Comments on: Saturday Salon

By: boredinHK

boredinHK — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 01:47:16 +0000

Sorry Ms Keeler
Can’t understand your reply .

By: Christine Keeler

Christine Keeler — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 12:12:24 +0000

I hope the people of Venezuela receive great and improving health care and housing.

The assets of the country belong to them.

Thanks for that. Been thinking pretty much about the same about the assets in OZ myself, as opposed to, say, those in Honk Kong which we all know are owned in one way or another by the ChiCom govt or the Red Army.

Way to go capitalism, you twit.

By: boredinHK

boredinHK — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 06:39:12 +0000

http://dissentmagazine.org/article/?article=887

This article is from Dissent Magazine and is about the problem of aging .More specifically it describes the seventy year olds who are going to have to work to look after their parents who are surviving into their 90’s.

This quote gives you some idea-”“Boy, life’s a crapshoot, isn’t it. They tell you to prepare, and we did, but now what? It really pisses me off. You get here, and you can’t enjoy your life because you’re going to live so long.�? He stops talking again, then makes a noise that’s somewhere between a laugh and a cry. “Christ, this is nuts; here I am complaining about living so long. “

By: boredinHK

boredinHK — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 01:23:45 +0000

that should be “soon to be ruler for life”
Chavez.

By: boredinHK

boredinHK — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 01:21:59 +0000

Steve,
I hope the people of Venezuela receive great and improving health care and housing.
The assets of the country belong to them.
Their administration is denying them any chance to use the current commodities boom to secure a sound economy which will deliver these outcomes.
Tipping into hyperinflation will be consequences of the actions of the government .
Other countries can run negative trade balances as long as they can afford to secure funding .
Venezuela won’t be able to do that soon.
It’s economy is truly a house of cards.
Remember it will be the people who suffer not so to be ruler for life Chavez.

By: steve

steve — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 00:34:46 +0000

I don’t think he is the only person with a balance of trade problem that has imports running higher than exports BoredinHK.

By: boredinHK

boredinHK — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 23:23:27 +0000

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20602081&sid=aTbIhOtky4CI&refer=benchmark_currency_rates

The beginning of the end?

Perhaps Chavez will need to replace his hotline to Cuba with one to the office of that other big man of international socialism Mr Mugabe.

Responsibility for this impending melt down in the economy ? Please don’t all line up to blame everyone else for once.

By: steve

steve — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 22:13:58 +0000

‘Transit’ One of the best animated shorts. The story is told backwards.

By: Graham Bell

Graham Bell — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 10:42:52 +0000

Kim:
Yeah. Alright. But Kim Beazley isn’t standing for election, is he? [maybe I should have prefixed my 3rd sentence “what if” or “speculative history”]

[back on thread - sort of]
j-p-z:
So we got ourselves brand-new banknote technology then stuffed it up with our clunker coinage. The Euro coins and Singapore’s newest coins are a dream to use compared with ours.

By: Kim

Kim — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 10:01:09 +0000

Heh!

By: CK

CK — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 09:58:04 +0000

Sorry Kim. Please don’t beat me.

By: Kim

Kim — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 09:16:15 +0000

What part of election stuff goes on a dedicated thread don’t people understand? This thread is for stuff not related to the bloody endless election…

By: Graham Bell

Graham Bell — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 09:07:46 +0000

Enemy Combatant:
Liked your yarn about Menzies and the “Royal” …. ha-ha-ha-ha-ha.

Tim:
Glad to hear you are applying your time far more purposefully than are some of the over-subsidized, over-protected, under-worked and out-of-touch duds who are passing themselves off as CEOs of major corporations in Australia.

Ken Lovell, Nasking and Peterc:
Actually …. despite his image, Kim Beazley would have been an excellent prime minister …. pity about all the ALP dunderheads he had to carry around on his back ….

By: David

David — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 07:34:07 +0000

I hate coffee that is too hot.

I hate coffee that is too cold.

By: Peterc

Peterc — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 06:41:39 +0000

The best description I have heard of Kimbo is that he is “a zepellin in search of a breeze”. Seems like he is living up to this. And he hasn’t heard the proverb about making your own luck. I wonder if Garrett will go the same way, sputtering out on the backbench?

By: Paul Burns

Paul Burns — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 04:30:22 +0000

Jah Teh,
Glad to see I’m not alone out here festering about the disappearance of Torchwood.

By: nasking

nasking — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 02:38:54 +0000

kimbo is full of it…he had too much baggage and was way too egotistical and bombastic…weighed down by ballooning grandiosity. Rudd working the people on the ground is far more effective than Beazley waving from above…floating by flatulence. He needs to find a decent rocking chair and book and retire to the porch before he implodes over Labor again to the benefit of King John.

By: Ken Lovell

Ken Lovell — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 00:56:02 +0000

LOL did Kimbo say a drover’s dog could beat Howard?

By: Christine Keeler

Christine Keeler — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 20:51:56 +0000

Just a little offering for the deluded and insane http://www.news.com.au/perthnow/story/0,21598,22345761-948,00.html

DUMPED Labor leader Kim Beazley insists he could have defeated John Howard at the upcoming federal poll and Kevin Rudd was a lucky man who had been in the right place at the right time.

Mr Beazley said his successor was now in the box seat to become prime minister with a victory that he firmly believes should have been his — if only his Labor colleagues had stuck by him.

By: Tim

Tim — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 12:18:20 +0000

Nice to see you again Steve at the Pub. I’m still on the dole doing volunteer work that johnny don’t fund, hope this don’t offend you. See the kids and sudanese need me more than the economy does. The dole is my political protest against ir. Don’t hate me, well not so much anyway.