Comments on: Saturday Salon

By: Graham Bell

Graham Bell — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 11:52:03 +0000

Everyone:

Where is our gentleman from Brooklyn, NY, j-p-z?

Haven’t seen him post lately?

By: danny

danny — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 05:32:47 +0000

Terangaree@52:

I didn’t consult Wikipedia — I went to my bookcase instead. I thought the US 5th amendment allowed one to refuse to answer a question if the answer could incriminate oneself

As indeed it does, among other things, as the wiki snatch I included for (hopefully) general edification shows : you’re not saying wiki is in disagreement with your bookcase, that wiki folk make stuff up are you?
And I gotta admit, I, in the end , went with it, ‘cos it allowed me to refer to a fourth fifth. Welease Wojer.
I’ve just thought of a fifth fifth: In the not-people’s key of A, D is the fifth, so a chart, arrangement, pattern, tune would have a fifth fifth.

Look, Mark asked me what aesthetic I would have preferred privilaged at the station, and I wasn’t prepared to say “chintzy bordello, with overstuffed couches in absynthe green to lounge on, just waitin’ for a train, Yodel-ai-ee-ooo, lest I appear, y’know, louche. So I pleaded the fifth. Capiche?

Am thinking Julie Christie opium scene in Robert Altman’s (anti?-)Western, “McCabe and Mrs Miller”. Would like Go-bies, Ed, etc music in the iCushions, which emated gps cordinates wirelessly, so they could be retrieved and reloaded in case Brisbane ever came up with anyone any good again.

Am now thinking Sarah Palen as Mrs Miller- the movie was set in snowbound Alaska. Opium wouldn’t be one of her transgressions would it, that might explain things, ‘cept someone would have been having to cut it with something faster. Do they do drug tests for elections?

By: Paul Burns

Paul Burns — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 00:31:37 +0000

Re the Lapthorne tragedy: Both Britt’s father and mother have sought publicity over this matter from the very beginning, blaming everybody frim the Federal Government, Federal Police, Croatian police, etc., and obviously still find it hard to accept the terrible way Britt died. Obviously, their grief is utterly shaping their reactions and our hearts go out to them.But this was the strategy thoey chose to hasten the case along, and probably still is.So its a bit rich to blame the journalists they’ve sought out on the commervial TV as well as the ABC.
The only thing that’s really clear in this terrible tragedy is that whether its a Liberal or Labor Government, neither are particularly adept at looking after Aussies in trouble overseas.

By: zorronsky

zorronsky — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 20:52:21 +0000

Check out The Little Black School Book in the IPA Review site. Should be a big help for students. Not.

By: terangeree

terangeree — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 12:55:56 +0000

Danny @ 45:

I didn’t consult Wikipedia — I went to my bookcase instead.

I thought the US 5th amendment allowed one to refuse to answer a question if the answer could incriminate oneself.

Pablo @ 48:

Cheer up, a relative (by marriage) was planning to retire this year, but this month’s financial contretemps has seen his superannuation reserves drop by around $200,000 in the space of a couple of days. Now retirement, for him, is somewhere over the unseen horizon.

By: pablo

pablo — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 08:55:38 +0000

Thanks Katz …reminds me of that graffitti ‘work.. consume..(lose &) die’.
On another topic though sadder. Is it time the Australian media laid off Britt Laphtorne’s suffering Dad? I’m particularly critical of the ABC. This poor guy is having his every conspiratorial thought/frustration against the Croatian police broadcast loud and clear. It is becoming almost a diplomatic disaster – not that that worries me too much – but a father facing the loss of a child/daughter should not have his pain used in such a way. Emma Alberici should be doing her own leg work with the Croatian authorities.

By: Lefty E

Lefty E — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 08:29:24 +0000

Who’s writing the epitaph for neo-liberal deregulation? That ideology is as dead as state socialism in 1991.

In particular, let us hear no further nonsense about “self-regulation”.

By: Katz

Katz — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 08:18:03 +0000

‘Fraid not Pablo.

As far as your bank account is concerned you are a depositor.

As far as your super fund is concerned you are an investor.

But buck up, maybe your super fund isinvested in the shares of some “very sound” Australian banks.

By: pablo

pablo — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 07:56:07 +0000

Danny @47. Is an industry run super fund an ‘Australian financial institution?’ I’m hopeful (having lost some $20 grand 07 – 08) but not optimistic.

By: danny

danny — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 05:05:56 +0000

PRIME Minister Kevin Rudd today announced the government will guarantee all deposits held in Australian financial institutions for the next three years.