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The ABC has been touting the dubious logic of one Mr Richard Heinberg on its current affairs programs lately.
http://www.abc.net.au/lateline/content/2007/s2242621.htm
http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2007/s2280200.htm
On another occasion, a current affairs presenter offered the following “expert” opinion for the Prime Minister’s consideration.
“KERRY O’BRIEN: (To Kevin Rudd) ….there is a growing and very credible body of advice that with the odd slot going down slightly, that it’s simply in the long term going to be going up and up and up.
Richard Heinberg is a highly respected world expert on the oil crisis and when the world reaches the price where known oil reserves reach their peak and irreversibly decline, he says, over the long term, nowhere for oil prices to go but up.”
http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2007/s2276494.htm
If you take a look at Mr Heinberg’s employer’s websites/blogs, (start here, http://postcarbon.org), you will see that they offer book titles like “The Party’s Over….” and “Peak Everything”.
They have an institute, The Post Carbon Institute.
They even have a protocol, The Oil Depletion Protocol.
They advocate wind farms in cities!
(One of their board members is “Anthony Duggleby President and Chief Executive Officer of Katabatic Power, a California wind energy company in the pre-development stage of two major wind farm sites.”)
I could go on, but I think you get the picture, these people are are partisan to say the least.
The ABC’s representation of these views as a balanced assessment is laughable.
Basing national energy/industrial/economic policy on such in sound advice needs to be condemned in the strongest possible terms.
Next thing you know taxpayers money will be swapped for advice from these extremists about how we need to take cold showers and stuff like that.
Pushing this stuff as credible national policy goals is irresponsible.
Apart from anything else it, would be political suicide.
The ABC has lost all credibility, in my eyes, with this effort.
WA Branch of Family First has just been launched.
http://www.wafamilyfirst.com/index.php
BE Afraid, VERY Afraid.
In more cheerful news, the days will start getting longer as from tomorrow.
Mr and Mrs Wa have set up their own political party called “Wa Family First”? Isn’t that taking the concept of nepotism in politics a bit far?
In rather irrelevant breaking news, I’ve done up a quick post on the town of ‘Australia’, in Cuba. It’s even of historic significance n shit.
Not from this hemisphere they won’t!
In more cheerful news the Pineapple Party will do almost as well in today’s Galaxy Poll as it did in the last rigged Galaxy Poll just prior to the last election. This one just happened to fall off the back of a truck on the morning of the ALP conference. Great work Steve Lewis, Dennis would be proud of the tactics.
http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,23896213-952,00.html
Oops Steve Wardill even. It’s getting harder to pick the writing of one journo from the other in the Curious Snail these days.
Woke up to Abunai!’s The Mystic River this morning. Great psych/space rock. Brill on a cool, fresh morning.
Walked, put up some music on RTS…& then followed w/ Martha Wainwright: I know you’re married…& Bjork’s latest on the stereo…both atmospheric & mind altering. Bjork’s ominious tone in some songs combined w/ reading the sad news that Obama supported passing the bill that lets the telecommunication spys off the hook got me wondering
did the real Obama walk out of Dianne Feinstein’s house?…;)
Apart from one day a month or so ago when it snowed, today is the first day I’ve put my heater on this winter. Armidale is/was notorious fot its winters, but for the last ten years up/down here, its been getting hotter every winter. I wouldn’t believe it was the same town I landed in in 1977.
Also have finished note-takin from the 735 page Founding of A Nation by Merrill Jensen, which truly is a cause for celebration. (Now going through Fred Anderson’s Crucible of War but that’s only a few chapters near the end of the book so it won’t take long.
Happy Winter Solstice/Equinox,???. whatever it is, to everone.
Does Family First have a position on seat-sniffing?
A preferred method of contraception, Chris?
“In more cheerful news, the days will start getting longer as from tomorrow”.
Federal Public Servants are overjoyed I hear.
“Does Family First have a position on seat-sniffing?”
Nothing much likely ‘new’ there, Chris Grealy.
Except it was better named in the olden days as “pew sniffin’”.
And you could do a line of it.
http://churchoutlet.com/co-site/media/site/pews/pews.jpg
Anyone for Fantasy Congress?
I was going through a back catalog of entries for a online magazine that I read and found this article about it. To boil it down, it’s sort of like Fantasy Football but based on the actions of elected officials.
I’m not sure what to make of it, it does oversimplify a very complex and serious issue around rating the performance of those who run our country, but on the other hand it couldn’t be trivialising the political process more then those who were willing to take bets on who would win particular seats in an election.
Thoughts anyone?
PinkyOz
Did you remember to sing Happy Birthday to your computer today?
I’ve decided in a moment of rash bravery to share with you the blog I started with a few friends – the current top post (unless someone has posted more recently than me) is a review of shoreditch (London) as a potential living place.
More interestingly, yesterday I stumbled on the ultimate born again christian website, which runs a service promising to email your friends and relatives after The Rapture, telling them where you went:
http://www.youvebeenleftbehind.com/index.html
I even found a blog by a christian which asked the pertinent question – “would Jesus click on that link?”
Thoughts anyone?
Yea..
http://www.roadtosurfdom.com/2008/06/20/tomato-music/#comment-343405
Following up from my post last night re the WA Family First Launch, they’ve posted the launch speeches on Youtube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWjCGXbbeV4
People start posting appropriate Video Responses
Frank Calabrese [2]:
That’s great news!
Prime Minister Jeb will love living in Perth and reigning from there as soon as that that stoopid
GD MFcitizenship obstacle out of the way. Perth isn’t too much colder than Florida, is it?Come on everyone, let’s celebrate this joyous news ….
Oh say can you see – by the dawn’s early light -
What proudly we hailed – by the twilight’s last gleaming –
Whose broad stippes and bright stars – through the perilous fight –
O’er the ramparts we watched – were so gallantly streaming …..
I suppose it could be worse …. they could have added insult to injury by calling themselves the AUSTRALIAN Family Party.
Graham Bell — I don’t think you’ll have to worry too much about singing the Star Spangled Banner in its present form. Dear Leader Obama doubtless has a few re-writes planned. After all, the guy just got finished defacing the presidential seal. Seriously, no kidding.
Have you folks had a look at The Great Seal of the Republic of Barackistan?
Hopefully I’m just hallucinating. This is something a 14-year-old would do, and paste it on the drum kit for his band. In fact, the Ramones had one just like it. But their motto was funnier than Obama’s stilted Latin: they just went with, “Look out below.”
I wonder what the spiffy new uniforms will look like, that he’s going to make us all wear. (Now that he’s on to the Ramones, Devo and P-Funk can’t be far behind.) But I’ll probably just get stuck wearing one of those huge dunce caps left over from the GPCR.
An incident happened in the BB house last night that comes close to the turkey slap of two years ago that got Ashley and John thrown out of the house, and slightly worse than the Warwick Capper incident a few years ago when Capper indecently exposed himself to a female HM, and for which he got ejected. In this incident, Nobbi and Rory, while in the spa, exposed themselves to Terri standing nearby, with Rory bragging about it later. Rory has even bragged that each time he showered in the BB house he plays with himself and that he does “the helicopter” because he knows Terri gets upset.
Nobbi is already on two strikes. So with this incident BB has three choices. 1. Eject Nobbi and Rory from the house. 2. Give Nobbi and Rory a strike (Nobbi already has two), which would see Nobbi ejected from the house. 3. Suppress all mentions of the incident.
Options 1 and 2 would ruin tonight’s eviction show, so of course, BB will take option 3. We won’t see any episodes of the sexual harrassment on tonight’s eviction show, and maybe not even on Big Mouth. Already, BB is furiously deleting any reference to the incident on its forums.
Video of the incident here:
http://www.badongo.com/vid/765902
You actually don’t see it happen, but you see Terri’s reaction. You also don’t see the leadup, in which Rory and Nobbi talk about doing it, and the involvement of Bianca, who calls Terri over to the spa. Rory had also exposed himself to Terri earlier in the evening, and so the spa incident is just one in a continuing case of sexual harrassment.
Can’t wait for tonight’s eviction show.
Is Rory the narcissist with the dreadlocks?
I haven’t been watching it much so I don’t know what’s going on.But if they’re trying to cover it up, thsat’s reprehensible.If I was Terri I’d flourish a pear of garden shears at Rory, whoever he is.
cottection a pair of gaeden shears.
And, btw, if you can’t already guess, I despisae One Nation, but under these circumstances I’d stillstick up for Terri.
Of course, she could give him a look, point at it and burst into laughter screaming, “Wtf’s that?!”
j-p-z [21]:
Look mate, we liked your Baptists – they’re good people and they certainly know their Holy Bible inside out. And we really liked your Seventh Day Adventists as well – they had great Bible stories for kids’ and they make vegetarianism seem like great fun. We liked your Billy Graham too – so earnest and so devout.
But …. would you be so kind as to keep those religious guys of yours who want to meddle in our secular politics right back there where that Rapture Bell is going to ring any minute now [front-row seats only $899] or send them off to where they can do some real good – like standing in for U.S. military personnel in Afghanistan; their true talents are underutilized here in grubby Australian politics.
Thanks mate – much obliged to you.
Graham next time i’m in Rocky i’ll buy you a drink.
As an ex-baptist (the tabernacle right there in yr town) married to an ex-SDA, child of parents whose first date was a Billy Graham crusade…i think you get my religious heritage!
Back in those rather closeted days, all i can say is thank god for the Swirling Eddies and Steve Taylor (risque because they played the devils music).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7fhng3K2vQ
If you were there, you would know.
Vale George Carlin.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=fWeAgvNAgiY&feature=related
Hey PinkyOz. Thanks for the mention on the blog.
We initially created Fantasy Congress because it would be a way to have ownership over your Congress. Our premise has always been that people should care about politics as much as sports, so instead of being a coach, you’re a political operative. We always thought that being able to check up on a Member of Congress like checking up on a baseball player should be simple and fun.
Anyway, our site is being used in high schools and colleges across the country and for those interested in testing who is better at being a political operative, our site helps do that too.
Yes, George Carlin has gone to meet his maker.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeSSwKffj9o
Who is now having a good drink and a great laugh with George.
“I am: Fuck! Fuck… of the Mountain!!”
Somebody had to say it.
So long, George, we’ll miss ya. Just remember your own advice… three Hail Marys and you’re back on the street, with Father Rivera.