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    Default The coolest thing about Australia's new P.M.

    Peter Garret - former lead singer of Midnight Oil is going to be Australia's new Climate Change Minister.


    Midnight Oil

    "Beds are Burning"



    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=td1ZL...eature=related

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    LOL. I sing the songs that get me a job in my old age...

    It doesn't sound quite the same.
    Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but rather we have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
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    Believe nothing on the faith of traditions, even though they have been held in honor for many generations and in diverse places. Do not believe a thing because many people speak of it. Do not believe on the faith of the sages of the past. Do not believe what you yourself have imagined, persuading yourself that a God inspires you. Believe nothing on the sole authority of your masters and priests. After examination, believe what you yourself have tested and found to be reasonable, and conform your conduct thereto.
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    He's the Bono of australia

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cypress View Post
    He's the Bono of australia
    If you watched South Park you'd know that it wasn't something to be proud of...

    Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but rather we have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
    - -- Aristotle

    Believe nothing on the faith of traditions, even though they have been held in honor for many generations and in diverse places. Do not believe a thing because many people speak of it. Do not believe on the faith of the sages of the past. Do not believe what you yourself have imagined, persuading yourself that a God inspires you. Believe nothing on the sole authority of your masters and priests. After examination, believe what you yourself have tested and found to be reasonable, and conform your conduct thereto.
    - -- The Buddha

    It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
    - -- Aristotle

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    Quote Originally Posted by Damocles View Post
    If you watched South Park you'd know that it wasn't something to be proud of...

    Word.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Damocles View Post
    If you watched South Park you'd know that it wasn't something to be proud of...

    HaHa, good episode.

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    Here it is in all its beauty:

    http://loadup.ru/video/view/?id=v13309343f8

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    Have you ever noticed, the alarm went off about "global warming". Now, the term may not be accurate because people are calling it "climate change", and that is what we need to fear. Same thing you say? Not exactly. Climate change also means cooling. The Green crowd, makeing tons of money, have to cover the bases ya know.

    You guys don't understand that? Pop your head out of the sand---it is fachist capitolism (the bad kind--of forced market)---with many subsities and the amount of hysteria being a direct result on how much profits are made---on tax payers dollars (subsities)--for industries that can't exist in a free market. The more hysteria--the more profits for industries that not ecnomical enough to stand on their own.

    I know al-gore (no caps) is investing heavily in green technology (GE for one--biggest maker of wind mills--and are selling them a lot), and there is nothing illeagl about that as far as I know. But it is illeagle to hype up a single stock, to falsy bump up the worth--so may be gores choice to get more money from a industry he hypes up should not be legal.

    Winning a peace prize for the biggest crap---I love it.
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    ZOMG THIRTY YEARS AGO A NO-NAME STUDY IN SOME RANDOM MAGAZINE SAID THERE MAY BE GLOBAL COOLING?!?!!/1/11/ ZOMG THIS CERTAINLY DISPROVES GLOBAL WARMING!?1!/1/?!

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    The hand of Midnight Oil is already at work in the new Aussie government:

    Australia's new leader says he will apologize to Aborigines

    Outgoing PM John Howard had steadfastly refusing to offer an apology

    SYDNEY, Australia (AP) -- Newly elected Australian leader Kevin Rudd renewed a commitment Monday to apologize to indigenous Aborigines for past indignities
    That's what Midnight Oil's tune was about. Cheers.


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    You mean - the SAVAGES?

    (Australian racial slur)

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    Quote Originally Posted by Watermark View Post
    ZOMG THIRTY YEARS AGO A NO-NAME STUDY IN SOME RANDOM MAGAZINE SAID THERE MAY BE GLOBAL COOLING?!?!!/1/11/ ZOMG THIS CERTAINLY DISPROVES GLOBAL WARMING!?1!/1/?!
    Was that 30 years already? Wow. I believe it was the new york times I saw about the ice age of the 70's. It is on line somewhere.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Watermark View Post
    You mean - the SAVAGES?

    (Australian racial slur)
    Only used in the Northern Territory and in the far north reaches of Queensland and Western Australia. So it's a "regional Australian racial slur".

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    Quote Originally Posted by Diuretic View Post
    Only used in the Northern Territory and in the far north reaches of Queensland and Western Australia. So it's a "regional Australian racial slur".
    Sounds like Northern Territories is the equivalent of our american south!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cypress View Post
    Sounds like Northern Territories is the equivalent of our american south!
    A truer and more accurate comparison of two seemingly unlike things has never been made.

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