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"Ask the US Military. They bet on it."
Yes, and ask the politicians as well.

For this reason there's a push to raise the drinking age, but if they're old enough to serve then they're old enough...

There's one of these around here built and used by a prominent family of local boatbuilders as a cruising and holiday boat years ago. They also built a purpose designed canal boat in europe and...

I paddle a plastic sea kayak around our shores where the local rock is volcanic and sharp and the waters often shallow, very shallow. A wood boat would not last long I reckon. I have the materials in...

We also have an adversary system, and I reckon the narrow focus of what is admissible in evidence sometimes leads to results far removed from justice. Law and Justice do not seem to have a lot in...

"SEVERAL hundred birds were shot and left to die at a property on the opening weekend of the Victorian duck-hunting season.The birds included rare and protected species. So far, 760 game ducks and...

My grandfather and myself have shot back when bullets pinged around us. But that was years ago when mostly you could shoot anywhere, with permission. Many didn't bother with such details and I think...

Isn't there a constitutional problem here? If Labor was to switch the indies have stated that their deal, with Gillard, would be null and void and there'd be a confidence vote in the lower house. If...

The GOP may have to accept a time in the wilderness in order to change their policies, their rhetoric and their demographic. The right of the party may have to be abandoned to their own devices, if...

I deliberately made no comment myself and thanks for the comments re the sit itself. Sometimes this stuff get's into the serious media here and our own political argy bargy feeds it for local...

"........before being charged with murder in Texas."
Just that phrase should raise some eyebrows given recent history.

Insurance companies screwing their customers is not new. And your banks and mortgage companies got a free ride after the GFC, but I am surprised that the ones that acted illegally in their...

Of course his problem is that there isn't an effectual political left to rail at in the US, so one has to be manufactured in some peoples minds to give the right something to push at. It's a failure...

Nick, I am minded of the Vaucluse Junior skiff, a design from the early 1930's. I inherited one from an elder brother and sailed her on Port Phillip Bay. Over canvassed and under hulled and quite...

"Despite the 6.5% stock market rally over the last three months, a handful of billionaires are quietly dumping their American stocks . . . and fast.
Warren Buffett, who has been a cheerleader for...

Gotts agree with that, but I'm afraid politics, jobs, donations etc get in the way. The usual story. I doubt whether a nuke plant would fly politically at present. The shadows of Hiroshima and MAD...

Couple of our more violent crims are,reputedly, in the solid concrete loading ramps of one of our ports. I don't think anyone has bothered to look because those, reputedly, involved had their turn a...

I'd like to see that guaranteed, not just disappear into general revenue. And what you say re NSW labor is certainly true.

Thanks QB, great pics and weather. My choice would be the Pete Culler.

On yer Johnno, can't keep a good man down for long.

Ah, blanket ideology at work again I see Ian. I just have a different view.
This is part of the misgivings by farmers. "Farmers and rival grain traders expressed concern that the acquisition of...

Then there's Grain Corp, likely to be sold to the biggest grain mover in the US. The farmers are not happy.
"The NSW Nationals are calling on federal Treasurer Wayne Swan to prevent the sale of...

Via intheboatshed.net again, a training day under sail but the breeze was not completely cooperative.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oa3kuB_eS2w&feature=player_embedded

"It's okay, I'm sure at least two of them are prepared to argue both sides of the argument if it suits them."
That's at least half the fun! Around the dinner table as a kid in the bush pre-power and...

He's joined the party, they're the only ones buying I think. Half of Sth Gipplsland has gone into the same market. Offering prices way above the going values too.

Early start tomorrow, peak hour...

Sail bag, it's the only way and if you are trying to row or paddle with a bundle of sail in your lap a bag with straps is a very useful thing. (I sail a decked Magreggor where the balanced lug sail...

I think he's the best parliamentarian we've had for a very long time. >shrug< Another point of difference. If he was standing in my electorate I'd vote for him, but we are a Lib safe seat and our...

Much the same thing is happening on the left of our politics, and there will be 'blood on the floor' after the election. But as Twain said, "The rumours of my death have been greatly exaggerated" and...

Re the poll Rudd vs Gillard, does anyone really think that despite the answers to the poll questions the 50/50 figure would be mirrored in the vote? I for one do not. Selling one's soul to the devil...

Heck of a thing to happen to anyone, I am truly sorry for your loss.

I don't think either of you are in a position to give an unbiased opinion frankly. But then none of us are really.

"yeah, i've tried that angle, she's not buying it. . .http://forum.woodenboat.com/images/smilies/icon10b.png"
Plant a lemon tree.:d

PP mentioned population as a self-regulating system. That's Ok...

It's not the questioners that I watch the show for, salting the audience as a time honoured practice going back to town hall meetings. Have you ever been to a labor party campaign meeting in CLP...

Permanent drizzle with rainy breaks here. Been listening to Il Travatore in the shed whilst working on dismantling the blaxland. Not many bolts but all of them jammed up tight with rust and paint....

So, if the case is found to be a fiction or corrupted will the surviving police, DA and the judge be held to account? Or is 25 yers too long there too?

So when has modern western man cared about other creatures except as fodder? The invention of a monotheistic god, the idea of man's exclusivity and the old testament writings has a great deal to do...

I don't take Clive too seriously politically it's all about publicity at present, but statements like these will endear him to many disillusioned voters "I have had experience hearing politicians...

While man flounders about with his petty affairs the world we live on on degrades. Too late I think, we'll just have to learn to live, or die with it.

"lo que será, será"

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"The stuff STINKS! So enjoying it is something you have to acquire the taste for."
Why?

"well that's just unamerican. . .;)"
That's OK, I'm an Aussie. But a neighbour who is a regular visitor to the US is a pizza addict and he reckons they are way too expensive over there. Maybe you...

Well, this guy has made some policy promises and he certainly I suppose we'll see what he delivers, or tries to deliver. He certainly creamed all the other candidates, much to the displeasure of the...

We were fortunate to have him as a member of the community.

Can't stand pizza, yuk!

I doubt he has that power, and in any case I'd expect that the Revolutionary guard would not permit that to happen and the new incumbent's reign would be short.

(Bassej? I thought that was part of...

I don't know, makes life interesting. As someone said on another thread "It takes 2 to tango".
And for Hokiefan, "At the risk of my life, I'll tell you the problem... I start working on some project...

Actually I don't agree Glen, 'force his will' is rather overstating the matter. And the thread can be about whatever we as a gorup decide it will be about, all Phillip can do is delete or lock it.

Stopping climate change was never going to work, and if anthropogenic influences are partly responsible or not that won't stop either. Adaption is what man as a species is good at and we will again I...

A program here counted 12 'rebel' groups in Syria and that's not allowing for 12 separate Kurdish organisations.
Some are spending as much time fighting each other as fighting Assad.
Which ever way...

The Ayatollah is still in charge, and he prevented a couple of even more liberal candidates from standing. This man is the best the voters could find on the ballot. But a more secular president...