Comments on: Saturday Salon

By: Ploppy the Slopper

Ploppy the Slopper — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 14:22:04 +0000

Liam, does that make 11 Beyond Thunderdome starring Tina Turner?

By: Graham Bell

Graham Bell — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 11:35:46 +0000

Katz [31]:

Very well put. [I'm smiling because I haven't got any money to lose .... not so far to fall].

By: Katz

Katz — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 10:23:07 +0000

The crisis is over. No more big choices to make.

Put your trays into the upright location and assume the crash position.

By: danny

danny — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 10:14:50 +0000

Q: How could this happen? A: The quality people they got in the financial engineering “industry”… not:

“Adding to the jitters among local financial service stocks, former Babcock & Brown chief Phil Green has quit the infrastructure investment business’ board as the Sydney-based company reported a 30% fall in first-half profit and suspended dividend payments till next year. The announcement sent the company’s shares 16.8%,

“After stepping down as CEO and managing director of the company, Phil has decided that the transition from chief executive and managing director to a director role was a difficult move for him to make and not in the best interests of the company from a corporate governance perspective or his own personal position,” Babcock & Brown chairwoman Elizabeth Nosworthy said in a statement. He has therefore chosen to resign from the board.”

Good solid blokes, types you want in your corner when the going gets tough.

That Elizabeth Nosworthy will be the one that is the Qld water comissioner: that’ll partly explain how we managed to get so close to water supply catastrophe.

The ruling class just isn’t what it used to be.

By: Lefty E

Lefty E — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 09:57:40 +0000

Obviously Lehman Bros aren’t friends of Commisar Cheney. Otherwise the born-again Chifleyites of the Bush administration would have socialised them too!

By: Liam

Liam — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 09:02:04 +0000

I’ll second that request, murph.
Even just a reading on the fucked-o-meter, scaled 1 to 10, where 1 is “only the stupid are losing money” and 10 is “Thunderdome”.

By: murph the surf

murph the surf — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 05:15:17 +0000

Possible “collapse of more facts” about to occur tonight.
Good luck to those who might be sweating on keeping their jobs.
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http://business.smh.com.au/business/lehman-collapses-wall-st-fights-meltdown-20080915-4gse.html
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Is there a knowledgeable reader (Fyodor ? Katz? )who would like to keep others
up-to-date with what is going to unfold ?

By: Graham Bell

Graham Bell — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 00:00:13 +0000

Maozze [22]:

No. Not exactly …. but there’s smouldering resentment of HUGE payouts for sub-optimal politicians and public servants and contractors and other camp-followers. Further [[expletive!]] resentment of squillions being wasted in Brisbane City on roads, etc. “Three hundered metres of Brisbane roads costs more than doing three hundred kilometres of roads up here” might be an exaggeration but it is a generally held belief.

Well then, wonder where people want the southern boundary of the New State for north Queensland to be these days? 22 degrees South? Tropic of Capricorn? Miriam Vale? Burrum Heads? or …. Caboolture?

By: paul walter

paul walter — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 22:28:54 +0000

# 19; that is because they are d-ckhead americans.

By: Mark

Mark — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 15:23:02 +0000

That’s probably just Wayne being made to do a Kev

I think you’ll find, danny, that Kev was doing a Wayne. Remember Swan was in Parliament from 93 to 96 and then lost. He’s never taken the seat for granted since. Whereas Rudd had his first (losing) tilt in 96.