Comments on: The politics of 'direct action' on Climate Change http://larvatusprodeo.net/2010/02/03/the-politics-of-direct-action-on-climate-change/ Life, Culture and Politics from BrisVegas Tue, 14 Feb 2012 10:11:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: wbb http://larvatusprodeo.net/2010/02/03/the-politics-of-direct-action-on-climate-change/#comment-95317 wbb Wed, 03 Feb 2010 22:51:37 +0000 http://larvatusprodeo.net/?p=12548#comment-95317 I most certainly do not think Lindsay Tanner is sexy. The last fashion statement he made would have been in <a href="http://uninews.unimelb.edu.au/news/5706/" rel="nofollow">about 1975</a> I most certainly do not think Lindsay Tanner is sexy. The last fashion statement he made would have been in about 1975

]]> By: joe2 http://larvatusprodeo.net/2010/02/03/the-politics-of-direct-action-on-climate-change/#comment-95316 joe2 Wed, 03 Feb 2010 20:14:23 +0000 http://larvatusprodeo.net/?p=12548#comment-95316 Lindsay is very sexy, wbb. But does he wax? Greg Combet <em>must wax</em> because otherwise he would not look so good in his superman suit. Lindsay is very sexy, wbb. But does he wax?
Greg Combet must wax because otherwise he would not look so good in his superman suit.

]]> By: Mark http://larvatusprodeo.net/2010/02/03/the-politics-of-direct-action-on-climate-change/#comment-95315 Mark Wed, 03 Feb 2010 14:29:43 +0000 http://larvatusprodeo.net/?p=12548#comment-95315 You don't think Lindsay Tanner's sexy, wbb? ;) You don’t think Lindsay Tanner’s sexy, wbb? ;)

]]> By: wbb http://larvatusprodeo.net/2010/02/03/the-politics-of-direct-action-on-climate-change/#comment-95314 wbb Wed, 03 Feb 2010 13:40:19 +0000 http://larvatusprodeo.net/?p=12548#comment-95314 Bit harsh, Mark! He once made the big bucks working with numbers, he tells us. The only one in parliament, too. He's single-handedly making the once dreary Finance portfolio way sexy. Bit harsh, Mark! He once made the big bucks working with numbers, he tells us. The only one in parliament, too.

He’s single-handedly making the once dreary Finance portfolio way sexy.

]]> By: Mark http://larvatusprodeo.net/2010/02/03/the-politics-of-direct-action-on-climate-change/#comment-95313 Mark Wed, 03 Feb 2010 13:33:43 +0000 http://larvatusprodeo.net/?p=12548#comment-95313 The guy really is an idiot. The guy really is an idiot.

]]> By: wbb http://larvatusprodeo.net/2010/02/03/the-politics-of-direct-action-on-climate-change/#comment-95312 wbb Wed, 03 Feb 2010 13:26:25 +0000 http://larvatusprodeo.net/?p=12548#comment-95312 Drill, Barnaby, Drill. <blockquote>We've got to understand that it's not our money any more, it's somebody else's money that we're sending over and if you want to keep borrowing money and sending it over, in the end you start to create problems for yourself, he said. Senator Joyce stressed: ''It's not a matter of cutting aid budgets'', but added ''we just have to start noticing that we're moving into a different financial state of incredible debt and we've really got to start drilling down on all the decisions that make up why we borrow that money.'' He cited Australia giving $150 million a year to the World Bank, of which he said $50 million was used to combat food inflation in the Third World. ''We ended up with the highest food inflation in the Western world and in the middle of this they're sending $50 million, you know, to help other nations out.''</blockquote> Drill, Barnaby, Drill.

We’ve got to understand that it’s not our money any more, it’s somebody else’s money that we’re sending over and if you want to keep borrowing money and sending it over, in the end you start to create problems for yourself, he said.

Senator Joyce stressed: ”It’s not a matter of cutting aid budgets”, but added ”we just have to start noticing that we’re moving into a different financial state of incredible debt and we’ve really got to start drilling down on all the decisions that make up why we borrow that money.”

He cited Australia giving $150 million a year to the World Bank, of which he said $50 million was used to combat food inflation in the Third World.

”We ended up with the highest food inflation in the Western world and in the middle of this they’re sending $50 million, you know, to help other nations out.”

]]> By: joe2 http://larvatusprodeo.net/2010/02/03/the-politics-of-direct-action-on-climate-change/#comment-95311 joe2 Wed, 03 Feb 2010 11:37:00 +0000 http://larvatusprodeo.net/?p=12548#comment-95311 I think the comedy is around. How could there not be with this material? It just does not make it to the idiot box, anymore. Aunty was the main supporter of the piss take. Now she is too scared to take on anything that will upset the liberal party poopers on the board...."we will not be mocked, Mark." I think the comedy is around. How could there not be with this material? It just does not make it to the idiot box, anymore.

Aunty was the main supporter of the piss take. Now she is too scared to take on anything that will upset the liberal party poopers on the board….”we will not be mocked, Mark.”

]]> By: David Irving (no relation) http://larvatusprodeo.net/2010/02/03/the-politics-of-direct-action-on-climate-change/#comment-95310 David Irving (no relation) Wed, 03 Feb 2010 11:08:36 +0000 http://larvatusprodeo.net/?p=12548#comment-95310 Indeed, furious. It's such a Pity Costello wimped out. I was <em>so</em> looking forward to a decade or three of "Who's on first?" Indeed, furious.

It’s such a Pity Costello wimped out. I was so looking forward to a decade or three of “Who’s on first?”

]]> By: furious balancing http://larvatusprodeo.net/2010/02/03/the-politics-of-direct-action-on-climate-change/#comment-95309 furious balancing Wed, 03 Feb 2010 10:46:45 +0000 http://larvatusprodeo.net/?p=12548#comment-95309 This is should be a golden era for political comedy in Austrlia, but there is nuffin on the teev. What has happened to Aussie comedy? Is there anything on cable? Oh well, I guess Abbott and Joyce are cutting out the middle man and just doing their own gags. This is should be a golden era for political comedy in Austrlia, but there is nuffin on the teev. What has happened to Aussie comedy? Is there anything on cable?

Oh well, I guess Abbott and Joyce are cutting out the middle man and just doing their own gags.

]]> By: Ambigulous http://larvatusprodeo.net/2010/02/03/the-politics-of-direct-action-on-climate-change/#comment-95308 Ambigulous Wed, 03 Feb 2010 10:16:54 +0000 http://larvatusprodeo.net/?p=12548#comment-95308 wbb @ 50 This got quite a run on "The 7.30 Report" too. (A Labor Treasurer was forced to resign by RJL Hawke after a similar blunder at a press conference.) wbb @ 50

This got quite a run on “The 7.30 Report” too.

(A Labor Treasurer was forced to resign by RJL Hawke after a similar blunder at a press conference.)

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