Comments on: Friday Salon (Easter edition)

By: Fiasco da Gama

Fiasco da Gama — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 23:41:14 +0000

Dear Larvatus Prodeo administrators
I’d like to make an official request that the category ‘asshat’ be renamed ‘arse-hat’ in recognition of the Australian spelling and pronunciation.
Please find attached a picture of an arse-hat, made, naturally, by the ever-inventive Portuguese.
Sincerely,
Fiasco da Gama

By: tigtog

tigtog — Sat, 07 Apr 2007 22:44:13 +0000

Wot a serious salon! You all need to write some limericks. Write us a limerick to get the count up to 50 and the Solomon Islands Tsunamis appeal gets some more money. Only 15 more needed!

By: Sir Henry Casingbroke

Sir Henry Casingbroke — Sat, 07 Apr 2007 02:34:38 +0000

Friends, Larvae, fellow blogosphere denizens! Lend me your electrophysiological methods of auditory brainstem response!

If you think that Hicks’s trial, subsequent conviction and undertakings are bizarre, check out the case of one David Henson McNab, a Honduran (despite the name) fisherman and businessman, doing eight years on a 2001 federal conviction in Alabama based on a law in another country that was repealed in 1995.
[LINK]
Is this loony or what?

By: Link

Link — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 22:50:45 +0000

In the wake of the latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Malcolm Turnbull rightly suggests that one of the big problems is deforestation. (see Saturday’s SMH)

Mally, darling, I agree, but there is this little matter that you really will should fess up over to the citizenry at large, having made a substantial amount (one would like to think) of your current completely and utterly OTT wealth from precisely that–logging.

Backgroud Briefing Transcript March 2, 2007

Wendy Carlisle: But way back before the Republican campaign and before HIH, Malcolm Turnbull specialised in corporate turnarounds through his company, Turnbull and Partners. And in his first big corporate play, the future minister for the environment showed that money does grow on trees.

The date is 1991, and Mr Turnbull and two other Australian investors briefly got involved in the Solomon Islands logging industry after buying a 16% stake in the logging company, Axiom Forest Resources, for $200,000.

In not much more than 12 months, Malcolm Turnbull had sold his stake for $25 million.

I have no problem with Damascus-like conversions, but unless the Minister for the Environment willing to reinvest the $25 million he made from Axion Industries, through their rape of the Solomons, into ‘re-aforestation’ the hypocricy is nothing short of breathtaking.

The Government have this nerdy school kid mentality which suggests that they are not prepared to make concessions unless every body else does, (so there). Meantime Mally has gone off to lecture and berate, poorer nations about doing their bit and not chopping down trees.

By: Oz

Oz — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 14:59:47 +0000

I do have to say that from my understanding Juanita is at least nationally a polarising person and rather unpopular amongst some sections of the Greens membership (well at least active NSW Greens members I know). The dislike almost sounded like something I’d expect from someone in the ALP.

By: Gummo Trotsky

Gummo Trotsky — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 11:59:20 +0000

That tie hanging exposed below the jacket button is not a good look. Nor is big lumpy thing in right inside pocket spoiling the line the way to get around either. Looks like there’s a bit of loose shirt tail right of tie too.

By: philip travers

philip travers — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 10:36:39 +0000

The Three Hundred Dollars a year for every taxpayer seems like a lot of money to one particular problem.And yet it works out to be what over a 365 day year, or a 38 hour week?Thats if it is coming out of workers pay!If it was coming out of regular GST payments ,what does it amount to in a given period of transactions!?If this money went directly for environmental work straight from ,say,GST. transactions to those actually involved in the day by day work,would it also involve GST collections on goods and services?Why would this present government pluck this figure out of the air unless it saw money rolling back in as well?The usual critics maybe underestimating Costellos ability to embarass them forever.

By: steve

steve — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 06:28:15 +0000

ozpolitics has the latest Morgan Poll results. Wonder how the Fed Libs will go from here now that we have Costello, Nelso and Turnbull all acting without advice from the relevant public servants. Once a Government loses the faith of the Public Servants it is usually in a death spin from which there is no way out.

By: Pavlov's Cat

Pavlov's Cat — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 05:18:17 +0000

Holy moly, could this really be the person who's vilely trashing a woman about her weight? As David points out, he had to distort the (unattibuted) pic of Juanita Wheeler in order to make her look bad enough for his post to be "funny". I see the Age has indulged in no such distortion.

By: Gummo Trotsky

Gummo Trotsky — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 05:10:59 +0000

I will seek guidance from relevant authorities about how to deal with both terrible omissions. All non self-harm suggestions welcome.

So the famous Doctor Kellogg’s favourite remedy for all ills is out then?