Comments on: Saturday Salon

By: joe2

joe2 — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 00:50:29 +0000

“Could any one possiblty take someone seriously Albrechtsen is enamoured of, anyway?”

Guess you mean this work of art, paul walter…. “This one has moxy”.

Presumably, Janet is no way suggesting Sarah has herpes. “Moxy” is a most strange word to have used all the same.
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24273625-5013450,00.html

By: michael d

michael d — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 23:08:20 +0000

Some may be interested in upcoming Public Lecture on US election:

Obama v McCain – Who will win, does it matter? International public lecture

Thu 18/09/2008
6:30 PM

Ambassador Derek Shearer, Chevalier Professor or Diplomacy and World Affairs at Occidental College, Los Angeles

Details here (PDF)

Venue GM15, Level 1
Address Melbourne Law School 185 Pelham Street, Carlton
Contact Details 8344 1181
RSVP Contact http://events.unimelb.edu.au/event/5148/

By: paul walter

paul walter — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 11:43:42 +0000

Obviously not Michael Palin. Dead set franticant- abortion etc; no laughs with this one.
Nah, they are trying to do a Howard 2007, abandoning the crucial centre without even a fight, to shore up the rump heartland, ready for a bleak time in a deserved wilderness and a fresh look maybe in four years.. if they’re lucky!
Theres’s a trainwreck coming and they sense it keenly.
Could any one possiblty take someone seriously Albrechtsen is enamoured of, anyway?

By: GW

GW — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 06:46:12 +0000

Umm… I meant the UNemployment rate was around 2%

By: GW

GW — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 06:11:16 +0000

Re Oz,

The Australia-Japan trade agreement in the 50′s? Especially given the fact that there would have been a lot of anti-Japanese sentiment around at that time (after WW2).

Employment was around 2% then I think…

I don’t know why he’s so highly regarded either. His social policy was fairly ordinary from what I gather. He was crap during the Suez crisis too.

By: Lefty E

Lefty E — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 05:06:58 +0000

was too busy before i left for japan to engage with this `enlightenment` (sic) debate, and have just discivered is climate denial crazies trying to figleaf their useful fool routine as rationalist`scepticism`. What a joke!!

Listen up morons, the enlightnemebt was about faith in science, sciebtific method reason and evidence! Not some dimwitted hands-over- ears-I-cant- hear-you routine. Thats not scepticism – thats plain ignorance. And in any case, `im not beleiving the science because it might change my little world` has moer in common with the romanticist reaction to the enlightnemet,

lets get this srtaight, as the UK chief scientist out it – theres only two types of denialists now. 1. Those with a vested interest, in the pay of big polluters – and 2. fools.

By: Oz

Oz — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 02:10:29 +0000

Lately I've been wondering, what did Robert Menzies actually do that was positive for Australia? I haven't been able to think of one thing that he actually commenced that was good (everything I can think of was planned under Curtin or Chifley). Anyone got an idea?

By: steve at the pub

steve at the pub — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 14:51:10 +0000

Robert Merkel, Screw the F-18′s! Do real JAG lawyers get to work closely with Catherine Bell types?

By: Ag

Ag — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 14:27:56 +0000

Gorgeous song from ex-Clouds Jodi Phillis Falls St

By: joe2

joe2 — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 10:46:10 +0000

Bugger, another citizen blogger, dead end.
But what about this, on the weekend, when we are not supposed to notice ?

“We welcome the announcement even though it is $8million in taxpayers’ money and 14 months late. If the Queensland police and ASIO could decide these matters in July last year, why has the AFP taken 14 months to make this announcement?”

http://www.canberratimes.com.au/news/local/news/general/haneef-free-to-return-after-afp-drops-case/1258332.aspx