Comments on: Saturday Salon http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/08/30/saturday-salon-155/ Blogging politics, culture, sociology and life from Brisvegas Thu, 18 Mar 2010 15:01:20 +0000 hourly 1 By: joe2 http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/08/30/saturday-salon-155/comment-page-2/#comment-500962 joe2 Mon, 01 Sep 2008 00:50:29 +0000 http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/08/30/saturday-salon-155/#comment-500962 "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 “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 http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/08/30/saturday-salon-155/comment-page-2/#comment-500936 michael d Sun, 31 Aug 2008 23:08:20 +0000 http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/08/30/saturday-salon-155/#comment-500936 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 <a href="http://www.law.unimelb.edu.au/events/shearer.pdf" rel="nofollow">here (PDF)</a> 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/ 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 http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/08/30/saturday-salon-155/comment-page-2/#comment-500814 paul walter Sun, 31 Aug 2008 11:43:42 +0000 http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/08/30/saturday-salon-155/#comment-500814 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? 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 http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/08/30/saturday-salon-155/comment-page-2/#comment-500748 GW Sun, 31 Aug 2008 06:46:12 +0000 http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/08/30/saturday-salon-155/#comment-500748 Umm... I meant the UNemployment rate was around 2% Umm… I meant the UNemployment rate was around 2%

]]> By: GW http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/08/30/saturday-salon-155/comment-page-2/#comment-500742 GW Sun, 31 Aug 2008 06:11:16 +0000 http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/08/30/saturday-salon-155/#comment-500742 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. 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 http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/08/30/saturday-salon-155/comment-page-2/#comment-500720 Lefty E Sun, 31 Aug 2008 05:06:58 +0000 http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/08/30/saturday-salon-155/#comment-500720 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. 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 http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/08/30/saturday-salon-155/comment-page-2/#comment-500676 Oz Sun, 31 Aug 2008 02:10:29 +0000 http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/08/30/saturday-salon-155/#comment-500676 Lately <a href="http://decomposingtrees.blogspot.com/2008/08/what-did-robert-menzies-actually-do.html" rel="nofollow">I've been wondering</a>, 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? 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 http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/08/30/saturday-salon-155/comment-page-2/#comment-500556 steve at the pub Sat, 30 Aug 2008 14:51:10 +0000 http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/08/30/saturday-salon-155/#comment-500556 Robert Merkel, Screw the F-18's! Do real JAG lawyers get to work closely with Catherine Bell types? Robert Merkel, Screw the F-18’s! Do real JAG lawyers get to work closely with Catherine Bell types?

]]> By: Ag http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/08/30/saturday-salon-155/comment-page-2/#comment-500550 Ag Sat, 30 Aug 2008 14:27:56 +0000 http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/08/30/saturday-salon-155/#comment-500550 Gorgeous song from ex-Clouds Jodi Phillis <a href="http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=XQesLJJ7vjQ" rel="nofollow">Falls St</a> Gorgeous song from ex-Clouds Jodi Phillis

Falls St

]]> By: joe2 http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/08/30/saturday-salon-155/comment-page-2/#comment-500519 joe2 Sat, 30 Aug 2008 10:46:10 +0000 http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/08/30/saturday-salon-155/#comment-500519 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 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

]]> By: Robert Merkel http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/08/30/saturday-salon-155/comment-page-2/#comment-500514 Robert Merkel Sat, 30 Aug 2008 09:44:56 +0000 http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/08/30/saturday-salon-155/#comment-500514 No beans to spill, really. Just a couple of guys from the Midwest who spent their days bailing out enlisted men who'd gotten themselves into bar fights, and, funnily enough, never got to take F-18's for joyrides... No beans to spill, really. Just a couple of guys from the Midwest who spent their days bailing out enlisted men who’d gotten themselves into bar fights, and, funnily enough, never got to take F-18’s for joyrides…

]]> By: joe2 http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/08/30/saturday-salon-155/comment-page-2/#comment-500508 joe2 Sat, 30 Aug 2008 09:13:25 +0000 http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/08/30/saturday-salon-155/#comment-500508 That would now be Sarahs' job, Kim, as the merkel is likely an endangered species. That would now be Sarahs’ job, Kim, as the merkel is likely an endangered species.

]]> By: Kim http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/08/30/saturday-salon-155/comment-page-2/#comment-500504 Kim Sat, 30 Aug 2008 08:47:23 +0000 http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/08/30/saturday-salon-155/#comment-500504 If he did that, joe2, John McCain would have to shoot him. If he did that, joe2, John McCain would have to shoot him.

]]> By: joe2 http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/08/30/saturday-salon-155/comment-page-2/#comment-500502 joe2 Sat, 30 Aug 2008 08:26:31 +0000 http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/08/30/saturday-salon-155/#comment-500502 "Kaiserslautern on a Friday night is full of US military personnel; I had a rather amusing conversation with some JAG lawyers about how similar their job was to the TV show." Go on Robert, spill the Sauerkraut. Sounds interesting. “Kaiserslautern on a Friday night is full of US military personnel; I had a rather amusing conversation with some JAG lawyers about how similar their job was to the TV show.”

Go on Robert, spill the Sauerkraut. Sounds interesting.

]]> By: Brett http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/08/30/saturday-salon-155/comment-page-1/#comment-500487 Brett Sat, 30 Aug 2008 07:19:50 +0000 http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/08/30/saturday-salon-155/#comment-500487 Ta! Ta!

]]> By: Kim http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/08/30/saturday-salon-155/comment-page-1/#comment-500482 Kim Sat, 30 Aug 2008 07:06:56 +0000 http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/08/30/saturday-salon-155/#comment-500482 Done! Done!

]]> By: Brett http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/08/30/saturday-salon-155/comment-page-1/#comment-500474 Brett Sat, 30 Aug 2008 06:56:42 +0000 http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/08/30/saturday-salon-155/#comment-500474 Oh, can some kind admin retrieve my comment from the spam bin please. I thought two links was safe, evidently not ... Oh, can some kind admin retrieve my comment from the spam bin please. I thought two links was safe, evidently not …

]]> By: Brett http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/08/30/saturday-salon-155/comment-page-1/#comment-500472 Brett Sat, 30 Aug 2008 06:54:46 +0000 http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/08/30/saturday-salon-155/#comment-500472 Never let it be said that historians are behind the times! I'm <a href="http://airminded.org/2008/08/28/post-blogging-the-sudeten-crisis/" rel="nofollow">post-blogging the Sudeten crisis</a> (Munich crisis, if you must), day by day, 70 years after the event. I've just done 30 August 1938, but there's another 5 weeks to go ... All the posts can be seen here: http://airminded.org/category/post-blogging/ Never let it be said that historians are behind the times! I’m post-blogging the Sudeten crisis (Munich crisis, if you must), day by day, 70 years after the event. I’ve just done 30 August 1938, but there’s another 5 weeks to go … All the posts can be seen here: http://airminded.org/category/post-blogging/

]]> By: Robert Merkel http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/08/30/saturday-salon-155/comment-page-1/#comment-500454 Robert Merkel Sat, 30 Aug 2008 06:05:04 +0000 http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/08/30/saturday-salon-155/#comment-500454 I should clarify: I was not visiting a USAF base, just a nearby German scientific institution... Kaiserslautern on a Friday night is full of US military personnel; I had a rather amusing conversation with some JAG lawyers about how similar their job was to the TV show :) I should clarify: I was not visiting a USAF base, just a nearby German scientific institution…

Kaiserslautern on a Friday night is full of US military personnel; I had a rather amusing conversation with some JAG lawyers about how similar their job was to the TV show :)

]]> By: J. Leinad HUSSEIN Punditson Jr. III http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/08/30/saturday-salon-155/comment-page-1/#comment-500447 J. Leinad HUSSEIN Punditson Jr. III Sat, 30 Aug 2008 05:46:58 +0000 http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/08/30/saturday-salon-155/#comment-500447 Did the definition of 'foreign affairs' change recently? Or has Bush just set the experience barrier really low in that department? Did the definition of ‘foreign affairs’ change recently? Or has Bush just set the experience barrier really low in that department?

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