Posts by Blake Monkley
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If the world recession gets deeper and longer, expect English to start thinking about selling government commercial enterprises to pay back debt. I do wonder if the economic hit men are circling.
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Simon, you forgot to mention the pool table.
But then, he's a cool dude.
I'll second that.
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It's a disgusting, exploitative industry that preys on a largely immigrant workforce in a brutal fashion.
The meat and poultry industry in the USA has a high injury rate, low wages and poor workers' compensation package. When workers comp legislation was set up it was supposed to provide speedy medical care and income to injured workers on the job. In return for that benefit, it stopped workers from the right to sue. Now the law allows the employer the right to choose the doctor who determines the severity of any injury. Most firms are self-insured, keeping payments to a minimum is better for the bottom line.
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Isn't that what organised religion is for?
When organised religion is used to target people, persecutes people, breed violence and suppresses intellectual thought I take issue.
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Dubya did,
I thought George senior was his father.
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The way that some people use religious beliefs and religious language to justify immoral policies is just madness.
How long before a President claims to have a direct pipeline from the deity. -
After all that's gone on with league this week and some players still don't get it.
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Bulldozing homes over and building barriers. I thought they only did this in the middle east?
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Highly decorated science journalist Laurie Garrett joins the 7.30 Report from New York to discuss the emergence of swine flu and its potential repercussions.
That flu had only a less than 2 per cent case fatality rate, which is to say more than 98 per cent of the people who got sick with flu in 1918 survived. So you look at that figure, 100 million, and you realise, wow, that was just... That was just the tip of the iceberg of who got infected.
That's why this denominator issue in Mexico is so terribly, terribly important. We need to understand, are we looking at a case fatality race in Mexico of 0.001 per cent of all the people infected, or are we looking at a case fatality rate of 1 per cent or 2 per cent of all the people infected?
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In a season where he’s started in just 12 games.
Twelve games, that's a low-key performance for a season. Must be more to that award than just playing.