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A hard earned first needs a big cold beer …
Lol, haiku.
I did mention ‘Transformers’ on another thread, so I should really initiate a discussion here.
For the record, I think Michael Bay is pure evil, but I couldn’t keep a smile off my face watching those robots fight.
Another Evil Intertubes Full of Perverts using Skye Story from the SMH.
Damn, Transformers isn’t out here in Austria!
I’m waiting for Fairfax to run a story about kids wasting all their time reading Paris Hilton stories or dating blogs on Fairfax websites. Hang on…
I’d prefer it if they did some stories on all the new Skype spamming which is spreading around the intertubes. It’s seriously annoying.
Actually you can stop that by selecting that you only accept calls and messages from people only on your contact list
Thanks Frank!
Mr Rudd also ruled out “absolutely” that Labor would have any other form of legislated workplace agreements.
The emphatic commitment to abolish AWAs follows weeks of speculation that Labor’s federal leader might accept some form of AWAs for high income earners — especially in mining where companies argue they have served as a boon to productivity and excluded unions.
Shock, Horror - Kevin Rudd is actually doing what was already ALP Policy regarding Aboloition of AWA’s.
Hatshepsut reunited with tooth. I love a good mummy story.
Interesting news on the use of s501 of the Migration Act:
Forget the “national security” stuff - that’s mis-description at best (IIRC).
I’m cynical enough to believe that that unusual condition is there to enable the Government to revive the deportation proceedings once the election is out of the way.
Not that I’m a yachting buff, but it’s striking how little coverage there’s been here of the America’s Cup final.
woulfe - Fox Sport 1 has outstanding coverage. Can’t wait or tonight.
Car bombs in London.
It’ll be the Buhddists again.
Mark, and anyone else here (I know there are at least a few) who takes an on-going interest in the nature of the political influence of the blogosphere, ought to have a careful, in-depth look at the decisive role played over the past week by the right-wing US blogosphere in defeating the despicable and incompetent “comprehensive immigration reform” bill that was lately considered by the US Senate, the world’s most craptacular bloviating body. (Easy to say, sure, but it’s true: the level of much of the political discourse and rhetoric in the debates surrounding this bill reached new lows of stupidity, sentimentality, deception, and just plain ignorance of the proper way to conduct an argument. Wish I could sack the lot of them.) Oh, and for some real fun, check out the absurd interview between alleged senator Bill Voinovich and talk-show host Sean Hannity. It doesn’t get much funnier than this, sadly.
There were some truly fascinating, practically textbook maneuvers and counter-maneuvers taken by the informed blogosphere throughout the course of this controversy, many of them tactics that have only become possible due to the inherent nature of blogging and internet technology. A fascinating chapter of the new political history that is daily being written by the internet, whatever your ideological outlook.
Samstag Christine und die vollständige Spaßmusikfeier mit deutschem Abba! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4_2TGXZubQ
Off to the rugby tonight. Ready to brave the cold with my new wallaby scarf. The plan is to pop into the city and get some dinner at a pub, a coffee at degraves and then head down to the MCG. The dearth of good rugby in melbourne can only be quenched by a local victory. Here’s hoping.
Actually j_p_z it was Boing Boing what done it.
Cop that Christine. (pinched from sadlyno.com
Zarquon:
D&nm you. Out here in the Other Australia, where we have only The Clever Country’s dial-up, YouTube eic, comes through, if at all, at 1 second/5 minutes.
Well I’m in Zone 2 meself, but we have a 1000000000bits/sec internet link at work and you’d be surprised at how little difference it makes.
Well of course it is. What else would you expect from “our ABC”? Getting their facts right if that stands in the way of pursuing their agenda? God forbid.
One must wonder though why while his parents became Australian citizens he did not.
Hey all,
I’m interested in the lack of grass roots left thought here. No comments on the gentrification of the labour party, ala booting out militant unionists? Why the silence? Or did I miss the debate?
Remember the left includes poor people too. How about some local union news, and grassroots political activity.
Zarquon, thanks, the vid is a classic and very funny.
Just hope G.H., you are watching it by 12 tonight and ABBA, in German, by 3.00 A.M. Missing out on stuff like that must keep you grumpy all the time.
Still, you have the wildlife.
Yep!
http://larvatusprodeo.net/2007/06/22/rudd-and-the-unions-a-study-in-over-reaction/
Remember we’re not a newspaper, and we don’t have any newsgathering staff or resources, but if people want to draw anything to our attention, we’re always happy to consider writing about it or guest posts.
Timmy, Timmy, Timmy, you charmingly naive and sentimental lad. Larvatus Prodeo is the exemplar par excellence of the gentrification of the Labor Party. Not for them the hoary hands of labour with their modest sustenance wrung from an honest day’s physical exertion down mill. But then again the same is true, and has been true for the last twenty years, of union apparatchiks. Their Light on the Hill is a nice sinecure in one of of our many legislative chambers followed by a lavish pension at the taxpayers’ expense.
Timmy, you have not missed the debate. It was never had.
WOOOO HOOOOO!!!!! Australia beat the All Blacks!!!!
Well keeping me around as the collective’s token poor person obviously isn’t fooling Tim any.
Cool Kim, sorry to be a bother, just interested in rounding out the blog a bit. Note your resource limits but broad perspective is good perspective sweety, Lol
Don’t disagree, Tim, and if you know anything worth writing about, feel free to send us an email.
Greg M,
Wow, those words. Yep hands up to being ’sentimental and politically naive’. I’m trying to push back my ignorance but I feel like a lot of what is said here doesn’t do that. If Larvatus Prodeo can’t cater to an inclusive left site, meaning accessable to less educated people and your average unionist, do you know a site that can?
I wonder how the Libs are going to deal with this Liberal party member being convicted of beating up on a unionist? [link]
GregM is just taking political pot shots at us, Tim.
Don’t underestimate your average unionist.
If your vocabulary can cope with The Herald Sun and its relatives in other cities then there shouldn’t be too much here that’s outside your comprehension, once you’ve adjusted to the longer sentences and paragraphs.
<gratuitous snark>Buggered if I’m going to start writing down to people.</gratuitous snark>
GregM and Tim:
That’s one of the many reasons I keep talking about Australia’s Two-Parties-One-Faction system. Hands up all those who can distinguish Labor from Liberal in mid-2007.
Tim, who is your “average unionist”? In my experience they are certainly not militants but beyond that there is a vast diversity of interests, abilities and aspirations represented amongst them. You should get out a bit and observe the world you live in and then you’d feel less inclined to resort to stereotypes. Plenty of them, by the way, are highly educated knowledge workers (as a very large part of our workforce is) and, if they were inclined to read Larvatus Prodeo, would have no difficulty in comprehending what was posted on it and no difficulty in forming their own sound views on the different opinions that are expressed here. Plenty of them, though less educated, have had the benefit of our splendid (albeit not perfect) secondary education system and, as Gummo points out, don’t need to be talked down to in order to be communicated with.
Zarquon
If you like the Python … then check
this out !
Hey Everyone,
Check this out at Your ABC:
http://www.abc.net.au/insiders/content/2007/s1966728.htm
Who says tat Auntie has lost her sense of humour?
Captured for posterity - but the link might be a dud.
But John, Monty Python is better in the original German.
Whatever happened to the concept of ‘the personal is political’?
Has it been replaced with ‘the economic is political’, as in the phrase “it’s all about the economy, mate”?
And if the political and the economic form a nexus as is claimed, shouldn’t this nexus be informed by the personal as well? Or is it already since the personal is political?
Great get Gummo. (It’s stil up, btw).
How long will if be, do you reckon, before we get a Piers Ackerman column complaining that there weren’t enough right whingers on the panel, though?
“Well keeping me around as the collective’s token poor person obviously isn’t fooling Tim any.” What? How did you get elected token poor person? Bet I’ve been poorer longer than you young man. Bank statements at 20 paces sir.
I hate to overwhelm with this news, and keeping in with the gravity of LP, however, I just found my Boarder Collie bitch in a ,ahem, embrace with an other Boarder Collie dog, who has travelled several Klm’s , for the purpose of ruination. ( I know you, dog, you right wing mongrel). This could be a local puppies overboard.
Zarquon
And now for something completely different … “the chipmunks” doing [url= http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jZxjqmuX5EFaulty Towers[/url].
p.s. Don’t mention the war.
On Finessing Wood Ducks
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtilCBbR8xc&eurl=
I note Haiku’s effective use of John Meillon in the first comment. Will you go to the barricades, though, over the latest affront to Australian drinkers?
Un. Aust. Ralian.