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United States Senator from Tennessee Bill FRIST
Bother. But his surname is still FRIST.
I blame the alcohol. It’s better than taking responsibility for my own mistakes…
David – Is your real last name Hasselhof?
It’s a hard job, David, but someone’s got to take up the slack. The best thing about supernatural evil is that we don’t guilt trip you, either, or call in our debts at any time before death, like those dodgy ‘religions’ out there.
I’m enjoying the ‘yes and no’ thread, may I add. Anti-Protestant sectarianism never tasted so sweet.
I can see why you ask, but no
And it’s not ‘The Hoff’ either – damn I hate whoever decided to start spreading that.
I mean, seriously – Knight Rider and Babewatch qualifies you to be a meme? I think not!
Devil Drink, you may be supernaturally evil, but frankly, your response rate is a damn sight better than the Other Side. Do you get figures and stats delivered on your performance, or do you have to operate on a ’seat of the pants’ basis?
Hands up all those GOP presidential candidates who have a really firm grip on reality: http://www.crooksandliars.com/Media/Play/16923/2/GOPDebate-Evolution.mov
I believe Greg Combet made a blogworthy announcement yesterday? Or are we over the “parachute” debate?
And speaking about sectarianism, I just published a review of the Kuan Yin Vegetarian Tea House in Wickham St in the Valley, saying that as a meat-eater, I really love their vegetarian food.
It was mostly inspired by the annoying, self-righteous pro-vegetarian article that Paul Norton criticised the other day.
In the next couple of months, the Australian’s of voting age will attacked by Propaganda from all sides. Now is the time for us to learn the tools and techniques used by Propagandist’s such as Bill O”Reilly of Foxnews.
Sorry to get serious… but the polling is still bad for Howard and everyone is talking about his ability to “pull a rabbit from the hat” or some other masterstroke.
I think this expectation hurts him and diminishes the power of any “october surprise” as the americans say.
He’s like the political M. Night Shyamalan – His Sixth Sense “he’s really dead” twist was the Tampa – and how the political pundits lauded his cleverness. The next Howard release was “the Interest rates are lower under the Liberals”and like Unbreakable or Signs okay but not as clever as the Sixth Sense Tampa.
What will this election be? – those in the Oz expect another Sixth Sense but secretly fear (and I hope) it’ll be The Village or The Lady in the Water.
M. Night and Howard are both overrated.
Well, part of that is “we”ll all be rooned if you let the reckless Rudd, servant of the dreadful unions, get his hands on the economic levers.” As part of this he’ll say every citizen will pay more for petrol and electricity under Labor.
Gold is where you find it. Noosa Rotary are in the second day of their annual, 4 day, used books fundraiser at Bi-centennial Hall.
15 y. o. daughter said that she wanted to check it out as I was leaving. Great.
Seated onstage like earnest adjudicators, a couple of “literary types” sorted books into categories. They vibed arriviste. Eight long tressle rows constanly replenished by no-nonsense volunteers. Pulp of ages mainly. Lots of deeply absorbed punters shuffling happily along the ailses, each seeking one’s fancy.
Junior choose Three Chrispopher Pikes (50 cents e@) and a William Horwood (Willows at Xmas) for a dollar. I scored a hardcover of J. Brunowski’s BBC series “The Ascent of Man” for $2. AND, 10 separate Aeschylus and Euripides plays(Scully/Herrington), OUP hardcovers with large type and generous lay-out, dust jackets, and in mint condition for 50 cents each. Ob La Di, Ob La Da. We sang Beatle songs all the way home.
Ten lousy bucks and a lazy half hour should bring such joy.
This news item sourced from TransWorldNews:
“In what will certainly not be as accommodating as the hotels she is destined to inherit, Paris Hilton will be spending 45 days in prison for violating her probation.
Hilton will have an opportunity to bond with the several other women when she reports to prison on June 5 in Lynwood, California.”
To think so many in the world think of Paris Hilton as a bimbo, yet here she is continuing to expand her life experience – from “the simple life” to “the hard knock life”
Go Paris!
No. I’m more of an early modern fellow myself, all of this Enlightenment obsession with measurement and testable, observed a posteriori fact is a bit after my time. I just do simple contracts, they’re easy to understand, everyone gets full value and their own chance, and it’s the individuals themselves who get to control their own divine salvation and non-salvation—what’d be the point of assessing my performance? It’s not so much seat-of-my-pants as seat-of-your-pants.
You’ve got a point though about the Hebrew God of Miracles and Prophecies, He’s been a bit of a slackarse lately. Whatever happened to the Exodus box of tricks, the magic reptile sticks, the direct mountainous legal interventionism, the plagues-while-U-wait, the parting seas, the Orbital Hesitation Waltz? And don’t give me Fatima or Lourdes or Medjugorje or fried tortillas either—subcontracting out the bread-and-butter work of prophetic intervention is a total sign that He’s gone fucking soft. Marian theophany my rotten arse, some of us still care enough to do our own work.
C’mon Yahweh. Let’s see some columns of smoke and pillars of fire, and let the smiting begin.
Has anyone else seen “Keating!” & what did they think?
Mate, I always thought you were into Carlos Castaneda, EC. If I’d only known, you could have all those plus Plautus and Aristophanes, for nix. Would have saved yourself $10 which could have got you two punts on the football this weekend. You’ve made a mistake, pal.
Paris Hilton won’t inherit the Hilton hotels – she isn’t from that side of the family.
Howard must be getting a bit nervous about the affect of APEC pageantry on NSW voter land. Iemma has made disingenuous remarks about how much money the event will generate, in response to his deputy, John Watkins’ earlier lament about why this traffic jammer wasn’t going to the nation’s capital.
Sydneysiders who drive and vote will be with Watkins the leftwinger. So will the rodent prefer an early poll rather than think about the effect of standing in line with all the others in a funny shirt, or ochre body paint, on the populace?
Just been researching a bit of family history via the National Archives which now has all WW1 military records online http://www.naa.gov.au/the_collection/gift-to-the-nation.html
Anyway it seems that on enlistment the lads were screened for a number of medical conditions. Apart from stuff like ’scrofula, phthisis, syphillis, impaired constitution, and evidence of having been marked with the letters D. or B.C.’, they were also checked for:
http://naa12.naa.gov.au/scripts/Imagine.asp (not my relly BTW)
So there you are then. The AIF was well on the way to weeding out potential Hitlers years before the danger was truly recognised.
Further evidence of Australian ingenuity. It’s time Andrew Bolt ran a campaign disclosing the dangers of this forgotten menace.
A reminder for Perth LP’ers that tomorrow (Sunday) Is May Day Celebrartions in Fremantle.
http://larvatusprodeo.net/2007/05/05/saturday-salon-98/#comment-365497
If any Perth LP’ers would likje to meet me, I’ll be the person in the Wheelchair at the Friends of the ABC (WA) stall.
Hope to see you there
Oh. Current favourite band: New Young Pony Club
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8wYcNhkiGI&mode=related&search=
Got a bit of a New Romantics riff going there!
Indeed Mark. Plus a bit of Kathleen Hanna I’d say http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPNb7HOibmo
Just watched GBs farewell. Sad.
Yes, I didn’t want to watch that – a bit too raw. I think I’m going to watch old Sopranos eps instead.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzEDHReG22A
I’m liking Howling Bells who are playing the Zoo on Wednesday night.
The video for this one is more mundane, but the song’s good:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrdaHGEe3nM&mode=related&search=
It was a bit hard, especially since Lindy Morrison wasn’t there, but anyway. Bad band history I guess. Really not a workable arrangement if everyone’s betraying each other.
Blah, what a loss.
And I’m from WA. Where was the Triffids tribute?
Haven’t heard HBs live but listening to ‘06 EP for about 12 months and remains a big favourite.
And since we’re talking retro and car vids http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHpRnqjahg4
(gotta love those 1.5kg mobiles)
My then flatmate had one of those! People used to laugh at it on the bus.
That’s before a decade later they’d all be saying “I’m on the bus, I’m just passing Fairfield Gardens”.
HB I suspect will be a good live band.
Jessica Rowe “Bones” hersel.
http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/story/0,23663,21679187-10229,00.html
The Triffids tribute was in Belgium last year with Rob Snarski. Doesn’t look like there’ll be any Australian shows. Belgium man, Belgium.
Well it just so happens Zarquon that I have a vid for Belgium that’s neither the Triffids or Plastique Bertrand http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2vb8LcQGrA
(it goes on pretty much like that for five minutes with absolutely no visual relief)
Sorry Frank, meant to ask: There’s usually lots of people in wheelchairs at Freo Mayday. Do you have a marked varicocele with unusually penedent testicle? http://larvatusprodeo.net/2007/05/05/saturday-salon-98/#comment-365497
No
But I’ll have a name tag with Friends of the ABC, along with a Save Our ABC Badge and my ALP lapel pin. OH and I’ll have a radio reciever and mobile phone hanging off a radio vest thingy.
Test Post in Firefox to see if I’m still getting Spaminated.
Today’s useless maxim:
Take the ladder to the wall, not the wall to the ladder.
Any labour party, worth it’s salt , would make May 1st ……… an official public holiday, on the winning election night. And invite Hugo Chavez to visit our shores.
For many reasons , but above all , to allow the parrot Andrew Bolt, too squawk so much ………the next day, on the Insiders, he falls off his perch, requires help from Wildlife Refuge and is guided to the previously… Campbell organised.. Endangered Species Centre. ESC.
Somewhere near the Cocus Keeling Islands.
Labour Day public holiday tomorrow in Queensland.
Kind of surprised that no one around here has been handicapping the French elections. What time is it in Paris, anyway? There must be a trend emerging at the polls by now…
Live coverage of the polls started on sbs (streamed from France’s TV3) half an hour ago, j_p_z, so I assume that counting is just beginning. I’m off to bed, but I’ll go throw a tape in the vcr and see how good my French still is tomorrow!
Just flipped it on, and if my French is any good, Segolene Royal was being interviewed about why she would make a good President, so I assume that no one knows anything about the results yet. She comes across well, I think.
Sarkozy wins.
Click here to see a video I made of Mr Rudd’s speech to the Labour Day rally today, at the Ekka Showgrounds in Brisbane.
Pause for thought – from Webb-site.com.
“Here’s something to think about while we await the collapse of the mainland market bubble. How high will it go and how long will it be before it bursts?
Nobody knows, and that’s what makes non-linear phenomena such as earthquakes, volcanoes, avalanches and market crashes so interesting. But it’s certainly time to issue an avalanche warning.
Take a page out of Taiwan’s history book. Back on 10-Feb-90, the TSE Weighted Stock Index peaked at 12,495. It then crashed 80% to a low of 2,560 that year. Taiwan was then a closed market with strict capital controls. Market turnover that year was 500% of market capitalisation. Does any of this sound familiar? ”
There was a wobble around the world’s markets when the Shanghai market dropped 10 % recently. How will we end up if the chinese stock markets drop 90%?
As they say in the UK ” sell in May and go away “. Enjoy this while it lasts.
j-p-z:
The direct broadcast of “Elysee 2007″ results at close of polling started at 2:20am here. Thought Royal might have got in by a very narrow margin ….
PollutedSkies:
If the Chinese stack markets ever do collapse [H*ll, I mistyped "stock" as "stack". Nah, I'll leave it - too lazy to hit Delete then retype]. As I was saying, if ever they do collapse then look out for surprising and innovative non-economic responses to the situation ….. responses that benefit the Chinese …. .
Spencer Tunick has set a new record.
More pics here.
War Nerd on how Iran won the war in Iraq.
http://www.exile.ru/2007-May-04/war_nerd.html
Segolene Royal was certainly not disgraced. Seems like a political stayer. Don’t think she’ll have to hovver on the periphery of power for as long as Ratty loomed here, before les peuples give her the nod for the top job.
Be interesting to observe just how much footsy Sarkozy is prepared to play with BushCo’s hegemonic imperatives in the Middle East.
My French friends tell me the upside of Sarkozy is that parliamentary votes will now swing left a few more % than they would have under Segolene.
This is the real power in the French system. Lets see who’s PM before predicting much on that front.