cited be UOG is owned, managed a.....
» 10/03/2012 5:16:26 PM I would argue that R0bert has hit it right on the head. It's what we spend the deficit (bo.....
» 10/03/2012 3:38:30 PM I just posted this comment on another thread but thought I would post it here as well, as .....
» 10/03/2012 3:32:40 PM I'm curious about this fascination with a surplus. Of itself, a surplus means little and c.....
» 10/03/2012 2:06:35 PM Hi Thinker 2, I think Turnbull could do. But I really doubt that Abbott can. Anthony Http:.....
» 10/03/2012 8:46:57 AM Abbott has promised lots of things. In fact, he's pretty much promised everyone whatever h.....
» 9/03/2012 9:10:33 PM Hi Spindoc, Apparently, you have chosen to interpret a comment directed to you specificall.....
» 9/03/2012 5:03:58 PM Oh dear, spindoc, So many questions from you, so much educating for you to undergo. Honest.....
» 9/03/2012 4:57:13 PM Both rechtub and 579 make good points. I'd like to think we'll get something from the mini.....
» 9/03/2012 4:09:54 PM Sorry, Spindoc, but as usual, you've got it wrong again in your use and interpretation of .....
» 9/03/2012 2:38:31 PM Spindoc, Consistant with your username you use facts the way a drunk uses a lamp post, mor.....
» 9/03/2012 11:09:55 AM The retail situation is bad at present, but there are many factors at play. > Lack of c.....
» 9/03/2012 10:57:51 AM I for one think Belly has summed up the situation pretty well at the start of the thread. .....
» 7/03/2012 10:24:04 PM Hi Rechtub, Yeah, you're spot on about public sector trained tradesmen. My brother is a tr.....
» 7/03/2012 10:07:12 PM Hi Den71, THanks for visiting my blog. I agree that, when insults aren't being hurled back.....
» 7/03/2012 5:25:44 PM Hi Hasbeen, I'm intrigued by the amount of insulting that you do of those who don't agree .....
» 7/03/2012 5:20:54 PM Hi Pericles, I think I misunderstood you too. It might just be that we're violently agreei.....
» 7/03/2012 3:10:49 PM Pericles, And your point is? Obviously, the crown doesn't keep the royalties, the governme.....
» 7/03/2012 10:26:32 AM Rehctub has a point in that, as I posted elsewhere, mining is a special case. Why? Because.....
» 7/03/2012 10:11:10 AM I totally support a mining super tax to more equally share the benefits of this - once onl.....
» 25/02/2012 4:38:02 PM Hi shadow minister, Avoided the questions I see. I guess you were unable to confront the r.....
» 25/02/2012 9:45:44 AM Hi Shadow Minister, I have no particular barrow to push for Gillard, but I'm fascinated by.....
» 24/02/2012 6:39:44 PM And dear shadow, If you have nothing better to offer than a childish epithet like, ".....
» 24/02/2012 6:37:47 PM Ah Hasbeen, You seem like a lovely fella. Pity you know as little about history as you do .....
» 24/02/2012 5:08:33 PM Hi Hasbeen, I can do no more than to restate part of an earlier post of mine Economy - o.....
» 24/02/2012 4:11:17 PM It's a fascinating confrontation. On the one hand we have Rudd, a superb campaigner who at.....
» 22/02/2012 6:06:51 PM Individual, Where in any of my posts, have I ridiculed you? I challenge you to point to on.....
» 22/02/2012 10:30:16 AM Banjo, Reality fix. Even after the eminently sensible use of debt to minimise the effect o.....
» 22/02/2012 9:35:58 AM Assertions are unproven claims, may be right, may be wrong. What usually comes with an ass.....
» 22/02/2012 6:51:55 AM Individual, Why in the world would I go and do the Google research to find support for you.....
» 21/02/2012 5:14:46 PM Of course, Individual, you'll no doubt be citing quotes from these 'hidden' reports, to ba.....
» 21/02/2012 5:11:07 PM I listed some of this Labor' government's successes and achievements. There has been much .....
» 21/02/2012 9:35:54 AM I'm with 579 on this. Exactly what has Labor wrecked, (excluding itself)? Economy - one of.....
» 20/02/2012 3:27:12 PM Well, I for one, hope Belly is right. Anthony http://www.observationpoint.com.au.....
» 20/02/2012 3:21:12 PM I have to disagree with Individual regarding national service. Here and in the US, when na.....
» 20/02/2012 1:50:58 PM Now that's a very interesting question. I wonder what they would do if one didn't pay. Pro.....
» 20/02/2012 1:44:26 PM Hi 579, I would offer this. The only thing wrong with the Australian economy is it's two s.....
» 20/02/2012 12:54:12 PM I'm not so sure that a double dissolution would stuff up the Greens. There is a huge numbe.....
» 20/02/2012 12:41:17 PM I've had the same experience as Pepper in Spain and France, not with bridges but with inte.....
» 20/02/2012 10:16:26 AM In many cases, I can agree with Hasbeen's basic premise, but I do have a problem with his .....
» 20/02/2012 10:06:39 AM Arjay, I hate to spoil your theory, but Australia has one of the lowest public debt levels.....
» 24/01/2012 7:50:44 AM Simple answer to the question of when the law comes into play, it's always in play. In a d.....
» 22/01/2012 2:38:23 PM I think that Individual's point is well made, and this will indeed be the Asian Century. A.....
» 20/01/2012 6:49:37 PM I for one simply adore UOG's posts. They make no sense whatsoever, but they're so damned e.....
» 19/01/2012 9:45:12 PM Further to Foyle's eminently sensible post, I also suggest UOG, et al, that you listen to .....
» 18/01/2012 5:16:26 PM This thread certainly has made interesting and enjoyable reading;a fascinating insight int.....
» 18/01/2012 8:09:04 AM I would like to take up just one point you made as I think it's relevent to the overall po.....
» 10/01/2012 12:20:36 PM I must confess to a certain ambivalence about this. I hate the whaling trade. And in the J.....
» 5/01/2012 6:28:55 PM I don't see the situation as irretrievable. I a strong believer in cycles. Nature loves th.....
» 5/01/2012 9:59:15 AM My thoughts are that the endless polls, focus groups and the media's short attention span .....
» 21/12/2011 11:38:29 AM A bit off topic, but a horde of Christmas guests are about to arrive so my screen time wil.....
» 21/12/2011 10:11:56 AM Hi spindoc, At the risk of repeating myself, you are falling into the trap of shooting the.....
» 20/12/2011 9:50:34 PM Hi Hasbeen, You base your entire argument on a bunch of emails, in the face of a vast amou.....
» 20/12/2011 6:00:21 PM Hi under one god, Please see my response to hasbeen. Your comment reinforces both what I e.....
» 20/12/2011 5:26:18 PM Hi Hasbeen, Ever heard of Occam's Razor, "That explanation which requires the fewest .....
» 20/12/2011 4:02:24 PM Hi Joe, Two points: First, please see my earlier comment regarding shooting the messenger .....
» 20/12/2011 11:54:02 AM Hi Runner, Please see my response to hasbeen a couple of posts up. It would seem equally a.....
» 20/12/2011 11:51:46 AM Hi Belly, A good analogy. Fortunately, time - and science - are on our side. All we need i.....
» 20/12/2011 10:29:24 AM Hi Hasbeen, Your response appears to prove the old adage: Attempts to shoot the messenger .....
» 20/12/2011 8:05:29 AM Here is an explanation for the sometimes curious reasoning used by our climate sceptic fri.....
» 19/12/2011 11:59:53 AM Hi Banjo, You may be right, but I have a question. If the refugee boat people are the com.....
» 19/12/2011 10:03:34 AM I would say that every post here that blames someone, or several someones, has a point. Th.....
» 12/12/2011 9:22:04 AM Hi Tom, Your book look very useful. I shall delve for ideas. Thank you. Also, will mention.....
» 10/12/2011 11:10:41 AM Hi Hasbeen, Well put, Sir! I had a similar experience a few years ago, when I picked up a .....
» 10/12/2011 10:10:29 AM Good morning Belly, I know what you mean about books. I have admit I've become quite attac.....
» 9/12/2011 5:46:52 PM My feelings about computer technology, and the evolving etiquettes that go with it, have a.....
» 3/12/2011 9:45:03 AM Hi Arjay, I hate to spoil a theory with facts, but the US Congress, and a large part of th.....
» 2/12/2011 5:26:29 PM HI 579, I am in complete agreement. Just looking at the reduction in polar ice caps this .....
» 2/12/2011 3:08:08 PM Hi Raycom, Okay, got it. I discounted IPCC as I understood it to be a UN body and therefor.....
» 2/12/2011 7:14:49 AM Hi Raycom, Sorry, your confidence is sadly misplaced as I'm unable to figure out what orga.....
» 1/12/2011 9:53:38 PM I would just like to be clear about what is being suggested in these recent posts. Am I to.....
» 30/11/2011 4:54:03 PM Over the past few months, I have been travelling on and off, in Europe and Asia. Also, bri.....
» 30/11/2011 2:44:59 PM I think there should be no restrictions on topics or the points of view or opinions expres.....
» 27/11/2011 10:25:15 PM Hi SPQR, The length and detail of your response, none of which relates to the issue, indic.....
» 27/11/2011 1:54:51 PM Hi SPQR, Been a bit busy or I would have responded earlier. You obviouly missed my point a.....
» 26/11/2011 6:53:44 PM Arjay, mate, do you not think you might be getting a bit carried way, comparing today's Au.....
» 26/11/2011 1:59:44 PM Hi Rechtub, I already said that it was not a debacle, however, I'm happy to repeat - it wa.....
» 26/11/2011 9:43:52 AM Hi Rechtub, I'm rather glad you raised the, in your words, "Insulation debacle" .....
» 25/11/2011 9:53:28 PM '"Science [continues to be] the belief in the ignorance of experts" Hi Runner,.....
» 25/11/2011 2:05:13 PM Even allowing that electricity costs have risen dramatically, I do not understand the refe.....
» 25/11/2011 12:59:34 PM Hi Hasbeen, Quite a list of assertions you're presenting as facts. Not, "I think".....
» 25/11/2011 11:54:59 AM I agree with Belly's comment. Much of the criticism we see in these comments shows a misun.....
» 25/11/2011 11:00:13 AM The way this is done is by peer review. A scientist who claims to have discovered somethin.....
» 25/11/2011 8:27:08 AM Look, the business environment changes all the time. A bit more than a hundred years ago t.....
» 20/11/2011 9:11:09 PM Hi Individual, No, I'm not an academic, although I thank you for the compliment. I'm just .....
» 20/11/2011 10:10:40 AM Hi SPQR, For future reference, is English your first language? I only ask because you do s.....
» 20/11/2011 8:20:45 AM Hi SPQR, Just to take one piece of your confusion and dissect it, if you read my comment c.....
» 19/11/2011 9:51:21 PM Hi Individual, Well, I for one would oppose what you are suggesting and would work just as.....
» 18/11/2011 10:08:08 AM Hello Individual, A couple of points: First, I wonder about your use of the term 'Do Goode.....
» 7/11/2011 10:02:46 PM Having started this thread, I want to say that I don't have a scientific background; engin.....
» 6/11/2011 5:22:15 PM Hi SPQR, I never thought of my website banner as being the Shire, but you might have a poi.....
» 5/11/2011 4:59:26 PM Hi T2, I don't think you're banging on at all. And thanks for the post, I hadn't seen it. .....
» 3/11/2011 4:33:50 PM Ahh look, it's all good fun. Who should we take the p**s out of next? Any thoughts, anyone.....
» 3/11/2011 8:06:43 AM Hi diver dan, Thanks for a thought provoking post. I'll look out for 'the story of the min.....
» 2/11/2011 5:57:35 PM Hi Hasbeen, Or alternatively you could get on board. At the risk of mixing my metaphors, c.....
» 2/11/2011 5:55:01 PM And a very warm welcome to you too, under one god. Cheers, Anthony http://www.observationp.....
» 2/11/2011 5:08:33 PM I'm with you, Lexi. Belly's Knights of the Round Table works even better than Tolkien - wi.....
» 2/11/2011 10:03:41 AM When Tony Abbott committed to his oath in blood, I had occasion to search for a literary a.....
» 1/11/2011 2:20:09 PM See Shadow Minister, there you go again. You make a couple of wild predictions, (the econo.....
» 31/10/2011 12:59:55 PM Hi Hasbeen, Well, that was quite a rant. I think you might need a bex and a good lie down .....
» 31/10/2011 10:49:11 AM Hi Hasbeen, Your comment makes no sense to me, unless you are referring to assertions that.....
» 31/10/2011 7:14:28 AM Hi SPQR, I do believe i detect a hint of desperation in your increasing levels of insult a.....
» 30/10/2011 6:35:15 PM Hi Belly, You did indeed warn me. And how right you were. Some of the opinions we've seen .....
» 30/10/2011 1:39:14 PM Oh dear,sonofgloin, Do i detect a hint of desperation in your over-the-top hyperboleeeeeee.....
» 30/10/2011 7:27:38 AM Hi Shadow Minister, Yes. I have patience, because the argument, and history, are coming to.....
» 30/10/2011 7:18:58 AM Hi SPQR, Difficult to see where I've demonised anyone. I just offered analasis by scientis.....
» 29/10/2011 5:15:50 PM Hi SPQR, My goodness, you must be about the last person in Australia who still gives any c.....
» 29/10/2011 8:48:47 AM In amongst all the hyperboly coming from the deniers, free market solution opposers and Gi.....
» 28/10/2011 5:12:06 PM Hi Belly, I think we just have to keep on banging away until the facts overcome the emotio.....
» 28/10/2011 11:55:27 AM Fair enough! But I have children, and more relevently, grandchildren. Right now, they, (my.....
» 28/10/2011 11:49:57 AM Hi rehctub, It wasn't my intention to explore my personal background, only to refute your.....
» 28/10/2011 10:46:11 AM Hi Shadow Minister, Certainly. The world will absolutely fall in behind global warming act.....
» 28/10/2011 10:30:10 AM Over the years, Professor Richard Muller, a respected physicist at Berkeley, has been some.....
» 28/10/2011 6:46:55 AM Hi rehctub, It seems to me that one of the thinking patterns i see quite a bit among clima.....
» 26/10/2011 7:36:29 PM Hi rehctub, Yeah, good point. I was thinking about all this and it occurred to me that whi.....
» 26/10/2011 11:22:48 AM Hi Shadow Minister, Two points: First, in order to make a point, it's not necessary to be .....
» 25/10/2011 7:32:45 PM I guess time will tell. And it will probably turn out that we're all a bit right. An early.....
» 25/10/2011 5:10:18 PM Hi Rehctub, Hmmm, how to explain... Think of it this way. First, it's not a tax. An impost.....
» 25/10/2011 12:22:47 PM Hi rehctub, Re your question, 'why do big polluters pollute?', i would offer another reaso.....
» 24/10/2011 10:10:17 PM Hi rehctub, I do have some sympathy with much of what you say, but this does confuse me. Y.....
» 24/10/2011 7:47:12 PM I'm not so sure that Don does fully understand the subtext of his words. He and most other.....
» 24/10/2011 2:22:27 PM So the Don, (Argus, that is), is copping flack for asserting that the only valid measure o.....
» 24/10/2011 1:13:03 PM Peter Hume's presumably rhetorical question , is water a pollutant, needs a sensible answe.....
» 24/10/2011 8:40:25 AM Copenhagen and the Coalition's position on climate change are political. The government's .....
» 15/10/2011 4:56:23 PM Just a small point about the red tape instroduced by, quote, "you lot" over the .....
» 14/10/2011 11:50:28 AM Watching how the European Union is struggling with twenty some members, watching any group.....
» 14/10/2011 10:53:56 AM Indeed. There's an astonishing shortsightedness in all of this. Just thinking about it mak.....
» 13/10/2011 6:23:24 PM There's a story about the chairman of an American company who, during his AGM speech after.....
» 29/09/2011 6:12:46 PM Hi Belly, wow, that link is very interesting reading. Just goes to show that the old sayi.....
» 29/09/2011 7:47:10 AM I have to say that I do support the judge's decision, but for one reason only: Bolt was fa.....
» 28/09/2011 9:44:55 PM Hi Lexi, I love it. Newton scores again! Anthony www.observationpoint.com.au.....
» 28/09/2011 9:56:37 AM My granddaughter, (aged 7), said, "Grandad, do you want to see me pretending to be yo.....
» 24/09/2011 10:24:08 AM Hi Belly, How very true. I have a conviction that democracy can only work if voters are .....
» 20/09/2011 9:50:17 AM Hi Belly, Thanks for the welcome. I must say that I held back in my thread opening. What .....
» 19/09/2011 10:52:33 AM Hi Peter and Acolyte Rizla, :) :) And with that smile for each of you, I depart the debate.....
» 18/09/2011 10:26:28 PM "you’re advocating actually physically threatening people with unprovoked aggression&.....
» 18/09/2011 4:21:27 PM Hi Acolyte Rizla, Wow, you managed to be quite insulting. I don't mean to criticize, but i.....
» 18/09/2011 10:07:15 AM Hi Acolyte Riza, No, I wasn't saying that scientists are hopelessly incompetent, at least .....
» 17/09/2011 12:51:04 PM Hi SonofGloin, Do I detect a fellow Lord of the Rings fan? Thanks for taking a look at my .....
» 16/09/2011 5:56:56 PM Sounds painful when I put it like that. One of those petards is the phone hacking scandal.....
» 15/09/2011 10:20:01 PM Tom, Loved your reply. Oh dear, all these incompetent scientists. Must be a nerve wracking.....
» 15/09/2011 10:10:35 PM Hi Peter, Interesting response. I can see that you're really comitted to your beliefs. Jus.....
» 15/09/2011 6:54:48 PM Hi Hasbeen, Certainly not on the gravy train. Actually a self funded early retiree, ex-int.....
» 15/09/2011 4:10:52 PM I found Peter Hume's rant quite interesting, almost enjoyable even. Made people like me so.....
» 13/09/2011 2:25:09 PM I worry about any article purporting to be serious yet beginning by referring to Julia Gil.....

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