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» 18/02/2021 10:52:34 AM Altrave, Was fraud possible ? Of course. Was it found ? No. End of. I love the idiocy o.....
» 18/02/2021 9:18:09 AM Mhaze, When it comes to " .... finding out about the rigging of the election .....&q.....
» 17/02/2021 4:29:42 PM Mhaze, "These are people who never signed up to MAGA and never supported Trump or hi.....
» 16/02/2021 4:26:40 PM 482,500 deaths in the US up to today. Half a million by Sunday. But let's forget that, le.....
» 16/02/2021 9:45:19 AM Nathan, I think it would be just as easy to 'live with COVID-19' as with any other range .....
» 16/02/2021 9:38:27 AM Lego, Yes, a sense of superiority may be so taken-for-granted that it's unconscious. It i.....
» 16/02/2021 9:25:42 AM Hi Banjo, Two-thirds of the Senators were required to vote for conviction. Only 57 did so.....
» 15/02/2021 1:39:33 PM Hi Has Been, That nom-de-plume has an appropriate fifties ring to it :) No wonder: ".....
» 15/02/2021 12:26:40 PM SM, I'm not so sure that kulaks were all or mostly, or even predominantly, Ukrainians - w.....
» 15/02/2021 12:07:45 PM Ttbn, The Senate found Trumpf guilty by 57 to 43 votes - not enough in a tilted system th.....
» 15/02/2021 8:52:13 AM SM, Kulaks - the class of prosperous landowners and 'rich peasants'. How is that any sort.....
» 14/02/2021 5:33:43 PM Idioto de paesino, Sociologically, there is nothing specifically 'Italian' about the way .....
» 14/02/2021 5:21:51 PM Thanks paul, That's a beautiful history. I have a fantasy that I'm descended from a West .....
» 14/02/2021 3:29:45 PM Hi Pete, Then there's Michigan, where Trumpf incited the mob to lynch the Governor. Ple.....
» 14/02/2021 1:28:19 PM LEGO, I'm white, as far as I can tell. I do believe that yes, us whites have taken it for.....
» 14/02/2021 12:35:23 PM Perhaps there are simil;ities between forms of feudalism and some current political trends.....
» 14/02/2021 11:45:27 AM And what some of them lack in humour, they amply make up in spite, envy and viciousness. .....
» 14/02/2021 9:21:09 AM So whoever said that half-wits had a sense of humour ? Proven. Joe.....
» 14/02/2021 9:18:34 AM Paul, All active Nazis actively supported the most abhorrent activities against Jews, Gy.....
» 14/02/2021 9:02:09 AM CM, So ....... Democrats tend to be more compassionate than Republicans, even for stricke.....
» 13/02/2021 9:06:52 PM CM, Not really: http://ourworldindata.org/world-population-growth Joe.....
» 13/02/2021 8:56:13 PM Hi Paul, Wasn't Speer in charge of labour supply and production ? In that capacity, he dr.....
» 13/02/2021 4:17:42 PM I suppose we all have our mind-pictures about fellow contributors to OLO - I imagine Misop.....
» 12/02/2021 6:15:44 PM Individual, And got their votes ? So what's so unusual about that ? Did he actually break.....
» 12/02/2021 9:59:12 AM Individual, None of those Labor leaders were remotely feudal - Whitlam was sort of courtl.....
» 12/02/2021 9:48:38 AM LEGO, There are many variations on 'conservatism'. There are many variations on 'progre.....
» 11/02/2021 1:09:07 PM Mhaze, Individual, The point is that he is anti-democratic and obviously sees himself as,.....
» 11/02/2021 10:02:25 AM Kotkin has written many very perceptive papers. Thanks, Hanrahan. Some Idiot mentioned th.....
» 10/02/2021 7:07:11 PM Hi Hanrahan, Do you really think that Trumpf wouldn't have engineered a system of serfdom.....
» 10/02/2021 5:01:33 PM Mhaze, They DID take the Capitol buildings. They WERE armed. Trump squibbed it, and didn'.....
» 10/02/2021 10:06:44 AM Ttbn, Sorry, I missed that - that the Democrats tried to overthrow their own government a.....
» 10/02/2021 9:29:18 AM Not being a believer, I don't really give a toss if MC or IF express their opinions. They .....
» 10/02/2021 9:25:47 AM If some Antifa 'leader', forgetting that that anarchist rabble don't have leaders, had urg.....
» 9/02/2021 6:25:05 PM Mhaze, And 'fight like hell'. What, peacefully, against Capitol Police ? So five people d.....
» 9/02/2021 1:04:33 PM Dan, Well, it's obviously not 'either-or' - the Dems seem to be tackling many, many issue.....
» 9/02/2021 12:38:46 PM Village Idiot, The Commonwealth IS Bogan, with civilizing influences from all over the re.....
» 9/02/2021 12:15:06 PM Village Idiot, Yes, English/Irish/Scottish/Welsh (convicts and workhouse refugees, almost.....
» 9/02/2021 10:57:22 AM Altrave, We tend to take our culture - and identity - from our mothers. I'm sure you migh.....
» 9/02/2021 10:44:10 AM Yes, all the best, Foxy ! Love, Joe.....
» 9/02/2021 10:40:13 AM Good point, Bazz: if Trumpf can be shown to have incited violence or crimes against the US.....
» 8/02/2021 2:07:37 PM Whether anybody's opinion, or point of view, or firm belief, is crack-pot or mainstream, t.....
» 7/02/2021 3:16:47 PM Village Moron, No, for one thing, I would plant more trees, by the thousands, and - with .....
» 7/02/2021 2:08:37 PM Village Idiot, Yes, the planet is getting hotter: by around 0.5 degree in 80 years, here .....
» 7/02/2021 8:48:12 AM HI SM, Yes, and I'm hoping that a similar situation exists - and has existed for decades .....
» 7/02/2021 7:48:41 AM Thanks for some sanity, Paul :) Cheers, Joe.....
» 6/02/2021 6:34:48 PM Individual, Really, do you ever think about what you are writing ? What on earth do you m.....
» 6/02/2021 11:42:07 AM Individual, Oh god. Again you ask stupid questions that really can't be answered - on top.....
» 5/02/2021 2:13:53 PM Individual, Again, dumb-arse, you ask impossible questions: how on earth would anybody kn.....
» 5/02/2021 12:12:13 PM Hi Individual, Probably because it was too dumb-dumb to respond to. For example, you're.....
» 4/02/2021 3:58:54 PM LEGO, Interesting logic: because Muslim men have treated other people badly, it's okay to.....
» 4/02/2021 9:39:46 AM LEGO, You might be right about groups evolving in their own environments at different rat.....
» 2/02/2021 10:14:05 AM Thanks, Yuyutsu. China is an imperialist power - it has never given up on expanding its e.....
» 2/02/2021 10:05:58 AM Thank you for some sanity, Yuyutsu :) Joe.....
» 2/02/2021 10:03:18 AM In "The Descent of Man", Darwin fully approved of inter-marriage as providing, i.....
» 1/02/2021 4:43:40 PM Hi Albie, Funny, when I was a kid there, when it was mostly paperbark bush, we all had do.....
» 31/01/2021 5:00:43 PM Hi Aries, I suppose that nowadays, to have an opinion is potentially to insult or upset o.....
» 31/01/2021 3:47:55 PM Hi Paul, And an earthquake as well :(. Keep your fingers crossed :) Slightly off-topic, .....
» 31/01/2021 12:29:16 PM Idiot, My first ten years were in Bankstown - Chullora and Bass Hill. We used to go to pi.....
» 31/01/2021 11:27:25 AM Village Idiot, So, you're the one waving the Chinese flag from your wall ? Just remember.....
» 31/01/2021 10:56:03 AM Misop, So, you have nothing then ? Back onto your wall ..... Joe.....
» 31/01/2021 10:06:04 AM TTbn, Presumably Scotland will seek to join the EU as an independent state (for the time .....
» 31/01/2021 10:00:13 AM Thanks, Ttbn. Misop, I can't say I'm surprised. Work your way up through TAFE course, you.....
» 31/01/2021 9:50:28 AM Bazz, Yes, the other side of the moon MIGHT be made of green cheese, and aliens may have .....
» 31/01/2021 9:46:01 AM Individual, 2000 km of border. Presumably, any terrorists would just go around the ends o.....
» 31/01/2021 8:25:21 AM Individual, Why not ? Probably because, by definition, such numbers are impossible to kno.....
» 30/01/2021 4:15:16 PM Bazz, "Coming over the border there is no record of them and no one will be looking .....
» 29/01/2021 5:52:41 PM Hi Mhaze, In his magnificent book, 'Against the Grain', James C. Scott notes that hunter-.....
» 29/01/2021 5:36:48 PM Hi Yuyutsu, Yes, you're right, trolls can always find something to stir about. And yes, .....
» 29/01/2021 4:07:40 PM Village Idiot, Chinese-looking people - Thais, Vietnamese, Koreans, Filipinos/Filipinas,.....
» 29/01/2021 3:57:25 PM Get real, Bazz, there must be a hundred ways for Sunni Islamists and Shi'ite groups like H.....
» 29/01/2021 3:47:10 PM Hi SR, Irony. Oy. Yes, of course, many groups used possum-skin cloaks. I've never actual.....
» 29/01/2021 3:29:37 PM Bazz, You mean all those central American Islamists ? God, there must be dozens of them, .....
» 29/01/2021 1:53:23 PM Is Mise, Yes, I remember one of my Indigenous students, a good, strong woman, very cultur.....
» 29/01/2021 11:06:05 AM I wonder if the Left have given up on asserting that Aboriginal people here have been farm.....
» 29/01/2021 10:31:12 AM Hi Paul, So you're asserting that the continent of Australia could have been untouched by.....
» 28/01/2021 9:24:04 AM Hi Paul, I don't think the matter of our origins is 'irrelevant' - it's quite possible th.....
» 27/01/2021 2:23:56 PM Is Mise, In other words, you're saying that people may - may - be able to buy a firearm i.....
» 27/01/2021 1:26:50 PM Given the rapacious nature of capitalism - and all pre-capitalist forms of political power.....
» 27/01/2021 1:08:31 PM 1. Margaret Court was one of the greatest champions of tennis ever, with records which are.....
» 26/01/2021 9:57:02 PM Individual, I haven't heard anybody both praise Indigenous university successes (60,000 g.....
» 26/01/2021 4:29:57 PM Village Idiot, I finished my schooling in Darwin. Back then, there were still steel spike.....
» 26/01/2021 3:26:26 PM Hi Yuyutsu, Yep, sounds fair enough. Joe.....
» 26/01/2021 12:49:28 PM This one is way off-topic, but might be useful to somebody to file away: http://www.denbi.....
» 26/01/2021 12:24:53 PM Alan, We come back to it time and again, every year - should the British and all other co.....
» 26/01/2021 10:46:56 AM Village Idiot, I would suggest that there would be far more people trying to get out of C.....
» 25/01/2021 5:38:56 PM The Village Idiot and other China-appeasers won't like this one: http://www.abc.net.au/ne.....
» 25/01/2021 5:25:00 PM Hi Paul, It gets crazier :) Now that Trump is gone, could Biden have been Q all along ? W.....
» 25/01/2021 4:57:50 PM Hi Paul, I thought this thread was a sort of spoof until I came across this: http://www......
» 25/01/2021 2:12:10 PM Hi Bazz, Yes, you can't trust anybody. Whenever I'm shopping and someone brushes against .....
» 25/01/2021 2:02:13 PM Hi Pete, Yes, it's puzzled me why Aboriginal groups on Cape York didn't take on the bow-a.....
» 25/01/2021 1:47:19 PM Village Idiot, I suspect that you're not old enough yet to qualify :( Pete, Given the .....
» 25/01/2021 12:27:40 PM Hi Pete, I've never understood what was meant by 'the world's oldest civilization'. Surel.....
» 25/01/2021 10:44:04 AM Australia is geographically and tectonically a very old continent, billions of years old. .....
» 24/01/2021 5:48:22 PM Idiot, Of course, but let's wait until there is some conclusive evidence. Personally, I.....
» 24/01/2021 5:13:35 PM Sorry, Josephus, I may have had you wrong and lumped you in with the Village Idiot. I ap.....
» 24/01/2021 5:11:59 PM Village Idiot, You can assume and assert all you like, but anybody with any sense would w.....
» 24/01/2021 10:04:18 AM Hi Is Mise, Yes: http://www.nytimes.com/video/us/politics/100000007563393/portland-prote.....
» 23/01/2021 5:49:21 PM SR, And the next panacea-for-all will be vaccines. Yes, eventually they will do a marvell.....
» 23/01/2021 1:41:22 PM Shame on the world, really, Alan :( Joe.....
» 23/01/2021 1:12:06 PM Misop, I'll probably be taken out and shot in the street, while appeasers like you will b.....
» 23/01/2021 1:06:08 PM Ttbn, Not sure what planet you're on - I didn't realise that emails could travel inter-pl.....
» 23/01/2021 10:30:49 AM Hi Paul, Yes, eventually all minorities, I suspect. And there are maybe 200 million peopl.....
» 22/01/2021 6:24:50 PM Hi Paul, Yes, Aboriginal people here often responded extremely quickly to the new opportu.....
» 22/01/2021 9:36:26 AM Hi Paul, Yes, you're right on all counts in relation to Pompeo. China does seem to have a.....
» 22/01/2021 9:32:31 AM Bazz, Southern Democrats, dumb-arse. Back in those days, 1968, they were much more clearl.....
» 21/01/2021 7:37:12 PM Hi Pete, You're surely not suggesting ht 'Runner' IS actually 'Josephus' ?! I suspect t.....
» 21/01/2021 5:35:38 PM Josephus, According to Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King_Jr.#As.....
» 21/01/2021 5:24:37 PM Is Mise, Thanks for that. Yes, we all make silly mistakes, and in this case, early in the.....
» 21/01/2021 2:11:31 PM Bazz, Presumably to relay results quickly to some central point, instead of by pigeon or .....
» 21/01/2021 1:45:52 PM Hi AC, " .... Incorporating West Papua into PNG seems to be the best option these pe.....
» 21/01/2021 1:03:01 PM Hasbeen, I loved that: " .... or did they ? ...... ' Well, yes. Evidence otherwise .....
» 21/01/2021 12:22:13 PM Ttbn, Yes, people are all nothing but automatons, aren't they ? Except you and me :) And.....
» 20/01/2021 8:27:54 PM Ttbn, Not having much courage, I'd be questioning the safety of any vaccine - until the f.....
» 20/01/2021 8:14:09 PM Individual, So you can read all these posts, and reflect on what is going on around the w.....
» 20/01/2021 4:32:42 PM If this isn't a fetid swamp, http://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/20/us/politics/trump-pardons......
» 20/01/2021 3:24:09 PM Swampf ?! Trumpf ?! What Swampf ?! Well, this sort of thing: http://www.nytimes.com/2021.....
» 20/01/2021 11:53:34 AM Come off it, Is Mise, you would know that both Trumpf and Morrison had enormous financial .....
» 20/01/2021 10:02:44 AM Village Idiot, You ask: " .... what do you think I do with myself?" I dare not.....
» 20/01/2021 9:56:45 AM Hi Bronwyn, Hmmmm ...... China is militarising the Scarborough Shoals, barely 120 miles f.....
» 19/01/2021 11:32:50 AM Hi Bronwyn, "China has not invaded another country for over forty years ...." .....
» 19/01/2021 10:03:51 AM Hi Pete, Just by the way, there were a couple of articles in today's Australian about her.....
» 18/01/2021 3:42:40 PM Hi Yuyutsu, Yes, it is surely better to advocate working together than in looking for spu.....
» 18/01/2021 11:02:42 AM Hi Pete, It's a relief that there are reliable news sources like the internationally-reno.....
» 18/01/2021 10:44:50 AM Pete, It's just possible that, on reflection, us communists have had it all wrong: * tha.....
» 17/01/2021 5:57:18 PM Nathan & Individual, Sorry, I thought that OLO was an adults-discussion site, I didn't re.....
» 17/01/2021 5:45:53 PM Josephus, Yes, he's already mentioned here. Did he have any weapons, any '500 rounds' ? J.....
» 17/01/2021 10:32:14 AM Individual, Biden will have to get rid of the stinking Trumpf Swampf first. Mind you, a l.....
» 17/01/2021 10:27:35 AM Ttbn, I can't really tell whether or not you're paranoid or just a moron. Whoever was Pre.....
» 17/01/2021 10:22:02 AM Like everybody, I have suspicions about who was responsible for the violence and deaths la.....
» 16/01/2021 6:54:15 PM Individual, God, I hope so. The US needs willing labour. Miss Trumpf ? Good god no, I'll.....
» 16/01/2021 4:47:46 PM For god's sake, you blokes, don't give up your day jobs, if you have one. Joe.....
» 16/01/2021 4:08:28 PM Hi Is Mise, From this: http://www.opindia.com/2021/01/john-sullivan-storming-of-capitol-.....
» 15/01/2021 5:30:02 PM Hi Paul, You're right about aiding Pacific nations, but Australia will have a huge job to.....
» 15/01/2021 4:26:42 PM Individual, Election results: number of votes & Electoral College votes. http://www.goog.....
» 15/01/2021 10:47:17 AM Individual, All you have to do is look up the official results. 80 million (Biden) - 73.....
» 15/01/2021 9:26:20 AM If any immigrant is admitted into Australia, they are admitted with potentially the full r.....
» 15/01/2021 7:46:58 AM Josephus, Weird capitulationism. I guess before WW II, they called it appeasement. Of c.....
» 14/01/2021 5:56:13 PM So ..... not a single Republican election official anywhere in the country ? In tens of th.....
» 14/01/2021 12:36:19 PM Village Idiot, Yes. If you mean just the CCP and scientific establishment, and wait unt.....
» 14/01/2021 9:30:17 AM Ttbn, Yes, the Capitol disturbance, or slight perturbation, was a bit of a concern. But n.....
» 13/01/2021 3:59:40 PM Hi Pete, To get BTT, I suspect that, with only eight days to go before The Light, there i.....
» 13/01/2021 3:01:55 PM Youtube has found some balls: http://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/12/technology/youtube-suspen.....
» 13/01/2021 11:49:32 AM If we are to talk about tributes, a general who refused to send in troops against the prot.....
» 12/01/2021 5:16:00 PM Why are people dropping their guts these days ? No, of course we fight to the death. We h.....
» 12/01/2021 2:03:14 PM Hi Pete, On a brighter note, Trumpf has powers over federal (national) matters while he's.....
» 12/01/2021 12:58:10 PM Hi Pete, After Thursday (our time) next week, trump won't be President, so what would be .....
» 12/01/2021 10:44:57 AM Ttbn, I'm inclined to go with you: let Trumpf make the most inciteful and criminal exhort.....
» 11/01/2021 4:29:11 PM Hi Bazz, Affidavit Schmaffidavit :) Seriously, is that it ? An affidavit ? Something tha.....
» 11/01/2021 3:36:56 PM Individual, Interesting principle. So, because, at some time in their history, Irish pe.....
» 11/01/2021 9:17:04 AM CM, Aboriginal people have never been a single 'cultural group since their ancestors came.....
» 11/01/2021 9:00:03 AM Hi Mhaze, Sorry to be a nuisance, but what does the invasion of the US Capitol buildings .....
» 10/01/2021 6:50:27 PM Individual, Yes, why does the US have fifty thousand times as many deaths from Covid-19 t.....
» 10/01/2021 2:58:32 PM Mhaze, With Trumpf's thugs trying to take over the Capitol buildings, your evoking of the.....
» 10/01/2021 2:50:35 PM Hi IsMise, Yes, indeed: early and hard lockdowns, say for a month, with rigorous contact-.....
» 10/01/2021 2:12:23 PM Hi Individual, I must have missed Nancy Pelosi haranguing a crowd for an hour or so, inci.....
» 10/01/2021 2:11:56 PM Hi Individual, I must have missed Nancy Pelosi haranguing a crowd for an hour or so, inci.....
» 10/01/2021 1:31:51 PM CM, Yes, I worked in the university system, in Indigenous student recruitment and support.....
» 10/01/2021 1:14:26 PM Misop, poor child, Well, no: 'peak' can mean in technological development; health; levels.....
» 10/01/2021 1:07:17 PM Misop, So you DO know what they're saying in Peking ? You ARE a Chinese agent ? Joe.....
» 10/01/2021 1:05:33 PM Ttbn, Just turning my brain on and re-reading the Straw-Man argument of your first post h.....
» 10/01/2021 12:10:57 PM Yes, Misop, I hope that Biden has been in constant private talks with the US military lead.....
» 10/01/2021 11:56:19 AM Is Mise, Lockdowns in Australia and the US compared: Australia: around 800 Covid deaths;.....
» 10/01/2021 11:50:55 AM Oops, that should have been 'sixty' thousand Indigenous university graduates - six thousan.....
» 10/01/2021 11:42:36 AM Mhaze, Of course. But for all that and all that, do you really think that, if there was a.....
» 10/01/2021 11:25:11 AM Hi Is Mise, Yes, and adding: "unprecedented, and causing the loss of five lives.&quo.....
» 10/01/2021 11:21:50 AM Misop, poor half-witted boy, I wrote "For some groups, access to opportunity can be .....
» 10/01/2021 10:39:42 AM CM, Yes, social equality may be unattainable, but education has been one major pathway fo.....
» 10/01/2021 10:27:12 AM Take me as I am, Misop, or don't take me. We're hospitable people in Adelaide, like most .....
» 10/01/2021 9:10:55 AM So ...... some of you troglodytes would call for the disbandment of the education system, .....
» 10/01/2021 9:02:48 AM Ttbn, Wow. To the deranged mind, there are always enemies. If not other ethnic groups, ot.....
» 10/01/2021 8:53:37 AM Just a question about the US electoral process: There are Democratic states and Republica.....
» 9/01/2021 10:11:01 PM Hi SR, I'm puzzled about your highlighting Trump's good side with your description of him.....
» 9/01/2021 6:01:44 PM Misop, Any time you're in Adelaide, let me know and you can come around and kiss my hairy.....
» 9/01/2021 4:34:08 PM Sorry, Bronwyn, I'll try to be less ambiguous in future :) As it happens, no, I don't bel.....
» 9/01/2021 11:59:39 AM My limited knowledge of human biology suggests that every human ovum and every sperm is a .....
» 9/01/2021 10:02:01 AM Hi Individual, Sounds like it didn't do you any good :( Joe.....
» 8/01/2021 6:48:05 PM Hi Bronwyn, Sorry, you misunderstood my point: I certainly don't assert that Chinese scie.....
» 8/01/2021 1:19:13 PM Pete, OR is he just trying to save his neck by throwing Trumpf under the proverbial bus ?.....
» 8/01/2021 12:02:33 PM Hi Chris, Just to clarify: I used to be a Maoist, and clearly Misop, as an pre-adolescent.....
» 8/01/2021 11:47:03 AM Just in case some of those fascist-anarchists were Australian: the FBI has released photos.....
» 8/01/2021 11:32:43 AM At last ! Some truth: "I wasn't born smart." No indeed. And some people never .....
» 8/01/2021 11:29:31 AM Ttbn, No, I think he will go back to being bankrupt. I think Melania will leave him withi.....
» 8/01/2021 11:18:12 AM Very 9ften, even in just the last f0rty years, viruses have come from 'bush-meat', for out.....
» 8/01/2021 10:15:37 AM Individual, Because I still didn't understand what the hell you were on about, how to con.....
» 7/01/2021 8:21:38 PM Jim, And none of that was staged ? Do you really think that electoral officials are that .....
» 7/01/2021 6:59:44 PM Josephus, Trump had no control over the US response to the Covid-18 virus ?! Are you kidd.....
» 7/01/2021 6:52:34 PM Hi Individual, You may be right, if only I could understand what the hell you're talking .....
» 7/01/2021 6:33:37 PM Hi Pete, The attempted coup raises the likelihood, almost the certainty, that Trump is se.....
» 7/01/2021 3:35:15 PM Foxy, Not to mention the 360,000 deaths from the Trumpf virus :) Joe.....
» 7/01/2021 3:31:09 PM Ttbn, So, without presenting any evidence, you've demonstrated nothing ? You've merely sh.....
» 7/01/2021 12:13:34 PM Come off it, Ttbn, you've probably voted in elections, and maybe been a scrutineer: you kn.....
» 7/01/2021 11:59:32 AM Foxy & JP, Does it help to differentiate between a foetus and an embryo ? Almost by defin.....
» 7/01/2021 11:18:25 AM Is incitement against administrations an offence in the US ? At federal, State, county AND.....
» 7/01/2021 11:12:54 AM Thanks, Alan :).....
» 6/01/2021 1:46:14 PM Foxy & CM, On the relationships between women's education and timing/amount of child-bear.....
» 6/01/2021 12:07:29 PM SR, Good one :) Pretty obviously (perhaps it's a mistake that Maths teachers warn of in.....
» 6/01/2021 10:46:24 AM Voting has closed in Georgia, so now the votes can all be counted. So far, the candidate.....
» 5/01/2021 3:15:22 PM Just to get back to reality, here is an account of Trumpf's futile attempts to subvert the.....
» 5/01/2021 12:10:15 PM Hi Alan, And presumably voluntary ? So, reasonably well-planned ? The issue of choice wou.....
» 5/01/2021 11:44:18 AM Pig-ignorant people, those still locked in the days of the White Australia Policy, commonl.....
» 5/01/2021 11:12:44 AM When medicine advances to the point where elderly males can get pregnant, I will leave any.....
» 4/01/2021 7:48:05 PM Hi Thinkabit, I found "A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived" (2017) by Ad.....
» 4/01/2021 6:03:25 PM Okay, it's established that Biden got millions of votes more than Trumpf did, but they bot.....
» 4/01/2021 11:53:45 AM Hi Pete, Trumpf may be able to pardon himself for any crimes against federal law, BUT if .....
» 4/01/2021 11:47:35 AM Thinkabit, I've never seen any reference to the ancestors of Aboriginal people here takin.....
» 3/01/2021 3:53:10 PM SR, So ..... another ATSIC instead ? I do recall similar bodies going back to 1973 - th.....
» 3/01/2021 3:52:16 PM SR, So ..... another ATSIC instead ? I do recall similar bodies going back to 1973 - th.....
» 3/01/2021 11:28:39 AM CM, You really are skirting close to fascism: " If the population of the world was .....
» 3/01/2021 10:50:32 AM Hi Hanrahan, Always a laugh a minute :) Is there any conspiracy theory that you don't lik.....
» 3/01/2021 10:03:51 AM Hi Foxy, Sounds good to me :) Joe.....
» 3/01/2021 9:05:00 AM Is Mise, When was the first year of this millenium ? 2001. So, twenty years later, this.....
» 2/01/2021 9:16:44 PM Individual, You really are a moron. What has that got to do with the deaths of 35 people .....
» 2/01/2021 9:13:26 PM Hi Josephus, Yes, won't that be fantastic ?! A woman, an American woman, a person of mixe.....
» 2/01/2021 6:01:26 PM Hi Pete, Perhaps if we could insert a clause about "Equal Rights for All" somew.....
» 2/01/2021 5:08:18 PM Hanrahan cautiously leaves his cave, throws curses at an evil and heartless world, then re.....
» 2/01/2021 4:53:56 PM Hi Pete, Well, you're both right: http://portarthur.org.au/dining/1830-restaurant-and-ba.....
» 2/01/2021 4:46:03 PM Hi Foxy, Welcome back ! I suspect that population growth is slowing and, perhaps not in o.....
» 2/01/2021 4:29:57 PM Misop, Then you need to go back to your Weber and Tawney, don't you ? Joe.....
» 2/01/2021 3:37:27 PM CM, Not sure how you leap to Socialism - I don't think Socialism, at least Marxist or Len.....
» 2/01/2021 11:49:44 AM CM, Compulsory birth control ? For everybody or only for certain unter-gruppen ? Is your .....
» 2/01/2021 11:33:02 AM Foxy ! Welcome back ! A lot of us have been barracking for you and your lucky husband ! OL.....
» 2/01/2021 9:19:12 AM Ttbn, To you, it may be pearls (after all, you assume that Trumpf talks sense), but I sus.....
» 1/01/2021 10:47:56 AM Thanks, Bernie, will do :) Cheers, Joe.....
» 1/01/2021 9:29:24 AM Hi Hanrahan, Well, we got through 2020. But to give you heart, maybe 2021 is going to be .....
» 1/01/2021 9:25:15 AM Misop, Dumb-dumb. The industrialisation of societies requires more skilled people, and fe.....
» 31/12/2020 8:12:54 PM CM, Wow, scratch a fascist ..... Yes, maybe everybody should work until they drop, like .....
» 31/12/2020 4:48:48 PM Hi Pete, There's a lot of fake news outlets around, Fox, Sky, RT, etc., but I'll swear by.....
» 31/12/2020 4:38:56 PM Hi Bernie, Yes, the most developed countries now all seem to have stable/stagnant populat.....
» 31/12/2020 1:10:30 PM I hope that Australian governments cultivate close links with all of the countries between.....
» 31/12/2020 12:33:05 PM OLO is blessed with so many people, whose intelligence is usually otherwise either questio.....
» 31/12/2020 11:40:22 AM Misop, Unlike collaborators, the great majority of Australians - including Chinese-Austra.....
» 31/12/2020 9:36:52 AM Is Mise, Interesting point: there was a drought here lasting 38-39 years around the year .....
» 30/12/2020 2:40:58 PM Josephus So it should be an easy matter to present those 360,000 votes before the Supreme.....
» 30/12/2020 8:58:33 AM Ttbn, Dumb-dumb. Trump lost partly because Biden got even more votes than he did, plus of.....
» 29/12/2020 7:55:09 PM Hi Is Mise, I suspect that " ..... accurate .... oral tradition" is a very rare.....
» 29/12/2020 11:07:46 AM Hi Yuyutsu, Thanks for some common sense against the dumb racism of our Village Idiot. I .....
» 28/12/2020 10:37:23 AM Hi CM & Misop, Thanks for all that attention. Sorry for getting up your noses. Good fun, .....
» 28/12/2020 9:02:03 AM Shadow minister, There's some valid logic in your argument. After all, if we spent nothin.....
» 27/12/2020 10:29:29 PM Hi Paul, Thanks for that, it makes some sense. It's amazing how much information is avail.....
» 27/12/2020 5:21:16 PM Paul, Paul, Just wondering but was James the full brother of Jesus, or only the half-brot.....
» 27/12/2020 4:43:24 PM Lambing Flat. The slogan of The Bulletin from the 1880s-1890s: 'Australia for the White M.....
» 26/12/2020 9:52:21 PM How come ? Because it's merely someone's assertion of potential fraud. End of. Joe.....
» 26/12/2020 8:39:22 PM Josephus, Biden got more votes than Trump. So what's your point ? That winning a bigger .....
» 26/12/2020 10:41:55 AM Mox, Biden won the popular vote and the Electoral College vote by landslides. No proof o.....
» 25/12/2020 7:04:05 PM Hi Shadow Minister, Yes, you're probably right, that we can set off Covid-19 deaths again.....
» 25/12/2020 4:29:33 PM Claire lehmann of Quillette has a beautiful take on this issue of blame and responsibility.....
» 24/12/2020 12:14:46 PM I'm sure that everyone who contributes to OLO will jon me in wishing Dr Anthony Fauci a ha.....
» 24/12/2020 11:59:40 AM Hi Aidan, Nice to see President Trumpf show such concern for his Swamp members: http://w.....
» 23/12/2020 7:02:17 PM CM, Yes. 'we built this country' - Indigenous people, Chinese, British, Pacific Islanders.....
» 23/12/2020 5:20:38 PM Don, I don't know if it's a backward, medieval sort of thing, but in the olden days, when.....
» 23/12/2020 1:12:01 PM Hi Graham, Can you please pass on the best wishes to Foxy and her husband of many of us o.....
» 22/12/2020 10:21:57 AM Hi Yuyutsu, Yes, don't worry about our resident troll, our own village idiot who is up hi.....
» 22/12/2020 7:55:22 AM Ttbn, In the Australian today (I think it was in Judith Sloan's article), the number of C.....
» 21/12/2020 3:33:11 PM Hasbeen, Come on, who really believes that Trump got the Covid virus ? Obviously, he had .....
» 20/12/2020 6:58:37 PM Bowyer, No, I don't think Andrews is a communist scab: he's saved Victoria, in spite of t.....
» 20/12/2020 3:56:11 PM Individual, As usual, way off the point. Who ever mentioned 'race' ? Nation is not cult.....
» 20/12/2020 1:55:02 PM CM, So what do you mean by 'the culture' or 'their culture' ? I was just looking at some.....
» 20/12/2020 1:09:32 PM CM, "Every culture needs their own nation" What a stupid, stupid notion. Of .....
» 20/12/2020 11:52:58 AM CM, Sorry, can't see Paul's reference to that racist mongrel. As for 'self-interest', ho.....
» 20/12/2020 9:04:32 AM Bazz, By voting, people consent. End of. David, You would be aware of the separation of.....
» 19/12/2020 3:43:03 PM Individual, Well, yes, Trump was a few weeks out in the INTRODUCTION of the vaccine, and .....
» 19/12/2020 2:26:14 PM Hi Graham, Populations: *. Australia: 25 million *. Sweden: roughly 12 million (say, hal.....
» 19/12/2020 12:34:22 PM Hasbeen, Sweden now requires masks on public transport. Common sense, a rare quality in s.....
» 18/12/2020 6:50:27 PM Thanks, Steele :) All the best for the holiday season. Joe.....
» 18/12/2020 11:55:05 AM Hi Paul, " ..... Maybe they migrated to Sweden." Yes, people should practise w.....
» 18/12/2020 11:00:31 AM Josephus, Isn't lumacy fun ?! Yes, I think that Biden is the president -elect. Yes, I .....
» 18/12/2020 9:09:37 AM Hi Ttbn, Hmmmmm. ........ there seem to be many on OLO who think that this election is ce.....
» 18/12/2020 9:04:12 AM Hi Paul, Keep your fingers crossed :) Is there any way of knowing if Foxy is OK ? Joe.....
» 18/12/2020 9:00:51 AM Hi SR, I suspect that Trumpf (and his followers) are so infantile that they think that th.....
» 17/12/2020 5:31:33 PM Sorry, Paul, that should have been '2000 stud Merinos'. Yes, that's how it went. The comm.....
» 17/12/2020 4:50:51 PM Ttbn, Yes, that stupid Darwin Harbour lease should be revoked and its recipients have the.....
» 17/12/2020 4:45:45 PM Hi Paul, I hope to god that everybody will be safe, hunkered down. I've never been throug.....
» 17/12/2020 3:42:28 PM Ttbn, You admit, "My motto is this - the fewer people you interact with, the better......
» 17/12/2020 3:40:37 PM Hi Jack, Getting your car pinched is quite an adventure. I lent my dear old '68 Kingswood.....
» 17/12/2020 12:54:28 PM Foxy, R U OK ? You haven't posted for three weeks :(. I hope everything is all right w.....
» 17/12/2020 12:50:06 PM Bazz, In little words: if you want to prove, test, demonstrate, elucidate that something.....
» 17/12/2020 12:27:37 PM David, AFAIK, the US Supreme Court does not initiate changes to the Constitution: that pr.....
» 17/12/2020 11:14:53 AM Thanks, Pete: brilliant ! http://youtu.be/_D03BBO7BQk . Joe.....
» 17/12/2020 11:08:01 AM Hi Bazz, I think I get your logic: because a fiddle may have been possible, THEREFORE it .....
» 17/12/2020 11:05:19 AM Sorry Paul, just telling it like it was. The community council has decided to rip out thei.....
» 17/12/2020 11:05:03 AM Sorry Paul, just telling it like it was. The community council had decided to rip out thei.....
» 16/12/2020 1:55:53 PM Hasbeen & Individual, You both may have a point. At least in relation to experiencing lif.....
» 16/12/2020 12:33:33 PM Ah, the US election scene - a laugh a minute :) Now this beauty: http://www.news.com.au/.....
» 16/12/2020 10:51:51 AM Bzz, So ...... you're suggesting that only 4,000 people in Nevada could have voted ? An.....
» 16/12/2020 10:46:21 AM Oops, wrong thread :).....
» 16/12/2020 10:46:12 AM David, Can any state or territory government here lean over the shoulder of any other sta.....
» 16/12/2020 10:43:58 AM David, Can any state or territory government here lean over the shoulder of any other sta.....
» 15/12/2020 6:59:39 PM Hi Individual, Well, I'm a bit shorter and fatter for a start. And, so far, I have all my.....
» 15/12/2020 2:14:07 PM Hi Hanrahan, I think I can follow your logic: we're all going to die sooner or later, so .....
» 15/12/2020 2:02:56 PM Hi Mox, Thank you for warning us about the dangers of a fascist coup in support of Trumpf.....
» 15/12/2020 1:24:52 PM Hi Pete, Isn't democracy wonderful ?! Maybe now, the slimy turd of Trumpf can slide off .....
» 15/12/2020 8:02:25 AM Josephus, Can you get it through your head that Biden won many millions of votes more tha.....
» 14/12/2020 10:53:52 PM Hi Pete, Yes, this could be Trumpf's moment, one way or the other. It's Monday morning, U.....
» 14/12/2020 6:44:37 PM Individual, A bit arse-up :) I'm asserting that Trump is as you say, so it's not up to me.....
» 14/12/2020 5:25:14 PM Pete, I would have thought that all of the designated groups that you listed, except the .....
» 14/12/2020 12:21:09 PM Thanks, Pete. I'll look out for that last book, it sounds like a beauty. Joe.....
» 14/12/2020 11:28:21 AM Ttbn, Yep, totalitarianism has been around in Australia for a long time. At the beginni.....
» 14/12/2020 11:21:59 AM Hi Ttbn, The media is virus-obsessed ? I wonder why. Beheadings and shootings in France .....
» 14/12/2020 11:09:51 AM Hi Aidan, Don't waste your time trying to reason with the Village Idiot. Joe.....
» 14/12/2020 9:27:55 AM And how come mango stones are so BIG ? Who dreamed that up ? Joe.....
» 14/12/2020 12:38:41 AM It's hard to find an OLO thread that deals with that minor matter, the Covid-19 pandemic. .....
» 14/12/2020 12:20:54 AM Individual, How dare you !? Are you suggesting that, like Trump, I'm a philanderer, slime.....
» 13/12/2020 7:58:43 PM While we're on the subject of barbed or barbless hooks, how come nobody complains about wh.....
» 13/12/2020 2:10:33 PM Individua, I'm not sure what the connection is between employing people and not being a t.....
» 13/12/2020 10:50:44 AM Hi Banjo, Demo yesterday in support of Trumpf in Washington: no huge crowds, just his rum.....
» 13/12/2020 8:53:42 AM More important and certainly more tragic than Trump's humiliating defeat, is the news of t.....
» 13/12/2020 8:45:20 AM Hi Paul, Big tech is of course big capitalism. Those tech firms are the most advanced for.....
» 12/12/2020 10:11:35 PM The Supreme Court rules - in a single sentence - that the Texas bid was invalid. Three of .....
» 12/12/2020 2:38:10 PM Ttbn, I hope someone is keeping track of extremist incidents ike his one: http://www.new.....
» 12/12/2020 11:24:52 AM Ttbn, No. Your sooky-boy lost. He got more votes than any other sitting president, but Bi.....
» 12/12/2020 10:44:23 AM On a more important issue than Trumpf's future, the Covid-19 vaccine: The US population i.....
» 12/12/2020 10:31:43 AM Hi Pete, It's all over, Red Rover: http://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/11/us/politics/supreme.....
» 12/12/2020 10:27:25 AM Ttbn, So, anyone who suggests that it's always a good time to "reflect, reimagine, a.....
» 11/12/2020 5:18:55 PM Josephus, Wouldn't it convenient if all of our worst enemies were forever and secretly in.....
» 11/12/2020 11:56:48 AM Very sad news about a much more intelligent and loved person than that worthless mongrel T.....
» 11/12/2020 10:27:40 AM Ind., Ttbn et al., That mongrel who murdered 51 innocent people (i.e. not guilty of any c.....
» 11/12/2020 8:38:08 AM Josephus, The courts have found evidence of fraud, as you claim ? Get back to us when th.....
» 10/12/2020 5:35:00 PM Ttbn, Gosh, so cutting :( I'm touched that the alt-Right has marshalled all of its best b.....
» 10/12/2020 5:06:50 PM Josephus, The funny thing about telling the same lie over and over again is that it's the.....
» 10/12/2020 5:03:59 PM Thanks Steele, Thank god someone is trying to keep low-IQ commentators honest. Cheers, .....
» 10/12/2020 12:28:28 PM Hi SR, So that's that then: the states have all certified their election results and forw.....
» 9/12/2020 3:48:49 PM Hi Josephus, It seems that Barr, Trumpf's A-G, is contemplating leaving the job soon. S.....
» 9/12/2020 12:40:24 PM Hi Pete, Yes, wasn't he the first person (or part of a team) to fly non-stop around the w.....
» 9/12/2020 11:02:41 AM Bazz, So it's California then ? And how did Biden's vote go in california ? A massive m.....
» 9/12/2020 10:51:34 AM Hi Jamo, This might clarify the situation for you: http://www.news.com.au/world/north-am.....
» 9/12/2020 10:06:53 AM Hi Pete, In his quest to "Make White America Great Again", Trump ordered only e.....
» 9/12/2020 9:11:44 AM Bazz, That news item was, it seems, about the count in Oregon. Here's another take on it:.....
» 8/12/2020 7:31:30 PM Duck, Good luck to them, whatever they choose, but they can't expect anybody else to give.....
» 8/12/2020 6:55:35 PM Hi Cherful, I'll leave it up to the courts, if you don't mind :) Cheers, Joe.....
» 8/12/2020 2:18:04 PM Hi Diver Dan, I'm dreadfully sorry, but I think you missed the point - that nobody SHOULD.....
» 8/12/2020 1:04:43 PM Cherful, Here's an interesting take on electoral fraud: http://www.alreporter.com/2020/1.....
» 8/12/2020 12:55:15 PM Hi Cherful, Do you mean this Scalia ? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonin_Scalia In Fe.....
» 8/12/2020 11:56:02 AM So what's her DNA say ? Frankly, I don't care if people who love their dogs, want to cal.....
» 8/12/2020 10:16:23 AM It seems like today, December 8, is the critical day for states to certify their election .....
» 8/12/2020 9:37:57 AM Bazz, And those assertions have gone - where ? Have they generated any successful court c.....
» 8/12/2020 8:56:37 AM Bazz, The election has been held. No fraud has been found, by either Republican, Democr.....
» 7/12/2020 6:30:28 PM Hi David, Try to be fair in your arguments. If a majority of judges decide one way, but o.....
» 7/12/2020 6:23:42 PM Josephus, Yes, indeed Trumpf did. And Biden received seven million more. End of. Isn't.....
» 6/12/2020 10:16:21 AM Ttbn, Although I tend to discount conspiracy theories, this one sound quite plausible. Wa.....
» 6/12/2020 8:34:10 AM Ttbn, 51-39 is called a 'lead'. Or would you suggest that 49-51 is almost as good as a .....
» 5/12/2020 8:14:09 PM Hi Pete, Gosh, what a surprise. Joe.....
» 5/12/2020 4:53:28 PM Misop, The CCP ARE the militarists. The people are not necessarily, or even likely. And.....
» 5/12/2020 2:58:48 PM Ttbn, (A). Yeah, so, gee, they couldn't possibly be lying, could they ? Cos they might go.....
» 5/12/2020 9:07:37 AM Jamo, Suitcases being jeeld from A to B ? Well, there you go: obviously fraud. No idea .....
» 4/12/2020 6:55:28 PM Ttbn, Yes, perhaps you would be enthusiastic if governments could set up a system whereby.....
» 4/12/2020 4:59:17 PM Misopinionated, Are you assuming that the 2 % of the Australian population who are of mai.....
» 4/12/2020 3:57:15 PM Bazz, Well, it's been more than a month already. How much longer do you want ? Nothing y.....
» 4/12/2020 3:24:00 PM Mhaze. Oy. Present the evidence before a court - or first present the basic outlines of w.....
» 4/12/2020 7:38:06 AM Bazz, "In principle ballot counting machines should never be connected to the intern.....
» 4/12/2020 7:30:20 AM Misop, Yes, half-wit, that's the article that I cited. Thank you for corroborating its va.....
» 3/12/2020 4:46:43 PM We'll all be ruined, says Ttbn, before the year is out ...... Joe.....
» 3/12/2020 10:52:29 AM What proportion of foreign investment in Australia is Chinese ? http://www.news.com.au/fi.....
» 2/12/2020 1:10:42 PM Mhaxe, And presumably this has been taken to a court: " .... Counties where, inexpl.....
» 2/12/2020 12:42:10 PM Hi Individual, I enjoyed your Saturday comment, it was from a died-in-the-wool paranoid: .....
» 2/12/2020 9:29:18 AM Mhaze, And across the US, with its many states and multitude of counties, there would be .....
» 1/12/2020 8:51:15 PM Misop, You really do need to learn to read properly. Nope, too late :( There ARE some .....
» 1/12/2020 8:49:01 PM Hi Janmo, Yes, " .... the bigger the lie the more readily it's believed." Part.....
» 1/12/2020 6:38:59 PM Misop, I can't work out whether or not you're an idiot, a Chinese agent or simply a racis.....
» 1/12/2020 11:09:53 AM Mox, Amazing: the wishful thinking of a six-year-old: Arizona has already declared for Bi.....
» 1/12/2020 11:01:27 AM Thank you, Don, your articles are always like deep breaths of fresh air, and always stimul.....
» 30/11/2020 2:25:06 PM Individual, Without proof = spray. I'm puzzled by this 'end of days' scenario which so m.....
» 30/11/2020 12:16:27 PM Individual, And you have proof of all that ? Or is it just a spray because you didn't g.....
» 30/11/2020 11:00:28 AM I suppose a psychologist would know at what age does a child believe that whatever they wa.....
» 30/11/2020 10:00:35 AM Moron, I rest my case. Joe.....
» 30/11/2020 9:56:25 AM Ttbn, No proven fraud. If you have proof of fraud, present it. Otherwise bugger off. Craw.....
» 29/11/2020 7:12:12 PM Mr Moron, You have no idea. There will NEVER be any further push for socialism anywhere i.....
» 29/11/2020 5:46:37 PM And how come Polly Waffles aren't like they used to be ? Too much rice bubbles ? Hmmmm, w.....
» 29/11/2020 11:40:55 AM Ttbn, How does one 'prove' a negative ? Solve that one, Ttbn, and you'll get the Nobel Pr.....
» 29/11/2020 10:01:32 AM Ttbn, So " .... what corruption occurred to get rid of him" ? Evidence, please.....
» 29/11/2020 9:05:12 AM Ttbn, My god, you do write some rubbish. Sorry, it's too idiotic to respond to. See a s.....
» 29/11/2020 8:09:20 AM Josephus, Mailed out and then returned, but recorded as having been sent out later ? Is t.....
» 29/11/2020 8:01:31 AM Hi Ttbn, Yes, if people would prefer to die from a virus rather than get vaccinated, who .....
» 28/11/2020 7:30:01 PM Brasilian ? Portuguese with Oporto Portuguese and west-African dialects, and some Native A.....
» 28/11/2020 5:47:44 PM Ttbn, Yes, he was a decent bloke. Both Corcoran and Dunstan had some competent ministers .....
» 28/11/2020 4:54:01 PM Nathan, I should imagine that the cost of running a presidential election in the US would.....
» 27/11/2020 4:52:56 PM Ttbn, Bon dia. So you're in Portugal ? Where else would this apply ? Obligao. Joe.....
» 27/11/2020 2:38:40 PM Ttbn, Maybe you mean in the election in about 1962 or 1963 in which (from very faulty mem.....
» 27/11/2020 9:21:10 AM Bad Doggie, 500 million. Utter lunacy. So who are you proposing to kill off ? You're happ.....
» 27/11/2020 9:13:18 AM Individual, "Let's face it, as long as there's corruption, the more corrupt will nev.....
» 27/11/2020 9:10:50 AM Nathan, What a brilliant idea, such a cunning plan ! And whoever loses can always deman.....
» 26/11/2020 1:05:28 PM Has Been, To run the country, do you mean ? Hopefully, Biden can clean out the Trump swa.....
» 25/11/2020 5:56:43 PM Now that Trumpf is about to be dragged out of his bunker, I think the world as a whole has.....
» 25/11/2020 4:29:20 PM Misop, Educational anthropology, esp. urban minority education. Try this Ogbu (and Simo.....
» 25/11/2020 10:50:09 AM "Donny, come out now." "No !" "Please, Donny, I've got your fav.....
» 25/11/2020 9:42:23 AM Misopinionated, Anthropologists: I got a lot out of Geertz's 'Agricultural Involution' fo.....
» 24/11/2020 5:54:05 PM Thanks, Ethel......
» 24/11/2020 5:21:33 PM AC, Yes, what bastards 'they' are ...... Always plotting and planning against 'us'. Coul.....
» 24/11/2020 1:00:16 PM Misopinionated, Nobody knows that you are what you say you are (or any of us are), unless.....
» 24/11/2020 12:23:13 PM Ttbn, Maybe Paul wasn't in the nude for such conundrums. Joe.....
» 24/11/2020 12:20:51 PM Misopinionated, Any half-wit can just look up Wikipedia. Maybe you should give it a try......
» 24/11/2020 11:14:12 AM Ttbn, This one should come through okay: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWfFFMcfEt4 Jus.....
» 24/11/2020 10:27:07 AM Hi Paul, Just to wind Ttbn up, why not make a comment about "people who, life in gra.....
» 23/11/2020 6:58:32 PM Ttbn, They work all right, but their manufacture (and maintenance) creates almost as much.....
» 23/11/2020 12:16:14 PM Hi Ttbn, John Anderson :) And yes, in his case, you're right ! Cheers, Joe.....
» 22/11/2020 5:32:50 PM Ttbn, And you make the very salient point that Chinese have been contributing to Australi.....
» 22/11/2020 5:19:20 PM Ttbn, Oops ! And I should have broadened that: "A high proportion of people using o.....
» 22/11/2020 3:42:30 PM Misopinionated, I'm beginning to see where you're coming from: * You can accurately judg.....
» 22/11/2020 11:05:50 AM Wow, Cherful, so many cunning plans - and all 100 % un-checkable ! So devilishly clever ! .....
» 22/11/2020 9:57:06 AM Josephus, Yeah, whatev. I wonder how Trumpf would have gone as captain of the 'Titanic' .....
» 21/11/2020 2:42:49 PM Josephus, Voter registration in excess of what population ? Of the entire adult populatio.....
» 21/11/2020 12:07:20 PM Misop, Of course you have: time and again, you have used the phrase "Ni Hao ?" .....
» 21/11/2020 11:47:44 AM Josephus, Or do you mean, the recording of votes put later on a thumb-drive ? No electora.....
» 21/11/2020 11:21:11 AM Misopinionated, Maybe a lot of the confusion about your seemingly-idiotic views about 'As.....
» 21/11/2020 10:51:26 AM Hi Paul, I suspect that the Republicans will come up with a cunning plan. As Baldrick Giu.....
» 21/11/2020 8:45:06 AM Indiana Jones, So what did you get for Finger-Painting 101, 201 and 301 ? A P2 each year.....
» 20/11/2020 9:42:43 AM Hi Paul, Yes, that disparity between Indigenous girls and boys - it could be to do with a.....
» 19/11/2020 11:46:10 AM Cameron Stewart has an interesting article in today's Australian: http://www.theaustralia.....
» 19/11/2020 11:00:22 AM Thanks Brian, There is much more data on: http://www.education.gov.au/student-data. I.....
» 18/11/2020 11:15:55 AM Hi Foxy, And there are hundreds of groups of Australians with some Asian ancestry, i.e. a.....
» 17/11/2020 12:41:52 PM Josephus, Sorry to burst your boil, but the Democrats have the majority in the US House o.....
» 17/11/2020 12:04:35 PM Hi R66ald, I suspect that you are actually doing research on how quickly an innocuous top.....
» 17/11/2020 9:11:41 AM Misopinionated, So ..... all those Asians, from Turkey to Japan, and Yemen to Mongolia, a.....
» 16/11/2020 7:33:44 PM Mr O, Good point: if a person holding a public office, uses that office to subvert the Co.....
» 16/11/2020 12:50:02 PM Hi Saltpetre, I think that Trumpf will pull all US troops out of Afghanistan, not for any.....
» 15/11/2020 3:41:14 PM Paul, I would love to see a match-up in 2024 between Kamala Harris in the blue corner for.....
» 15/11/2020 10:36:31 AM Hi Ttbn, This article: http://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2020/11/14/a-postmortem-of-a-co.....
» 15/11/2020 9:39:28 AM Ttbn, I think this sort of story is more likely to have a happy ending for Trumpf support.....
» 15/11/2020 9:25:27 AM Ttbn, You didn't need to confess that, we already knew it, but thanks :) Joe.....
» 15/11/2020 7:38:57 AM Josephus, So, Trump's incompetence - which has caused maybe a couple of hundred thousand .....
» 15/11/2020 7:36:09 AM Ttbn, So, on that definition ...... much of China's economy (and perhaps society) is not .....
» 14/11/2020 8:59:17 PM Hi Josephus, This might put Trumpf's humanity into perspective: http://www.news.com.au/w.....
» 14/11/2020 7:04:57 PM Josephus, There's another thing that people don't know: Trumpf has always been interested.....
» 14/11/2020 6:11:58 PM Hi Josephus, Well, I'm convinced ! I've just heard from a friend that he heard about a .....
» 14/11/2020 1:17:32 PM Ttbn, I'll get in first: Adam Bandt is not part of any Australian government. And probab.....
» 13/11/2020 6:54:27 PM Hi Paul, A school in NSW is changing the names of its Houses to Aboriginal names. I don'.....
» 13/11/2020 5:05:17 PM Ttbn, So far, Trumpf has got around 71 million votes - more than any sitting president in.....
» 13/11/2020 12:02:56 PM Hi Ttbn, You might enjoy this video of Sanders' reaction to Trump's decision to 'stand by.....
» 13/11/2020 11:31:10 AM Ttbn, Hmmmm ....... seems like we'll have to drag you kicking and screaming, towards the .....
» 13/11/2020 9:38:45 AM Hi Ttbn, Thanks for your support for centrist policies. I can't find any reference to B.....
» 12/11/2020 3:27:33 PM Hi Ttbn, Wow ! I think you're becoming a - horrors ! - a centrist ! I'm inclined to go al.....
» 11/11/2020 4:55:13 PM Josephus, No problems, as we say in Australia: figure out which might be the most suspect.....
» 11/11/2020 1:38:49 PM SM, Trump got 71 million votes. Biden got nearly 75 million votes. A margin of nearly fou.....
» 10/11/2020 3:52:19 PM Josephus, As a Manichaean, you can't be expected to understand nuance: I think Plantagene.....
» 9/11/2020 8:57:37 PM Back to topic: Misopinionated, 'Asianisation': what do you mean by this portmanteau term.....
» 8/11/2020 6:50:17 PM St Josephus, Asseritur gratis, negatur gratis. Provide evidence, don't just assert. Has.....
» 8/11/2020 5:26:40 PM Misopinionated, You may be spot-on: it's very worrying that Biden can't exercise any pres.....
» 8/11/2020 11:16:34 AM Now that Trump's chief of staff has caught the virus, maybe Trump himself might be infecte.....
» 8/11/2020 10:53:07 AM Josephus, So there is clear evidence of fraud, you're saying ? All any electoral commissi.....
» 8/11/2020 7:50:49 AM Ttbn, So ..... a health system like ours is, what, communist ? An unemployment scheme lik.....
» 7/11/2020 2:23:26 PM Bad Dog, Those are disgraceful and hateful remarks about a very good man. When Graeme Hug.....
» 6/11/2020 12:50:39 PM Lego, What makes you think that Trumpf would have given a toss about Australia ? He is/wa.....
» 5/11/2020 9:01:06 PM Is Mise, No, only fruit: grapes (Gordos were a killer), peaches, apricots, pears, citrus;.....
» 5/11/2020 5:22:49 PM Foxy, You're right about farmers. As a Bankstownie, I didn't have much time for those who.....
» 5/11/2020 2:09:18 PM Hi Paul, Wow, you nailed it ! Yes, we're a bit behind down here. Even our email services .....
» 5/11/2020 11:38:51 AM Hi Dan, And yet ...... Joe.....
» 5/11/2020 10:07:01 AM News Flash: Trumpf has shared in this year's IgNoble Prize for Medical Education: ".....
» 4/11/2020 9:08:01 PM Hi Pete, I don't know about other Australian states which haven't evolved to SA's level, .....
» 4/11/2020 2:35:39 PM Uncertain results so far, but I suspect that if Trumpf wins this time around, it may be th.....
» 3/11/2020 4:38:33 PM Hi Pete, In some states, the counting of the vote doesn't start until voting has closed. .....
» 3/11/2020 4:32:06 PM CM, Loved your conspiracy theory ! Predictably off-the-mark :) Joe.....
» 3/11/2020 4:30:15 PM Hi Foxy, Wow, I'd love to have had a stud bull named after me. My wife would have had a g.....
» 3/11/2020 11:55:46 AM Runner, I don't really have much time for any conspiracy theories. They usually pre-suppo.....
» 3/11/2020 11:43:47 AM My gr-gr-gr-grandfather Bob Higgins, has a creek named after him; it runs into Warragamba .....
» 3/11/2020 11:27:44 AM Runner, Conspiracy theories can be so comforting, ay ? The world hates us, so they all pl.....
» 2/11/2020 7:08:54 PM Misop, I wonder if you've ever walked through a university; probably on s school excursio.....
» 2/11/2020 5:48:41 PM Misop, Dumb-dumb: who uses public transport ? Disproportionately: newcomers, students, pe.....
» 2/11/2020 4:41:20 PM Hi Paul, Pity the Greens dropped their vote. Clearly, they are doomed to represent an aff.....
» 2/11/2020 1:23:28 PM This is all a bit absurd. All of those countries in the region are composed of many, many .....
» 2/11/2020 12:02:41 PM Misop, So profound ! So original ! Class/Year 8 can be so informational. I remember what.....
» 2/11/2020 10:27:45 AM Paul, I wonder if it's just coincidental that, in the same year, 1932 (and in about the s.....
» 1/11/2020 3:18:18 PM Hi SR, Okay, sorry, I'll take those figures on-board. About 0.13 - 0.24 inches sea-level .....
» 1/11/2020 2:46:35 PM Misop, So. ..... to speak of half-degree rises in temperature over the past 80 years, and.....
» 1/11/2020 12:55:57 PM Misop, Of course, there is climate change going on, there always is and always has been. .....
» 1/11/2020 12:52:49 PM Cumberland = moron.....
» 1/11/2020 12:40:11 PM Misop, It's called being up yourself, mate. Joe.....
» 1/11/2020 12:26:44 PM Misop, If he is a dual citizen, or has never taken out Australian citizenship, then he ca.....
» 1/11/2020 12:20:08 PM Misopinionated, Do you realise that in your last post, you said nothing ? You only slagge.....
» 1/11/2020 11:52:02 AM Misoppinionated, Fair enough. If he is not an Australian citizen, or has dual citizenship.....
» 1/11/2020 10:57:22 AM Ttbn, People have come from hundreds of countries and regions to Australia and, once they.....
» 1/11/2020 10:53:22 AM Hi Foxy, But I suspect that we will be looking into the soul of America, or at least thos.....
» 31/10/2020 5:51:30 PM Cibwerland, Fascist ? Pot - kettle. We'll see how that fascism develops on the extreme-.....
» 31/10/2020 3:03:48 PM Hi Foxy, Yes, either Marx wrote once to Engels, or the other way round (or Engels wrote t.....
» 31/10/2020 1:56:12 PM Hi Foxy, So CM is asserting that the American Revolution was communist ? I just can't se.....
» 31/10/2020 10:52:19 AM CM, As you write, " .... I guess many don't see the links that Locke Liberalism has .....
» 30/10/2020 7:05:06 PM Dear Foxy, I am in a sort of agreement with Is Mise, that China is probably much more pow.....
» 30/10/2020 4:31:20 PM Paul, It may need some explanation as to why, when those three little girls got back to J.....
» 30/10/2020 4:22:37 PM Thanks, Pete. How on earth can anybody go broke owning a casino ? Isn't that little more .....
» 30/10/2020 2:20:35 PM Hi Foxy, I suspect that the election will be very close, and just maybe Trumpf will swing.....
» 30/10/2020 12:03:21 PM Misopinionated, Sorry to piss on your parade, but Asians, by any definition, make up a sm.....
» 30/10/2020 10:52:59 AM Hi Foxy, Australia is always going to be where it is, near Asian countries, and always wi.....
» 30/10/2020 10:42:26 AM Not sure how that is all that relevant, Paul. But here goes: Neville was, for around thir.....
» 30/10/2020 10:17:09 AM CM, I'm an internationalist, but most certainly not a globalist. I suspect that any dopey.....
» 30/10/2020 10:06:09 AM Come off it, Paul, you know very well that governments, particularly Labor governments, wo.....
» 30/10/2020 10:02:28 AM Hi Individual, " .... it's been verified and documented that those aforementioned 31.....
» 30/10/2020 9:49:50 AM Hi Chris, On postal voting, here's an item about some of the dangers (surely predicted ?).....
» 29/10/2020 9:45:56 PM Misopinionated, Black people - Africans, Americans, West Indians, Mauritians, have been c.....
» 29/10/2020 9:30:24 PM Misopinionated & CM, Both disgusting anti-humans. Do you hate people so much ? Joe.....
» 29/10/2020 9:27:09 PM CM, No, vastly more people were killed under 'communist' regimes than you cite. More were.....
» 29/10/2020 9:18:34 PM I really think that the results will be very close. But if Trumpf wins fair and square, .....
» 29/10/2020 9:15:46 PM Paul, So you have independent sources of evidence for your claims about this bloke's clai.....
» 29/10/2020 2:03:37 PM Foxy, The image of a pig with lipstick and a blond wig is a bit stomach-churning :) I'm .....
» 29/10/2020 1:54:28 PM Hi Hasbeen, Please read my last post again, but with a sense of irony: half a degree rise.....
» 29/10/2020 1:46:06 PM Evidence, my dear Foxy. Provide evidence. OF COURSE, some people are going to try and put .....
» 29/10/2020 12:05:27 PM Just to get back to reality, and away from hysteria, what might indicate evidence of globa.....
» 29/10/2020 12:03:54 PM Just to get back to reality, and away from hysteria, what might indicate evidence of globa.....
» 29/10/2020 11:04:29 AM No, Foxy, i do NOT acknowledge that myth. If anybody has a complaint, they can easily go t.....
» 29/10/2020 10:49:00 AM Dear Foxy, And his slogan will be "Apres moi, le deluge !" He'll wash his filth.....
» 29/10/2020 10:48:42 AM Dear Foxy, And his slogan will be "Apres moi, le deluge !" He'll wash his filth.....
» 29/10/2020 9:32:49 AM Dear Foxy, Yes: "What happens to a dream deferred ? Does it dry up like a raisin .....
» 28/10/2020 8:54:18 PM I have to say that I get so pissecd off with endless myths and lies about Indigenous issue.....
» 28/10/2020 3:38:54 PM Misopinionated, As usual, you've missed the point: if, as Trumpf hints, Egypt can bomb Et.....
» 28/10/2020 1:41:37 PM Ethiopia is building a huge dam on its Nile, 2000 miles upstream from Egypt. It will provi.....
» 28/10/2020 10:11:46 AM Sorry to piss on the parade of some of you 'immune' psychotics, but the virus is killing p.....
» 27/10/2020 8:46:12 PM Misopinionated, So, the truth is that you don't have any sort of degree in anything at al.....
» 27/10/2020 5:50:58 PM Hi Foxy, Okay, I'll try not to retch ;) Love, Joe.....
» 27/10/2020 5:12:44 PM Dear Foxy, I think that the Republican Party, some time after Lincoln, became a party whi.....
» 27/10/2020 1:34:21 PM For the record, sea ice is water, in a solid state. When it melts, it doesn't add a nanome.....
» 27/10/2020 12:54:49 PM Foxy, Perhaps we can crowd-fund Runner ? First-class ? One-way ? Joe.....
» 27/10/2020 12:49:57 PM Aidan, Probably the use of rocks as weapons. Joe.....
» 27/10/2020 12:46:41 PM Runner, I would support your right 100 % to stay living in your own sewer. Perhaps alongs.....
» 27/10/2020 11:41:50 AM Dearest Foxy, One thing I've learnt - the hard way - over fifty-sixty years involved, one.....
» 27/10/2020 10:29:41 AM Aidan, I sincerely apologise. I honestly thought he declared that the dams around Sydney .....
» 27/10/2020 10:19:41 AM Runner, You mean Trumpf's state ? Trumpf's Swamp ? Trumpf's Sewage Ponds ? With Trumpf as.....
» 26/10/2020 5:45:33 PM Hi Aidan, Sorry, isn't this is what he declared, twenty-odd years ago ? If not, I apolo.....
» 26/10/2020 1:00:50 PM We all now know that our dams will never fill again, Professor Flannery said so. Except m.....
» 26/10/2020 10:41:47 AM Paul, In our legal system, there is the presumption of innocence - in this case, surprisi.....
» 25/10/2020 9:11:32 PM Paul, Perhaps you can answer that question yourself, with evidence, not just hearsay gene.....
» 25/10/2020 5:31:50 PM Paul, Again and again, in the mission and protector reports (check out my web-site: www.f.....
» 25/10/2020 4:17:21 PM Back to the virus: At the risk of seeming to be a supporter of the ABC in any way, this i.....
» 25/10/2020 10:33:16 AM Misopinionated, For once, I agree with you: follow the money, and it is very likely that .....
» 25/10/2020 10:28:13 AM Ttbn, As usual, I agree with you fully about postal voting, especially during a pandemic......
» 24/10/2020 5:28:44 PM Good one, Is Mise ! I forgot to put this web-site up, the Coronavirus Disease Dashboard: .....
» 24/10/2020 5:24:22 PM Runner, You're right ! Now that Dan has brought down the incidence-level of the virus, pe.....
» 24/10/2020 2:10:44 PM Ttbn, The states agreed to form a federation back in 1900, to surrender much of their sov.....
» 24/10/2020 12:33:07 PM Ttbn, That's the Constitution, mate :) Yes, obviously, there should be nation-wide co-or.....
» 24/10/2020 12:25:46 PM Alan B, Good point: who would be in control of the country in the period between the elec.....
» 24/10/2020 12:04:25 PM Ttbn & Chris, Yes, I think I'm a sort of left-conservative: i don't think things should b.....
» 23/10/2020 7:16:42 PM Ttbn, Do you mean, electing a Snake-Oil Salesman and Show-Pony failure like Trumpf ? Ch.....
» 23/10/2020 3:02:38 PM Nathsan, If the only way to vote - even during a pandemic - was in-person At voting stati.....
» 20/10/2020 2:27:38 PM Paul, Maybe Trumpf will pardon Al Capone before he leaves office, out of a sort of indire.....
» 19/10/2020 1:15:11 PM Misopinionated, Here's a few minutes I'll never get back. The Mongols over-ran China for.....
» 18/10/2020 5:23:23 PM Hi Individual, I'm inclined to agree with some of your quotes: "PUT ME IN CHARGE . .....
» 18/10/2020 5:14:47 PM Hi Alan, There are probably empty camps and facilities on places like Norfolk Island and .....
» 18/10/2020 10:34:46 AM Ttbn, Apart from his empty bluster, what makes you think Piss-and-Wind Trumpf won't be an.....
» 18/10/2020 8:08:42 AM JCS, Not sure how on earth you can come to your conclusion. Joe.....
» 17/10/2020 3:19:19 PM Hi Foxy, Yes, my daughter was talking about Fred Hollows today. I visited his grave in Bo.....
» 17/10/2020 2:49:13 PM One problem with forests - maybe it always has been - is that they are constant work. They.....
» 17/10/2020 12:40:40 PM JCS, It would be useful if you could cite a direct quote from the CDC :) Joe.....
» 17/10/2020 10:18:17 AM JCS, So, the CDC is asserting that 95 % of deaths where COVID-19 is reported on the death.....
» 17/10/2020 9:27:30 AM JCS, Do you have any sort of reference to that surprising assertion about the CDC ? Your .....
» 16/10/2020 11:09:24 AM Jamo, Well, no, he's hated (or more likely held in contempt) BECAUSE he is corrupt AND in.....
» 16/10/2020 10:26:26 AM Could this be described as a massive form of 'insider trading' ? http://www.nytimes.com/.....
» 16/10/2020 9:37:12 AM Thanks, Alon :) I think all of us are learning a lot about extreme mental illness, given .....
» 15/10/2020 5:37:58 PM Individual, What makes you think he/she/it was ? It could be a failed bot :) Joe.....
» 15/10/2020 5:36:00 PM Bazz, Since we are not cows, I'm happy to see kids coming home from high schools in all s.....
» 15/10/2020 2:09:09 PM Hi Pete, I accidentally got onto this one too: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTcRRaXV-f.....
» 15/10/2020 1:20:13 PM Dear Foxy, On the subject of provocateurs: yes, of course, we can expect the Trumpf camp .....
» 15/10/2020 12:53:16 PM Dear Foxy, "In the current international security environment there are many threats.....
» 15/10/2020 11:04:35 AM AC, Thank Christ someone was preparing, since another virus (like Malaria, Zeka, Calisi, .....
» 15/10/2020 10:49:24 AM Given how slowly our national debt was being paid down even before the pandemic, it could .....
» 13/10/2020 5:50:54 PM Plantagenet, So you know Pete well ? Paul, Yes, I'm very concerned that the extreme rig.....
» 12/10/2020 7:28:17 PM J osephus, Sorry, my English is only ordinary, I don't understand some of what you are wr.....
» 12/10/2020 2:49:09 PM Josephus, And what age limit are they suggesting in this proposed legislation? Or, as yo.....
» 12/10/2020 2:38:21 PM Hasbeen, It used to be that if you lived within 90 minutes drive from work, fruit-picking.....
» 12/10/2020 10:06:20 AM JF & Individual, Yes, projects in which money, technology and nature 'combine' are surely.....
» 12/10/2020 9:49:07 AM Misopinionated, Your last comment: so you ARE living overseas somewhere ? That makes a lo.....
» 12/10/2020 9:41:08 AM Ttbn, "I suggest that the lefties who automatically rip into any poster not one of t.....
» 12/10/2020 9:38:10 AM Self-opinionated, No. The jury is NOT still out. The accusations against Pell were found .....
» 11/10/2020 6:09:27 PM Hasbeen An interesting suggestion: and if Australian-born people still cannot, after bein.....
» 11/10/2020 5:37:20 PM Individual, Is it possible to combine the two ideas - a year's national service for young.....
» 11/10/2020 5:23:52 PM Thanks for some sanity, Foxy :) Of course, if a country has comprehensive immigration an.....
» 11/10/2020 9:40:03 AM Foxy & Pete, Fascinating NYT article on the Trump Swamp: http://www.nytimes.com/interact.....
» 9/10/2020 12:13:10 PM Misop, You're the troll, you can call me anything you like :) As for my never being an i.....
» 9/10/2020 10:42:24 AM Hi Paul, After Trumpf didn't get his way in the first debate by bullying and bluster, I s.....
» 9/10/2020 10:31:40 AM Dear Foxy, Don't excite the village idiot too much, he might fall off his wall. Joe.....
» 8/10/2020 7:17:38 PM Misop, I had great respect for Mother Teresa. Her persistence with intractable problems w.....
» 8/10/2020 5:48:00 PM Misop, Where would any of us start ? You and Trumpf have something in common": you .....
» 8/10/2020 5:36:57 PM The lesson so far with these debates is that the moderator needs a shut-off button, with c.....
» 8/10/2020 3:10:41 PM Misop, You claim: " .... I only comment on fields that I am knowledgeable in .... &q.....
» 8/10/2020 2:31:22 PM Foxy, I don't think I've changed my views much, but I've certainly modified some, and bee.....
» 8/10/2020 12:29:35 PM Runner, I'm not sure if you are a fool or a liar. You surely know better than your twiste.....
» 8/10/2020 12:18:22 PM Ttbn, A bit naive: no, total government debt will never be completely paid off, and there.....
» 8/10/2020 10:11:20 AM Foxy, From Trumpf's point of view, as a psychopath, he's fought and beaten this flu-like .....
» 7/10/2020 1:47:00 PM Hi Foxy, You rightly define a pseudo-intellectual as " .... someone more interested .....
» 7/10/2020 1:26:31 PM Josephus, So the policies of both Trumpf and Biden are not all that different ? They bo.....
» 7/10/2020 1:19:54 PM Hi Saltpetre, Yes, if I understand you, there is the small lunatic 'left' and the small l.....
» 6/10/2020 5:31:13 PM Hi Josephus. So there ARE strong links between some (but by no means all) ultra-Christian.....
» 6/10/2020 3:21:17 PM Misopinionated, Of course not - this is all a hoax. There's no 'virus', it's all a commun.....
» 6/10/2020 2:12:14 PM Hi Foxy, If you remember Monty Python and the Holy Grail, the scene: 'Bring Out Your Dead.....
» 6/10/2020 1:57:19 PM Runner, You might be onto something; clearly it's possible that this 'so-called' 'virus' .....
» 6/10/2020 9:43:37 AM Cardinal Pell was found not guilty of any offence. End of. So let's move on. He's now one.....
» 5/10/2020 8:55:29 PM Hi Paul, You learn so much on OLO ! I was reconciled to sticking with Osteomol, but I'll.....
» 5/10/2020 8:49:21 PM I'm very impressed with the courage of the president of Notre Dame University: http://mes.....
» 5/10/2020 8:44:15 PM Runner, I think that most of us would be happy to leave you in that cell :) Clearly now,.....
» 5/10/2020 9:04:28 AM Not yet, Misop. Drop on your belly if you like, open those legs, but don't expect anybody .....
» 5/10/2020 9:02:48 AM Paul, You mention cliffs. Trumpf has said a few times that, if the health system didn't c.....
» 4/10/2020 6:32:00 PM Ttbn, I suppose it's reasonable to suppose that Trumpf will experience this hoax virus at.....
» 4/10/2020 5:18:48 PM Hmmmm ...... this thread has gone awful quiet over the past couple of days. Anybody want t.....
» 4/10/2020 5:12:41 PM That's an interesting 'But', Individual. So you would be happy to nuke anybody who wasn't.....
» 4/10/2020 5:00:40 PM Interesting report from the NYT, on: http://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/03/us/politics/trump-.....
» 4/10/2020 3:28:20 PM Hi Foxy, That raises the slim possibility that even people like Runner and Josephus are, .....
» 4/10/2020 3:02:43 PM Foxy, Yes, belief, truth and reality are usually complicated. Issues, especially those wh.....
» 4/10/2020 10:18:16 AM Runner, Sorry, are you being sarcastic ? Joe.....
» 4/10/2020 10:02:23 AM To back up Trumpf's cunning plan, both 'left' and extreme-right seem to agree: http://www.....
» 3/10/2020 2:47:57 PM Runner, But it's a pity that they are true :) The latest on Trumpf's condition: http://.....
» 3/10/2020 11:27:41 AM But Pete, we all know that this 'virus' is really a hoax, nobody is getting sick from it, .....
» 2/10/2020 10:01:33 PM Slightly off-topic: I'm all in favour of a strict lock-down until there are no more cases .....
» 2/10/2020 5:31:33 PM Hi Paul, I wonder what the US Constitution says about this: if Trump (a) becomes too il.....
» 2/10/2020 3:20:07 PM Trumpf's been tested positive to the virus: http://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/02/us/politics.....
» 2/10/2020 12:48:08 PM Hi Paul, This is a comprehensive and interesting take on the debate: http://www.washingt.....
» 2/10/2020 11:31:21 AM "Citing security, Texas governor limits counties to one spot each for in-person ballo.....
» 2/10/2020 11:15:30 AM Hi Paul, Yes, you're right - there are neo-fascist groups on both sides of the dispute ov.....
» 1/10/2020 1:56:37 PM By their friends shall ye know them: The Australian asks at: http://www.theaustralian.co.....
» 1/10/2020 1:50:22 PM Perhaps, the second time around, the moderator will have control over the microphones, and.....
» 1/10/2020 1:39:32 PM Runner, If I were a believer, I would pray for you to come into the light of truth and re.....
» 1/10/2020 1:36:23 PM Josephus, Listening to both sides of American political analysts, there is a vague likeli.....
» 1/10/2020 12:05:43 PM Individual, A strange question. Mr $ 750 or an idealistic politician ? Mr Pussy-grabber o.....
» 1/10/2020 11:47:10 AM Paul, Yes, her passing is a great loss: too soon. I hope that God wraps her gently in her.....
» 1/10/2020 9:59:44 AM AC, Point taken. Thanks. BTW, in order to give each candidate equal time and to bugger .....
» 30/09/2020 6:27:44 PM AC, Good point ! Joe.....
» 30/09/2020 6:26:44 PM AC, I didn't know about that: do you have any references to Biden touching kids or any ev.....
» 30/09/2020 6:05:39 PM Paul, That's an interesting process of 'logic' of Josephus's: * if you don't attack a p.....
» 30/09/2020 11:53:07 AM Paul, I remember a TV program once when credit card repayments were being discussed - som.....
» 29/09/2020 9:59:32 PM Josephus, To assume that the Democrats are in any way 'communist' is a ludicrous and desp.....
» 29/09/2020 11:44:49 AM Hi Flanker, Welcome to Australian media ! What part of the US are you writing from ? Neve.....
» 29/09/2020 11:40:48 AM NYT's second instalment: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/09/28/us/donald-trump-ta.....
» 29/09/2020 11:05:31 AM Flanker, So all Trumpf-supporters have to do is send in a few agents provocateurs to stir.....
» 29/09/2020 10:52:37 AM If we are to assume that the New York Times has 'faked' Trumpf's tax returns, all they hav.....
» 28/09/2020 2:21:47 PM Hi Pete, The funny thing about 'Fake News' is that it can be challenged and, if found to .....
» 28/09/2020 11:02:36 AM I wonder if information like this will shift anybody's viewpoint on Trump and his competen.....
» 27/09/2020 5:27:08 PM Josephus, So at what point in the development of an embryo, then foetus, then child, are .....
» 27/09/2020 4:18:48 PM Misop, I suppose they never taught military history at your pre-school. Mercenary armies .....
» 27/09/2020 3:26:11 PM Misopionated, I presume you're talking about the bush-fires last year. Morrison is in cha.....
» 27/09/2020 3:20:02 PM Runner, The SC nominee is to be commended for her care and obvious love of children. She .....
» 27/09/2020 3:14:55 PM Misopinionated, It was common practice with the Romans, the Spartans, and maybe the Chine.....
» 27/09/2020 10:41:50 AM What women want to do with their own bodies is their business. It's not any bloke's busine.....
» 27/09/2020 9:52:08 AM Josephus, So you're saying that it's nearly impossible to defraud the electoral process b.....
» 26/09/2020 10:39:08 AM Josephus, Are you implying that postal ballots should be disallowed because a handful of .....
» 25/09/2020 1:31:32 PM Mhaze, Are you sure that it's a lake ? Not a swamp ? Joe.....
» 25/09/2020 11:32:01 AM Hi Mhaze, Yes, you're right, there are many, many ways to subvert the democratic process .....
» 24/09/2020 10:07:50 PM Individual, No. Democracy , in this sort of situation, means that everybody who is regist.....
» 24/09/2020 6:22:49 PM Individual, Do you ever read over what you write ? Wouldn't majority rule mean democrac.....
» 24/09/2020 5:41:59 PM Hi Chris, As long as everybody who is legally able, who can vote, and in the manner that .....
» 24/09/2020 3:54:38 PM Hi Jeb, I think you've drunk too much of the Trumpf Devotional Syndrome Kool-aid :) Joe.....
» 24/09/2020 1:56:59 PM Runner, You have me confused - you use the term 'tds', meaning, I suppose, Trumpf Delusio.....
» 24/09/2020 12:53:31 PM Hi Runner, Is your last post a hang-over from April ? Ah, the days of innocence ! Now, mo.....
» 23/09/2020 12:30:10 PM Dear Foxy, I've learnt so much from you, about how to be considerate and compassionate. T.....
» 23/09/2020 11:40:33 AM Saltpetre, Has it occurred to you that the 'scientists' are pussy-footing around, making .....
» 23/09/2020 10:50:55 AM Hi Chris, And maybe one reason why the virus might have hit Sweden harder than, say, icel.....
» 23/09/2020 10:36:36 AM Hi Chris, Yonks ago, in the mid-eighties, I was researching patron-client systems, and of.....
» 23/09/2020 10:12:21 AM Yes, it's very possible that the two hundred thousand Americans who are 'supposed' tpv hav.....
» 22/09/2020 10:30:01 PM Heckle & Jeckle, Thanks for your attention :) Joe.....
» 22/09/2020 10:04:14 PM Forgive me, but I have to ask a question: In Australia, states have struggled to develop.....
» 22/09/2020 10:03:42 PM Forgive me, but I have to ask a question: In Australia, states have struggled to develop.....
» 22/09/2020 1:09:16 PM Josephus, Loving the CCP ? Not as much as Trumpf does. But then, he loves all strongmen, .....
» 22/09/2020 11:09:21 AM Mhaze, Of course, dick-wits breaking curfews and 'clustering' are bound to kick up the de.....
» 21/09/2020 3:43:43 PM What ever happened to Pericles ? I always learnt something from his/her posts, usually exp.....
» 21/09/2020 3:37:17 PM Misop, Concerning slavery in Brasil, from Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History.....
» 21/09/2020 12:05:56 PM Mhaze, As I understand it, Trumpf is head of state in one country, President Tsai Ing-wen.....
» 21/09/2020 11:02:00 AM Mhaze, No, Trumpf is responsible - not for 200 million covid deaths in the US but - only .....
» 21/09/2020 10:45:42 AM Hi Bazz, Do you mean like this: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8744243/BLM-acti.....
» 21/09/2020 10:34:31 AM Sorry, Runner, what's your point ? Trumpf has presided over 200,000 deaths from Covid-19......
» 20/09/2020 7:46:43 PM Misopinionated, No, I don't think Australians are as piss-weak as you think. The Chinese .....
» 20/09/2020 6:59:32 PM Misop, I wouldn't be surprised if many people are using their positions and expertise to .....
» 20/09/2020 5:04:55 PM Hi Pete, Good heavens ! Are you suggesting that Trumpf could put pressure on the British,.....
» 20/09/2020 4:24:35 PM Misopinionated, I look forward to whenever you choose to be objective and unbiased :) Bu.....
» 20/09/2020 4:05:59 PM Hi Foxy, I stand corrected: http://howardleague.org/prisons/belmarsh/ Belmarsh is a Cat.....
» 20/09/2020 3:51:54 PM Misopinionated, I'm not sure what you've got against pie-making. It's a noble profession .....
» 20/09/2020 3:46:40 PM Foxy, Assange is not in jail, he's on remand, awaiting the outcomes of the hearing in the.....
» 19/09/2020 6:30:07 PM Hi Josephus, Yes, as I wrote, " ..... you can place the blame for incompetence, on t.....
» 19/09/2020 6:19:41 PM Hi David, I threatened my mum that I wouldn't come and see her again until she started au.....
» 19/09/2020 5:11:42 PM Josephus, 200,000 deaths in the US (so far). Trumpf is President of the US, for now. The .....
» 19/09/2020 5:03:44 PM CM, Critical thinking, and Misopinionated ? Above and beyond "Look, mummy, I do poo.....
» 19/09/2020 4:41:44 PM Hi Runner, Yes, 200,000 deaths is indeed a tremendous achievement. No other US president .....
» 19/09/2020 3:20:04 PM Hi Foxy, Maybe because he could face the death penalty in the US for the offences that th.....
» 18/09/2020 5:58:16 PM Misop, Yes, my brother got a job with a certain national milk company, to find a way to c.....
» 18/09/2020 4:16:33 PM Misopinionated, One of my brothers is a mechanical engineer. You mentoned archaeology: wh.....
» 18/09/2020 4:05:29 PM Hi David, A bit above Misop's comprehension level :) Yes, the wonderful Danny Kaye had r.....
» 18/09/2020 3:33:35 PM Misop, I recall when my kids were very young, once they had got off the pot - and I proba.....
» 18/09/2020 3:06:39 PM Yuyutsu, What idiots would release a virus without already having trialled a vaccine thor.....
» 17/09/2020 3:34:25 PM Clearly universities have been taking in people who are half-wits and, somehow, they end u.....
» 17/09/2020 12:21:59 PM David, May you live to 120 ! Joe.....
» 17/09/2020 11:22:28 AM Hi Runner, Sorry for the delay: the four-poster rule. You cogently remark: "'Than.....
» 17/09/2020 11:00:58 AM Misop, I wouldn't stand so close to the welcome door for Chinese rule, if I were you. I d.....
» 17/09/2020 10:41:30 AM Foxy & SR, Only 48 days to go (our time ) ! In the US, presidential elections effective.....
» 16/09/2020 3:02:29 PM Saltpetre, I agree with you, that most people are usually, fundamentally good. But some a.....
» 16/09/2020 2:33:29 PM Runner, Thanks to lock-downs, Australia and NZ between them have had half as many Covid d.....
» 16/09/2020 2:12:18 PM Hi Foxy & Pete, Never a dull moment in this circus: here's Trumpf in that right-wing rag,.....
» 16/09/2020 1:12:34 PM Hi Alan, My siblings all live in NZ, and I'm certainly planning to visit at the first opp.....
» 16/09/2020 1:00:33 PM David, Further to my comment above, and right on cue, Misopinionated inadvertently respon.....
» 16/09/2020 12:56:25 PM Misopinionated, Yes, some try to profit from this pandemic in a racist way by blaming all.....
» 16/09/2020 12:00:36 PM Jim, You could be right - thirty million people with the virus (and that might be an unde.....
» 16/09/2020 11:13:57 AM Hi Saltpetre, I have to respond to your comment that " ..... it is general human nat.....
» 16/09/2020 10:39:35 AM Hi Chris, Don't sell yourself short :) I enjoyed what i could understand of your joint PD.....
» 16/09/2020 10:02:54 AM Imagine coming home from a country where the virus is less under control, and picking up t.....
» 15/09/2020 6:37:04 PM Misopinionated, Strange, I've had some very good doctors over the decades, usually from o.....
» 15/09/2020 4:05:18 PM SM, What makes you think he's got past Standard 10 ? Money is surely just a means of ex.....
» 14/09/2020 6:31:32 PM Thanks Foxy (I think), Only 51 days (our time) to go ! At current rates, that means more .....
» 14/09/2020 6:23:42 PM In the last few hundred years, industrial activity has massively expanded, and it's needed.....
» 14/09/2020 5:35:05 PM Jesus, who gives a FF ?.....
» 14/09/2020 1:32:37 PM Misopinionated, God no. I have friends who are much more educated than me. Pity you can't.....
» 14/09/2020 11:16:32 AM I was thinking that maybe this is somebody's Year 11 Social Studies project. Then Misopin.....
» 12/09/2020 7:45:11 PM Today/yesterday is/was the 19th anniversary of the horrific 9/11 tragedies in the US. Thre.....
» 11/09/2020 8:30:04 PM Foxy, Being an equal-opportunity dreamer, if I was a plastic surgeon, I would insert a sq.....
» 11/09/2020 6:31:11 PM Stop it, you fellas :).....
» 11/09/2020 4:17:21 PM Just to clarify: at the beginning of the year, even well into February, nobody knew how da.....
» 11/09/2020 3:34:23 PM Taswegian, If the Chinese get the PNGers by the short and curlies financially, they won't.....
» 11/09/2020 11:09:34 AM Saltpetre, From faulty memory, wasn't one of the sex allegations against Trumpf that he d.....
» 11/09/2020 11:02:09 AM I have to admit I'm getting sick and tired of Trumpf being blamed for everything: just bec.....
» 10/09/2020 6:26:46 PM This article explains how catastrophic it might be if a glacier in the Antarctic breaks aw.....
» 10/09/2020 3:31:29 PM Runner, Interesting: you can't seem to get beyond either-or thinking: if Trumpf says or s.....
» 10/09/2020 2:58:13 PM Individual, Strange that you mention that, I've always found Paul to be quite sipid - but.....
» 9/09/2020 5:37:48 PM Only 56 more days (our time) ! Joe.....
» 9/09/2020 11:01:11 AM Hi Runner, With some surprise, I realise that you are fully committed to women's rights. .....
» 9/09/2020 10:08:38 AM Josephus, I don't know whether or not this is just another 'smear campaign': http://www......
» 8/09/2020 12:09:09 PM SR, Please be careful, Trumpf could get his Russian mates to slip you Novichok in your be.....
» 8/09/2020 11:57:21 AM Foxy, I'm wondering if Trumpf has a fear and loathing of anybody who he thinks is sort of.....
» 8/09/2020 11:00:58 AM Oops, I forgot my main point. Yonks ago, I was very interested in Psychiatry, and recall.....
» 8/09/2020 10:55:31 AM SR, You're forgetting that, although Trumpf is more repulsive than a bucket of old turds,.....
» 8/09/2020 10:49:16 AM I wonder what it has been costing for every dick-brain who asserts his inalienable right t.....
» 7/09/2020 8:09:55 PM Josephus, I think I'm starting to get the drift of how to respond to stories, Josephus-st.....
» 7/09/2020 6:35:03 PM Foxy, Sorry, I was wrong ! Lousy maths. There's only 58 days (our time) until Trumpf's S.....
» 7/09/2020 3:41:45 PM SM., Interesting 'tu quoque' argument, your comment on the Australian Senate vis-a-vis th.....
» 5/09/2020 6:39:15 PM Ttbn, As usual, I agree with you that the BLM protesters shouldn't have been allowed to c.....
» 5/09/2020 1:11:50 PM Thanks, Sr. Many people have died in developing countries from this virus, but to be hone.....
» 4/09/2020 10:00:03 PM Hi Runner, Thank you so much for reminding me: here in Australia, we are now only 61 days.....
» 4/09/2020 5:31:07 PM Runner, I think - correct me if I'm wrong - that mayors and governors of Democratic state.....
» 4/09/2020 4:10:24 PM Thanks Yuyutsu, common sense at last :) Joe.....
» 4/09/2020 4:07:50 PM Hi Runner, I'm happy with what Premier Marshall here in SA and Premier Gutwein in Tasmani.....
» 4/09/2020 11:06:30 AM Ttbn, I apologise for my intemperate remark - I'm sure that you value the lives, and righ.....
» 4/09/2020 10:29:19 AM Prof. Patrick McGorry, the recognised authority on youth suicide in Australia, has pointed.....
» 3/09/2020 4:07:56 PM Runner, Yes indeed, all people's lives matter, as you so rightly say. ALL Black people, A.....
» 3/09/2020 3:46:45 PM SM, What's the chance of Trumpf losing and seeking political asylum in Russia where he ca.....
» 3/09/2020 3:42:45 PM For all you fascists, It's wrong for Muslims to kill anybody for no particular reason. Or.....
» 3/09/2020 11:20:23 AM Ttbn, And thank Christ for that, rather than some puffed-up politician over-ruling every .....
» 3/09/2020 10:40:33 AM Hi Ttbn, Sorry, I haven't kept count, but I just wonder if Tarrant's murders outnumber al.....
» 1/09/2020 2:09:24 PM Runner, So many non sequiturs ! I don't recall ever advocating what you assert. Oh well, .....
» 1/09/2020 12:36:41 PM Davoid, I think you're right - a man who grabs women by the genitals and boasts about it .....
» 1/09/2020 11:05:38 AM CM, Perhaps you're right, if you have some notion that Blacks and whites cant live togeth.....
» 31/08/2020 10:11:27 AM CM, No, it's a simpler matter - African-Americans or Blacks or whatever you prefer are Am.....
» 30/08/2020 4:52:28 PM Individual, Straw-man arguments: put up an idiotic notion, that let's say, all deaths are.....
» 30/08/2020 11:16:30 AM J, As many as anyone else: Tim Brooke-Taylor, Ellis Marsalis, among many others. Out of t.....
» 30/08/2020 9:44:53 AM Josephus, In the four figures actually : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_deaths_due.....
» 29/08/2020 9:34:02 PM CM, No, the first time I ever visited Flinders would have been around 1978 to enrol as a .....
» 29/08/2020 4:58:20 PM Hasbeen, "It is what differentiates the swamp from the civilised." And you can.....
» 29/08/2020 4:33:08 PM CM, There have been such secessionist movements for many decades - Marcus Garvey back in .....
» 29/08/2020 4:26:12 PM Hi Pete, If I was Trumpf, or one of his fellow-swamp-dwellers, I would be sending agents .....
» 29/08/2020 11:53:13 AM AC, So ...... vaccines which save lives are part of some depopulation conspiracy ? How's .....
» 28/08/2020 4:20:02 PM Paul, I don't think you understand about health. It is what it is, so yes, we're all goin.....
» 28/08/2020 9:29:29 AM Runner, Like Lenny Bruce is supposed to have said to his wife who caught him at it, ".....
» 27/08/2020 8:44:41 PM Individual, Sorry, who's 'them' ? Joe.....
» 27/08/2020 6:24:29 PM Ttbn & Individual, Yes, the world is a bastard, there are too many people, especially the.....
» 27/08/2020 5:48:23 PM Foxy, I think Trumpf will try to 'tighten up' on voting qualifications - to demand that e.....
» 27/08/2020 5:10:26 PM Individual, Are you channelling Trump :) I suspect that pretty soon, to minimise the numb.....
» 27/08/2020 2:11:40 PM Nathan, I hope nobody brings up suicides: Patrick McGorry in today's Australian points ou.....
» 27/08/2020 2:04:09 PM Hi Runner, Christianity is as religion of peace and compassion ? http://www.news.com.au/.....
» 27/08/2020 1:27:34 PM Hi Foxy, If the police find a gun in Blake's car, they will let everybody know. So far, i.....
» 27/08/2020 12:08:02 PM Hi Runner, "But you know best Joe. " Thanks, Runner :).....
» 27/08/2020 11:53:02 AM Runner, You 'know' that he WAS going for a gun ? From Australia, ten thousand miles away.....
» 27/08/2020 10:29:09 AM Runner, So you 'know' that he was going for a gun ? With his kids in the back-seat ? Hmmm.....
» 26/08/2020 7:00:01 PM Hi Saltpetre, A progressive tax system (i.e. the less income, the proportionally less tax.....
» 26/08/2020 4:49:13 PM Runner, Do you mean shooting a bloke in the back seven or eight times in front of his kid.....
» 26/08/2020 4:20:06 PM Hi Runner, Thank you so much for clearing that up. Yes, I think you're right, the KKK fas.....
» 26/08/2020 11:33:08 AM Hi Runner, Sorry to bother you but I'm still very unclear about how the KKK would vote fo.....
» 25/08/2020 10:18:31 PM Hi Runner, I hope you are okay. Please take your time to respond to my ignorant request a.....
» 25/08/2020 2:28:45 PM Misop, Why should he ? Not all of us would obey your CCP masters without question. And .....
» 25/08/2020 2:24:17 PM Runner, Forgive me, I'm getting slow in my old age, but are you suggesting that the KKK a.....
» 25/08/2020 12:09:25 PM Runner, Are you asserting that the KKK support the Democrats ? Really ? Or is it just a .....
» 25/08/2020 12:05:14 PM SR, Back to topic; yes, I wonder if many people - including Aboriginal people - have some.....
» 25/08/2020 11:58:31 AM Misopinionated, So it's 'Asians' now, not just 'Chinese' ? Hmmmmm, I thought that, on you.....
» 25/08/2020 10:36:51 AM Mhaze, In your either/or world, if the KKK and other racist groups don't support Trump, d.....
» 25/08/2020 10:30:41 AM Misop, Perhaps you could tell that to all of the Indigenous people that you know. So YO.....
» 24/08/2020 9:38:29 PM Individual, Aboriginal people may not have common word for themselves as a collectivity -.....
» 24/08/2020 6:06:02 PM Paul, My brother's partner and their two lovely girls are from around Parakao, out west f.....
» 24/08/2020 6:03:11 PM Misop, If you're so keen, get to work on it then ..... Foulmouth.....
» 24/08/2020 3:41:01 PM Pete, Are you suggesting that, in addition to hating pretty much everybody, Runner hates .....
» 24/08/2020 3:07:14 PM Sort of on-topic: the sentencing of that terrorist for the murder of 51 innocent Muslims a.....
» 24/08/2020 2:54:29 PM I have to confess that my suspicions of the Swedes as being behind most of the evil in the.....
» 24/08/2020 12:16:28 PM Harold Thomas has said many times that the purpose of the Flag, in his view, was to bring .....
» 24/08/2020 10:37:54 AM Individual, Of course, the originator of the Indigenous Flag, Harold Thomas, is Indigenou.....
» 23/08/2020 7:22:53 PM Runner, Looking back, I don't think we agree on anything. I don't think, as you seem to, .....
» 23/08/2020 2:35:27 PM Foxy, Try this: http://publocation.com.au/pubs/nsw/parramatta/argyle-street-hotel-parra.....
» 23/08/2020 2:07:13 PM What a pity ! If I came back to Sydney for a visit, we could have had a game of snooker th.....
» 23/08/2020 11:30:19 AM Foxy, The Commercial Hotel on the corner of Hassall and Station Streets ? Joe.....
» 23/08/2020 10:16:40 AM Dear Foxy, It's strange but I don't recall ever going to Parramatta - Strathfield and Hom.....
» 23/08/2020 10:10:34 AM Runner, 'Destroying lives' ?! Sweden has a vastly worse death-rate than Australia, so wha.....
» 22/08/2020 6:25:28 PM Runner, ALL swamps. Your swamp of choice, as well as everybody else's. Right and Left s.....
» 22/08/2020 2:21:57 PM Misop, Well, you're not alone in being pig-ignorant:) Even on the best TV knowledge-conte.....
» 22/08/2020 1:42:47 PM Runner, To which 'swamp' are you referring ? The one in which half a dozen of Trumnpf's l.....
» 22/08/2020 1:38:36 PM Runner, In your Adamic myth, we are all descended from Cain. And, of course, his wife, wh.....
» 22/08/2020 12:41:44 PM Surely one thing we've learnt about accusations of sexual assault etc. is that they have t.....
» 22/08/2020 12:30:11 PM Dear Foxy, For some of us, the topic of our fathers can be a bit touchy. I have only one .....
» 22/08/2020 12:15:16 PM Misop, So your racism has 'evolved' from being anti-Chinese to being anti-Asian now ? Can.....
» 22/08/2020 8:46:15 AM Hi Sooore, If you mean by 'multiplicity', a multiplicity of ways of being Australian, the.....
» 21/08/2020 3:01:14 PM Dear Foxy, I don't think I hate Trump. It's more like disgust, contempt, horror, disdai.....
» 21/08/2020 12:37:22 PM Josephus, Do you understand that slave owners commonly had children from their slave wome.....
» 21/08/2020 10:34:13 AM Josephus & Foxy, It's keeping me awake at night: by the end of the year, will there be en.....
» 21/08/2020 10:25:09 AM Yuyutsu, Aboriginal people in the North or in remote areas don't do much hunting and gath.....
» 19/08/2020 6:18:32 PM Individual, Not to mention the cost of having a BoM when it doesn't even rain ! Why can't.....
» 19/08/2020 6:12:26 PM Foxy, Maybe just keep your eye on what you might call the spectrum from Mario Rubio to Pa.....
» 19/08/2020 4:24:53 PM Dear Foxy, Take heart, there is a multitude of factors one way or the other. I don't se.....
» 19/08/2020 3:09:15 PM Individual, You've got a point there: why spend any money on committees and staff and equ.....
» 18/08/2020 6:29:02 PM Misop, Pot - kettle. Foulmouth.....
» 18/08/2020 6:06:13 PM Yuyutsu, So, genius, how would you organise 'another society' ? Would you use the interne.....
» 18/08/2020 5:59:35 PM Bazz, Here's a thought, comparing Andrews and Trumpf's performances in relation to the Co.....
» 18/08/2020 5:23:35 PM Misop, Oy. If you mean all people with Chinese ancestry in Australia, can you understand .....
» 18/08/2020 10:51:17 AM Misop, Poor half-wit child. Your infantile claim that Foxy and I keep " ..... tellin.....
» 18/08/2020 10:38:04 AM I wonder if those SC half-wits observed the 75th anniversary of the end of the War in Asia.....
» 18/08/2020 10:33:43 AM Individual, My doctor told me - and I've heard it from a couple of other people -that the.....
» 17/08/2020 8:39:01 PM Hi Pete, So how many 9/11s do 170,000 deaths (so far) equate to ? Nearly 67: one for each.....
» 17/08/2020 6:09:04 PM Mhaze, I suppose one main difference between the handling of the situations here and in t.....
» 17/08/2020 3:29:00 PM Two hundred people have died in Victoria from the virus. 170,000 people have died in the .....
» 17/08/2020 3:12:16 PM Mhaze, Both: As Paul said, "It was a clear attempt by Trump to stir controversy.........
» 17/08/2020 11:01:31 AM To go shopping, using common currency, someone must use roads and footpaths. Possibly that.....
» 16/08/2020 6:56:13 PM Misopinionated, Are you suggesting that it's racist to accuse China of spying, if, as you.....
» 16/08/2020 5:34:26 PM Misop, It's very likely that the Chinese military is spying on Australian defences. Where.....
» 16/08/2020 5:19:35 PM Paul, It seems Robert was a much nicer bloke than the Lone Ranger, much more human, much .....
» 15/08/2020 6:48:54 PM Runner, A Black man kills a white man. That's criminal. To then assume that all Blacks .....
» 14/08/2020 9:56:40 PM Dear Foxy, And I certainly hope that both you and David are both around in ten and fiftee.....
» 14/08/2020 6:16:58 PM Misop, So you believe every dicky rumour that already fits your prejudices ? So what's .....
» 14/08/2020 2:59:35 PM Misop, So you're asserting that the virus can remain viable after days of international t.....
» 14/08/2020 2:49:48 PM SM, When Muhammad Ali fought against formidable opponents, Liston or Frazier or Foreman, .....
» 14/08/2020 1:39:45 PM Individual, With Trumpf's past history of working with shady characters around the casino.....
» 14/08/2020 1:28:24 PM One of the singers of the sixties, one of our teen idols, Trini Lopez, died of the Covid-1.....
» 14/08/2020 12:44:25 PM See if you can spot the corrupt practices that Trumpf is advocating in this article: http.....
» 14/08/2020 11:31:52 AM Individual, Why should the Democrats start any civil war ? They'll win the November presi.....
» 14/08/2020 11:21:22 AM Individual, Interesting: so, whenever a woman is ever chosen as a party's presidential, .....
» 14/08/2020 11:14:27 AM Hi Banjo, On your reflections on John Keane's take on political evolution, you would get .....
» 13/08/2020 5:39:44 PM Dear Foxy, Gotcha :) Misop, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Life_and_Death_of_Democrac.....
» 13/08/2020 5:33:20 PM Dear Foxy, Hmmm ....... That's not the response to praising Kamala Harris that I was hopi.....
» 13/08/2020 5:21:42 PM Foxy, You might have to explain that to him slowly. On social change (which should be ri.....
» 13/08/2020 5:05:12 PM Misop, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Life_and_Death_of_Democracy.....
» 13/08/2020 1:46:00 PM Hi Paul, I've been fascinated by the life and work (and tribulations and temptations) of .....
» 13/08/2020 12:21:51 PM Misopinionated, Are you advocating this: "Now that Australia is an Asian nation-sta.....
» 13/08/2020 12:16:55 PM Misopinionated, So you've discovered that Kamala [Devi - 'Princess'] Harris is: 1. A wom.....
» 13/08/2020 10:51:51 AM [continued] Come to think of it, at the 'Native School' set up here in Adelaide in 1840, .....
» 13/08/2020 10:43:20 AM Hi Paul, It must be an enormous advantage for a group of people to have only one extra la.....
» 12/08/2020 6:19:39 PM Spot on, Foxy :) Joe.....
» 12/08/2020 6:16:15 PM Josephus, Although it is a bit off-topic, I can't find any evidence that Cyril Ramaphosa .....
» 12/08/2020 5:31:27 PM Hi Pete, Trumpf has only a few weeks to pardon Flynn and put him on a permanent pension. .....
» 12/08/2020 5:28:12 PM I think it will become obvious shortly after the election that Harris is miles ahead in co.....
» 12/08/2020 1:39:35 PM Foxy, Yes, very exciting ! A breath of fresh air ! At 55, she's in the running, any time .....
» 12/08/2020 11:01:40 AM Paul, It may sound strange but while graduates are often willing and eager to go out to c.....
» 12/08/2020 10:49:56 AM Hi Pete, Trumpf is unaware that his own grandfather, the brothel-owner, died of the Spani.....
» 12/08/2020 10:39:38 AM Pete, Trumpf is unaware that his own grandfather, the brothel-owner, Fred Sr's father, di.....
» 11/08/2020 6:27:38 PM Mr Op, Trump and Putin ? Good one ! I'd suggest that once he's of no more use to Putin,.....
» 11/08/2020 2:46:15 PM Come of it, Mhaze, most of us have some degree of depression during this coronavirus crisi.....
» 11/08/2020 2:36:04 PM Runner, Thanks for the laugh your post raised. No, I have no respect for any of the slime.....
» 11/08/2020 2:20:03 PM Hi Petye, I'm not so sure - I suspect that Trumpf is such a moron that, if anything, his .....
» 11/08/2020 12:47:23 PM Misop, Don't worry, the FBI will go through Ghislaine Maxwell's papers thoroughly. Trum.....
» 11/08/2020 12:17:24 PM Hi SAINTS, My reference to "pissy certificates" was to phony bits of paper whic.....
» 10/08/2020 8:59:41 PM SAINTS, Around fifty thousand Indigenous people have graduated from universities around t.....
» 10/08/2020 6:18:04 PM Hi David, Wow, John Brown's grave ! What a good man ! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joh.....
» 10/08/2020 5:38:59 PM Thanks for checking this bloke out, Steele. Whatever works, let it be cautiously be test.....
» 10/08/2020 3:53:06 PM Misopinionated, Don't discount my degree in Maoist pie-making ! It took me years ! By tha.....
» 10/08/2020 3:34:05 PM Hasbeen, Perhaps you're right about their not being any woman who would be suitable on he.....
» 10/08/2020 1:34:25 PM And there are other grounds for qualification other than going to uni, which Misopinionate.....
» 10/08/2020 11:51:32 AM So it works with malaria ? Wasn't it intended to do just that ? So it can prevent, or de.....
» 9/08/2020 12:32:21 PM Pence as president ? He's opposed to abortion rights, etc. So I'm not so sure. He certainl.....
» 9/08/2020 12:20:21 PM Foxy, Oops, I should have added that perhaps we can't take it for granted that Trump will.....
» 9/08/2020 12:14:26 PM Hi Foxy, Yes, I'm very impressed by some of the younger Democrat women - and by some youn.....
» 9/08/2020 11:01:41 AM Mhaze, I'm certainly not suggesting in any way that Israel has been involved - but I am s.....
» 8/08/2020 11:21:57 PM Hi Saltpetre, Brilliant ! Thank you. Best wishes, Joe.....
» 8/08/2020 6:45:30 PM Foxy, Wow, Digby Wolfe ! I remember when he had a show on black-and-white TV (Misop, ask .....
» 8/08/2020 6:21:52 PM Mhaze, Perhaps the difference between Michel Aoun's and Trumpf's opinion is that, given h.....
» 8/08/2020 6:10:19 PM Dear Foxy, There are posters whose contributions I don't bother to read any more, Left, R.....
» 7/08/2020 10:25:40 AM Mhaze, Thanks for that. I'm just a bit sceptical about Russian motives. Joe.....
» 7/08/2020 10:22:14 AM Ttbn, I believe that Andrews has taken full responsibility for the renewed outbreak in Vi.....
» 6/08/2020 6:19:50 PM Good point, Nasbeen. The Allies had agreed in Europe that Russia could enter the War in th.....
» 6/08/2020 2:18:27 PM Hi Mhaze, Thanks for a good laugh ! 'Somebody' has banned hexachloroquine ? Somebody more.....
» 6/08/2020 2:12:21 PM Paul, Sorry, I missed the horse bit :). Yes, with a horse, you could probably cultivate f.....
» 6/08/2020 12:31:02 PM Oops, that was Barbara Tuchmann who wrote Stilwell's biography......
» 6/08/2020 12:28:52 PM Hi Bazz, President Trump tried hexachloroquine and he didn't get the virus. So that prove.....
» 6/08/2020 12:11:08 PM Paul, 5 or 6 acres ? No. Maybe not even one acre, hand-watered, hand-dug, etc. Maybe not .....
» 6/08/2020 11:53:42 AM In the last days of the War, Japan had more than half its armies in China, busy slaughteri.....
» 6/08/2020 11:40:35 AM So this is where all the ratbags hang out ? Get a grip. Victoria is suffering around seve.....
» 5/08/2020 6:04:08 PM Strange, Runner, that URL is still there ! 'They' haven't censored it. Yet. But soon ........
» 5/08/2020 3:18:04 PM Luciferase, I'll stick by my hypothetical: that if nothing whatever had been done, let he.....
» 5/08/2020 2:58:27 PM Alt Rave, Strange: you were whingeing about Eddie Jaku having a forgiving nature, that HE.....
» 5/08/2020 2:54:55 PM Runner, How come every post you put up, drips with vicious hate and anger ? Not a shred o.....
» 5/08/2020 2:49:40 PM Hi Foxy, There is no shortage of admirable choices: Kamala Harris, Susan Rice and Michell.....
» 5/08/2020 11:37:54 AM Dear Foxy, Eddie Jakubowicz has spent at least the last thirty years of his life doing va.....
» 5/08/2020 11:19:34 AM Misopinionated, Often, complex concepts don't lend themselves easily to snappy definitio.....
» 5/08/2020 11:15:07 AM Ttbn, Hmmmm ...... Paul and SR may disagree with you, but thanks :) Joe.....
» 5/08/2020 11:13:55 AM Luciferase, I have no idea what the hell you're on about here, that somewhere I asserted .....
» 4/08/2020 10:01:30 PM 5,646 deaths in Sweden. Around 240 deaths here in Australia. So one strategy has cost 25.....
» 4/08/2020 4:16:19 PM Hi Foxy, I look at the ghastly American situation and think (weird for an old leftie like.....
» 4/08/2020 3:02:52 PM Luciferase, So 5,646 deaths so far in Sweden - with a smaller population than Australia's.....
» 4/08/2020 2:07:41 PM Alt Rave, Interesting rant. Perhaps you can join the dots between that and 'Closing the G.....
» 4/08/2020 1:48:05 PM Hi Chris, I admire your bottomless faith: "I know Mr O can do much better. " .....
» 4/08/2020 1:40:10 PM AJ, I thought that the writer didn't exactly heap praise on Biden either, simply that th.....
» 4/08/2020 12:01:06 PM Thank you, Foxy, what a beautiful man ! He could even make Runner smile, or at least perk .....
» 4/08/2020 11:57:22 AM Pot-kettle.....
» 4/08/2020 11:54:29 AM Ttbn, Interesting take: so you're suggesting that governments should let it all rip, that.....
» 4/08/2020 11:13:54 AM Misopinionated, So, as a self-proclaimed expert on pretty much everything (but demonstrab.....
» 4/08/2020 11:08:54 AM Well, there's discrimination and there's differentiation. So how do we tell the differenc.....
» 3/08/2020 3:41:10 PM David, Changing my tastes ? A bit late for that now ;) Yes, Australia should slowly edge.....
» 3/08/2020 2:45:33 PM David, In that wonderful verse, there is a blurring of immigrants with refugees. Strang.....
» 3/08/2020 2:44:54 PM David, In that wonderful verse, there is a blurring of immigrants with refugees. Strang.....
» 3/08/2020 1:46:30 PM Misop, Australia will always be somewhat closer geographically to Asia than to Europe. [I.....
» 3/08/2020 11:36:07 AM Runner, It seems that there has been a run on bile at supermarkets because of the virus. .....
» 3/08/2020 10:55:10 AM Misop, 'Part of an Asian present' ? Of course, we are - Indonesian, Vietnamese, Filipino.....
» 3/08/2020 9:20:20 AM Where is there a half-decent sociologist on one of those very rare occasions when you need.....
» 2/08/2020 7:20:33 PM Dear Foxy, Don't let idiots worry you, when they are reduced to nothing but ad hominems, .....
» 2/08/2020 3:32:54 PM Ttbn, Arrivals from India to Adelaide - repatriations - go straight into fourteen-day qua.....
» 2/08/2020 9:38:17 AM Misanthrope, So ........ you're suggesting that a high proportion of Catholics in Austral.....
» 1/08/2020 9:48:26 PM Misopinionated, You took the words right out of my mouth: "I suppose there will alw.....
» 1/08/2020 8:33:19 PM Misop, If you knew your history, you would remember that Austrasia was already the early .....
» 1/08/2020 6:46:20 PM Dear Foxy, But I can't resist poking a stick in the mindless ants' nest that is the stran.....
» 1/08/2020 6:28:54 PM Misop, Of course, your kids, if you ever have any, or their kids, will very likely marry .....
» 1/08/2020 6:19:23 PM Misop, It may happen, but it will be some time before Australia becomes predominantly an .....
» 1/08/2020 5:37:03 PM Misopinionated, You may well be Asian, although I doubt it. I assume that, like Foxy and .....
» 1/08/2020 4:36:15 PM Runner, You never fail to find the worst in some people in order to denigrate entire grou.....
» 1/08/2020 4:29:04 PM CM, No, I don't think so. Lithuanian -Australians should be allowed to marry Lithuanian-A.....
» 1/08/2020 4:20:19 PM Alan, 'Doctor's Cheese' - yes ! Same colour wrapping, that should do it. Joe.....
» 1/08/2020 11:04:59 AM Hi Nathan, Will this be compulsory for Christians only ? So Jewish people and Muslims c.....
» 1/08/2020 10:42:51 AM Individual, Well, duh ..........
» 31/07/2020 6:33:24 PM Bazz, In the Indonesian language, the word "bung" means brother, or respected, .....
» 31/07/2020 4:23:31 PM Hi Foxy, Perhaps he lives under the escalator at Central :) Joe.....
» 31/07/2020 4:16:38 PM SRx, The Bulletin was well-known as originally a racist rag, with its slogan 'For the Whi.....
» 31/07/2020 3:40:05 PM Misanthope, Why wouldn't we like it ? Your reactionary xenophobia is showing :) Joe.....
» 31/07/2020 1:43:23 PM Misanthropic, What you would have noticed too is that the Chinese population is overwhelm.....
» 31/07/2020 1:28:39 PM So ...... are some surnames to be made illegal now ? Or anything that sounds vaguely like .....
» 30/07/2020 4:27:04 PM Runner, As I said, " .... I don't think that would be very moral, or right .... &quo.....
» 30/07/2020 4:24:30 PM Misanthrope, Pot - kettle. Why should anybody in their right mind think that you had any .....
» 30/07/2020 3:25:35 PM Misanthropic, So how would anyone demonstrate their credentials on OLO, including you ? M.....
» 30/07/2020 3:21:33 PM Reduce aid now to Pacific countries ? God, no ! Like it or not, both China and Australia.....
» 30/07/2020 3:15:43 PM Runner, Strange notion of morality. And if anti-Trump people put anti-Trump stickers on.....
» 30/07/2020 3:04:34 PM Misop[inionated, Unlike you, I have the sense to look up Wikipedia on occasion. You shoul.....
» 30/07/2020 1:46:44 PM Dearest Foxy, Don't let the idiots get to you. Your decency and humanity always shine thr.....
» 30/07/2020 1:37:37 PM Thanks, Foxy. I'm glad that sanity, intelligence and humanity can sometimes prevail over.....
» 30/07/2020 11:33:47 AM Misopinionated, My god, what a moron. Sydney's ethnic mix, according to Wikipedia: At th.....
» 29/07/2020 6:05:21 PM Foxy, In relation to what Durkheim was studying, perhaps it helps to remember that, as so.....
» 29/07/2020 3:33:52 PM Hi Big Nanna, I agree - if parents are so abusive and/or neglectful to the point where ob.....
» 29/07/2020 3:21:25 PM AC & Chris, Going to high school in Wagga in the fifties, there was that natural rivalry .....
» 29/07/2020 2:30:24 PM Hi Foxy, I suppose that's the root of the problem - to many racists, anybody with other t.....
» 29/07/2020 1:05:57 PM CM, And you're asserting that they'll all live forever ? Population is a moving feast -.....
» 29/07/2020 11:57:15 AM CM, So ...... the one-child policy in China between 1979 and 2016 was actually a devious .....
» 29/07/2020 11:38:16 AM CM, Going by your comments and suspicions about Foxy's point of view on multiculturalism,.....
» 29/07/2020 11:29:34 AM CM, My point, obviously wasted, was that the great majority of people (including those wh.....
» 28/07/2020 6:07:14 PM Runner, Wow, I was joking, i didn't know there would be people stupid enough to take it s.....
» 28/07/2020 4:30:17 PM Runner, Not quite sure what Democratic mayors in the US have to do with Indigenous kids h.....
» 28/07/2020 3:26:25 PM AC, Nobody ever suspects that the Swedes may be behind so many of the hoaxes and frauds, .....
» 28/07/2020 3:14:21 PM Ttbn, I wonder if most sensible people are coming back towards the centre ? In the US. a.....
» 28/07/2020 2:23:54 PM Aries, Thomas Piketty ? Joe.....
» 28/07/2020 2:13:06 PM Isn't this a bit of a beat-up ? There are juvenile detention facilities, what used to be c.....
» 27/07/2020 2:48:23 PM Runner, So what makes you think that two million deaths in the US isn't possible ? If the.....
» 27/07/2020 2:31:14 PM Josephus, Communists are not Muslims. Muslims are not Communists. Yes, like your presiden.....
» 27/07/2020 2:12:48 PM Hi Runner, Was that directed towards me by any chance ? No, I don't hate Trumpf - his r.....
» 27/07/2020 1:13:29 PM Here's an interesting take on the ,mishandling of the virus: http://quillette.com/2020/07.....
» 27/07/2020 12:56:22 PM Can you talk about 'maximum suppression' ? Elimination is probably impossible until there .....
» 26/07/2020 6:45:42 PM Misop, Come to think of it, the great majority of Chinese who I have known didn't have Ma.....
» 26/07/2020 6:21:05 PM Misopinionated, Gosh, a lot of people look Chinese, don't they ? Therefore, they must be .....
» 26/07/2020 10:39:47 AM Dick Diver Dan, Molotov cocktails don't smoke, they explode into flames. Those are tear-g.....
» 25/07/2020 6:12:47 PM Hi Foxy, Wow ! Happy birthday, and many more ! May you live to 120 ! My wife's birthday .....
» 25/07/2020 4:04:46 PM Dear Foxy, Thank you so much for this: http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?arti.....
» 24/07/2020 6:38:25 PM SAINTS, No, your questions are not racist. But jut a little uninformed and misguided: you.....
» 24/07/2020 3:19:52 PM Dear Foxy, Take heart ! At the last Census, 0.06 % of Australians had Lithuanian ancestry.....
» 24/07/2020 1:49:11 PM CM, So, tens of thousands of nations then ? Most of them at war with others ? That's rea.....
» 24/07/2020 11:47:29 AM Foxy & CM, Okay, I'll give Tor Hundloe's book a go :) Joe.....
» 24/07/2020 11:45:35 AM Misopinionated, Seems to work for you :) To reiterate, China is a danger to all countri.....
» 24/07/2020 11:36:21 AM Hi Leslie, Can you elaborate on your assertions that " .... patriarchy is an elemen.....
» 23/07/2020 7:28:37 PM Foxy, Stop ! Actually, I have to confess that I find women from all over the world incr.....
» 23/07/2020 6:13:47 PM CM, Karl Popper too :) Joe.....
» 23/07/2020 6:12:32 PM Foxy, I think the loonies here may have some trouble trying to persuade us that Chinese, .....
» 23/07/2020 5:21:40 PM CM, The Trots probably have some notion that revolutionary change is inevitable, and that.....
» 23/07/2020 5:13:27 PM Of course, there may be problems with some aspects of multiculturalism, language difficult.....
» 23/07/2020 12:00:47 PM Runner, So the unnecessary deaths of hundreds of thousands of Americans by November 3, u.....
» 23/07/2020 10:45:29 AM AC, You may have to explain what you mean, that multiculturalism: " ...... means t.....
» 23/07/2020 10:19:17 AM Saltpetre, That Bradley Scheme - pumping much of the waters that now flow north into the .....
» 23/07/2020 10:06:03 AM Dan, Thank Christ there's an "Infectious Diseases Society of America." I hope i.....
» 22/07/2020 6:06:57 PM Individual, Of course not. If someone is able-bodied, and free to work, and there is work.....
» 22/07/2020 6:05:07 PM Individual, Of course not. If someone is able-bodied, and free to work, and there is work.....
» 22/07/2020 5:59:21 PM Dear Foxy, I'm sure you will enjoy it - I would be interested to know if you think very m.....
» 22/07/2020 5:02:00 PM Misopinionated, What, you're going back to where you came from ? Do you reckon it will .....
» 22/07/2020 12:06:56 PM SM, A bit unfair - Chinese have been farmers for thousands of years while Aboriginal peop.....
» 22/07/2020 11:48:26 AM Thank you, Foxy, David and Yuyutsu, for some realistic common-sense and empathy. Even Jo.....
» 22/07/2020 11:35:13 AM Hi David, Wow, I've always found Social Alternatives worth checking out. My wife was a go.....
» 22/07/2020 11:12:24 AM Altrav, "Italian or pure bloods ... ? No Greek, Arab, Maltese, North African, Goth,.....
» 20/07/2020 8:54:50 PM Foxy, For something sensible, do you mean ? Can we wait that long ? Joe.....
» 20/07/2020 2:24:33 PM Bazz, The Egyptians of Pharaoh fame were probably a mixture, over thousands of years, of .....
» 20/07/2020 1:33:02 PM Bazz, Africans have been farmers for many thousands of years, they may have kicked 0ff th.....
» 20/07/2020 12:23:12 PM Bazz, What, rivers of blood ? So there are battles in the streets ? Can't say I've notice.....
» 20/07/2020 12:04:00 PM Foxy, No, I have got out of the habit of watching commercial TV, I haven't watched it for.....
» 20/07/2020 11:44:59 AM Misop, So, when a news media [medium?] declares that "Inch by inch. Step by step. C.....
» 20/07/2020 11:12:34 AM CM, I've read some pretty stupid comments on OLO, but yours take the cake: "Every c.....
» 20/07/2020 10:58:47 AM AC, Different blokes, different swamps :) Joe.....
» 19/07/2020 8:21:00 PM Foxy, It takes a certain maturity to understand sophisticated jokes. Some have it, some d.....
» 19/07/2020 6:07:41 PM David, As usual, I agree with everything you write. I saw your last line and thought of L.....
» 19/07/2020 5:45:20 PM Paul, Well, we live in interesting times, in the traditional Chinese sense. I think Trump.....
» 19/07/2020 5:18:44 PM Come of it, CM, Trumpf has as much power in the US as Morrison does here, to pull togethe.....
» 19/07/2020 5:08:06 PM Dear Foxy, For all that, "Pan metron ariston", "moderation in everything.....
» 19/07/2020 4:24:24 PM SM, Andrews kills three people ?! And Trumpf can manage only a thousand or so each day (o.....
» 19/07/2020 4:11:34 PM Hi Yuyutsu, Fascinating hypothesis. Andrews is doing a lousy job, while Trumpf and the ga.....
» 19/07/2020 12:51:30 PM Canem Malem, Who is 'host' ? Jewish people have been here as long as any other non-Indige.....
» 19/07/2020 12:31:17 PM Yuyutsu, For all that, Andrews' record is vastly superior to that of the US, supposedly t.....
» 19/07/2020 10:43:05 AM It appears as if the White House is advocating the scrapping of all testing and tracing of.....
» 19/07/2020 10:37:47 AM Misopinionated, You may have to find a bit more evidence for your latest conspiracy theor.....
» 18/07/2020 9:09:08 PM Runner, You know very well that four months or so ago, Fauci suggested that one option in.....
» 18/07/2020 7:32:12 PM For any ratbags who want to attribute all evil to mythical groups like the Illuminati, thi.....
» 18/07/2020 7:28:18 PM For any ratbags who want to attribute all evil to mythical groups like the Illuminati, thi.....
» 18/07/2020 5:26:41 PM Runner, Please forgive me, but you did raise the issue of " ..... as corrupt and in.....
» 18/07/2020 4:55:41 PM Paul, Or Menzies' claim that the Chinese were about to all hop into boats and row down to.....
» 18/07/2020 4:18:51 PM Runner, I've declared nothing whatever about Hillary Cranston, as far as I'm concerned he.....
» 18/07/2020 3:10:21 PM Runner, So that's a 'yes' ? For Trumpf to climb over tens of thousands of bodies just to .....
» 18/07/2020 11:12:10 AM Misopinionated, My pro-Chinese-people and anti-CCP stance, do you mean ? Are you old eno.....
» 18/07/2020 11:03:16 AM Hi Graham, If we assume that Trumpf has average intelligence, and that he has been consta.....
» 18/07/2020 10:40:32 AM Hi Saltpetre, I meant the stifling intolerance, and the smugness, of the 'other side' dur.....
» 17/07/2020 10:25:52 PM Hi Foxy, I don't recall Marx writing this, maybe Groucho Marx, but it could be the origin.....
» 17/07/2020 6:25:12 PM Hi Foxy, I wonder if there's not something else, a suspicion that people with a differing.....
» 17/07/2020 5:00:54 PM Dear Foxy, Please forgive me, I meant to include you in my praise of those other blokes, .....
» 17/07/2020 4:26:59 PM Thank you, David F., Chris & Yuyutsu, Yes, maybe as David implies, we should exercise som.....
» 16/07/2020 3:39:18 PM Thanks David, Yes, they are both straight-talkers, and very good value :) Cheers, Joe.....
» 16/07/2020 12:28:08 PM Thanks, Foxy, all the best :) Love, Joe.....
» 16/07/2020 12:27:31 PM Altrav, You write some appalling rubbish. Do you believe every dumb-arse conspiracy theor.....
» 16/07/2020 12:18:29 PM A holiday is one thing but life without purpose, even if one never has to work, must be nu.....
» 13/07/2020 5:31:10 PM Misop, "Introduction of ... " Do you mean back in 1788 ? Australia has been mul.....
» 13/07/2020 1:49:59 PM Misopinionated, You're right, I did enjoy it. The last time, 20-25 years ago, I was surro.....
» 13/07/2020 12:34:43 PM Ttbn, Yes, you may be right, we've all got to die some time, and few of us die happy. So .....
» 13/07/2020 12:23:02 PM Jimmy, Long may it be so. Dipping into nineteenth century South Australian history, I was.....
» 13/07/2020 12:04:39 PM Hi David, Strange, I haven't seen any academic or even self-styled intellectual refer to .....
» 13/07/2020 11:01:43 AM Dan, Sorry, got it ! And I think you're right too :) Certainly this virus is costing us.....
» 13/07/2020 10:56:15 AM Dan, Hmmm ....... I think, once you entered the gates of Luna Park, you wandered much too.....
» 13/07/2020 10:53:10 AM Grahasm, 108 deaths here in Australia; 135,000 in the US, with much more than 108 every s.....
» 12/07/2020 6:56:41 PM Individual, Yes, all along our southern coasts, the land is slowly rising (hence the clif.....
» 12/07/2020 6:13:17 PM SR, I dispute your dreadful slur on venal turkeys >:( Joe.....
» 12/07/2020 6:02:15 PM Popnperish, Forty years ago, in a geomorphology class, I learnt that the tectonic plate o.....
» 11/07/2020 4:55:35 PM Saltpetre, I'm all for foreign aid, much more of it than at present, but properly oversee.....
» 11/07/2020 2:32:11 PM Salt[etre, That reminds me, I've never read any 'Pollyanna' books or 'Anne of Green Gable.....
» 11/07/2020 2:24:26 PM Mhaze, In the southern hemisphere, it is mostly water. In the northern hemisphere, it is .....
» 11/07/2020 1:44:43 PM Popnperish, Oh dear. Check out: https://ourworldindata.org/world-population-growth Popu.....
» 11/07/2020 11:39:31 AM Foxy, You write correctly, that " .... the Aboriginal people should have a say in wh.....
» 10/07/2020 6:16:05 PM Foxy, There is already an advisory group, perhaps by another name - in fact, there have b.....
» 10/07/2020 1:41:48 PM Hi A;lan, Tokenism is a fascinating topic: in 1977 Rosabeth Moss Kanter published "M.....
» 10/07/2020 11:47:33 AM I don't think that China will attempt a direct invasion of Australia, out of the blue: it .....
» 10/07/2020 8:55:57 AM Thanks, Chris :) Cheers, Joe.....
» 9/07/2020 6:27:56 PM The pointlessness of 'community' life: http://ntindependent.com.au/father-who-bashed-part.....
» 9/07/2020 3:19:48 PM Foxy & Yuyutsu, Yes, on the one hand, the inventiveness of the ordinary people is boundle.....
» 9/07/2020 2:43:48 PM Hi Chris, Yes, Charles Lindblom wrote brilliantly on the inherent and crippling defects i.....
» 9/07/2020 12:49:04 PM David, First I've heard of it. ABSTUDY is the same as AUSTUDY these days and has been for.....
» 9/07/2020 12:18:15 PM David, Yes, take it for granted. But don't blame the genuine refugees - there will be ple.....
» 9/07/2020 10:58:30 AM David F, Yes, you're on the button about the potential weaknesses of Chinese and Soviet t.....
» 9/07/2020 10:50:30 AM Time to open up again. Really ? It's that simple ? An SA-WA-Queensland-NT bubble, maybe......
» 8/07/2020 9:00:12 PM Saints, Quite a spew. A few non sequiturs: for example, what do Indigenous graduates have.....
» 8/07/2020 6:16:48 PM David, That's interesting - Indigenous people in the cities believe that it's the "B.....
» 8/07/2020 4:31:16 PM Foxy, Well, sometimes our most useful ideas come from innovation, from thinking OUTSIDE t.....
» 8/07/2020 3:35:28 PM Chris, Marx's Thesis Eleven goes something like: "The role of intellectuals hithert.....
» 8/07/2020 12:06:52 PM Misopinionated, Foxy, yearning to be at one with China ? Where is the slightest evidence .....
» 8/07/2020 12:00:24 PM David, Before you slag entire groups of people, perhaps you could make that differentiati.....
» 7/07/2020 5:26:02 PM David, I have to say that I find that sort of characterisation of mixed-ancestry Indigeno.....
» 7/07/2020 2:03:45 PM Hi Bernie, I agree, but once people get into the joys of grievance politics, once they've.....
» 7/07/2020 11:16:35 AM Hi Bernie, The brilliant philosopher Foxy drew attention recently to a Russian proverb wh.....
» 7/07/2020 11:03:54 AM Paul, You assert that we should take an unaligned position in relation to Chinese militar.....
» 6/07/2020 5:43:54 PM Foxy, I suppose I'm more of an integrationist (of course) than a supporter of assimilatio.....
» 6/07/2020 11:37:22 AM [continued] None of this may be deliberate, although I have heard one Aboriginal parent a.....
» 6/07/2020 11:30:16 AM Hi Josephus, My faulty understanding of the Hammurabic Code is that it proposed that 'an .....
» 6/07/2020 11:20:50 AM SR,. In the week or so since this Tower crisis hit, there have been no deaths from the vi.....
» 6/07/2020 10:59:14 AM Thanks, Yuyutsu & Chris. China may soon reach a demographic peak but is rapidly mechanisi.....
» 6/07/2020 10:29:27 AM Thanks, Altrav. Whoops, there goes all my lefty cred :( I'm a great follower of Oscar Le.....
» 5/07/2020 7:46:45 PM Foxy, Good0. But for many Indigenous people, all of that it utterly irrelevant. When are.....
» 5/07/2020 5:27:00 PM Saltpetre, I don't think that any Indigenous people are living a substantially 'Bush' lif.....
» 5/07/2020 4:29:21 PM Go on then, Ttbn, you'll be all right. Wash it down with Dettol, and have a strong torch h.....
» 5/07/2020 11:21:58 AM Misop, What, even Neanderthals ? Or other great apes ? Joe.....
» 5/07/2020 11:17:46 AM Foxy, I always wish ventures such as Miamia well, but I wouldn't expect that many Indigen.....
» 4/07/2020 5:43:03 PM Misanthrope, I understand that Neanderthalers had larger brains than some of you common-o.....
» 4/07/2020 4:45:39 PM David, Are you including Misopinionated in that 'we' ? So kind :) Joe.....
» 4/07/2020 4:42:41 PM Hi Runner, To paraphrase Winston Churchill, how Trump thinks (using the word broadly) is .....
» 4/07/2020 3:21:25 PM Hi David, Well, there is a huge variety of 'urban Blacks', from (a) the ratbag fringe whi.....
» 4/07/2020 2:42:58 PM Foxy & Paul, Trumpf's aides have issued pamphlets or photos of Mt Rushmore with Trumpf's .....
» 4/07/2020 11:10:20 AM Hi Jeb, I don't think I used the term "foaming blood", that might have been one.....
» 4/07/2020 11:01:09 AM Ttbn, 129,000 deaths in the US so far. 43 9/11s. I'm not into conspiracy theories, but i.....
» 3/07/2020 8:55:07 PM Jerry, I'll get it right eventually. No, I don't foam at the mouth at the antics of Tru.....
» 3/07/2020 8:18:40 PM Paul, Something like a family get-together ? Best wishes to your better half :) Cheers, .....
» 3/07/2020 6:27:27 PM Altrav, Problems: 1. says who the young are somehow immune ? 2. and even if young peop.....
» 3/07/2020 5:49:38 PM Misop, Only those killer whales in the Caspian Sea. Joe.....
» 3/07/2020 3:34:15 PM Hi Saltpetre, Thanks for, that your heart is in the right place too, but your suggestions.....
» 3/07/2020 2:58:10 PM We're a fascinating lot ! I'm Sydney, Wagga, Darwin. I'm happy to report that when I was.....
» 3/07/2020 2:45:41 PM Bazz, You might be right, he could beat Henry Clifton again, quite possibly. No, it's no.....
» 3/07/2020 2:04:05 PM Misanthrop, Dingoes. Wild dogs. Wild cats. Probably wild pigs. I lived in a self-determ.....
» 3/07/2020 2:00:27 PM Misopinionated, I think you're trying to channel your grand-dad :) I don't believe you're.....
» 3/07/2020 1:58:36 PM Altrav, I wish you could change your thinking on this topic. Still, when you go, how do y.....
» 3/07/2020 1:47:09 PM Bazz, Yes, that's the mark of a psychopath, someone who has no consciousness of the feeli.....
» 3/07/2020 12:49:19 PM Steele, Perhaps 'real men' should be urged not to wear face-masks, and to congregate clos.....
» 3/07/2020 12:41:21 PM Paul, On incarceration rates and poor-bugger-me attitudes: I've got to the point where I .....
» 3/07/2020 12:37:18 PM Foxy, "The current system is not working. It does not produce good results. The syst.....
» 2/07/2020 7:59:07 PM Jack, You might need to be a bit more specific ........ otherwise you come across (please.....
» 2/07/2020 6:17:20 PM Ttbn, Trompf is the boss, the big man, the numero uno. The buck stops with him. He's the .....
» 2/07/2020 5:27:04 PM Saints, You ask, "Why are children running around the streets at midnight plus, on w.....
» 2/07/2020 5:06:03 PM Runner, Yes, indeed, this is where the US is at. So how do they get out of this ghastly m.....
» 2/07/2020 3:45:06 PM Hi Foxy, Try this one: http://webmail.internode.on.net/index.php/mail/viewmessage/getatt.....
» 2/07/2020 3:37:21 PM Goodness, Runner, you must have been so virtuous in those days :) Joe.....
» 2/07/2020 3:34:03 PM Yes, it's interesting that someone can plead guilty twice to charges, then, 'on advisement.....
» 2/07/2020 2:53:21 PM Runner, About a fifth of all Indigenous university graduates - 10-12,000 - have completed.....
» 2/07/2020 1:36:16 PM Sorry kids, BTT: The Closing the Gap targets are being revised - those relating to educat.....
» 2/07/2020 12:06:37 PM When do you reckon that might be, Foxy ? Morrison and the state premiers want to wait for.....
» 2/07/2020 11:02:24 AM Misopinionated, It might be a good idea, before you get too far up yourself, to try to fi.....
» 2/07/2020 10:59:16 AM Sort of BTT: Good news ! The virus is about to disappear ! Here's the authority on it all.....
» 2/07/2020 10:49:21 AM Hi David, What a little angel ! I'll bet ;) Keep writing articles for OLO ! You have so .....
» 1/07/2020 9:49:30 PM Mhaze, Would you like to re-consider some of your glib assertions, about the number of ve.....
» 1/07/2020 8:09:10 PM In the US, these days, around forty thousand new cases of Covid-19 (i.e. the virus strain .....
» 1/07/2020 5:21:46 PM Dear Foxy, Please have a look at this article: http://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2019/10/w.....
» 1/07/2020 12:22:14 PM Hi Foxy, Someone, I forget who, was on TV a few weeks ago saying that they had a pacemake.....
» 30/06/2020 9:52:00 PM Hi Foxy, Yes, thank you, sometimes I do forget how to suck eggs :) Genuine Indigenous pe.....
» 30/06/2020 8:00:58 PM I have no trouble with regarding someone who may be very pale as Indigenous IF they have b.....
» 30/06/2020 2:06:45 PM Foxy, And don't forget the mountains of uranium in SA ;) Joe.....
» 30/06/2020 1:28:10 PM Hi Pete, Live in hope :) Cheers, Joe.....
» 30/06/2020 10:47:22 AM Hi Jimmy, Biden might have the sense to choose Michelle Obama as his running mate. Once.....
» 29/06/2020 5:06:41 PM Foxy, Yes, it's preferable to be civil even with those with very different opinions. Afte.....
» 29/06/2020 12:34:19 PM Alan, " .... the very first of the first Australians were driven ever southward by s.....
» 29/06/2020 11:23:13 AM Messmate, And re-plant at least an equivalent amount of hard-wood plantations ? How hard .....
» 29/06/2020 11:18:48 AM Although I find the views on other topics of many of the posters here, repugnant, I have t.....
» 28/06/2020 7:47:22 PM Foxy, There's another thing I'm puzzled about: The earth itself produces CO2, through vo.....
» 28/06/2020 5:57:39 PM Foxy, On this topic, I have to say how valuable OLO is, if only to experience such good-h.....
» 28/06/2020 5:54:36 PM Misopin ionated, I live a fairly sheltered life, so I'm not really aware of any immigrant.....
» 28/06/2020 5:44:10 PM Foxy, There are areas in Australia which are so remote that they don't even have a name. .....
» 28/06/2020 10:38:44 AM Thanks for that six-week-old video - isn't it amazing what we can learn from our policy mi.....
» 27/06/2020 7:44:09 PM Jeff, In relation to the Coronavirus crisis, you have given us the sum-total of your know.....
» 27/06/2020 5:33:17 PM Ttbn, If Victoria is a leper state, with one death over the past few weeks and case-numbe.....
» 27/06/2020 5:25:20 PM Mhaze, " .... you think finding more cases means there are more cases." Of cou.....
» 27/06/2020 3:05:36 PM Altrav, Yes, you may be right - there may not be a vaccine for this virus. We don't even .....
» 27/06/2020 2:59:47 PM Runner, "Population control freaks' ?! According to your scenario, they want to find.....
» 27/06/2020 1:33:18 PM Al;trav, So you've made plans for how and when you die ? That when the virus strikes you,.....
» 27/06/2020 12:24:30 PM Individual, When we look back on this period of history in a couple of years, your commen.....
» 27/06/2020 12:09:37 PM Aw, shucks, Foxy, you're a real grouse sheila :) Joe.....
» 27/06/2020 12:06:30 PM Mhaze, "The real indicator to watch is deaths per day and that's been trending for t.....
» 26/06/2020 6:23:26 PM Misopinionated, "How many people on OLO can actually put forward an argument based o.....
» 26/06/2020 6:21:18 PM Thanks for the opportunity, Foxy :) Misopinionated, "How many people on OLO can act.....
» 26/06/2020 6:00:59 PM Thanks, Foxy :) Love always, Joe.....
» 26/06/2020 5:59:41 PM Hi Paul, To paraphrase the old joke, if you know of a better history, write it. Otherwise.....
» 26/06/2020 4:32:36 PM Just to get back to topic: There is a brilliant article on this topic of the dangers of f.....
» 26/06/2020 4:12:26 PM Paul, I've been trying to keep track of the number of US states where the daily number of.....
» 26/06/2020 4:01:15 PM Hi Runner, Yes, just ask me: how does the Government Competence Rate in Australia comp-ar.....
» 25/06/2020 8:25:06 PM Altrav, According to Wikipedia, around 16,000 people have been killed by the Ebola virus .....
» 25/06/2020 7:32:41 PM Altrav, Here's an interesting Table comparing the numbers of deaths from the virus per ev.....
» 25/06/2020 7:23:02 PM Foxy, Of course there are health issues involved in relation to the nuclear industry, the.....
» 25/06/2020 7:14:17 PM Runner, So you do believe otherwise ? Or would you propose a third alternative to probity.....
» 25/06/2020 3:58:21 PM Foxy, Evidence: perhaps the fact that no reactors in France or Finland (or perhaps elsewh.....
» 25/06/2020 3:39:29 PM SM, Population of Europe (Dr Google): 741 million Population of the US: 328.2 million S.....
» 25/06/2020 3:22:43 PM Ttbn, And what do you know, they worked ! Australia under Morrison has had remarkably few.....
» 25/06/2020 3:11:11 PM Runner, That's either-or thinking: of course, I take for granted that draining any swamp .....
» 25/06/2020 1:27:50 PM Runner, I don't have a lot of hatred - disgust maybe; amazement and amusement, shock, con.....
» 25/06/2020 1:14:29 PM Hi Foxy, I could be wrong but I don't think Anita has ever lived on an Aboriginal communi.....
» 25/06/2020 1:09:09 PM Bazz, Provided nuclear energy production is safe. Presumably future nuclear power generat.....
» 25/06/2020 1:01:29 PM Foxy & Steele, I wonder if a lot of the defence of Trumpf by the ratbags is not FOR him, .....
» 24/06/2020 6:25:00 PM Foxy, It's a pity you didn't visit or work on an Indigenous community just a few years ag.....
» 24/06/2020 1:56:14 PM Pete, One problem for whoever comes after Trumpf in January is that he's filled his own f.....
» 24/06/2020 12:52:41 PM Individual, Christ, I would hope so, that as many people as possible are concerned about .....
» 24/06/2020 12:43:46 PM SAINTS, Very crudely, there are two diverging Indigenous populations in Australia - one m.....
» 24/06/2020 12:28:36 PM [continued] And, over the last ten or fifteen years, with the collapsing of self-determin.....
» 24/06/2020 12:24:35 PM Hi Paul, Perhaps Heydon should be shown to be a witch, i.e. given a trial. Then we can ta.....
» 24/06/2020 11:54:29 AM F opxy, Of course, France (and probably every other country) is closing down some of its .....
» 23/06/2020 10:23:25 PM Thank you, Foxy :). Beautiful !.....
» 23/06/2020 6:24:18 PM Josephus, And now ? Which states are experiencing rapid rises in the number of Covid-19 c.....
» 23/06/2020 5:31:15 PM Foxy, "In a speech laying out the country's energy policies for the coming years, Ma.....
» 23/06/2020 5:22:31 PM Divergence, 'What do we do then' ? You could always campaign for the use of Solent Green.....
» 23/06/2020 5:18:37 PM So what if a million phony requests were sent in ? The people who genuinely wanted to turn.....
» 23/06/2020 12:10:43 PM Foxy, Oh, I don't think so ..........
» 23/06/2020 12:07:42 PM Pete, I agree with you and the vast majority that Trumpf is incompetent, a danger to the .....
» 23/06/2020 11:58:45 AM Paup, Your last two sentences have a certain logical connection to them: thirty times as .....
» 23/06/2020 11:45:57 AM Hi Foxy, On nuclear energy and its safety concerns: how are the French and Finns going wi.....
» 23/06/2020 11:40:08 AM Big Nana, Yes, there are probably no two people on earth who agree totally with one anoth.....
» 23/06/2020 11:21:06 AM Thanks Binoy, Don't we all love a circus ?! Maybe not all of us ..... Some more exciting.....
» 22/06/2020 8:15:24 PM JimBowyer, Thank god for geniuses who can see through the fake accounts of a severe virus.....
» 22/06/2020 2:26:42 PM Ttbn, Wow, thanks - just a bit better than the US with 120,000 deaths so far. What do y.....
» 22/06/2020 2:19:28 PM Paul, No. And no, I don't think that droughts were/are a post-invasion phenomenon, there.....
» 22/06/2020 1:00:59 PM Altrav, OR 'clean' countries quarantine themselves from infected countries, as long as it.....
» 22/06/2020 12:48:45 PM Divergence, First, distinguish between immigrants, usually skilled, with vjobs already li.....
» 22/06/2020 11:37:53 AM Ttbn, "Panic-stricken response" ? 102 deaths, vs the US's 120,000 so far ? Well.....
» 22/06/2020 11:29:39 AM Banjo, Yeah, but what if CNN had photo-shopped Trumpf walking around like you claim ? Wha.....
» 21/06/2020 6:19:44 PM Thank you, Foxy. Very interesting data. Have you looked at the database yourself ? Joe.....
» 21/06/2020 5:57:25 PM Foxy, What proportion of Indigenous deaths in custody vare the result of *. natural cau.....
» 21/06/2020 3:34:17 PM Some photos here - obviously faked - of the vast crowds at Trumpf's rally in Tulsa: http:.....
» 21/06/2020 3:12:56 PM Ttbn, Which section of the Constitution do you mean ? 52 ? Restrictions. on trade ? Joe.....
» 21/06/2020 2:34:27 PM Ttbn, The inventiveness of capitalism is inexhaustible, even Marx thought so, Lenin too. .....
» 21/06/2020 1:32:28 PM Altrav, The point about any virus is that, in order to catch it, it has to be 'out there'.....
» 21/06/2020 12:53:35 PM Foxy, Proportionally fewer indigenous people die in custody than non-Indigenous people. I.....
» 21/06/2020 12:37:17 PM Aidan, So ....... if I get a cold, i won't get another one, not of the same strain ? Stra.....
» 21/06/2020 9:07:40 AM Banjo, In Australia, droughts have been the limiting factor in relation to Indigenous pop.....
» 21/06/2020 8:55:23 AM Graham, Given that re-infection may be a distinct possibility, that antibodies protect th.....
» 21/06/2020 8:50:21 AM David, According to Ed. Dept stats, around 11,000 Indigenous students have graduated in E.....
» 20/06/2020 6:32:58 PM Paul, Gosh, with tens of thousands of people crowded into a stadium, all shouting their h.....
» 20/06/2020 6:25:17 PM LEGO, Of course, different groups, classes, even genders and personalities, may have diff.....
» 20/06/2020 5:03:02 PM Thanks to Morrison's strict crack-down on the virus, Australia lost far fewer people than .....
» 20/06/2020 4:48:59 PM Hi David, I would hope that many urban Indigenous people are doing far better than many i.....
» 20/06/2020 10:19:40 AM Banjo, You may have to clarify your claims that 75 % of the Aboriginal population were ex.....
» 19/06/2020 7:29:41 PM Foxy, I wonder how long it took France to get its nuclear energy generation up and runnin.....
» 19/06/2020 6:24:39 PM How small can a nuclear reactor be and still generate useful and safe energy ? Many countr.....
» 19/06/2020 6:15:24 PM Misopinionted, And your ancestry is from where ? In the event that Australia has differen.....
» 19/06/2020 4:03:13 PM Leslie, Yes, let's settle this misunderstanding: *. Indigenous people are perhaps ten ti.....
» 19/06/2020 3:39:27 PM SM, I think you're right about Morrison and his prompt action against the Coronavirus: af.....
» 19/06/2020 3:23:15 PM Runner, Are you saying that the CHAZ people ARE correct to build a wall ? Or that, in eit.....
» 18/06/2020 5:10:49 PM Is Mie, Do you mean the massacre carried out by the extreme-Right-religious-conservative .....
» 18/06/2020 11:50:08 AM JF, Ttbn, I was impressed with the logic of President Trumpf, that he has been taking hex.....
» 18/06/2020 10:37:49 AM In relation to monuments, there seem to be three options: *. leave them as they are, usua.....
» 18/06/2020 10:25:25 AM Leslie, Yes, let's settle this misunderstanding: *. Indigenous people are perhaps ten ti.....
» 17/06/2020 5:54:49 PM Chris, Sometimes half-wits like Misop are quite amusing, aren't they ? But sometimes they.....
» 17/06/2020 2:10:45 PM Dan, Why do half-wits so often resort to either-or thinking ? International relations ar.....
» 17/06/2020 1:57:40 PM Thanks, Chris :).....
» 17/06/2020 10:58:59 AM Why do half-wits so often resort to either-or thinking ? Why can't Australia foster rela.....
» 17/06/2020 10:56:29 AM Of course, all lives matter, equally, no more and most certainly no less. Morrison's prom.....
» 16/06/2020 9:13:19 PM Foxy, I think your husband is the lucky one :) Best wishes, Joe.....
» 16/06/2020 5:38:28 PM Hi Paul, Yes, that might be part of the reason for the imbalance in numbers. More likely .....
» 16/06/2020 2:59:42 PM Foxy, One thing iI really like about "Who Do You Think You Are ?" is, so often,.....
» 16/06/2020 1:55:32 PM Paul, Don't worry about all those titoi ! Joe.....
» 16/06/2020 11:59:20 AM Paul, Yes, how quickly we forget about the chain gangs, mostly Black workers maintaining .....
» 16/06/2020 11:48:24 AM Paul, There's a logic to Ttbn's wise words: like the other Donald, if you run off a cliff.....
» 15/06/2020 4:15:49 PM LEGO, Probably because funds are allocated on the basis of need, not 'race'. And, as it .....
» 15/06/2020 1:58:10 PM Mhaze, New York ? Which now has fewer new cases than some of the hick states ? Of cours.....
» 15/06/2020 1:47:15 PM Thanks, Chris, for maintaining an admirable level of bloody sense. Joe.....
» 15/06/2020 12:57:46 PM NNS, Oscar Lewis wrote extensively about what he called "a culture of poverty"......
» 15/06/2020 12:40:51 PM As for that bastard Colston in Bristol: why not a small museum or little exhibition room, .....
» 15/06/2020 12:32:31 PM Paul & Foxy, We should never forget our history. We can't reverse it, but we also shouldn.....
» 15/06/2020 12:08:57 PM LEGO, My Aboriginal daughter owes $ 10,000 in HECS fees. She's happy to pay them. And wh.....
» 15/06/2020 12:03:38 PM David, The BLM protests are tending to occur in the big cities. If there is a surge in Co.....
» 15/06/2020 11:56:14 AM Ttbn, "History cannot be 'erased' by morons, thugs and vandals. " Yes, I agree.....
» 15/06/2020 11:48:58 AM David, Isn't it wonderful what you can learn - some of us - from hindsight ? It can be a .....
» 14/06/2020 9:22:51 PM Lego, I started working in factories in the early sixties. Almost from the beginning, my .....
» 14/06/2020 6:14:31 PM Banjo, Sorry, I forgot to give you any references. If you can find a copy of Hugh Thomas'.....
» 14/06/2020 5:58:40 PM JF, Yes, losing hundreds of billions and being in e3bt for many years, is maybe the way t.....
» 14/06/2020 2:55:23 PM Misopinionated, " ..... make an income out of the misery and misfortune of their fel.....
» 14/06/2020 1:53:10 PM I wonder if the circumcisions were 'insensitive'. And the key question: were they volunt.....
» 14/06/2020 1:13:36 PM Hi Banjo, " ...... innocent African men, women and children were hunted down like wi.....
» 14/06/2020 10:54:10 AM JF, Yeah, 115,000 deaths in the US so far - weak bastards ! 38 9/11s. Yes, open up immedi.....
» 14/06/2020 9:48:06 AM [continued] 16th March, 1861.-2 tons flour, 1 chest tea, a ton sugar, 1 ton rice, 3 cwt. .....
» 14/06/2020 9:45:40 AM Individual, As to the range of rations, here is an example at the Anglican Mission at Yel.....
» 14/06/2020 9:38:10 AM Individual, You might have come across examples of this sort of activity: In SA and else.....
» 14/06/2020 9:19:27 AM While we're on the subject of history (after all, that's what we're supposed to be recogni.....
» 14/06/2020 9:10:34 AM Foxy, What I transcribed, and what Dr Foster has found in his extensive research, are qui.....
» 13/06/2020 5:39:30 PM Foxy, Not that there is anything much wrong with being naive. I've been naive nearly all .....
» 13/06/2020 4:28:53 PM Foxy, What, do you think that people are so child-like, so innocent, so passive, so blood.....
» 13/06/2020 4:20:37 PM Hi Alan, Where did pastoral stations get their rations from ? They bought them from the s.....
» 13/06/2020 3:01:34 PM Josephus, George Soros funds Muslim politicians and, presumably, activists, to undermine .....
» 13/06/2020 2:35:40 PM [continued] I've been out of it since then - I'll be in my eightieth year at the end of 2.....
» 13/06/2020 2:33:28 PM Hi Paul, You asked yesterday: "With tertiary education in the main stream, how do I.....
» 12/06/2020 8:46:13 PM Hi Foxy, Re Dr Foster, for whom I have great respect, he was very kind and supportive of .....
» 12/06/2020 6:36:56 PM Dear Foxy, I would love, one day, to see what you really think and believe - your own ide.....
» 12/06/2020 3:44:34 PM Misopinionated, Interesting: Yes, all Europeans have Neanderthal ancestry. East Asians ha.....
» 11/06/2020 6:42:27 PM Toni, As far as I know, such child welfare records that state bureaucrats kept would have.....
» 11/06/2020 6:26:09 PM Foxy, Jesus. Belief is not truth. Just because most people in the Middle Ages would have .....
» 11/06/2020 4:04:36 PM Foxy, 'A recent article' ? 2004 ? Yes, it's the truth that matters - and not merely asser.....
» 11/06/2020 1:09:47 PM Galen, It seems that Neanderthal brains were about 10-20 % larger than 'modern human' bra.....
» 11/06/2020 1:07:35 PM Oops, I got Edward Banfield (who died at 83) mixed up with Robert Redfield who died at six.....
» 11/06/2020 12:17:07 PM Foxy, About your advice: "Talk to Big Nana - you have more in common with her than .....
» 11/06/2020 12:11:06 PM Pete, 113,000, and counting - an extra thousand each day, but that might rise with the ab.....
» 11/06/2020 11:14:13 AM Foxy, No, actually. Until the 1967 Referendum, the States had responsibility for all Indi.....
» 11/06/2020 10:57:33 AM Is Mise, On those grounds, I would support Marcia 100 %. I hope she persists in promoting.....
» 11/06/2020 10:54:05 AM I have to say that I find LEGO's racist assertions repugnant: there are far more persuasiv.....
» 11/06/2020 10:20:30 AM Ttbn, Obama and the Bushes all won the popular vote, as well as the collegial/collegiate .....
» 10/06/2020 9:16:51 PM Foxy, Thank you, I'm glad that you are aware that the truth is what matters, and that the.....
» 10/06/2020 4:42:53 PM Is Mise, Why do some people assume that whites have always been all-powerful, that they h.....
» 10/06/2020 1:22:57 PM Sorry, Foxy, You're right, we should always respect authority. Joe.....
» 10/06/2020 1:05:31 PM Foxy, Neither can she walk on water as far as I'm aware :) She's touted as an expert on .....
» 10/06/2020 10:57:58 AM I've been keeping data on Indigenous higher education numbers for thirty years (which ever.....
» 10/06/2020 10:38:33 AM Binoy, "If you can envisage the commencement of a police force as a band of auxiliar.....
» 9/06/2020 6:36:36 PM Foxy, Well, it was first a paper in the Kaurna Journal of Higher Education in 1994. I did.....
» 9/06/2020 3:56:43 PM So, at the time of Federation, the kangaroo (and the emu) were put up there as our nationa.....
» 9/06/2020 3:37:50 PM Foxy, I think that might have been an article of Dave's from 1994 :). I worked with him f.....
» 9/06/2020 12:32:53 PM Hi Foxy, Yes, I've known Dave since about 1981, we both worked at what became, later that.....
» 8/06/2020 10:15:04 PM Foxy, Self-determination, self-government, self-management. were all in the pipeline well.....
» 8/06/2020 7:45:45 PM Foxy, Why go to extremes, from one extreme to the other ? No, life was never 'wonderful' .....
» 8/06/2020 6:47:07 PM Foxy, Do you realise that Australia is a bloody big country ? Plenty of room for both cat.....
» 8/06/2020 6:33:57 PM Foxy, Oh god. :However one way or another - the concept of self- determination as a proc.....
» 8/06/2020 2:18:26 PM Misopinionated, Half-wit. Yes, democracies need to protect the right to protest, but orga.....
» 8/06/2020 2:10:42 PM Foxy, No, that's exactly what I'm NOT saying - of course, Aboriginal people are as capabl.....
» 8/06/2020 1:48:02 PM 110,000 deaths so far from Covid-19 in the US, nearly twice as many Americans as were kill.....
» 8/06/2020 1:35:39 PM Mhaze, It does seem that the organisers (using the word loosely, as one always has to, in.....
» 8/06/2020 1:30:16 PM Foxy & SM, Hmmmm ....... I was in demos from around late 1965 against the US war against .....
» 8/06/2020 10:46:04 AM Foxy, For god's sake. Indigenous people have had responsibilities, through community coun.....
» 7/06/2020 12:21:22 PM Foxy, I'm sure that Big Nana would have known all of the truth about the Gurindji walk-of.....
» 7/06/2020 11:39:36 AM Ttbn, So everybody who exercises their right to free speech and march in protest against .....
» 7/06/2020 9:44:26 AM Misopinionated, My god, what a moron. Just because someone points out that young people h.....
» 6/06/2020 4:14:44 PM Foxy, Thank you for your valiant efforts in trying to teach Big Nana, with her fifty year.....
» 6/06/2020 4:07:49 PM Hi Big Nana, My limited understanding about the pastoral pay situation was that the worke.....
» 6/06/2020 11:51:43 AM Ttbn, " ..... , our own dropkick, Scott Morrison, continues to wreck the Australian .....
» 5/06/2020 7:45:08 PM Dear Foxy, You mentioned somewhere the herding of Aboriginal people onto missions. I don'.....
» 5/06/2020 6:30:25 PM Runner, I think Foxy has a point: can you name a President who has been more foul-mouthed.....
» 5/06/2020 6:26:29 PM Dearest Foxy, I'm sorry for getting up your nose. Well, yes, I do read, and have done for.....
» 5/06/2020 6:02:22 PM So what's going on here ? http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objecti.....
» 5/06/2020 3:49:48 PM SM, A 'tu quoque' argument ? I'm certainly not suggesting that Trumpf and the US administ.....
» 5/06/2020 3:41:50 PM Foxy, Where on earth do you get your stuff from ? Sometimes it is so un-real. Joe.....
» 5/06/2020 3:38:19 PM [continued]\ Foxy, I recall in one community that we lived at, the DAA offered to buy up.....
» 5/06/2020 3:36:48 PM Dear Foxy, Thank you for pointing out that there are plenty of Indigenous records. Yes, i.....
» 5/06/2020 2:21:51 PM SM, Hmmmm ........ perhaps from a certain ideological slant, 108,000 deaths is a hiccup. .....
» 5/06/2020 2:18:55 PM Jayb, That's a stupid thing to say - how do you 'know' that Indigenous students are doing.....
» 5/06/2020 2:00:50 PM Josephus, Trump's 108,000 deaths of Americans vs. Morrison's barely one hundred deaths of.....
» 5/06/2020 11:50:58 AM Chris, It certainly could happen: all he has to do is resolve the Covid-19 crisis, and to.....
» 5/06/2020 11:20:59 AM Hi Big Nana, Yes, you're right on the money. Looking at the Education Department and last.....
» 4/06/2020 5:34:23 PM Thank you, Foxy, that's beautiful. Lovely song, lovely man who wrote it ..... So often, y.....
» 4/06/2020 2:06:32 PM Misopinionated, and Dear Foxy, Pretentious ?! Moi ?! Today's my wedding day, 54 years ag.....
» 3/06/2020 9:21:46 PM Misopinionated, No, you don't have a clue. Stick to Bananas in Pyjamas. Joe.....
» 3/06/2020 5:59:37 PM Dearest Foxy, I meant actual investigations, not excuses for why there aren't any. But i .....
» 3/06/2020 5:47:56 PM Hasbeen, Maybe not really: African-Americans make up around 33 % of all Americans, but 60.....
» 3/06/2020 2:16:19 PM Chris, Of course, we're getting off the track: Black Americans have been in America about.....
» 3/06/2020 2:10:07 PM Chris, Of course, as you say, when we welcome immigrants from wherever, we know they may .....
» 3/06/2020 1:54:15 PM Foxy, Well, investigate as well as merely prattling about it all. For example, when wil.....
» 3/06/2020 1:45:58 PM Hi Lego, So that's your Dystopian wish-list ? So that you can really crap yourself over h.....
» 3/06/2020 12:49:28 PM Mhaze, Pity I never wrote anything about Trumpf or others being fascist. Verging on, mayb.....
» 3/06/2020 12:41:22 PM Josephus, "4,000 years ago the Mediterranean tribes chased the white skin people int.....
» 3/06/2020 11:34:03 AM Ttbn, And we'll hold you to that too :) Joe.....
» 3/06/2020 11:25:35 AM My god, there are some ratbags on this thread. Individual: so to protest against the murd.....
» 3/06/2020 10:59:27 AM Ttbn, "Who knows where the recovery will come from, if it comes at all. " I su.....
» 2/06/2020 7:29:13 PM Dear Foxy, Thank you, you have a wonderfully good heart, but perhaps you can explain to m.....
» 2/06/2020 5:51:14 PM Dearest Foxy, Sorry, I had to laugh at your comments, a bit bitterly. But you're partly.....
» 2/06/2020 5:29:47 PM Mhaze, A bit hysterical :) Not everybody who can't stand Trumpf is a secret member of th.....
» 2/06/2020 1:30:22 PM Mhaze, You might be onto something: talking about vicious dogs and shooting, yes, that sh.....
» 2/06/2020 12:21:35 PM Dear Foxy, At that particular community, in a sense the people gutted themselves: the men.....
» 2/06/2020 11:56:39 AM Paul, It's arguable that India may be more socialist than China, not that either one is a.....
» 1/06/2020 6:54:19 PM Sorry, Foxy, what's your point ?.....
» 1/06/2020 6:17:35 PM Josephus, Down this way in SA, Aboriginal communities may well have unlimited water licen.....
» 31/05/2020 6:21:56 PM Misopinionted, I'm sure that neither Foxy or I want Victoria to sign up to the Belt and R.....
» 31/05/2020 3:19:33 PM Misopinionated, I'd console myself with the thought that I'd still be a couple of years u.....
» 31/05/2020 2:48:50 PM Dear Foxy, And you too ! I was just thinking, thanks to that accursed Ancestry.com, tha.....
» 31/05/2020 11:33:39 AM Paul, Your wife sounds like a lovely person, making invaluable contributions to what it m.....
» 31/05/2020 11:18:58 AM Misopinionated, Either-or - is that it ? Manicheanism ? Either black or white ? Either up.....
» 29/05/2020 2:11:53 PM Josephus, So, in your "Half-Wit's Guide to God", when something happens, it mea.....
» 28/05/2020 3:48:54 PM Runner, More than one hundred thousand deaths in the US, so far, as sacrifices on the alt.....
» 28/05/2020 10:21:25 AM Ttbn, Funny you should write that - I was just thinking that Morrison may go down in post.....
» 26/05/2020 5:26:28 PM Hi Is Mise, I don't know what you mean by " .... why do Aboriginal graduates seem to.....
» 25/05/2020 11:27:52 AM Individual, Speaking of the Trump Swamp, with his kids and in-laws and cronies being put .....
» 25/05/2020 9:08:03 AM SM, And what's sauce for the goose ...... Joe.....
» 24/05/2020 1:53:46 PM Misopinionated, "Half the country can hardly speak sufficient English let alone try .....
» 24/05/2020 11:13:52 AM CM, "We can always patronize businesses that employ our people. " "Our pe.....
» 22/05/2020 6:13:50 PM Lego, So when did the Chinese start welding up the doors to apartment buildings, and shut.....
» 22/05/2020 4:21:37 PM Misopinionated, "For example, I don't like the Chinese race because I see China as a.....
» 22/05/2020 3:55:45 PM Dear Foxy, As you probably found out in your time overseas, you can learn two things (at .....
» 22/05/2020 2:41:04 PM And yet ...... and yet ........ There are such people as experts - surely every one of u.....
» 21/05/2020 1:06:24 PM Misop, So ....... Chinese migrants apply for Australian citizenship proportionately less .....
» 21/05/2020 11:31:17 AM Misopinionated, I used to be a Maoist, but dropped all that idiocy during the eighties, a.....
» 21/05/2020 10:59:54 AM Why are churches especially restricted ? Large groups of people, sitting close together f.....
» 20/05/2020 6:58:39 PM Misopinionated, Why do you lurch so often to a racist assertion in relation to anything t.....
» 20/05/2020 6:07:26 PM Yes, why on earth was this allowed ? And Newcastle too, and the port area of Adelaide. How.....
» 20/05/2020 3:07:48 PM Runner, Your hero's score: 92,000. Hopefully most of them went off to heaven, perhaps pre.....
» 20/05/2020 2:54:48 PM Pete, Like most bullies and braggarts, Trumpf is looking after his own arse, he thinks. B.....
» 20/05/2020 11:42:03 AM Individual, Can you get it through your head that there may be four million people in Aus.....
» 20/05/2020 11:20:33 AM Ttbn, Yes, death is so boring. You can stare at a dead body for hours and get nothing new.....
» 20/05/2020 11:11:10 AM Hi Pete, "“We’re prepared, and we’re doing a great job with it. And it will go away......
» 20/05/2020 9:57:40 AM Bad Dog ! Yeah ! I'm pissed off that the Chinese have developed this so-called 'virus' to.....
» 19/05/2020 1:29:41 PM Misopinionated, Do you mean either/or or do you perceive that some viewpoints may be some.....
» 18/05/2020 3:57:18 PM Misop, As to my comments about half-witted racist comments on OLO, I rest my case. Do yo.....
» 18/05/2020 2:52:47 PM Misopinionated, "There are only two circumstances in which we should be releasing re.....
» 18/05/2020 12:59:20 PM Cris, Of course, we should acknowledge that China is a dictatorship, carrying on ancient .....
» 18/05/2020 12:50:23 PM Thanks Alan, made my day :) Cheers, Joe.....
» 18/05/2020 11:33:59 AM Dan, Well, don't a lot of us think that as long as we're alive :) But ...... Joe.....
» 17/05/2020 6:36:34 PM Hi Pete, Hmmmm ...... You seem to have PTATS, the Pro-Truth Anti-Trump Syndrome. Spot o.....
» 17/05/2020 3:22:37 PM Runner, Back in President Truman's day, he had a sign on his desk saying "The Buck S.....
» 15/05/2020 5:30:16 PM Saints, I'm a bit slow at the best of times, so I don't understand what you are getting a.....
» 15/05/2020 4:39:39 PM Hi Saints, Skills and effort. Is that what you meant ? Joe.....
» 15/05/2020 2:10:54 PM Dan, I started work in factories in the mid-sixties, mostly in bakeries. Often I was the .....
» 15/05/2020 1:44:26 PM Mhaze, Of course there are positions between your black and white: total this or toal tha.....
» 15/05/2020 12:12:52 PM Mhaze, 86,000 in a bit over a month. 3,000 were killed on 9/11. Imagine, across the 28 .....
» 15/05/2020 11:53:31 AM Thanks, David. So how would our health system be doing without non-Anglo doctors, nurses,.....
» 14/05/2020 9:18:46 PM Hi Luciferase, Coal- and gas-fired power stations produce CO2. Renewables don't produce .....
» 14/05/2020 6:21:24 PM Hi Paul, Yes, if only they had left it all alone, even if a few hundred thousand Australi.....
» 14/05/2020 5:34:32 PM Is Mise, Yes, if they are found guilty. Joe.....
» 14/05/2020 1:14:50 PM Ttbn, What, you think the Donald hasn't put his own swamp in place ? So who's the mug ? .....
» 14/05/2020 11:44:53 AM Runner, Hundreds, actually. China: http://www.wired.com/story/china-is-still-building-.....
» 13/05/2020 5:12:50 PM Runner, No, you misunderstand me: yes, Russia and the US are heading for a disaster by o.....
» 13/05/2020 3:12:14 PM Hi Steele, Francis Fukuyama ? http://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/03/thing-de.....
» 13/05/2020 3:07:08 PM Runner, Weird how your mind works. How do you leap from Corona deaths in the US to Russ.....
» 13/05/2020 2:12:33 PM Mhaze, So 80,000 Americans haven't died from this virus ? There won't be another 100,000 .....
» 13/05/2020 2:04:20 PM Dear Foxy, I'm sure that you would agree that Australia should be diversifying its export.....
» 13/05/2020 11:18:01 AM Yes, from one point of view, what do we need any immigration for, except maybe the fruit- .....
» 13/05/2020 10:59:55 AM Josephus, You're partly right, Jones's 'amazing' intellect and analysis is/was always jus.....
» 13/05/2020 10:50:44 AM Mhaze, 82,000 deaths from this virus across the US, and counting. So far, after only a co.....
» 12/05/2020 7:18:37 PM Here in SA, and as an ABC baby, I've never seen Alan Jones, except excerpts on other chann.....
» 12/05/2020 5:54:55 PM Foxy, i wonder if, for some people, they have a level of knowledge/ignorance which they t.....
» 12/05/2020 4:01:06 PM Can you call Christopher Hitchens or Nick Cohen conservatives ? Too left ? Joe.....
» 12/05/2020 3:59:01 PM Hi Chris, Yes, there is some crazy talk here. Do some people, some posters, have a sort o.....
» 12/05/2020 1:45:09 PM Ttbn, Panic ? What don't you understand about eighty thousand deaths under one, admittedl.....
» 12/05/2020 1:02:40 PM OzSpen, Try this, twenty minutes of pure delight, Five Mystical songs of George Herbert: .....
» 12/05/2020 11:09:18 AM OzSpen, "Persecute Christ" ?! Many of us atheists have great respect for the my.....
» 12/05/2020 10:58:12 AM Hi Polpak, Yes ! Were are our freadoms ? Freadom to die whenever we want, without govermn.....
» 11/05/2020 2:05:46 PM Mhaze, Not sure if you're on our planet: the US has suffered eighty thousand deaths (don'.....
» 11/05/2020 1:54:10 PM Mispinionated, Can you read at all ? Do you understand anything about the complexities, o.....
» 11/05/2020 9:41:07 AM NNS, Of course, atheism by itself has no moral philosophy except a belief that one should.....
» 10/05/2020 6:41:23 PM NNS, Then - than. I read your post, then I was annoyed by the confusion between those two.....
» 10/05/2020 11:38:12 AM Hi SR, Brilliant insights here: " ..... “It’s, ‘I don’t like what this implies; the.....
» 9/05/2020 3:45:13 PM Runner, Yeah, I'm browned off that I have to drive on one side of the road or the other,.....
» 8/05/2020 2:15:23 PM OzSpen, They seem to have been eternal so far :) But I agree, that half a dozen countries.....
» 8/05/2020 1:11:17 PM Amazing how the minds of racist turds work. ttbn, I don't love any group above others. I.....
» 8/05/2020 1:04:27 PM Unbelievable: http://khn.org/morning-breakout/white-house-task-force-to-disband-but-trump.....
» 8/05/2020 12:21:16 PM Hi JF, So is it possible that, if those illnesses, going back to late winter 2019, were e.....
» 8/05/2020 11:13:28 AM For god's sake, prisoners of the Japanese were repeatedly stripped naked over the years an.....
» 8/05/2020 11:09:35 AM Justice is supposed to be fair, blind to inducements. So whatever types of evidence were u.....
» 8/05/2020 11:01:25 AM Ttbn, Thanks for that spray - it's interesting what a crisis brings out in people. JF, .....
» 6/05/2020 8:25:48 PM Hi JBowyer, The lovely thing about the suppression-and-lockdown approach is that very soo.....
» 6/05/2020 7:09:28 PM Yuyutsu, Thanks for that - so SA has no cases in hospital, and certainly no patients on v.....
» 6/05/2020 6:41:53 PM Clearly, going by the dreadful experience of the US and Sweden, not to mention other unfor.....
» 6/05/2020 6:07:28 PM Misopinionated, Incorrect - how ? They got their arses kicked even by the Javanese in abo.....
» 6/05/2020 6:00:21 PM Dear Foxy, Yes, our forebears, especially our maternal forebears, have endured a hell of .....
» 6/05/2020 5:41:19 PM Ttbn, I certainly hope not, and i don't think it will happen, but in order to distinguish.....
» 6/05/2020 5:38:17 PM South Australia, as usual, has led the other states: there have been no new cases of Coron.....
» 6/05/2020 4:51:00 PM Bazz, The full quote really was: " ... the ridiculous and quite imperialist claims .....
» 6/05/2020 3:04:16 PM You're right, JBowyer, if Australia had followed the US model, we would have successfully .....
» 6/05/2020 1:45:09 PM Yuyutsu, Perhaps not a thousand years, more like one, tops. Economies like Australia and.....
» 6/05/2020 12:49:30 PM OzSpen, You ask: " Are you saying you agree with the philosophy that time + energy .....
» 6/05/2020 12:40:50 PM OzSpen, You ask: " Are you saying you agree with the philosophy that time + energy .....
» 5/05/2020 4:56:18 PM Ttbn, No I don't think that Morrison is a dictator, but actually a very good capitalist, .....
» 5/05/2020 2:51:58 PM Ttbn, Tried the strong light remedy lately ? Or disinfectant ? Don't worry, it will all b.....
» 5/05/2020 2:46:20 PM SR, Watch the US death curve over the next month: my bet is that, in a couple of weeks fr.....
» 5/05/2020 2:38:30 PM Hi Alan, Of course China has something to hide, it's a totalitarian country. But what tha.....
» 5/05/2020 2:25:39 PM JB, Dumb-dumb: " .... we have suffered less than one hundred deaths in Australia ........
» 5/05/2020 1:02:58 PM We'll see in a month or so......
» 5/05/2020 12:10:50 PM OzSpen, I'm quite happy with the notion that nobody or nothing 'made' the laws of physics.....
» 5/05/2020 11:35:57 AM Ttbn, Have another look at your post of today in a month's time. Australia is about to .....
» 5/05/2020 11:22:04 AM Misopinionated, My god, what an idiot. Of course, world population is still increasing. .....
» 5/05/2020 11:11:33 AM Like them or not, is it possible that China could soon be part of Australia's (and NZ's) r.....
» 4/05/2020 5:31:47 PM Runner, No, I'm not calling the myth of a Wuhan lab origin a conspiracy, I'd rather call .....
» 4/05/2020 5:23:36 PM JBowyer, So who's been imprisoned ? I think some of you semi-fascists are really off with.....
» 4/05/2020 5:19:19 PM JF, So ..... because Morrison got in quick and forced a lock-down, which proved stunningl.....
» 4/05/2020 4:13:00 PM Is Mise, Far fewer people are tortured and murdered each year in Australia than die from .....
» 4/05/2020 1:39:29 PM Luciferase, " .... the virus will take the hindmost." I suppose we'll see soon.....
» 4/05/2020 11:28:48 AM Hi SM, Innocent until proven guilty. So both Shorten and Pell are innocent: neither was .....
» 4/05/2020 11:10:53 AM Hi Yuyutsu, No worries :) That last paragraph above, responding to Spencer: do you mean .....
» 3/05/2020 3:40:18 PM Hi Runner, Or rates of death compared to those in Australia, New Zealand, China, Taiwan a.....
» 3/05/2020 2:52:01 PM Hi Foxy, Didn't he make some comment about his daughter being a nice piece of arse, that .....
» 3/05/2020 2:35:18 PM Hi Foxy, Didn't he make some comment about his daughter being a nice piece of arse, and t.....
» 3/05/2020 10:54:56 AM Der Foxy, Yes, " Donald Trump is racist, homophobic, xenophobic, and he's sexist. &q.....
» 3/05/2020 10:48:58 AM Spencer, As a non-believer, with only a vague understanding of what Christians view as th.....
» 2/05/2020 4:11:55 PM Misopinionated, With your bizarre worship of certain types of credentials and not others,.....
» 1/05/2020 2:36:25 PM SR, Actually, there is a large chunk of land on the Island under the control of Ngarrindj.....
» 1/05/2020 1:09:09 PM SR, Ah yes, privilege: before the Bridge was built, access to Hindmarsh Island was by fer.....
» 1/05/2020 1:03:30 PM Misopinionated, Funny, I didn't know they had ivory towers at TAFE colleges. I have a b.....
» 1/05/2020 12:49:19 PM Foxy, We may not like it but the question of Pell's innocence or guilt was proven, i.e. t.....
» 1/05/2020 10:44:17 AM Ttbn, I wouldn't go that far ..... Joe.....
» 30/04/2020 8:38:09 PM SR, The toll so far would be some thousands more than 67,500, given misdiagnoses of earli.....
» 30/04/2020 6:31:10 PM SR, Either way, some evidence would be necessary. In relation to Biden's case, if the acc.....
» 30/04/2020 5:37:12 PM Hi Individual, That first person to walk across the Nullarbor was probably a farmer and h.....
» 30/04/2020 3:32:39 PM Too many scams, Foxy :) Probably what tipped me over the edge of unbelief was the Hindmar.....
» 30/04/2020 2:06:06 PM Ttbn, I'm waiting for someone, perhaps a 30-year-old Elder, to refine that story a bit an.....
» 30/04/2020 2:00:26 PM Hi Foxsy, Cook didn't say 'hello' ? Is that it ? What, he didn't gesture, wave, sing o.....
» 30/04/2020 1:44:51 PM As a non-believer, I can't say I've noticed any slagging off of any gods over the Corona v.....
» 30/04/2020 11:47:27 AM Paul, So ...... how would you go about identifying the oral historical accounts of Aborig.....
» 30/04/2020 11:34:07 AM Dan, This was partly my point, that there is confusion over so many concepts in land law:.....
» 30/04/2020 11:23:51 AM Runner, I was appalled at the bias against Pell, even though I most certainly don't like .....
» 29/04/2020 3:20:03 PM Hi SR, Sorry, I was referring to the use of the term 'terra nullius' specifically in rela.....
» 29/04/2020 1:16:07 PM Alon, There were two ways by which Palestinian activists perceive themselves as winning -.....
» 29/04/2020 1:08:16 PM Foxy, When the Leahy brothers were venturing into the highlands of New Guinea in the thir.....
» 29/04/2020 1:03:26 PM Paul, So what was the 'Great Lie' ? What did Cook lie about ? Of course he (and the Abori.....
» 29/04/2020 11:54:22 AM Mhaze, If Biden can be shown to have indecently assaulted a staff member, then he should .....
» 29/04/2020 11:49:03 AM David, You propose that all humans, no matter where they may be now, should retract back .....
» 29/04/2020 8:21:19 AM Hi Paul, So Cook knew - and recorded - that there were plenty of Aboriginal people living.....
» 28/04/2020 5:50:01 PM Hi Foxy, This may clarify the suggestion: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Obama J.....
» 28/04/2020 1:02:45 PM Foxy, For all that, the Democrats will probably have to junk Biden and ASAP. Ideally, the.....
» 28/04/2020 12:53:41 PM mhaze, Of course New York has had far more cases and deaths: cosmopolitan centres around .....
» 28/04/2020 10:57:39 AM Paul, I would passionately dispute your assertion that Florida would become the next viru.....
» 26/04/2020 7:52:29 PM JBowyer, So in Sweden, nineteen hundred people have died unnecessarily ? And perhaps fort.....
» 26/04/2020 6:54:47 PM Oops. Not eighteen thousand deaths in Sweden (childish error: eighteen thousand cases; tw.....
» 26/04/2020 6:46:08 PM Hi Steele, I would have thought that it wasn't so much a peak but a plateau, say a week's.....
» 26/04/2020 12:19:18 PM Paul, Is this fair dinkum ? " The State Department is warning that commercial fligh.....
» 26/04/2020 10:32:45 AM Thanks, Galen, is that the site which advertises "Mein Kampf" on-line ? Gosh, I.....
» 26/04/2020 10:23:32 AM Paul, Simple question: have any health workers, doctors, nurses, contracted the virus mor.....
» 25/04/2020 4:13:35 PM Let's be honest - how many people really thought that Trumpf was being sarcastic ? Really......
» 25/04/2020 1:00:39 PM Thanks, Steele. It looks like the weekly number of deaths in the UK have more than doubl.....
» 25/04/2020 11:09:08 AM Thanks, Steele. It looks like the weekly number of deaths in the UK have more than doubl.....
» 24/04/2020 7:42:09 PM This thread focusses on remedies for the Trump Virus: and we now have a cure ! Trumpf has.....
» 24/04/2020 6:31:50 PM Thanks, Foxy :).....
» 24/04/2020 3:53:27 PM Hi SR, The US has currently 861,000 people tested positive for the Trump Virus, and - inc.....
» 24/04/2020 3:41:59 PM Runner, You're right, the US administration is as incompetent as those of Italy and Spain.....
» 24/04/2020 1:09:58 PM Misopinionated, Hi, Rip Van Winkle ! " ..... the Wuhan virus has in just over a mo.....
» 24/04/2020 12:50:16 PM Hi Graham, Charles Lindblom wrote of policy implementation as 'muddling through', rather .....
» 23/04/2020 2:09:55 PM Mhaze, It's all or nothing, isn't it, when it's all boiled down? Either every country eve.....
» 23/04/2020 1:40:14 PM Opinionated, Maybe wait until you've finished your TAFE course and then a basic universit.....
» 23/04/2020 12:52:47 PM Hi Steele, The bottom line of HI vs. Lock-Downs is that, in one case, * the curve is li.....
» 22/04/2020 6:41:39 PM Runner, Says who it was devised in a Chinese lab ? Given the prevalence around the world .....
» 22/04/2020 6:21:13 PM Luciferase, What makes you think that 'herd immunity' will ever be reached ? Or that immu.....
» 22/04/2020 5:21:27 PM Hi EricC, Don't you just love 'the wider picture' ? Of course, it depends how it is paint.....
» 22/04/2020 4:06:50 PM Luciferase, You could be right. Us oldies may have had our turn and, for the good of the .....
» 22/04/2020 3:03:21 PM Well said, Steele :) If restrictions are lifted too quickly, what effect might this have .....
» 21/04/2020 5:33:35 PM Mhaze, Are you suggesting that primarily, it is older people who need to self-isolate, w.....
» 21/04/2020 4:53:03 PM Runner, We'll see, won't we ? And, Ttbn, there are huge sections of the population who w.....
» 21/04/2020 4:27:23 PM According to this source: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/world/coronavirus-maps......
» 21/04/2020 1:45:32 PM Hi Foxy, Yes, Morrison has pulled all governments, state/territory and federal, together .....
» 21/04/2020 11:00:51 AM Misopinionated, Shadow Minister is quite right. By your own logic, you should stick to en.....
» 20/04/2020 4:32:24 PM Sorry, Paul, either I don't properly understand what you are getting at, or I'm not in fav.....
» 20/04/2020 2:28:46 PM Hi Ttbn, In a word: Google......
» 20/04/2020 2:24:25 PM Hi SM, It's interesting that in Imperial Germany, Bismarck introduced age-pensions, unemp.....
» 20/04/2020 1:22:55 PM Gosh, Paul, I wonder if anybody has ever tried communism ? It sounds so gooooood! Oh that.....
» 20/04/2020 1:03:32 PM SR, Yes, indeed: no paper company or shelf company should be given any benefit whatsoever.....
» 20/04/2020 12:58:11 PM Misopinionated, I'm sure that, if you extended your opinion about lawyers and judges (the.....
» 20/04/2020 12:48:07 PM If it is decided that people over a certain age are to be sacrificed for the convenience o.....
» 19/04/2020 3:27:49 PM Foxy, And what if truth actually has prevailed ? Is that possible ? Is there any evidence.....
» 19/04/2020 11:40:52 AM Runner, I've very impressed with how many African countries are handling the Covid-19 thr.....
» 19/04/2020 11:28:26 AM Misopinionated, If you ever finish your TAFE introductory certificate, and go on to uni, .....
» 19/04/2020 11:08:39 AM Runner, As an example of Trump's fervent efforts to build friendly relations with neighbo.....
» 19/04/2020 10:59:45 AM AC, O course, there has been trade between groups and individuals for many thousands of y.....
» 18/04/2020 7:53:02 PM Foxy, Yes, keep trying to find something on Pell, no matter whether he's guilty or not. K.....
» 18/04/2020 7:46:52 PM Runner, Speaking of slaughtering the elderly, isn't that one of the likely consequences o.....
» 18/04/2020 6:43:48 PM Hi Paul, Agreed. I used to have a very low opinion of Trump, as a bully, moron, rat-bag, .....
» 18/04/2020 5:28:32 PM Hi Paul, I'm a bit confused: you slag Morrison for being tough in order to save lives, an.....
» 18/04/2020 1:31:47 PM According to the ABS, mortality in Australia in 2017 and 2018 was as follows: http://www......
» 18/04/2020 12:58:23 PM Hi Paul, Can this sort of idiocy really be true ? http://www.news.com.au/world/north-ame.....
» 18/04/2020 11:59:56 AM Misopinionated, Your pre-adolescent assertion, about the Pell witch-trial: "It is a.....
» 17/04/2020 5:53:14 PM Misopinionated, This book - a marriage of history and sociology - might be a good starti.....
» 17/04/2020 5:46:54 PM Misopinionated, You're half right that: ".... you don't have to be an intellectual .....
» 17/04/2020 4:31:43 PM Runner, Wow. Talk about pot, kettle :) But no, it's not entertaining, more like frighten.....
» 16/04/2020 1:12:06 PM The High Court has found Pell not guilty. So let's move to the next task of reforming the .....
» 16/04/2020 1:00:53 PM Hi SR, Yes, I suspect that this turd of a man will go down in history as by far the worst.....
» 16/04/2020 10:25:03 AM Alison, Me neither, but we can read those article abstracts and intros for free :) Joe.....
» 15/04/2020 6:04:12 PM Hi Alison, You might get a kick out of this article abstract on what the authors call tri.....
» 15/04/2020 12:16:34 PM Thanks, Alan. Those half-wits (to give them some benefit of the doubt) know little or noth.....
» 15/04/2020 11:44:15 AM Why the Christ do I bother ? Try this, if you dare: http://ourworldindata.org/world-popu.....
» 14/04/2020 12:08:16 PM Misopinionated, Did you mean: "If you hadn't been born in a leap year does that mea.....
» 12/04/2020 6:30:15 PM Hi Paul, Yes, I agree that Trump's incompetence may cost hundreds of thousands of lives i.....
» 12/04/2020 1:54:09 PM Thanks, Foxy :) Joe.....
» 12/04/2020 12:29:18 PM Hi Foxy, Yes, and (although I hate to say it about the NYT) more crap comes out of some b.....
» 12/04/2020 12:25:49 PM With numbers out of control in the US, maybe we should start calling this disaster the 'Tr.....
» 12/04/2020 11:15:14 AM Hi Foxy, So ...... the New York Times is a higher legal authority in Australian legal aff.....
» 11/04/2020 1:32:28 PM Ttbn, I support your suggestion that public servants' guaranteed incomes be either held s.....
» 11/04/2020 1:10:28 PM Hi Foxy, You observe that "Essentially the high court's decision does not mean that.....
» 11/04/2020 9:32:14 AM If Pell had been charged in China, he would be presumed guilty and - if he were a bit youn.....
» 11/04/2020 9:16:22 AM Thanks, Steele :). Brilliant take on Captain Marvel. You could have added: 1. Hey, what i.....
» 10/04/2020 2:26:14 PM SR, Perhaps what the seven Justices meant was discrepancies BETWEEN the testimony of the .....
» 9/04/2020 12:15:05 PM SR, 1. I suggest that Pell be charged with a “sociopathic lack of empathy” when it become.....
» 9/04/2020 10:59:09 AM Somebody mentioned Bill Shorten. But I think that, unless some evidence is presented as to.....
» 8/04/2020 6:20:34 PM MHaze, Governments are choosing from a wide variety of responses to the Covid-19 crisis. .....
» 8/04/2020 4:26:09 PM Dear Foxy, Clearly there is nothing much to be gained for any of us by just trying to app.....
» 8/04/2020 11:47:22 AM In the British legal system, and its Australian derivative, a person who is charged with a.....
» 7/04/2020 8:13:35 PM SR, Then bring charges against Pell of shielding pedophiles, etc., and without cooking up.....
» 7/04/2020 11:48:31 AM Talking of resilience, Pell has been found not guilty of charges of child abuse: http://a.....
» 3/04/2020 3:13:40 PM Foxy and O Sung Wu ! Really great to hear from you both, that you are well enough to put.....
» 2/04/2020 9:12:42 PM Hi Paul, I have a lovely niece in Auckland named Papatuanuku, or just Papa. Ngapuhi. And,.....
» 2/04/2020 10:01:51 AM Thanks, Paul, all the best to you and your lovely family too. Joe.....
» 21/03/2020 3:47:38 PM SR, I think the kid meant 'Sinophile'. You might be right that China controlled the sprea.....
» 17/03/2020 11:48:54 AM Paul, If only someone could dig up evidence against that bastard Pell. Meanwhile, any ass.....
» 17/03/2020 11:28:32 AM Yes, I hope that people learn the lessons of the Fukushima and Chernobyl disasters: * do.....
» 15/03/2020 2:06:44 PM There are very few, if any, of us on this thread who deny categorically that global warmin.....
» 12/03/2020 3:51:04 PM Hasbeen & Aidan, I suppose the question is: how much land would solar, wind or nuclear po.....
» 11/03/2020 4:26:53 PM AC, So some Jews are pushing for both World Government AND a multitude of 'nations' ? In.....
» 11/03/2020 9:40:37 AM Paul, Your new friend sounds suspiciously like Misopinionated on a bad day, maybe his big.....
» 11/03/2020 9:33:16 AM Sorry, Steele, you lost me. Joe.....
» 10/03/2020 5:45:35 PM Steele, You have a problem with either-or situations, and situations which aren't either-.....
» 10/03/2020 5:37:22 PM Runner, About your outrageous declamation: "certainly International women's day hig.....
» 10/03/2020 1:54:13 PM Steele, Strange things to conclude. Of course, women should have the choice of working or.....
» 10/03/2020 1:38:09 PM Hasbeen, Good point about their being little work for women in rural areas. Until well af.....
» 10/03/2020 12:20:56 PM Steele, Back in the day, nobody would have said that 'housewives don't work a day in thei.....
» 10/03/2020 12:06:31 PM Hi Ateday, Population growth out of control ? Well, no: in Europe, Russia and Japan, popu.....
» 10/03/2020 9:06:36 AM Alt Rave, That is an utterly dreadful thing to write. You give the right-wing a bad name......
» 7/03/2020 12:21:23 PM RePRESSOR, 35 degrees ? Bullsh!t: most of the tropics -where most of the vegetation thriv.....
» 6/03/2020 3:08:43 PM Bazz & Ttbn, Religious people need a Devil, to focus all their fears and hates onto. AGW .....
» 5/03/2020 12:23:53 PM Thanks, Ian. Can I suggest that, in your spare time, you get hold of a copy of Arthur Mi.....
» 5/03/2020 10:48:20 AM Ttbn, Well, science and common sense are alien, Western concepts, aren't they ? No room f.....
» 3/03/2020 5:19:42 PM Galen, Given the earlier massive expansion of the Indian Saka empire after about 70 AD, a.....
» 3/03/2020 5:13:14 PM Yuyutsu, 'Religious thinking' in the sense of perceiving any opposition to one's beliefs .....
» 3/03/2020 4:59:41 PM RePRESSu, So those archaeologists working in Greenland, trying to excavate MWP* graves ma.....
» 3/03/2020 3:25:32 PM Ateday, Columbus sailed on all the eastern Atlantic seas from Iceland and the Baltic down.....
» 3/03/2020 11:48:09 AM Sea-level rise of two inches in 200 years. Temperature rise of two degrees or so in 200 ye.....
» 1/03/2020 11:08:14 AM Left-wing terrorism: it's certainly possible. My grandfather was a Wobbly, an anarchist al.....
» 29/02/2020 6:02:04 PM Misopinionted, How do we know you're not just an academic ? Can you prove on OLO that you.....
» 29/02/2020 5:56:37 PM Bluebottle, And solar panels may produce more CO2 in their construction and maintenance a.....
» 26/02/2020 5:30:28 PM Paul, Hayek's Triangle - the three poles of fascism, communism and democracy, with gradat.....
» 26/02/2020 10:54:42 AM Hi Aidan, That Palestinians deserve a fair go, is a completely different issue, which the.....
» 26/02/2020 10:02:10 AM Paul, I've never understood how Islamist extremism could possibly be left-wing - surely, .....
» 25/02/2020 6:56:31 PM Individual, There's a wonderful Iranian refugee surgeon who mentioned casually on TV a fe.....
» 24/02/2020 1:42:02 PM Mikk, Pretty much all of us would agree that there is a level of climate change, and part.....
» 24/02/2020 9:26:11 AM Altrav, That mongrel murdered his three small children and his wife. His wife seems to ha.....
» 23/02/2020 5:25:36 PM Individual, You don't 'deploy' democracy, as if it's ready-made, you have to build it and.....
» 21/02/2020 8:00:53 AM Henry Ergas has a brilliant and incisive article in today's Australian: http://www.theaus.....
» 20/02/2020 2:37:11 PM One World Government ? e.g. one government over both Australia and New Zealand ? Tell that.....
» 20/02/2020 8:57:31 AM Paul, You assert, " .... In the past Aboriginal people were not free to choose,and.....
» 19/02/2020 6:30:46 PM Individual, How's that ? Are you suggesting that marriage can only be permitted between p.....
» 19/02/2020 6:21:34 PM Okay, thanks, Altrav, but every group on earth probably harbours ratbags and megalomaniacs.....
» 19/02/2020 2:24:03 PM Sorry, SM, i was mentioning only Italian Jews. Of course, German Jews have their share of .....
» 19/02/2020 2:20:34 PM Individual, Everybody should have the right to marry whoever they like, provided they are.....
» 19/02/2020 1:44:50 PM SM, There are no forms of parallel citizenship in Australia. There used to be a perverted.....
» 19/02/2020 9:33:52 AM Altrav, You may be familiar with these names: Salvador Luria (1912–1991), microbiologist.....
» 19/02/2020 9:16:11 AM Paul, What's your point ? So you don't think people should be able to make choices, in th.....
» 18/02/2020 9:45:43 AM Altrav, I find your paranoid anti-Semitic remarks too repulsive. Joe.....
» 18/02/2020 8:38:53 AM Altrav, Sometimes you really are an idiot. Joe.....
» 17/02/2020 12:03:42 PM Hi Peter, In the economic history of The Next Big Things, it seems that one feature stand.....
» 17/02/2020 11:48:32 AM I have maybe a very simplistic, even simple-minded, take on all this: I support the right.....
» 16/02/2020 4:35:51 PM Paulo, After he retired, Neville was one of the initiators of the Coolbaroo Club in Perth.....
» 16/02/2020 11:08:07 AM Hi Individual, Good point ! I suppose that something similar occurred in those very few r.....
» 16/02/2020 10:27:37 AM On Closing the Gap, at least in relation to Indigenous higher education participation, in .....
» 16/02/2020 8:18:20 AM Hi Paul, Strange tag team, that can agree to disagree on a fundamental issue like CDEP/CD.....
» 15/02/2020 5:27:54 PM Pau, You have an uncanny ability to talk bullsh!t about Aboriginal policy. In the thirtie.....
» 15/02/2020 5:15:49 PM Pauo, The forerunner of the CDP, the Community Development Employment Program, CDEP, was .....
» 15/02/2020 11:40:44 AM Hi Individual, Please forgive my poor grammar - I meant: "As Noel Pearson advised m.....
» 14/02/2020 7:39:05 PM Josephus, It's quite amazing that the increases in Indigenous population, from one Census.....
» 14/02/2020 5:41:07 PM Paul, So you're suggesting that Indigenous university students and graduates on the one h.....
» 14/02/2020 8:04:58 AM Hi Paul, Thanks for those massive non sequiturs, trying to link Indigenous higher educati.....
» 13/02/2020 7:00:01 PM Paul, Not sure what you are going on about. Actually, my father was born in Redfern, and .....
» 13/02/2020 5:50:39 PM Individual, I'm sure that there are plenty of Indigenous graduates doing just that. Yes, .....
» 13/02/2020 2:14:37 PM Misopinionated, As you could easily see from other comments on this thread, I got that si.....
» 13/02/2020 12:18:59 PM Hi paul, Yes, there are serious problems when, say, a bloke beats the hell out of his bel.....
» 13/02/2020 11:26:29 AM Presumably, those two blokes can trace their Indigenous ancestry through their parents, to.....
» 13/02/2020 10:33:21 AM Hi Individual, Yes, you're right - when my wife and I used to rant and rave about what co.....
» 13/02/2020 9:47:18 AM Thanks, Jayb, that makes a lot of sense. Big Nana, yes, and that 'social distance' from .....
» 13/02/2020 9:31:37 AM Paul, Indigenous settlements have community councils, exercising 'self-determination', as.....
» 12/02/2020 5:14:04 PM Anybody born in Australia is automatically an Australian citizen, and has been since 1949:.....
» 12/02/2020 10:14:08 AM Misopinionated, The Black Death plague may have originated in central Asia, more specifi.....
» 29/01/2020 10:40:51 AM Paul, On my web-site: www.firstsources.info I typed up what I could find in the SA State.....
» 29/01/2020 10:25:48 AM Hi Altrav, Do you mean people like the Rockefellers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_.....
» 29/01/2020 10:19:52 AM [continued] But of course, that 2016 recorded number of births - 73,265) was itself infla.....
» 29/01/2020 10:17:30 AM Altrav, You assert that " ... If you are going to accept that, as I do, Pascoe is a .....
» 29/01/2020 8:14:29 AM Paul, Thanks for giving us an indication of where all this fraud is heading :) A separate.....
» 28/01/2020 10:04:49 AM Individual, A pension system does wonders for the reduction in the birth-rate - parents k.....
» 28/01/2020 9:57:29 AM Paul, 1. Of course, people can be integrated into another ethnic group, into its culture,.....
» 27/01/2020 9:18:45 PM Individual, On average, women these days get about twice as many years' education as fort.....
» 27/01/2020 9:13:33 PM Paul, That's all diversionary rubbish and you know it. Don't waste people's time. Joe.....
» 27/01/2020 7:10:22 PM Individual, No, not at all: http://ourworldindata.org/search?q=population The world is .....
» 27/01/2020 5:56:43 PM Paul, " .... in his own mind." Yes. So what ? Joe.....
» 27/01/2020 3:22:50 PM Paul, Convicts weren't slaves. Thy had committed offences and were doing their time - def.....
» 27/01/2020 3:13:09 PM Paul, No. On what planet is Lehmann's case similar to the Pascoe Fiasco ? How dare you ! .....
» 27/01/2020 11:26:26 AM Paul, Indigenous people can choose NOT to be Indigenous for whatever reasons (and if I we.....
» 27/01/2020 11:14:07 AM Paul, Back in the old days, around the time of the Waterloo Creek massacre, when trouble .....
» 26/01/2020 4:40:07 PM Altrav, It appears that the AFP have dropped the investigation into whether Pascoe improp.....
» 25/01/2020 6:37:43 PM Hasbeen, Capitalism is always looking for The Next Big Thing to invest in. Canals in the4.....
» 25/01/2020 6:31:49 PM Individual, The Philippines ? Are you kidding ? The murder of thousands of people suspect.....
» 25/01/2020 3:35:41 PM Individual, "And I'd rather see a benevolent Dictator who comes down hard on the wro.....
» 25/01/2020 1:23:34 PM Individual, Democracy is the most uncertain form of government, precisely because it's th.....
» 25/01/2020 9:50:57 AM Misopinionated, Wow, I was just waiting for someone to mention Bangla Desh and its immine.....
» 25/01/2020 9:31:58 AM Hi JBowyer, Yes, I know that now, but it took a long time: of course, being on the idiot .....
» 24/01/2020 10:39:54 AM Quite a surprisingly impressive article. I started off a bit earlier than David, but finis.....
» 22/01/2020 9:19:25 AM Hi Alan, Yeah, in the old USSR, Trofim Lysenko 'proved' that tomatoes and potatoes could .....
» 20/01/2020 9:42:56 PM Paul, No, none of us stood out in a hail-storm, like you and Misop may have done. People .....
» 20/01/2020 6:13:21 PM Paul, Cricket balls are less than 20cm in diameter. Back in late January, 1991, Adelaid.....
» 20/01/2020 12:56:27 PM Forumites, If you want state governments and national park authorities to keep cutting b.....
» 20/01/2020 10:20:54 AM Paul, Eel harvesting is a combined form of hunting and gathering, once common all around .....
» 19/01/2020 5:29:26 PM Hi Max, Yes, you're right. See also this UN set of documents on the subject: http://ourw.....
» 19/01/2020 4:26:56 PM Individual, I think Paul might mean the reduction of fuel loads in national parks and the.....
» 19/01/2020 12:44:55 PM Max, I'm not a great fan of burning, since it produces CO2, which is so bad for the clima.....
» 19/01/2020 12:34:47 PM Hi Hasbeen, I was watching the wonderful "Vera" last night and noticed these yo.....
» 19/01/2020 12:19:12 PM Max, So you support many of the proposals of Don and some of the rest of us denier-retard.....
» 19/01/2020 11:20:27 AM Is that all you two can do, to trivialise and divert from these extremely serious issues ?.....
» 19/01/2020 11:15:07 AM Inividual, Are you indirectly suggesting that Pacific atolls counter the removal of groun.....
» 19/01/2020 11:00:52 AM As any parent would know, adolescents have a maddening way of arguing - they may seize on .....
» 19/01/2020 8:40:06 AM Paul, Where do the people of Tuvalu get their water from ? From pumping it out of the gro.....
» 18/01/2020 6:02:32 PM Misopinionated, Interesting tactic, if a litte addled: accuse someone of supporting some.....
» 18/01/2020 12:56:50 PM INdividual, That's interesting, that the CPA included names of people who were not Indige.....
» 18/01/2020 12:54:31 PM Paul, Well, no, not believing in any gods, I think it more likely that (figuratively spea.....
» 18/01/2020 11:24:24 AM Hopefully someone will blow in Attenborough's ear about Australia's droughts and policies .....
» 18/01/2020 11:21:23 AM Sorry, Individual, I didn't bookmark this thread. http://www.cifhs.com/qldrecords/CPA-Cor.....
» 17/01/2020 5:58:52 PM Paul, I'll leave the religion of Climate Change to you :) As it happens, I've always been.....
» 17/01/2020 4:31:59 PM Paul, So you agree that there has been a " ... build up to these catastrophic fire e.....
» 17/01/2020 1:48:18 PM Paul, What is needed for cataclysmic bush-fires ? Long periods of dryness, i.e. droughts;.....
» 17/01/2020 9:14:20 AM Thanks, Don, for some common sense. Do some people think that a forest, or national park.....
» 17/01/2020 7:53:17 AM Bugger, I just burnt my sausages. Must be Climate Change :( Joe.....
» 17/01/2020 7:47:55 AM Misopinionated, Or just reduce the fuel load in fire-prone areas ? Joe.....
» 16/01/2020 4:36:46 PM Paul, What ?! 1.1 degree C more than 200 years ago !? No, surely not ! Do you have any .....
» 16/01/2020 11:35:54 AM IF it turns out that increasing fuel load was by far the major factor in these devastating.....
» 15/01/2020 1:49:47 PM Steele, He was gay. And he was bullied. Bullying works in the most dreadful ways. The.....
» 15/01/2020 12:44:25 PM Hi Individual, Yes, the AFP is supposed to be investigating the Pascoe Fiasco. And yes,.....
» 15/01/2020 8:31:55 AM Misopinionated, Do you mean more funding for fuel reduction programs in national parks ? .....
» 14/01/2020 6:58:48 PM Thanks Josephus, A 39-year drought around the year 1200 ! That would have meant an age-ga.....
» 14/01/2020 3:20:49 PM Hi Alan, Everybody in the world has some Neanderthal ancestry in their DNA except African.....
» 14/01/2020 11:46:04 AM Hi Big Nana, Down this way in SA, attempts by whitefellas to gain some benefit assumed to.....
» 14/01/2020 10:52:10 AM All Pascoe has to do is find just one Aboriginal person who says that they are related. So.....
» 13/01/2020 5:23:24 PM Paul, Is that the sum-total of your knowledge about CO2 and fires ? Bones don't burn exce.....
» 13/01/2020 5:16:39 PM Although it's a more trivial matter than the farming fraud, it seems that Pascoe hasn't pr.....
» 13/01/2020 4:10:05 PM Surely one lesson that we all should have learnt from these bush-fires is that, sooner or .....
» 13/01/2020 11:28:19 AM Paqul, I suspect that I was out on the streets marching against the war in Vietnam (not j.....
» 12/01/2020 4:43:44 PM Misopinionated, poor half-witted child, No, people are not necessarily deniers if they pr.....
» 12/01/2020 2:57:10 PM Altrav, That sort of response usually indicates that the perpetrators have nothing else t.....
» 12/01/2020 2:27:19 PM Paul, So cutting down all the trees is your only alternative solution ? Either - or ? Eit.....
» 12/01/2020 1:14:16 PM Hi Is Mise, Of course, minimise any fuel load under trees along our roadways, maybe back .....
» 12/01/2020 10:03:30 AM Paul, In answer to your question: " .... As someone noted, a bushfire needs three t.....
» 12/01/2020 8:11:55 AM Hi Paul, Yes: "A combination of a prolonged drought, higher temperatures and other w.....
» 11/01/2020 5:27:54 PM Hi Runner, Weinstein or Epstein .... champions of the left and woke issues .... " ? .....
» 11/01/2020 11:15:09 AM Hi Max, Gee, what's got up your nose ? Three years, five years - surely anything less th.....
» 11/01/2020 10:16:18 AM Hi Ateday, If you really want information about world population, try this: http://ourwo.....
» 9/01/2020 10:01:34 PM Hi Is Mise, My parents would never have gone anywhere near the Vinnies people, I suspect,.....
» 9/01/2020 5:41:27 PM Hi Runner, Yes, well, chips once a week, sixpence a bag, at the pictures. I can't recall .....
» 9/01/2020 3:31:03 PM Misopinionated, Be patient, once you've finished Sociology I, you will be in a better pos.....
» 9/01/2020 3:19:35 PM Hi Liz, SR is right: "For many here facts are just an excuse to increase the bombast.....
» 9/01/2020 2:29:24 PM Liza, Maybe I'm not too bright, but I struggle with the notion that, over the past couple.....
» 9/01/2020 8:52:32 AM A few months back, as it happens, I had to check out a national park in NSW on Google, so .....
» 9/01/2020 8:40:26 AM Bazz, Slightly off-topic, but Charles Darwin married his cousin. Cross-cousin marriages h.....
» 7/01/2020 9:56:50 AM An appropriate article title. But ...... The Middle East (defined very broadly these da.....
» 4/01/2020 4:31:21 PM Thanks Paul, I hope that the Greens learn something from all this disaster. Well, all of .....
» 4/01/2020 12:14:44 PM Ttbn, Well, kindness is in my very nature :) Cheers, Joe.....
» 4/01/2020 11:09:42 AM Paul, I wonder if half-wits like Misopinionated assume that all Africans are Muslim ? [Ju.....
» 4/01/2020 11:00:58 AM Hi Paul, Thanks to your considered response to my criticism of people building timber hou.....
» 4/01/2020 10:40:11 AM Thanks, Paul, I'll have a look now. Joe.....
» 3/01/2020 1:01:56 PM Individual, On the other hand, a high proportion of those who have built their homes surr.....
» 3/01/2020 8:59:15 AM Paul, There have been archaeological investigations all over the country for more than a .....
» 2/01/2020 1:07:07 PM SR, Well, no, I didn't have a go at Pascoe's background in my last post: I was simply sug.....
» 2/01/2020 12:28:06 PM Hi SR, The problem is that there is no actual and conclusive evidence of Aboriginal farmi.....
» 1/01/2020 7:29:32 PM Misopinionated, 1. There will be far more British in Australia than China-born Chinese fo.....
» 30/12/2019 8:24:11 PM Misopinionated, 1. From: http://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/abs@.nsf/Latestproducts/3412.0Mai.....
» 30/12/2019 6:42:05 PM Misopinionated, 2.6 % Chinese (of many origins) and you're terrified ?! There are migran.....
» 30/12/2019 4:42:15 PM Sorry, Frank, you're right, I should have identified all of the thousand ethnic groups who.....
» 30/12/2019 4:39:19 PM Frank, From: http://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/abs@.nsf/Latestproducts/3412.0Main%20Features.....
» 30/12/2019 8:56:45 AM Wow, there sure are some ratbags on this thread. With the greatest respect, of course. I s.....
» 30/12/2019 7:19:55 AM http://www.aph.gov.au/About_Parliament/Parliamentary_Departments/Parliamentary_Library/Pub.....
» 29/12/2019 4:57:02 PM Hi Paul, So neither of us accused the Revs. Williams of being Marxist. I'm glad that conf.....
» 29/12/2019 10:53:10 AM Paul, Why are you accusing the Williams of being Marxists ? That would never have entered.....
» 29/12/2019 8:46:03 AM Misopinionated, Pot, kettle. Joe.....
» 28/12/2019 5:17:47 PM Altrav, Yes, I agree, that anybody claiming benefits as Indigenous should have their prer.....
» 28/12/2019 4:06:18 PM Paul, On this relatively trivial issue, of whether or not Pascoe is Aboriginal: can you r.....
» 28/12/2019 1:49:48 PM Individual, Well, that's what I meant, if you read it more carefully :) Joe.....
» 28/12/2019 11:13:01 AM Hi Paul, So ....... neither Sturt nor Mitchell et al. mention farming ? None of the early.....
» 28/12/2019 10:59:19 AM ASH, Of the 200-odd ethnic groups across Australia, each of which may be quite mixed as w.....
» 28/12/2019 9:08:45 AM Hi Belly, I hope you haven't contracted the new disease :) - that to disagree is to hate;.....
» 27/12/2019 8:02:39 PM Pascoe occupies positions, with salaries and other benefits, as if he was Indigenous. He h.....
» 27/12/2019 1:19:42 PM Australia has an immigrant quota, and a refugee quota, as every country should have. Immig.....
» 26/12/2019 6:33:03 PM Paul, I was born on the Left and I'll die on the Left, despite all the poseurs and frauds.....
» 26/12/2019 12:55:58 PM Belly, What I'm trying tease out is how to keep national parks as safe as possible to avo.....
» 26/12/2019 9:41:52 AM Belly, I would have thought that, if there is the threat of a drought (say, a second seas.....
» 26/12/2019 9:32:21 AM Frank, Of course, eventually, in hundreds of years, the mixed population of Australia wil.....
» 25/12/2019 10:04:27 AM Hi Altrav, He was suggesting that we can learn a lot about human behaviour by studying pl.....
» 25/12/2019 7:28:07 AM Hi Rob, Back in the seventies, Edmund O. Wilson put forward his theory of 'Sociobiology':.....
» 24/12/2019 3:29:06 PM SR, You can't get it through your head, that none of the original observations, find them.....
» 24/12/2019 12:46:10 PM Hi SM, I'm puzzled why Pascoe relies on 'modified' [i.e. fabricated] versions of what som.....
» 24/12/2019 8:41:23 AM Hi Paul, Similar here. I bumped into an Aboriginal bloke who I thought I'd never met befo.....
» 22/12/2019 8:40:04 PM SR, I don't think so. To summarise: * . Pascoe is not Indigenous, but has a well-paid .....
» 22/12/2019 4:51:35 PM SR, So, even in this different example, Mitchell describes the gathering of wild grasses .....
» 22/12/2019 4:03:14 PM SR, Pascoe, purportedly citing Mitchell (in Dark Emu, 2018, p. 15): "‘[T]he grass i.....
» 22/12/2019 3:07:50 PM Misopinionated, I didn't single out Arts graduates like myself, nor do I think graduates .....
» 22/12/2019 2:58:28 PM SR, I'm not sure what you're on about. If you mean that I'm attacking Pascoe rather than .....
» 22/12/2019 12:06:26 PM Paul, On that last post, you would surely know that it would be pretty impossible for any.....
» 22/12/2019 11:54:09 AM Hasbeen, But you don't - or can't - or won't - understand that they are our rightful rule.....
» 22/12/2019 11:14:10 AM Paul, No, SR hasn't given me anything of the sort. He has simply asserted what he needed .....
» 22/12/2019 8:43:48 AM Paul, You're kidding. How big was this yam patch ? Did Hunter write that it looked like a.....
» 22/12/2019 7:30:18 AM Thank you, Graham, for OLO. It's an oasis of ideas. All the very best to you and yours f.....
» 21/12/2019 4:57:16 PM It's no surprise how virtuous wanchors always have cop-outs. Now our Chinese fellow-citi.....
» 21/12/2019 3:12:41 PM Individual, You shouldn't criticise virtuous wanchors, they are so obviously with the fi.....
» 21/12/2019 3:09:51 PM SR, I would have thought that invaders would have had cannon and grenades as well. A blok.....
» 21/12/2019 12:08:30 PM Hi Paul, Is that your best shot ? No chance of actually tackling the issues then ? i.e......
» 21/12/2019 11:52:43 AM Belly, I have to agree with Hasbeen, there are plenty of reports - in newspapers, journal.....
» 21/12/2019 10:08:50 AM SR, So what it all comes down to is: - what unambiguous evidence is there that: * . Pa.....
» 20/12/2019 3:44:31 PM Hi Paul, I'm confused why the Evils, according to Pascoe, would want to destroy any trace.....
» 20/12/2019 1:27:38 PM I think Mitchell used the term "stooped", meaning "stooked", i.e. &quo.....
» 20/12/2019 9:15:38 AM What is a town ? According to Pascoe, it's a conurbation of, say, a thousand people, plopp.....
» 19/12/2019 8:38:24 AM SR, " .... why don't you give us a single instance where he wrote badly, edited badl.....
» 18/12/2019 6:02:38 PM Hi Is Mise, "Bruce Pascoe "POSITIONS Professor, Jumbunna Inst for Indigenous E.....
» 18/12/2019 4:26:37 PM SR, If you can find a ten-year-old to explain to you what 19 health professionals means, .....
» 18/12/2019 2:17:04 PM There you go, Steele. Make an assertion and you'll get an informed response which puncture.....
» 18/12/2019 11:43:16 AM SR, Oh, I certainly don't think that the Rabbit Fence saga was all fiction. I think that .....
» 18/12/2019 7:49:48 AM Paul would know far more than me about this but in New Zealand, where there was indeed far.....
» 17/12/2019 3:35:29 PM It's a bit hot, too. The forecast for Adelaide for today was a max of 40 degrees, but it's.....
» 17/12/2019 3:32:05 PM SR, How is 'caring for country' inconsistent with hunting and gathering ? Are you suggest.....
» 17/12/2019 3:10:16 PM It seems that every generation of youngsters has to learn all over again about the flaws (.....
» 17/12/2019 2:48:46 PM Back on the topic of farming: thousands of books have been written describing Aboriginal c.....
» 17/12/2019 12:22:13 PM Ttbn, In the roll of OLO posters, we each play our role.....
» 17/12/2019 10:25:48 AM I'm happy to flaunt my general superiority without flouting any law or conventions. Regr.....
» 16/12/2019 5:25:30 PM The plant life on our planet needs around 180 parts per million to survive, give or take. .....
» 16/12/2019 11:41:17 AM Hi Bely, Presumably you have evidence for your 'beliefs', in spite of countervailing evid.....
» 16/12/2019 11:34:21 AM Hi Taswegian, Speaking of EVs - when would be the most sensible time to charge up an EV's.....
» 16/12/2019 9:47:52 AM Hi Ttbn, "Setting up nuclear will take too long, so the only possible answer is a re.....
» 16/12/2019 8:30:50 AM Misopinionated, "The world is overpopulated and our numbers are growing exponentiall.....
» 15/12/2019 5:20:18 PM Hi paul, Yeah, it's a bountiful country:) Even farmers traditionally would also do a bit .....
» 15/12/2019 4:05:46 PM Misopinionated, And a squirrel is a nut on its way to the ground, as the philosopher Rapo.....
» 15/12/2019 11:35:13 AM [continued] So you're aware of hunting stories but not planting or harvesting stories ? G.....
» 15/12/2019 11:33:16 AM Steele Redux, I wonder if that's your real name. Or maybe .... a nom de plume ? Ay ? No !.....
» 15/12/2019 10:01:21 AM CM, So ...... Indians are deliberately making and selling us goods at low prices, in unsa.....
» 15/12/2019 8:23:09 AM Belly, Ah ! A 'centrist' ? I finally got that in your last sentence, thank you. Do you .....
» 14/12/2019 3:20:10 PM CM, Old ground - we've been over this before. Europe, including Russia, Japan and South K.....
» 13/12/2019 8:00:25 PM Misopinionated, So you're not actually in Australia then ? Or perhaps on the same planet .....
» 13/12/2019 5:36:25 PM Belly, We're in Australia. What other countries do is up to them, whether we like it or n.....
» 13/12/2019 8:48:12 AM For god's sake you fellas, make up your mind - do you want to attack Muslims, or India, im.....
» 13/12/2019 7:11:58 AM Belly, Hottest day ever in Australia (from Dr Google): "2 January 1960 "The h.....
» 13/12/2019 7:05:07 AM Belly, You're aware that the vast majority of people in India are not Muslims but Hindu ?.....
» 12/12/2019 5:57:49 PM Wait and see, Belly :).....
» 12/12/2019 3:01:28 PM Henry, It's possible that integration is working far better than many on this thread thin.....
» 12/12/2019 12:13:04 PM Petroleum products that we ingest ? So what ? CO2 is the basis of plants, which over ma.....
» 12/12/2019 12:05:59 PM Hi SM, No. Not 'mostly' - all of it. He has no Indigenous ancestry. He is a whitefella ma.....
» 12/12/2019 11:48:07 AM Hi Henry, Perhaps a slightly more vague and appropriate word would be 'multi-origin-group.....
» 12/12/2019 10:17:55 AM Altrav, Pascoe doesn't have any non-English ancestors, unless you go back to the Danes. H.....
» 12/12/2019 8:25:46 AM Just as a reminder: Australia has a quota of around nineteen thousand refugees each year. .....
» 11/12/2019 12:49:30 PM Belly, China now has a 100-year lease on the Greek port of Piraeus, i.e. Athens. Joe.....
» 11/12/2019 12:47:04 PM Misopinionated, So your TAFE certificate is in historical environmental sociology ? Or .....
» 11/12/2019 8:49:32 AM SR, Stooking grass before winnowing it is a standard form of gathering, even if that's wh.....
» 10/12/2019 4:46:29 PM SR, That 'massacre map' has some problems in SA, namely evidence. In the north-east of SA.....
» 10/12/2019 2:08:53 PM Hi SR, Gosh, so virtuous ! Yes indeed, the truth is what we should all be after, the whol.....
» 10/12/2019 1:12:16 PM Just to elaborate on the complex history of herding and eventually farming, this article f.....
» 10/12/2019 10:59:25 AM Belly, Why do you say that ? Because Bolt details Pascoe's English heritage, going right .....
» 10/12/2019 10:43:31 AM Misopinionated, Every religion needs some Satanic figure, the Devil, Satan himself, some .....
» 10/12/2019 9:05:06 AM Hi Individual, Almost all of the surnames of my ancestors on both sides are also the name.....
» 9/12/2019 3:53:23 PM Belly, Yes, and I hope that he is incarcerated for the maximum possible time, if not long.....
» 9/12/2019 3:51:10 PM Misopinionated, Well, no, it would have been the Mongols who tried to invade Java, as the.....
» 9/12/2019 2:38:02 PM Bazz, I don't think Arabs ever invaded India - Persians and Afghans and central Asians an.....
» 9/12/2019 2:31:40 PM Christ, Belly, nobody is forcing you to wear a hijab or speak any other language or eat fu.....
» 8/12/2019 2:47:53 PM Bazz & Individual, Pitcairn Island is not Australian-controlled territory. Heard Island i.....
» 8/12/2019 10:35:13 AM Misopinionated, Your medieval thinking is starting to show: "They might drag you al.....
» 7/12/2019 9:53:38 PM Misopinionated, Of course there is climate change, there always is. One degree rise and t.....
» 7/12/2019 2:15:31 PM Misopinionated, I've never claimed to have a dozen degrees. Strictly speaking, I have onl.....
» 7/12/2019 2:07:58 PM Hi Henry, Try this: http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/dec/05/far-right-extr.....
» 7/12/2019 12:22:43 PM Misopinionated, Putting one's assertions into practice has a lot going for it. Presumab.....
» 7/12/2019 11:05:01 AM Henry, Not really - go along to any citizenship ceremony and you will find Muslims eager .....
» 7/12/2019 10:03:44 AM Misopinionated, If I had a cure for idiocy, I would certainly offer it to you for free, w.....
» 7/12/2019 9:01:19 AM Dan, No, I marched with tens of thousands of others here in Adelaide, in March 2003, to .....
» 6/12/2019 5:10:10 PM Runner, Do you mean this ? http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-01-09/snowstorm-blankets-saha.....
» 6/12/2019 5:02:04 PM Dan, Thieving oil ? How's that, by the rest of the world paying them low prices ? i.e. us.....
» 5/12/2019 4:46:28 PM Hi Belly, How many of those bushfires have started in national parks, especially those wh.....
» 5/12/2019 4:43:53 PM Mhaze, Yes, China may become old but it will also become rapidly more educated, relying l.....
» 5/12/2019 11:53:51 AM Belly, 'role'. 'drivel'......
» 5/12/2019 10:18:49 AM Hi Gus, Well, apart from the Soviets' wars against Poland and the Baltic countries (1918-.....
» 5/12/2019 9:21:55 AM AC, "I remember a couple years back a Muslim mans second wife murdered the first wif.....
» 4/12/2019 8:21:58 PM That's right, Paul, the business and academic elite cliques stick together, since they bel.....
» 4/12/2019 8:17:13 PM Hi AC, Can you please read over what has been said in recent posts ? With respect, your l.....
» 4/12/2019 3:07:25 PM Belly, It could be that the major threat to Labor's electoral support will be from Hanson.....
» 4/12/2019 2:22:46 PM Misopinionated, 'Red herring' ? You keep talking about people's uni qualifications, and y.....
» 4/12/2019 12:03:12 PM Belly, That's what I've been on about, that like it or not, China - by rejecting democrac.....
» 4/12/2019 8:13:40 AM Thanks, Paul :) Cheers, Joe.....
» 4/12/2019 7:58:20 AM Hi Individual, Yes, indeed it would be. But on its own, how people dress is surely no gre.....
» 3/12/2019 4:40:46 PM Runner, Not sure how you come to that conclusion - and then leap to an extreme. I would h.....
» 3/12/2019 1:10:08 PM SR, So we'll soon have a navigable North-West Passage around the top of Canada from the P.....
» 3/12/2019 12:57:22 PM AC, So ...... to wear a nikab or burka is a sure sign that someone was about to commit a .....
» 3/12/2019 12:50:59 PM Misopinionated, So they had a degree in environmental sociology at the Uni of Sydney back.....
» 3/12/2019 12:09:21 PM Individual, So ....... it's pretty crook to be noticed, to dress differently i.e. noticea.....
» 3/12/2019 11:57:22 AM Hi Hasbeen, A week ago, Monday and Tuesday, in the weather reports, the Australian printe.....
» 3/12/2019 11:46:20 AM A degree rise in temperature in a century, especially in the cities. Two inches rise in se.....
» 3/12/2019 10:44:45 AM Paul, I would have thought that the Safe Schools program was a pretty good example of ind.....
» 3/12/2019 9:12:36 AM Is Mise & Individual, So ....... to wear particular sorts of clothes means they're out to.....
» 3/12/2019 8:55:40 AM Ttbn, That's how it works: ultimately, any strong alternative to imperfect democracy lead.....
» 3/12/2019 8:40:46 AM Hi Dan, OLO Rule # 1: don't post while you're pissed :) Joe.....
» 3/12/2019 8:38:58 AM Misopinionated, So you're nudging seventy ? Ergo, you would claim that you studied envir.....
» 2/12/2019 7:58:50 PM Paul, What ?! If someone has an opinion about something like SSM, they're like Hitler ? B.....
» 2/12/2019 7:55:50 PM Is Mise, So it's only women who are wearing nikabs or in a burka ? Okay, fair enough, alt.....
» 2/12/2019 2:59:21 PM Paul, If Margaret Court said, Court said about the homosexual lobby, that "(they) ge.....
» 2/12/2019 2:42:38 PM Individual, So ...... women dressed in hijabs and long skirts are explicitly " sugge.....
» 1/12/2019 7:36:29 PM Misopinionated Simpleton, So when I write, "The idiocies of one-world-government wil.....
» 1/12/2019 5:41:54 PM Belly, "Why do SOME wear it [and they do] to express a difference" Because tha.....
» 1/12/2019 5:33:43 PM Belly, Surely you're not too old to remember Nazism and fascism, and how Stalinism was ha.....
» 1/12/2019 5:22:20 PM Belly, Integration may be a slow process of social interaction, over a generation or two,.....
» 1/12/2019 12:42:18 PM Is Mise, And if Muslim women are targeted because of what they wear, what might be their .....
» 1/12/2019 12:38:52 PM Fester, Well, straight-out racial Apartheid. The bumiputra system, like any social system.....
» 1/12/2019 12:35:18 PM Misopinionated, If you ever study Sociology (Google can give you a brief definition), you.....
» 1/12/2019 11:54:34 AM Misopinionated, Even with your 1-cent, 10-yr-old, brain, I don't know how you could concl.....
» 1/12/2019 7:21:06 AM Dan, Perhaps the lesson to be learnt is not to lunge at people with a 12-inch knife and n.....
» 30/11/2019 1:14:43 PM Belly, I suspect that pollution - of the oceans, rivers, etc. - has been developing into .....
» 30/11/2019 11:19:56 AM AC, Good point: crime by people from majority cultural backgrounds tends to be invisible,.....
» 30/11/2019 9:57:18 AM Misopinionated, I get mixed up between Foucault and Derrida and Baudrillard, to be hones.....
» 30/11/2019 9:04:28 AM Misopinonated, Of course there is climate change going on, it always has been, always is......
» 30/11/2019 8:53:57 AM Thanks, Paul. I would have thought that legally, Maori rights to land were safeguarded u.....
» 29/11/2019 5:23:27 PM Max, During the Medieval Warming Period (MWP), Vikings are supposed to have colonised sou.....
» 29/11/2019 5:19:16 PM Hi Paul, Sorry, didn't understand 'mandate negotiations', I'm out of touch :) Maybe an ex.....
» 29/11/2019 5:05:41 PM SM, Libel may be a civil matter provided the assertion has not been doctored or forged, a.....
» 29/11/2019 4:43:21 PM I sincerely hope that Foxy returns soon. I promise to be more civil ! Love, Joe.....
» 29/11/2019 2:22:59 PM Rubbish, Individual. If you mean the Moriori who colonised the Chatham Islands, they WERE .....
» 29/11/2019 10:45:50 AM If Indigenous people could choose representatives for a 'Voice' to or in Parliament, on a .....
» 29/11/2019 10:37:22 AM Is Mise, Many Christian women in Middle eastern countries wear similar clothing, head sca.....
» 29/11/2019 10:22:23 AM Misopinionated, Now, THAT sort of comment makes you look ignorant. Maybe just wait until .....
» 28/11/2019 2:43:00 PM Hi Steele, So CO2 is causing more arsonists ? Joe.....
» 28/11/2019 1:41:56 PM Individual, What, only eighty years ? Joe.....
» 28/11/2019 1:24:18 PM Hi O Sung Wu, Or did you mean 'guava', red on the inside and green on the outside ? Yes.....
» 28/11/2019 1:20:01 PM Hi Belly, Are you suggesting that, in addition to the fires that got started by faulty po.....
» 28/11/2019 1:08:19 PM [continued] and given that I married an Aboriginal woman, I'm all for it. It produces bea.....
» 28/11/2019 1:06:44 PM Hi Aidan, Yes, cultural practices are always changing, even imperceptibly, and certainly .....
» 28/11/2019 6:50:10 AM Hi Hasbeen, Halfway between Bass Hill and Chester Hill - no shops, no service station, ju.....
» 27/11/2019 9:07:22 PM Hi Paul, No, Me and that bastard Loudmouth disagree on pretty much everything but only ov.....
» 27/11/2019 7:31:54 PM Hi Yuyutsu, Where to start ? So far, there is no such thing as 'too much population', it .....
» 27/11/2019 5:19:14 PM Shaggy Dog, Sorry, I took for granted that your 'idiot' remark was, of course, directed a.....
» 27/11/2019 3:16:27 PM Hi Shaggy Dog, Pot, kettle ? Joe.....
» 27/11/2019 3:15:05 PM Hi Yuyutsu, " .... life in these crowded conditions .... " ? Australian homes .....
» 27/11/2019 12:40:01 PM Out of the thousands of people signed up to OLO, there are probably no two posters who agr.....
» 26/11/2019 2:03:42 PM Hi Kirby, I think she's already designated where it is to be donated to. Don't jump the g.....
» 26/11/2019 9:50:09 AM I'm not all that interested in whether or not Jesus did this or that, etc. etc. I'm concer.....
» 26/11/2019 9:38:04 AM What did he expect ? See where an inflated belief in one's own intelligence can get you ? .....
» 25/11/2019 7:54:49 PM Hi Individual, To the Guardian, values means food, and dance, and clothes, and special ho.....
» 25/11/2019 4:16:23 PM Belly & Cossomby, There are some posters whose posts are so worthless of attention, so em.....
» 24/11/2019 2:16:10 PM Individual, Are you suggesting that head-scarves and long dresses represent the violent o.....
» 23/11/2019 4:11:41 PM Hi Nathan, Unless someone sinks the boot into me, I try to engage on the basis of someone.....
» 23/11/2019 1:30:40 PM Thanks, Individual ! A beauty ! But there is so much bullsh!t like that: * young men n.....
» 23/11/2019 11:03:28 AM Dan, I think you may have misinterpreted the comments by Is Mise. Please read his post ag.....
» 23/11/2019 10:58:46 AM Hi Josephus, On your observation: " .... you are more than what the worms consume. Y.....
» 22/11/2019 6:42:15 PM Belly, It seems that Labor is stuck on its maximum support of about 33 % of the vote. The.....
» 22/11/2019 6:32:50 PM Individual & Is Mise, Are you suggesting that it's okay to attack women if they are dress.....
» 22/11/2019 2:29:13 PM It seems that Pascoe has English ancestry, ONLY English ancestry. And perhaps not one conv.....
» 22/11/2019 2:04:22 PM Ttbn, Because neither is true. Both sorts of attacks are carried out by sane people with .....
» 21/11/2019 4:01:17 PM Religion has many aspects. Christianity has its god and angels and cherubs and burning bus.....
» 20/11/2019 4:42:15 PM Belly, Maybe the slide in voting is not (or certainly not just) from welded-on workers an.....
» 20/11/2019 4:36:45 PM Belly, I've been told by a long-term health expert in the Kimberley that, at one school, .....
» 20/11/2019 4:26:41 PM Max & Little, Okay, certainly cool-burn whenever it's possible, and remove major undergro.....
» 20/11/2019 12:09:33 PM Mx, I'm sure that you're not suggesting that undergrowth and weeds and dead timber should.....
» 20/11/2019 11:27:20 AM Foxy, You seem to be completely unaware that in remote settlements, many children (and no.....
» 20/11/2019 8:51:25 AM Misopinionated, yes indeed it is. Joe.....
» 20/11/2019 8:47:04 AM Foxy, Given that your notion of a third chamber will 'elect' only the same bunch of incom.....
» 20/11/2019 8:39:35 AM Hi Josephus, Misopinionated probably thinks that carbon, and carbon dioxide, are poisons......
» 19/11/2019 3:56:05 PM Foxy A Voice TO Parliament ? Or A Voice IN Parliament ? i.e. as a third chamber ? In addi.....
» 19/11/2019 1:34:31 PM Hi Foxy, As you point out, there are already Indigenous-oriented newspapers nationally, a.....
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